skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's was a certain point in my transformation from an optimist to a pessimist where I was just so angry. I was angry at news organizations for not having the balls to fight for their readers. I was angry at all the myths and lies I was fed, from meritocracy, to religion, to honor and loyalty. I was angry at businesspeople for rigging the game, and I was angry at politicians for helping them. I was angry at myself for believing and trusting in what I was told. I was just angry at everyone. And it was at this point that many youth would've become militarized, thinking that revolution was the answer. I did too. That is until I realized that revolutionaries are no different. They're just more of the same; people telling more lies to fuck over more people so that they can drive their precious fucking Mercedes past homeless shelters and slums. I'm still angry, but now when I read the latest bit of depressing news I just seem to laugh. The NSA spied on everyone? Good luck filtering that river of shit for useful intel guys. JPMorgan bribed the daughter of the Chinese prime minister? Haha investment bankers are such whores. Finance papers are too pussy to investigate totalitarian regimes? I think a new tagline is in order: All the news that's fit to print ... money.

I call this coping strategy the John Stewart method.

I think it's because nothing really surprises me anymore. I've just reached peak cynicism. So nowadays I just try to make light of the absurd brutality that is the world that we live in, because doing otherwise just seems pointless.

All the world is a farce.

/rant

PS: I'm not a conspiracy nut or anything like that. I'm just disappointed with the local incentive driven actions that some people take at the expense of society at large some of the time.
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Any hint as to how this differs from other parallel Monte Carlo algorithms? Or is it an application of those methods to big data? (People were doing parallel Monte Carlo at least as far back as the early 90s - my own research topic on exact nuclear calculations was basically obsoleted by the superior scalability of that approach)
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Wow this is great work! When I was working on my first patch I actually looked for video tutorials on this but came up short. The text tutorials are quite extensive but you tend to miss a thing or two (in my case, I struggled with the qnew feature of the SCM, forgot to tag the reviewer in the commit, and even worked on some files I didn't need to).

I struggle a bit to find parts of the software I can work with, and I suspect that's because I only have a 40 000ft view of the project, rather than a part-by-part exploration of how things are connected. There's a lot of code in there to read through. Unlike the MVC web applications I'm familiar with, I don't understand where to put what code to change something, how to write a test, or sometimes how to test things like crash conditions that should trigger new exception handlers I put in.

This is an awesome start, but to get closer to the goal of a large number of developers contributing meaningful work on the project there's more to be done by the people who can explain the project in better detail. Perhaps this is an opportunity for an online "learn to program" course?
AWS Launches ‘Ivy Bridge’-backed EC2 Instance Type
What's your opinions about a mobile first mail client that helps you connect through mail instead of What'App or Skype?
What about persistant folder move if you have a clear indicator that there's something new in a folder?
What about highlighting sections of mail for later use?
it's important to not think that we can solve problems with better technology

I'm surprised he says this. Effective solutions often come from a side angle, not a frontal attack. Why would a frontal attack in politics work?
I guess that's just my ethical system. He alone is not capable of initiating national conflicts, he simply does not have the power.

He has (had) the power to influence the decisions of those with power, but in any circumstance, as long as those in power have control over their own emotions/actions, they should be solely responsible for the actions they take.

Example where some people might disagree with me:
If the Hamas launches rockets on an Israeli settlement, killing hundreds, and in return Netanyahu orders a retaliation, killing one Palestinian civilian. Then I believe Netanyahu is responsible for that death, and Hamas is not. Because Netanyahu made the conscious decision to attack.
As I haven't seen any comments about it. Some friends of mine created already a while ago Masterbranch http://www.masterbranch.com

It does not only builds your resume from Github but from many other repositories as well. Not sure what is the current status of the project though.
Brimir, an open source ticket manager.
Whenever I see something like "I'm blessed with a loving wife and 3 amazing sons."

I always want to add "and one average son..."
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Italy had banks controlled by politicians - and still does to some degree. What does not work is that loans are handed out on a political basis, rather than for economic reasons.

I'm pretty happy with the credit union I have in the US - that seems to be a pretty good solution to me. It's beholden to its members, not to local politicians.
"We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution."

I think we need a system that pays more attention to the reality and results, and less to ideologies and ideas. And whether that improved process is based on technology or not is secondary.

I mean, improve the process itself, try to add explicitness, hard data. Not another this-seems-like-a-brilliant-idea-lets-try revolution, followed by oops-maybe-not.

Some time ago, I made a fun sketch of how the feedback process works in politics vs technology: http://radimrehurek.com/2013/10/technology-vs-politics-round...
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On the other hand, Murdoch media is well-known for political advocacy disguised as unbiased information, a boycott is a worthy thing to advocate, and 7stark7 said "please don't" rather than "you are prohibited from".
The Switchboard: Facebook may be fading — but does teen SnapChat use matter?
Experiment:

Buy X amount of USD into BTC

wait for the price to rise to X+ε

Sell for your original X amount in USD

Watch the other ε amount in BTC ride the waves
If they're not going to report on meaningful things what is the purpose of them still being there then?

If you mean in terms of investigative journalism, probably not much purpose. But if you mean in terms of profits, they could run an inoffensive newswire that just reports on business news without digging too deep into sensitive subjects like corruption.
N*A is a very common acronym thanks to National and Administration/Association. There are NSAs all over the place.
Original: http://habrahabr.ru/post/202530/
It has been shown in a recent study that from a game theoretic point of view, it is in the interest of a rational player to form a cartel with other rational players in order to enable the 51% attack.

Now, major stakeholders in the real world such as banks are getting in on bitcoins. Additionally, they may be interested in destroying the currency once and for all. Personally I think it is just a matter of time until the attack will be realized. Maybe it already happened. We wouldn't event know....
Inj3ct0r team hacked forum.defcon.org exploiting vBulletin 0day
Coal fires green anger at UN climate talks
examples? Could you list 5 products with "made in the USA" label that are world wide famous and sold globally?
Facebook’s Open Academy Pairs Students With Open Source For University Credit
Fraud. "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel"

It is not a Nobel Prize. It's deliberately misnamed to make it look like it is.
Think anyone's been trying to hack healthcare.gov?
as someone going through the mortgage process currently, I can specify that some of my down payment is a loan. Not sure what you are talking about. If you hide the fact that it is a loan, maybe it is fraudulent? But it very clearly is allowed as I can specify it in the paperwork.
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That's not an issue of console.log, that's an issue of webkit's console.log. Firebug does not exhibit this behavior, for instance.
Be a bit sexist and make the average one a daughter.
Me too. I was trying to get it set up on linux a while ago but ran into some trouble.
> put stickers on your stuff

Wow... that's a really good, low-tech solution.
Even more impressive considering this is only North America.
It is a profound knock against the "there is a nobel prize for it, therefore it is science"-logic.
There is a tendency for people successful in a particular domain to believe that their brilliance mean they have something insightful to say about politics. Mr Sunde is a brilliant technologist but this interview reveals that he has a high-school level naïvety about the democratic political process.

His ideology is mainstream statism (there is no particular evidence of communism or socialism imo) and his general, overarching idea is the exact same as every other young, idealistic candidate, from every mainstream political party (give or take a couple of slogan-sized marginal political differences): That everybody who already got elected are complacent about changing the system, and if you'll only elect me, I won't become complacent then everything will change.

The root problem, of course, isn't that we should just elect better politicians, it's the iron law of bureaucracy.

And this is where I disagree fundamentally with Mr. Sunde: Technology is exactly what we can use to beat the bureaucracy. Uber and AirBnB is doing more than 100 Peter Sundes running for office to reform taxis and rental systems, Bitcoin is a powerful and plausible agent of reform in the banking sector. There are tons of community owned banks and while they do some things differently on the margins, at the end of the day, on the broad lines, they're just like the big, commercial banks.

Finally, this: "This includes setting up cryptocurrencies that are difficult to monitor and tax (Sunde is a firm believer in taxation, since it allows communities to build shared infrastructure)". This is rich coming from a guy who made his name helping people avoid the taxation of Hollywood through a hard to monitor technology.
I was just taking a drive-by shot. It was jbooth's axiom of comment sniping, not jbooth's axiom of carefully reasoned article analysis.

Regardless of the guy's politics, strictly speaking, you can't fight the law with technology because the law can make your tech illegal. You need to either engage the existing power structures or have a complete revolution in order to make change happen. That's without getting into policy preferences or details, it's just the basic ground zero of the situation. That's what I got from the article.. it's facile, maybe a lazy conclusion, certainly not a great article but also not incorrect.
I haven't been involved in Amazon in a few years, but when I was, buyer feedbacks could really turn sales off and on like a switch.

A seller needs to have 'good' feedback to show up in the More Buying Choices box on a listing - getting a couple of silly negatives ("I ordered the wrong item and they sent me what I ordered! 1/5") on a Friday night can push you down so you only show up on the Used and New page for the weekend resulting a lot fewer sales.

I also recall that buyers leaving 4/5 instead of 5/5 carried more weight than it should've done, because then you didn't have 'perfect' feedback
Negative SEO Reality Check - Spammer Outed - True Story & Case Study
In the comments of this article, a negative SEO perpetrator is outed. While Google's stance on whether or not negative SEO works seems pretty clear: possible but not likely, people like this continue to try, while perpetuating the FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt).
nsa.gov.cn ? really?
Peak cynicism? I like the phrase, but you aren't quite there yet.

The zenith of peak cynicism is when you wouldn't be surprised if the .01% (or powers that may be) decided one day to reduce the world population through NBC warfare just to maintain their power.
> So then, by this logic, most social sciences aren't sciences.

True.
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That's 1,670,000 satoshis!
P/E seems to be a completely useless metric when it comes to the web.
This seemed a bit worrying:

Federal agents say the use of Tor and Bitcoin were major obstacles for them and that investigating the site was “uncharted territory” that involved a reversal of their usual investigative methods. Instead of starting with probable cause against a specific suspect who is already identified and then obtaining a search warrant to collect more evidence, the investigation of Silk Road involved collecting evidence from the site first and then trying to identify individuals.

Sure it is "uncharted territory" in terms of the technology for maintaining anonymous identities, but shouldn't most investigations start with evidence of the crime and an empirical investigation into who could have committed it, rather than starting with suspects and trying to link them with the crime? Maybe I am naive, but sounds like dodgy criminal investigation methodology to me...
Does that include mass media, software or weapons systems?
Aren't you putting the cart before the horse? The Pi is a great tool for solving problems; if you have something that needs automating or you need a small computer for, you can buy one and it's relatively easy to make it do what you want. But it's a means to an end, not an end in itself.
And then there's the very first Mosaic Communications browser:

http://readwrite.com/files/files/files/enterprise/NCSA%25252...

http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/011/mosaic.gif

http://home.mcom.com/MCOM/images/mcomwelcome1.gif
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Not sure you can do anything except ask for attribution, and maybe a link.
I sympathize with this. There were points when an extra $1,000 would have made all the difference in the world. And there was one point, following a major health problem, when a few thousand from a grandmother prevented me from having to switch away from long term priorities.

But would I have acted differently if I knew there was a trust fund? I think I might have. Not having one created a sense of urgency.

Would a good policy be promising nothing, then giving it when you see it will be put to good use? I don't know – any parents figure this one out.
>> Good for china

Let me fix that for you:

"Good for the communist party leaders, bad for China and the majority of Chinese people"

This is selling the democracy movement down the river. :-(
What, no IE5? I mean IE<6? And Netscape too :)
You can soon put an end to telemarketers in Singapore from January next year
I am Indonesian. Look, we know other governments are spying on our President. This comes with the job - however, tapping the personal phone of the First Lady is pretty much beyond the pale. She's not an elected official. This is done in a bad taste.
There is a lot of work going into designing java arrays "2.0", including support for "long" arrays, immutable arrays, and arrays of structs.
The thing I miss is the ability to define custom "breakpoint actions" for tracing without source edition. You can kind-of hack it in by using conditional breakpoints which always evaluate to false, but IIRC it there are situations where it doesn't work right.

Xcode (I'm sure others as well, but I played with that one recently so...) has absolutely humongous breakpoint "options" including silencing repeats (e.g. hit a breakpoint 5 times in a session then skip it) and advanced actions[0], including multiple actions per breakpoint, which is really nice.

[0] in Xcode 5, possible actions aside from a conditional break are executing applescript code, capturing an OpenGL ES frame, executing an LLDB command, logging a message (to the console or to text-to-speech), executing a shell command or playing a sound
Hugo: Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator 0.9 released
It's common for larger blogs to syndicate content, but they will always credit the original author with a link back. Even then they ask for your permission. Looks like they didn't do that. Email the editors to state your case.
Precisely! Which is exactly what enrages so many people :)

(I must assume you haven't watched Sony Pictures' ca. 2010 documentary Inside Job yet?)
The guy you're quoting hired me around the time he made this, and I have next to zero OSS chops.

All of my free time that I put towards software selfishly goes into my side project, but it does mean I have some interesting stories to tell on problems I've solved.
You don't know if nsa.gov.pl is a valid domain. You don't know the purpose of that domain or organization.

You need more evidence to believe accurately: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_it_take/
Why you can't walk and wear Google Glass at the same time
I just tried the latest beta release, 2.1.56, it's pretty nice

Compared to compiling Enlightenment for yourself, it's really a breeze... most of what the installer module had to do was copy the rootfs to a live filesystem, but anyone on hackernews can probably do that.

Historically elive has been very good at having drivers pre-installed as well, but this round I lucked out... I think without the installer module, any closed-source drivers are not included; well my laptop only has intel hardware anyway.
In the comments of this article, a negative SEO perpetrator is outed. While Google's stance on whether or not negative SEO works seems pretty clear: possible but not likely, people like this continue to try, while perpetuating the FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt).

Is there something Google can do to deter this type of thing? While the outed spammer's petition to Google regarding spam is kind of ridiculous, his point that the belief in negative SEO is leading to more link spam being created is somewhat valid. But how could Google deter people from believing such things and acting based on those beliefs?
This is not the case anymore. They fixed this issue sometime back.
"or something you need to hide"

I think in your argument you mistyped "or" instead of "and".

Its for stuff you want to hide, at least at little.

Its an issue of formality. FB is for advertising to future employers, your dinner manners need to be emily post level or you'll pay for it, or you're making a statement about manners and how little you respect employers who demand table manners. On the other hand, SC is the dinner manners equivalent of pizza with your buddies at the lan party, so eat with your hands, use shirt as napkin, its all good.
NASA launch on Monday will help pave way to life on Mars
Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW
Woah that's awesome! I'd never seen that site before. Top 5% here.

http://osrc.dfm.io/bennyguitar
The main problem with banks isn't their ownership, it's the extremely complicated regulations they have to comply with. This means that there are immense economies of scale which means that small, independent banks will typically be more expensive.

Most banks are already community owned by virtue of being largely owned by institutional investors, ie. pension funds.

The benefits of being community owned implies that the "community" takes an active part in the management of their bank. In Denmark, community owned just meant that banks gave benefits to customers that put their savings into the bank's shares, they did not generally take part in exercising diligence as owners, and the few that did, struggled to get heard while the going was good. For me, my bank is a simple service provider. To the extent I'm going to be a part owner of one, I'll delegate the responsibility to people who know better than me what they're doing, ie. my pension fund.
> A clause to protect the seller would read as simple as "seller shall not be liable for counterfeit media as long as intent was demonstrated to sell legitimate merchandise."

Copyright infringement is a crime, not a contract violation. Changing your contracts doesn't help. I'm not sure if you mean to put the clause in the contract between the merchant and Amazon or in the contract between the customer and Amazon, but it doesn't matter: the rights-holder hasn't signed either of those contracts and isn't bound by them.

Furthermore, the law is probably (I am not a lawyer and if I were I would not be practicing in California, and if I were admitted to practice in California then I wouldn't be a lawyer who had studied this particular case) already covering this. Normally, copyright violation is not a strict liability offense, it requires mens rea. That is, it is not an excuse that you didn't know it was illegal, but it IS an excuse if you didn't know you were doing it. There is a good chance that the reason this person lost the court case is because he did not have good legal representation. Of course it is quite possible that the good legal representation would have cost as much as losing the case, but that is one of the flaws of our legal system.
Since when is Switzerland called "offshore"?
is it possible to share your motion activation / solar circuit?
I love Go, but what is this page? An advertisement? Where's the content?
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Please take a look at this link. It is definitely "biased" but still accurate. The US is still a major manufacturing hub. Manufacturing makes up 11.9% of US GDP.

http://www.nam.org/Statistics-And-Data/Facts-About-Manufactu...
I appreciate the leaks discussing spying programs aimed domestically, but the leaks regarding international spying make no sense to me. It's like the person who makes a social situation weird by pointing out an awkward fact that everyone knows but sensibly doesn't say out loud.
Https://www.healthcare.gov/ search suggests sql injection
1. Go to https://www.healthcare.gov/
2. Type semi-colon (;) in the search field.
3. Enjoy!
Well, everything comes at a price, too.
You have a redirect error in your 24ui.io site

it redirects to wwww.24ui.io (4 W's)

Might want to fix that
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Be honest.
Help others." - PHILIP B. SMITH
In the UK, £100 gets you about a week's worth of smokes for a heavy smoker.

Putting it in BTC rather than cigarettes is a sensible strategy because even if BTC goes up in smoke (see what I did there?), at least that smoke didn't end up inside your lungs.

I'm a smoker. I'm quitting. My cig spend will likely go on BTC. Maybe.
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We probably shouldn't confuse a handful of start ups and successful corporations with "the tech industry" as if it's a single entity.

To me there are at least two bits of the industry - the bit where that either because of the work or because of the culture those working in it might convince themselves that they're changing the world, and the bit where people largely write CRUD database apps that save a few people, usually working for corporations, a bit of time.

Far more people work in the second camp and in my experience most of them really aren't that pompous at all.
The wrong rules that are shaping online writing
I think it's more to do with the application of parallel MC to approximate inference over Bayesian networks. In the normal case of approximate inference, each node would operate over the incoming data to approximate maximum likelihoods (this is the MC bit) then pass them out on each link. The key contribution of this work seems to be to tie the MC algorithms together from difference nodes. Difficult to say any more without reading the paper though.

My key question would be whether there are independence considerations that Parallel MC breaks? (Message passing works because all nodes need only information from their neighbours to summarise the rest of the network, due to the modelled independence).