skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view, a large part of the problem is that many of the rules or the way they're enforced borders on the idiotic.

Take [citation needed] as a case in point. It's aggressively and mindlessly waved all over the place, irrespective of pre-existing content in wikipedia itself and obvious factual information.

Say you contribute one or two sentence summary of related pages -- complete with links. Or worse, a sentence or two that expands on an existing statement by merely highlighting the obvious assumptions or implications. Such edits have good odds of being greeted with the dreadful [citation needed] or reversed outright by some random rules zealot.

Adding insult to injury, the latter seem perfectly content with sources such as The Onion and slimy news sites. The thing that really matters is that it must be written somewhere else. It's then up to random editors to decide whether that somewhere else is credible or not.

Admittedly, would-be editors can jump back in to defend their edit, appeal, etc. and even expand on it with the requested citation. But this seldom occurs, because it leaves such a sour taste in their mouth that they grunt in bemusement, scoff the whole thing as hogwash, and move on with their life.
What can go wrong by changing the listening port of sshd?
I have changed the port on my vps purely for less clutter in my logs, but I haven't had anything go wrong because of it.
This is a non issue. Set your iptables to start dropping packages after 3 failed login attempts.
Definitely not an engineering prof. Top university professors (ie. R1 schools) are primarily judged on their research, not their teaching. If your professors "suck" it's because they're spending all of their time on the things that matter to their careers: grant writing and publications.

And students (good or bad) care about exam times because of... procrastination. The "bad" students (of the goof-off variety) don't stick around in engineering. At most of the top schools, a few C's and you're out. The cynical bad students often achieve mediocre grades but compensate by doing cool non-coursework stuff.
I laughed way too hard on this
Me too, although it was less about the individual lecturers than about questioning the value of the whole system. I got mediocre grades overall but excellent grades in a few subjects considered very hard, simply due to finding them interesting and thus being motivated to go to the lectures and putting effort into the assignments. If I could go back, I would not have chosen a five year track.
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As a physics postdoc who is thinking of switching careers, I definitely sympathise with this article. And I agree with almost everything about it, except this line:

Success as a faculty member requires one thing above all else: a good reputation in your field.

And all I really disagree with is the wording - a good reputation does not mean a reputation for excellence. A good reputation means agreeable, means suitably deferential, means knows the correct people and will do as they're told. None of this correlates with excellence...and people who are excellent at research probably don't really want to become faculty, aside from the status and security - it takes away the ability to do research, for a large part.

So I agree with the conclusion that the overall standard of faculty is not impressive to students, but it's not because the faculty are not risk takers or innovative - it's because for the most part, the faculty are political animals, not technical ones. They may also be very good technically, but this is an accident and not a feature of the system and untrue more often as not. The cynical students mentioned in the article will likely sniff that out quite quickly whereas, in my experience, the good students are simply more naive. Both types tend to be just as intelligent and hard working, but the cynical students will work on what they want, rather than what the professor wants.
Very impressive in action in the video. My first thoughts are that this could make some sport games look like there video game conterpart in motion tracking of the ball in play. My second thought is the mirror system they use could be used to equaly send a laser onto the ball enaberling lesser/cheaper systems to track it.

Now whilst I'm sure many are thinking my games console does this, in part it does in the tracking, though you wont see the camera tracking as fast, ever.

One last thought is that such tracking mirror systems would be obselete with the Nokia large CCD appraoch with a fish eye lens and reduced down resolution, which due to the pixel density would still be as good, albeit a cheaper system with a lot less mechinical overhead and expense.
The only thing Pintrest and Snapchat have in common is that they haven't started trying to monetize yet.

Pintrest has about a gazillion ways it can monetize. I'm really anxious to see how they do it.

Just today while driving in the car my wife said "Cool, I just got a [push] notification from Pintrest that a fabric I pinned at JoAnne Fabrics is on sale".

Pintrest is a gold mine and my guess is that they've got a rosey future that doesn't end in acquisition.

Snapchat has an engaged audience. I can't imagine how they'll really monetize their user base in a meaningful way. But they're a really attractive acquisition opportunity for a bunch of companies.

Obviously investors might be more bullish on Snapchat's revenue generating opportunities...
The top professors tend not be judged on their research, in my experience. They're judged on their publications. I, personally, know many 'top' professors that have enormous publication lists that come from being the guy who supplied the money via a grant application. From their publication list - which is what 'proves' their research excellence, you would be forgiven for thinking that they were savants. But they're generally just administrators with an eye for the main chance who view the publication list as yet another thing to be gamed.
Is this going to be in that new Game you are making?
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If you mentioned his name to a thousand people, you'd have less than 10 recognize him.

Contrast with Messrs. Einstein, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Darwin, and Newton.
They won't return them just because he's found not guilty.

They are seized as a part of a civil forfeiture action, which means that their seizure is completely distinct, and is handled in a separate court with a lower standard of proof ("Preponderance of the evidence" versus "Beyond reasonable doubt"). It's entirely possible that the court finds him not guilty, and yet the civil court handling the forfeiture action finds the forfeiture legal.

In order to get anything returned to him, he would have to contest the forfeiture in a civil court, and essentially the burden of proof would be on him to prove that the coins were not gained through illegal means, which would mean he would have to show where and how he got them.

In the end, the US government measures wealth based on the dollar, so he would be returned whatever was gained when the coins were auctioned off.
or https://gnunet.org/
> use EFF's HTTPS Everywhere browser addon for Chrome

Chrome meets all criteria to be classified as malware software, just because a big name company is behind it doesn't make it any less malicious.
> I guess this list is aimed at everybody: it can be implemented without breaking too many habits, and with minimal knowledge.

That's kind of the problem here. The whole situation is in such an advanced stage and so pervasive and based on such "advanced" technology that we simply can not get out of it by keeping our silly little habits that we're so used to. (And yes, it includes shunning the NSA partner companies' products: Google, Microsoft, Skype, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Paltalk, etc.)

This situation requires drastic measures, on the individual/personal level as much as on the societal level.
LA sits very close to the ocean, and at the same elevation. Desalinated water using current technology costs $0.75/cubic meter (recycled water even less), and your average person uses 100 cubic meters a year. So, we're looking at a cost per person of about $6/month for water. With conservation you could easily get that down to $3/month.
Strongly disagree. Teens grow up. Demands on their time changes. Later on they maybe get married, get houses, kids. Life priorities change. Other platforms, tools offer a better fit for their altered circumstances. They move on.

I'll predict that a couple of years from now, the main population left on FB will be 60- somethings who once again are at a stage in their lives where they can afford the time for it.
I think all men are created equal and when someone looks way smarter than the rest, most often he is just faking it?

I think all men are created equal and when someone looks way taller than the rest, most often he is just wearing platform shoes?
How are you going to log in to your shell, with your environment, without a daemon that has the suid bit? A user can never install such an sshd without having root permissions at some point.

If you run ssh on a static port, then it really does not matter whether it is 22 or 2200, as long as it remains static, and everyone knows the correct port.

If it turns out that that daemon is logging your passwords, then someone has already compromised your host.
-ish. Possibly the bot in question is for SEO purposes rather than driving page views to ads.
What's new in Unicode 7.0?
Maybe 5 or 6 years ago ms had a api via .net that allowed for two cursors on the screen and two mouses obviously. The drive behind it was to make applications for developing nations where people could share computers
They're are much more common culprits out their.
This reminds me of course of the Bipolar Lisp programmer :)
http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
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Ask HN: Business Books Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Read
What are some good business books every entrepreneur (tech or non-tech) should read? By business I mean things like sales, marketing, operations, customer service, consumer behavior, advertising, etc.
I use HBO Nordic and can confirm that all of the content is in the original language (usually English) with optional subtitles.
That's right! Moreover, an average user is violated by the government more than he is by a random hacker.
Even so, it is still a very weak security layer that you are adding on to something that is already very secure. Does that really make it less secure?

Now running SSH on a different port is an even weaker obscurity layer, but still, it still adds some security.
This is even more the case at public schools where large class sizes make it even more difficult for research-dedicated professors to engage with students. However, I think it's interesting that the article doesn't really mention cynical "good" students when I think I know more cynical "good" students than cynical bad students or plain "good" students. In particular, several of my friends are international students who pay essentially 4x the tuition I pay. That gives them an extreme incentive to go through college as efficiently as possible. This usually means attending a minimal amount of lectures, self-studying, and only showing up to turn in homework and take exams.

At a public school, especially in an engineering department, there often isn't much a difference between professor and a talking head reading off information from a student's perspective. In fact, one of the things that motivated cynical students quickly realize is that not only is self-study often more efficient than than the traditional go to lecture and take notes approach--it's often a far superior way to learn and you can easily find yourself outperforming students who diligently go to class. Cynical students quickly see through the facade of going to class for the sake of going to class.

The resources at a public school aren't about teaching.

Instead of

+Attend lecture

+Engage with professor who teaches your class

+Complete Assignments

+Take Exams

The flow becomes

+Study out of the textbook

+Complete Assignments

+Take Exams

+Engage with a professor on a research level and try to get out a publication

+Or forgo the research somewhat and try to graduate as soon as possible
Shouldn't be an issue, a doctype declaration is optional in html5. Are you aware of anything not working correctly without it?
> anyone [...] can see an obvious weakness here: the procedural algorithm will produce a pattern that can be found and used to break the key. [...] But what if the algorithm isn’t specific? What if the key describes the algorithm? If the key is data that can be used as an algorithm to produce data, we can create a cycle where the algorithm is self modifying and therefor wont create a pattern.

This doesn't seem right. If "the key describes the algorithm" you need another algorithm to generate the algorithm from the key. This other algorithm is unique and will produce patterns like any other deterministic algorithm. Patterns in the generated algorithms will eventually be reflected in the data.
Your key is based on an insecure RNG. It's trivial to reconstruct the seed and thereby recover the key.

Your key isn't random. It's the same every time.

This example also isn't communicating any secrets, so it's not really cryptography.
'I'm blind, in space, holding a drill. Houston, I have a problem'
It's like someone made an unholy bit of fan-fiction mashing together Robocop, 1984, and the bleak bits of Gibson, and it then was used as a policy document.
Opensource source code??
DOM4 MutationObserver API demo.
DOM4 API MutationObserver demo replacement for DOM3's MutationEvents. random pizza fun
Smolin's book on time is interesting. One of the points he makes is that we are limited in our thinking about the universe by using a language that does not model time - mathematics. Sometimes I wonder if we want things to be fundamentally pure and stateless because we find change so stressful.
My reply is coming late, but I can understand how my point could be unclear. Let's break it down for Zuckerburg's case, and see how it fits. Unfortunately I will have to resort to common lore.

1. "I have experience in this area"
Yes, yes, and hell yes. Zuckerburg was conscious of social dynamics to the nth degree. This is the executive who publicly admitted his company is no longer cool because he's just that realistic and expert.

2. Wow there are under-served market needs here
He seemed to know that it was at the point where the web had become so universal that both male and female students would be entertained by this idea and treat it like a game. American college students f'ing love social games. What Facemash did isn't really possible in the physical world, so it was a new kind of game that appealed to both genders. Young women were an absolutely underserved segment of the digital entertainment market. And for anyone of either gender who doesn't usually like games played on screens, this game was easy peasy and required no hand-eye coordination and had zero learning curve.

3. "have some relevant experience to start a company that addresses it and can attract talent"

He's a coder. He had the idea. He executed. He attracted talent immediately. Coding became a whole helluva lot sexier than before because this was a social game and people liked it. It wasn't DOS or LotusNotes, other runaway successes by coders that probably never got them laid at a frat party. Bill G on the Byte cover anyone?

4. -> Facebook.

What happens when we fill in the alternate?

1. "I'm a wannabe entrepreneur"
Debatable. I was kind of being snarky with this point anyway. But he was a CS major, and he seemed fueled by parlaying his coding skills into social status. I am not his therapist though.

2. "I have no domain specific expert knowledge"
The way he is portrayed, he was an absolute expert at negative social dynamics and appealing to people's social motivations, often in a less than wholesome way. He seems way expert to me.

3. "let's randomly find something we guess people care about and overspecialize"
Here's the CRITICAL point you missed. He did not sit around trying to come up with ideas. He had a razor-sharp, almost game-theoretic perspective on college socialization. He honed in immediately on how to exploit that, scraped the dorm directories, and manifested his idea quickly.

4. -> start coding blindly or find a Rails dev on Odesk

THERE WAS NOTHING BLIND ABOUT WHAT HE DID AT ALL. It was razor-sharp, targeted, deliberate, and in my view, brilliant.

Ie, he had his idea and executed and holy shit did he succeed. He wasn't sitting around twiddling his thumbs dreaming up what feature he could steal from something else as is basically the main point of this article. Friendster and MySpace were knocked out quickly because Zuckerberg was considerably more expert than them.
It absolutely is. I took a California Government class in college that blew my mind about how much of bipartisan political scheming is about water, to this day, because there's so much money in it.

His oft repeated quote was "when politicians agree on something and it stays out of the news, it's usually not in the public interest".

People like to make fun of Las Vegas as a city that wouldn't exist without imported water but most of So Cal wouldn't either. The bad guy in the film Chinatown is loosely based on William Mulholland, the chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Water_Wars
I think "not owning" a car is going to be a big thing. Car sharing even more so.

I used to be one of those people that would never ever give up his car. Giving up my freedom and pinning me to this city? Never.

After having my car broken into and vandalized a couple of times added to the insane cost of parking where I live, I did eventually give up my car 1 year ago.

I now use a car "sharing" service where a company owns 100's of car throughout the country, all bound to their own (extremely convenient) parking spot. I reserve the car 1 minute in advance, open it up with my phone and drive.

The best thing is: It's not my car.

I don't care what happens to it. I just leave it at its little spot after I'm done and I forget about it. No maintenance, hardly ever have to fill it up with gas, billing takes place at the end of the month.

Now imagine this car not having that parking spot but being automated and just picking me up from my doorstep. Not having to put it back into it's designated spot. I would feel pretty awesome about that.
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Look great but unfortunately there is no search. Search is my main entry point into HN.
So, the guy's point is that if someone has access to your machine, then it's ok to make life easier for them to run a fake sshd?
Wow! truly great to see so much love between HNers.

As a long time lurker (occasional commenter etc.) I immediately was reminded of this great essay as soon as I saw this current story.

Just in case you folks had not seen, the old discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476425

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110779
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FTFY ;)

> I have been helping my son learn about programming using Scratch.
I must have some pretty screwed perspective, but I've never thought of 188cm (6'2") as being tall, at least not exceptionally. I'm 193cm (6'4") and I find myself just moderately above average, with many men (talking about men exclusively, of course) quite taller than me. From my experience, I'd expect the average to be around 180cm (6").
+1 I was working in my cushy corporate job while my cofounder (also in the same company) and I tried to get our startup going on the side. Eventually I realized that I just didn't have the time to be successful at both and I had to make a choice. It's been over a year since I left and the learning experience alone was worth it. There is so much work and problems to deal with in building a successful startup that unless you're willing to devote yourself 100% to it, you're not ready for it.
You might find this paper worth a read as it covers garments and water absorbtion/heat disapation effect. Quick read to me a material that will absorb as much sweat as possible will carry on disapating heat better due to captured moisture post sweating. But different sports/enviroments will need be needed, something that retains moisture in a cold enviroment would potentualy overcool them post sporting.

"A Study of Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Material
under Equilibrium Conditions" : http://www.bckiln.ir/Wood_Dryer/download_files/enteghal%20ha...

I also know that the cooling of the feet is a overlooked area as shoes will allow a heat buildup and the blood will happily cicle that heat around. With that if you also cool the feet it will mentaly make you feel colder than you are, same effect wwitht he hands.

So maybe look at cooling gloves as you will have less sweat to deal with and in most sporting/athletic events the hands will always be moving, so air cooling of the gloves will help.
Ok, I think I see what you meant a bit more clearly now.

It's just that every respectable CS department I've seen has some course in machine learning, and most of them also have some kind of course in "Programming Language Paradigms" or something where functional programming, including the map and reduce functions, will be taught.

Though admittedly, the number where functional programming and its related disciplines are taught or researched, or even acknowledged, at any real level is pathetically small. Yet, FP and programming language theory in general are still far more advanced in academia than in industry.
I don't get it, from my understanding they clipped (somehow in a geometric sense) an international treaty with a constitution, normally it's sorry for the treaty.
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Initially, I was using reCAPTCHA on my site. But after hearing from irate users and specially preventing new users from registering, I decided to disable and use a simplified CAPTCHA. Loosing new potential users to CAPTCHA wasn't acceptable.
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