skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does so absolutely. But he is also careful to identify conclusions as opinion, and you get to decide for yourself. He leaves you the framework for his conclusions, and you can continue to work on it. If you use him, Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky as sources, then draw your own conclusions, my experience is that you'll get more and better answers. I disagree strongly with all of them at the level of conclusion, but will continue to reuse all the legwork they did to get there. It's a force multiplier.

History is not a restaurant where you just send the food back; it's more like doing your own cooking. And my experience with Adam Curtis' stuff is that pulling one or two conclusions out does not cause the whole to collapse in a heap. His metaphors and narratives are sound.
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"With three times as many people as the US, isn't passing the trade per person a more notable milestone?"

Not necessarily -- they are both important.

Consider how much impact the decisions of one central government in China have, now that they are the largest trading nation. You couldn't say the same thing about a small nation with high per-capita trade.
the world is built on open source software...
is this like saying China is being unfair by hacking into our stuff?
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Growth hackers are 2013's social managers.
Your claim was they are proxying "all" port 53 traffic.

In effect, you are saying no customer can query any DNS
server except Shaw's.

That sounds a bit extreme.

I have more questions. Can you run some tests?

You say you use DNSCrypt. Can you try it with port 53?
Maybe something like

dnscrypt-proxy --resolver-port=53

and

dnscrypt-proxy --resolver-port=53 --tcp-only

DNSCrypt is built using public domain software written by a
maths professor: namely, djbdns and curvecp.

Now, without DNSCrypt, can you try using djbdns? For me at
least, it is easier to understand what the software does.
dig and the BIND libraries are far too complex for my liking.

Compile or get binaries for djbdns and use dnsq(1).

dnsq a news.ycombinator.com 31.13.75.17

If you get no response immediately, wait at least 60 seconds
for a time out.

Finally, compile or get binaries for drill(1) from NLnet
Labs.

drill -t news.ycombinator.com @31.13.75.17

echo ". 1 in ns a.root.servers.net." > 1.tmp
echo "a.root.servers.net. 1 a 198.41.0.4" >> 1.tmp

echo > 2.tmp

drill -4ord -r1.tmp -tc2.tmp news.ycombinator.com @31.13.75.17

I'm genuinely curious about your situation. Shaw is
no doubt playing games with their DNS, but I'm still not
convinced they are "proxy[ing] all port 53 traffic".

I know that some ISP's block all traffic sent to port 25.
But they have a compelling reason and hence a justification
for doing that. Not true with proxying traffic to port 53.
There's no harm in customers using DNS servers besides
Shaw's.
All the liberal white guys growing up to middle class parents in California read that and say "I guess I should feel really guilty for all I've been given in life".

All the white guys that grew up in the poor rural South and fought to learn about tech read that and say "fuck off, Scalzi". And then they spend the rest of their lives hearing from the other white guys about how their accomplishments are hollow for the rest of their lives.

Asians sit on the sidelines, largely ignored, quietly falsifying the "oppressor/oppressed" narrative[1] and driving social justice warriors crazy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_Un...
Did you work out any type of affiliate partnership? I'm curious because we've recently integrated with a few large, well known industry sites that compliment our services. We've seen a small traffic bump from this but no sales. Just wondering your strategy in acquiring new customers/conversions with this strategy.
The amount of memory allocated to the vm does not include the host fs cache. So it is still easily possible for a 500M file to fit in that.
I would never work with him or one of the other SJWs in tech (Alex Gaynor, Bryan Cantrill, Adria Richards). You know they would be more than happy to ruin you if you slip up and say something remotely non-progressive, or that can be twisted to sound non-progressive.
For some people it doesn't matter. For some people or in some instances, it does matter.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/online-anonymity-not-o...

Another good example is from http://phinished.org/faq.php?faq=vb_read_and_post#faq_zoints...

"The anonymous posting option should be used sparingly. Please use it only when you have a matter of a highly personal or sensitive nature to discuss, or when you need to protect the privacy of colleagues, students, friends, or family members. It should never be used as cover to criticize or attack other users, as a means to evade social responsibility for one's comments, or as a way to avoid minor embarrassment on the boards. Anonymous posts may not contain attachments, and they cannot be edited after posting without revealing the username of the author. If you want to maintain your anonymity, do not attempt to edit an anonymous post.

The webmaster reserves the right to suspend or revoke the ability to post anonymously of any member who abuses the anonymous posting privilege. For more information, please see our acceptable use policy and privacy statement."
>if you "want" that, you could also have a look at busybox

Don't want or need it, just mentioned it as an interesting bit of Unix history. I guess the 3 files are not links but separate files nowadays due to much cheaper and more plentiful disk space compared to those days.

Your script is interesting.

Didn't know about apt-file or dlocate, good to know, thanks.

>Ubunut

Sort of Freudian slip? Just kidding :)
Read about the "labor theory of value" vs the "subjective theory of value".

The amount of work put into something doesn't define something's value. Something is only as valuable as what another person is willing to pay for it.
Interesting to see that Twitter Bootstrap isn't on that list.
Every time I see the word "hater" in response to criticism in the tech sector, I roll my eyes and find something else to read.
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Potentially.

People can take all sorts of things as justification for targeting you. Maybe you made a seemingly innocuous comment on HN or another website that someone took as a personal slight (say, your comment about tech companies "getting ahead of themselves" with drones and self-driving cars). Maybe you made a comment that sounded vaguely like a religious or political position that someone finds very offensive. Maybe you have a particular habit, desire, or interest that is illegal or that some people consider immoral or offensive, which you don't particularly advertise but you happen to mention somewhere. Maybe someone thinks you downvoted them even though it wasn't you. All of a sudden, you're a target -- and someone is able to go from a handful of comments you made on some website to knowing your home address, your place of employment, your family/religious/social circles, and maybe something about you that could get you into trouble with one of those groups.

Note that it's not just "on the internet". Somebody might see you talking to their ex in a public place (you were just asking for directions) and decide to pick up whatever snippets of personal information they can about you by listening in at the checkout. The internet only comes in once they've decided to come after you -- and they're able to tie in to the giant database their company maintains that sends you coupons or whatever in the mail, and now they have all of your personal information including some you'd rather not have every stranger on the planet knowing.
Perhaps I've just surrendered to laziness, but I find that in trolling through BookTV to find books to read, I usually get more and better value from the discussion of the book than the book itself. Emphasis "usually" - some of the books are of much more value than the hour on air. BookTv is a drier setting than yer average TED talk or propaganda piece (documentary) film, so it seems less biased. You get the executive summary without having to invest all the time to read it. But the books that I actually read - where I was motivated to actually read the book - from BookTv have been very good.
I agree with you. I just think "not racist and sexist" is a ridiculously high standard. I don't know when we adopted the idea that X-ism is the worst thing in the world, but it's a completely impossible to stamp out. And is it really so bad to greet a guy in Spanish in an area with a significant Mexican population based on his appearance?

Let's say you give a Hindi greeting to an Indian guy who's second-generation American and doesn't speak Hindi. What's the worst that can happen? Well, if he's a SJW he'll spread your name on the internet as a "racist asshole". But if he's a normal person, you get past the misunderstanding quickly, and plus he knows that you know enough about his culture to have learned its language, and he might even appreciate that.

Our primate relatives are racist and sexist. What makes us think that we can not be?
1. Fill out form

2. Insert pet dog's slobber into test tube

3. $10 Amazon gift card

4. Maintain DNA anonymity
I won't take that bait, but I will say that wasteful or not, the US can lean more heavily on its trading partners for concessions, just as whether wasteful or not, giants like WalMart can lean on their trading partners.

Size is might, even if it's blundering, wasteful, and inefficient. (Although I am not saying the US is any of those things).
Ok, so it is relatively easy to obtain a safe implementation and from there you can use a heuristic to prevent a thread from looping forever trying to find an available slot. Would that sum up the issue in practice?
Wow, do you have a article link for that "rounding up criminals" story?
People with experience with this, what do you think of coworking spaces? They seem like a great solution to the loneliness and can even yield some nice networking. Any downsides to them?
If you want to reflect on something truly heinous bear in mind that during torture sessions these days it is customary to have a doctor on hand to ensure that the victim is not actually killed. The objective is to inflict ongoing pain and killing would defeat the objective. So a doctor of all things witnesses the process and keeps the victim alive so he/she can be tortured more. Apparently you can get any professional to do anything no matter how wildly those actions may seem to be to the most fundamental values of their profession and the oath they swear to practice it.
Can Things Be Too Good?
Do I have to accept that China and all other governments are exactly the same in order to accept this?
Here is that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043299
I think it's important to understand both Hedges and Friedman. IMO, the more you look at it, the more profound the divide there is. I think we think we know what we mean by these things, but the older I get, the less sure I am of that.
Japan's aging population could actually be good news
That's quite a nice trick, do you have any source for this? I couldn't find any.
Interesting aside, much of TPM was filmed at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch.

From Wikipedia:

> Campbell and Lucas became friends when Lucas publicly acknowledged the influence Campbell's writings had on the development of his hugely successful film "Star Wars." Campbell expresses great enthusiasm for this film; a film that he says conforms to classical mythological legends.
Sounds more prestigious if you call it software engineering rather than programming. The first is analogous to architect, the second brick-layer.
For what reason are you interested in that? Any such algorithm would have to make use of the re-programmability of FPGAs, since a static FPGA layout can always be turned into an ASIC...
I think Spotify has the mindshare largely because of the free version, and it's going to be difficult to overcome that.

That being said, I've been using Beats' predecessor Mog for over a year now and I like the interface and the known good sound quality (Spotify wasn't the first to have a 320k library). If Beats is easier to use on mobile than Spotify, it could make a dent.

The integration angle though -- that's where players like Pandora have an edge with apps on Apple TV, smart TVs, etc.
You know what happens when you flash a teenager who has super deluxe Xenon lights? You get flashed back, double blinded.

"Turn them down." What do you have a rheostat on your headlamps? Keep them "down."
That's why best practices for human studies is to manage projects like this in the context of an Institutional Review Board. It's required for "federally funded projects, clinical trials, and those who seek publication in peer-reviewed journals." (quoting http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/07/22/cr... ).

It's not required for a company, but if it doesn't exist then I think it's okay to assume that they are not following the highest ethical guidelines.

Back in 2010, the company "23 And Me" caused an uproar because they were gathering data without an IRB. They instead got a post-hoc review when, during a publication peer review, they were asked about the missing IRB. Their board said basically that since the data isn't traceable to an individual, it falls outside of the requirements for an IRB.

People are still pissed off about this. See http://scientopia.org/blogs/drugmonkey/2013/02/21/plos-genet... . I agree - the IRB exception must be done before the data is gathered, not afterwards.
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Midday Traffic Time Collapsed and Reorganized by Color: San Diego Study
Ask HN: Does GitHub's language coloring affect your opinion of that language?
Scala is a nice seafoam: https://github.com/scala/scala
Do you think the same benefit could be had from doing it on EC2, or is installing OpenBSD locally from a CD-ROM essential to your suggestion?
Halting problem proof in the style of Dr. Seuss
what feeds do you plan to include in the future?
Anecdotally, most of my family and friends are casual listeners who prefer Pandora and traditional radio to decide for them what to hear next.

Spotify and Beats Music are for big music fans like myself who want to hear a specific song or playlist from their favorites. But there's a much smaller market for big music fans. If Beats can make a play for the Pandora/iTunes Radio audience they have a chance. Otherwise they have to prove they are better than Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, etc. for hardcore listeners.
Girl, 7, asks scientists for a dragon, gets standing job offer
http://www.tdcaa.com/node/1542 - "Police trick leads to clearing of 129 warrants"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiLX4bkKguA - video of several arrests using said premise.
>His citation index is not very convincing either http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CU2sU8YAAAAJ

>Having published for 40 years with only very few citations means that his works were either irrelevant or only found extremely limited circulation. Both makes the claims less trustworthy.

while i don't know anything about this guy, beside one in 1976, the Google citation index seems to show only ones in current century.

Quick search from other link http://www.ecosecretariat.org/ftproot/High_Level_Meetings/Su... :

"He contributed in the development of mathematics, for which he was awarded to the prize of the Department of physics-mathematical sciences of AS [Academy of Sciences] of USSR in 1990. He published 200 scientific papers and monographs."

I'm sure that this guy did have at least some citations between 1976 and 2000 :)
My understanding was that a balance based model opened up some pretty serious security problems, which is why bitcoin didn't use it. I'm dubious of a new coin as complex as this.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted, it's a perfectly valid point.

There are cases where there'd be a choice between acting ethically towards one person or saving a live of another. The dissonance is further amplified when there's more than one life at stake.

GP, just pretend your kid was kidnapped and be dead in 24 hours if you don't find him. Now, say, you have an unrestricted access to the kidnapper who knows where your child is.
Interesting, but this may be a spectacular own goal.

Indonesians probably found Path interesting because it was foreign. They probably didn't care that a company in San Francisco was slurping up their address book. However, a local conglomerate with a dodgy reputation?

http://en.dailysocial.net/post/outrage-over-announcement-tha...

>Indonesians outraged

The investment news from Bakrie sent a shock across Indonesia. Across Twitter and Path, people are talking as if the group had acquired Path and many have decided to remove Path from their devices...

The Bakrie Group and family has a terrible reputation in the country. As per the Jakarta Post report in February 2013, Bakrie Life has been in a deadlock with its clients regarding a failed investment scheme...

The group’s largest indiscretion in the country, and one that’s causing much of people’s anger towards the family, is the seven year mudflow in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java. The ecological disaster has been attributed to Lapindo Brantas, a Bakrie-owned company, which conducted a drilling expedition in the area in 2006...
Yeah, and who cares about shared folder performance anyway?
Your function called "up" reminds me of long-ago-used Novell Netware version, in which, IIRC, you could do:

cd .. # to go one level up

cd ... # to go two levels up (note: 3 dots, not 4, makes
sense when you think of "cd ." and "cd ..")

# and so on.
"I don't think this "benchmark" is that relevant anymore...If a company that tracks everything receives a "top privacy rating", I don't think the benchmark used is very useful."

I think it is a useful comparison, but only part of the picture as you say. For example, Google gets high marks in this EFF survey but, as you rightly point out, you also have to balance that against the amount and type of data that Google (and other companies) collect about users.

I don't doubt that Google has a strong committment to security. But security and privacy, although closley related, are not the same thing. Even if Google stops the NSA snooping on their data, that doesn't stop Google from continuing to collect as much data about you as they possibly can. Google's comments relating to the NSA revelations have all been couched in terms of security (but not a word about privacy or the volume of data they collect). So yes, better security will protect your data from government eyes, but it won't necessarily stop companies collecting as much data as they can about you.

Just to be clear, there's no comparison between Google collecting user data and a secretive Goverment agency with questionable motives and intentions collecting data - one is obviously an order of magnitude worse. But that doesn't mean it's fine for companies to track users unhindered just because they're not the NSA. And Google arguably tracks more than anyone else. Isn't it time we also had transparency reports from these companies about the data they collect?
Well I though it was nice, but the script if quite buggy! works well when cleaned up
My intent was more that it is straightforward to be aware of several of the most blatant leakages. Combating dialect analysis is a lot tougher, but the quiz likely used 25 of the highest value differences (many of the choices are laser specific: http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html ).

Context also matters a lot. If there is no obvious path to an IP or browser interaction, all that stuff goes away.
Not the only reason, history is always more complex than we'd like it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_Incident
Giveaway Time: 2 Copies of Marketing as a Business System
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A cardio wushu workout designed by Janice Hung.
The questionable benefits of a cannabis degree aside, that is one of the most hideous websites I've ever come across.
Indeed a major milestone, though more interesting will be when they surpass the EU and US in imports.

To some extent being the world's chief importer proffers the most power: because suddenly everyone is dependent on you for what they sell. You become the customer.

Once China becomes the "world's customer" the US's power will be severely eroded.
>the popular male opinion

I'm sorry, but opinions don't have genders.
What creates that upper limit of 7x2^29?
Even if we discount the accuracy of the published numbers, are the trends correct? What I'd want to understand is: Is China's economic activity growing faster than their population?

Wouldn't that indicate rising wages and improving standard of living? Perhaps we'd need to adjust for inflation, but the trade they report is largely with countries where the published inflation rates are more trusted. And I think the experience of US manufacturers, who report rising costs in Chinese manufacturing,

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732476700... ,

bears that out.

Another consideration, and different topic entirely that I think will play into the trends over the next decade, is what is the ecological cost of this growth, regardless of whether it is 5, 10 or 15%.

What I expect over the next 10 years, is a slowing and reversal of 'going to China' for contract manufacturing. That reversal will be accelerated by increasing reports of this same manufacturing decimating China's ecology, and the pollutants seeping across international borders.
Check out the FiniteStateEntropy/test/probaGenerator.c code.

It builds a table of character sequences based on a probability. If you feed it a p=0.5 you get a sequence that halves each time:

0000000011111223 (shortened example, the real total length is 4096 so you get 2048x0, 1024x1 ...)

This is then used as an alphabet probability to build random sequences in the test file.

The algorithm scores better than huff for higher P, meaning that the alphabet shortens with a few dominant ones. This means that (statistically) you get a lot of words in your dictionary that resemble each other. And that's where the fractional probability plays its role.

To try to answer your question I'd guess that this technique shows its muscle for data sets in which the dictionary is large and consists of similar sequences. Example: a csv file with a lot of numbers, gis or kml datasets, Gerber files, ...
And to make things worse, lets say Japan has a "collective karma" against China.. I dont know how this generation(post-war) handle this... and if its just buried in the past..

Also we got one more powerful actor into the club of bullies (together with US and Russia)...

If one of those 3 bullies clash with each other (and boy, they like a fight).. say farewell to our beloved peace..
We owe Twatter a big thanks for showing Rails on Fails doesn't scale (via so many fail whales), and so guided many a new startup to explore Scala, Erlang, Python, C++11 - basically things with a good chance to help not hinder your startup.

Thanks Twatter!
Oooh, a downvote for stating my opinion. You must be a growth hacker yourself.
> I find myself disappointed by this blog post. The second paragraph amounts to a sexist version of "I'm not racist! I have black friends!" Then he follows up with statistics comparing YC to the general VC market. Fine, you do better than most. However, not the worst does not mean not bad.

Suppose that you walk up to someone who earns $100,000 a year and donates 60% to charity, and you see that although he rarely goes on vacations abroad and lives in a 500 square foot apartment he does have a relatively new car. You then say "how could you? If you had gotten a slightly crappier car you could have saved $3000 and sent that off to fight malaria in Africa and saved someone's life! Do you really value that tiny dose of comfort above a human life?"

It may be a valid moral point depending on your personal morality, but acting that way is absolutely useless if not counterproductive toward the general goal of getting more money donated to charity to fight malaria in Africa.