skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side of this is someone with an influential blog (high PageRank) etc. can easily use this to smear someone and there's absolutely nothing the target can do about it.

For example, look at Thomas Hawk (aka Andrew Peterson).

In the past, his (occasionally mis-guided) vitriol has been aimed at various targets. It's tapered down since he was sued but it remains appalling how someone with so much pent up anger is able to adversely affect others.

http://www.edrants.com/is-thomas-hawk-a-first-rate-jerk/

http://gizmodo.com/5730979/erotic-art-museum-sues-photograph...

http://www.jeremynicholl.com/blog/2011/07/04/how-stockbroker...

"Shortly afterward Peterson / Hawk caved in, reached an out of court agreement with the museum, removed the allegations of fraud from his blog, and replaced the offending Flickr set with an abject apology so humiliating it’s practically a Private Eye parody."

"With great power comes great responsibility"
I've had many friends over the years who have worked in the service industry, and I spent a few months as a bar-back earning tips as well.

The thing this article doesn't mention is how many servers feel about tips.

When I first started earning tips, I couldn't believe how much money I was making for the amount of work I was doing. I always had cash in my pocket, and lots of it, and I didn't make as much as servers or bartenders.

I left after only a few months, and have fond memories of the job and swimming in cash as a 21 year old.

10 years on, I had a few friends who were still in the service industry, and had moved up to white-table service in very posh restaurants. They all wanted to get out, but had a common complaint. They wouldn't make as much as they did as a server in any other profession that was available to them. The tips became the handcuffs that kept them in a job that was no longer of interest to them.

Since then, the percentage rate of tips has continued to increase, so I imagine this problem is getting worse rather than better.
MathCAD[1] was the first to use the notebook approach. It was/is a neat application, more along the lines of Matlab than a CAS like Mathematica.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcad
> stop supporting the abusive policies of Israel

Really? You had to drag Israel into that? You're aware that the only "abuse" Arabs are actually angry about is the fact that Israel exists at all? I'm an Arab so let me tell you, any stupidity that is committed in the West Bank is overblown by Arabs to delegitimate Israel which is part of Arabs quest to get rid of Israel altogether. They consider the whole of Israel to be occupied territory, this is why whether Israel keeps on building in the West Bank or not is meaningless for peace. They would have to stop building everywhere in Israel, pack up and go somewhere else to end the conflict. This is why many in Israel see the West Bank settlement as a secondary issue when it comes to bringing real peace although they are aware that it's bad for their image...
It is depressing that it is news that there is money in fixing popular things.
People working as servers have very little market power. I don't know what the macro solution is, but the micro "solution" is: don't be a server.
> Pick up some Steinbeck or Vonnegut or something. Trust me, it'll help you a lot more than a self-help blog post or Six Ways To Engage Your Customers

This is a false dichotomy, both are helpful. However, there something to be said about stepping outside the 'filter bubble', and acquiring varied skills/interests/viewpoints is always helpful. Why? Because it is in learning novel things that the brain actually gets stimulated and reshapes itself to become more optimal (thanks to a little thing called neuro-plasticity). Right now, due to our inefficient learning processes and media bombardment, we all get so overstimulated that we feel like deer in headlights with poor time management skills, and we end up unusually paranoid about what we consume. There is something to be said about what could be ‘worthwhile’ to read for some people, but we seem to over complicate the algorithm by which we calculate this as if it were some kind of fragile balance between 'good and evil' that we need to actively maintain. It’s really quite simple: if you’re interested in something, read up on it! Simple as that. Furthermore, if some tangent sparks your curiosity along the way, follow up on that as well. The sheer fact that you’re even remotely interested in the thing you’re reading about will ensure some level of efficient learning, so go and indulge.

Due to the way memory works (recognition in particular, or ‘pattern matching’ memory), the brain has the capacity to operate like a fairly sophisticated machine learning algorithm, so keep feeding it data and don’t worry so much about what you’re gonna get out of it, cause your brain is gonna sort that all out later anyway.
My iPhone screen is cracked. Do I really have to give up my contact info just to find out how much it costs to fix it with this service? Or did I just miss pricing on the mobile site somehow?
Thanks!! So glad to hear you find it useful.
There is none! It's totally dependent on the project, the people involved and the tools being used.
They could certainly limit bitcoin's appeal, but that is kind of beside the point: I'm sure the automobile broke plenty of horse carriage laws, too.

If enough people find bitcoins useful (big if) they will somehow become normalized with respect to the law.
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I just confirmed the behavior: I deleted a message from my Inbox, and my mail client put it in my Trash folder. I deleted the message from Trash, and it was still in All Mail. I deleted from All Mail, and when I refresh the folder it is still there. I checked the network log, and the correct EXPUNGE commands are being sent.

As for "undelete," I believe the purpose of the Trash folder is to support that. I have yet to find the email client that does not, as a default, store deleted messages in the Trash folder. I am not disputing that people want that functionality, what I am saying is that I do not think people want the behavior that I am seeing.

The fact that GMail treats "delete" as "remove labels" is very problematic. IMAP supports labels, including client-defined labels. Treating folders as "labels" only breaks the abstraction IMAP presents. I suppose this was part of Mark Crispin's gripes with GMail.
Oh no doubt. And in this specific case, I think 'tptacek was wrong to list the Mission but at the end of the day, that's a nit and given that I likely can't accurately name one neighborhood in Chicago, it didn't really seem relevant to his overall argument.
Thread got hellbanned I guess. Hopefully it didn't ban my account as well.
Yes, and not all police of course. But the job does attract a certian personality type.
Perhaps equally concerning is how cliquey the moderators of many of the reddits are. This might not be a problem if not for their apparent line of thinking that reddit should not be a democracy, but rather a collection of little monarchies where the mods ultimately decide the content.

There are certainly still parts of reddit that are "run by the community", but the group of mods with an anti-democratic bent has gained a great amount of influence site-wide.

One recent event where a long standing minimally moderated subreddit was overtaken by this group really brought the clique to light. Someone even made a graph or two about it:

http://imgur.com/WLG9wxr
http://i.imgur.com/HI2jIFq.png

Many of these mods frequent the "meta" subreddits which are often accused of exactly the sort of vote manipulation you are descrbing. The response by these groups is always a cheeky "oh hey, it's not us, we don't encourage that!" Speculation is rampant regarding the truth since people outside of reddit itself have limited abilities to look at the data needed to determine what's going on.

Perhaps reddit is going the way of digg with power users running and gaming the site. There are lots of rules about users manipulating voting patterns, but none for moderators. Once in control, they can influence a subreddit however they see fit.

The short story is that many users still see reddit as a democracy when it is increasingly not.
So if you're interested I recommend Emily Short: https://emshort.wordpress.com/ as a general guide/jumping off point to the modern scene
There is a great and current book describing our current posture. Check out "Dirty Wars" for a wonderful intro to our secret wars all over the world. JSOC is operating in many, many countries where we do not have active wars going.

And, dear reader, JSOC is not the CIA.
Denying the right of "We the People" to know what is being done in OUR name is anathema to the ideal of "the consent of the governed."

Unfortunately there are many who believe that because of the ethnicity of the POTUS he can do no wrong.
I spoke to a neighbor yesterday who is a staunch Obama supporter and he parroted the Cheney line completely.
When I mentioned the Bill of Rights he justified the spying as a necessary evil.

If the 4th Amendment is to be abrogated then it should be amended to reflect the current state of affairs.

There goes that fabled "Moral High Ground," again...

If the government was really concerned with our safety alcohol would be outlawed.
Compare the statistics regarding deaths attributed to "terrorism" and deaths attributed to alcohol.
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I'm not sure they have to do much 'selling'. They had a product on the market at the right time to become 'the' solution for computational math.

As with many applications or languages (or, in this case, both), being exposed to it at the right time creates a client for life. Those lifers become evangelists in the same way lispniks do (and watch out for those of us who are both), requesting that employers license the software.

If you are between, say, 35 and 45, went to a "decent" university (i.e., one Wolfram and/or NeXT targeted), and have an applied math background of any sort (CS, physics, engineering, etc.), you were very likely exposed to Mathematica. It's just a few steps from there to having a prof use it in a lab or using it because an employer had made a previous investment in development.

At that point, much as with C, or Java, or CLISP, or whatever, it becomes a fallback computational tool. SAS acquires many of its licensees in a very similar way.
Really? Why don't you write your own regex? Regular languages are definitely relevant. It's not that hard to write a basic regex engine (make NFA and convert to DFA). This is a compilers course after all.
> Or are you saying the SF tech companies has a noticeable difference in Indian expats employed compared to SV as whole that is interesting.

Yes, this. And it is interesting. I find that a lot of my Indian colleagues seem to prefer the suburban life of SV to the hustle-and-bustle, 'danger-ridden' streets of SF, but that's purely anecdotal and I doubt it can explain the whole situation. The difference in white/indian ratios between SF and SV is noticeable even from a distance though.
i believe iphone 4s and 5 have welded glass or something making it much harder to replace alone. as a result usually they replace lcd+glass which make it much more expensive.
This language ("aiding enemies of the US") is going to be specifically used to justify calling leakers "treasonous". The words are directly lifted from Article III of the constitution, part of which outlines what it means to commit treason.

There are certainly holes in the constitution, which over time politician and bureaucrats always find a way to "hack" their way into securing more powers for themselves, such as the commerce clause, the general welfare clause, or vague interpretations of the definition of "public", in the takings clause, that is used to justify eminent domain abuse...

Now, politicians and bureaucrats have seemed to have exploited a hole in the treason clause. Who gets to define what constitutes an "enemy" of the United States?

I think this is very, very dangerous.
In case you missed it, that was for a Journal, not for undergraduate academic work.

The people writing journal papers are supposed to be doing high quality, original work, contributing to science, the knowledge of mankind, all that kind of thing.
The only thing I might agree with is that this may be a bellwether event.

It's not useful scrounging up, uh, conspiracy theories for how it happened unless there is evidence.

The only argument you're invoking is abduction - that no other approach fits the facts. But the thing about the NSA is the level of spying and power that's demonstrated gives a strong indication they just don't have much reason to care what the public thinks. The average NSA bureaucrat isn't worried about the public at all but what argument their boss or colleague will use against them. And letting out information goes so hard against the default impulse that letting information out intentionally seems way unlikely, even as part of a clever master plan. I mean, if we're wandering to wild speculation land, the NSA has dozens of potential master plans. One that releases information and makes them look bad wouldn't do well in the "master-plan competition" - held yearly at Area 51!
Actually, the most appalling thing could be that warrant to the business unit of Verizon for 3 months of ALL their phone call metadata, every single phone line. Now, if it's limited to business accounts that would imply something congruent with this topic, a focus on leakers. If it's matched by ones for residential lines, non-business mobile phones, etc. it's downright chilling, I don't care what's "completely against the rules", especially with an administration that doesn't care about the concept.

Look, even DNI Clapper has admitted he lied, in giving the "least untruthful" answer to the question of whether the "NSA collect[s] any type of data at all on millions of Americans". Which apparently hinges on a definition of collect where they Hoover up lots of stuff, and promise to only look at it if they're following their rules.

Now, if we think the downright wrong things aren't some combination of Snowden's limited understanding of things AND the filter of the reporter and his editors, we might wonder if that warrant wasn't fabricated or sexed up. I don't know off the top of my head how to proceed on judging its validity.
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I think it might be hard to prove the evidence tampering charge. It is not at all unreasonable to claim that you were trying to protect important secrets from criminals who might break into your home or office.

To put it another way, this is not an illegal device:

http://www.ironkey.com/en-US/secure-portable-storage/250-per...
Autobanning is in my opinion tricky because there's a risk of triggering an arms race between autodetection and obfuscation, and giving quick feedback to the cheaters could turn out to help them.
Can you buy non-pastorised cheese in the USA? What about imported Salame from Italy? Can you kiss a girl of your age if you are 16? Can you drink at 20?
No, No, No, No. If your measure of "freedom" is being able to buy assault rifles, your measure of individual liberty is very biased (and silly).
Neurons do not divide in adulthood.

The idea that there is no neurogenesis in the adult brain is described as a "myth" (a myth I certainly heard in childhood, as perhaps you have too) in many sources I just looked up after seeing your comment. Did you have a particular source in mind? Below are some that I found.

(from 2000, abstract)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11252770

(from 2002)

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/3/612.full

(from 2006)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17195878

(from 2013)

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/ninds_neuron...
I also thought it was satire. Actually, I still think it is for the most part, just with a drop of reality mixed in (like any good satire!)
IMHO Wolfram would benefit from open-sourcing Mathematica, and continuing to license Wolfram Alpha (possibly through a 'Pro' version of Mathematica with unmetered Wolfram Alpha API integration).
I've written lexers without a regex engine before, it's only a few hundred lines of a state machine.

I can't think of any other places in a compiler where a regex library would be terribly useful.
I haven't looked at the paper.

JPS might be generalizable to graphs with non-uniform weights, by considering adjacent nodes with _lower_ cost than the current node as a "forced neighbor" (to use the term from the link).
> They're tired of watching rents soar, friends forced to relocate and beloved neighborhoods drained of diversity.

That's because these morons need to end their NIMBYism and "historical preservation" bullshit. You reap what you sow. It's high time SF was turned into fucking Hong Kong: http://photomichaelwolf.com/#architecture-of-densitiy/1

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO
On one end, you have stone age developers who need Visual Studio on production systems because that's the only tool they know.

On the other end, you have hipster developers who need Git on production systems because that's the only tool they know.
Wow this is a crazy sentence.
Unfortunately, they need all that metadata to use as a training set if they hope to build "big data" tools that actually work.
Celery is a task framework. RabbitMQ is a queue server. Celery can use RabbitMQ as a message broker i.e a way to transfer the messages from your application to the workers.
Holy shit, NSA is in the business of signals intelligence? Who knew?
Conversely, "current NSA employee no longer works for Facebook". But not as clickworthy.
"Trust me" is also shorthand for "I have reflected deeply on this, and based on my personal experience, and our shared humanity..."

It's obviously not foolproof to make predictions about another person's experience based on your own life, but this is perhaps a more charitable interpretation of what GP meant by "trust me".
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Collusion is impossible because other miners can work for smaller transaction fees. If it is profitable, someone will do it. If it is not profitable than there is not an unfair collusion to raise fees since the fees can't be undercut.

The behavior of clients does influence fees, but consumers using Bitcoin will happily switch to the client that lets them pay the fee they want to pay (talking about the excess fee not the fee described in https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees .)
Wouldn't this being a "honeypot", as suggested in the article, be an instance of entrapment, which is illegal?
Getting too obsessed with this can paralyze you though.

It's clear to me how cringe worthy some of my earlier work is, and that leads me to think that I'll feel the same way in a few years time about the work I'm doing now. This makes me reluctant to put myself and my work out there, which makes it look like I don't get anything done, which is in many ways worse than doing work that you later regret.
Genuinely curious about how this is a venture-funded company. How is this scalable? Is there any tech involved at all? (Not that technology is necessary to be venture-funded, but it helps with nonlinear growth.)
"One of the neat things about bitcoin that hasn't been talked a lot about is that bitcoin makes it possible (with a little planning) to create seizure and "civil forfeiture" resistant money"

Sounds like burying your cash on an island. I think you might be able to publish an exciting novel about this...
What they should have done, and what this might lead to, is have the data in a local jurisdiction under a local company.
As far as "favorite things" go, TMNT (barring the movies) is a pretty good choice.
Gets orders from FBI to set up something at Facebook. Goes to FB and sets it up. Goes to NSA to train a team to handle/store/query the data stream he set up.
But wouldn't those Big Data tools then need to work on big data sets? Wouldn't that be the whole point of them?
Server Error. I used Facebook circa 2004. Looking forward to seeing it how it was.
Because Hart and Nilsson proved in 1968 that (paraphrasing) no other graph algorithm using the same heuristic can visit a lesser number of nodes than A*. This algorithm is using a specialised heuristic that only applies on constrained grids of this type (effectively graphs with equal edge weights and constant branching factor at each node). In short, JPS is much less general.
Specifying tokens in the grammar would be the obvious usage.
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A thousand different "hackers", a thousand different political issues that impact the lives of those "hackers". Pretty soon, we're discussing Ron Paul again, making fake users with the usernames of people who we don't agree with, following people from thread to thread downvoting them.
It sounds like the non-test specification is simply poor, and the tests elucidate parts of the specification that are unclear. This doesn't seem relevant to the original question of the claimed requisite-level efficacy of TDD in designing distributed systems.
You seem to have great esteem for how the Supreme Court might rule on the 4th Amendment here, in light of how the court has narrowed the law in regards to the amendment in the past few decades.

In fact, they've already ruled that challengers to the 2011 FISA act have no grounding to sue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapper_v._Amnesty_Internationa...
Sure, but then you have to visit all the adjacent node to deduce whether or not they're lower cost - and that uses equivalent CPU time to A* anyway. A* has been formally proven to be faster than any other graph algorithm using the same heuristic. I do wish people would stop trying to beat it by constraining the rules of the game!
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If you're looking for a simple way to reduce support for the Taliban and start bringing stability to Pakistan and Afghanistan, look no further than grounding the drones.

Vietnam taught U.S. strategists that wars of attrition simply don't work. You'll never kill all of the enemy because every attack creates more enemies than it destroys. In this sense, drone attacks do exactly the opposite of what they're supposed to do. U.S. drones do more for General Atomics than they do for U.S. citizens! Every shot fired generates future business for weapons manufacturers.

The use of drones also sets an ugly precedent. If the U.S. can kill anyone they want, anywhere they want, so too can China or Russia or any other country. Sooner or later that's going to be U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. There will be moral outrage, but no moral high-ground to stand on and no recourse. Just terror.
danenania's point remains valid if the Israel part is omitted.

I grew up under a military dictatorship endorsed by the US and I can tell you there are still lots of people very resentful of that support. Reducing foreign intervention is the cheapest way to demotivate potential terrorists.

Unfortunately, doing so now would risk making them believe they won something.