skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With what little info we have, this seems actually like a good move. Part of Zynga's core problem is that their games are frequently more psycological tweakery than legitimately rewarding or fun.

Importing someone who comes from "real" gaming seems like a good move in this regard. Hopefully this means Zynga intends to move towards "fun games with microtransactions" and away from "pretty one-armed bandits with microtransactions".
The previous submission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970873

received minimal attention from the HN new page earlier today.

My thought on the overall implications of this article is that the scope of the new era of transparency will be much broader than discussed in the article. Any product or service claim that purports to be based on research may eventually have to be based on TRANSPARENT research, lest consumer fraud be suspected. That would apply as much to "alternative" treatments

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/sense-and-nonsense-about...

as to prescribed treatments ordered by licensed physicians. It would apply to the claims of automobile manufacturers and to the claims of ergonomic keyboard manufacturers. It would apply not just to claims by established big companies, but also to claims by Soylent or DropBox or any other startup that promises benefits from a new product or service.

And that would be a good thing, on the whole. If the economy continues to operate on a free-enterprise basis, companies new or old, large or small, might continue to be able to puff their products and services, and consumers continue to be able to buy most that aren't actively harmful. People aren't likely to be required to be rational and evidence-based any time soon. But if consumers decide to only buy drugs, transportation vehicles, foodstuffs, or other products or services that have reasonable evidence demonstrating their safety and effectiveness, that is an exercise of freedom too. I'd be glad to have a lot more data about what data are out there about how well products and services I might pay for actually work. All the startup founders who read Hacker News might well devote some thought to how their business model will develop in a world in which nearly all product and service claims can be tested by independently gathered and analyzed evidence.
I thought so too, but then

A) I found one.

B) I enjoyed being with her enough that I made more time for her.

Generalizing from my experience, if you just take a chance you'll find that you have more time than you think and that the time you aren't spending on other things isn't missed.
No, what you wrote is "As a Mozillian can you please explain why Mozilla is wasting their resources trying to power budget phones with a bloated outdated browser?"

As I explained, the engine is not "bloated" or "outdated", at least in regards to multi-process or auto-update. Firefox OS uses the Gecko engine, but not the Firefox front end. The Gecko browser engine has full support for both of these features.
What kind of startup could exploit that situation with Google SERP?

My guess would be that some sort of rating site that better answers questions like "what car to buy?" should benefit from Google removing organic results from searches like that.
"The perceived Constitutionality of the NSA programs is irrelevant."

This is incorrect. If the NSA programs are found to be unconstitutional by the courts, Snowden will have to be regarded as a whistleblower. If he is a whistleblower, then he is not a criminal.

The very problem here is that a good number of us Americans, and a great many more non-Americans, regard secret surveillance as both an affront to the 4th amendment of the US Constitution, and the basic human right to freedom. Secrecy is simply anathema to democracy.
He was in control of the data and then he relinquished control of the data when he shared it with facebook (and google, twitter, github and HN).

Trusting facebook to prevent Eve from accessing to your data is not the same thing as controlling Eve's access to your data.
Over 90% of the boards on 4chan are nothing but discussions about the particular subject. The most illegal stuff that happens on these boards is uploading images without permission, yes, it's that bad.

Most people who speak of 4chan in this way, are really just talking about /b/.
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I believe they actually whitelisted/disabled the part of the classifier that is affecting your site(s) more-generally, so it should be working across all domains. That said I know very little about the internals of that system.

I'm sure they will contact you via regular customer support channels (ie. not HN) if they need any more info to debug the problem.
While the way to change things as an engineer is often to make something better than the alternative, one way to change things in politics is to keep the issue actively in discussion until public perception reaches a tipping point that something must be done. There are posts on HN about a new version of Rails or an interesting architecture used by a startup not just because it's new but also because it's the state of the industry and we want to dissect it and respond to it. We hear the same arguments about American policy because it remains the state of the country and we want to respond to it.
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On the other hand, why wouldn't they hang onto him for a month or so, see if they can't extract information from him (not even talking about torture, there are much better ways of getting information from people), then ship him back to the USA or send him on his way someplace else. Long-term, he's served his purpose, no reason to spend a lot of money on him, especially if they want to smooth things over with the USA. And that's basically exactly what they're doing now: saying he can stick around until someone else claims him. Whether that's the USA convincing Russia to hand him over or some nation offering him asylum, Russia probably doesn't really care.
Just create a fake FB account for things like authentication, or getting coupons, etc...

I don't trust FB, but I do need it for certain things. Keeping in touch with friends/family is definitely not one of them
I'm rather saddened by this.

As an infrastructure engineer, TechNet has been perfect for building demo labs and proof-of-concepts. In my home virtualization environment, I love the ability to throw up a domain today, a SQL cluster tomorrow, wipe it all out the next day and build it all back up again.

Losing that flexibility will be rough. Getting eval keys from say, VMware, with their 30-60 day timers means picking and choosing what I want to try playing with when, and feeling SOL if some interruption comes about in which I'm not able to use the time to the fullest. I'm pressured to their schedule, and not my own, and damned if I want to revisit something or simply learn at my own pace.

It was a great way to simply buy into the Microsoft ecosystem and familiarize ones self with a whole range of products with no fuss. MSDN is a much more expensive proposition, and while ideal for the development community, not geared for those of us who's experience is in deploying solutions and performing integration.

I suspect this was a move to help close a loophole in which technet licenses were used in production environment, and that's a fair assertion to make. But being forced to eval in a sterile "Free Lab" is no substitute. I really think this is a unnecessary move to close what has been one of Microsoft's best programs at promoting adoption.
That's where I grew up. I can assure you, nobody in Russia sees its own territory hosting multiple critical industries with half a dozen cities with >1M population as a "buffer" against China.

"Siberia" is not a well-defined region, BTW, kind of like "Wild Wild West" in the US - more like a general direction they used to send expeditions to, like 200 years ago. Just pointing out how weird your comment seems.

Either you're trolling, or your mental picture of that part of the world needs an overhaul.
It is worth pointing out that Google is internally very aware of this situation. They have attempted to do what is best for users on several high value searches such as "Mortgage Refinance". At one point they had a fixed fee comparison widget, that would actually suggest banks with the lowest rates.

Unfortunately all these attempts were killed, because it is so much more valuable to sell an ad to a shady comparison site, than to run a transparent one.

I also don't think their business model is in any sort of crisis. Google gives people great search results consistently. It takes crazy logic to see good Google search results consistently everyday, and then not trust Google's results for a high value query.
Intercepting Direct3D COM objects and making game walls invisible
Yep, it was me :P
You are setting up a false dilemma. The position that "if he is unwilling to stay in the US or go to the people who will just return him there, so he can face serious punishment", aka that if is unwilling to become a martyr, then he can not be a person who actually wants to point out something wrong. This is a silly scenario.

For example, I we need to fix the prison system in the US. I am not willing to martyr myself for it. Is it your position that it can't be too bad then? Or that I must not mean it because I don't want to be a martyr?

The premise from which you are arguing is just incorrect.
That's got to be the funniest error message I've read
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Complete bullshit. Reddit's /r/news, /r/politics, and /r/worldnews (which are default subreddits focused on politics) are regularly raided by Stormfront. Just this week the Reddit administrators finally got it into their heads to ban /r/niggers, which had functioned as "Stormfront on Reddit". This won't accomplish much, since subreddits like /r/WhiteRights or /r/newright remain alive and serve much the same purpose.

And that's just the neo-Nazis. /r/anarchism got quite nasty too, at one point, and God only knows what end of the spectrum /r/conspiracy are on.

And that's just the open extremist hate groups and subreddits that raid others on Reddit.

Just today I ran into a DailyKos thread from 2010 debating whether or not to ban reference to some blog on grounds that its text was indistinguishable to the already-banned Stormfront.

The internet is not nearly as censored a place once you get away from Facebook and CNN.
> always assume that anything you write or do on Facebook - in any context - will be embarrassingly public.

Furthermore, even if you don't use facebook, or use it for reading only, you can always assume that every piece of data your friends give them, from photos with your face in them to the contents of their address book (with your birthday, nickname, private phone numbers, etc) will be stored by them forever.

Even if they don't display the data on the public site, don't think they don't mine it for actionable changes to ad targeting.

It was recently discovered that they were leaking data that they were collecting from people's address books. Turns out that their app was uploading it for friends-matching but they were (logically) storing it silently alongside your profile.

It may well be possible that, via just their mobile app's userbase's contacts, they have the vast majority of the social graph for the entire planet, even their non-users.

Those users have volunteered sufficient data that, given that planetary graph, they can infer many attributes (with high accuracy) associated with those who actively avoid them.

It's sort of the same concept as how facial recognition technology and traffic analysis can uniquely ID all mass transit users, even those who don't use credit cards (your name's in the magstripe) to pay the fare. Given enough data, they can fill in the holes with sufficient accuracy and encompass everyone.
They're not trying to sell this to startups, they're trying to sell this to the Goldman Sachs website. These type of clients: 1) don't want the same fonts as everyone else, 2) want the high-quality typefaces of H&FJ, and 3) don't give a hoot what it costs.
Interesting. It seems a lot of "potential Ballmer successors" have been let go from Microsoft in the past few years, from Ray Ozzie to Sinofsky, and now this one, too.

I wonder what this means for Zynga - more DRM?
How do you know they don't have this problem? In India and China, literacy rates are lower than in the US, and a much smaller percentage graduate secondary school (or even go to secondary school). The kids who can't sit still or study effectively probably don't stay in school. Plus, have you ever heard firsthand accounts of Chinese or Indian school curricula? It's a bunch of rote memorization and math drills. The American curriculum at least tries to encourage independent thought and creativity.
I think you fail to understand something : There are all kinds of people on 4chan. And dont come saying "laws about copyright protection" cause that is not a "crack house" .
Just a theory, but could it be that all those friends have your email in their contact list, and when they've done a bulk import Facebook has remembered that connection so it can suggest them to you if you ever join (and vice versa)? The data isn't on your side, it's on there's.

Of course there's a whole other (worthy) debate about that, but it doesn't necessarily mean Facebook didn't delete the data you added.
>I doubt the German government or an intelligence agency would dare to bug an US embassy,

well, not at least with "Made in Germany" bugs and wires directly leading to the intelligence agency HQ :)

There is a gentlemen's agreement between such a great allies as UK, Germany, US, ... - they spy on each other embassies, parties, government offices, etc... because Germany spying on Germany is illegal in Germany, so to workaround the law UK or US would do the job and exchange the results.
Thanks. It was kind of cute how the american terms were explained using more american terms.
Servers are very cheap for evaluation on Azure

With Microsoft's otherwise very hard push on Azure these days, it's hard to read this as anything else than further trying to push the infrastructure-people away from on-premise hosted solutions to their cloud-platform where they can collect an continuous, annual fee instead of a one-time price.

Which is completely fair, but I can see how some people will fail to appreciate it.
A thousand times this; when I tell people I prefer buying from companies who aren't blowing my money on superbowl ads, they just don't get it. The ads aren't for you, the existing customer - they're to get new customers. There's a reason I like Vanguard and USAA.
I've been where you are, it sucks. In fact, I don't really have friends because 1) I have moved around a lot since 2000 and 2) I stopped caring that FB ruled my friendships (in the way you mention). There are definitely people I'd be friends with, if they lived in my city, but since they don't, they only keep in contact via FB, which I don't use socially. I only have it for news feeds from Pages.
Stop pandering to the internet crowd of "misunderstood" nerds, Atlantic [0]. You clearly know your audience and you've got your litany of "I was really smart but teachers kept me down" testimonials here on HN and Reddit, but this really adds nothing new to the discussion.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13atlantic....
I don't this in the same vein. I think Don was well-liked all around.
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You should listen to Moot's talks on the subject of 4chan and free speech, which I will link below. As to "raiding," there are exactly zero boards on 4chan where raiding is allowed in the rules: it is globally banned on all boards, even /b/, which is the "no-rules" board.

Many of the 4chan communities are totally moral, from any standards: the cooking board (http://boards.4chan.org/ck) is my favourite board on 4chan, and it's just discussion of tasty eats.

As to copyrighted content, 4chan is the same as any other online message board that allows the embedding of images. 4chan has a staff of volunteer janitors to remove copyrighted content, and a smaller team of moderators to deal with repeat offenders.

Moot talks:

http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for...

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2011/events/event_IAP000001

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTR7hbR3tM
Shorthand functions are not standard yet. You should bet on arrow function expressions in Harmony for now:

[1,2,3,4].map(x => x*x)) // [1,4,9,16]

(also note that |this| is lexically bound in the case of fat arrow functions)

Also, destructuring objects:

let obj = { foo: 42, bar: { baz: 32 } }
let { foo, bar } = obj;
foo // 42
bar.baz // 32

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_...

List of all the goodies:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_...

edit: formatting
Actually boys and girls perform well when rules are clearly laid out and punishments are not arbitrary.

The sitting and listening without moving is the problem.
It means you're going to be forced to use the front facing camera on the iPhone in order to play games.
It's not Snowden that is inflicting damage to America, it is those who have corrupted the government with their prodigious wealth.

Congress is 51% lawyers despite the fact that less than 1% of Americans are. Congress is ~40% millionaires (or more) despite the fact that less than 4% of Americans.

Vote out the rich and their lawyers lapdogs and we will have our country back peacefully.
I don't think so. It's more like saying "I'm an oldfag, I'm a kind of elitist". The hipster who was on 4chan before it was cool.

Being on 4chan might be a kind of stigma, but not very much. I guess the average internet user looks down to thumblr not to 4chan. 4chan are a somehow the cool kids. Somehow.
No, I've noticed it much improved. Of course, I'm on the 'beta' channel where there is deferred rendering.
A little sad to hear.

I've been a TechNet subscriber for a number of years now. I probably don't utilise it as much as I could.
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Thx for the follow up.
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I think its more "if the party is of a certain size you don't notice who isn't there." so for acquaintances, dropping off FB can drop you out of a lot of invites.

That said, I find it challenging to remember my immediate families birthdays (not to mention, anniversaries etc) and while my crutch has always been a calendar, FB can provide that crutch for folks who don't have a calendar habit.

Bottom line is that the core premise of FB is actually quite sound, its just not easily monetizable. Its possible that after a while folks would pay to subscribe to a FB like service but long before that Google or someone else who isn't being held against the wall with a share certificate pointed at their head may find a more workable solution.

And of course FB could, their are a lot of smart folks over there.
There really aren't. H&FJ make some of the best typefaces out there.
FontShop do supply 13000 fonts for upload to servers, among them FF meta, FF Din etc, so some quite well-known and well-used fonts:

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/webfonts/

I suspect other foundries will follow them eventually, because competition from things like Google Web fonts and younger typographers is going to make it very difficult to justify refusing to allow use on the web without a subscription and reliance on a third-party server.
Good. That's the right way to think about it. If free fonts are an option for your project, it's dumb to pay money for access to high-end designer fonts.
If I see a hype filled story show up in the freebie investment news it usually means the stock is about to take a short term down turn.

Good time to short it.
Okay, I could get used to the whole time-limited eval thing, but the real killer here is removing the back catalog. It's going to be even harder to do comparability testing now.
Adblock,FTW ! Never seen an ad in several years now.
I’ve seen dozens if not hundreds of infected machines. By far the most common infection vector comes from unpatched browsers or their plugins.

It looks like my browser was not updating because of a 1.5 year old bug #711475 which is still marked at “New”. If it hadn't been for my interest in asm.js, I'd still be sitting at version 17 or 18, despite auto-updates and background service both being checked.

Not auto-updating the browser is a much bigger security risk than your hypothetical issue for Chrome.
Nobody said it would be too much to ask, but you don't have a constitutional right to released on bail (judges have always decided that on a case-by-case basis) or to decide which court your case will be heard in (I presume Snowden is hoping to have a trial take place within the 9th circuit based on his residence in Hawaii, given the relatively libertarian bent of the 9th Circuit appeals court).

All defendants have the right to make requests for such things...through filing motions in court. Snowden is asking (strictly speaking, his father is asking on his behalf) for extrajudicial guarantees that are not mentioned in the constitution or available to normal defendants.
On the flip side, I remember playing "Windows XP: The Roleplaying Game" with AT&T support, when they wouldn't give some very simple network config information without me checking a bunch of things on Windows with IE first.
As a boy who still cannot sit still at 30, the only way I survived being forced to sit still at school was by programming my enormously overpriced graphing calculator.
Which is why the army has to have somebody scream in your face to get you to do stuff.