skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, they lost their job due to the prudish culture that I originally referred to, not directly by the actions of the villain.

Ah, so his villainy is rendered less villainous by this fact? His villainy is somehow not his responsibility, because his impact was indirect?

Or do you mean to suggest that the wronged women, instead of pursuing the man who targeted them EXPRESSLY TO RUIN THEIR LIVES should instead undertake the relatively trivial task of changing the moral values of an entire nation?
"The survey-cum-test “The Talent Crisis in InfoSec” was was conducted by EC-Council, a global leader in InfoSec certifications and training."

Company that sells infosec training services is saying there's a severe lack of secure programming skills? Color me _shocked_.
Makes me wonder if said troll slipped up when targeting FindTheBest. I'm assuming a troll wants to go after someone who is big enough to pay some money but not so big that they can afford to fight.

FindTheBest's founder was formerly founder/CEO of DoubleClick. I'm not sure going after someone with a VC background and a 10-figure exit to Google was very wise.
As long as they're not an asshole, having someone listen to you and prompt you with questions is incredibly therapeutic.

That makes therapy sound like renting a friend. I don't mean that in a snarky way at all, maybe that's even a good definition in some cases.
> So this is not anonymous reddit, then. That is much less useful, and it had better be extremely clear to users that they should only use it in that way.

Depends on how you emphasize that sentence. It's reddit, but its anonymity is weaker on certain fronts and stronger on others. If used as one-shot device, it's pretty good. Otherwise, there are the issues you mentioned (which I plan to fix, to my best).

> So to actually be undetectable as using Aether, you can't accept connections. Then you have to hope that enough users are connecting for the anonymity and not the undetectability, or you'll have to provide some infrastructure nodes.

Correct.

> Great, if you promise undetectability, then this should be the default.

I do not promise undetectability, but it exists under certain circumstances. I will explicitly note those circumstances and mark undetectability as a side benefit only under those conditions.

> I don't understand the distinction being made here. In any case, the upvote is observed as coming directly from some IP. That is the identifier to worry about.

The distinction is largely academic as you said. If you have a cryptographic solution to that, I'd love if you could point me to the right direction.

> And why can't I create a network of Sybils to upvote my spam posts?

You can, but users can also block your nodes, or (we're really going into the medium-term future here) your nodes would be placed in blocklists, whose users—people who accepted them— would deny you from connecting to them. (This is a half–baked idea as of now, who maintains those lists etc.) This is a thorny problem. Spam filters, I was meaning less of an actual after-the-fact spam filter, and more of a "block this guy out, refuse connections" kind of filter. Sorry for the wrong choice of words.

All in all, very fair points I need to work on. If you would be interested in taking a look once in a while to point out where the logic holes are, I'd really appreciate your voice in development. If you'd be interested in helping out, send a mail to me (burak@nehbit.net)— I would try to run more important things by you before implementing to see if there are any obvious holes.
Not everyone in Austria takes part in nude beaches, etc, etc ... Is this really where we are at HN? We are going to pretend that big bad America is the only place in the world where there are any people that assign any sort of charge to sexuality?
Free the lizard: Mar 27, 1998
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Not that it's relevant to anything but it appears that Eileen Shapiro has written a book

http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Luck-Practical-ebook/dp/...

EDIT: *books http://www.amazon.com/Fad-Surfing-In-The-Boardroom/dp/020144...
> the half-life of a DNA molecule is estimated to be about 521 years. By this reckoning, even under the best conditions, DNA could remain intact for no more than 6.8 million years.

I just love how they skip inferences...
Alien abduction insurance
There must be an another way that the spying software was loaded other than fake emails, that shit is getting old.. no way can it fool 50,000 people.
A "pay what you want" VPN service
The parliament is a sideshow. What happens to an average person in their lives is a totally different story.

But I do find it entertaining that you believe there are no Italian misogynists that would use nude photos or videos against a woman. It's not naive at all. :)
lol @ meta keywords

<meta name="keywords" content="Heaven's Gate,
Heaven's Gate, Heaven's Gate, Heaven's Gate, Heaven's Gate, Heaven's Gate,
ufo, ufo, ufo, ufo, ufo, ufo, space alien, space alien, space alien, space alien, space alien, space alien, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial,
extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial, millennium, millennium, millennium,
millennium, millennium, millennium, millennium,
misinformation, misinformation,
misinformation, misinformation, misinformation, misinformation,
freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, second coming, second coming, second coming, second coming, second coming, second coming, angels, angels, angels,
angels, angels, angels, end times, end times, end times, end times, end times, end
times, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, God, God, God, God, God, God">
For anyone curious about the Rube Goldberg machine in the video, here's a behind-the-scenes video with its inventor Brett Doar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrzCrXRpI4k
Wow, this is really cool.

1. Can they copy extension to Opera Extensions?
2. If they add PayPal, I will donate. I don't trust other payment systems :)
i wouldn't give up a usb port for this. lol.
Thoughtful Dweeb Shuts down Hollywood Tourists
If you add some text to speach, and word-stress analysis i might sign up for the enterprise package
There are standard examples where the minimal deterministic automaton for a language is exponentially larger than a minimal non-deterministic automaton

Can anyone provide one such example, please?
They are positively correlated. TFA suggests that physical separation contributes to loneliness.
I would agree except that each use case (restaurants, bars, retail, online, mobile, etc.) are completely different. Each needs its own solution.
edit: still ranked on the first page of Google for multiple keywords
Hmm so this seems like a lot of hand written letters, conveniently posted by a company that will hand write letters.

Has anyone done this, be interested in hearing how well it worked.
IIRC, cats that are trained to use a toilet have issues when they get older. You might want to look into that.
Exactly, this level of over propping up of Europe and anti-Americanism s ridiculous. I suppose Alan Turing would have thought of Europe as quite "sane" on sexuality as everyone seems to!
Very true. What I am trying to describe is a sort of one size fits all jumping off point.
well, as long as you can 'appreciate' its effects on caches its all fine ;)
I don't see how a RICO case can possibly work, unless perhaps the plaintiff can show that the defendant committed fraud on the patent office.
Well it looks like he got owned, I couldn't help but smile at the end :)
I think the problem is just that your view does not pander to the naïveté about Europe and the, mostly, ironic low esteem America is in around here.
I can see where you're coming from, truthfully. I have went through that cycle myself. Sometime in your late 20s-early 30s you just get too busy with life for things you used to love. I think the main problem is that, regardless of what anyone thinks, source code is really hard to read. I mean, line by line, it's very simple. It's the logic, the relations, etc. that make it so as I'm sure you've experienced. So, in most cases, the maintainer is the only one who truly understands the entire project. So, when he/she gives up on it, it dies. But remember, it's open source so anyone willing could always take the reigns!

Contributing to open source doesn't have to be about pouring your heart into it, nor wasting your time. Bug fixes or improved algorithms are always a good start. But remember, it's open source - you're free to fork a project, dead or alive, and make it your own, to monetize it. The only drawback being that it remains open source, so someone else could just turn and do the same to you.

I hope I don't come off too much like a zealot. Open source is important to me because it's how I learned, and how I in turn made a good living for myself. So I feel compelled to give back, to perhaps help others one day as they've done me. But I do understand it's easier for me - someone gainfully employed, than someone not. In other circumstances, I'd probably value my time a bit more.
welp, may as well scan for open ports and look for vulnerabilities
Word of advice: ignore the bullies. A quick and easy way to tell they're probably a troll is if they have less than 2 avg comment karma (you can see it in their profile). As such, any hostile comment they make should be ignored.

EDIT: Submitting a bunch of tech-related stuff to HN is a good thing. Ignore the bullies and just write.
Based on the sequencing read archives for that publication[1], it looks like they used Helicos[2]. PacBio[3] is another form of it.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra?LinkName=pubmed_sra&from_uid...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicos_single_molecule_fluores...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_molecule_real_time_seque...
Well, I agree the narrative s a bit hard to follow. I doubt anyone will lose ther kids because of that ... That is a very hard thing to do in the US. You essentially need categorical evidence if being a crackhead and even then ...
It's funny. I half jokingly apply that maxim to a lot business decisions I see.

Someone will say "oh it makes sense that apartment a does this, because x y z" and I respond with "they may be doing something right, but theyre almost certainly not doing it hat way because it's right"

But yeah. It pays not assume the obvious answer is the right one
Is this level of pedantry really necessary? According to Wikipedia, the name is generally given to males.
The site looks great. However, I think you need to incorporate a demo of the commenting system somewhere on the site. The interactive image doesn't do it for me, I want to see the real thing.

How you plan to monetize is definitely interesting. Since points are reputation, and points can be sold between users, reputation can be purchased? If so, I'm not a fan. You mention advertising templates, what is that?

The only way points would be valuable $$ wise, for me, would be if I could spend them on advertising. The more I use your service and commit to the community, the more I get to advertise to the community.

How do you plan to get developers to incorporate your services in their site? As a developer, I would only use your service if it provided: A) A great and easy to use API that can let me do interesting things. or B) An addition revenue model.
The average person barely knows how to use Facebook. By definition, half of the population is even less capable.
I thought it was about bring khan academy style learning into elementry schools and working our way up??? o well fuck it
This looks cool, but I have a really hard time reading Frutiger at that font size. Don't want to be snarky, just sayin! Looks awesome.
Stronger labour laws in many european countries would prevent most people from getting fired for having nude pictures of themselves published on the Internet as it wouldn't be seen as a valid cause for being fired. A few european countries has criminal laws against shaming. But yeah, it would still suck for the people involved.
You're right. But in the context of the largest and best search engine in the world it's a bit kludgey to not be able to use their supplied search tools for one of their own products, because they broke it so much, and to have to rely upon a different product.

> consistent search that works the same every time

+ vs "" ?

> sometimes they are so bad that switching over to Google is a necessity to find anything at all.

Yes, Google search is a useful tool for websites that have hopeless search. I've used it for Wikipedia and other websites. It's baffling that Google's own product has search so broken that using a different Google product to search it is considered not-kludgey.
I think you're right on with the probability of personalities clicking. I'm a pretty outgoing person, but I've only met a handful of people in my lifetime who I genuinely enjoy being around. I think I'm pretty lucky that I happened to meet them, or maybe we just gravitated towards each other.
Certainly not that fact that they are unstable and large institutions with real money would not back them?
Thanks for the info.

On a personal note, I hope GoldieBlox wins it.
Morale boosters are potentially helpful, though. If the perception shifts from "hopeless" to "fighting chance", and we start seeing more trolls defeated in court, the story can be framed much more usefully. Right now it's "businesses are being shaken down for violating frivolous patents". That's not great because it's too easy to argue against superficially. All the trolls have to say is "If these patents are so frivolous, why do so many businesses agree to settle out of court?" There's a good answer to that question, but now you're having a debate, so you've already lost.

But if the story is "the courts are clogged with frivolous patent suits because the USPTO isn't doing its damned job", there is no debate.

People don't like to think. They want someone else to do the thinking for them. If a debate has no tribal affiliation, the two sides both seem to have an argument, and there's no authoritative answer, people throw up their hands and say "well, it's complicated". Change the story so that the courts can be that authority, and people will just take their answer as read.

So the issue stops being "are patent trolls a problem?" and becomes "how do we fix patent trolling?"
You're managing to change my mind.

I should say that I'm glad it's now being taken seriously by many people. I'm a bit worried about the number of toy crypto systems popping up. I'm frustrated that people still release apps that have over-broad privacy intrusions.
I meant for Chrome-based browsers. I already use {pentadactyl, vimperator} as my primary browser. :)
I am genuinely torn. I would like them to win in terms of copyright theory. I wish there was someway to come to terms with Adam's will however. Though presumably an innocent mistake, I do think that's a very big deal (on a karmic level.)
Who is they?

What I find amazing is that people are surprised that group differences have arisen over the last 50,000 years. Gene-culture coevolution makes it seem inevitable that different cultures will favor different traits. Therefore you're going to see some average differences.

There are obvious examples, a more polygamous society where women do more of the work (eg female farming systems) with lower paternal investment, might favor different traits to those where there is State control, monogamy and greater paternal investment.

I'd recommend that you read some posts by Steve Hsu, Peter Frost, or 'The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution'.
Structuring laws are pretty shitty there have been plenty of examples of people being screwed over by the government w/o legal due process for just conducting legitimate businesses that happen to receive a lot of cash payments from customers. Just one recent one...

http://overlawyered.com/2013/09/institute-justice-tackles-st...
While I don't endorse feeding the trolls I did submit a bunch of stuff today.
This is only true if your hiring method is "select people at random and draft them into working for you". Suppose I chose any 40 people who were currently developing software for Microsoft. What are my chances of getting one person among those who is at or below the 2nd percentile of computer literacy?

Followup questions:

How does Microsoft avoid hiring people below the 2nd percentile in computer literacy? They have way more than 50 developers.

Should the police force screen applicants in any way?

Is using a computer part of a police officer's job?

Are the police even able to compel randomly-chosen people to work for them? If not, the premise of your numbers is fatally flawed.
Try taking up community dance lessons. They're usually offered as municipal activities for free or very cheaply. If you're male, you'll never be without partners, as there are usually always more women to men, so some women may dance the mens part to even it out. And it worked for my dad, he went from not knowing dance, to volunteering there often, to dating and now a second marriage. As a somewhat lonely person myself, this showed me that in life, there are indeed second chances. And life is what you make of it. Try new things.
On that basis the Dalai Lama is too, as is Benjamin Netanyahu. It seems its human nature around the world to want to protect/preserve your culture and society.
Unfortunately they still paid a big price in legal fees. Can anyone tell me what the downsides are to a loser-pays-the-fees system? I heard it's used in the UK but not in the US. What gives?
Team IHMC's Atlas Robot navigating random obstacles in path
Too a large extent they are unfortunately. I think that will be gradually accepted as the costs of genome sequencing fall.

Gottfredson, L. S. (2005). Implications of cognitive differences for schooling within diverse societies. Pages 517-554 in C. L. Frisby & C. R. Reynolds (Eds.), Comprehensive Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology. New York: Wiley.

www.edge.org/response-detail/10376
I think that approach was taken by some prior IPsec implementations. I recall that John Gilmore described a main goal of FreeSWAN, for instance, as protecting Internet traffic against passive eavesdropping.

I do wish that plan had worked out. On the other hand,given evidence that governments are sabotaging so much of our communications infrastructure, I guess I fear that active MITM will become common quickly unless there's some mechanism in place to at least detect, publicize, and investigate it.

And since a given IP address can be legitimately used by many different devices, human beings, or organizations in a short timeframe, it's hard to see what this would look like.
Plenty of data: http://web.archive.org/web/query?type=urlquery&url=http://ww...!
>The only point of the story is to say: "YOU, the reader, being a child, are so much better and smarter than all these grown-up sheeple!!"

I'm 24 and it's still true. Being an adult is being able to handle responsibilities and take care of yourself in the world. Being a grown-up is being a prig whose soul died years ago.
I suspect in part it's because geeks can think for themselves and look past taboos (eg. HBD is pretty logical and evidence based once you look at it)
We identify the biodiversity in other species. Don't see why it's a surprise to see the same curiosity in relation to humans. Especially when you see a number of social policies based on ignorance.
sounds like you should pick another industry that is not "very overcrowded" and one you see a real problem to solve...
I've been on the internet for a while and that's worked for me maybe once, and it was by mere coincidence.
> As far as httpc, I'm unaware of that bug -- but I can say that I recently worked on a commercial product that leveraged httpc as a core component of the service, and it worked fine.

It was fixed soon after discovered.
Take note of the small section regarding fixing a disabled girls wheelchair. Its wonderful.
John Carmack talking about the id software acquisition in 2009
The case against Hunter Moore makes me uncomfortable.

Consider a very similar hypothetical site, is-anyone-up-for-busting-corruption.com. Much like isanyoneup.com, this site also posts media of people engaging in actions they do not wish to be seen engaged in. When media is posted, it is accompanied by contact information for the employers of the people involved, and the desire is expressed for those people to be fired and their lives ruined.

I can't say I like the precedent the attacks on Hunter Moore are setting, even if he is a great big jerk.
thanks! i've seen this before, but had forgotten where.
"the language of strings over the alphabet {0,1} in which there are at least n characters, the nth from last of which is 1. It can be represented by an (n + 1)-state NFA, but it requires 2n DFA states, one for each n-character suffix of the input."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerset_construction#Complexit...
check vimium options - google.com subdomains come preinstalled as excluded URL's. I've removed them and happily use Vimium on google apps.
fyi - when you end contract, at&t will gladly unlock your iphone. i have done this many times (including family members' phones). also, if you have are a long time customer, they will unlock your iphone for you, prior to ending contract, if you need to travel internationally.
YTMND
I am no security expert but this sounds interesting. I'd love to know how I can compile it from source (Maybe add it to the github README?)
did you gave the thought to copywrite infringement? What actually stops you to share that dvd with your extended family and friends and colleagues and so on?
>Though presumably an innocent mistake

Oh come on, no need to be naive. It's not like the Goldieblox people heard the melody to "Girls" and thought it would work well for their commercial, they knew the pop-cultural baggage that came with that song and leveraged it for the marketing angle. That's not a criticism, it was savvy, regardless of how any lawsuits pan out Goldieblox should could out ahead.
In the software world we often seem to end up with abbreviations which are ubiquitous but no longer strongly linked to their unabbreviated form. I often find this annoying and distracting. I try an avoid being the source of such annoyance for others. For example if I find myself using abbreviations in my source code, maybe as a prefix for example, I will always ensure the abbreviation is explained at least once in a place that won't be lost (in a header file for example).

An example from back in the day was the acronym (presumably) "Afx". Vast numbers of identifiers in the old MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) Windows API C++ wrapper used this prefix. For some reason not knowing what it meant caused me chronic stress.
Research Paves Path For Hybrid Nano-Materials To Replace Pills, Human Tissue
Care to make a wager? I'll lay 2:1.
- Clickable Link ~> http://solidopinion.com/ .Site is pretty nice. Seems like a facebook design theme, but it still nice.
The Pacific barreleye fish has a has a see-through head
anyone find it funny that the article warns about opening email attachments and at the bottom of the page is a signup form for a "zip file email." poor wording choice.
Mind, even though Americans are usually considered pretty loud and open, there are even those of us who are too loud and open for America.

Though I did have an easier time in California and New York than in Massachusetts. Hmm...
I want to support this company.
A new way to measure word of-mouth marketing [slides]
There are 3 tools that I use extensively:

* jpegMini, for removing EXIF info from jpegs

* optiPNG, for removing extra pallettes from pngs

* gifsickle, to optimize gif's

It's amazing on how much junk bytes you can have in your images. I used them for everything, from my picture collection to my site porfolio.
ask fellow HN'ers: Who all is participating in this year's Facebook Hackercup?
Well, even if you cleaned some of the storage areas devindotcom mentions… How would you know you didn't miss any other area?