skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with you for the most part, the context and nature of the debate is important. In a casual conversation that happens to be an argument, there's (usually) some semblance of a logical argument that can be teased out from a large amount of non-logical communication. In that context, picking on any of that non-logical communication and calling it a fallacy is silly.

In the context of a real debate, however, when each party has the goal of arguing a side, and an audience is there to hear and evaluate each party's words in the context of the argument, I think a phrase like "you immoral moron" is indeed to be taken as an ad-hominum. In that situation every statement is assumed to be part of your argument.
Two of the reasons they were "hit by penguin" were:

* Bad Links bought by their SEO contractor

* "Grey Hat" link buying

I stand by my tl;dr - they lost traffic due to bad SEO. I never said it was their fault, but it's certainly not Google's.
Here is the (english) mail they sent to customers back in October 2011 on the previous intrusion:

http://pastebin.com/uJhG5aLS
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yeah, but when your computer breaks it doesn't pull out a firearm and order you to add drives, a better graphics card, more monitors and a faster internet connection. And then raid your bank account if you don't do it fast enough. Size does matter.
Also, check out this blog post: http://blog.docker.io/2013/06/openstack-docker-manage-linux-...
The thing is, people never bought newspapers because they cared about democracy. They wanted to be entertained, and have something to talk about with colleagues.

At least with regards to written content, most people have access to much more interesting content. Heck, hn is more interesting than my newspaper. And we manage to find stuff to talk about.

Investigative journalism is just a case of the tragedy of the commons, that now run out the huge luck it got n the past. And we as a society need to start looking at it as such, and not fantasize that it is a standard business.
One scummy thing should be enough.
We've thought of replicating something like MixPanel's free actions for adding their image and a link on your site program [1].

Would something like that be penalized with Penguin? Honestly, not sure if that counts as "Gray Hat" or not.

1 - https://mixpanel.com/free/
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Wikipedia has this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading#High-fre...

Different trading strategies will make money in different ways. Trading ahead and ticker-tape trading will redirect some of the profits that that an index fund would have made to the HFT trader. On the other hand, market making is in effect providing a service to everyone who wants to trade in the market, and they pay for it (partly through the spread between buy and ask prices -- this is like a fee for being able to buy/sell now rather than later, and partly through explicit ECN fees charged by the exchange).
> Money that is saved in stocks, bonds, or bank accounts is immediately put to use by companies, banks, or governments.

Oh is it? really?

In the real world (not the fantasy land of trickle-down economics), money that is saved in stocks, bonds and bank accounts is NOT immediately put to use by companies, banks or governments.

Banks have done a terrible job putting the money given to them by the government and the Federal Reserve to work. Small business lending dried up and has taken years to recover, despite all the efforts to convince banks to do otherwise.

The government did a notoriously bad job of putting the stimulus spending money to work.

As for businesses, hiring has been slow, wages stagnant and investment weak for years, despite an excess of cash (profits).

Almost nothing has been done to stimulate demand, much has been done to stimulate supply.

So, arguments about "hoarding" have not only economic basis, they have a basis in fact as well.

Granted, on those grounds, Sean Parker should be lauded for putting some of his money to work.
That doesn't get away from the issue of payment, it just moves it around. I think it does so in a way with a lot of positives, but there's the whole P2P bootstrapping problem in the way, both in terms of creating the code that even works and then actually bringing the network online, and unfortunately it seems that's a pretty big negative in practice.
Linear regression and logistic regression are covered by elastic net lasso, sgd regression, and sgd classifiers. Support vector machines are covered in SVCs and SVRs. I don't see neural networks on there (just saw this edit: "the chart is not really comprehensive, as I focused on scikit-learn. Otherwise I certainly would have included neural networks").

Some notes that may help clarify: regression is trying to predict a continuous number (e.g. how much a house will cost). Linear regression is a type of regression. Classification is trying to predict a category (e.g. condo vs apartment). Logistic regression is usually used for classification over two categories (even though it confusingly has 'regression' in the name). So linear regression will fall into into the regression bubble, logistic regression will fall into the classification bubble, and support vector machines are split into the two bubbles based on what you want to do with them.

The difference between sgd (stochastic gradient descent) and elastic net lasso is how the models are trained. The final model in both cases can be used (evaluated/predicted) in the same way.
Have him sign an IP transfer agreement.

Then:

Give him source code. Or get a co-founder you trust. Or go solo. Or close up and do something else.

Btw, your company is worth zero right now anyway, most likely. Go ahead and try to sell your company right now. Get a firm bid.
I completely agree with this comment.
I would like one, please.
One of the differences between servers in data centers and desktops is that servers don't reboot a lot. So the bad guys can build an in memory system that doesn't change anything on disk (which avoids the configuration management system from flagging it) and if it cloaks itself as a normally long lived process then active monitors might be fooled as well.
It then runs, effectively undetected, until the server reboots which can be months (or even years).

Tools to protect against those threats are going to have start taking into account process activity and footprint.
It's not just link, it's also integrate and not effect performance and UX. Many of these apps are mobile & cross platform and have things like message sending to clients you've never connected to. Messages getting restored by the server if you re-install the client. Push notifications by another server, saved history and so on. Could it be done in a hackathon night?
that's a very pretty translation of iOS design principles into a flat UI. makes me wonder in Gruber & friends have seen a sneak peek at the rumoured new flat iOS.
Funny how most things that make you mad are less outrageous when you hear both sides of the story.
Mysterious, indeed...
`unlike snap chat there is no account setup required`

So do you authenticate with IMEI or phone number?
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I'm not sure why you think Rootstrikers is such a bad thing. I read the wikipedia entry but still don't know what you are specifically talking about...
I'm sure there's a Scotsman somewhere that would like to speak to you.
Senior level dev for $150 per hour? Maybe, depending on the niche. $30? I can't imagine someone of that caliber would be interested.

In my area the going rate is well above that, and that isn't for bug fixing.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. To be more specific, my situation is that I'll be making $x this summer, in addition to making $y/month and spending $z/month. I need to visualize these data to determine whether I can afford to make that $x/k expense (i.e: expense that represents a part of x that is less than x) and still have a margin m, where m is defined as financial "safety". Sorry if it's confusing, but I hope it makes sense.

As smartician suggested, Mint is great to get an overview of one's finance, but it doesn't let me visualize the above amounts.

As ragatskynet suggested, spreadsheets are the most obvious choice, and the fact that I can "complicate them to the level [I] want" should allow me to plot the above amounts as I need, but I was trying to find a more elegant way to do this than using excel.

I will be looking into the other suggestions. stevekemp's seems to be just what I need.
This is a good question. In financial models, one common approach is the "noise trader" theory where some people make random trades. These are the people who lose out to the informed traders.

As to not creating wealth, it is possible that HFT adds value by seeing where the market is going (slowly) and putting the price there right now. Also, it may be able to extract more information from the truly informed traders, so that the market as able to have more information given less informed traders.

That said, I doubt HFT adds much positive value, but as the rules of the game evolve, ultimately the will favor people who add value.
Because software has near-zero replication costs, the "manufacturing" process has no good analog for software industry.

I wonder how many "business people" have a hard time understanding this concept, resulting in the typical shortsightedness that results in Build It Cheap And Fix It Later, where "later" almost never finds its time.
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This is not about a person's wedding. This is about (what initially seemed like) a crime (?) that person committed.
in your example you left out the person that paid for the lemonade. they lost. i think in an idealistic value system, all value is exchanged not created, a lot like energy in physics. not that i'm saying that's a good model for economics, but it's a valid high level thought, and one i think the original poster might have in mind.
Interesting that this would bubble to the top today in light of the Verizon FISA story.

The White House and others defending the practice keep repeating “it’s just metadata.”

Knowing exactly who you talk to, when, where, and for how long can expose a lot about you and be pretty incriminating!
> If most people don't know what a logical fallacy is, then you may as well be referring to the argument from magic pixies and fairy dust fallacy: they won't care or understand what you're saying. At worst, they'll assume you have an unwelcome air superiority about you and they'll start to ignore everything else you say as well.

That's important, if your concern is convincing general-audience third parties.

In a forum like Hacker News (and, in fact, most internet fora I participate in), I'm usually more interested in connecting to a fairly educated audience and, more than convincing third parties that I am right, eliciting the best possible arguments for a position I don't already agree with, as, even if it doesn't change my mind to the opposing position, that's the best way to grow my understanding of the subject area.

As a result, I'm a lot less concerned about what might win accolades of "most people", and a lot more concerned with what will get someone who is interested in and capable of putting forth a strong argument to do so.
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The report [1] the original article was based on listed accusations which don't make the incident sound nearly as trivial (i.e. BS) as you are claiming:

>Within the existing privately run public campground, unpermitted development including, but not limited to: grading; construction of multiple structures including a gateway and arch, an artificial pond, a stone bridge, multiple event platforms with elevated floors, rock walls, artificially created “ruins” of cottage and castle walls, multiple rock stairways, and a dance floor; and installation of over 125 potted trees, potted plants, event tents, port-a- potties, generators, lighting, and wedding facilities for guests. [2]

That being said, I agree that Sean Parker's defense should have been pursued before the original article was published.

[1][PDF link] http://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2013/6/F5.1-s-6-2013...

[2] Violation Description #1 from above report.
Surely if you measure cheap by what starts at 350 rupees. A lot of things get cheaper.

You keep changing stance - most foreign books are not cheap(they are), technical books aren't the only books(no they are not; fiction is cheaper, non-fiction is a bit higher), and lastly 350 isn't cheap. Doesn't my very first comment in this thread has 236 termed as "quite low"? If your basic objection is 350 isn't cheap for most books, why bother with the needless arguments about foreign books and novels.
Well, that explains why he linked to that "A $5 app isn't expensive" post from Daring Fireball yesterday.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2032847/a-5-app-isnt-expensi...
The link gave me an error 400: bad request message. I changed the ending of the url from recommendation=false to recommendations=true, and it worked. Just in case anyone was attempting to see the proof.
So post yours right here. I would like to see them.
"The standard techniques used for analysis such as the examination of checksum or tools such as "rkhunter" are therefore not able to track down the malicious code."

rkhunter is out of date.

http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rkhunter

We use it as well but I'm not sure it is an example of a serious security practice when given with only one other "checksum or tools such as" type statement.
The Taylor series is actually the expansion of the limit in the line above. There's some trickery in proving that the limit converges, but you can derive one line from the other with some straightforward combinatorics.
hahaha you're such a PRO! Leaving aside the fact he's "based" in Brazil, I predict he'll sign on at a USA paper or broadcaster the very moment such become willing to give him the same editorial freedom to report on USA legal issues he now enjoys at The Guardian: i.e., that will never happen.
So it's like the KGB, but worse (the KGB didn't kill careers because you had sex). Living in a country from the former communist bloc, I can tell you what the endgame looks like. It looks like 60% of the population willingly collaborating with the security service and writing reports for them. If I were American, the first thing I'd do is convert to mormonism.
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Most important part omitted is how to do #1. Customer discovery, learning key.
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I don't accept that anyone can know how familiar everyone else is of a thing. It's possible that you're perfectly correct, but how you arrived at this was assumption.

What if, out of the 348/350 other students you claim were unaware of linux, there were more than 0 of them that were happy to play with linux on their own without broadcasting it to you?

My point in this is that hobbies may seem unique, and it's great that we can motivate the growth of our identity in this, but to take it to the extent that you and your friend were the only kids that knew linux is blissful ignorance. No offense to you, it's just your assumption that I feel compelled to respond to.
I was thinking a bit more Roman Empire but yeah, that works. Bah humbug indeed. :)
That sounds like a DMCA violation and so does telling other people how to circumvent a copyright protection mechanism.
The Linode write-up from HTP which may be relevant to this.

Scroll to the "Linode" section of course.

http://www.exploit-db.com/papers/25306/
Seems to work in Incognito. I'll let you know if I track down the extensions that's messing with things. Really awesome!
Signing up for on-line services is a good use for "virtual account numbers". This is a feature offered on some Citibank and Discover credit cards (maybe others) that allows you to generate a separate credit card number that's billed to your original account. The nice thing about them is that once a virtual account number has been billed by a vendor, it does not accept any charges in the future except from the same vendor. So if the account is compromised, the credit card number is useless to the person who steals it.
you just have to be careful about traces of metals. Muscle Milk for example has a large amount of arcenic/cadmium/lead. research before you drink!
Catch 22.
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"you have to send them scans of personal documents (such as passport, drivers license or similar)."

What? Seriously?

"In addition to that, we delete that information after 21 days."

Hmm, do they delete the info that ends up on backup copies? How do you know they even actually delete it in 21 days? It's not like there is a third party even auditing which you can rely on. (Not that I'd ever do that for something like this anyway, I would just find another provider.)
I have about 1 million of the CBSE student records there now. That's abut 8.8 million scores. https://github.com/octonion/CISCEResults2013/tree/master/cbs...
Or India. I live in Udaipur and there are many people from US/Europe staying here for months. $300/mo will take care of both food and stay. You can even teach language to make some money. I know a few people who have been living here like this for last 6 years.
Because failure to present a proof does not constitute contradiction. This is the so called fallacy fallacy, as I learned earlier today, on reddit of all places.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy
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First, I just knew this was going to be about sexism. It's not because your feelings are hurt, that you receive intellectual immunity. If you are making a generalisation about an entire community, consisting of thousands to millions of people, you're going to need to justify that! You're free to say you've encountered some sexist people and I sympathise with that, sexism is terrible. But do not accuse me of being sexist.

Secondly, although I believe logic is the only way to have a real argument, we're all human beings and thus my judgement will be influenced by the colour of your argument. If you have a perfectly logical argument, yet call me a slur, unconsciously you're going to have a way harder time convincing me.
When will the Android version be released?
There was the pretty major point made that Parker could not have legally applied for permits on this land, since it's privately owned land owned by the hotel that was hosting his wedding; the hotel should have.
Looks like it was the HTML5 DivX Plus Web Player. Weird.
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In another life, long before taking up coding, I spent 6 months in the mountains of southern Spain (near Grenada) living in a Rainbow community where tepees were the lodging of choice.

Amazing experience, obviously not much "work" getting done ;-)...except for this English guy, lived in a crude stone structure on the range across the way from where the community was situated. Somehow he had electricity, either through solar panels or running a mega cable to the small village higher up the range.

Anyway, he was a programmer (this is in the mid-90s, BTW) working for a bank in England -- would mail floppy disks to his employer.

Looking back now, I salute him deeply, living on the edge (literally of a mountain range) hanging out with a group of 200+ crazy pot/shroom/lsd huffing hippies -- how he got any work done is beyond me ;-)

Time flies...
Android version in the works?
right I changed it based on your suggestion which I find more appropriate
Anyone who's ever gotten married will tell you that weddings are very expensive. $4.5MM is a couple of orders of magnitude above average, but not out of line - what else should they spend their money on if not a declaration of their mutual love?
Couldn't help but notice that his April entry refers to 'trying out new wilderness recipes', and his next May entry refers to 'a rough time with food poisoning'.
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What do you mean by "cancel"? If you mean have your card issuer give you a new card with a new number, and stop allowing charges using the old number, that isn't necessarily sufficient. You may have to close your underlying account.

Visa and MasterCard both have updater services, which are available to some (but not all--I'm not sure what exactly the requirements are for access) merchants that accept their cards. The updater service allows the merchant to inquire about a particular card number and receive back a status that can be one of: no info available; card still valid; card replaced and here is the new card number and expiration date; account closed.
Not using feature branch at all is something new to me. Our current strategy is closed to the one Vincent Driessen described in his [blog post](http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/).

I am not clear on if it is actually better to not use feature branch. The article gave a couple of reasons:

1. You don't have to do merges.
2. Risk is generally spread out more evenly into a large number of very small risks created as each commit lands.
3. You can test interactions between features in development easily.
4. You can A/B test and do controlled rollouts easily.

I do agree with 1, 2 and 3. However, I am not sure how to weigh them. One scenario worries me about everyone developing on development is what if someone break development? Admittedly, we need a large test coverage for it, but feature branch isolates each develop group nicely and minimize the risk of one group being interrupted by the other. For reason #4, I don't see how it is a clear advantage. I think there is a way to do the same with feature branches, as long as the developer keep both version on the branch.

I'd like to hear your opinions on this. More over, it sounds to me that with this branching modeling, a variety of systems (e.g. GateKeeper) needs to be in place. What exactly are those systems?
I'd like an invite! thanks.
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Woah that's my facebook post! About Daily Rituals.

My only regret in life is that I didn't use an affiliate link.
So, how to find "toxic" links to your site

1: ...

2: ...

3: Find links from non-English pages - this one is obvious

Isn't the internet an international thing? If Slovenians like a site, shouldn't that help, not hurt?
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But how long will this idea of 'fusing thoughts and intellectual processes' remain the sole domain of humans? Besides from some creative leaps, a lot of this has to do with logic: knowing what works where and when.

I'm working on an idea tied to literate programming where someone can tell a story of what they want a program to do, put it in a wiki, and then programmers can edit the wiki to add in the actual software to make the program work. How hard would it be to use NLP parsing, feed it into something using the priciples from BDD, take something that turns that into UML the run it through a code generator and you have an MVP. Software engineers may then end up like manufacturing engineers in that their job is to tweak and fine tune the output. But even then that part of the job may fall to ML which recognizes similar patterns between software implementation and optimum utilization (there are only so many ways to write a user login page on a web app for example)

I think thinking will never become mass-produced, but Mass-producing turning thoughts into software may happen within my lifetime.

Edit: missed out the main point from my last sentence.
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