skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> That is my rapist. Having his face pop up on my news feed unexpectedly in any context has the capacity to ruin my day. Seeing him praised in the press is giving me a panic attack.

This is classic SJW (Social Justice Warrior) / Tumblr language. Many within this community genuinely believe a man is raping a woman literally by only looking at her. No, this is not a joke.

For some representative examples of how insane those within this movement are, there are plenty of examples posted on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction

I don't doubt this girl genuinely believes she was raped, but I'm quite confident her definition of rape is vastly different than the mainstream definition.
Same here. I want to get away from Java and the JVM. Twenty years old and now owned by Oracle.
Problem was solved long ago by Post-It notes. Fail.
This is very cool. Interesting use of LinkedIn's data.

I would like to read a story by this journalist 5 years from now and see how things played out.
Payed product. The intent is to help with training (employee, customer, patient, student, etc), and information distribution.
Anyone else not like the black design? White would be more welcoming since they are going for a more universal appeal.
I'm just replying to a comment about how data could be altered and don't endorse such "stupid trick" nor I'm the author :)
Unfortunately, it looks like it is impossible to use Popcorn Time for any non infringing purposes. You can't add other trackers and it seems to filter out torrents that aren't from popular movie/tv piracy release groups. The screenshots and the software's tagline that "they want to make the experience of watching torrent movies as simple as possible" support the argument that they are aiming to satisfy a known source of demand for infringement.

The only case that could be defensible is that Popcorn Time is developed as a proof of concept and is not intended for actual use. I still don't think it would qualify because the use of Popcorn time as a way to stream movies is more "commercially significant" than any other use.
Realizing that the United States' military capabilities are good enough, DARPA employees have turned their attention to replicating scenes from video game boss battles.
Here's the paper: http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8852185/Kohen.pdf...

The first sentence is: "Tampons are used by up to 70 percent of menstruating women in the United States today, and the average woman may use as many as 16,800 tampons in her lifetime."
Yeah, I was expecting some startup to be shutting down or something.
So you agree, then.
To be a bit of a pedant, there was a C64 port of Ultima 6, the only version of the game that ran on 8-bit hardware. [0] But it's essentially unplayable due to the technical limitations, as you've outlined. To quote one Youtube comment: "You would take two steps and data would load from the disk. Talk to someone, more loading. Walk a bit more, more loading. Dragged too much."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcMljmsPkGM
Timing. People are actually using Genius - the news stories I found indicated a userbase in the millions.

With consumer tech startups particularly, it's oftentimes simply a matter of the public being "ready" for a particular idea. Facebook was far from the first social network; I was using LiveJournal in 2002, sites like EZBoard and Xanga came out around 1999, and before then there were all sorts of hosted forums like UBB (and UseNet, of course). But what made Facebook special was that they launched in a place (Harvard) and time (2004) that was ready for them, and then expanded quickly across the world. Their tech was trivial at the time; I could've coded up Facebook as it existed in Sept 2004 (when I discovered it) in a couple of weeks. But I wasn't the one who actually did it and got people to use it.
That's offensive.
Ridiculous Article. All the costs are exaggerated and padded.
Read your links, but found nothing contradictory with what I said... and I certainly found nothing to substantiate the claims of the post I replied to.

What exactly used to be true that is no longer true?
You forgot the parents, it's also difficult to deal with the parents ...

Previous discussion, many interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7333489 (63 points, 130 days ago, 98 comments)
Living where?
True, but a video where everyone just passes out drunk and then gets up and leaves would be pretty compelling.
Yeah, I agree with this as well. I think cars are a useful thing to look at. The Korean market went international relatively quickly once they started making cars because the domestic market is relatively small (even with lots of trade protectionism keeping foreign competitors out). The Chinese market is robust, but pretty much entirely internal at the moment.

Still, the Chinese market has shown that there's lots of talent out there able to build all kinds of things. We'll see how long it takes for the domestic markets to mature enough to put pressure on manufacturers to go global.

Overcoming the public perception of decades (generations even) of exporting essentially crap products will take a while.
Here's the best "hands-on" introduction I've seen: http://nathansuniversity.com/

He walks you through the basics of compiling, parsing, and interpreting to create your own scheme-like language (complete with exercises along the way).
I wonder what each bullet will cost once production starts?

I sometimes think about the origins of the second amendment and if it's intent was to empower citizens against a potentially oppressive government then it has failed. US military technology might as well be black magic. What can a "well regulated militia" do against smart bullets, M1 Abrams, Apache helicopters, etc?

Thank goodness we are kept fat and happy.
Sounds like you actually did it then. Even hiding behind a throwaway, you probably shouldn't admit to felonies on the internet. On top of that, if you ever tried to submit that "evidence" in defense of a rape accusation, you'd still go to jail for that crime, so your so-called motivation doesn't hold water.

And nice try framing this as a cool new intersection of technology and the law, but "ubiquitous storage" has nothing to do with creating pornographic films without consent. That's been possible since the 1800s, so it has nothing to do with our modern digital age.

A person who went to my university was just sentenced to a couple of years in jail for doing what you did, and beyond the law it's plain disgusting and creepy. You want to film the women (really appreciate the correction, bud) you have sex with? Ask them first.

You sicken me.
How is "incredibly swift, no pun intended, pace" not intended?

It's an unnatural forced use of the term expressly for that purpose, expressly saying something is not exactly what it is, isn't in anyway accidental.
May not fit for Silicon Valley dream though.
One of the aims of this program was to essentially give any 18 year old kid the tool set to perform like a highly trained sniper. There will still be a need for marksmanship training but this enables the minimum standard of marksmanship for its user to be akin to an expert. Ballistics computation is complicated but this simplifies it to a more straight-forward "point and shoot" approach that almost anyone can understand.
my explanation was correct, "common" (but not secret) means that both parties have it (each party also has a secret) and that is the key element to understand what is good about the protocol and what problems it solves. By seeming to correct me, you are actually confusing the people I just explained it to. You can if you wish go ahead and explain what limitations this puts on the protocol, but try to help people understand rather than just throwing confetti in the air.
The ability to play a legitimate dvd would make the player qualify for safe harbor under the Betamax case.
you should be able to do everything with it other than uploading apps to an iOS device.
More significant difference is that Firefox doesn't care about remote performance, emacs does.
left and up over and over nearly won it for me.

good idea, but it's not as fun as 2048.
Interesting discussion at http://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/23wbeo/jim_koch...
apparently a lot of people disagree.
You've given me no reason to believe that you're not exaggerating, nor have you given me a reason to believe that your friend's friend didn't actually rape someone.
You may have better luck in "Show HN". https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
When I saw this, I asked myself, "Is this the Onion?"
There is some sort of active guidance. Either it is doing the seeking itself (according to a laser designator of some kind) or something tells it where to go in real time, based on that "something" else's targeting capability.
Abundant examples:

http://www.reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction
More accurate (and more general):

Purchaser wants more supply of thing being purchased in the marketplace because it reduces market-clearing clearing price of thing being purchased.

In this case Purchaser = "employer" and thing being purchased = "labor".

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I originally thought it was just a music thing too, but the core use seems to be as a meta-layer for the web. That has existed before, but people apparently use this one - which is the value proposition of every social-web-thing, ever. Look at the comment section of The New York Times, or any other online news source; people are tremendously passionate about the news. This brings them one step closer, interacting with the text in-place rather than at-arm's-length in the comment section. I fully expect to see multiple versions of annotations as the site grows (by region, social network, viewpoint, etc.)

Is that worth [$400 million, or whatever]?
This is one of the reasons why having adequate legal recourse is so important. The incompetence and inadequacy of the criminal justice system injures us all.

In an ideal world we would simply say "where is the evidence, this should be sorted out in a trial". But given that the cops are so hostile to sexual assault victims, forensics which aren't processed for decades (http://www.npr.org/2014/01/25/266275211/tested-at-last-rape-... ) and a legal system which will try the credibility of victims, it's hard to blame any sexual assault victim who shies away from reporting.

In the end, unanswered questions persist.
Dude, Where's My Horoscope?
Created a (almost) real-time photobooth with S3, lightroom, and umbraco
Wow, I have never heard that SF is expensive. Thanks for letting us know this revelation.
"It says "optical guidance system" in the article."

It doesn't make much sense that if you were developing an advanced weapons system that, other than to get out disinformation, it would be a good thing to tell exactly what you are doing in any detail at all.

What is the advantage of releasing any information at all other than:

1) To insure support and funding for projects

2) To scare the enemy.

3) To get the enemy to spend resources on the wrong thing

..etc.
I'm becoming increasingly annoyed with this kind of article or political statement.

Look man, we know we're being screwed over. We all do. Why don't you tell us what to do about it? Oh what's that? You don't have an answer...?
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Using Katrina is definitely "hard mode." Her best weapon long-range weapon is the sling. And you need to get her up to level 8 to complete the game.

My friend and I had noticed we hadn't found her, so I decided to do a four-corner search of the town, and she turned up very quicklu. To be fair, I had been trained by Ultima III that there were often cool -- but not necessarily required for game completion -- things hiding the corners.
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Don't worry, that case is already happening in Michael Schwern v. Noirin Plunkett, a libel case brought after her second public accusation of sexual assault. The Geek Feminism Wiki has a really depressing article[1] on it (including a really sad misunderstanding of the word "exonerate"). The wiki article is basically a distilled version of how folks want to bypass the legal system and convict someone on an accusation alone.

If you monitor this public accusation drama that's currently in vogue, Oregon 3:14-CV-00146-PK[2] is a case to watch.

[1]: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Schwern_arrest

[2]: http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/1vely89ia/oregon-district-c...
"False allegations are far from being rare."

"Of the 136 cases of sexual assault (5.9%) were coded as false reports..."

I grant rare is subjective, but doesn't that statistic say that only 1 in 17 of the reports in the study you're citing were found to be false? I get what you're saying about "not boolean," but the handout on false allegations from that conference you linked to (your link doesn't work, but if you take the first part of "http://www.icdv.idaho.gov/conference/" you get the full schedule) says, "when more methodologically rigorous research has been conducted, estimates for the percentage of false reports begin to converge around 2-8%." I don't see anything that suggests the allegation is only false if there wasn't sexual contact, either.

"The determination that a report is false can then only be made when there is sufficient evidence to establish that the sexual assault did not happen (was not completed or attempted). This does not mean that the investigation failed to prove that the sexual assault happened--in that case the investigation would simply be inconclusive or unsubstantiated. It also does not mean that the suspect was unable to successfully complete the sexual assault--this would be an attempted sexual assault and/or some other sexual offense."

(I should note I'm not taking any position on the allegation against Max Temkin here.)
Sure, will try this. Thank you!
Sure, we can all find exceptions. I would imagine it works for some. When it comes to giving anonymous advice on the internet however, saying "don't smoke weed when you're trying to work" seems like good advice.
Each time I see a site with right-click blocked I put that site on my black list. Really is one of the most annoying thing ever made on the internet. Surpassed only when you block right-click AND bind the right-click with a popup that says "sorry you can't right-click on our site for yyyyy purposes".
I'd like to think Python has more going for it than being a bad Perl
Chloe
Not yet; I'm not finished tearing Ultima 5 to pieces and decoding every single thing about it. ;) After that, Lazarus, and then U6, which I've never played. It will be interesting to see how a fresh play of an Ultima game goes for me at this stage in my life.
No, it wasn't in the package. :(
> Why wouldn't this work?

It would work, exactly like you say. However, you seem to intuitively be vastly underestimating how far into pi you have to go to find a particular bit pattern.

To sharpen your intuition of this, I recommend this website: http://pi.nersc.gov/

I tried searching pi for the string "zzzz" (this is 20 bits of information according to their somewhat weird encoding scheme). The decimal position in pi for this 20-bit string was 3725869808, which takes 32 bits to represent.

The same will be true in most cases -- the offset into pi will take more space to represent than the data itself! However, in some cases data absolutely can be compressed with this pi scheme. Just not often enough to be actually useful.

However, the fact that the data will usually be larger is not what the pigeonhole principle is about.

All the pigeonhole principle says is: it's not possible for every 100 GB file to have a offset in pi that takes less than 100GB to represent. The pigeonhole principle still allows some files to be compressable with pi, just not all.

To prove this is simple: take every possible 100GB file (there are 2100G of them). Now let's suppose that for every single one you can actually find a location in pi whose binary representation is less than 100GB to represent. If you can do this, then it means that at least 2 of the input files mapped to the same location in pi (because there were 2100G distinct input files but less than 2100G pi offsets that we are allowed to use). Therefore, once "compressed", you can't tell the difference between the two input files that both mapped to the same location in pi!
How does MechanicalSoup (or RoboBrowse, for that matter, this is the first I've heard of either) compare to Scrapy?: http://scrapy.org/
(Unfortunately, "piles" sounds like a medical condition.)
humor/irony or not, I'll never take a project seriously that has such ridiculous typography for the project home page.
Guaranteed perfect frames. Compositor built in. Both awesome.

It's simple and slim, and therefore hopefully more performant.

And then there was some drama about client side windows decorations, that I didn't quite get.
I always assumed that was an argument for havin militias that have Apache helicopters and high explosives.
> On top of that, if you ever tried to submit that "evidence" in defense of a rape accusation, you'd still go to jail for that crime, so your so-called motivation doesn't hold water.

Yes, you would go to jail for recording the sex act (assuming a jury didn't show mercy on you), but you would not go to jail for the rape you didn't commit.

In terms of your future reputation and life opportunities, it's much better to go to jail for recording a sex act than for a rape you didn't commit.
Using tampons doesn't rule out using pads, too. If I use a tampon one day, I'm one of that 70% of menstruating women that uses tampons. If I use a pad when I swap out that tampon, I'm now also one of the x% of menstruating women that uses pads.
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really? the 'essentials' seemed mostly reasonable to me - grew up in midwest, now living in the US 'south' (NC). Not much there struck me as way out of line.

on the 'taxes' segment: most people won't owe $32k in taxes unless they're actually earning a high amount anyway, so it's sort of self-fulfilling - if you include $32k in taxes, then yes, you'll need to earn far more than that to pay those taxes.

Not sure why 'cable/internet' are separate from 'entertainment'.
Why not interlace by splitting every other line of the image into two transparent PNGs (or GIFs, I guess), and overlaying them with the "invisible wall" technique? There's no artifacting from refresh rates there, and the image isn't usable unless you have both.
But even if permission is asked for and obtained, one party can later claim coercion. (This does not even have to be a dishonest claim. One party may in fact have been coerced. Or one party, looking back, may feel that they were coerced, even if the other party made a good-faith effort to obtain consent.)
Of all the 1000+ games I've played from the original Nintendo games on, if I had to pick a list of five favorites, Ultima IV would be on it. The Ultima games were impressively ahead of similar games such as the Wizardry series.

All of Wizardry I on consisted of building characters with stats, navigating a menu-based town with no graphics, taking steps through a first person perspective dungeon, and fighting monsters. Ultima I on the other hand, had equivalent dungeons, many towns with top down views and people to talk to, an overland world a space ship and more. The difference was staggering!

In terms of plot, early Ultima IV was a quantum leap from its predecessors. Here were the goals in each game:

Ultima I - Kill an evil wizard.

Ultima II - Kill that wizard's evil apprentice.

Ultima III - Kill an evil monster.

Ultima IV - Become an avatar who symbolizes the eight virtues and inspires the people of the land!

Needless to say, against the backdrop of RPGs with rigid or non-existent plots, it was refreshing and immersive in a way that would be very hard to replicate in today's flooded game market. In some ways the frustrating nature of the game that the author mentioned, like the conversation system actually made the game more immersive. Since any stray word in a conversation could be the keyword to unlock further secrets in a conversation with someone else, I hung on every word. I filled a notebook with notes—"Talk to this person about mystic armor", "Ask that person about navigation", "Ask the mage in the woods at Yew about deep magic", and so on. I can certainly see how modern gamers wouldn't want to go through all of that note-taking or draw their own maps of dungeons. I probably wouldn't either, now that I'm not eight. Nonetheless, Ultima was an impressive work of art I'll never forget.

I lived and breathed Richard Garriot's fantastic world for months until I finally made it to the final question at the bottom of the Stygian Abyss, ready to open the Codex of Ultimate Knowledge. And I kept getting the damned answer wrong, which resulted in me being sent back up to the surface and losing hours of work. Stuck within a single word of victory I finally gave up. For three years, I didn't play the game. And then one day, somehow all of the game conversations I'd burned into memory came together and I had it! I felt confident knew the answer to the last question. I booted the game back up, fought through the 8 levels of the Abyss, got to the final riddle, and with trembling fingers, entered my answer.
I am surely not the only one using noscript.

To me, the interlaced image demo looks like this: http://imgur.com/NsVvgEZ - now I concede that most people do not use script blocking tools, but quite a lot do. Ruining the user-experience of your own site for some cheesy protection scheme seems like a really bad idea to me.

Besides: what is keeping me from taking several screen shots (JS enabled of course) and then overlaying them in Photoshop?
it's five pairs of a cheaper kind
The average tampon will hold 5mL. Sanitary pads hold 5mL-15mL. These things hold 29mL.
I believe you mean "second."

Additionally, vastly superior technology doesn't necessarily outweigh other factors. It certainly makes a huge difference but history is littered with counterexamples.
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And if we're talking period panties, I'd rather spend $8 on a pack of 8 cheapy Walmart panties than 6/$24 at Vicky's Secret.
Honest question, then: What is the statute of limitations on rape?

I know that for some crimes, there is no statute of limitations. I don't know whether rape is one of them.
>'...they have 150+ community moderators that oversee the site's community and hundreds of community editors that are trusted with accepting and editing the site's annotations...'

Are these people paid anything?

Also, isn't 'project' generally suggestive of something a bit more open than a VC-funded startup?
How did Tom Selleck defeat these things?
(Hope it's clear that poster's trolling. HN is well-known for its history of misogyny, and this bias resulting from a male-dominated audience predictably means only certain perspectives get reliably voted up; while others get flagged. A well-known filter.)
0) To inform the people that supplied the funding how it is being spent, in case they want to provide some feedback.
The CEO, Miki Agrawa, has a book that's a pretty good read called "Do Cool Shit"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062261533
lastpass is awesome, and i like their disclosure policy. nothing worse than trying to cover things up.
Just guessing, but the guidance is almost certainly handled remotely.

Which opens it up to being hacked... a smart enemy might cause bullets to veer away from him.
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I remember 2 useful bugs in Ultima IV on the Apple //e --

* If you readied a weapon that you already had readied, one would get added to your store. Which you could then sell.
* If you exited the balloon without landing, you could walk anywhere (over mountains and through forests without slowing down) and see anything to the edges of the screen.