skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a permanent link:

https://www.facebook.com/BugBounty/posts/778897822124446?str...
> There's not an argument in this entire paragraph. Is it meant to be a list of pointers to arguments?

As stated, it's a recap, or summary, of arguments previously made. So no, the arguments themselves are not contained or fully expressed in the summary. In this sense you're correct that it's a list of pointers to arguments--arguments which can be readily located earlier in the same thread.

> Neither "X is(n't) flawed," "X is(n't) applicable," nor "X has (very little/lots of) evidence" is an argument.

Correct. Those are conclusions. The arguments presented in support of those conclusions are available earlier in the thread.

> An argument for falsifiability is an argument that the statement of a particular belief has content and is not just a trick of language, but can't be said to be an argument for or against that particular belief.

Agreed. That's why I said the falsifiability of Princeton's hypothesis was not an argument for the likelihood of that hypothesis. I think we're on the same page about this.
"Oh, and please, share the federal law that prohibits carrying a camera into a theater?"

I did not say that it was, just that the property owner has much incentive to be proactive about not having cameras facing the projector screen. Why? There are federal laws against the act of filming copyrighted media in such a manner.

Get it? When federal laws come into play, on private property?
Will the major telecoms drop their charge per GB anytime soon? The going rate of $10/gb is usurious.
If I were to edit this post, I could remove both the first and last sentence and it would still hold its meaning.
Yak Shaving Defined - I'll get that done, as soon as I shave this yak.
> Doesn't "decimation" mean FB would be left with only 10% of its present user base?

No, the literal meaning is removal of one-tenth. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
Yeah, how much would it cost to lay new fiber and all the necessary equipment to support 1Gbps/house? Less than [https://www.google.com/search?q=google+fiber+profitable] $70/month/house [https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/] it turns out.

Now, admittedly wiring up all the suburbs and rural areas might cost more, but the incumbent players are really not so beleaguered [http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=CMCSA+Income+Statement&annua...].
Q&A David Vladeck, Former Director of FTC Consumer Unit
I went to a best buy a while back to see if they had a miniDP to DVI cable. When they didn't, I pretty much concluded the franchise was doomed; I can't imagine cutting selection on what's famously the product you actually sell for a profit. :/

Apparently Amazon can now claim cheaper, better selection, and more convenient.
HN doesn't have a DB.
Fairly often. There are a couple ways that supernovae get spotted. Sometimes an amateur astronomer will find a supernova, there are lots of folks who actually do this as a hobby and surprisingly it's something that such folks can actually be fairly productive about, but it requires a lot of work. Also, there are various ongoing sky surveys of various sorts including asteroid detection programs which typically pick up supernova at a fairly regular rate merely due to being able to observe a huge number of galaxies in any given night (since supernovae are typically bright for periods of many days to weeks). Additionally, we've deployed a variety of satellites that have "transient detectors" designed to look for the signs of gamma ray bursts but also capable of detecting ordinary supernovae, sometimes.

For example, in 2013 over 230 supernovae were discovered. And currently there are about 3 dozen active supernovae that can be viewed with a telescope, but most of them are fairly dim in very distant galaxies and would require a fairly sizable telescope to be able to see (~300mm aperture or so). The M82 supernova is the only one that is currently visible with an ordinary backyard telescope or binoculars.
What kind of storage requirements does HN have? I would expect everything to fit snuggly in 32GB of ram.
When a stock isn't publicly traded yet thinking of grants in terms of "percentage of the company" is helpful to get around this bias.
That article advocates instantiating a View per model object in direct opposition to the delegated approach. It acknowledges that there may be performance implications on large collections, just as the title post found. Are you sure that is the article you intended to reference?
What a silly comment.

Firstly, how can you be sure HN hasn't introduced the same, or a similar bug? Writing your own implementations does not make them secure.

Secondly, I don't understand why you are suggesting that people should always write their own implementations. Should I write my own servlet container rather than using Tomcat?
I doubt you can find a single residential Internet provider who advertises unlimited bandwidth at this point.

Nation-wide? Maybe. But there are plenty of ISPs that offer unlimited bandwidth as a differentiating feature. See sonic.net, which covers most of CA[1].

1: http://www.sonic.net/sales/maps/
Fed judge rules that a downloader's IP address is not proof of identity
Aerostat surveillance craft to deploy over Maryland heighten privacy concerns
The tools of war coming home.
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Wow that was dumb
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Thanks for the explanation - I see your point and it would wise to consider this possibility when looking at this technique.

For my use case though, this reduces load on my server (and prevents clogging my auth log files) by stopping incessant password brute-forcing attempts. I must admit to quickly adding an over-riding ALLOW for the handful of IP addresses that should have access, though!
Yeah, the eye is extremely good at picking up sharp edges, so these gradients might look perfectly flat if there weren't discontinuities in them.
Republic Day Celebrations, 65th Republic Day of India 2014
For example, we can charge black people more (based on
zip-code demographics) to discourage them from flying
first class.

A middleman like Kayak has no incentive to keep black people out of first-class. They do have an incentive to price discriminate: charge people more who would be willing to pay more. Likely outcome: lower fares for economically disadvantaged groups. Except the middlemen are all required to charge the fare the airline sets, and can't compete on price.

The airlines currently price discriminate primarily by separating the relatively price-insensitive business travelers from highly price-sensitive leisure travelers. This is why you'll generally see lower fares for round trips that span a weekend: if you're traveling for work you generally don't want to spend your weekend off away from your family.
i don't know if it would work for large companies but I could see it working with established writers, open source contributors, or artists
One thing I don't see mentioned but once or twice is that one of the reasons the model fits MySpace is BECAUSE Facebook came around and offered a better model. Where is the better model that people are going to be leaving Facebook for? Google+? Maybe, but unlikely.

I don't buy that people are going to quit using social media, or that it is a fad. I am looking for that thing that will displace Facebook, or disrupt their network effect, but right now, I don't see anything that would work for the 2-5 year projection they make in the paper. Still possible for something to pop up, of course, but haven't seen the potential replacement for Facebook yet.
That article is wrong on the technical implications, like "It may be their code, but it is executing on your server" (cc data is sent directly to Stripe's servers, never touching your own).
>That search traffic trend (assuming it is accurate and not some type of bug) is very worrisome, incredibly worrisome.

Why would anyone be Googling "facebook" at this point?
From their site:

/*
What is App.net?

App.net is a network of social applications: App.net users can use their account to access hundreds of different applications available on a variety of platforms including Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and more.

Currently App.net users can access microblogging, broadcasting via push notification, groupchat, public or private chatrooms, photo sharing, journaling and more.

For developers, App.net offers a robust API and a variety of open source libraries and tools.

App.net is supported by offering paid services to the people that use it, rather than by selling advertising. Unlike other services, App.net users own their content. We believe that there is room in the market for a service that benefits financially from building things that people are willing to pay for.
*/

Its a network of networks which you can use to build your own network. Not being pedantic or sarcastic, that is what it says in the description. I guess the issue people have is understanding why this would be useful. I'm not sure why, but I'm probably not their target customer.
Kinda off-topic, but why do you use Google's DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)? Unless I'm missing something, by doing so you are basically giving them a record of every domain you access. I don't really trust my ISP either, but why share that information with anyone else (especially a company with great interest in data mining everyone)?
This extremely rare blue diamond was just found in South Africa
Your outrage is noted. I feel exactly the same way about the way highly admired companies around here behave, only they have nicer names for exploitation like "price discrimination" and "market segmentation" and "monetizing customers."
These posts are probably being downvoted because they come from a new account, which has been attacking Stripe repeatedly in multiple discussions now, including making some assumptions/claims that are readily confirmed to be false (and are obviously so to anyone who's actually integrated Stripe) and citing supporting web pages that don't necessarily support the claims made.

While the PCI compliance issue may not be quite as simple as Stripe's documentation has previously implied, nobody else seems to be able to identify the kinds of serious compliance issues that patcheudor keeps implying we're all suffering from by using Stripe and following their existing advice.
Do you have any idea how big visa was as an unlisted private company for decades??
It wouldn't make sense to do that for Python unless also doing it for other languages. That would a) be difficult with the methodology used and b) make it harder to determine a language's popularity in relation to other languages.
Nice. Keep up the good work!
Thanks - we originally looked at them but they didn't have recurring payment support at the time.

Since then they "acquired" an entirely separate recurring payments company (I don't recall the name), and it was all just a bit too much of an integration mess at the time, when compared to Stripe who also announced their beta then.
It's interesting to see the meteoric rise of objective-c due to apple forcing it down developer throats. As someone who had to learn it to do iPhone dev, I find it objectively terrible compared to all the old favorites(C,C++,Java,C#). Partially because the language syntax sucks, but also because apples standard library sucks.

See with C you know what your getting, fast code, manage your own memory, standard conventions for method calls and returns.

Same with Java and C#, except memory is managed for you, and code is slower, but importantly, standard conventions are still there. The standard libraries are also very solid(and often better than obj-c).

C++ sucks and has similar hybridization problems that obj-C has, but at-least it's fast and it's standard libraries are fast, and it has lots of 3rd party library support.

Then there is objective-C. With it's ugly hybrid memory management model, awfully slow standard libraries. Numerous competing conventions for library design(partially due to the hybrid memory management model), not to mention there is also the vanilla C standard libraries which are often easier or required to be used.
Poor 3rd party library support(seriously, a handful of people write objective c libraries, and most of it sucks because it's based off the apple obj-c libraries which suck). Which means... that it's super common to use C++ libraries anyway. So now your program is gobbledy gook mess of C/Obj-C/C++/Objective-C++ instead of one unified C or C++ codebase.

Basically I'm pretty sure nobody would use objective-C if apple didn't strongly push it on iOS and OSx developers. And i'm pretty sure they wouldn't have done that if they didn't want to lock developers onto iOS/OSx and make it more difficult for them to port.

tl;dr Apple is evil, obj-c sucks. if you program for iOS or OSx, save yourself the trouble and use as much portable C++ as you can.
I won an award for the highest SAT score in my graduating class. They gave out the award at a combined ceremony for every school in the county, and it wasn't until the first student started talking that I realized I had to make a speech.

While I was scribbling notes on a napkin about maybe wanting to go to law school, the other recipients talked about charity trips to Africa, food drives, and saving the planet--I was pretty intimidated.

I ended up just winging it, and after it was over I got business cards from several people who told me that mine was the only speech that didn't bore them to tears.

Later on, nearly the exact same thing happened in a group interview for a scholarship I was applying for. The other kids were parroting what they thought the interviewers wanted to hear, and every time they were asked a question they'd try to bring the subject back to something wonderful they'd done. It sounded like they'd spent their entire time at school ticking off boxes on some leadership actives checklist. I didn't have any of those activities to fall back on, so I just treated the whole thing like a casual chat. I ended up winning the scholarship.

Apparently it's pretty clear when high school kids are just padding their resume with "leadership" activities.
I'm saying that being embedded in the matrix of movers and shakers is necessary (although not sufficient) to become one yourself.

"Ability to network" is not sufficient -- I am well networked into an infrastructure of nerds. But by declining to go to Harvard for university and instead choosing to go to MIT, I cut myself off from that network. ⅓ of my graduating class (13/39) did choose to go to Harvard and they all landed on their feet one way or another.

The whole point of scholarships was to try to inject some meritocracy into this network.

Look at many of the most successful tech entrepreneurs and you'll see this same GOB phenomenon. Bill Gates' mother was on the United Way board with the CEO of IBM. Chad Hurley (at Youtube) was the son in law of Jim Clark. etc etc. These connections are not usually mentioned in the hagiographies.

By the way here's another example: my high school and harvard university are about the same age and there is a lot of interlinkage between the institutions. So it's not surprising that a large proportion of its graduates go there. The high school is super aggressive about not admitting kids of the GOB network since they'll do OK anyway. But sadly it wasn't alway so.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'public scrutiny'. Surely any common person on the street has absolutely no influence over Google or Microsoft wishes to do. And going public hardly has any influence at all.

Beyond all Companies/Organizations are not Governments, they don't collect taxes and they are not voted into power. So they are not answerable to anyone. These are individual(s) who are investing their own time, money, and on their own risks to create wealth.
Ah, apologies. I point out in the article that we push a lot of our data directly into Datadog, a zenoss/zabbix sort of tool. We get dashboards like the following (this is for a secondary, redundant system and it's not one of the bidders):

https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/143293e0da

Datadog provides the alerting and incident tracking as well, though the latter is a bit lacking and is more or less just cross-over integration with PagerDuty. exometer doesn't report as such. It aggregates and facilitates pushing the data around on fixed schedules.
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Read up on the FBI "terrorism" plots most of them are beyond traditional entrapment and into enticement.

For hate crime: yes, you've explained the justification for the designation. But it is thoughtcrime. You've merely said that it's legitimate.
For those using the Java stack we have found HP's Fortify static analysis tool helpful in automatically detecting XXE vulnerabilities.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Q2-20...
The lesson is know what a fair price is for your flight, then check a handful of sites often until it comes up for around that price. Try to book at least a few weeks in advance.

I can't stress the first point enough. When you buy anything, or if you need to negotiate a price, do your research, and know what it should cost. It's especially true when booking flights, because you don't want to see a price, think it might go lower, and miss a great deal. If you know the fair value, you can recognize a good offer when you see it, and book instantly.
I meant Quake 3 of course.
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> I use TomatoUSB on my home router, which includes dnsmasq (under Advanced / DHCP/DNS, there's a textarea for "Dnsmasq custom configuration"). I have a line in there:

server=/netflix.com/75.75.75.75

> which tells dnsmasq to use my ISP's dns (75.75.75.75) instead of my default (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4), only when resolving domains that look like netflix.com.

You are my hero, good sir! You've just inadvertently provided the solution I didn't know existed to fix my Netflix and Hulu issues.
He has published a book http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HY351S2 that might have more of the details.
The fact that Facebook is paying $33,000 for a remote code execution bug might one of the big reasons that it's the biggest bug that's been reported to them.
Believe me, I know. I've written a few times now to the non-dogecoin communities that attacking dogecoin would just make it stronger; even a successful attack won't do anything because doge doesn't actually need to work to grow their community.
For the purpose of argument, let's say that a plane emits 3/4 as much carbon dioxide per mile as a car. This seems to be roughly what the graph is showing in your linked post.

A single plane trip from California to Europe is 5,500 miles. Double that for the round trip, and you've got 11,000 miles. Multiply by 3/4 and you've got 8250 miles, which is easily what an average person might drive in a year. If you add another trip (notice I said "one or two" in my post), then you're definitely emitting more CO2 than the average American emits by driving for a year.

Of course, if the car person in question drives a Prius or an electric car (very common in the Bay area), the numbers look even worse for the plane person. Not to mention the fact that the plane efficiency improvements are created by packing more and more people on the plane, which makes for a miserable flight. The car efficiency improvements are generated by newer technology.
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How do you know there was no beta?
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So what's PST? Why can't we all use UTC/GMT+/-x so we all understand?
Cool story bro. Not really sure how critiquing Objective-C is relevant to this article. Objective-C has been a top 10 language for years on most programming language popularity lists. It's not news in this article that it's up there. I think you just wanted to take any chance to lambast Obj-C... It's not like I'm pimping Dart and how it slightly beat out TypeScript on this list... oh wait, there I go.
Congratulations guys! You guys are pretty much living proof that it's still a good idea to start startups :)
The universities have that one won hands-down: they call it "financial aid."
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Since this sounds like it affects a lot of people in a lot of places, I went about auditing my own code and found that if you're using libxml2 >= 2.9.0, you should be safe, unless you're explicitly requesting entity expansion:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2012-October/msg00045.ht...

For the nokogiri users, there are a couple of proofs-of-concept in this ticket: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/693 - they should be patched with modern versions of nokogiri and libxml2, but if you're running older versions, you might want to verify their behavior before someone else does it for you.
I do this sort of task routinely. Can you point to a specific dataset where the regular DBAs skills falls apart? Because just see a lot of formulas without the context is part of the problem with math education (ie: show the solution and the claims it solve a contrived problem.. but where is the actual problem?)
What makes you think those arguments are coming from the good Bitcoin devs/theorists? That community - I'm a part of it - thinks altcoins are valuable testing grounds for ideas and have used Litecoin for testing out new ideas in the past.

But Litecoin has the very competent Warren Togami as lead dev right now; if dogecoin had competent devs maintaining the client they'd get some respect. But they don't.
It's possible to tweak it yourself. If you're in Chrome, save this gist to hn.user.js, edit to taste, and drop the file on the extensions page.

https://gist.github.com/dunhamsteve/8572389
I agree with everything you said, but it seems as though dating someone because they're Cambodian is often judged more harshly than dating someone because they're blonde. Yet, from my uninformed guess, I'd speculate that people from a specific country have more specific cultural or personality traits than people of a certain hair color or sports fandom. For example, despite millions of exceptions on each side, Australians are more extroverted and gregarious than Swiss. I can imagine an extremely extroverted Swiss person trying to find a similar companion saying, "I'd like to date an Australian person" instead of the much more complicated process of finding similar personality types among their compatriots.
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Hey Alex, Churn Buster (http://churnbuster.io/) is available via Stripe Connect to solve exactly this problem. We're in private beta right now, so please email me at andrew@churnbuster.io if you'd like to take it for a spin. We've got a number of paying customers already (including some folks who previously had their own basic webhooks integration) and they're all saving much more in rescued transactions than they're investing in the product. Also, it's a 30-day free trial, so you literally can't lose! :-)
Has anyone ever done a project like this that builds test databases from larger production databases? I mean something that can look at a prod db and model the data in the columns and the relationships between tables and produce a much smaller test db that has the same statistical properties?
For numeric columns you could just fit a statistical distribution and sample from that.
For names I'm thinking you could look at the frequency charts for first, second, third ... letters and sample according to that. I believe it is also called Markov Chains.

In Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class he talked about taking labeled images and expanding the set by inverting, shearing, flipping, distorting them etc. He called the technique 'data synthesis'.

The test data problem has been hampering my team's ability to create maintainable automated tests.