skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The only way I can see this working with a non-naive person is if its accurately measurable, and if you don't achieve the 100k, you don't pay the 40k. THEN, I can see it working. If that isn't how it works, then I can't understand how you think you are righteous in selling these services at a much higher place - put your money where your mouth is.
Sure, Racket has differences from CL, but I don't see how havi any of the things you mention make it "not a Lisp" . Clearly, it's not CL, but you don't seem to be making the "CL is the only Lisp" argument.
From what I know about i2p - there is no gateways to "outside" internet. As a result, this will work only with other i2p bitcoin clients, correct?
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The web page is confusing. What looks exactly like search field, is in fact an e-mail address field. And when you enter something that can't be an email, no error is shown.
Won't help. I wrote a bot to understand NLP and tought him texts from Shakespeare and a lot other stuff in the free domain. He could tell he was given a sentence by Shakespeare just by the structure of the sentence. I used a package called Moby. It must be much easier if you pick a whole book.
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> "An appealing-enough decentralized alternative will eventually present itself"

No. The network effect makes this pretty much impossible.

Unless facebook does something truly egregious, above what it already does with privacy settings every few months, a critical mass will never be somewhere else long enough for all and sundry to move on.

I reckon one way that this might realistically happen is if there's a product which replaces facebook by doing something genuinely different, while fulfilling the same functions. I don't know what "genuinely different" might mean in this context though (if I did, I'd be writing it!).
I am always wary of collateral damage arguments, but in a greater-good sense, I almost hope Yahoo do go ahead with this. It's such an obviously bad idea, and enough people probably would suffer significantly as a result, that it might just raise public awareness of why things like good security practices and privacy and data protection matter, and that it can "happen to them", even many years in the future, if they don't take care of how they behave and who they trust today.

Hopefully, Yahoo would also find themselves vulnerable to at least one of the obvious legal attack vectors and wind up paying out a small fortune in compensation to make good on losses due to identity theft and/or frauds committed using false identities they supported. This could be an educational lesson for a lot of businesses that don't take privacy and data protection seriously today because collecting everything you possibly can about everyone is seen almost pure upside with little real cost or risk.
> all new tabs to be opened in current tab

I think you're confusing links and tabs. I think you're trying to throw a lot of extra logic into the browser that doesn't belong there.
The real thanks goes to the oncologists. I'm pretty sure they would have shrugged off the monetary losses to save a life.
But does have an extension available.
The title is a perfectly accurate representation of the government's argument, which is that the Court's authority on this matter is limited to recognizing that the substantive questions raised are not ones subject to adjudication and dismissing the entire matter on that baisis without reaching the substance of the claims.

The fact that such arguments are within he range of common legal arguments does not make a title accurately reflecting them "awful".
Msft had a PE of 58 when he took over. S&P had a PE of 29. Msft was vastly overvalued, there was nothing he could have done that would have made msft go up in normal conditions.
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Nothing, I believe, better illustrates the human potential than the space race that culminated with the Apollo lunar landings. We should be doing more of that.
iPhone keyboard is my bet. Two taps of the space bar (easy enough to do accidentally) gets you " ." and capitalizes the next letter.
Well, even he probably has only an imprecise idea how many hundreds of hours he spent on it, but I'll speculate it's comparable to how many hours he'd spend getting a master's degree in CS (at night, while working full time during the day). I don't know how the job market works in his specialty in his country, but in some job markets in the US, I estimate that being able to list that game and its sales performance on a resume is worth rather more than a master's degree. So from that side effect alone, this sounds at least as good as him taking a generous fellowship to get an exceedingly good master's degree. It's not vast wealth in one fell swoop, but it doesn't seem like a failure. And if he wants never to send out another resume in his life, instead writing and selling his own software, it's harder to quantify the benefits of business and tech experience on a first app, but ramen profitability on one's first less-than-a-year-in-development app sounds OK to me. The title oversells the achievement (top 25 ... in some smaller countries) but your term "failure" undersells it even more.
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I've read this exact same thing over and over and over again, which leads me to believe that it's not true. The genuinely different bit for me, by the way, probably won't be its decentralized nature that makes it appealing. It will be appealing, and someone who cares enough will make it decentralized.
"just as the book was headed for the clearance bin"

Really? A hardcover that's been out less than 3 months and that got favorable critical attention (and a lot of favorable Amazon reviews before the leak)?

I've heard it had sales of less than 2,000, which last time I checked (a long while ago, I admit) was considered to be OK for the first printing of a hardback and could result in a paperback run.

I welcome someone who knows the current market's number thresholds, not to mention this market segment, which I don't know, to weight in.
Not sure what you mean by "much" faster. Most of the benchmarks have fractional differences. I think comparing an Apple only, commercial program, to a free and open source multi-platform program, VirtualBox would "win" for a lot of people, because it's not just about benchmarks.
Totally true! I liked what you said there. This view is not cynicism (as some might say), but this is realism :)

Good one!
There are fewer gateways than Tor, but it will connect to the internet and function normally.
Web UI is well-specified. Click is follow hyperlink. Right click is browser context menu. Middle click is open in new tab, also available from the context menu.

Whether a link opens in a new tab without user intervention is up to the link, and is way overused IMO.
Ask HN: good idea to create api for detecting porn?
Hi,

I am wondering what do you think of idea of creating service which would detect porn for web 2.0 services using humans brains (they would be employees of this service). You would point to image url using API and service after some time (let say 5 minutes) would answer requesting (GET/POST) website url given by you with answer (YES/NO). Service would charge 1 cent by one image uploaded.

What do you think of this idea?

Regards,
Wiktor
I'm not saying he is a great CEO. I'm saying he was put in an impossible situation and he's done fine. Msft had a PE of 58 when he started. And he gets to follow bill gates. Just like Tim cook. It doesn't matter how well he does, people are calling for his head because he isn't Steve jobs. It's tough to follow a legend. (I also think Tim cook is doing just fine)
Website copy (the text) needs a bit of polish. I clicked around a bit to find out a bit more about you, and went "eek".

Otherwise, I really like the layout of the site. It's simple and easy.
I think the trend is due to the types of devices we are switching from (laptops) and switching to (smart phones). It combines cost, performance, and responsiveness.

I designed and built an app in 2009 for detecting speed traps and I was all about skeuomorph. While the mobile app looks really good[1], The website was a nightmare to design[2]. A lot of design time went into carbon fiber backgrounds, gradient buttons and logos, glowing effects on images, and drop shadows. It had lots of images and extra <div> tags to simulate the look of the mobile app which ended up costing me in web performance speed and a non-existent mobile-web version.

The new mobile app I'm working on is minimal and a lot easier to convert into a web page[3]. I found a dark parallax Bootstrap theme I can modify and convert to mirror the mobile app. As people are mentioning, front end frameworks are making it a lot easier to create cheap, fast, responsive minimal site which work well on all platforms.

[1] - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/996835/hn/vt01.png

[2] - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/996835/hn/vt02.png

[3] - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/996835/hn/m01.png
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Dividends are taxed at the same rate as capital gains, so it should make little difference to a shareholder if a company paid him 1000 dollars or raised the resale value of his stock by 1000 dollars.
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The very first sentence gets us started on the wrong foot: focusing on OSS for its "free as in beer" promise. No. It's all about freedom. Something Gartner isn't concerned with-it's simply not one of their metrics. Gartner analysts are also influenced by vendors. The marketing folks send their material to Gartner. They can have in-depth discussions of product roadmaps and so forth. This all influences who makes it into Gartner's "magic quadrant" and it's typically not flattering to OSS projects.

On a related note, many organizations won't use tools and technologies not endorsed by Gartner. This is why OSS offerings have a difficult time getting traction in the enterprise.
Microsoft had net income of $5 billion last quarter. $100 million isn't "getting rich," but it is 2% of net income.

Granted, it's a smaller percentage of net revenues than of net income. But patent licenses are essentially pure profit, right? You're not doing the R&D for the purpose of getting patent licensing revenue.
Finding something as stable or dependable as gmail isn't the problem (try live.com), but some of it's features is a different story (although not an email feature, live.com's calendar doesn't even have a search feature as far as I know).
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If you move messages to [Gmail]/Spam, it should report them as spam. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/77657?hl=en
I don't see anything wrong with using Bootstrap for projects like this. Bootstrap's LESS can be customized to further change the appearance. To me, Bootstrap sites stick out with their navbars and buttons. Change the main identifying features of bootstrap, and you get the best of both worlds...
I started to work at AdRoll a few months ago and it got me to think of different ways to use retargeting, while remembering about this story.

For example, if you're looking for a job as a designer or an engineer (or whatever else), you're likely to have a site to show some of your projects. Potential recruiters that end up visiting your site can then be advertised to specifically.

I was also thinking of blogs: you can probably recapture an audience when you write a new post. I.e. one of your posts gets popular on Hacker News, but people won't necessarily start following you or subscribing, but you could advertise for your new posts later.

I'm surprised not to have heard of another story similar to that Google one since then, but there is potential if you think about it.

edit: actually, I remember reading about a guy who had targeted his significant other using a Facebook ad for some purpose (maybe a proposal?).
Whenever I see a page selling anything and it won't tell me the price and I can't find it in a click, I move on. My time is valuable, and someone who plays games to waste it is not someone from whom I want to buy anything.
You should probably turn off debug mode, or whatever is causing me to see stack traces instead of a 404 page.

http://www.sideprojectors.com/404me
By the way, "outproxy" is the word for them. (In case others don't know)
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~sa499/papers/adversarial_stylometr... "Adversarial Stylometry: Circumventing Authorship Recognition to Preserve Privacy and Anonymity" Brennan et al 2013

Machine translation doesn't work at all. Imitation or deliberate changes to style does - but if Rowling were to do that, she would probably sacrifice a lot of quality or effort and it would defeat the apparent point of the experiment (to demonstrate that she wrote good books, as assessed by 'blinded' reviewers).
> And what's the point of comparing the performance of an Apple only, commercial program, to a free and open source multi-platform program.

If I have a Mac and need to virtualize things, 'free and open source' doesn't really matter.
Yea my lawyer would be the last person I would expect to leak my secrets.
I just changed my Yahoo password without any issue. It was incredibly straight forward for me.
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I agree that this is a terrible move, in theory. But in actual practice, I'm not convinced it will be so bad.

Because if you're not using that Yahoo account for e-mail anymore, then you're probably not using it as a sign-in or password recovery e-mail for your banking, Facebook, or anything else important -- because the whole point is, everything that's actually important to you, you're using your current e-mail address. After all, that's where important account notifications go, credit card receipts, bank statements, password resets, etc. -- things which are necessary for you to see.

Of course you'll likely have a bunch of accounts you forgot even existed on random sites you signed up for in the past, with your old Yahoo e-mail address. Most of them will be harmless -- who cares if someone gets access to some random sports forum you once posted on.

The biggest risk I can see is that 1) the new owner chooses to be malicious, 2) successfully locates a site that sends out password-recovery emails with the original passwords in plaintext, which the specific user has an account on, 3) knows the original user's current valid address, 4) tries the old password on the user's new address they use with banking/etc., and it works. But the risk of this would appear to be so small, that it's just lumped in with all the other kinds of "identity theft" weaknesses that already exist (guessing security questions, etc.).

(And then, there's scamming on whatever social networks or forums the old e-mail address had an account on. Although it seems like Facebook etc. is protecting against that? And it's not like spoofing e-mails/accounts is anything new.)

As long as Yahoo is giving significant heavy warning to the e-mail accounts themselves, and months' worth of time -- well if you never check your free e-mail account, it's not unreasonable to expect that it might be deactivated someday. Annoying, but not unreasonable. And if you use the same password for your Facebook, banking, etc. as you did for other random sites you signed up for years ago, then that's a security risk regardless of what Yahoo does.
I keep wishing that I could remotely control any of my devices from any other.
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That is true. But why would her lawyer be willing to risk his reputation to help Rowling to make more money? Just trying to solve this puzzle.
Thanks for the non-blogspam version of the link. It's really a great video with no need for editorializing.
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There was a time where lots of websites were built with flash, most of them looked different and some were really creative.
Nobody thought about responsive at that times.

I don't miss these websites at all.

I think building a website targeting desktop and mobile devices is a limiting factor in terms of creativity.
That's only according to their analytics - not a real situation. It means that the users of Wappalyzer currently visit mostly those websites, nothing else.
Gohan is "rice" in Japanese. Can't remember what Goku is, but might just be a wordplay on the original Chinese "Sun Wukong" character in the very famous tale that inspired Toryiama.
This isn't the first time they've taken this type of action with email account names.

I had an @att.net email address from when I had U-Verse that was essentially Yahoo mail with an ATT address. I thankfully didn't do anything on that account, but I kept it since it was the same user name I have registered on most major webmail services.

I got an email about a year ago that those addresses would be merging with Yahoo, and that my address would now be @yahoo.com. Fine with me, I thought, perfect if I ever wanted to try out Yahoo mail for a spell.

A few months later a get an email about my password being changed. Not good. From there I had about a 15 minute back and forth with someone else trying to get their information(alternate email address, password, security questions, phone number for 2-factor) on the account to lock me out. I prevailed, and in double checking how that person could have gotten access, found something disturbing. This was not my email account. It was mostly dormant, but there were legitimate emails from years ago sent by another person who shares my name.

I contacted Yahoo through their form about such matters, but they never answered. So now I've held on to the address, which I value for preserving my internet identity, but someone else is out of luck in trying to access an account they used sparingly years ago.

This is obviously much worse, as it's intentionally going to result in these types of account ownership issues, but it certainly seems reflective of Yahoo's attitude towards the importance of holding an email address.
I'm still waiting for a real porn filter for my tumblr. These changes screw authors over without letting me actually have the browsing experience I want.

I follow a bunch of blogs which, very occasionally, post something NSFW, which they tag #NSFW. I want to see most of their posts, but filter out those tagged ones from my dashboard, whether I view it from my PC or phone. (in a web browser, it's possible to do this with an unofficial extension, which tumblr breaks every couple of weeks and then has to be patched. on your phone, you're stuck seeing the porn on the subway, with people looking over your shoulder.)

this is simple; a text field of blocked tags for each user, and then filter the input to their dashboard table (or whatever). There is no way to do this at present. (I've just checked my settings page, and still not there.)

(this doesn't just work for porn; it also lets people filter out stuff on a topic that they aren't interested in, but see the other stuff from those users. Twitter also lacks this feature, although many twitter clients do implement a "tag mute" setting.)
It probably can, but the BitTorrent Sync use case is likely trying to cover a lot more. For example, making it easy to sync across internet, across NATs, across operating systems. Yes, with some thought, all that is possible with SSH and rsync as well but it's a PITA to maintain and not very mom-friendly. BitTorrent Sync would allow me to sync computers across the world and also share folders with family members.
I thought that the NSA was grabbing all data going through the cables at large ISPs so that they don't need to send requests at individual companies? For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Legitimate question: how can you have accounts on autopay attached to an e-mail address you haven't checked in 2 years?

You have literally not looked at any of the receipts in 2 years? If you've cancelled any of the credit cards, you had no idea that there was an autopay problem? The merchants had no way of contacting you, because you never checked that email?

That doesn't make any sense to me. Or was it just forwarding the emails to the account you do use, or whatnot? In which case, I assume that Yahoo would be sending emails warning of the upcoming account closure, which you could receive and act on?
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> Almost always you'll want to redirect a bare domain like iskettlemanstillopen.com to www.iskettlemanstillopen.com. Registrars like Namecheap and DNSimple call this a URL Redirect. In Namecheap you would set up a URL Redirect like this:

Coincidentally yesterday I snapped and decided that no longer was I happy using a URL forwarding service that requires configuration or running a web server that redirects old domains, so I built http://cnamer.com/.

subdomain.source.com. CNAME google.com.cnamer.com.

That will redirect source.com to google.com.

cnamer.samryan.co.uk. CNAME minotar.net-opts-query.true-querystring.avatar-querystring.citricsquid.cnamer.com.

That redirects http://cnamer.samryan.co.uk to minotar.net/avatar/citricsquid

The code powering it sucks at the moment and I intend on adding the ability to use TXT records to set the redirect but it /works/ for now.
I second this. My friend kept suggesting I switch from Greg to ack. I searched for it and found ag and fell in love with it's speed. That same friend has now switched too.
Very well put, and strikes a chord with me personally. Bootstrap and the like are popular for good reason - quick and easy to implement, a decent baseline of "looks good enough", etc. But of course, even with customization, sites built on popular frameworks do have a certain same-ness that cannot be avoided.

It's appropriate here to point out my own creation, edit room (http://www.edit-room.com) - its a different kind of web design tool - no frameworks, no boilerplate, just your creativity and your content, in a flexible and responsive canvas that's true to the web. Part of my philosophy for building this app is that handcrafted design is a good thing - you can't always rely on frameworks to do all the design thinking for you - and there is still a place for creativity in web design.
Is it just me or is that an awesomely designed blog page. I'm a fairly decent programmer, but when I see a beautiful page like that I give up all pretenses that I'll ever be more than a barely adequate designer.
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You don't believe in the network effect because too many people have heard of it? that's not how science works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

(if you're talking about something else, phew, could you clarify which bit?)
People who don't use twitter find the "twitter/twit" thing irresistible, it seems.
People are really good at apologizing for the atrocities of the previous generation. This is a pretty empty gesture, and doesn't forgive the UK for driving to suicide a man who saved thousands of British lives.
I remember when this story was first posted. It's not often in life that someone gets a happy ending. It's a moment we can all revel in.
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