skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used this webserver with a simple php script.

"webserver" is a hyperlink, but it just links back to the blog. Anyone know what he's referring to here?
I run several Twitter "Bot Nets".

First, They aren't really nets, they all run on a single server (ok they run on appengine so they aren't quite a single but they aren't a "bot net"). But they control about 7500 accounts, and I have about 80k accounts I own.

Second, Some of them do have real uses. They respond to certain events when they happen. Might be a keyword in a news story, might be something else. Sometimes that is to get the word out for good, sometimes for bad.

Let's say you have a company you like, and you want to drive readership of good new. My bots would provide positive reinforcement to the authors and sharers of those articles. Like giving HN karma, but on twitter. The person who shared the article sees "imaginary bot favorited your tweet" and suddenly thinks "I should tweet about that company more often".

Other times I use the bots to do things like "pruning" bad ideas. I have a bot that looks like a Nazi. Acts like a nazi and talks like a hick. When certain racist remarks or bits of misinformation are shared it responds with positive reinforcement. Many people then re-evaluate if they want to say thing the Nazi agrees with.

Rarely do I use my "bots" for nefarious purposes. Sometimes for personal gain, but not for anything "evil".

-Brandon Wirtz

The NSA knows where to find me too.
People Overload Website, Hoping To Help Search For Missing Jet
If we were scared, we wouldn't have written it.
2048 in 42 lines of code
Its called journalism.
Good news for Debian (base OS used by Steam). I hope this results in better video driver development and kernel contributions.
Yeah what happened to that? It looked interesting and completely vanished off the face of the Earth.
Sweden is number 7 in nominal per capita GDP. A couple spots above the US. I would not consider that a "poor" country.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nom...
Macs have sucked, do suck, and likely will suck for all time to come as far as gaming is concerned. They ship with shitty graphics cards, have bad cooling, and there's simply not much in the way of interest from Apple in supporting gaming.
There are minimum federal standards:

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/gasolinefuels/rfg/areas.htm

So the state specific requirements only really matter if they exceed the federal standards.

It's pretty likely that reformulated gasoline is effective in reducing smog (I think CO is the big target).
I do like micro services. As a general architecture for new systems, but also as wrappers around existing legacy applications. It makes integration and evolution of old applications a lot smoother with newer technology stacks.

Once fully "micro serviced" http://yobriefca.se/blog/2013/04/29/micro-service-architectu... you can replace/evolve one service at the time, instead of more costly and risky whole applications at the time. A natural pattern to evolve those chosen services is strangler application pattern also described by Fowler http://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html
Thanks, this crashed my browser!
"One main reason for using services as components (rather than libraries) is that services are independently deployable. If you have an application [4] that consists of a multiple libraries in a single process, a change to any single component results in having to redeploy the entire application."

Sounds like some time an research on why we call something a component and then cannot replace it at runtime. I understand erlang has some features in this area.
This is not a particularly informative article but I see great value in owning a Twitter botnet. As one example, imagine negative news about a major public company starts trending. That would certainly be a money-making opportunity. There are also hard-to-disprove rumors that you could blackmail high profile people with. Celebrities probably don't want to be trending on Twitter for having an affair, even if it is a fake report.

So I am not at all surprised that people are investing in building up tons of what appear to be legit, active accounts.
Wine really only "works" for 2d apps.
Pidgin/gaim fan here - thank you. I think I started using it just before the time of the name change and it's had an enormously positive impact on my life. That might sound silly but it was one of the few Linux programs I knew how to install and configure at the time.
The person(s) who developed this have absolutely no clue what their doing at all.
It makes sense why so many people have an aversion to open office plans, but the point of them is not optimization of individual productivity.

Some of the stated reasons for open plans are collaboration, cost savings, sense of team, etc... Whether or not those are valid metrics which are actually improved by open plan layouts is a different question than a single employee's perception of them.

When discussing private or semi-private office plans there are still some important things to consider.

One that would be important to me is access to natural light which is greatly reduced by walls or cubicles. Another that would be important to employers would be the modularity of an office. Fixed walls are a huge nuisance and costly to adjust with any company growth.
>>That it is even questioned and needing a scientific study is bewildering.

The Internet has a lot of white knights.
> So the state specific requirements only really matter if they exceed the federal standards.

Which is exactly the case in California, hence the higher prices.
If you're looking to stay local check out http://builtincolorado.com/jobs

Also Sendgrid is constantly hiring more devs in Boulder and Denver.
> Patents are designed to protect an implementation of an idea, not the idea itself

Nope. In fact, one doesn't even have to have an implementation whatsoever in order to be granted a patent.

Just reading the rest of the article, it seems like ya'll don't know a whole lot about patent law.

I don't either, but I do know enough to know that forcing patent holders to "go after the largest infringer" is a silly idea. How would you determine "largest"?
They can still play spoiler in the primary. In fact, might be more of a factor there: I'm more comfortable voting for a third party candidate when I know that I'll be able to still have effect in keeping out the greatest evil down the line.

Obviously, if ballot access or funds are still apportioned based on general election results, that's inappropriate.
Ask HN: Can you score blogs by truthfulness?
I'm wondering if there's a way to find blogs according to a custom search algorithm.

I know Reddit and HN rank posts by votes. But choosing stories that way suffers from side effects like:

(1) a story being popular because it's so new

(2) a story being liked by a lot of people because of the way it's written

(3) a story that is surprisingly eye opening says something people are not willing to believe, so they don't upvote it

(4) something being incorrect.

I'd prefer to read stories ranked by other measures. The most important one for me being: whether what they say is true.

Is there an algorithm, tool or service that scores stories by truthfulness?

edit: changed truthiness to truthfulness
He's been building web apps professionally for over 10 years, and he didn't think to right click somewhere (anywhere) and "Inspect Element"? That's the first thing I did on that page.

EDIT: That came off a bit more snarky (snarkier?) than I meant. To the OP: If you inspect the element, you can then delete it with the backspace/delete key to get to the link that you need, which ultimately leads to a separate subdomain that doesn't seem to exhibit this problem: https://delecorp.delaware.gov/eCorp/LoginAnnualReportsCLF

Don't be too quick to write the site off as "utterly dysfunctional". Any one of us could have made a similar mistake, and once you get past that glaring bug (which only appears on pages served over SSL), it's not bad for a state government site.

Perhaps you or someone else could get in touch with them to explain the issue? http://corp.delaware.gov/contact.shtml
sending you an email!
The scandal wasn't over denial of tax-exempt status, it was about using the threat of denial as a form of political repression. It's similar to police harassment: the fact that they let you go eventually doesn't excuse the abuse.
uTorrent provides this feature, so I would assume the protocol does.
Any alternative for Firefox?
How I Turned A Case Of Beer Into A $130,000 Gig
I use double opt in if there's only a one-way benefit but this happens rarely, maybe 10% of the intros. Usually, when I'm introing, I try to find mutual benefit and state it clearly in the email.

I find these intros both easier to write (since it's not an expenditure of social capital on my part) and, generally, way more appreciated by both parties.
Not bad.

My new simple algo is:

1. Down until you cannot go down

2. Left

3. Down until you cannot go down

4. Right

5. Go to 1.
"Just get it done; or we'll get someone in here who will happily violate the known laws of the universe"
I worked on big government projects using military standards that more or less imposed the dreaded 'waterfall'.

What was our mantra? "Design a little, code a little, test a little".

Agile re-invented or popularized various ideas that had been around for a long time. As always, you adjust for the problem at hand. Royce, the so-called inventor of waterfall (he presented it as an obviously flawed concept, a straw man), argued for copious documentation. Documentation makes a lot of sense when trying to built a jet-liner, and is often a time and money sink if you are trying to write, say, research code for computer vision.

So, "revolutionary"? I dunno? Certainly many places had taken the deliberately flawed Royce model as the way to do things, and so there was a big change as far as that goes. But I can't recall a time where some form of iterative/evolutionary development method was not known about and practiced, or where decision making was favored over process.

To make this clearer - the Royce-ers patted themselves on the back, and then got hopelessly entangled with process. Yourdon came along. Wow, was that a great process - which everyone got entangled with. Then there was Booch..... And now, we have Agile. The details vary, to be sure, but the fundamentals remain the same. Some good ideas for approaching engineering a solution gets turned into conferences, endless books and training, independent consultants, certifications, requirements to be certified to win contracts, and on and on.

I'm old.
The person I hate the most living today or ever: Feinstein.
Disney in Talks to Buy YouTube Network Maker Studios for $500 Million
Yes. I can stuff my ears with wads of $100 bills to cancel the noise from peasants.
Calling them components seems reasonable to me. You generally can't replace components of physical machines while they're running either.

Edit: By machines I meant the physical world we borrow our vocabulary for abstractions from, not servers. You can't change the tires on a car while driving it, or the belts on a vacuum while cleaning.
Missing woman unwittingly joins search party looking for herself
Obfuscation is a first line of defense for social-network bot nets.

If you remember, a couple weeks ago someone uncovered a massive bot net on Facebook, that liked the most random things. This bot net could also be paid to like a specific page or person, but it would be lost in the noise of liking everything else.

Even if there is a lot of noise, I would try to track down any correlations between these bots and any other twitter accounts and/or their content - to see if even something small (R^2 < .20) falls out.

Twitter for sure knows about it though since they have server logs.
Snowden Inc.
I was also working on a 2048 AI, but you beat me to it! Nice job.

I was at an early stage, my scoring is just the game score (which apparently is flawed!) so nothing fancy. My approach to the large branching factor with the random tiles was just to ignore them and continue the search with a random one until there are less than N tiles free (I empirically found 4/5 to be good), where I perform a full search and apply a simple mean to the resulting scores. Mine is not even minimax, just a simple depth-first search. It wins between 1/4 and 1/5 of the time in a small sample of 200 games, how does yours perform?

This would be a great AI competition! Too bad it takes so long to run lots of games (mine is ~10 turns a second).

I wonder if web workers would speed it up.
Knowing history is extremely useful. You'll find that it puts everything you know about the current world into a context, and it'll help you navigate life more easily.
Ahh good catch. That got messed up during refactoring the original code. Thanks to the person who submitted the fix on github too.
care to share why? I've been using it for a couple years now.
Collectively agreeing on what is "true" is not an easy problem. The crowdsourced fact-checking of Wikipedia is probably what is the closest to what you are looking for.
How is this different from the popcorn time app that was posted here a couple days ago? Any reason this is better?
200 million consumer records left exposed in Experian security oversight
That all strikes me as being incredibly rigid for a process called "agile".
How are microservices really different from SOA?
I guess it's for selling followers.

However, you could also use it to poison the kind of metrics companies like DataSift use. A lot of people use metrics like that to make decisions. E.g. a news network might bend it's editorial stance depending on what was trending among its demographic.
Couldn't Google's Project Shield be a nice gesture here for sites that are doing 'the good thing' when they're succumbing under the (positive) attention? It's meant as a DDoS protection measure, but the actual outcome is pretty much the same, namely that the original server can't handle the load and can only offer spotty service or no service at all.

https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/en/

They've done other things after disaster struck, and it'd prove both their kindness, prowess and the sturdyness of their infrastructure. Additionally, the site in question would probably fare better, giving people more incentive to participate and (hopfeully) deliver faster results than they're getting now.
Feinstein... Yet another corporatist appeasing political hack that has as much self-awareness as she does ethics.
This. I'd suspect that they'd use it to 'forum slide' on twitter or hijack and destroy any viral spread of information/leaks.
If you lived here you'd understand. NJ people are just like NY they have no time to get out of their car & deal with that bull, especially with bad weather an entire season. We also have the refineries here & we get cheaper gas almost always as a result. It's been challenged MANY times but the damn GOP old folks don't want to get it go.
What point were you trying to make? I assumed you weren't talking about rich assholes getting evicted for unconscionable behavior, since that would be completely irrelevant to the discussion about gentrification (at least, as far as I could tell). Instead, I fuzzily matched your argument to the nearest one that I thought made sense in context ("they could have found an even less sympathetic postergirl for evictees if that was their agenda") and I answered the fuzzily matched argument.

It seems you were talking about rich assholes getting evicted for unconscionable behavior after all. Sorry, but I still don't see what they have to do with gentrification. Explain?
Objects vs. Functions round 1: Currying vs. Instantiation
The Markov stuff seems like such a poor approach. Though you can get by with it in 140 characters better than other places.

Twitter provides a public stream of tweets. Simply pull tweets out of that, if it doesn't contain another users name or url, etc. Distribute out to one of your bots, weighted by chattiness. Get fancy and have some sort of baysian filtering for what category bucket it falls into and give your bots interests.
from http://www.hellosign.com/info/legal

"HelloSign authenticates document signers so you know who is signing your documents. Any person signing a document must either have login information for HelloSign, or have received in their email account a request for signature."

Do you verify the e-mail receiver as being the correct person? How does this work with the law?
"Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars"

Of course the cliche "shitty little photo sharing startup" runs perfectly all the time 24x7 no down time no code errors.

How about checking back in a day and seeing if the problem has been fixed at least?

So a site isn't working. Happens quite frequently, right? Happened to me trying to access HN last week and a few times before. Happens when I am trying to get to netflix occasionally.

Doesn't mean they aren't aware or aren't working on it. Nice for the OP to try and pile on them of course as if it's all an issue of the government screwing up.
Enemies of the Internet 2014: entities at the heart of surveillance
Need to exterminate roaches quickly? Gas chamber your house. Save yourself from numerous diseases... I mean c'mon, you couldn't think of any legit use of poison gas technology?
XBMC is probably the biggest media centre software package in the world. It has a huge audience and is incredibly expandible via plug-ins.
CFEngine 3 cleaned up a lot of mess. The promises I write look completely different in it - clean, understandable (even weeks later).
> We do not claim that the microservice style is novel or innovative, its roots go back at least to the design principles of Unix.

And that's the first thing that I thought.
That depends quite a bit on the machine. For example servers.
Standard Life do it too, for their online account servicing. The website is still up, and you can log in, but it refuses to give you any information.
Satoshi Birds
Apple doesn't read or store iMessages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_network
You meant "that won't exist".
In this case, what we lack is more a mental health support net than a social welfare safety net.
I'll be the first to tell you I'm not an expert in patent law but the point I'm trying to make is this: if patents on software are truly about protecting legitimate interests and not intended to encourage anti-competitive behavior, then we could fix a lot of what's wrong by requiring patent-holders to only sue up, as one example.
Sure you can with OSGi/Java. Its made for this, osgi is component oriented programming. Its awesome.
Actually crowd sourcing ideas on where the flight went can help authorities. The us military has considered implementing their own gambling markets for acts of terrorism, here is the first link I came across:

http://reason.com/archives/2003/07/30/betting-on-terror
I used to feel that way sometimes but I ended up fixing it by mechanizing the process to a significant extent (note: I still write each one out completely by hand without any template but I know the main points I want to hit).

Whenever an intro comes in, I divide it into one of a few buckets and immediately send a mostly rote email back quickly:

* Highly interested - schedule a F2F or phone meeting within in the next week, suggest two dates to discuss more ("Wow, that sounds cool, would love to catch up in person to discuss more, are you available X or Y? I'm based in A but willing to travel anywhere around B")

* Kinda interested, being polite - suggest a phone meeting and strongly time box it ("This sounds potentially interesting. I can do a 15 minute call at X before my next appointment)

* Non-commital - Ask for more info, put the onus on the other party. ("Hey, would love to hear more about this, can you forward me X & Y so I can get a better understanding of how I can be helpful?")

* Useless - Polite brushoff ("Hey, I took a look and I don't think I'm the right person to help you with this for X & Y reason. Maybe you could try A & B? Thanks")

I think the key was to not put so much onus on the next step. By the end of the intro, I barely have any info, my main goal is to gather more to make a decision.
It does seem just like SOA to me, but maybe it implies even smaller services (that would seem to also imply more overhead due to extra requests, but maybe not)?
"You generally can't replace components of physical machines while they're running either."

For some servers and mainframes you most certainly can replace components on the fly. It is a requirement for some places.
Java osgi can.

weird my other comment dissapeared anf you have dups.
Assuming you mean all fonts everywhere, I got that too. I thought the next website I looked at went through some kind of redesign until I realized that the next two websites I looked at also looked like that.
I live in New Zealand. We have an MMP parliament, which means that you get lots of different voices in government. IMO, the problem with the US is the FPP system - it lends itself to being monopolised by two large parties. When NZ had FPP, that is what happened here, also.

I don't think you can have a working democracy without real choice in who to vote for. I would argue that FPP means that you don't have that choice in the US. Witness that people voting for Nader (left of the Dems) split the Dems vote and gave you a right wing government. The system works against anyone having ideas outside the mainstream.

My strong opinion is that if you want a better democracy you must get rid of FPP. STV or MMP are both better alternatives.
> That might have been good advice 30 years ago, but it certainly isn't now. Modern insulin preparations should be kept at room temperature while in use for up to 30 days -- keeping it refrigerated while in use is contraindicated due to the potential for thermal cycling to result in inaccurate dosing -- and keeping insulin "on ice" is never recommended due to the risk of the insulin being damaged by freezing.

Do you have a citation for this? I'd be interested in researching more on this subject. My girlfriend tells me she needs to keep her insulin pens in the fridge. We've also noticed that her blood glucose will fluctuate for strange and mysterious reasons. Your comment wrt thermal cycling rings true, and I'm wondering if the temperature change from constantly going from fridge (~5C) to her purse (~20C) and back, several times a day, might be causing this
Are you the same person who posts this snippet every time FB is mentioned on HN?
At the moment it only does apt, but yum, pacman and others are coming soon.
>>> There are also hard-to-disprove rumors that you could blackmail high profile people with.

This is exactly how the GCHQ use Twitter:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140224/17054826340/new-sn...

"Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable"
San Francisco almost always looks the other way regarding these 'illegal' units. Many of them are in plain sight and the rent/tenancy control laws still apply. I would guess the unit must have been a serious health/safety hazard for them to do anything.
But there's a future in Linux gaming. Until you can legally install OSX on your own hardware, Mac gaming has no future...
What hurts the most? I would think the imperative drawing stuff would be missed least.
I figured there was examples out there other than erlang. It just seemed like there are better reason for microservices like what flurry pointed out with legacy systems.
I have always found Ars to be hostile to Linux in General. Really all things open source, which is funny given their coverage of patent and copyright law
But is that reason to be mean and obstruct anyone who challenges your comfort zone?