skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the language pedants, it is almost always called "pidgin," but it is technically a creole which means that it was formed out of mashing several languages together, but it has become its own full fledged stable language. I am not really a local, but I did live in Hilo for 5 years. I know a lot of words with Hawaiian, English, Japanese, some other European language origins.
I'm gaining outrage fatigue.
Have to agree here. I managed to avoid gem purchases up to this point, but now trying to gather up 2M gold or elixir means I have to carefully pick other castles with more than 200K elixir to attack to make it worth my time and dedicate more than a solid hour to play at one time, otherwise I'll get attacked and lose too much of my stockpile in exchange for a paltry 12-15 hours immunity, during which I'll only generate 216-270K of resources.
ACH has a dispute system like credits cards. Credit cards have a dispute window of 120 days. Personal bank accounts have a dispute window of 60 days. Business bank accounts have a dispute window of 3 business days.

The problem with disputes on ACH debits is that the process is not formalized through a standard network like Visa or MasterCard. It's a mess operationally, and there's a near zero chance of winning the dispute. This becomes even worse because of the size of ACH transactions.

We've reduced the risk by requiring trial deposits on any bank account that you want to debit, which is also a problem for a lot of our customers.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers and deleters."
Internships Are Increasingly the Route to Winning a Job
I wasn't commenting on how to react to this, I was commenting on the fact that The Guardian article seems to indicate that this is new. That's not the case. Under G W Bush collecting of call records was widespread.

The program to do that has been in place since at least 2001.
Pay gated content has been tried in the MMO space to varying degrees of success. The main problem with it is that the gates split your community, effectively reducing the userbase of your game. As a non-pay example, take WoW (I did Vanilla->WotLK) where Blizzard continuously reduced barriers to entry for content so that a larger portion of the playerbase could experience it. I honestly haven't seen a gated solution where everybody is happy but I haven't surveyed every game out there and gating works well for single player games.

The other issue is that studios generally feel a need to put a carrot on the other side of the gate. At the moment, I'm tracking Warframe and the current update has (essentially) pay gated zones with a reagent drop that drives both additional character progression and player housing. Neither is necessary to complete any of the other content in the game–the game has a mechanics problem where weapon damage scaling is excessive, the relative ease of content clearing is one–and the playerbase is whining about P2W.

My inclination would be something like:

* Subscription based
* Sub payment produces in-game tradeable item, time added on use
* Subscription use suspends X days after not logging in
* Payment auto-renewal only triggers when 2 days left
* You start off with X weeks of playtime

This covers revenue, pay to win, real money trading, free players and (IMO) is both transparent and fair to players. It's basically a F2Pish variant of EVE's PLEX system. The challenge then becomes maintaining engagement and having the economy under control meaning that currency remains useful and inflation remains reasonable.

I haven't actually seen it done, probably because it's not a reliable recurring revenue stream like traditional subscriptions and isn't that strong of an impulse buy. I have seen somewhat similar ideas in a game with limited moves per day but from memory (been a while, blanking on the name) they also used the time item as a catalyst for weapon upgrades which for me veered too far into P2W so I dropped.
So here we have a article complaining about an category problem that do no longer exist, and a user that got banned because he failed to follow the rules of the site.

Its a community site where decision is made through consensus, and consensus was to fix the problems. So where is the emergency, and why is this article trying to declare the site as doomed?
So the 75 bucks is to cover the actual match making? Or are you sending people to some really fancy bars. How's that even work? I'm in Canada, You have deals with franchises here?

Ah no, that's a US zip code you're asking for. I'm very familiar with the US zip code, you see, as most US based web services present themselves as a global service rather than a US based one, and the zip code is often the only sign that they arn't catering to my nation.
The power cited is "50 USC § 1861 - Access to certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations" so the claim is just the metadata isn't a wiretap because it's a business record used for billing customers etc.
Actually, they are probably recording them in mass too. A couple former agents claim this and say it's being done under the guise that it won't be used in court but for post-analysis.
Works great for me, using Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell Inspiron 15R (Radeon 7700M) with the latest fglrx drivers.
Got the same thing for in Chrome. Did work for me in Firefox though.
Yeah, I'm surprised San Francisco wasn't one of the options. Clearly the administer of this survey isn't from the Bay Area.
Measuring site rendering time
Not surprising. Metadata (i.e. who you talked to, for how long, etc.) does not currently have the same privacy protections as the actual content of your communications. Jacob Appelbaum, an associate of Wikileaks and core member of the Tor project, often talks about it [1].

The EFF and UN have been actively involved with analyzing whether this is appropriate, as well [2]:

EFF believes that “metadata”—information logging individuals’ communication activities—is as sensitive as the content of communication and therefore deserves strong human rights protections.

1. http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/5/court_govt_can_secretly...

2. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/internet-and-surveilla...
With React, if you've structured your components correctly (i.e. only display logic) it should be straightforward to change the layout. In fact, it should be easier, since React is modular and has clearly defined boundaries and semantics.

Working with React components vs angular directives are pretty similar in terms of difficulty for designers, IMO, but we think that React components are easier to build than directives. Most designers can figure it out if they know html.
2nd hire to help revolutionize testing
We're a 3 person product- and engineering-focused startup based in sunny SoMa in San Francisco looking for our second hire. We are all hackers (1 designer / front-end hacker, 2 full stackers). We know testing is broken - how is it that something so integral to developing great products is so damn time consuming? We are changing that by building a new way to do black-box QA, one that is automated, non-technical and simple to use.

We think developers should write their own unit tests, and we practise TDD as a company. But black-box testing (testing for regressions, functional and x-browser compatibility) is way too time consuming and technically demanding. Refactoring large 'automated' test suites is painful and inefficient, and doing manual QA (especially when several browsers are involved) is enough to make the most patient dev want to quit their job.

At the moment, the only way to get black-box coverage is by spending developer time. We think it's a waste of developer time to work on anything other than hacking on product. As devs we should be spending our time building great software, not wrangling with the complexities of outdated testing tools that are designed for a pre-continuous deployment world. We think that companies want to spend money, not developer time to get coverage, and so far the market agrees with us: we have over 400 companies waiting to use Rainforest, despite being in Alpha.

We need your help to execute on our vision of making QA simple, beautiful and accessible to all.

Us:

- Reinventing how developers test software

- Seed stage company based in SF (SoMa)

- Backed by YC, A16Z, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar, Emmett Shear, Aaron Iba, Geoff Ralston, 2 former Yahoo CTOs among others.

- Currently 3 hackers

- In private Alpha

Our stack:

- Rails

- Postgres

- Coffeescript

- Backbone

- Git

You:

- Experienced web-software hacker

- Care deeply about simplicity and elegance in interfaces and in code

- Opinionated and diplomatic

- Want to play a major role in shaping our direction

- Have significant experience with personal projects / your own startup

- Live in or ready to relocate to SF

What to expect:

- Work on complex, multi-faceted problems that have not been solved yet

- Freedom to choose what you work on

- Significant equity

- Competitive pay, paid health insurance

- Catered lunches

- Unlimited vacation policy

Email us at letsrevolutionizetesting@gmail.com with Github + LinkedIn + anything else that will convince us you are our 2nd hire.
TOR is not a perfect solution though. At least, not by itself. In many ways I feel like TOR is about as secure and reliable as WEP is for wi-fi. Is that an unfair assessment of TOR?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Think of it as voice mail for everyone. Except you can't retrieve or delete anything.
are you in SF? i live in cole valley and have terrible at&t service. its been terrible ever since i moved here, though, at&t has given me discounts, credits, even a microcell (requires highspeed internet). now i get full bars in my house, though,as soon as i step outside its back to one little bar.

i wonder if my microcell will work with tmobile? i'm out of contract and have been thinking about switching.
And yours is a complete mischaracterization of the work of Kirsch et al.

It isn't my characterization so much as a paraphrase of various sources I've read/heard on this, including Kirsch himself. My understanding is that Kirsch and Sapirstein's findings are two: (a) for all but severe depression, the improvement of SSRIs over placebo is measurable but too small to be clinically significant; (b) even that small measurable difference is questionable, because the studies were not really double-blind. (Patients could figure out which group they were in because of the SSRIs' side effects.) Is either of those descriptions of their findings wrong?

I haven't kept a list of sources, but one I remember is [1]. Is Kirsch mischaracterizing his own work?

I noticed that you didn't use the word 'placebo' in what you wrote. My understanding is that Kirsch et. al.'s findings were specifically about lack of clinical significance beyond placebo. Could that explain the discrepancy between your description and mine?

Perhaps you'd like to advance a theory

I would not. Do you think that lack of a better theory has anything to do with whether this one is substantiated or not?

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irving-kirsch-phd/antidepressa...
It sounds weird when you say it out loud: a huge part of our government operates in secret and without regard to the law. At this point I think everyone is just hoping that they are breaking the law for benevolent purposes (like fighting nuclear proliferation) rather than for malevolent purposes (of which there are many).
Sure, but in this case 'forever' should at least mean a few years... surely?
I have never heard a vet, breeder or trainer recommend free feeding a dog.

Also from their site? That is not an "also" that is what I was referring to. You read that paragraph and concluded there must be research supporting this? When I read that paragraph the first thing that I was "where are the citations?"
"Thunderbolt 2 promises even more boutique external hard drives, external docks, and monitors. The best part is that they will be twice as expensive as the already expensive Thunderbolt 1 peripherals."
How does this comment not get flagged for removal? Might as well talk about how your best friend gets paid 5k/month working from home for only a few hours/week.
I think Mac Pros tend to be purchased by organizations rather than individuals.
The fact remains that 37S persists as a company. Inasmuch as that is true, they are entirely capable of offering this product in perpetuity to those who bought it, as they've done with other products produced by them.

If people pay for indefinite use, the company has an obligation to provide for such use so long as they are capable of doing so.
that's way too much elaborated for a lazy person whose job is walking a dog.
That's handled by Room 641A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
i realise it's anecdote, but i grew up with a parent that was depressive. was on lithium, etc. life was pretty damn miserable until the first SSRIs became available - they were the first drugs that had any noticeable effect and they changed our lives.
We don't do it in our apps or games. And I know quite a few developers who make analytics opt-in via settings (as well those who provide an opt-out). Big brand games probably do it, though.
This might be a weird comment, but the service seems very alcohol oriented - meeting at a bar, covering drinks. What about people who don't drink?
this is on reddit already? http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1fqwg9/draf...
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Greenwald lives in Brazil and in any case is pretty unrepresentative of US journalists.
Mental illnesses like cancer are defined by there effects not there underlying cause. As such they tend to treat a wide range of physical causes under the same general umbrella. And drugs or therapies which work wonders for some people often have little benifit for others. However, there are well studdied physical mechanisms for things like specific types of addiction which do present a physical mechanism.

A great example of this is Heroin addiction and alcohol addiction are vary different biochemically. There is even a wide range of Alcholhol addictions, but you will see them treated side by side. The simple truth is we can't really understand why someone has issues but we do have treatments that help people lead productive lives and that's enough to be useful. Just as your dentist does not need to know how pain killers work to use them effectively.
There are other ways to use Facebook. I don't have a single family member of co-worker friended. I use it primarily to keep up with people in a fairly niche fandom I'm a part of, that I end up seeing maybe 2-3 times a year.
Can Yelp, TripAdvisor & Foursquare replace guide books? Yes, but...
Glenn Greenwald, while being a US citizen is a resident of (i.e. typically 'based' in) Brazil according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald.
FTA:

> Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by the NSA, but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents have revealed the continuation of the practice on a massive scale under President Obama.

So, not surprising at all if you've been paying attention, but it's good to have confirmation.
Rather than simply accepting this, it is interesting to think about possible technical countermeasures against our bureaucratic overlords. Could we make an open source "Silent Circle phone" using the new mobile OSes from Ubuntu or Firefox? Perhaps it only works over Wifi or 4G, but uses packet shaping to mask a call and its associated metadata. With plummeting hardware prototyping costs, this is within the reach of one motivated individual.

Relatedly, you might even make an app that causes a standard Android or iPhone to vibrate or glow when the call is being monitored by the NSA, showing the metadata they are remotely recording onscreen, to give some tangible feedback. I do believe the lack of visible feedback on privacy violations of this kind is a huge reason why they go unchecked. One peeping Tom is an outrage, a million is just a statistic. Tangibility changes that.
Categories suck in general because they're basically tags. That is, they're not structured. I find the category system for MediaWiki in general pretty useless specifically because it is impossible to create a taxonomy and apply it in a structured or hierarchical way across your document set.

Wikipedia's core admins are pretty notorious for lording over the content they consider their domain in pretty unforgiving ways. Luckily, Wikipedia is an implementation of a specific type of platform, of which many free hosting options are readily available for your own wiki.

I think it's pretty naive to think that editorialization hasn't happened in some flavor throughout the history of the encyclopedia, as far back as Diderot. Those biases just happened to be engrained in different ways: platonism, the academy system, ethnic or national bigotry, etc.

As human knowledge expands, so comes the need for all willing people to contribute to our collective intelligence. There will always be stories of people gaming the system for their own end. MediaWiki as a platform has a revision system that allows us to review specific changes made by authors and revert them if they are in some way problematic or unacceptable.

So without getting around to the inscrutability of facts in general, I think it's preposterous to claim that Wikipedia faces an insurmountable problem due to its issues with taxonomy (a non-primary concern) or sexism (a concern relating to specific members of the community, and not of the knowledge being produced). So that being said, what's the point of this post?
Dogs as humans have selective hearing.

Do you wake up when there's an ambulance passing by while you're sleeping?

What if you change your statements to:

1) Detecting an abrupt change in sleep patterns in mammals is useful.
2) Dogs are mammals.

Therefore, detecting an abrupt change in sleep patterns in dogs is useful.
Most I ever made was about $30,000 in one month back in 2006. I had about 1 million unique visitors that month.
They can hear everything you say at any given time, even if your phone is off. Only removing the battery can prevent this. If you think this is a stretch, you are sorely mistaken.
Wish I could have been in on this :) This is the perfect interface for wearables like Google Glass.
This is why I believe we need simple, widespread encryption that is enabled by default. There are many applications which offer strong guarantees, such as Silent Circle (for whom I work), RedPhone, and even iMessage is pretty secure, from what I gather.

Many chat clients have OTR support, SIP has ZRTP, etc. There are alternatives, unfortunately the really popular methods don't make security a priority.
I've been arguing against it to anyone who will listen for 8+ years. What else am I supposed to do?
Judging by the logo at the end, I'd say this was a project for a character animation class--so no mocap. :)
We have people who don't drink using the service and they order non-alcoholic drinks at the venue--sometimes they're bars, sometimes lounges.

Alcohol does act as a pretty good social lubricant though. The girls actually prefer that to extravagant dates when we've suggested them because there's less pressure--if the chemistry isn't there, it's more acceptable to leave after that first round rather than commit to spending a lot of time with someone up front.
For those of you wondering why someone might use something like this, I had someone who made a fake account to follow me around on HN and insult me for a while. They got shadowbanned, but I like to keep showdead on, because it's interesting, so I still had to read it.

Woulda been nice to be able to just block them, but luckily with no responses they moved on to twitter (!) to harass me instead.
I am a T-Mobile user in Alexandria. Coverage in Old Town is zero in many places.
> Now that we know that every call is being slurped up by the surveillance-monster

This order authorizes metadata about every call, explicitly not including names, addresses, financial information, or the actual contents of the call.

From the order:

> Telephony metadata does not include the substantive content of any communication, as defined by 18 U.S. §2510(8), or the name, address, or financial information of a subscriber or customer.
Sound Hacking: Duck the Kick
We haven't worked with any venues or had any dates in Canada. We're primarily focused in SF, LA, Chicago, and NYC. Sorry about that. Hope we can add support for you soon.
Toxic workplace, what do I do?
I'm thinking they've learnt from mistakes in their past where they've put in a concerted amount of effort to open source something only then to find out nobody wants to use it. Open sourcing it to their current standard requires code cleanup, documentation etc.
Just to be clear: in Brazil it IS a crime if someone over 18 has sex with a minor.
Shouldn't the default position be "we don't know"?

No that's a common misunderstanding. Science is the search for the best model/theory as such it's hard to rank something as better or worse than we don't know. Thus the default theory is "There is no relationship between X and Y". Even if not clinically useful there does appear to be a connection and as such you can replace the default theory.

After even more research the current theory is something like. "They appear to beat placebo's which have no side effects." Which again is far more useful than "We don't know." As it suggests comparing them to placebos that have side effects. Again not because they are going to help you treat patents directly, but because it tells you more about the disease and possible what research could be useful.
I'm running an i5 processor, and when the video was playing my cores jumped from the 5-10% range (background stuff I've got running) to the 25-40% range.

Interestingly, just switching from the demo tab to this HN tab (FF 21 on Ubuntu) drops the cores to the 10% range. They jump again when I switch back.
So then, are claims like "Facebook keeps me connected to folks I care deeply about who aren’t nearby." completely frivolous? I don't think so.

I'm not asking for the lurid details of a romantic relationship here, just some anecdotes that prove exactly how Facebook (as opposed to the myriad of other communication software: IM, email, Skype, etc.) helped foster a "deep relationship."

Someone argued that the OP and I have different definitions of deep. This could very well be the case. I consider deep relationships to be ones that I have with my family, best friends, romantic interest, and maybe some extended family or family friends here and there. If Facebook would disappear tomorrow, my relationship with the aforementioned groups of people wouldn't suffer one bit. But I could, as always, be mistaken.
Yep, until a strong enough AI exists to discern the useful information out of the flaming.

The problem with people who you'd want to block is that a good amount of the time they say something that gets you to think things through in a different light. It sucks to get flamed, but boy is it a good tool to force a reassessment of what you've said. Sometimes you realize you were dead right, and sometimes you realize the guy you want to block has a good point.
Rapidly cycling the processor affinity tries its best.
Where in my post that you are replying to did I make any sort of value judgment about this order, or any inference about the value of metadata?
Do you wake up when there's an ambulance passing by while you're sleeping?

No I do not. This is why dogs have been used as sentries for thousands of years.
Does anybody else think "Yo dawg, I heard you like..." belongs in that title somewhere?
Even before I looked up your profile information, I knew that you were over 35, because "weenie" hasn't really been a popular pejorative in a long time.

You were around in the Usenet days (or at least are old enough to have been), haven't you heard of kill files?