skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GooglePlus: How come Islam-related posts find their way to hot pages so easily?
If you have been on Google+ lately you may have noticed that "Hot & Recommended" pages these days are seldom free of Islamic related posts (some of which find their way to that page by a ridiculously low number of shares and pluses. Evidence: http://imgur.com/a/x8diO )

First question is that how these posters manage to send their content so easily to Hot pages (in some occasions with only 4 pluses and zero shares, see the link above) whereas other posts (NASA for example) need hundreds of shares and pluses to find their way up there.

Google, apparently, has managed to keep Hot pages spam-free but it seems reluctant or unable to keep it secular. What do you think? What do you recommend?
I'm one of those weird guys who thinks this game would be a whole lot more fun if all you had were NAND gates.
link: http://imgur.com/a/x8diO
Chrome OS on Chromebook Acer C720 features, limitation and Linux Ubuntu
Informants often face trumped-up charges. Often without basic legal guidance, many of them become fully intimidated by authority (police, FBI...). Become an informant or face an exorbitant amount of your life trapped in our cage. OK? Good. You'll be wearing this wire. This pressure often results in people being intimidated to the point of risking their lives merely so forces can pursue "higher-ups" in a chain. In an abysmal, draconian, dangerous game that is a state's drug war, I needn't mention how risky being a "rat" could be. Many of the informants/victims are naive. They do not know their potential rights or seem to have no better alternatives. It's tragic.[1]

There are other types of informants, obviously. I'm not referring to informants who act upon true desire and commitment to "truth" and not threats. I don't know the motives of the guy in the article. Many convicted people or people facing charges need no other motive to fuck over others, lie, or help authority other than the chance of getting a candy bar, a day of sunny adventure, or watching the world burn.

[1] Countless stories like this roll on over the years. I can't remember, but This American Life might've had a segment about the twisted process of churning out the enslaved helpers they call informants. Example:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/get-busted-for-mar...
You don't need to warn me that people can be unkind when they get riled up in argumentation. I'm well aware of that (and in fact you've already demonstrated it).

And frankly, I don't really care if you think there is something wrong with me because I've focused on precaution and mitigation strategies on the part of the victim. I see no purpose in condemnation here. I'd rather focus on giving advice to the (hopefully) more rational of the parties involved in the situation.
Magnus Carlsen and Matt Damon.
The monkey trap isn't just a myth
In Germany we have a whole different problem of judges, who should be neutral, but often do the prosecutor's work in a trial. In trials it often boils down to defendant vs prosecutor and judge - whereas it should be defendant vs prosecutor watched over by a neutral judge.

How neutral the judge is depends often on his political alignment, the alignment of the defendant, possible stereotypes that might apply to a defendant and of course if there is some reputation gain for a judge in case of a conviction.

While in theory the system of a neutral judge is good in practice it's pretty flawed because no single human can really be neutral.

I wish we had a jury system in Germany because that way you at least need 12 people to fail instead of just one - who might have hidden motives for a conviction - for someone to get wrongfully convicted.
I read stories like this, and I believe the line between China and the US blurs more and more. This is truly a crazy system.
I suspect he/she is referring to Bevel. Although I think the commenter fails to realize the value add of the product.
I appreciate the reply.

> There are different systems and, as opposed to you, I think there are more ethical rules to be found in each of them.

That's not opposed to me. There are different systems, indeed. :) There are positive ethical traits lurking in the corners of even the harshest of places. Focusing on flaws is often seen as excluding or overlooking positives. To the contrary, it's one and the same to me.
Dropbox does not pay the amounts advertised on Amazon's website, you can be sure of that :)
Yup, that's pretty much my experience too. I think locals are so used to foreigners in a tourist role that they don't want to get more deeply invested into people who may leave in a year or two anyways.

But i also think all this is true for most European cities, not just Barcelona.
I presume you mean the "drawsAsynchronously" property. I'm extremely curious, does it really push the rasterization on the GPU? I mean, do you have shaders written, that do all the stuff that CPU normally does? Bezier paths, clipping, stroking, filling?
Our future
>Many countries have age restrictions for accessing items - alcohol, pornography, tobacco, right to vote, ability to consent to sex.

I'm aware of that. That fact alone (that some restrictions are widely-adopted) doesn't justify them.

>...do you even agree with the general practice of restricting some things from children?

First, I think that "children" needs a more rigid definition. And of course my response varies depending on the particular restriction (as you've already acknowledged). But it's not terribly difficult for me to imagine some situation involving some child which I would find undesirable in some way.

And because I can easily see your vague, unfocused question leading a bit more off-topic than I'd prefer to stray, I think I'll leave it at that.
I'm having a hard time seeing how Yale's decision would protect other students -- on the contrary, the message that would send to other students is, "you better not do something to deviate from the norm in an undesirable way or you won't be wanted here."

Certainly in this case the girl wasn't a direct threat to anyone else, the only threat I see here from the University's perspective is to their image as an institution that admits "cutters".
Why Toronto? Why not Vancouver? I've never been to Canada but they do seem to have a growing tech scene.
My coworkers and I... sheesh are we becoming so lazy that we can't use correct grammar ;)
Open source, programmable effects pedal for guitarists, musicians and hackers
Thanks, didn't know about Bevel. What is the value added by Bevel? Looks like a regular safety razor.
And the world has moved on, something Microsft seems to very poor at adapting to.
> Lenovo said it would settle the transaction with $2 billion in cash and the balance in its own Hong Kong-listed shares.

Now this is the interesting part of the article. This means that IBM will own $300 million in Lenovo stock. Sure, it may dump them for cash, but it now has a stake in Lenovo, the company that 'has overtaken HP and Dell to become the world’s biggest manufacturer of PCs.'
We can be proud of that. In France we have a great justice. And not only for criminal cases but also in other fields like for instance for the business law. On top of that the Supreme Court of France always has and acts with a sharp ethics definition.

> In France it's illegal to imply someone is guilty until they were proven guilty. That's what hurt so much the ethics of French people when pictures of DSK in handcuffs were shown before the trial.

Plus you have 2 independent criminal investigations. One against you and one for you. Everything done by the police. Where in the US you have only one Against you and you have to prove that you are innocent by yourself (so by paying private investigators).

But if only we would have the spirit of entrepreneurship from the SV. And I am not even talking about the open source, the technologies, or the engineers freedom to innovate: an innovation starting right from the bottom...
While in search of a new DNS server because of this and for lower latency, namebench is your friend:
https://code.google.com/p/namebench/
Would you like a Django-like framework for PHP?
Whenever I can I write web apps in Python and Django. I find the framework right on the money. Sometimes I don’t have the privilege to choose the programming language, or it simply makes more sense to write in PHP. When that’s the case, I really miss logical framework like Django.

I’ve already written some classes that mimic Django’s routing and models. I’m thinking of putting it together into a framework and releasing it open-source. It’s not even close to being a Django clone at this stage. If there’s interest, I will go ahead with the project.

Please complete the 1 question survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-2AgimLIzLXE01wy-RtkgsNQRUNcMipbv22foZV44_k/viewform

Thanks!
People love their pet dogs, and many get more upset when a dog dies than a person. Don't underestimate the power of the dog image. Shibe is like a pet dog for a lot of people, it also promotes a giving nature, which is what the world needs, especially in cryptocurrency and finance, where central banks can print money for themselves at will.

Also, many thousands of people saying "to the moon" together, you don't think that's going to have an effect on consciousness, especially when they visualize it as well? Crikey.

There are big coins under threat, though. Because at the end of the day, they're all very much the same. Newcomers will want something they can relate to, and one that has opportunities and a future, and where they don't feel late to the party yet still supports them. Doge might fade, but not for ages and ages.
Clickable link to the 1 question survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-2AgimLIzLXE01wy-RtkgsNQRUN...
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The new engine is currently unusable because:

It does not clearly allow searching for stories, comments, or users.

It does not clearly allow sorting by relevance, date or score.

The screenshots are useless and take up valuable screen space, disrupting the flow of text and making it hard to scan. It is especially bad on a mobile phone.

The excerpts of text are too long, requiring you to scroll pages and pages when all you need are titles.

There is too much wasted blank space on the pages.

The search results look more like a daily digest you'd read in email, than search results you'd use to quickly find what you're looking for.

At least hnsearch.com still works, for now.
It may be obvious, but throughout Tufte's work he ignores that distinction and conflates the two. So it must not be obvious to Tufte.
It's the same logic as with DRM: it won't prevent anybody from doing what they want, but it will stop a significant part of them.

Right now websites have no way not to deliver inappropriate contents. The best they can do is to ask "are you 18+?" (see for instance Reddit), which a 3 years old could bypass.

A basic protection against accidental view and/or kids a bit too curious could be as simple as:

A) Have the adult sites to insert a HTTP header marking them as such. They have no reason from doing it, plus not delivering porn to kids is a legal requirement in most countries (or I guess so). This is a flexible solution for sites with mixed contents such as Reddit, because the mark is per-page.

B) Have browsers not to show these sites if the 'adult content' is not ticked in the user profile.

C) Make a tutorial that explains how to create restricted user profiles on their computers (so they can prevent their kids from using browsers that don't support this policy).

Alternatively, but it would impact too much websites I guess, is to use a "safe for kids" header and have browsers to only show such sites etc.
Strange, did they fix it in 12h? For me "Nudel" autocompletes.
I am a huge fan of Django, so of course, but are there any reasons for using your young untested framework instead of an existing like Laravel or Symfony?
I work in digital tech policy but I think my advice is transferable.

If I could give you one piece of advice, it's 'be active'.

Getting clients is about networking - meeting new people who can offer you good work on good terms. But this doesn't mean schmoozing at parties or sector events. You want people to find you through your work - that way your work is the salesperson. As a bonus, your clients will feel like their reaching out to you, rather than being sold something.

Saying you're a great designer at a party in one thing, having them find you through your work is another thing altogether. They can see you can do what you say you can do.

But how do you get people to find your through your work? This requires effort, time and a bit of hard work. But the investment is worth it.

You need to do things - you need to be active. Then you people to find your stuff organically.

So:

* Now is the time to kick off that little side project you've been meaning to finish for the last 12 months;

* Now is the time to complete that article you've been meaning to write for the last 6 weeks;

* Or kick up that HN or StackExchange account again and start answering questions

* Do something more innovative, i.e., write a book, etc.

For the next couple of weeks you need to invest your time in doing stuff. Start that blog. Get your twitter up and running again. Try to commit 2 hours a day. Get up a little bit earlier than usually, and work a little later.

Then submit your best stuff to relevant networks, like HN. Or push out a link to your friends and colleagues, asking for feedback. Hopefully it will start to pick up traction.

But, most importantly, at the end of all this new stuff that you've developed/written say that "You're a freelance webdesigner/consultant/etc, and that you'd love to grab a coffee in X location with anyone that's interested. Email me now."

This might take a bit of upfront effort but it's worth it. Getting your first few clients will be the most difficult, but it gets easier - because these clients will hopefully refer you on to other people, and your business will start picking up traction.

So, in summary:

1. Clients (rightfully) fear giving money to new people

2. You need to show these people that you've got skills (and not just a business card)

3. The best way to put potential clients at ease is for them to find YOU through YOUR work. That way your work is the salesperson, and not you

4. Do interesting stuff, send it out, write a pitch at the end.

Best of luck, and don't hesitate to hit me up.
Usability vs Code Maintainability
I think you greatly reduce your risk by spreading it around. There cases where people have had a single Google or Apple account compromised and lost everything. That wouldn't have happened if their stuff had been distributed... though you'd still be in trouble with an email account hack, because of password resets and passwords sent in plain text emails.
Not 'problems', but my dislikes.

I dislike that my IDE (sublimeText, but I don't think others are any better). has stuff all over the place, that I've got separate terminal windows for my grunt tasks (linting, tests, etc), git status, a separate browser window to view changes.

That's why I'm building my own :)
Religious discussions aside, wtf do you mean with "getting off of this planet"? Whereto? There's nothing around for TRILLIONS of klicks!

First fuck up the planet, then leave, does not appear to be a trait of highly developed civilisations. More one of perishing ones.
Two to three extra hours is vastly exaggerated, and not that much time for someone who needs to know the chances of dying a horrible death. I might add that this is an objection based on economic argumentation, which, while not invalid, is not the one given by doctors. They argue like the author of the article did: That they know better than you how you will react to this kind of information, and that they can manage your morale by taking certain freedoms with the truth.

I think that this is an unworthy and authoritarian approach which only leads to distrust: How can that guy say that I will certainly survive when Wikipedia, Lymphoma.org and the fucking New England Journal of Medicine agree that there is a one in five chance of me biting the dust in the next few years?
True, everytime we change something on our product, only the people that have something to complain about, say something.

Every productguy/developer should know this. :)
Nope. The Special Collection Service is responsible for deployments. It is a joint program with the CIA providing the field resources and management and the NSA providing the toys.
Interesting.

I didn't knew that the Hastie/Tibshirani/Friedman was legally available as a free download. I would recommend it to anyone with a sufficient maths/stats background.
SoundCloud Raises $60 Million at $700 Million Valuation
Dude, that one was an April fool: http://en.chessbase.com/post/which-was-our-april-fool-s-pran...
I can't tell if this is serious. You think people attach that much importance to the "doge" meme?
People really have money. That's one year salary for a developer!!!!!
Not in production until it reaches a stable version.

It’ll be open source so I’m hoping others will jump on board and help with development and bug fixes.
I did once, and it scared the hell out of me and made me worry for months. Then I finally got over it, and now I love when someone asks me, what would I do without my computer if the electric grid suddenly went out worldwide - I can go on talking how I'd have bigger worries than my computer, because "you, me and everyone we know would literally die within a week, followed by a significant part (30-50%) of world population".
Thanks. Why not?
Are you ready for all new disposable mobile social network?
That is exactly how many people will pick a car. They assume the cars already have these properties as a minimal requirement, and then proceed to pick one based on how it looks and how comfortable it is &c.
Also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice

Warren Buffet had a collection of non-transitive dice (dice with non-standard numbers, with special properties ... basically a paper-scissors-rock set of dice). He offered Bill a bet, and suggested Bill pick the dice first (and Warren would then pick the dice most likely to beat Bill's). Bill, of course, realised it was some sort of trick, and examined the dice, then suggested Warren pick first.
I'm going to go sit in your car and wait for you to start driving to the store, then start screaming bloody murder that you are hijacking the car and not taking me to work.
yay, a fellow Beamer user!
Not to talk about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgWyg3LL_kM
http://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/premium-dns/
Does HN gimp your page load times if they don't like you?
If I load pages on HN in incognito mode, my load times are the same as they always were: fast, generally under half a second. On the other hand, if I load a page while signed in, there's a consistent delay of between 2-5 seconds before the page even begins to load. This started very recently, just after a discussion I had with multiple users where I acted like an asshole. Is this HN's way of keeping the riff-raff out? I can't find anything about gimping load times in the FAQ. If it is, it's an interesting policy. Just curious.
yeah ... just like Illustrator .. hardly any noticeable difference in in features ...
Almost everybody should agree on bugs as the major annoyance to developers :)
But do we have data to support any claim about bugs? Are developers to blame? lousy requirements? aging software? inappropriate tech? process?
Maybe we need more data to make informed choices in the future when developing software, to decide where to put our efforts?
Do we need a startup/project postmortem website with data analysis?
I've had extensive experience caring for someone with severe and enduring mental illness. That person had several stays at MH hospital, some as an informal patient and some as a patient detained under various sections of the mental health act. In about 6 years that person's DSH was severe enough to require surgical treatment and inpatient admission to general hospitals or hospitals with specialist services. (Eg burns and plastics wards). I have personal experience of accessing specialist mental health services. All of this is in the UK.

I can confidantly say that you are wrong when you say I have no experience of people in acute psycjiatric distress.

Locked rooms is very unusual. Locked wards are not normal. A person might need supervision to leave the ward but they are not prisoners and are not treated like prisoners - risk is managed by closer supervision (I know a person who had 2 members of staff within arms reach at all times) not by locking them in a room. There are rare exceptions to this with special soft rooms - all blue with heavy crash mats. In gloucestershire this room is in the low secure forensic unit, which is in the grounds of but seperate from the main adult mental health hospital for the county.

A person at severe risk of self harm or suicide will be able to do so in a very bare room - smashing their head on the walls or floor, using their clothing as a ligature.

Strip searching patients is inhumane. Intimate searches of patients is just bizarre. Especially when we remember the overlap between people who have a mental health problem and peole who have been sexually abused. Being stripped and intimately searched is distressing for most people, but could be especially so for victims of sexual abuse.

The UK charity Mind recently did a report about restraint for aggressive patients and for patients who needed rapid tranquelisation. This is something that should be used as a last resort in very clear situations. That report talked about the need to protect people from unneccessary restraint. I mention this because even this clearly protective measure (even most service users recognise a need for appropriate restraint) is looked at carefully to see if there are safer kinder alternatives.

We can't tell from her post how severe her wound was. She doesn't mention any drips, so we don't know if they needed to give her fluids or not. We don't know if they used sutures to close the wounds or if they ised steri-strips. They didn't admit her for surgery.

If her story is true it is shocking.

You say that you've experienced similar or worse. I am very sorry you went through that, and I am angry other people who should have been caring for you put you through that.

(I've noticed a couple of people mentioning my tone so I am trying to work on that. Sorry ifthis post sounds aggressive or grumpy, it isn't meant to. That's just my poor use of English).
I am deadly serious.

It's a brand, symbol and tool anyhow, not a meme, that fits perfectly with a currency.

It's also a brand that people are using for themselves and 'making their own' and this provides a powerful stimulus in itself. There's an entire subreddit of art: http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoinart/

It's a self-perpetuating, crowdsourced brand and eco-system. This is way beyond meme. It's a marketer's dream. It unites people on their own terms, in a world where brands and currencies cannot be touched for fear of legal repercussions.

The image of the dog at the table with dollar glasses on: that's just one person's interpretation.
'We must be pseudonymous to protect ourselves from professional retaliation so let's grass this dick to his employer'. Good to see that, yes, sometimes it is possible and both sides can lose.
That's cool. I still wonder what will be the main difference between "DjangoPHP" and the other frameworks. Don't they support most of the same features that Django provides?
What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene?
Creating better contents with Social Media Embedded posts
I'm Non-US and I'm not a university student, but Universities look after thousands of students at once, so it makes sense that they try to care about the well-being of their students. A lot, even if they don't have entire hospitals, will have some medical facilities on campus and will have some support infrastructure.

And if sexual harassment occurs on-campus, or involving staff or students, surely that is a University matter?