skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry you feel insulted when someone points out that you believe something which is patently false.

>Most economic "laws" apply in competitive markets with limited barriers to entry. It is hard to see how they apply even in an unregulated situation where infrastructure costs are so high and one market participant already has infrastructure in place.

The problem here is certain city councils putting a price tag on the license to lay cable. Government creates a barrier to entry in order to aid Comcast's monopoly. All the laws of economics are intact and this isn't a problem of infrastructure costs.

>There can be more than one problem. In your area regulation may be a significant part of the problem but in other places (e.g. Europe) regulation can really help in places to enable competition.

Government is not a business. It does not enable competition ever. Maybe you feel better telling yourself such fairy tales but there is no example you can point to. People also generally believe things like that IP aids innovation, yet there is not a single study showing this and a bunch of studies showing it hampers innovation. IP is a state-granted monopoly over an idea/pattern/concept.

When it is favorable to certain corrupt city councils, they aid Comcast's monopoly. I didn't mention it but the place I live now which also has no FIOS is Harrisburg, PA. This is the Detroit you never heard of with 7x the public debt per capita vs. Detroit. The long-time mayor took a bunch of loans for stuff like a Wild West museum and left the city crippled with debt. They are in the process of selling off assets to avoid bankruptcy. Same deal here as Baltimore, too expensive to play ball with the city council so it isn't worth it to get a license but FIOS is everywhere in surrounding municipalities.
The first time it happened it came as a shock to me just how bright red blood can be and just how fast it can bleed from a cut on the head. The color is startlingly different from the color I am used to seeing on cuts on hands and legs. I had read about the fact that arterial / oxygenated blood is brighter, but I never expected it to be that bright. I am very susceptible to vaso-vagal syncopes at the sight of blood so the second surprise was that I did not black out seeing it on my nephew. Maybe adrenaline changes that dynamics.

Back to the article, it seems to me it seems that the author strongly wants to believe in a particular hypothesis and trying hard to make a case for it. Not very convinced.
Yeah, these days people don't seem to give a shit to preceding OS projects with the same name. "Ours will be much bigger".
Regardless of all the criticism of the analysis, or whether the analysis is "worth it": this post is a really interesting look into how someone that does photographic forensics professionally operates. I thought it was pretty nifty :)
There's a conveniently placed disclaimer to how he got the "arterial" part (projected image, hardly color correct). From that follows "spray" - so it doesn't really hold water.

Edit: missed the part where you were agreeing with the article, apologies for assuming. He does indeed address that, poorly!
> I ran this photo by a few other people: professional photographers and artists.

There is no information about who these professionals were, their affiliations, their experience or their expertise. I would rather be interested if this was a detailed post about the analysis of at least one of these professionals, and possibly more interested if they were not anonymous.
Ruby (MRI) patched on Heroku to address security vulnerability
There's a weird fetishism of education. Yeah, optimize yourself for education, remain constantly, obsessively learning so you can become a more valuable commodity. It's that entrepreneurial spirit! The spirit of life itself! (What about playing? Save that for a social media platform that valorizes your free labor.)
This might provide you some insight: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Slow-Down-Loop.aspx

In all seriousness, adding interstitials can provide value. If the login performance has high variance, it's better to set an expectation that it will take 5 seconds than leave the user wondering if the click actually worked. Similarly, Apple has done an amazing job with UI transitions in iOS to mask the actual load time.
What Do the Kids Say (what Does the Fox Say Parody)
I'd be interested to hear what you don't like about Object.keys or Array#forEach. Not looking to start an argument, just genuinely curious why you prefer a utility library over native methods -- especially in Node, where you have guaranteed ES5 compatibility.

Also: self = this can be avoided in a lot of cases with Function#bind, but not always. Seems like a weird criticism to me.
Uber-For-Laundry Startup Washio Uses Ninjas To Get Your Dirty Clothes Clean
Realistically, rather than work with the fussy syntax of this pseudo functional language, most people who work in data science would be better of using Python because of the IPython Notebook http://ipython.org/notebook.html which provides similar mixing of code and graphical results. The matplotlib, inspired by Mathematica, can produce a wide variety of graphical plots. Newer libraries like pandas have been bringing all the power of R into the Python world.

Five years ago, Wolfram may have been worthwhile, but today the wave has formed and it is converging on Python.
I hope everyone sees your comment before even reading the article.
For the wrong reason? What's with all these smartie pants on hackernews? A big hackathon always has some sort of incentive, and aiming for that is wrong?

I don't know about you, but I enjoy winning, and I've won hackathons before. If I just wanted to build something with my hacker friends, I can do it any weekend I want.
Then the hope is that economic productivity increases at such a slow rate that the BitCoin isn't appreciating in value quickly enough to make it irrational to spend one.

Just like monetary policy attempts to set inflation at such a rate (~1%) that it isn't irrational to save, but it is slightly more rational to spend.

I think, though, that if everyone agreed, BitCoin could eventually change to borrow some concepts from PPCoin, and restart the production of currency, once it reached a plateau of adoption. It isn't impossible to change the current production limits - just difficult. At that point BitCoin would probably splinter into two currencies, one which has a deflationary monetary policy and one which has an inflationary one.

At that point - is it still a libertarian currency? We've just traded one governing body - the US govt - for another - the BitCoin Foundation.
What about BitTorrent Sync?
No problem. Will do in a second...
I was honestly expecting something with more added value to warrant it's own name, maybe a viable competitor to Sails.js, Derby, etc. Lusca is nice, everything else is more or less what everyone is already doing - runtime config, controllers, grouped routes, etc, more of a template than a framework. Good thing they are not reinventing the wheel.
I remember this post clearly thinking the service was dead on arrival. Great to see it's getting traction! Good luck and congrats for getting on Techcrunch.
Have you looked into BitTorrent Sync?
Well, there's always something more important to talk about. I think that raising awareness of forgeries in the media is worthwhile.
I have no way of knowing if you knew about Paul Graham's essay or not; it seemed relevant, so I pointed it out.

I'm afraid I'm not quite up to getting into your comments on C (late on a Friday night, if you'll forgive me that). But regarding Graham's essay, I don't think it's about interfaces. It's about abstractions. If I have powerful abstractions, I can do a lot by saying a little - and that's not because of the interface to these powerful things, but because of the meaning of the thing behind that interface.
As I watched Upshot's demo at Dreamforce it seemed hard to imagine that it was something built in 3 days. The judges pointed out that the guys who presented 3rd and 5th (Upshot was 4th) had been there night and day, not sleeping. Turian talked about how they had spent time walking around talking to people. It seems that they likely had a complete or near-complete application before they got to Dreamforce. Considering the news coming out now, it is a shame that the guys who built great apps from start to finish this week didn't win.
That is pretty impressive - I love how they could use DTrace to scope out what was going on.
Judge considers closing Sriracha Sauce Factory
Works for me.

Arkansas, USA, iPhone, LTE network.
I think the point being made is that we use OOP to provide a natural abstraction of the real world to the end user. In this Towers problem: it would be like building the Towers game for an end user to play with - not solve it for the user.
Did you miss the last line?

> While it may seem obvious that something is wrong, these issues went unnoticed by a veteran photographer, the Associate Press, and every news outlet that ran the photo. If they are not noticing details like this, then what other forms of media hacking are they not noticing?

He concludes

1) It's fake
2) He's smarter than everyone else.

It went far beyond "offers some possibilities" way into "making wild assumptions on the basis of a single photo" territory.
The winners not being eligible is a fairly big deal actually. The negative publicity from this makes it a full on disaster I'd guess.

The accusations that nobody looked at the submissions and the winners were predetermined sound unsubstantiated.. nobody (who's commenting) knows that. Analytics on your videos? Please. I'd love to see the team that has zero video views, they are telling us it was submitted it and didn't watch it once? Our whole team watched ours multiple times, impossible to tell if the judges did any out of the dozens of views. The idea that the apps weren't used and logged into sounds right - with the amount of time they had to judge (a few hours) they would mostly use the video, description, and probably verify the code was uploaded, and winnow it down to five top ones. We fully expected to win or finish without them logging in to our app which required a custom android build. And no matter what, that leaves the majority of contestants loosing.. it's not a conspiracy people, it's math. Not everybody wins...and it could even be some of the best teams lost, thats endemic to every sort of competition.

But we hear from every complainer, "the only possible way I could loose is cheating, I'm so entitled to this, I DESERVE TO WIN THE HACKATHON, WHERE IS MY TROPHY???? I ALWAYS get a trophy!!!". Sore losers? Check.

And, in closing, I'd like to say what nobody on the internet fourims have ever said: I was wrong. Seems like this is a full on shit show, even though I'm quite glad my team participated (and lost). So go on internet - be hysterical about this travesty of justice, you deserve it.
> If you had $150 million in rubles, you could transfer it for only a nominal fee ($20 for my bank, although you can get a lot cheaper if you regularly did transfers like that) to any account in the world that could hold rubles.

I have no counterproof, but I find this hard to believe.
What explanation is needed? Just scroll through the page!! Boy!
A message to sachin
You don't have to go through all possible addresses, you just need to find one that exists, no? Although my gut tells me that's not going to make much of a difference in terms of the size of the search space.
There is, though, a difference between stealing my laptop, my phone, and my keyring. Sure, a targeted attack by a nation state aiming to get access to my multi-factor-auth services could grab all three at once, but the chance of an opportunistic theft acquiring any two or all three of those devices is _very_ much smaller than just the laptop.
The opposite of wrinkly.
I hope this won't turn into something like:

"We offer Gigabit fiber*. Come and get it!"

Footnote: Speeds may get no higher than 200 Mbps most of the time.

If these investments are going to last for another decade, they need to offer at least 1 Gbps to everyone.
"We expected and encouraged teams to take advantage of existing APIs and services they’ve written to create a great mobile app. "

That line upsets me. They absolutely did not encourage teams to take advantage of existing services that they have previously written and pointing to one random post on the developer forum as evidence of this is terrible. My team and I read the official rules together several times before deciding that we could not in good faith incorporate our existing product (including using our own API to integrate features) into the mobile app we built for the hackathon. The line "built from scratch" in the rules seemed clear to us but apparently we were mistaken.
Yeah! Math Prof has definitely chosen a side. He obscures that move in a fluff of "politics is complex, decisions are difficult." But politics is everything, and he's engaged in politics knee-deep while pretending not to be. "All I care about is education" calmly states the unwitting Math Prof as education is destroyed to become a hollow commodity for those who can afford it. He's obscuring his politics and hiding that fact that he wants a continuation of the current state of things.
How about a Virgin Galactic space flight, which can be bought on the internet with bitcoins?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101220710
Ask HN: Is it too late to profit from Bitcoin?
I honestly can't speak to the specific allegations because I am not in a position to know the facts one way or another. But I can tell you three things for certain.

First, salesforce is taking this very seriously and there is an ongoing discussion at the highest ranks to evaluate the complaints. Literally, the entire executive team is watching this.

Second, there were close to a hundred people that were internally part of the judging process. Each of these judges looked at a dozen or two entries. I could see little opportunity or motivation for collusion.

Finally, salesforce is one of the most self-critical companies that I've ever been a part of when it comes to evaluating ourselves in terms of trust and integrity. Nearly every internal communication begins and ends with a statement around how trust is our most important value. And while some our doubting our credibility in this moment, there's a reason why so many large and small companies trust us to hold their data; it's because we never compromise on any issue of integrity and if we make a mistake we investigate it and own up to it.
Aside from speculation, the first question one might ask is simply, are there additional photos?

In fact there are:
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Syrian-warplanes-bomb...

Now the "staging" looks a lot more complicated.

Also note that, the photographer won a Pulitzer(which means he's be vetted more thoroughly then most), while this reviewer has a history of making strongly worded claims that are disproved.

If interested look at this post which was soundly rebuked, and proved to be misleading.

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/549-Unb...

Note this response:
http://petapixel.com/2013/05/14/forensics-expert-claims-worl...
Interesting but the story seemed light on proof. Digging a bit deeper - the whole thing seems to be contested.

Several experts have seen this & questioned it's validity:

""That's too deep, I'd be surprised if it was human. You have to ask yourself, how did it get there? I've looked at a lot of sonar images in my life, and it can be sort of like looking at an ink blot -- people can sometimes see what they want to see. I'll just wait for a bit more data."

Addition reading for the curious:
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_underwater_city
There's no implicit claim the blood was her own.
This makes it sound like they're just straight up lying. It's been pointed out several times that upshot was developed before the announcement of the competition and multiple developers have analytics to prove their video/app wasn't viewed once, let alone twice. They ignored all the questions/concerns people had. I'm incredibly disappointed with this announcement and I did not even participate in the hackathon.
People used to think that real estate prices can only go up too you know.
Not necessarily. Anyone with a bitcoin client can sign whatever message they want into the transaction. Just like you can write in anything you want on the memo of a check. It's the same.
> the ability to capitalize on reading your opponent is more limited than it could be

Shouldn't be a capitalizable entity in chess. I like chess (unfortunately I don't like it enough to practice it often) because of it's no make-a-poker-face-now requirement.
In addition, Turian is a showman. His finalist presentation was more flamboyant than Benioff's keynote. I felt bad for the guys who presented after Upshot (they had skipped class at UCLA and Purdue to build a cool job candidate app). Watching the show, I felt that it likely that the judges would be swayed by Turian's command of the stage.
Charles Schwab to Bill Gates: Come back as Microsoft CEO ‘for at least a year’
Clever use of ADS-B signals, which most large commercial aircraft ( and nearly all British Airways a/c ) now implement. I think the only exceptions in their fleet are four previous-gen 737s that are near to phase-out.

Accuracy of the co-ordinates broadcast on ADS-B is dependent upon a/c equipment but for BAW should be around 5 metres.

So receive signals, screen for BAW.* call sign, cross-reference online for route. I wonder if they include affiliates such as CityFlyer, which fly in BA livery? Their callsigns are CFE.*.
Also he has a history of making strong claims that are disproved by other experts.

See:
http://petapixel.com/2013/05/14/forensics-expert-claims-worl...
i see; makes sense. thanks for clarifying :)
FYI, a typo -- "illusive" -> "elusive". (haven't read further yet, just wanted to let you know).
A framework should at least be template engine agnostic. I hate handlebars and dust.js , why should i use that? I want to use a jinja like templating language.

Seems even their i18n component is tied to their view layer. And 0 doc comments in the scripts? how do they document their own code ?
I have a strange hang-up/interest in people's concept of irony. I am not sure Alanis Morissete would be able to find any irony in this situation.
See earlier history of making strong accusations that were later disproved.

http://petapixel.com/2013/05/14/forensics-expert-claims-worl...
The story behind the awesome page of FiftyThree's Pencil
Okay, we have really different views on economics. I would tend to disagree philosophically with the idea that "you have to whip their asses with the printing press" and as a result you and I probably won't agree on anything. That's OK, we don't have to.

I take the position that economic output driven my market manipulation (money printing, fixing the interest rate, driving inflation, etc) is undesirable because it sends signals to people about profits or losses or the amount of real resources available via the interest rate that aren't necessarily representative of reality. An example:

In magic-land there is no Fed and the interest rate is a number that clears the market between lenders and borrowers. As people save money they increase the amount of cash that banks have on hand. While they're saving money, they're not spending it and thus some amount of resources are piling up in the real world too, in unison with the amount of savings in the bank. As the banks' cash on hand goes up and nobody is borrowing, they will tend to reduce the rate of interest charged to induce more people to borrow, and reduce the rate of interest paid to reduce people's predilection to save. This causes the money to go to work, and at the same time, those resources which were piled up unused in the real world (in parallel with the money) were also put to work. To me this is a good thing, that stockpiles of money in the bank mirror stockpiles of raw materials in the real world as a result of people's reduced consumption and increased savings.

Now introduce the Fed which by virtue of it's ability to print money can cause bank deposits to increase while the raw materials don't pile up similarly. This causes all kinds of incorrect signals to propagate through socioeconomic life and induces people to make "bad" decisions. In my view this is unfortunate to have people making decisions thinking that the world is one way when in fact it is not, and perhaps going bankrupt as a result.

I imagine there might be disagreement about the relative importance of signalling vs. just making sure that money circulates, no matter what to keep the economy going. But would you disagree that the interest rate -- in the absence of a body which fixes the interest rate -- could tend to serve as a signal for the amount of under/over consumption that's happening in society? If so, why? And if you agree that it could, why is it not harmful to change that signal artificially?

EDIT: Even though I don't think we'll agree, thanks for explaining. Much appreciated.
hah sure there are alternate DNS systems but there's only one that matters... the one recognized by the major ISPs.

I don't want to get into the other thing. There are a ton of things that distinguish gold from BTC. For one, it has an intrinsic value. As in, "worst case scenario I have to sell this gold to a metalworker/scientist/jeweler/whoever who worse with gold".

If Bitcoin doomsday hits who is gonna pay a cent for one more file on their system. Useless bytes of data are not a commodity.
When talking about the subject of abuse of course it is. You yourself made an analogy to guns for crying out loud.
That depends on the "complexity" of their product.

For some viable is creating it in three different format.
For those missing the point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
This isn't the final call; it sounds like they are still investigating the top 5.
Reminds me of that old joke:

The office photocopier broke down, so the manager called in a repairman. The repairman takes one look at the machine, draws an 'X' at the problem part, and hands the manager a bill for $500. The manager was shocked at the price, and demanded an itemized bill. The repairman simply wrote:

Marking the 'X' - $1
Knowing where to put the 'X' - $499
And he has a history of such claims:

http://petapixel.com/2013/05/14/forensics-expert-claims-worl...

Quick Summery on previous case:
"The results of the expert analysis are in, and it looks like Hansen’s photo does indeed stand up to serious forensic scrutiny."
Native methods can be slower than simply using a for (Edit: while) loop:

http://allyoucanleet.com/post/21624742336/jsconf-us-12-slide...

self = this is error prone because it relies on JavaScript's lexical scope to share a variable across nested functions. It's a gross abuse of closures. It invalidates the ability to bind or use apply later, since everything is bound to that local variable self, and it's simply not needed and is probably used to avoid considerable use of bind, but using bind is only an issue when you write flock of seagull style nested function code. using self = this is not the right solution, writing more modular code with smaller functions is.
is it too late to profit from [insert currency here]?
Not really they already have some kind of computer with database access in every cop car I believe. And the worst case is you just update it daily or manually enter wanted plates in if it's urgent.
>Evidently he's been downvoted trying to point this out.

That shouldn't really come as a surprise, given the way he went about it. Making an entire post using caps lock is usually frowned upon, to say the least, and, as has been pointed out, no such claims were ever made in the first place, it's perfectly clear that grandparent is referring to a completely separate article that's yet to even be published.
Yeah, it got up to around 20k on at least one of the games.
they are lying obviously