skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I'm seeing the hypocrisy there, please expand.

I am mostly just getting tired of YOU trolling Hacker News, That is one hypocrisy I'm seeing, you complaining about trolls when you are the one doing it.

This thread just isn't productive or interesting any more. It seems to be mostly designed to get attention. Based on the posts of others you seem to have been trolling here for a while.

The other hypocrisy I'm seeing is you exploit Hacker News when it benefits you (i.e. to plug your product) and trash it when it doesn't gush praise of you, but that is normal for you.

Telling you my real identity would be silly since you are, most of the time, not a nice person to anyone who criticizes you.
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>He was claiming HMRC was trying to get BT to charge income tax for a benefit of tea and coffee. //

The page I linked says that it's not normally the case. But it's clear in the guidance that a not unusual construction of such a scheme, eg using vouchers and an external provider, would make it that tax/NICs were due on the hot-drinks a a benefit-in-kind.

It's not provably misinformation but it is deficient and doesn't demonstrate the verity of the claim.
Webhosting talk makes my brain hurt with so much noise vs signal to sort through :-)

But I did stumble across http://serverbear.com/ which seems to have some useful information, though many of the plans they show aren't actually available (out of stock) at the providers listed...
Awesome it has a friggin' name even. Wow, tracking down some of those references.
It seems that you think we disagree about something fundamental here, but I can't figure out what it is. Especially since I could easily have written this bit myself:

What if the algorithm you think you want is actually the opposite of what you might find interesting tomorrow? Most people are complex, interesting creatures finding new inspirations and communicating them on a daily basis. People grow, change, they find out what is interesting to post. We're in the baby stages of this whole online social experiment.

Regardless of that: I find it's generally _people_ I can choose to hide from my news feed (usually because they constantly post things that annoy me).

Right, and I think this is the wrong approach. There's not an absolute correlation between who said something and whether or not the subject is of interest to me. If I have a friend who I share political beliefs with, I may care about his post on, say, gun control... but if that same friend is a religious fundamentalist, I absolutely don't want to see any "pro Jesus" crap. I think this assumption, that content should be selected / filtered based on provenance, is one of the most broken things about online social networking.

Also, Facebook just isn't important enough to me, for me to spend any time "tuning" things to try and tailor my stream to what I want it to be. Like most of us, I have about a bazillion things competing for my time and attention. If Facebook isn't delivering a desirable experience (regardless of the reason), then I, for one, am likely to just drift away from it and let something else entertain me.
This is ridiculous. I'm at work so I can't do a point by point refutation but I will later.

It's obvious that you know more than the average person on this subject, but you're falling into the trap of thinking that just because you know some things, you have a good (or even the best) picture of what is happening.

First of all, the main significant thing about these protests is that it was the FIRST large scale protest to not be organized by any political group(s) and instead is grassroots. People just started messaging each other and walking outside of their houses to support others. A day or two later, parties finally started organizing but the protest is nonpartisan. I have never otherwise seen a TKP (left-communist party) and MHP (ultra-nationalist right) flags flying together EVER! There are also people from Laz, soccer teams, Kurds, workers unions, LGBT groups. I am getting daily updates from almost all of my friends who are taking part in the protests. The idea that it was "subverted", or is fake astroturfing is absurd. Read this: http://technosociology.org/?p=1255

Second, yes, Erdogan's leadership resulted in economic reform (the costs of this is another discussion altogether, but no one can deny the gains). But this has nothing to do with his authoritarian ruling style. Under his tenure, Turkey has had the great (!) achievements of dropping to 54th in the corruption index (http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9967221.asp) and "noticable problems" the press freedom index with 33 journalists currently jailed (http://en.rsf.org/report-turkey,141.html). Or political prisoners (http://www.fidh.org/International-delegation-finds).

Third, you need to learn a lot more about election politics and demographics in Turkey.

Democracy is not elected dictatorship. But Erdogan has made it clear that this is his interpretation of it, many times.

P.S. There are so many videos (with context) / images of clear and unincited police brutality that I want to puke when I hear you deny them. I've been compiling a list. More on this later too.

http://i.imgur.com/GdstgFu.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHFe7vK1hyw
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151648526182702
http://i.imgur.com/ovsvTkg.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=139362532926023
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-981250
https://twitter.com/kurttberna/status/340734448146472960/pho...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDnrcsrhxGg
http://i.imgur.com/tP6EIXI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/n1VWYdI.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=207394002740909&set...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=248465715278711&s...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=654306227917990&set=...
In the Google Webmaster's tools it's possible to download a list of all the new links that are linking to your site.

Using this tool I've been able to discover that someone has started to buy spammy links in wordpress comments linking to my website. Those wordpress blogs are full of spam, so I want to believe that Google is already ignoring everything there.
but MySQL's query cache generally isn't considered all that great a thing anyway

You've never had to prime a query cache on a MySQL server, have you? :)
Well, I didn't mean to act like an ass, but you know as well as I do that this is a joke. Adults that are shocked at this is actually pretty stupid. If let's say a minor read this and was shocked, then well that would be completely understandable. Sorry to say, most colleges do have hazing issues and rampant rapes. You might not be exposed to it, but for students this day and age, many are aware.
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C#'s stackalloc might be useful for some micro-optimizations, but I think it's main purpose is for interop with unmanaged code.
Just to offer a counter-point, I find the UI for multiple users excellent. Of course I don't share account contexts with other people, nor should anyone else, so the various accounts are all my own.
I don't see FirefoxOS as the mobile OS for "Firefox users." It transcends the choice of browser in my opinion, it becomes something grander (as in Web standards native apps, and standing for freedom in the mobile market, much as Mozilla has stood for it in the browser market, but phones are surely in much more dire need of openness these days.) I'm not a desktop Firefox user as well, but neither am I a desktop Android browser user nor a desktop Safari user. And I'm really interested in FirefoxOS, and it doesn't involve giving up my preference for Luakit and Chrome on the desktop.
Philosophy and personal finance are two extremes that should be covered in K-12 but are not part of any standardized test so no public school is going to use resources for them. As a result we are at great risk overall of having a nation of shallow-minded, debt-enslaved consumers.
Thank you.

I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the only person out there who has used the "unfriend" button before. I've deleted hundreds of people; many of whom I only met for one night 5 years ago or didn't even talk to way back in high school. Now, my Facebook feed has content that only features people I care to hear from and "interest pages," which is sorta meh. It's really not this social media wasteland I keep reading about?
I think their belief is that they can offer a better experience on very low-end phones than Android can.
Google's WT index seems to provide a fair amount of the links. There are a few 3rd party tools that do a really good job of indexing nearly all of the backlinks to your site:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org
http://www.ahrefs.com
http://www.majesticseo.com
Unlock your phone with walking: Accelerator sensor biometric evaluation
I was startled by the word "master" in the submission title, but it's in the original article title, so it's good to have that word here. I think that MASTERING philosophy is not easy, as my late dad, a chemistry major who also did extensive study of philosophy as he considered a career in researching the philosophy of science, never stopped reading about philosophy throughout his life. He quoted to me the saying from about a century ago that all Western philosophy is just footnotes to Plato, and yet the footnotes keep gaining more elaboration and nuance over time. I'm not sure that anyone really masters philosophy. My oldest son had three year-long courses in philosophy as the core courses in the Stanford University Online High School,

http://ohs.stanford.edu/courses.html

and he is still thinking about philosophical issues as he pursues his career as a programmer in New York City's startup scene.

That said, what has this curriculum requirement done for France? Is France dealing better with assimilating immigrants, or figuring out full employment for young people, or managing sustainable energy supplies, or doing any other kind of problem-solving in the real world better than other countries? If so, what? If not, why not? Does France indeed have a systematic educational advantage from its program of school philosophy courses, or is this just one more mandatory school requirement that many students blow off?
I saw this headline and it reminded me of a talk I went to yesterday that was held at NYU as part of the World Science Festival 2013. The talk was title "Refining Einstein: New Theories of Time" and the guests were:Paul Davies, Craig Callender, Tim Maudlin, and Max Tegmark. Tim is a philosopher, while Max is a physicist and Max kept making an analogy between the "French" speaking (like him, metaphorically and referring to physics concepts) and the "German" speaking Tim. Essentially saying that the German speaking Tim (no really, just metaphorically) constraints his understanding of time to coordinate systems, while him, the French speaking Max, does not constrain himself to that. The video may be posted at http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos at a later time and you can check it out.

In any case, what I learned is the philosophy questions everything and sometimes this is good and sometimes it can be troubling because people really believe what they think they understand - this is true in any field. However, one thing that bothers me is that history shows that just as some group thinks they have it figured out, another group/person comes and changes all that (e.g. Feynman, Einstein) and then another group rises from that thinking they are right again - the cycle continues.

One last thought is about my first philosophy class, which I very much enjoyed, but the lack of happiness of my professor's face was scary and troubling. After the class, I had so many questions about who I was, my religion, the air I breath, and the things I see/feel, etc. So much questioning cannot be too healthy for the human mind, but philosophical specialization is probably what prevents insanity (I hope).
Looks cool.
Would it be possible to use cocoapods?
Google's product is choosing favorites. You tell Google not to choose favorites, they just return a random list of webpages.
Feedback:

- the jobs for 10gen are stale, like maybe 6+ months old.

- you might want to add something to catch people searching on subtle spelling differences (eg: "10gen" not "10 gen").

- there's some mismatches on company names, eg for this job (http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34710/senior-software-...) it comes up as an Adafruit job not "Advisory Board Company". Many of the jobs sourced off StackOverflow seem to be mismatched to companies, maybe there's a common bug.

- you can expand a job listing by clicking on it. Maybe add a graphic bug to click on to fold the listing?
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Are you speculating there? Is it for all users or just logged in? If I open several links from a SERP in tabs then am I adding to stats to give a higher bounce rate?
This is a myrh.
Exactly. Tim Ferriss talks about ignoring the news in his book "The Four Hour Work Week". This blog post makes exactly the same points. Regurgitating a sub-chapter of Tim Ferriss gets you to the front page I guess.
Not just yet, but we are working on it.
If I understand the page correctly this is a description of a talk that will be presented in just under 2 months.

What happens in this situation? Would Apple try to get them not to give the talk? Will Apple patch the problem in the meantime? Does anyone get sued?
As people commented on Reddit, this is not significantly different from any jailbreak using a computer. This is USB we are talking about, and the malicious charger in this case is a full-featured Linux computer.

So yes, they are installing unsigned software through USB on an iPhone by plugging it into a USB socket in a computer. That is just normal jailbreaking, and has been done forever, isn't it?
The experience is key. There are lot of really, really awful cheap Android phones out there.

Not to overlabour the point, but I find the idea of HTML/JS apps interesting in this context as well- many people looking to make an app might not have powerful machines that can run Eclipse (and certainly not OS X) and compile apps with any kind of speed. HTML/JS could be a great 'light' development environment.
Remember we're talking about high school (age 17-18), college is a different matter (and very few people study philosophy in college/universities in France).
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Is it _that_ different from the general phone you can find on the market?
I thought most manufacturer had conflict minerals policy now (maybe I got duped!) and though I applaud the idea of choosing your OS and wish more people would go that route, I'm still confused at how original this project really is...
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How I used eog utility to pull off a small Linux exploit
Prohibitively? That really depends on your use case.

OpenSceneGraph [1] uses intrusive reference counting pointers yet has been found suitable for many real time applications.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSceneGraph
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Why can't they be both? I can't celebrate this, even though I like Firefox and encourage their push for open web. But any company that has to install countermeasures to prevent worker suicides on premise isn't exactly aces in my book...
In the beginning (circa 2003-2005 when I was in college) it was a tool for only your peers. Granted at the time it was little more than a directory and event management tool. But it served a useful purpose back then. In my opinion the jumping-the-shark moment was either when it was opened to the world or when "Apps" were introduced.
In general many commenters have a misconception that the mentioned French "baccalaureate" is related to the US/UK undergraduate bachelor's degree. As the article points out, and the corresponding wikipedia page hints at, this somewhat roughly translates to a high school diploma in the US, the British A-levels, the German Abitur, etc.

There is an interesting comment that illustrates the distinction between US/Europe education systems by observing that in Europe high schools are general followed by focused specific subject studies, whereas in the US there is a lot of focusing already happening in the high schools. Interestingly, though, there seems to be a general education requirement for an undergraduate degree; since I am from Europe this seems to have the purpose of ensuring that all admitted students get to the same level before specializing.
The most frustrating part of negative SEO or any link cleanup is that Google doesn't tell which links they think are spammy links. If you are working for/with a site that has been online for a while, they will have thousands of crappy looking links pointing to their site.

Scraper sites pick up content from other websites all the time and cross post with porn and other crap. Directory submissions that were perfectly fine 5 or 10 years ago can now be viewed as "low quality" by Google. Blogs that used to be well-maintained have been bought by spammers and SEOs and are now content farms.

Google's lack of transparency when it comes to links is very troublesome. I understand they can't give out the ins and outs of their algo, but asking your average website owner to go through 10k+ backlinks and identify and remove the links is a pretty tall task when there isn't a clear standard on what is bad and what isn't.
FYI I think it's silly that such a simple informational website should require javascript just to display the information.

Yes I am that noscript-nazi everyone dislikes.
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It's not a great long-term solution, but DNSimple has been disabling their ALIAS support, which many Heroku and AWS users are likely to depend on, especially if you use SSL.

Short term, keep your ALIAS record and add an additional A record for your root domain pointing to one of the IPs indicated by your hostname. DNSimple says they'll treat the A record as a fallback when ALIAS isn't working, and will return both sets of records when it is (https://twitter.com/dnsimple/status/341574753276002304).

For the next 3/12/24/96 hours or however long it takes for the threat to subside, this should increase your availability, and the likelihood that your A record will work for that time is probably reasonable. Longer term, you'll want to get rid of the A record.
Your comment is pretty much a much better written version of the story I knew so far. The comment I replied to seemed to suggest something a bit different, with a coalition of political opposition taking advantage here. I wanted to see where what I knew fitted into that narrative so I could try to form an opinion on it.
Christmas is probably too soon, unfortunately. Everything I've read has been focused on launching FxOS in emerging markets starting this Summer, then moving on to developed markets next year, once it's had time to mature and get some more polish.
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FYI, he does (or did, no comments in a few years): https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MattCutts
- 10gen I'll work on getting those out of there

- That's a good idea, improving searching and filtering is definitely top of my list.

- Yeah, stackoverflow's got pretty limited searching ability, so I was trying to match via name appearing in job title/description, but it's got way more false positives than I'd like.

- Absolutely
The article has some user comments I found relevant I don't see pointed out here.

"That change was actually made a year ago. The only change on that page is the positioning of the video. The actual text has not changed in over a year."-Barry Schwartz

AND

"The article is also incredibly wrong about the previous change. Google did't add the "almost" last year (2012) but TEN years ago, in 2003, as you can see with Archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030915000000*/http://www.google... -LowLevel
The one thing I do really like about spark is the NSNotificationCenter monitoring. Will you be supporting that?
Speculating here, but that's probably due to the fact that small and private isn't compatible with VC money.
Nonsense; that is Google's one and only job.

My parents run a small e-commerce business that has supported them for years; a team of a dozen people run everything from the little website to the shipping. All of their sales come from (mostly accidental) SEO and Amazon.

The scary reality is that right now that entire operation could be destroyed by a competitor in a couple minutes if they knew how. It's not hard to find a package on Fiverr that includes 1,000 spammy links for $5, so a competitor could easily direct 5,000 spammy links (more than the entire amount of links directed at them right now) for $50.

Is that use case emotionally loaded? Sure. But it isn't extreme. I recognize that the company only exists because Google gave it a chance to, but the idea that the livelihoods of a dozen people could vanish if someone got a little bit ambitious deserves a better response than what Google has given it.

Google's current options for removing negative SEO are very hand-wavy, mostly because they don't really believe negative SEO is a large issue. Admittedly, potential for negative SEO is a cop-out black-hatters use to cover their tracks more than it is a real threat, but that doesn't mean Google can ignore it.

Google's current solutions for combating negative SEO: "Ask webmasters to remove the links" - a complete joke and everyone knows it, and the Link Disavow Tool, which is pretty difficult to use, and Google admits that it may be several months before the rankings are updated after links are disavowed.
I've wondered about this as well. When I was going through my 20's there came big splits in my friends pool in terms of common interests, first the division of friends who were married and those who weren't, and then the much bigger split of people with kids and those without. I noticed that my focus changed at those times as did others and the folks who weren't married or didn't have kids were really not interested in the stuff I was focused on.

We now have a generation of people going through this with Facebook and it doesn't surprise me if suddenly one group of friends is not as relevant as they used to be, and that a system like Facebook can't easily pick that up.
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Where is the disruption? My supermarket has half an aisle full of meal replacement powders, drinks, and bars. HN (and soylent) seem to be unaware of such a thing. Does Soylent bring anything new to the table other than guerrilla marketing and willful ignorance of FDA regulations ("These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.")
The amazing thing is that this is news.

Of course competitors can trash your organic rankings -- and it's a lot easier for them to trash you than it is to promote themselves.

I'm glad Google is slowly coming around to admitting that this house of mirrors has some flaws. The more information publishers get about this, the better choices we can make in content selection.
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With all due respect, cup is a long time, respected member of this community. You are a new member who has only ever posted this comment. Is it really appropriate of accusing somebody of being a "cleverly embedded opinion maker" when you come across as exactly that, and they do not?
Where is this sick notion coming from, that left-winged are supposed to be big fans of dictators?

I've never heard of it, so my best answer is: the depths of your brain.

I find nothing trashy or nasty in making fun of fascists/dictators like these. And there is nothing right-winged in making fun of them.

Are you a first-timer to Latma, or are you just pretending it doesn't equate everyone to the Left of Bibi with these dictators?