skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trolling?

I mention hugely popular and well known websites to note an observation on how the Internet has and is reshaping human sexuality. First there were porn sites and live web cam models now whats popular is the average joe or jill jumping on web cam and broadcasting themselves. Which overall is a bit shocking to see, but that's what millions are doing and him pondering his sexuality prompted my thought/observation.

Also and pardon I didnt read the full article, as it was a bit long winded.
The problem is not the opaque peer review system.

Instead of making the reviews transparent, some journals solicit notes from other researchers to discuss the published articles. It is an ethical responsibility to publish notes which criticize previously published articles, regardless of how painful it is for the publisher to publish them.

e.g. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6069/665.summary

Reading an article that falsifies claims of another article is pure scientific joy. And such articles are not uncommon at all!

The problem is, as pointed out in the beginning of the paragraph "we need to get past the antiquated idea that the singular act of publication – or publication in a particular journal – should signal for all eternity that a paper is valid, let alone important".
Contrast that, though, with the extremely sad state of nutrition, where an absolute difference of 0.25% gets trumpeted immediately to the media at "200% more likely", even though the effects are measured through observational studies with no proper controls. A field where who you are matters much more than the data you're presenting (and it seems reasonably accepted to throw out data that disagrees with your pet hypothesis).

I recognize that, in many ways, physics has it easy: there are few sciences that reduce as well as it does and that offer ways to isolate variables like it does (even if it requires multi-billion dollar machines and years to make that happen). But it is still a shining exemplar of gradual evidence building theories to find more evidence, and there are many, many fields that aren't anywhere near that.
i would be a lot more sympathetic to all the "don't use tables for markup" people if css had, in all the years of its existence, said "you know what? grids and boxes are a really handy layout tool!" and made them easier to do. spans and flows simply don't cut it. the fact that there are css grid frameworks is ample evidence that people are viewing css's "right way to do things" as damage and routing around it.
It isn't, but it's a convenient model that holds true on average.

What people actually do is say: "oh, crap...I can't make money in fixed-income securities. I guess I'll dump my retirement in stocks instead." This flood of money eventually makes its way to the riskiest stocks and props up high valuations.
The ocean itself is the biggesr destroyer of coral.
well i am just your common joe, with no such nunchuck skills as you badace Jedis! so i appreciate the post and shall check it out!
Do you account for private accounts? I am not trying to say that there are 75 million of them I am just curious. If so what percentage of user are private accounts?
The main reason Mozilla didn't add H264 was because of royalties, which they couldn't pay. I don't know how much ideology was also behind the decision. Their solution was to use the OS to decode H.264, bypassing the need to implement the codec, and pay royalties. So I'm not sure how much of it was "caving", and how much was finally implementing the solution.
I wish Microsoft would go back to their roots. That is developing software that runs on all platforms.

I think many would love to have Office available on all platforms.

Personally I would be thrilled to write C# with first class support on Linux (Mono is not close to having this yet).
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Salesmen, who make their living by selling luxury items, don't emphasize the negative points of the thing they're selling? Color me surprised.

Call it victim blaming if you want. I call it being realistic about the premium you pay for being the first person on your block to have the shiniest toy. And for the record, I wasn't addressing the issue of the fire; I was addressing the comment about Tesla owners being generally happy with their purchase, despite having had a few things that required service. Not too many crime victims express the sentiment that, despite a few negative items, they are generally satisfied with the transaction.
I live in Seattle and in just the past few years, beaches which used to be absolutely covered in oysters are now barren because of acidification. And by covered, I mean you need a path through them to walk (they are sharp), and the most difficult thing when picking them was to pick up a single one rather than cluster. This was on the Hood canal for anyone in the area.

http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/...

It absolutely amazed me how fast everything disappeared. It really shocked me.
But if the content keys work with actual open source software, then that software can always be modified to decode the content and remove any restrictions that the publisher might wish to apply.

That's why they have to obfuscate things at the code level too.
That's good news. I wonder if this will lead to convergence in the Linux and Windows ecosystems? Generalized graphical frameworks and whatnot?
Twitter password resets 
Twitter password resets - "Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account."

Has anybody faced multiple password resets in a short time? I recently approved Medium - But then after the first message, I have revoked all application access and I still get the "account compromised emails"

--

The mail that I get is not a phishing attack but genuine
But like with nuclear power, we don't have to do all the work. We don't need to generate electricity and then run conventional a CO2 filter. Hypothetically, if we dump 1 trillion dollars into genetic engineering, why can't we design some biological chain reaction that would do all the work?
Ask HN: Any investors interested in looking at an international opportunity?
I know this is a weird route to take, but I don't live in the Valley. I only know you guys through HN.

Check out my profile, I am not a new account nor am I scammer.

I have a friend that is looking to raise some money for his company.

They have achieved a lot with the resources they have - and they have achieved a decent amount of traction....but they need an injection of capital to floor it.

Right now, all of the traction is local to the Caribbean but they have the potential to disrupt the news industry in general.

They are cash flow positive, but the opportunity is huge - kind of a land grab type opportunity.

I know I am some random dude on the internet, but I would ask you to just look at my profile, look at my web presence - and I think you will see that I am the real deal.

I build MVPs for clients for a living, and while this one wasn't a client, I have a decent amount of experience at looking at opportunities.

You can either email me: marc.gayle+investment at gmail dot com or reply here with your contact info and I can reach out to you.
WOW! That's some powerful stuff! Lots to think about in the mind of a serial killing monster. This is a great premise for a indie drama.
This looks great! I wish you the best with it.
Submit your sideprojects here

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Do you happen to understand why QE isn't suppose to increase the money supply? My understanding is the treasuries are bought by increasing the balance of a commercial banks federal reserve account. Can't the banks draw on that account?
The story is written as if it were fan fiction of the fan of the killer. Then there is a comment on it saying how "perfectly wonderful" and "absolutely magnificent" the story is. And then there's this guy, who isn't trolling(from a deleted comment I found out he didn't read the entire story), and inquires about the writer's same-sex relations after the encounter. As a bonus, there's also an article elsewhere "Why hasn't California executed Randy Kraft?", in which there's a comment which describes what the killer is doing, and urges people to write and send books to him. This all turns my stomach. It's morbid.
> Get a passport, visit places.

I have: http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Long-Distance-Sailor-Paul-...

If you had any idea to whom you're speaking, you would realize how utterly absurd your suggestion is. Speaking purely on a probabilistic basis, I know more about the world than you have any chance of knowing.
Oh, fine. Actually I mean codomain, because it's a conservative algorithm...
Right. Because "Lawyer" is synonymous to "Liar" and the justice system totally isn't based on provable facts, but how well you can lie.
And also I'd avoid 400 for invalid input in general, since it's meant to reject request entities with bad syntax, or incoming data that simply isn't HTTP.

IMO 422 is a better match, it indicates semantic errors.

http://httpstatus.es/400
http://httpstatus.es/422
I was able to get it working by replacing AppleCamera.plugin. See http://community.skype.com/t5/Mac/Camera-not-Working-on-MacB...
Seems to me most of the value in Twitter is as a broadcast medium for established media entities.
This is right. The guy I'm reference, many months later, is still on hiatus. The recovery here is obscenely long and hard.
With all this talk o liability, would it not be cheaper to simply add a disclaimer to every homepage, etc, saying "due to the shut down some info may be inaccurate"?

I imagine that might be even easier than going through the steps to ensure a website goes offline. But, that would avoid spreading panic and pain, which is what the powers that be want in order to score points.

It's like the April sequestration all over again.
And first revealed here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6485562
BSA can't take the name Skouts, could it? Has a K in it for hacKer, and the name is hacked- so it's a double whammy.

BTW- I like Maker Skouts, too. Considering most of the stuff listed is Maker and not Hacker oriented, and Maker has no bad connotations to the uninformed.

BTW2- the first badge stemming from welding == awesome.
API access expired? What kind of hackday is that?
Other wonderful delivery methods:

- Baked into cuneiform

- Wax tablets. "Oh, sorry, it got hot in my car and they're a little runny..."

- In the form of a crossword puzzle.

- Knitted into a scarf. "Perl one, skip two..."

Best to have hardware from which it is impossible to export a key.
You might only get 9 reviews though if you pass into the second or third rounds. Controversial papers in the PL conferences I haunt will get more reviews out of necessity; better to add more reviewers to help break ties.
> W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards

I think I threw up a little in my mouth when I read that.
> I wonder if this will lead to convergence in the Linux and Windows ecosystems?

Most people who understand Microsoft's history sincerely hope not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

Quote: ""Embrace, extend, and extinguish", also known as "Embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors."
haha yeah i saw that and had a giggle.
> Some people seem to have an almost super-human level of charisma/ability to influence others

I think most people are completely unaware of how true this is. As students and tech geeks, we've all probably met someone whose talents seemed otherworldly -- mastery of Quantum math, able to punch out code like Notch, that sort of natural intellectual athleticism that seems like something they must have just been born with.

Well, in boardrooms and marketing departments, in politics, in places of power and sometimes just in random situations, there exist people for whom the ability to (at least seemingly) 'connect' with other people at a deep psychological level is similarly off the charts, in the vanishing 6-sigma rightward tail of the hump.

Of those few people, some percentage, say 1%, were additionally born without anything like a normal conscience. They are incapable of feeling guilt or the normal sort of empathy that makes one feel the suffering of another soul.

I believe that those are, for the most part, the people in charge of things.
When there are bigger corporate hiring en mass then something like audition project might be unfeasible but serves as a very good measure when hiring in startups.
You needed a demonstration to see that people can easily mislead each other on the internet with bogus headlines?
You're right that I am free to do this in that it is not illegal, but you're pretty out of touch with most jobs in the U.S. if you think that means I actually can do this.
This kind of incrementalism is pretty fundamental to all seduction. I mean, the story is obviously disturbing but if I'm being honest, I used the same principles in my single days. Being too direct is a huge turn off so artfully and gradually escalating the romantic and sexual undercurrents of an interaction is where much of seduction hinges. Tactful flattery and sincere interest are certainly helpful there and also need to be ramped up artfully.

I mean, hearing about a gay guy doing this creeps me out as a straight guy, but really a lot of this is going on in bars as we speak and is generally a mutually satisfying experience.
I sign my reviews unless I'm involved in some sort of post paper evaluation. It seems only fair since the reviews aren't double blind (given double blind, I would not sign). I also publish reviews on my own papers as a matter of interesting record.
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A better way would be:

* pass a budget, as is required by law anyway

* spend no more than what was budgeted in the first place

* formulate the budget to be at or below revenue

It's not rocket surgery. Yet all of the above are heresy in DC.
Damn, I'm actually working on a side-project named Ive.
I remember hanging out with Noah at Pycon 2008 in Chicago, he was just getting started on a game. A very passionate fellow. He mentioned he was a twitter cofounder, but through the years as I read through the news articles about twitter's history, I never found anything mentioning him. Not being from SF, I always wondered if he was just someone claiming to be part of something that he wasn't really around for. I'm glad to discover that he was involved, and is doing well despite gaining very little from Twitter's success.
PNaCl is a liberally-licensed open source project. You can see its source code and compile it whenever you want. How much more open would you like it to be?

As for documented, good timing :) Just today the first bits of the preview documentation were released: https://developers.google.com/native-client/pnacl-preview/
> This flood of money eventually makes its way to the riskiest stocks

Citation needed.
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Holy shit. This victim, who 31 year old Dahmer claimed was his lover, was also 14 years old at the time, and the police returned him (naked and bleeding) despite his protests. (Sinthasomphone was disoriented at the time, having been drugged, but apparently still did protest.) At least the officer was fired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balcerzak
I can't watch my Netflix account on Linux without using some Wine distribution because of the Silverlight DRM. I'd say I feel pretty punished on that end.
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Haha. I agree that rap diverse, and I was just having some fun comparing the genre to programming.

Setting aside jokes, I've listened to many different types of rap, but I don't like rap that's intellectual. I prefer the mainstream songs about drugs and partying (e.g. Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne) to the songs that try to start a dialogue about social issues (e.g. Common).

I'm open to hearing about intellectual issues when I read articles or listen to talk radio, but I really don't like music that tries to make a point because I associate music with entertainment. Interesting how the medium can affect the message on a person to person basis.
Funnily enough, the control experiment of submitting to non-OA was in fact done: https://mobile.twitter.com/evolvability/status/3858870522286...
The problem is that free and open-source browsers will not be able to show more and more content on the web. That is already true but it was not encouraged or endorsed by W3C so far. That has changed.
There are 13 types of people in the world. Your assignment is to figure out what they are and turn in a 10-12 page essay describing them by Monday. Class dismissed.
Um, OK. Poor innocent Samsung: 'According to a declaration from Nokia’s Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Paul Melin, on June 4, 2013, in a meeting between Samsung and Nokia licensing executives, Dr. Seungho Ahn informed Nokia that the terms of the Apple-Nokia license were known to him. Specifically, according to Mr. Melin, Dr. Ahn stated that Apple had produced the Apple-Nokia license in its litigation with Samsung, and that Samsung’s outside counsel had provided his team with the terms of the Apple-Nokia license.

Mr. Melin recounts that to prove to Nokia that he knew the confidential terms of the Apple-Nokia license, Dr. Ahn recited the terms of the license, and even went so far as to tell Nokia that “all information leaks.” Mr. Melin also reports that Dr. Ahn and Samsung then proceeded to use his knowledge of the terms of the Apple- Nokia license to gain an unfair advantage in their negotiations with Nokia, by asserting that the Apple-Nokia terms should dictate terms of a Samsung-Nokia license.'
http://allthingsd.com/20131003/apple-accuses-samsung-of-shar...

Even among liars and cheaters, Samsung stands out.
Definitely true for biological sciences.
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I know he didn't read the article. I guess technically what cam4er is doing would be called shitposting, but I tend to consolidate these related behaviors under the trolling category. Fact of the matter is, and I think we agree on that, his posts are low enough quality to get him banned.

I found the article itself very interesting, actually. Morbid of course, it's a serial killer story. I didn't get the impression that the killer was idolized though, it was more a description of how far almost-superhuman charisma can go and what it must feel like to be on the receiving end of it.
If it costs more to bring the website down (and then back up, later) than it does to simply leave the website up with a disclaimer, that means someone will get paid more money for doing it this way.

In a way, they have a financial incentive to go the more costly route.
I was an FTE at MSFT for a few years. I disagree with this assessment. In many contexts Microsoft has a culture of tearing apart other people's ideas, I suspect rooted in the legendary BillG rants ("stupidest idea I've ever heard", etc.) and the overly internally-competitive culture. Additionally, rank and file routinely complain about Microsoft being bad at marketing, Microsoft being bad at consumer messaging, Microsoft building products for the Redmond bubble and not for humans, etc. etc., and the internal dogfood aliases are full of this stuff as are hallway and lunchtime discussions in many places. Not to mention all those people carrying iPhones who used to joke that it was "competitive research".

That's not to say that there aren't koolaid drinkers and that it won't ever be politically unwise to directly criticize your colleagues... But it's a diverse place, and, in my experience, cynicism exists in a big way there.
What do you consider "significant time frames"? 10 years, 1000 years, 100,000?

If human activity is destabilizing the environment (ie, we have burned an amount of carbon which is suspiciously congruent with the amount of excess carbon in the atmosphere/oceans) why is it unreasonable to expect human activities to provide a similar amount of stabilization, even if greater amounts exceed our grasp?
>>"To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2,560 characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data," prosecutors complained.

That's pretty misleading - they make it sound like if they press the wrong key once it'll destroy the FBI's entire system.
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> I like the standard definition of a REST API but sometimes it does not match the real world.

Your remark that "URLs are not encrypted when using HTTPS" does not match the real world.
Do you include computer science in your assessment?
The hostname may not be encrypted: the DNS lookup probably isn't, and if you have an SNI capable user-agent, the hostname is sent over the channel in the clear so that the server can give you the matching cert; but the path and query aren't sent until SSL/TLS are finished.
how long does it usually take from GM to official release?
And with Xamarin moving fully to Mac, Linux matters less for mono.
> I'm surprised how well it can parse the sentiment

I tried to fool it, but it took quite a bit of effort to contrive a sentence that it got wrong.

The sentence I finally fooled it with:

--> I enjoy clipping my toenails to paying any more attention to this movie.

which it rated as highly positive.
I think he should have encrypted the key using itself. That way he can give them the key. And they can decrypt it and send it back in time so they can decrypt it.
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>>>But it's not a skill that makes a good web developer. Web development is, in the most part, the easiest kind of development. In 15 years of doing this stuff I can state with some authority that 99% of websites are simple CRUD applications. Web development doesn't challenge your coding skills much. Occasionally it does, but only if you get in to either a product company or an agency that does fun things. Most don't.

Quite baseless, actually. While you just think web development as general CRUD but there are many aspects of web development that are challenging. It might not challenge you for smart algorithms, low level optimizations, or a clever recursion but what about a elegant UI, thinking about user experience, optimizing server performance, reducing page load time and many more.

Saying that "X programming is easy, real programming is Y" is a bit immature to be honest.
He should have used "wingdings".
Windows on the desktop is going away? Pretty sure it will be around for many many years to come. I say this as a primarily mac household.

That said, yes, Python is a portable skill.
Did you make sure your computer (or cellphone!) is malware fre?
That is what killing your business is for.
Money and bitches dwarfs pretty much every other thing I've tried, and both are trending upwards. It's nice to see that rap is becoming a deeper, more intelligent genre.