skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm that's a little weird cause they imply that, "Young men and teenage boys" are the only ones at the internship.... I'm an intern, and they interviewed me as well... and the last time I checked I am a girl... The computer with the pink case and orange juice on the right side of the last picture is mine.
Fellow Frenchie here- it does look like it was written by a high schooler rather than a CEO- awkward phrasing ("dans le cas de la pedo", wtf?!?), conjugation mistake ("liées"), use of "on va" instead of "nous allons" in a formal written statement...
I am a current intern at this company and this company has been the best iOS App development experience. They only take 30%. And to us interns, the money does not really even matter. If "Making games is about making. Creating. Learning.", then MakeGamesWithUs is doing their job well because my purpose of interning here was not about the money, it was about the experience- money is just a plus.
The Internet has a way of returning negative behavior ten or even a hundred or a thousand fold. Phil Fish has a decently long history of negativity and insults and that's what he received back in spades.

I find a lot of people who are dismissive, arrogant, condescending, and insulting often can't take that same behavior directed back at them. Fish seems to fit that mold.

I certainly wouldn't equate Phil Fish's situation to that of David Vonderhaar. Vonderhaar got harassed for merely doing his job. Fish got harassed because he crafted a persona of jerkiness.
Nowhere did I imply they had a duty to do so - just that it'd be to their benefit, because the people considering such a framework have dozens to choose from that all look alike. They presumably put it out there because they'd like people to use it.
I think it would be a mistake to equate the worst of /b with 4chan as a whole. What would you do to control /b in this situation (short of shutting the whole site down)? Maybe providing a dedicated outlet for the destructive elements of a community is a good idea overall, kind of like hellbanning on HN if you think about it, except that hell-banned people can interact with each other and voluntarily retreat to their own forum.
Running a hidden services requires running a relay (exit or no-exit), right? I was planning to provide a hidden service for a site of mine for fun mostly but would not want to risk losing my server for satisfying my hacker enthusiasm.
Fish responding to trolls in no way excuses the trolls harassing him. That's textbook victim blaming, and it's disgusting for it to come up here.
Did that actually pass? People actually believe that Jane Austin is more worthy then Winston Churchill? I love her books but come on....
Of all the alternatives I've tried today after The Old Reader's announcement (I've tried about 5 others, and quickly deleted my account from most of them) - this certainly feels like the best reader for me.

It's fast, blazing fast compared to the alternatives. The UI isn't perfect, but the speed certainly makes up for it.
Are any other citations suspect? Concerning the overall argument of the paper, that citation was in support of a very minor point concerning whether dietary cholesterol is necessary.

Obviously the main point of the paper was to explain our relative ignorance of nutrition as a whole. The sub points appear intended to show that Rhinehart is not even properly informed of the details that have evidence, let alone the massive unknown.

In summary, its unfair for you to summarize what you did not entirely read. Read it in its entirety and find more insufficient citations before you debunk everything.
Moscow Metro says new tracking system is to find stolen phones
As someone who was recently a delivery driver, the recent addition of GPS tracking is one of the most annoying things about a delivery job. Far worse than drug testing. Driving can be difficult and sometimes you need to park and stretch your legs. I was called into the office for this and queried about each of my stops. GPS is going to become more prevalent as people like me are highly motivated to defeat the system, especially working in teams with other drivers. Of course there are work-arounds. Park at a legit spot on an approved break and leave all your electronic devices in the vehicle and walk to where you want to be but don't want them to know about, etc...

However, it is highly doubtful this was done by a delivery driver. There is no point in jamming the signal for 10 minutes. What could it accomplish? If the purpose is to take an illegal detour (going against a one way street) the company has logs of all your trips and will soon figure why you have a 10 minute gap everyday.
It doesn't necessarily matter if it's harder to tax. If the only way to exchange Bitcoins for currency is via face-to-face transactions, 90% of what usefulness it has is eliminated. The remaining use, exchange of a virtual currency for virtual goods and services, is only useful with an easy way to get ahold of a sum of said virtual currency to begin with.

Which is to say, with a sufficiently low volume of BTC being passed around, taxing it becomes as important as making sure you tax cash transactions by roadside fruit vendors or lemonade stands.
(Presumably the drone will use some sort of inertial guidance rather than GPS.)
Skin in the Game as a Required Heuristic for Acting Under Uncertainty
Yip, I'm definitely happy with digg/reader... it'll be perfecto once the Android version comes out I reckon. They've definitely kept things fast & simple.

Went with pocketcasts as a replacement for Google Listen - also very happy with that (though sad that Reader and Listen went away of course)
I fail to see how fee-for-outcome helps any of this. They would still be free to order the more expensive test, and it would even encourage more testing. If they run the wrong test and miss the diagnosis, then they don't get paid at all...
"I'm suggesting that HN commenters here are likely far less competent to speculate about the cost structure of heart operations than believe themselves to be"

In my case: U.S. cost structures, sure, I don't know them, though I do speculate and guess, and asked if someone knows of a hospital with transparent enough data.

Uruguay cost structures are a different bag altogether, since they're mostly government-run and they have to make numbers somewhat public. Add to that one of my brothers working in a hospital (he's a few years from graduating as a doctor) and other sources, and I can get an estimate that I hope is correct to an order of magnitude. A relative has been a customer of the Cleveland clinic, so I know the exact number he paid. I also know the exact number another person paid for the exact same surgery here in Uruguay - it was close to one-tenth, and he chose to pay private rather to go through the public institutions (which have huge delays).

Below is a PDF in Spanish, on an investigative piece from a weekly that goes into great detail on the costs of surgery in Uruguay. I'll just quote some basic numbers:

- Fixed fee per major surgery (medical act) UY$ 27.500 / U$ 1300

- Monthly Head Heart Surgeon salary (per hospital) UY$ 263.000 / U$ 12500

- Other heart surgeons, between UY$ 162.500 and 243.000 depending on seniority and other factors - U$ 8.000 to 12.000 range, per month. Those are close to the best salaries anywhere in Uruguay, usually as well trained as any doctor in the U.S.

- Cost to the hospital per major operation (heart surgery), UY$ 206.000 / U$ 10.000

Smaller operations like angioplasty cost UY$ 60.000 / U$ 3.000

The most expensive surgery is heart transplant, which costs UY$ 684.000 / U$ 32000

All those are set by the government, so those ARE the actual costs (well, actually they were in 2008, I didn't adjust by inflation and exchange rate), no insurance or strange stuff involved. The patient is not billed a cent, but there is a huge delay (months usually), and doctors don't really schedule surgery unless it's critical for the person's health (almost no quality of life procedures through the public system).

http://www.semanario-alternativas.info/archivos/2008/5)mayo/...

PD: Surgeons and Anesthesists have tremendous power, and managed to get paid close to ten times the rate of other doctors.
Exactly. I do think a lot of people in the game industry get abuse they don't deserve, but Phil earned a lot more abuse than average with his personality.
Well, if you exchange your keys via DH and start using that key to cipher the communication, you're going to find out very soon if you exchanged the key properly, won't you?

In essence, once you've agreed on a key you won't keep it to yourself (although you could, in theory). But am I missing the point? Are we talking about two different things? I'm talking about ZK from a mathematical point of view, you know, the cavern, the treasure, the two paths... (if you know this layman example about ZK)

Unfortunately I cannot go into details, but what I meant about my preference for DLP is that although I was mathematically more attracted to DLP based algorithms (when it came to asymmetric cryptography) I didn't really have the chance to "play" with them and spent more time with RSA.

So it's probable my knowledge of the DH key exchange algorithm is imperfect and last time I wrote crypto it was very mundane (it was using RC4, that's saying a lot!), so maybe I should just refrain from commenting about crypto.
I find it interesting that his twitter icon is Andy Kaufman. An artistic troll if there ever was one.
Understanding how DNS works
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal about this back in December. In particular it dealt with office supply stores having different online prices for different locations based on zip codes.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732377720457818...
I gotta disagree with your last sentence: the absolute worst thing you can do about bullying is say that the victim deserved it.

First, my bias: I'm a huge fan of FEZ, the game.

Aren't you victim blaming? He deserves all the abuse he gets because he's abusive? It's okay that he could be having a nervous breakdown because he brought it on himself?

I don't know what Fish's background is. What if he comes from an abusive household and triggers on bullying and lashes out? Now is it okay that he gets attacked a lot?
Hey I'm Jeremy, one of the founders.

MakeGamesWithUs is about making, creating, learning. We teach them for free where many others would charge, then give them the option to publish with us if they would like to. It's entirely their choice to publish with us, they are free to publish their games on their own. We also only take 30% of revenues, not half.

Since many of them are minors their parents have to sign off on them attending the internship and publishing with us. The fact that 100+ parents have agreed to let their children intern with us and 30+ parents have agreed to let their children publish their games with us is a testament to how good of a deal we offer them.

I am aware of developers who have literally gotten their careers started thanks to us, as in gotten jobs as mobile developers by showing off the games they built with us. Nothing exploitative about it.
Why to Write
Please compute for me when we'll reach the peak of the exponential growth, and move to the "top of the s-curve". I realize it will happen at some point. I don't pretend to know when.

Do you really think it will occur within 10 years, which is what the author uses for his extrapolation in the article, and which would justify the parent commenter implying the back-of-the-envelope calculation is wrong (with a snide comment)?
It is now taught in Java while the data structures class (225) is C++. The Computer Engineering curriculum is going the other way and now teaches computer architecture, assembly, and C (in that order) before sending students over to the CS department for data structures.

Former TAs tell me that CompE students find CS 225 to be much easier than Computer Science students.
"So what are we going to do about it?"

Be kind and empathic to those around you, and call out those around you who are not. Try to use technology to further liberate people's minds from the drudgery of everyday life and give them that time back, for them to invest in actively bettering themselves. Long term, institute a living wage such that everyone is freed from the worries of everyday survival and develops a kinder, less stressed mindset. A lot of the hostility we see on and off line would go away.
Those aren't references. They're just indications of the source of the data. A reference would be a full link to the particular article and page that contains this data.
I am from Brazil, I remember that in early 1990s here you was the coolest kid in the school if you showed up with a dollar bill (even a 1 USD one).

We had a 2000% inflation, and one of the government attempts to fix it was currency controls. (the fix in the end, was create a new currency that had fixed 1:1 rate with USD, and leave it 1:1 for some years until the 1998 crisis made it necessary to decouple them).
I agree with your comment, but from the text it appears that anyone sending criticism was met with rage as an answer. That's not trolling.
Musicians are the new marketers
Setting subheads with CSS
Just like the person above me stated, I am also an intern at this program. I'm not going to lie - at first I thought the same exact thing as yourself. I was very hesitant, but realizing I had nothing to lose I jumped into the program and it has been one of the best decisions I've made. This program is very supportive to beginning game designers and helps us to refine our skills and ideas. The thing that really made this experience worth while is that when the time comes they take care of art and music. I'm not the most artistic person and that allows me to fully do the coding I want, to make the game I want. Without having to worry about how it looks and sounds. It is great.
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Just because it's more secure than network / file doesn't mean it's secure. That's why we have smartcards / HSMs.
I don't think it's textbook victim blaming at all. If a guy goes around tossing beers in peoples' faces in bars and occasionally catches a beat down, I don't think it would be victim blaming to state that, 'Hey, maybe if he didn't throw beer in peoples' faces he wouldn't catch beat downs'.

It doesn't mean anyone is condoning violent responses to provocation, just stating the role that the instigator played a role in the incident. Phil Fish repeatedly threw beer in the face of others and got a lot of vitriole in response.
I own two vehicles: an expensive sport sedan for commuting and a crappy old SUV for hauling stuff. I drive aggressively in the sport sedan because it's made for it, and slowly in the SUV because it doesn't respond as quickly. If I went through Study 1 in both vehicles, I might support their conclusion even though I'm the same person with the same social class.
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Sayings 2.0 (Doghouse Diaries)
Washington Post Sees the World “Switch”ing
I think the problem with Tor is that it makes it very easy to create multiple pseudonyms. Fwiw, the approach used to combat spam successfully on freenet based fora, is to artificially increase the effort. This can be done by not activiting an identity for x hours, or requiring that users solve n captchas on signup.
IP-based pricing is in itself not illegal in any jurisdiction I am aware of, but that doesn't mean you're in the clear.

Legally, you may not charge one protected class more than another. For example, you cannot charge a racial minority more or less for the same service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_discrimination#Discrim...

But that's not what you're trying to do, right? You don't mean to discriminate intentionally. That just means you are not guilty of "disparate treatment." IP-based pricing will, however, almost definitely lead to "disparate impact."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact

If you charge people in certain areas more, you're almost certainly going to end up charging more on average to people of a race, religion, or other protected class. It might not be your intent, but the outcome will be the same.

Given the potential PR or legal problems, I'd strongly advise you not to price a product or service based on geographical regions.
I think we can safely say that Phil Fish is absolutely part of the problem without it degenerating into mere victim blaming. Of course he doesn't deserve the abuse that he gets, neither do his abuse victims.
> A country with a Supreme Court that believes threshing wheat is interstate commerce is not a republic. Ditto for a country with federal bunny rabbit inspectors.

I know of no reasonable definition of "republic" under which either of these statements is defensible. "Republic" doesn't mean a system of government that produces exclusively outcomes that meet with Daniel_Newby's approval.
> The project originated from 4chan's /g/ (technology) board. It works differently from Reddit and HN, since there's no karma, and the comments are anonymous.

Thanks for this.

I was there in rec.arts.anime.misc with m00t in 2002 when he decided to set up 4chan.

"User was banned for this post", in red, is my idea. "Bring back snacks" is my meme. I had the 10,000 GET. I created the first C-C-C-Combo! post, but not the first C-C-C-Combo Breaker! post. I'm still in contact with Cracky-Chan. I am a BBCode master, and I have read my SICP today. I helped keep the pool closed; I hate GaiaFusers nearly as much as I hate furries. I don't visit 4chan much anymore because, you know, newfguys, but I hope you kids are enjoying the place and not stinking it up too much. :-p

> We were working on this for only about a month,

I tend to be really harsh on crypto projects. Please, ignore anything I say. There are, however, some experts posting in this thread and I hope their advice is useful.
The blog post states "we value our community very much".
On this basis, I think you have every right to complain, and should do so directly.
No, not really. One thing that makes an expert an expert is their ability to filter signal from noise. Sometimes they can prematurely bucket ideas into relevant/not-relevant, but usually not.

Have you ever seen a novice programmer trying to find information on a StackOverflow page? The answer might be staring them in the face, but they still scroll past it once, twice, three times, etc. until I point it out.

A novice has no sense of what's important and what's not so they tend to think everything is whereas an expert has a set of heuristics (like the ones in this blog) which make them much faster. They'll look for familiar ideas, themes, likely mistakes, etc. first before going into full-on, read-this-thing-line-by-line mode.
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Thanks for this. It is worth pointing out to others that these lectures include videos.
It needs to be a super dynamic reddit/HN where the order of posts change every second!
You don't need to be any sort of relay in order to host a hidden service. You can do it when just running as a client.
Here in Brazil a street pool asked two questions:

"Are politicians corrupt and steal public money?"

and

"If you were elected yourself, would you be corrupt and steal public money?"

The first had 90% of "YES" (no surprise here).

The second had a 60% of "YES"

This mean if you put a random person in office, 60% of chance they WILL steal. And 40% of chance they might fall into the group of real honest people, or people that steal but won't admit about it.
This could be the next greatest gift you give the internet.
Confession time: i still have some apps with salted md5 hashed passwords
Excluding bridge nodes
I was a teaching assistant for that class for 2 years, HNs got me feeling nostalgic.
Random, but I think the site could benefit from font pairing. Ubuntu is pretty for the titles, but the body could use something less ornate.
Shut the subsite down is an effective option. Let the people know they aren't welcome at 4chan.

GameFAQs had their LUE exodus, 4Chan can have their /b/ exodus. In the case of GameFAQs, the rest of the site was able to focus more on gaming and it was better as a result. On the other hand, if 4Chan wants to be home to that element of the internet, they are welcome to do so. But I think at this point, it is fair to judge 4Chan on their acceptance of /b/, much like how I judge Reddit on their handling of clopclop and jailbait.

Nonetheless, companies built on top of community discussions have to face the facts, people will come, they will be assholes. Its a problem that any discussion-based company has to solve.

I understand protecting "Freedom of Speech", but lines have to be drawn at some point.
I took it to mean that the 10 minute window was when the driver was driving past the LSE, where the detectors where.
We've been thinking about that. Think the whole technical side will become very clumsy and cumbersome, very fast, if we add RSS support. Can see where you are coming from with that idea though.

We're not going to support PDF's either. We're not planning to at least. Seems like the result looks and feels clumsy. There are also solutions for that out there now (as you linked to).

The problem with those kits, is that you still have to deal with all the technical stuff yourself. Setting up a server of some sort, opening a developer account, handling Apple certificates and so on. In other words, you will most likely still need an iOS dev, even though you bought the kit.
Off-topic: What exactly does ASAIK mean? All slang definitions online point to, "as soon as I know," which frankly makes no sense.
Ah, my favorite example of a pons asinorum:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PonsAsinorum.html

> An elementary theorem in geometry whose name means "asses' bridge," perhaps in reference to the fact that fools would be unable to pass this point in their geometric studies. The theorem states that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle (defined as a triangle with two legs of equal length) are equal and appears as the fifth proposition in Book I of Euclid's Elements.

Generalizing the concept a bit, a pons asinorum is a critical concept in any field, such that if you don't grasp it you'll never comprehend the field as a whole. 0.999... = 1 is the critical point for the idea of the infinite series and, thus, an important part of how mathematicians use infinity.

And the concept of infinity seems to be the stumbling block for a lot of people, in the Internet arguments I've seen about this. A fair number of people seem to hold a religious fear of infinity, at least to the extent they apparently believe that it cannot be handled in a logical fashion; it is sacred and not to be mixed with such profane ideas as 3 or 12. Mix that with a half-formed notion of infinitesimals and some cod-Platonism and you have people seriously arguing that math is wrong and that they have inspired access to a true mathematical revelation.

Or they deny that the argument is mathematical at all and retreat into increasingly self-contradictory pseudo-philosophical arguments.
"Foresight: In 2009, folks in attendance were saying, “One day, this sport will be on ESPN and the athletes will be world class. There were folks that far ahead of the prediction curve, even while sitting on a dirt hill, staring at a ranch garage in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Consider the astonishing unlikelihood of today for just one moment."

Since I assume every single new "sport" would have people constantly saying that type of thing this is a given isn't it? Every failed sport and every successful sport would have people who had said something along those lines at the beginning.

That particularly annoyed me but because it did it was also the only thing I still remember from the article - it was very pretty vacuous.
I meant AFAIK.
> What kind of kid is old enough to be allowed unsupervised access to the Internet and yet so out of control that they can think this kind of behaviour is acceptable?

Someone older than 10 and younger than 18?