skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a similar thing in the UK with a famous satirist called Chris Morris who convinced a wide array of celebrities, including politicians, to say all sorts of idiotic things in a series of spoof documentaries about things like drugs and, most controversially, pedophilia. For example, he got one of the UK's most famous DJs to say that pedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than other human beings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEolSjlcqng .. in this case, the facts were fed to the celebs rather than them making them up though.
Alternatively, it could have served as a pressure relief valve.
The Gap series is way too rapey. (and John Wright is a nutcase)
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I would add that anything that stimulates interest in WWI is good. While WWII and on are more studied, so much of the 20th century is founded in WWI and its genesis I think its essential to get a good understanding of it (if you're into this sort of thing, of course).

Somewhat coincidentally, I recently started my serious, systematic study of it. E.g. right now I'm working through the English book that's the single, detailed history of all naval actions in what was truly a world war: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870212664/
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>The Lisp newsgroup, comp.lang.lisp, was upset about the switch that they’re currently planning to write a competitor to reddit in Lisp, to show how right they are or something.

That must have ended as a huge success, because as we all know the important thing behind a website is the backend language...
Samsung Android phones come with Google spyware?

Apple iPhone phones come with Apple iCloud spyware? Google search spyware? Yahoo search spyware? Bing search spyware?

Microsoft Windows Phone phones come with Microsoft spyware?

It's the same stuff. At least China tells people what they do, instead of leaving people with uncertainty and doubt.
It’s normal for squatters to put ads on the domain landing page. I don’t see what the big deal is.
Not inappropriate to bring up when the author of the original article is Dunning, though
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Just a thought- putting the login screen after the user submits an answer would increase overall participation
The first time I saw this garbage, I reset my DNS to 8.8.8.8 (Google's). That way the error makes it to the browser and I can correct my typo.
Having a record of past misbehaviour may be useful in a future fight. Even a billionaire has his driving license revoked if he's repeatedly caught speeding.

Sums that are pocket change to JPMorgan are still usefully spent in the public interest. I don't know if 60 million Euros are, in fact, pocket change for JPMorgan. I cynically assume that they budgeted in an accurate amount for fines and other regulatory hiccups when they start on these endeavours.

Assuming you mean the offender is a group of executives that aren't personally liable for these sorts of fines, well, yeah, that's par for the course. IANAL.

Having a bank go belly up because of these fines seems exceedingly unlikely. Regulatory oversight is (on the face of it and among other things) intended to ensure that the system is less likely to fail catastrophically, and fining banks for failing to observe regulation seems like a necessary part of this.

Whether or not the regulatory oversight has the means or even the willingness to implement the mission they present to the public is another debate. I agree that scepticism is warranted.

From that point of view, these kinds of fine may be characterised as something that doesn't materially affect the bank's profits and hence doesn't deter repeat misbehaviour but serves to establish a facade of regulatory action to appease the public.
The point is that it wasn't a squatter - it was the ISP. Squatters pay for the right to put ads on domains they owe. The ISP does not.
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That line bothered me, since the total number of pixels is only slightly over half the pixels of a 2005-era 1024*768 display. The only difference is that the Alto used a portrait-oriented display, which never caught on.
There's also a matter of motivation. "Survival of the fittest" comes along with the connotation that it's better to aim for the top [let's say 10]% in order to continue to exist. "Death to the weakest" heeds a similar connotation meaning rise above the bottom [let's stick with 10]%. So, just don't slack as terribly as the very worst slackers in your group and you'll do just fine.

All in all, that's not necessarily false, just not a great motivator. I know quite a few people who get by on bare-minimum without completely giving up and they lead very happy lives. It took me a long time in my own life and perspective to appreciate theirs.
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Although it's still a quasi-secret, Toronto's startup ecosystem is thriving. There is still room for improvement, particularly the need for more capital and more support from the city.
I went to the ER (https://twitter.com/jprichardson/status/522084579906052096) about 2.5 weeks ago because I didn't get enough sleep and drank way too much caffeine. My body just collapsed.

From October 5th through October 11th, I actively rejected sleep (2 - 4 hours of sleep) and took in quantities of caffeine ranging from 1.5 g to 2 g. (A cup of coffee has approx 100 mg and a strong energy drink has about 250 mg). I was preparing for launch of my product and subsequent YC application. On Saturday morning, October 11th, I had massive chest pains and I collapsed. Fortunately, everything is alright with my heart. Overall though, I felt incredibly stupid about my actions.

As hackers and entrepreneurs, it's really easy to fall into the trap of your launch being the most important thing in the world. It's not. You need to be healthy, as business is a marathon and you'll be running for awhile.
Yes, but then what is your commute, and what will be your appreciation?
The fact that LIBOR is used in other countries as input for interest rates of existing credits is completely ignored, ripple effect of this wrongdoing caused significant drop of life standard and some serious problems to "small" people.
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Medium areas are well-covered by football pitches.
Lots of good things happening in Toronto: WattPad, ClearFit, Top Hat Monocle, CrowdCare, Interaxon. For more insight, check out this infographic: http://www.markevans.ca/hot-startups/
That's a standard fallacy I often run into: over estimating second order effects. Yes, unless the ball is perfectly smooth or in a vacuum you will get slight curvature. But it would be so slight that it would look like B.
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Not a particularly realistic, or motivated, founder.
Why is it always fines? Shouldn't this type of stuff result in jail time?

The people who organised the cartel have likely already got their bonuses and couldn't care less if the bank is fined
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I checked them out, but their coverage just doesn't exist where I need it. Ended up going with the Verizon Allset plan. Requires that I buy my device up-front, but I get 4G LTE with a gig of base data, the ability to add-on data as-needed, and the ability to tether with no contract, and no activation fees.
Probably neither; critically, by then France on its own wasn't a match for Germany, no matter how much they lusted for revenge for the 1870 Franco-Prussian war and recapture of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.

As one book I'm reading notes, of the great powers, only France and Russia has a desire to upset the status quo (Russia was motivated, as always, by a desire for a secure warm water port, and this time, by Pan-Slavism WRT to the Balkans, recently freed from Ottoman bondage).
Hypothetical scenario: US Treasuries go south, the bubble bursts. The next day Chinese announce they start selling their Treasuries on the open market. So instead of keeping your money with the most indebted Government on the face of the planet, you keep it with the biggest creditor in the world. Doesn't sound as a bad deal, huh? And as an extra bonus just to make sure everyone drops US Treasuries ASAP to buy the Chinese paper: tie the currency to gold. Guarantee that yuan is as good as gold. Why not? Yuan reserve currency of the world, so the same mistakes can be made all over again ;-)

This what Keynsians call in this case problem for Chinese I call a huge win. Keynsians will tell you: oh, but now Chinese exports will get prohibitively expensive! And I say: BS! The yuan currency will go up in value up to 6 times. Why to export anywhere when you just got 1 billion new consumers worth 6 times more than before?! Next step: rest of the world starts producing again, including US. China stops being factory of the world as we can't afford their stuff anymore. We need to relearn how to build and assemble it again. Voila, here you have balance back in the system.
The NY Times is well aware of what is published on line. So are the remaining metropolitan daily newspapers.
What next, ISP-provided 404 pages?
Maybe your BIOTRUTHs expectations are not actually correct.
As an avid french press user, I have to shove my head the sand every time I see this.
They do. In mainstream. Things like possibility of US defaulting on its debt or going towards hyper inflationary root are mainstream over here.
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Yeah, my issue wasn't with the mechanism of evolution, more with the phrasing. The word "survive" implies some sort of agency, the inverted phrasing does not. I could alter it to "decline of the weakest attributes as they are less successful and thus less likely to breed and pass their genetics on", but that's quite a mouthful for a tagline to teach schoolkids! ;)

PS: And yes I know there are plenty of situations where even "weak" attributes won't necessarily get weeded out, but then you'd be extending the tagline quite a bit!
I meant the one-click thing.
This may be too Talebian a reaction, but isn't the track record of "take this-doesn't-occur-in-significant-quanities-in-food chemical and your health will improve" quite poor? Non-food chemicals are often very useful for acute interventions (e.g. antibiotics, chemotherapy), but at least in modern times, they almost always do more harm than good when taken long-term.

(To avoid getting sidetracked by chronic medicines that some people swear by, I'm directing this point more at non-food drugs that are designed to take people from normal health to great health rather than from a disease state back to normal.)
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Looks awesome !

If you could do Bitbucket, that would be awesome (considering Bitbucket already has native Hipchat, Jira, etc.)
Evolution doesn't have anything to do with strength or weakness, it's about fitting the current environment. Sometimes smaller organisms are more likely to survive because it's easier for them to hide from predators. Sometimes the most important thing is coloration that allows an organism to blend in to the background. Some of the most successful organisms in history (ie, pigeons) aren't particularly strong or "not weak", they were just the best suited to survive in the world that they lived in.

Philosophers like to attach social messages to evolution, but one of the real lessons is "Adapt to your environment". It's not about working hard, or not being the weakest, it's about being the right organism for the moment. In the evolutionary environment of human society it's not being the smartest or working the hardest, it's being in the right place at the right time.
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tl;dr: "While clinicians may observe benefits and risks of caffeine intake, the effects are still being debated in academic circles."
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Hope you don't lock your phone in your car.
I wonder where those of us who tend to self depreciating humor, who also in turn confess to not knowing much while being told we get things done, fall. I know some of what I am totally clueless about but revel in being told when I am factually wrong in something I thought otherwise. However there are areas where I just refuse to understand and worse I think I know what some of those are and still won't correct it.
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Your bodies reaction to coffee is interesting, the receptors for caffeine apparently expand up to a certain point, once you reach that level additional caffeine does not good for wakefulness but the side affects continue. It's a ceiling you cannot go beyond but people often don't recognize it.
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>One of the more simple litmus tests I use when evaluating a framework: Does it provide (and require you use) its own versions of data types already provided by the language (or the language's standard libraries)?

That's a pretty low bar...
I remember a couple times I went to DefCon there was a guy with a booth selling pure caffeine powder in little baggies.

I didn't start drinking coffee until my mid thirties. I can resoundingly say I slept better and woke up easier without it.
How to annoy people at the cinema?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8461206

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8457167

There are probably more, each with its own discussion.
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I understand that if economics is the driving concern, then yes, and I started my little project too.

But in a post Snowden era, encryption should be a basic requirement
There isnt a struggle?. Do the non-resistant bacteria "try" to survive and fail, then die? or it "just die"?

The inverted phrase will be a PR disaster for Darwin ;)
Might just be me but I generally feel deceived when a site does that, especially if the sign up form is huge.
It's extremely unlikely that the two are related. Account access attempts from Chinese IP addresses are common for almost everyone on Gmail.
We'll disagree then :)

From RFC 2616
"The HTTP/1.1 protocol allows origin servers, caches, and clients to explicitly reduce transparency when necessary."

As I said, bad configurations dos not mean the principle is unsound.
>And all that django-specific logic that needs to be in there makes it harder to read unless you're familiar with the django ecosystem.

What "django-specific" logic? Those are standard imports and a few helper objects, the kind of which you'll find in any web framework.

[edit: importants => imports]
This goes to show how important analytics is in a business. They found something they could market better in their own software by understanding their business more. Big ups to Ghost for that discovery.
Googled "Talebian" and came up dry, but yeah. One thing that comes to mind that's used widely to thicken things like non-dairy milks (Soy/Rice/Almond) or anything that needs to be thickened/gelled is carrageenan, a seaweed extract that's been tied in multiple peer-reviewed animal studies to cancer.
The web wasn't 'slow and sucky' before chrome appeared.
Anyone interested in this might want to look into the N8VEM Project [0]. It started out as a single board Z80 system, but people have now designed expansion cards. Other people have also added other SBCs with 6x0x, 68k, and 808x CPUs

[0] http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/page/4200908/FrontPage
I pushed an update with "localOnly" mode, which prevents all connections from non-localhost IPs.

monitor.io could potentially be used in production now if you telnet in from a shell on the local machine.
Maybe time's just a construct of human perception, an illusion created by...
I would love to see the comparison between running this and just buying cloud compute time.

Given its a constant operation which probably requires high speed interconnects. However it would be interesting to see how close in cost cloud is to a bare metal build.
> Even a billionaire has his driving license revoked if he's repeatedly caught speeding.

More likely his driver. The billionaire can just hire another one.
That stuff is more powerful (stimulant effect-wise) by weight than cocaine and thus much easier to O.D. on. I can't imagine being that caffeine-addicted.
It might not just be you but I for once appreciate sites that let me "touch" the goods before I "pay".
Good idea—I just pushed an update with this functionality.
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I'd say it's a fascinating social manipulation, but mostly it just satisfies my own intellectual curiosity.

The HN guidelines on what to submit:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

The HN guidelines on asking why something was posted:

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

It might be worth reading through the HN Guidelines. They're pretty concise:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I can't find a guideline that's meta enough to tell me not to mention the guidelines, but I've blundered in worse ways before.
Yes, it's pretty incredible. And try to imagine if a foreign power forced down air force 1 and boarded the plane. That would be an act of war.
Cool! I love the 68k, I learned assembly on it (on the Amiga because Europe) and it ruled.

It sounds like a nice project, although I personally almost can't consider a 68K-based hobby computer without graphics. :) Of course graphics isn't trivial, so I totally understand the design.

This part:

> A CPLD is strongly preferred over an FPGA, because the CPLD’s configuration is held in its internal non-volatile memory. An FPGA’s configuration is RAM-based, so it would require something else to configure it every time the board boots up.

Actually isn't true anymore, there's at least one FPGA family with built-in flash: Lattice's MachXO2 family (http://www.latticesemi.com/Products/FPGAandCPLD/MachXO2.aspx).
Hello, this is a full report of our current embedded system market. I was quite surprised to see that so few companies use version control.
Django actually seems to be one of the least offensive frameworks to me in that respect. It didn't really try to be clever and it did things that made sense with a minimal amount of magic.
I haven't tried Firefox in a coupled of months, but to me Firefox rendering was the worst out of all the top browsers. I think Firefox does something on purpose that makes rendering worse, such as delaying it somehow in order to increase performance or whatever. So for example you won't get the whole page rendered immediately, and if you switch to a different part of the page, you have to wait for it to get rendered, too. I don't like that much.
I don't accept that premise. It took a while to verify the predictions of General Relativity. It certainly wasn't driven by experimental evidence. Einstein started work on GR with a thought experiment (according to Wikipedia) and of course there's Minkowski's famous observation that SR could have been inferred before Einstein from Galilean Relativity, spatial isotropy and the probable existence of a geometric invariant. In other words, pure math didn't get there, but once they all arrived it could really give insight. Check out Minkowski's famous "staircase wit" comment.

Another example from physics is the extent to which Schrodinger was influenced by Eastern philosophy in his formulation of quantum mechanics.
I don't have anemia, but simply low iron (around 20 in ferritin level, recently it been up to 50), and I did read that coffee had an impact on low iron, and I do start believe this might be my problem.
Click on login, click on email, hit enter -> anon loggedin.
That's going to really be a he-said she-said situation. How can you prove that the two companies talked? Perhaps if OP had a job offer and then all of a sudden it was pulled, there could be a reason for a defamation lawsuit.

Remember that saying: never attribute to conspiracy that which you can attribute to incompetence. It's more likely that someone just blabbed about your previous coworker and word got back to the boss.

If you choose to interview with some of those other companies, you're going to have to do it SUPER stealthy. No correspondence or phone calls during work hours. Don't even sneak off to take personal cell calls. Interview after-hours or on weekends if possible.

Explain the situation to the new employer. If they need the help they could really give two craps about the fortunes of your current boss and will help you make the jump. If they do talk to your boss then, well, they probably can't be trusted with other things.
I suspect that the reason people keeps tabs open is a deficiency of all modern browsers -- if we had the ability to search the contents of our history of sites, it would dramatically reduce our need to desperately hold onto tabs.

Right now you can search the history, but it searches only the title and basic metadata, and as we know well from HN, titles are often wholly unrelated with the content.

So many times I've found a page that has interesting information, and I can easily remember snippets of the page, but without walking through my history manually for hours, I'm left with trying to remember unique phrases and instead searching the world of information on Google, having to winnow through a lot of chaff. It would be so great if a browser (or an evil cloud-synced variant) generated a search corpus of every page you visit -- understanding the overhead and costs, made viable by many cores and massive IO performance -- allowing you to say "I saw a site about banking regulation and overcommitments in the past week...where was it?"
Probably referring to Nassim Nicholas Taleb [0], who puts emphasis on the importance of random, rare events.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
As a Venetian, it’s incredible that I didn’t know about Pipino at all. Probably something that we try to forget.

Maniero, on the other side is incredibly famous, and still considered honorable nonetheless. Make your conclusions…
I wish -- just once -- there would be a story where a bank is actually punished in a meaningful way.

Look at this way: A bank is fined $x for doing an action which generated $y. If x < y, there is no incentive to stop any behavior. Further, it seems to be the trend that y is far larger than x and this case proves it out.

The libor scandal cost the U.S. at least $6 billion in interest charges (y) and another $4 billion just to unwind their positions. Whereas the banks have only been fined $2.1 billion to date (x). When you take inflation into account and the fact that this is a world wide financial scandal (libor influences a $350 trillion derivatives market), the math is skewed even heavier in the direction of banks having had a sizable revenue stream after the fines.