skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Possibly was flagged by users. I find myself flagging stories that are going to lead to uninteresting or contentious discussion. And the first two comments prove this out.

Many of the low-ranking posts and flagged posts are a result of user action, not moderator intervention.
Who Performs the Best in Online Classes?
So what? I want to see my results. They make it clear it's not an exact science and they link to the relevant studies so you can make your own decisions. Why should the FDA prevent them from sharing that information with me? I'm not even American!
Tablets and smartphones? This isn't Candy Crush or Angry Birds here
Sad it is down. Well done on the 404 page though.
This is the kind of content we want on the front page of HN? A "review" that is nothing more than content copied out of the book with a few paragraphs introducing each copied section, for a book that has been out for almost a year and a half?

If you want to read some real reviews of Bad Pharma a quick search will find you these:

http://davidhealy.org/not-so-bad-pharma/

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/17/bad-pharma-ben-...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/bad-pharma-a-manifesto-t...

Goldacre's blog, Bad Science, also talks a lot about the book and the topic: http://www.badscience.net/category/big-pharma/
Britain moves to keep email, phone data for security
"and paying for a bookmarking service, a feature that has been functional in browsers for a long while...that seemed completely bonkers"

Can you explain why you now think Pinboard is better than the native bookmarking features in every browser?
The headline is kind of misleading. It's the mainstream support that is ending, extended support is available until January 2020.
That's how it's done at the University of Central Florida for the introduction to programming course. You learn Python for the first six weeks, and then learn C for the remainder. It's nice!
Introducing CFSSL – CloudFlare's open source PKI toolkit
Show HN: Pythonic array slicing in JavaScript
Celery can very well handle 100k tasks/sec. Celery is not locked in to Python, but you are right it's not a drop in solution for other languages as it doesn't support them natively (yet, but that will change soon).

You can write simple workers for Celery in other languages too, and there is one in active development for Java. But then Redis is not really a good choice, AMQP is more convenient for interoperability.

Have no idea if pinterest evaluated Celery, because they have not been in contact. If they did there are several pitfalls they could have gotten wrong at this scale, but I'm pretty confident it would have been more than suitable. It could have been a benefit for all of us and chances are they have underestimated the effort needed to maintain a custom solution.
Flagged, because it's not hacker related, and it's an intentionally clickbaity title. It's not weapons-grade uranium, and everyone (including the IAEA) seems to agree ISIS most likely does not have the capability to turn it into weapons-grade uranium.
I hope this is a wake-up call to the average American: you are losing. To high school nerds. Learn to program already.
Whoa. This is blowing my mind. It is seriously amazing that this exists.
This! Or just list the suggested tags in order of popularity.

Right now I am just getting suggested tags solely from within the pool of my existing tags. I want to see what other people tagged.
How I Developed my First iPhone App in 2 Weeks
In Python everything is an object, including a function. The default value isn't a global, it belongs to the function.

I wonder if people who weren't exposed to languages which work differently ala C++ would be as surprised?
vLine looks like it's really cool, but I don't see a way to "lock" a chat. That's a dealbreaker for me. =-(
الحد الادنى لللقبول بكلية الشرطة 2014 -شروط
The toaster analogy is a great down to earth way to convey the problem.

The video also pushes for some emotion, but they really did well at the animation and sounds.
Show HN: Answer Customers – Turn customer questions into website content
Will do. Briefly, been a sysadmin for 11+ years and worked my way up the ladder. Have various certifications but honestly most/all of this can be learned on-line nowadays. Working at a mega corp looking after High Performance Compute (HPC) infrastructure. Think labs across the country + scientists needing HPC to do their research.
There's this woman, Allia Potestas [1], who is notable just because we happen to have her epitaph, and the epitaph happens to mention details of some sort of polyandrous relationship configuration that she had. I doubt she would be notable if she lived today.

Additionally, I'm pretty sure that poetry in Ancient Greece was if anything more commonplace than it is today, and not necessarily some high action of the literati. I think we're used to a world where the marginal cost of reproducing creative works is very low, so everyone can hear the same songs and read the same books as everyone else - before the era of easy reproduction, I think you had a lot more "local talent" generating their own little poems, songs, plays, etc.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allia_Potestas
can you remote wipe it? http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2701
Microsoft, IBM, and Docker jump on Google’s Kubernetes project
CoinSummit Livestream
Anything sufficiently radioactive is a threat - turn it into dust with a high explosive charge, and kill half a city of people with inhaled carcinogens. So this Uranium is safe somehow?
Amazon announces Zocalo, challenging Google Docs in the enteprise
It would have helped in my perception of these people a lot. But then, we do not know if they actually said something very much like this, and it was just omitted.
Will Doctors Soon Prescribe Videogames?
Sandboxed applications for GNOME
i dont care what you say, i see this as a green light to eat more cinnabuns.
> Make them all access free for the first week they're up, then charge for access to the back catalog.

So, encourage someone to download each new video and distribute it via torrent once the paywall goes up. Cool.
Measuring Hurricane Arthur with smartphone sensors
JRuby+Truffle measurements
For more information, this appears to be attacking the "Cost to Connect" portion of the setup costs, which represent about half the cost of a FTTH deployment.

http://www.ftthcouncil.org/d/do/33
I've seen this trotted out time and time again, and at least in this simplified form it's a red herring. If you're going to mutate the argument, it doesn't make sense to give it a default value. If you're going to return a modified form of the input you need to make a copy of it. Doing both is simply absurd.
The laws against counterfeiting money don't apply to counterfeiting designer bags or Linden dollars. They have separate counterfeiting laws to cover that.
Over the years, I've noticed from time to time what appear to be substantial moderations that clean out 'lesser' stories. It often corresponds with about the time offices are opening up on the West coast.

It could be algorithmic. It could be a group of users whose first action on the site is to flag weak submissions. It could be an individual with moderation powers. It could be each of them at different times.

Over the years it's been particularly noticeable on Ask, but not uncommon on the front page. But more recently it has been more noticeable on the front page. Personally, I'm all for it. Algorithms can only go so far before they are subject to gaming.

If it is algorithmic, perhaps it is triggered based on trends with new submissions - e.g. such as when few are gaining meaningful adjusting the gravity curve to favor older more popular submissions. This would maintain the quality of the front page and perhaps encourage more effort toward finding quality submissions or bring the focus to discussions.
Similarly I heard recently that air traffic controllers are never allowed to use the word "takeoff" unless its in the context of clearing an aircraft to do so.
No, dynamic layout is a big factor, which is the reason why Google added new APIs for apps to tell the OS not to re-evaluate layout.
In every year's Google I/O there's at least one session on Android performance, and in every session there was always some technique on how to prevent layout calculation during animation.
Free drivers are the way to go, but pushing proprietary drivers was never really Ubuntu's fault. It has been a lack of development of free software drivers because of non-cooperation by hardware vendors. But the community has stepped up with better support for historically unsupported things like accelerated video. If you install 14.04, it does not recommend proprietary drivers except in cases where there is still a lack of options.

I'm not saying Canonical is entirely innocent, but they do employ a lot of fervent free software advocates and developers. What we need to fix the situation is more pressure on hardware vendors to release specifications and free software. Perhaps if Ubuntu Touch takes off, Canonical will be in a better position to provide that pressure.
Would that be an equivalent to Casper.js ?
I've locked it. I'm not too concerned about remote wiping it. I have all my stuff backed up and I'm sure they are about to wipe it. It has already gone 'offline'.
You don't rip out the building because you're using the existing copper that runs inside the building. Maybe you'd run fibre from the junction box to the building then, or maybe you'd just use the existing copper on that route too.
Or just use UTC.
Waah... we can't let advertisers trawl through your health records because privacy rules won't let us
Kristi, what are you actually saving to the vault when I use PayPal? I know you present the merchant with a token, but how is it accomplished? Has PayPal had a charge-whenever token capability before that was not widely understood, or are you actually saving the customer's paypal email and password so you can charge arbitrary transactions in the future?
> Hospitals won't buy it because of the system. Which happened partly due to regulation.

If you actually read the article, it happened due to the absence of regulation. Hospitals formed an entity (the GPO) to bargain collectively for lower prices from suppliers. This is a classic example of collusion. The GPO started negotiating with the suppliers for a cut of the contracts that they entered into on behalf of the hospitals. This is a classic example of the principal-agent problem. As a result, Retractable Technologies' couldn't break into the market.

Collusion and principal-agent problems arise naturally in free markets. Indeed, the usual response to them is regulation. Antitrust enforcement would've prevented the hospitals from colluding with respect to purchasing supplies, and as the article points out, Medicare's anti-kickback provision, had it been applied to the GPO, would have reduced the principal-agent problem.
The end of that post is beautiful:

DISCLAIMER: I run a paid bookmarking site. Every morning
I wake up and dive into my vault of golden coins.
Creative Cloud licensing change: Lightroom never fully expires
Did you read my comment? It wasn't about the results. You want your results - you got them. It was that they were providing recommendations based on the results which haven't been verified as accurate by anyone but 23andme.
Open Source Analog Hardware
New AWS Mobile Services
Unfortunately there isn't much substance in the article. But it does at least showcase an interesting application of crowd-sourced data. It would have been interesting if they had tried to demonstrate how this data enables some analysis which the "official" weather stations aren't capable of. Maybe something like a better spatial–temporal sampling of the hurricane's pressure depression?
Chances are very likely that you will die as a partial result of what you eat, or don't eat regardless of whatever diet decision you make.
ENGLISH MAN BEEN LIVING IN ATLANTA TOO LONG
Docker: Ambassador Pattern vs. Port Exposition?
Ask HN: Traveling to DEFCON from UK, anyone going?
I'm just looking at flights and hotel to travel to the DEFCON conference as it will be something nice to do before I go back to my 2nd year at University, studying a security related course. Is any one on HN going? It appears the RIO hotel is fully book where are people staying that aren't at the RIO?

Any hints or tips would be appreciated when travelling there.
Emmet Re:View – A responsive design viewer
"Kill half a city"

herm, citation needed
A broker is not suitable for all systems, but for this type of system going broker-less will quickly get complicated, and you're likely to end up with something resembling a broker anyway.
As comment goes that sounds suspiciously like an ad-hominem attack rather than an actual criticism of the substance of the argument.
There's something about this site that's very www-of-1996 for me, in the best way possible.

That is, here's a site full of useful information, obviously created by someone who is interested in the subject and cares about it. And not a single "Subscribe for $X a month now!" button to be found. No "call to action" to bleet/myface/instasnap all my friends a link. No "enter your contact info to be funneled into my sales lead generator service that's the actual reason for this site to exist" text box.

It's freaking refreshing. This reminds me of back in the day when most webpages were basically "Here's something I care about and think is cool. Here's what I have to share regarding it. No, I don't expect anything in return, other than maybe a friendly email or two." These types of sites still exist, but they seem to be a distinct minority.
> The way capitalist societies are structured doesn't really allow for income distribution that way, the way I understand it.

In the fully-automated future, these societies will violently implode if they aren't reconfigured to provide people with something to do and something to eat.
How to Log POST Data in Nginx
I don't think we need to go somewhere else if ICANN misbehaves. That's why I wrote route around.

It all depends on what the particular bad move is. Suppose they transferred control over a top domain to a US state actor. That's one of the few scenarios I can imagine that are at least within the realm of the possible.

In that particular case I believe we should pressure root server operators to temporarily hold the change and get ICANN to backpedal.

DNScurve is unnecesary when DNSSEC is implemented. It also has the unfortunate design to give operators of authoritative name servers the possibility to manipulate the zone. In that situation all domain name owners would be expected to run their own DNS servers. I don't think that's realistic.
Cinnamon can also reverse changes in the brains of people with Unity.
This is a great point. Competitive advantages come from many places. Working in 1) an unsexy area, 2) a complex area, or 3) a regulated area can all be great advantages if you can manage it.
> the cost of human labor will increase (the cost of everything will increase probably)

How does that solve anything? Sounds like a pretty bad side-effect or is that really an objective with basic income?
I was waiting for the big reveal of the solution, but it was this:

"While traditional messaging systems tend to use one of the models described above ("broker" model in most cases) ØMQ is more of a framework that allows you to use any of the models or even combine different models to get the optimal performance/functionality/reliability ratio."
Who will be happy to charge you by the number of devices you can connect.

ISPs (used to) do that. The solution has always been to use your own router in front of the modem. Sounds like a similar solution would work here.
Learning From NateSilver538's OMG-Wrong #Bra vs. #Ger Prediction
"you think X is easy?" is a pointless statement. Everything is easy or difficult to different extents to different people. Also, the difficulty of solving a problem is not the primary criterion for choosing whether to attempt or expect to solve the problem. More importantly, there are no excuses for unethical behavior and fraudulent research.

I haven't read the book but I have read a lot of Ben Goldacre's articles (http://www.badscience.net/). His arguments are typically about how quacks, kooks, and pharmas practice 'bad' and fraudulent 'science' and are dishonest in presenting the results of their 'research'.

A vast majority of the population is inept at understanding the kind of statistical language in which drug companies misrepresent results. In addition to innate human propensity for logical fallacies (e.g. Type 1 thinking- Kahneman, Tversky, etc.), our perception is tainted by the personal dimensions of issues related to health and suffering.

Ben Goldacre is a darn good science 'popularizer' and does a great job of explaining these things to a general audience.
> These types of sites still exist, but they seem to be a distinct minority.

And even though they are often excellent they're usually really hard to find in search engines.
The Black Tie kickstarter: 6 Days Left – Please Help Spread the Word
Yes, I agree. This is a very simple and early-stage view on the data and its utility - maybe treat this as a minimum viable graph ;). We're actively experimenting with weather models and density plots to discover the biggest strengths of the data. You'll see more in-depth analyses later on!
Not Google Cardboard
Indieweb – decentralize the web while centralizing ourselves
Thank you Prof. Andy Tanenbaum.
Algorithm Builder
One Sass Color to Rule Them All
EMR Streaming in Go
Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data
Linux support might come: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/interview-david-braben-0
> On the issue of efficiency of Prozac or similar drugs, sometimes the explanation is that they simply work and you know it if you have taken them.

This can often be down to the placebo effect. Chris Kresser talks about this [1], saying that even when given a placebo people will report feeling better.

[1] http://chriskresser.com/placebos-as-effective-as-antidepress...
> But as laboratory scientists know, getting mice or other ani­mals hooked on nicotine all by its lonesome is dauntingly difficult. As a 2007 paper in the journal Neuropharmacology put it, “Tobacco use has one of the highest rates of addiction of any abused drug. Paradoxically, in animal models, nicotine appears to be a weak rein­forcer.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/29/sciences_obsession_the_searc...
Update: Details on Microsoft Takeover
Exactly. And for those of us with multiple accounts:

First Id: https://plus.google.com
Second Id: https://plus.google.com/u/1/
Third Id: https://plus.google.com/u/2/
...etc
Amazon Goes After Box, Dropbox And Huddle, Launches Zocalo
I had a course kind of like this. My intro CS class was taught in Java, and the following summer or semester I took a 1-credit course called something like "C (and C++) for Java Programmers".
No one is arguing that good things don't come out of big pharma.

The complaint is that trying to figure out if a drug is effective & safe (or not) is near impossible. The trial data you have access to is incomplete because drug companies selectively release results. Doctors are also financially motivated to prescribe the drugs, tainting the decision making process.

Those are major complaints.
Microsoft Still Not Selling Xbox
> The way capitalist societies are structured doesn't really allow for income distribution that way, the way I understand it.

That's pretty much true-by-definition when it comes to "capitalist societies", but most advanced modern societies aren't really capitalist, and while the course hasn't been strictly monotonic, they've been overall getting farther from capitalism since the late 19th Century heyday of capitalism.
I had that idea ages ago and I'm glad someone actually used it.
Have you ever asked someone on PST to use UTC and keep it in his/her head all the time? :)
What I don't understand is why this got voted up. It is webpage with a link.
I'm finding the terminology a little strange for this one..

"Helps you love how you spend every dollar"? While I get the gist of what you're saying, it makes my head hurt a little bit.

Am on Android (Moto G) and every time I tapped the goal amount text box, it requested me to "Rotate device to portrait" despite my portrait lock being turned on, so was unable to add a goal amount.

I like the idea of this app but not quite sure it works for me. I need more than a pretty picture to keep me motivated to save! :) Good luck with it though.
Hanselman: Successful Communication Tips for Remote Working
Big choice of names? Memorable? Fun? Just name them all after Muppets.
Using Phantom Types in Haskell for Extra Safety – Part 2
NoIP Update: Details on Microsoft Takeover
Are the Authoritarians Winning?
A hilarious snapchat filter that only appears when you snap from Facebook’s HQ
Law Firm Suing Tor Project, Responds [pdf]
Thanks for the kind words. Originally, I didn't even want to host a mailing list (via "get notified" link in the header), but tptacek convinced me it was a good idea [1], and he was right, it opened an invaluable communication channel with my viewers. In the future, I might follow the 90s shareware model, use till you find it useful, then donate. But we'll see how it plays out. Just felt strange asking for money when I didn't think I had enough content/wasn't good enough yet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5828686
Daylight savings time... I mean unless you do things like a human, that is in UTC. Otherwise, be prepared for having at least one hour a year when your software does not work.
Thanks for pointing this out. Great writing, loved the latest post on the Yemen trip. I hadn't heard about qat (khat) and then stumbled upon it again this morning here http://modernfarmer.com/2014/07/everything-need-know-khat/
That link is the best thing that's ever happened to the internet.
Cartegram – Find Your Adventure
Empryian Fire (moForte Guitar)
Highly secure systems are possible in theory; we just don't have them today, and we aren't likely to have them tomorrow either.

Crippling medical screwups that could have been prevented by having the right information available at the right time are actually shockingly common. I don't remember the specifics, but I've seen claims to the effect of a five digit annual death toll in the US alone.
This is exactly what I was looking for my next project. I was trying to do this with Node.js to avail, Thanks!