skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which of the above posts is "just saying 'I don't like it' over and over?" This thread is a discussion of the structure of a certain argument. To recap:

swombat3 explains why he thinks Princeton's method of reasoning by analogy is flawed. ronaldx disagrees, asking why the analogy wouldn't be applicable. I reply that, in my view, ronaldx has disagreed with a different point than the one swombat3 made. ronaldx replies in defense of Princeton's claims, citing the testability and falsifiability of the hypothesis. I reply that there is little evidence for the hypothesis, despite its testability and falsifiability.

So, all participants have advanced specific, well-articulated arguments throughout. I don't see anything similar to "I don't like it."

Humorously, this discussion has become rather meta by now. We're now arguing about the form of argumentation used in a discussion that was itself about forms of argumentation. It's like we're living out an LSAT question. I find that sort of conversation hard to resist, so I suppose I'm just rising to the bait.
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I don't know if you read it, but I sent you an email about this same bug (when I originally found it in Drupal) in 2012. Didn't know FB was vulnerable back then. By the way, I learned a lot from you here on HN. So let me take this opportunity and say thank you very much.
I wonder whether the non-malicious applications of XML external entities outnumber the malicious applications.

Any HNers want to chime in with an account of actually using them for what they're meant for?
Is there life on Ceres?
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I think you can find this kind of work on oDesk at the same if not higher rates. In Texas you should be able to at least double the rate as a junior developer, if not triple it - a sure sign that you might be better off hunting around for a while before settling on a trial rate like this.
That only works for one-ways or on the return portion. Once you miss a segment the rest of your ticket is canceled at that point, so be careful.
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Japan to launch a giant magnetic net that will trawl space for junk
Ha! I can't wait, however I think it might be some years yet to get the full immersion rig going
People have been saying that Litecoin is the silver to Bitcoin's gold for a while. Now some are saying Dogecoin is the bronze to Litecoin's silver...
LOL @ "don't let other people control your tools" and then going straight into "how to set up your Windows environment" in the next post after one of your links.
Didn't know about fastdom, thanks for sharing!
Truly awesome and perfect timing, with the Dawn spacecraft set to be in the right place at the right time to shed light on the mystery of where this water vapour is coming from.

As much as asteroids are generally thought of as "dead bodies", it's abundantly clear that Ceres along with numerous other "active" asteroids demand our attention.

The Solar System is a truly fascinating place!
As you noted, that would only work with Visa, ours works with all debit cards.

And we have really strict regulatory compliance, a laywer was something like our 5th hire. We do a lot with KYC and such, so those details are all handled for you, by us. All merchants on Balanced marketplaces get underwritten individually.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

A nearby supernova would definitely be sterilizing to the kind of life found on Earth, and to a lot of other imaginable forms. Of course, "nearby" in astronomical terms is sometimes unintuitive. :-)
If they went the NIH way and implemented the XML parsing themselves, this never would have been an issue.
Thanks! :D

We're still working on the international story. I care about it a lot, regulations are hard. :/
While we're on the topic of layout thrashing...

The reason layout thrashing happens is due to cached layout metrics being invalidated, causing information to be re-computed over and over.

But the layout cache isn't global for the page. Browsers do their best to not invalidate cached layout metrics unnecessarily.

For example, an element's height often depends on its width (due to wrapping of text and other inlines). That height can be expensive to compute because it requires layout and word wrapping of all the element's children. But if you move the element to a different container, but the element's width and cascaded/inherited styles stay the same, some browsers will not invalidate the element's height. (Check out how fast the "Reparent" test is on http://jsperf.com/are-reflows-created-equal in Safari and Chrome )

So if you find yourself in a situation where layout thrashing is hitting you hard, try to find ways to give the browser more explicit information about your layout, so that layout cache invalidations don't propagate as far. For example, giving parent elements an absolute width and/or height can help a lot.

This way, you can often eke out the performance you need, while avoiding heavy-handed refactoring necessary to always batch DOM changes. (Unfortunately, you'll need to verify the improved performance in all major browsers -- not all will have the same optimizations. It would be great if browser vendors documented their behavior more!)
This is why these questions get asked on Stack Overflow.
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Thank you for giving out the Big O. Now I did the search and found that hash map is O(n) or O(1) here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055243/is-a-java-hashmap...

But I couldn't agree with you about O(n+m) because we cannot hash on the input set as well since that way we will lost the sequence order. Then the caching may help or use LinkedHashmap.
> (BTW, I use the VPN to mask my internet traffic… sorry NSA)

Unfortunately, that's not true and will even draw attention.

This XKeyScore slide is crazy: http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item26839/Xkeyscore1.jpg
Show HN: Rewrote Basecamp, Gmail, Dropbox in 3 years with a team of 3
Well, for one thing, you've taken your domestic internet traffic -- which has legal protections against many types of NSA intrusion -- and traded it for foreign traffic which has virtually no protection.
Ki-rin was AE if I recall correctly. Only folks who could get away with amazing AE builds were in 52. Oh Tharghan and his Rogues of the Forbidden Legion.
Private-labeled banking services. Interesting.
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Slumber Party with Champagne anyone?
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How does this compare with what Intercom is offering? Is this a move to compete directly?
It's ironic that we now have more people in poverty, fewer jobs, and gun sales have increased, meanwhile, those very same things that the democrat party claims to be trying to reduce, are on the rise. They either have a secret plan, which is their true motive for decision making, or they lie to themselves claiming that the plan is pulling people out of poverty, and claiming that their gun laws are working. I can't figure it out.
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Send progress events over your push channel. Push an event every 1% or 10% or whatever you need depending on what you need for your experience.

If you're talking about generic progress reporting from a tool that doesn't know what the underlying job consists of (i.e. it only knows "started" "done" "errored"), then I'm not aware of any pattern to provide an accurate progress meter. You could perhaps keep statistics on the length of past runs (like some CI servers do for build times), but it would really depend on your application whether users are willing to accept that those progress bars are just a guess and sometimes run over.
Space debris research is really hot at the moment, and is only going to continue to be placed in the spotlight through the EU's Horizon2020 program. I'm going to be starting my post-doc on the Stardust program (FP7) [1] in a couple of months and can't wait to get my hands on space debris missions.

There are a number of companies that are working on systems to remove existing space debris, as well as modules to equip new spacecraft with to ensure that they are de-orbited when they reach EOL.

If we hit the undesirable threshold of a self-sustaining, cascade of collisions, it's going to much harder to reverse [2].

Will be interesting to see what the impact of JAXA's mission is on debris removal efforts moving forward.

[1] http://www.strath.ac.uk/stardust/

[2] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Space_Debris/Gl...
The large transaction was on the new version of the client, the problem was old clients couldn't handle a transaction that large (500,000,000 I think)
Institutional pride/snobbery? "We don't just admit smart people. (The really smart ones go to MIT, not here.) No, we admit leaders! That's how you know that we're more elite even than MIT!"
I patched dogecoin to fix the transaction limit to prevent dust.

What I am realizing is that dogecoin, by virtue of being not so serious, is gaining more developer mindshare who want to experiment and learn. That's what makes it fun, and what gives it potential.
Oh, picky, picky, picky.
"They purposefully design technology to break after a few years, so that you have to buy more of it."

[citation needed]

Seriously - I'm not denying that an awful lot of things break pretty quickly, but it seems far more likely that this is cost-cutting leading to questionable reliability, not outright "we're going to put a 1-day-after-warranty self-destruct in this toaster!".

Besides, advertising to convince people that their not-broken thing needs to be replaced with NEW-SHINY-THING seems much more effective - and less likely to piss people off.
Can anyone comment on the profitability of mining Dogecoins vs bitcoins? It seems weird that mining one crypto currency would be more or less profitable (in dollars per watt terms) than another. Rational miners seeking to optimize profits would tend to mine the more profitable coin which would drive up the supply and drive down the price until an equilibrium is achieved.

edit: While we are at it, does anyone know how many dogecoins can you expect to mine per kilowatt-hour?
Suffice it to say that, because the trajectory of a company which goes to $10 million a year in sales and then exits at $50 million is quite different than one which IPOs, including having likely a far smaller number of employees and stock grants set more by "what a founder felt appropriate for his five closest friends" rather than "how to split 20% 200 ways", a $50 million exit can and has been a motivating event for some employees.

For more detail on this, talk to people.
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I like the idea but from a site called pyskool.com I would have expected at least some of the main dynamically typed contenders (python, ruby & javascript) to enter the stage ;)
Self-driving Ford could see around the truck ahead of you
as i see it, a hallmark of the millennial generation is disdain for people and institutions that take themselves seriously.

we are much more likely to trust a group that doesn't try to pretend it is "serious" because we see those people as untrustworthy.
Just to play devils advocate here, but has anyone fully considered the impact on ISPs that this massive increase in demand is having on them. Especially the hated Cable companies who are seeing customers turn their backs on their own TV products whilst shouting and demanding more and more bandwidth so they can watch (and pay instead) NetFlix et al.

NetFlix and YouTube do not pay the ISPs anything. ISPs are not some cloud based company selling software, they are a utility company with Billions of $$ of investment in physical cables spanning every street in every country. In nearly every instance, the initial investment in this infrastructure was for a completely different technology (telephone or TV) from a time way before internet. The industry is now at a point where demand for bandwidth is simply outpacing technological innovation and these networks can't take the strain.

Think about the work involved in doubling Broadband speeds over say 2-3 years, in line with demand. In the past this involved installing some new equipment in the central office or exchange. Then this wasn't enough so the equipment had to be installed in the street, costly, especially as the number required was so much higher. Now we're at the point where the copper Coax or phone-line can't physically do the job anymore and it needs replacing, ideally with Fibre. Imagine the work and cost involved in doing this task. It's a hugely labour intensive task to dig up every street and there are many layers of red-tape and bureaucracy that simply weren't there during the initial build out. Once you've done that, you then need to buy vast amounts of brand new equipment and back-office software to run these new systems, plus hire in a load of new talent.

Now imagine doing this for every single home in the US or Europe (not just Kansas).
Now imagine doing this without increasing your prices.
Now imagine doing this whilst some key revenue streams are also being taken away from you.

Then think about the payback period on this investment... how long will all that Fibre even be used before wireless speeds increase and half your customer base decide they don't even want a fixed line anymore because they can get 1Gbps on their mobile? That 4K Video stream is still only 30mbps! 10 years perhaps?

I'm not surprised the ISPs are fighting back, they're putting in all the money and taking all of the risk for little to no reward.

Now... to speak my own mind. The sooner the old guard realise their time is up and adapt to fit the new demand the better, for customers and for the ISPs. Cable companies in particular have a very difficult time coming to terms with the fact that they're now just a data pipe. People don't want to buy their TV or their programming. People want internet and on the internet you can get everything, including TV and Movies. ISPs need to start investing in their networks even if it means we have to pay a bit more, because it won't come cheap, and stop pretending they're still relevant. But throttling the guy selling the better widget is just petty and benefits no-one.
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Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected To Small Wyoming Building
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I'm trying to figure out if James Halliday will end up being personified by Gabe Newell, Palmer Luckey, John Carmack or Michael Abrash...
Snow blower causes $450,000 in damage to Manhattan Apple Store
Not a millionaire in USD because even though I did hear about Bitcoin very early and I did think "That's a great idea!!!" (I was lucky enough to have studied a bit of cryptography just before hearing about Bitcoin), I wasn't able to buy much because I live in a country that suffers one of the very problems Bitcoin was created to fight (capital controls). Using my laptop to mine was out of question, losing it would have meant also losing my job and become homeless, so it wasn't a risk I could afford to take. Having said that, I'm way wealthier than I could have expected to be at my age and general situation, thanks to Bitcoin.

Litecoin wasn't a great idea, just a copycoin. It wasn't even innovative on the scrypt part, they just copied Tenebrix and changed the branding. So it's the same crap as Dogecoin.

Namecoin is a great idea, and we definitely need to decentralize the web, but I don't see it taking off soon.

Whether a copycoin's price goes up a lot or not does not tell us anything about whether it was a great idea or not. You seem confused on that part.
Smart way to make money by whoever posted this. Loving all the affiliate links.
I currently attend UC Berkeley and graduated from a fairly affluent top US high school a few years ago. Meaning: everyone was very concerned (I won't say obsessed) about college admissions.

This focus on leadership in admissions is very well known, and manifests itself conspicuously in competitive high schools. There's a considerable amount of unspoken pressure to get "leadership" positions in school clubs, do "leadership" activities in community service, do varsity sports or other leadership in sports, and participate in ranked competitions. The list goes on and on. This breeds a lot of cynicism about people's motivations, especially as people try to game the system (with empty leadership positions). What starts to happen is that when people hear about a high schooler who goes off and founds a non-profit and does work in Africa (or something like that), people start to wonder whether that person did it just to improve their admissions chances. The sad part is that this person could very well be genuine.

EDIT (reply to below): Sometimes those people are college admissions officers. I'm in college now, so I don't worry much about that stuff anymore. I just recognize that the system is screwed up.
Every Open Source project needs people. Find one that is doing things you are interested in and take a look around for things to do. Be sure you like the vibe of the project as well, do the people seem like folks you'd want to hang out with in your free time? It's not supposed to be a boring or tedious job, you may already have one of those so it should be fun.

I'll put in a plug for jQuery, see http://contribute.jquery.org for some guidance. There are plenty of things to do in every project besides hardcore coding as well, such as documentation or build systems.
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I'm not sure if the author is trolling, but that's probably because I've been extremely livid at Quora for the past couple of days. I had an account from years ago, but now I can't do a single thing unless I follow 5 topics. I can't even read the first answer like an anonymous user can, and I can't access my profile page to delete my account. The only option I have is to go into developer tools and delete the modal from the DOM when I get linked to a question.

You can roll your eyes at me all you want, but I'm bring cantankerous for a reason: I have had an account for years and they locked me out, and I find that really rather offensive. I now have a worse experience than an anonymous user, which is just silly.
How often do they catch supernovae in general? Really often apparently: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/lists/Supernovae.html

If you mean like the 8th magnitude that this article says it could reach, then the last one to come close (and surpass it by far) was 1987A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A) at 4.5 magnitude (I remember hearing about that when I was a kid). 1972E was 8.5. 1954A was 9.8. 1937C was 8.4. 1895B is listed as 8.0. 1885A at 5.8. There are some negative magnitude ones listed at the end of the list (1006, 1054, 1572, 1604) which were within the Milky Way. (There are wikipedia articles about those supernovae and older ones as well.)
These schools are not perfect at identifying candidates, just as with any process involving people currently.

I view that more as a problem than anything else.
I dislike Quora for a number of reasons, many of which are described in that presentation:

1. Quora make it hard to begin accessing content when arriving from Google search results for the first time.

2. Seems to be filled with pointless echo chamber people like Scoble and cliques of so called "thought leaders"....I have a hard time understanding the point of Robert Scoble and self-appointed "thought leaders". I hate to use the term, but there's a lot of "circle jerking" going on in Quora with "famous people".

3. Even when I did sign up with a throwaway account, everything about their navigation and page layout is hard. Questions and answers are jammed into a narrow sliver of content area. On a 24" 1920x1200, with a browser window occupying just half that width, it looks crap.

4. When I last used Quora (about two years ago) it was hard to just randomly leap around looking for interesting content. there didn't seem to be a 10000 foot view of what I can look at and randomly dip into.

5. Dark patterns.

But then I was spoiled by Stack Overflow which allows me instant access to content which is well laid out and easy to comprehend and consume. Yes, SO may have 6.5 million+ questions, but their tagging feature alone (including tag synonyms) makes it a piece of cake to see just the stuff I want to see, but also hop around. I truly hope SE's philosophy of zero friction user onboarding, easy access to content and sensible moderation constraints burn Quora.

I short, I just can't bring myself to use Quora, I really did want to, I truly did, but everything about the way they operate is hostile/icky. As someone who, after suffering years of internet loonies (on usenet, mailing lists, phpBB), and can appreciate the need for well managed and curated content, and constructive and intelligent discourse, I find Quora has failed to engage me on so many levels.

I also don't know a single person in my circle of close and near friends who bother with Quora (both technical and non-technical clever, and internet savvy people). They too are fatigued with the whole "gotta sign up to see our content" thing.

Quora isn't any better than Experts Exchange which I stopped using even before SO came on the scene back in 2008. It's just a high-falutin' incarnation of EE, I truly hope Quora fails.
I once got a letter that told me to forward it to at least 10 of my friends and send $20 to someone.
oops forgot this:

[1] https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/423271986073063424
I wish we could see a breakdown of Python2 vs. Python3.
That doesn't really seem to transfer existing app purchases between accounts (so updates continue to work etc). It also doesn't mention moving documents&settings&calendars from one icloud to another?
cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
https://www.facebook.com/BugBounty/posts/778897822124446?com...
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> But the implicit message behind the rhetoric of leadership in the American college admissions is that intellectualism alone is not enough, even for an academic institution. Simply learning for learning's sake is not enough.

Implicit? I'd say it's pretty explicit. Harvard, Yale, etc. aren't trying to be "normal" colleges, they're explicitly trying to produce the next generation of world leaders. Admissions make very clear that intellectualism/learning on its own is not enough.

And rhetoric? It's reality. Our most recent 6 terms of presidents, and 9 out of 9 current Supreme Court justices, all have degrees from Harvard or Yale. So the whole leadership thing appears to be working, whether or not you think that's a good thing.

I don't think Harvard, Yale, or anybody else is arguing that most colleges need to, or should, focus on leadership. But they're certainly within their rights to want to -- it's one of the things that makes Harvard and Yale what they are.
I'm very confused by your argument. What is _special_ about the Django templating and ORM that enables the admin, besides "invented here"?
Mining does not drive up supply. The profitability depends on the exchange rate and current difficulty.
The same documents implicate Microsoft and Apple and some others too. So depending on your relative trust of them compared to Facebook and Google, you might like to avoid Windows, OS X, iOS, Windows Phone, etc also.
For majority OSS projects out there, that is not sustainable. As you said so yourself, when the money runs out the project is in trouble, because when those people inevitably get real jobs to cover their livelihood they become less active or might even leave, feeling disincentivised (sp?). And with them the knowledge about all the little obscure stuff goes away. Plus, if you had a successful project and a nice job you liked, would you quit it because some people on the internet promised to pay your salary? You just have no guarantee they will do that.