skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An update from Kiva: their field partners, who may not have english as a first language, use templates and fill in the blanks. So nothing to be alarmed from.

The full response:

"Hi Juan,

Thanks so much for your email and writing in about these two loan profiles.

I took a look, and while the stores do look similar, and the language is also similar, these are two distinct borrowers.

As you may know, the loan descriptions you see on Kiva's website are written by our Field Partners. To help the staff at our partners, who may not have English as a first language, our team will sometimes provide loan description templates. These templates help make it easier for our Field Partners to draft loan descriptions by allowing them to fill in different facts about the borrower, such as number of children, marital status, etc. Because some of our partners have these templates, you may see similarities in the style of different loan descriptions from the same Field Partner. This may be why you see loans with similar verbiage when browsing the Lend page of our website.

While these similarities shouldn't be a cause of alarm, you may be interested to know that Kiva does use a process called borrower verification to to verify the accuracy of the information included in the borrower profiles posted on the Kiva website.

Hope this provides some helpful context, and if you have any other questions, let me know!"
According to the Jezebel article and wikipedia most revenge porn photos are selfies or photoshops of stolen non-nude pictures. In which case copyright law would apply.

However, to answer your question, you do own the copyright of a photo you take (unless it is a work for hire) even if you take it without permission. The requirement to get permission isn't related to copyright, it's related to the right to privacy. People have sued for damages over revenge porn violating their privacy rights.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/138909420/Revenge-Porn-Complaint-H...

If you think in terms of rights to privacy, then it becomes a lot less fuzzy. A child playing in a public place has no expectation of privacy regarding a photograph being taken and put in a newspaper. When someone lets a lover take photographs of them naked there is an implicit expectation that those photos will remain private between them. It would be hard for the photographer to argue that there was no reasonable expectation of privacy when the purpose of distributing these photographs is to get revenge.
No, no a thousand times no... you are building weird machines[1] into the design of the money system.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105516-Br...
But how can such a small percentage of the population (what percentage of the population in the Bay Area works in tech?) affect things so universally?

Housing prices are extremely inelastic. Reduce supply by a few percent, and prices will go up several times. I'd bet that if 2% of the housing in any major city disappeared, you'd see prices and rents go up 50%.

Most commodities have a short-term elasticity and a long-term elasticity. For example, supply problems with oil cause short-term oil shocks but in the long term, people adapt by driving more efficient cars, and more suppliers can come online. With housing, long-term adaptation doesn't happen because of all the NIMBY regulations, bought and paid-for by (no surprise) rich people.

Real estate is an area where a few rich people, buying second and third homes (remember inelasticity), fighting new development, and generally being dickheads, can cause massive pain.
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But you'll never be able to earn as much as the average person who happened to start mining a month before you. The people who started first will always have an advantage over you. It all looks a bit like a pyramid scheme.
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If you were to build Hacker News from scratch, what would you keep and what would you rethink?

Some of us are building one for mobile developers - So if you are one, this is a customer development question :)
What hardware are you currently running?
How do you define meaningful?

For a single novice user this would be the cost of hardware (substantial), opportunity cost from delays in delivery of hardware, decaying returns with exponential increase in difficulty, cost of electricity and opportunity cost.

Then it needs to be ascertained if they are mining a commodity or an investment. That is mining to sell (similar to farming and mining minerals, metals etc.) or are they looking to hold it for long periods expecting an appreciation. The later has other practical implications.

For the majority of prospective miners, these costs are huge and have little to no chance of breaking even.

Arguments could be made for or against the profitability from speculation/long term holding, but that is beyond the scope of most people's definition of meaningful.
There are some settings worth tweaking in postgres' config to improve the query planner. The one that made the biggest difference to us was "cpu_tuple_cost". Setting it to 0.2 (the default is 0.01) made it choose more optimal query plans more often.
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The battle for the home: Why Nest is really Google’s new smart home division
Page 1: Straightforward, a bit boring, but generally accurate that jobs will be lost, and society will have to adapt. It sucks, but it may lead to a better outcome in the end (my personal hope is that those who can't find a job still make a decent living because we as a society have realized that if society can tick along without everyone working, then that's okay; we can spread the wealth and either create demand, thereby getting more people working, or spread the wealth, still have people not working, but living to acceptable standards, and that -that is okay-).

Page 2: Goes right off the deep end. Speculating what will happen if we manage to get AI is the realm of science fiction. It's fair to pontificate on, but to try and tie it as the next stage from people getting angry over rising real estate prices is incredibly alarmist.
Probably, but not necessarily for that reason.

By reducing trolling and flaming and snark, HN allows communication about common interests among people with diverse political and social and cultural backgrounds and mores. Shiny play-pretties, flickering lights and abstractions over abstractions attract attention across political the political spectrum.

Besides, as an atheist needs to know more about religion than someone who has found one true one, an informed communist needs to know more about the means of production and mechanisms of capitalism than the bourgeois entrepreneur she hopes to enlighten.
Julia offers freedom from wondering whether you're betting on the wrong horse by coding for Python 2.7 or 3.x.
Microsoft resorts to tugging nostalgia strings rather than tout IE features
Let's try a thought experiment. What if two Princeton students published an un-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv that said something useful, like revealing the origins of life, or the perfect cookie recipe? Would you argue quite as hard about how unfair it all is to call it a "Princeton study?" Or would you smile and take the reflected credit?

Note that all the press now is about how "Facebook" responded to the study. It was actually a single person, Mike, who posted a note to his personal wall with some help from friends.

Being a member of an institution means you represent the institution in all your actions. That's what being a member of an institution means.
In Postgres, common table expressions are planned and executed separately.

I think of it as each section builds a temp table.

This can be a good or bad thing, but it's sometimes important to know that it's happening.
Salaries are very much bounded. Income is not.

Employer's have salary ranges they will pay. If you want above that range you need to be incredibly special for an employer to consider, ie. a public figure in the industry.

If you are willing to take considerably more risk than an employee and are the 20% or so of entrepreneur's that succeed then your income can be unbounded as you say. But, that's substantially different than salary, and not what the article and this thread is about.
> I don't understand why people think Candy Crush is bad.

> ...but I have something called willpower

This is why people think Candy Crush is bad -- because most people don't have this willpower, and it plays on this weakness, almost to an exact science.
> he was interested in what the impact was

No he wasn't; comparing tech salary growth to other salary growth in the presence of a tech boom was completely disingenuous. Wages can increase relative to other industries, and still be being slowed by collusion.

It would be just as disingenuous if someone said we should measure it by whether tech companies' profit per-employee increased during the time relative to other fields, which would give the exact opposite conclusion.
The UK's porn filter is blocking the latest League of Legends update
Now that it's been a week, would you be willing to post a followup? What did you learn? How's the ROI? Any surprises?
25 men. 3 women. 2 machines.
The flyer mentioned in TFA reminded me more of pro-lifers' postings about abortion doctors. They would list factual information about the person and strongly imply violence (though of course never come out and say it)

I think they had to tone it down or at least take a rest when that one doctor was finally gunned down in a church. I fully expect something along those lines to happen here.
It seems there's a nice economical limit on script execution. If the contract during its executing consumes more resources (ops + memory) than fees attached to it, the it's simply considered invalid. That computation is done after the money is locked and the fee is attached, so if you do while(1){}, you are basically donating to a miner.

I haven't finished reading everything yet, so I maybe totally incorrect. But I doubt Vitalik didn't consider these issues.
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Just making sure, the "fire" of the firewall is the Hawking radiation, right? That is, the event horizon divides matter from antimatter in the energy of space and spews it outwards. Or are they distinct concepts?

I never understand how Einstein's concept of relativity and his discovery of an arbitrary maximum speed of the universe can coexist. I mean, how can everything be relative when there's an absolute maximum velocity? The event horizon and Hawking radiation/the firewall naturally come out of the speed of light.

Physics confuses me ever so much.
When linking to arxiv, you should link to the actual paper's page rather than directly to the PDF:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5761

As always, looking forward to peoples' thoughts.
A lot of business mailings (at least that's the kind of stuff I consider "spam") get much cheaper rates than run of the mill residential letters, thanks to good ol' regulatory complexity. Ex: http://stateimpact.npr.org/new-hampshire/2011/09/27/how-junk...
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I agree 120%! Can't wait for this book to come out and give it to my daughter.

Shoot, I remember back in the 90's when I was still in high school, the programming books I had were so dry that it almost made me want to quit for good (I did take a 10 year break from learning to code and went into real estate investing).

Anyone that tells you to learn programming the hard way is full of it. Making programming fun and interesting definitely lowers the entry barrier. Maybe that's why some of the folks feel insecure that some youngin' may learn coding and steal away their job? You just never know!
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I love that they're discussing this, and kudos to them, but unless the specific details are described (e.g. "and there are lots more log lines than dashboards and users" - what does that mean? That dashboard_id is nullable and many rows log entirely different things? That would be a significant problem unto itself. What is the cardinality of users, dashboards, and sets thereof), it's hard to really take much from it.

As a general recommendation I advise database developers to avoid exactly this sort of "outsmart the planner" behavior because it paints you into a corner -- data cardinality changes, schemas change, and you have large, clever queries that turn into a significant net detriment. They can absolutely be necessary in some cases, but this does not look like one of them.
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That's not growth hacking, that's spam.
It is certainly interesting to compare the full colour, hardware accelerated graphic, multitasking, large memory Amigas of the mid 80s with contemporary Macs... The future could have been very, very different (and arguably computing would be 5-10 years ahead of where it is now, as that was the lead Commodore had back then).

Or the Acorn Archimedes of the time, which was turning in floating point benchmarks 10x faster.
This seems to be a short piece where he summarizes his points and puts forward a (new?) idea. Maybe it's obvious to researchers in the field, but I don't see much argument or reasoning supporting his claim. It seems like he's just introducing a new idea for people to consider (brainstorming with the community).

So please don't blow this out of proportion.
Yes, I don't actually think this kind of stuff is going away. I merely hope it's going to be less lucrative (it's insanely lucrative right now) and more frowned upon. And I really don't think that all games will look like that in the future, that is the main point I'm trying to make.
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Just like Bitcoin: https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattwhitlock....
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Question. there are some points out there. because Google Imgae Index.? i have a problme here and i don^t know ! what to doing! because i try since 2 years a go to write webmaster they have without primisson of my images on their websites. and i have asked they tousend time they should remove my Pictures from their website. most of them are un serrios websites! and i wrote to google too about these problems. but, no reaction. I'm think about after two years to in forums. to ask if there are somone where can take down these websites? :) ^^ i don't know i wrotethese guys tousend times and this aggression will not stand, man! i mean I'm really a nice guy, but after two years .... so question what can i do that they delete my pictures from their website? if some one have a tip or question about website url.. tell me i will publish it here... (thos are more artistic image) but they need to remove from the google index !
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This isn't spam by any means; it manually collates the email addresses of thought leaders in your niche, and provides them to you. It's up to you to start a conversation.
This is cool, been looking for something like this for mturk.
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but CTEs in SQL Server are not an optimization boundary like they are in Postgres. This makes a big difference in their proper use.

In SQL Server, aside from recursion, CTEs are purely syntactic sugar and thus a tool for organizing code. Whereas in Postgres, due to the optimization boundary, they are a tool for query tuning. If you rewrite a query in Postgres using CTEs just to clean it up, you are doing it wrong, since the CTEs will also affect the planner.
Another iPod release thread that's very funny in hindsight is this one on the Mac Rumors forums: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500
I'm not sure why no one is talking about Schmidt in regards to this article? He is also a famous dick and even a sex creep. Neither of those two were known as being a nice guy.
Are these realized gains? If so, how do you turn it into dollars? Do you go via BTC, or is there some direct exchange to US dollars now?

It's very funny to me how dogecoin has taken off. :-) I got tipped on reddit and now I'm hooked.

I think the seamless nature of tipping on reddit (all you have to do is reply to a comment with +/u/dogecoinbot n and it will send coins) has really spurred its use.

Btw, now that I have a dogecoin wallet (DRVMiXCneJhFVBy4r4T2zpw9j5f4Tp1KzH), anyone want to send me some...? :-D
So we need more than one distributed virtual currency? What property does this one have that is interesting beyond that?
Subscribed and will definitely be following you. Our game team is exploring HTML5 games and I'm very interested to see where this takes you.
Paul Graham's How to make wealth: very very nice article. A must read for everyone. The part where he writes about leverage as a characteristic of technology jobs and it being the only way of multiplying your productivity (or diminishing it) is very illustrative.
Now that is too harsh. Taking away both porn and league of legends means male 16-25 only past time will be rioting ...

But not unexpected - there will be a lot more false positives.

Also having /sex/ as regexp is maybe the dumbest possible filter.
First we had cryptocurrencies, now we have generic cryptocurrency platforms. How long until we see cryptocurrency platform platforms?
Well it isn't that easy too if you bring in ethics to the table. This happened with my friend and it was done by a well known "online retail" company. So this guy got an offer from another "search engine" company. He went to his manager in the best interests of his present employer to tell them that he might be leaving in a few weeks and to hire a probable replacement for him. The next thing what this * company does is pass on a request for his H1B to be cancelled immediately. Thankfully , it all worked out for him in the end since his LCA luckily had already been filed by then. But this does bring into the question of how H1B is readily exploited by most employers.
Candy Crush, Farm Ville, most prominent examples of F2P are nothing short of gambling. Zynga (and I presume King as well) has large teams of psychologist focusing solely on making the game as addictive as possible and exploiting that addiction, i.e. making addicts pay.
The reason why I think it's hot: because the cost-of-stake to purchase it is orders of magnitude cheaper than ltc or btc.

I worked out that if 1 million coins were allocated to all 3 chain for their total coin target, $1000 would buy about 0.06 bitcoins, 0.59 litecoins and 5.55 doge. Or 1 million divided into each chains' coins already in existence: 0.10 vs 1.97 vs 15.83 respectively.

So with doge, you get more bang for your buck, a larger slice of the pie for each $ spent. And a huge sub-reddit to launch into, and a clean piece of cyberspace to work with.

That's pretty compelling to me just on its own. And the coin I feel is sovereign to bitcoin. Also, when you see kids drawing pictures of shibes, and women stripping naked for them (there's a subreddit for it,) you know you're onto something unique.

The larger population need and want cryptos to work. Doge answers that need better than anything else right now. That's very important and should not be overlooked.
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MtGox started as a Magic the gathering card exchange. While it's caused some snark, it didn't seem to get in the way of MtGox being the premiere BTC exchange for a while.
No, 50 of the root domains now support DNSSEC. Nothing resembling 50%, 5%, or .5% of the Internet uses DNSSEC. Nor will it ever.

DNSSEC is a bad idea. It provides very little value. It drastically complicates the Internet. It bakes the worst part of TLS --- the static tree PKI --- into the core design of the Internet... and then gives the root of the tree to the US government. It's clunky, it uses antiquated crypto (its proponents have been trying to standardize it since 1995), and it leaks your private hostnames to the Internet.

I can go on and on and on. Instead, here's some older posts I've written about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5571937

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4071178

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2932378
I assume you know this but, customizing your google news to filter out all the major outlets will give you a very different news cycle.
OP understands better than many of us why and how Bitcoin works. Script execution is limited by the fee (which is paid upfront). If the contract is paid to take 10 ops and 2 slots, if it uses more than that or takes longer than 10 ops to execute, it will be aborted and money will forever be locked.
It's not like Candy Crush was original in the first place.
Yves Smith's conclusion:

What is stunning is all the exchanges among top executives. The filing quotes numerous e-mails among Jobs, Sergey Brin, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen, and other Silicon Valley heavy-hitters that talk openly about the agreement and various threats when a member to an agreement falls out of line. By contrast, in the AMD case above, the parties to the lysine cartel were very careful to hold meetings where they’d discuss price fixing overseas, where that action was not criminal. The brazenness is remarkable.
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In the end what matters in business is sustainable profit not marketshare. Of course if you include all of Apple's devices they have both. When I worked at Apple in the mid-90's they had neither and I gave up on them shortly before Steve came back. Aw, crap.
I have to admit some of this sounds very powerful. I think the alternative block chain applications are more powerful than bitcoin.

Will the financial derivative portion mean it is a decentralized Intrade? You would create a contract which will depend on the results of a URL action at a certain point. A trusted neutral observer will give the results of an action at a certain date. Did XX party win an election. The transaction is then decided on that date.

So a third party would take some fixed payment and decide the blockchain event between two parties? Anyway I think it is exciting.
Not that misleading. Hawking goes on to say there would also be no singularity. That's quite a big change.
I am less worried about while(1){} and more about viruses (either in-system or breaking out of it via exploits) roaming the blockchain semi-autonomously stealing or spying.
What was responsible for the Amiga ultimately failing, if it was superior in all those ways?
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Nailed it right there "A hustler is just a social hacker; a hacker is just a technical hustler. But a human being, they are neither: they are whatever they wish to be."
A touch interface, for one. Emulates are find and all but I find their inaccuracy frustrating more often than not. Further, it's not just a 20 year old game on an emulator. Somebody has to port it, make graphics (for what they are worth), probably localize it. Sure it's not necessarily as hard as making a game from scratch (though that could be debated), but that doesn't mean the costs aren't similar.
I emailed them just in case they didn't see the above, and their response is:

We require network access in order to collect analytics on how the
keyboard is used. This information is completely user anonymous
and we only use it so we can improve the experience for our users.

We request social contact information so that the app can import the
names of your contacts into our dictionary locally on your phone.
This information does not leave your phone.

We think it is of utmost importance to respect the privacy of our
users and only request certain information to improve the user
experience. For further information about privacy, please see:
http://minuum.com/data/

Please let us know if you have anymore questions,
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