skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, governments are simultaneously short-sighted, cunning, inept, plodding, plotting, shambling, scheming and carry out very long-term schemes. But they're also short-sighted and can't do anything right. But also they do nothing unintentionally and 20 things don't go wrong with their schemes. And you can understand governments best by thinking of them as having the motives of a single person in your hunter-gatherer band, who is too greedy and too powerful who takes too much and doesn't give enough back. You can understand governments as you would by trying to read the motives of a single person, capable of thinking, coherency, making singular decisions, led by greed. Basically governments have all the properties of a action movie villain. Think of an action movie villain that isn't motivated by greed or power lust, just like every political villain from all time ever. Taking too much and not giving enough back; betrayal. Or, wait, was I talking about the Greek gods? The natural world can also be understood as reading the motives of a person with human emotions that never do anything by mistake. Think of a movie villain that was more or less accidentally carrying out their misdeeds, mostly coerced by circumstances, blundering along the way. That wouldn't be a very fun movie to watch. Villains always fully choose their evil, no circumstantial factors force their hand. Also Greek gods. And you can understand them by imputing their completely human motives; they always plot and scheme. You have to be able to guess the actions of the other members of your small hominid tribe. Every movie villain explains his motives and his long-winded scheme that would quickly fall apart in reality but that kind of realism wouldn't make a good movie. Political villains however, are often as hopelessly inept as incredibly as they are cunning and good at carrying out multi-generational schemes. Scheming and plotting like a person would. Like Lothar over there by the fire who doesn't give enough back from the hunt, or Runs with Horses over there who is amassing so many alliances as to be a possible threat to my alliances. Could he be planning to attack me, or take my stuff? Me, I care only about the tribe, for others in the tribe, the Real People we should care about, which also includes me of course. I've been doing a lot for the tribe lately. Could you help me tomorrow to rebuild my hut?
This would be great for people on the go.
This kind of stuff makes me feel...I'm not even sure how to qualify it. I feel like a lot of places that hire set these great and tall expectations that always make me second guess myself. Do I have the skills and know-how to do this?

How was your interview process in comparison to the quality of people you're working with now?
But how do you choose which ones are top 5? based on votes?
If this is a solution to the "not enough links that I personally like" - kudos to the author. Nice to find a fun project to work on that will also solve a problem for them.

I personally despise recommendation / personalization algorithms of any kind. I still have never found one that's actually better than myself at distinguishing articles that I'd like to read, music that I want to listen to, tweets I'd like to see, etc.

When reading HN, I'm constantly surprised by links that would not normally be on my radar for things I'm interested in. I think personalization algos, in general, are good at filtering those away.

Since the author mentioned HN being too much of a firehose and this then also being a solution to the "too many links to keep up to date on" problem, the solution might be a bit simpler than the author suggested.

HN already has the "best" links at https://news.ycombinator.com/best

It's hard to find - it's in the 'Lists' section in the footer, but it's still there and I use it all the time, when I haven't been actively reading HN for a while.
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I think you're looking at the finger instead of the moon.
And for those who don't know the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64
Yes! This will be based on the total votes!
Google by itself is much worse than NSA. At least, NSA does not screw up the industry and does not try to destroy local economies. I'm surprised there's not a lot of public backslash against Google and their employees.
What doesn't ring true about this article is that the advertiser would spend $100K/day without building up to it with a whole lot of testing first.

Facebook may have declined requests for comment, but we are still only getting one side of the story, and I cannot completely believe this one side. There's more to it.
Looks like fun! One suggestion might be a more visible way of showing the hate level rather than a decimal number. It took me a minute to figure it out. Seeing a list of topics with 63.2 and 50.9 on them - I couldn't really figure out what the number represented.

Some kind of pie chart or bar graph with love/hate or even a graphic indicating the level of hatred along with the number might be more instantly recognizable.

Good luck!
Always articles drop in different categories: Web, news, hardware, security , ...
Don't you want to categorize articles and send top 5 in each categorize? For example a person just care about web article. So send top 5 in web category to him.
Skype's use prevails mostly around international calling, video conferencing and professional chats. It isn't really an everyday use thing like WhatsApp which, where dominating, is an entire replacement of SMS. My Skype account gets sparingly used for anything else than talking to a client.
Presumably that 1% is continuously depleted by facebook's detection and deletion of fake accounts and continuously replenished by the creation or subversion of new accounts. A high turnover rate may drive the proportion of fraudulent activity on facebook still higher.
I don't know much about ESR but I am pretty sure those koans are meant to be humorous.
I really can't believe facebook is written in php...
It sounds interesting to me. Would you like to continue our conversation by Skype or Jabber? My email/jabber is "eliah.lakhin@gmail.com". Skype: "eliah.lakhin".
Can we be sure that all the other evil, evil aliases - namely 'patric' and 'k. lee' - get the same treatement if mentioned in payments, since it's obviously neccessary for national security?
Well, since the script seems to be influenced by Arabic writings, authors should have known Arabic numbering too. But it's not clear if these are original writings, as you said, we should look into previous research.
Interesting. This will go into today's top5HN Newsletter. Signup at top5hn.launchrock.co
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IQ is defined as a point estimate of the value of a general factor of intelligence, which is in turn defined as the statistical construct that most strongly correlates with performance on disparate cognitively-loaded tasks. To the extent that there can be such a thing as "general cognitive ability", which they are apparently looking for, the only question is whether whatever specific test they're using correlates strongly with that g-factor. To the extent that it does, it is axiomatically an IQ test.
But in the case of filtering Hacker News you're taking that pre-filtered list (filtered by geeks and startup folk and whathaveyou) and filtering it even more.

Whether that bubble is a subset of some other bubble, it's still a bubble.
Anyone who thinks Chrome and Firefox are safe from this bug doesn't understand the issue. SecureTransport is used for updating software. So an attacker could trick you into installing a malicious update to Chrome, FireFox, or for that matter anything on your system. They could even slip in malware under the guise of a patch that purportedly fixes this bug. Using alternative browsers does NOT completely protect you.
Why not? Legalising drugs destroys every single element which supports violent paralegel cartels.

1) It eliminates legal risk, so drug production becomes instantly a much more lucrative activity, enticing more people to do it.

2) Profits are reduced as the market becomes more competitive.

3) The cartels are unable to pursue their "normal" extralegal means of suppressing competition, because the parties they might seek to suppress now have legal access to state protection.

4) In a competitive, legal market, the successful firms will be the ones which offer the best product - the firms with the best drugs, the highest standards of quality and ethics, the nicest stores, and the best customer service. Why buy from dodgy drug-dealers when you can walk into a beautiful store and get great customer service?

In short term yes, cartels may attempt to protect their monopoly, but in the long term, legalisation dooms them as cultural dinosaurs unable to compete in the new legal, open market.

Edit: This analysis depends upon low taxation. High taxation will still incentivise extralegal selling, but it probably makes the black market a bit safer regardless.
On the contrary, it's simply a property of being a consumer financial service provider in USA - if a company would offer the exact same bill settlement in bitcoins instead of dollars, all the same restrictions would apply.
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What if a post be in top 5 posts for two days? Do you send it twice?
That's a pretty interesting approach. Might even work!

I wonder if something simple (and stupid) like an LD_PRELOAD with an alternative fixed SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange would work. Won't work if the code ends up getting inlined.

Guess not, looks like SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange is static.
> So what could the nation do with $6 billion+ extra dollars every single year?

Bong hits for NASA
Thanks! Great idea! I'll see what I can do about it! Please check back in like 10 minutes!! =P
I think its nonsense also due to this :

"Many physicalist philosophers argued that this scenario eliminates itself by its description; the basis of physicalist argument is that the world is defined entirely by physicality, thus a world that was physically identical would necessarily contain consciousness, as consciousness would necessarily be generated from any set of physical circumstances identical to our own."

Also this :

"Artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky sees the argument as circular. The proposition of the possibility of something physically identical to a human but without subjective experience assumes that the physical characteristics of humans are not what produces those experiences, which is exactly what the argument was claiming to prove."

from the wiki of p-zombie.
Someone on HN tipped me off to the Workshop in SF recently, which has a similar pay-per-minute (well, hour) model. Coffee's still expensive, but you don't have to buy it, and there's concierge service with food etc. It's been a great spot to fill a multi-hour gap without guilt.
> linked lists are superior to arrays

How is this even a useful comparison? Wouldn't it entirely depend on context? They are two different data structures and are both useful. Arguing that one is superior seems nonsensical.
I've been looking at Intel's DPDK recently [1], and it looks really interesting for really fast packet processing in the 'beefier' kind of systems you describe.

It would be a bit higher cost, but could mean you could make a router like the EdgeRouter but with good performance without the proprietary accelerator (I believe that Intel's drivers are open source).

1. Data Plane Development Kit, which lets you skip the kernel IP stack (which takes thousands of CPU cycles to process) and do packet processing in userland taking just tens to hundreds of cycles per packet. http://dpdk.org/
Yes, from the server side's mishandling of TXT extension. Probably the server put the MIME type in the HTTP header as "HTML" instead of TXT, and the browser renders the page as such.
Italy (and other EU) payment regulations are actually quite reasonable compared to USA.

Now, Russia - that's a different ballpark; companies transferring significant money to/from abroad there involves not only tricky bureaucracy, but a bunch of hidden-gotcha-landmines as well; no wonder their companies tend to open a subsidiary in Switzerland or Crete or even Italy just to handle their money flow.
Wood table, leica, moleskine, MacBook, earbuds...
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Nobody thinks it's a good idea to rewrite something just to make it "newer". The idea is to rewrite (or maybe just refactor) these tools to make them better.

It's also not "fixing what's not broken", but improving something that could... well... be improved.
Ben & Jerry's used to have a similar policy, except it was "no more than 5x". Lasted until they picked up a CEO that wanted more than $150k/yr.
Weird, it works for me. Iceweasel Aurora / HTTPS Everywhere 4.0-dev
Scroll through this history of data storage
> You are unusual

Of course. I hope all of us are to some extent or another. The world would be a pretty sad place if people were not "unusual" about something.

> Mavericks was released with per-monitor menu bars four months ago.

To me that's replacing a bad UI/UX experience with a worst UI/UX experience.

I suspect we disagree on this. That's OK. No need to take the discussion any further.

Thanks.
The energy spent by the humans who have to touch/move/look/process this obsolete, unneeded artifact is more than the energy needed to process a thousand normal deals on the Internet.
Win phone is very tightly coupled to an MS outlook account. It'd be weird to offer a de-phoned win phone alongside win8rt, but it would measure up against Google's stuff.
My news blog without any database engine written on jQuery was released 
I was thinking, What if you can create a blog that is updated automatically?
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This all sounds very interesting, but why does the average everyday user need 1000 times more data speed?

I don't want to sound like Thomas Watson ('I think there is a world market for about five computers.'), but we're already able to send full live video streams with decent reliability, a 5 or 10 fold increase in speed would probably mean doing this with incredible fidelity. What could we possibly do with 1000 times as much.

I think that is a bigger challenge in getting the mobile carriers to implement it. How would the average user benefit. However, if their is a business that needs a 1000x increase in speed, that is likely a much more likely plan for roll-out.
Now, why not lower the price of individual licenses to get more people to upgrade from XP?
> I'm not sure where they came up with the "marijuana causes drinking" scenario, though.

The link between alcohol and marijuana use is very complicated, to say the least. For example, a decrease in price of marijuana leads to (obviously) more marijuana use, but (less obviously) fewer DUI-related deaths. It has also been found to be more directly linked to lower alcohol consumption. Thus, you'd want to call them substitutes (with the economic meaning of the term).

However, it has also been found that banning alcohol (on a school campus, specifically) led to a decrease in marijuana use, showing that they also can behave as complements to each other.

Its all very complicated and its hard to be sure how these interactions will go, although most evidence does seem to point in the direction of lower alcohol consumption.

Source: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-tha...
one cannot easily brick iPhone; is this hysteria because of OTA update is failing and iTunes is required to update the phone ?
It's trivial to crack DRM by reading the code and finding where to look for the keys.

But check out OMA DRM; it's an open standard and there are probably open source implementations (although they're not trusted by Hollywood since by definition they're not "robust").
This could be a nice looking headset stand, nothing I've ever wanted or needed, but the infomercial voice-over is horrible. Sadly, I suspect this is the route kickstarter will go. I'd rather hear from founders about why they need the money, and what they're going to do with it. That's what makes kickstarter interesting.
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Is this Samsung's way of sneaking Tizen into a larger market? Expose people to it through other gadgets, get developers familiar, and later focus on Tizen OS phones instead of Android?
Hopefully a Docker 1.0 will follow soon too!
FWIW, just to add a data point: my wife's iPad is fine after upgrading.
Mine went through good.
Well, that's not exactly what was said at http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-tha... -- but I appreciate that you linked there because with some careful record-keeping, some actual data could be collected in Colorado.

Quoting now from http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-tha...:

Costs from legalization compared to current system: 200 kQALYs and $2 billion
Benefits from legalization compared to current system: 260 kQALYs and $7 billion

Although it’s not going to be necessary, we can interconvert QALYs and dollars at the going health-care rate of about $100,000/QALY ($100 million/kQALY):

Costs from legalization compared to current system: 220 kQALYs
Benefits from legalization compared to current system: 330 kQALYs

And get:

Net benefits from legalization: +110 kQALYs

Except that this is extremely speculative and irresponsible. By far the largest component of the benefits of legalization turned out to be the effect on road traffic accidents, which is based on only two studies and which may on further research turn out to be a cost. And by far the largest component of the costs of legalization turned out to be the effect on IQ, and we had to totally-wild-guess the QALY cost of an IQ point loss. The wiggle room in my ignorance and assumptions is more than large enough to cover the small gap between the two policies in the results.

So my actual conclusion is:

There is not a sufficiently obvious order-of-magnitude difference between the costs and benefits of marijuana legalization for a evidence-based utilitarian analysis of costs and benefits to inform the debate. You may return to your regularly scheduled wild speculation and shrill accusations.
In the CR tool I assume it may have looked more like this:

if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &serverRandom)) != 0)
goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
goto fail;
- if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &somethingElse)) != 0)
goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final(&hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
goto fail;

Which is a little harder to see. Obviously you should always look at it in a side-by-side view (god I wish github would implement this) or at the resulting code, but people are imperfect.
Well said. But that's the conflict of America - lip-service to freedom on the one hand, extreme moral conservatism and idiotic public policy on the other.
You're quoting "agreement" as if its literally in their robots file. It's not.

They're telling the public that it does not have permission to crawl the site which try have the right to do. What is the problem with that?
Interviewed for PM there a while back. Slow process. Neither interviewer adapted questions to the candidate, asked trivial stuff, didn't scale up difficulty. Static, reading script, little followup.

Second interviewer didn't read feedback from first, repeated one or two questions. Got to third round and withdrew.
Fits well with my memory of rural MO in 2000
How many non-profits does YC hope to fund in this cycle? Is Watsi the only public example?
"Legally difficult" would have been more accurate.
My take on this: While it's an interesting concept, and I'd love to see discussion on it, $3.50 an hour is a bit higher than what I'd be willing to pay for using wifi in most American cities, unless the coffee is really good and comes with the best damn selection of creamers, sweeteners, and frills around.

Now from what I understand, in some cities it actually is tough to find wifi because the inflated property costs have birthed a restaurant and cafe culture that clings to snap turnover to stay afloat. In these cities (which are in the minority, but perhaps are home to the majority of tech workers), I could see this kind of cafe succeeding wildly.
I can't believe America sometime. Americans are supposed to cherish freedom. Yet they cravenly surrender and prostitute their freedoms at the slightest sign of moral outrage and censure from their fellow citizens. What free-minded person would support 25% taxation on a product which, if used correctly, has no negative effect on anyone other than that person (i.e. incurs no negative externalities) - and therefore no conceivable justification for taxation?
Are you tired?
It's not the first time Apple has a bug with verifying the hostname of the certificate.

In June 2010 I reported that Safari 4 did not check the last letter of the hostname, so a certificate for example.de was accepted when accessing example.dk, and it would accept cert for example.co.ug when accessing example.co.uk

The real problem is that Apple did not add unit testing when they fixed the problem in 2010. If they had, the goto bug would have been found.
Come on, hat trick of rejections!
Or Vim for short.

You know: Vim IMproved.
Must be nice to have everything figured out
you'd be amazed at how much return-on-investment the president gets by going to parties thrown by wealthy alumni. the underlying malaise is that the college typically relies on donations from said alumni to an unhealthy extent, but given that it's pretty much one of the president's duties to go charm money out of them.
There's viper mode.

Though, aside from a brief dalliance with emacs in the late 1990s, I've used vi / vim since 1987.
It's 2:30. A bit. Why would I send an email?
From the headers:

Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8

It also tries to set no less than four cookies.