skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is how to do it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation

> Disinformation is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. It is an act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, information that is unintentionally false.

> Unlike traditional propaganda techniques designed to engage emotional support, disinformation is designed to manipulate the audience at the rational level by either discrediting conflicting information or supporting false conclusions. A common disinformation tactic is to mix some truth and observation with false conclusions and lies, or to reveal part of the truth while presenting it as the whole (a limited hangout).

> Another technique of concealing facts, or censorship, is also used if the group can affect such control. When channels of information cannot be completely closed, they can be rendered useless by filling them with disinformation, effectively lowering their signal-to-noise ratio and discrediting the opposition by association with many easily disproved false claims.
Are you thinking of something other than the Defense Authorization Act of 2011? Which:

a) The President signed, rather than vetoed, as was his option.

b) Went into effect three years after he took office.

It would have been politically damaging for President Obama to close Camp X-Ray during his first few years in office. It would not have been impossible.
You can't erase what you've already done online. Moving forward, you could live like a person from 1950. No mobile phone, no internet, pay cash for stuff. That's about as close to anonymous as you can get, if it's worth the pain.
Even if the whole drive is 'empty' ?
Data sharing in the Internet of things
Dropbox has a storage limit, requires an account and is non free software.

The usage proposed here is a "no-strings" attached approach.
Ideally you want something you can trust, hence free software, and that does not store anything.
People judge what they see, and those been had cases videos haha.
Tabs. But I thought about changing because apparently over 90% of Python developers on GitHub use Spaces.

Problem is, for every benefit there is a downside and some of the benefits aren't that interesting to me.

Benefits seem to be:

1. Alignment without mixing (which is bad in some languages). I don't align.

2. Code looks the same for everyone. Doesn't need some workarounds if you publish code or present it outside the editor to get your prefered width.

Downside is:

1. I use variable width for some filetypes. People might not agree with that. I wanted to convert all my tabs to 4 spaces when I realized that I've set sass to 2 and
sometimes change it to 4. Conversion is possible, but tricky especially if you align.

2. OCD/Perfection clashes. Tabs kind of make sense for indentation.

The problems I have with tabs are:

1. Barely anyone seems to use them anymore.

2. Some languages I like (like YAML) don't allow tabs.

3. Needs some non-standard CSS to get them to display as 4 Spaces in the Browser instead of the overly wide 8. I think GitHub converts them automatically to spaces in the preview to avoid that issue (though your still at 8 then).

I guess I might end up with spaces in the near future. It's kind of a "What I like" vs. "What others use" situation. I don't think there is anything wrong with tabs unless you really have to align your code.
Glad I don't use online bitcoin wallets.
CB could accept credit cards without too much risk if they chose to by e.g. putting a 60-day hold on all BTC bought with credit cards. My guess is they don't take credit cards because they have their hands full dealing with their business as it stands, and adding the extra business logic to accept credit cards would just be too big of a PITA.

Another possibility is that the credit card companies won't allow them to do it.
There are already tons of websites for cheap consultants. Why would they create 1 more? I think it is good they have a differentiating feature.
Of course there had to be another one of these posts...

Everyone recite the industry mantra: the only good developers are in the Old Boys' Network. It shouldn't matter what they know, it matters who they know. Recite it before supper and you will be blessed with successful projects. Refuse to follow it and try to evaluate your candidates objectively and you will burn in the cauldron of spaghetti code.
I haven't slept well lastnight (only 4 hours) so please bear with me... but what is the joke on this snippet?

"I Don’t Know".ToJson();

public string ToJson()
{
var s = new StringBuilder("{");
for (var i = 0; i < CustomField.CustomFieldOption.Count; i++)
{
var item = CustomField.CustomFieldOption[i];
s.Append("\"" + item.CustomFieldOptionId + "\"");
s.Append(":\"" + item.OptionName + "\"");
if (i < CustomField.CustomFieldOption.Count - 1)
{
s.Append(",");
}
}
s.Append("}");
return s.ToString();
}
I would suggest checking out the reviews on amazon before buying, even if its only 5$ :)

I dont have enough packt titles to evaluate their general quality, but at least I found their early solr books useful(it was also the only book on solr back then, so not much choice :)
WeTransfer (wetransfer.com) is pretty popular in the Netherlands. It's easy to use, only requires an e-mailadress and allows you to send files up to 2GB and as an added bonus it's quite pretty. I really love it's simplicity.
I love reason-less down-vote.
A new, cleaner look to The Tech Block
More likely they will never know that she clicked it
Dean Wampler on Scalding, NoSQL, Scala, Functional Programming and Big Data
Should Silicon Valley Move to Cleveland?
Agreed. By the end of next year there will be thousands of altcoins. By 2015 when it gets easier for anyone to create and sustain one (including the problem of securing small chains), there will be an explosion. Millions of coins. There will be a very long tail.
Your game is only available on iOS, so you aren't speaking from any personally observed metrics.

By the most recent metrics I've seen, the top 200 iOS apps pull in $18 million a day, while the top 200 Google Play store apps pull in $12 million. iOS still leads (courtesy of the lubrication of things like iTunes gift cards -- there will again be a huge bump after Christmas), but is there any rational player who looks at those numbers and thinks "Oh, I want no part of the latter"? And note that this difference has been closing very quickly (iOS is up 20% YoY, Android is up 242% YoY).

Which is exactly why the majority of apps are built cross-platform from the outset. Whether using tooling that enables it easily (e.g. Unity, Titanium, etc), or designing around abstracting from the platform.
Yeah. While it sucks that HN has been commandeered for coinbase support issues, at the same multiple people seem to have lost 10k+, and if this is what it takes for them to get their funds back I fully support their posts.

But damn, wouldn't it be nice if coinbase did some kind of simple error checking to see if transactions are being handled properly? This is a downstream simple check - does the monetary transaction correspond with a similarly sized bitcoin transaction, and do the bitcoin transactions add up to the reported balance?

I opened a coinbase account a week ago but haven't used it yet. I'm glad I didn't!
For me, the ability to spread the paper across a table and look at many different parts of the code simultaneously. It's like having a giant high resolution monitor.

Also, faster and more flexible annotation (drawings, etc), but that's secondary.
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Of course it is more difficult, if you use Xamarin. Or other framework, that promises cross-system compatibility and subtly fails on all targets. Talk about self-inflicted pain.

If you really want some common, shared codebase, use something like j2objc, where it ends up native to both platforms.
Necessary Death and the Strategic Plan
FLAC to MP3 conversion online and free
In theory this sounds great, and I try to live by that principle now, but that doesn't mean I'm comfortable having all my instances of viewing adult material, for instance, in my past attached to my public image.
I think it's mostly because it's harder to market two apps than one. From my experience (I'm also developing educational apps for kids), what makes an indie iOS app a success is more and more determined by Apple's decision to feature it, and going up in rankings. With two apps, it'll be twice harder to get in the top 10, and you'll have to choose between one of them to be featured.
wait until his last day in office
> directly-accessible-from-anywhere computer on a network

followed by

> python -m SimpleHTTPServer

is a bit of a contradiction.

Dropbox has some pretty serious limitations for transferring files; you're limited on file size, you have to upload to their servers, you're subject to their definition of objectionable content, and sharing a particular file too much (for their definition of too much) will cause them to take down the file.
I would. They would gain nothing from doing it, and everything to lose (especially in the court of public opinion). Plus the case is already pretty clear, he's gone and admitted everything anyways. Literally nothing to gain from trying to put him through a military tribunal.
The proponents of this filter are computer illiterate 50+ year old people, the conservative base. These are exactly the people that will not know about switching the filter off. Their children will get around the filters, but these dust-covered voters will believe that the internet is a little bit more cleaned up, and a lot less useful, than it really is. If you block porn you need to block user generated content, which excludes the vast majority of blogging and web 2.0 platforms.

Self-imposed irrelevancy for the computer illiterate. We'll block ourselves from being able to access these new scary things, and then pretend like we've solved a problem.
> That's an out-of-the-box feature for a modern language.

Or for any Scheme for the last 30 years, but don't let that change your views on how "modern" you language is :)
It should also be put in the context that this movie had a revunue of about 1.4M USD in the cinema. And about 750K USD in dvd sales

The numbers in general in the judgement are just made up and full of bad math.

swedish: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.540098/hittepasiffror-bakom-rekor...
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which text to speech engine did you used? or is it your own?
"... the standards should enable easy and complete data and service portability, and a high degree of interoperability between cloud services, in order to increase rather than limit competitiveness."

Come on HN, let's help the EU. Anyone got any great ideas? Because I don't even understand the question, much less what the answer would be.

Edit: notice how everyone is just "assuming" what they mean. The problem is not well defined.
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"We have determined that the information involved in this incident included customer name, credit or debit card number, and the card’s expiration date and CVV (the three-digit security code)."

Why do they have the CVV available to steal? Do they need to store that for processing?
Nope. I'm pretty content to speak my mind and let others figure out whether what I'm saying chimes with their values or not.
I was contacted by Packt yesterday to write a book on KnockoutJS. I am an expert in the subject matter, however, I'm currently working a full time dev job, a part time dev job at nights, and my startup on the weekends. So, I declined.

Now that I see some of the comments here about quantity over quality, I'm feeling better about my decision to turn it down.
Wow. I encourage you to study written English communication.

Your writing clearly implied that regulation is useless because sometimes criminals evade regulation. If you were capable of understanding how communication works, you'd admit this.

Further, I encourage you to learn how not to be a jerk. because you are one, and it undermines any value that you might have, by ensuring that no sane person (who disagrees with you on you on any point) will ever want to have a discussion with you. That said, I can see where an ignorant jerk like yourself might consider it a feature that only people who agree with you completely are capable of having a conversation with you.
I didn't downvote you, but from my perspective, it is not without reason.

You are providing talking points, that you believe are true, but without source data. No, appeal to common belief is not an evidence.
You don't seem to know that Perls are usually not compiled with threading support?

I've heard this a few times now, and find it interesting. I guess people that compile their own do it without threading support, but I would guess the majority of Perl interpreters out there were bundled from some third party (usually the distro), and those almost always have threading enabled.

Also, that's a good thing. I've made quite heavy use of threads over the years and find Perl's abstraction of OS threads is actually quite nice to use, as long as you play to their strengths. I.e. pre-create your threads, and thread them like pthreads with easier IPC. If you want "green" threads, use any of the numerous packages that provide it.
Jolla shop now open in Europe
Europe’s set to mandate common phone chargers — so where does this leave Apple?
Speaking as a filmmaker myself, you are overlooking an important point: timing matters. A lot. Releasing a low-quality bootleg after a film has already been officially released through normal channels is very different from releasing a low-quality bootleg as the film's de-facto premiere. You only get one chance to make a first impression, and in this case the pirate took that opportunity away from the filmmaker.
I was one of the people that did not watch the video. It came as a recommendation from a good friend and I loved the idea. I didn't need to watch the video to convince me that a board game to gently introduce programming and logic concepts to young kids was a good idea!

The game arrived recently and I've played it a few nights with my 3.5 year old daughter. She's starting to get the hang of it and is enjoying it. I can definitely recommend the game and I'm looking forward to her 'leveling up' and doing the slightly harder versions. Congrats Dan on all your hard work paying off!
From book;
Disposable e-mail addresses (DEA) refers to an alternative way of sharing and managing e-mail
addressing. DEA sets up a new, unique email address for every contact or entity, making a point-
to-point connection between the sender and the recipient.

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There is an ecomomic law (that I identified, not sure if economists actually recognize it) that people use the currency that is most convenient for whatever kind of trading they are doing.

There is no reason for anyone to prefer altcoins for trade unless they are useful for something bitcoin isn't (which I haven't really seen yet).

Demand for trade is the only difference between bitcoin and a hot potato stock in a company with 0 earnings and 0 capital. In other words, in the long run, absolutely essential.

In summary, altcons have no reason to exist unless they can do something bitcoin can't.
Existential Depression in Gifted Children
In the spirit of understanding more about mental health...
High yield GMO rice and wheat allows developing countries to feed themselves even when they lack ideal farming conditions.

Monsanto might be evil but it appears that Mr. Gates believes allowing people to die from starvation is a greater evil.
Automatic replication relaying in Galera 3.x (available with PXC 5.6)
All of my home lighting is LED or CFL except for one specific use case - a collection of vintage Lava Lamps (don't judge me.) These need incandescent bulbs not for light but for a specific heat output to melt the wax.

Now I'm going to have to design some kind of replacement that's LED lighting and some kind of heating coil. :/
I reject your implication. Just because a lot of people use it does not make it grammatically accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless
Maybe, for the modules that build and actually have useful documentation. That seemed to me to be depressingly uncommon.
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Our Maths stuff has not been featured (not counting What's Hot, which is algorithmic as far as I can tell), yet it has hit top grossing in the category in a few major stores.
Even if written in C, generating source code is trivial compared to parsing. The translator doesn't have to output the prettiest code either, since there's gofmt/fix.
Hi Pierre, thanks for your new inspirational article and your previous one. I have 3 kids and attempted the educational apps market 2 years ago, I didn't have nearly as much success as you. My games are not pure education either, so maybe that's my issue, but they are more educational than my competitors. Do you have any specific advice for my situation? Congrats to you!

http://www.littlefivegames.com
A Default Identity Value for Programming
The government is not "forcing" this filter per se. They are threatening the industry with extensive regulation if the biggest ISPs does not put in place filters. It's their way of evading democratic oversight. It is worse than government enforced blocks.

As for the hint of blocking "extremist" views, this worries me tremendously, as someone who in the past was a member of a marxist organisation (in Norway, not the UK) that for decades was under illegal surveillance (of the type where intelligence officials would stop prominent members in the street on occasion to openly taunt them with stories about the conversation said person had with his wife in the privacy of his own home the previous day) despite no evidence ever of any illegal activity (meanwhile members of the then ruling-party in Norway have been convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union...). Another organization under illegal surveillance was, subsequent to the illegal surveillance being rolled up, denounced as a terrorist organisation by an ex prime minister, in parliament, fro the speakers chair, with no evidence of any illegal activity provided (on the contrary, they stand as one of just a handful of victims of terrorist bomb plots in Norway - a bomb plot the intelligence services eventually had to admit they had used as an opportunity to steal internal documents), as he publicly made it clear that he wished that the illegal surveillance had not been stopped.

In the UK, "extremist" views would likely have including support for the provisional IRA if it had been put in place a decade or two ago, but the question is how far out from that would they have stretched it? Would they have tried to block people who argued for secession but who did not explicitly support violent means? People who supported self-defence in the case of attacks from security forces but not terror? Note that many of the restrictions aimed to target the IRA were not so obviously restricting only people implicated in terror.

While it is obvious to us that extremist fundamentalist islamism is dangerous since there are groups actively planning terror attacks, it is very often very hard to draw clear lines between people engaged in clearly harmful violent activity and people engaged in unpopular political activity that may very well turn out to be important down the line (back to my own example, a long list of the people subjected to illegal surveillance in Norway have become highly important and influential cultural figures)

For my own part not more than 20 years ago since I debated people from mainstream parties - in fact including from the current coalition parties in Norway - that though my liberalist marxist views, which I have never backed with violence, was sufficient reason that they believed I deserved to die (meanwhile I also regularly debated Stalinists who wished me the same fate) or rot in prison. Because, hey, that's apparently what you should get if you want to reduce the governments power.
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My suggestion for SimpleHTTPServer was in response to the blog post.

>Dropbox has some pretty serious limitations for transferring files; you're limited on file size, you have to upload to their servers, you're subject to their definition of objectionable content, and sharing a particular file too much (for their definition of too much) will cause them to take down the file.

Link to this being a real problem for someone?
I assume item itself is missing, so nothing to convert... My guess
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I think they mean it should be easier to migrate from one operator to another. I am not familiar with the difficulty of that since I don't use any cloud services.
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Target: 40 million credit cards compromised
It's okay now, my mates and I just call him JaeKong after this years performance...
Are you experiencing technical drift?
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It does seem strange, is there a reasoned argument for why this can be better?
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You do realize that Gates (like Warren Buffet) is giving most of his wealth away to charities, right?
This is pull-based. Pingit allows A to pay B, but B does have to chase A for the payment. Whereas Payyr allows B to 'pull' payments from A after a DD is set up.
That's kind of how I feel.

How would you ensure service portability between Google App Engine (runs software, no access to the OS), AWS (Linux VMs) and Azure (Windows VMs)?
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Ha ha, your nickname says it all. Back when I started programming in 2000 all my yahoo, MSN and skype (when it was released) accounts either had the word linux or perl in it.

Then unfortunately I had to become more professional and started using my real name. :)
I guess you are talking about:
s.ToString();

Just note that s is a StringBuilder and not a string.
There aren't any obvious structural errors but two things occur to me. Firstly, JSON serialization is something every platform, including .NET, already has a multitude of libraries available for so this is 'reinventing the wheel' a bit. Secondly, looking at what it's actually doing, it's plausible the author doesn't even need JSON, as it's simply serializing a list of `id:name` fields. Thirdly, there are plenty of more 'inline' ways of achieving this using `string.Join`. All in all, just very 'novice' code but nothing _incorrect_ about it. IMO.
I'm assuming they could have just used a well-known and well-tested library.
Sounds like the person used the "Share this File/Folder" not the "Share Dropbox link" menu option
> There is also a lot of educational stuff on there.

Not if you define "lot" by "proportion of the whole". The ratio of posts or megabytes of educational:not-educational is going to disappoint many people.

Obviously the flaw there is suggesting that not-educational is worthy of blocking. The ratio of not-educational-but-not-offensive:porn/hate-speech/trolling/other-filter-fodder is much better. I guess.
Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?
We see everyday startups/projects pitches that explain what they do. There're often on hackernews lists the describe what the startups do.

But can you, in less than 140 characters, describe the PROBLEM your project/startup tries to resolve?
Haskell is a trend language? It is only 3 years younger than perl!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)

"Appeared in 1990; 23 years ago"