skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I know that's the situation. What I'm trying to say is this: that list (breastfeeding, breast cancer or children with birth defects, joking about rape, violence...) is just going to grow longer, and longer, and longer...

In the article it says: "... Facebook says it will process more complaints and will train its staff of reviewers ...". That means they are doing a big part of the censoring MANUALLY! You will NEVER be able to remove garbage faster than people creating it.
Failing to wash my car or change my oil does not lead to theft or covered accidents, so the insurance company does not care.

Failing to get routine medical care, on the other hand, does increase the risk of conditions that insurance does cover. Hence, the insurance company does care about my routine medical care, and so covers it to encourage it.

This is why my health insurance company constantly sends me emails with fitness tips and other health suggestions, whereas my auto insurance company has not once sent me any tips on washing my car.
I intentionally left them out since imo their software serves to augment their hardware and the nature of the beast seems to be a bit different from others.
Seems to me there's a deeper point being made here about deciding what one's purpose in life is and choosing to pursue it wholeheartedly.
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If its internal links within your own website you need to track, use cookies, they are much less likely to get "passed around" like that ref link, or update the url to the canonical one once they land on the . Its asking too much of your visitors to analyse a url and work out what they should and shouldn't post, even if they understood what they were doing.
That's fine. Competition is a healthy thing ;-)
I would love to see government department information documents with ASCII art headings and Tables of Contents.
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This is (I would guess) a direct response to something that occurred last week. There was a "photo meme" being passed around on facebook, showing a photo of a girl with her mouth taped, with the caption "tape her and rape her". Someone made a screenshot of this, with an add for Audible on the page.

A shitstorm ensued, with people blaming Audible and/or Facebook for showing an ad next to such an image (it's rather hard to parse a meme photo for what text is actually written on the image, right?) You can see more info about this on a google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+audible+tape+her+an...

I guess Audible has leaned heavily on Facebook to respond to what has apparently been a very difficult PR issue for them.

Disclosure: I have nothing to do with Facebook or Audible, I am just passing on what I have heard from people involved.
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Hard to see how this won't slide down the slippery slope of banning all "offensive" content...at what point do you say we are OK with this particular group being offended but not others?

Perhaps when the mainstream media starts agitating over it...
Because supercaps aren't new and don't have the energy density of conventional lithium batteries, so they're completely impractical for use in something like a cell phone, unless you fancy carrying around a power pack in a backpack.

The fact that the device has only been tested on an LED (which will draw ~40mW) and is being heralded as a cure for slow-charging chemical battery packs which will draw something like 30x that and have to store something like 5.2 watt-hours of juice should be a pretty solid giveaway.
I'm 25 and I can read it fine but I agree it needs to be bigger. 14px is a good starting size IMO for fonts.
> I know that's the situation. What I'm trying to say is this: that list (breastfeeding, breast cancer or children with birth defects, joking about rape, violence...) is just going to grow longer, and longer, and longer...

Sure, but that's got nothing to do with the part I quoted: you asked why they can be "held accountable" (for extremely loose definitions of "held" and "accountable") for everything their users say, and the answer is: because they decided to police what their users say, once they start policing they're held accountable for what they police and how they police it.

> That means they are doing a big part of the censoring MANUALLY!

Yes?

> You will NEVER be able to remove garbage faster than people creating it.

You probably won't do it automatically either, at least not without significant collateral damages anyway (see: Google).

And as far as I know, Facebook mostly acts on reports (which happens to be the way HN works as well), they generally don't remove content preemptively.
"Blaming it on class and gender roles is one of those things that urban intellectuals do to maintain their status among urban intellectuals. Maybe he should analyze it from a Marxist-feminist perspective for good measure."

I don't suppose the irony of this statement escaped you.
His anecdote is irrelevant. Plenty of poor children get bullied.

This article makes things worse, if anything.
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Photo puzzle for Facebook
I'm sure situation will improve in time, these kind of systems are huge and take long to change. I imagine when the NHS and it's counterparts in other (european) countries were established the local population was in majority white.

Also, as Africa and Asia develops there will also be more research done in those areas that will benefit all africans and asians throughout the world.
Should have gone for RTF. More widely supported.
Ha--good catch! I don't know if anyone else noticed that. I meant to say "within 33-4.8% of the peak throughput..." That is, we're 95.2% of the peak, not 4.8% of the peak. Fixed, thanks!
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life when I was a teen - all I wanted to do was play music, but I was grounded enough to know that that wasn't a safe and reliable bet at all. Sure, I could have buckled down more and tried to get top grades in everything just in case it turned out that I wanted a profession were grades matter a lot, but at that point I might as well have ended up being a plumber who did really good at the local quiz nights.

Thankfully, "Ivy League" is a foreign concept in my part of the world.
> i did the same

No, you didn't. Your command line is not limited to source code, but includes, for starters, the massive hardware database checked in by Kay:

66888 hwdb/20-pci-vendor-model.hwdb
66185 hwdb/20-OUI.hwdb
49014 hwdb/20-usb-vendor-model.hwdb
6596 hwdb/20-acpi-vendor.hwdb

You performed a fundamentally different and flawed test.

> That there is a main developer that does a lot of work is not something negative about a project, isn't it?!

You were the one who complained about Canonical not "working together", not me. I'm just holding you to your own standard.
> Instead of telling another team member that he was wrong, I shared an experiment and results to demonstrate so, in order to minimize argumentation. [...] my overall performance was deemed poor.

That's interesting, because you often hear that "code wins arguments" at FB.

>> This might take more effort now but gives vastly greater results in the long run.

I'm also surprised by this. There seems to be a lot of importance placed on moving fast. Some of FB's mantras are "DONE IS BETTER THAN PERFECT", "MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS", and "STAY FOCUSED AND KEEP SHIPPING".

> * Actually, I am glad to say that I am now happily employed.

Your first comment starting by saying you were unemployed. Did someone just hire you since your comment?
Yes.

> If yes, does it lessen my chance to be accepted?

Of course, to a degree.
As DannyBee said, I doubt a court would hold you to those terms.
No, but oil changes do have an impact on your car's warranty, which is also a form of insurance. Mazda makes regular oil changes a condition of the warranty, and BMW includes them in the warranty.

You could use the Mazda model for regular check-ups, but what about the other little stuff? We don't want people saying "My chest pain is feeling better now. I'll save the $75."
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I live in Iceland and ODF isn't being used by any government institution that I know of (and I've worker in/for government quite a lot). Is it possible the NATO mandated use of ODF applies only to official NATO documents?
US Secret Service rumbles into action against Bitcoin facilitators
That looks cool.
Content Security Policy 1.0 lands in Firefox Aurora
I have made one for ubuntu, and it's foss: http://uberwriter.wolfvollprecht.de

It's more or less an iA Writer clone but uses pandoc as "backend" which is really powerful.
Yes

But apparently if you signed up to them and put as a reason "to buy cocaine" this was fine by them
You are right it's more of a "should we provide medical coverage for our citizens or continue tax cuts for the wealthy?"
> [...] but sometimes I think that some people get uncomfortably "religious" about the environment in particular. I'm not one of them. [...]

Could it be, maybe, that your statements reflect the thought of some people that might be denying ecological disasters ?

What's religious about being horrified at the loss of 70% of the North American Forest ? If that is indeed the correct number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_the_United_Sta... : a 25% loss for the US with a stabilized 20th century but this here http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lect... hints that primary forest area aren't counted the same way http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lect...)... What's wrong with being religious, anyway ?

> It's just that as I drive from coast to coast, as I have done more than once, I'm not overwhelmed with the horror of the landscape.

May it be because you can't compare to the same ride 500 years ago and so the impact doesn't sink in ?
It's good that FB bowed to pressure, but not so impressed that they considered the content not acceptable even when people flagged it as wrong.

http://www.womenactionmedia.org/facebookaction/examples/
Nice, have been looking forward to another one of these.
Last time 4 years ago was a blast!

Hope the 'Hackers On A Bike' effort gets some more traction again too.
Somewhat controversial idea: a startup that focuses on cognitive enhancement (IQ, mood, impulse control, mindfulness, stuff like that).

Supplements, meditation, and brain training can probably have a non-negligible impact, but I don't see the "underclass" partaking in those currently.

IQ and income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Income

Victorians smarter than us: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10053977/The...

Anyone want to brainstorm more on this? Email me: lolcatrampage@gmail.com
Foodstamps, for a single white male, is $207 a month in Indiana.

And 3 months ago, I was cut. Paperwork's "lost in the system". No job. No unemployment. Living on the scraps of money I had in goods that I sold.
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This event series has a great long history in Europe. It all started with "The Galactic Hacker Party" in 1989, followed by "Hacking at the End of the Universe" in 1993, "Hacking In Progress" in 1997 and later "Hackers At Large" in 2001, and "What the Hack" in 2005 - the previous one was called Hacking At Random and was held in 2009.

They are all held in The Netherlands - with four years in between each event. They usually get a three letter abbreviation (GHP, HEU, HIP, HAL, WTH, HAR).

There is a related event held in Germany, also every fourth year - but amusingly two years apart from the event in The Netherlands by the Chaos Computing Club.

If you're an North American and this seems interesting - I'd recommend that you check with "Hackers on a Plane" and see if they'll arrange a trip - like they've done previously from The States over to Europe.
Same with me, I internally cheered when I saw the post, then internally booed when it asked for facebook. My facebook hovers at around 50 people who are all close friends or family.
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As I'm on a 12-inch thinkpad with fairly high res, meaning the PPI is pretty high, I have to zoom into websites all the time. This template handles zooming quite nice I think.

Longing for the day of viewport-sized units though.
Not to mention they will tell their friends and family constantly about the cool new thing they found. Also when people consider a new service who do they ask? Usually the hacker in the social group/family
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How many actual users suspect that something is wrong with the input, even without URL obfuscation? OTOH, with a permanent XSS it is pretty much game over, even though I doubt that's the case. XSS can do a lot of damage if used properly.
Just got new Raspberry Pi - looking for inspiration for our own counters ;) Thanks guys.
Yeah, I got it wrong, that's EFI's fault. Though it should probably be also mentioned that I forgot HN has poor humour detection.
What technology do govt departments across the world use to maintain trustworthy records?[1]

Some Indian departments use pdf with DSC for this. Interested if there are alternatives.

[1]: http://www.epa.gov/records1/faqs/rks.htm#q4
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It's escaping me. He said "for good measure". Where is the irony?
These events draw hackers from all over Europe.

It would also be good to point out that they owe a ton to Rop Gonggrijp, co-founder of the dutch ISP xs4all (one of the first ISPs in the world) and his publication hack-tic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop_Gonggrijp
Thanks for that. That leaves just one legal issue that really needs to be raised:

How is it legal to _deny_ me full access (defined by the removal of all Microsoft software, something the European Commission has repeatedly upheld) until I have completed some Microsoft-controlled procedure? I don't want Windows on the machine.

Assuming I buy from the 3 largest vendors, excluding Apple, is it not anti-competitive to _lock_ me into it since no other option is offered?

Note: I realize that it may seem redundant to beat this dead horse again, but there's a really good reason so many are upset about Secure Boot. Of course, Microsoft mandates that Secure Boot can be disabled for Win8 logo compliance, which is neatly avoided in this case.
Good questions.

In the example configuration in the post (i.e., two servers with no replication), during the period between the write start and end of phase two of writes, reads can return either value written (x=y=0 or x=y=1). If we want to enforce the property that once one read returns the second write, all subsequent reads (that begin after this read) will return the second write (or a later write), which is called linearizability (http://cs.brown.edu/~mph/HerlihyW90/p463-herlihy.pdf), then whenever servers serve from 'pending', they should move the writes to 'good'. This is safe because, if a client reads from 'pending', it means that the write must be in 'good' elsewhere and therefore is stable.

As for how to order the writes, real-time clocks can provide a fairly useful timestamp mechanism. Databases like Cassandra use this real-time ordering for timestamping, which appears to work well in practice. Alternatively, you could use a distributed sequence number generator to totally order transactions. But real-time should be fine.

As you point out, this atomicity property doesn't address (all) application-level integrity constraints; it doesn't handle isolation between transactions. As I discussed in the post and in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5784030), if your application-level integrity constraints are such that your updates are not commutative (that is, concurrent updates should not be allowed), then you'll need to block in order to guarantee database integrity is not violated. This is separate from atomicity, but it is important to remember. In your example above, two writers might both simultaneously reserve the last seat on a plane unless they synchronize.

Effectively, with non-commutative updates, you need greater isolation than is provided by the algorithm in the post (which effectively provides Read Committed isolation). Achieving greater isolation is possible but you'll lose the non-blocking property (again, due to the requirement to avoid concurrent updates via higher isolation like serializability rather than due to atomicity). But, for many applications like 2i and the multi-puts I mentioned at Facebook and Twitter, updates are commutative.
They should NOT go for ODF 1.1. Instead they should push for ODF 1.2. Someone needs to tell them.
It does, if the stars align.

The default setup of these computers (no full-disk encryption, easy to disable secure boot) typically means that it offers no such security. Look at Chromebook for an example of apparently doing it right.
Quite the coincidence...the comment I wrote actually had another part but I deleted it because I didn't want to appear as someone giving out advice that nobody requested.

Basically what it said is that if you want your kids to learn a foreign language you should put them in front of the TV at a young age because once they are a bit older and actually know that they have a choice they won't want to spend a lot of time looking at a screen where characters are going on about something that they can't understand. As you said it is "just annoying.

So if you want to do this for your kids you basically need to do it when they're clueless to the fact that they can actually change the channel. Once they know they have a choice and are actually bothered by not understanding the language they will surely change to an English channel, one that they can actually understand.
So you are saying we increase the relative amount of CO2 with 2% (47/46) per year and try to brush that away as peanuts?
His anecdote is irrelevant to bullying, not to the bullying of geeks.
From disparate information I gathered it seems second growth forest don't come with the same ecology (animals, fungus, etc.) so the argument could be made that regrown managed forest don't equate primary forests. I am not sure I am proponent of this argument but it seems to make sense.
If we had a minimsft type blog on the major players in tech, I suspect we'd see that they all provide roughly the same type of positive AND negative experiences.

It's cut throat out there.
Grouped inputs should not have shadows in-between elements.

Overall, the design looks very incongruous. The elements look like step-brothers.
His comment exhibits anti-intellectual posturing.
Could the boot failure mechanism be exploited? I presume that Microsoft has a boot failure mechanism; after N failures to boot, firmware should turn off fast-boot. Is the display of the EULA screen considered a boot success? IOW, can you just reset the machine when you see the EULA screen a few times to get the ability to stop and adjust the firmware?
Yeah, but there are a LOT of poor people. For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortune_at_the_Bottom_of_th...
So, uh.. what do you do if your system locks up at OS init?
To the extent that these are solving the problem, they should work well together. They gave the example of a candidate learning excel.

If that person has an effective way of proving that skill to an employer who wants it, they are more likely to acquire it.
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The intent of Facebook’s censorship seems mainly to create a positive environment where a person can feel safe to express their identity. That would attract a majority of people who don’t want to deal with the unpleasant details of the web and internet at large. Sadly, no absolute censorship policy will please everyone, and no relative policy can be enforced consistently.
What happens when a not-so-good doctor charges the same as everyone else? What happens when really excellent doctors end up having to charge the same as really poor ones? What happens when there is no decent way for patents to know the good ones from the bad?

You end up where we are now where mediocrity is rewarded and excellence is punished, and they both cost the same.

It is well past time to allow some market forces to work in this area. At least things would be more rational.
I worry that sitting here and reading the articles which turn up in HN each day that I am getting a very particular impression about life in America. Between this and Kiera Wilmot I feel genuinely horrified.

Am I just seeing outliers here? Am I seeing frightening trend where children are needlessly criminalised (Kiera) or willfully (even if well intentioned) manipulated (my interpretation of this survey debacle)?

Other things I see include judges imprisoning children to increase revenues in private prison systems they have shares in.

How does it feel to actually live there?
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We go to the office because we’re expected to, not to meet face-to-face.
You got into Yale because you were privileged. You had literate, educated parents. Your high school didn't have metal detectors on the doors and a razorwire fence. You didn't have to cut school if a younger sibling got sick, you didn't spend every spare minute looking after an elderly relative. Nobody on your block was a crack dealer.

Sure, you're smart, but America is full of people much smarter than you who didn't even finish high school. The "fifteen year funnel" is a filter primarily of socioeconomic status and only secondarily of ability. Most people fall out of that funnel through no fault of their own, because they didn't catch the breaks that you did.

That's the fundamental failing of a meritocracy - unless you take steps to ensure equality of opportunity, you just end up with an oligarchy.
unfortunately RTF is not rigorously standardized, some basic elements of documents are, but lots of stuff is still adhoc, and not really suitable for an encompassing editable document standard.
Wow, quite a few similar stories. I wonder how indicative they are of fb as a whole, or just particular teams. Does anyone have any positive experiences to relay?
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I agree that if you want a job with good opportunities you definitely need to keep yourself updated. But I think this more looks like idea of being entrepreneur or getting self employed rather than getting a job in some big org.
There's a typo

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To both, because it is an anecdote. Plenty of poor geeks get bullied too.
Yeah, you're talking about the mathematical definition of a bound variable. Functional programming languages use this whenever you define a function:

foo x = x * 2

Every time you call foo, x is bound to a new value (but only within the scope of foo). This is not the same as mutating some memory location associated with the name x.
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At least you invoked the name of the logical fallacy.

And it's more than just offense in this case. Sexual assault is a very serious and terrible thing to have happen. Joking about it legitimizes and normalizes it, contributing to incidents. I imagine it's the same thing as with hate speech: it could prompt acts of violence toward people of the targeted group.