skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a very creepy aspect of this. I closed my account a while ago, and I opened a dummy one with another email, because I still needed to mod a few communities. The recommendations were the usual: friends of people in the communities and such. About a month ago it started recommending family members, classmates, and friends. Really accurate. It's creepy: I don't have a smartphone from which it could syphon the contacts, I'm not using my real name and I was using an email that I only use for facebook. I have no idea what data it's using. But I was not surprised, I just thought. "Damn it, they found a way"
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Agreed. I'm not buying the "its hard/expensive" argument that so many people seem to be submitting in this thread.

The fact is, when Facebook gives you the option to "delete" something there is a reasonable expectation that by doing so that post, picture, etc... will be deleted. Removed. Gone. Permanently. If they want to give you the option to retrieve it later in case you accidentally delete something then call it "Flag for deletion" instead.

To do ANYTHING else is disingenuous at best. Otherwise known as a lie.

This is yet more proof that users of Facebook are the product and will be treated as such. Whoever pays Facebook actual money gets to dictate the terms and they are the people that want Facebook to never delete your data.
No, I meant it can be made to work, you of course need to test it.
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Growing number of my friends are in FB with fake names and identities. It's more complicated when you add new friends or they want to add you, but otherwise it's ok for keeping touch with close friends.

Yes, its against FB user agreement but fuck that.
You still have time to download the shitload (it should only be a 2-3 digit amount of gigabytes if you only pick the stuff you actually need) and generate enough keys to get by once the service closes down.

That said, I have to agree. Where else in this world can you get MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows For Workgroups 3.11 these days?
Maybe, but the most popular (Proxima Nova) has roots that predate its doppelganger Gotham (H&FJ's most popular typeface) by six years: http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/first-public-use-o...

Nevertheless, its recent popularity is due to its status as best-legal-webfont-alternative to Gotham - at least, until today.
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I grew up in greater NYC in an area with many immigrants, and I am myself the grandson of Italian immigrants. A teacher in high school jokingly challenged us to sit on our hands while we talked. Without thinking about it, I found myself lifting my butt to free my hand in order to make a conversational point and then sticking my hand back under. Repeatedly.

Much laughter ensued.

Anyway, it seems that the habit transferred to the new world without anyone really trying.
It's not pointless if you are looking for a place to eat sushi. You're performing a hypothetical search for something that you aren't actually looking for and then calling the results pointless.
Xbox One, real gaming? A machine that was going to lock all your gaming purchases down, so you couldn't even share your physical discs with friends? A company that charged $10,000 for patches—even trivial ones fixing serious, game-breaking bugs?

Microsoft's gaming division has become the definition a "pretty one-armed bandit with microtransactions", and no doubt thanks to Mattrick.
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Pinned tabs on demand (introduced early 2012) is Firefox's killer feature that got me using Firefox again after using Chrome almost exclusively for a year. When you pin tabs, and then restart the browser, the tabs are not loaded until you click on them (not yet loaded, pinned tabs, are visually dim).

Pinned tabs are not included in any benchmarks I've seen but have a drastic positive impact on memory usage and speed. I typically have 20 or so pinned tabs and only 1-3 unpinned tabs when I quit Firefox. A cold start takes just a few seconds and about the only time I restart the browser is when I restart my system (2-3x per week).

Chrome loads all tabs on start so it can take around a minute to load the same 21-23 tabs. And furthermore Chrome tends to operate sluggishly after a couple hours of use with so many open tabs, so when using Chrome I tend to close then reopen the browser every couple hours.

Chrome 5 had a similar feature called phantom tabs but it was removed in Chrome 6. I loved that feature and was very unhappy when it was removed.
Of course it does, but what's your point here? I said that the carousel is space given over to results from non-Web search, not just space given over to local results. The fact that there was already a chunk of the results page given over to non-Web search results doesn't alter the fact that the carousel is a new, further large chunk of space handed over to non-Web search results.
Do American football programs have to do the same thing?
But if you sit that same twitchy kid in front of a video game or stimulating TV show, the fidgeting doesn't happen. Interesting...
"I really hope I can visit the real Thames River one day,
sit along the banks, drink a cup of coffee and enjoy the
British sunshine."

Heh.
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Sad that I need a throwaway account to talk about this, but such is life.

Spend some time doing searches on terms like "gender grading gap" and reading the recent research. What you find may surprise you, is consistent across multiple Western democracies, and can be summarized thusly:

* When assessment is left to teachers, there is a grading gap in favor of girls; girls receive grades that are inflated relative to their performance on non-teacher assessments. This seems to be partly due to teachers including factors like "engagement" or "focus" in the classroom, which is known to favor girls, and partly due to bias by teachers in favor of students of their own gender (and many teachers are women, meaning the effect is most pronounced for girls).

* By surprisingly young ages, girls in public school systems internalize "we're better than boys" and boys internalize "we're worse than girls" (one UK study estimated boys internalize this by age eight), producing a performance/effort gap similar to that associated with racial stereotypes.

* This has ramifications all the way up the system, including an achievement gap which starts early and only grows with each milestone. Boys and young men are increasingly more likely to be held back and/or disciplined/medicated in early school years, increasingly less likely to get into advanced courses in later years, less likely to graduate local equivalent of "high school" and less likely to enter college/university or earn a degree.
This is a fascinating thread, thank you for starting it. I went to 2 yr art school and my passion for photography ended up guiding me to help artists achieve in their creative career path. I found there's a HUGE disconnect between what's wanted of the artist and what the artist wants in return. I started a company empowering and educating creative entrepreneurs by providing art and business workshops, opportunities, news and resources globally. I'd love to hear ANY and ALL feedback regarding the site: http://artme.me/ Please note I'm not trying to sell anyone anything - I'm just trying to solve a fragmented piece of the art industry puzzle to those creatives struggling to do so on their own. Thanks.
I don't mind seeing an editor submitting links, but if you don't participate in the discussions, I would tend to think you are spamming HN.

You could add a lot of value to the discussions and to the DailyDot if you were to participate to some extent in the discussions.
At the elementary and high school level, yes.
His argument seems to be that users will willingly give up meaningful amounts of privacy and personal data in exchange for minor conveniences and discounts because they don't understand the value or deeper ramifications of doing so.

It seems bizarre that you would try to dismiss this.
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Putin really means "don't harm US-Russia relations". Pretty basic, Russia isn't ready to fight the US for Snowden, but will respect his travel rights.
Russia wants to use him as a possibility press the USA - for that he needs to stay in Russia and have still some more not yet leaked material. When he spends all the revelations he is of no use for Russia.
My initial point was reasoned. You've yet to counter any of the reasoning I've made.

You have, however, resorted to what is basically name calling ("matter of faith for me"). Please leave my motivations off the table and focus on my reasoning. If you want to stop debating, go ahead, but that doesn't mean that no conversation is possible. If it stops, it's because you don't want to continue discussing it.
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I'm (real life) friends with a handful of minor celebrities. Most of them have a 'public' profile for PR and every single one of them has a 'private' profile under a pseudonym using generic, non-descript images as their profile pic. It's pretty common.
One of the things taught in Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) course is SIPDE.

Scan Identify Predict Decide Execute.

On a motorcycle, you have to keep absorbing data on the road, traffic conditions, cellphone drivers et al and always know what you are going to do - brake, slow down or zoom past.

Startups or rather any project is sort of like that. Inform yourself, decide and execute. Anything else is certain death.
Another thing to note is that they don't want their users to delete stuff or do any action that may suggest abandoning the platform. I thought that I deleted my profile 1.5 years ago but I tried logging in last week (after seeing a similar HN thread) and was surprised to find that it was all there. It occured to me that I must have deactivated my profile. Then I tried looking for delete option but couldn't find it anywhere. All I could find was a _deactivate_ button. I had to use a third party (Google) to find out about how to delete my profile.

Facebook has made it unnecessarily hard to delete accounts and instead pushes the _deactivate_ option in a very psychologically manipulative way. Even after using the delete option, I'm sure that they're going to retain my data for as long as they like. I still did it for my own sake, prevent myself from using it at all.
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A warning: this traditional, over-the-top gesturing is particularly common in certain cities and segments of population. (The kind of colourful things that short tourism&culture articles like to talk about.)
Elsewhere? Not so much. If you were so careless as to extend this stereotype to —say— the modern urban youth or the well-educated expat, you would likely be mocked as a clueless American tourist, and asked about how many guns you keep at home. :)

For perspective: I was born in northern Italy. Very few people within my social circles ever used any of the traditional gestures; when they did, they deliberately exaggerated the movements for comical effect, or put on a southern accent. Indeed, I have only recently discovered that gesturing is considered to be such a prominent, common feature of Italian culture... by reading English articles about it.
Same version, no warning. Edit: Oops, had yet to read that it's now temporarily whitelisted by google.
What does the head of the Xbox division have to do with the fun factor of the games? I would understand this comment if we were talking about the head of Bioware or Blizzard, but this guy seems pretty far removed the actual games.
If he gets a jury trial then all of it is irrelevant. He can be acquitted for any reason whatsoever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Do you think facebook is going down?
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So, specialization, like how certain finches can now only eat nuts instead of nectar.
MSDN seems significantly more expensive than what I remember TechNet being, $1200 if you need SQL server, $6200(!) if you need Office. And WTF are "Tech support incidents"? Are they billing for bug reports?
Finnish Post Office has offered this for about 5 years already, it's called 'NetPosti'.
Most schools in America do little more than condition children to the 40 hour work week + homework/overtime. It makes us slaves.

My school will be different, and America doesn't deserve it.
like how some finches can only eat nectar, others can only eat nuts.
How would you like to be the guy on the waiting list who gets the call?

"Mr. Doe, we have a suitable donor. Be at the hospital in 30 minutes so we can decapitate you before this corpse goes bad."
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Because it is not news! Every nation gathers as much information as it can, generally with total disregard for politeness and fair play. From time to time a competent journalist will write an exposé of the NSA, MI6, the FSB, etc. The exposés generally sink without a trace as the public finds signal and analysis nerds to be boring.

So why is this time different? Why does a narcissistic leaker like Snowden stay in the press for weeks, when exposés with deep, careful rsearch get ignored?

Because somebody needs the story to have staying power. It is a distraction from the real story, the wholesale rigging of the American politics by the IRS. We have a pretender in the White House and what we get are endless papparazzi stories about what hotel Snowden mght be staying in.
Don't citizens have the 'right' to forward their mail to a given destination? Or register Outbox address as their official mailing address?
"It inspired me to create a programming language with only a single valid symbol"... let me know when you do that... your current implementation also uses whitespace characters such as space and newline as symbols.
Since killing my account (because they kept resetting my privacy settings to public... bastards) I've outsourced my Facebook Birthday/Party monitoring to my girlfriend.
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Twat.
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There might be a voting ring detector thing happening here, too.
Pretty sure that a sufficiently deeply filled out social graph can be leveraged to figure out who Foo Bar is, even if he has no info about himself.
Internet searches in many categories have always been useless. Searching for a restaurant or car insurance has never ever returned anything useful on any search engine, ever. it's not as though google used to have incredibly relevant results for a search term like "cheapest car insurance" and now it's been replaced by ads. The only thing a search like that has ever gotten you is the websites of the insurance companies who are well established brands.

The categories where google is pushing a lot of ads or supplementary features like knowledge graph are the categories where organic results are not a good experience. 9 times out of 10, when i search for something on google i get a traditional SERP with little to no advertising. If you're searching for something that doesn't necessarily lend itself to a web search, google should be trying to find some way to make that useful to somebody, whether that is a feature that gives you better results or an admission that their organic results for that query are useless, so here have some ads instead.
Understand that no dialog is necessary for such an idea to be implemented at all.

Observe:

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The heartland of Russia is west of the Urals. While Siberia has a ton of value, it is also a buffer. The Ukraine & Belarus are the same.

Think about it this way - how is China going to go rolling into Moscow? By holding Siberia, they have an effective buffer against incursion into the most valuable parts of the country.

> That's where I grew up.

Whereabouts? I'm honestly curious as to your experience in Russia and what it was like.

> Either you're trolling, or your mental picture of that part of the world needs an overhaul.

No to both. Why would I be trolling? To me this is a discussion and I'd like to know more about your viewpoint.
Cool! A major reason I made this post was because I assumed that this must be something people had seen before, but I had trouble finding any references to it in the JavaScript context. I'll add a link to http://flint.cs.yale.edu/flint/publications/escc.pdf to the blog post!
Not surprised, but they have 65% share of search in the US, so it's a disturbing trend for high quality sites ranking organically.
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Yeah, Italians use gestures when talking; no kidding. In the video, they showed dozens of gestures, most which I had no idea what they meant. I would have found it much more informative and interesting if they explained what all those common gestures actually meant.
It's Fox news. "News" is quite often optional.

I will concede that Google being an advertising company, first, played a large part in regulation getting in the way of Reader. Requiring limits on how much and which data is collected and for how long is a major hiccup if you want to target ads. However, another company/community would have done just fine with Reader.
Before being head of Xbox he was head of EA - he's not a stranger to the gaming industry from the dev side.
I had my account around the same times as you did. And deleted for various reasons. When I deleted my account people were up in arms, "Why would you get rid of facebook?" And I am more the type of "why would you want it?" Now I miss out on all sorts of stuff like new babies and marriages, but at least it means really catching up with people when we do get together. Facebook is what I was into when I was growing up on AOL, then it would have been cool. But is it really beneficial to be linked with everyone you have ever met?

On the Saprano's they said something like 'nostalgia is every mans weakness'. In my eyes facebook breads nostalgia, thus I keep away.
They have tried importing people from "real gaming" before, e.g. Brian Reynolds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_(game_designer) who worked on Civ2 and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
The noise of stuff
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> Sorry but this college professor act just really falls short.

I'm not a college professor; nor am I acting like one.

I'm going off of 13 years of research into geopolitics. You're entitled to your own opinion and I don't begrudge you that - but don't begrudge me mine.
I'd much rather have subversion embarrassing the tyrants from abroad than have a legal/political martyr at home.
Reminds me of Van Eck Phreaking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking

When I first read about it as a kid, I was in awe.
My challenge isn't finding a girlfriend... it's that I've been married for 20 years. I have to ease my spouse into the career change, without upsetting her more than necessary. That means I can't be careless. I'm selling to her as much as to investors or to customers.

This is the kind of difficult dance that happens with long-term relationships. On one hand, if I was given a choice between her and the company, I'd choose her, in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if she made me choose, it would probably ruin our marriage. She sees this is something I must do, so she lets me do it and supports me as much as she can. I am obligated to be as respectful of her concerns as I can be.
I recall being teased for moving around while playing video games...
> That said, I have to agree. Where else in this world can you get MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows For Workgroups 3.11 these days?

I hope some enterprising fellow would archive significant portion of what is available from TechNet. It might be the last moment many of the software there is available for public.
Espionage is tried with juries? Source?
I live in Palo Alto and whenever I have to take a meeting in San Francisco, weather permitting, I hop on my bike and get up there.

Distinct advantages are not getting stuck on 101 especially on the 3rd street exit and easy parking -- just sneak between two cars. Time permitting, therapeutic to return by 280 or Skyline :)
I'm referring to the region east of the Urals, primarily along the southern frontier. Pretty much just west of Baikal to the Pacific. That is often considered Siberia as a whole, though more local definitions I'm not aware of may define it differently.