skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember tentatively asking my mom if I could go play D&D with some friends in the late 90s. I was aware of what happened in the 80s, and my parents were quite religious and strict.

She laughed and said "Of course? Why would I mind?" Apparently, my uncles had played, and she somehow wasn't even aware there was some kind of controversy.
@unclebucknasty, could you show your original submission for comparison?

At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052399 it says right now: "Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet", which is linked to https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...

What did you originally post?
Who needs debuggers when you have OpenGrok and printf()? ;)
Exactly.

The lack of note of some of the original funding sources for ISIS makes me regard the chart as bogus and maybe even misleading.

There are groups who don't want to see Iran (nor Russia for that matter) grow any more powerful in the region, and these are defiantly somewhat happy about the emergence of ISIS if not also surreptitiously supporting them. Putting these countries as frowny on the chart is not really very accurate even if they profess disdain in public (which they politically have to for an outlaw group like this). I hope the US is not in this group but wouldn't swear they are not. At minimum, some of the "friends" of the US are in this group.

The absence of Russia on the chart is another reason not to take it very seriously. Overall.... this is like a 4'th grade view of alliances in the mid-east. Not really very useful.
They only have to admin the DNSSEC stuff (publish your domain name keys along with your nameservers, as you set them up through your regular domain provider).

The DANE part needs no further support than you being able to use DNSSEC for your domain's DNS. Obviously there is always some entity controling each TLD, and that entity can screw up your domain if it acts improperly.
I agree in all cases except for 3D, which I would pick in many cases over 2D if it weren't for how dim the picture gets when you split half the light into each eye.
Jibo The Friendly Robot Could Be Your Next Platform
They raised 450 BTC within a day, seems they have a following. Hopefully one of them will get this up and running soon.
I've done this with all of my shirts, pants/shorts, and briefs as well.
> No, I won't sign in with Google, nor Facebook.

That's probably your problem. I signed up for Quora and can read the posts fine. Also, there's a 'close' link under that dialog, which you could have clicked without logging in.

> If the HN homepage had a popup saying "Login with Google or Facebook to read all of HN," would you tolerate it?

Yes. Why not? It seems childish to rail against this. If a site is useful, I create an account. I did that for HN, and it doesn't matter if the sign-in mechanism is proprietary, Google based, Facebook or OAuth. In fact, I trust sites that use external, federalised SSO more because I know they didn't roll their own authentication with associated failures.
So the Feynman article's title did change! I thought my eyes were playing tricks.

Dear moderators: please don't do that. And when someone reposts the classic "You and Your Reseach" again, don't strip out Hamming's name from that title, either.
Many stories are flagged by users off the page.
Why wouldn't you just keep a list in your bag?
So is this a joke? The readme reads like satire, but it serm somewhat useful and interesting. Is this some guy's toy project where he just makes fun of academia in its documentation? I'm confused.
Because money. And hassle.

For example, I host my personal sites and a bunch of my friends and friends' businesses' sites for free. Sites that otherwise wouldn't be online. I do it via the Rackspace Cloud Sites platform because it has better performance than typical 'shared' hosting. If I want an SSL certificate running on one of them, it's $20 per month per domain... in addition to the actual yearly cost for the certificate. I don't have that for sites I give away for free.

That's in addition to the hassle for the 3 days and multiple faxes and phone calls it takes for me to renew my businesses that do use SSL certs from reputable providers (as opposed to the $10-$20 a year providers that don't bother to even check who is buying the cert).

The SSL cert setup isn't terribly secure, is a big hassle, and costs a prohibitive amount of money for most smaller sites.
It's noticeably faster than grep but I would say, in my experience anyways, only academically faster than ack. Both are so fast I can't really notice a difference when scanning my massive codebase.
Isn't a 30 year cycle normal for fashion?
$ nslookup example.com
Server: 10.1.1.1
Address: 10.1.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: example.com
Address: 93.184.216.119

$ whois 93.184.216.119
<snip>

% Information related to '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255'

% Abuse contact for '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255' is 'abuse@edgecast.com'

inetnum: 93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255
netname: EDGECAST-NETBLK-03
descr: NETBLK-03-EU-93-184-216-0-24
country: EU
admin-c: DS7892-RIPE
tech-c: DS7892-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: MNT-EDGECAST
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Derrick Sawyer
address: 2850 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 200, Santa Monica CA 90405 USA
phone: +18773343236
nic-hdl: DS7892-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered
mnt-by: MNT-EDGECAST

That seems to be the person you'd want to ask.
NYC politicians’ one-word case for net neutrality: Skype
Map of Mathematistan
Dang is really transparent about his modifications. I always see him posting a comment on many threads about title changes, and voting ring detections etc. He's a great moderator who does a tremendous job.
Same, except I use an alum block instead of alcohol. I also don't use shampoo, conditioner or soap on my body. I shower daily with cold(ish) water and only water.
Have you ever had an issue with people asking why you wear the same shirt all week?
Exactly. I really don't understand what's wrong with signing in to access content, it shows the site owner I'm actually interested in engaging. Facebook isn't going steal my soul when I send them my credentials, you know.
Hacker News mods are just dicks! That's all.
It is a bit confusing, but I'm not sure that this is actually an error. It sounds like he may be in a position to directly make that change to Chrome, but is trying to clarify that his thoughts on Firefox and Safari are his, and he can't speak on their behalf. When you read it that way, it makes sense.
I wouldn't mind entering my ZIP to precalculate the shipping costs. But seriously, Shipping costs are a lame excuse. There is nothing that stops paypal to call back to the shop to get the shipping costs. Or just make a CORS request from the browser itself and have the shop sign the shipping costs so paypal knows.

> Sure your cart page says you'll charge X amount, there is NOTHING keeping you from charging some other arbitrary amount when they press pay.

Which is exactly why I only use shops with paypal where I see the amount charged on paypal.com if I don't completely trust the shop. I was under the impression that this was the value paypal provides. Apparently I was wrong. Might as well get a prepaid credit card now.
HN is not as open as other group sites like, say, reddit where it's up to the users to decide what's important. It's run with a specific purpose of quality of stories within a specific set of topics and a vehicle for promotion of YC-related content. Voting exists to provide group input within those guidelines.

The bit about writing a blog post and submitting it is out-of-date based on current mod behavior. If you want to provide commentary, post the original source and add a comment. Links to blogs are nearly always pulled for the original source unless the blog is the original source on an overall trend, research, etc.
>As you say, buying Bitcoins to buy something and then the merchant immediately selling them again is pointless.

It is not that simple, in my opinion. While the merchant may hold the bitcoins for a very short while post-purchase, the customer will probably not have automated infrastructure, and not be that efficient. The main usage of "bitcoin seconds" in the transaction while likely be the bitcoins sitting on the buyers wallet or bitcoin exchange account prior to the purchase.
Now, I am just doing guesswork, but it doesn't seem that unlikely that a customer will acquire the bitcoins for the purchase a few hours, or perhaps even a few days in advance.
I had two options:

1: Email them and ask for myself, and only myself.

2: See if I could cajole the admin out into the light for a potentially interesting public discussion.
If I get the choice, I prefer one large monitor over two smaller ones, simply for the reason that you can put windows in the center of your visual space. Besides, for some reason windows often seem to pop up unexpectedly on the wrong screen for me, whenever I use two screens.
Wholeheartedly agree. But it'd be good if the surfacing of title/url moderation were automatic rather than reliant upon the mod's (current) good behavior.
Proxy wars among larger powers.

Syria demonstrates this principal most clearly. It's the US (or the West if you prefer) vs Russia for controlling influence in the region.
Say you are just 1 mile from a friend, at 151Mhz the fresnel zone is 72ft tall. If you are both at equal elevation on flat land then 50% of the signal is going to be absorbed by the ground. How exactly does this scenario work?

Source: I used to build outdoor medium distance (~1mi) wireless data networks with 900Mhz and at 1 mi the fresnel zone is roughly 30ft tall so we would put our antenna 20ft in the air. The awesome thing is we could shoot through a mile of forest but only if 60+% of the fresnel zone was not occluded by the ground.

Edit: I should also add that I would have loved something like this in Iraq. Next to keeping soldiers fed, coordinating with adjacent units (read: not shooting at each other) on foot during a mission is about the biggest challenge there is.
Of course not. I think he wants the ottoman empire back. He wants a non-wahhabist (but still quite strict) caliphate centered in constantinople. Most of all he wants the basic property of the caliphate : a theocracy.

He has, after, said exactly that. Cost him votes, but not enough.

As I said, he's quite sympathetic with what they're doing, he's doing the same. He's just behaving like any Ottoman vasal did a mere 100 years ago. He agrees with the need for a caliphate, probably even with the method. He just disagrees on the caliph and the capital. Like any ottoman vasal, tough, he sees them as competition as well as potential allies.
Student ID card
Well, yeah, except for the slight part about how they're a terrorist organisation?

I mean, the Quarter (the Quartet (United States, Russia, United Nations, and European Union) basically said, we can recognise you, but you have to commit to non-violence etc.

And Hamas was like, no, screw you guys, we're going to keep rocketing and bombing all the civilians we like...I mean, Israel's going to cave eventually, if we keep shooting rockets at their citizens, right?
This seems to be the original Linux Foundation video, with way more views. (But exactly the same content.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgUPqygAww
"usually posts a comment" is not sufficient. Dang is human and humans make mistakes. If the system allows somebody to have that kind of power, it should also make it transparent so that we can call them out when it is being abused.

I agree with the parent, if we as a community are going to allow this type of stuff, there needs to be a changelog. We can't rely on good graces of the moderator. It will be abused.
In this article[0] Rob talks a bit about his setup.

[0]: http://rob.pike.usesthis.com
The site has been updated to say they are having issues:

Due to technical problems, we are displaying a simplified version of the BBC Homepage. We are working to restore normal service.
Visit BBC News or you can try the other links below.
Instead of keeping squishy balls at my desk, I have something that resembles Thor's hammer, except it's weighted. I play with it idly during the day[0], which helps strengthen my grip and forearms. I started doing this when my hands started to show signs of RSD. Haven't had an issue with it since.

[0] I don't swing it, as I'm too worried about accidentally hitting somebody.
Are most of the jobs cut in Europe, not in Seattle area?
Smart Entrepreneurs Know Customer Buying Moments
Non dynamic:

>From 2000 to 2009, no province had lower so-called “firm entry” than Quebec. In fact, in the manufacturing, retail, transportation and finance sectors, more companies went away than were created. No other province had that level of “destruction” without the customarily accompanying “creative.”

http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/why-quebec-business-...
So... you're saying I should hire in Ann Arbor?
Ya they do. Some very powerful ones. Or else they never would have been allowed to get to the point they are at now.

If they get big enough they will get a haircut. They won't be allowed to actually rule for long probably. But as long as they keep causing trouble for the enemies of enemies they might be allowed to keep taking over caches of weapons (whoop!..but hey, we aren't arming terrorists! they just stole them!).
Well, I've seen some extremely disorganized git repos.
This is great, and will lend legitimacy to those pushing for legalization efforts. That said, I'm disappointed to read the, predictable, refrain about drug enforcement and for profit prisons. This is a canard. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7851672.

I don't know what other peoples' experience was, but I grew up in the 1990's in an area that was pretty middle of the road politically. Throughout elementary school, doing drugs was portrayed as something on a par with drunk driving, and got even more attention from parent groups and school administrators. In 1991, 78% of the population thought marijuana should be illegal: http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports.... Only last year did the opinion shift in favor of legalization, and even today a substantial minority (45%) of people think marijuana should be illegal, and probably a majority of actual voters, who skew older and more conservative, feel that way.

Obviously police unions and the like will raise barriers to legalization. But let's not shirk the blame here: we created the drug war, or depending on your age, our parents did.
I appreciate you taking the time to give more detailed criticism, I learned from it - thank you
Maybe there should be some indication on the post that the article/title was changed so the edits aren't attributed to the original submitter. This would at least resolve that confusion.

It seems like the current model tries to be like SlashDot (where everything curated) but retains the appearance of user-driven content by keeping it's curation hidden.
Where do you go to get this definitive data on HN activities?
Notes:

-uses the web browser for email
-uses standing desk with treadmill
-old desk is very dirty
-doesn't like light in his room
I am relieved that I am not the only one that suspects this may be horse shit. If it's not, then it's extremely poorly presented.
While your conclusion is true, for-profit prison systems are a clear conflict of interest and certainly influence media and lobbying. Law enforcement has spread its fair share of misinformation and unnecessary violence, as well.
Since we only get one life to live, might well be worth getting to try out a few different lifestyles throughout it? After years of night productivity, maybe one wants to try something new? :)
this is very similar to how Bayou reconciles conflicts

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=7377...

BTW, would be much appreciated if you could point to related work on the subject (papers, other projects, blogs, etc).
On this issue, Slashdot strikes a pretty good compromise, I think, by providing a link below their posted item to the original submission, i.e., in the "You may like to read:" section.
Is this real data or are you just going on gut feel?
It doesn't look like a joke. The use of unconventional terms seems to be justified by the vast coverage seen on the references: arts, linguistics, cognitive sciences, just to name a few. It even looks a bit non-academic, in the best sense of the term: it departs from the classical aggregation of buzzwords backed by a properly chosen set of bibliographical references.
خرید اپل ایدی
> As far as coding goes, living in a monastery with a laggy internet connection, using a slow netbook with 11" screen was one of my most productive times.

Don't give my boss any ideas. ;)
Guide to growth hacking
Most online ads are just for bad or useless products. Why would I ever want to buy a Win8 phone? Iphone or Android I get, maybe even a dumb phone when I run out of power, but a Win 8?

Even Facebook, which already has so many of my private details, can't show me better ads than for a fifth-rate dating site and and Iphone cover from some China Export service.

Of course when you make an ad jump around in front of people, they will try to find a way to get rid of it, so they might click on it by accident - and so you get a bit higher click-throughs.

We are reaching a point where there just aren't enough good products to satisfy the demand for ad inventory (at least at the given price) and so they have to get worse and worse products that can only afford it if they use crappy and annoying ads.
I'd say his old desk is messy, not dirty.
Well you got my up-vote. ;)

The trouble is, the edgecast.com Content Distribution Network (CDN) is owned
by Verizon. In theory, the `nslookup example.com` command should fail with NXDOMAIN
(Non-eXisting Domain) error, but on some networks like Verizon, the bastards are
actually resolving it even though the IETF and IANA specs say it should never
resolve at all. For notes, Verizon does transparent redirection of DNS requests
on their network so you actually can't use anything other than their DNS servers,
but this case is just odd.

EDIT: I originally wrote `whois` rather than `nslookup` --heck, whois doesn't
have that error code. It's early/late, and it seems hn user "vertex-four" below
is right about the "example.com" domain always being registered to IANA, but as
far as I remember, it should never resolve to an IP address. Need sleep.
> The great majority of persons in the United States who are in prison are in prison for offenses other than drug offenses.

I had a quick look for information about this. The first source I found (chosen to avoid introducing bias through cherry-picking) was this one: http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p11.pdf and it says: "Nearly half (48%) of inmates in federal prison were serving time for drug offenses in 2011".

So it turns out that both this and tokenadult's statement are correct -- because the great majority of prisoners in the US are state prisoners rather than federal ones. About 17% of state prisoners are doing time for drug offences.
1.5 million "terrorists" - seriously?! This is the problem with the "haystack" mentality, instead of proper investigation-based targeting - you get a haystack of worthless leads and false positives.

It does, however, have the huge benefit for those in power of knowing everything about anyone, and about all of their "enemies" (not necessarily "national security enemies").

Also, with the current policy for identifying "terrorists", don't expect to "war on terror" to ever end.
I'm not sure it's "very unfair to impose a professional cost on getting sick" but we don't have a way to measure whether people are sick other than self reporting until they are way past infectious, so you're not punishing getting sick but rather reporting that you are sick, and thus encouraging under reporting, which leads to everyone getting sick more.
Still, schoolchildren have controlled botnets... I'm not overhyping the dangers of giving computers to children, my point is that you don't need souvereign power to do that.

As to manipulation of things like HN: The best defense is that such manipulation isn't as easy as just flipping a switch, and there is generally very little interest in doing so. Also Companies where this is an issue (ebay, amzon, google) have very sophisticated systems that can't be fooled or controlled by spying agencies...
> August 2013, there were 700,000 names on the watch list

How many of those names are incredibly common names? My dad almost missed a connecting flight in LA because he was on the 'No Fly' list. He wasn't, but his incredibly common name (like Richard Smith type common) was.
On the other hand: given the major drawbacks of a sedentary lifestyle, I wouldn't be surprised if having multiple monitors and switching between them, which makes your neck move, would actually be better then keeping your neck still the whole time. Worth investigating..
- he's a bit too fat

Maybe the desk will get rid of that though
Do it! I would love to know the answer to this as well.
I bet there's a great story here.
> My advice? Pick another country that uses English as their primary language

While that's definitely easier, and not a bad idea especially if this is your first experience as an expat, going to a country where the main language is not English can be very educational. Furthermore, if you do it right your kids could end up fluent in two languages, which is very, very useful for them down the road!

(ideally most people in this country will be proficient in English though)
Mr Zdziarski gave this talk also at the HOPE conference yesterday. It's highly recommended. Slides:

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iOS...

For the people wanting to secure their iphone, go to the end to the slide "Apple Configurator" and follow the described steps to disable your iphone from paring with anything.
This is great. Deserves an upvote.
For only $31.50 you can find this out.
Ah, they've moved since they started. Their new offices are indeed in London, though if you look at the copyright notice on the footer of that page you'll see it has a Netherlands address. Their careers page [1] does say their new offices are in London.

When they started, the two founders were both still mainly post-docs at the Netherlands Cancer Institute [2], and that's what I remembered, reinforced by the copyright notice I mentioned above.

[1] http://www.papersapp.com/careers/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070213053257/http://mekentosj....
"Just like Physics is particles and waves at the same time"

Really?
Ask HN: How to tell whether an input *is* base64 encoded value?
The following string:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/

Represent the chars that can be in a base64 encoded value, padded with `=` or `==` (depends on the output length.

It appears that any alpha-numeric string is a "valid" base64 encoded string.

I wonder if there is a known method to determine whether a given string is an a result of an actual base64 encoding operation, or not, since by just checking the content of the string, it is not possible to tell.

I was thinking in the direction of character-distribution, but wonder if this already been thought of and there is a proven way to tell
TL;DR everyone pretty much hates everyone else.
Very Goods – Small
Stop reading the clickbait. If everything that has happened in your office was posted online, you could probably be made to look like a much worse monster.
After Apollo: Do we need to go back to the moon?