skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot harder than most people think. A fun exercise is to seek out some message board or facebook page for a group of people you have nothing in common with and see if you can repurpose or create content that engages them. Create a mailing list and see how many people you can get to sign up. It's great practice and you'll quickly realize how insanely difficult it is to interact with people regarding a subject they are passionate about without sounding like a paid shill. It's easy for those of us with a technical background to belittle the marketing folks, but there's an art to it that isn't readily apparent until you are staring at that proverbial empty piece of paper.

Edit: the oatmeal comics are a perfect example of this. The best advertising doesn't look like advertising.
Spam isn't a security problem, it's an abuse problem. All spam protection systems I know of rely at least somewhat on secret special sauce.
Nobody has observed gravity either, only its effects.
There's nothing inherently insecure about it, it's just more information that a potential attacker has to use against your system. Obviously, if someone breaks into your system from the information in a traceback, it's likely because of a deeper security hole in your system, so hiding tracebacks is just security through obscurity, but given the choices of publicly showing this information vs not, it's better not to.

WRT to open source: in open source software, you theoretically have many benign eyes vetting your code for security issues, whereas with closed source applications, the only people who are looking for security holes are you and attackers. :)
I see what you mean but he, Ladar Levison, did offer to write the software to do logging for all users when there is a warrant. The FBI wanted to use the ruling as a way to circumvent warrants and scoop everything. So although the title is technically correct it omits the "why" since it makes better link bait.
It is always interesting to see how where the big hitters of the web came from and what their roots were. Looks like the team behind Kick Starter had a pretty solid vision considering they stuck to it for so long until the final release. Respect.
I wish more people understood this. People alwayss complain about gridlock, but gridlock is great. It might block progress sometimes but it blocks regresssion just as often. It ensures that changes tend to have wide popular support.
This post says some obvious (but good and valid) stuff but doesn't propose a solution. Images almost by definition showcase visual design not other types of design. Images are a incredibly convenient medium to produce and transmit. Nice visual design can be digested and appreciated nearly instantly. Hence image-oriented design showcases are at the center of the zeitguest of app design.

Come up with a low-friction, high-speed way to share other facets of design, like interaction and information hierarchies, and then the macro-discussion will reach further into those areas. Currently the best medium for this is launching a prototype in an app store or web and publishing it around. You can see how this compares to "uploading a png" to understand the downstream effects.
One thing that would be great here would be autocompletion. I often forget exactly what the syntax of "CREATE TABLE" is or which options I can use. The same goes for infrequently used SQL functions (now is that date_diff or datediff?).

You could combine autocompletion with a doc panel that automatically updates to show the "quick reference" for the keyword you're currently typing.
It is expected to fetch between $500,000 (£312,000)
and $750,000.

The special edition Leica M camera features an anodised
aluminium case with tens of thousands of individual
perforations.

The camera took 85 days and more than 735 hours
to manufacture.

During that time more than 550 models and 1,000
prototype parts were made and tested; 55 engineers
worked on the process.

The best part about writing for the BBC without a byline is that no one can criticize you as an individual, when you start spewing hyperbole and completely unrelated statistics in an illogical fashion, for the purpose of making retarded embellishments that go over like a lead zeppelin.

But hey, it's for charity, so the Madison Avenue bullshit artistry is (almost) excusable.
The point is there is already someone who has implemented the almost the exact same functionalities, and its code is open source. However, it seems like someone is still shamelessly trying to capitalize on it.
This is why I stopped incorporating Event Horizon's gravity drive into my apps. Kept getting results from the future. And hell, that too.
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Nobody observed the effect of evolution.
Ah, yes! It just hit me. [Here was an incoherent rambling from someone who really should go to sleep]. Your explanation fitted my biased model but I focused on my beliefs, not yours. My mistake, sorry. Don't know if I made much sense, really sleepy now :]

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.
There are probably a bunch of people on HN who think what the US government (or others) does in the war on drugs is ethically up there in the same ballpark as genocide. (I'm not among them.) Starting the reasoning from that perspective it's just as easy to see DPR's action as defensible as it is to see shooting the blackmailer in the Nazi example as defensible. Starting the reasoning from a more conservative prior, though, it's harder to tell. (Of course it's easy to see it's completely unjustifiable if in the prior mindset "ordering a hit on someone" is automatically unjustifiable.)

If you asked me what I would decide in a situation similar to DPR's two weeks ago, I doubt "put a hit on the blackmailer" would have crossed my mind... That's a totally different world to me. I think I might try guilt-tripping the blackmailer over the consequences if he released the information, or offer him a lesser amount of funds to buy some personal security against or transportation away from the supposed creditor... Who knows how successful either of those would be in stopping the release?

I'm curious what you would have had DPR do and what do you think the consequences would be?
Newson seems to really like perforation:
http://cdn0.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/marc...
http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2010/09/dzn_Nike-Zvezdochka...
http://www.thebohmerian.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Moder... http://25.media.tumblr.com/tDKhyxB37qrkb3g3wZIeQyQwo1_500.jp...
>To me it seems we have a culture that doesn't value well-being in general.

It seems very much up to the individual to fight the battle. i.e. pay for gym, make an effort to go & pay for healthy food etc.
Title is very misleading - police were at the door to talk, but there certainly was no "raid".

Source: Dutch person who can read the original article - didn't bother with the translation.
"I'm working on a project to dramatically diminish the need for animal-testing in science experiments"

That sounds straight up crazy since animal-testing is an improvement on human testing but big ideas are always intimidating.
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Andrea Kuszewski is awesome! I recall reading this when it published, have been following her on twitter ever since.
Or read a harbinger of what is to come.
> Because is a religion with the same Genesis book on the bible

But not the same view of the role of the Bible in the religion -- sola scriptura is a doctrine of the Protestant Reformation.
Some screenshots would be nice.
Evolution is about replicators. Living things tend to be replicators, but not all replicators are living.
Couldn't this be just fake data that the developer used to test the app ?
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It's a crap because it's created by someone who is stupid enough to try recreating something that's already been created long time ago. Use it to capitalize on you sublime novices.
School basically teaches all the wrong lessons for people going into professional work. Memorize minutiae, plug and chug, devalue high level understanding, concentrate on trivial problems, etc. It's a shame that apprenticeship has fallen out of favor, it's such a vastly superior method to teach professional skills.
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Considering the Bush elections, you could say we've already been there.
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The methods supposedly used by the CIA here seem terrible for the reasons mentioned (especially always meeting at the same pizza place).

My knowledge of intelligence comes mostly from old movies but it still feels like I could have thought of something better.

My guess is the methods were really simple just to keep people from screwing it up, that the thing about complicated methods is that they fall apart from people forgetting all the complicated schemes and so they're worse than simple methods (sometimes). But that's just a guess, anyone know?
A Strange Lonely Planet without a Star
why not support for real time jamming?
You'd first have to define intelligence.
Hanlon's Razor in action?
Teach for America recommendations: I stopped writing them
Snark aside, I feel very sorry for those involved in pushing out the "results" early. I cannot see anything good happening to them.
It appears that the new study is as flawed as Jaeggi's previous one: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/10/... (comment by this guy: http://www.uncg.edu/~mjkane/)
I'm getting really tired of the politics posts on here. Can we please stop upvoting stuff like this? If I want to be outraged I'll go to /r/politics.
This is why it's a bad idea to be a technical cofounder for something you're not passionate about. It will most likely fail, and you'll be out of a ton of programming hours with nothing to show. At least if you're being paid you can go home with a paycheck each month.
They are criminals. Why on Earth should anything 'good' happen to them as a result of this?
How do you find out about company culture?
I recently had a startup implode and as the engineers began getting gobbled up by other projects- they couldn't find a level review site for company culture.

Is there a site or value in having a common rank for culture Aspects like dress code, freedoms, food etc?
There aren't monkeys anymore, that's just a lie Big Nature Documentary is trying to push down our throats. Have you actually seen a monkey outside a carefully staged "exhibit" at a zoo? If you believe that, you probably believe that magicians can conjure a rabbit from a hat.
None of these things are funny or true for that matter.

> Evolution itself is pretty much outdated theory.

Evolution as an abstract model is pretty old, but it's not likely to ever be outdated. To this day, it describes accurately what is going on with any kind of adaptive system, not only in biology but also computer science and information theory, and one could make some convincing arguments for physics as well.

> Genetics, biochemistry and ethology are light years beyond Darwin.

It's true that Darwin didn't necessarily know much about the inner workings of what he was observing. All he could do is make the actual observations, and reason about them. This led to a key idea about how organisms develop, and it is this idea that became part of the basic tool set of any scientist, it's right up there with Pythagoras and Newton. Genetic and biochemical research didn't really exist in Darwin's time, but the principles he described are found everywhere you look in these fields. And if it hadn't been for Darwin, someone else would have found this out, it became gradually more inescapable the more data we gathered. In fact, today it wouldn't be called much of an achievement at all, since the mechanism is so obvious and ubiquitous whenever you look at bio data.

> - God could use evolution as a tool. And God could also create Earth with all those fossils underground just for a joke.

Those two are actually somewhat mutually exclusive. Either you believe that some kind of deity "uses" evolution as a tool, at which point people should ask themselves what the point of having gods is if they're not actually doing anything measurable at all.

The second point, although you meant it as a joke, is actually harder to argue with - because it leaves reason so far behind it becomes difficult to have any meaningful discussion about it at all: there is nothing in principle to say against the argument that our whole environment and history could be manufactured. We would have no way of knowing that, in fact there would be no way of knowing the actual age of the universe. It could be 2 seconds old in that case. All we have to reason against this approach is an argument from plausibility and Occam's razor.
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> impossibly enormous and can never be fully calculated.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that.

A quantum computer can handle the fermion sign problem by scaling polynomially with the number of particles instead of exponentially. Estimates for if/when such a practical device will be created vary wildly but I would think the possibility of this, along with new techniques that take advantage of the redundancy inherent to certain categories of problems and efficiently diagonalize the Hamiltonian could accelerate the rate at which we can handle larger and larger systems. It's kind of hard to predict what breakthroughs will be made, but I'm staying optimistic.

EDIT: Then again, looking at your posts on here, I suspect you already know all that ;)
Apart from being one of the greatest Asian actors of the 20th century. He is also a great teacher of philosophy, psychology and behaviour. His teachings are always so profound and thoughtful.

Bruce Lee will always be missed!
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As with most consumer prducts, the limitation isn't technical, it's what will drive sales and increase profit.

If you figure out a slick new way to mirror a phone's display, congrats, you've just cannibalized a major brand differentiator in the sales process. Better to require an updated car surrounding that updated software.

It made no sense to me a few months ago when I experienced this issue test driving an Audi. The salesman told me to hold off on purchasing a Q7 because it didn't have the updated software yet, but that next year's model would. Said the Q5 did have it now, so he was advising the purchase of a cheaper car due to the software stack.

Clearly there is room here to innovate. I believe Apple is facing this same issue with their upcoming Apple TV product.
That would, at least, have been a more plausible cover story than the official one ("The previous elections data was accidentally released" -- even though the candidates were the ones from this election, not the previous one.)
Lesson 7: You need to stick with it

I'm trying to do this right now. I challenged myself to do 100 consecutive days of commits to my side projects and I'm currently at day 94. Unfortunately, my private repos don't show up in my streak unless I'm logged in, but most of them are here: https://github.com/jonstjohn .

I've still bounced between about 3 projects in the past 3 months. I struggle with what seems like it should be the last 5-10%, although I'm looking at forcing myself to launch even if I'm not happy with everything.
The hit in the complaint I read basically had the extortionist (FriendlyChemist) say he needed $500K to pay a dealer. DPR asks to talk to the dealer, and FC drops out of the picture and the dealer is happy to settle for $150K or so.

That makes zero sense, if $500K was actually owed. I doubt DPR was so naive to think that instantly a new contact would come online and trust him completely and be willing to negotiate a murder.

It looks FAR more likely that DPR and FC both "knew" the "dealer" was just FC on another account, and it was a way of negotiating that let DPR look "hard".

The complaint also makes it clear that police found no evidence of such a murder around the timeframe given.
I don't have that feature exactly, but I can offer this - if you have a table of regularly-formatted text data, you can paste it into the "Text-to-DDL" feature to have it automatically generate your CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO statements.
Just remember science is about what and how, when you get to stuff like why, it's philosophy. 90% of all of the ridiculous arguments that seem to happen around this subject appear due to the inability to keep these separate.
Maybe they could use procedural generation. Introversion software had been working on the tech to do that awhile back for one of their games
What do you mean by "outdated"? Scientific theories don't go off with age, they depend on evidence and the scientific evidence continues to point to evolution as the best theory. Modern biology might be more advanced than it was in Darwin's day but nothing's disproved the fundamental ideas. That's like saying that the discovery of the Higgs boson makes the Earth orbiting the Sun obsolete.

And as for your second point, it's true. God could use evolution as a tool. God could hide fossils as a joke. God could just be having fun by letting us build up our quaint little theory of evolution before suddenly dumping a herd of unicorns in the savannah. God could, if he existed, do pretty much anything for any reason completely incomprehensible to us. And that's precisely where creationism falls down as a scientific theory - any flaw is just covered by "maybe God did it just because" and it can't be disproved.
As much as we'd love to support real time simultaneous recording or jamming, the latency in the internet makes it impossible (1)

We do support, however, real-time production. After you record a track, it becomes almost-instantaneously available to other people, so they can record their own on top, mix it, or whatever.

(1) To be extremely fair, you can achieve real-time jamming 1:1 if you buy super low-latency specialized audio interfaces and are connected with someone that doesn't live too far away in an area of the world where the internet infrastructure is awesome. So it could work intra-city in the US or some parts of Europe for example. But it would still be 1:1 and not really for "bands" in the broader sense.
The submitted website doesn't do a good job of letting me know what's going on. Subjectively, the tone is a bit of a turn off for me.

Here's some more information about what's happening to them. http://overlawyered.com/2013/08/cpsc-sues-defiant-ceo-indivi...

The submitted article has a gently misleading FAQ = "HOW MANY KNOWN INCIDENTS ARE THERE OF SWALLOWING OF BUCKYCUBES®?
0." - they don't mention the numbers of people who swallowed Buckyballs.

Here's an old press release from CPSC http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/2012/CPSC-Sues...
What ancarda said.

Truecrypt's UI/UX sucks at the moment. I'd love an alternative. I just discovered the CLI interfaced mentioned in another thread, which I intend to use over their GUI going forward.
You could... you would also be fairly stupid for comparing two elections with virtually no similarities.
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That is so disturbing it exceeds my meager vocabularies ability to adequately to express my disgust.
Evolution is observable.
Reddit has a lot of information especially if you find your /r subreddit. But as to meaningful conversation I find there are hardly any in the fun subreddits apart from comments like "cool", "awesome" and the likes.

On the opposite end the communities for serious subreddits are very helpful but you have to be in the right groups to be able to get the right answers you require.
It could still be useful to try a tool like zynamics bindiff to compare a build from the source against the binary download.
In other words, America is so un-corrupt and perfect, let's create a spectacle out of every similar story that takes place around the world so that Americans don't question the legitimacy of American institutions.

The implicit storyline is American exceptionalism, which is most valuable when it can be used to justify wars and military action that would otherwise be considered inappropriate or morally questionable.

When you consider what percentage of so-called "world news" is stuff like this, newspapers start to seem like they are all state run propaganda operations. I realize that part of it is just the entertainment value people derive from feeling superior to others, even when the others are presented as victims, but an objective, critical media would simply ignore most stories like this in favor of less juicy but more impactful stories about local/national issues.
Goatdb
I was thinking the same thing, but then why would the numbers be so skewed as to mirror pretty much what corrupt election results would look like?
I was thinking the same thing. The phrase "Somebody's going to be fired over that" comes to mind, but that is probably naively optimistic.
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It's a tech-related fumble. I think it's appropriate.
On Encrypted Video and the Open Web
Totally logical. Who's Mitnick?
Nah I totally get what you're saying. I'm just trying to teach myself some marketing skills at the moment (coming from a tech background) and I can't seem to get any traction at all. Interestingly I'm actually doing the exact mailing list thing you suggest already (conversionnewsletter.com). It's far harder than I though it would be from the outside and, as you say, great practice.
3-5 anonymous hops wouldn't be a bad thing in the future, say ~5yrs assuming continued investment in better broadband infrastructure as well as investment in Tor nodes.

The performance drop could hypothetically be unnoticeable to the user. Just as most TCP handshakes are.

This has to become a movement indeed towards pervasive cryptography. Tor's design isn't the real problem. The lack of Tor nodes/efficient broadband is the real problem.
Yep.

For my customers, that was the day that the election results came out a day early and conclusively proved that there was no hope of ever having a democratic government.

For me, that was just another Tuesday--"git push production --force"

:)
Because it was probably presented to senior politicians prior to being released, and they'd want to see "optimistic" test data.