skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given its California, it's probably going to have to be a primary challenge.

Given that its California, "primary challenge" is a meaningless phrase for anything but a Presidential race.
in and out
(Chicago)
Oddly it was first a bot then an ARG of some sort (the account was sold).
False. Clones appeared because of the now open market. If Flappy Bird still existed, the clones would be discouraged due to the presence of the incumbent Flappy Bird.
“It was cash only, and everything was shady and under-the-table."

You mean, like an illegal in-law unit?
I've never had any problems using using Chrome on the CRA website.
This is really awesome. Thanks a lot for breaking down your process, it's both enlightening and inspiring for me just starting out.
I wonder if the technique could some day be used to intentionally trigger smaller earthquakes to relieve pressure to prevent massive earthquakes.
The true blood boiler is when the system finally collapses and IT gets hit with the "why didn't you fix this before it collapsed"-lecture from the same folks who wouldn't give you the budget to fix it in the first place.

This is generally followed by the hiring of some consulting firm to propose the solution you wanted budget for at a fair multiple of the original budget. They, after all, are consultants and you are a peon.
You can add a simple heuristic to the scoring to increase the win rate by a lot - weighted corners.

Add the logged value of the numbers on the corners to the score and the higher numbers will tend to 'stick' to them. This also serves as a mechanism to guarantee that the new numbers appear away from the large numbers, which tend to block them from combining.

I also turned down the compute time to 20ms and it still runs well.
In the past it wasn't a ban so much as an enabling law that allowed car dealer franchises to exist. Car makers had a sordid history of letting car dealers dip their toes in the water and then swooping in once the first unlucky souls had proven the viability of a market.
I wonder if her sexuality was a factor in her leaving her family support behind decades ago?
I'm sorry, but my inner hacker just has to mention this: There's a syntax error in your BANT script - one closing paranthesis missing at "(match(features, needs)". But the article overall is great!

if ( (budget >= price) AND (Authority.isInvolved()) AND
(match(features, needs) AND (timeframe == now)) {

proceed();

} else {

quit();

}
If Ford was forced into dealerships then any relief for Tesla should include relief for Ford, etc.
yes. it's only the internet, not like people roaring it in the street.
A new discussion platform for meaningful discourse on web design
Oh, most definitely.

I was at Worcester State before Tufts, and part of their registration had to be done via paper (in person at the registrar). It was almost as convenient as these online systems... (Assuming I was on campus anyway.)
Google Code Jam 2014 Registration is open
Ghana's weird and wonderful movie posters
Show hacker news: website to gamble on the location of flight 370
The thing is that they have the data of tons of users and their behaviour, the time it takes between different actions and most importantly the time they spend on the site itself. A bot would be using for way longer times twitter instead of the 1-2 minutes the normal user spends on his twitter feed. Anyway interesting project, I like the idea of a not so spammy bot for getting more followers.
He said he was overwhelmed with guilt from all the people who's lives were going down the drain because of his game.

Simply taking all that money and giving it away doesn't change that. The end does not justify the means.
It took me several website clicks, comparing different versions, and a lot of work to even see where it was.

I had absolutely no idea what it was doing. I can't be the only one that isn't used to this function, and thus has no idea what's going on when you use one of these.
A bit OT but what are some of the most successful open source game titles out there? I'm writing a game server backend right now and didn't find very many projects where I could read good quality game code. (I come from the JS web app world where everything is out in the open so I'm super biased)
The power to regulate commerce at the appropriate level (in a federal system; in non-federal systems this distinction is meaningless), which has been a traditional power of government since the dawn of history.
You don't necessarily need across-the-ocean bandwidth to facilitate NZ file sharing. Just adapt the "college dorm has a massive fileserver with pirated movies, so that movies only need to be downloaded from the internet at large once" model.

I blow part of my monthly 'real across-the-ocean internet' limit downloading Night of the Living Dead from archive.org, then provide access to it for other New Zealanders using the hypothetical local mesh network.
If you can't compete in the open market, you don't deserve a seat at the table
Generally nautical miles should be represented as NM, with nanometre as nm.
> I've noticed some culture differences between front-end and back-end javascripters.

Could you elaborate on those?
The Cutting Up Of Content
Is she really this daft? I mean, really, why does she think they can provide oversight of agencies whose purpose is to secretly collect intelligence, intercept communications, etc.? And, she relies on them to provide the information for their own oversight, yet sees nothing wrong with that?

So, she's shocked that some files were moved. Did it occur to her that she wouldn't have known something was being withheld if the CIA had never provided them in the first place? For that matter, does she ever wonder if perhaps massive amounts of information are routinely withheld?

Strong whistleblower laws are quite possibly the only true means of effective oversight. Yet, she seems to be too busy calling Snowden a traitor to consider that salient point.
No, that was just a side effect of digging into an issue with the site that was preventing me from paying a tax. I didn't even know about that odd schedule.
Apple iTax: made in Ireland, designed in the US
Approval voting is a poor choice for most political elections (its good for non-secret-ballot group decision-making where the voters are people who can opt-out of participation after the election and an approving vote is a binding commitment by the voter not to do so if any of their "approved" alternatives win.)

Now, if you said the general elections held in the spring (they aren't "primaries" in the usual sense and shouldn't be called that) should use ranked ballots voting and select the Condorcet winner with tie-breaker elections held in the fall, where necessary, as FPTP elections between the members of the Smith set of the spring elections, I'd agree that might be a worthwhile improvement.
Identifying and isolating functions inside executables like IDA does.
That's half of the story. The other half is the ATM is not just refusing to operate, it's behind closed doors to protect it from potential aggressions. Japanese bank are sharply close to their core values (keep the money).
Interesting strategy to compete with the not so well known add-ons for MS office. I actually forgot Office had them until I saw this post about GDocs. Here is an example, Avery Templates for Word http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/store/avery-templates-app...
The intersection of Mission & 16th Street is price-equivalent to Greenwich Ave & Jane Street. Assuming price per square foot is a proxy for the ratio of demand to supply, these are the most coveted locations to live in the world.

Should a retired taxi driver be able to afford such a location? Should we be upset that she cannot?
> Take "rm" as a trivial example - when I say `rm foo.txt`, I want the file to be gone. What if the file is already gone? Then it throws an error!

Simply rm the file and handle the particular error case of the file existing by ignoring it. Other errors go through fine.

I've been doing this at work to try to wrangle a sense of control out of our various projects. I'm using Sprinkle, which is basically a wrapper around SSH.

What I'm finding is that most decent projects include idempotent ways to configure them. Apache, for instance, at least on Ubuntu allows you to write configs to a directory and then run a command to enable them. Sudo also has the sudo.d directory, cron has cron.d. Just write a file.

> Is there a "don't do anything I didn't explicitly tell you to!" flag for apt-get ?

I would consider this to be overly tight coupling. We should let dpkg manage the OS packages, and if the system's state needs to be changed, you can simply re-build it and run an updated version of your management scripts.

You don't really want to start getting into the game of trying to abstract over the entire domain of systems engineering. CM, in my opinion, should solve one and only one problem, moving system state between the infrastructure/cloud provider defaults and a state where application deployment scripts can take over. Every necessary change to get from point A to point B gets documented in a script. There are only two points on the map, and only one direction to go.
> I don't understand the objection to laws against cooking for yourself at home.

If it was cheaper to hire a Chef to cook meals, I wouldn't understand all the noise about making it mandatory either.

Bad analogy. If you want ammunition, I'll give you the following. Having an attendant pump your gas sucks because:

1. They screw up what type of fuel you want. Or how much of it.

2. When you yell at them to fix it, they have no idea what you're saying, because they don't speak English.

3. At a busy station, you have to wait for five minutes for them to even get to you.

4. And then you have to wait for another five minutes for them to come back and finish off.

5. If you have the tag you use to pay for gas on your keys ... well you have to hand your keys to a stranger. Same with a credit card, when you could have simply swiped yourself.

I can go on, but really, at the end of the day, this isn't a big deal. There are far worse things to complain about.
Looks like a boot camp for bots, which will be sold for retweets or as followers. After the customer pays for N retweets, the bots usually get slaughtered by Twitter team.
Why aren't more women on this list of top tech speakers
Perhaps it's inaccurate? It has to be right?

I would have to think this would be something EVERYONE would be upset by.
I'm getting the same thing. All the text in my Chrome window looks microscopic after playing.
People haven't changed. There have always been trolls, malcontents, crazies. Attend any public hearing, ask any fan club or newspaper mail room.

Yes, but now the seductive idea that one can improve the world by getting one's teenage hormonal aggression out on somebody "who deserves it" is beamed into people's living rooms and onto devices in their pocket, complete with calls to action. How many teenagers do you know who realize how morally bankrupt this is, vs the number of teenagers who are actively enthusiastic about some idea like this?

And, how many people do you know who are past their teens who still haven't "gotten it" yet?
I could sorta see that at car price points there could be some structural advantages for the manufacturers over the dealers that might benefit from some protection. But it does seem like little more than local political power here in 2014 USA.
Not a single country from Mexico to Argentina lets you pump your own gas.

When I got back from my 2 year Alaska->Argentina drive I genuinely had to stop and think about what I was doing, unsure of how to proceed. It was a great novelty :)
I'd seen the name of course, but had never seen him.

Weird.
A children's book for makers
Two grad students in interaction design join forces to create a children's book about the joy of making things.
This could just be a university research project. I read about a similar one last year that was focused on how to create bots that mimic human behavior. Obviously this one would be a much larger scale, but think that knee-jerk reaction of "shut it down!" is overly aggressive without knowing all the facts.
This book has already been printed, how come I can still write on the pages ?
what a fun and easy game. beats a lot of the fps games for me out there. my strategy was just stack the higher numbers together, left down right up and never use right. i ended up with this: http://imgur.com/KuqAJTM&hrfol9i
Don't really understand the implied connection to NSA or GCHQ. My theory as to why Snowden is popping up in some of the tweets is because the bots are probably using something like Markov Chains to generate real sounding (as far as Twitter spam detection is concerned) tweets sourced from trending content.

The accounts would then be sold as followers, which is an attractive service to some for a variety of reasons
How to programmatically determine your music taste?
john romero is the source. the reporter called him, and got a quote.

i can't believe i'm explaining this to someone right now.
I am aware that this was true in the past (a countryside ATM booth tried to lock me in at 6:00PM 11 years ago) but can you list any recent examples of this (bank names, ATM locations)?

I was there in January this year and did not encounter this at all. The worst was an "after hours" fee of a few hundred yen at a Mitsubishi UFJ foyer ATM (after 10:00 PM IIRC).
Lean Government
Standing up reduces typing precision by 20-30% and puts pressure on your spine. Best would be your body to be at 135 degrees. I've tried Asian squatting style and it's actually pretty good - I dare to do this only at home though.
I wouldn't have minded if the distributor was newegg or something, like it is for motherboards. But all these router resellers are really stupid "solution providers" filled with "customer relationship managers" who can't actually answer detailed questions about the product, and don't seem to do much of anything other than draw a salary that inflates the final price.
I wasn't aware this was a tax dodge. My attorney just told me Delaware is a good place to form an LLC because of favorable laws to Internet businesses. Considering I've been paying close to 45%+ in federal+state+city taxes I'd say this is a pretty poor dodge.

Also, I am criticizing the $200 million spent on healthcare.gov, not Obamacare itself, or Obama.
How so? If you're referring to the open primary system, that doesn't mean there are no primary challengers. In a sense, it means everyone but the incumbent is a primary challenger... but more meaningfully the distinction of a primary challenger is that they belong to the same party as the incumbent, which the open primary system still admits. It might actually help: as I've pointed out before, Feinstein got well more than 2x (actually, almost 4x) any challenger in 2012 primary so democrats could have guaranteed themselves the general election if Feinstein voters had all picked a single other Democrat as an alternate and flipped a coin (... or if even half of them did so).

If you mean something else, please elaborate.
The only thing that sucks is that they don't have a Linux webplayer. You can just compile to native Linux though.
http://go.perfmode.com/github-down
You mean it uses Silverlight to encourage piracy.
My initial reaction was that there's either some sort of stenography going here (command and control?), or the botnet owner's having some fun.
How a computer program analyzes language to solve author mysteries
Another example, along with cigarette-free establishments, that the free market is not capable of delivering.
I'd love to see this work, but I'm not going to hold my breath (or my glucose levels), either...
> It seems to me that the only reason why their hands were bound is because they decided to not notify the city immediately after the property became theirs.

Why would they? They'd immediately throw themselves into the situation where they can't legally evict her, and are fined for failing to evict her. It's not too crazy (or abnormal, given that 10% of SF's housing is illegal) that they'd decide to kick that can down the road for a while.
Heh, people will keep laughing at Windows Phone, until they won't.

This is a very good phone platform you're ignoring.
Sustainable Sales Growth
Makes sense, the interests of your target market are different. Some apps will have users that are tech savvy that will be motivated by that message and other apps will simply not care or will be confused about reading the "SSL/TLS" reminder discouraging them to make the purchase. Anyways this is the beauty of the A/B test, to test things and see what works better in specific cases and not to make generalizations about behaviours.
Have you considered adding a Dogecoin donation address? Dogecoin is often used as a tipping coin just for situations like this.

In fact I'll tip you 2000 Doge if you add an address.
ULTIMATE Fail PARTY
Good luck investing your time and building on the Twitter platform... ;)
You know, I'd never blame anyone for looking out for number one. I just think its sad that one of the easiest things to do as either an engineer or an MBA is figure out how to put people put of work. Much easier than finding a way to put someone to work. I just lament the system is structured that way.
If you weren't outside the operating hours you might want to edit your blog post.
I thought you were going to say: "instead of paying a local working human being providing a decent service, that money goes down the government rathole".
Do you know how often a majority in the primary occurs?

In anything actually contested, I wouldn't think it common. Feinstein had almost four times the votes of any challenger in the primary, and still did not have a majority.

I expect it would be more common for more local and/or more obscure offices, but I don't know at all just how common.
And at the end of the entire process you've wasted their time with a nonfunctioning product.

Focus groups et al. are consensual. This is deceptive.
Focus groups can be wrong.

"Yellow Walkman" story is appropriate http://www.alexandercowan.com/yellow-walkman-data-art-of-cus...

"The moral of the story is that you need natural behavior for quality observational learning."
How to Eat Entropy: Optimal Recovery Strategies for Compromised RNGs
35000 was the tip of the iceberg, it was a small sampling, not an exhaustive list. I'm only one guy with no power-toys. In all honesty, this is probably a million-account-plus botnet.

There is a possibility that this was a botnet that sells followers. I know that this one wasn't into retweeting or linking to anything, though such botnets do exist.

I wasn't able to prove that is the case with that particular network, as there were a number of "following nobody, and nobody follows" accounts. But I've found another that for sure is in the business of so doing. How does one person with only four very banal tweets get 4000 followers? It turns out that his followers are indeed bots. This network I will be collecting too. Maybe it will turn out to overlap.

@paulmd199

PS: I won't insist on the theory that it's government sponsored bot. it could well be commercial, or just run by some jerk.
> How so? If you're referring to the open primary system, that doesn't mean there are no primary challengers. In a sense, it means everyone but the incumbent is a primary challenger

It means "primary challenge" (which refers to an intra-party run in a partisan primary with a segregated pool of cnadidates) is a meaningless distinction when running against someone, since any time you run for an office, it means running in the general, non-partisan pool of candidates in the "primary" election.
To be fair, seen from outside, this seems something strange and, in my opinion, not good about the American culture: there is always somebody to blame for your problem, a reason why you are acting in a given way, an external cause if you suffer a medical problem, eat too much, put all the kind of pills in your body, and so forth.

Probably this is representative only of a minority, but from the outside this looks like a vocal minority, and even a very small minority, if can feel offended, or addicted, or something else because of your work, can easily turn your work into a nightmare.

Now the thing is: it is not true. You, with your work, are not forcing anyone. We live in a world full of possibilities, the problem here is, to be able to critically analyze what you do, otherwise there is no thing that can save you, you'll misuse even the simpler things to cause yourself some kind of problems.

There is more, even controversial things have some very good impact on the life of people making judicious use of those things. Example: a violent game can be a way to express violence of an otherwise repressed person, or some other people that is having a few bad weeks, is finding an escape playing at it. Similarly alcool, that if abused can be bad, addicting, and destroy people, is the joy of many people having a glass of wine from time to time, and so forth.

Most of the times the problem is not the tool but the user.
At that point you're no longer dealing with rays and the math gets way more expensive for a goal of 1/60th of a second per render loop.
From the title I thought the current database. But it's just the by default daily created backup.

I remember writing a rooted script for Tasker to get the actual messages to my pebble, since WhatsApp still doesn't expose them through their notifications.

I fired an SQL query to their sqlite database everytime a notification from WhatsApp came in to see what the new message actually contained.
Admittedly I'm only thinking of a single datapoint here, but in the case of Lavabit, the court order which was intended to grant metadata collection ability to the FBI specifically mentioned that "Subject" headers were to be stripped. At least in that case, the relevant government spooks weren't even trying to argue that "Subject" lines were in their purview.
It doesn't appear to be in Google Apps Marketplace for businesses yet. ETA? I have a few clients that would be interested in using this.

--Edit--

It is available for businesses. First verify the domain's Drive settings -> "Allow users to install Google Docs add-ons". Then "Manage Apps" in the individual Drive account.

http://monosnap.com/image/M05IeqhZWU4HVEfZ96GXzvLKx3zXa3
A good number of politicians already have "startup cred," having launched their own businesses prior to going into politics. Many successful businessmen used their financial success to launch political careers. Examples include the notorious Darrel Issa; nearly every Midwestern doctors-turned-politician, and most lawyers-turned-politician.

Indeed, the tech concept of "startup cred" is essentially meaningless. It means you know how to launch a company and perhaps sell the company but says nothing about your ability to make it profitable or to maintain its profitability. When you're running a government, you can't just sell it or bail--you have to keep going. In this regard, many voters could even view serial startup experience as a negative.
To know how good you are at something requires the same
skills as it does to be good at that thing. Which means
if you are absolutely hopeless at something you lack
exactly the skills that you need to know that you are
absolutely hopeless at it.

And this is a profound discovery. That most people who
have absolutely no idea what they're doing have no idea
that they have no idea what they're doing. It explains a
great deal of life. It explains particularly Hollywood.

- John Cleese
An inefficient business model that continues to thrive due to outdated laws. And that most consumers hate.

The government should seek consumer input on this.

I'm completely unsurprised that Arizona and Texas, supposed bastions of capitalism, oppose a better form of business.
Trivializing the death of 239 people? Really?