skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the ratio for at least free apps that don't pop up a request to review the app is MUCH higher. It is at least for my small scale app.

I don't have any fake reviews (although there might be two or three from friends and family) and while I don't have metrics for the number in active use the number of updates downloaded on a recent update was 130 times the number of reviews I have and the total number of downloads is well over 400 times the review count.

Review counts and download numbers global. A user generally only sees the reviews in their own country's app store I think.

I really don't want to do it to the user experience but I might have add a pop up requesting rating when a user has used the app enough, I've only had a couple of reviews in the past few months.
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These are all features of a system described by political philosopher Sheldon Wolin as Inverted Totalitarianism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism -- that is, while it's a totalitarian system, unlike traditional fascist/totalitarian states it's driven by the pursuit of cost-effectiveness rather than some abstract ideology.

Welcome to one of the failure modes of representative democracy.
PG, if you are reading this, I sent you an email. I first built this with getgom.com (Singapore), its moderately successful, but the market in Singapore is too small. With this, I understand that technologies of proven concept, when applied to a large market, can work effectively well.

As a programmer, this year, I launched 7 projects, this is one of them. The rest are of random successes. I would like to get in contact, cheers.
I agree. C++ solved this problem many years ago. The solution is standard and safe to use everywhere on all platforms.

std::string
Looks like you missed this. Paragraph 7:

> Some residents said they believe, or want to believe, that a piece of old Seattle, buried in the pell-mell rush of city-building in the 1800s, when a mucky waterfront wetland was filled in to make room for commerce, could be Bertha’s big trouble. That theory is bolstered by the fact that the blocked tunnel section is also in the shallowest portion of the route, with the top of the machine only around 45 feet below street grade.
It's all very cyberpunk, building hardware designed to enable freedom for a small resistance force, salvaged from megacorporation scraps.

I imagine RMS using one while wearing a leather trenchcoat and mirror shades.
Any thoughts on creating docker images as alternative to capistrano ? There's a couple of projects that can help on it (a Dockerfile could help on it) Good job :)
I am not a physician, but these people are doing some interesting stuff with machine learning and graph databases in the medical field: http://www.medgle.com/
Well create metadata resistant protocol that communicates on set intervals of time with set length of random data when there is no real payload. This could be done on TLS with little or no effort. The math behind the crypto is strong enough. No need to harden it further.

Every client sends and receives 16KB blob every 30 seconds - this way you could prevent analysis that you are communicating with someone. You could learn a lot just from the size and frequency of packets in a normal chat program.
Many people think that The Rev is a first class arsehole. Potential customers are warned to carefully research their choice of ISP.
With respect, at first glance it seems that way. The burden of proof lies with the claim to security, not the claim of insecurity.
Great article. I understood quite a few of those words!
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Maybe, but to me, this still looks like an intrusion to people's privacy.

Edit

To those "but if they tell you before". I reply: it still is. Google/Facebook tell you before that they will use your data for advertisement, some still think that's an intrusion of people's privacy anyway. However, Google/Facebook give me something in return, so I play along, but what's in it for me when a company makes my paycheck public? I just don't see the point of it. Also, once you grow over a certain size, I don't believe you can make up salaries with such rigid rules.
From what I experienced, European merchants do charge VAT as a part of the price: being from outside EU I can see prices listed on ebay.de and ebay.co.uk with and without VAT. Different EU nations have different provisions for taxation of privately sold / used items, so VAT may or may not apply in those cases.

Foreign merchants listed on European eBay sites do not charge VAT, nor they should: import duty is the job of customs office.
There is an ISP switch on the board and the pins for programming may be on the header labeled "debug", although it's likely that those are JTAG. Either way, it should be easy to reprogram it. Not sure what you would do with 12 LEDs and a power button, but it's certainly possible.

The LPC11U37F in the controller could be worth a look too.
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I did, all three of them. And I punched programs on cards, and debugged them thru batch listings and memory dums coming back two or three hours later :-)
Have you got any precedents for this happening?
It seems to me there's a clear difference between a "terrorism hoax" and "jumping at shadows", just waiting to be clearly exploited by their counsel...
> Not all ISP cover all of the UK.

If they use BT Wholesale backhaul then their coverage is exactly the same as BT Retail.

ID Net, A&A, Zen, many others will give you as much coverage as the big boys even in Market 1 exchanges ( only BT Wholesale provision ).

If you're in a Market 2 or 3 area ( lots of competing backhaul ) then there's basically no restriction to how many ISPs from which you can choose.
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This is a political move to counter-act the filter.
My resume is generated with a script that filters out experience and skills on keywords, depending on the target job offer.

And a 6-page resume is not a resume anymore, it's a biography. Keep it under one page, 3 or 4 job experiences max.
You also assume that the person wanting to bypass the ISP filter is the same person controlling the connection. So, say a 16yo wants to explore homosexuality

Regardless of the child's sexuality, I'm sure 90% of parents think their teenagers are innocent pure darlings for years after their sexuality appears.
Bashing someone for their religious beliefs. Really enlightened behaviour, right there.
Zynga? The Facebook game company that makes money stealing others work wants Obama to pardon Snowden? For some reason, I'm not convinced Snowden will get his pardon. What a poor publicity stunt.
And yet the Anarchist's Cookbook, the original that is, is widely available in electronic form. Are you saying there is another file, that is also widely read, that also contains explosive recipes, that is also titled "The Anarchist's Cookbook", that is completely unrelated to the original?
You're most certainly not paranoid. Three-letter agencies have malware in the wild that can operate a webcam without turning on a light. It's probably well-targeted at specific people, but you can't know whether you're a target (until it's too late, anyway).

http://bgr.com/2013/12/18/apple-macbook-webcam-spying/
> Many people think that The Rev is a first class arsehole.

You clearly do. But you said "Many". Can you cite any others?
And whom exactly would have been pursued? The directors of the defunct company who had variously jumped the country or disappeared? Or us, for being in possession of such data?

Answer: Us. Because Kafka runs the criminal justice system. Bringing crimes to the attention of the police is just not worth the risk.
Can you imagine what would happen tho' if a bloke was reading a porn mag

That does happen. The likes of "Nuts" or "Zoo". Most of those lads mags are as pornographic.

The double stardard is that if a straight woman has lots of sex, she's a slut who should be ashamed; yet if a straight man has lots of sex, he's a stud and should be congratulated.
This strikes me as dubious. Rewriting from scratch would throw away the C code, but it would not have to throw away the lessons learned from and recorded in the C code.
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He may have taken more equity for a lower salary. I might be wrong but publishing everyone's information like this seems so dumb....focus on your startup not on gimmicky unproven hr practices
IWF membership is entirely discretionary on the part of the ISP.

Even if the ISP is a member they don't have to implement the blocklist. ID Net is an example of this, I had an interesting exchange with one of the execs when I was a customer a few years ago. They were a member in order to 'monitor' trends but didn't use the blocklist. I don't see them listed as a member any more.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/members/current-members
This thread elegantly demonstrates the problem.

Most people - even in a technical audience with a deep interest in the subject - have no fucking clue what's actually happen nor how it's happening.

This is how stupid laws get passed. People don't bother to write the correct letters to the correct people to get the stupid laws stopped.

I find it profoundly depressing to realise that so few people know what the filters are doing.
> takes a personal interest in their daily lives.

Says who? Not all Christians think of god that way. You write as if you haven't thought about this much or spoken with many believers. Atheists aren't automatically entitled to the moral and intellectual high ground you know. I'd judge their "valuation of science and logic" the same way I'd judge yours (critically and carefully), and you don't get a pass because you believe in science. /An atheist.
The contest actually puts the burden of proof on the "claim of insecurity" side.
Uncomfortable science
I could if Google Groups search worked, but it doesn't, so I can't. But there are many threads with him demonstrating his behaviour. People can decide for themselves if they think he's an arsehole or not.

He's not the Andy Mabbett level of trolling arse, and he's no MI5guy, but he does have notoriety.
I would think that the employee would have an idea that their salary would be publicly known before taking the job.
And, as I often point out to critics, you don't have to buy liquidity if you don't want to. Use ALO orders or just don't cross the spread.

http://usequities.nyx.com/markets/nyse-arca-equities/order-t...
If the organization makes it clear to potential hires before they are hired that the company has an open salary policy then the potential hire can choose to maintain their privacy and work elsewhere that does not have an open policy. In this case it probably is not an intrusion into employee privacy.

If an organization were to do this after the fact (i.e. when there are already employees on board) then I think you are right.
I understand your point, but there are people who'd argue non-OS 'threads' aren't actually threads either - if ps -eLF doesn't show more than 1 LWPs for your PID you're not considered multithreaded.
- you may get lucky and find a job where you'll be able to give all you can, but this is not probable.

- most jobs you'd get would suck one way or another, prepare for a life of pain.

- you may get a degree in CS, but this won't help at all to get a job. Do that only if you don't need to earn a living and want to have fun learning.

- but since you don't seem to be entirely "financially independant" (what would happen if your wife lost her job?), there remains only one good alternative: keep being an entrepreneur. You would be a good co-founder.
Sadly, it was probably too technical for most potential users to be swayed much by it.

We need focused talking points, e.g. the fact that the NSA and other governments vacuum up all your data, and that TextSecure represents the first step toward a future in which it's very difficult for governments to do that. Whereas with Telegram, it's just as easy for them to access your conversations as it is for them to bypass SSL. Governments can and will do so. That's what users are concerned about; that's what they care about. Telegram has no defense against that argument due to their protocol's inherent vulnerability to this form of attack. Therefore it's the single most important point for to stress to any potential user.

Yet it's getting lost in the noise. Actually, I haven't seen it mentioned very much at all. Someone should do a writeup calling attention to it.
Violence is the physical expression of fear. When you fight something, you give power to it (while giving away your own power). All fearful things disappear - but only after you've stopped fearing them.
I tried it two days ago after they made the fastcgi announcement. My day job sites are fairly big with what I consider a pretty large number of contrib modules. I managed to get it up and running, but the HHVM logs were full of notices and it finally bombed out after several requests (not enough to really warm up the VM) on something related to apachesolr, and another one related to GD, which is strange because we use imagemagick, but whatever. Sad Trombone.

The really cool part though, it truly was "drop in". Every bit of my existing nginx/fpm configs worked as is, so once it's a bit further along, it's just a matter of shutting down fpm and firing up HHVM.

There were also a couple of gotchas in the setup related to the fact that their apt installer installed HHVM configs that don't assume Fastcgi, so it took a little bit to figure out the correct edits to the init script and HHVM config so it'd listen on :9000 instead of :80, but all in all that it worked at all was really fun for a minute. Very excited about this project.
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He most certainly did not do this because he wanted to be nice. It was a carefully calculated PR stunt.

Your reality check is much appreciated.
preying on grieving people with your religious beliefs is worse.
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Thanks, I only read the first page when I saw I should click through 5 more pages... will continue reading now. :)
I doubt the publication makes one iota difference to the individual. The person you are worried about is already in that state of mind and there are now an infinite number of other resources (the Internet) for them to draw upon. If you are truly concerned, write a new book entitled something like "If You Want to Read the Anarchist Cookbook, You Should Read This Book Instead!"
Android 'Sooner' prototype dropped "well before the iPhone announcement"
How to mess up with crypto software badly? Some thougths on CryptoCat.
I'm not really sure. At least, this would help others poaching from your company, as they know exactly what your employees are getting?
See e.g. http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-... which shows: five college presidents, five heads of particular faculties (medicine, law), one plastic surgeon, and everyone else a football or basketball coach.
The factors that lead to suicide are generally a lot more complicated than that. If you get to really know someone who is suicidal, you'll realize that there doesn't tend to be all that much connection between reality and the urge to kill oneself.

If we want to reduce the number of suicides, we need to do a much better job at addressing of mental illness. Anything else is just window dressing.
Maybe there's a reason you're not a lead?
For people who are skeptical this sort of transparency could ever work, consider that in Norway (also Finland and to a lesser extent Sweden) tax returns are completely open to the public:

http://skattelister.no/

So you can quickly look up what somebody's income and net worth are and the public at large are in favor of it.
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>>...we're building the machinery of censorship "for the sake of the children."<<

Good quote, thanks. We need simple phrases like that to get past the Daily Fail/Porno Perverts consensus in the UK.
This is not centrally controlled. The ISPs that have been pushed into this run their own filters, the government don't run the filters, don't have access to the filtering software and don't recommend a particular filtering product.
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Stanford and Google team up to simulate key drug receptor
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There are a couple reasons I DO have a problem with people making fun of 'fatness.'

1) It's a lot easier to get out of shape and overweight, than it is to get back into shape.

2) Being overweight can cause emotional problems that make it even harder lose weight. Laughing at someone worsens these problems.

Having said this, I guess it's human nature. I find myself at times making fun of people (in my head) for how they dress or look. At least I'm trying to overcome that kind of thing, though. Doesn't seem like most people even recognize shortcomings/try to get better.
In my experience HFT is a boogeyman. It's not well understood, and it's easy to blame for ills real and imagined - in part because you only tend to hear about it when something goes wrong and a Knight Capital type event happens, although that can apply to any firm that does any form of automated trading such as Market Makers and Algo traders and is definitely not the sole preserve of HFT shops. Based on what I know and see, I believe that the existence of HFT is generally an aid to price discovery (due to the narrower spreads), and liquidity (more actors means a better chance that someone will take the other side of a trade). In that respect, they're not too dissimilar to Market Makers, although a true market maker has additional responsibilities in terms of being willing to trade in illiquid products.

If you're not a professional trader then the topic of the article really isn't a big deal. If your trading style is such that it's significantly material whether you trade at 510 or 511, or whether your trade executes in the next minute or the next thirty minutes, then you're always going to be at a huge disadvantage compared to people who can get the best price and most immediate execution. A trading firm who are willing to pay to connect directly to an exchange will always get a better price than you can.

It's not horribly different to why the restaurant down the block from you gets better prices for produce than you do - their business affords them better access to the produce market.

Edit - For what it's worth, the bulk of my career has been in finance, mostly as a Quant-Developer at a mix of buy-side and sell-side firms and more recently as technology consultant who specializes in Capital Markets.
the problem i'm describing is that some sites are legal overseas but not here - if this proxy also bypasses cleanfeed there could be problems - well i imagine what would happen is that it'd get added to the list of banned urls
It's not opt-in for existing customers. At some point they will be presented with a screen that forces them to make a choice.

If you think that all mistakes with the blocker will be ironed out, then you don't have any idea how large the internet is. This is a problem that is so ingrained with automated filters that it has its own name - the Scunthorpe Problem - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem It is an inevitable consequence of this sort of system. Innocent sites will continue to be blocked.

As for your other point - it's pure conjecture. Furthermore, it will not stop kids accessing porn. When I was a kid we used to swap dirty magazines. Now they will be swapping memory sticks. And those are the ones who don't take 2 minutes to go to google to search for a way to get around the filter. For all the other ones it's business as usual.

The whole thing is a farce, designed to appeal to the Daily Mail / Think of the Children subset of noise-makers, while completely burying any hope of a rational debate.
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If Paglia is just saying that we should have a co-equal producer/consumer relationship, in what sense does the man serve as 'a model to be embraced or rejected'?

And how would that even be an equal relationship? In more agrarian societies it might make a certain degree of sense. But in a modern world, less so. If you go that route it looks very much like she's defining femininity in terms of the traditional idea that women should stay at home to raise children. (And if you don't, you're a lesbian, apparently.)

But if so, the argument she goes on to build around that - men made the world and continue to have a great deal of influence in many areas (ignoring the major contributions of women to many areas of modern life) has to be questioned for relevance. It answers the prompt, to a degree, 'Are men obsolete?' Or at least one interpretation of it. But seems to have little to do with any discussion as to why we might want to be kept women or address many of the horrifying inequalities that arise from being so.
Here's the schedule for when each team is assigned each task - http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/sites/default/files/file...

Each of the eight tasks is described at the bottom of the streaming video page.

I really wish there was audio from the team/task area. And I would be a tad happier without the 'sports announcer' approach.

There are red/blue pairs of each task area. It would be really nice to have a visual indicator on the screen showing which (red vs blue) was being shown.
>If you invest, i.e. over 10+ years then HFT doesn't matter //

Is there any proof of this. How long have we had this sort of HFT?

Strikes me that HFT is extracting value from the market. The prices are usually relatively stable they're increasing the draw of money away from smaller traders but also removing value overall (in the form of money) from the system and not adding much value. Yes, liquidity, yadda-yadda but surely market liquidity is no greater now but HFT is far more effectively removing money (a proxy for the value extracted).

In other words other people are creating value and HFT is a sink for it. The bar to entry to the HFT camp means there should be an overall movement of capital towards the most wealthy in this sort of system.
You do realize for markets to be efficient (including labor markets), it is a prerequisite that all parties have equal information. If your employer is the only one that knows what everyone is making, and you aren't allowed to discuss salary (which is at best taboo, and at worst a fireable offense at some companies), than you are at a disadvantage when you go to negotiate with them.
This is pretty much what Peter Sunde was getting at with this talk I think [0].

I agree though, I ended up having an argument with my parents on this subject. My old man's been working with software for goodness knows how long and he still doesn't really see it, so I think maybe it's more that some people implicitly trust and support the status quo.

> and should I lose, I will simply leave this country and it's countrymen. the EU convention lists internet access as a human right.

This. I really believe that together we're stronger. For all its (many many) failings, the EU is just a political confluence in the same way as the internet at its best is a social confluence, and if the country of my birth lets me down then I'll move to the continent and leave the Little Englanders behind.

[0] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/18/peter-sunde-h...
So you didn't understand the article here then? There's no shame on that, crypto is complex and requires study.

But please don't dismiss well written and well thought-out critiques like this one just because you didn't understand the arguments.