skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct that there certainly a lot of snake-oil merchants out there. But they're not just limited "new" media channels. Just as many slimeballs in the traditional world.

I'm going to get crucified for this, but paid advertising is somewhat analogous to software engineering/developers. There are many languages/platforms/technologies out there. Some old, some cutting edge. Each one most likely has it's own syntax/terminology, patterns, approaches etc.

So when hiring a full stack engineer, you look for someone who cuts pretty deep across a few key areas, but can also roll up their sleeves across the stack if need be. Example: Ruby Expert, Getting into Angular, and knows how to provision AWS if need be.

Same thing with full stack marketer. If you know Google Adwords, Content Marketing and a bit of PR are your core, then optimize your hire for that.
nice and simple! added to my .zshrc :)
There is also an "IPvFox" version for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipvfox/

I have this installed in both Chrome and Firefox and its great to see which websites are available over IPv6 and which are not. (such as HN, sadly)
If that's how 'faith' is defined, then it completely trivialises the term; if having faith means believing something that you don't know absolutely, then every belief you have is 'faith'. Nothing has a probability of 1.

I prefer to define faith a bit more narrowly than that, so that it's actually meaningful when I call a belief 'faith-based'.
I got 24
I wouldn't be so quick to say that. VS is very C++ centric. Last I heard offical support for C features past C89 gets pretty spotty with MS.
Very nice initiative I hadn't run across before. Some of these are likely to be false positives, but it's definitely a good move to mass-check for this kind of thing— the Debian archive should be trustworthy, not something like the iOS or Google Play stores where you can assume the average app is piled with phone-home spyware.
Red card.
I've been taking a deeper look at reddit in the last couple of weeks and I'd say real-name social networks decay in a different direction. My Facebook wall is an extremely shallow stream self-promotion, one-liners, and food pics -- very little actual discussion. As the OP notes, it is very rare that anyone says anything remotely controversial (or interesting).

Reddit, on the other hand feels very much alive. People talk about their feelings, confide in each other, ask interesting questions. Not sure if it's just the anonymity, it also has to do with the fact that the community is much bigger so you can ask anything and someone will have an answer. However, the anonymity certainly allows for that large group to come together for (often) coherent conversations.
Great idea, one random nitpick:

curl https://raw.github.com/LuRsT/hr/master/hr > ~/bin/hr

is just evil. That's a great way to own a machine. You can even read the code today, but run the command tomorrow when someone had replaced the code with a giant exploit. Not saying there is a better way to distribute something like this that is as easy to use, but damn, this is just asking for trouble.
Looks like it's hard to get rid of the click farms and FB is using it for revenue. And it could be worse that most of the Likes are fake.
Angular > all the other frameworks out there combined, several times over.

Sure. But according to my in tray, last week it was Backbone, next week React is taking over the world, and by March we'll have standardised web components anyway.

It may be true that today Angular is much more popular than all the other frameworks, but if so, it will probably be a short-lived peak and IMHO says more about developers putting too much faith in frameworks generally than anything else.
I'm probably missing something obvious here, but who would be desperate for a vaccine?

If there were offering a cure, then I could see a complaint where they were preying on people with the disease who were desperate for a cure. Since that's not the case, do they mean the contributors, wanting to help develop the vaccine, are desperate, and being preyed upon? Because I hardly think that applies.
Nice and useful! Thanks!
Let me quote from the article:

> &laquo; The CNIL explanation of its imposition of the fine says that “the company does not sufficiently inform its users about the conditions and purposes of processing data” and that “it does not set retention periods for all data process” and that “it allows, without any legal basis, the combination of all the data it collects about users across all of its services”. &raquo; //

This sounds like a complaint that you might find on HN any day of the week - unwarranted use of personal information by Google. I don't see how the OP is especially French not when you take in to account, as is mentioned, that several other EU states have similar objections standing. The French are almost democratic in their fascination with the rights of the individual, no?

Yes, if you think responsible curacy of your users personal information is beyond the pale then don't deal with countries that attempt to protect their citizens/subjects from such abuses [by private companies at least!].
Generally not; though there are some exceptions given the maturity level of the database drivers in any given language. For the most part though, any well-supported programming language should have a mature driver for any well-supported database.
Maybe you should write in your native language, and let everyone else to learn the language. I don't like when people criticize your writing skills when it's not your native language.
Introduction to Python for Statistical Learning
jsonip.com is also usable in production.
Also, are your backups working.
Maybe Boromirs rage is inversely correlated with his HP? I got down to ~25 HP on orc 10, and after that Boromir started slicing and dicing, and cutting heads off while dodging everything.
You can create an alias in git like this:

vim ~/.gitconfig

ap = !hr && git add -p # Add this line to your file
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism"

Well look at how feminists act and what their claims and complains are, not what the definition of the word is on wikipedia.

"Of course feminists think staying at home with children is a horrible ordeal

No they do not."

The complaints don't make sense without the assumption that staying home with children is horrible. It is implied.

"There are other family arrangements besides father and mother."

Whatever do you mean?

"http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gend...

From that article:

"In 2012, as in 2002, among full-time, year-round workers, women were paid 77 percent of what men were paid."

So they, too don't cite the honest number of 4% that you get if you take into account things like hours worked, areas of work, part time, and so on. How reliable is that? And why do you even link to that, if it doesn't address the question of how many women in IT they found for their comparison?

"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-12/mapping-the-...

From that article:

"The analysis doesn’t control for different levels of education, work experience, or other factors that affect compensation"

Just what I said about those studies...

"Nobody wants to force anyone to do anything they don't want to do."

If you stay home and don't make a career, you are a thorn in the side of feminism. Try it and see how much respect you'll earn from feminists.

In any case I have the impression that the differences in careers between men and women are seen as a problem by feminists.

"We are talking about equal pay for equal work. Stop attacking a stawman."

I question the validity of these studies, that is I question that they really compare equal work.

"Of course your mind is made up and no amount of facts and reason can change it."

So is yours. Well this is just a discussion forum and I can only say it the way I see it. Maybe if you pay attention, over time you'll come to see it too. You can see it in every feminist article.
In case you didn't get it, it's fiction.
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bash shell, although some whitespace is missing:

hr() { printf '=%.0s' $(seq $COLUMNS); }

printf is a bash builtin
OK, what does this have to do with abuse of personal information though as highlighted in the OP?
Here is a copy-n-paste to your bash prompt:

function hr { printf '=%.0s' $(seq $COLUMNS); }
What happens with digital rights management in the real world?
That will encourage click farms to just create more bogus accounts.
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I guess you're right. The mechanism is forward-secure, which means for an attacker that tampering the logs is the first thing to do, not the last ;-)

As soon as the attacker manages to extract the state of the key generator from memory at one point of time, the log entries from that and the following sealing periods can be modified and cleanly sealed.
While it is true that L'académie française sometimes comes out with peculiar recommendations, this particular blog does a poor job of pointing them out. In particular, the author does not appear to have a very good grasp of colloquial French, or the history of some terms used in the software and computer fields.

For example:

1) courriel is not a contraction of courrier and email, but of courrier électronique (i.e. electronic mail).

2) The verb planter in the context of a computer crash does not derive directly from "to plant", but from a colloquial term meaning to make a mistake (itself possibly derived from some sense of becoming like a vegetable/plant).
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You stop being a US citizen if you declare allegiance with, or gain officer ship with a non-US government (unless you are granted dual citizenship) (especially one seen as enemy).

8 U.S. Code § 1481 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481
The disguised gender experiment reminds me of similar ones into whether or not sugar makes children "hyper". It turns out that if you tell parents that their children have had sugar, they're much more likely to describe the kids' behaviour as unruly or hyperactive, even if the kids haven't been given anything at all (http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4142 - the Skeptoid article provides a nice summary and cites a few studies).

The fact is, the human brain isn't anywhere near the objective, rational computer and recorder it likes to think of itself as. We project our expectations on to everything we see, from the facial expressions of a monkey to random clumps of noise in datasets and it's important to keep that in mind whenever you read articles like this one. The information presented in a typical piece of science news has gone through the mental filters of researchers, university PR departments, editors, and a writer before you even start interpreting the first word. Even if every person at every step understands what they're doing and has the best intentions (and isn't, for example, deliberately twisting facts to fit their linkbait article for a pop science blog), that's a lot of room for a convenient narrative to obscure the basic, potentially important facts.
I currently just mash <return> <return> <return> to create a visual break in my terminal output.
Here are some formulas for calculating readability for a text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability#The_popular_readab...
I know that, I did not want to be evil writing that in the instructions but that's the best way to copy that file, also this is a file to be executable, so even if you use wget you are asking for trouble, downloading a file to your $PATH and making it executable, do you have any idea on how to improve the instructions?
Me too, and it's exactly why I made this script :)
Practical example: http://russianroulette.sh
Unnecessary:

game.screen.state.set("RUNNING")
game.screen.bird.state.set("DYING")
game.screen.score = 23
So long for people in danger, in need of health information, that are LGBT and need support, etc...

How can such a troll article get so high?!
There's a maximum number of directories? On what filesystem is that?
Two videos from Veritasium on the front page at the same time? Nice.
In my defense, I was mocking Mt.Gox before it was cool.
Some other characters you may want to substitute into the script:

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yup, using zsh, I tend to forgot that Bash needs spaces inside brackets. This is a good reminder though:

:(){ :|:& };:

Edit: don't run this, it's a forkbomb
Neat - we roughly implement the Fog algorithm
How is it worse than:
$ ./configure && make

I guarantee you that it'd be easier to hide something nefarious in 3000 lines of autoconf boilerplate.
Quick - name the CEO and ethical position of your preferred gas company, toothpaste supplier, and shoe manufacturer?

For the long term, and I don't know anything about Spiegel or Snapchat so I'm just taking your comment at face value, you are right about the negative impact a poor CEO can have. For a short-term hit to the brand, I would suggest most users neither know nor care.

The impact of the CEO over time will come from within (loss of good staff, failure to respond to market shifts etc) not external branding - as long as he doesn't go shooting elephants.
This looks awesome!

Sorry to go off on a tangent. I've only been into (indie) game development for the last year or so.

It looks to me like game development has lagged behind web development by decade or so in terms of the democratization of tools. Free (as in beer) and open source game development software have grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years. Unity, GameMaker, Unreal/UDK, Anarchy, many many others have become both viable and available.

In the 90's and early naughts, did web developers regularly write their own servers, templating engines, databases, and all else that goes into web development? Didn't game developers more-or-less have to write the whole thing from scratch or license an expensive engine?

These are not rhetorical questions. I'd love to hear the perspective of someone more knowledgeable than me.
>From what I understand systemd can optionally store a copy of the logs on a remote server.

anything can have any feature, what matters is how it's built.
2. Dohjz - look up homestarrunner doge
Soon more businesses will find that the Likes does not help their online marketing at all. This is a major SEO problem that most of the businesses are hunting for. Can we find some other ways to resolved it? http://bit.ly/LRSdkJ
Well, there will always be at least two native apps - the browser and the server.
Run the command, then look through the local copy to make sure it's safe. Once you have downloaded the code, there's no way that the project owner could change your copy.
I like how a bunch of programmers, mom&pop bakeries and nerd youtubers who have absolutely 0 experience in marketing/advertising expect to throw $50 on facebook and see astonishing results and ROI.

Guess what? Marketing is a difficult discipline. Pick up a book on communications and a couple more on copywriting and advertising. Then another one on marketing. Do a demographic/psychographic profile, read a ton of whitepapers and case studies.

Then map out your strategy, load your account with money and test, test, test.

You are going vastly unprepared in a space filled with people who do this for living and expect to compete with them. When you fail after your pitiful attempt, you blame someone. Human nature at its best.
Look at how feminists act, not at the definition in a random dictionary. That's in general good advice. For example, if somebody says they are your friend, look at how they act, not at what they say.

"An alternative is paid leave for either partner (or the single parent) for example for a year -- with freedom to choose who stays home."

This is already case in many countries (for example Germany), but women still stay home most of the time.

I am actually all for it. All I am saying is that there are more forces at work than people are aware of. Women are not forced to stay home, many mothers like to stay home with their kids.

It's actually more of a men's right thing to say men should also be allowed to stay home more often. In general men staying home will mean women going to work instead. Feminists believe that this is better for the women. A corollary is that feminists think it's awful to stay at home with kids, or at least worse than going to work.
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I, personally, won't sit through a 30 second TV ad to see a 10 second (at most!) video from a friend.
Interestingly, an out-of-the-box Munin configuration on Debian contains nearly all of these. I recommend setting up Munin and having a look at what it monitors by default, even if you don't intend to use it as your monitoring solution.
Related to this, if you've ever built/run anything on Solaris, you probably found out the hard way that even in modern times, fdopen() in 32-bit apps only allows up to 255 fds because they oh so badly want to preserve ages old ABI. Funny bug to hit at runtime in production when you aren't aware of this compatibility "feature".
Get a pair of these. Don't pay more than $40 for the pair. They are quite decent, especially at this (retail) price point. Dayton Audio B652 6-1/2"
Bill Gates Ask Me Anything finished in two hours :( Reminds me of Win95
That's like saying "it's only illegal if you get caught".
We need better solution.
It's kind of traumatising to see those kind of hardware requirements for an IDE :)
I also recommend capslock as both ctrl and esc. With combination of other keys, It works as ctrl. Otherwise it's just esc.

In linux, X11, xcape does it.
It's not. And at least the download here is over HTTPS, not HTTP. But you are right, both are vulnerable unless the user is ready to be cautious.
Not exactly sure about the service you're looking to discuss anonymity on social media. But the issue is ultimately not of anonymity, rather a context.

Social sites like Facebook are fine for social interaction, but they are missing a boat when they don't give individual contexts to different situations, all pertaining to a single person. I'd rather be anonymous in one context and not anonymous in another, but Facebook doesn't provide such feature. Sites like Reddit on the other hand are at the opposite spectrum. You are technically anonymous across the board.

The balance between the two is that of context. Give people the ability to set their own context and that would be the ultimately best social Internet.
The reason people care is that: 1) there are still substantial differences in outcomes between men and women (i.e. 85-95%+ of Fortune 500 CEOs, Congressmen, and Forbes 400 members are men); and 2) people have a habit of extrapolating from "girls like dolls in infancy" to "girls are less suited for certain jobs."

This isn't about self-righteousness, but about bettering ourselves as a society. Within my dad's lifetime, Sandra Day O'Connor graduated third in her class at Stanford, but couldn't get a job at a firm other than as a secretary. Today, such discrimination would be unthinkable. In that short time we've come so far along the path to justice. But we're not there yet, and whenever people point out that we're not there yet by noting the facts in (1), peoples' knee-jerk reaction is: well maybe women don't want to do those things? Understanding what separates the genders at a biological level is crucial in evaluating this argument.
My Treant casts Protection from Normal Missiles and makes an attack of opportunity.
Yup, that's the only way to see if what you are downloading is safe. Unfortunately, not many people will do that.
Oh yeah! Definitely! Although, to make this non-unicode compatible, it's better to have a cleaner default like '='.

But if you really want another character by default, you can do this:

alias hr='hr █'
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If uname(2) says it’s Linux, it has to be Linux.
Dogue. Like vogue.
I have my pet theory. I'm yet to find significant evidence for or against it, but it's what my hunch tells me. The theory goes like this:

All on-line ads are mostly worthless - most clicks are from clickfarms, and the genuine parts are mostly by clickjacking or accidental misclicks. Almost no one really wants to buy stuff via ads. Ad agencies keep telling companies that advertising online will generate lots of revenue, but between all those messy, noisy metrics and people generally not understanding a thing about statistics it's hard to see what part of revenue can be really attributed to ads, and whether or not they're worth the money invested.
Many boys like to play with dolls. What are action figures after all?

I think toys are a bad measure for any study related to gender.
Well, I didn't worry too much about that aspect of it since you had already said 10% of income towards them.

But now you are complaining that $1500 is too much.
Supposedly Nokia is only building Android phones because Windows Phone 8 won't fit on low-end hardware.
And how is this different from downloading any other source code or compiled executable from the web?
I looked at the first two. The first was just a small article about employers trying to discern if a woman wants to have children or not. Why did you even link to that?

I commented on the second one - it certainly seems interesting, but there was bias apparent already in the second paragraph.

How can you expect me to read 15 articles you dump on me? At least give me a reason why they are relevant, or pick two or three?

Unfortunately number of quotes doesn't make them more true. I would be interested in articles that show the meat. For example with the classrooms, show me the article that says how the study was conducted. How many classrooms did they watch? Did they try different schools? Different countries? Different cultures?
Flappy Bird madness
Wait, he did one less than a year ago. What an attention whore!
Would you care to provide a brief rundown on this? I'm not doubting you. I'm simply ignorant.

What about other NoSQL solutions?
This is not a very good argument... I don't think a significant portion of their user base knows about the identity of the CEO, nor do I think it has an impact on the quality of the app.

There are real issues with the quality of the app though. Maybe I'd use Snapchat if it didn't force restart my phone every time I tried to load a message...
I really wish I could do that. I used to ask a friend to change my password, now I use www.offsocialnetwork.com to do it (I'm doing it this week).

But I can't go really long without facebook since all is planned from there, the parties, the social events, the foreign friends visiting my city, foreign friends keeping in touch with me...

I guess it's easier not to have facebook when you didn't travel a lot and don't have a big social life.
Is it possible to prevent them from creating bogus accounts?

From our website, accessing to user accounts are protected by cookies. If the request is not being sent from the same browser, the next page will be not accessible. It's an experiment now.
Political correctness gone mad.

There was a law passed in the EU last year, which made it illegal to "discriminate" based on sex when giving out insurance.

So that means you're not allowed to give men cheaper life insurance, even though men live shorter lives than women, and you're not allowed to give women cheaper car insurance because statistically they're safer.

It's complete BS.

I also find it funny how if you tried to argue that homosexuality wasn't something "hard wired", you'd have a pretty tough time. But if you argue "being girlie and liking girlie things" is "hard wired", you have an equally tough time. It's all political "equality".

I think people will look back at this time period as very odd. Trying to pretend everyone is "equal", rather than embracing their differences, strengths and weaknesses.
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