skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm experimenting with both right now and was impressed by both the number of charts available and the customer support of FusionCharts[1]. They also have a very exhaustive documentation but I guess I should try out HighCharts too. Any specific reason for choosing Highcharts over FusionCharts? Or any bad experience with FusionCharts in the past?

http://www.fusioncharts.com
Huffpo was never about news anyway,it's about selling stuff, the Kardishians and ads.

Huffpo is just like TV.It's to make people's brain ready for the 5 minutes of ads during and after each show.

The OP should take advantage of it and not take that content farm seriously,because it's garbage anyway.
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This is a pretty major plot point. People who haven't seen the movie might appreciate a warning about spoilers.
I don't know what the other guy means by weird, but I mean the extremely high your-brain-has-to-operate-like-a-combined-parser-and-compiler to make any sense of that kind of thing. You're telling me you're not dulled into a stupor by trying to read that?
That data would be easier to get by finding text written by men or women and finding words that correlate with gender. Finding words that we recognize but don't use regularly is harder and requires a test like this.

I remember some research doing this on twitter data:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/researchers-tell-t...

>the more obvious results pointed out that women will normally tend to use emotional language like “sad, love, glad, sick, proud, happy, scared, annoyed, excited, and jealous.” Emoticons, and CMC (computer-mediated communication) terms (lol, omg, brb, for instance) are female markers, “as [are] ellipses, expressive lengthening (e.g., coooooool), exclamation marks, question marks, and backchannel sounds like ah, hmmm, ugh, and grr.”

>Clear male markers include words related to swearing, technology, and sports, and in relation, numbers (as in scores).
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I would probably have mutiple competing nonsense generators, which could then be ranked based on how well they could fool native speakers.

I thought I could detect one that compounded valid English words into a nonsense word, one that added English prefixes and suffixes to nonsense roots, one that created scientific sounding technobabble, and a Markov chain for digraphs.
>There are not any significant costs to obtaining SSL certificates, so a new CA is hardly likely to change the SSL landscape at all.

Well, it'll slightly increase the attack surface against the CA model, so there's the (probably very small) chance that something will go wrong and it will introduce a massive (temporary) hole in TLS, since CA-based trust has a "weakest-link" failure model.
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By the same logic the author shouldn't tweet for free either.
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But what is the actual benefit of the HuffPo platform? I don't think anyone sees "HuffPo Contributor" as a byline and considers the author to somehow be a legitimate writer. Nor does HuffPo give any percentage of ad revenue.

The best possible scenario is that readers get used to seeing your name on the Huffington Post, so they return for your future posts. Great. You don't get paid for them either.

Can you point out even one success from this platform? Someone who started out on HuffPo and has become successful?
What would make sense to me more than an SSL co-op would actually be a registrar that gives you a free wildcard certificate for every domain you register. You almost always need a certificate for every domain you use, so why not bundle the two? I wonder if doing a crowdsourced bootstrap of such a registrar would work.
The post is a little dense, I'll try to summarize: it's basically Backbone split into NPM modules so you can pick & choose. For instance, you want Backbone's collections, but don't want the whole Backbone library, so you `npm install ampersand-collection`. They've setup a registry of recommended modules [1] and you compile with browserify.

Good for folks that are used to the node modules philosophy - Seems like a logical extension of the browserify effort (bringing Backbone into the frontend modules system). I dig it.

1. http://tools.ampersandjs.com/
Since the author of the article decided to invoke Linus, I thought I'd see what Linus thought about the merge vs rebase debate.

http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/...

Turns out Linus also agrees with drunken_thor, that merge messages are useful. Suppose that's why Linus added merges in the first place. ;)
The writer has a personal platform: His blog.

By the way: I assume you're a developer of some sort, since you're reading Hacker News. I need an app developed. My start-up has raised a few million in funding, but we can't pay you with money. Writing code is clearly something you're passionate about, and giving you an outlet for that passion should be compensation enough.

My e-mail's on my profile page. Please reach out!
My father was in the RAF during WW2 (not in Bomber Command though) and I've often wondered about the morality of what our country did then - the best defense I've seen of the strategy was that unlike for the Nazis the indiscriminate killing of civilians was never a goal in itself for the Allies but something that was a means to the end of finishing the war.

Note that although that's probably the best argument, I'm still not completely satisfied with it.
A 7 day trial is def. something we want to add! Also happy to showcase you the product in the meanwhile if you reach out to us
> But thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it. This topic is actually very important to me and I feel quite strongly about it and intend to write more in detail about it, so hearing people's perception helps

I can add some more color.

I find it interesting because I largely agree with your stance on taxation, but could not disagree more strongly about the comparison to slavery.

My first reaction is entirely visceral, "This is an obscene and offensive comparison."

After some less reactionary thought, it still sounds ridiculous. You can't choose to stop being a slave. At any point, you can choose to stop paying taxes (either illegally or by ceasing to earn income). If you had adequate resources, you could live off of the land entirely on your own and keep all of the fruits of your labor.

At many lower incomes, there is no income tax bill due whatsoever. So you're saying the government is enslaving the wealthy to a greater extent than the poor? And you honestly think that? The government represents the will of the people, via democratic action, we set our own tax rates. So the 'people' are enslaving themselves? I don't think that makes any logical sense whatsoever.

Call income tax 'theft' if you must (a comparison I still disagree with) but slavery doesn't hold up and distracts the conversation.
2 ways,

A, creating rogue cert by md5 collisions (they have the capacity)
B, making people believe that a CA guarantees the identity of the issuer, while having their CA in the approved list so they can sign certs (for example like gmail.com)

There is good documentation about it:

http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf
If you still don't run your own mailserver or use a service like safe-mail or mykolab in this day and age, you're mad.
Good grief. OK, here are some more examples:

1. Marrying one person is legal. Marrying >1 person is not.

2. An S corporation can have at most 100 share holders.

3. Zoning limits on the number of people that may occupy a structure are common.
Is there an adjective you use as (obviously incomplete) shorthand for your political viewpoints? Because I'm sure it could be similarly redefined using only its negative outcomes.
OpenXC supplies a lot of the groundwork for this, for use with Android:

http://openxcplatform.com/about/data-set.html
http://openxcplatform.com/projects/index.html

I think they also provide the interface for free for interested developers... Could be mistaken.

Basically, the idea is to make it better documented and less proprietary... Then support a developer community for apps that can interface with the broader range of data than OBDII can provide.
> Ignoring the fact that HN makes no money

You cant,HuffPo is totally for profit and sold like 100millions to AOL.HuffPo is a giant ad page like most AOL "news" network.
Which is a terrible excuse for putting a fundamental flaw into the analysis. It's building a big assumption into the model that's known not to hold true in reality. Especially as the mis-represented cohort will, linguistically, be one of the most interesting - likely above average intelligence and a very different exposure to language. I suspect personally it's an oversight.

EDIT: Or, as is dawning on me, I might have missed a bit of sarcasm?
A terrorist attack is defined by the object of the attack, not the method of the attack. Attacking civilian targets is terrorism. Attacking military targets and infrastructure, and especially in the case of attacking infrastructure when the fewest civilians would be killed (eg, nights or Sundays) is not terrorism.

Thus, the use of drones, against terrorists (those who would attack civilians) or enemy combatants (those who target military or infrastructure targets) is certainly not terrorism. OTOH, if drones were deliberately (and not accidentally) targeting civilian, non-military, non-infrastructure targets, that would be terrorism.

Eliminating terrorists with drones is going to minimize the number of terrorist attacks just as eliminating terrorist with sniper rifles, or bombing.

I am speaking as someone who nearly escaped a terrorist attack in Israel (Jerusalem BMW attack).