skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a profitable and rather easy job: blogging about how sexist, women objectifying misogynist a CEO is. If it's not the CEO then it's a manager. Or an employee. Or a contractor. Or a subcontractor. From US. Or from Europe. Or maybe there is not enough diversity. "Somewhere sometime a woman is a victim and if you are a man you should feel guilty because someone else did something wrong !" How many years will continue this immorally idiotic campaign ?
While in SF earlier this month, I noticed that people were using Lyft and Uber interchangeably and given the consistent stories about Uber's management, it seems likely that people will switch to Lyft as a primary option with Uber as a backup.

It's quite possible that Uber will create the market by and then be eclipsed by other players who are less unethical.
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Being more of a passive homepage user of Hacker News I'm interested to know what the typical life cycle of a popular thread is. Where do people tend to find the 'hot' stories which end up making it to the homepage and inevitably spiral in popularity from there?

I occasionally dip into the 'new' page however this seems so crowded as to potentially not be attractive to most users. Are there a certain group of users which are monitoring this page and promoting stories from there? Are there other services which highlight upcoming stories or does it potentially occur when lots of people submit the same URL and duplicates are identified?

Any visualizations of this life cycle would be really interesting.
Probably it will be even easier to detect Tor nodes - just look for IPs which never receive SNI in TLS exchange on 443 port.
So basically here I am, opening a connection to the publicly accessible S. The router sees it and says oh wow, there's an out going connection to S_IP:S_PORT, I'll assign an R_PORT to it on my publicly visible side and will forward all traffic from S_IP:S_PORT to my internal network client.

But how does that help someone who is not S (has a different IP than S) to use this tunnel set up by router? It (R - router on the NAT) won't ignore the source IP of incoming packets (since two connections are the same only if source and destination IPs and ports are the same - 4 numbers), will it? Traffic coming from S will get forwarded, that I get, but will traffic from ANY source just coming to the appropriate port on R get forwarded just the same way?

Good paper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pelevin He is the best russian writer.
I am surprised not to see the word misogynist on this page. Here, a SVP is not only threatening a reporter and her family (which is truly repugnant) and reporters generally, he's also discussing sexual assault in such a trivializing way:

"He said that he thought Lacy should be held “personally responsible” for any woman who followed her lead in deleting Uber and was then sexually assaulted."

The top comment on this page talks about a "visceral" feeling, I had the same one. I had the same feeling I had when I heard things like Todd Akin (a politican in the US) talking about "legitimate rape." Do we really want people like this shaping our future?
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I take screen captures from ISS HD CAM .When I enhance the shot appears ships,very rare, are from NASA 12 ships?
After Divorcing Microsoft, Nokia Reveals an Android Tablet, the N1,
I've also been using bup to replace (in some areas) my use of rdiff-backup.

It's a great tool, but since you contributed already, I cannot understate the importance of pruning old archives. For online/disk-based backup solutions, space is always going to run out eventually.

I'm using bup where I already know the backup size will grow in a way that I can manage for the next 1-2 years.

For "classical" backup scenarios though, where binaries and many changes are involved and the backup grows by roughly 10-20% a week due to changes alone, I have to resort to tools where I can prune old archives because I would either have to reduce the number of increments (which I don't want to do) or increase the backup space by a factor of 50x (which I practically cannot do either).
Are you seriously suggesting that Chinese students are all vetted by the government to make sure they are Pro-Communist and Anti-Democratic? AND they are all from the "ruling class".

wow. I don't even...
I have another response to this post too, but I feel strongly enough about it to add this:

I believe technology can be a force of good in the world. The fact that evil people do evil things with it does not negate the potential beauty of a world of abundance. Fear of the negative impacts of technology will not promote progress towards a better world.

TL;DR: I believe in techno-utopia.
Assuming you can, you know, build a vehicle that can correct its course in flight in space, right? :)
As other commenters have expressed, even stupid ideas may lead to an actual product: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitbite-track-and-improve...

I know this project is not related to the hackathon, but one can imagine how it could develop from stupid idea to raising funds for a maybe-not-completely-stupid product.
How many of these are known? I'm only aware of one other, duck.com... and that seems like a waste of a potentially catchy domain name.
I work with Angular and Javascript as well. I don't think you should count the html code, if that is what you did. Count the javascript-code only and see how many lines you write in a week. And if the number still is as high as you've said I must wonder what kind of system you are building? Normally you rewrite everything that is repetetive into services/controllers/functions to keep the line count down. There was a talk recently from Google about some large application they had written in Angular, the problems they ran into and what they learned from that. They provided some line counts and it wasn't millions of lines even for them and they still had a team of something like 10-20 developers.
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FYI: Link to Naiad github repo: https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch/Naiad
Thanks for mentioning attic. Looks like an interesting project which slipped under my radar.
Heh, I once wrote a piece of software that would read World of Warcraft's memory space, scan for the chat circular buffer and then post new guild chat messages to twitter.

At first my guild mates loved it - but then it created some guild internal drama as some "officers" were having a rather not nice chat about other guild members in the night and they thought they were alone.

Pretty much destroyed my guild. But at least I could finally say "What have I done!" and mean it ;)
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Can someone from NOKIA explain why this app is not available to me/my region?

This is getting old!
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The concept looks a lot like Yahoo! aviate launcher.
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Loosing acked writes in a master-slave replication with failover would be expected with a sufficiently large replication lag even for PG.

Bullshit.
Maybe they could spend $1M on PR to improve the image.

Or spend $0 and actually improve things in the company so they don't need PR to tell people they're not horrible.
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Well, there's the Mozilla Location Service (MLS) 1), mentioned before 2) which has a completely open API. Of course, coverage is still rather spotty in places.

1) https://location.services.mozilla.com/

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8525148
Given that the freeBSD foundation receives approx. $400,00-500,000 in donations from less than 20 corps/individuals... I think rather a lot of developers would have to donate :) Are there 42,000 FreeBSD developers willing to contribute?
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Atom CPU. Is this the first mainstream Android Intel device to ship?

Does anyone know if it comes with the Play store?
Uber has now been deleted from my phone. I hope others consider doing the same.
Be careful linking to deviant, probably due to some suspect ads. After having the page open for awhile (a long while in another tab) it redirects to spamware sites that want me download an .exe (I'm on Ubuntu). Shame as Devianart has been a great site.
Not available in Bosnia either...
Electric shock study suggests we'd rather hurt ourselves than others
I 100% agree with everything you say. I'm even one of those strange freaks that has a Nokia Lumia as my private phone and love Nokia Here maps. From a personal point of view I really wish Nokia had stuck with MeeGo until the bitter end, but Nokia had to look out for Nokia and I still can't blame Nokia for the choices they made.
I tried many keyboards due to RSI but in the end I'm currently very happy with a kinesis advantage, which made me lose a lot of interest in chording keyboards.

In the end, there's nothing in stenotyping that you couldn't do with a regular keyboard. The advantage in stenotyping is not chording per-se (which is used to reduce the number of keys more than anything else), but the input/composition method, which is highly specialized for text (and english text at that).

There's no convenient way to compose arbitrary symbols in a stenotyping machine. In a regular keyboard there are just more keys and thus the requirement for key composition is almost zero (you still "chord" with shift/control/alt if you think about it). More keys = more immediate symbols. On my S90, which is a full-length keyboard, I only have 88 keys with a key travel length of 1.2m! By comparison, I have (more than) 104 keys in 40x20cm right now.
You are, of course, correct. Though here (HN's character clear enough to those of us who have been about awhile) we can now observe that you will be downvoted remorselessly. Some people 'get it': actions in technology have consequences. In sympathy allow me to contribute a quote for further reflection. I found it hard to choose between one analyzing the moral engagement of earlier science and technology figures, or the hopeless social situation encountered when moral concerns are discarded amongst otherwise learned people. Without further ado, then, a dated but parallel quote in the British tradition.

I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean. — Baron C.P. Snow
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What do you mean by overkill? That chip is less powerful than an Apple A8 or Nvidia Denver, and probably even the Snapdragon 805 inside the Nexus 6 and latest Motorola phones and Note 4.
I find the 1:1 aspect ratio a little odd, especially given how we've moved away from 4:3 to even wider screens, but I really like the feature that switches power save mode off and on depending on the user's presence. That's awesome. Does anyone else offer that?
I'm surprised it doesn't have fuzzy search. With Alfred (http://alfredapp.com) for example, I can type "run" or "cr" and "CodeRunner" will show up. Fuzzy searching is essential for any launcher.
People should have a copyright on the name N1.. Oppo N1, Nokia N1..
Are there any consumer devices running x86 Android?

Acer, Asus and Lenovo have all gone Intel for their Android Tablets
The approach of both papers are somewhat similar, but not exactly the same. Preprints download:
- Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4555.pdf (Google)
- Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/devisag... (Stanford)
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It doesn't look or behave anything like Aviate, except that it provides a way to launch apps, hence why it's called a Launcher.

With Aviate, you swipe to expose a list of grouped apps, then swipe again to expose a list of all the apps alphabetically. This looks like you draw a letter to filter to some apps that start with that letter. And that there's a way to have six apps pinned (somehow) to the main page.
He did. He called her (though she has no idea how he got her number) and asked to speak off the record.

No, really. He did. "Hey Sarah, I realise there's this massive story blowing where I threatened to wage war on you and your family and I know you're a high profile journalist in this area but can we just have a quick friendly chat off the record?"

Scroll to the bottom of her article: http://pando.com/2014/11/17/the-moment-i-learned-just-how-fa...
Is that so.
I was not aware of that.
A bit reluctant to bring this up since strictly speaking it's not quite on-topic, but you don't have an email address or other method of contact listed, and it's something I don't really want to ignore.

I don't want to presume too much here, but my question is, if your friend identifies as female, and you're aware that she does, why do you refer to her as "he"? From a lot of your comments I get the impression that you're not very aware of feminist issues in general, but even without that knowledge, doesn't it seem disrespectful towards your friend to call her that? If she identifies as a woman, why call her something she's not? If who we are is in our minds, why should the body take precedence?

I could say a lot worse, certainly, since I'm a trans woman myself. I know firsthand what it feels like to have people deny your identity day after day (really shitty, to clarify). Even so, I'm trying to at least be understanding here, rather than give a knee-jerk reaction.
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I miss Meego too. N9 is the best phone I've owned (even despite poor app selections).

Tried looking into Sailfish but it is a poor replica.
> Are there any consumer devices running x86 Android?

Tesco Hudl2 8-inch tablet, popular in the UK. Battery life is fairly dismal, from personal experience.

And a dozen or so tablets in the Chinese market, few of which reach 'our' shores.
Summary: Nitrocellulose (gun cotton) doesn't need oxygen to explode but it turns out that it doesn't work in a vacuum. We only found this out in 2013. A Rosetta scientist saw the Wired article and sent a comment in April 2014.
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And don't forget all the options available for TLS certificates that are available with cURL!
On a side note, Uber should also sue all those companies piggy-backing on its name, dragging its name down. What I mean is, that every other month, I'm seeing a case of "Uber-for-X", like Blowhorn, is a startup that claims to be uber for mini-trucks.

What is happening is that, UBER is still going through its real challenge and hasn't established itself as a household name, like Microsoft, Apple, Google. Lot of people are still critical of its intent (including me perhaps), and its ultimate success, but these small startups that are piggybacking on its name are making matter's worse.

Most of these Uber for X startups, are not going to succeed, generally speaking, and when a start-up fails, brand value gets hit as people associate "failure" "didn't work" "not so good" with that name. Uber in that sense, is taking a hit on its brand name due to failure of other businesses (which I think is a bit unfair).
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...in terms of smart sensors and security.

Or perhaps, "in terms of the rapidly closing vice of state-sponsored dystopian surveillance?" Dense, authoritarian and technocratic cities like London, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea's will be some of the first to suffer under the all-seeing eye of omnipresent computer-annotated, database-retained vision. Corporate cubicle workers will slip further apart from the masses in to the corporate acultural dystopias predicted by science fiction... and in the case of those already housed by their employer (eg. many in South Korean 'chebol' megacorps), who's to say residential zone behavioural profiling will not begin in earnest?
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> Python has the C model of concurrency; at the user level, it's treated as a library issue.

Other than Erlang, which modern language doesn't?

Java has e.g. "synchronized" keyword, but I regard it as merely syntactic sugar over a standard library implementing thread - semantically, it still basically has the C model.

Go has channels and stuff - but it's still library level (in fact, it's basically syntactic sugar over the Plan9/Inferno/Aleph/DontRememberName standard library primitives)
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There is not enough general awareness of Uber's assholeness in the general public to have a meaningful effect. That may change but it hasn't yet.
Probably not the right place to ask but any guarantees N1 will not go Nokia X way?
damn, this launcher is not available in my country (Brazil). I have no idea why people opt not to release on multiple countries...
Ha! Well that simplifies things for me :) Honestly, your service is so solid I can't remember the last time I actually logged in to check something. It really is backup as a utility (you should consider re-branding as "BaaU" lol)
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The Israeli education ministry recently launched a new site, in which they've used stock photos of, mostly, Nordic looking children and families.

Israel is a melting pot. Eastern Europeans, North African and near eastern Jews, and recently lots of Russians. None look particularly Nordic or even European (ie Slavic, Eastern European etc.) , unless they're not Jewish to begin with (many Russian immigrants, according to Israeli press, are not Jewish).

You want find many blonde Israelis, except for women who dye their hair (mostly Russians, but not limited).

So looking at an official site which represents a false idea of who we are as people, was disturbing, and in deed, people quickly responded and objected to what was done with tax payers money.

My problem is that using stock images blends and makes real people transparent, not present.

I understand that this is the easiest option, marketing-wise, but it's offensive.

There's a flip side too. People that can't connect to promotional material that misrepresents reality. Weather non-realistic women in fashion media, removal of diversity from promotional material and so on.

It's just wrong.

Taking a risk here generalizing, but I feel that with Asians it might be even worst, because of their perceived obsession with "whiteness". It's just offensive.
As I understand it, five up votes in the first few minutes gets you on the front page.

Of course that means this is a regular popularity fest, complete with sock puppets, politics and the rest.
There are literally millions of Atom Android tablets out there already, including all the last generation of Galaxy Tabs from Samsung.
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While it's true that we can often say things we don't mean when frustrated or angry, in normal life this usually requires an apology afterwards. And in some cases, when we go too far, that might not fix things.

When it concerns a CEO with the amount of information/power that he has, I'd say that the standard should be even higher. And I think he clearly went too far. Frustration doesn't excuse it.
Samsung Tab 3 10.1 was also Intel-powered.
I cannot treat complaints from journalists about digging up dirt seriously. This has essentially become their job.

Were was this criticism when some guy's personal phone calls were broadcasted and dissected? When Gawker was buying people's sex tapes? And not months ago, although then too, last week[1].

This is the world you created. Enjoy.

EDIT: And if you're downvoting, I'd love to hear why.

[1] http://defamer.gawker.com/somebody-is-selling-an-usher-sex-t...
Fitbit launches eight-figure marketing blitz
>I wasn't able to find a single phd in economics there,

Sounds like a good thing to me.
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I think that they cannot release phone until 2016.
Is it me or does the site not load in Chrome? Initially, text flashes quickly then a blank page.
'Unavailable in your country' :(

(I'm in South Africa)
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I believe this notation might be borrowed from SymPy, a symbolic math lib for python --- not that this justifies it; I don't quite care for it much either.
So what's the business model behind a launcher app then?
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I think that Nokia X was "product of Microsoft" (although planned long before the deal). This is product of Nokia, that means remaining parts of Nokia after mobile division was sold to Microsoft. So two different companies, same brand.
Try to find a co-working space in your area. If not maybe work from a cafe for some time during the day.

I was gonna suggest meetup.com but looks like you do not have interesting meetups in your area.

Maybe pickup some sport in your free time. Leisure, fitness and socializing all rolled into one.
I worked on a project with Verzion to wifi enable NYC payphones in 2003 [1], I think we did around 150 in the end. I worked on backend software and then eventually driving around the city in a Verizon van debugging hotspots. The system didn't work very well then - most payphone booths were not in good areas for using wifi, there wasn't enough coverage and there was quite a high failure rate for the equipment (and sometimes it was stolen). I like the idea of having other services available in the booth though, and perhaps it will work better now that everyone has wifi equipped phones and doesn't need to pull out their laptop to use it.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/technology/14NET.html
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I disagree with points 1 and 2 completely.

Point #1 - That just isn't true. Developers as a group have no more or no less time than anyone else, obviously. A 5 minute video may or may not be more effective - it depends (a) on the topic, and (b) the people delivering the message. To make such a generalization is just wishful thinking. I wish I could learn "Evolving software engineering practices" in 5 minutes but, unfortunately, that takes longer.

Point #2 - That is your opinion. I'm of the opinion that the people doing the content should do what they want. I enjoy differences. Not every video has to be packaged the same way or have the same flow.

You seem to have conflated "What I like" and "What the world needs".

- http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-...
A lot? Make that pretty much all. The only things you still find in DIP format are very low-end micro-controllers.
Well, it would be nice if they would "harmonize" us enough to put us all on SocialCast! ;)