skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I only supposed to send five or ten minutes to compose a comment?

Regularly I've posted comments that take as much as an hour to write. This is because I take the time to find sources to back up and support my position, and then I write my comment. After that, I reread what I wrote and edit the comment so that it is grammatically correct and factually sound. Finally, I reread it once more and really consider if I'm contributing to the discussion.

I've never really focused on karma. I've never tried to game the system. Because of this discussion I checked where I stand and I only have 132 points but with almost a 2 average. I think that supports my claim that I make thoughtful posts, but I don't know what the site average is.

I hope that this system doesn't backfire for me and for other similar contributors.
We can ban corporate donations without raising taxes, and without giving people's money to parties they don't support.
Any dodgy comment with reasonable age seems to be slammed by the time I get to it. Someone must be down voting them. And I can't recall seeing evidence of groups up voting junk comments, only stories. Everything seemed to be working OK to me. I find the quality of comments on HN to be very good and don't think this new feature is necessary.
It's not even being introduced today - it won't be released until 2017. I believe that's mainly because every machine that accepts the £1 coin has to adapt. Apparently that's going to cost £20 million.

>> "The formula of the additive is now a secret waiting to be stolen."

True but it's possible that this, plus the strange physical design of the coin, could increase the cost of counterfeiting to make it unprofitable.
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Had you hosted your own email service on your own servers, your rights would be perfectly protected. Nobody is stopping you from doing this.

However, this guy used a company's email-service to try to leak proprietary business info about the same company.

You can't seriously expect to get away with that.
All of which is entirely irrelevant to the question at hand.

Hard work came with farming. Before farming people worked very few hours.
That sounds like a pretty sketchy theory to me!

As a musician, back in the day you had to learn to play your instrument without making mistakes in order to work and record. These days with software based recording you can edit so easily it's not a requirement to be that good - or even play an instrument. There's less demand in popular music for the professional musician of that type in the earlier days who can play a song 100 times without making a single mistake.

That being said, I think there are still plenty of good musicians out there. There's just a lot of other stuff as well.
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I am not sure about OpenDNS but Yandex DNS works fine, I can use twitter
We have a better chance winning the Mega Millions jackpot
You are the victim of branch prediction
I also get a bit (not terribly, just a bit) insulted if somebody says "Beethoven sucks", because the person who said it is technically the same species as I am.
Just because a submission goes off the front page doesn't mean that nobody will comment on it anymore. Of course there will be fewer newcomers to the discussion, but people who are already in the thread will keep seeing it in their "threads" page so they can post replies even after a couple of days. Unless you post dozens of comments a day, it's relatively easy to keep track of threads that you're really interested in.
I gave it a week, and there was nothing. I was astonished! It seemed such a logical extension of the idea. I'm ashamed at myself for doing this "demo" instead of just sitting down and writing it myself, but that mortgage won't pay itself...
I find it interesting that the original description [1], if followed to the letter, will with a very high probability kill (all?) user contributions over time.

Here's why: It says that you can't post another comment when you have a comment pending. Let's assume that:

a) Most "good" contributors write comments of varying quality (maybe on average 90% good 10% not so good)

b) Most people, when they interrupt their work flow to participate in the HN community, write on average more than one comment (if they comment at all).

So inevitably, the average user will repeatedly bump into the "can't comment, have to wait" wall. Which is inconvenient and constitutes a blunt reminder of the "value asymmetry" between the site and the lowly user.

I'd say it is fairly reasonable to assume that being stopped and having to wait is rather off-putting to most HN users. So it hangs on how many repetitions of the wait cycle the average HN user can stand.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761
Don't feel bad, getting to 512 is child's play (a random algorithm can do it, in fact). Going the last two steps is where it gets impossible. Up until the 512 it seemed like nothing I did would slow it down, but once it reached that, the board was finally swamped by 8s and 16s and a few well-placed 2s and 4s in the worst pattern possible finally stopped it.

Now we need a multiplayer variant a-la puyo-puyo-pop.
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Sam Altman, the Newly appointed president of Silicon Valley startup accelerator the Y combinator will be on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY to be held in the month of May.
No, more work hours != more productivity. The very article you linked to illustrates that.
It not just the performance or code snippets available on internet for a particular language that matters to a programmer. The community around the stacks you are using to build the product is equally important.
Turkey Prevents Twitter Workarounds By Blocking Google DNS
However Turkish people started using other public DNS's.
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After the Twitter is banned, Turkish people were using Google DNS to get around ban. Now, authorities also banned Google Public DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
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Of course if you're sophisticated enough, or have the right connections, any security scheme is breakable. It's probably been introduced because the salesman from the company that produces coins pushed it as the solution to widespread counterfeiting of £1 coins. At present people make really rudimentary fakes from things like painted lead, which they pass off as real.

For those who produce the additive and detection machines of course, this will be a bonanza - I wonder whether the ink company also sells detection mechanisms? It'll be interesting to see how many vendor machines simply move to using cards instead in response - why bother buying a new detection mechanism when you could just stop accepting coins? I can imagine London Underground doing this in a few years for example.

At present machines and people go on form and weight, if the bank can add a certain response to UV or radio to that, it might make it significantly more difficult to copy the coins. I imagine the response of forgers to this will be to develop a UV coating to be screened on to coins which will fool machines (which are going to be pretty basic), rather than trying to mimic the material itself. Many machines will never use the much trumpeted benefits of this system, because it'd be too expensive, they'll probably just go on shape and weight as usual.

These clunky coins are going to be extinct in a few decades anyway though - governments already issue more of their currency in electronic form than physical coin, and I suspect most people will happily use the internet and cards for everything and drop cash and cheques. At that point physical currency will be withdrawn, because it is such a burden to produce and police, I'm not even sure if you need a replacement token which can be shuffled around like bitcoin, or if everyone will be happy using verified transactions and ledgers as they do at present with banks. So the mint will eventually be out of business except in selling commemorative coins.
It's great that there's one surgery center in Oklahoma willing to compete on price. Unfortunately that's simply not reflective of the rest of the nation. I'm torn on this article because on one hand I don't like how embedded insurance companies are in the current system (it makes it difficult for a young, motivated person such as myself to find good doctors for my condition), but I also don't like the writer's tone - if he's making a legitimate point, why call it the 'Unaffordable care Act?'
A checkbox that says 'Hide comments from noobs' would suffice.

I have 41 karma (rarely comment) but have been here 2546 days. Would appreciate being grandfathered in, thanks.
I don't know much about Turkish ISPs but the path they have taken seems even worse than a global internet blackout. After all those who only need to do their business can ignore the blockage.

Of course 8.8.8.8 was a bad shortcut: exactly like Twitter, it is a textbook example of SPOF. So while I sympathize with the protests, I hope this episode will teach a few at least the importance of decentralized services.
It costs more on a nominal basis but if implemented right nobody will have less money in their pocket even after taxes.

If you didn't earn any money before you will get what was spend on you before + the saved overhead (+ a lot of wasted time and hassle). If you made a lot of money before you will still get a free handout but you also have to pay higher taxes so in the end you should have about the same amount. Obviously it will not be exactly the same for everybody but that doesn't mean it will be less fair.

Besides the saved overhead another major advantage of a bi would be to streamline incentive. Currently it can happen that if you start earning money you will lose a lot of benefits. This can lead to an implicit tax rate of > 50% for very poor people and therefore disincentives work.
There are significant training cost assoc with windows 7,8, and later office vers as well. Xubuntu might be closer to XP in many respects.
Are counterfeit pound coins actually an issue? The only real security measure they're known for is patterns / text around the rim which dates back to the days when the metal was valuable enough for people to cut slivers off to melt down while keeping the coin roughly circular.

I find it hard to believe that anyone with the inclination to break the law in such a big way, and the resources to do it, would chose pound coins as the thing to counterfeit. I could be completely wrong..?

Edit: Of course I presume I must be wrong by the fact that this coin is being introduced, I guess my question is how wrong am I - how is making fake coins worth the effort?
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of information about it and the speculation is currently that there is an additive that can be seen through spectroscopy or light, a luminescence or particle based thing which is visible.

They also mention that iSIS is made of three security types: "overt, covert and forensic".

So I don't think it's the case that luminosity is the core of the security, that is just the overt layer.

The keywords they keep using are "integrated", "embedded" and they state that the coin is "full-plate" and that they can produce blanks (for full-plating) that have iSIS protection.

They also mention (in the bottom video on this page: http://www.royalmint.com/business/circulating-coin/isis ) that unlike electro-magnetic signatures that have variability and also can vary over time (with coin wear), the iSIS has a binary yes/no response: authentic or counterfeit. It's a signature detection technique and the signature is not related to the size/weight of the coin.

Is it possible to make the interior of the coin in such a way that a radio signal bounced off of it would produce a received signal of a certain signature?

Some of the speculation has focused on patents recognised as being held by the Royal Mint that dealt with luminosity in the plate layer. I think this is just one of the security measures, but isn't actually the iSIS method.
They almost went to python but then added weird inconsistencies with how colon works. Why is it omitted in the else clause? Why isn't it used in all blocks like with python?
> Generally, the aim is to redistribute wealth from the 'rich'.

What if they leave? Should people be punished for being rich?
It's more complicated than that. As a first approximation inflation is a transfer of wealth from from savers to debtors. However, there are many under-appreciated details based on tax implications of such things as paying real taxes on illusory income. (nominal gains which result in an real-after-tax loss) I learned a lot about this from this guy: http://danielamerman.com/
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That's not a problem, because there are impossible games. Your task is just to form an impossible situation.

This game is MUCH easier than the original, at least for me. I never managed to beat the original, but on the other hand I've yet to be beaten by the AI.
Twitter And YouTube Defy Foreign Censorship As Bloomberg Bows To It
I assumed Alabama or something like that. Even as a European I assume that when someone is talking about "the south" it's the southern US.
No one line answer?

"They are not circular because X", instead of pages and pages and pages of graphs and math and shit.
I don't think that is correct. I can access the page, but I can't see any comments there. I have 393 karma at the moment.
Well the impression I get is the idea of a "cultural" muslim is contested from both within and without the muslim community so I don't think it's quite that clear cut. Who gets to own the labels seems to always be a political battle. You could argue that it is only "reasonable" to use the label for those who hold the beliefs.
Perhaps a more pressing issue is the similarity of any particular coin's characteristics with the wide variety of foreign coins available (numismatic birthday attack)
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Sounds like MD5 on viagra.
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I misunderstood it as "global south".
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It's thought that around 3% of the 1.5bn coins in circulation are fakes, with 2 million being removed each year.

Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863
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Edit: Shame on me, should have read the article more carefully, he actually explains why he was not able to use JTAG. Sorry for my hubris.

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I like the approach, but while this post rants about the unprofessional Arduino crowd, his attempt to solve his init problem via a blinking LED to Morse debug data strikes me as similarly inefficient.

To solve these kinds of problems, one normally attaches a JTAG interface (or the equivalent device on the particular platform) and single steps through the code, observing registers and memory... if you don't have this tool (for ARM the most primitive will cost you maybe 30$ or €, the fastest and most feature rich will be s few 1000) you'll waste a LOT of time in low level debugging.

If you really have to Morse on a GPIO, you want something that a logic analyzer can decode.
Exactly. To simplify, this Arrington post leaves only two possible scenarios:

1) He had a huge scoop on his hands but he passed because he was worried about the safety of his business. Something a journalist shouldn't even think about. Unprofessional and proof of a big conflict of interests.

2) He never run the story on TechCrunch because he knew the source was drunken bullshit and couldn't be used for anything that aspired to be called "reporting". Therefore: this post is bullshit because it's based on that same source
Egyptian Women Tells Obama To "SHUT UP"
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A video of an Egyptian woman protester telling the U.S. President to stop interfering in Egypt's affairs has attracted widespread attention on the internet.

"Listen your Obama. We are Egyptian women... Shut up your mouth Obama," the woman tells the camera.
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Yes, it's a big issue here.

From the Royal Mint:

The Royal Mint regularly conducts surveys to estimate the level of counterfeit £1 coins in the UK. A survey undertaken in November 2013 found that the rate of counterfeit UK £1 coins in circulation at the time had risen from 2.74% to 3.04%.

http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/counterfeit-one-p...

And:

The move comes amid concerns about the 30-year old coin's vulnerability to counterfeiting, with an estimated 45 million forgeries in circulation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26632863
I keep a list of side project i want to build. When i begin a new project and the new language/technology i think might be a fit, i'll build something in it. THis forces me to think outside the usual hello world tutorial and building another to do list. And the problems I face to build my custom project forces me to think and get into what i'm learning
I wonder if the YC partners took bets on what the ratios would be
"Sherpa"...

In a day in age when "red skin", "gypsy", and "chinaman" are not the preferred nomenclatures, you should consider incorporating under a name that doesn't have an ethnic component. Maybe "porter"?
The article linked in the article says 1 in each 30 pound coins are counterfeit.
There isn't much of a training cost associated with upgrading to Windows 7. The Start Button has been replaced with a round icon, true, but it's in the same position and the start menu, itself, operates much as the one in Windows XP. Upgrading to Windows 8, yes, is a much more involved process and would involve much more user training.

But, really, that's just sidestepping the issue. The real issue is that user documents are in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint formats, and, despite improvements, Open/Libre Office support for those documents is not nearly good enough to support moving to Linux full time.

This actually leads to another question I've had. We see all these announcements about cities, states, and regional governments moving to Linux. Of those, how many actually go through with the move? How many have stuck with Linux 2 years out? 5 years out? It's impossible to say whether Linux is actually viable on the (corporate) desktop without knowing if these Linux migrations ever actually take place, and, if they take place, whether Linux manages to stick, or if there's another migration back to Windows once it becomes clear that Linux doesn't yet do the job for end-users.
We are proposing a public funded program. That program is funded by taxes. This is what you said:

> why does theft become OK for society? Why are you arguing that stealing is acceptable if you're desperate enough? I say it's never acceptable.

The implications are obvious. Taxes don't have different natures depending on the use we as society give to the money we collect. In fact, the very economic definition of taxes is that you aren't promised anything specific in return[1].

Regarding the tyranny of the majority argument, that would only apply if we were proposing a ridulous amount of taxation. We are not. It's been pointed out that this program could be funded by replacing it with current expenses, and by a minimal raise in taxes. That's not oppression, that'a a choice that we as society are well within our rights to make.

In short: spending taxpayers money can't be theft, and taxes aren't a service you pay if you like how the money is spent.

[1] > From the view of economists, a tax is a non-penal, yet compulsory transfer of resources from the private to the public sector levied on a basis of predetermined criteria and without reference to specific benefit received (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax)
But if the user with the higher karma is the only one interested in that thread they could easily just ignore the posts they disagree with so they never get endorsed. It leads to the same outcome, yet they appear to have done nothing wrong.
Well, I don't think I said without a single emotion. I do think, however, that you can express concerns without resorting to anger and negativity.
Indeed. If the razor has to be applied I'd go with A because it's simple and feasible enough solution for a company like Google and because B would imply virtually zero levels of corporate worries about the eventual PR downfall.
The fact that It's Arrington we're talking about here and not your next-door blogger, reinforces the probability of A being the simpler choice.
Forget about collision resistance. What makes me nervous about CRC32c is that it's slower than xxhash in software, approximately the same speed as blake2 in software, yet results in a much larger 1-in-2^32 chance that data could be corrupt yet the corruption won't be detected.

I'm also not sure what sort of risks and attacks cloud storage providers have to deal with, but AWS S3 for instance computes MD5 hashes for each object. If they or any other storage providers need guarantees about collision and preimage resistance, crc32c, or even xxhash, won't suffice (and MD5 may not, either, but the fact that they haven't run screaming from it yet suggests that they don't use it in a way where its known weaknesses matter).
The real challenge of course is to build an AI to beat the AI. Here's a random clicker:

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SHA-1 intrinsics are going to be out in 2015-2016. You're going to be waiting a very long time before SHA-3 intrinsics hit. If you care about software performance, you will not be using SHA-3.
Isn't a search with a warrant the opposite of free access?
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Even North Korea, they're still training them on office/windows:

http://imgur.com/lQQGjyu

(taken in a school in pyongsong, autumn last year)
I have seen fake pound coins in the wild. My brother who does electronics work on fruit machines (low-stakes gambling terminals) has said he sees them all the time.

I couldn't tell you whether defrauding such machines is the 'killer app' to drive coin counterfeiting on a large scale. The UK has millions of betting machines with small payouts (e.g. £50) but a smaller number with larger payouts, concentrated in betting shops, casinos etc.
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Nope, every one already had a sense of that because otherwise they wouldn't have them; plus controversial ideas are harder to hold on to.
Was concerned about man-in-the-middle attacks, then saw the bottom of the page where you can setup your own server from source.

Really love this addition to my toolbelt.
I don't really see the issue with this unless getting the last word in publicly on a discussion forum is vitally important.

The new person has posted, the higher karma one has seen it and chosen not to reply thus ending the conversation. If there is really no other attention then nothing has changed from the older person seeing the reply and ignoring it.
pg isn't dumb. I'm pretty sure this is the point.
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Numbers, please. And see my other comments on the disincentive to work - in the pilot projects, BI was a massive work disincentive.
Yes - they are an issue. Currently about 1 in 30 pound coins in circulation are counterfeit - so that's about £45 million in circulation (source http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/mar/19/five-th...).

I suspect generating them is less effort that many people think. This guy http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-502292/Counterfeiter... - was convicted of creating 14 million fake £1 coins and the technical side was basically a one man operation.