skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a hard one to answer - I have a couple accounts for work purposes (one primarily to test out FB integrations, and another for networking with customers/clients).

Am I a Facebook 'user' though? No, I removed my last personal account over a year ago.
1. its not permanent. these type of things are usually for 60 days. see (http://readwrite.com/2012/01/03/google_forced_to_punish_itse...)
2. If everyone is "doing the same", then they are all likely to be punished equally, since they are taking active movements against it.

I think people are assuming that because rapgenius is being hit, no other lyrics sites are
This is a planned feature for Java 9.
They had to study existing software (empirical), and then find an understanding of what is essential and common to all cases.

The result was that a finite and compact set of concepts could be used to account completely for almost any design architecture, past or future. To me, this is pretty scientific.
The contents of the linked page were the first lecture I had in my undergraduate calculus course. At the end of the lecture, we all looked around at each other wondering what we had just signed up for.
The Salt Wars
NYPD prototype patrol car
Go ahead and log back in. You didn't "delete" anything.
You either have an account, or don't. First one says you have, second one you don't.
Does anyone actually use the Baidu IME? Most people I know just use the IME built into the OS.

Simeji, on the other hand, is a bigger concern - it's a very popular Japanese keyboard for Android.
agreed. It's not like it's fraudulent; the proofs were there on the original kickstarter, and no one noticed it! Often in numismatics, errors are more valuable than perfectly cut coins.
- Have one, but under a false name

- Have several

- Use a shared account
Accelerate my pace of chance and my rate of failure
Well generally with more or less standard docs in place, the board can vote to remove the offending person from the company. And then it's just a matter of the vesting schedule as to the leaving person's remaining stake (this is why founders should have vesting). Not saying there won't be something of a legal battle, but certainly there's no special provisions necessary which you wouldn't expect in standard startup articles of incorporation.
i only noticed the misspelling in the article title on HN after reading the post :)
Do check the permission it requires.
Yes, but only for testing FB integration at work and getting Metro 2033 for free for liking a page last year.
GMOs aren't bad in principle, but they are risky; there may be Black Swan-type threats that are lingering.

It also doesn't help that Monsanto's poor image casts a shadow over GMOs.
Sure. Despite having qualms about its existence, I recognize Facebook as a somewhat useful utility, until a better option becomes widespread.

The only way for me to use that utility in way that protects my privacy and anonymity is to have several (quasi-fake) identities there, and never provide the machine with more data than I need to complete my task (read up on an event, manage a group I run, etc.)
It's a shame it's too late to back -- it was funded almost two months ago. Even with the typo, it's beautiful. Hopefully he does the Golden Gate Bridge someday.
You need a fb accounts to use certain services, like Spotify.
> This is a hard one to answer

The question is pretty straightforward--it asks if you have a Facebook account, not if you are a "user."
+ number of people who are really leaving the site.
Do you have a Facebook account? Sign in with Facebook to vote!
YES THIS IS A DOG ATTACK
Automated Software Will Soon Replace Journalist and Professional writers
The “cookie cutter” writers who employ common formats need to be very concerned. But for a long time to come, maybe never, the Tolstoy’s, Hemingway’s, Shakespeare’s, Frost’s, and Poe’s of this world need not be concerned. Time will tell.
See: https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/bad8cdb67068
If you settle and close your matter civilly (even if it is a criminal matter), you do not have to disclose. Vince Neil of Motley Crue does not have an obligation to disclose his vehicular manslaughter conviction for this reason. There are other examples, but Vince's is the easiest to google.
So much shame in here...
Best read I've head online in a while. You are very lucky that this whole thing turned for you. Your skills were highly appreciated in that environment and you learned the lesson. Everybody does mistakes, what matters is to learn from them. You learned the hard way, but the result as you describe it here, is fantastic.

Good luck with everything :-)
Nice! Didn't know about leaflet.js, and happy I now do! Very fast results BTW.
The HN account is new(er). It seemed like a safer account to create and it wouldn't require any attention.
I have one for testing, but I deleted my personal one a few years ago.
Don't you mean Godlen Gate Bridge?
KEEP IT! I'd consider it an important part of the art itself. The piece stands out more than the biggest flaw on it.

Ha, that's actually kind of neat. I'd consider it a good flaw like a beauty mark (mole). Consider it a feature.

Slap a transparent sticker on the bottom right corner that says, "Did you know Brooklyn is misspelled? Hundreds of others didn't. Read the back story about this at brookyln.com".
I don't like to think of myself as being their product.
I am not aggressively narcissistic.
I have a bad enough case of FOMO and FOBO already.
I prefer friends and conversations IRL.
Broadcasting is one-way communication, or asynchronous at best.
Here is my typical usage of facebook.
- I mostly lurk and comment. Login may be once or twice a day.
- I have the app on the phone. But I only ever login if I want an address or a phone number of a friend.
- I stopped sharing on facebook, I mostly use google+ for that now. Most people who share my interests are already there.
- I use the facebook login creds for websites that support them instead of creating a new account. I also mark the posts from the said websites to be visible only to me so I don't spam my friends.
Hauners
I thought in France, for instance, companies may not refuse to take gov issued money as payment for their goods, but I cannot find a reference right now. So I suppose you are right.
Thanks for correcting me.
Even in the US, convictions can be expunged or sealed. The requirements vary by jurisdiction. (I think it's especially common for young offenders.)
Exactly. I know someone who received a ticket for a broken tail light. He forgot to pay it and ended up going to jail for 8 months! 8 months! For a broken tail light!

I would have expected an additional penalty or at most a week in jail, which even then I would consider that extreme.
Yes, a personal account for me.

I probably over share information.

I've recently moved some things away from FB onto other platforms - whatsapp, 23 snaps, instagram, etc etc.

I dislike FB - I don't like the horrible privacy stuff, and I don't like the changing inscrutable interface. (It makes me feel old. I feel like an old person calling for a 12 year old to program the VCR.)
Anyone have a good link about what's up with the "Sponsored Content by Taboola" at the bottom of so many pages nowadays?

To me, they seem to have come out of nowhere over the last six months or so.

P.S: their own words at https://www.taboola.com/hear-our-story
Good point. Providers like 4sq, yelp don't allow mixing/mashing of venue details bet. id matching is OK.
This is a great article but unfortunately has one thing horribly wrong: Democracy far preceded the Age of Enlightenment. A form of democracy was already in place in ancient Greece at around 500 BC. Newton and the Age of Enlightenment were much later, at 1600+ AD. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy#History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_enlightenment, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton.

Other than that, a great article!
It does, but only on iOS. "Facebook Messenger"
Facebook is, for me, a means of online social interaction which often leads to "real life" get-togethers within my closer circle of friends.

For example, my church's young adults group uses a Facebook group and events to track RSVPs for our twice monthly prayer nights, allowing an appropriate amount of food to be planned for in advance. The connections formed through the FB group have in turn led to a large number of other invitations and get-togethers involving movies, dancing, Bible study, etc. The group has grown significantly in the past couple of years, and though I don't think it's all attributable to social media, Facebook has certainly been instrumental in its growth and coordination.

Interestingly, I have very few Facebook friends related to my professional life. Instead, I generally interact with my software development and business peers by way of Twitter and LinkedIn.
It's easy to answer if you take the question at face value. But is taking this question at face value very meaningful?
> Indeed it's obvious in retrospect, but that's true of many physical inventions worthy of patents.

If it's obvious then it's not worthy of a patent, period.
Sure, but sans context this is a pretty empty bit of info.

Carrying this on further - I have a MySpace account as well. I haven't logged on in 5 years, but I do have one.
I performed a line quality test (it failed):

http://www.dslreports.com/pingtest/64474bb63856/3123715?r=71...
The Economist doesn't normally bust loose like that

Actually, it does. You just have to be aware of their style of humor to catch it.
And now I feel a little bit sick.
ah good stuff. they are making a bad thing good at their twitter https://twitter.com/RapGenius
I am surprised how many nos there are.

To all the people that don't have an account (I'm serious): why don't you? It seems like something that you can easily regulate. I have a super small number of friends. Almost no pictures. I haven't updated my info or approved any wall requests in a while. Even after the whole, "everyone is now searchable" most people who try and friend me say they can't find me to friend. I do use it to chat/look up people whose cell numbers I don't have and I don't think I spend too much time on the site (there just isn't enough interesting content). Reddit/hn is another story though.

Am I really that naive to think that my digital footprint is still pretty low key even with a facebook account? I mean sure, facebook/nsa can figure out who I am easily enough but that isn't going to change if I "delete" (aka hide) my account. As for employers, I'm pretty sure even if I gave them my username and password (which I would obviously never do) they wouldn't find anything interesting.
Ouch. This same thing happened to another friend of mine. I referred him to a client in need of a freelance graphic designer. They had been contracted to do a design for something in Camden, NJ. He gave them the design, they printed thousands onto hoodies or t-shirts or something, and it was misspelled as "CANDEN."
What I would do is offer a reprint to anyone willing to send the original back. So, give people a month to request it or something, send those people a tube to send the original back in, then know exactly how many to reprint. Then, resell the originals with the typos that are returned as a novelty. I know I'd be happy to purchase one of these typo-ed ones, which I'd hang in my apartment and love to tell the story about.
Last time I checked, it supported XMPP.
Mysterious Christmas Eve ‘boom’ heard and felt around Toronto
IOS holiday sales were 5 times Android
Bob is founder of a business. Bob's business has an account. Has Bob got an account?

Bob is an employee of a business. That business has an account. Bob's job is to run the account. Does Bob have an account?

It's a little bit (but not much) hazier than a simple yes no.
The title seems a bit odd, seeing as the hypothesis described seems to be describing a way that expanding brains can (or did) lead to higher intelligence. No, it isn't "just scale everything up", but it still has size as a major controlling factor.
Am I the only one who would happily pay a little more to fly on an airline that didn't allow animals in the cabin? A load of stinking cats an their over-active sebaceous glands? No thanks!
NHTSA Reaffirms Model S 5-Star Safety Rating
<3 the ascii art. I rather like this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Political... (and similar)
Having "corrected" ones for sale is a great idea... makes the "typo" ones much more valuable.
Because if you're poor, or black, or poor and black, you probably already know that the police are likely to mistreat you for no reason at all.
The reason this works for movies and not computer games is simple. Movie cameras let in light in a fashion similar to your eye, and thus at 24 fps motion blur is perceived the same way you see a blur when waving your hand rapidly in front of your face. Games however are rendered one frame at a time, and each frame the positions of everything on the screen are updated with no blurring or interpolation between frames. Thus a higher framerate is needed to achieve a "smooth" motion effect.
There are 2 kinds of people in this world -- lumpers and splitters. Maybe we should take a poll on that.
Last week UPS delivered my Amazon package to someone else down the road, I had no idea why my package was marked delivered when it never got here.

When I called to complain, the driver went back to the place and brought me the box with everything opened, packaging removed and discarded and seriously tried to deliver it to me. I had to argue to refuse it.

I've had bad UPS service before but that topped everything.
Authentication before commenting being the biggest. People have been trying to do link spamming on comments forever. Disqus attempts to legitimize and monetize it with their sponsored stories/links.
What is "Bulgarian"?
I believe that they are doing this, but it seems kind of impractical to me honestly. Then again amazon is able to operate without turning a profit so i guess they can enter in these peripheral branches if need be...
Ask HN: How Long to Wait with Responsible Disclosure?
So, I found a pretty serious vulnerability in a major website. I won't go into great detail, but the vulnerability makes it terribly easy for a malicious user to harvest usernames & passwords in plaintext.

The offending site has not published a responsible disclosure agreement anywhere. I sent them an email letting them know about the issue, and would like to give them time to respond to/fix the issue.

How long would you usually wait before publicizing something like this? I don't want to throw them under the bus, but I also recognize that public pressure usually speeds up the response time.
Sure. Chaitin's Omega is a good example. The question is whether such numbers occur in the real world.
When Beyoncé Samples Your TED Talk, This Is What Happens to Your Book
I'm also not sure i entirely agree with any of the examples in this post, but self promotion really does work. As illustrated really well in "All Is Fair in Love and Twitter" article http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/all-is-fair-in-lo.... Creating lots of self buzz can mean a difference in millions if not billions.

in corporate culture, sometimes there is a staggering divide between actual delivery and perception. I've seen people do nothing for 3 years, and later get a director level position at another company after claims of big accomplishments and general "good rap".

personally i believe in doing both. instead of being the guy claiming the credit, be the guy finding the time to contribute to other teams.. so when it comes to performance evaluations, yours will be pages long and everyone will know you're not just a parasite.
Ask HN: How long before you leave?
If you recently started a new job but you are not enjoying it - how long would you stick with it until you leave?

(for sake of discussion - you have enough money to survive a year without working).
The single best motivator for me is remembering that I'm going to die one day. I think often about the commencement speech Steve Jobs made in 2005. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

I still allow myself time to relax/slack off, but if I had intended to only watch a few episodes before getting down to working on something I'm passionate about, and then have the urge to just do the easy thing and keep watching instead of doing whatever I'd planned to do, I remember that my time is slowly running out and if I don't take steps to achieve my dreams now, then I will likely never achieve them before there's no time left.

This applies to everything in life, not just work. Travel, falling in love, learning new things--you name it--everything is affected by how limited your time is. Time and your body (there's a direct relationship between them) are the most limited resources you have, and even if you strike it rich you can never rewind the clock. This is what motivates me more than anything else to get shit done. On a related note, once you realize just how limited your time is, you realize how pointless it is to live your life for other people or be constrained by dogma. Anyway, at this point I'm just rehashing the speech, and Jobs says all this much better than I do. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it. If you have seen it, go watch it again and listen very carefully to what he says.
“Google+ is kind of like the next version of Google”
I disagree. I have an old IBM ThinkPad from the era when IBM still made PCs. Dell is pretty close.

Their laptops are on the shitty Toshiba-ish side of things, granted (although higher quality build). But their monitors and keyboards are top notch. Simple, black, non-glossy bezel. USB ports on the side. Swivel, portrait, and height base adjustments. Their keyboards remain consistent with the 1980s standard PC arrow/home/numpad configuration and not that weird Microsoft/Logitech shit of putting tiny arrow keys in random locations, or F-lock.
The first 3D printed ‘organ’ of human tissue
The sooner we devalue the link of its SEO power entirely, the better.

I've run a small wiki for many years. I'm probably going to shutter it because it's such a target for link spammers. (MediaWiki's anti-spam tools aren't very good unless you have many dedicated editors.)

Now that a critical mass of people are using Chrome, I suspect that there is a much better signal in the haystack of user behavior data than back links. A much better algorithm in theory could be built using the actual usage patterns of discriminating humans rather than the link landscape of the web.
I USPS 2-day Priority'd a gift on Dec. 17 that hasn't had tracking updated since the 18th. It's most certainly not been delivered.

Pretty sure all the physical mail carriers were clobbered this year and we're just at the tip of the iceberg of understanding why they were disorganized/unprepared/whatever.
The Case For Buying A Shitty TV
Thanks for sharing the details.
He was so inspiring! Got a bust for christmas; my mom finally got the hint ;) http://www.scscale.com
Sometimes people really do enjoy the "boring" work. We're all different.
Tools like https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler really help with the N+1, and general insight into how long database calls usually take.

Relevant RailsCast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/368-miniprofiler?view=asciica...
This is one of those things thats hilarious yet not at all funny. The typo versions are going to be worth WAY more than the corrected versions. Call it a limited edition.
Doing a little research, it appears that you may be right, but, as you say, the requirements vary by jurisdiction. Some jurisdictions will allow you to expunge misdemeanor convictions but not felony convictions.
Everything that remotely relates to health is risky. The problem is simply the lack of regulation.
Amazon / UPS didn't fail to deliver; OP failed to order in reasonable time. Even though some of my (Prime) next-day deliveries took a couple of days to arrive, they kept me informed, and everything arrived in plenty of time. Kudos to both parties.
That's too bad. Is there a way I could get the previous version of Google back?
I think the solution is the non-solution. Yes, it sucks, but backing something on Kickstarter is a risk.
Sounds a lot Luke Austria ( the good and the bad) ... a little bit more tech startup friendly maybe.
>I hardly think that office disagreements are the sort of thing the advice is meant to deal with.

Actually I think that's exactly the sort of thing the advice is meant to deal with.
I have one, but I hate having it.

Unfortunately, I have friends that use the platform for announcements and events. Without Facebook I wouldn't know what's going on. You'd think people would still communicate in other ways, but I have to find out about events through Facebook because I know people will forget to call or text me otherwise.

In my group, there's an unspoken expectation that you use Facebook. If you don't log in or keep an eye on what's going on, you just miss out.

If I hear one more "...well I sent you a FB invite!" when explaining why I missed an event, I think I'll go crazy.
Was that 8 month sentence with a lawyer?
Yes, but how many people with loads of potential give up too early? Something to think about. I generally encourage people to shoot for the stars. You may never make it big but at least you gave it a shot.
Dell never actually uses the term "4k" on the page, it's just in the title.
I like this motto. I just wrote it down on a sticky on laptop.
When something is expunged or sealed, is it required that that non-government entities purge the records also?

For instance, it's common for local news companies to report arrests & mugshots on their websites. I'm assuming there are similar aggregators for arrests and convictions that span larger areas than a single news company, and these are the same people that service background checks.

What obligation(if any) do they have to respect the fact that a conviction has been expunged or sealed by the courts?
Ah good catch, however the logic remains the same (they both avoid residential delivery surcharges for the respective carrier).
doesn't the Ford foundation and/or the Ford heirs have significant ownership on Ford?
> You might have an inflated idea of how good you are at this shit. If you are really good, you won't have much grindy boring work to do.

Anyone who has worked on any sort of sufficiently large and complex application knows that this isn't true. Programmers come and go, people have different styles, requirements change, deadlines are imposed, etc. There will always be grunt work, no matter how good a programmer is.
You usually need to prove one of the following:

1) How you'll beat the competition

2) Why people will want your product

Are you sure you shouldn't be focusing on 2?
That's the maximum possible sentence that can be applied in any circumstance, but it would not have been possible for him to get it. There is a table for each class of crime that cross references the severity of the crime, the number of crimes committed by the person before, and a very small plus or minus factor for how much the judge likes or dislikes you. As a first-time offender, he would have only been eligible for the minimum category, and unless he was a complete dickhead in the courtroom, the judge almost certainly wouldn't have given the minimum of the category. A few months, at the most. This "99 years" bullshit is just gungho DAs trying to scare the shit out of the populace and assert their badassery.
and then you get false positives. I was somehow trapped by their spam detection, even though my comments were totally legit, I've had a good 'track record' etc.

It doesn't tell you anything about it, the post author wasn't notified either.