skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I LOVE that video! He's right on point. Here's our take on the subject: http://kunvay.wistia.com/medias/4272c23ee2
Do posts like "I'm leaving Hacker News" count as drama content?
He says "traversing a tree to find the shortest path". Sounds an awful lot like he is confusing graphs and trees. You don't really tend to path find with trees. Am I right?

Trees are very useful. Graphs are occasionally useful. But you can't really say what is useful until you know it. One of the sadder truths of education/learning.
This already somewhat exists naturally in the form of kava kava.
It's not even necessarily always anonymity, but about being able to break the most obvious links.

It's easy to find my name from my HN userid. If you google it, my first name comes up tied to other accounts.

But if you search for my name, HN does not come up on the first page at least.

Nevertheless, I'm sort-of conscious that what I post on HN is easy to tie to me real-world.

On Reddit, I use another username. Not because I'm particularly worried about individuals making the connection - if you look through my comment history on Reddit, it is fairly trivial to figure out who I am. The other direction is slightly trickier, but probably not much.

But I don't want someone just casually typing my name into Google to get page up and page down with comments I have made in what amounts to casual conversations.

That Google does not appear to understand that compartmentalisation is part and parcel part of social interaction, and that people put an enormous amount of effort into adjusting their identity for different situations, or if they do understand choose to willingly and knowingly ignore it, says heaps about the company. I don't know which alternative is worst, but it's one more reason to tell the Google recruiters to go away next time they call...
That's right. I was referring to Ivanov and he was well and truly busted recently and has now 'retired.'
Stack Exchange does this.
"Want to go to the arcade now that we don't have open containers to worry about?"
and text like “Link will be sent to your mail for to update your Password.” sprinkled throughout public facing parts of the website, which just doesn’t give your customers the best impression of you and your business.

Poor spelling and grammar only seems to be relevant when made by someone who is not writing in their first language.
"If nobody wants to buy your startup right now, you should just give up and open source it."
Sounds like an amazing breakthrough; I'd love to know more about this. How closely do the effects mimic that of alcohol? Can you overdose? Is there reason to believe that this could be similarly priced to alcohol?
Hard to see what it could mean. And even if some genius came up with some currently inconceivable insight that could also be added to the computer's repetoire.
And Leap Motion is way better than both.
Congratulation to all of you, thrilled to see all the new improvement that will arrive in next version !
Where does it happens?
C++ dynamic datatype at runtime
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm aware of the subreddit drama you are referencing, but it didn't make a big splash in the communities I frequent - apart from mentioned SRS derailing a couple of legitimate discussions that in no way deserved to be characterized as misognystic.
In my first interview, one question asked was "How do you maintain a healthy work/life balance" which was really encouraging.
This is a dumb question, but is Julia named after anyone in particular?
> Basically, if I can get you to react with misogyny, I have a level of control over you.

The solution is not to innoculate yourself against emotional response. Trust, but verify. Be emotional and empathetic, but do your homework and don't be a sucker.

Such an approach would allow yourself to empathize with the targets of bigotry without exposing yourself to the hypothetical psychopathic affirmative action boogeyman. And I am far more afraid of decades of social justice being undone by the normalization of bigoted attitudes in society than I am of a few scheming manipulative social justice warriors.
I just want to point out that no matter how beneficial a drug is and even if it claims its minus the health risks, there is an inherent risk in taking any drug. Drugs can affect everyone differently and even a healthier version of something will have some effects, whether short or long term. Plus, if its just alcohol with no downside, the abuse of this drug seems like it would be rampant.

Although my comment might seem like I am against the drug, I am all for it. Especially from a business perspective.
Beware anything you can't manufacture/grow yourself. If its fun, and you didn't cook it yourself: forget it. You're going to lose.
For the sake of argument, let's say I agree with you.

What are the corresponding points in those scenarios off the top of your head where being forced to use your full, real name is a middle-ground good?

I can't see a benefit to the people in your stories having used their real name in the first place.
For a Business:

* Its a Financial Risk in terms of Commitment to deliver for what is paid for.

You Don't know if the person is really spending the hours he spent.

There is nothing that can save your system, your business, because the business is your life, "Not Necessarily" his.

* Time and Commitment are absent in unwritten understandings.

For a Contractor/Freelancer:

* Its a Financial Risk with respect to the commitment to be paid for deliverable.

* You get only the advance, no matter how complicated the solution you have provided.

* Requirements may change any time, you don't know what you are working and there is no line between success and a failure.
Alcohol production has thousands of years of refinement and tradition behind it- pretty hard to beat as a marketing establishment. If the majority of people were just after pleasurable effects we would have most likely shifted to a more effective drug a long time ago.
For working scientists, engineers and mathematicians, that are already familiar with LaTeX, this seems to be an easy and natural path to achieve (part of) the vision of Bret Victor.
The Google homepage seems like a very valid point.
But when you open a new tab, you are typing in the address bar - and the autocompletion is enabled.

Ah, the irritative arrogance. I am quite happy about it because it led to a fair amount of exchanges about what I wrote, including yours.
What I really can't understand is - and my point of view is very likely to be biaised by my own experience - why do people do not go for the fastest and what seems to me the easiest way?
I'm very sure you can help me with that.
His stamina is undoubtedly a major strength. And this is allied with his uncanny ability to keep pressure on his opponents in even the most apparently even positions. This pressure mounts and the psychological impact is devastating because his opponent knows that the most tiny inaccuracy will be noted and he will immediately be under still more pressure. This pressure to play perfectly is gruelling over 6-7 hours. The thing that most people don't appreciate is that a player like Carlsen, even against the most phenomenal opponent like Anand, is like a python, the slightest pause for breath, the most minute inaccuracy, and the coils tighten. It's suffocating.
I never went to GT. I have hanged out with the Tech Square folks of different stripes. Stanford and Silicon Valley might not be mentioned among the student populous in general, but among the crowd that are actually in the Tech Square building (the Centergy building), there were a lot more entrepreneurial folks, many of them not students or faculty. There were comparisons to Silicon Valley. There were complaints about conservative Georgia investors.

Tech Square isn't physically located near the rest of the main campus. You had to cross a bridge over the I-85/I-75 canyon. I knew folks who had their startups hosted in that building, as well as others who show up for the Ruby meetup there. These folks were not thinking about big industry, they were thinking about VCs, valuations, MVPs, etc. I remember hearing many of them talk, way back in 2007, about the lack of interest in high tech startups in general.

The sentiment this professor reported in the articles were things I have heard echoed among the folks hanging out there.

It does not surprise me at all that the main student population are not aware of this. For example, as popular as the Atlanta Ruby User's Group is, we hardly get any GT students who show up there.
This Is How You're Going To Screw Up Two-Factor Auth
Nah, just telling me how do you behave when it comes to typing URLs will do the job :)
Doesn't return the intensity of reflection depend on the color and surface finish of the target? i.e. a white sofa reflects more light than a black sofa?
Why?
He is still a great player.
If you still have a problem with snapchat you don't understand human behavior, startup dynamics, advertising and large audiences.
This option is not available for me. I can't disconnect my Youtube account without deleting Google+.

I also found no way to create a pseudonymous page for my Youtube Account.

And I've found no way to delete my Youtube account.

After searching and looking around in the user forums for some time I've gave up.
The same story from 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6874884/Alcohol...
I've owned every Kindle (except the DX) and while the Paperwhite is my favorite, I really wish they would remove the touch screen page turning and add the physical buttons on the side. The touch screen works great for searching Amazon or even making short notes, but I find that I accidentally turn the pages way too much.
Maybe, but if this thing works it's way more appealing to me and I would quit completely alcohol. I've been looking for a healthier replacement but it's pretty hard to find.
Plenty of street drugs are manufactured in university labs
No, not really.

What happens sometimes is that there is insufficient memory. This happens if you do a lot of apt-get update and upgrade, or run other stuff. My relay just starts at boot and then does nothing else.

EDIT:
I chose 600 kb/s because this means that my cpu (almost) never hits 100%, but is still pretty active.
Is your reply bourne out of experience?

Mail hasn't changed much in more than a decade. Systems like Ubuntu update cleanly from release to release. Maildirs are very easily migratable.

You can literally set up a new mail host, and then rsync the old Maildir contents -- aka, all your user's e-mail -- onto your new host, whenever time permits, without disrupting mail delivery or reading. User's historic e-mail will simply gradually fill in.

If your VPS disappears, or hardware failure occurs, or user error strikes -- simply restore your Maildirs on a new system from your backups (tarsnap works great!).

This documentation is long and thorough, but once you know what you're doing, setting up a basic mail server, even manually, should only take you a few hours at the most.
Chess is as much a psychological battle as it is a technical one. Playing against computers is really a different thing.
Good point. I'll also add that we're reasonably sure what alcohol does. We've been drinking it for thousands of years, and it's been extensively studied.

Does this drug have unknown side effects that outweigh the visible benefits? Only time and extensive testing will tell. Alcohol's already been through that gauntlet.

Of course, as with the parents comment, I'd love to see this work. Just don't assume that it's "safe" because we've shown it doesn't have X number of adverse effects we specifically looked for, within a limited timeframe.
The "Bulgarian cheater" he's referring to is Borislav Ivanov (http://en.chessbase.com/tagged?tag=Cheating). The evidence against him is overwhelming, especially this statistical analysis of Ivanov's games (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/ACPcover-an...)

The links you posted are about Vasik Rajlich, who was banned from the World Computer Chess Championships over allegations of GPL violations.
I would like to add this - kind of the major point he's getting into --

> The anonymity of reading is the central, fundamental guarantor of freedom of the mind. Without anonymity in reading there is no freedom of the mind. Indeed, there is literally slavery.
One might even say that inline links is the primary feature of hypertext.

That said, I've come to like the footnotes.
> Even if you're introverted, you have the same responsibility as everyone else to communicate in order to get things done.

That goes both ways - if you're dealing with an introvert it might benefit you to communicate in a different style and with a different frequency. Some management books even provide models for quick and dirty social analysis so that people can do so. The model I've found most immediately applicable is:

Extroverted

|

Person focused ----- Task focused

|

Introverted

You can pick up on that sort of thing fairly easily, when people speak how loudly do they speak - do they project their voice? When they talk do they gesture a lot with their hands? When they talk is about things or people? Does their tone of voice alter when they talk about different areas - do the volunteer information as readily about those things, ask the same number of relevant questions?
10 Million UK Users targeted with Cryptolocker Ransomware spam emails campaign
Appple rarely pays full price and the non-apple opportunity is far larger. I'd say Leap remains in an even better position.
The higher tax is not on all ebooks. It is on DRM'd ebooks in particular. The goal, as far as I can tell from the translated article, is to discourage DRM and "licensing" of content, and encourage DRM free formats.
After using it for smaller projects, one of the few things I don't like is multidimensional arrays. I would prefer if only arrays of arrays were possible and had some syntax sugar.

Edit: And perhaps some special treatment by the compiler for optimization. I find multi-d arrays counter-intuitive and clumsy on some situations. Also, currently I'm forced to write ugly code like array[x,y][i].
Nice to see an example of a title ending in a question where the answer is a non-cynical "absolutely." :)

And my answer is exactly the same. It actually quite surprised me how much I've more I've appreciated and used the Paperwhite after upgrading recently from a Kindle Keyboard. You simply never have to worry about the lighting, whether too bright or too dim.
It was a proposal and my current opinion on the Bitcoin spam every few days on Hacker News. I wasn't expecting anyone to agree with me, but for one am free to state my opinion.
You can also get a Nook Glowlight in the UK for £49, less than half the price of the Paperwhite.

Spec isn't as good but it does support standard epub books.

http://www.nook.com/gb/tablets/nook-simple-touch-glowlight
ShowHN: importd - d is for django (slides)
If those effective alternatives hadn't been made illegal.
I didn't realize the controller was the only component they'd be making. I agree, that seems smart - especially with how slick they look. I got the impression their foray into hardware was into a more console-like machine.
Yes. As you can see my first relay started out as an exit relay, but my fascist ISP (whom I can not choose or contact) kept on blocking my router's mac address, which made my relay unstable. Since I am not an exit anymore the relay has been running fine.
But it is impossible to create a page if you already linked your Youtube account with a Google+ profile. I did so because I just did not understood what that page was all about. There is no way back. At least I could not find a way.
I really wanted to play with that, but it ran far too slowly without PyGame, and I couldn't get PyGame to run on my mac, so I abandoned it :/
Definitely. In a (directed) tree there are exactly 0 or 1 paths between two nodes. There's no such thing as a shortest path. In an undirected tree there's exactly 1 path between any two nodes---even worse.

You might be representing a graph with a tree however if your nodes are labeled and you want to talk about the shortest path between two nodes quotiented by those labels.
I would be fine with them keeping the touch screen (so they don't need a physical keyboard, navigation buttons, etc), but I can't for the life of me figure out why they removed the page turning buttons. This feels like a basic UI thing - 95% of what you are going to do is turning pages, so that should be much easier and reliable than anything else.
I'm just going to echo what everyone else is saying: Contract. Contract. Contract.

A contract isn't some scary legal document full of cryptic legalese. It's a clear description of what services will be provided and what the compensation will be. And on what schedule everything will happen. With details about what happens if things go south.

Most client problems are not as cut-and-dry as "he took all of my work and is laughing at me and lighting cigars with $100 bills while he refuses to pay me for absolutely no reason." Most disputes are based on misunderstandings of some sort. They think feature X was in-scope. You disagree and want to bill them additionally for it. They are withholding pay because they don't consider the project completed. You do. And such. Having to threaten a client will waste a ton of your time and sour relationships -- clients you have disputes with can still be good clients. This is why you write down everyone's expectations at the start.

Most clients aren't evil. They want good relationships with the people who work for them. But disagreements arise. Contracts give everyone a neutral document to refer to and say "look, this is what we agreed upon when we started."

Use contracts.
As much as I agree with the individual points in this article, the idea that this is a conspiracy is somewhat overblown. The fact is that violence on the scale of the Holocaust is scarily common throughout human history. The thing that is most special about it however is its ghastly efficiency, ideology, and modernity. It wasn't the scale of it, 30 million people died on the eastern front, and millions more were raped and terrorized in the territories it covered. It was the character of the Holocaust, its ghastly efficiency and modernity, that makes it so remembered today.

Additionally, in the western wold there is a large population of holocaust survivors keeping the memory alive. There are no currently living Congolese who were alive under King Leopold's reign around today, and their descendants do not have much of a voice in the western world either.

An extreme example of this indifference to things happening far away and long ago is the wars of the ancient world, where the brutality is rarely spoken of today. For instance, the fall of Carthage in the 3rd punic war, wherein the Romans literally destroyed the entire city and killed the vast majority of the entire population, some 445,000 people, a truly massive city in the ancient world.
I agree and I think eventually we will stop fixating on the user input case. There are lots of other huge use cases like counting, tracking, modeling.
To quote the mailing list announcement [1]:

> We will be supporting a 0.2 line of releases that maintains compatibility with 0.2 with minimally invasive bug fixes, so this is a good time to switch to 0.2 for production systems.

This release was a fairly long time coming from the previous 0.1 stable release. If you've been considering trying Julia out but were worried that it was moving too fast (it's been moving pretty fast), this is a good time to try it out. Not only will the 0.2 release line be supported with minimally invasive bugfixes, but also the 0.3 release is going to largely consist of performance improvements.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/-lh_g9eH...
I have owned every Kindle e-reader and currently use a Paperwhite (2012 model) which I find to have the best screen (which is really the most important part of an e-reader) however I much prefer the physical buttons on the regular Kindle. I find the touch screen annoying. The only time the touch screen was a nice to have was the initial setup when I connected it to my wifi.

I still jump back and forth between the Paperwhite and my older model with the physical page turn buttons. What I would really like is a non-touch screen Paperwhite. I would also like to be able to totally disable the backlight rather than just put it to the lowest setting (which is still actually on and more than good enough to read in a pitch black room).
Synthehol, here we come.
On the contrary, I am arguing that these are scenarios where anonymity is a good thing, but which are nowhere near the edge cases of online contributors abusing anonymity or hiding from persecution.
“I am a cross between Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci.”

I guess when you have that many patents to your name, you can speak so highly of yourself?
WTF? I don't know what drug is being sold in that article, but it's likely that it is a GABA agonist. And if it's that there is the risk of drug dependency. We know it because the benzodiazepines and barbiturates are quite addictive.
Check the stats on reddit. There are a ton of people who want topic-focused discussion with strangers on the internet.

G+ seems to be trying to be both a public discussion forum and a hangout for existing friends at the same time. This is part of what makes it often unpleasant.
People don't know the easier ways, and they stick with what works for them?

My experience is mostly with my parents and other more elderly relatives, who are fine with googling stuff but haven't really got the hang of what an address bar even is.

As for 'when you open a new tab', I don't think my parents even understand or use tabs. Also, for older people, precision mouse movements to click into the (relatively small) address bar are fiddly (and then you have to delete the text that is already there...), whereas the big search result boxes are much easier to click on. Speaking of which, they will often click on the top advert for a website rather than the search result. They don't see the difference, and they both take them to the website...

I stand by my points about your arrogance. Failing/not bothering to see other peoples' points of view, or even considering the possibility of your own lack of knowledge, is not an attribute to be proud about.
Congrats on the launch. FYI, there's a small typo in your copy: should be Dragons' Den.
I guess the question is how easily this thing can be studied for health effects. Ecigs look to be getting the kiss of death in the UK from the MHRA because of a lack of long-term studies, the only people who tried to get their ecigs up to a consistent and studied standard beforehand ran out of money as far as I know, so I'm not particularly hopeful that this'll manage to avoid regulatory hurdles.
Black hole, again, now.
Please use <title> so I can tell the tabs apart.
That the incumbents are supposedly giving it the cold shoulder is such a lame angle. Who cares? Go out and make a great new product category!
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

I figure I only read about 10% of the posts on HN, and focus on the ones about actual technologies I might use or evaluate. And honestly, that 10% is all I have time to read anyway, so it works out just right.

The only better option is to go to reddit and subscribe to all the relevant tech subreddits you're interested in and unsubscribe from everything else. That's more like drinking from the firehose though, requires more mental overhead in filtering only the absolutely most useful and relevant.

Also, http://pineapple.io if you just want cool tech and no discussions.