skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. While most spammers aren't particularly sophisticated, it doesn't take a genius to figure out you can copy-paste formulaic messages to hundreds of women in only a few minutes.

Even a user who isn't particularly nefarious and say, sends 20 original (not copy-pasted) messages each session, it's still an overwhelming amount of messages for women to sort through.

It's important to note that when I say "spam" I don't just mean "bad actors who deliberately attempt to game the system". I mean that even what appears to a user as a "natural" amount of messages in fact makes the system nearly unusable. It's almost trivial for female users to end up with literally hundreds of messages per day - just managing the messages themselves is a chore, much less viewing the profiles associated.
> The only difference is he is doing it server side

Ah, but from a legal perspective, this makes all the difference. It is, I'm sorry to say, copyright infringement and goes beyond what fair use permits.
Yeah the implementation in terms of how we verify that someone lives where they say they live is going to be a royal PITA.

We're already VAT registered and already trade with EU countries so we're pretty much set up to deal with this already, it's an extension to what we already do to not charge VAT to people we can verify a VAT number for (who are EU but not UK). The guidelines say we need two non-conflicting bits of information to verify the location of a person, they mention IP Address! We all know how useless that's going to be to identify in which country someone is.
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Wouldn't quieter sonar be in their own interest too? Less opportunity for others to pick up their sonar pings.

Which probably means that the low hanging gains have been already picked.
You still haven't defined what weapons the officers had on hand. What you describe can be completely subjective based on many factors.

Where I grew up a "strapped to the gills" police officer would be one with his standard sidearm and a tactical shotgun with lots of ammo for both. In that area most police officers almost always only carried sidearms. In different areas of the country this could be something totally different.

For me, the only way to answer the question is to list out the equipment the officers had on hand. Which, as far as I can tell, no one has listed.
The Math Behind Bitcoin
We put 2002 on this because that's what https://web.archive.org/web/20020601000000*/http://www.homeb... suggests, but if there's a more accurate date we can change it.
Author (David Smith) here. My coauthor, Ryan Cordell, and I will be around for any computer science/literary studies tag-team questions you have.

You can read a little more about the project at: http://viraltexts.org/

Also, our lab at Northeastern University in Boston will soon be posting an ad for a research programmer to help us take this analysis further and to build visualization and retrieval systems for large, noisy historical collections.
I'm glad the article touched on how useful this is for traditional businesses as well.
when you go to getfirefox.com, you'll be tracked by google analytics as you're reading about mozilla's "commitment to your privacy".

think one cookie is better than two? maybe, but the context matters here. it took mozilla seven years to stop sending other google cookies along with safebrowsing update requests, including about half a year after the washington post reported that NSA was using this behavior/functionality for targeting: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368255

Mozilla never seems to have anything to say about Google PREF cookies being trivially correlated to google logins from the same IP within a certain timeframe.

more to the point, Firefox still can't be trusted to even tell you which cookies have been dropped in its default configuration through the UI, let alone have a default configuration that limits persistent forms of tracking from its primary sponsor. i find this galling given their marketing push around mozilla's "commitment to your privacy".
I think what was pointed out in the report was a lack of training on high altitude hand flying.

The pilots got plenty of stall training, but mostly in take-off / landing scenarios (which is realistically when you're most likely to experience a stall).
I like that concept. I paid to go from MS DOS 3.5 to MS DOS 5.0. Have no problem doing the same with your app bro!
If you're using Firefox and can't see the promotional game for this on about:home yet, go to about:home and open up the Web Console. Run "gSnippetsMap.clear()" and then clear your cache. When you refresh about:home, you should download the promo. Otherwise it should hit all Firefox users' about:home page within the next 24 hours.
Err we still use win32 and MFC. Plus some winforms which is a wrapper around win32 via the CLR. Not much has changed. Hell even WinRT is just a win32 wrapper. Office is a ball of win32 and MFC too.

Absolutely no one is touching WinRT or WPF apart from a few trading dashboard outfits and for win phone which is fine. It'll hang around but will still sit on top of the win32 subsystem.

Bear in mind there is very little difference between windows 1.0 code (1985) windows 8.1 code now. There's some 16 bit scum on the API but that's it.

Mac... You forgot carbon...
For me as well. I'm not sure how severe it's for other people, but for me it's quickly climbes to more than 1 GB of my RAM in a couple of pages (probably after I open and close some youtube videos). It could probably be my add-ons, but then it's the browser's responsibility to keep a check on such memory hogging extensions.
use case = purpose in this sense, so that answers the question., thanks!

ill have a look into it and see the techniques hes using here but it seems like a similair (although applied) problem domain to what im looking at.

Im looking at explaining / communicating complex problems, particularly developing software in enterprises with an already complex and not-well-understood environment.
Thanks for the feedback. I completely agree.

Paddle initially started as a marketplace for all types of digital content, and we've slowly transitioned into this toolkit for developers, offering payments, trials etc...

What you see at Paddle.com is reminiscent of our consumer-facing marketplace days, and we're close to pushing out a new homepage (this week).

One thing we're not trying to be, is a marketplace in a similar fashion to the MAS, we're trying to be the technology layer that empowers developers to not need a marketplace, own their customer, and take back some of the control that they typically give up by relying so heavily on a marketplace.

I do completely agree with you that the current homepage being what it is, and what we actually do being located at https://www.paddle.com/sell is confusing for potential customers who might want to work with us.

This is changing this week. :)
What do you see this actually achieving? You make an ASIC for very specific reasons; FPGAs already do a great job of bridging the gap, including in production. For example many budget oscilloscopes these days run with a microprocessor-FPGA pair.

As for an scrypt ASIC, I don't believe you could just whip one up over a weekend. I don't know how the scrypt ASIC nut was eventually cracked, but the algorithm was specifically chosen to be hard to make an ASIC for. It requires fast memory and lots of it. If you make yourself a massively parallel ASIC and bolt it onto some GDDR5... that starts to look a lot like a GPU.
Yes, they could. The particular method of simplification would, no doubt, be a handout to a favored constituency at the expense of others, and, in any case, the simplification wouldn't prevent future handouts in any way.
If only there was a civilization of people who lived in that desert before the technological revolution who could provide an example for how to survive in that climate.
I'm using influxdb at the moment, a quick back of beer mat is ~288,000 a day - it works great, and I like the SQL like querying. Not sure on size here, as I'm in the pub.

More a testing thing at the mo, but its been running fine for the last few months.
I'm the founder of Zidisha, and I can't thank the Bayes Impact team enough for this project. Like most small nonprofits, we don't have the resources to hire in-house data scientists. Bayes Impact brought data science expertise within our reach for the first time, and they've had a transformative impact on Zidisha.
Got it, thanks. I've disabled Safe Browsing and the cookie is gone. I'm curious: Does the Safe Browsing API offer any privacy guarantees? I confess that I don't really know how it works, although based on how it works with ClamAV, I assumed that Firefox periodically downloaded something from Google that let Firefox check a given URL against a list of known-bad hashes. If that's the case, I wouldn't mind leaving Safe Browsing enabled.
I wonder if reducing sonar use will increase collisions?
Perhaps, but the problem is, with no generics or exceptions, it might just be too low-level and not expressive enough to really be a suitable Java replacement.
> Chrome is the only app I have on my Macbook Air that pushes it into overheating, turning it into a lap-frying iron skillet.

This is even more obvious on older Macs. I've got a Core 2 Duo mini that absolutely chokes on more than a few tabs in Chrome/Chromium, but runs acceptably well with Firefox even with ten or more tabs open, and flies with Safari. I really wish someone would put out a Chromium based, stripped down browser for OS X versions older than Mavericks. I think the rendering engine is solid, it's all the fluff that slows it down.
Hi, I’m Dan Croak (croaky), CMO at thoughtbot, AMA
I'm having this problem as well. I took a screenshot just in case op sees it normally and doesn't know what we're talking about: http://i.imgur.com/0GlHrlc.png

Aside from that, looks like an interesting service, though!
Here you go. Some of these were obviously outdated, so I dug around to find resources people could download and read later.

Brian Tracy - The 24 Best Closing Techniques: http://media.briantracy.com/downloads/pdf/CloseThatSale.pdf (I used this as a reference for years)

Promerica - Overcoming Objections and Answering Areas of Concern: http://unstoppablecrew.net/files/How%20to%20Handle%20Objecti... (training guide for their sales people. It gives you all the ways to overcome people's objections. These are fairly universal techniques so I just grabbed this version since it had good examples for all of them)

The Art of Negotiation - http://interactive.snm.org/docs/The%20Art%20of%20Negotiation... (You should also know the two types of negotiating - Integrative Negotiation vs. Distributive Bargaining)

The Art of the Deal - Donald Trump: https://www.scribd.com/doc/119362644/Donald-Trump-The-Art-of... (It's an old book, but still relevant to today's entrepreneurs. The only chapter you really need to read is the one on the Elements of the Deal.)

Body Language for Sales Professionals: http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/kyle.html (A good primer for reading body language. Always helps to give you an edge on matching what someone is saying with their body language)

Cold Calling and Sales Pitches: http://info.4imprint.com/wp-content/uploads/1P-11-0511-June-... (Cold calling sucks, but is a necessary evil in any business trying to gain traction. This PDF recommends using your elevator speech for your cold calls which is spot on. Also, you'd be surprised how good you can get once you overcome your fear on the phone, and are able to talk to people and walk them through your pitch)
Yeah, cutting out parts of your body is always the best first course of action.
> Do you guys think hoarding has something to do with the consumerist culture we live in today?

I think this is hard to answer because of the staggering increase in per-capita income over the past 4 centuries or so: at most points in history, only the most wealthy people would even hope to physically accumulate anything close to what a hoarder might.

There weren't hoarders back then because no-one could afford to be a hoarder. Newspapers? Dear by the sheet of paper. Knick-knacks? You don't have any money left over after food and rent. Clothes? You could only afford 1 or 2 outfits, and if you somehow had more, you'd be forced to sell all your excess to the local mercer or ragpicker the next time you got into financial trouble. You can see this in the occasional inventory or will: even nobles had shockingly small numbers of goods. (I think sometimes of Shakespeare willing his second-best bed to his wife; who would even mention any bed, much less the second-best one, in their will these days?)
In many ways it's really rather a shame that the Apollo program was successful. On the one hand it was unquestionably a civilization defining historic achievement for all mankind. On the other hand, the way it was achieved was not something we should want to emulate: the political horse trading, the management and development style, and the expense. LBJ used every political trick in the book to get Apollo running, and they worked. But we've been left with the political legacy of those tricks for the 4+ decades since then which have been massively distorting manned spaceflight policy and efforts without further Apollo scale achievements.

Unfortunately, the public generally only sees the good from Apollo and so tends to imagine that the methods of Apollo were also good, and should be emulated. They should not. There are better ways to run big, ambitious projects and better ways to get back to exploring worlds beyond Earth as well.
How are you providing 'App Store functionality' if there's no marketplace? Surely the most valuable thing the App Store provides is the distribution channel?
Get Visa mobile game will teach you about the crazy immigration system
If you have $3,650, you're among wealthiest half of people in world
Facebook can afford to have dozens of smart people working full-time on eliminating fake profiles. A small startup can't.
Mark Zuckerberg, Wife Donate $25M to CDC for Ebola
My diagnosis was either ulcers or gallstones. I didn't fit the typical age or gender for gallstones, but they checked anyways. The diagnosis was confirmed with an ultrasound. Even in the middle of nowhere there's likely a clinic that can examine your gallbladder via ultrasound if they have someone that knows what they're looking for, otherwise perhaps it could be sent off to a hospital or doctor in a nearby city without requiring you to travel.
I've been using it for some time and it's really hard to believe how it just works for so many things.

https://gopherjs.github.com/playground/ - GopherJS Playground.

(It compiles Go code to JavaScript in your browser using the GopherJS compiler itself compiled to JavaScript. There is no backend being used.)

https://godoc.org/honnef.co/go/js/dom - DOM bindings.

https://godoc.org/honnef.co/go/js/xhr - XHR bindings.
GSX is severely disruptive to Amazon. Why wait 2-3 days for your "free" Prime shipping if you can get it the same day from a local store? And GSX is very reliable in delivering my packages to my side porch every time - with Amazon it's a bit of hit/miss - sometimes the packages do go to my front door.

There is more selection on Amazon, of course, but even pricing isn't in Amazon's favor 75% of the time - either it's a wash or one of the GSX stores has a sale running on the item(s).

It's to the point these days that if GSX were to disappear, I'd have to change my shopping habits significantly.
The last place I go to get apps for OS X is the MAS. If it's available outside of the store, I always prefer that. There is nothing compelling about the MAS and there never has been. It's ridiculous that I have to sign in to get free apps or OS updates. For OS updates and apps that offer no other way of installation, it's a concession I make grudgingly. Why should Apple be a middle-man in my software purchases/downloads while offering absolutely nothing over more traditional methods of installation, not even convenience?
How Average Users Think About Security
I'm confused, why is this voted down? I was genuinely hoping to see what others thought about giving money and/or other alternatives? I personally feel I am not doing enough to help and not happy seeing people suffering from this disease (and many other things) in any country.

I myself want to help make a positive difference and am trying to figure out what else can be done beyond just donating to help (or whether rallying donations is really helpful) - especially in this specific case.

EDIT: I was in no way trying to downplay the kindness of the donation by Zuckerberg and his wife - if anything I was trying to understand what more can be done (or what more money can be raised).
It looks awesome. I requested an invitation on Twitter.
You're right, but I wonder where the line is drawn with things like online RSS readers. They're basically doing the same thing, but just behind a username/password.
I'm pretty sure that Firefox doesn't send anything from the location bar. At least, my location bar doesn't perform any search outside of history + bookmarks, unless I press "return".
Right.

I'm Danish which means my first language is spoken by ~6m people (slightly more than Norwegian).

There are quite simply no Danish language scholarly journals in the field I trained in, and even in the fields where there are, they are by definition much, much smaller and publishing internationally is perceived as substantially more prestigious.
I don't either, but I looked at their home page, and am not really inclined to trust performance claims of someone that uses a graph like the one under "General Benchmarks: Higher is Better" which uses a nice smooth curve to demonstrate... nothing, since the different data points are unrelated.
Affiliate Marketing 4 Newbies – Scam or Legit?
Plays for sure was no different to iTunes DRM and m4p files. It died because no one wanted it.

Silverlight was a dead end I agree but it is still officially supported.

ActiveX is still supported. It's just COM.

16-bit apps and DOS apps worked until everything went 64-bit. Win7 32-bit could run DOS apps. This is a processor limitation. NT had a VDM subsystem for this.

Win32 abstracts away WFWG stuff so I'm not sure what your point is.

I'm writing this on a windows NT machine with 512Mb of RAM running win32 and WPF for ref (win phone).
>I don't need new features on my text editors (spreadsheets, browsers, etc); they are debugged and work great for me.

I see how that's probably right from the developer's perspective but as a consumer, it'd make me avoid your products. I don't want to keep paying you to use a product in general, and particularly not if - as you say - there's no new functionality or features. I don't want to rent my text editor, and asking me to adopt that model for your benefit isn't appealing.

I realize that keeping developers afloat benefits me in the long term, but that's not really my focus as a customer.
what is cpu0?
Mark Zuckerberg 'buys part of Hawaii' for $100M
Great thread going on over at GrowthHackers right now, some great insight by Dan about things him and the developers at thoughtbot have going on
> Andrew Gerrand: The lack of versioning built into the Go tool incentivizes library authors to provide good, stable APIs.

It certainly encourages stable APIs, but I don't see how making it very painful to iterate on your API is a strategy for good ones. My experience is that doing anything well requires the ability to gather and respond to feedback. If you can't iterate, then you're doomed to be stuck at 0.0.1 levels of quality.
At first I was only concerned about web page access tracking via this cookie (which indeed is set because of Safe Browsing---I turned both settings off, cleared my history, and the cookie is gone). If this cookie could be abused for location tracking, maybe it would be a good idea to leave Safe Browsing disabled.
I'm doing iOS now, but for Win I would choose Delphi if the price was not absurdly high. WinForms, WPF, Silverlight does not produce a self sufficent app. Qt is a great choice for Win, but about $4k per developer/year (for self sufficent app).
In-memory Data Exchange Platform Using Tachyon and Apache Spark
Asked for a beta invit. Waiting for iiiiitttt :)
Resumable Functions proposal for C++ v.2 [pdf]
This happens all the time with spine/back and discs. I was told I had to absolutely have surgery.

I didn't; I'm doing 95% better. I'm happy I didn't get a microdiscectomy
Really? In my experience, JS heavy web apps work better with Firefox. What Chrome does better, though, is letting you switch to another tab or close the tab while a JS (or DOM)-heavy app is taxing your CPU.

But we're working on improving that, too :)

(yeah, Firefox dev here)
The Great Vowel Shift (Wikipedia)
You can also put a question mark before the word
I recently had mine taken out. I had a hard look at the nonsurgical alternatives, and what studies I found convinced me that they are essentially quackery. Given that one of the largest causes of emergency room visits (and emergency surgeries) are related to gall stones, and the given the possible cancer and infection risks, I couldn't come up with a rational reason to not have the surgery.

Very glad I did, incidentally. It was an easy laparoscopic procedure, and it's had nothing but a positive effect on my life.
> 39. Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
Also of interest:

The Chaos poem:
http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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A lot of men find it easier to send short and generic messages ("Hey ur cute wats up?") to many women rather than taking time to write something thoughtful. The logic is that if you message 100 women, at least a few are going to respond.

As a result of this, female members are under a constant barrage of mindless messages, which is what's being referred to as spam.
One of the things that has long been on my bucket list is to do something along these lines.

Unfortunately, wire wrapping equipment is too expensive for me to justify to myself currently.
I wonder if a simple fix would be to add a button next to the existing "free"-labeled download button. The new button is labeled with a price and would purchase the in-app "pro features" in addition to starting the download.
I'm surprised to see all the negativity towards this. If I was single, I'd be signing up right now.

The biggest objection seems to be that OkCupid is like a buffet, and now they're being asked to eat at a restaurant where the chef interviews you and brings you what he thinks you'll like. If the buffet was working great for them, I can see why they'd object to the change.

OkCupid wasn't so great back when I used it though. I'd send out many messages (personal, customized ones -- not spam) and get next-to-no replies. It felt like I was spinning my wheels and going nowhere. Were my opening messages poorly written? Did my profile need work? Maybe. But that's why I think I'd benefit from having a professional matchmaker, who's a better writer than I am and can present me in the best possible light.
Amazon Plays Rough. So What?
Yes, of course. That is why supporting them in any way we can as citizens (beyond what we normally might do) is something I think we should consider.

The reason I worded it the way I did was that I was trying not to be exclusive to government in the US only and instead be inclusive of other governments and organizations (such as Doctors Without Borders), etc.
UX suggestion from someone who decided to give you a try and fill out your application form:

If you're only open for business currently in NYC and SF, maybe mention that before you have me fill out the long form rather than waiting until after I've submitted it, OK? Because otherwise the user who doesn't live in one of those places feels like you just wasted a bunch of their time.
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