skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if we are talking about ethics, the explanation for why people do what they do from an evolutionary standpoint doesn't say much about the moral implications of it. There are probably a lot of evolutionary theories on anti-social behavior in humans, say. Maybe some people are inclined to kill people in a surge of passion because that is some latent fight-or-flight instinct that has been beneficial for the survival of the organism, yadda yadda yadda. So what, though? That is not interesting when it comes to considering what is ethical and what is not.

It may seem that I am bringing up extreme cases, when procreating is seemingly benign. There are still considerations that one might have, though; even if it is beneficial for the propagation of the organism's DNA to have a certain amount of children - maybe for example 5 is the best in order to make sure they grow up relatively well - it isn't necessarily ethical. Maybe 3 children is the best for a happy and full childhood, with enough parental attention. Maybe bringing children into the world isn't something that a certain person should do, because of some terrible genetic disease (now we're straying into eugenics, and we probably know too little about DNA to be able to say that so-and-so should procreate and so-and-so should not). Propagating DNA shouldn't even be a goal in itself, ethically speaking. Humanity might have done more harm than good in becoming 7 billion people. And I don't just mean bad for each other, but in causing stress to ecosystems and the global climate which lead to natural disasters and other organisms struggling to adapt and survive.

So what if there is some evolutionary basis for some behavior? There has to be some reason. But that doesn't necessarily mean that we should endorse or encourage that behavior (whatever behavior is being considered).

Why did he kill him? Elementary, my dear Watson; first, we have to go back approximately 20,000 years ...
Herniated discs can result from muscle damage. The only thing holding the spine in proper place is proper back muscle health.

I should mention that I have 3 herniated discs from Seated Dumbell Presses. I used to do 6 reps of 90lbs in each hand, 1.4x my body weight. Weight is so overrated. Lowering the weight and really doing a wide range of movement will save you a life of pain and setbacks. I can do barely 35lbs now..wasn't worth it.
buro9, this is a great example of a well-maintained forum, and as such I agree that you're doing the right thing by ignoring link removal requests.

Unfortunately, if you look at wider area of forums as a whole, a very large fraction of them are unmaintained, unpatched, or otherwise not kept safe from drive-by spamming. There are entire forum spamming software packages that will register spam users for dozens of different forums in order to drop spammy links. You can even lease the spamming software by the month. :(
Distributed ID Generation and Bit Packing
I recommend Man Transformation. I also recommend the book The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (updated edition by Dan Kennedy). You can listen to the entire book on YouTube or download it and listen to it while driving. I recommend listening to it at least 3 times a month apart. I also recommend doing the following:

1. The theater of mind exercises where you visualize yourself as successful with women. You must make your visualization script really vivid for it to have any effect. And you must not lose focus while visualizing. This is actually quite hard and the reason why most people get no value out of it.

2. The mental rehearsal exercises before you go out and talk to women. You must design your life such that you are constantly interacting with women. The easiest way to do this is to sign up for dance lessons. Salsa is my preferred one. Other ideas: Hang out at coffee shops, in busy areas (malls, near college campuses etc)

email me at honeydoilookfat [at] gmail [dot] com and I'll send you more tips. For all intents and purposes I have solved the women problem although it took me six years. Now I am working on the wealth problem!
One of the worst decision in Google search history: to base ranking on DMCA's received...

It's bad enough that they have automated the process to allow companies to delete millions of links from Google every year, but to downrank sites is a bit overboard.
That's interesting. What kind of datastream do you get from that sensor? Something that has a useful ∆Z over short intervals but essentially no absolute accuracy?
I think you significantly underestimate how difficult a problem correctly installing and configuring software is. Even just specifying and resolving the dependencies and relationships between libraries and packages is quite hard.
How Google Really Thinks About Linkspam
Do you remember as a kid spending hours and hours building a lego fortress and having your big brother stomp through it godzilla-like destroying your masterpiece?

Even if you haven't, certainly you've encountered the frustration from putting a ton of effort into making something great and having someone shoot it down, crushing your spirits and dreams.

Until webmasters learn to walk a mile in Matt Cutts shoes, they will never understand why their spammy linkbuilding tactics are so egregious.

Simply Put, Google takes linkspam personally. They don't view it as a company trying to make a buck, they view as an inconsiderate jerk stomping through their lego masterpiece destroying what they invested so much of themselves into creating.

I don't blame google for link penalties or "breaking the internet" by influencing webmasters to request some good links to be removed..." (to be honest, if its a natural link, just no follow it, your readers, win, and the linked site wins. afterall, if your link isnt sending referral traffic, is there really any point for it to exist?)

Bottom line, you have to walk a mile in Google's shoes and realize they are fighting back against a monster that attacked their masterpiece. They didn't start the fight, they are just defending their life's investment and hard work.

That's just my two cents...

p.s. If I was Google and wanted to keep webmasters happy while keeping a clean index, I would take a page out of the Democracy model and build an arbitration process that is manned by fellow webmasters, users, and advertisers instead of by Google employees who might not be able to separate emotion and preconceived notions from the equation... just an idea...
What's the difference between Mozilla supporting EME to maintain market relevance among proprietary competitors and the FSF licensing glibc as "Lesser GPL" to do the same?
I think the topic is more about relationships, not sex in itself.
Marc Andreessen on the Future of Silicon Valley(s), and the Next Big Technology
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I think most people have an intuitive notion of "intellectual property". That intuition is probably not inline with actual laws on books, but I'm reasonably sure if you ask most people, they'd agree that a film studio, a writer, a painter, a musician, a software developer should be able to have exclusive rights of distribution of their work under some constraints. Obviously the devil is in the details, but at a high-level, I think that's a pretty mainstream, reasonable view.
dchuk, that's a direct quote from Bing, not Google: http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/201... It's in the "Links are all I need" section. Here's the full quote:

"While important as a vote of confidence for the content they point to, there is simply so much link spam these days that it’s tough to know where to turn. Obviously buying links is a dead end, and it doesn’t matter how you split this hair: sharing, encouraging, incentivizing, buying – it’s all the same. You want links to surprise you. You should never know in advance a link is coming, or where it’s coming from. If you do, that’s the wrong path. Links are part of the bigger picture. You want them, but you want them to be natural. If an engine sees you growing tem naturally, you’re rewarded with rankings. If they see you growing them unnaturally, you’re rewarded with penalties."

If you disagree with that, you'd need to take it up with Bing's webmaster outreach team.
Too bad that this isn't type checking in the traditional sense though. That's just runtime tag checking.
Google web search has a feedback page.

As you can imagine the process is opaque. I have reported some sub-optimal websites and seen a difference a few weeks later. I have no idea if my comment was read by a human let alone whether any action was taken as a result.
Autodesk announces open source 3D printer
> As far as I'm aware, your metabolism doesn't slow down until you're close to starvation (all reserves used)

A bad night's sleep or a lack of sunlight will slow your metabolism down. It's quite variable. Under eating for just a couple days will tank it. Going low protein (under, say, 80 grams) is also sure to lower metabolism.
Frankly a bit worrying that Matt Cutts doesn't seem to get the fairly straightforward point

Oh he gets it, it's his job to act like he doesn't and to change the subject "...Ummm...Bing does it too..look I made a video"
Manually selected by editorial staff aka curation. This mix of manual and auto with high granularity of content reuse is what all the big publishers either do or want to as it drives up pages per visit (ad impressions, measure of engagement).
I did the course several years ago when I studied there. He is excellent. Also recommend his text technologies course (lecture notes but no videos here) :
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/tts/
Good to know, and thanks for the answer.
You cannot distribute it with 100% accuracy right now. Given the BMI assumption proves true, you will be.

Thus, you can spread copyrighted material. Big difference.
What bike routes need is some indication as to whether a given cycle route is actually any good. 'Traffic levels' for bikes is what I want. Some of the proper routes with little blue signs are great for ten year old's but no good if you are on a reasonable commute.

I followed Google Maps suggested bike route and the ones provided by Transport for London for several weeks before I figured out that I should use the main road in certain sections. Plenty of other cyclists were on the main road going roughly the same direction. The 'cyclist' route had me going on quieter roads that were just not that good. I would find myself going against the main flow of the traffic at junctions and having to navigate a lot more of them, never with the lights in my favour. Plus the distance was longer.

Why is nobody on Strava on this road? Is probably the best way to decide if a bike route is any good.
Thanks. We switched to that url from [1] as a more original source.

1. http://www.elle.com/news/beauty-makeup/3d-makeup-printer
higherpurpose, nowhere in the original article did it say that Google said the link was bad. This was a request from a random site (we don't know which one, since the post dropped that detail), and the op can certainly ignore the link removal request.
> Demand for faculty positions is pretty stable.

Well, that's certainly one way of putting it. You could also say, "Academia has the potential to absorb about 10% of PhDs produced annually." That's fine for CS, where most people want to go into industry anyway and industry understands the product. Not so much for, say, physics, where more PhDs would rather stay in academia and you have to explain very quickly why someone should hire a PhD physicist before they slam the door in your face.
ZSH ZLE! http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html
Well that was enough crazy for today. I'm always impressed by the logical flaws someone can have when they are emotionally passionate about something. I'm pretty sure that his final analogy between homosexuality and belonging to the klu klux klan was definitely worth putting in post-scriptum to absolutely confirm he hasn't thought any of this out.
Not a nice one, not even a free thing.
Rocksmith already done this and with amazing features.

Sorry to be this direct but with only 100$, ubisoft offers unequal capabilities.

Just tried "Nirvana - Come as u are" on guitar which app suggested, still it's a little buggy.
The funny thing is that the Cloud Lord wants to set his rules so that if you do what's right and honest, what is valuable to the world, you will prosper, yet people constantly try to game the rules, so that the Lord's intentions cannot be fulfilled.
i'm confused. why do you need to accelerate electrons? wouldn't a Van De Graaff accelerate electrons to a high rate of speed?
So true about practice over theory but the reality is you need to change yourself and become a different person in order to have success with women, if you are currently unsuccessful. To do something you have never done, you must become someone you've never been. And you are not going to change in 3 days!

I have attended some of those bootcamps and the reality is that most of the instructors are not that successful with women themselves. They have spent lots of time perfecting the approach and interactions at bars and are great at this, but outside of it have nothing else. I think they have paid too high a price. They have no careers, and must earn a living by teaching other men how to pick up women. Fundamentally this makes you a very unattractive man. You may seduce hot chicks from bars but you will never attract or keep a quality woman. By day three she will realize what a shell of a man you are and take off! If you are in your twenties, I would strongly advise you against going this path. Work on improving yourself, becoming more interesting, advancing your career, making more friends while simultaneously learning pick up skills. It is not easy but ultimately leads to the most fulfilling life.
Elon Musk USC Marshall Undergraduate Commencement Speech (May 16, 2014)
Yes, we work to avoid this sort of attack when designing our ranking algorithms.
I'm aware of the 53+3 bit algorithm for addition and subtraction, but I don't see how this could possibly work for multiplication. Could you please point me to a paper that explains how to compute a correctly rounded 53-bit product without computing the full 106-bit product?
Try Komoot:

https://www.komoot.de/plan

(I've never used the app, just pointing you at the router)
The original article dropped all the specific details like the link and the company that requested it. I'll certainly dig into this specific situation more soon, but I didn't want to pull engineers to look into this specific situation over the weekend.
I am was a college basketball player and have played some professional ball as well. I lift on a daily basis and have been doing so (not daily) for just over a decade. I honestly don't know that much about CrossFit. I don't get caught up in all the hype of different weight lifting exercises or different name of workouts.

The number one thing that I can gather from reading this article and understanding how people typically act when exercising, trying to make themselves better, is that they judge others harshly. Even the OP is quite harsh on CrossFit. She has so much "experience" because of her championships and whatnot but I, to a certain degree, have to disagree with her. Not because she is right or wrong but because of her lack of experience in CrossFit. She is telling others not to do it under any circumstances simply because she never experienced these workouts in her collegiate career. Maybe this is something new and better (probably not) but I do not like how she has given herself power to proclaim so many others wrong. Just as they would do to her if given the chance. I think the OP should have been more understanding or even more persuasive in her post. That, I feel, is a make better way to get people on your side. (Not that we are not all on the same side.)

CrossFit on the other hand does not seem to be a proper vehicle for getting the masses in a proper routine. Trainers should not be deemed as such in a weekend and that is sad. However, as always people are lazy and do not read the fine print. This is a problem deeper than CrossFit or exercising in general.

I guess overall my comment is here to say make your own path and earn it. Do not rely on others to do so and also if your do have experience and truly think your can help others become a trainer or coach (after YEARS of training) and help others reach their goals. Don't post an off-the-cuff article about how you are awesome and everyone else is not and expect things to change.
> I was not aware that there are "foreigner only prisons". I wonder why they exist?

Probably to avoid the complaints from foreign embassies over mistreatment of their citizens.

Too bad we don't have a US embassy here in the US to complain about mistreatment of US citizens in US prisons.
You can pay for ngrok though (I don't believe there was a price forced, rather donate any amount (pay-what-you-want service as he states it). And the sites not being online currently might probably have to do with inconshreveable (the author) updating it, as he stated in a tweet recently.

Also, I'm not sure but did ngrok provide the endpoint over ssl?
Its crazy the data people will hand over to total strangers for the promise of a little convenience.
Forced transparency does not need to rely on copyright. If it is a good idea, it should be advocated as consumer, competition or procurement regulation, applied to all software.
Holy moly man, you were the one who provided that link: "It's not just Google that recommends to avoid link spamming. For example, at http://www.seroundtable.com/bing-links-knowledge-18535.html you can read where Bing said "You should never know in advance a link is coming, or where it’s coming from. If you do, that’s the wrong path."

Your statement implies both Google and Bing share the same sentiment.

So now, my question still stands: What about that scenario that I laid out is actually bad/spammy/evil? Why should anyone ever be punished for doing that?
I didn't know this works in bash. I've been using this in Korn shell for many years and cannot imagine life without it...
nix (http://nixos.org/nix/) seems to be the solution with the most potential in this area, solving all dependencies at the project level and removing the need for language specific build environments.
The py_compile module allows you to compile Python to bytecode files without executing the code. This isn't the usual way of doing things, but it works well to add separation between compile-time and run-time if desired.
This is from gmail license:

When you upload ... you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use ... modify, create derivative work. The rights you grant ... are for... improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services ....
"Three reports from different users are needed for a Twitter profile to be listed as a Troll. ... A user who is marked as a troll cannot report other users."

Oh, so it's been completely thoroughly thought out and is definitely not open to abuse.

/sarcasm
> by choosing socially well-accepted and successful men they actually place a lot more emphasis on the inner values than males do. In a very real sense, women love you for who you are (=rich and successful) as opposed to what you look like (=a characteristic you can't do much about).

One might also argue the opposite: Men value women for who they are (looks included). Women value men for what they have (wealth and social status).
I think this is pretty common, if you want a website to rank. Then rank it as best as you can then smash the other websites with shitty, unnatural links. Pretty good idea actually but if it continues then it creates a really bad environment for search engines.
Neil young's Silver & Gold album cover was shot by Neil's daughter Amber with a Game Boy Camera.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_%26_Gold_(Neil_Young_alb...
Of note is that this 1999 essay came back around in 2010 when Katz was tapped by the DoE for a scientific task force evaluating options for the Deepwater Horizon cleanup.

He was removed from the group in fairly short order, after people found this essay and put the heat on him for it.

Shortly afterwards, Katz' son came out to his father.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/son-of-homophobic-f...
Only against as dumb-witted an opponent as evolution!
But "your" military is yours mostly in name, and in paying taxes. The profits of offensive wars do not go to you, and I would expect that overall, war destroys more wealth than it creates. Of course, for a robber this doesn't matter, but in the long run it means cutting off the branch one sits on, killing the host one feeds off.

"If the totalitarian conqueror conducts himself everywhere as though he were at home, by the same token he must treat his own population as though he were a foreign conqueror." -- Hannah Arendt

Was there ever an empire which exploited foreigners, but respected its own populace? Among any and all of them you will find classes of the population that profit, but the country as a whole? Can you have injustice on the outside and justice on the inside?

While these are not rhetorical questions, you can guess what "my answer so far" is.. I think the poorer the outcome for the rest of the world, the poorer the outcome for inhabitants of the US, too. Including the elites, who are just feeding addictions to gain additional insecurities, if you ask me; "power" is just code for "I am scared and unable to create".
Jmat.js: A new mathematics library in JavaScript
Could you please tell us your hosting provider and the website that sent the DMCA notice? I'd like to avoid both of them, if I can.
Sure, also see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7762535
The user placing the report can choose between sending an anonymous report or make their identity known when sending their report.

Anonymous reporting? That is not within the spirit of either Twitter or your own stated mission. If you are reporting someone as a troll a log should be kept.

EDIT TO ADD:

Having researched a bit more the entire concept is nonsense

[1] Access to your Trolldor account to see if you have any reports, are listed as a Troll or find out who reported you. (I thought you said you cannot see who reports you? Which is it?)

[2] Inappropriate behaviour listed as -

Provocation - we love debates and good discussion on Twitter. However, users who just look to provoke for fun can be reported in this category.

Are you kidding me??

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Creep - we all know who they are: they fill up your timeline on a daily basis with messages worshipping their idols, friends, relatives and colleagues. Now you can let them know that their behavior is too much

Last time I checked it was not trolling to post photos of MY family on MY Twitter. It is more creepy that someone follows me and goes to the trouble of reporting me to Trolldor for photos of my family.

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Retweeter/Favoriter - users who never create their own content and just retweet and favorite other people’s tweets. A warning with a report might encourage them to show the world what they have inside.

Yes kids - roll up and get listed as a troll for using the features built in to Twitter! Next up FaceTroll. A service for reporting Facebook users who update their status!

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Insult/Threat - insults and threats are a delicate matter, but Trolldor is a good way of letting everyone know that a profile is continuing to making abusive use of Twitter.

Twitter already has this

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False identity - you can use this category to indicate profiles that seek with usurp another’s identity for unclear purposes

Twitter already has this and, more to the point, who the fuck are you to decide if an identity checks out?

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However, to end on a positive, the design is excellent.