skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quote: "The centralization of the Internet is not a conspiracy."

No, but it's also not required, and a decentralized Internet has some properties that deserve to be explored. A number of peer-to-peer experiments being conducted rely on the Internet's infrastructure but not its centralization paradigm.
"The doomsday thinkers over at DARPA are looking for researchers to "investigate the national security threat posed by public data available either for purchase or through open sources." The question is, could a determined data miner use only publicly available information -- culled from Web pages and social media or from a consumer data broker -- to cause "nation-state type effects." Forget identify theft. DARPA appears to be talking about outing undercover intelligence officers; revealing military war plans; giving hackers a playbook for taking down a bank; or creating maps of sensitive government facilities.

I'll save them some time and say its possible, and if they are just inquiring into this, they are already behind the game… Using wikipedia, one can get a list most of the oil refineries in the united states (for the world for that matter), and from some api queries using either popular or open-source map/geocoding services, obtain gps coordinates within 100's of feet of those locations, within a matter of seconds.

If you scrape cryptome/other places every so often of the lists uncovered (often with contact info[numbers|emails|names|addresses]) of people, map them against other lists to find connections (this takes a matter of seconds as well), it is not unheard of that one could automate emails/calls/send mail to people to uncover attack surfaces to exploit.

And even until more recently, one could access public all posts on facebook via https://graph.facebook.com/search without authentication, and with some well crafted queries, one was able to get specific information about people that one wouldn't think would be possible to obtain.

The list goes on.
> Let's just ignore the fact that you do not actually need to be guilty of copyright infringement

I'm not ignoring that. A simple counter-claim will get your contents reinstated. You don't actually have to be guilty of copyright infringement to get sued in court. The DMCA does not change this.

> most people do not have the resources to sue a large corporation

What does this have to do with the DMCA? The DMCA is about content carriers, not end users. There is no way data carriers would allow themselves to be liable for the copyright infringements of their users. Thus, without the DMCA, they would simply comply with any legal threat regardless of its merits. The DMCA puts the power back in the hands of the people by allowing the user to file a counter-claim and getting their contents reinstated without any risk to the content carrier.

You could get sued for copyright infringement before the DMCA, and now you still can. Nothing has changed in that regard.
> There is no court involved; it is a guilty until proven innocent process,

Granted, but at the same time, the requirement to get your blog/website/etc back online isn't difficult.
I cut the cable about three years ago and I just subscribe to Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu. I'm also happy to spend $1.87 per episode for Breaking Bad. I don't miss cable one bit.
I agree with you up to the point about Facebook violating privacy expectations. I've been a Facebook user for 4 or 5 years and have never felt they violated any expectation of what I set to be private.

The privacy "breach" in the article was a bug, not any sort of intentional exposure by Facebook.

Facebook even addresses specifically what they do with emails collected:
https://www.facebook.com/help/241275309301947/

I guess I don't understand what you think Facebook should be doing, instead? Do you think they have to specifically disclose every internal use of the information they collect prior to collecting it?
actually. Do it right and it's even more useful.

People might voluntarily divulge who referred them to your store. Only with the correct entry do you get a discount, as an added bonus to people who answered.

So incorrect results arn't technically incorrect, they're just bonus data.
In the video he mentions that he wish he had known about the previous talk. Looked it up - http://pyvideo.org/video/1706/plover-thought-to-text-at-240-.... Pretty interesting. They are applying court reporter techniques to coding, cutting down on the keystrokes immensely.
Wow just wow. Why do you even submit an article from a site like that?

They clearly don't want people to read it.
readability? It's the usual workaround but I haven't tried it on android.
Bezos bought The Post, but actually didn't acquire wapolabs or a few other assets owned by The Post.

(Not that it's hugely relevant here, but I feel obligated to mention that I'm an AWS employee)
That behaviour is surprising to me. If anyone tried something so obviously deceptive here in the UK, I expect they'd last about five minutes with the advertising standards regulators.
A Documentary Filmmaker Was The 'Mastermind' Behind The Snowden Disclosures
one of the incredibly rare examples of a lawyer who has made a point of understanding technology.
I can too. I did have to repeat level 5 though. Stupid mistake. Need to figure out some trick for XOR, those took the most time.
"Bitcoin, in my opinion, will help poor people and protect more wealth and health than a potentially better cancer treatment."

That is almost certainly not the case:

1. Poor people have to pay taxes too, and they are less able to afford the risks or fees associated with currency exchange.

2. Poor people are more likely to use or depend on the welfare system, which is not likely to start using Bitcoin.
Ask HN: what are your best tips for mutually beneficial negotiations
There was an article someone posted a few months ago about negotiating to a mutually beneficial position but:
1) I can't find it
2) I'd love to hear other people's tips
ZTE Firefox OS smartphone available globally for $80
Using RSpec with Capybara 2
This article is awful. Paid PR indeed. Cold calling is still the most effective way in terms of cost and effort to convert prospects to customers.

It just takes practice, willingness to get better, and a positive attitude while doing it.
Ah! That seems to be the problem. I'll try the SVN repositories; I just downloaded the development packages from apt.

Thanks for your help. I see that the project has already reached 10% of its goal... maybe we can make this happen.
I like the design, and the description of the service is very clear. If I were purchasing it, I would want to know how you handle search engine bots.
Prank Startup Pitch To A Real Investor (VIDEO)
I had nearly the same experience with Azure a few years ago. I signed up for a trial account to try their database service, but ultimately didn't do much with it and wasn't storing any data there.

A few months later Microsoft wanted to start billing me, but when I went to try to cancel my account, there was no way to do it online. Some friends in Microsoft (not in the Azure world) looked into it and told me they thought it was that Microsoft wanted to do it over the phone to get a better sense of why I was leaving. Needless to say, this is not how the cloud should work.

Looking back in my email, the first email from Microsoft opening the issue tracker for 'cancel account' was on Oct 21 2011. The last email I have for it, and when the account finally seemed dead, was July 23rd 2012.

Now, the credit card I used when I signed up for my trial expired before Microsoft ever tried to actually charge it, so thankfully I was never out of any money. But I've been bummed - Azure is a lot more interesting now than it was in the summer of 2011 and I'd like to use it, but after my last experience I don't dare give them a working credit card every again.
I am pretty sure a MBA told them they were doomed if they stayed the way they were. What happened next is very much typical business. They got lucky. One good hit and they were off and running. Now what they have to avoid is the SyFy debacle of turning into cheese. Sadly they have started reality TV shows and that seems to be a staple of far too many channels.

They could have equally floundered in their choice of scripted shows. The difference is that compared to network TV they don't have a dearth of "original" programming to fall back on and hide the fails
"If ALL Musk does with the Hyperloop announcement is shed more light on the potential debacle that is to be our $70b+ high-speed rail in California, we owe him a debt of gratitude."

We would owe a debt of gratitude to a hypothetical public transport project for helping to obstruct or kill a real public transport project?
Pretty cool, but please rethink using that example :) It's a little slow and doesn't immediately show off your hard work.

A few (static) independent sections would do a much better job of promoting yourself.
I saw that sentence with the word "refraction" and I wasn't sure if it was the whole idea or if refraction was just one part of a clever design to enhance the effects of another artificial light source.

That's why I felt it was misleading. Looking at the article again, though, it's probably clearer than I originally thought it was.
If you've got them, here's the trick:
- hold your shares for 1 year and pay cap gains tax
instead of:
- selling shares before 1 year and paying income tax
If you first discover that coupons exist at the cashier, you must be an alien going to a store for the first time.

You hit the nail on the head with the first part of your comment -- you decided they weren't worth the time, and therefore you don't save the money. You don't huffily dump your items and leave the line. No, you think, "Hm, maybe I should clip coupons next time." (Although, of course, you don't.)
Good research, thanks. Had no idea it was that old!

I am actually heartened to see it appears to be a politician's fad. Hopefully in 20 years time it will be about as potent as "radical".

Nonetheless, that doesn't put a damper on my nerdy inclination to point out, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Geez, has he made everything?
I abandoned a merchant, not just my shopping cart because of that.

advanceautoparts or something. was buying from them, got to the checkout, searched for coupons, found that they have 25%+ coupons going on year around.

I can't possibly buy from a site that has all it's prices upmarked by at least 25% to begin with.
There's also a ceiling on the percentage increase and decrease possible.
The Slow and Steady Approach to Entrepreneurship
It's when I need to send 2M a month that there will be problems.
Nobody Cares About Your Values
That doesn't show that GLFW is simpler than SDL. It just shows that GLFW has some simple defaults. How much complexity is added to the GLFW code if you want to require a minimum GL version and depth buffer size? Or a fulllscreen window?
"THE FULL TEXT OF THIS ARTICLE IS PREMIUM CONTENT" :(
And all you have to do when you need JS is enable it selectively for that site via NoScript.
Glad to see the browsers supporting modern hardware in a more reasonable way, but for most non-photo images, this seems like a better strategy:

<img
src = "my_icon.svg"
this.onerror = "my_icon.png"
/>

SVG is future-proof, scaling elegantly to match whatever display it's being viewed on. And, if you don't care about supporting older versions of IE, you can skip the onerror, leaving you with only one asset per image to maintain.
I have the same problem: Firefox 23 on Debian; Intel GPU (so pretty solid drivers), get.webgl.org works fine and I can't remember when I last had trouble with 3D, but the OP's site crashes my browser.

Then again "in the wild" I wouldn't enable WebGL anyway for most sites.

Edit: I think it's a Firefox problem. Works in Chromium for me.
Hospital Denies Black Teen A Heart Transplant Because Of Trouble With Law
Where can I find a spinning 3-d globe? You know, to symbolize the internet.
$('#TB_window, #TB_overlay').hide()
Dog the Bounty Hunter in pursuit of Edward Snowden
Our startup is trying to weigh the balance between professional services and developing a product. It's a tricky dance and I've been on both sides of it before. Initially your product isn't great, so you focus heavily on customer service. The trap here is clearly that if you're not making your product more appealing to a wider market, you're going to get stuck forever with a small set of customers. Alternatively if you're not engaging with your initial clients and are developing in a vacuum, your product is going to stink because most likely no one is going to want it.
Redis is very much proven, tech giants are using large redis databases for quite some time now, see e.g. Instagram or StackOverflow.

Maybe go with "Modern, proven technologies"?
"And even so, testing just two different designs is rolling the dice rather than exploring feature/design space in search of a new optimum."

A/B testing doesn't force you to innovate through radical design changes — you can use it just as easily for incremental improvements.
Can the EFF represent the people re: NSA?
British Library's wi-fi service blocks 'violent' Hamlet
The cloud stack that helped SendGrid scale to 100 billion emails sent
Why do I have to read six paragraphs before I find out what Gophercloud is?
I love this site's design. It's clean without being empty. The colors are simple and warm. The font is intriguing and readable.

Oh, and the article is good, too. Even if a lot of it may seem obvious, I think many people (myself included) need to be reminded that writing with brevity and emphasis is important for readability.

Anyone interested in a more in-depth consideration of improving your writing style would be well-advised to read "Line by Line: How To Edit Your Own Writing" by Claire Kehrwald Cook. It describes not only common grammatical errors and how to avoid them, but also strategies for condensing your prose (like avoiding the passive voice). It's also a good way to introduce yourself to the language of grammar (voices and tenses and participles, oh my!) If you find yourself writing things like, "Emergency lights flashing, cars pulled aside as the ambulance roared past," this book can help.
GoDaddy has recently changed their policy and no longer have coupon codes.
My dad built a treehouse with exactly this with liter water bottles in ~1994, he said he saw it when he was growing up with glass bottles. I hate to be a spoil sport, but this is hardly a new idea.
Building Real-Time Geolocation Apps With JavaScript
you should sign up for your competitor's online bootcamps. See what they do, how they approach teaching the subject matter, etc... 2 years ago, michael hartl owned the marketshare for learning rails. Now, theres dozens of online courses teaching rails.

source: myself...I am an expert at "Learning Ruby/Rails"
Riak CS 1.4 Released; Features OpenStack Swift API Integration
It's called retailmenot.com - spend all of 10 seconds to find a discount.

It might also offend you to know people in different countries pay more or less for a product.

ie. Hosting in the USA is far more expensive than Europe for some mysterious reason
Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer Finally Released
Nothing strange about me posting the first one...
Is there is good service that will let me send notifications via Amazon SNS to simple SMS (outside the U.S)?
plus apple doesn't guarantee the delivery as well
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1icfjz/an_awesome_b...
One guy doing a split-test on one client -- the second one you cite -- is not what I would call "a study": http://www.conversiondoctor.com/conversion-blog/coupon-codes...

Look at other reasons people abandoned carts in that PayPal/Comscore study:

Wanted to comparison shop: 37%

Lack of money: 36%

Wanted to look for a coupon: 27%

Wanted to shop offline: 26%

Couldn’t find preferred pay option: 24%

Item unavailable at checkout: 23%

Couldn’t find customer support: 22%

Security concerns: 21%

http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Sad-Tale-of-Abandoned-Shopp...

When you look at the big picture findings from this survey, it makes you realize: 20-40% of people will abandon a cart for ANY reason.

And none of these "studies" have looked into what the conversion rates for people who DO use coupons are. When you introduce a coupon to a good customer, or at the right moment, does that INCREASE conversions? I'd would bet good money the answer is yes. And I would bet you money that that increase outweighs the seemingly random "25% of people quit a cart for every possible reason."

There is no such thing as a one-sided effect.

BTW -- abandoning a cart is not the same thing as quitting a checkout in progress. Beginning the checkout process is a much bigger indicator of intention than putting stuff in your cart. Many people just put stuff in their cart as a kind of shopping list, or "I might want to look at this more later." Which is no doubt why cart abandonment rates are so high.
A quote: "Robert Epstein, a Harvard psychologist who co-edited a book on artificial intelligence, fell for bots imitating live women on dating sites not once, but twice."

Of course it had to be a psychologist, a person one expects to be trained and skilled in the devious workings of the human mind, to be taken in by simulacra ... twice.

I await the day when two simulacra contact each other, neither aware of the other's true identity, trade phony reminiscences, then arrange a tryst. Even the brilliant Alan Turing (of "Turing Test" fame) didn't anticipate this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
Same here, I'd happily give it a go if it were self hosted since I was planning to build one from scratch, specifically with redis.
But why is that better than allowing the content to remain up until it is proven to be infringing? Extend safe harbor to apply until infringement is proven and you take away the ability for large organizations to abuse the DMCA to take down anything they dislike.
Maybe you should spend a few minutes on Google (or Bing) assessing the state of WinRT before making prognostications.

Spoiler alert: WinRT is completely DOA.
I'm a Javascript developer and I always use NoScript.

Most JS is bad JS. Activating it when needed on some sites (such as interacting w/ some buttons) is pretty quick. Plus you can whitelist certain things like Disqus and common sites.

Overall the security/speed benefits are worth it.
Thanks and corrected.
Kleiner, Accel Invest $18M in Nutrition App Maker MyFitnessPal
So the link points to the qz homepage and not the actual article?

http://qz.com/114483/amc-is-succeeding-by-breaking-the-rules...
I am, first time that some webgl crash my browser in Linux (updated arch linux)
Views of great, London-based data scientists wanted.
Next week, we're bringing together 15 great minds from the world of data science – and we'd like you to be part of it.

We (Good Business) are a research and strategy agency that has been asked to explore what it means to be a professional data scientist, analyst or statistician. Our client is a rapidly growing company whose mission is to transform the future of education through data and technology. They need the brightest and best minds to help them do it, and our research aims to inform how they go about recruitment for their new roles.

The discussion will take place in the form of focus groups at our offices here in Soho, London, lasting around 90 minutes. We know you’ll find the discussion with your peers as interesting as we will – and rest assured that we’re generous with drinks and great snacks! Plus, we’ll give you £50 in Amazon vouchers (or make a donation of equal value to a charity of your choice) and a delicious bottle of wine at the end of the evening to say thank you.

We’ll be exploring questions like: What makes the ideal company to work for? What's scientific about data science? What do you enjoy most about your work? This is about learning from your experience to help a young social enterprise – it’s not a subtle recruitment campaign; we genuinely just want to hear what you think.

Focus groups will be held on:
Monday 19th August, 18:30 – 20:00
Thursday 22nd August, 18:30 – 20:00

If you’d like to contribute, email me at research@goodbusiness.co.uk with your availability and current position and we’ll send you further details.

If you are unable to make a focus group but would still like to share your thoughts, let us know as we'll also be carrying out some telephone interviews. We will of course give you the same £50 payment or donation but unfortunately bottles of wine and snacks don’t travel so well down a phone line...

Kate Unsworth
www.goodbusiness.co.uk
Is not just breakdowns that can hold up traffic, road vehicles also crash a lot more often than trains and congestion is harder to manage as you cannot regulate flow in the same way.

I am not anti-roads. Roads are great, they can link everywhere really easily, however they have issues that can be reduced by pairing them with high speed rail and air for long distance travel and light rail in urban centers for bike and foot passengers.

Never mind just freight, imagine removing intercity traffic from roads and being able to visit the next town along without having to compete for the road with the folk going 500 miles.
Thank god unions protect us from malaria. /s

The death toll during the (later) American phase of construction was dramatically lower, not because of unions. Here is the article you are looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_measures_during_the_cons...

The "union solution" would have been to not dig the damn thing at all.
Notably AMC makes a lot of money by bundling 48 hours of unwanted programming alongside its flagship station.

to get AMC on your network, you also have to accept some of AMC Networks other products, such as WeTV and IFC. They can lose a little money on AMC itself as long as advertising on their other channels makes it.
I wonder when the movie industry will have a pioneer along these same lines.

It's an idea I've had for a while... produce movies on a moderate budget... with as many talented screenwriters as there are, there have to be good scripts that go unoptioned. Cast talented character and stage actors instead of big name (big $$) star talent, and quitely make a bunch of really good movies for not a ton of money (Think $15-20 million budgets).

The idea is to have a deep catalog that quitely does well, instead of trying for massive blockbusters that can be $200m losses if they bomb.

There are certainly some filmmakers that sort of take this approach (The Coen brothers, for instance), but I don't know of any studio that has taken the approach to heart. I'm not talking indie studios here, but full AAA productions, just not with big VFX budgets or $50 million cast members.
Internet coupons are different from physical coupons. You can potentially find internet coupons by searching the web for 20 minutes, while if you're at the checkout at the grocery store, you're not going to go all the way home, look through the trash to find some coupons that were mailed to you a week prior and promptly thrown out.

The difference is the knowledge that there is a coupon for the particular item I'm buying, and the (in)convenience of finding that coupon.

I'm convinced that many, many people are "upset" about the idea that they're missing out on coupons. My wife is one of those people, she can't buy anything on the internet without searching her coupon sites first. And I know a lot of people like her. For me, it takes a conscious decision that "this is not worth it, I'll just pay whatever the price is and save the time and energy".
Directives (Parts 4 & 5 of the AngularJS - beginner to expert in 7 steps series)
If they make it that complicated to get to their actual content I simply won't read it. I should not be required to block any scripts in order to make a website usable.
A successful attack requires more than simply reversing any 6 consecutive blocks. It requires reversing a specific set of blocks containing a transaction one wishes to be reversed.

This is why 5 minute blocks are virtually every bit as secure as 10 minute blocks.