skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of another story by Leo Traynor about troll's victim tracking down and finally meeting the troll: http://www.traynorseye.com/2012/09/meeting-troll.html
The massive amount of damage that can be imposed by all kinds of online manipulators to their victims' mental health and career is even more depressing than the complete absence of a solution to the problem. At least I'm glad to hear that breaking the 'Do not engage' rule brought some relief to Kathleen.
Obviously not unpickable (and the video doesn't claim it is), just hard with standard tools. That is a very neat key system though.
"In a large-scale anatomical study of the auditory thalamus (medial geniculate nucleus of the thalamus) in the cat Kent Morest found …"

"For the rabbit Justin Cetas …"

Some lovely garden-path sentences :-)
get Terry Davis on the job. Is he opposed to porting his holy code to other esoteric platforms?
Facebook has HSTS preload on www.facebook.com, but not on the redirect from facebook.com->www.facebook.com. I suppose they have their reasons
If that's true, why aren't there DSLs that compile to k?
Last time I looked YC had a 2% admission rate, plus is a very successful program (arguably the best one), not sure why it needs promotion.
Yes, and also so that you can go between two access points for the same network without having to reconnect.
What a massive project. The images remind me of Shell's construction of the Prelude FLNG at Korea's Samsung shipyards a couple years ago.[1][2] Regarding the Prelude, it's interesting to see the ways in which the industry values operations and processing performed on-site rather than on land.

[1]: http://www.shell.com/global/aboutshell/major-projects-2/prel...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660isW3W95g
And in other news, will analysis of phase changes in the coolness of tv series ever jump the shark? Statistics after the break.
Each merchant has a better idea of what the loyalty is worth to them, so they can offer bigger loyalty discount than a centralized payment card could. Biggest kick-back is the best kick-back!

As to the management overhead, it doesn't have to be - it's all just bits. There is no reason software couldn't just sell/trade your points for you automatically.
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At your service. But how did we miss it?! We must institute a process.
Yes, learning another language has been shown to have cognitive benefits, especially as seen in dedicated, professional translators or interpreters. Nonetheless, these facets have been shown to come from practice. Intellectual rigour is rigour nonetheless, just make it varied. You could say the same things about learning a new instrument, hobby, or skill.
I guess me and all of my friends were sporting hipster affectations when we were 12 years old because we all noticed the change around 1999-2000 and correspondingly stopped watching. Interesting that I also had my VHS tapes of earlier seasons on repeat from that time until I learned how to pirate copies with XDCC on IRC.

The burden is on you to prove that the show hasn't changed. If TV shows didn't change they wouldn't be cancelled. Writers change, plot lines get exhausted, the network demands for a cash cow vs a dynamic new comedy influence the style. That's not even mentioning the famous quote by Mike Scully (show runner, conincedentially taking control right at the moment of supposed quality dip):

"When asked in 2007 how the series' longevity is sustained, Scully joked, "Lower your quality standards. Once you've done that you can go on forever."

I almost regret putting so much effort responding to a comment that contains troll bait like "the simpsons sucks, because it has always sucks" but the simpsons is a truly special show and what it was deserves to be recognized.
> Hell, it's not implausible that the entire article was written to spread more information about Blythe, needlessly continuing a vendetta that should never have begun.

The fact that she used Blythe's "real" name is what makes this the most likely case, in my view. Especially considering the last line on the article: "Some names have been changed."

Why wasn't Blythe's name changed?

An above commenter found her actual Goodreads account, and her twitter[0]. If I were some kind of eVigilante/troll, I could easily continue the cycle of harassment, thanks to this article.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476103
All names in this article are fictitious, except for Wouter Slotboom’s

I thought for sure that name was fake!
What tech needs are better models of user intention, which could admit algorithms or allow one to prove the hardness of algorithmically doing something. You can't ask for an algorithm if you can't rigorously define the problem.
I actually felt the writing was fine. Basically, author uncovers a problem with a reviewer on Goodreads, discovers the reviewer it a troll, contacts them (unwisely), and then stops after unmasking this fraud to her publisher friends.

Unfortunate state of affairs, but not unexpected given that it has its own name 'catfishing'.
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And so - again - you only hire people who are privileged.

In this case, privileged enough never to have observed any personal problem with transparency nor to have any aspect of a personal life that they might not wish to share with work colleagues.

You are trying to rationalise discriminatory practices.
> If you don't type the https url, you start by visiting the http website. Normally the http version will redirect to https, but a man in the middle can easily prevent this.

This is not entirely correct. HSTS[0] was designed to protect against such attacks.

It's true, however, that not every browser out there supports it yet, and you must visit the website at least once without MITM for the server to successfully communicate HSTS header. (In Chrome certain domains are included in built-in list[1], though.)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/HTTP_s...

[1] https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/http/tr...
Well, does there exist a technical analysis written by someone who understands k that explains why it is so much faster than X languages?
If & when you get time, I for one would be very interested to read the blog post! Even just a list of the packages you used (with the airplay support + associated webapps) would be handy!

I've just set mine up for timelapses at the moment. Nothing fancy, but it does make for pretty videos every day :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVxBJN5Pd_E (since this one, have worked out how to turn the LED off, and I don't take it through the night any more).

Good times, love the pi.
> Well that does not actually answer my question. What services? Water, electricity and basic services like that are paid for and not more expensive for temporary residents. Police maybe? Do temporary residents require more police involvement? You are implying you have an answer to my question and maybe you do. I would like to hear it.

...seriously?

1) Shifting tax burden onto residents and legally operating hotels. By evading things like the hotel tax, the per-tourist revenue goes down.
2) Who do you think owns the airports and all the other infrastructure transportation? Hell, La Guardia had a 50 year old control tower before they started on the new one.
3) What do you think pays for all the additional safety regulations and inspections for transient residents? [e.g. Fire codes for housing them are different than a residence.]

> No, this is not a cost imposed on others, because that is not what imposed means. If you want to buy housing you are free to do that and so are others. If you want to prevent other from competing with you, that is asking them to subsidize you.

Effectively breaking the zoning rules [hotels are zoned differently than residential] is an imposition.

I think the underlying issue here is you don't care if it has negative economic effects on other people or the city government because "free market".
Media has distorted the meaning of trolling. You would never outright threaten or ad hominem attack somebody while trolling them because that would be too obvious. This is what trolling actually is (well, was) http://youtu.be/AHqGV5WjS4w

Doxing, also now totally misused. Hackers would drop dox on each other to expose them to all the secret service agents and FBI agents watching. If somebody is not wanted by the feds and using their real name on social media there's no point in telling the world their information, considering there are eleventy billion personal data mining services to find out anybody's complete personal info for under $10. We're all already doxxed.

The worst thing you can possibly do when a horde of e-cretins is trying to bait you into losing face in public is to acknowledge them by writing "I'm a victim" posts and articles. That's exactly what they want. If you get death threats sue their asses or call the police. Otherwise that horde is just a bunch of meaningless text on a screen you can safely ignore that will quickly move on to a more responsive target.
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If you set up the VPN yourself they can be both cheap and relatively secure/private (e.g. EC2, Linode, etc).

I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to trust people selling anonymous VPN services. Many of them are located in untouchable countries and knowingly provide services which violate various laws (e.g. one I used to subscribe to had a specific tab for copyright notices).

If you dig down into who operates many of them you come up quite empty handed. No address, no name, just a few more shell companies and then a dead-end.

HTTPS certainly makes you more secure while using them, however you leak a lot of information in general as a lot of stuff is still HTTP. You trivially build a full picture of someone (name, literal picture, DoB, et al) over a week of watching their insecure web-traffic.

Plus if you're depending on HTTPS then what is even the point of an anonymous VPN? Might have well just use the dumb WiFi and assume that everything HTTP is world-visible.
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> The burden is on you to prove that the show hasn't changed.

I've never been a regular viewer of the Simpsons, so I have no position on this issue, but that is an odd statement. The burden of proof in this case is on those asserting that the show has declined. The default position, until presented with more information, is to have no belief.
Looks closer to BrainFuck[0] than any other language.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
> In fact, Docker demands that you store all config values, dependencies, everything inside of the container itself.

No it doesn't. In fact, parameterised containers are a thing that many people encourage. This is where you specify configuration when you run the container instead of when you build it. This can done using arguments to the CMD, environment variables, config volumes, or using something like etcd.
How is this different from an Intel NUC ?
Bad conlanging ideas
Just use protocol buffers. This can't really be a serious competitor to json/thrift/protobuf with no benchmarks and only a python client, sorry.
No, at all. He is using a measure to make his point: Ratings. You are not using anything.

And the "If you think is worst is because you only remember the good parts" is bullshit as a general statement. Internet is better, Windows 7 is million times better than Windows 3.1; even many old people think of "Adventure time" as an awesome cartoon. So this argument that if you think something got worst is because you long for your young tastes is just a well-disguised ad-hominem.
Cool :)
SVG that contains frames and instructions to transition between the frames after given durations.
This could be even animations embedded into the main HTML page.
This looks cool! So you take a picture with a web cam every couple of minutes or something?
B64 images animated with SVG.

JPEG, PNG, 24bits, 8bits, you pick what works best for you. This is brilliant.

Not rendering on Safari 8 though.
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ISIS controls and actively governs large areas with large populations. It controls cities and employs tanks. It has invited muslims from the world over to move to its territory. None of these are guerilla tactics.
> I lose about 15% in execute time.

Can you paste a representative snippet of your code that demonstrates this 15% penalty?

In my experience with tight loops executing a million iterations, the extra indirection of a vtable lookup is never more than 1% slower. Others also observe similar minor differences.[1]

[1]http://stackoverflow.com/a/667680
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Bitcoin services forced to spy on users?
Adding your own GPS data to the iOS Simulator
That code doesn't work (at least in ordinary page scripts), as far as I can tell.

http://jsfiddle.net/vej6vbdt/
The part that blows me away is that you have a patient portal and can see your test results online.
Both Private Internet Access[0] and VyprVPN[1] have apps on the Play store, which are completely plug-and-play.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privateint...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goldenfrog...
I love this, it's a great hack. It seems like the real sweet spot for a project like this though would be to capture the AirPlay audio at a line level and patch it into existing speakers and power amplification circuit. That way you could capture the existing audio quality of a device that had good sound reproduction but is otherwise obsolete. Was such an approach considered?
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What do you think of this idea for a Tripe A killer? A motor club that targets millennials?
20, they ordered 20 of them.

I'm just in awe of such a thing, who even gets to make that phone call "Yep, well take 20". I imagine the amount of people involved in such an undertaking dwarfs a few entire industries.
I thought that was a common thing. Where do you live?
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Every simpsons fan I know watches seasons 2-8 all the time in any given year. The episodes don't have any real continuity so they can be viewed in any order for laughs.

>The tone changed over the course of the show

That is really the only argument rational simpsons fans are making. Anyone who suggests that the new show is TERRIBLE only feels that way because they're comparing older episodes which from start to finish were pure gold vs new ones which are merely funny.

It's unfortunate that you have such a negative reaction towards people critical of the newer episodes to say things like "the simpsons sucked and has always sucked." Clearly you enjoy the show on some level I don't really see why you would say that unless you were being intentionally inflammatory.
I wonder if it's true that iOS 8 only randomizes device's MAC when the SIM cart is not installed[0]. Was stoked to learn about this feature, too bad it apparently doesn't work as you'd expect it to.

[0] http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/26/more-details-on-how-ios-8s-mac...
Commenters reported not working well on Firefox either.
I have definitely observed penalties much greater than 1% (closer to 15%).

This paper is old, but measures the direct cost of virtual table lookups (not taking into account indirect costs arising from the inability to inline) as 5% in real C++ programs. When they converted the C++ programs to use all virtual functions, the overhead rose to 13.7%: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~urs/oocsb/papers/oopsla96.pdf
So K is a general purpose programming language? If the claims are true, why don't they submit some entries to the Computer Language Benchmarks Game?
But they are no worse than the established governments of Iraq and Syria at running a regular army, while also employing guerrilla tactics.

Guerrilla warfare isn't enough, by itself, to win a protracted conflict. You need some regular forces too. I remember reading that very conclusion in Mao's "On Guerrilla Warfare", actually.
it took me a little longer to post Justin's quotes, but here they are for anyone who's interested-
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Ignoring them doesn't work anymore because modern social media and communication tools have given them power that doesn't depend on whether you're paying attention.

They can send shopped nudes with your face on them to your parents, they can call & email your boss at work to try and get you fired, they can threaten to rape & murder your sister. Sure, ignore that, it'll go away.
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Yip, once a minute between sunrise and sunset (now) and then run a little script to turn it into a video, and then use a nice little cli (googlecl) to upload it to youtube (though that has been slightly tempermental). It's really really straightforward.

Basic instructions here: http://wiki.psdavey.com/my-setup-for-timelapse.html
Your comment claimed that the quality of the show hasn't declined, that any decline is actually the result of the fallibility of human memory.

Even during the "golden years" of the simpsons the show changed, it just wasn't necessarily severe or negative.

You seem to be shoe horning some lifestyle philosophy you believe (mistrust of the "good old days") into how people receive a television series, which undeniably does change, especially one on TV as long as the simpsons.
The most interesting thing I learned from this is the existence of GEOS:
http://www.geos.tv/index.php/select

I've always used IMDB ratings to compare TV shows, I wonder how they compare?
> 80 MBit/sec SCSI is 8 bits wide

No, I converted both of the speeds to MBit to make them easier to compare. The SCSI on a SS10 was 10MB/sec, so 80Mb/sec.

The bus utilization on SCSI was high, and the USB2 on a Rpi is slow but not nearly enough to make up for a 6x gap in raw bus speed.
hookers is a pretty strong word for Doumi girls who are not prostitutes but just girls who party with you in Karaoke bars. Sure some might spend the night but for the most part there's no sex involved. Their job is to sell you as much alcohol as your body will tolerate and get a nice comission off it. Even if it means dressing like a hooker to get more business.
Your account was created one day ago, and qfan's 1 hour ago.

Your comment chain is at the top of article linking to a $1800 training course on kdb+, run by the owners of the language.

The article was a good read, if dramatic, but this smells like astroturfing to me.
Does it matter if they are french? I mean, Java is Java, regardless of your native language or nationality.
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Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%...

(I couldn't get to the original; I suppose the site is attracting an entirely deserved flood of attention.)
Does it play audio perfectly in sync between the two devices and if so can u easily add/create additional speakers? Fill your house with audio on the cheap?
It seems that there are many studies that have compared mono and multilingual people. I wonder if similar studies have been conducted comparing a group of adults who are complacent with their mental development to a group who've made a conscious choice to actively pursue a deep understanding of a new subject that interests them.

I love learning new languages, but I understand that others may not. They shouldn't be restricted to endure learning another language just to achieve the cognitive advantages discussed in this article. There must exist other options that better suit their interests. Even if the newly acquired knowledge/skill must be relative to communication, there are more ways to express one's thoughts than written and verbal language.
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This article conflates abstraction with OO and language features, IMO.

Putting some functionality into an object is not as interesting as running that functionality as a monadic command.

Would be more interesting to run some benchmarks in Haskell using functional abstractions rather than OO machinery.
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Considered yes, but I'm coming from computer science, not electronics so I just didn't know what all the parts are doing and it will take time before I learn about it. I'm eager to learn it but it is quite complex and a lot of work which would get in the way of finishing the project within a short time frame. The next time I will go one step further, I promise :)
Scrolling doesn't bother me, but unnecessary code does. So long as I can see the algorithm on the screen that's fine. Love the kOS idea, keep on it!
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When finished, http://www.deltamarin.com/reference/pieter-schelte/6 will be slightly shorter, but about twice as wide, so I think it will be larger in the sense that it will have a larger maximal displacement (surprisingly, I could not find that number for the triple E class), at 932.000 tons. There are several different 'tons' used in shipping, but I think all would make it larger than the Seawise Giant was.
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It looks like the lock is made by the Sheng Jhou Co. of Taiwan and probably stamped with English/European markings by an OEM.

They seem to sell it in a few different formats as a "flexible key" lock. http://www.ttnet.net/search/products?list=products&flag=1&cs...

EDIT: Looking up the inventor yields a few patents that seem to cover the design as well as some other pretty nifty mechanical stuff https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininvent...
No, it works like the AirPort Express, it buffers a couple of seconds (perhaps 5 or something) and first then plays it. This is build in into the AirPlay protocol to prevent gaps in the audio.
Am I alone in thinking that this is a net detriment to freedom?

The whole point of "freedom of speech" (I know this is in the U.K.) is that people should be allowed to say things even if other people don't like what's being said.
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If I understand correctly, the new type of design advocated in 'calm tech' doesn't require users to give conscious attention to the interface (i.e. it doesn't trigger executive functioning), yet it still augments their behavior/experience by transforming data for them and relaying it in a 'peripheral' manner. I think what they're talking about would be immediately obvious if it were called 'passive tech'...

Anyway, seems neat/inevitable (given the serial nature of executive function): systems designed to be used like this are essentially ('phenomenologically,' in the article's terminology) prosthetics, adding new senses and 'limbs,' for an expanded definition of 'limb' that includes some pretty abstract stuff.
I didn't make it clear but I wasn't comparing inline to virtual.[1] That type of drastic difference can be greater than 10% which is understandable. I was comparing non-inline function to virtual function and I haven't been able to recreate a 15% slowdown even with zero compiler optimization switches.

The stackoverflow observation and mine were on more modern cpus. Maybe that has something to do with the conflicting anecdotes.

If someone has a small snippet of code that shows non-inlined function calls running 15% faster than vtable calls, I'd like to study it.

[1]the context in grandparent post was already constrained to (non-inlined) normal function calls: ", but nowadays their cost over a normal function call is basically negligible." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476208