skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely.

According to the video, the click farmers will like the page itself, but not any content it posts.

If your page likes are mostly fake, your posts likes will be proportionately lower.

The auther discovered that Facebook tests your posts among your following, and uses the % that liked the post as a signal as to whether it should show it to the rest of your network.

Now, if you are paying farmers for likes, they might also be liking the content you post. If you're not paying for likes at all, but you have a bunch of fake likes on your page, your posts will get proportionately fewer likes, and FB will show your post to fewer people.

The point was ultimately:

By buying likes, legitimately or not, your page will attract likes from fake accounts -- Which due to the aforementioned reasons will tank the presence of your page in the news feed of real users.

The only workaround from this position is to promote your posts either through legitimate or illegitimate means.

The other byproduct of this notion is that using the free coupons that Facebook tends to offer can cause more damage than they are supposedly supposed to fix.
It's even more interesting when we remember that in western culture is rude to speak about a present participating person using third person pronouns (- "hey, I'm standing right here!").
If you are wanting a native dynamic scripting language for Go, goluago is coming along quite nicely (alpha version released at New Year):

https://github.com/akavel/goluago

I think if I wanted to implement a native Lisp interpreter/ bytecode compiler for Go, I would build on top of this project rather than starting from scratch.
It really only says that my friends are lazy. You could equally say the same thing with a mobile phone - if your friend would not send a paper invite, what does that say about you?
I'm sure the UI will improve over time. What's important is hopefully a truly independent investigative news source with legit journalists!
I'm currently learning Norwegian (for fun!) and I didn't expect to see so many lexical similarities between English and Norwegian. As a French (who is already fluent in English), this helps me a lot to memorize the meaning of words: I just have to squint long enough at it until I can recognize the Germanic root and its English descendant :-)
Of all the Git commands, I find myself using git status most often

I literally never use status. It's faster to use a shell prompt that displays uncommitted / untracked files.
Along with what everyone else has said, I would also add in iOS Goodies:

http://ios-goodies.tumblr.com/
Slash at the end, in one, and not the other.

You could make the case that these would represent different resources on some sites, although your point is correct.
Wow this engine is really amazing... Need to start stressing it out to se What's its made of...

Congrats
Agreed. I just tried to give a simple (but rough) explanation, but when one tries to do that there always is something "lost in translation".
Real World JavaFX with GraniteDS: the ACI Ticketing and Booking System
A new law?
International Community Unites to Protest Big Brother
You need a website if you don't have one already... If you have one, set it on your profile, 'cause this message on HN could have been a good "ad" for your talent :-)
Pointed to a single target: yes.
Here's the "sphincter clenching" Roger Craig double daily double referenced:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRwK8SyVeJE
I use magit a lot. It is good, but it would be nice if magit-status, and log, were faster. I think it does unnecessary things by default. Is there a way to fold all diffs in a buffer?
I think you're wrong. Read carefully the "Exclusion"'s section on https://www.facebook.com/whitehat
Netflix: The Gift of Prophecy
Well then he already won 17 years ago when MSFT released NetShow player for Linux and some flavours of Unix.

http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/apps/netshow_linux.html
Could there be an opportunity for small ISPs who peer well with Netflix?

Or does the fact that they usually operate using the Big Boys cables remove any advantages this may bring?

Instead of Comcast's TV + Phone + Internet,

I would be willing to buy Small ISPs NetFlix + AmazonPrime + Internet package if I knew I could get high quality streams without slowdowns.
Sorry, I don't want to publish it.
I wonder why nobody has trademarked the word "birds" by now...
All of the people who built the site and the banner are volunteers who met on HN across various threads, and not members of any of the advocacy orgs or companies listed on the site. We're really interested in getting feedback on how future campaigns can be better, and happy to discuss some of the decisions we made. The non-profits involved did all the legal and organization lifting, and this is a great opportunity to donate to the EFF and Demand Progress if you haven't recently.

Likely the most impactful thing you can do right now is to add the banner to your own site and ask the companies you work for to do the same. We've tried to make it as easy as possible to add the banner; you can find all the options (including a Cloudflare app and Wordpress plugins) here: https://github.com/tfrce/thedaywefightback.js

Pushing for technical solutions to the surveillance is also really important. Friends at Fight for the Future are launching a campaign along those lines as soon as this one wraps up, and there are a lot of open source projects (e.g. the great work done by [Whisper Systems](https://whispersystems.org)) that deserve attention.

But legislation and technology need to work hand in hand for things to change in the long run. Even if we have decent technical solutions, legal measures can easily limit the scope of their success (see Lavabit).
What is happening with Cloudera?
This looks awesome. I'm definitely going to have to take a closer look.
Sorry to hear that. I'll fix this issue as soon as possible.
The dogecoin foundation[1] might help.
(They usually handle the conversion to fiat currency.)

http://foundation.dogecoin.com/
Actually it does sharpen my calc skills. Now I can do more experiments, better visualizations, I can try something out and see if I'm wrong. All that helps on accumulating insight. Plus, if knowing your tools makes a good carpenter, why is it different with mathematicians.
To echo others' sentiments: I use Arq on 3 Macs and absolutely love it.

It's a bit of a pain that Amazon have no migration from the original Glacier API to the new S3-Glacier API but I guess that's the cost of being an early adopter.

I'll have a few terrabytes to re-upload so apologies in advance to anyone on the Shoreditch BT hub.
I bought a weekly round for my (Perl) friends
What does the Texas Library Association have to do with it? ;)
He is just the first daily double hunter in the days of the angry internets. This is mostly a crazy media story. For once, I applaud Slate for running a thoughtful piece by Ken Jennings.
if you want to share your secrets I'm all ears.

For example, last year I got to meet maybe 30 friends from all over the world because they were passing through France or wanted to go travel to the country I was traveling to. I wouldn't have met them if they didn't have my facebook as I rarely keep touch with people far from me (before facebook). My mail is filled with spam and I change my number every year.

I also moved to a new city, didn't know anyone, joined the erasmus group and a few weeks after I knew 100+ people, was getting invited to parties every day, was meeting new people every day.

You can always try to avoid facebook, it will be more difficult though.
Thanks for explanations, this cleared things out for me.
FLAWLESS VICTORY

(Yeah yeah, Reddit, I know.)
+$20
Thanks for posting this. I didn't know about this until just now.
Looks great! Just a heads up here for a name clash of another wasp lisp.

https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM
Thank you, I was wrong. What I initially wanted to say (now that I understand that STM is "CPU concurrency") is that STM is about pure computations. Haskell's STM doesn't let you do any kind of IO inside of it.

I think PyPy guys had some crazy ideas of connecting STM transactions to SQL transactions, but I have no idea how that will work with network connectivity issues etc.
Perhaps I'm sick in the mind but I really like debugging, especially hard ones.

Recently our stack fell over when we did a production release. Basically web worker threads were spawning more worker threads and this crashed our AOP proxy (Castle.Core) which uses some global state and was spinlocking for some reason. We ended up with everything whacked at 100% across the cluster. 2 hours into the problem and it was something completely different - a for loop that didn't end on another thread and took up one core per node causing CPU contention. The spinlocks just amplified the problem.

One change to the loop continuation clause and wham -- fixed.

The journey is exciting and you learn so much on the way. It's great.
And in parts of America, people call their father Sir.
What is Growth Hacking?
The NHS is not a shambles. Its puts a lot of other countries health care system to shame.

Your moaning about having a 3 hour wait for non urgent cases, when in other countries you'd have to pay a fortune for such treatment.

And who cares how they talk to you, as long as you end up getting the treatment you need that's all that matters.
As the Page Scrolls (1998)
http://www.whyprogramsfail.com/
Saying it lightly clearly means you don't really mean it. You're not literally trying to convince someone that God is going to damn them. As I said, I would think a supposedly omniscient God would know the difference.
Insights from an Italian Founder in Germany – Interview with Antonio Scribano
This week, Antonio Scribano from Fattelo! gives us some highly interesting insights into his experiences as Italian founder in Germany.
WTF is this crap?

My eyes hurt
Separate HN thread here (with the root URL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7216471
How to build and make use of connections.
I'm writing a blog post about bitcoin in order to point out people requiring more analysis of my personal views there, avoiding to pollute HN with essentially duplicated comments.

I agree with your views and I like the feeling that I get from your comments, as you strike me as where someone who seeks the truth rather the following a new trend like a bigot.

I like better the man with the printer as far as I know his name and I can even indirectly exert some influence, but as you said it's just a personal opinion :-)
The problem here is that he defines "works" as "Deliver a predictable or repeatable software development process in and of themselves."

And that's crazy. Software delivery is at least 50% design/problem solving - and those aer neither completely predictable or repeatable.

To me a software methodology works if it _improves_ delivery. If the result with the methodology is more predictable, and less likely to go horribly off the rails than if you'd used a different methodology (or none at all) then it's a good methodology.

Looking for something that can perfectly transform any human requirement into code, in a predictable manner, is just silly.
On a side note, it's always curious to me how some threads get "picked up" and others don't, even if they're the exact same material. I wonder why that is.
> Refuse to work with/at NSA until their policies change

Don't agree with this. Boycotts relying on cooperation and trust between unorganized members are doomed to fail and only hurts those that take part in such boycott.
Interesting! I think Dutch (Mix between french, german and english) is even closer to English. I am not an expert, just thinking out loud.

de -> the
drie -> three (ie and ee got the same pronunciation)
donder -> thunder
ding -> ding
daarvoor -> therefore
dit -> this
dat -> that
donderdag -> thursday
vader -> father
moeder -> mother

and a lot more similarities:

school -> school
week -> week
weekend -> weekend
maand -> month
vrijdag -> friday
maandag -> monday
uit -> out
goed -> good
voor -> for
je -> you
mij -> my (pronounced the same)
wij -> we
auto -> auto
wagen -> wagen
kar -> car

And the p to f (I guess also in german)

slaap -> sleep
schip -> ship
One hypothesis is real ai will be achieved by simulating biological brains, bottom up AI, instead of designing intelligent algorithms top down
I am glad that they are focusing on the content itself instead of fancy stuff. Websites like The Verge or Polygon were exciting at first, but all that flair and gradients got old really soon. I'd like to concentrate on words instead. Sprinkle couple of images related to the text and i'll be very happy.

P.S.: I do think that Intercept could be a little bit more solid, less generic design-wise with its own style.
Maybe you're not on the EFF email list or Facebook group? They've been promoting this for several weeks (actually too much for my liking, so it's interesting for me to hear that others weren't aware of it).
> [...] but the spoken form, which is largely grammer-less [...]

No need to deprecate your mother-tongue. I bet there's plenty of grammar, it's just different from the written form.

(I see a similar inferiority complex with speakers of Singlish here in Singapore. It's a great language, if you ask me.)
> Well, artificial intelligence is a slippery term. It could refer to just getting machines to do things that seem intelligent on the surface.

But is "natural intelligence" any different?
Regex Tuesday – Challenges
Rich Geldreich, the guy from Valve working on their Linux OpenGL debugger uses Qt Creator and looks really satisfied:

I've been using QtCreator full-time now for 6 months and I think it's awesome. I would buy it in a heartbeat, but it's a free download and it's even open source.

A bit of the background behind my need for a VS alternative: For more than a decade I've been using Visual Studio (since VC5 I think), and various other IDE's from Borland/Watcom/MS before that. [...]

http://richg42.blogspot.fr/2013/10/a-shout-out-to-qtcreator-...

Considering how VS is for games developers the gold standard by which all C++ IDEs are measured, this speaks a lot.
How oversold your VPS provider's server is commonly blamed for slowdown but rarely measured.
This is by no means isolated to engineering or mathematics either. Nearly all students, especially in higher education, will have gaps in their understanding of topics they are expected to just know. The classroom simply isn't able to personalise learning to each student in the way that's needed. The only thing that really can help here the is clever application of technology.

This is part of the problem that I'm working to solve with my startup Ellumia. Some others are making great strides in areas like language learning, but there's still lots to be tackled. We're building a mobile platform that blends bite-sized content with a highly personalised, social experience – something that would be immensely helpful to the students mentioned in this post. If you're interested in innovative learning methods, please check us out: http://www.ellumia.com
Great. You could rank by weird things too: amount of snowfall per year, average number of hours skiied per year, ...
Not necessarily all of the fake likes are always from fake accounts. I have witnessed some of my facebook friends 'liking' a big number of pages without their consent, automatically. Most probably as a result of phishing they became a part of some big click farms.
No, an old law.

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

Since the quote is from 1993, you just need to replace C and Fortran by the languages of the day.
Glen Greenwald is more journalist then designer or css guru. When he brags about "the future of journalism on the web" he means content.
Yes, I was wrong. What I was referring to is that STM is "pure" concurrency, while gevent is for IO concurrency, and that you don't do any IO inside STM.
This is why I am so skeptical of the claims of people like Ray Kurzweil. I honestly don't think we yet have even an outline of an idea of how a true artificial mind might be architected, let alone implemented.

If we can't even design something, even in outline, how can we possibly predict how long it might take to build it?
Sorry, but I call shenanigans on your having operated a large scale network.

Every carrier worth its salt will already let you use blackhole communities to mitigate attacks. You tag it, it gets dropped at the edge of your upstreams networks. Simple and effective. You don't need a web service or middleware for any of this.

Also, a route and netmask (generally) take exactly the same amount of memory regardless of the size of the network you're covering.
> I'd love to know which speaker manufacturers you approve of

I have no idea how things go in the laptop market, so I can't say there's one I approve of in particular. The fact that the ones on the laptops are crap can, however, be assessed quite easily by ear :).
Can a Physics grad get hired as a programmer?
I graduated with a BS in physics and applied math from a reputable state school, but I only took 1 C++ course as an undergrad and completed just 1 physics project using C++.

I was recently hired by a game company for a software engineer position, but I was fired within 2 months. They told me that because they are a small company (about 10 employees), they couldn't afford to offer me training and had to terminate me. They suggested that I enroll in institutes/programs that teach programming skills to people like me.

Are they right? Or do I just need to study some more on my own, maybe for a few months and I can get a programming job?

How much better would I look if I enrolled in an Applied Math MS program? I'm open to working in data mining, AI, statistics, etc. I don't have to work only as a programmer
I love sandboxie but an open source solution would be really nice to have.
Dutchmen here. You can grow your own weed as well. Just not more than 5 plants and only for your own consumption. I'm no user, but I understand weed is for tourists and younger kids just chillin'/relaxing.

There's a much larger user base for all those chemically created drugs for partying. Lately there's a new thing, it's actually for horses needing surgery and keeps them on their feet. Kids use it to prefent passing out from all the other drugs. Funny thing is: They look like walking zombies stumbling about.
Bad tittle: a better one would be "Empiricism Should Not Be a Matter of Faith", because our current 'scientific method' is very, very broken.
I don't exactly remember where (I think it was a project trying to reproduce results by pharmaceutical research) but I remember that this project could only reproduce results half the time on papers which included 'double blind' experiences, less than that when the paper didn't have 'double blind' experiences!
Think about it when you'll hear about the new 'discovery' :-( :-(
Setting up your OS X Server
Set up Google Alerts for local/remote jobs.
It may not be a good idea to measure DDoS merely based on the volume. For example, a 100Gbps L7 attack is much harder to mitigate than a 100Gbps L3 attack. [1] Also, some had previously questioned the accuracy of CloudFlare's figures. [2]

[1] https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/03/how-big-is-300-gbps-really....
[2] http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/prolexic-ceo-scott-hamm...
In the end it's people that have to do the work. No methodology can magically fix stuff for you; the best it can do is help people focus on what's important. What's important depends on your situation. Pick a methodology that fits your needs.

To me, Scrum really helps me focus on what's important now, and not waste too much time on potential future problems.
Besides looking nice (though everything is just too small to read), what else does Path offer? A Facebook without the user base? Sure. But I fail to see the advantage in that. It feels like "it’s a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind bespoke app Morin had built for his assistant and him to communicate and collaborate through" (http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...)
Independent of the actual subject matter, I think that recent drug policy changes in the Netherlands is a great example of how the common push for centralization can be countered by local demands.

At some point, drug enforcement was pretty much the same across the country, but now, because different cities have different problems and influences, it is enforced differently in cities. As a strong believer in the "subsidiarity principle" (things should be decided as locally as they can), I've been appalled at the push towards centralization of policies and control in many European countries the last decade.

It seems that everybody thinks that if local issues are made national policy, and national issues European policy, things will automatically be better. Usually it starts because in one locality, something goes wrong, resulting in media outrage and a call for more regulation by a higher government. If we don't watch out, small town sidewalk planning will be done in Brussels.

The recent Dutch drug policy changes show that with enough effort, the subsidiarity principle can still win. This gives me some confidence for the future. We need to keep underlining that not every place is the same.
A positive image to invest in Bay Area companies with products that are going nowhere, rather than investing in his own people in his own country???
There's also such a thing as having a conscience. I agree that organizing and solidarity are necessary for effective political action but let's not discount the power of resistance against the moral turpitude of the day.
For those playing with this type of code generation, you get to learn more by targeting Assembly instead.

Define a proper interface between ASTs and code generation and retarding the compiler is also not that complicated.

Or generate LLVM bitcode and use the LLVM tools to compile it to native.

Way better than relying in other compiler stacks.

Of course, it is a matter how deep one wants to get into compiler stuff.
You mean L33tStart? :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/14ay0r/hacker_k...
But the problem is also that healthcare in the US is just absurdly expensive, insurance or not. Sure, many EU countries have universal health insurance, but if you look behind those, costs (paid by the insurance or not) are quite a bit lower than the US. They're still quite hefty and you do want to be insured for them, but why is healthcare in the US so expensive in the first place?
Jesus H. Christ, watch some old TV shows and movies. How would one see coworkers kid's photos before facebook!?! They'd pull them out of their wallet or purse, an album on the coffee table. It was a cliche and staple of sitcoms to be annoyed by the endless stream of kid photos from a wallet.
I'm not even a native English speaker and I knew that. Is this really news to people here?
A sad thing is there used to be a YC Comcast Business deal which was pretty awesome, but somehow this got killed (it was done through a local office, but Comcast National apparently decided it didn't fuck the users enough to meet with normal Comcast standards.)

So a fair number of YC founders and offices have Comcast, and while you can relocate the service address, if you close the service, you can't get that deal again. And you can't upgrade it (I think I get 30/10?). Going from 30/10 with a static IP to the next tier of service (50/20) would basically 3-4x my cost.
Yes, because it is general purpose intelligence. Google Translate can't even play the simplest of games, let alone Chess or Jeopardy. Watson can't even begin to tackle translation or Chess. Deep Blue has absolutely no capability towards translation or playing Jeopardy. They are fixed-function, single-task algorithms optimized towards a single very tightly defined problem domain. That sort of research isn't going to get us to general purpose AI.