skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And... this is the second thread where the "down vote" ability has been abused. A user (with enough "karma" to allow them multiple negative "down votes" has nuked my content, and not bothered to respond to any of it)

It's hard to respond to semi-coherent ranting.

You're mistaken about downvotes. People have a single downvote. If you're seeing multiple downvotes that means multiple people are downvoting you. If people are downvoting you that's because they think your comments don't belong here. You can try saying "The downvotes prove me right" but you should be aware that that line is used by wingnuts.
The multicore dilemma is worse than you think
Dynamicists vs. modelers - A Cultural Analysis of Climate Skepticism
No need for the aggressive tone. And you're overreacting just as much to his/her reply.
Um,because Google makes more money from showing you those ads then you could pay them to not show you.
Definitely Envy Code R.
It's a great game, but I wonder why the GPLv3 was chosen, since it's incompatible with GPLv2 only code and various other licenses.
It's not fair to call them a lottery because as a class they have a positive expectation. (At worst they are worth $0, but clearly some make money.) They're not a tax either.

They're just a riskier form of compensation. Like any investment, you get a premium based on the level of risk. Their expected value is still pretty good though if you're working for a good startup.
All perfectly reasonable. I wholeheartedly agree we need means of being informed; I welcome proposals. I'm always skeptical about stopping the discussion at vague notions of "fix X".
I mostly blame the common man for that.

Introverted people focused on a specific subject, such as pure-math research, tend to go where society deems it beneficial for them to go. So you are good at math, but you need to eat. Where does society think it's useful for a mathematician to apply his or her skills? Well, our society gives the NSA substantial funding, which it devotes in part to hiring mathematicians. The rest of society does not fund pure-math research much at all.

And yet somehow society is surprised that many pure mathematicians end up working for the NSA. Maybe if you cheap bastards were willing to pay for math research through a different mechanism, the mathematicians would work somewhere else.
This is really one of those news that just seems to be bought by Android's competitors.

The user has to install a pirated APK. Also Play store is SSL secured. Just use common sense.
A Deeper Plunge into Javascript with Codecademy: the Beauty of the Switch
Overlordcard  vs  mastercard
Visa has opened up a big business opportunity now with the banning of VPNs.

I propose overlordcard, it works exactly like a mastercard, giving credit at 50% interest + fees.

And of course it can be used to purchase legitimate and completely legal VPN services.
And also not-so-Mormon RPI.
You might as well make a closed Internet for Germany only... The point of the Internet is to be global in the first place.
Except that your car shows everyone the same license plate every time they look at it. This would be completely unacceptable for a cryptographic solution, which would use fresh randomness to respond to every request (in theory).
Understatement can sometimes be more persuasive than hyperbole.
Buggin’ out How the Wikimedia Foundation triages and fixes software bugs
This reminded me of the original presentation of the iPhone, which I didn't watch until recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUIxyE2Ns8

Points of similarity:

1. Both presentations happened in San Francisco (at the same convention center?)

2. Both demonstrate major advances in user interfaces

3. Both include demonstrations of remote communication :)
Your searches don't need to persist. Your mail kinda does. And since US law compels US companies to comply with warrants, this isn't possible to do.
These bundles should have a book trial, like the first 15 pages IMHO. Books required more commitment than games in my pint of view.
It would be great if people actually checked the version of IE that you are using instead of just punting to an "oh noes!" screen.
Hmm. This may be an unpopular opinion but I guess I don't really care. I love my AT&T plan since I'm still grandfathered in for unlimited data. I'm not going to walk away from it, especially not when I'm just part of a bunch of anonymous statistics.
most definitely Source Code Pro
I have a friend who has been to HackerSchool, and I hear its really awesome, I have been wanting to attend ever since then, sadly I can't afford to support myself there.
"Keep in mind that this is about chargeback risk"

Please post source for this.
As far as I know Visa and Mastercard have not made any statements and outlined any possible reasons for this action yet.
Here's an idea: don't make babies before you found an ethical way to provide for them? You make it seem like people just wake up one day with families and a job at the NSA as the only option.

As general rule: if you could say it in defense of being a member of the Waffen-SS, it's probably not a very solid argument. Everybody has their sob story, but long after those people are dead others will STILL have to deal with the messy, fucked up and stupid structures cowards erected. And with that in mind, my sympathy kinda fades.

And that your friends would do it is no argument either, people always seem to have this idea that they themselves (or their friends) are special and ought to not be criticized. Everybody is so fucking magical when it's about them. Contrast this with how we talk and think about people of the past, of other countries or other social groups.

Also there are the people blown up by drones, or the ones threatened with it http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/will-nsa-whistleblower-edwa... (because who needs trials when you have "intelligence") Those don't even get to the point of worry about job security, and they don't seem to even figure into any of this.
> It's what the major players, that is the most popular distros, support by default.

You know in the context of everything that's been going on, I really didn't think the "No True Scotsman" for the night was going to be about GTK+.

Sure, if you slice and dice your definitions enough to "toolkit supported by default if I don't run the headless install of distros which coldtea defines as 'major'" then you might come away with GTK+ as a standard toolkit.

But even that wouldn't exclude Qt as a standard toolkit. It gets picked up by the package manager just the same on all major distros, except possibly for Fedora

Apparently everything else is "Marginal" in your book? I'm sorry you seem to take it so personally that you had to whip out the e-penis and establish the supremacy of your chosen toolkit (and the Google native SDK??), but by all means let me step back and stay quiet so you can flex.
Ubuntu Mono http://font.ubuntu.com/#charset-mono-regular
Thanks for your comments. Plugging in a Physics engine to do just that did cross my mind but I ended up using more traditional optimization algorithms b/c they're incredibly easy to implement. Plus, I had worked with them before.
My credit card was once stolen and used to sign up for a VPN
14 Day Challenge - Information Diet
But how did it get there? I'm pretty sure the device would have to be rooted, and the user would need to have run some code written by the attacker and allowed it run with superuser privileges (or haphazardly followed some malicious tutorial online, e.g. "follow these steps to install new themes!" or "use this tool to unlock your phone!").
You can always donate through a pre-paid card purchased with cash from a store you never buy anything from, with the transaction done with a throwaway tablet, also purchased with cash, through an open wifi network you never connected to.
or rather, they can't cause much more harm than things you can already carry on a plane.
Well no shit, the credit card companies are controlled by the banking cartels. These are the same companies in charge of the US Federal Reserve and various global private central banks. VPN's and crypto-currency are a huge threat to these institutions.
I used this for a while, but found it packed a little too tight horizontally. With widescreen monitors and languages where keeping to 80 columns is still standard, I found it was wasting too much space. There's only so much code I want on my screen at any one time before it's more overwhelming than actually useful.
"Chargeback risk" is the only theory on the table, isn't it?
I hope this pushes for stronger Bitcoin adoption!
I think it reflects the general Microsoft philosophy of having APIs for everything. After all, they are an API company. It shows in the PowerShell design with it's object API approach.

Also, with the API you should be able to configure IIS without restarting it, while changing web.config recycles web apps (in ASP.NET scenario). With load-balancing, however, this is less of an issue.
I like it. There are some things that are unclear though. How do I get notified about my review if I never physically sign up for an account? How long does it take for the "moderator" to approve reviews? If the site gets popular this could be quite a pain on you to have to go through each feedback comment and approve or deny them.

I run a similar type of startup (betapunch.com) if you ever want some user testing done for your own website. Best of luck to you!

One more issue I am noticing is that from my "dashboard" page I can't easily see how to review more websites to earn more credits. For that matter I can't see how to do this from anywhere without having to submit my own website again for review...
Pat is about a 60% female name.
Jamie is about 75%
Shannon is 85%.

(I'm controlling for last name by putting in random garbage characters that are apparently not in the lastname database.)

What's a more gender-ambiguous first name?
yes, most definitely Source Code Pro.

The fact this wasn't even an option makes this poll ridiculous.
Thanks for the links! Griping about them, not you: The second one, for "AdWorks" says:

> 3. This opt-out only applies to this device and this
browser. You can opt-out on other devices and/or browsers
by accessing this page from those devices.

i.e. Must do this repeatedly. Sigh.
By giving you the evidence you asked for? Or by also making points you don't like?

Feel free to respond to either, but spare me transparent excuses for not doing so and how that is somehow my fault.
No more new episodes on Railscasts?
'RailsCasts Status

You have probably noticed there has been a lack of new episodes lately. I have found it increasingly difficult to produce content, and I'm not entirely sure why. The best way I can describe it is that I feel paralized under the pressures of work.

I have decided to take a Summer break to help me come up with a solution. I will return on September 2 with new content. All Pro subscriptions have been automatically extended by two months (no need to press a button this time). New subscribers during this time will be charged the initial $9 and then have their subscription extended through September.

Thank you for your patience during this time! :)

--Ryan'
a lot of people hate advertising, ads are everywhere, adding gamification to it creates a cool dynamic where people will take pleasure in sticking it to them, get a boost of privacy feeling and sense of power like(personal example) "oh marketers you want to teach this rails programmer rails? how cute, hadn't caught this one yet"

pokemon, man, it's fun. "eating cookies", you know? To me it's a really creative and beautiful idea
Nice post, Chris, and it's definitely a problem that many people are confused about (as the comments in this thread show). People who think the GIL is a problem either have no idea what they're talking about, or they really know what they're talking about. People who don't think the GIL is a problem either have no idea what they're talking about, or they really know what they're talking about. :-p

One of the lesser-appreciated facts about the GIL is that it is an implementation detail of CPython. That is, it is entirely possible to implement a Python that does not have process-level globals and C statics. There is no structural reason why a C or C++ implementation of Python needs to have a GIL. It's just a legacy of the implementation that has stayed around for a long, long time.

For instance, Trent Nelson has done some work to show that you can move to thread-local storage for the free lists and whatnot, and get nice multicore scaling, even with the existing CPython codebase[1]. There are still concurrency primitives that the language would need to offer at the C API level to manage the merger of these thread-local objects, but it's a whole lot better than only being able to use a single core in modern days.

Fortunately I mostly get to work in the scientific field with (mostly) data parallel problems.

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/trent/parallelizing-the-python-inter...
When you click on a book, a popover with the first few pages comes up.
This is a great idea! This is one simple way to get started with Bitcoin and make Bitcoin more mainstream for the average person.
It's not a matter of taking the gamble you'll stay small. It's that there are different kind of big, only 1 times out of 1 billion there is a single player (Google, Facebook, Amazon) who reach an insane scale. By then, you'll have the resources to solve whatever issue you may hit.

As Michael (creator of the project) said here; it scales just fine even with serious players (thousands of instances). He has actual hard data and concrete use cases to back it up.

So far, all I've heard from detractors is the "OMG Chef is so hardcore Facebook uses it". Well, they use some. They'd probably do just fine with Ansible instead, provided they were putting half the brain power they put into Chef to make it work for their infrastructure.

You may get very big, just likely not Facebook big.
I can see two main reasons for working at a startup like this...

1. You need an entry level job, and this is a good resume builder

2. You are dreaming of being rich

I always feel that non entry level people at startups like this are getting duped and that makes me feel depressed about the state of our industry.
Well it was only a matter of time. They don't give a damn about the actual law (also looking at the Wikileaks case), they are just better off when nobody is anonymous. More Tor exit relays, anyone?
IBM 3278 terminal font. Found no scalable version, so I had to make my own: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I've always been curious if is it possible for a US C-Corp to be able to change it's country of incorporation from the US to another country? If they do, how is equity handled? Would public companies be able to replace common and preferred stock with ADRs?

This question seems even more pertinent now that there is a Presidential Executive Order that was issued that state that a even the assets of a US company abroad are subject to laws in the US, which strangely puts US companies in a really touch position of not being able to comply with both US and European laws simultaneously.
Well, that's why he flew to Hong Kong originally, and why he's currently transiting through a Moscow airport.

The trouble for Snowden is: neither the Chinese nor the Russians want to keep him.
With the magnitude of profits Apple makes from the App Store, they can't hire 100 smart people to intelligently and thoughtfully screen 10 submissions per day? Also, it sounds like their automated tests don't (for instance) check the submitted binary against hashes of all the other binaries that have ever been submitted, which I think would be a good step toward mitigating this particular plagiarism issue.
I think the stupid tax part comes from the daydreamers who believe if they work their ass off (more hours than a 9-5 job), they will get there millions. Hopefully after doing that once they realize it takes more than putting tons of hours in and you should focus on doing things you enjoy, both in and out of the office.
> If you are a Libertarian, wake up and make sure other's understand why this is the best path forward for our country.

Dude, I try. Believe me.

You can lead a human to knowledge, but you can't make him think.
That depends what you put in that word. To me socialism is not a bad thing.
A few words on Doug Engelbart
That's not quite analogous, because in this situation the ad-seller is also claiming to be the teacher. Google's mission is to return the most relevant content whenever you search. If they succeed at that, then every time you search for something, you will get the most relevant stuff as the top few organic search results. The ads will therefore just be noise; the organic search results will be exactly what you want.
soup?
US Department of Defense Censors Snowden Story
10 Benefits of Blogging
What's interesting is how this all should have been entirely predictable to Snowden. He's an American, he knows what Jerry Springer is. He said right from the beginning that he didn't want this to be about him, so why has he let the circus go on so long?

Did he think that the press focuses on human-interest stories because they don't sell or drive pageviews? He's giving the media so much to drive stories on, and all about Snowden and Assange and Wikileaks and asylum... but not about the big bad NSA. But so be it, I'm sure his current padded cell must be more comfortable.
(Responding because I saw you were instantly downvoted, even though you provided factual information.)

Absolutely correct. Fraud scoring systems are heuristic. Your fraud score is positively and negatively correlated with a large number of behaviors, almost all of which are benign by themselves, but in aggregate can be used to predict fraudulent behavior.
TheSansMono Condensed at 13pt, with slightly increased line spacing.

You'll probably balk at the price (as did I), but you can buy single weights.
Doug Engelbart, visionary
Good question, and another one, is there a website focusing on reviews of ebooks ? And I'm not just talking about contents, but also evaluating the ebook presentations and formats available?

If not, it would be a good idea if someone made one :) There's a market need.
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is the only smooth font I've been able to find that still looks good at smaller sizes, which means more lines of code on the screen. Combined with Solarized (usually light), my eyes have been really really spoiled.
Bad luck, but this is only an anecdote, thus hardly any sort of evidence.
do some branches of finance use pure math? (or is it only applied math)
I don't think either of then sounded like they were overacting, damnit!
Remember, Verizon Wireless is doing this too and you need to opt-out if you don't want it: http://www.vzw.com/myprivacy
Don't worry, they'll figure out a way to get you off your unlimited plan. For example, my coworker, who was also grandfathered into their unlimited plan, once came into work complaining that AT&T had throttled him to 20k/sec for the rest of the month. When he called them up, they told him he had used more than 2GB in a month, and so was throttled.
It seems like this should be super easy to spot by outfitting X-ray machines with computer vision that can compare shapes/outlines from the X-ray image with a massive catalog of 3D printed gun schematics. Of course this would only help with assembled guns, but it's a step in the right direction.
The 4th of July is the US celebration of independence from Great Britain. It is the celebration of the freedoms that many of our countrymen have fought and died for.

The "4th" also refers to the 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America which holds that (any) People should be free in their papers and effects from unreasonable searches (spying) by their Government. We are taught that these are not rights granted by a god, or by consent, or by a monarch, but are rights inherent for all people whether they live in America or not. They are natural rights, like the right to happiness and to pursue your life without harming others.

I am sorry if it seems like this is a very American-centric protest, but it is up to Americans to change our government for the better. We have too many of our fellow countrymen who misinterpret or disregard the Constitution, and it is up to us to remind them what so many great men and women died for.
Financial considerations aside, leaving an organization is probably not as easy as it may sound.

When evaluating alternatives, it can be challenging to identify employers that have and will continue to maintain a flawless moral track record, not only for their own organization but also for the customers and vendors they support.

If asked to name such an organization on the fly, one might be hard pressed to pick one that would hold up to HN scrutiny.
Founders Never Say Die
It doesn't require that at all. You could simply strip the SSL and present a HTTP version of the page, and most people would be none the wiser. Or you could redirect to e.g. www.facebook23.com and have them log in there, with a nice little padlock. At no point would they get a certificate warning. They wouldn't get a certificate warning if you had compromised one of those 650+ CAs either, unless the site in question used certificate pinning (almost no sites do, currently.)
He's done a lot for the community. I think he's earned a break.
When you put JS on top of it to intercept, you are creating two paths. That may be easier than a totally separate code base, or maybe not (I have seen compelling arguments either way), but it still boils down to a different code path in terms of potential for different bugs, different cross-browser issues, and more testing.

In addition, developing that way (instead of with JS in mind) also has a cost which in the end means that you are sacrificing resources developing for those 2% instead of the other 98%. Regardless of whether that approach leads to an easier situation in terms of maintaining JS vs. non-JS, it certainly does not lead to an easier situation than ignoring non-JS altogether.
So the idea of the program would be, with enough mis-information it starts working for everyone not just users of the program. (Else there's little point to it)

So really it's not about the users it's about stopping them destroying your current accurate data.

So all you need to do is identify if a user is a malicious one and ignore them.

So how does one identify dodgy data? Benford's Law is one example.

Of course this can be fought, but then you fight back and the war begins.
I prefer Adobe's Source Code Pro Light on a Retina screen. The Retina part is important, I don't think this is a nice font on a low-dpi screen :-)
I don't know AKA the default on sublime/eclipse/etc in the OS that I'm using
So you would rather a video weren't posted at all than that it be posted without a transcript?
Kinda odd to not include Menlo, the default font in Xcode.

Not sure that's my favorite (and I've gotten a lot less picky about programming fonts over the years) but it seems an odd omission.
This is simply shows how users interact with search engines. If I want to visit the NSA homepage and learn what wonderful people they are I'll search for "NSA", if I want to find out the last clusterfk to hit the NSA I'll type in "Snowden".
Do note that most virtualization software keep extensive logs, often times including names of ISO files mounted. Additionally, it can be hard to boot a VM from a USB key (for example, this is not possible by default in VirtualBox).

Using bootable flash drives seems like the only method that doesn't leave local traces, except perhaps in the BIOS/UEFI.
Thanks for your comment. I don't see how the difficulty of a problem alters the class of the algorithm that is applied towards finding a solution; the algorithms that we used here are mentioned in almost every classic textbook on AI (Russel, Norvig etc.). If you're alluding towards the difference b/w weak and strong AI, then that's another discussion (btw, I didn't down-vote your comment).