skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. Actually a few months ago, I blocked the news websites that I was used to reading. I really see news as a form of noise rather than information. Especially all those low quality sites such as the Huffington Post and so on...

Not only they don't provide quality information, but it seems to me they trigger our worst sides (jealousy, hatred...).
If by "now" you mean 4 years ago, then yes :)
No demo. Have to signup to check how it looks & why it's cool. Meh.
We got hit with the same issue just a month ago, and were actually completely kicked out of the Shopping Feeds. We were finally able to talk to the right person at Google and get reactivated for a two week extension to give us a little more time to become compliant...at which point we then just removed all but the newly unwatermarked images from the feed and for the past 4 weeks have been doing nothing but recreating non-watermarked images for all of our products and slowly building up our feed again.

I understand all the arguments...but when you're a company who IS trying to protect hard work in shooting great high def images in-house, it is very personal.
http://goodnewsgopher.com

I made a news crawler that automatically filters out bad news articles using sentiment analysis.

I like to think it offers a good reprieve from all of the negative, depressing news you get inundated with from the major media.
> It always feels good to ship something, even when you feel like it isn't 100%.

Sort of, although at first I found showing it to the world a touch nerve-wracking :-). Realistically though, if I waited until I judged things were 100% ready I would never put anything out there.
Yeah, I made the mistake and responding to it here. I have since deleted my comment.

I really need to filter what I read more.
I said Dobelli should be embarassed. He certainly should be embarassed by several of those examples.

But Taleb's page is also embarassing to Taleb. He's presenting many of these as his original ideas when, well, they're simply not.
I think he's talking about the apps for the various ecosystems. Although they're not feature-complete.
One of the reasons email clients often don't load images by default is because when an image is loaded the server it's pulled from can track that it was loaded, and thus infer that the email has been opened.

By loading images automatically, this tracking will again be possible. However, Google may be getting around this by loading all images on receipt by the Gmail servers and then caching them as the blog mentions. That way a sender will only be able to track that the email made it to Google, not whether the end user actually viewed it or not.
Thanks dude changed mine too :)
Agreed, that seems like pushing FUD down everyones throat.

Why not leave comments to comment section and use original post titles instead.
Looks like gmail proxies the images via https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/. I don't see an issue, gmail is already tracking me, but the sender can't track me.
Monster Madness – creating games on the web with Emscripten
Good points. This is a very cool project, and it will be fun to watch it progress.
Increase your SaaS app revenue and kill churn with awesome dunning emails.
This part of the title was an editorial addition by the submitter. No doubt he his thinking of the use of images in email to signal that the message has been displayed (loading the image sends a request to the server, which can be logged). However, the submitter didn't read the article that he submitted, in which Google explains that they are storing copies of the images on their own servers precisely to disable these forms of tracking.
Nice I really want to build one but I think I'd much rather buy the parts in a kit than separately. I saw this wooden case[0] in a tweet and I think I'd want to try my hand with that instead of the 3D printing.

[0]: http://cl.ly/SvPT
Polynomial Regression and the Importance of Cross-Validation
This is an open source project designed to be hosted on one of the "personal cloud" platforms that you can run yourself on your own hardware, or if you want, run on a VPS that you trust. That eliminates many of the concerns that people generally have about "the cloud," while still giving you the convenience of having it web-accessible from anywhere you want to check it.
Have you looked into PhoneGap Build (free for a single app) https://build.phonegap.com/ and instructions for getting certificates on Windows http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/iphone/WS144092a96ffef7cc-37...?
Why Lean Startup sucks for startups.
Understandable. Thanks for explaining. I will be looking forward to watching this project progress. If you ever make a vertical keyboard, I might buy a lifetime supply :)
Vyvanse was a wonder drug for me. Not only helped me concentrate it made me more outgoing and confident. Left me with horrible dry mouth though.
I'm the poster, didn't mean to be provocative. The blog post didn't explain how the secure proxy works. Normally email marketing uses a tracking image that has a unique url to detect which users open an email. I'm wondering what the behavior is for that now.

Is all email open tracking broken now? Good thing for users, not so good for email marketing campaigns/tools.

Was hoping some gmail devs would comment here. The blog entry didn't have comments enabled.
Well, you can also write asm.js code manually to squeeze out performance, if you need to.
A common marketing tactic is to include a link to a small, transparent image in the email they send. The URL is personalized to each recipient, and so they can check their server logs to see who opened their email and when.

It's unclear if this technique will work against the new GMail approach; maybe Google will always fetch all images as soon as the mail arrives, which would immediately ruin any signal.
GOG offering Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics for free
From the submitter title:
> (Tracking always?)

Looks like submitter missed this in the post:

Of course, those who prefer to authorize image display on a per message basis can choose the option “Ask before displaying external images” under the General tab in Settings. That option will also be the default for users who previously selected “Ask before displaying external content”.

Probably worth updating the HN title to reflect this.
Assange wrote some code for a pre-nmap port scanner. If he'd chosen a different path I think he would've been a pretty decent security researcher.
The downside, for me, is that I very consciously enable tracking this way for mailings where I want my reads tracked.

When you actually want to be marketed to, it makes it easier for the sender to tailor their content -- and I do for some markets want to get the tailored stream.
Re-Create the datahand
I thought things had gotten better.

A decade ago the large company I worked for switched to a web based timecard system. The only problem, ie only and the software team of 50+ all were using hpux or solaris workstations. No ie. Oh and they wanted timecards done daily.

The solution?

Set up 2 terminals in the lab with a unix backend and a windows NT virtual environment so we can use IE to do timecards.
I love your optimism! Almost as much as I do your boundless naïvete. And I stopped voting years ago. It's an unhealthy habit, and only encourages 'em.
Node v0.10.23 (Stable)
Configure Nginx to Execute PHP Using PHP-FPM
Ah the 5x multiplier i understand...

But as far as AWS micro is concerned, it was an example for starter size. These are easily scalable I believe either through Elastic Beanstalk tools or manually. On RDS for example (which I am more familiar with) if you have a small DB instance that is hitting CPU limits, you right click & hit modify... about a minute later it is now whatever size you want. And I think their instances get large enough that you would have to be running a reallll heavily-trafficked app to actually hit a wall. (I haven't read enough about EB which is why I asked the question but I think it is auto-scaling)

Again, maybe not as cost effective as dedicated but I think at this point it may be a good compromise between the two while the container community works out some deployment hurdles.
Yes, clearly mainstream news has been turned into an entertainment product. Agree that NPR delivers the news in depth without all of the cynicism and noise that makes mainstream news so depressing, except on environmental issues, that's a topic where the NPR coverage will suggest you should have a bunker in the mountains.
Well, no, they're not as rich as the desktop versions.

But as they've had a team port (a trimmed version of) Minecraft to xbox live arcade, and the iPad, it would surprise me if they're not already working on a *.js version.
Thanks :)

How do you deal with arm fatigue when using a vertical keyboard?
It's interesting but didn't Quake Live run inside the browser?
nigger thinks I did not know clock rates.

Nigger thinks I play with markov as God.

God says...
mundo_stoked I_pitty_the_fool on_the_otherhand why_is_it
hooah shucks dance It's_nice_being_God Watch_this astounding
are_you_insane fun now_you_tell_me virtue could_it_be___Satan
silly_human don't_mention_it face_palm prosperity face_palm
abnormal employer taxes Terry off_the_record I'll_be_back
umm silly_human no_you_cant stuff humongous sex ROFLMAO
you_know_a_better_God lying in_a_galaxy_far_far_away arent_you_clever
BRB as_a_matter_of_fact relax husband let's_see in_practice
So do I have to create a hidden volume on my computer then?
Communicating Mathematics
Nvidia  G-Sync Review
[1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 (warning: google's calling it malicious, check the cache instead)

"""
I was near surrounded by these people, for the first time in my life, at a sort of ethnic-pride gathering which I was attending for reasons not relevant to this essay. And found myself experiencing disgust. Not anger, not hatred, but a visceral feeling of revulsion similar to being exposed to sewage or rotten food.

Something in my hindbrain was pushing me hard in a direction perhaps best verbalized as “these people are greasy, filthy monkeys and I despise them and I loathe them”.
"""

"""

Scrupulous honesty requires me to report here that there is a small subset of blacks to which I do have a twitchy hindbrain reaction something like “Animal; unsafe; avoid.” But I’ve noticed that blacks outside this subset have that reaction too. so I’m probably not reacting to “race” in this respect. It may be related that I perceive a lot more variety among blacks than I do among minority X.
"""

"""One was: their skin color looks fecal. The other was: their bone structure doesn’t look human. And they’re just off-reference enough to be much more creepy than if they looked less like people, like bad CGI or shambling undead in a B movie. When I paid close enough attention, these were the three basic data under the revulsion; my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies.
"""
I don't know why this misconception keeps getting propogated. If the motivation to save pictures is there then a person will save the pictures. I have to believe it's the fad. I mean poke had this same feature yet it never took off
I just moved to Ottawa a few weeks. Any advice on finding out more about the local dev meetups?

It's too bad I just missed out on that humanitarian hack-a-thon. Sounds like it would have been fun and worthwhile.
Consider a developer bootcamp? 4 questions you need to ask yourself first
reference to ThePirateBay?

http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/news/220529/pir...
7 lines JavaScript library for calling asynchronous functions
For those expecting to see an actual image, this is the closest thing to a photo from NASA:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/water-vapor-over-europa/

They note: "Hubble didn't photograph plumes, but spectroscopically detected auroral emissions from oxygen and hydrogen."

Full press release from NASA:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-europa-water-vapo...

For an amazing photo of Europa with Io's volcanic plumes in view, see this older photo from 2007:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA10103.jpg

Full description here: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10103
They don't explicitly say it disables tracking at all. They say:

Simple: your messages are more safe and secure, your images are checked for known viruses or malware...

Unless I missed something. I read it twice. Can anyone point to text that says otherwise.
According to Wikipedia[1], "300 kB is the current recommended size used by networks due to some limitations on the WAP gateway side". While that is listed as "Citation Needed", other links from the the same search query lists sizes varying from 600KB to 1.2MB. A quick look at the files sizes at the images I've taken shows that most of my images are over 1000KB. So, there is some kind of re-sizing that needs to occur over SMS. Instagram and other similar services don't necessarily require such re-sizing, or possibly get around it by having you crop the image yourself, so the relative quality of the remaining portion remains higher quality as opposed to shrinking the entire image to fit the size restrictions.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service#Ch...
Why would you expect there to be medical evidence that speaks to being happier after giving up reading news?

I don't think you are entitled to expect that. Medical studies don't tend to focus on the happiness of healthy people. Even if they did, I would be surprised if a good study giving us data on happiness on reading news already exist at a scale that would represent the range of population behaviour.

I don't disagree with you wanting good scientific evidence - that's commendable.

I disagree with calling baloney on a sensible hypothesis ('reading news as a typical Westerner does is detrimental to overall happiness for most people') just because that scientific evidence does not yet exist and this opinion piece does not yet provide it.

Bias alert: I'm pretty sure I read to much news, and am solidifying this meme in my mind to try to improve that.
The microhydro plant
This guy built his own micro power plant for his house.
How can he be a plagiarist when this should be general knowledge?
OP here.
HN is very critical towards Lean Startup. Imho that's right but often it's not for the right reasons. Hope my post clarifies my thoughts a bit.
UIkit 2.0 released
Does the fetch happen immediately when Google receives the email? Or does it occur the first time the user opens the email?

If the latter, sender image tracking will be alive and well.
I don't think Taleb is presenting many of these as his original ideas, he's merely (in the original context - his book) using them as examples to drive his other ideas.

If you ask Taleb himself, he would say that he's only had one idea - the rest are just derivations (his or someone else's), and using already observed phenomena and anecdotes to explain it and its consequences.

The only purpose of that article is to expose Dobelli, nothing else.

As to the specific quote Taleb basically reads as a reorganized and edited version of this last quote. - isn't it possible that he has had a very similar experience?
Ahh ok. That makes more sense now. Sorry :)
Pssst. Here's what idiocratic actually means :-) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define+idiocratic&oq=defin...
Yeah, it's a great TL;DR that can cause people to hate you for misrepresenting a situation forever. If he had just released the full, unedited video and a shorter unedited snippet of the video, would we still be seeing attacks on his credibility this long after the fact? The shorter video he released lacked some much needed context as to why the pilot of the gunship chose to fire.
If you're a subscriber, as I was, you can go into your account settings and "Suspend Indefinitely" your account from being charged. There is also a comments section. I'm betting they'll pay a lot more attention to those comments than to ones on a blog post or Facebook, so suspend your accounts if you have them, everybody!
If you invest assuming you'll sell 100000 shovels next year and gold rush is over tomorrow, you lost a lot of money.

Selling shovels during the gold rush is not something much safer than drilling for gold itself. It is safer, but not a 100% certain business.
Of course. The news are depressing in the declining empire of the USA, how not to get depressed watching them? It's not like things are going into the right direction and each year is better than the previous one. The things goes in wrong direction and things are worse every year than they used to be. And pretending it is not happening by just simply turning off the news is exactly what NSA and the USG want you to do.
It was using some kind of custom browser plugin. Which on one hand allowed it to run normal, compiled-to-binary Quake III engine, on the other it worked only in selected browsers.
Highly recommended! Fallout 2 made me "jump" from JRPGs to WRPGs.

Too bad I already have the games... twice.
I guess this is a fundamental step for the Ruby ecosystem.

I've heard many times people complaining that Ruby's internals are not well documented yet or if they are it's been mostly done in japanese only.

Will this serve the cause and finally break the barrier between occidental and oriental sides of Ruby code development?
What SpringOne 2GXers Have to Say on the New Spring Framework 4.0
When Steve Jobs accepted the job as a interim-CEO to clean-up Sculley's mistakes, back when Apple was almost bankrupt, he accepted the $1 salary on the expectation that he would be paid only if Apple would perform well. That's how much faith and commitment he had in Apple succeeding, and that was before the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad...

Compare Steve Jobs attitude with Pandit's, who announced he would "reduce" his salary to $1 in 2009, only after the $25b in govt bail-out. On that same year, he was compensated "just a few million dollars" (as opposed to $38m in 2008), plus $165m for his hedge fund. [1]

Yes, Pandit was overpaid.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Pandit#Compensation
Quake Live used a native plugin actually, it was basically a regular native game running inside the browser's chrome.
When Should You Get A Sales Team?
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
I wonder if Google is going to add an Analytics component for Gmail or provide some user-agent lists. Email is hard enough to test and get working well; for the Gmail segment you won't know what browser versions to prioritise testing in now.

Pretty effectively spoils Litmus and others though.
Does anyone know why they would need 768MB of ram on the display side? Storing even a couple high resolution frames in a buffer shouldn't require more then 50MB. Doesn't all that memory drive up the cost?
Not to dump on UK, but I also find the UK newspapers to be very mean spirited. US tabloids gawk at celebrities, but UK tabloids are out to get them. I would not want to be famous in the UK.
Images Now Showing in Gmail
I wasn't trying to spread FUD. Was looking for clarification. But fair enough, there is an issue with link baiting on HN. The conversation.

I've now modified the title to not include the (Tracking always!?) text at the end.
Google Search Android App 3.1.24.941712 Traffic Incidents, Package Cards
Yeah, arm and shoulder fatigue is definitely an issue at first. After about 2 - 3 months the muscles develop, so it is no longer an issue.
As warm as the word vapor may sound it is actually really cold. Europa's oceans, if they exist, are -50°C and lower.
The WoW client already supports streaming, you can play the game after downloading only the core content. Even that is pretty large though, but it could be optimized for the web.
Gmail for desktop now automatically shows images in your messages
Wealthy sixteen year old teen spared jail after killing four people
It's very hard to justify this "laziness" to managers sometimes. But what's more shocking is that the "lazy" group had a working system and that apparently was not valued as much as the other group, continually fighting fires.
News is also highly addictive, I've tried to kick the habit since I read the original article a while back but its been nearly impossible.
What(Most)Guys Secretly Think About Women
It looks like we'll be able to access the MS-Word looking version for free. For the "styled/typeset" two-column version it looks like people will have to pay for the paywalled version.

At this point I'm left wondering:

1. Is the typeset version that much of a value add? Do people not realize how relatively easy it is to do these things on apart from publishing houses?

2. Is reading a single column version all that bad? We do it on the internet every day.
Am I the only one that absolutely does NOT want this? I don't care so much about viruses in images, rather I don't want spammers to see that I loaded a custom image and thus my email address is valid.

(A wonderful side-product of rarely loading images is that most newsletter-type emails are vastly easier to read.)
False dichotomy.

Edit: To be fair, my comment relates more to the title than to the body of the post.
The Kernel is calling a zero(day) pointer – CVE-2013-5065
I have a box that I put a lock on, I left the keys to this lock with my friend and he will send it to me when I get to my destination.
I am often frustrated by news and think much of it is worth ignoring, but many of the points are not very well-supported.

"News has no explanatory power": I'm not going to argue that most mainstream news is even that good, but to suggest that "the accumulation of facts" is inconsistent with forming deeper knowledge is too sweeping. Readers of news can observe patterns, which hopefully they will check against more in-depth research.

Much of news' task to not the "how?" but the "what?" and on that measure, it does a decent, if inconsistent job: http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/.

"News is toxic to your body": The author cites a case study involving the limbic system that doesn't mention media or news at all. It may well be that "Panicky stories spur the release of cascades of glucocorticoid" but do they do so at noticeable or unhealthy levels? I'm not convinced.

"News increases cognitive errors": News is not an ideal way of challenging biases, but it seems much better than not reading news and getting information about filtered through friends with similar biases to you. (Reading carefully filtered news and books is probably best of all.)

"News inhibits thinking": This section only applies if you read news intermittently and let notifications interrupt you. Concentrating on a newspaper (or news site) for 30 minutes would not have the same effect. But continually leaving work for chatting co-workers would.

"News works like a drug": This section is one of the most plausible, but once again, it doesn't cite any evidence. Cal Newport has a similar line of reasoning, but he actually has research to back it up: http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/06/10/is-allowing-your-child.... (It's about Facebook, but the same principle of distracting activities ruining focus applies.)

"News wastes time": This is all about habits and boundaries. Like "News inhibits thinking," this problem could emerge with any activity engaged in on a whim during working hours.

"News kills creativity": The theory that younger mathematicians are more productive is actually unfounded. See http://www.slate.com/articles/life/do_the_math/2003/05/is_ma... or http://privacyink.org/pdf/myth.pdf. And this last part is pure argument by anecdote:

"I don't know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer, mathematician, physician, scientist, musician, designer, architect or painter. On the other hand, I know a bunch of viciously uncreative minds who consume news like drugs."

The points about most news being irrelevant to day-to-day life and story bias are worth pondering, but otherwise this article overreaches. It is a series of interesting conjectures about the effect of news, but often presumes a certain way of reading or watching news. The evidence for each point is slim. I'm forced to conclude his warnings of "panicky" news with "no explanatory power" are hypocritical.