skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I also was not aware of it. It is a shame that some really good sites are not promoted and us who might be interested don't even know about it's existence.
Marvin Minsky honored for lifetime achievements in artificial intelligence
I can vouch for the value of the material. I took yours last year and it definitely helped with both work as well as my personal projects. In particular the components on functional knowledge are things that other courses tend to ignore.
Show HN: ExtensionWatch, a browser extension to watch for malware extensions
I spent the weekend hacking out a Chrome extension (which will live at https://github.com/extensionwatch/chrome later tonight) that will hopefully help reduce the proliferation of adware and malware. I plan to hack one out for Firefox and friends in the future, too.

My approach is fairly simplistic right now (hooks into Chrome's extension installation and disables a blacklisted extension as soon as it's installed, updated, or recognized after a database update), but as I'm digging more into these nasty extensions, I'm seeing some patterns in the DOM injection that I'm also going to watch for separately. So, while an extension block list will catch the dumb extension owners or those who sell to adware companies, the more sophisticated analysis of the DOM and watching for script/load requests to certain domains should at least alert the user to the presence of certain adware (even if I can't track down exactly which extension may be causing it).

But I need your help! The database of malware extensions and malware-peddling domains that powers this whole thing lives over at https://github.com/extensionwatch/database. I need you all to help me fill in the current crop of evil extensions and adware dispensing domains. The database will live in this repository, be built using a Rake task, and deployed to users of the extension. The idea is to have a completely open and collaborative repository of this stuff to alleviate a lot of the (justified) "who's watching the watchers" paranoia.

Anyhow, feel free to file issues on either of those repositories to start discussions. I'll be around the comments this afternoon, too, and I'm also available via e-mail at my HN username at gmail.
I'm surprised you didn't include a link to this thread, where I still owe you some work...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725096
I love when an online community comes together and solves puzzles like this. /r/Whatisthis turns up some gems here and there. An another note, I'm disappointed this particular puzzle turned out to be prayers... boring
Must be low end video cards. Two 290x GPUs will earn more than that.
rig is free software to create fake credentials on your local machine without the need of a internet connection to access an online service.
> But it happens all the time, through manifactured desire and the exploitation of people's addictions.

That's not a free market with perfect information, which is the economics equivalent of assuming away friction in Freshman physics exercises.

> People are not "rational actors" even though economic theory attempts to dictate it.

Economic theory doesn't "attempt to dictate" that people are rational actor, it uses the rational actor as a useful simplification that is broadly useful in describing large scale effects, and also one for which it is easy to identify specific difference between the model and reality and their effects, as well.

Admittedly, lots of people -- either through ignorance or because it suits what they are trying to sell -- treat the rational actor model or its implications for an idealized market as descriptions of real (or proposed) conditions when this is inappropriate given readily verifiable differences between the conditions that apply in the market and the explicit assumptions of the rational actor model, but that's more political salesmanship than economic theory.
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It's a very smart geocoder that one, have contributed to it - It is a bit old now and not that easy to get started with.

The state of the art of open source geocoder would be TwoFishes: https://github.com/foursquare/twofishes written in Scala and developed and used by FourSquare
I wish they made this more prominent vs pointing most people to the "download" button which throws everything in there

You can even customize it on their server if you aren't comfortable doing it yourself: http://getbootstrap.com/customize/
It is not just that we don't have the information -- it is likely that it is _impossible to have the information_. The economy is not a machine, it is organic and self-modifying.

While there are reasonable arguments for free markets which are pure philosophy, from a pragmatic perspective free markets are good, because the the price is probably the most accurate and efficient information channel available to producers and consumers.
Client side encryption defeats the purpose of most of the value-add features of Dropbox.

I'd actually argue that it would make the service more dangerous, as once you decrypt a file outside of the context of your desktop, the Dropbox service has the key. How do you share a file on the web or via mobile client with low friction without rendering that client-side encryption useless? (A: You don't.)

IMO, if you have data security needs that necessitate client-side encryption, and you use a public service to store that information, you need to give up whiz-bang features or reduce your security requirement.
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My 5-pence is how on Earth can you rehabilitate your position in SERP once you have been mistakenly penalised for "spammy guest blogging"? Punishment will be done automatically, right? Any guidelines for making things the right way?
The nice thing with CSS frameworks is that one only has to design for one device/screen.
The designs for smaller screens, printing and other visual device differences, just works.
I think what Mike is lamenting is that London isn't succeeding in mimicking the West Coast US (or indeed anywhere US) startup scene which I think is a very valid observation. I think the UK has to learn to create an entrepreneurial style of our own and not attempt to transplant something from another culture - two countries separated by a common language etc. There was a post recently on how codified the startup process appears to be getting (sorry couldn't find it) which I think also hints at the problem.

Whilst the UK has had it's moments - remember when Acorn and Sinclair ruled the bedroom? - we often revert to the enthusiastic amateur, responsible for the breakthrough but never quite capitalising on it. Indeed Mike uses the word amateurish in describing the scene himself. Also I get the impression that both for cultural and legal reasons the hire-and-fire approach to staffing doesn't happen in the UK which might be a necessary component in establishing an available pool of talent with the right risk mindset. We are also a terribly cynical bunch here in the UK which isn't the ideal frame of mind.

For the record, I'm a UK developer working for tech startups in Manchester which is 200 miles north of London (that's regarded as a long way in England) and all of the above is personal conjecture based on 45 years of being a cynical, amateur Londoner who got lost in The North and never went home.
I honestly don't see the 2.4Ghz standards going away any time soon.

I don't either, which is part of the reason I've spent a couple dollars on ethernet cables that connect some of the obvious places. A year ago I wrote this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5192451):

"Ethernet was developed in the context of the internet with its seven levels of the ISO reference model," he said. "So we had a job to do at level one and two, and we didn't burden Ethernet with all the other stuff that we knew would be above us. We didn't do security, we didn't do encryption, we didn't even do acknowledgements."

Very interesting story—I wish it had been more detailed in places, but I love this middle section, about how simplicity sometimes beats complexity.

It's also amazing how prevalent Ethernet still is, even when wireless is a competitor. The other day I left this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052448 on HN, because in some circumstances running a cheap ethernet cable from a router to a desk, couch, or other work station can still be a real win, especially given how inexpensive even very long ethernet cables are from Monoprice.com.

They last forever, aren't subject to the level of interference wireless is, and, in many conditions, have faster data transfer speeds. Ethernet is still great.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-c...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-uks-...
Throughout the netscape vs IE era, Gates was considered a ruthless businessman internationally. The situation is 10 years old and fading, but asshole was definitely a predominant take on Gates for a long time
I wrote a library in JavaScript for the browser and Node.js called Chance to generate user info and other random things:

http://chancejs.com/

I don't have as much internationalization, and it doesn't generate a full user like that (it's in my todo) but perhaps it would be helpful for anyone looking for this kind of stuff.
For sure. Bootstrap is good for... bootstrapping. After you've got your MVP working and you're ready to make a real, custom, unique, differentiated, improved user experience, you're going to need to hire a designer and someone who can write CSS. Bootstrap isn't going to make the interface for your Great New Thing (TM) and if your great new thing can be built with Bootstrap... idk, maybe it's not so great?
The FIFO equivalent can also be useful.
Definitely. Altough people I know personaly haven't given me a lot of useful feedback. I tried to "Show HN" them as well, but both posts were instantly buried. I used criticue.com to get feedbacks too, but they were either "This is super cool" or "I can't figure out what it does".
The most plausible explanation is the explanation MS gave for creating Metro:

They want to unify destops and mobile, so that they can extend their desktop dominance at the mobile market.
They didn't. The story is provided by Verizon's Enterprise Security Products group, and is a cautionary tale about one of their clients and the need for proactive log review. The client and the cat-loving software developer in question were not named.

Original source: http://www.verizonenterprise.com/security/blog/index.xml?pos...
Don't you think students already have a pretty good idea of what their grade will be before they write the review?
> Of all the third-world countries that have developed, they have almost uniformly made heavy use of protectionism, foreign-ownership limitations, etc.

Do you have a citation for that? I suspect it might just be trivially true because all countries, especially developing countries, make heavy use of protectionism for some definitions of "heavy". It would be useful to show a relationship between level of protectionism and economic growth. My impression is that most economists think that protectionism harms economic growth.

I pre-commit to changing my mind if there's a correlation between greater protectionism and greater economic growth.

As mentioned in the latest Gates letter, huge progress has been made on reducing global poverty recently, and it continues to be made. He says it's likely that there will be almost no poor countries by 2035.
TLDR; Kanye West is irrelevant - completely, irrevocably, without any suggestion of irony, irrelevant.

You may now resume your non-smug, non-celebrity life.
Sure! http://www.amazon.com/Adult-ADHD-What-Need-Know-ebook/dp/B00...
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wow to the moon
thanks
Disclaimer: I'm an Epidemiologist, not an Economist, so it was a reading from someone outside the field.

The idea that fields have certain "ways of knowing" something was interesting to me - that for economics, its about the analytic solution of an equilibrium.

My own field has something similar - generally speaking, the "hierarchy of evidence" starts with single case reports at the bottom, and then way up at the top are meta-analyses of large randomized clinical trials. As a modeler, I was once asked by a clinician where models (be they analytical or simulation) fit in that framework, and the only answer I could give was "along side it". Analytic results are Capital-T True in a way that even RCTs aren't, but are only true in the universe laid out by the model itself, for example.

It was also just an interesting read as models in my field have been migrating from analytic (or numerical) solutions to equilibrium problems toward more simulation and agent based models, and that same "Yes, but how do you know it's right" type questions are coming up.
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It doesn't help that the price per GB for SSD's didn't really go down in the same period.
The village walk: trust, relevance, and reputation in tech
Ihorizon talk about incentivising your team with EMI options
The Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) scheme is the ideal mechanism for the founders to align company and staff objectives. It has been designed to help early stage companies and start-ups grow and recruit top-quality talent by offering heavily tax incentivised share options.
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We're actually making a browser extension as our paid product ( http://www.tipranks.com ) and all these malware extensions are really bad for our business.

People are worried about them and we constantly have to talk to anti-virus companies like Norton about our extension being recognized as malware because it uses a framework ( Crossrider ) for IE that apparently some bad people used.

The amount of abuse in this field is amazing, it's a shame how a startup like us that has been featured on CNBC, forbes and bloomberg has to spend so much time because of those scammers.

So basically - thank you. I think this area should be a lot safer.
The website says that I have already read my 10 free articles this month and need to pay money to read this one. This has been happening a lot with HackerNews links for me. Do I have a virus, or are you supposed to be rich to post here?
I love how Apportable was in the license comments.
Also why define instance variables when auto-synthesized properties would do fine?

I love the editor, I hope you guys add support for SpriteKit as well.
Had to buy. Great app.
Awesome to see them grow! We just helped them hire a dev with our Differential Connect program too (http://differential.io/connect)
I've had this problem with every single side project. The only thing that seems to work "out of the box" is my rhythmbox plugin/android app, but I guess I'm just piggybacking on people's search for "rhythmbox".
It happens. Computers are weird things, especially when networking is involved. We always recommend having a local and an off-site copy of data. That way you minimize risk, we're hoping we can get him back up and running soon!
I think I'd disagree on the point about land.

Suppose actor A has no land and $1000 in cash, and actor B has $500 worth of land and $500 in cash. B is willing to sell A his land for $500. A agrees and they engage in the transaction. After the transaction, A lost $500, but gained $500 worth of land so A still has $1000 of property. B lost $500 worth of land, but gained $500 in cash.

So before the transaction, each has $1000 of property (cash + land), and after the transaction, each still has $1000 worth of property (cash + land). It's just been shuffled a bit based on what each actor desired and what they were willing to pay for what they wanted.

In general, LOTS of transactions in the real world work this way, i.e., actors engage in the transaction to result in a net increase (perceived) of value to themselves. So the simulation is unrealistic in that respect: it assumes transactions in which one party loses are just as likely (if not more likely) than those in which the transaction only occurs if both parties win. In the real world, most transactions occur only if both parties feel the trade is a fair exchange of value (no net loss to either side).
cool. we just started working on Jawbone, and hopefully will get around to fitbit in short order.
I swear I keep seeing this come up. :\
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The tech people created a startup hub in a hemispherical market leader in finance, but forgot to tell the finance people about it and/or the finance people don't find them interesting.

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. It boils down to no one will give the founders money.

Lots of talk about a startup hub location needs people, schools, devs, entrepreneurs, out of control rents, coffee shops or whatever, but if you copy everything about SV other than the VCs, don't get too surprised there are no VCs there.
Yes, the ways in which it can be used are huge. Some of the obvious ones are to teach someone to code and play the sequence later anytime. CodeTable supports collaborative editing which makes it even nice. Other use can be to ask someone to solve a problem and watch them how they approach it. And there could be many more!
Why the downvote(s)? He's technically right, startups in London are more of a challenge than in SV... If you can avoid it, why not?
Old woman dying of cancer didn't have the common courtesy to at least scribble down something more interesting for you to browse for 5 minutes on the internet later. What a shame.
Ask Metafilter is a very very good place to get random questions answered - a smart and very diverse userbase, along with some sensible rules on how to ask a question, which gives it an edge over Quora for my tastes.
VERY interesting. I always avoided Hitachi drives in my deck for some reason - always concentrated on WD and Seagates (personal experience has led me to lean towards WD as well, as I had a bunch of those non-LP drives that they talk about that like to conk out).

From what I read they look quite reliable over a fairly representative sample (annual failure rate v. # of drives / TBs / years).
I thought this was going to be about the redditor who uncovered Tommy Wiseau's country of birth, but that's just a 10-year-old mystery.

http://www.reddit.com/r/theroom/comments/1vklp3/i_think_i_ha...
'Start a business' and you'll have to go to a bank: 'grow a startup' and you're in the greater idiot economy. Easy choice.
I respect you a lot and you sure have more information than most of us. But Mr. Zuckerberg called "dumb fucks" users who gave him personal information. I do not know him personally, but with that one in mind and the privacy issues of Facebook, I find it hard to see how he isn't.
It seems to be accepted in London that when you join a startup, you take a paycut of 33%.

Even if the startup doesn't offer any equity. All risk, no reward...
How does something like this make so much money? If a friend send me the link I would demand reparations.
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I think they were stating two requirements:

Ideal wifi:
1) should be fast
2) should be reliable

I would much rather see optimizations on #2 than #1 at this point. I agree that once speeds hit 100mbps, reliability is a much more important engineering goal to focus on.
The problem is that we all use Dropbox to share files around the office. So if someone is at home, they still need access, and you can only be signed in with one account at a time. The other benefit is that we get a HUGE amount of storage under a business account.

All in all, the whole process needs some revision on their part.
this is awesome, really. i was still depending on the freemind java application to create mind maps, because all web-based tools have been horrible so far. i think you did a really great job. i'll certainly be using this from now on! thank you.
Still higher sales than tablets.

Edit: Also, 2013 figures shouldn't be out until March (if I remember right)... where are you getting these numbers from? Is that a quarter decline?
My favourite was Brandon Bradshaw.
Sorry the post text is all jumbled. Not sure what happened there!
They're doing bulk storage where costs are a priority and performance irrelevant since users are uploading/downloading over the Internet. What possible use do they have for SSDs?
My daily fix:

Run by biostatisticians Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, and Rafa Irizarry, Simply Statistics (http://simplystatistics.org/) it's more than stats - and it's a must read.

R-bloggers (http://www.r-bloggers.com/) is the hub for everything R.
My problem with these health monitoring systems is similar to the problem the FDA had with 23andMe. It's one thing to collect data and present them in an easy to accessible way. But it is another to attempt to give out medical advice based on the data. How far are you planning on taking the data in terms of interpretation?
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Yeah. Dreamhost kindly asked me to switch to their VPS service a few years ago when I was using too much CPU.
Is your employer in the city hiring? :)
I'm more excited to see that Ben Noordhuis is still working on Node.JS core.

And yay! for the round robin cluster scheduler. Got bitten by this myself. We currently use different ports on each child process and distribute traffic on our reverse proxy server (varnish) in front of node.
her.

Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College. http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/officedetail/454
If you avoid Hitachi due to that bad batch and Seagate due to their bad batch and WD just because, you're left with nothing.
Congrats on the product! Just a couple website level things:

- http://geocod.io/contact/ says DC but shows me a map centered somewhere south of Topeka.

- Random $0.02 suggestion: stop using "ridiculous".
I agree. If he's only willing to pay $5 per month, the data can't be worth THAT much to him. I don't think it casts a "serious shadow" on anything. Backblaze seems like an awesome customer-focused company.
I just started doing something very similar but with TypeScript instead of CoffeeScript. I really appreciate you sharing your workflow with us.
Are you taking into consideration when a drive fails it requires work to replace it?

This could be minimal and something that in terms of budgetary considerations might be negligible - but I'm not sure.
I love Perl. Its flexibility and potential terseness are awesome, but there is something funny about a language that has the operator breadth of:

: :: .: .:: .. ... {...} .^ ..^ ^.. ^..^ ^^ , ;

And several of those have 2-3 uses. Heck, there's probably a way to use only those and some $'s and make something that runs.
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HP exec paints bleak picture of Microsoft, Intel future
What if the finance people in this hypothetical country didn't find it interesting because their research showed them it was a poor investment and that investors in the other hemisphere were often just billionaires playing in semi-retirement?
Are you moving away from BitCoin and into others? or vice versa. I'm curious about the trending of BTC mining.
The interesting part is that both PCs aren't going away, and there is a huge market at the backend. MS is simply throwing those markets away, trying to get into the shiny new thing.

At the same time, the shiny new mobile market is getting more and more similar to the desktop interface MS is trying to throw away. (Android alread has multiuser support, file navigators are getting more Windows(7)-like, status bars are getting more complete, tablets are gettng keyboards...) And mobile devices will get good enough quite soon, then their sales will also go down.

By the way, I'm behond hate here, I'm not participating in any way. I'm just watching the train wreak.