skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds a bit fake. I don't see what you have to gain by doing this anonymously. On the other hand, I don't see why someone wast their time faking something like this but then again I never got why people troll everywhere. I thought hacker news was safe from the trolls. Anyways GL.
Or, absolute trolling. Especially since you can target specific boards.

I remember when someone spammed the ending to LA Noire on /v/ for a whole day.
Whose? You didn't reply to anyone.
Exists in a fork, just waiting on the pull request: https://github.com/adambrenecki/learnxinyminutes-docs/blob/m...
I'm so sick of this link!
It's not a theme thing, it's a behavior thing.

Firefox feels like Eclipse to me.
I agree. This is way, way more likely than human transplants, for a dozen reasons. And to be honest, it could be done in a few years. Moving around using the body would be relatively easily accomplished but expression via tapping the spinal cord... not so easy.
Also, a new engine is being built which goes by the name Servo. Mozilla, Samsung and independent contributors from the open source community are actively working on it. Git: https://github.com/mozilla/servo
LUKS/dm-crypt. Super easy to use. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt_with_LUKS
Seriously, I would probably take Putin over Obama any-day, at-least he doesn't pretend to be a nice guy.
All I can think is this is one step closer to Futurama's Head in a Jar. ;)
All countries spy at each other, it's just that some are better at it than others. As a target country, "outing" the attacker is a natural diplomatic reaction, albeit highly hypocritical. The recent communication war between China and the US is an interesting example.
Previous HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5956301
And the technical details: http://www.surgicalneurologyint.com/article.asp?issn=2152-78...
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It's the same type of service, but H&FJ is their own foundry and none of their fonts were licensed through Typekit. This will, assumedly, be the only place to get H&FJ fonts (which is a big deal for typography nerds).
Have you even seen the list of contributions and modules he has?? That is way different of just having "Perl" in his profile.

About the snowball of utter dump... that's what downvotes are for.
Monetized trolling sounds like a great way to become unbelievably rich.
Is there any hypothetical search model in which money doesn't influence information salience? High performers for competitive searches in organic search have usually invested heavily in SEO and/or brand-building too. Open reviews can be astroturfed and social likes can be astroturfed or incentivised. At least with "sponsored results" it's blatant, and declared.

Ironically, considering the original article starts off by complaining about its effect on search results, the most-free-from-financial-influence way of ranking information salience is probably the Zagat review model (selling aggregated secret shopper info)
Literally days after spending another couple days searching for a Whitney replacement for a site I'm working on and finally getting set up with Typekit. Still, this is something the entire design community has been looking forward to for a long time. I'll probably wait a while to give it a try for myself, but I am very interested in seeing how their fonts look across the web as others start to pick them up.
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Ability to control different parts of the body (assuming there is a connection) seems like it would be more a "software configuration" issue than a "hardware issue" (if such an analogy is at all appropriate).

Are you saying that even if the connection is there, the brain can never learn to utilize it if it doesn't jibe with the way the brain "is"?
Hoefler & Frere-Jones typefaces.

Their typography foundry is held to be second-to-none among typeface quality and frequency of usage in print and elsewhere.

In particular, their typeface Gotham is incredibly popular, and making it available as a webfont publicly is a big deal.

Also, this effort has been underway for at least three years. Their attention to detail ensures that these webfonts are going to be some of the best available anywhere.
Hello Sir,
I am Ahmar Md Hashmi,a student of Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur from the department of Computer Science & Technology currently studying in final year(B.Tech).My strongest forte is my determination and never-say-die attitude.I am an avid learner and a lover of technology.I am currently a Microsoft Student Partner as well.My global rank at hackerrank is 739 and country(India) rank is 156.My biggest failure is not having been able to crack the IIT after my class XII.Nevertheless,I am a strong believer in God and believe that whatever He does is for our own good.
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Cyanogenmod seems to be doing a pretty good job.
Right, PRISM is just the project that gives the NSA access to data stored on other (Google, Facebook et al.) servers. The active eavesdropping and other systems aren't included.
The low cost is probably because the partner commercial companies are "donating" their vast collecting resources to help the program.
Personally, I've found they do contribute somewhat to team cohesiveness, and if you have a busy manager it is nice to have guaranteed time with them. Of course, everyone is different, and it may well be truly useless in other companies
Object-oriented programming explained
I still find firebug much more enjoyable to use all round than webkits dev tools. CMD+ALT+M is also a god send for responsive development.
Assuming it's legit, it seems more an opportunity for angel investing than VC. Any company ready for real VC money should have better connections and personal introductions, or the poster should know about them and be going to them.

I suppose it would work for angels, but I don't see how this approach beats the rich systems that AngelList or Gust offer.
What a time we live in when asking for your constitutional rights is too much to ask...

"...would return voluntarily to the US if there were "ironclad assurances that his constitutional rights would be honored"."
I think he was asking about the 16-core co-processor, not the FPGA.
Has it? I have never seen anything to that effect. Do you have any reading on the subject?
For offering a concrete self-help approach among a sea of speculation, and sharing that text on the page changes classification score -- I hope you get upvoted more.
No, it's a head transplant. The head is part of the body. There is nothing metaphysical about a head. That's not where the philosophical language problems come into play. The problems start when you talk about WHO the combinated person is.
The problem is that the government has become corrupt as such the secrets are especially bad. There is no fair trial from a government who picks the judges, the location, the jury pool, and the defendants lawyer and even worse the strategies of the defense (judges have to approve the defence).
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Sounds like Avatar B to me!

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Wow, Moot reads Hacker News. Not surprising, but pleases me greatly. Thank you for your contributions to the great shared halucination that is the internet.
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"Very sub-optimal"???

You think it doesn't matter "to the wellbeing of the average citizen and average inhabitant of this planet" that we e.g. keep the sea lanes open and the price of oil lower than many producers would like it? Or prevent another hot world war?
I doubt Snowden is experiencing a consequence-free existence right now. He's avoiding the consequences of his actions in the same way that I eat to avoid the consequences of hunger.
I've actually only really just started, I'm less than a year into my PhD, so I don't have anything published yet. My current project involves doing some non-trivial calculations on a large matrix of multi-precision integers - the obvious way to lay out the data (an array of dynamically resizable vectors) is dead wrong for GPU (the memory bandwidth is completely swamped by fetching from a different pointer for each thread - I got 100x slowdown from the CPU reference implementation), so right now I'm redoing the experiments based on a vector of fixed-length arrays (the 0th elements of all the vectors from the first formulation go in one array, the 1st elements in the next, and so forth).
Because rather than making an argument against Mr. Snowden on its merits, they get to just dismiss him as a coward and a traitor. It's the same basic reason why most arguments on the internet devolve into ad hominems and profanity.

I'm not making a judgment either way (although I probably have in my earlier comment history), it's just easier for some people to say "Whatever, he's a traitor and a coward" rather than actually think about why he did what he did, what his motivation(s) were/are, and if they ultimately think the ends justify the means.
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Suspected 'hacker' caught and charged
I've had varied experiences with sites and banning. A couple of years ago, I made a funny picture site where I would collect some of these visual jokes. (plug: http://caption-of-the-day.com) I never submitted here, of course, but I also got zero traction on reddit. It always seemed weird to me that reddit was such a wasteland for that material, especially when there was so much of it on there.

Then this year, before the NSA story broke, I figured privacy and anonymity would be a big issue, one I was passionate about. So I created http://freedom-or-safety.com It's a mix of rewriting long stories into 3-5 paragraph summaries (with appropriate links back), and original commentary.

Since the majority of stuff on that site was technology/privacy related, and since many of my friends are here and like that kind of stuff, I submitted a lot of it on HN.

Then I got banned on HN. Beats me how. Still waiting to figure that one out. I asked to be reinstated and I was, but without knowing what I've done it makes it really difficult to avoid doing it again. I've stopped creating content over there while I figure out if it's worth getting another ban here because of who-knows-what. Sucks to have your work silenced due to forces outside your control and understanding. I really feel for all those other meme sites struggling away on reddit all that while. How many hundreds or thousands of hours of productivity were destroyed trying to honestly work with a system that was rigged all along?

We like to think of these aggregation sites as pristine, driven by the user voice, and automatically selecting and promoting good content. But after many years on several such sites, and after submitting my own stuff on several of them, I don't have such a charitable opinion. I like HN, and I really like the folks here, but in their effort to keep the site cleaned up, they've created an opaque and non-intuitive system. In many ways, this has the same effect on trust as having a crooked moderator. Things just don't make sense and don't feel right, but hell if you can put your finger on exactly what's going on.
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I am happy to see other people finally pointing this one out.

I will refine your hypothesis a little.

a) It isn't companies with the highest margin who win, but the ones which are able and willing to devote the greatest percentage of revenue to performance driven advertising. If the company has a slim margin to begin with, they will never even be able to start in the "race."

b) Education is a better example than car insurance. While there are geographic variances to what ads are shown, nearly all of the ads will be for for-profit schools (many of whom spend more on acquiring a single enrollment than on educating them.) Additionally, the organic results will either be for performance marketers driving leads right back to these schools, or it will be objective journalism plastered with banner ads and contextual text ads for for-profit schools (Forbes, Washington Post (who owns and receives half of their revenue from Kaplan but thats another story..))

c) Some markets get so abusive Google puts very heavy handed and aggressive rules in place. For example, if you read the FTC's news releases regularly a common scam is someone operating as a payday loan operator simply emptying bank accounts (not sure why this isn't an FBI/DOJ issue.) Its easy to bid high when your end result is the entire content's of your customer bank account. If you are operating in a market and your competitors start doing this stuff -- your fucked. Google can take years to catch up.

d) The "quality score" means little. It largely has to do with how a site looks, not what it actually does. Misleading ads tend promise more and thus get better click through rate which means they are even more likely to show up higher, not less. At the end of the day, Google will let low quality site run, they just charge them a little more.

e) The most disturbing thing to me is how Google is trying to wash away organic altogether. The original article points this out. Aaron Wall (SEOBook) has been pointing this out for year. Ben Edelman has been doing an excellent job of busting Google's bullshit PR (even though he may be paid by Microsoft for consulting its academic level work of the highest quality.) Google wants to keep serving that organic content to users, but block them from flowing through to the original source. Google Images' recent changes reflect this exactly.

f) All of this makes me think Google's original business model is in serious crisis. Ironically, Google is doing the same revenue escalation to their own users as their advertisers are forced to employ. If desktop revenue is dropping fast, Google has to crank up the "aggressive" meter to milk out more revenue from a diminishing ad clicker user base.

g) This is great news for the next search companies. Google is dependent on their ad revenue to fuel their behemoth enterprise. They are sacrificing their own product in an escalating fashion. (If you use AdBlockPlus you probably never even noticed..)
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More to the point, the children/teenagers in question range from 13 to 18 years of age. I gather that "12th grade" is meaningless in much of the world.
He'd been employed by the NSA and CIA since 2006, and had top-secret clearance by 2009. Presumably this obviates the theory of "worked there for a few months to get access to sensitive information".
Regarding the "test" mentioned there and it being self-perpetuating.

Brazil during the cold war, caught the propaganda of sorts that anyone to have success needed to have a degree, the country needed to go from almost none degrees to everyone have degrees.

The result was a severe lack of universities, so the government started to build them like if there was no tomorrow (and they are STILL not enough for the demand), and made into law a thing called "vestibular" that is a entry test that you take to join university.

The test subject is whatever the government ministry of education decided that schools must have as curriculum, thus the test asks questions regarding everything you learn in school from 3 to 18 years old of your life, and since it tests for everything and is applied to ANY course, the government mandatory curriculum has anything a university student might need, thus we have a curriculum that is so ridiculously big, that is impossible to teach it entirely.

Because here getting the students of your school into a federal university (here they are almost on US ivy league level) or to certain state universities (those have several courses listed alongside ivy league and Oxford on best courses list) is highly prestigious, and the only way to get in is passing the stupid test, the high schools developed a system that they teach you how to pass the test, literally, your final tests on the schools many times are directly copied from previous years vestibular tests, and students on those schools know how to pass the test, and only that.

Since here in Brazil university-level education is mandatory to be a teacher, only those that passed the tests, and teach new people how to pass the tests, making things worse.

Also, here in Brazil homeschooling is a crime (yes, they ARREST you for attempting to homeschool your kids), and joining university without a normal schooling is not allowed, you can be sure 99% of university students passed by this system (the other 1% are dropouts that later did a high school conclusion test sponsored by the government).
If you use typekit, give Prenton a try. I was also on the hunt for a Whitney-as-body replacement and it's what I'm currently using. The proportions are very nice (versus the gothics you'll often see as recommended) and they have a condensed family if you need it. Freight Sans might work as well if you want something a little more modern.
Do you have any evidence that Google Voice records phone calls without a user's explicit permission? I was never referring to voicemails (which are rarely used these days anyway).

I also don't see how you can make the argument that passive recording of everyone around you is the same as Facebook only receiving data that a user proactively sends it (ie. status updates, photo uploads, etc.).

Finally, even if we were to accept your slippery-slope arguments as true, why not go further down the slope and claim that the internet shouldn't exist either because massive data sets about your lives are already being mined and are at risk of nefarious use?
Maybe the mid-level ham radio microwave experimenters? Obviously Microwave Update conference proceedings articles about 47 GHz amplifier design and 112 GHz subharmonic mixers are not relevant on the high end for being way too high for mere digital people, and the 80 meter (aka 3.5 MHz) band guys are a bit on the low end for what you're trying to do...

The 20 year old ARRL microwave experimenters manual from the local public library isn't so bad of an introduction to the issues and technology. Yes its old. But, yes, SMA connectors still resonate above 18 GHz, or yes, people still build stuff with microstrip, yes a smith chart still works like a smith chart, even if you view it on a computer screen now.

At a much lower frequency level but still relevant, the late Bob Pease has a nice book "Troubleshooting analog electronics" although his monthly magazine articles were probably equally informative and are (were?) free. A reprint of his magazine columns would probably make a highly practical (as opposed to theoretical) analog engineering curriculum. A lot of troubleshooting issues that are annoyances at low frequencies are big issues at higher ones. Or the mental process of bypassing a power lead is about the same, even if the tech changes with frequency.

I think its interesting to read classic bitsavers manuals. How did Cray test those modules, anyway? Well read from the source. Layout densities have changed drastically, fundamental issues have not.
This specific instance in the screenshot has been fixed (this is the second time). Basically, in this specific instance if the "Login" button is changed to localize to a specific keyword "Connexion" as part of french translation, it shows up. No other keyword triggers it.. and no way to find out what the heck chrome wants.

It is like playing proverbial whack-a-mole. Every update of chrome can potentially change their "heuristic" that thinks it has "found" a phishing attack.. and we have to scramble to see what the heck caused it and fix it.

This would be funny if it wasn't so detrimental to a business. I will get the dev to recreate this on dev1 and post it.
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Author says it is worst case upper bound.
'Separate but equal' is never actually equal.
I'm not sure, I feel like Obama pretends to be a nice guy because he sortof has to be a nice guy in the US. He couldn't get away with poisoning a journalist. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Both of these comments - just changed my view of how I should teach my child and what their school should be like.

wow. Epiphany
I opened the same URL and did get a phishing warning. Version 27.0.1453.116 m on Windows 7 x64.
It seems like apprenticeship is really the only way to learn this. They don't even teach this stuff in undergrad EE programs.
It certainly can affect your moods and drives, but it's feedback, not origination. If such a procedure were in fact carried out successfully (and I have grave doubts about that) the person may certainly have different habits when it comes to eating, tiring, and so on, but they wouldn't suddenly start liking spicy food or jazz.
>Harlan already has native support for rich data structures, including trees and ragged arrays. Very soon the language will support higher order procedures.

Structured data and nonuniform computations are very hard to express right now on the GPU and typically require a long and terrible process of "creative" CUDA programming. Harlan seems to be pushing the boundaries of what sorts of GPU programs we can effectively/efficiently implement. But, because the syntax is unusual, you're saying it's irrelevant compared to NumbaPro...which is what, a thin wrapper over elementwise array operations?
The v3.10 kernel I used in the article also now supports bcache in the mainline kernel which now makes that a compelling solution as well. I looked at flashcache, but I maintain enough custom kernels for my job, don't want to do that for my personal life as well. (Maybe if I was still in my Gentoo obsession days...)

I think I'll checkout bcache in the future, since it's sitting there waiting to be turned on with Linux v3.10. My only concern is whether or not I can just add ssd caching to an existing filesystem, or if I need to copy all the data to the newly created bcache/flashcache block device. With dm-cache it just sits on top and makes the transition to (and from) a 10TB cached volume as simple as a 1GB cached volume. No backing up the data somewhere and copying it.

For personal use dm-cache seems to fit the bill, for now. My sights are really set on the file system doing this more intelligently (think file level instead of block level) then device-mapper ever could. I'm mostly waiting on this btrfs to add hot-migration: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM3Njg

Now if this was a specific purpose server (ie database?) then maybe flashcache or bcache would make a more compelling performance argument up front and warrant the hassles they require.