skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Holocaust denial is not 'an opinion': it is a blatant lie.
> There is no reason why spreading lies about historical
>facts should be less punishable then spreading lies about
>a companies' products.
Creationism is a lie, a flat earth is a lie, that the world was created in 7days by a guy with a white beard is a lie.
Fancy banning religions on face book?
Danes have consistently low (and indubitably realistic) expectations...

Life consistently sucks, but if you accept that, you can be pleasantly surprised.
Mendeley comes out of stealth with its "Last.fm for academic research"
The brain has an automation feature called "practice". It's easy to access: just repeat good forms until they become permanent. Once they have, your brain power is freed up to do other things. Jazz musicians use this a lot. There's nothing that would prevent one from applying it to IDE idiosyncracies.
I fear there is just no reasonable way you can protect such people from, eventually, being brainwashed or deluded by someone in some way (mostly it's religions that do it).

Im not saying that is an excuse not to ban the groups: but as a reason FOR banning the groups it is ignoring the elephant in the room :)
Not a HN textarea form input, you type that into a Common Lisp repl (interactive shell.) It should look like this:

CG-USER(1): (disassemble (lambda ()))
;; disassembly of #<Function (:ANONYMOUS-LAMBDA 130) @ #x20ec218a>
;; formals:

;; code start: #x20ec214c:
0: e3 03 jcxz	5
2: ff 57 8b call	*[edi-117] ; SYS::TRAP-WNAERR
5: 80 7f cb 00 cmpb	[edi-53],$0 ; SYS::C_INTERRUPT-PENDING
9: 74 03 jz	14
11: ff 57 87 call	*[edi-121] ; SYS::TRAP-SIGNAL-HIT
14: 8b c7 movl	eax,edi
16: f8 clc
17: 8b 75 fc movl	esi,[ebp-4]
20: c3 ret
21: 90 nop

Proof that it's not a javascript "web lisp" :-)
Ask HN: What's the best way to register a foreign domain name?
Specifically, I'd like to register a domain name ending in .er (Eritrea). Does anyone know of a reliable and reasonably priced registrar that can facilitate this?
NSString *UUID = [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier];

Will give you the current devices UUID. And, is it really important to know if the device is an iPod or an iPhone?

However, this won't stop people from screwing around with your app still. If people want to act silly and stupid, they will.
In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology in 2007, a group of scientists and FBI officials called for better oversight of so-called synthetic DNA...

Some biologists argue that anyone wishing to custom-make new organisms, even if it's just glow-in-the-dark bacteria (a popular trick among biohackers), should have to get a license first...

A senior official in the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate says the bureau is working with academia and industry to raise awareness about biosecurity...

George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, says anyone using synthetic DNA should have to have a license, including garage biologists...

In summary: Oooh Frankenstein - scary!

Frankenstein is THE allegory for the dangers of science and it's pretty old.

If you don't like what's going on with biohacking, put your money where you mouth is and give up everything science gave you since Mary Shelley died.
I kept skipping ahead to get to the marshmallows.
Apparently, that doesn't include the daydreaming one might be doing while teaching is going on though.
First, a really good site to find available domain names is http://domai.nr/

They link to a bunch of registrars, but I do have the same question, which of those registrars are a reputable.
I'm interested to hear the PR responses.

But as far as SEO goes - do you have a blog or any original content? That's a good place to start. Also, here's a great cheat sheet:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-shee...
This will probably make a lot of Norwegians happy. While the construction and public works in Norway are top-notch, they are not known for their speed of execution ;) hopefully this will let the eager geeks be a little more impatient.
It's defamation to call an Auschwitz survivor a liar. More general, it's defamatory to implicitly say that all those people that know the facts are liars.
When they first opened up the search page it was refreshingly naive about data security.

My numbers may have been skewed downwards because not all profiles were indexed. But I cross-referenced Uni + Year searches with full dumps from Uni tabs and it matched up pretty well (ie, UPenn has X class of 2009 students in real life, search turns up 0.53 X, UPenn dump turns up 0.58 X).

Then again, not all users may have institutional affiliations. But around the same time FB launched ad targeting (http://www.facebook.com/ads/create/) which tells you how many people they can reach. When set to no filtering it returned 19.2 Million.

edit (removed QED): I just double-checked that page today. They are claiming 62M in US, 18M in UK, 11M in Canada, 8M in France, 2M in India, 2M in Hong Kong, 2M in Germany, etc. It's possible those numbers add up to 200M, but it's not clear whether they have changed their definition of user for the purposes of this app.
You missed his point. He was saying that readers do NOT look forward to "big, beautiful, splashy advertising".
Well C is reasonably easy to decompile. If you simplified the syntax a bit, wrote a really simple decompiler with it, perhaps so simple it really only works on one binary, that binary being its own executable... it could work.
The only people that are better off for antitrust are the lawyers.

It is theoretically possible that breaking up big monopolies could improve consumer welfare if done right. Our legal system has proven itself incapable of the "done right" part for the past 100 years.
The best practice is to remote into your home computer.
Not to mention that SPJ's papers require extensive Haskell experience and familiarity with the combinator side of functional programming and not just lambda calculus. It took me weeks just to go through his Spineless Tagless G-Machine paper.

FWIW, I find Andrew Appel's papers slightly easier; Appel is an MLer, meaning he treats strict evaluation much more comprehensively, which appeals to this lisper. Plus Appel is a compiler hacker, not just a functional PL researcher.

[Edit: Ok I will admit, I am bitter and mad at the graph reductionists because I never fully grokked term-rewriting; that fucker is hard, even after months studying advanced abstract algebras and category theory. Now I'm off to go shopping with Barbie.]
Wokai.org: Growing Microfinance in China
Dear HN,

I know we're all trying to figure out how to take over the world with our apps and businesses, but I wanted to take a moment to tell you guys about Wokai (http://www.wokai.org), a startup nonprofit that aims to help change the lives of folks in rural China using some of the same technology/techniques we're intimately familiar with as part of the startup crowd.

We all know about Kiva and the great work they're doing, but, for many reasons, Kiva hasn't extended its reach to rural China. That's where Wokai, founded in 2007, is trying to step in and help. Wokai connects contributors from around the world with microentrepreneurs in rural China through on-the-ground microfinance organizations. Due to China's monetary policy, contributors don't actually make loans, but rather, provide a "recyclable donation" that is lent out, repaid, and lent out again. Check out the Google Tech Talk by Casey Wilson, Wokai's founder/CEO for more background - http://bit.ly/1bFPCQ

Wokai is up and running - so feel free to sign up and contribute, and if you're up for it you can sign up to help out as a rep with a local chapter (we've got a strong presence in the Bay Area, NYC and Seattle).

We're also looking for some kickass volunteers to help with frontend development (http://bit.ly/16DwnQ) and graphic/layout design (http://bit.ly/4y9iA), feel free to ping me for details.

I'd also appreciate any ideas on how to improve the site or get the word out - me AT euwyn.com

Thanks again, all.
Cars are unbelievably important unless you're either very wealthy or willing to accept squalid conditions. Is there an invention more egalitarian than the automobile?
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Usually, though not always, domain.tld or register.tld lead to a registration agency.
Out of curiosity, what city are you currently in?

I'm currently in NYC, although I used to live in Seattle carless as well. Honestly, one of the big reasons it's easier in NYC is due to social norms.

Seattle wasn't bad, but NYC is definitely a lot easier to live without a car. One of the main reasons: You're not expected to have a car.

In Seattle, people just assume you have a car and are surprised when you don't -- i.e. you have to explain why you can't just make it out to some random place to pick something up, etc.

In NYC no one expects you to have a car (at least not in Manhattan and most parts of BK, etc) -- so people don't make assumptions that you can get somewhere if it's not near public transit, or that you can haul something somewhere.

Obviously, there are other things that make NYC quite nice for carless life (delivery services, density, flat topography to name a few).
How David Beats Goliath
A great (but long) read for any start-up founder or those part of entrepreneurial organizations.
Inspirational video for entrepreneurs
Do Scientists Compete Unethically?
This is not a joke, it is kind of by design. Of course when you pursue "smaller, faster cheaper" you are going to sacrifice fault tolerance and certainty of design. The tax payers are still likely ahead launching 2x as many of these missions than half as many of the older technique. Now, the effect that failed missions have on the morale and career development of the next wave of PhD candidates and grad students is one that interests me greatly.
Not really, you're still using your computer for things that you shouldn't be using it for.
The obvious downside is that passionate customers are more likely to complain whenever they see shortcomings in the product.

That is not a downside. It's another upside.
I do not espouse parent's theory, but for the devoutly religious there could be no greater chasm to cross. However, interfaith marriages typically require one partner to submit to the other's creed.
Huh? Cars cost thousands of dollars and require upkeep, etc, etc. People use cars to flaunt their social status all the time. They're also an incredibly dehumanizing way to interact with people (see road rage, etc).

Cities which weren't built for the automobile are very different that those built in the last 50 years (sadly, in the US you can't really see this, but in much of Europe and Asia you can -- even South America has some pockets here and there).
Cool.

I wrote some pattern matching code myself for python a few months back just for fun. It was extremely unpythonic, but a fun exercise. For comparison, here's my code:

http://github.com/paulgb/python-pattern-matching/tree/master
I believe the "human-sized city" proposition is meant to remove the requirement for wealth or squalid conditions from a car-free lifestyle. Let's not forget that the car itself still requires more wealth than most people in the world have access to. My pick for egalitarian invention would lean more toward municipal public utility systems. If restricted to transportation-based inventions only, the bicycle.
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You can also install this greasemonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47550 which shows you linkable dead items.
That's "you're right." Engineers must have excellent writing and communication skills. You're fired.
If the site allows the user to chose their own security question, the user will find a way to render it useless. They will either input something far more trivial, or they will input something they then forget.

Personally, I don't think businesses should implement half-baked security features -- and password request forms are as half-baked as it gets.

The best solution would be for important sites (my bank, my stockbroker, ...) to make me come into their office with documentation if I forget my password.

The problem, unfortunately, gets more difficult for "unimportant" sites... frankly, short of relying on a centralized ID provider that can ensure identity in person, there isn't a good answer.
Those against such restrictions are naive in believing that the truth will triumph, simply because it is the truth. History and psychology both prove otherwise. The truth is often hard to accept or to understand.

For instance, we like to believe the general German populace in WO II was innocent, because they were powerless or in the dark. The fact is that they were taken in by Hitler and are guilty of that, but the painful truth of the way this happened is that it could happen to most of us. In 'most of us', I include myself: I can perfectly dream up scenario's in which I become Eichmann, despite what I am saying now. I'm no stranger to fear or prejudice and given a convincingly presented threat from the outside, who knows how you react to protected your loved ones?

Finally, their are two types of 'the right thing'. There is the morally right thing, based on principles and there is the morally right thing, based on the goal to be achieved. These often do not overlap, especially not when we have to acknowledge our oh-so-human shortcomings.
A car allows me to travel anywhere I please, not where the Transit Authority deems worthy. Cars are very cheap when you consider the tremendous benefits of such independent mobility.
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I'd be interested to know if mass press releases work at all. I wonder if anyone really reads them when they come from no-name startups.
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Incredible. From his appeal:

"one count of unauthorized access to a computer,
with a specification that the value of the property or services stolen was more than $500
and less than $5000, in violation of R.C. 2913.04(B), a fifth degree felony;"

I'm not sure how they calculate the 'value of property or services stolen'. One could buy a laptop for under $500 and surf the web, no?

The appeal also quotes the law he supposedly broke, R.C. §2913.04:

"No person shall knowingly use or operate the property of another without the consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent." and

"No person, in any manner and by any means (...) shall knowingly gain access to (...) any computer, computer system, computer network, (...) without the consent of, or beyond the scope of the express or
implied consent of, the owner of the computer, computer system, computer network (...)"

As briansmith points out, you could be a felon for twittering from a work computer based on this law plus the wacky damage assessment.

Of course, the reason this guy was nailed so hard is because he was using Adult Friend Finder. If he'd been on a cross stitching site or on ebay, he would not have been prosecuted this hard or convicted of hacking by a jury.
SEO via PR releases? That sounds like a terrible idea. Why don't you start a topical blog? Spend that money to hire a subject expert to write a few blog posts for you to get you started.

SEO is comprised of two things: original, relevant, fresh content and strategies to make that content visible. Your content is the most important thing -period-. The SEO "strategies" are tools to help Google understand your content. If your content isn't good, it doesn't even matter what else you do.
Although I agree with your viewpoint, I have an inexplicable feeling that your biases lie with the biohackers. To play devil's advocate: licensing makes sense for the type of dna recombination they do at, say, USAMRIID; and in an emerging field like this it's always hard to figure out where exactly to draw lines.
In one way, they are egalitarian, since their ownership is widespread. However, the cost of a car is a much larger proportion of the budget of those with lower incomes. Given a choice, many wouldn't own a car if there was some other, equally convenient way to get around. (My sister is one example. When I'm in Minneapolis, I'm another.)

Many city dwellers and those who live in regions with well developed rail and light-rail systems do not have to accept "squalid conditions." You're mistaking cultural expectations for economic realities.
Yes, you could go wherever you pleased in such a place, within the city. A car allows its operator to travel great distances cheaply and quickly, seeking only the road's permission.
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Unlikely. The person on the phone doesn't have the right to make judgments like that. Furthermore, if they were to allow it, that means that everyone who writes gibberish can have their account compromised by someone who guessed that it's gibberish.

Whenever i need to open an important account (say, with the power utility) I make up answers and record them on paper. Simple. Effective.
But that's the point: There cannot, logically, be a more efficient way to reach certain destinations than with a car. Because transit systems serve the needs of many, nodes must be set up for each destination, which is terribly limiting.

Within a city, of course transit is usually the best option. I'm not arguing against that. However, it's important that we not exclude cars from cities, because of their importance for the vast majority of the population.
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I originally added the terms ("For <$10K, plus revenue sharing," I think), but that made the title too long.
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I don't understand the connection you posit between wealth and not using automobiles. I would expect that there is if anything a positive correlation between wealth and automobile use (though perhaps not between wealth and driving).

At the very high end you may be right that helicopter, yacht and private jet transport could somewhat offset automobile use. But I would expect that that chauffeured cars still play a huge role in the transportation for the very wealthy. I wouldn't expect many of them to be using buses, trains and subways, for instance.
I think this is an Amwrican thing. I live in Copenhagen, and have never owned a car. Neither have many of my friends, and it isn't a problem. There are probably a few reasons for this

- Many European cities don't have the American version of suburbs that basically require you yo have a car. Homes and businesses are generallly more intertwined and have sprung up over the ages around a town center.

- Public transportation is a lot better. In the rush hour it's often quicker to use public transportation than a car. A bike is the fastest.

- It's socially accepted. As mentioned many people don't even have cars, and it's not because of a lack of money.
And here is Berkeley's response to the attack:

http://datatheft.berkeley.edu/
What I meant to say is that the goal of all protections granted by society (including the right to hold physical property) is based upon the assumption that the right/protection will help society in the present or the future.
I think the banks also know that accounts are such high-value targets that criminals have better ways to steal, anyway. Straight up identity fraud is way more of a problem than account hacking.
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I can't see how needing to hop on a bus, train, airplane, or rented car to leave one's city requires extreme wealth or constitutes squalid conditions. Anectdotally, I lived in Korea for a year without a car, and had no problem getting around, both within and between cities as large as Seoul or as small as Kanseung.
How is this better or worse than Protoshare?
I'm not sure. In this case the law itself is insane, so the remedy may have to be legislative rather than judicial.
I live in Chicago currently, which has a decent public transit system (although there's no shortage of complaints about it).

I'd be interested in your experience being carless in Seattle. I might move out there at some point and it would be nice if I could maintain a similar lifestyle there.
PRWeb is probably the best press release distributor, as far as PR for SEO goes. People do read them, they rank well, etc.

I agree with the others, with reservations: the thing to remember about SEO is that the results compound; if you bring in 20% more visitors with your off-site marketing, and you get 20% higher conversions with your on-site redesign, that's 44% more customers. If you're going to do a PR, make sure you have a blog for your new visitors to read, too.

(Incidentally, I work at a company that does SEO, including press releases. Email address is in the profile).
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So you'd allow conspiracy theorists, but outlaw Catholicism.
As you leave the city, transit options become increasingly sparse. The US lower-middle class cannot afford to live in the close suburbs, or even in the suburbs. I see it where I live: People commuting from Luray or Richmond to DC (about 2.5hr each way), or even farther, because their hometowns have no jobs. Without cars, this would not be possible, unless they were to uproot their families and move into a very poor part of the city, hence my reference to "squalid conditions."
Everything is information. Holocaust denial is only extremely weak information about the Holocaust, but it's much better information about the speaker. :)
> There cannot, logically, be a more efficient
> way to reach certain destinations than with a car.

Efficient in what way? Least energy use per person? Surely not. Least time to destination per person perhaps? If you define it as "Persons per hour that one meter-width-equivalent right-of-way can carry"[1], you discover that rail is among the best with 4000 persons/hr/m. Cars are not even in the same ballpark at 170 persons/hr/m. Even bikes do better than cars at 1500 persons/hr/m.

1. http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4057
When you think about it in isolation, our culture of commuting seems crazy. Imagine designing a system in which people live far from their workplaces, wake up every morning and drive en masse to their destinations, and then do the reverse in the evening, devouring huge amounts of natural resources in the form of energy and time in the process. You'd be laughed out of the room. And yet, here we are...

Austin is currently developing a number of mixed use communities roughly of the New Urbanist school, usually a mix of 3-4 story condos/apartments and restaurants/shops. I'm hoping the trend continues.

Here's more info on New Urbanism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism
It's defamation if it's known to be false and spoken maliciously. Moreover, to be actionable, defamation has to actually cause damage. You're making assumptions here that won't survive your argument.
+1 for not suffering my whining when it implodes.

I started blocking ads when certain sites would bog down my browser with flash (namely, Entrepreneur.com). That's when I discovered ABP. It's just a nicer surfing experience for me without them. But then again, I'm the kind of person that thinks Nike is crazy if they expect me to pay for a t-shirt that simply says "Nike" on it (or carries their swoosh).

Just between you and me (I doubt anybody else is reading any more) I get annoyed at movie previews for the same reason...:) I think I'm the only one on the planet with that particular defective gene.
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This has changed a great deal recently with low budget airlines. It's been consistently cheaper for me to fly from SFO to LAX or SEA than it would be to drive. Even Boston to NYC it's often cheaper to fly.