skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That party was not about middle-aged men meeting in private and getting hammered, then telling jokes.

It was obviously not an ad-hoc evening get-together but an event people had prepared for for a while, including likely sober people working on dance routines and skits in bad taste.
self-destroying components sound interesting. do you have any info/links to which type of technology is used in this component?
RyuJIT and ProjectN are supposed to tackle the quality of native code generation.
> Can you give any examples?

They certainly don't lead in terms of security (and definitely not in terms of privacy, much as they'll claim otherwise to their potentially easily embarrassed customers) as your examples suggest.

Where they have been pioneers in the past though are in the area of monetising content, online payments and related matters, particularly (but not exclusively) video content. Also in the early days some bandwidth management techniques where tested in the real world on porn content before anything else, and many other services lacked the constant high demand that needed them.

BitCoin will have properly "made it" when it starts being common for porn suppliers to accept it!
I saw what did there.
Because the whole point in working as teams, is that the whole is greater than the parts.
Hey guys! Congrats, NLP is a huge problem that needs as many minds working on it as possible.

Just tried a few links:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/dear-asus-router-use...

http://blog.algore.com/2011/07/the_great_lakes_are_in_danger...

Am I missing something here? It seems like it's just parsing text, i'm not seeing any context(keywords, categories, summaries)

edit: It's giving fantastic results when pasting the raw text! :)

Are you guys using DBpedia? It's giving very similar results to a system I was working on in the past: http://www.zachvanness.com/nanobird_relevancy_engine.pdf
That Kola borerole is a really interresting thing...

Russians are awesome :D
> * the Pacific ocean is twice as wide as the Atlantic (I don't know anything about wind patterns here)

True, but the Pacific has a lot of islands in between, the Atlantic hardly has any. I don't know what the effective range of Chinese ships was at the time, though.
To me, money was always the least consideration. The content of the work, how much I'd learn, the atmosphere and co-workers, open source or not, that was generally what made me pick one job over another. Often when I had several offers, I ended up picking the lowest.

And yet, when I've worked there for two years and learned a lot and did some good things there, and I still haven't gotten a raise, I don't feel appreciated. And when I don't feel appreciated, I look for something else.
Don't be afraid of a downvote from me. Personal opinion, with content, like yours is the main reason why I read Hacker News.
Russian Woodpecker
I've had a primarily positive experience criticising it and the whole javascript-mandatory mentality in general. Perhaps comparing it to early-2000s Flash sites helps.
Sorry if I came across as condescending.

Agree with respect to inheritance.

I tend not to find any terrible libraries these days. I think people have developed some clue in the last decade.
"There was a time when men could roam free on earth, free from concrete and tarmac. Now it's all gone to shit."

Classification: arts, culture and entertainment - architecture .(WTF?)

Polarity: positive. (Nope)

Polarity confidence: 0.9994709276706056. (Well...)

Looks pretty rough to me.
That's complete naive.

Fascism is not one big step. It is a step at a time.

Kill foreign people using drones.

Even assassinate people of your own country.

Huge graph databases storing everything about your life forever.

Military equipment for police.

Life sentences for minor crimes.

Torture.

High security prisons outside the usual law system.

Getting no government job because you read Wikileaks.

Access to only censored information for government workers.

Journalists are manipulated to report about war in positive ways.

Piece by piece. Each step brings you nearer a form of fascism.

Mass surveillance is just another tool.
Energiingenjör Job
The difficulty of calculating the value of an employee has no bearing on the veracity of my statement.
Fork it, patch it and provide your own package if you really want the extra options.

I did it with network manager for years due to shitty acmel wifi driver timing issues and when the drivers got fixed I stopped using my patches.

No one will stop you patching. The maintainer is doing the, well, maintainable thing - saying no to something that shouldn't be the job of the software at that level.
Seeing as they talk about the pirate bay as an example of a target I would suspect they care A LOT about copyright issues and would do anything in their power to distribute their source code for the greater good.
O que é o Google Adwords? É indicado para a minha empresa?
After 9 months of hard work, our Irish mythology inspired iPad game is out
They don't belong there either.

Some people use screen readers, text-mode browsers, IE due to stupid work/school policies, etc. Some people like automating their workflow, which can involve scripted browser interactions. Some people actually care about security and privacy, and so run NoScript, etc.
Most NK residents don't have any access. The ones that do have very heavily filtered Internet access. North Koreans who watch a prohibited tv show are executed or repeatedly raped while in prison or starved while in prison.

Comparin the treatment of North Korean Internet users to the treatment of UK Internet users is obscene.

It dilutes the actual point: UK government should not monitor the activities of its citizens without judicial oversight and very narrow reasons. That is an abuse of human rights and it is justifiably something to get angry about. But comparing "monitoring what people send to a website that distributes state secrets" with "forcing a woman to drown her new born baby in a bucket because she read the wrong book" is sub-optimal.
Drag and drop file uploads with Ember.js
Thanks, I later saw there's a mention in the FAQ as well.
So what happens when the Ada program runs into a failed compiler check? Does it:

* Raise an exception? If so, it's up to the programmer to treat it correctly. There are various ways to detect overflows outside Ada; it's still up to the programmer to treat them correctly. Runtime detection of the overflow (in a hopelessly untested firmware of the Therac-25!) would have brought the matter no closer to resolution.

* Abort execution? If so, is the behaviour of the program defined if execution is aborted? Because undefined behaviour from a control system is quite worse.
So, if you aren't going through a remixer (which is the point at which my paranoid data scientist friends point out "that doesn't even really help, at least in the long run, if not even in the short run"; and it isn't like any normal user is going to be doing this) the obfuscated wallet approach isn't really helping you much, if nothing else due to timing correlations. Even then, most normal people (the kind of people who are likely going to run into this problem most often) aren't going to understand how to do anything other than use the default features encoded into their wallet software (which are remarkably deterministic in function, almost never obfuscates the change making the middle steps trivially transparent, and generally don't provide any control over which transactions will accidentally cluster). Bitcoin is simply not trying to solve this problem: there are things bitcoin claims to solve, and things bitcoin succeeds in solving (whether on purpose or as a side effect), but "I want my transactions private" was never one of them. While it would be awesome if it were true, not all things related to payments are made better by bitcoin :/.

It also must be pointed out that you aren't just dealing with your spouse at this point: you are dealing with everyone who might possibly care; maybe your pastor is a "paranoid data scientist", or maybe the noisy person across the street has taken up statistical correlation and inference as a new hobby. Maybe someone makes a new service that helps companies screen employees, and one of the things it does is scan the blockchain using some really epic algorithm coming up with some kind of bogus (and questionably-legal) "morality score" (I bring this up as there already have been companies constructed to do this for data on Facebook). The transaction record of bitcoin is out there for everyone to datamine, and if you make a mistake the record will still be there and still be public years from now. There might even be new techniques (whether bitcoin-specific, or generally in the fields of statistics or machine learning) that will make this data more transparent in the future. The defense model for "I don't want people I deal with to know about my porn addiction" of bitcoin vs. even a normal credit card does not come out very strong.
Not true. Access control is different from having people wear badges.

Access control may be a necessity (although in most companies here in France if you can tell a good story to the receptionist she'll let you in without even checking for an id; and if you show an id that's been obsolete for over 15 years, such as mine, and which would be, for this reason, trivial to fake, she'll also let you in with a big smile and a joke about how different you look from your picture).

But wearing a badge? Voluntarily? At all times? In nuclear reactors, perhaps (I've never been there); but in most other businesses, I find this ridiculous and insulting.
Yes although I don't use it very much. Gear cutter sets are expensive. You can do other things with it of course.
There's a difference.

Photoshop wouldn't work as a website, and HN wouldn't work as a program.

Different forms for different use cases.
Hell no, i dont work for them.
Would it be possible for you to send me an invite? This is the first time I've come across this site, but it seems interesting. I'm a developer, but I've liked the discussions I've read here so far. Thank you!
First biomarker could help boys at risk of major depression
I can think of several things (mostly trying to create a sustainable business and adding value, without which employees won't have salaries for long), but I agree it should be close to the top.
The least specialized in SW a company is, the worse the software is.

What we are accustomed to in discussing in HN for example does not exist in these worlds. Continuous integration? Unit test? Even complexity analysis.

And very very old code that's patched over and over and shipped "when it works"

It's usually people who have had an academic contact with programming languages and embedded development and don't know anything about code quality. But you can bet their bosses incentive CMMI and other BS like that. (Yes, complete and utter BS)

Not to mention ClearCase which seems to be a constant, the worse the company the more they love this completety useless piece of crap
So if I understand this correctly, the original article [1] shows that the mongodb queries being used rely on doing projections and selections on the data, then they apply aggregations.

However, unlike a relational engine which uses a query plan, you need to actually tell the aggregation engine in which order to process the data.

Doesn't this seem a little... backward? If the dataset is complex enough, the two things that come to mind are:

1. There would be a lot of redundancy in the hierarchical dataset.

and

2. That seems like a lot of futzing around to get the most optimal aggregation path!

What am I missing here?

p.s. I do tend to agree that the SQL syntax is rather more readable, but then again I've been looking at SQL for a lot longer than I have JSON style queries. The first query is not that unreadable!

1. http://thecodebarbarian.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/crunching-3...
And some people still use IE6, but that doesn't mean you should continue to support IE6.
Show HN: JavaScript Game of Life
Yeah, this is called control fraud [0]. I don't think it's fair to compare regular businesses that have to compete on merit with organized crime.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_fraud
How to spam someone using Facebook
Here is the (redacted) body of a message I have just sent Facebook regarding a rather bizarre spamming incident.

---

I have chosen this option because I can't find anything that covers the strange situation I find myself in.

On the 9th of February I received an email to my gmail account (*@gmail.com) from Facebook in Portuguese. Allowing Google to translate it revealed that it was an activation email for someone called Odilon Filho.

At the time I left it alone because it seemed suspicious, but over following days I received more emails, some reminding me to activate the account and some informing me of potential connections. Out of curiosity I clicked the link on the original email, containing the activation code, and was taken to the standard Facebook login page. Obviously I cannot attempt to login to that account as I do not have the password, but also, the original registrant cannot confirm the account because the will not have received the registration code.

The time period to confirm the account has now expired, but I am still being spammed with Portuguese Facebook messages that I do not want, and there does not appear to be any way to stop them.

Is there anything you can do to help with this? It seems to be a bit of a security issue that someone can potentially register someone else on Facebook without their knowledge and then cause them to be continually spammed with no recourse to stop it.

Regards

---

Has anyone else ever heard of such a thing happening?
Blackphone And The Quest To Return Privacy To The User
thanks for the feedback. considering the fact that it's still a v1, it surely can be rough in some areas. anyway, here are some thoughts:

- classification is trained on longer texts (mainly news articles) so it won't perform well on shorter texts

- polarity: yeah that's bad - the sentiment is slightly ambiguous so maybe a lower confidence would've justified things
So based on that logic, you can abandon all standards of usability and interoperability?
The Windows demos almost always use a lot of the system libraries for the bulk of their work., which hasn't impressed me quite as much as what you can do in 4k with bare DOS --- where the code is directly manipulating the hardware. No libraries, no GPU drivers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGQEeArYDS8
Is it wrong that I hope they have a poor IPO due to their attempt to trademark the word 'Candy'?
Previous discussion on this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7242377
Besides 'Learn You Some Erlang', Joe Armstrong's new 'Programming Erlang' is very good, too: www.amazon.com/dp/B00I9GR4TW/
Au contraire, it appears that I was too subtle!
In every context I've heard or said myself that ideas are worthless, it has always been about money.

You build the product for some equity and I bring the idea - no, ideas are worthless.

I'll sell the idea - no, ideas are worthless.

I can't tell you what I'm building without an NDA because you'll steal my idea - no, ideas are worthless.

The context of "ideas are worthless" has never, in my experience, been that of personal projects, learning projects or other things you do for fun. In these cases ideas obviously aren't worthless.
What appear to be the same slides are available here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/noubir/Courses/CSU610/S06/crypto...
Orchestrating docker containers with Juju
Cool stuff! It's nice to see platforms like this which abstract out good algorithms, so that developers can worry about thinking of interesting applications. .Open source libs are even better, but pragmatically speaking, I think these types of platforms probably move faster and get better results.

One major competitor (well known for anyone who's looked into this stuff) is Alchemy [1]. I tried a New York Times link [2] on Aylien and Alchemy, and Alchemy performed much better -- in fact, Aylien didn't even successfully find the article body. I'm sure you guys will be iterating on improving the algorithms, but just wanted to flag that as a potential turnoff for anyone comparing your website demo with Alchemy.

Best of luck!

[1] http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/world/middleeast/bombings-...
If you like cetaceans, I strongly recommend Inside Nature's Giants s1e2 (Fin Whale) and s3special2 (Sperm Whale).

s3special (Giant Squid) is also an interestingly related topic. And so are pretty much all other episodes.)

> yet manage to survive the bends (decompression sickness).

But still get it, I remember a report of sperm whale bones being full of holes from nitrogen bubbles.
How is this superior to Alchemy?

http://www.alchemyapi.com/
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
An important factor is simply time. Handwriting styles change over time, and the cursive styles used in the past are especially hard to read for modern readers, since as we write less and less by hand, cursive writing (which is optimised for speed of writing) is rapidly falling out of use. And since we're not used to them, they're hard to read.
'watch' is so awesomely useful. Everyone should know it.
thanks for the feedback. can't reproduce the first issue, what happens when you click on Analyze? do you mind sending us a screenshot?

we do use DBPedia in our Concept Extraction. please have a look at the docs: http://aylien.com/text-api-doc
> Whale beef

I'm sure you meant "meat"

> is very red.

Indeed, it's almost black.
indeed in earlier societies children were joining the parents in the "serious" part of life earlier than it's the case nowadays. My little 1.5 years old is doing his best to prove he can use a smartphone, tablet, and notebook the way his father uses, alas he can't join me to do the real work i'm doing on emacs. if we were hunter/gatherers i could show him the grown-up life earlier :)
Much more impressed if they can use a macbook to ignite the cig.

Do you remember the movie "Office Space" and the "jump to conclusions mat"? There's a law of nature that all SO answers must be about 9 steps ahead in a different direction from the question. A much more correct interaction would be "can I turn my macbook into an ashtray?" "Yes, just make sure to remove all the plastic first"

My instantaneous reaction was someone's making an art exhibit and their macbook ashtray will be sitting right next to their vintage Mac aquarium conversion. Or they have a broken mac and want the weirdest possible ashtray for their company smoking area.
There's the MLK method: spy on a meddlesome soul, discover his infidelity, tell him to commit suicide or you'll tell his wife:

http://studentactivism.net/2012/01/15/the-fbis-attempt-to-bl...

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/01/21/the-fbi-wrote-a-lette...

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/king-like-all-frauds-yo...

Or just general COINTELPRO: http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro

(Yes, that's the FBI's own archives, happy reading.)
Where does that infinity result get used in physics?
By the way, non-profit organization is not the same as non-governmental organization (NGO)
Both are good reasons to leave. It doesn't matter if your direct superiors disrespect you, or disrespect is more institutionalized higher up the chain.
Super nice !

This is a very interesting area... Good to see something new apart from Alchemy and opencalais !
And this is because economics is hopelessly polluted by politics.

Show me with mathematics and empirical evidence that chongli is wrong. I can take it, I know an awful lot of math...
I think the table in IX is wrong about log^2(x) being the same as log(log(x)). For me, and my impression is for many others, log^2(x) means log(x)log(x).
thanks for the feedback! as you may know, NYT articles are behind a paywall and fetching them can be problematic. so I believe Alchemy uses the NYT API to fetch articles, which is something we'll look into in future.
As someone who's written a bit of Common Lisp, I can say that the macros are a pretty awesome feature to use. Common Lisp has the advantage over Clojure and Scheme that the SBCL compiler is incredibly fast; it can come close to C#/F# on Mono for some tasks, in spite of Lisp being a dynamic language. It also compiles code and expands macros much faster. It's got more power than the other lisps, but it's also less elegant, so make of that what you will.
I'll just leave this here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Pyramid_o...

This isn't new and it is unlikely to change unless Tyler Durden comes along.
ASK HN : Git commit messages = creatively genius, funny
Ok, let me add that since we are both an NGO and an NPO.
Should I have not tried it with a 3000 word essay I wrote? It has been beachballing for the last 5 minutes or so.
In case you didn't see the recent XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1330/
> Spain took him on because there was intense competition between the European powers, and they didn't want Columbus working for anyone else.

Spain was Facebook and Columbus was Instagram...
>The vast majority of new programmers don't understand the basics of software design; we are entering an era where software is written by whoever will work for the lowest wage.

It is really easy to pick up languages and libraries with so much information being freely shared. IMHO that usually comes with less regard for proper rigor in exchange for fun and keeping interest.

Although, I think the vast majority of new programmers aren't working on things like Therac-25 machines, but instead on Flappy Bird, JavaScript library #749237, and Bob's Website. You don't really need much software design knowledge to push products at that level.
You're welcome!

Sure thing(when running it on the urls, I don’t get any keywords: http://i.cubeupload.com/zubo4G.png
For UX there are a breed of great drag and drop tools like http://xiffe.com which require almost no training.
don't know when will be my account activated :D on ycombinator :D
Aggregating data, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB
It is very tempting to keep working away on improvements but it can be fatal to your newly started business. Go out and start selling. It can be a sobering reality check.
Acid-bath stem-cell study under investigation
The words of someone who has no appreciation (and likely no knowledge) of what COINTELPRO were, or the FBI's hounding of Martin Luther King:

http://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/cointelpro.html

MLK:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/king-like-all-frauds-yo...

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/01/21/the-fbi-wrote-a-lette...

There's far more than beating down doors.
> Why bother writing new protocols? Just start with modem protocols and play with the frequencies.

Technically PPP is a point to point protocol which makes everything easier (no real addressing, no routing and so on). This protocol would be more comparable to wifi.
If you have a team, why do you need an employer? Who should benefit from the surplus (profit) of a team besides the members of that team?
I'm glad they didn't try to trademark the word "Saga" as well.
Where are we going with the add-ons in our life?
One loads and replaces incrementally in Lisp.
No. But I'm astonished they're doing this so shortly after making everyone hate them.
HN should fix the http/https duplicate issue.
Many, if not the majority, of people do believe ideas are worthless because they've not put the time or effort required into refining ideas to a nuanced level. Once you hear an idea, and it sounds simple and good - then hey, simple idea, anyone could come up with that - they'll very often seem obvious too.

Anyhow. What's actually more important relating to ideas is if you've discovered a market that has needs to be met, and there's an opening and opportunity to meet those needs. It's very possible ConnectU would have been the platform we'd all be using - or a variation if they decided to later update the name - instead of Facebook, if Mark Zuckerberg hadn't been dishonest with them for the purpose of launching first.
Ah, timing.