skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that this is being upvoted, it is totally factually incorrect.

First off, they did not get banned because they "vote gamed/spammed reddit" and they did not get banned from reddit, they got banned from r/news. Why did they get banned from r/news?

The reason that was first given was vote gaming and spam, after a lot of comments asking for proof, none was given. When the moderator who banned the site was asked why he banned the site, he said "simply because it's the Kremlin."

RT posted a good summary of this whole thing: http://rt.com/news/rt-reddit-ban-kremlin-261/

Interestingly enough, the moderator who banned them "Bipolarbear0" has recently been receiving a lot of criticism for many things, among them is censorship of the many subreddits he moderates. This was recently brough up by Glenn Greenwald himself for the censorship of his article on jtrig.

Now in regards to whether RT has been spreading propoganda is factually false. RT is funded by RIA Novosti which is a Kremlin owned news organization, it owns many, many news organizations, one of which is RT. RT was described by Putin himself as created to spread an alternative perspective on the news. What does that mean?

It means that unlike most western news organizations, RT would not use a western bias, but instead have a Russian bias. The reason many people liked RT is that it brought more independent and centrist views on the news with regards to world news, but many disliked that it had an obviously pro russian bias in russian news. As a result RT had on many people who US news would never bring on, the prime example is Noam Chomsky who has been censored from US mainstream media for years.

I digress, the main point is that RT was formerly a very independent news source with regards to world news, while having a russian bias with regards to russian news. The reason people like RT is that it offers a different perspective to the american mainstream media in a way that allows us to be able to draw our own conclusions instead of just "lapping up" US propoganda (which by the way was legalized in last years NDAA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...).

So maybe next time you analyze other news sources, opinions, and world views, you should account for cultural relativism. Because the only reason your comment is being upvoted is that it has a clear American bias.
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Why are you so happy? Did you sell a startup or something?
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I said "allude to", which still applies to your whole quote.

This "conversation" has been terrible because you've been nitpicking for seemingly its own sake, while completely ignoring any substance of what I've said.
AFAIK stolen BTC has never been clawed back and there is no consensus about whether the nemo dat doctrine applies. BTC will be stolen as long as there is still one place to launder it.
Unfortunately this is reality. Happened to me on my first company. I'm hoping to get my current startup cashflow positive before a series A so I can get a revolver instead. My previous company was user-based so it was equity or nothing
Actual article title: "What Facebook can do with a $60 million drone fleet."
I don't think Netflix's DRM is implemented in the browser.
> Fox News and CNN are not any better

Yes, they actually are. Imagine if Fox got state sponsorship, renamed itself to "America Today" and set up shop in Russia, trying to create viral pro-US content under a generic "AT" banner. Even people here in the state would go bonkers over it, and many of them would be Fox audience members.

You can say there's propagandizing going on, but to really examine the two next to one another there's no comparison.

> You think you exactly know what's happening in Ukraine and who's to blame? I wouldn't be that sure.

I think that's a broader point that doesn't stick anything to any particular news agency either. IMO if you want to say people should back up and examine the news more closely, you shouldn't do it from a shaky "all is propaganda at the same level as RT" podium.
It would not solve the authentication problem, but you can use command line ftp to download Firefox from a new installation, assuming it's available or can be installed with Windows setup.

Start command prompt. Enter

ftp ftp.mozilla.org
ftp
ftp
cd /pub/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/

get "Firefox Setup 27.0.1.exe"

There is a stub installer in the same directory, which will download the full package and install it, if you prefer.
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Unlike alma maters or perhaps Xoogler status, I don't think SAT scores ever comes up casually in a conversation, and where it does I doubt someone scoring 1500/2400 would be mixed up for someone scoring 1500/1600.
Nope, but I've finally made a life that works for me with a job I love that lets me travel the world like I want and still accomplish something meaningful. :)
Not yet, I will probably do so later though.
It was 2 minutes. In less than 10 seconds I was downvoted and then comment disabled.
In some cases, it's a speed bump that just ensures that you can do a search and read simple instructions. For example, if you want to turn on Android developers tools, you can find out by searching on "turn on Android developer tools".

Basic literacy and ability to search the web is not that high a bar. There are lots of other gotchas you'll have to overcome to be an Android developer; it's not really a nice programming environment for beginners.

This is part of a larger trend where programming environments are getting increasingly creaky and complicated. Java started out simple, but it's not anymore. The web started out simple, but it's not anymore. Every so often, development environments need a reboot and I think we're long overdue.
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Behaviour design, or how to make our apps more human
Nice article about behaviour design and some basic points.
You can also define methods without labels:

- (void):(int)arg :(int)anotherArg :(int)someArg
{
NSLog(@"%d %d %d", arg, anotherArg, someArg);
}

[self:1:2:3];

Try it. It compiles. It runs. How great is that? In fact, even Apple has done this!

+ (id)functionWithControlPoints:(float)c1x :(float)c1y :(float)c2x :(float)c2y;

So does this make this the best option? Should we even name our methods?

Of course, that is silly. Naming our methods appropriately tells us a lot. It means we don't have to check the documentation as much, which means we can effectively write faster. We're communicating with our code and our teammates more efficiently. The same holds true for explicitly typing method return values.

So ask yourself this: what's the default storage mechanism for a property, assign or strong? Now what was it when ARC first was developed? That's right, it was different. So you could see how someone might be confused reading your code if you weren't explicit. They might spend time looking in the wrong places for a bug. So why not be explicit? It's not about you, it's about everyone else who is left with your code.

So Brad Cox doesn't explicitly type his returns. Neither did Nextstep sometimes. That was 20+ years ago. We didn't have fancy IDEs with autocomplete; keystrokes were a luxury. That's probably why they couldn't put the 'e' on 'creat' in libc.

Last couple of Objective-C articles making it to the top of Hacker News have been bad. Just a kind warning to any budding Objective-C developers: just because it made it onto Hacker News doesn't make it good.
Why is it one of the most important?
Those who are giving brickbats to SimpleCV might be right but this seems an extremely useful thing to me.

In the robotics courses we often build robots that pick up balls etc. So far we used either openCV or Matlab for image processing but generallly turned out to be pathetic solutions given the steep learning curve with openCV.

I will surely give a try to SimpleCV.
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A brand new language is the best choice for security software?
Yep, it's also a good practice for programming. Describe every single-letter variable in the README, which everyone obviously reads and memorizes before diving into the code. I still do this as a throwback to the days when we wrote code on parchment that cost a week's wages per square cubit.
To be precise, SSLeay was discontinued when its authors were hired by RSA. They're now under non-competes and couldn't change the license if they wanted to.
It sounded a lot like the interviewer didn't have enough expertise to do much over key of "Kalman filter" as sounding vaguely big data-ey. Too bad.
No offense, but you're stretching credulity here. Even better, if you're giving a gift of a Dell computer, help the person you're giving it to to install Firefox after the fact and show them what wonderful free software is out there on the internet.
What's the difference between the green and read blocks/boids? — The menu QuickTime movie didn't load for me.
Um, sorry, I don't follow. Can you expand on that?
I believe it is possible to set up ssh-agent to ask you locally if you want to respond to a challenge, listing the machine that requested it.

In either case, unless you use different passwords for every machine, ssh-agent is already a net gain.
The difference is that the ideal that Barbie portrays is definitely negative; in general, it's that a woman is only "ideal" if she is beautiful and a "good wife", so to speak. What she does outside of being subservient to Ken is secondary, when it's defined at all.

With boys' action figures, the "ideal" that they push is rather more positive; the characters are "judged" on what they do, who they save, that they beat the bad guy. Their looks are very much secondary.
The issue is that there is currently not a clear line for many laypeople between what parts of the computer are normal to access, and what parts are not. As the moment telling someone to go into the console is not more suspicious then telling them to go to the control panel.

What the proposed dialog would do is inform users that the console is someplace that they probably do not want to be.
So corrected.

If my project is "SecureTalk" with the tag line "the NSA will never know", and it's secure because of OpenSSL, then will I have to mention that text every time I use the word "SecureTalk" in a tweet/ advertisement?

What about "HushTalk"? "MumsTheWord"? "SafeBanking"?

If I add optional rot-13 encryption, so there are now two cryptosystems, then can I pretend that SecureTalk doesn't "really" require OpenSSL, so I don't need the advertising?
They show up all over the place in time series and more general random signals. Those are just less than incredibly popular domains, in no small part I feel due to the greater tool sophistication needed to make a dent.
Ask HN: What do you think about SkillSelect (Aussie skilled immigration)?
Website : http://www.immi.gov.au/skills/skillselect/

I have been thinking whether it is a good idea to apply (and spend around 5 grands) to get the skilled work/business permit.

How is the tech job market in Australia?
I worked for a smaller stock media company, one of many, that was swallowed up by getty. If they can now use their capital and stature to run this type of business model then good for them...but it's just an experiment in the long run. Who is their competitor? Shutterstock? I guess they couldn't buy them.
This is a good idea on paper, but it feels a little "Harrison Bergeron". I agree that there are major problems in our culture with body image, but Barbie seems like a minor culprit compared to advertising, fashion magazines, Photoshop [1], and celebrity culture. And I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with a certain level of idealization and fantasy in abstract representations like Barbie and He-Man.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(South_Park)
The original idea of the javascript console was that it would be used by developers, to debug their own sites.
You demanded a citation for "Given the difficulties people have in converting Bitcoins to dollars". I guess it's up in the air whether there is a 'some' or 'all' implied before the people.
I think the advantage of using a separate but privileged account is not as great as you think. If an attacker compromises that privileged account, chances are they will own root anyways. Why bother with the complexity then?
I'm so excited about this! I'm currently drafting the last few chapters for Explore Flask (web development book funded via Kickstarter) and the whole self-publishing process is a mess when it comes to formatting. It looks like the Markdown + Latex solution with things like boxes, code blocks and tables pre-configured is an awesome way to do things. I'm almost certainly going to switch to this toolchain from pandoc.

I'll also look into using the sales / hosting platform too. I'm a little hesitant to put that in someone else's hands, but you guys have done such a great job that I'll probably end up giving in.

Can't wait to start working with this!
Everyone has bias, just like you could constructively argue that government-based PR is propaganda until proven otherwise.

The Communists wouldn't even have considered it a bad thing to be accused of engaging in "propaganda"; it was simply an alternate means of warfare in the class struggle.

But the parent comment's point is that Fox News's market position essentially requires bias; it is biased news that their market is seeking, in reaction to other media coverage biased the other way (true or false, that's the perception of the core market segment).

Similarly many progressives and liberals watch programs that starts with a bias more favorable to their views.

Even presenting fact can hardly be done without bias. You might see the same fact as "NSA SCOOPS UP HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF TEXT MESSAGES AROUND THE WORLD EVERY DAY" or "NSA stores 3% of SMS traffic captured on foreign networks" on different channels with different biases, and they might both be right.
I took the SAT 4-ish years ago (junior year HS), and this is just wishful thinking.

I mean, all you've said is what is pretty self-evidently true, almost tautological: Be smart and you'll do well on the test. Well, obviously. If you were a genius you would not need to study very much at all for most things, SAT or not.

The point is that the best way to practice for the SAT, assuming you need practice is to take many tests.
You can defeat this without any extensions, here is how:

Since this only applies to Chrome, so do the instructions:

1) Open netflix.com

2) Open developer tools.

3) Go to Sources tab.

4) Click on the tiny icon for "Show Navigator" on the left.

5) Find the JavaScript file that has:
(function(){try{var $_console$$=console;Object.defineProperty(window,"console",{get:function(){if($_console$$._commandLineAPI)throw"Sorry, for security reasons, the script console is deactivated on netflix.com";return $_console$$},set:function($val$$){$_console$$=$val$$}})}catch($ignore$$){}})();

For me this is cdn1.nflxext.com/FilePackageGetter/sharedSystem/pkg-nflxsrc-*

6) For me the offending line is line 3. Click on the line number, this will set a breakpoint.

7) Reload the page, now the Script will pause before running line 3.

8) Switch to the Console tab.

9) Run:
Object.defineProperty(window, "console", {configurable: false});

10) Switch back to the Sources tab and press the resume script button or F8.

11) Enjoy console access again.
I don't think that "talking" and "analyzing" is a dichotomy. (As shown by the very helpful feedback on this thread.) We've been watching the numbers closely, and we'll continue to do so. If we find that there are merchants for which this works horribly, we'll absolutely rethink our approach. (And they're of course free to not use Checkout.) Coffees drunk and lunches consumed -- i.e., HN threads continued in a higher-bandwith medium -- are orthogonal.
Correct, for Facebook.

Details: https://www.facebook.com/selfxss

Note that they have a checkbox on the above page where you agree to the downside, and the console is turned back on (and it appears to work just fine)
Running Chromium 31.0.1650.63. Javascript still works from the URL bar.
The thing is, this isn't all that important...
I think there's generally selection bias about what part of an exposition makes the "a-ha" hit in two ways. First, your a-ha moment may not be the same as someone else's, but you're less likely to observe theirs. Second, your own a-ha is likely the product of a larger production than the moment itself of which you're most attuned to.

A good mathematical author must be guarding against both of these selection biases.
> It's alternatively phrased as this: "Would you like receive 4 dollars, or would you like a 40% chance to receive 10 dollars?"

The problem is that the rational answer to this depends on a huge amount of background information, eg, the value of certainly having some money, versus the benefit of the additional money.
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Yes, the bottom line is that Netflix is sending you code executed on your own machine. You, as the user, should have full access to inspect the executed code. Obfuscated or minified code should only be used as a bandwidth saving device, and not to hide the true functionality from the user. If the browser is seeing it, why can't the user?

Disabling a feature of the user's browser is absolutely absurd. If you want to hide from the user whats going on then that code needs to run on the server.

Can you imagine opening an image in Photoshop and because of some flag half the tools disappear? Yeah, me either, and images don't even run code.
Or how about this:

Crazy, huh?
Google please fix this bug in Chrome. Websites SHOULD NOT be able to override the console.
Calling it a "right" instead of a permission doesn't change much. "Digital Rights Management" doesn't manage rights under your definition (unless pause or fastforward is a right).
The problem is that the GPL willingly refuses to permit advertizing clauses. Is there a congent argument about why an advertizing clause is a limitation of freedom?

The GPL doesn't specifically set out to prevent advertising clauses. It is a side-effect of being incompatible with "other restrictions" - for example, a requirement that you license some third party software or patent in order to redistribute GPL-covered code. Instead of trying to specifically enumerate and disallow all such restrictions that someone might come up with, which is a fool's errand, the GPL disallows any other restrictions.
Very cool project. Just in case if people are interested in Python for something like this, I've been using some code to do this (slides): http://bit.ly/pythonclass - Its in alpha and I've been using this to teach my python class. Haven't pushed it to github/bitbucket, but I would love to share (or work together with others) if there is demand.
Silverlight is a browser plugin, not a protocol.
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Very interesting. Since Checkout brings in an element of the developer contributing a user to Stripe via 'remember me', I'd love to know the tradeoff here.

What is the probability today, that when a user of my app hits Checkout, they will already have a credit card saved which makes signup faster?
...Fox News is not state sponsored...

So a privately sponsored propaganda outlet is oh-so-fundamentally-different, how?

As the parent says, Fox plays the tune of he-who-pays-for-the-piper. That this is Rupert Murdock and not a state really doesn't change the situation.

Edit: It is transparently obvious that Fox News doesn't put out anything and everything that will get their demographic excited and that instead Fox News puts out a cohesive line of what it's owners and their allies want it's listeners to think. That makes distinction between Fox output and RT output nominal.

And hey, at least an RT host had enough guts to want credibility. That actually speaks better for RT than Fox.
The plaintext passwords may well be sitting somewhere in memory even on Linux (e.g. see [1]) but I do agree that the organised caching of such passwords in Windows is a weakness.

I'm quite surprised that LSASS.EXE is not protected in the same manner as AUDIODG.EXE [2]. Just goes to show how DRM protection is considered more important than system security.

[1] http://philosecurity.org/pubs/davidoff-clearmem-linux.pdf

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg4...
Hmm....lets see here

"Goggle doesn't do any filtering"

"..doesn't willingly lead people to certain material"

Are you sure we are taking about the same Google?
I don't want to take away from your argument, I agree with you 100%, but according to the article it's £16.26 or $27.18, so it's even worse than your $18. It's a ripoff and maybe they could be subject to fraud charges instead :p
For me, "speak out" implies mostly unsolicited statements of opinion. Negative or positive does not play a role. Replying to a solicited survey does not constitute speaking out. Representing the results of a survey as a mass "speaking-out" gives far more impact to the article than it would otherwise have, as if it were some spontaneous outpouring of opinion on the subject.

Regardless, I thought HN had a policy against editorialising article titles.
Those side effects are well-covered in the prescription information. There's a reason so many mentally ill people choose to stop taking medication.
Good job everyone
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Why stop there? How about paying them not to install Windows, or any OS for that matter?
Get rid of `this` in your JavaScript code
Let the websites do whatever they want. You can always work around it. The point of such measures is inconvenience.
Fantastic stuff. My first experiences in digital design were from the video side so I used to do keyframe animations in Final cut pro, Apple's Motion, and After Effects. Seeing experiences/animations on par with video using just the DOM is very very exciting for me and can't wait to see your post when you get around to it.
Long time depression and PTSD sufferer here. Drugs help but are not the only answer which seems to be how they are seen in New Zealand. Talking about my problems (not just with professionals but also other sufferers) and my history helps more than the medication. I am on Sertraline (Zoloft) and some other meds and it certainly does help me however it is more of a "it makes things not so difficult" than "it makes me better". For example it makes me not get so upset/angry about things that I would do before. I used to go from 0 to 10 in a second, now it is very, very difficult to get me above an 8 in the anger scales. I am much calmer and that makes me happier.

Obviously these medications are still hugely unknown though and everyone does react differently. My personal advice for those suffering with depression (and any other mental health issue) is to get some talking therapy where you can. As I said it doesn't have to be a professional, often just somebody who kind-of-understands is a huge help!
There's huge variability among startups.

There are small startups; no one knows whether these will succeed, even if they're YC startups.

There are big(ger) startups that are clearly on the way up. Pinterest. Dropbox. Airbnb. Uber. Snapchat.

Then there are medium sized but fast growing startups. Quora. Stripe. etc.

The latter two categories are obvious choices.
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