skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it was the programmers intention.

Sit back and realise that somebody is probably going to be murdered for pushing to the wrong database.
Because the developer is afraid to even suggest he wouldn't win by a landslide?
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" -- http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ive doing what he does best. Industrial and hardware design.

I still think there are some question marks about his software design skills as some of the things in iOS7 is very badly thought out such as the new date pickers.
fired at
Because, of course, the people responsible pushing this out are small fry. And people that will be punishing them will be the ones that just "won" the election. I think it's a shame when the peons get punished while the ones stealing the election go on stealing.
>Focus on the here and now, it's all we get.

What proof do you offer?
Further down in the comments, you indicated it was OK in the case of Nazi Germany since it wasn't "real" law enforcement and it "involves certitude". That seems to indicate to me that you don't actually believe it's "invariably wrong".
> whether these actually show a quantifiable improvement over old potentials

Yeah, that's what I was meaning with regard to force-fields in general. What are we, like TIP23P for water now? ;)
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Yeah, I was reading the bits where they disabled the sleep()s and I couldn't help but wonder how many evil little bugs and device problems those kludges covered up.
Impressive, but if I think back to some old examples of this kind of stuff, like Johnny Chan (also of CMU)'s headtracking/motion tracking with Wii-motes it had remarkably less data (IR Led points) but seemed to handle the type of usecases presented in the video just fine. Admittedly it uses camera technology rather than just photodiodes, so lumitrack seems to have an edge for things that need high speed/fidelity at very low cost, but I don't know what those applications are.
Exactly, even if we assume insanely bad planning so he exercises and sells shares on the same day making them ordinary income (resulting in about 49% paid in taxes, (38% federal, 11% state) that would net him like 170M$ which just sitting in a t-bill ladder at 1% would give him 1.7M/year tax free income, forever. I could probably squeeze by on that :-)
I don't understand why gaming companies don't do progressive releases based around some kind of invitation like system to cap growth rates.

If it worked for gmail, and if it was good enough for facebook, then it is good enough for GTA 5, and any other online game that hasn't yet scaled.

Don't fall prey to the thundering herd problem.

Build invitation fences.
Right, but if you had _billions_ of years, you could still write an amazing program, even if you have no knowledge of the codebase and no idea what you're modifying.
So what you're saying is, any political story that isn't explicitly about American corruption... is implicitly about American corruption?
Your point being that making a spectacle out of election fraud in a different country should only seek to hide the fact that the American system is flawed in other ways? I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

It is possible to question the integrity of one's own government whilst also highlighting atrocities committed in other countries. Countries that also contribute to the global economy.
Evolution is simply the change in allele frequency in populations of organisms over time. This is most certainly observable.
I'm willing to talk about it on your terms, you don't have to bend to my mental models. I just don't have enough data yet to reason about yours ;)

> On a related note, I remember Dawkins spoke about memes and how ideas can be seen as some kind of virus that are subject to evolution.

I haven't read his books yet, but this stands to reason. Memes share a lot of characteristics with organisms, and humanity has built a great eco system for them in recent years. The first time I realized that ideas are actually evolutionary programs was in the 90s when I read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
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The members of the election commission are almost certainly criminals, but I'm not as convinced when it comes to the guy who pulled the trigger on releasing the data. I can all too easily picture a hapless developer whose family doesn't know where he is.
I don't think this is about convincing the "deniers" so much as curing misconceptions among the general public about how evolution works.

You don't have to be arguing from bad faith or cynicism to hold some of the mistaken beliefs listed. The stuff about phylogenies and how they relate to the "tree" graphs is particularly neat.
No, it would not. Anything that exists outside the universe and time is not subject to conjecture of any sort. Applying logic to such a thing is meaningless; there is no reason for logic to exist outside of the universe. In other words, absolutely nothing meaningful can be claimed about an afterlife (unless such a thing exists within this universe which seems doubtful).
I don't think it's hacked. I got them the other way around: First Martin's Killer and then the TrueCrypt Review.

My guess is that their software is severely broken.
Well, it's a bit of a fully general counterargument, but then, so is "there's no such thing as a free lunch."

> If the proposed intervention would result in an enhancement, why have we not already evolved to be that way?

Life isn't fair.

Drugs seem to make you think faster/stay up later/be happier? Evolution didn't get it right the first time? Life isn't fair.
That's pretty cynical.

Look, if you're building a product that is designed to be used by everybody, it should be built by a representative group. Just like the Supreme Court should be representative, and Congress should be representative.

The point is, you don't need to hire people just because they're women to make some representative quota, but that you can hire women without sacrificing quality, because there are thousands of eminently qualified candidates.

You should go, it's really eye-opening.
I believe he is just surprised that it not already vetted.
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or
sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new
phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's
probably off-topic."

Let's see: Politics? Check. Interesting new phenomenon? Nope. Would they cover it on TV news? Check. Conclusion: probably off-topic.
There is a very large, addressable, and under-appreciated factor is delayed aging: Stress reduction.

Study after study, as well as pervasive anecdotal observation, demonstrate the role of stress in aging and deterioration.

Unfortunately, reducing it for someone often means getting someone else to give something up (wealth, convenience, exploitative predilections, etc.). And so far, we've not been able to maintain such social cooperation where it has been established.

Personally, a large factor in my life has been noise. I've had some incredibly inconsiderate neighbors as well as some rather ignorant and counter-productive employers.

That's just one example -- anecdote. But studies continue to roll out documenting links between chronic stress and physical as well as mental deterioration. And "everyone" has observed a family member or friend rapidly look much older while and after going through a crisis.

On a personal level, I'd recommend that people remove themselves from out-of-their-control stressful situations at the first opportunity.
I remember it being quite horrible around that time. But, as you say, a fast way to get a site together. I maintain that PHP was actually less worse, and I despise PHP with a contempt that would give [INSERT DICTATOR HERE] pause.
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
Billions of years running trillions of experiments in parallel.
If you want to make the challenge even more intense, you can try a service like Beeminder that'll charge you if you don't commit every day. It can hook into Github, I believe.

https://www.beeminder.com/gitminder

The founders actually use this themselves, making a mandatory UVI (user-visible improvement) every day, inspired by pg's advice "startups rarely die mid-keystroke... so keep typing!" See here for more on that: http://blog.beeminder.com/rails/
Would that be able to detect even /accidental/ bugs like the ultra-weak Debian OpenSSL random number generator?
Or an example of why timezones suck?
It can easily be reverse engineered.
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I feel similarly and think I might just subscribe to a Hacker News email digest at this point. Something with filters.
I didn't get that at all. In fact, there's a lot of this same talk about American elections, that e-voting makes it easier to rig an election. There's stories every election year about hacks on electronic voting machines, stories about votes being flipped in the computer, etc. It makes big news (CNN, Fox, BBC, etc) every four years at least.

This article says nothing about America. The multitudes of articles that DO mention America and electronic voting, especially regarding Diebold voting machines, all sound pretty similar.
Two notes that'll date me pretty well:

(1) I had to port a game engine to solaris a few years ago. In that engine, if you looked up, you'd see a star emitting light. Guess what 3-letter, all-lowercase identifier was conflicting.

(2) Xt (only useful, really, if you're doing Motif work) had a macro or two that looked exactly like a function call, and had a very natural use case for incrementing an index you feed as an argument. If you knew not to do it, no problem. Otherwise, that was a mean bug to track down.
It can't really be used by the general population for some web browsing, but it can easily be used for a variety of other applications.

Most mobile traffic, for example, could probably go over Tor. All background data syncronization could go over Tor. Email and IM could go over Tor.

Assuming you still use a general-purpose computer, and try to execute code on your own CPU rather than someone else's whenever possible, it's easy to have most of your applications (email, RSS, IM, data sync) go over Tor without your noticing.
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I love it when generic meaningless quotes contradict each other:
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,
but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

followed by:

"Any technique, however worthy and desirable,
becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it."
I wonder if an anonymous app like that can actually exist? I mean, couldn't it be used for terrorism or to organize riots?
The present-day biosphere is an effect, as is the fossil record and DNA relations between species.
I recently almost took a position with a company until doing some research and came across their reviews on Glassdoor. Give it a shot, might be what you're looking for.
why does DJ Bernstein advocate using a counter for r (see section 3 of the poly1305 paper)? this RFC uses a random value (derived from the one-time key), which seems reasonable to me (i think there are 106 bits available, so you're getting a collision in 53 bits, which at 1000 connections a second is over 10^5 years).

just seems odd to go to the effort of specifying how to safely implement a counter in some detail in the paper when a random value seems fine (it's also quite possible i've misunderstood something - these are all new to me).
There will be only one.
HP is cutting telecommuting to improve collaboration. What do you think the result will be? When I'm bored at the office I go and mess around with co-workers or find ways to leave early.
Has it occurred to you to read the act? It's readily available. Certificates of death can be considered, but they're not controlling.

On the contrary, you can find a very clear, unambiguous statement that such certificates are not controlling in the SSA's policy documents[1]:

"Give the court's declaration of death based on a presumption great weight depending on the supporting evidence, but is not controlling. The number holder may not be presumed dead for purposes of Social Security until he or she has been missing for 7 years and the presumption of death is not rebutted as instructed in GN 00304.050A.1., in this section."

And this isn't just about him wanting to be declared alive -- the Social Security Administration is going to want back the benefits it paid out, and it's going to want to sue him and his family to get them, not the other way around.

[1] https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200304050
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I didn't really mean to argue about rights, or maybe I did and I just didn't realize. What you are calling "rights" is properly qualified as "legal rights". I am not suggesting there are legal rights in the state of nature, I am just pointing out that there is an entirely different category of rights and that "rights" refers to both categories. This other category of rights, which I'll call natural/human rights, corresponds to morals, whereas the legal rights category corresponds to laws. Typically laws and thus legal rights have some basis in agreed upon natural/human rights. See Wikipedia, which also lumps human rights in with natural rights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights

Since I'm pretty sure you've encountered the terms natural rights and human rights before, and that you understand that they specify morals without being legal rights, and that we don't basically disagree about how things work, nor do we even disagree philosophically on a wide variety of issues (perhaps importantly that moral absolutism is terrible), I was more curious about whether you think world federalism is a good idea...
That's your opinion. There are plenty of people who feel that the concept of an afterlife is a very comforting one and would prefer to have it.

Unless you can prove that humanity is better off with statistical significance, please shut up about religion on hacker news! :)
Yeah, blame the messenger.
- Posted links to my personal Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Tumblr,
- Posted links to my company Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin
- Quibb, Growthhacker.com, HackerNews, Reddit r/startups
- Asked some experts to make comments
- Asked some people to share it
- Asked some people to upmod the story (but don't tell pg!)
- Retweeted some people posting links to it
- Promoted the Tweet from @yesgraph. Promoted the post on Facebook.
- Ask people that got in touch after my /r/startups AMA to help spread it.
- Linked to this thread from the blog post
- Engaged in the comments on HN, reddit, and the blog

I think driving the process quickly and keeping it socially appropriate is more about how you do it and not what you do. If you see another YesGraph post on Hacker News within 2 weeks, then I'll know what I'm doing it right.

I should also stress that I think this is a good post, better than my last one on the blog. That matters a lot too.
Make it work. Then make it pretty.

You missed a step.
I'm biased since I do simulations but you're being too harsh on force fields. All the proteins in the paper I mentioned had their structure correctly predicted starting from an extended state. Correct structure and folding time! That's a serious accomplishment compared to the decade-old papers you're citing.
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My mother told me the story of a girl whose IQ she increased by 30 points in one day!

After observing the first IQ test, my mother recommended that the severely abused girl be tested by a woman instead of a man. Voila! Magic! The IQ increased.

(Both IQ tests would have been administered at Stanford back in the 1950s.)
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." -- http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Try finding some multireddits. They are shareable collections of subreddits you can pass around.
It's bad enough that ISP's, wireless carriers and even the governments themselves are trying to turn the Internet into another TV medium, where only the broadcast matters, and with preferably a lot of "unlikable" content getting censored off the Internet (just like on TV), and with 10-tier pricing levels, so those corporations can squeeze as much money as possible out of everyone.

And now W3C wants to help this trend? No thanks. As a user of the Internet, which they say they put "first", I say I don't want the Internet to turn into TV and everything else that implies.
The thing about anonymity that it is not about someone taking a single anonymous action. It is hiding the identity of a whole person, a person with many habits and many attributes.

All the information a person produces tells a certain amount about their habit and attributes. The more information one produces under a single handle or for a single purpose, the more information you "leak" about the person who is acting and the more a determined adversary can use to find less protected, less anonymous outputs that have the same signature.

So it is hard to be anonymous anywhere. Maybe you have shown how a determined person can take anonymous actions online. But the problem is people skimp somewhere. You can say X got caught because they didn't take Y precaution. But what may be going on is that with X's resources, he/she can only some lesser level of precautions elsewhere. Given that she/he wouldn't/couldn't do the rest of the protections, he/she figured there wasn't a good reason to do Y - X could been right in that X's life remained a bit happier tell inevitable day he/she was caught.

td;dr; It's not the door but building you gotta secure and buildings are expensive.
At my company, we populate pre-production data with old production data. If an item number has changed, we have a script that converts the old item into a new item number or drops it altogether. If Product A is no longer sold but Product B is now being sold, the script will convert Product A sales and pricing figures into Product B's data. It's just so we have some "real" numbers to test with. Every few months, this data is refreshed with current (old) data.

Of course, we also have random number generation to populate the fields with junk if we can't get real data (personally identifiable information). In that case, it's just junk that looks like real numbers. This scenario from the article isn't that far outside of what a normal business might do.
I was pretty excited about starting this course, I'm on chapter 5 of Professional Javascript, and I've completed all but one of the JavaScript sections one Codecademy (Objects II is all that's left).

This isn't the first time that I've tried to learn JavaScript. I understand the syntax fairly well (loops, arrays, functions, objects, etc.) but I still feel as if I haven't made any progress at all when it comes to knowing how to build something useful. I'm comfortable with HTML and CSS, and I've added basic jQuery functionality to simple web apps, but if I had to write JavaScript from scratch that actually does something helpful I would still be totally lost.

The assigned readings in this course are extremely tedious, and make it seem as if it would be impossible to retain much of the information, because none of it seems to apply to a beginner. I understand everything I've read, but it seems more like I'm delving into obscure technical details about the ECMAScript standard and less like I am learning how to do anything(It's almost like reading an RFC). Definitive JavaScript is allegedly better suited to beginners, but it seemed the same to me. I'm still going through the suggested lesson plan, but when exactly am I going to feel as if I've learned how to write a program?
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I bought a certificate from Digicert last year which is approaching expiration. In the past few months, I've received cold sales calls from a number of other providers claiming to offer the same service level at much cheaper rates.

What are the main factors that must be considered when selecting an SSL certificate provider? Who do you use, and why?
Are you sure this isn't placebo effect? I.e. you've always had this capacity, but the reason you're having success is because you're now focused on utilizing it. That's somewhat different from not having the capacity in the first place.
Thanks, I appreciate the details. There definitely is a "happy path" for each platform, where tools/docs/developer support and getting into the marketplaces and so forth is much simpler and well-understood - things can get dicey when you stray from that.
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This isn't about politics in the sense of it being a debate about policy. This is a funny example of technological misuse exposing a government for rigging an election. Technology and freedom tend to be two of HNers biggest interests, and being interesting to a lot of HNers is the criterion for what's on topic here. If you personally aren't interested in current events, as with any other topics technical or not, you don't have to read those articles.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." -- http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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A smartphone app leaking election results before voting starts is an "interesting new phenomenon," IMO.
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That's an excellent point. One I completely overlooked. If it's the case this was done intentionally to cause outrage in Azerbaijan, get people complaining and to spark a movement towards a democratically elected government, then I'd consider the guy that released the data a hero.
Try this quiz. It's based on a quiz I saw posted on HN a while back.

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/3973f/1

Edit:
I'm not allowed to reply just yet, so I'll post here.

You need to add the boss first to the employee table with a NULL bossID.

Then you add another employee that has a bossID that refers to that last added record.
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"Evolution itself is pretty much outdated theory."

No, it is not. It continues to bear rich fruit to this day.

Actually, since Darwin's conclusions in On the Origin of Species remain largely intact to this day, their age makes them better, not worse.
I agree that breaking backwards compatibility from 3.81 to 3.82 was not a good idea.

However, breaking compatibility from 3.x to 4.x is perfectly fine and won't cause any surprisings. After all, that's what major version number are good for.

(... at least in their original meaning, before various free software projects started some strange kind of race with their major version numbers)
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My general rule of thumb is: don't trust a cryptography tool that has a catchy name. TrueCrypt has always creeped me out for that reason. Or maybe it's the idea of a "downloadable" filesystem (ok it's not technically a filesystem) driver that thinks it can run on more than one operating system and still do a good job of it.

I've never seen what's wrong with dm-crypt. It just works, and is mostly transparent.
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