skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not without a testable, falsifiable explanation. Observations (i.e. descriptions) can't be falsified, that's reserved for explanations. If I say, "the night sky is filled with little points of light", that's hardly falsifiable. But if I say, "those points of light are actually thermonuclear furnaces like our sun, but at greater distances", that claim is open to meaningful test and possible falsification.

Here's why a testable, falsifiable theory is required for science. Let's say I'm a doctor and I've created a revolutionary cure for the common cold. My cure is to shake a dried gourd over the cold sufferer until he gets better. The cure might take a week, but it always works. My method is repeatable and perfectly reliable, and I've published my cure in a refereed scientific journal (there are now any number of phony refereed scientific journals). And, because (in this thought experiment) science can get along without defining, falsifiable theories, I'm under no obligation to try to explain my cure, or consider alternative explanations for my breakthrough — I only have to describe it, just as the linked article describes the correlation between lead in gasoline and the crime rate.

Because I've cured the common cold, and because I've met all the requirements that social psychology recognizes for science, I deserve a Nobel Prize. Yes or no?
Google Glass smells bad
"Or take sea-faring ships, who dump both grey and black water (ie. untreated sewage) into the sea; I understand this is slowly being subject to some regulation. "

Some? Some? Talk to a sailor about that one. The coast guard does not screw around with that at least in territorial waters and what exactly can be dumped where is highly regulated.

I wouldn't worry about the untreated sewage, after all, a lot of fish poop in the sea every day. The city I work in has determined its cheaper to pay EPA fines and dump raw sewage right off shore every time it rains, rather than make the substantial civil engineering investments to fix the system. I'd worry more about dish washing detergents and cooking oils and the like, unlike plain old sewage, the environment has very little natural experience with that kind of stuff.
On Feedback Personas (a follow-up to being #1 on Hacker News)
I don't know what the rationale is, but I booked a flight last month where the fare listed in ITA Matrix wasn't bookable on the airlines website (TAP Portugal), but was available on Expedia.
Yes five, maybe for unicode support?

no-break space U+00A0;
zero width space U+200B;
word joiner U+2060;
ideographic space U+3000;
zero width no-break space U+FEFF;

They all look the same tho.

From: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0020/index.htm
Amen to this. I did quite a bit of digging last year to find a dumb TV that did the basics (high panel quality, input switching, HDMI-CEC) well and otherwise just stayed out of the way, and I gave up. A couple of companies have a 'commercial' line that gets close to this, but they were priced totally out of line with their consumer counterparts. Similarly, many TVs have a 'hotel mode' that comes close, but it's invariably undocumented and can easily lead to bricking your TV. It's a wasteland of a marketplace right now, and only getting worse.
erlang and AWS FTW!
My roommate does sales for AdRoll, and it always sounds like he's saying "I'm trying to get [client] on Adderall"
None of those are false positives. Spam is unsolicited mail. Did I solicit the mail?

- Yes: not spam.

- No: spam.

And, since I never solicit promotional email to my personal address, my method is 100% accurate.

In my opinion the companies sending unsolicited promotional email are the ones gaming the system taking advantage of the "well this might be unsolicited but it's not v14gr/\" grey area.
Back in its heyday (Summer 2012), Medium submissions had a very low signal-to-noise ratio, with everyone jumping on the pseudointellectual bandwagon, with a high dose of pseudo.

Nowadays, the number of medium.com submissions is lower, but the ratio of quality remains the same.
Just because the mechanism for censorship is well meaning, excellently engineered and transparently implemented does not change the end effect.
This makes me realise now why my AMA was denied and trolled into oblivion.

I had started a successful AMA (being former Military Intelligence/Palantir) regarding the realities of the role.

Regardless of ID, Letters of Service Commendation and scanned evidence of having served in Afghanistan/Iraq the mods would not have it and refused to respond to my emails.

Within an hour it was trolled to obscurity.

Almost all of the terms on the filter list published in this article were contained in my AMA.

Ha, you live and learn.
I had had the same issue with amazon SES. While Spamhaus PBL is not necessarily a blocklist, due to the default configuration error, all the emails we send out (from other providers like mailchimp) ended up in spam. Finally, the issue got fixed by configuring reverse PTR.
Would that scale to the Reddit userbase? Worst case scenario is one algorithm per user, 120k algorithms on /r/bitcoin alone.
Your comment is insane! "If your ToS say I agree to receive mail, guess what? I don't agree, I just want to try your product. I'll flag you in a breeze."

So you don't agree to the terms you just read before giving out your email address. That's insane! It's like smiling and saying to a guy, "Here's my number", and not saying: "But if you call me, for any reason, I will report you for harrassment", without any indication that this is how you feel. Absolutely insane.

Why would you give out your email address with that attitude? "Here is my email address, but the only thing you should use it for is to let me ruin your communications with others who agree to the same thing I just agreed to, if I receive anything I might conceivably have given it to you for."

If you don't want to get ANYTHING, EVER, then what is the purpose of giving out a means to communicate with you??? What did you think you are doing by giving out an email address??

It's just so bizarre. Do the world a favor and register an email address for what you consider spam, which is everything.

Then never look at it again, while that email address gets invitations and calls to publish in journals, updates on the product offerings you are interested in, informative newsletters, free money on things that you're already spending on, and so forth... while you get nothing.

Boy you sure are showing them though!
some of the best pieces in type systems (and model theory too!) were from benjamin pierce and his book on type-systems.
This is nothing more than the Robustness Principle - "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
They do have a legal argument. They have one antenna for each user, so they claim they are just renting you the antenna, basically. Just as if you had rented the antenna and laid a long cable to their facility, then just used internet to get to the antenna instead of a cable. There are legal protections for encrypted stuff, heck the DMCA prevents bypassing just a copyright flag nowadays when backing up DVDs. But these are public TV channels anyone can watch with an antenna and the company seems to have legally constructed the same situation for its users.
I actually have run a mail server before, and now I gladly pay someone else to do it for me :)

Point taken, but I've been on the receiving end of what I would consider false-positive blocks by Spamhaus & co. They sometimes have policies about what's considered spam that I don't think all their end users would agree with. I've been blocked for having an IP address on the same provider as someone else who allegedly advertised their website via spam. If you're running a mailing list, dealing with the anti-spam stuff is at least as big a problem as the spam it was supposed to solve.
Why did the government have to intervene here? Just because the current administration is a tight friend of the RIAA? It seems to be doing it quite a lot lately. Imagine Monsanto suing some farmers, and then the government intervening in the trial to help Monsanto. There's just something wrong about that. The government should stick to its own cases and lawsuits, not intervene in 3rd party lawsuits.
FWIW, every idiot pricing things at $9.99 has turned $9 into the same as $10 in my internal price-justification equation. At that level I've hit the point where I need to be able to justify it to myself and it causes me to waver.

$5 is less than the coffee I bought (and <$100 a year) and easy for me to immediately pull the trigger on.

Especially with the prolificity of well-established competitors I would keep the price lower, at least until the product is more established.
Because that's what I was using (and leaving) at the time. The Galaxy S III was the leading contender, in fact, but my negative experiences with Android 1.6 and 2.1 (from bad to worse) factored against it. I later supported an S3 for a few months that was buggy and unreliable, so I was happy I didn't get it instead.
It should have a gas alarm on it to at least add 10 minutes after a flush.
Would be interesting to see if you would see a difference if you reported spam through spamcop.net.

It's a pretty nifty interface that will automatically look up all relevant abuse contact emails for the ip ranges and let you file and register complaints with a single click.
The app you're talking about is Word Lens: http://questvisual.com/us/.
> by comparing users account age, their topic of conversation and the techniques they use.

Wouldn't that give you a lot of false positives?

Perhaps you could first try finding accounts with similar writing style. Though I'm not sure about the accuracy of such algorithms.
Thanks for that. That seems a shame because my only exposure to Medium is the quality posts that actually are shared to me or make it to the first/second page of HN.

I had assumed the quality of most writing on the platform was quite high.
The definition from the article: "Companies that make physical products that have only recently started sprouting sophisticated software features"
Mailing lists wouldn't need to, or couldn't exist in this new magical email system. There's a hundred other solutions out there for what mailing lists provide.
They're talking about the stations broadcast in the part of the spectrum specifically set aside for public, free, over-the-air watching of the stations.

You know, what your TV tunes in to if you just have an antenna.

Aereo sells a service where they operate an antenna on your behalf, and essentially run a long cable to your house from one of their locations, where the antenna is located.

Your comment shows that you didn't really look in to the argument being presented before commenting - because it instantly latches on to an untrue hypothetical as to why you shouldn't agree.
While today it is largely a question of where one chooses, and can afford, to buy or rent, the freeways haven't been here forever. They were built within the last several generations, and always located so that they would destroy the livability of lower-class neighborhoods. The freeway concept is inherently unjust; it doesn't merely reflect the injustice of society.
EDIT: "I'm not sure you understand how IP blocking works and why it would be impossible to block domain names the same way."

If you mean that on the same server the e-mail IP and server hostname will be the same for all the domains, then yes I understand.

But filtering can be changed to achieve domain level validation, not IP. It is done already on our servers.
Build Tools – Make, no more
To add, as a software engineer that knows very little about hardware... the arduino is pretty bulletproof and also dynamic enough to handle very sloppily designed electrical work.
Hm, well, I can't figure out what it is. There's no explanation on how to use it. I tried entering "tptacek" for an HN user name, saw that it turned green, tried pressing enter, and nothing happened. Maybe some kind of helptext would be good?
I remember, about 25 years ago, a HUD on each an ever train carriage would indicate whether the toilet was occupied. The HUD was located above the baggage section at the end of each carriage. Occupied was red, and unoccupied was blank. No Raspberry Pi was involved, but through careful social engineering, everyone in the carriage know what the sign meant, There was a physical hardware based fall-back also, which was an indicator on the 'toilet room' with not both red but 'OCCUPIED' displayed on the door, the operating process of which consisted of one locking the door.

This is not to discredit train bathroom engineers decades ago. Ensuring a piece of bathroom machinery operates consistently for up to thousands of miles per day with usage analysis certainty included is a very admirable achievement.

Decades later... the same efforts but in a small scale static environmental setting are posted to a website called Hacker News.
"Personal vendetta"

Hahaha! YES! I have a personal vendetta against unsolicited email.

If you send me an email that I am not expecting, then I will flag it as "unsolicited".

I do not care if you provide other mechanisms for handling unsolicited email. I do not care if you used a dark pattern to technically ask me to solicit the email without my conscious knowledge.

The way you call it vindictive is empowering and enlightening.

It's your way of calling it unfair, of attacking the person as immoral and undermining the point of their behavior. You're trivializing them as petty. Instead of saying "I understand why someone might be unhappy at me sending them email they do not want" you say "it is vindictive and petty for someone to treat unwanted advertising from for-profit businesses this way". What a sick joke.

So you know what? GOOD! If "vindictive" means "control over your inbox" then I AM VINDICTIVE. I will PUNISH anyone who gets into my inbox without my approval. Email is WAR and I am fighting for Inbox Zero. Send those emails my way lightly ... tread carefully with that send button, because you might just find your messages are unwanted and end up clearly marked as unwanted.

Insult us users all you want, trivialize us all you want, attack our behavior all you want: I DO NOT WANT UNSOLICITED EMAIL and will HAPPILY and "vindictively" (lol) mark unwanted email as "unsolicited".
I'm not saying it's a good thing (for that matter, I'm not saying that it's bad either). I'm just pointing out that HN has been open that this is going on; it's not something that is denied or excused.
bl.spamcannibal.org is notorious for a higher error rate (false positives). It'd be crazy if a popular mail service provider like Yahoo categorized incoming mail based on results from Spam Cannibal. If I added them to my MTA, I'd rank them fairly slow to diminish the effect of their false positives. See here: http://dnsbl.inps.de/analyse.cgi?type=monthly&lang=en

And see here how to add them to your checks (and rank them accordingly) if you're using Postfix: http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html
"They cringe at the thought of paying $130 a month for cable so Boorstin won’t miss Nationals baseball games. [...] With Aereo, baseball streaming site MLB.com, and maybe another app, they would gladly use the Internet for all their video news and entertainment."

Nope, if the Nationals aren't over the air in DC (likely not most of the time), and you live in DC, it will be blacked out. Aereo does not affect this in any way.
This analysis ignores the fact that it might be beneficial to buy tickets more than 14 days before your trip (an idea which always seemed like common sense to me). The idea that fares rise monotonically for the last two weeks doesn't mean that big data is dead.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I'm gonna give more credence to scientific studies than Timmmmmm's opinion on what is obviouis.
How VHDL preserves determinism
In the US, the CAN-SPAM Act requires opt-outs to take effect within 10 days, so you see a lot of "you will be removed within 10 days" messages written by lawyers even when the opt-out is instant.
Promo video of China's 1st aircraft carrier. 中国航母舰载机训练视频。
How so? I'm from the UK and most of the people I know would say MS are a reputable brand for sure.
Yes, the article states that directly before the line I quoted -- I assumed it would be recognized.

In practice very few APIs are tolerant of unexpected fields, values, or protocols. Forget the protocol war that other commenters are expecting, our devices should interact regardless of protocol. Only then will producers be forced to compete on useful features.
Hell, even if it is a determined effort to undermine /r/bitcoin, it could just as likely be an attack by proponents of other altcoins!

I saw a comment here the other day about how "Bitcoin old money" was actively trying to keep altcoins down and came to a stark realization (again) that there's really nothing new under the sun.
I mean, they already induced a foreign state to violate that state's laws in order to harass a resident of that state, seize assets and information which they had no legal claim to, and then after a politically motivated prosecution fell apart, presented all the illegally obtained evidence to their industry friends so they could use it as the basis of a lawsuit against the same person.

Why would we expect any better here?
/Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620889
Just curious, havn't used AdRoll before, but now Google and Facebook also support easy remarketing integration, what exactly the advantage in using AdRoll?
Impose the fee only on one-way communications. A responsible mailing list would have a single instance of two-way communication when asking the user to confirm that they wanted to sign up. No I have no idea how that much state should be handled in a distributed fashion.
Why not have system that allows one or two posts on the front page with certain terms instead of blanket censorship?

if (termCountOnFrontPage > 2) remove();
else letItRide();
Do you get much spam from North Korea?
The model they're operating under is a bell curve of failure rates where the bell is thankfully very wide and centered many decades in the future.

Made up numerical example, if you have a lake where the bacteria can literally eat one barrel of crude per month, and 10 barrels at the bottom of the lake, you're in pretty good shape if one breaks open at a time spread over a century, but fairly well screwed if all 10 rust open at the same time at the six month mark.
Try to imagine how you would prove false the claim, in a social setting, with multiple factors at work, and no meaningful controls. If I shake a dried gourd over a cold sufferer and he gets better, I can claim to have been the cause of the recovery. And guess what? No one can prove that claim false. The fact the colds are really caused by germs is true and interesting, but it doesn't falsify my claim to have been the cause of the recovery. That's why scientific claims requires a basis for falsification.

And this is more than a philosophical position, it's written into the law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLean_v._Arkansas

Quote: "The judgment defined the essential characteristics of science as being:

* It is guided by natural law;
* It has to be explanatory by reference to natural law;
* It is testable against the empirical world;
* Its conclusions are tentative, i.e. are not necessarily the final word; and
* It is falsifiable."
I found a group of lucky people, I guess:

http://firecore.com/atvflash-black
You got quick action because the admins faced a legal and monetary penalty for not acting. And reddit has gotten massive bad press in the past for attracting kiddy fiddlers.

If their necks aren't on the line, casual neglect and indifference seems to be the overriding M.O. from the reddit admins.
I've followed the Aereo stuff going on. Not heavily, but with more curiosity than not.

One question I've never seen fully addressed about the technology: are they literally claiming to capture a signal directly from the tiny antenna and encode/route that specific signal to a specific user with no other filtering/enhancement/etc. in between? Knowing how hard it is to get a good DTV signal, it seems unlikely that a bunch of tiny antennas buried in a data center are going to get reliably good signals. It would seem like what they are doing is capturing the signal from a better source, and then maintaining a batch of crappy antennas just to claim a 1:1 ratio of antennas to customers.

Does anyone know with reliable data how the technology really works?
It would be awesome if there was a way to specify my knowledge in certain fields, and filter out all courses that are too basic. As an example, I'm not interested in seeing dozens of "Introduction to Computer Science" courses, but I would be interested in a more advanced course on Artificial intelligence.
And that's where the confirmation bias and halo effect come in. :P

Many startups use Medium to do the same low-quality content marketing that they could do with a normal Wordpress blog, but most Wordpress blog don't have giant header images and a serif typeface.
> Why not have a compiler that can take your specification and just write your program for you?

One difficulty with this is that programs (by definition) are 'computationally relevant' whereas proofs are not. In other words, as long as we have a proof of X it doesn't make a difference which proof we happen to have. On the other hand, different functions of type X can have a big impact on a program.

For starters, there are properties which are difficult to express using types. For example, we only have rudimentary ways to encode space and time usage (eg. 'cost semantics'). Without this, when we ask for a sorting algorithm we may get back bubblesort, since it's a perfectly acceptable implementation of a sorting algorithm.

Also, our types will have to become incredibly precise. Rather than just encoding the properties we care about (eg. security guarantees), we need to include lots of uninteresting properties to guide the computer to what we want (compare this to guiding a genetic algorithm via a fitness function, or getting a genie to grant you a wish in exactly the way you want). At this point, you're basically writing your program in a very indirect way; you may be better off just writing one or two lines 'manually' instead of trying to steer the automated process.
On the contrary, I think this is about FaceBook knowing exactly what the future holds.

- FB probably recognizes that a Social Network is at its core a directory of connections and the ability to message/talk to each other. Until now it took a backseat to over-shared content, when it should have been the other way round.

- This app could serve as the foundation for the next FaceBook. Once you strip down an app to its essentials, you can very carefully add features based on data and the lessons learned.

- We are moving towards more selective, opt-in types of engagement, as opposed to carpet bombing with the content feed. For example, there are only a couple of dozen people whose feeds I care about. Those are most likely the people who I interact with or message often. What I want is the ability to mark certain people as "interesting" so that I see their statuses, instead of having to "hide" everybody else. (add:) Same with groups, follows etc.