skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have read through your comments on this thread. I will respond but i want you to know that i think you are a troll. The worst kind, actually, because you think you actually have a point. You are an undercover troll. you are the Sharon Valeri of trolls. Believing this, i waited for the thread to become vacant to respond to you, you silly billy.

You seem to know very little about the Amish, as everything you have stated about them is Wikipedia grade generalities. They do not need to imprison anyone, as they could just kick anyone out. The system is staggeringly effective, especially if you raise people to believe they belong somewhere but the must make the right series of choices to stay where they belong.

North Korea actually is a peasant utopia that wishes to be alone. (largely peasant population, check. a completely fanciful view of their existence in regards to the world at large, check. wishes to be left alone, infini-check.)

>NK is a nuclear armed totalitarian state that constantly prepares its citizenry for a fictitious war.
I should email your previous comments to Kim Jong Un; he could use them as justification for sabre rattling. Your observation could be applied to Israel, Pakistan, India, China, and the United States. If you subtract the Nuclear capability, it could be said about every nation on earth with a standing military. The point of a standing army is not the wars you fought, but the ones you will fight.

>...being able to get so fat.
There are fatties everywhere. It boggles the mind.

>...by a series of crazed mass murderers.
I want to be very clear about this, and i do not want you to be confused about what i am saying:

You are a shill and a simpleton, and you may not play with my blocks, because i do not want to have to wash off the stupid that will inevitably get all over them from your copious amounts of naivety.
http://timetobleed.com/threading-models-so-many-different-wa...
Your stance is that we should never involve ourselves in any foreign conflict and only fight when we are domestically attacked? Please be more explicit so the discussion can be more focused. Certainly, we could move all our our soldiers in all countries back to the US. We still have troops in Korea, Japan, Germany, and many other countries.
A Map of the US...Made of Slime Mold
Yes, and he's still wrong. You don't write 'directly in parse trees', you write in text that gets converted to parse trees. The conversion is very simple, to be sure, but it still exists.
The goal of Namecoin is to manage meaningful names.

I guess a service that provided free names like the one you made there might be an interesting addition.
Would fewer people have died if USA hadn't interfered in Syria to the extent that we have? I.e., no constant media and political coverage, no arming the rebels, no diplomatic ante-upping games? It's impossible to be certain, but it certainly makes sense. What is indisputable is that further action on the part of USA will increase the death toll dramatically, as it has done everywhere else.
And here you go again missing the point, trying to falsely equate drones and B-52's, while arrogantly implying Americans are more valuable than foreigners.

BTW, when was the last time B52s were used to bomb weddings to kill one suspected, not convicted, terrorist? Drones are used for that, in place of human assassins, or, heaven forbid, a judicial process. Remember that? The law?

This is the difference. With drones, governments think they can get away with it. They claim it clean and use the same false equivalents you use.

Tell me, if you are to be stopped in the streets, do you want that to be by a person, or robot? In the end, that is where these cowards will end up.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing) has all you need to know.
All those graphs should start the y-axis with 0%, starting at 5% or 10% makes the decline/increase seem bigger than it really is.
I'm not much into hero worship, but if you guys don't know Bunnie you should really take 5 minutes to understand who wrote this article. Bunnie is a hardware monster of the best kind and an EFF 2012 Pioneer award winner.

He's a hacker's hacker.
Well I am using my own extension, with which you can block selectively cookies/javascript (among other stuff) and...

With cookies/js/plugins enabled I get: 1 in 3,719,197.

With cookies/js/plugins disabled I get: 1 in less than 160,100

Extension: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard

EDIT: redid the tests with clearing cache before.
"They didn't use any JavaScript to get this information."

The list of installed plugins is retrieved via JS: window.navigator.plugins.

Not sure about fonts, though.
Try exaggerating the accent when you do it, too. It may sound ridiculous, but to native speakers it will sound better than your normal Italian accent.

Someone gave me great advice once, they said to pronounce French with a French accent. When you think about it, it's obvious why that results in good spoken French.
The problem is, you don't realize what you are saying can be used by those who wish to murder to continue to do so. Yes, your point of view, since it is used tirelessly as a justification, is responsible for continued crimes against humanity.
The concept of a browser fingerprint being "unique" implies "worrying" in the sense that a user could then be tracked by their browser fingerprint.

But simply installing a font, changing screen resolutions, upgrading Java or Flash ("Browser Plugin details") or entering/leaving daylight savings time will result in the fingerprint changing.

So the browser fingerprint, as presented, isn't really a great way for websites to track users.

(And removing the aspects of the fingerprint subject to change, such as resolution and Browser Plugins etc., would then result in the fingerprint being less unique.)
I don't like these types of disclosures. I don't think that they further the debate. It is perfectly ok for a security agency to have this kinds of targeted capabilities.

It would have been better if they also reported a case of abuses of these capabilities.
understand this--the fingerprint of every major environmental factor can be found in our physiology. Rainstorms are a major environmental factor, and they have been such forever, going back many tens of millions of years. What happens in a rainstorm? Animals hunker down. Why? It is safe to do so for prey animals, and it would be unproductive to do otherwise for predators.

That history is written in our physiology, just as every major environmental factor is written in our physiology.

When I pick up a bug or a leaf or a dog or...any organism, I can see traces of that natural history written onto shape and curve of that organism's body. The dog has sharp teeth, the better to bite its prey, my dear. The leaf has a green skin, the better to turn sunlight into energy, my dear.

Of course the rainstorm has left its mark on your physiology. How could it be otherwise.

And here is the real mindblower--homo sapiens and american society and all parts of it are also part of the natural world. Political talking points and memes are quasi-organic, and their shapes tell you things about their natural history, too. Mind blown?
Agreed. The number 1 thing, in my opinion, is to be your own experiment. Listen to your body and your mind as it tells you when it's ready to work and when it's not, then evolve habits that promote effective work.

Example: I am not a morning person. I have also found that if my apartment is messy I get distracted. So I started doing chores in the morning right after getting up. I clean up the place while I'm still half-asleep, and when I am ready to work there is less messiness that would side-track me. Doing this regularly also means I don't have to dedicate a Saturday afternoon to cleaning.
If anyone is wondering how to disable the font list: http://superuser.com/questions/292666/how-to-disable-permiss...
This is the biggest practical flaw I've understood so far, but it still seems fixable. If Bitcoin becomes uncompetitive with traditional payment systems and mining activity decreases, miners could collectively decide to alter the mining reward.
if i get this correctly these stats are from one site (diffen.com) - why is this relevant for anything?
My bank (NatWest, terrible) told me to never give my information to anyone who calls me and asks for it. Every time they ring they then ask me for my details for 'security purposes'.

Then again, that seems mild now that I've found out they don't keep auditing logs of the changes their employees make to customers' accounts.

There are also lots of cases of online banking being compromised by really basic attacks (such as a CSRF attack that could be used to transfer money to an account of the attacker's choosing).

Banks aren't actually that secure. They merely spend a lot of time engaging in very expensive hand-wavey security theatre to convince us that they are secure - not to mention using expensive laywers and unfair libel law (I am in the UK) to shut up security researchers that find problems. The reason that they are so frequently observed acting contrary to best security practices is because they are not actually particularly good at security.
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>Having the time to reflect on the serious inequities in the world that you've just been witness to can't easily be swept under the rug.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
The Nobel Foundation must be facepalming a lot these days after O's peace prize.
What happens when charity goes viral?
Tell HN: How A Car Works earned $2,400 in 2013
So you'd be ok, hypothetically, with having your laptop "interdicted" en route to you, and keyloggers or whatever installed on it?

Or is it just ok when it happens to the "bad guys"?
If it were me I'd also get together a consortium of competing civilian recruiters to back such a venture.
Also, it's not as though Apple didn't introduce Siri with the 4S and exclude the 4 from that feature.
> I have gone through this, but it is too complicated

Really?

4.6 Phony Targets

A phony target is one that is not really the name of a file; rather it is just a name for a recipe to be executed when you make an explicit request. <…>

clean:
rm *.o temp

Since it has no prerequisites, the file clean would inevitably be considered up to date, and its recipe would not be executed. To avoid this problem, you can explicitly declare the target to be phony, using the special target .PHONY (see Special Built-in Target Names) as follows:

.PHONY : clean

Once this is done, ‘make clean’ will run the recipe regardless of whether there is a file named clean.
People consume resources. Dead don't need food and shelter logistics.

(disclaimer: I don't advocate killing people, but I do believe that those concerns were and are evaluated doing wartime, if letting someone go is not an option)
Why is this not taught in school? It is important that descendants of any people be able to look back at actions from their predecessors in order to acquire "historical experience" and not repeat the mistakes of their ancestors.

Has your wife looked into the Nanking massacre since then?

I really like Japan (I am currently learning Japanese and would love to live there for 1-2 years from 2015) but some aspects of the society or the politics just make me cringe.
Even rape and slavery was accepted not long ago, not enough reason to continue do it?

I'm seriously disgusted by some people capacity to accept brutality as normal and worse defend it too.
Thank you so much for reminding me that I should care about not being manipulated.

Your comment is so full of really good unbiased views that I just wanted to tell you how much non-manipulated I felt by your comment.

I especially enjoyed your notion that the Guardian is "serving up an emotional, unsubstantiated, one sided view of this discussion." You are so right. I always fell that the White House and the American military are always providing really insightful information that is really backed up substantiated by information.

I really felt the links in the article regarding the reporting of drone casualties were just pure manipulation. The manipulation was very strong as I read how credible people were debating the lack of information that was being provided:

http://www.voanews.com/content/resaercher-most-civilian-dron...

http://web.law.columbia.edu/human-rights-institute/counterte...

Please take some time and provide us some real links regarding what you consider "the search for truth".
A tin-foil hat would probably be better off for his situation.

It prevents mind reading.
The Pomodoro technique is the only thing that worked for me after everything I tried.

I think it works because it's a positive-reinforcer ("do work and complete Pomodoro" as opposed to "don't procrastinate so you can do work").
Ask HN: How did you launch your product?
I have been a member on HN for a while and I really enjoy the can-do spirit here and the energy to create something of value. I have been trying to build products on nights/weekends for the past 3 years. Being a software guy technology has always been the easy part for me. For the projects that didn't get traction I kept thinking that the ideas were just not "good enough". Now that I look back, I feel that I got the launches wrong.

Here is my question to you:

Is there any suggested reading you can point me to that will help launch my next product more effectively? If some things have worked for you, can you share your experiences? If you have used a company to help run the launch campaign, can you share your story?
I don't know how useful is this to track unique visitors, the next month I will probably have a different fingerprint.

All it takes is a new release of Firefox (different version in the User-Agent string) a new font or any plugin update.

So with that fingerprint you can possibly identify me now, but you cannot track me over time.
My company just ordered some of the original Surface Pros on discount.

The labelling on the boxes had us doing a double take, because we thought we received the ARM units by mistake.

Surface Pro boxes just say Surface on them, so you actually have to look at the additional text to see that the OS is Windows 8 Pro or that the SSD is larger than the RT before you realize you go the right unit.
Good job sighting your sources.

For you to just say, "i know a few Koreans" and "they are 2 thousand years old and therefore predictable" are the generalizations i mentioned.

I am not arguing that NK is doing anything right. Far from it. I just happen to have some familiarity with the subject (my uncle is an adopted Korean refugee, i live in a place that is 30%+/- Korean, i can read more than a web page). It is an ugly problem, but it is the way it is now because of the US and China. Both the North and The South have had dictators and have caused unnecessary trouble to the other. As an American, i want to stay on the side of human rights and personal liberty. Through that lens, both governments are shit (...as well as US and most of Europe.)
I'm happy to share any numbers or code if anyone wants it. Just ask.
To see what?

Note that the window under it, with its white background, actually has a setTimeout when it repaints:

https://github.com/magcius/xplain/blob/gh-pages/src/article-...

Without that, even in a slow JavaScript implementation, you can barely see the white background.

As I explain in the article, this is entirely because of memory pressure limits of the 80s. This is what Windows 7 does too. And in a modern environment (compositing manager), windows do get their own backing pixel memory.
So let's send drones to Saudi Arabia. Most of the 9/11 attackers were Saudis, and it was done in response to our presence there.

This is anti-national security -- all this does is pour gasoline on the fire of anti-American sentiment. People like you supporting this madness is the reason the world is going to hell. Ugh.
Yes, that's why Wayland was invented. 95% of X11 is not necessary anymore, but it was in the 80s.
Pictures on wood (Lean startup experiment)
>These soldiers are facing a huge personal price for the part they played in this war. The psychological impact of "just following orders" is huge and could damage them for the rest of their lives. We should respect veterans because of the personal cost, not because of the benefits (imagined or otherwise). You may see it a good vs evil, but I doubt that many of the victims do.

Not to equate the Army with the Mafia, but this argument applies equally well to mafiosos. Both follow orders, do evil things, and suffer PTSD.
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I find amount of pro-drone comments here quite stunning, including the complete lack of appreciation of how the economies of scale of drones will radically alter the equation of whether these are a good idea or not.

"Now, all right we killed some innocent civilians, but that happens in war and we're at a constant war against terror now so there you go. Lets not jump to any conclusions about drones before all the facts are in!"

All I can say is that these people will probably shut up and at least moderate their views as soon as the police in their country starts deploying drones en masse.
Your comment seems to ignore the fundamental question which has nothing to do with drones: should we be blowing up people remotely?

It's not just a question about remote vehicles - it's about the moral issues of blowing things up that are not physically proximate (and thus not a direct threat) to yourself.
In this case, the executor has more power than the executee. The US can reduce people to bloody smears from drones that are almost invisible to their victims, with all the actual humans safely ensconced in bases hundreds of miles away. The people they're targetting have nothing like that - they cannot fight back without putting themselves straight in the line of fire.
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Faith is fickle.

The problem with your statement is that there may be a new digital currency that displaces Bitcoin ... namecoin, anycoin, litecoin, dogecoin. Maybe not one of those, but a 2.0 of some sort that attracts the miners.

If a NEW Bitcoin equivalent takes the spotlight and Bitcoin miners retrofit their rigs to mine for the new network, then someone that had put all of their money into Bitcoin could lose it all.

Nothing guarantees the continued use of Bitcoin. It is a decentralized fiat currency.
There are two modes of marketing mail I've seen increase massively over the last year or two (note: completely subjective 'study' based on my own inbox):

1) "Screw your choices" spam - despite figuring out the Mensa-challenge-esque puzzle of which checkboxes to check or uncheck, when signing up for a new account the company opts you in to marketing emails anyway.

2) "Blast from the past" - a I used to use years ago has decided to add every single email address they've ever seen to their mailing list, and I'm suddenly seeing emails from them. To me this looks a lot like the desperate throes of a dying company - I believe Yahoo pulled this at some point this year. Amusing variation: My sole contact with one company was a complaint email, which they did not reply to. Two years later they started sending me marketing emails. No, thank you.

When it comes to unsubscribing there's another trick I've seen on the rise, other than the ones you already listed: An unsubscribe process that takes weeks. The page says something like "You will be unsubscribed within 28 days" and you keep getting spam in the meantime. I believe at least some of Yahoo's services do this, too? There are two main variations for this one: companies that do actually remove you after 28 days, and companies that don't (I assume it's just a distraction tactic and they hope you'll forget).
The more civilians you kill, the more enemy you make, the more you need the military.
Yep. I'll announce them on my blog when I make a new one:

http://blog.mecheye.net/
Why does it need java?
This sort of attitude is not really constructive discussion, and I personally feel it's out of place here on HN.

So, personally: please don't do that.
It would be cool if applications like Amplitube supported it.
go girls! :D
Kevin Kelly is a provocative thinker on this stuff. (He created the original vision that became Wired magazine, though he never gets credit for this... credit went to the folks who kicked in the money.)

http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_tells_technology_s_epic...

Kurzweil also talks about history of technology when he talks about accelerating returns.

It's useful to think way back imho... for example, language is a very early example of a technology.
I agree. (And booting a Debian system invokes many 10s of KSLOCs of the things, e.g., in /etc/init.d/.)
I think that's true for only a subset of the claimed catalog. The article claims "the catalog even lists the prices for these electronic break-in tools, with costs ranging from free to $250,000". I suspect all of the ones with a cost are with the consent of the manufacturer, as why would there be a charge for an internally developed exploit?
Educational institutions are the battleground for mindshare between the military-industrial and the peace-lovers. Don't ask the question whether you should start a "CS Students against Weaponry" movement or not: just simply do it.

You have to make peace, it doesn't just happen. Same with war, incidentally ..
Yeah, I guess now that I think about it I didn't think too much about that tagline.
This is surprising given that the bank IVR and reps keep saying that the bank will never ask you for your personal information.
It's possible that the war might be already over if the US hadn't supported rebels, but we can't be sure. Someone else may have filled the vacuum. Consider that we weren't involved in Rawanda and 800,000 to 1,000,000 people were killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

Also, I'd be a little embarrassed to suggest that the solution is to not have any media or political coverage. At the very least, there should be more coverage on the world stage.

It can only help if leaders know the world is watching, their acts are being recorded, and someday they may be held accountable.
nonono. namecoin is not bitcoin. you are explaining why proof-of-work-schemes are useful. that is not the question.

the article (quoting Krugman) says that there are good reasons why bitcoin might be a wonderful medium of exchange, but there is no good reason why it is a good store of value.
That's a good point.

Assuming the filters stay: what's a reasonable method to check age?
Syntax is the presentation layer for semantics. Semantics are the content, meaning, and/or implications for what you convey via syntax. They're largely orthogonal.

def add(x, y):
return x + y

(define (add x y)
(+ x y))

These are similar semantically -- they each define a procedure that takes two parameters, adds them, and returns that result. Hand-waving how the language is actually implemented, they're morally equivalent, anyway. But syntactically they're fairly different.

Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_fu.... That sentence is semantically meaningless, but it has the correct syntax.

edit: fixed code formatting.
Ah, good catch. I guess the JS navigator.plugins list is quite a bit more thorough than the plugin information sent in your request headers (which I believe is limited to Java: yes/no).
Placing a floor on the value of bitcoins is… what, exactly?

Nothing but the trust of those involved. Plain and simple.
Not my project.
Make growth hacking a main priority. If you can get every user to invite one other user, you'll have a huge site in no time.
Would love any feedback on this model...

Our startup, Producia (http://producia.org), plans to apply this economic model on college campuses across the country.

We're starting our pilot at the largest university in VA, Virginia Commonwealth University, in mid-January.
Ask HN: What is the best tech hack that you did in 2013?
Include the URLs to help all of us learn a thing or two.
We get fired, we get DEMOTED when asking for a raise.

Citation needed.