skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm feeling a bit whiskey tango foxtrot on this one as well :)
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Looks like the gimmick is "too fast to follow," so when you attempt to follow them on Twitter they automatically remove you as a follower before you can show up in their follower list. I'm guessing.
I'm guessing they're quickly blocking then unblocking people who follow. That's the easiest (only?) way to remove a follower.

I do this when I want someone to stop following me but I might still want to follow them or I don't want them realizing/caring they're not following me anymore or feel I'm blocking them entirely.
Lawyers eye NSA data as treasure trove for evidence in murder, divorce cases
David Karp does a complete 180.
Sure it definitely would be a lot to implement _now_, but llvm was released roughly 5 years before v8. The v8 team totally could have chosen it for a compiler back end (code generation). My observation was simply that they didn't, and I believe there probably was a reason for it (though I can't speak to it).

In hindsight, it probably would've made more sense for Google to utilize llvm as a compiler IR in v8 than as a virtual machine as in PNaCl. [1]

[1] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...
>Respectfully, I think you're wrong on both counts.

You're probably not alone. I later noticed that it is tptacek's second highest rated comment.
> The language of your statement reveals the problem (sorry for being deconstructionist...)

Sure, but not for being wrong.

> There is very little that the Constitution prohibits -- that's not how it's constructed. It's not designed to blacklist certain governmental powers.

There's quite a lot that the Constitution prohibits the government from doing.

> That people think of government power in terms of whether it's prohibited by the Constitution rather than whether it's allowed by the Constitution reveals how far away we've gotten from understanding how it was intended to work.

That people think that there is a difference shows how little people have paid attention to the Bill of Rights, a rather critical piece of the Constitution, which, as part of its whole stack of specific prohibitions, made the two superficially-conflicting approaches you refer to equivalent when everything not explicitly granted to the federal government was explicitly reserved against the federal government (see Amendment 10.)
Yup I got this message:

"You have been blocked from following this account at the request of the user."
> other papers I've read indicate that IQ correlates with life outcomes until an IQ of about 140, and then appears completely uncorrelated.

Cites? The papers I've read, from the Terman study and the SMPY kids, don't show that.
It's funny... there haven't been many photo responses in this HN thread. ;)
How do you know children want to read your old books?
...wear a hat? :)

You have no expectation of privacy in public. Otherwise, the paparazzi would be out of a job.
Absolutely. I clearly should have posted this on Instagram. ;)
I think the only time I've seen engineers add feature/code creep is when it's "filling the gaps" that others didn't think of. Many times ideas are presented to engineers in their unfinished format. It's often up to engineers and QA to find the areas where that idea needs to be fleshed out. Fleshing out an idea, I would argue, isn't feature creep but trying to make an added not suck.
"not everyone can produce [...] responsive design"

Notice that the page is automatically responsive, and is perfectly usable on a phone, tablet, or anything else.

If your page has no CSS styles it will be perfectly responsive. If it's not, you've messed up that nice feature of the web with your stylesheet. Now you probably think you need to learn about media queries to make it work again.
Lori MacVittie Looks At Our Event-Driven Future
App Sleeping on Heroku
In 1994, the main way you found websites was mostly from hub sites that maintained large libraries of links to other sites (like a directory), newsgroups (UUCP/Usenet), friends in IRC trading links, AOL, Delphi and Compuserve forums and print magazines. Webcrawler was revolutionary when it came on-line in 1994, but there were no comprehensive search engines that had a high index count until probably 1996.

The mother of all link directories started from NCSA who distributed the first web browser (Mosaic) and they ran a site where they would publish a monthly list of "What's New" on the web. They pulled the pages from their site a few years ago but fortunately I made a mirror on my server for historical reference that you can check out here:

http://www.kitchencloset.com/realstuff/ncsa/whats_new-archiv...

Enjoy!

edit: forgot to mention web rings someone else just mentioned.
The suggestion of falling-block was most likely not about what is technologically advanced, but about accuracy and power. It is still true today that a falling-block has good characteristics in this regard, even though they are no longer used much. You could use this advice perfectly well today- "Gee, it seems like this gun store has no falling-block action, only bolt. Well, it said bolt-action was acceptable too!"
Kind of takes the piss out of the argument that we have to keep all of this a secret for "national security"
I think that first comment completely misses the point of the article. It's not a matter of whether or not you should or shouldn't make things simpler for the user. It's that you shouldn't view changes as one-time costs - you need to take into account the lifetime maintenance cost of that change you will have to live with. Many times, it is worth the cost because it solves the end-user's problem, that's true. But the point is that we often don't even consider it.
Sure.

First, consider how many gamers can articulate the difference between developers and publishers, and who they get angry at when games don't go according to plan.

In my own home town, Timegate Studios just shuddered from the debacle of Aliens: Colonial Marines--and was widely blamed by ignorant gamers despite a history of solid games and expansions.

Gamers bitched to no end about Steam when it was required for CS 1.6, even though it was the future. Look at all the complaints about CS:GO from the hardcore players (one memorable thread involved a HUD tweak driving some clan rabid because it screwed up their grenade-throwing technique). Others complain about Valve doing nothing since Episode 2, ignoring Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 and DOTA and whatnot.

Look at the way gamers and reviewers panned Duke Nukem Forever, ignoring the fact that dozens of people poured over a decade of their lives into that thing.

Look at the flooding of gamers over to free-to-play and ad-driven titles, pushing the race-to-the-bottom of devs only to then give angry reviews on the app store.

Look at how every online game reviewer and game poster crows and white knights about the portrayl of women and gender roles in games, and yet look at how they actually spend their dollar vote.

Look at how the gamers mocked Doom3 for having a pretty solid and amazing lighting engine and pushing shadow tech to the limits of its time.

Look how gamers today complain about older titles that don't hold their hands with navigation and lots of simple mission objectives--and then bitch about how games today are too linear.

Gamers are the worst sort of customer after dollar web-hosting ones.
> That's true, but I'm unclear why you'd store USD for any length of time on mtgox anyway.

The same reason you'd keep any currency in an account tied to a particular marketplace: liquidity that allows you to trade without the delay of getting money into the marketplace from somewhere else.
Zombies? Prescription drugs include heart medication, cholesterol medicine, Viagra, antibiotics, etc. Even the article points out that a large fraction of the prescriptions are for antibiotics. The fact that something is a prescription drug only means that there are rules about transferring it between people; it is only loosely related to the nature of the drug itself.

The comparison between heroin users and prescription opiate users is also bad. If anything, we should want people to use prescription opiates instead of heroin. At least prescription opiates have regulated quality and will actually contain the drug they are supposed to contain (and you can pursue legal remedies if they do not).

The fact that 70% of Americans are on prescription drugs is meaningless. A much large number uses non-prescription drugs: alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, allergy pills, cough syrup, etc. The entire world must be filled with zombies, since drug use is common across national and cultural boundaries.
Those languages use words.
Could not agree more. In my mind, the smart phone is on the level of a 1990's Internet. We haven't even started using all the possibilities that come from location based services or mobile augmented reality.
EBay Enterprise Launched (former GSI Commerce)
I think you're misunderstanding the concept here. They're saying that temperature gradients determine power production and since the sun is reasonably smooth in its gradient, there is minimal power generation possibility her volume..

But if you were able to contain a golf ball of sun, the heat it produced would be able to power far more than a reptile's brain as its heat was transfered to the environment...

_Perhaps_ you're pointing out that the sun's size is what allows it to 'contain' these many otherwise-uncontainable golf-ball size chunks. If so, I hear you... obviously the engineering challenge is developing a system on earth to contain. We've clearly shown with fusion bombs that we can harness this effect for a net energy gain for an instant.

My point was that these are engineering challenges, rather than physical limits.
An open-source internet-based sprinkler
Yes, it's a rather strange objection to make... How could Google possibly use data on its employees to disprove that brainteasers work - if they weren't using brainteasers at some point?
Here's another example, then: A while ago I found https://github.com/gjtorikian/Earthbound-Battle-Backgrounds which is an animated wallpaper app for Android. Between the dollar it costs on the store and the time it'd take to build it, I quickly chose to spend the money.

But, if the choice had instead been between a $1 closed source version on the store or an open source manual compile, I think I would have taken the build/install option.
Quibble: I downloaded the pdf, which defaults to a file called 'hott-online.pdf'. Why not Homotopy Type Theory - 1st Edition.pdf'? I download a lot of pdfs (mainly because of being a law nerd), and I am sick to the back teeth of having to rename virtually everything that I download so that I'll be able to find the filename again later. I do use Mendeley to keep my documents more-or-less organized, but what have people got against human-readable filenames? Really I ought to be able to get semantic metadata for everything I download.

As for the work itself, great stuff, I look forward to reading it, or at least dipping into it (not a mathematician).
mmmh... sinus infections plus silver

The Rosemary Jacobs history reloaded:

http://www.rosemaryjacobs.com/rose1.html
I am no fan of the way CSS, Javascript, and DOM have evolved into HTML5. It seems Alon not only sees these problems too, he's finding solutions to them by working around limitations and politics of the WHATWG and W3C.

Mozilla really lucked out with him. I hope they are giving the resources he needs to keep this up.
Human organs 'could be grown in animals within a year'
"At it's heart, web design should be about words."

Yes.

I corrupt too many hours concerned with flash, and dressing words in garish nonsense. Minimalist HN is an excellent model to excise and distain word flash dreck, and images or whatever kind of vid snippet.

Look at HN's traffic, others agree.

With the myriad digressions of image, js, and html5 magic, it's difficult for me not to be seduced by other's new eye candy. But the best pages I like to find, are simplest original tty, possibly with a word centric CGI engine dynamically serving up what I want, or what I didn't know I want. Most often then not, these plain forged dynamic/static pages, I bookmark.

Some site's landing page ar so busy loading, to read what I want I drag-copy or 'print' if that's an option. If not, forget it, it's just too much painful nonsense spam or Las Vegas sequins headache to tolerate.

I'd also prefer a text browser, but gave up as none seem to keep up with required js, certificates-ssl, etc.

I'm no longer an infant, or a girl believing in fuschia unicorns, let's lose those brain-numbing colors too.
Proactive Support
ui;dr

Unusable interface, didn't read. It's also fairly self explanatory!
To a large extent, this is what we currently have...

A company needs an OSS feature so they hire one of the devs to work on the software, full-time.
My personal favorite is the word "chipset" from PC hardware.
To whoever downvoted me, I know Justin -- we go waayyy back. I was being silly.
That'll never work--we don't allow port 53 out
Has anyone set up a Raspberry Pi as a router?
http://i.imgur.com/MJvfsdB.png

Gotcha.

Edit: And I wonder if they'll run out of API calls if enough follow it?
Yeah, the last place I worked at had a crazy/complicated Jenkins setup that broke all the time! Semaphore literally worked right away, I didn't even have to setup the testing steps.
or Yammer?
>62% of the US federal budget goes to entitlements

In other words, 62% of your revenue goes back to the taxpayers that provided that revenue. If anything, I'd be complaining about the other 48% if I were you.

>Implementing Obamacare

The argument that Medicare costs x and support y people, and Obamacare costs 2x and supports 2y people, therefore full universal care would cost 100x and support 100y people is flawed.

Clearly, if the US went universal, the massive administration costs associated with HMOs and such would no longer be an expense to be paid. Instead of being a large employer within your currently broken system, you replace the system.

There is a reason your health spending is almost double per capita to the next highest nation, and it has nothing to do with your population.
I do not understand why you mentioned those two events? As far as military operations go they seem fairly small. The Battle of Mogadishu (AKA Black Hawk Down) was 1993 and the losses on both sides were dramatically more.
This is fantastic. Well done! One minor comment though... I'd like to hide links I'm no longer interested in, or at least mark some as read. I would get greater use from this with some inbox-like functionality--but that may not be the kind of product you want to build. </.02>
It's confusing that the only externality considered in the article or in the HN comments so far is "effect on fisheries".

Coastal regions are (typically) teaming with life of all kinds. I can live without people getting fresh fish quite as often as they're used to. I can't swallow destroying entire ecosystems out of wilful ignorance quite so easily.
this kind of style
is annoying to read
I'm not sure either. The academia model seems very ill-suited for FLOSS because, while it does incentivize releasing source so other people can use it, it doesn't incent any sort of ongoing maintenance or improvement except in the rare case where doing so can generate more papers and publications (which, unless the initial functionality was amazing, means that the released source will quickly become useless and bitrotten - saw it happen multiple times in Haskell-land).

One mode which does seem to work very well is Google's Summer of Code. For pretty modest investments, it seems to yield a lot of useful functionality, and because it piggybacks on existing projects & communities, the improvements seem to generally stick. I've watched the Haskell-related Summer of Codes for years now (http://www.gwern.net/Haskell%20Summer%20of%20Code) and there's been some great stuff accomplished via them.
>> All digital communications and associated metadata are made in a public domain, and should have very limited expectations of privacy.

This is where we depart. Just because it is a public network does not mean that people somehow naturally consent to monitoring by anyone and everyone, nor that they should have to consent to this stuff. The telephone network is a good example of public and private infrastructure in which one still has the expectation of privacy.

>> If digital communication is encrypted, or marked as anonymous

And what if someone, mostly without notifying us, loads a script into our browser that tracks everything we do and reports back to mother?

This is not a case of people marking data private, nor is it 'digital communication' this is intrusion.
If you want a service that hacker news readers will use to find new friends, then listen to their advice about logins. If you want lay people to use it, Facebook login is clearly the way to go, which you'll learn once you start talking to people (e.g. soccer moms) who don't operate inside hacker/internet engineering echo chamber.
Ha. Well, it's a natural progression I feel if you're an idea person - you end up with too many ideas than you could ever do on your own, so instead you can support teams that are highly passionate, and working on problems you (hopefully) understand.
Taiwanese BBSes and Unicode ANSi Art - Part II
People are not publishing this data willingly or knowingly.

That's your disconnect with reality.
And these investors are pretty good at seeing where things are going, understanding their value - and then supporting them to get there.
In summary: "the current state of our industry sucks so we should do everything we can to alienate our most passionate customers because, well, ITS TIME TO PANIC and casual gamers are a bunch of sheep anyway".
This is an ideal time to bring up the Mongols. Anyone in Eastern Europe that paid the Mongol tax still exists. The inverse can be said for those that didn't pay, or decided to fight.

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

I respect Kipling's quote - but history shows YMMV. If in doubt, just ask why you don't hear of the Khwarezmid Empire - who were one of the biggest empires around at the time of the Mongols.
AirBnB directly competing with hotels with new ‘Instant Book’ feature
Don't forget the Spanish Flu epidemic. That was pretty nasty.
How did you find such an old comic on Dilbert?
The US stands alone in its approach to health care.

See here: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/her...
You do realize that you're agreeing with his point, right?
In fact you don't need to take too much silver to turn gray, it is accumulative so you can not suspect that you are taking too much, and you don't know when the effects will appear. Sometimes may appear many weeks after you take the silver. Is one of its well known dangers.
I guess it's partly resistance to change. If you tried to follow every recommendation a friend gave you, you'd go mad.

But sometimes it's hard to encourage VC simply because it shifts the balance of power. You can't hold anyone hostage with "your" code. Mistakes are traceable. You can't waste as much time in meetings, discussing things like project status and interfaces. Silos exist for a reason, it's just not a good reason.
I don't think it's a marketing campaign. I do however think it is stupid.
3D Printing Startup MakerBot Sold To StrataSys For $403M
With the proliferation of video, I wonder if Facebook will eventually try and identify products in videos and let advertisers create video spots that merge clips of your friends videos into sponsored posts. Imagine watching a short clip of your friend drinking a Coke in a sponsored post.
Lawmakers introduce new bill to compel gov’t to declassify secret court opinions
Nothing that is being proposed will stop people getting away with crimes.

Waiting until someone actually commits a crime will stop people being persecuted for a coincidental similarity of their behavior to that of a terrorist, sociopath or mime artist.
I imagine s/he was referencing the fact that most modern cars have on-board computers, that are eminently easier to crack (and much less detectable) than through mechanical additions / tweaks.[1]

H.N. trawling the CIA's old files? How I miss thememoryhole.org. 2009, RIP.

For the record - I'm not going to comment on ancient cold war documents that could be Blue Sky Think-Tank work (and certainly don't look like professional training manuals). You'll probably want School of the Americas manuals for that[2](ahem).

[1]For example: Carshark http://jalopnik.com/5539181/carshark-software-lets-you-hack-...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas_Watch
Also why?

Why should we accept that the government will report everything about it's own citizens to anyone they feel like?

Because it makes it easier for a few web developers?
Is that really a good enough reason?
WHITEMAN SPEAK WITH FORK TONGUE
No, that's just the medium used to transport the information.
Helicopters.
I think it would be silly to eat it forever, but compared to most "survival" type foods, it seems great. Or compared to the horrible junk food diet a lot of people eat.
> "The email people used to sign up for Facebook was not one that they checked every day (which is especially important if that’s how you want to schedule events)."

That doesn't strike me as an issue that's unique to using Facebook Login. There are plenty of people that don't check their email on a daily basis.
Elusive critter.

http://basecamp.com/pricing: "Pricing Starts at $1/day", so, no.

Search, hit: https://basecamp.com/personal "... $25 per project. Pay once, no recurring fees."

But: "Basecamp Personal is offered exclusively to existing Basecamp users (or anyone with a 37signals ID). You don't have to be the owner of a Basecamp account - you only have to be a user on a Basecamp account. We plan to open Basecamp Personal up to the wider public in a few months."
I agree with you, but the statement "you have no reasonable expectation of privacy outdoors" is interesting. If someone were to fence off their back yards with a high privacy fence, would they really have no reasonable expectation to, say, sunbathe in the nude without a drone (or helicopter for that matter) zooming in on them and snapping pictures?

A quick search shows a lot of case law related to this (especially related to cases of people who were growing marijuana outside, unsurprisingly). But I didn't see a distilled answer.
Good point, what I meant was people use emails that they never check period.
I appreciate you taking the time to answer.

First, lets be clear on what "blogspam" is:

blogspam also has another meaning, namely the
post of a blogger who creates no-value-added posts
to submit them to other sites.) It is done by
posting (usually automatically) random comments
or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis,
guestbooks, or other publicly accessible online
discussion boards. Any web application that
accepts and displays hyperlinks submitted by
visitors may be a target.

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

So, while that doesn't address you argument lets call a spade a spade. You may not like the post but that doesn't make it "blogspam".

(You could argue that terms evolve and thats fair enough.)

Second, the headline "Google admits those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring" doesn't strike me as a typical "linkbait title".

Regardless - I don't think I'm going to be able to convince you - but I did want to understand better.

Maybe its ironic then that the NYTimes links to our post from here...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/todays-scuttlebot-t...

I don't take that as some sort of indication that I'm right etc but definitely gave me pause.
Let's hope for some tight integration with Android's Log.wtf method:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html...
On my iPad I had a similar problem - unable to zoom in or out. The site takes control away from the reader.

Medium.com seem to be doing everything right.