skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only faith I have in this story is that, perhaps, people will learn from this example and will be able to spot a con man next time when they see one.
Is unbiased journalism what /r/news and /r/worldnews readers actually want? Or are they looking for a channel where alternative - to mainstream press outlets - points of view can be seen and discussed?

Judging by the reaction to the deletion of GGs stories, a significant minority or even a majority want the latter.

So the real question is does the public get what the public wants?
The sample size was 55. 15 showed sign of response. I don't know the probabilities, but that's probably greater than the probability of response without treatment, with statistical significance. Obviously, you'd have to know the exact details to gauge its significance -- I'm sure those will be in the paper.
"Once activated by the smartcards, this will produce a lengthy cryptographic code. If dropped, or even knocked too hard, the machine will self-destruct."
"Unbiased news" - what would that even look like? As soon as you decide what to report on and what not to report on, that is a bias. If anything, this is about filtering out stories that don't fall within the consensus narrative and thus require that value judgements be made explicit and explained - what they seem to call "analysis".
Thanks for spotting this. It is done in-house, just had an error in our code. Should be fixed now.
> It's a little long,

It's Greenwald -- what else would you expect? He is sometimes insightful, but always long-winded, hyperbolic, and shrill, which is why I don't usually bother to read him. It saves me time and head-desks to follow the Snowden thing through more mainstream sources.
In general, no. Simple counterexample: everyday it rains my grass is wet, and everyday it doesn't rain the grass is dry. Does the rain cause the grass to be wet? Well, probably. But maybe my grass is in a greenhouse, and I only turn on my sprinkler when it rains so the grass gets a "natural" amount of water. In this case the wet grass is not causally linked to the rain, even though it looks exactly like the situation where it is. My action of turning on the sprinkler is known as a "confounding factor".

You need to make assumptions to be able to draw a causation from data. This is what people are doing when they design controlled experiments.
I never knew you could use __enter__ and __exit__ to code your own things that work with the 'with' statement. Well worth the read!
Things like these are bound to fall. People should have predicted this risk.
The "value" to prosecutors of catching a drug seller could be considerable, especially if they're selling a lot.
I'm not saying that teachers shouldn't have a union, but from my perspective it is part of the problem rather than the solution more often than not.

For instance, they opened a charter school in our district which seems to be an honest effort to provide a safe (bullying free) environment for the high school and there have been two people associated with the union who have just been consistently hateful trying to shut it down.
It won't work out of the box. There is actually a project in the AOSP world that attempted to get it working but it's labeled experimental and it fails half the tests. There are lot of missing features in Bionic (Android's libc) that libc++ needs that we provide in Apportable and doing so we are able to pass all the tests.

Apportable is more than just C++ though. It's about building a better NDK or rather a platform that makes things consistent across the board with other native environments like iOS. Native in Android is an afterthought which we aim to change. We fix things like libc, C++, and provide you with a lot of low level libraries you expect would be included.

Apportable also is the only place you are going to find a native profiler today (baring awful hacks) or will get the latest version of clang that run on Android either.

The idea is to save you time with inconstancies and make it easier to deal with building native code for both (you can even use the same Xcode project and target both from there).

We also support Objective-C and everything that you get from iOS so you can even bring that code over.
The word "should" makes it opinion right off the bat. The word "justification" is about right and wrong.

Outside of a universally agreed upon objective morality, it's an opinion piece.
The article is factual. There are only a few sentences of opinion at the end. Banning the article _was_ censorship. It should not have been banned. The article states that "... these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself."

Is that opinion? No, unfortunately.

The documents reveal the above is only part of what the agencies are trying to do. They also speak of "ruining businesses", "leaking confidential information", etc. It instructs how to damage someone's reputation and even their psyche on the Internet. This is the worst of human deceptive behavior.

This is a public relations disaster for GCHQ/NSA. Very, very bad stuff.
Investigative reporting is not news.
On the one hand, judges are still part of the government. On the other, the first amendment says "Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion", not that "judges shall make no rulings".
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Low-level applications/libraries. Things we take for granted on other OSes like alternative shells, alternative terminal emulators, language bindings for Win32 gui.
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Why is everyone so surprised that Microsoft bundled a language that Microsoft built into a piece of software that Microsoft built? This says nothing about TypeScript's future among non-.NET developers.
So what if GG is using them to build his personal brand?

Are the documents authentic? Then the truth needs to be reported and disseminated as widely as possible.

If GG is a self-promoting hack, it will eventually catch up to him.
"Now, I love my wife deeply. And she is no fool. On the contrary, she is a graduate student."

No offense, to you or your wife, but this statement is hilarious for several reasons!
I did two years of a special ed major in college before switching over to computer science and I can say that the ed program I was in covered in depth how to teach and handle a class room, it focused on how to teach math to people who don't understand any concepts, and the department had additional offered classes if you wanted to do teach for america or inner city schooling.

Speaking with friends who have become professors they are often jealous of this because they were never given any kind of 'teaching' classes. Their under grad wasn't in education and their teaching experience was trial by fire teaching assistant jobs of handling undergrad college courses.

All that said, I grow tired of the arguments and articles of 'don't speak unless you've walked a thousand miles' which I felt as I read this article. Not all knowledge and understanding must derive from doing something to have a valid opinion. We need to treat teachers better and find better pay structures but I've found no harsher critics of teachers and our schools than the teachers I went to college with as they filter into the systems and find tired and broken systems in which they get no voice until they have 'tenure'.
Or to maybe put it even more bluntly: If you don't consider investigative reporting to be news, then "news" becomes a synonym for what we would generally call "propaganda".
I'll go with end result: the discussion has shifted from the manipulation stuff GG wrote about to censorship. Doesn't it look like a perfect example of successful manipulation?
>Reddit moderation is generally terrible as for larger traffic areas require full time moderators, and as a result of them being non-paid, you can end up with people running the show who otherwise wouldn't get hired to do so. Luck of the draw and early adoption are really key to being a mod in r/news or elsewhere. This also leads to abuses that exist likely due to their inability to exert such control elsewhere.

>Part of the reason why I like HN's moderation is you do not know who is generally doing the moderation work--same goes for places like 4chan if I might say. This prevents the sort of power tripping you will see on Reddit because there isn't a way to prove your worth. While I find some of the content posted here is not to my liking, I rarely have anything if at all to say about how the site is administered.

As someone who spends a lot of time on reddit, I totally agree. There are a few moderators who mod over hundreds of subreddits. There is too much room for gatekeeping and censorship. You see a lot of selective enforcement of the 'rules' and abuse of power.
(links below are NSFW)

I tried this experiment in the summer of last year. Did not work out well in my case, but may be someone will use this idea to execute better.

It starts with this - http://orgasms.org/promotion where to enter a promotion, you need to enter email address. Once u entered, you get in a queue like this - http://orgasms.org/promotion-status?email=johndoe%40example.... which tells you that you are Nth in the list of applied and current winning entry is 10th. So if you just applied, for you to get closer to 10th position you need to share it with you friends so they get applied too :)

There were no anti-fraud anything implemented, since it was just an experiment, but in real-world situation comprehensive IP/Cookies/etc detection of same user submission will be required obviously.
Can someone points to the actual dataset? The OECD website seems very busy at the moment.
.. which would imply that fraud was untraceable?
I don't think Core is garbage at all. I think there's a deeply ingrained culture of anti-intellectualism in US culture that needs to be nuked out of the school system, and I honestly couldn't care less what the collateral damage is.
Correction, if you own what you create and perform too well, you become rich.

Correction, it depends on where you was born and where you have lived.
So far only hobby stuff, so I only target my own devices, but it is quite easy to support multiple devices.

I am a bit older than C++, so I do know how to write portable code before we had VMs everywhere. :)
And the most important pattern:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1275646/python-3-and-stat...
Hrm. Maybe the difference I'm noticing is that if I click on text, Chrome will expand the surrounding tag (e.g. <p> or <a>) while FF will keep it closed.

I haven't done any side-by-side testing of Chrome and FF (and am currently not working), so I can't reproduce the issue now.
From a composition standpoint, that really is a rather excellent poster. The central gag is obvious, but there are several little things contributing to it. And the header motif is clever without overshadowing the main content.
Israel is putting lasers on commercial airliners
You can do that either if you click "compact view" on the top left. It shows you only a list then.
Joking aside, I see these people as the waste collectors of the web. Respect their work, but i wouldn't want to do it.
That's because they're not really "interns" they're just "software developers who are not old enough to actually hire yet because they're still finishing up the traditional college experience"
> The article is factual. There are only a few sentences of opinion at the end.

Are you aware of the contradiction inherent in your two sentences here?
I don't think the moderators are necessarily employed by the US Government. The gravitational pull of power, particularly state power, is something some people have a hard time resisting.

I am pretty shocked about the ban on RT as it seems like a legitimate news org that helps fill in the gaps in coverage.
After reading the article, my gut reaction was 'Oh this is an interesting article, I wonder what the HN comments have to say about it?'

Then I see the top comments and they all try to discredit Greenwald as a sensationalist trying to grab publicity at the expense of honest reddit moderators. I then mentally put less validity on the article and move on to the next link. However I can't help but question if somehow my reaction was engineered by someone else. Just a thought.
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Lots of interesting data, including "Daily Average Grubs"
Possibly. But I'm okay with recommendations by friends - sure they may have been influenced by advertising, but it was good enough for them to recommend it to me. I'm okay with them filtering all the noise out for me.

My argument is not that advertising is all around bad and nobody likes it - in fact I know plenty of people enjoy clever advertising, and probably many people are fine with using advertising as a deciding factor when making purchases.

But I don't. I'd rather no advertising influence me consciously or especially unconsciously. I regard most ads as an attempt by a marketing agent to subvert my rationality when I'm buying a product or service. Of course there's no way to get away from it altogether, and nobody is an entirely rational actor to start with. But I'd like to keep things as best as I can.

Additionally, I find even unobtrusive ads distracting. I've found that even seemingly small changes in day-to-day tasks can have an impact on my ability to sustain concentration, think clearly, and keep going to the end of the day. As another example of this, try going one week without listening to the radio on the way to work. That made a large noticeable difference in my workday. I've also found that watching TV, any TV, tends to disrupt my focus a little even hours after watching. So based on my personal experience, I've come to the conclusion that ads also have an effect on my concentration throughout the day, albeit a relatively smaller one.

Of course YMMV and they really might not influence you at all.
It's not dead, and it won't die. It's used more discriminately now, especially in the case of deeply depressed people, with good results.
This runs the risk of winning a "No shit Sherlock" award.
Webstorm is pretty awesome for Javascript, but then again what else can you expect from JetBrains?
HP launching new scholarship program for women in information security
No it's not that simple. When you get news from a community curated source, you get a say in how it's run. You're criticism helps shape how r/news is run. In a way, places like r/news depend on participants voicing their complaints.
I've come to the conclusion that he is a self-promoting hack. His primary concern should be disseminating the truth, not editorializing it on an ala carte basis.

His treatment of the docs is a disservice to the public.
Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange Sued in U.S. for ‘Misappropriation’
The first few paragraphs really overdramatize it. It makes it sound like the internet would completely cease to exist if something happened to the root DNS servers. It was so cheesy I just couldn't read anymore after that.
This article was obviously full of snark, but if the professor is really looking for an answer to his question, he can read up on the relevant law in his state and take a concealed carry class from a licensed instructor, where that information will be covered in great detail.
Which the beloved "objective" news does, uncritically rewriting press releases and cheerfully transcribing whatever spin government figures like to give under cover of anonymity. Because, and let's be blunt, "objective" news is what partisans call reporting about politicians they like that doesn't make them uncomfortable.
They left out all the law firm summer clerks.
Also a number of interns at these companies are graduate students.
To be honest, tumbling such large amount of BTC serves no purpose because you overflow the rest of the people tumbling.
I cant understand anything that you wrote. Yes you can distribute keys in a blockchain. After Alice grabs a key out of the blockchain how does she know it is Bob's key and not Eve's?
Crowdsourcing the diagnosis for all our weird and terrible injuries
Just so we're clear: when you say "electric shock therapy" you're talking about electroconvulsive therapy, which uses a strong shock to induce a seizure (under anaesthesia). It's actually the seizure itself which is therapeutic, which should give you an idea of the severity of the conditions it's used to treat: ECT is a last-resort treatment which can be lifesaving for severe depression, schizophrenia, or catatonia which are unresponsive to medication. There are less extreme alternatives being studied, but as of today ECT is still the magic bullet in some severe cases.

Anyway, this article is not about ECT, but transcranial direct current stimulation. tCDS is a completely different concept that uses much lower voltage, applied continuously in the direction of neuron activation, to promote activity and possibly growth. It's been used by healthy individuals to try to boost cognition, and it's certainly exciting to hear it may have real therapeutic indications as well.
Procurement Made Easy? Absolute Commerce thinks so.
So the real question is does the public get what the public wants?

Well, not really. Not when creating a new subreddit is free and easy to do. If a significant minority of a subreddit audience dislikes a decision they can easily set up their own community.
It looks like a neat editor, but it's a shame it's (as of yet) closed source. Especially in today's world of dozens of useful products springing up every few months and going inactive shortly thereafter. I'm not usually a religious FOSSer, but I think every editor that has gone OSS has benefited immensely from the move.
[new] Bitcoin Kingpin Admits Everyone's Money Is Gone
Does anyone else think that this Flappy type craze is going to help non-gamers come more and more into challenging games?

Like I've seen people playing more and more games in the last five years. I wonder if the tides are changing.
> or maybe limited my use of TypeScript to just type annotations.

I was under the impression that was most if not all of typescript. What else remains? Classes?`
And if you've ever REALLY used reddit, you'll know that mods are often paid by outside parties to influence their sub-reddits, or in some cases those mods ARE the outside parties and use their subreddit to divert traffic to their sites and away from competitors.
Like HAML or Jade?
Are you saying there were no phones with a touch screen before apple?

There's a difference between doing thing and doing things right and going the extra mile and putting in the effort to polish it up making it use friendly and developer friendly by having good documentation.

Electric car existed before Tesla but nowhere as good as the Tesla, rockets existed before SpaceX but they were extremely expensive and mostly funded by taxpayer money touch screen phone existed before Apple but they were awful.

So what's your point?
Be careful with that if you use data-binding in your templates, such as Knockout.js . Visual Studio doesn't know the types of your viewmodels, so those templates are not indexed and not subject to refactoring.
If you've ever paid attention to Reddit, you'll have noticed that the way in which subreddit rules are enforced is neither unbiased nor clear.
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I'm still on an earlier version of TypeScript, so I don't know if later versions have fixed this. We ran into trouble when creating knockout view models in type script. Basically, TypeScript was losing track of 'this', and the trick of using var self=this in the the "constructor" wasn't valid. We made it work, but it wasn't pretty and it certainly wasn't idiomatic typescript.

Basically the problem was that we were trying to write TypeScript like we were writing C#, instead of treating typescript like a layer on top of JavaScript.
I wonder if a fair portion of that is a housing stipend so the student can relocate for the short duration of the internship.
Read the article again. He didn't record the calls made to him. He recorded the calls
after he connected them to the correct phone numbers(FBI, SS).

The people didn't think they were speaking to the FBI. They were speaking to the FBI.
To be part of the PD does not mean to have all the same ideas about every topic, this is part of a democratic process.
His treatment beats the shit out of how the rest of the newsmedia have been treating them. These things are only getting coverage by other outlets because of Greenwald and the people working with him.
Considering the possibility that any system managed from a compromised device could be compromised to any degree, how does the use of static code analysis and testing in the future uncompromise those system

It doesn't. But since you were relying on a closed-source system in the first place, you are already screwed - if that's the level of security you require.
Scrapping is only possible because the value of original content creation is 0% and the value of the toll collecting aggregation is 100% via ads. This is a structural problem in the universe Goggle created, not some anomaly that can be handled by ranking.
Wechat – the biggest messaging platform but had a broken website
I wish this story didn't read like a novel, and actually gave me the meat of the information more quickly. I feel like the way the author told the story diluted the importance of it.
I recently read this and it seems to me that fraud is quite popular regardless of the social status http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-30/spains-growt...
I'm not sure what the implication at the end is about public policy? Even if we supposedly do not understand teaching, that does not mean we can't form opinions about the current system and develop policies for it. That's precisely how politics work in every other field.

How many people who want to ban fracking actually understand fracking or precisely what the real risks are? How many people want to ban nuclear energy and don't understand any of the actual risks of modern nuclear power plants?

Politics suck for anyone that isn't a politician. Each industry must learn how to deal with that aspect. Writing an appeal to emotion on the Washington Post is not going to sway anyone. It just resonates with people already on their side and sounds like whining to people that aren't.