skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay:

Going by wiki - which I suspect isn't a complete list, but still:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents...

In 2013 there were 12 accidents concerning aircraft, none of which were related to terrorism.

In 2012 there were 12 accidents relating to aircraft, none of which were related to terrorism - there was also on attempted hijacking

In 2011 there were 25 accidents concerning aircraft, none of which were related to terrorism.

In 2010 there were 26 accidents concerning aircraft, none of which were related to terrorism.
- One of these bore some similarity to this incident, in that the aircraft was lost on radar. - Pamir Airways Flight 112, vanished from radar ten minutes after takeoff. It was eventually found 12 miles from Kabul.

In 2009 there were 21 accidents related to aircraft.
- There were also two terrorist incidents, one hostage taking and one attempted bombing.

Air France Flight 447 was one of the planes lost that year, it was lost over the Atlantic Ocean and it took two years for the wreckage to be found and the black boxes recovered.

It vanished 'without a Mayday call, a witness, or even a trace on radar [...] Flight 447 seemed to disappear from the sky'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/magazine/mag-08Plane-t.htm...

Okay, so what's the point of reciting all this?

Going by those figures, a little over 3% of the incidents involving aircraft were terrorism-related. And none of those, to my knowledge, resulted in deaths, or even significant injury.

1) Accidents are frequent (and I suspect the list I've got is out by one or two since I didn't count it automatically, and somewhat incomplete in any case) - the number of planes in the sky pretty much ensures that.

2) Terrorism related to flights seems relatively rare, and most commonly relatively ineffectual as compared to things like messed up landings.

3) Planes have vanished from radar before without foul play, (and seemingly in similar conditions in the case of 447.)

And that's roughly in line with what we'd expect before seeing evidence. Unless you know that the two are strongly related, the way to bet is that the intersection of two low probability events is going to be vanishingly small.

So, while there's no solid proof that it isn't terrorism in this case, that's the way I'd bet if I were a betting woman ^_^
There was nothing light about how I used it. Even if this was not done intentionally, it still discriminated against her. Sort of like how gender fields with only a Male/Female option unintentionally discriminate against transgender people. Nothing intentional, but still happens - and still discrimination.
Awesome game, but you could make two imporvments:

1. Add a turn indicator or a "waiting for opponent" message of some sort.

2. Make it clear in-site that you can refresh and still get the same game.
Here’s why ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ cut ties with Bitcoin
Ask HN: How to negotiate a job offer without any counter offers?
I recently received a job offer from one of the giants in SV for a software engineering role in the bay area (I am not from the US originally). The base salary they gave me is lower than the average of what you see in Glassdoor and the like for a similar position with my experience (about $10k of a difference).

When trying to talk with the recruiter about this I was pretty much told that unless I have another offer in hand (he literally asked to see a contract, is that a common thing to ask?), there's nothing he can do about it.

So I'm basically left with trying to get another offer from a company I don't plan on joining, or accept this offer which I'm not happy with, but from a company I do want to join. Is there a third option that might help me here?
Ask HN: Do you keep a personal balance sheet?
Do you keep a personal balance sheet? Where do you keep it? A paper notebook?

Are there any simple software of webapp for this purpose?
> But it seems pretty clear that he thought she was asking about his former contracts and not Bitcoin.

The full quote makes that seem much less likely:

"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."

If that's accurate, it's much harder to see how Dorian Nakamoto thought they were talking about his old military contracts. Which does of course leave open the question of how accurate the quote really is...
Wow. This "Mark Lawrence" guy is absolutely worthless. I googled him and cannot believe the Python community still has guys like him.
If you keep your folder structure sane, I find email quite brilliant for it.

What I find waste of time is reentering emails into task app or CRM and then hopping back to email, to find the context.
Bitcoin Community Raises Over $15,000 In 5 Hours For Dorian Nakamoto
The link is set to localhost.
Anyone using duplicity or duplicati as open-source alternatives to arq?
No. /dev/random does not deliver "new entropy", it delivers the very same cryptographically good pseudorandom stream.

Look at the sketches in the article.
YES THE BEST WAY TO GRT CLEAN WATER IS TO PEE INTHE WELL BECOS THEN EVERYONE WANTS TO CLEAN THE WATER YOU SEE
I hope that OP isn't seriously suggesting that “discrimination” was a factor, it’s too serious an accusation to be thrown around so carelessly.

There are enough past incidents of “unusual” names being erroneously flagged to suggest it's no about irrational human discrimination but about imperfect mostly automated processes.

The policy is about using “real names”, the automated system was obviously tripped and the appeals fell through, imperfect systems don’t imply malice.

Seeing that eventually the issue was resolved and I assume they’ll be more mindful of native American names from now on, is there really a need for name calling and further escalation?
Haha, that's what I was waiting for. But sometimes seemingly aimless change is the basis of a good metamorphosis. Let's see.
A filter to catch "fake names" based on dictionary words I presume.

If you do that for names of German origin (with a German word list) there will be hit after hit

Google apparently doesn't know much about names.
There is a 'wait/move' indicator at the top left. Its faded text though so not immediately noticable.

Definitely need to improve the instructions - such as your second point. Also the game-join logic is kinda wacky.

Thanks for the feedback - really glad you like it!
The writer leaves open the "incompetence" option, if you actually read the article. Discrimination needn't involve intentional malice, either - 50-60 year olds often face hiring discrimination from folks who certainly don't intentionally discount them.
Articles like "Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto Is Reportedly Worth Over $400 Million" or "Insuring the Bitcoin loss with another digital currency" have no relation to crypto (especially, cryptanalysis), security or privacy.
InstantClick 3.0 Released
Ask HN: The Female Founders video is now private. Is there another link?
The up-front requirement to create an account put me right off.
oops, it seems sourceforge doesn't like traffic.
This is very true of Hacker News. Everyone here has to be the smartest fucker on the planet, longing for the great PG approval.
In the UK, at least, "discriminate" is the right word because it is possible to discriminate indirectly. This is defined in law. If you have rules that apply to everyone but disadvantage people who share a protected characteristic, you are discriminating, whether you intended to or not.

http://www.equality-law.co.uk/news/106/66/Types-of-discrimin...
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He seems to be quoting another text, with running commentary by himself. Language use is too different for him to be the likely author of both parts of the dialog.
What's new about it? It's been like this for some time now.
I've accidentally found answers to some problems in Linux I had by ranting about them.

So yeah, makes sense.
Why not level 7? By 38 the player could be fixing bugged waypoints, profiling out bad O(n!) code, resetting time to get a specific time-based drop, tweaking character attributes to make puzzles/quests easier, etc. The savefile just becomes another interface to play with.

Gives a fresh angle on the 'open world' type game.
Can you explain how that rebuts the parent's point? I can't see it myself.
Recruiters can ask for anything they want, but you don't have to give it to them.

Some places will match salary but otherwise bring you in at a lower level.

You could explain that the market research that you have done shows the offer is about $10k lower than the typical salary.

Also reinforce the skills that you bring to the job.
Bitcoin isn't really the point. If they put up a site claiming to be about "crypto, security and privacy", but 80% of the posts they attract (or post themselves because they don't have critical mass) are on a single topic, then either it's really not about "crypto, security and privacy", or they're doing a really bad job building out the site. It's not like there isn't a whirlwind of activity in cryptography outside of hashes, nor a lack of security incidents to discuss.

And requiring JS? On a security site? Fail.
This, despite his identity still not confirmed. Is this taking us to crowd funding frenzy, giving way to raise for anything and everything?
What is it like to disconnect from the Internet for a day?
When you think you're done, gradually decrease the temperature of the room. People will become uncomfortable and leave, even if it means accepting a sub-optimal solution.
This actually used to be a joke about the Linux community.
Now your eyes can hurt as well.
> imperfect systems don’t imply malice.

... but they can still discriminate. In some jurisdictions, such as the UK, intention or malice is not required. If Google has a policy or system that disadvantages a group of people who share a protected characteristic, it is discriminating. This is defined in law.

http://www.equality-law.co.uk/news/106/66/Types-of-discrimin...
I dislike when lists are written in such a way that the reader must mentally negate all of the statements the author is making. It's more difficult for me to quote or remember out of context correctly. I also feel like I learned a lot less than if the author had told me the things that are common problems and how to fix them or offered a model of names that is less-bad than the one most websites use.
How about "obstinacy"?
I have tried using countless apps, spreadsheets etc until I resorted back to plain .txt file for my personal finances. Even for my startup finances, we still use a simple Google spreadsheet in-house.
Exactly what I was guessed after reading the law.
Deviation from planned flight is very, very common.
Relevant here: "I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s." By throwing out a "wrong answer," better suggestions are made.

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/9216e1c9da7d
Same for me. If a request comes in via email, it stays there - takes more time to copy the request to somewhere else and then find the email again to reply to it.

My (work) inbox consists only of emails that either require me to do something or reply to them. As soon as I reply, it's moved to a different folder.
Glassdoor doesn't show how many years of experience, years at the company, or education are tied to each salary. Maybe those people listed on Glassdoor started at your salary or even lower. That is very likely because lots of times people post on Glassdoor after leaving the company, and typically they have gotten a raise since joining. It is also possible that people are inflating the salary they post.
So, uh, what exactly is 'wikimedia'? How is it different from the straight-up 'Wikipedia'? This article seems like it should have been on Wikipedia, but it's on Wikimedia. I've never seen an article of this nature being hosted on wikimedia. What's going on here?
They need to be called out on it. There was one BuzzFeed article, which I couldn't submit because it automatically gets killed by HN (fair enough). So I wrote a blog, expressing my opinion then submitted it to HN.

I hope that someone from Google is reading and takes note of this. The Real Names policy has actively discriminated against many people in the past. They were meant to sort this out, but they have not. It behooves Google, who want real names, to accept real names. And to understand that even if the names are a little strange, they are all too often actually real names.

I once heard of a couple in Kent who called their child "Depressed Cupboard Cheesecake". The point being is that there are a number of oddball names out there. How is Google going to tell what is fake and what is not fake?
It's not impossible to disagree.

Since they post it as absolutism it means this should work on all cases not just this one. There are a gazillion wrong answers on internet and no one bothers to fix them and give the right answer.

Another way to disprove it is not the best way. Now that they told you this "secret" next time you have a question will you post a wrong answer or find the right place and try to formulate the question as best as you can?
His identity as Dorian Nakamoto has been confirmed. The money is largely being donated as an apology by people who do not believe he is Satoshi and don't like seeing a random person harassed by the media.
Citing Steve Jobs to defend slideshows only makes the case for what's wrong with slide shows. Jobs' slideshows were only ever a supplement to his presentation. If you removed the slideshows, the presentation would suffer somewhat (and only a little, if you ask me). However, if you removed Jobs, there would be no presentation. His slides were nothing you could review online later because you missed the live presentation.
Inbox is a crappy todo list I will agree but it's not without utility. I keep my inbox as an incoming queue for my todo list. Sort of like a backlog. Everything gets deleted, replied to and deleted or promote into a ticket (billable). If its an order confirmation it just sits in there, flagged.

I use Apple Mail for mail and Trac for tickets and have a hack job of an automator action to move mail to tickets.
Wikimedia is a parent organization of wikipedia and several other reference projects.
well, the fact that you don't have another offer does not change the negotiation much. They want to hire you so you should use that as a leverage. It's relatively straightforward.

solution 1) Tell them you won't join unless they revise the salary. Be ready for them to refuse.

solution 2) If you are willing to join with this salary, tell them you expect a higher salary and talk with them. Ask them why they won't match the local average. There is no negotiation if you don't talk. Maybe you'll learn the reason they can't match. Otherwise they'll realize that you are really serious about the bump but that you can negotiate.
If they still refuse the raise, do not just accept the job. They will feel they owe you something because you were refused what you asked. Accept the job and immediately ask for something else. They will probably give it to you (should it be a specific laptop configuration, Giants tickets, arranged work schedule, whatever..)

These solutions are the same with an offer in hand and bear the same risk too: they can refuse.

Also, at that point in the negotiations, you should bypass the recruiter if he/she is a contractor. Ask to talk to the hiring director directly.

If you're in Silicon Valley, it won't be long before you find a great company anyway.
Well, as I note enforcing it could be quite difficult. And more than 1 or 2 pages is a really bad sign.

The real danger probably isn't that they'll try to enforce it per se, but that they could make you "radioactive" by the threat of it, or an enforcement action, even if ultimately unsuccessful. Hopefully no or few potential future employees will ask about them, and if this happened in California and you're still they (it gets more complicated if you're only now in the state), any non-compete provisions are unenforceable as such.
It's satire.

12. People’s names are case sensitive.
13. People’s names are case insensitive.

Edit: Let me explain ... I was responding to the parent post, and that it wasn't meant to be a logic list of rules. Individual points may be true, but the overall tone of the list and post uses humor to explain the complexity of names.

32. People’s names are assigned at birth.
33. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth.
34. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth.
35. Five years?
36. You’re kidding me, right?
Yeah, for at least a month. I'm glad people are embracing HTML5 video tags.
"Outsourcing" your sensitive intelligence ops is a scary premise to start with but more scary are the revelations he has made and the price he had to pay for it.

Now imagine uber sensitive information living on a private Cloud (ref. Amazon won the contract to build a private Cloud for US govt.); it was inevitable but Cloud security solutions are just adequate to say the least. There are still way too many holes which need to be plugged before we can truly label a Cloud as "secure".
Not only has this been out for a while, but it's only the marketing site. The actual "members page" is still out of the 90's.
Shouldn't it be the other way round ?
Google's policy was pointed out to be bad and absurd countless times and they knowingly stuck with it anyway, understanding users were prejudiced from it. Isn't it malice ?
For what it's worth, the sheriff's department confirmed that what she wrote was accurate (at least for when the cops were there.)
wikimedia is the parent organization of wikipedia. Since this is meta.wikimedia.org I am assuming it is a site for meta discussions.
Interestingly, google didn't bat an eye when I put my nickname as my first name and the full stop symbol (.) as my last name. Yellow Horse? Totally made up. .? Obviously a legit name, why my best friend is named $. (I write too much perl).
What I believe lacks in FlightRadar24.com is more social integration but people don't really get together to discuss flights....or do they?
Interesting! So this would be for rounded corners on IE8 or worse? (I think 9 supports border-radius, right?) Bummer that it requires adding styles to the head.
i am not able to give you an advice on how to negotiate but i'd like to change the way you think about this problem.

ask yourself what is going to make you happy? earning $10K more? working in the valley? is the money worth to leave your country and work in the us? did they make any promises to increase your salary? will you be able to live comfortably with their offer?
No, no, no.

Your understanding of TCP is wrong. Packet loss is a natural part of the process. When a link is saturated, a router should drop packets and notify the sender to slow down.

When ISPs engineer their networks to not drop packets they add larger buffers, packets wait at the last hop and instead of high speed you get high latency. Games lag at the expence of bandwidth.

Read up about buffer bloat.

Games should use UDP, as its not important if 0.5% of position updates don't get through, but it is important the get through quickly.
This happened to my coworker, last name Tower. It sucks, but it wasn't too difficult to clear up the issue.
Wikimedia is the parent project of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikinews, and so on.

The wikimedia wiki is used for documentation and discussion on the topic of running a wiki, and on specifically running MediaWiki (the underlying software that powers these sites).

Since this is an article about a topic relevant to running wikis, it's on the meta wiki. It is unlikely to be notable enough to meet the criteria for being included in Wikipedia; in order to avoid everyone creating their own personal Wikipedia page or a Wikipedia page for their high school band or the like, which can be very hard to ensure is high quality and accurate, Wikipedia has notability and verifiability requirements. Something must be notable enough to have been published by several existing reputable sources in order to meet this guideline.

It's fairly likely that Cunningham's Law does not meet those criteria. But the Wikimedia meta-wiki has less formal requirements, and its topic is explicitly discussion about running wikis, so this winds up there.

If you click on the logo, you can see this described straight from the source: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

"Welcome to Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia movement in general. Meta-Wiki's discussions range from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis of future Wikimedia activities."
One of the best collections of "odd" planes is the Research and Development gallery at the U.S. Air Force museum in Dayton, OH. Well worth the trip.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/exhibits/r&d/
> calling things which are not really racism racism only dilutes actual racism and victims of racism.

I don't know your racial category, but people of color frequently mention how white people aggressively like to redefine racism so it doesn't include their own racism. This particular argument is common among them. Because after all, racism is one of those -isms which are a fundamental part of many cultures (like the US).
That's the usage I'm familiar with even in regular discourse, although apparently many HNers have a different view of what the term means, so maybe usage differs. To me, "discrimination" is more of an objective issue, not the same as "prejudice" or "bigotry" which are more subjective issues. Saying "Google is prejudiced towards Native Americans" would imply that someone there actively dislikes Native Americans, while saying that "Google policy [x] discriminates against Native Americans" only implies (to me) that the policy has a negative effect that specifically impacts Native Americans, but doesn't imply that someone at Google came up with the policy out of a dislike of Native Americans or an actual intent to harm them.
5 areas that will most affect humanity
You're correct, I think, but this seems to pertain to the flawed selection phase of her process of elimination, where she apparently included people with names similar to Satoshi Nakamoto in her list of suspects, and then used a very weak argument to eliminate everyone else. This argument:

>"Of course, there is also the chance "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a pseudonym, but that raises the question why someone who wishes to remain anonymous would choose such a distinctive name."

This statement of hers is significant mainly because it suggests a slipshod approach to proof, when far stricter standards should apply. To me, she seems determined to quickly dismiss the universally-accepted theory that 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is a pseudonym, therefore she creates an extremely weak argument about distinctiveness, so she can handwave it away.

Additional note, to correct one point you made. She never mentions coding style, and does not appear to be aware it. That lack is also significant, because code represents a huge proportion of the available data for anyone who wishes to profile Satoshi Nakamoto.
"We are even better in person"

For a moment, I thought they would be talking about their customer support, but no... ;)
Well, racism is actually common; it's a fundamental part of the culture. Something which needs to be chipped away. Racism isn't just about some people wearing white hoods.

Not to make a statement about your racial category (because I don't know it), but more privileged people irrationally fear claims of racism because it's one of the few ways they feel vaguely limited. (Of course, the minor social consequences they fear are nothing in comparison to less privileged groups who are regularly imprisoned/invaded/starved.)
More discussion from when this was posted on reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1zv60v/til_of...