skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard road rage explained in the same way. We would never act to each other face to face as we would in a car. The car feels like an extension of your own home and you feel more violated when someone invades what you perceive to be your space and we view what we are lashing out at as an object and not as person with feelings. I can see it being the same mentality when you are sitting at home nerdraging at your computer.
PayPal exec aims to “obliterate passwords from the face of the planet”
No, the state of the JIT cannot be saved between executions.
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Or where you're not heading to. I see it now... "Honey I can't go to your parents tonight. I'm sick."

"Waze is requesting permission to post on your wall without your permission." Cancel

"We're sorry, but Waze has to."

"Josh found directions to Buffalo Wild Wings!"
(I'm one of the devs.)

Regarding the segmentation phase, we were not satisfied with any existing algorithms because we wanted the tool to be as real-time as possible (for up to 4 megapixel images), so we rolled our own segmentation algorithm that has some similarities to GrabCuts (not GraphCuts).

But the binary segmentation is really only a small part of the technical challenge. You also need to figure out how to anti-alias the boundary, and remove the background halo. Simply feathering doesn't do the job unless you also erode the foreground first, which we wanted to avoid. So we developed a custom sub-pixel background-removal and anti-aliasing algorithm.
There is nothing wrong with `new` at all, and abiding to something just because some other [fallible] human says so couldn't be more wrong.
Or you could just drop stop words and gerunds. This is another post from "TheTokenizer" that over simplifies a complex problem and creates devistatingly bad results.

The method described doesn't tell you what the sentence is about it tells you which things aren't verbs and articles and does a poor job of it.

Granted single sentence keyword extraction is not easy, but this is an awful approach. You'd be much better using Word Frequency analysis to determine the rarest words in the sentence.
I suspect aside from the batteries, electric drive train is already cheaper. Modern ICE are ridiculously sophisticated and require advanced manufacturing capabilities.
Many immigrant tiger moms have lower means, have the same reasoning as Chua, and could use her book as justification.

This seemed cautionary to me.
How would someone who achieved success by leveraging capital and connections he got on Wall Street have been equally successful pursuing a path that would have barred him admission to that particular club? There is no other industry more steeped in credentialing than his own.

My point isn't that what Thiel did is the only way to success, or even really that Thiel is being a hypocrite (to be fair, I find nothing wrong with hypocrisy). What rubs me the wrong way is how his message relates to the power dynamic in Silicon Valley. If you've got Thiel fellow credentials, statistically your winning bet in Silicon Valley is not starting a company, but going to work at a venture capital firm, which is usually the result of careful path-following.
Launching an online bookmarking service seems like a pretty stable retirement plan nowadays.
A lot of them could just be pictures of the corner of a room. Without context it's hard for me to say they're terrible.
Spot on. It also caught me eye as a great deal - the space is badly used by the current resident, but even if the stuff couldn't be removed, $300 for a clean place with a window and a bed in Manhattan certainly is a great deal.

Just make sure to read about the history of the place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Heights,_Manhattan#1...
Like buying bitcoins.
This is my second attempt to submit. The video feed is not working well on my Android but the Huffington post link showed up dead. I assumed that site is blocked by hn but I don't actually know. I am just shocked that no one else has submitted anything on this (at least not that I can find).

Edit: I will add that eclipses typically show up in pairs, one solar (new moon) and one lunar (full moon). This is one of three. There was a lunar eclipse late last month and another coming up later this month.
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> I told you that the internet will always be centralized and p2p will never go mainstream.

You seem confident about the future. I already read stats that p2p is actually quite a big chunk of the internet traffic. I never said "bring the internet full p2p", I just meant that p2p can play a role in what facebook, forums, and mail techs are already doing. p2p is not just for file sharing, file sharing is the easiest part of p2p.

> Innovation is irrelevant to p2p because p2p has already been invented.

p2p only work with protocols, and there aren't many protocols around people can actually use. There's a difference between invention and having a working standard.

And what does 'invented' really means here ? You don't just invent technologies, p2p is a very broad concept, you need to precisely define how users can make use of a protocol, what is the purpose of a particular protocol, what are the security and abuse issues, what sort of resource can be saved by using it, etc.

> if you want to stick your head in the sand, this conversation is over.

I don't want to stick my head in the sand, I'm just quite disappointed about how investors play ball with lab rats. That's how I feel IT and research business is done. Look at tesla motors, I'm sure Musk is one of the few investors who is not saying "fuck you with your nerd fantasies", and who is actually trying to change the industry.
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It is hardly unusual for a young teen to be rebellious, but there seems to be a wide variety in degree.
Pretty Awesome. Would be good if you could choose a smaller brush.
In fact, they are probably well aware that people tend to react like sukuriant, and their goal is probably to upset people rather than to cause them to commit suicide.
Do people use pull requests for closed source code within very small teams (less than 5) too? I'm wondering if the QA gained would be worth the extra administration time.
I think 400 is the correct response in this case.
> The takedown procedure as it currently exists enables a third party to exercise power just shy of an injunction to take your website offline, without having to present any evidence or appear in court. Yes, your hosting provider has the theoretical option of assuming a ton of risk by not taking down the content

Without the DMCA safe harbor, the content host would be in a very similar position when presented with a demand to remove the content from a content holder. The only difference the safe harbor provides is that the content holder can't be sued for content they accept and distribute but don't exercise editorial control over unless the content owner gives a takedown notice and the content host ignores it, so that, as a consequence, content owners can't skip the whole demand step and just start filing low-chance-of-success, high-reward lawsuits against deep-pocket defendants.

> I'm not at all arguing in favor of eliminating the safe-harbor provisions - I just want the penalties for a false notice to be at least as harsh as the penalties for a false counter-notice.

> I just want the penalties for a false notice to be at least as harsh as the penalties for a false counter-notice.

The penalties for both are the same, and are specified in the same paragraph without distinction, at 17 USC 512(f):

Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section-
(1) that material or activity is infringing, or
(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
Worked pretty well for me: http://i.imgur.com/db0QOet.png
Hey, some people go to the movies and order coke and popcorn, some people register funny domain names and hack up a simple site. Either way it's a few dozen bucks for a few hours of amusement.
You pay them a lot of money, obviously. Or do something else that makes up for the fact that you're not using technologies that developers are drawn to.

It's pretty simple economics. If you are using "cool" technologies, you basically get a discount on your developers because there are so many of them that want to work with the tech. The less desirable your tech stack is, the more you have to pay (in cash or benefits) to make up for it.
this may be used by an attacker to identify sites that leak internal information

But what does that even mean? We've already discussed below that thinking you can hide an ASP.Net MVC site is wishful thinking unless you totally strip out every identifying part of the framework client-side, there are so many ways I can think of, including the ones below, like the js libraries, the CSRF style, the CSS style the validation uses, the wrapping of JSON responses in a object named d, etc. etc.

I even have vague recollections of coming across odd behaviours in IIS when it sends the allow-continue header in certain scenarios that no other webserver does. Though I can't remember the details now so might be wrong there.

I think you should stop classifying this as a vulnerability and just call it what it actually is, a misconfiguration.

I do like asafaweb, nice tool.
You're misinterpreting the results.

> operations per second (higher is better)

Using `new` is in red, while using `Object.create` is in blue, and the red bars are markedly larger than the blue in all but a few cases.

Thus, using `new` is, for the most part, much faster than the Crockford way. In Chrome, it's tons faster.
Based on the general consensus that the DOM sucks, do you think there will be any movement to make change to/replace it in the future? If not, why?
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Hi there, co-founder of Crocodoc here. Crocodoc will continue being the best platform for document viewing and collaboration. Box is investing heavily in our platform and will make sure we stay awesome. Any updates to the API going forward should be totally seamless, but if you run into any problems, just give me a ping (I'm Peter). I'll make sure the transition happens smoothly.
You can get a smaller brush by zooming in using the mouse wheel. That way the brush is always an appropriate size (small when you are zoomed in for detail work, and large when you are zoomed out for the broad strokes).
I'd actually see the Breakfast Nook as good value for money, unless there's something particularly awful about the district. Or somebody else uses the kitchen...
The early days of the web were similar; that's how you get rapid evolution in a decentralized system.

The whole Bitcoin ecosystem is learning by doing, with lots of precocious amateur participation, under intense pressure. Ultimately that may make it stronger.

Those who prefer spec stability should stick to systems built by government/defense contracting.
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FWIW, it is a little confusing getting dumped into a CISPA page after looking at a DMCA page, especially with the sample conversation. I realize this was a quick-turnaround project, so please take it in the constructive way it is meant.
These look pretty good to me - and the rents are actually reasonable. Crappy Palo Alto Studios are pushing $2k and it's hard to find anything cheaper than $1300 even in a share.
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Any guesses on the acquisition price and/or windfall per employee?
Eh, I'd chalk this up to "C# isn't JS".

Just because 2 languages share a common syntactical lineage does not mean that they behave the same way.
Yeah, thats the problem. There's an "anecdotal" connection (IE: IMHO fake), yet I don't know anyone out of my peer group of rabid cellphone users who've ever had brain cancer. I've had a cellphone since 1996, cancer free daily cellphone user.

We need to stop legislation based on myths.
No windows, madness, is the big shitty really all that to suffer solitary confinement...and pay for it to boot?
You're not watching the right videos. Anything with 1+ million viewes or videos by people with large, young fanbases will still contain such comments.
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Tesla had 10 years of losses. I wouldn't qualify the current Model S's minor financial success as 'easy'.
Thanks! And I know; it's coming. I'm just really busy with other stuff, and it's been a while since I worked on it so it would take me a while to context switch.
The DMCA doesn't explicitly affect linking to infringing content - that's mostly on the courts that have made that interpretation, even if the DMCA has helped to enable them.

Correct, the DMCA has made it possible for linking to infringements to be found illegal. This bill doesn't touch that. You can't just handwave it to the courts when the DMCA is the foundation of their opinion. The DMCA is still responsible for its unintended consequences.
How as clipboard differentiated from Pinterest? From what I can see, the difference is that it archives whatever you've clipped. Is there a proprietary technology element to this that has value for Salesforce?
Also, this is why evidence base medicine is flawed. What we want is science based medicine.
And you just took an entire field off the table for discussion on the grounds that it looks like a "political hobbyhorse." Good job.
> The DMCA takedown procedure (including that safe-harbor provision) provides a special incentive towards compliance with 'content owners' (who may or may not actually own the content in question), apart from but dependent on litigation.

It provides an equally special incentive to comply with users; the safe harbor has two sides.

The difference in effect is the same as the difference in effect in threat of litigation absent the safe-harbor: the difference in resources on the two sides and the significance of the liability the host might face from either side.

> The situation before the DMCA was preferable

If you didn't want to have big businesses freely hosting user-submitted content, maybe. Content owners weren't the backers for the safe harbor (they wanted the freedom to sue first and get money), content hosts were. It doesn't create additional incentives for content hosts to comply with content owners (real or purported), it removes pre-existing opportunities for content owners (again, real or purported) to extort content hosts.
Downloads for 3D-printed Liberator gun reach 100,000
Can you give any details here?
Well, it makes sense: no one has come up with the magic formula to deal with the over abundance of information available today. (Disclaimer: see my submissions for my own ongoing attempt).
Very informative post!

One comment, the magnet for magsafe power supplies is actually in the laptop, not the plug.

Have you heard about people implanting a tiny magnet in their pinky finger? I think they've been mentioned on HN before... could give you insight about magnetic fields around you (assuming it was weak enough not to be a cause for concern itself).

EDIT: past story on the implants.

http://www.iamdann.com/2012/03/21/my-magnet-implant-body-mod...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734130
Or you outsource it to India!
Just re-deployed the backend. It should reconnect automatically, but that's not been tested to 100%. Reloading the page should resolve it if it doesn't auto-recover.

(some memory woes on the backend as well, so restarting is having some hickups. Well, well)
Part of the reason people want to work with the "coolest" technologies is that they want skills that will be relevant/desirable by a wide range of employers. If the skills they pick up working for you are not relevant in other areas, then they're basically wasting their time.
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Not knowing a solution doesn't mean there isn't one. Rather, it means have failed at being creative enough.
For all of the people in this thread saying "some of these aren't that bad" you seriously need to get some perspective. Come visit what's disparagingly called "flyover country." I live in the St Louis area and pay $450/month for my apartment. ~1100 square feet with a yard and a parking spot in a nice, safe neighborhood.

I fully realize that I may not have all of the opportunities available here as I would in NYC or San Francisco, but I've never struggled to find interesting, well paying jobs and there is more than enough going on in the St Louis area to keep a person entertained.

Far be it from me to judge other peoples' choices. You should do whatever makes you happy in life but, when you find yourself saying that a room the size of my closet "isn't so bad" of a living space, you might want to take a step back and reassess some things.
A lot of the conversation around this talks about the Internet. Note this from the article:

Raza said he lost what few friends he had in the fallout, and had to change schools. “In the common room, students climbed onto tabletops to insult me,” he told L’actualité.

All "cyberbullying" does is prevent the bullying from stopping when the kids go home. Potential anonymity is a negligible factor as far as I can tell.

Yes, being world famous probably escalated the reach of his ridicule, but even if it never left his school, what was essentially his whole world turned against him. As someone else mentions in a comment there doesn't seem to be anything we can do to prevent this sort of pack behavior. But I hope someone does figure out a way.
How about that it's already built?
Nah, just the bed and the trash (well, trash/assorted kitchen shit, or whatever it is). You might get extra space by swapping the fridge with a mini-fridge but I honestly wouldn't bother.
What is the point of aquire and shutting down. Is it just for employees?

If you offered the employees more money they would work for you. Why payoff the VCs?
I think you guys did a great job. This is a very tough problem (speaking from experience) particularly depending on the complexity of the image. One problem we had to solve along the way for our startup is similar, but focused only on fashion related images. Quite tricky particularly if you want something automatic. Anyway cheers! :)
On top of that, many online systems are set up in such a way that king-maker behavior emerges. When there's billions of {videos, tweets, pics, statuses, etc} online, and both the media and these networks themselves feature 'viral' content, random uploaded bits can achieve fame (or infamy) out of nowhere.

YouTube has a lot of Internet-celebrities that started out with one random video that went viral, and now they have thousands or millions of followers. And look at photo memes - those were just random Flickr/Facebook posts that are now everywhere.

To change this effect would perhaps require changing the fundamental way people network online nowadays.
>Doctors order tests to help them choose the right treatments.

No they don't, except in very rare cases. Doctors order tests to make a diagnosis. The treatment follows from that.

>If they have absolutely no idea what the possibilities are then they wouldn't be ordering tests anyway.

I'm not sure a doctor would have "no idea what the possibilities are" unless you don't have any symptoms. If you don't have any symptoms, why are you at the doctor's office?
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Actually, I found this plugin to be kind of buggy. However, I'm sure it'll get better soon, as it only had its first release a few weeks ago.
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What about the experiments run by using the LHC? No other organization has a similarly sized particle accelerator, so by your definition it is not science because it cannot be reproduced elsewhere?
The point is the domain name, gals and guys.
Perhaps part of this is statistical errors and selection bias. Most studies are done with a 95% confidence interval, but only studies that reject the null hypothesis are published. If we assume only 20% of all experiments reject the null hypothesis, then we should expect ~25% of those to be fasle positives. Journals might also be biased to include more sensationalistic results, which are more likely to be statistical errors.

My guess is that if you included all test results, that reject the null hypothesis or not, and are published or not, then the reproducibility rate would be closer to 90%-95%.
I guess it's different for renting purposes. But when selling a house (at least in MA) there are rules as to what makes a room a bedroom. I think they do need to have closets. And there's a minimum bathroom : bedroom ratio that needs to be maintained.
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They're shutting it down, and AFAIK storage of information parsed from web pages isn't particularly proprietary.
This is a comment from an assessment of the previous generation of Thiel fellows found here: http://pandodaily.com/2013/04/24/examining-the-thiel-fellows...

> But what do these companies do? Can we get some specifics? Other than "Upstart", no mention is given of any of the companies. If you go to the Thiel Fellowship website, there is no list of startups founded by these fellows. They do have a list of present and past fellows, but the profile pages mostly link to either the fellows' personal websites (not company websites), or dead links. Without any concrete evidence of these companies even existing, or doing anything useful (instead of just talking about what they're "going to do", or name-dropping all the investors they've attracted), this all sounds like a bunch of hot air. Not to be cynical, and I wish all these people success, but so far they haven't demonstrated that they've actually done anything.

The entire Thiel fellow program is an exercise in finding out which baby can stand up the fastest and projecting that being the first to stand up somehow makes one a genius.

It's little different from child beauty pageants and dog shows.