skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about the other responses to the OP. Lately, if Google is mentioned on HN in a story, you are pretty much guaranteed that several of the off-topic responses will be either something about PRISM, Reader, or moving to DDG/FastMail, even if the story, for example, isn't even about PRISM or politics. Reader Derangement Syndrome is another, with people seriously proposing in some comments that Gmail is a shutdown risk given Reader.

G+ is Google's centralized system for single-sign-on and account profiles. It used to be confusingly distributed over multiple services, now it is unified. Oh, and it has a news feed associated on it at plus.google.com that you can totally ignore if you want.

Some of the reactions to this are way over the top. I guess I'm burning karma points by posting this, but it is an annoying trend.
I used to review apps on the play store before it switched over to google+, and a number of the comment systems on websites I go to use it now so I don't comment on them anymore.
You're correct. There are 30 UCLA matches. I'll update the graphs accordingly.

Edit: done!
Having a substance in your blood doesn't imply that your body is benefiting from it, or even using it.
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+1 to this.

Ate toasted grubs as part of an outdoor survival class once, nobody would think that those were alive. There were also some battered and fried mealworms but I don't recall having any of those.
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You understand we've done a lot since 2007, right?

EDIT: specifically, "survival rate" is just "how many people lived for 5 years after diagnosis". Thus, you detect a lot of slow growing prostate cancer and your survival rates go up, even though nothing has been done to reduce the incidence of cancer, or stop any more people from dying of cancer.

When you look at US cancer mortality rates they look pretty good, until you restrict the numbers to the under-65s, when suddenly the numbers look pretty average. This might be because poor americans don't get access to treatment until they're 65 and qualify for some aid.
The fact you have to have your screen on and unlocked is intentional and by design, otherwise there is plenty of potential attacks where NFC is used to exploit phones whilst it's in your pocket.
Hey, I'm a recruiter, not an HR drone.

How many blog writing drones do you know?
Peer pressure works. I had some chili dried grasshoppers in Mexico. My sister forced me to eat them. They weren't that great, but weren't bad, either. Sort of like eating sunflower seeds. I'll admit I don't know how one would psych themselves up to eat a plate of grubs on their own. Maybe drop some hallucinogens first?
Don't you know that on Hacker News the answer to every social problem is either make everyone code up a massively-successful website or become an engineer in the bay area?
A bit late to the party here, but if you want to help non-technical people manage their personal SEO, Brand Yourself [1] is a pretty cool startup that helps with this.

[1] http://brandyourself.com/
Yeah, it would be nice to have some hard data. My (probably quite random) data points are mostly from being involved in recruitment over the last ten years.

I also didn't know anyone who was as much into programming when I was a kid. Now that everyone are online it is so much easier for people into particular things to find each other. It's not all bad, perhaps. :)
Your response definitely isn't very coherent. If that is my fault, I apologize.

As an almost-academic who did his undergrad in the mid 90s, I'm not too afraid of getting out of research, though it's a nice place to be since we have so much freedom. It helps to be in a less theoretical field.

The reality of academia, especially in computer science, is that the system encourages a lot of bad behavior like crap publications. It is the job of the scientist to work around this bad behavior and still try to do good...tough yes, but necessary. If you can't juggle this, then failing out is more honorable than degenerating to fit the system, which would be a quite pointless existence.
Very proud to hear this. Now the world can hear good news about Nigeria beyond internet scams
As my wife pointed out to me, reading this over my shoulder, it was always used in the context of her refusing to eat something she didn't like, as in "In some parts of the world they eat bugs!"

That said, in San Francisco the grasshopper tacos were banned [1] even though people did like them and people back in Oxaca apparently suffer no ill effects from eating them.

So given that good marketing (grasshopper tacos) can overcome western sensitivities, it offers the possibility that farming bugs for human consumption can in fact be a worthwhile endeavor.

[1] http://boingboing.net/2011/06/09/grasshopper-tacos-ba.html
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If you're going to offer a service like this, you want a few tiers of verification. You should have a lightning fast level 1 service that returns an automatic response. Perhaps level 2 would be a more computationally expensive automatic response. Level 3 might be human analysis, but the image would be just one of several shown on a screen at once. Level 4 would actually get a human's full attention for a few seconds. And Level 5 would be to handle strange cases, do CP reports and handle disputes.
> Google used to have a separate profile system just like profiles.yahoo.com, and like Yahoo, having lots of disparate services with weak unification was a problem.

No, it wasn't. It was very simple. You want an account for youtube, sign up on youtube, you want an account for something else - sign up there. You want your accounts to be the same login across all the services? Use the same login across all the services.

It wasn't confusing, it wasn't complex, it didn't present any problems to anyone of even moderate intelligence.

> Is it really beyond the pale for a service to prompt you to enter some optional information about yourself?

It's not really optional when they start tying everything together. I don't want my real name tied to any of my online activities - but if my google accounts were stuck together through google+ it would be, because I use my real name on my phone.

It's possible to lie of course, and tell a different lie with a different email address for every time you want to limit the degree to which different portions of your data contaminate other things. But it's a pain in the arse and only realistically possible because they're not enforcing their single sign on policy that strongly yet.

They're made it far more complicated to keep your privacy than it was before.
systemd: the biggest myths
One interesting way to differentiate would be to allow drop downs for different regex engines. So one for perl, one for python, etc.
I'd like to not use udev. I have a custom Linux that runs both on standardized(internally defined) servers and also virtualized(known hardware) servers. As such, I'm well under 900ms boot times that systemd mentions by using SysV init. But the systemd project does not accept patches (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MinimalBuilds/) to disable what is considered a core component.
Yes, you don't know. This isn't a matter of opinion or guessing; its a matter of established fact, with lots of written and photographic documentation. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan supposedly said: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." You add nothing to a rational discussion with nasty slander.
Thanks. I'll spare you from the obligatory rant on how obvious most of these patents are.
Definitely the best regex test (and/or learn) website I have visited so far, period.
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heh, everybody seems to be getting into this now.

i built mine a few weeks ago. when i find time i'm going to build a chrome extension to be able to toggle routing via the vpn or not.

i also think i want to add 3g failover support.
I think "they" is preferred over "it", and not rude at all.
He could reply to them, or be silent. I don't know why it's so deranged to "take your toys and go home" aka stop using a service (even loudly), if you find that a change has been made that is a dealbreaker for you.

The defense that you can only half-participate in g+ is not much of a defense because 1) people may not want to support changes of that sort with their patronage lest it continue as a trend, and/or 2) the thing being objected to was a forced escalation of participation - why would a user assume this would be the last and that half-participation in g+ will remain an option?
Yes, but people mistake a threshold response for a dose-dependent response.

Maybe certain vitamins (and pseudo-vitamins like vitamin D3) have a threshold response, that is, you only need a certain amount of it in your body for it to function properly, and adding any more will not make you any healthier (overdosing on vitamins can be fatal, so you can't just up the dosage).
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Okay, but that has nothing to do with Yesod vs. Snap, really. You don't have to use Persistent in Yesod--it's just as easy to use HDBC if you want to.
I can't disable the journal, for example. If I run something more full-featured, I'll still be streaming things through the journal.

It's not at all like the kernel does it. With Linux, there are multiple competing implementations of most features, pushed by people with competing interests. There is a lot more room for debate and experimentation.
Would it help if they were prepared in such a way as to make them unrecognisable? I know plenty of people who will happily eat mince, chops, etc., but who find it offputting if there are signs of where the meat came from, (e.g. a hog roast, fish/poultry with the heads still on).
Frankly, I don't understand what's so complicated about
HOST TTL [CLASS] TYPE RDATA

Even the SOA record's RDATA is pretty simple:
AUTHORITATIVE_NAMESERVER ADMIN_EMAIL_ADDR (SERIAL_NUMBER REFRESH_INTERVAL UPDATE_RETRY_INTERVAL EXPIRE_INTERVAL NXDOMAIN_CACHE_INTERVAL)
Sounds like Sutherland's Wheel of Reincarnation in action. All you have to do to predict the next generation of a technology is run further along the wheel.
I will do something along those lines in the future, as I have written in my main comment in this thread :)
It's not really an ethical problem, just an estimation. If SML was the only similar language, surely a lot more people would be using it.
I have written about this in the about & credits pagr. I have also spoken to the author of rubular.
I'm pretty happy with `find|xargs grep` myself. Of course, I have an alias that hides the arcane incantation away under a single `frep`, but underneath it uses those tried and tested unix tools. An alias is usually simpler to carry with me to new systems as well.
I use the turnkey linux appliance and it has SSL enabled out of the box.

link:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/owncloud
Except that presentation is important. An ad that looks like an email is, in a sense, deceptive, masquerading as something you've valued enough to put in your inbox (well, at least enough not to bother opting out from...).
Google had been around for over 10 years when it started doing bad things with its services too.
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Out of the box, no. There are plugins, but they encrypt on the server side.
Interesting idea. I might well be up for both buying and selling - I'll sign up on Monday.
After hearing both sides of the argument over and over again (for systemd and against systemd), my only regret is that Ubuntu is not replacing upstart with systemd, so that Loonix will have a uniform boot system.

To all the systemd naysayers, please read the docs before commenting, 90% of the comments against systemd look like they've been written by someone who:

a) hasn't used systemd

b) hasn't read anything relevant about systemd

Basically most comments come straight out of the blog post about systemd myths. That's really, really sad.
This is an excellent response!

I'll just add an anecdote - in the past I've bought a friend's unsuccessful business and promptly made a decent profit from it. Sometimes a different skillset is just what a project needs.
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We don't ban them when they are likely, we ban them when we catch them doing it. Psychological tests complimenting the practical driving test would also be a good idea.
I will also note that I'm not a 'webdev', but I am a destkop and server-side software developer. I came to OS X by way of IRIX/Solaris Desktops -> Linux/FreeBSD Desktops -> Mac OS X 10.0.

My preference isn't borne of ignorance, although I think Linux's failings have a lot to do with ignorance from Linux/GNU developers about how the professional development world produces a coherent platform.
I usually enjoy math problems that are motivated by some interesting real scenario like a man evading a lion, but in this case I don't think it works very well. You end up concluding that the man can evade the lion, but the solution only works if the man and the lion have zero volume and you don't mind getting arbitrarily close to the lion. So the math ends up being very much at odds with the physical scenario that's ostensibly motivating it. And this solution doesn't say anything about the possible existence of a solution that maintains a finite distance between the man and the lion, so you're left wondering whether or not a real solution might still exist. Still a neat technique, but the motivating scenario doesn't work for me.
Me too! I'll soon be buying a small home server and I am still wondering how to begin building my setup, since I've never used anything else than FTP hosting.
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Our country was literally sparked by partisan journalist from Thomas Paine to Ben Franklin. In light of Greenwald and other like cases, is it time to return to our roots?
I don't know if you tried it but when I offered pricing on the basis of perfectly measurable metrics everyone rejected. They all said they can't budget for possibly outstanding results. Based on this interlude I got the impression that there is a certain amount they _want_ to pay, and they are looking for an offer similar to their idea of a budget.
Yes it doesn't explain it away, there are other problems too that aren't related to health care: More teenage pregnancies (higher likely hood of low birth weight), more single mother pregnancies, more obese pregnancies). These are underlying cultural issues that while related to healthcare are different.

In no way am I trying to blame the victim or excuse a bad system. I'm only pointing out that these comparisons are very hard to do correctly and can be misleading. We have an urge to compare so that we can make better decisions, but it can be tough to do this. From the stats originally posted it could be argued that we need to spend more money on the healthcare system, when in reality we just need to educate people to wait to have kids.

Researchers from the NCHS found that low birthweight
and short gestational age births—a leading cause of
infant death internationally were more common in the
United States than in Europe. Although outcomes for
these births were similar, they found that the U.S.
rate of low birthweight and short gestational age births
was double that of Finland and Sweden.29 After adjusting
for potential recording differences by excluding very
short gestational age births, they found that the U.S.
IMR would be 3.9 if the United States had the same rate
of low birthweight and short gestational age births as
Sweden.

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41378.pdf
Great comment, simoncion.

Let's define a simple empirical test to compare "X" to "Y" in terms of complexity:

How long would it take for a person to write code that reads and writes code in format "X"?

How long would it take for a person to write code that reads and writes code in format "Y"?

Let's call the current status quo of Bind/Zone "X".

My prediction, is there exists a Space based DSL that is functionally equivalent to X, let's call it "Y", that measures an order of magnitude better than X in terms of the complexity measure I defined above.

And why is this important? If it were a lot easier to write code that reads and writes code that operates at one of the lowest levels of the Internet, it would unleash a wave of innovation that is hard to predict the magnitude of.
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Nigeria could probably use more Engineers and less MBA's. I just hope it doesn't twists the local populations mind into thinking that MBA degrees are useful.
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According to 'man journald.conf', you can set "Storage=none".

If by "monolithic" you mean the lack of multiple competing implementations, then lots and lots of things are monolithic. Apache and Nginx would be monolithic by your definition.
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I agre with your final paragraph and I rather like the consolidation that systemd offers. I'm certainly not going to miss fiddling with consolekit and I'm looking forwards to managing my user session via systemd. It reduces the number of things I need to learn to have a decent level of control over my system.
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Yes, such process could be perhaps most optimized, but the most problematic step is step 1.
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In this article I do not see company which offer such API
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Note that it's assumed the man and the lion are points with no width. The lion doesn't have to get close to win, it has to be in the exact same position. This is mentioned near the end of the post (should be at the start).

If the lion only had to get close, it would clearly win by just continuously running directly towards the target. The curve it traced would cover less distance whenever the target was forced to turn, and so the lion can get arbitrarily close (assuming things like an instantaneous reaction time).

The important detail, that allows the man to escape when the positions must match exactly, is that the lion's tracing-smaller-curve advantage goes down as it gets closer. It has to match the turns being made by the man more and more exactly in order to not lose ground. Work out the result, and the corresponding infinite sequence fails to converge.
You cannot compare the failure of Windows Mobile to IE6.
The situation created by IE6 popularity was in all likelyhood a fluke, I am not sure Microsoft had a grand nefarious plan that they successfully executed at all.
Besides without IE6 we would have most likely had to wait longer for Firefox and Chrome.
And while you're at it, also watch the Star Wars prequel reviews. They beat the movies with regards to entertainment value by about three orders of magnitude.

I wonder what would have happened, had the 4bn Star Wars deal been made a few years earlier. Maybe instead of JJ Abrams they would have gotten somebody who actually cared for the new Star Trek movies.
Makes me feel bad, my SO has a communications degree, although jobs would be easy to acquire in Singapore, but we're planning to move live together in Europe..
For how many images they have processed
I would encourage anybody interested to try out the site's quiz. It starts out easily enough but eventually becomes extremely challenging.

I also really like the community submitted regexes. But, on that note, what's to prevent someone from submitting all of the quiz solutions to the 'community'? Are the submissions occasionally moderated?

I have appreciated this website for a while now. For those who don't know, Lindrian is also often active on #regex on freenode IRC, which is a great place to get feedback on regexes. (Or to just be told many times not to use regexes to parse HTML.)
Dan I am not challenging your statement I am just curious if you have seen any figures about the new outcomes. I did a quick look at the UK Cancer research page and it does not look like many of the statistics have been updated recently.

That being said it would be nice if the disparity in survival percentages on this side of the pond looked more like the stats from your side:

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/surv...
It’s worth noting that Tel Aviv University, an Israeli university,
ties Duke University at 21 and unfortunately just missed making the chart.

Why not leave Duke out or put TAU in? It did not 'unfortunately miss making the chart', you decided to leave it out of the chart.

And today I learned that Stanford ant MIT were not part of the Ivy League ;)

edit: typo
Yes I think this problem needs solving because I do not see any good reliable API service like this on the web right now.
> On top of that it's not ethical to eat animals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipse_dixit
I'm not a huge Gladwell fan, but it is always a pleasure to read a considered and respectful reply that shows a depth of research, no matter who the reply is coming from or going to. I only wish I was an expert at everything so I could actually judge whether Gladwell is right or wrong.
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I do not say that you have to wait for an image to be validated. Image could be validated after you have uploaded it and for example someone has flagged it.
In the legal world, this is why something called "specific performance" is rarely ever enforced by the court. Say I hire someone to build me a house and they fail to do so for whatever reason. Should the court really be in charge of babysitting and making sure this party builds me the house I ordered in exactly the way I ordered it? Probably not.

This filter was a bad idea from the beginning. If someone had ordered my business to do something like this, I would have said "You build a working filter without any help from me and you can order me to install it if it is compatible, but you can't order me to build a working filter because that's indentured servitude"
When pronoun is unknown, "they" is the common choice. At queer conferences it is becoming the practice to include preferred pronouns on your name tag.
Really? That sounds worse to me...

"How old are they?" "When did you have them?" "Are they a boy or a girl?" "They are adorable."

I would probably just drop the pronoun completely.

"How old?" "When did you give birth?" "Boy or girl?" "So adorable!"
I agree.

Since the era of Microsoft dominance, we've done a fairly good job of selling appliances and single-purpose software & services, but I think we've failed to sell general-purpose computing to the public. We've barely even tried.

It's a shame. Not only are most people missing out on the amazing power that general-purpose computing brings, but we're now in a situation where people are willing to cede that power to copyright maximalists.

Arguably, "the coming war on general-purpose computing" wouldn't even be a possibility right now if the industry (led by Microsoft) hadn't raised such high barriers between "developers" and "users".
This solution seems like it has the man 'orbit' the lion, the same way that a planet travels perpendicular to the sun. The lions strategy is also running in a straight line to where the man is going to be, similar to how the sun accelerates to where the planet is.

There are a few obvious differences. The first being, in orbits, we (intuitively) use a time interval of 0. More importantly, in orbits, the sun is accelerating to the planets current position, not moving towards it. Formally speaking, I cannot see the connection between the stragety presented in the article and orbits, but intuitivly I feel like there is one.
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