skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essence of his side of the story is that the pictures and videos were here idea, and she enthusiastically produced them and sent them to her, and that their subsequent appearance on the internet was not his doing but the act of hackers who compromised his account and perhaps also obtained videos from Justin TV. He has enough evidence posted that it seems plausible and in my opinion that she's being a bit less than honest in her public persona about what actually happened, basically, that he coerced her into producing the content which he then distributed, when the reality may have been she's a bit of a wild girl in secret and would like to keep that aspect of her personality a secret.

An excerpt:

In closing, if I could impart any words to Ms. Jacobs, it would be the following… I’m sorry that someone did this to you, but it wasn’t me. It never was, isn’t and never will be me. At some point, you will have to accept that. Please don’t underestimate people’s ability to forgive. While it may not be possible for me to do so, people will understand if you reverse and tell the truth. From your constantly changing timeline and story, I’m concerned for you and I hope you’re talking to someone. It has been almost a half-decade since we last spoke, yet you seem to have crafted this detailed and elaborate construct in your head of what I have been doing all of these years. If this is sincerely what you believe and isn’t part of some elaborate and malicious plan, then I hope you get help; it’s frightening and sad to see. It can’t be me and I have absolutely no desire for it to be, but I hope you’re talking to someone. While I’m considerably angry with you and appalled by your actions, I don’t hate you. This is merely the beginning of our legal battle and it will assuredly get much worse from here, but in all matters besides these, I wish you well. We disagree on many matters and we will continue to disagree on many matters, but above all things, be honest, stay strong and please, don’t do anything stupid.
> people who cradle their smartphones in front of them while they drive

I wonder how Steve Roberts (http://microship.com/bike/index.html) feels about them.
Atmospheric Electricity Powers Small Motor [video]
In what way?

Some variant of clustering is a very common feature among many different database platforms.

Redis adding clustering does not make it a step towards turning it into Riak any more than it is a step towards turning it into MySQL [1]

[1] http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/
I was prepared to agree but I can see that it might be reasonable to expect Match to be more diligent about disallowing trying to avoid the mis-use of photos. As a simple example, the suggestion to closely watch, freeze or block domestic profiles created on international IPs. Especially in cases where content is to be used in marketing activities.
Clearly. The deeper question is why does our society value entertainment more than creation of other types of value?

Society has allowed copyright to extend virtually forever, while patents tend to last just 20 years. If you have money to invest in either industry with similar risk, which are you going to take a chance on? The one that will support you for life, and your family until the end of time, naturally. This indicates that we favour entertainment more than other types of intellectual property.

I realize people on here tend to be against property rights completely, but if we assume, for argument's sake, they are valuable for promoting creation as is the prevailing reason for having the system, shouldn't copyright be a far shorter period than patents?
(2011)

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Will It Optimize? [2010]
Are you one of those people who thinks they're a psychiatrist?
I realise the danger to others is much greater if a driver is using their smartphone but I've seen my fair share of cyclists using them too. And as a bicycle commuter myself, I know how insane that is.
wrong. the article is very much about one person (an assertive type-a sociopath) imposing what they think of technology on others:

> A few weeks ago, while out with some friends, I took everyone’s phone and powered them off for the night, saying that we were going to focus on the night rather than our “stupid fucking phones.”

> Next time you’re in a restaurant with friends, have everyone put their phones stacked and face down in the center of the table. If anyone takes their phone off of the stack during the meal, they have to pay everyone else’s bill.
> Big pharma also keeps pushing cocktail shots, multiple vaccinations in one single shot, whereas before you would take multiple visits and each time it would be a separate vaccine.

OK, so what's their motive? Surely Big Pharma in cahoots with Big Doctor would love lots of visits and lots of separate billable injections?

The real reason is more likely to be that plenty of people only take their kids to the pediatrician once in a while, because they don't have insurance or they work a lot (particularly amongst the poor, where things like transportation can be an issue), so getting them all in in a few combination shots means higher vaccination levels across the board.
Root it, use something like SDMaid to lock out the annoying apps. Done.

No idea if this voids your warranty, but I buy phones upfront and unsubsidised anyway so it's less of a concern.
Their internal cryptocurrency for P2P is not far fetched.
In fact, something similar has been deployed by scientists and used on small scale since 2007:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=666351...

Disclaimer: dev of this system
Al Gore Vs. Phil Valentine
Phil Valentine takes out Al Gore in congressional hearing
I understand why you want an E-mail address in exchange for the book. What I don't understand is why, in addition to that E-mail address, do people have to create an account of some kind? Why not just the E-mail address?

The "Get the Book" page does not explain any of this, and left me puzzled as to what I was creating an account for.
> as a bicycle commuter

Smartphone use in a vehicle is a problem, so I agree with the gist, but this part about you riding a bike is completely irrelevant to the point you made. But maybe you want some kind of cookie for being so respectful of the environment and conscientious enough to ride a bike on a regular basis. So I just wanted to take this moment and thank you for riding your bike. You're a good person. You should tell more people that you are a bicycle commuter so you can get more people to thank you for your service to the world.
The above comment seemed condescending. Like it isn't a real problem, just something for people with a certain character flaw which implies that it's their fault.

He added more in another comment and rereading it I think it's correct, but that's how it came off the first time I read it too.
Okay, thanks for the reply!
I've made catfish hunting on Plenty of Fish into an entertaining game. Once you know what to look for, it is pretty easy. The biggest tip-off are well-composed photos. I'll see a profile with those kind of photos and throw them into google image search. I've got about an 80% hit rate there and of those, I'd say 19 out of 20 are fakes (models, photos on multiple profiles in different countries, etc). Another approach is to do a google search on a sentence in the profile's self-description to see if that same sentence has been lifted from somewhere else.

What I don't understand is why the dating sites haven't automated the process. They could could do a google image search on every uploaded photo and any hits would be forwarded to a human for investigation. They could also keep an internal blacklist of photos and well-known scammer cut-n-paste self-description text. The fact that they aren't doing that (because it is so easy for me to do it on active profiles) suggests apathy.
I don't see that much around here, but that's probably because the roads are nuanced enough (read: cracked) to require your attention.
The Movie Al Gore Doesn't Want You to See ... An Inconsistent Truth
An Inconsistent Truth not only explores the flawed science behind the global warming movement but the culture that drives the hysteria. Despite what the global warming alarmists claim, there is no consensus on this issue. Temperatures have been steady for the past decade and the alarmists are scrambling for an explanation. The only explanation is that they've been horribly wrong. We've spent billions of dollars chasing a fantasy. It's time the people learned the truth about the science, the driving forces behind the global warming movement and who's been making money at the expense of ignorance.
I'm pretty sure you can do this sort of load balancing on Linux without having to install any extra software, at the IP level, with the "ip rule" and "iptables" commands.

EDIT: Yep: https://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/links-load-balancing/
I think the idea is that there are many more optimizations that could be performed, but this "naïve" version is still very idiomatic and high level.
(True story: in my interview I was asked how I would extract entities from an HTML page. I suggested using OpenCalais (a free-as-in-beer API that does just that, and returns Freebase identifiers). If someone in the Freebase community wanted to do something like that, that’s exactly what I would have recommended. But the interviewer wanted to know how I would implement it myself. I told him I wouldn’t — that that’s why I was leaving the Search group for Developer Relations! Wrong answer, apparently.)

No opinion on the rest of the article; never worked for Google, never interviewed for a job there. But I wanted to respond to this graf.

This seems to be a trope in job interview postmortems: the "technical problem that the candidate responds to with the name of a library because why would you reinvent the wheel". I doubt that this approach will come in handy. The interviewer isn't simply asking how you'd extract entities from an HTML page. They're using entity extraction as a model problem, a stand-in for the kinds of problems they expect you might deal with at that company, most of which won't have library solutions. Answering with the name of a library is about as productive as saying "I'd post on Craigslist to find someone to write the solution for me".

Meanwhile, coming up with a solution for extracting entities from a page isn't that hard; it's a weird place to stick to your guns on needing a library. And Calais is a lot of machinery to involve just to extract entities from a page of text.
How is anyone going to buy your devices if no one has heard of them?

The best chance they have to gain traction is to attract users. You can buy marketing until your budget is gone, but that only goes so far; word of mouth is almost certainly the best chance they have to expand their user base, improving their brand awareness, drawing new buyers.
Also for definitional reasons!
Ask HN: Do you cold-contact peers when considering working at a company?
I'm thinking about my next software development job. I think I might find a developer in a similar job in a company, cold-email them, and ask a few questions about what it's really like to work there. (I'll include a link to my personal site so that they understand I'm worth responding to.)

I'll be more comfortable talking to them rather applying for a job directly which makes me seem needy.

They'll probably be more honest and open than a hiring manager. And if it goes well, they may pass on my resume.

I'm surprised that I haven't heard this done more often. Have you tried this? Does it work for you? Or does it seem rude?
> if you are in a relationship with someone who wants to take nude or compromising pictures or video of you, run away from that man as quickly as you can. He does not respect or protect you. He does not look after your best interests. He is an asshole.

Nonsense. There are plenty of people that take photos and videos of their personal sex lives. You really need to get out more.

Secondly, there appears to be two sides to this story:
http://jacobsvsseay.com

For the sake of argument, let's assume his side of the story is the more correct one. Under that circumstance, what do you have to say about society and the legal system with respect to the ability for a woman to potentially destroy an innocent (again, we are assuming his story is true in the context of this question) man's life? Do you have the same visceral reaction, that it is a horrific crime?
I'm in that situation already and if you had asked me this question before, I would have said something along the lines of travel, have fun, or some other variation thereof. The reality is while I did do those things for awhile, what I ended up doing was went back to "work". By work I mean grinding on other things of interest to me.

I can't speak for others but its incredibly tough for me to not proactively work on something I enjoy, especially once you have develop the habit of getting use to working a lot.
Building a Blog in Dart
Yeah, well, i try to treat everyone the same, even if they seem, uh, off :)
Huh? I think if you really want to make the "smartest most critical person in the room" argument, it might be for the guy who snarkily told off someone using their phone while their mom had cancer. But yeah, you're totally right, its not him, its me for even daring to propose that, hey, maybe instead of another rant on these damned kids using their cellphones, just stfu and let people do their thing. The constant judging while having no idea wtf you're talking about (your post here is a case in point) is getting really old. But I'll let you get back to, you know, putting down someone elses point in an attempt to feel like the smartest most critical person in the room. :)
Is anything ever "bad" for you? Even the worst thing can occasionally produce a positive outcome, by your logic we should leave them all alone just in case.
I think that you are missing my point, because the bicycle is entirely relevant.

I own a car. I drive it. A lot. You didn't need to know that.

But in the situation I described, I feel quite vulnerable, because I'm not in a car, and because I'm not on the sidewalk. In other words, because I'm on a bicycle.
Django: 331

Ruby on rails: 904

C#: 8357

Sources:

http://www.dice.com/job/results?caller=basic&q=django&x=all&...

http://www.dice.com/job/results?caller=searchagain&q=ruby+on...

http://www.dice.com/job/results?caller=searchagain&q=C%23&x=...
I don't own a smartphone either, and in my work days (I don't work anymore) potential employers always thought I didn't know much about technology (or anything else for that matter), just because of this. They wanted people who used all the latest stupid "apps", and were connected to the matrix 24/7 through many different channels.
"(Most of my best work has been done on pen and paper while taking a walk.)"

You are fortunate to be on the maker schedule rather than the manager schedule[1]. As a teacher, I have to be on manager time while in the class and when in College. Creative thinking tends to be done at home/weekends.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html (I know most here will be familiar with the reference but just in case).
Sadly I think the answer is, "according to the article it is true." I doubt many HNers have access to high resolution scans of Vermeer interiors. Until someone else repeats Jenison's analysis of the paintings we will have to take his word for it that this is an accurate description of Vermeer's use of light.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/11/27/cryptolock...
I am a big fan of the current phone zombie generation!

It helps me a lot to recruit new users for my website. I usually start by asking them "Could you do me a favor and take a look at my website. I've not checked my site on your kind of mobile phone".

Currently, I have a success rate of 80 percent of users taking a look at the website, and out of them, roughly 70 percent go to sign up with Facebook.

Besides getting new users, I get invaluable insight into my users' behavior and expectations while peeking at their phones. Additionally, I can check out how my website works on different kinds of mobile phones, OSes and tablets.

So I am really happy with so many phone zombies.
I just started learning haskell, can someone explain what:
(\a0 -> (collatzLen a0, a0))
is doing?
I use Super Download on Android that does the same thing.. Always wondered how they pulled it off.
Yes, I've learned a lot and made some good industry contacts this way. You have to do it gently though -- people are jealous of there time unless they understand you are a colleague worthy of respect.
I had a friend (not a close one, but good enough to arrange one-on-one meetings in NYC) repeatedly pull out his phone in the middle of conversations. Everything just stopped for a minute 4-5 times/hr. I then defriended him in real life.

But then you also have the people who just scroll through Instagram or something similarly non-linguistic while you're in a conversation. They say they're listening but they "just do this naturally" or "I can do two things at once".

Whether their phone use is blocking or non-blocking of our conversation, it's simply a gesture of disrespect if done more than once or twice. If you don't like my company enough to give full attention, or your other friend is in an emergency, just excuse yourself and leave.

I think I'm going to start excusing myself when I find my friends are doing it.
A woman can have 13 or more children in her reproductive lifecycle. I think you'd have to call this a large family, or at most a very large family, or else I have to call a family with 13 children super extremely large, which is just getting silly. ;)
Unfortunately, the power is in the hands of the temp workers.... if they all stick together. If they all collectively demanded better working conditions and better pay, they could succeed. After all, the work won't get done if they don't do it. Management certainly isn't going to dirty their hands in this kind of job.

And after all what we see, it really is have-nots (proletariat) versus the haves(capitalists/managers).
Author here. Twist and fracture are among the more unconventional, dramatic methods that I left in for those looking for cut-up effects over folding. As you found out, you can even target the body element and the OriDomi will stretch to the window dimensions. That middle portion in the last screenshot looks like a stuck hover state probably due to the fact that you have nested OriDomi instances on the page. Thanks for trying it out.
You don't understand economics.

Demand for products creates jobs. If more people have more disposable income to buy products, demand for those products increase, and thus the demand for employees to create those products increases.
Huh? I didn't say that my wife is on the phone any non healthy amount of time. She was on the phone for a short period of time for a very good reason and someone lacked the mental health and self awareness to think "maybe me butting in and lecturing two strangers eating dinner IS more rude than someone being on their cell phone." Normally our usage is completely fine and not a problem, so during all of this, I never had a problem with our usage and only some old stranger did. This is a problem.

The fact that you called my point a terrible point and projected that I must be "turning into a society that's spending significant time doing things that we don't want to do." when you don't know me at all is a pretty scary lack of self awareness. Your entire point is rock bottom terrible and you STILL start off by telling someone else that their point sucks. I don't even know why I bothered to respond because you don't seem even slightly interested in your argument connecting to the actual reality at hand and instead construct it to argue against a strawman version of our society you've built.

"So sure, for the .1% time that you're texting your sick wife with cancer and she's able to vicariously experience things, you are probably feeling pretty good about what you're doing. Now how about the other 99.9% of the time?"

Is the implication here that I must only be using my cell to waste time and drive myself into some sort of deep depression while being too stupid to realize it? Well finally the internet messiah came along to save me! Anyway, my call very certainly saves me time when I use it and I only use it when I need to. I'm not sure why I've become the example when I presume my habits must not be known to you?
Ask HN: Can You Please Give Feedback On This
I recently told someone about Bitcoin. She doesn't have a full understanding of it yet (we just had a simple overview talk on the subject). However she came back with these:

http://d.pr/i/Jlem

http://d.pr/i/l3mQ

She was thinking of putting them up on Teespring. I thought I'd go out and ask others for opinions before anything. She's new to all of this, isn't normally an entrepreneur of sorts, and doesn't know whether this is a good idea or not or how to even market it. I thought I'd put this up and try to get some feedback for her first. So any feedback you guys have would be awesome.
Speak to your OB and ask if the vaccines given to pregnant women are the same as the ones from Walgreens or Safeway... and ask about the mercury.
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Of course you mean doing this BEFORE any interview. (After the first interview, hopefully they'd set you up with people to talk to.)
I wonder why twitter decided to roll their own instead of just using JSLint.... Why fragment the field more?

Whenever I am about to start a project, I check if other solutions exist, and weigh introducing fragmentation (of course, it's not guaranteed that I am going to succeed at all), and I know there must be tons of other people smarter than me at Twitter...
I call the effect smartphones are having on us "Information Obesity" [1].

Just like when food was scarce and people ate as much as they could, and now that food is abundant many people can't limit themselves to sensible amounts, a similar thing happened with information.

When information was scarce, we consumed as much as we could, and now that it is abundant many people can't limit themselves to sensible amounts, and keep checking their email, twitter, reddit, HN, etc, on their smartphones.

Just as we learned to teach people who to deal with food abundance (and not successfully yet, unfortunately) we should one day start to teach people who to deal with information abundance

[1] http://andrewoneverything.com/post/43839194291/information-o...
Thanks for the reply and link soneca. I will check it out right now! Is there a rule of thumb regarding how many questions to stick to once you have the local business owners attention? Do they tend to get annoyed after asking so many questions?
But he got to insult a stranger on the internet. How else is someone supposed to build their self esteem?? :(
Yeah, I think you can open your answer with, "well, I'd use libfoo, because there are a bunch of hairy edge cases", but then follow on immediately with a toy implementation to show you understand the problem domain. There's a certain sort of nerd-arrogance to the "I'm too good to write it myself" sort of answer.
The point, in this case, being that they weren't going for a coding position. They would not expect to solve that kind of problem as part of their job - because they were going for a community liason/management role, not a technical one.