skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
another nice project from afshin
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Bonus points for checking that the callback function is callable before calling it!
You seem to think that the number of times someone makes a carefully prepared public statement needs to be greater than one to determine what they think on the subject.

I do not see how the logic follows there.

Then there really isn't anything more to say. If you really think a person's attitude (which was the original issue under discussion in this sub-thread) can be thoroughly identified and analyzed and dissected based on one example of their speech, then so be it.

I happen to think human beings are far more complex than that, that context matters, that there are huge issues of subjective interpretation and nuance in play, and that it's a mistake for anybody to assume that they have some kind of deep insight into this guy, based just on this.

That it's reported in the news or published on his blog or written in a memoir or whatever is not the relevant fact here.

Nobody is claiming that. What I'm claiming is "insufficient data".

The relevant fact is that it is something that he carefully planned to say and said, and that is sufficient information to have high confidence that it is what he meant to say and therefore what he thinks.

The problem is going from "what he said" to "what you think he thinks". He said something very specific, and I see a lot of people making radical inferences and generalizations based off of that. What he said is what he said yes, but people aren't just talking about that, they're talking about their own interpretation of what he said, which is colored by their own biases and preconceptions... and, in this case, probably just a little bit of mob psychology.
I've been trying to narrow in on that consistent moral philosophy for various ism's. I'm not sure I've gotten very close in most cases except the general concept of tribalism. Every ism seems to be willing to bend the rules if it is perceived to be the common wisdom of the tribe.
Solution is easy. No guns for police like UK.
But citizens should have a gun.

It sounds simple but think, ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

The issue is if they have more power than you, it auto equals abuse.
When you throw money and it's floating in the air and not in your hand, you can't spend it.

When I leak a private key and the coins remain unspent, I can still spend them.

Tossing money into the air clearly ends my ownership of it. Pastebinning bitcoin keys does not (at least until someone sweeps the coins somewhere else using that published key).
Thanks Behnam jan :)
I completely missed the USP of the project for a second and was wondering why you hadn't opted for a pure CSS implementation like progre(c)ss
If your looking for a great resource for adding custom links with your own images for social media buttons

http://atlchris.com/1665/how-to-create-custom-share-buttons-...

This solves:
load issues,
ugliness of buttons (you can style or use images however you like),
social media button visitor tracking
Thanks for this recommendation -- I'm a quarter of the way into the first book now and mostly enjoying it.
They don't know your voting preferences, so the headline is a bit misleading. But they don't need to know them for sure; they just need to be able to guess them better than other ad providers.
They also offer 2-factor auth and a Libcloud[1] compliant API.

[1] http://libcloud.apache.org
Yeah, sure. I will apply a patch soon. Thanks for suggestion.
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The system doesn't work at all. Police are NEVER held accountable, even when they blatantly needlessly kill citizens.

If anything, they get to take paid time off until they are cleared of wrongdoing.

There are no citizen review boards with teeth. There is no way that police departments can self-regulate.
I don't have a formal definition, but in my head "enterprise" is somewhere around the "10,000+ headcount" line.

I of course have only worked for a few enterprise shops; my evidence is purely anecdotal, and I know that.

An important part of the equation though as to how much this matters to Canonical or RedHat; was this shop you worked in paying for a support contract?

(Support contracts are perhaps not a defining feature of "enterprise", but they are a common theme)
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I find Twitter to be a goldmine to find unique voices if you take the time and look for them. A lot of people who shy away from FB (too personal) and LinkedIn (too professional) feel at home on Twitter. I connected with like-minded people on Twitter by searching and commenting on things of common interest and that started great virtual relationships. Being mindful on Twitter does pay off.
You can always just publish it, and some caring and easygoing soul will very politely inform you the correct place to ask your question.
Surprised to see them mention NYC in this -- given the legal attention they are facing, it would have been better to not mention the city at all, or any stats about it, so as not to give the critics ammunition (eg: "In their OWN BLOG POST, they admit...")
Thanks, I'm already familiar. (I'm not clear that you are, though, so unless you start being more explicit about your point, I'm done after this.) When he talks about how he refers to people, then we're already in the land of gender. Biological sex is something he can't directly perceive. He is basically saying that he wants to act as if gender is always exactly equivalent to biological sex. His post is basically arguing for a simplistic and essentialist notion of gender. Thus his opposition to the transgender "agenda".
I got that impression most strongly in The Player of Games. (Minor spoiler alert.) The Minds could have sent an avatar or SC agent to destroy The Empire of Azad, but they figured, "Hey, this Gurgeh guy is bored and he's pretty good at strategy games. Let's kill two birds with one stone."
Did you see http://ipinfo.io/pricing? What changes would you suggest?
Not just this, war also happens when an ideology that the elite uses as its lodestone suddenly loses moral or ethical superiority or relevance (or just fails to serve the social needs of the people). Shorn of their ideological fig leaf for resource manipulation, their central membership affirming rituals, etc, the nomenklatura at issue decide to switch teams or get outhustled by the new new class (with apologies to Djilas). Cf, the Roman empire in Diocletian's era, post Tito Yugoslavia, political "Islam" in any number of countries, the Baath party in Syria and Iraq, etc.
looks like Dogecoin just got another font
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Then why not use a relational database in order to save time?
Blue or Red isn't really a difficult decision to make. If you flip a coin you're already 50% likely to be correct. Musical taste is much much harder.
Great project dear Afshin :)
"not the limousines or private planes that executives take to work"

Those aren't trappings of the people displacing the people in the neighborhood. Look at the actual income stats in the US and you will see the "modestly compensated tech workers" are actually in the 90+% of income earners. $120,000 is 97%, $150,000 is 98%. These are the "haves".
I think the author forgot to mention you must love economics. People get their PhD in the field they love, they don't do it for money or job prospects.

I am one of the dreaded lab PhDs and simply love my life because I love biology. I also have jobs lined up when I graduate because I did well. I did well because I loved my work which enabled me do a lot of work.

The thought of myself getting an economics PhD seems horrifying because I have no interest in it. But hey, if you love economics...
Yeah I got that first miscellaneous-free-games email immediately; got the Dungeon Keeper email about 90 minutes later.
The police work for the public. They are "public servants".

Who should be the one shutting up when the boss is talking?
Thanks for reporting! You should see that we correctly detect this as a bogon, but we should definitely be pulling the correct IP from the headers. I'll look into this.

$ curl ipinfo.io/10.0.0.1
{
"ip": "10.0.0.1",
"hostname": "No Hostname",
"loc": "",
"bogon": true
}
I disagree entirely. The presence of the current crop of cops is what makes things "worse for everyone, in every way".

Police have a responsibility to the people they protect. Right now in the US, cops act like the public are there simply to be subjugated, and regularly and routinely shirk that responsibility inherent in the task of policing.

The whole reason we as a society give cops the monopoly on violence is because they're supposed to operate at a higher standard. Police in the US don't do that, as is evidenced by the police force in any major US city.

It's time for a system reboot.
What's your IP?
> I certify you that the physics are OKish

A++++ would physics again
Just because he never said anything in public against the Nazis does not mean he is a Nazi. I also don't understand why you expect Snowden, who is in such a precarious position, should speak out against Russia when you could take a plane to Moscow and do it yourself.
What's your IP, and (roughly) correct location?
Thanks Zach! :)
This is not specific to your industry. Microsoft uses the same practices to keep down alternatives to office.
Thanks Masoud!
Good points and you are correct (I'm the creator of solo.im)

The group is full of founders who all have different experiences and knowledge to pass on. "Quality" can be subject for sure, but I believe founders can help other founders regardless of where they are in the process of starting / running a business.

The big thing is contribution. solo.im / mastermind groups is just one thing of many you can get involved in and get help from when you are a founder.
I would be doing exactly that.

Or rather I'd merely be right clicking on a URL and my environment would already know I wanted to retrieve that URL as text. If I was in Acme it would open that text in a new window, if in the shell it would just print it on stdout (if that's what I had set up).

When I say the environment knows, actually a program called "the plumber" does text matching on the strings it is sent and executes commands based upon the pattern. I could arrange for different commands to execute based upon the URL.

If I knew I was going to experiment I would be keeping a record.

As Tesla said in response to Edison's now famous "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" remark

"If you thought a bit more, you wouldn't have to sweat so much."

(both were in a live radio debate, curiously only Edison's has entered the lexicon)
You're welcome Ben! :)
Can I Turn It On? (UK power grid load)
The Dropbox links are working for me now.
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So all we have to do to prevent the population booms by feeding the poor of the world is to provide them education, housing, clean water, healthcare, a good government, and about 12 other things (while praying hard to make sure they don't get dependant on that outside help)?

And then after the initial exponential population run-up (which happens anyways), it will all level out in the end (with lower birth-rates).

Seems kind of like the counter-argument is avoiding the issue at hand by re-framing it in terms of future birth-rates (instead of accepting the immediate reality).
I am optimistic, but there were dolls capable of playing musics back in Medieval Age, I feel like e.g. Siri is one of those things.
Well-said. A grown-up version of this sentiment: http://nplusonemag.com/the-stupidity-of-computers.
In the days when I had too much time on my hands, I used the editor to pit every combination of monster against each other in the arenas. The balancing was way-off, and monster's fighting abilities are inconsistent with their description in the manual.

For instance, dragons, supposedly tough hombres, are singularly useless. No matter how many spells they learn, they only ever use their puny fire breath, presumably due to a bug.

Your best troops are orcs by a large margin, followed by mistresses. At high levels, orcs can kill everything except the horned reaper in single combat, and are incredibly cheap to train (1/10 the expense of reapers, and 1/2 of mistresses). Build an army of these guys as soon as you can and you're sorted.

It's a great concept, but for this sort of game, I thought Bullfrog's Populous: the Beginning, was infinitely superior. Get hold of that in GOG! It plays beautifully under WINE (even better than on Windows, and not arbitrarily limited to a maximum 800x600 resolution).
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Hmm. For me it was off by 20 miles. Not bad considering that most other GeoIP services get my location off by several hundred miles.

I'll probably be using this. Thanks!
Yes I thought the article odd in that it didn't talk about if crazy ants were preferred to fire ants in general.
Point is he took classified intelligence documents to China, then Russia. He never says anything bad about Russian political leaders and he occasionally says very good things about Russian political leaders. His disclosures also frequently seem to cause strife among NATO allies.

What you said is that if you think Snowden is a foreign agent, then "you've fallen victim to baseless whisper campaigns." What I'm saying is that there is a very suspicious (though not conclusive) pattern in his behavior. You don't need any "whisper campaigns" to see it. There is plenty of room to doubt his motivations.
Sure, but would you ask people here about such things?
"postal" and "loc" are a bit off in my case. My true location is about 6km away from "loc".
PR disguised as science. I like Airbnb in many ways, but these arguements are shallow and wrong. If Airbnb is used to help pay for rent, that necessarily pushes rent upwards. That their research shows Airbnb makes housing "more affordable for families" could only be based on families renting out vacant rooms, something not all families want to do but may be forced to do if Airbnb is widespread.

This is Fox News level "science." This article made me slightly queezy.
How do you request it ?
Do you have some front GUI ?
Yeah, exactly that! I'll have to check out Wappalyzer.

The code is written in coffeescript, and some key npm modules are:

- https://github.com/caolan/async

- https://github.com/brycebaril/node-tokenthrottle-redis

- https://github.com/rs/node-netmask

I was at one point using https://github.com/tjfontaine/node-dns for the hostname lookups, but it was significantly slower that the built in dns module, so I ended up wrapping that with my own timeout logic.
I'm not really a font nerd, but I disagree with:

"Moon uses an interesting angular typeface for its location-establishing shot... This typeface is OCR-A, which was designed in 1968 for use in optical character recognition systems.... Moreover, it looks like THE FUTURE, and so it makes a perfect choice for on-screen interstitial positioning shots."

OCR-A does not look like THE FUTURE; it looks like the future in 1968. To me, it looks like bitterness and cynicism. Apparently, it looks that way to others, too, since it or something similar is used in the same way for every other similar movie.

I haven't seen the movie. Is that message typed out on the screen, complete with teletype noises? That has to be one of the weirdest anachronisms ever adopted as a trope.
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It's Cyber Infrastructure, or www.cisin.com.
Great idea - I've signed up. Of course filtering out inactive members is going to be important in the future.

I love the barebones landing page + signup form as the MVP.
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> The "position would be different" for links that bypass a paywall.

This is interesting. It seems there is a growing burden on consumers of information to understand the intent set up by website owners and technology maintainers: Aaron Schwartz died because his use of curl was deemed hacking. A judge here is making a distinction between linking and linking that bypasses a paywall.

I'm afraid that people will one day be required to divine whether or not a site was meant to be viewed by them: suppose page A displays links to a paywall-less version of page B when the user agent is "GoogleBot" in order to allow news to be indexed. Meanwhile, all other user agents see a link to a paywalled version of page B. Suppose a bug causes that page to display paywall-less links to all agents, and visitors to that page follow through to the non-paywall version of page B.

Under this interpretation, visitors to page B's non-paywall version could be exposed to allegations of unauthorized access to computer systems (or its EU equivalent) and be charged with hacking. What's worse, it seems the burden to prove that the link was shown to them in a legitimate fashion falls on the accused, and there's basically no way they can prove that.

I'm not a lawyer, so my interpretation could be way off, but this seems like a credible threat.
Personally, I would opt for not modifying the DOM heavily and push more of the work into CSS making use of different DOM structure and data attributes instead of just classes. Also CSS pseudo element will save you a lot of DOM footprint in some cases and the combination will result in quicker performance.

Also the use way in which you build a progress bar, what exactly is happening there?
I love the idea, but there needs to be more information.

Where is this geographically? Are there separate SF and NY groups? Additional ones? Do they meet in person? How often? Or is this all via webcam and e-mail? Is this more mentoring or support? More one-on-one or group? What kind of a time commitment are we talking about? Is the 150-member limit per geographic area, or global? Why 150, if it's all groups of 4-8 anyways?

I understand what you are, but I don't have the slightest idea what you do.
Oh agreed on all counts. Was just pointing out you need to have at least a like minded set of people to 'do battle' with the other LARPers!

Also I thought the Klingons were part of the Federation at one point during DS9 era? Or perhaps that was just an alliance...
Have you heared of PKA? https://grepular.com/Publishing_PGP_Keys_in_the_DNS

If you want to encrypt a message to my key, just run the following command:

gpg --auto-key-locate pka -ea -r mike([-dot-])cardwell([-at-])grepular([-dot-])com

It will automatically look up my PGP key in the DNS, fetch it, and encrypt to it. My DNS is secured using DNSSEC so if your resolve supports DNSSEC, you can be reasonably sure that the response is trustable.

mike@glue:~$ dig +short txt mike.cardwell._pka.grepular.com
"v=pka1\;fpr=35BCAF1D3AA21F843DC3B0CF70A5F5120018461F\;uri=http://grepular.com/0018461F.pub.asc"
mike@glue:~$
So, if I'm reading this right, a bit more than one in eight AirBnB hosts in New York are violating the law? Is that not an issue in of itself?
You're playing a game with the definition of "metadata" to refute a point the parent comment didn't make.
I use https://freegeoip.net/ which gives you output in JSON, CSV or XML and has a limit of 10,000 requests per hour. The limit of 1,000 per day on this service is too low.
Do you really expect you can give a cop lip - while being cited for a traffic violation - and skip away?

Yes, because I live in a country where--supposedly, anyways--I am given the right of free expression. Telling a cop anything short of a threat, especially as it concerns the laws and especially especially when it is the cop being wrong about the laws, should be a non-issue.

You're a damned fool if you think that this being "just about standard procedure" is anything other a really bad sign.
If you buy bitcoins at $10 and sell them at $100, you should be recording a capital gain. If you buy at $100 and sell at $10, record a capital loss. The losses can absolutely offset those gains. Generally speaking your tax agency cares much more about how much money you make than how you make that money. Unless buying/selling bitcoins is expressly illegal, treat it just like you would any other collectible (like baseball cards, sports memorabilia, etc.). This is well understood by accountants in the area.

If you mine them, the price balloons to $1000, then evaporates to $0...that's another story.
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> IP address databases are typically bought and sold for figures in the thousands.

And presumably, therefore, issued under licenses that forbid you from starting a query service? I'm pretty sure most of these IP data providers will offer their own on-demand query services
The problem is that for certain goods, the demand becomes completely inelastic for individuals: water, food, shelter, security. The starving are not, and cannot be, rational economic actors. Slightly redenominating prices would be a small price to pay for millions of new, actually rational economic actors.
Doesn't work on my ipad (ios7). The screen just tries to constantly resize to fit all the content, and my taps are thrown away before they ever get to the game.

The recent "Flappy Bert" http://www.sesamestreet.org/cms-static/flappy_bert/ doesn't have this problem.
IMO, the best indicator for a bubble is when people participating in some financial activity look at you like you're an idiot when you ask basic questions and can't explain themselves w/o all sorts of complicated answers and rationalizations, ultimately followed with "you just don't understand."

I get that there are superpeople who are really that smart, but in my experience 99% of you are not that person.

The hard part is guessing the limits of irrationality and maximizing your profits. I got out of the dot-com bubble over a year early.
So you found there to be some reliable information in the Airbnb article? Please extract that here, as I all I found was a bunch of unsupported defensive statements cleverly disguised as scientific conclusions.
I dont think its really that different of a phenomenon. Item a) is a lot extrapolating item b) to everyone who doesn't share your race. Also, its completely possible to be racist against members of your own race, which still qualifies as racist behavior.

Basically, the general definition of racism is more about prejudice against one or more races, rather than about uplifting one specific race above everything else.
Providing the bus service is a sensible and logical idea. It has many benefits.

It on the other hand provides a tangible, accessible symbol to demonization and attack with rhetoric.

Don't like it? Then you might think a bit when a news network or a comedy show starts hammering a group.

[edit] I should add I don't agree with the protestor's plan of action or targets, I'm just trying to explain why and how effective their targeting is. Its a long tradition and very easy for the public to buy into.
There's a line: if it becomes more profitable to rent at Airbnb's nightly rates than at monthly / long-term rates, property investors will then drive down long-term housing supply, increasing property values and monthly rents.

Airbnb's claim is that there is no evidence suggesting that the line has been crossed, so the only impact of their service is that existing landowners / renters get to line their pockets a bit.

They don't have a leg to stand on if you see people successfully investing in property to rent exclusively at short-term rates, which has started to happen in some markets [1][2]. I'm tempted to cheekily link to their own blog post here indicating that 13% of their NYC hosts are doing exactly this.

And don't even get me started on the fact that while looking for a place to live, landlords have justified their insane asking rate by telling me that the previous tenant rented out a spare room on Airbnb.

1. http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/
2. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/01/20/home-sharing-sit...