skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Shazam most often in bars and restaurants.
That's a very general statement which hasn't been customized at all to the current scenario. So really there's no way for me to respond, but I'll try.

As I said, swiping up actually feels easier to me on a large screen than swiping left or right. And putting notifications on the lock screen is a critical feature in my opinion, something Android has desperately needed out of the box for a while now. I use a custom lock screen just for that feature because it's so useful.
"I'm mostly interested in limiting the harm they'll do to anyone else in their search"

Can you elaborate? This recruiter's email is spam, literally. Most people hit delete and move on. I'm curious where the harm is coming from.
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great read, surprising result! Id be interested to see what happens when coefficients are in the reals
Actually, assault is defined as "the threat of physical harm". (no physical contact is required)

Battery is the actual physical harm.

This is very common misunderstanding.

http://www.northvanpac.org/p/bccpac.html
> Minimalism isn't timeless, minimalism itself is a trend in design.

i suppose. depending on the length of your view. but, given minimalism has been a "trend" for the last 100 years or so, i am going to assume you're looking at broad trending across centuries instead of through the "flat design is trendy" lens.
I think you're misreading this. Doxxing is the online equivalent of incitement to riot; as in a real riot, the chances of any individual participant doing anything blatantly illegal are low, it's the cover that the crowd provides for lawless activity and the intimidatory factor that's problematic. So if you're unpopular with some group in your town, and someone says 'Let's go to Byerley's house at 123 Quiet Street and make some noise' that could count as incitement to riot even if your name and address are widely available.

The problem is not the mere repetition of publicly available information, but its strategic use to focus the anger of a crowd upon a relatively defenseless individual. That creates a dangerous power asymmetry with the explicit or implicit function of intimidation. It's not a big deal if people peacefully protest in front of the White House - the President and his family live there but there's a bunch of secret service people to keep him safe due to the nature of the office, same way there are police permanently stationed outside the official residence of the UK prime minister. If you're Joe or Jill Ordinary and a large crowd shows up on your physical doorstep, you have a serious problem.

Virtual harassment is not immediately threatening in the same way but it depends on how far it goes. If I write something controversial and make it public and get a storm of hate email in my inbox, that's annoying but not really worrying. But if I start also getting telephone calls or snail mail (or seeing such things quoted in emails) then it's quite a bit more worrying.

There's a limit to which people can control the amount of their personal data that becomes public. For example, I own a house which means I have to pay property taxes, and where I live property ownership is a matter of public record. So I was surprised after buying the home to suddenly receive a huge amount of junk mail from companies who obviously subscribe to lists of property tax payers. I can't take back that information. Should everyone be expected to set up a shell company in order to purchase real property and still maintain some privacy?
I'd guess multiple domains for hosting stuff like CSS and images to better exploit parallelism, and massive compression where possible.
So how would one go about building one's own lightbox? I grew up in a sunny area, and can feel the effects of SAD. Having a lightbox to improve the mood would be helpful.
Mobile devices are now in the tailfin era, like 1950s cars. Every year, the styling changes, to force users to buy the new model. 1950s people actually used to buy a new car every year if they could afford it, partly because vehicle reliability and working life sucked.

Then Japanese cars with higher reliability and lower cost started to compete with Detroit's chrome-laden behemoths. That didn't end well for Detroit. Today, cars last about twice as long as they did in the 1970s.
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Just in case you don't get an answer: ECT is in fact a standard medical/psychiatric treatment for certain types of psychiatric illnesses.

It gets a bad rep because of the existence of involuntary treatments. That doesn't mean that there are people that consent to it, because it can be highly beneficial to specific types of psychiatric illnesses.

As far as I've understood from a doctor friend that explained it to me, the patient is fully under narcosis and paralysed (otherwise the muscles will do all sorts of dangerous things), so they don't notice a thing, apart from probably waking up with a sore arm. This is because (I've been told) they leave one arm not paralysed for feedback and monitoring the process.

See Wikipedia for more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
This was submitted right before the DNS Crash last night
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Working again for me now, definitely being hit by a bunch of load.
The meeting was not off the record. Don't invite journalists to a meeting and expect them to not report what you say at that meeting. If you need to go off the record you need an agreement with the journalist.

You've twisted that to suggest that journalists are the same as an Uber executive digging dirt. The difference is that the journalist publishes under their name, via an editor and publisher, and is prepared to go to jail to protect their source.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8622941
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Tracking a Bitcoin Thief Part 2:  Two Thieves for One Audit
Via https://bitcomsec.true.io/bitcomsec/tracking-a-bitcoin-thief-part-ii/

Contents of this article:

...continuing from Part 1
Real-Time Attacks
Discovery of MidasCoin Compromise through access to attacker's stash machine
What is MidasCoin?
Contacting MidasCoin
Attacker's Methods and Tools
What Happened to The Coins?
Illustrating the Issue of Trust in Online Schemes (or, MidasCoin cuts and runs)
Following the Trail:
Oct 4
Oct 5
Conclusion
Total Coins Stolen
MidasCoin Information

https://bitcomsec.true.io/bitcomsec/tracking-a-bitcoin-thief-part-ii/
Exactly. They don't even care of hiding that button for others OS

Also, why the hate?
> How the fuck are they able to know that?

This is a good question, that I'd like to see answered too -- if anyone here knows.

On a related (only to me) note: Is there any way that I can set a watcher on your comment to notify me if there is a response to it?
Personally I self host a domain that accepts anything@ and file it into a special inbox. This lets me give real addresses to specific sites and blacklist them as needed.
Dota does it correctly, if you cut off the top 40, tou would see a new meta game develop around the available champions. The tier list would not have the same ordering as the bottom remaining champions, as some of them are better suited to combat the removed 'meta' champs, and visa-versa.

I've been wondering if a MOBA could use a balancing algorithm, and tweak a pre-configured variable character stat if a champion becomes too popular, too high win ratio, or too weak.

Even more interesting IMO would be a stock market, where players can spend in game (or real) currency to manipulate the power level of their favorite champion. Over time, people will bid against overpowered champions and their numbers will get tweaked downwards. You might see certain champions that people consistently choose to invest in (to buff), but it will be an honest measure of the popularity of the champion and can be combated if enough of the player base hates it.
This is a fantastic article that I'll link to the next time people complain about "balance" as a general construct to express that their discontent at losing in some context. There have been other well thought out observations similar to this about other classics, including Final Fantasy Tactics: http://kotaku.com/5973196/why-everybody-loves-final-fantasy-...

In the case of Tactics, the game continues to be fun even after 100 hours of play in part because player is _rewarded_ for their effort by their units becoming out of balance in the late end game.
SpiderOak: Only as secure as the people handling your data
So, after dumping my Dropbox account in favor of SpiderOak, I've been pretty happy with them other than waiting on a few more features with their mobile app. Well, last night their desktop client started telling me that I was over my limit, when I knew that I wasn't. I double checked my account and restarted the client. After a few minutes, everything was fine. Then, today I received this email:

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Hello,

Early this morning, you may have received a notice from SpiderOak that your account is out of space even if you have plenty of space available. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience! This was a server-side error which we have already corrected, so your account should be back to normal now. If you are still seeing the "Buy More Space" pop-up, please exit and restart the SpiderOak application. Any uploads which were in process will be re-added to the queue automatically.

Thank you for your patience while we resolved this issue!

Best,
The SpiderOak Support Team

--------------------

Followed by this email:

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Hello -

A few minutes ago I sent a message entitled "Out of Space Message" to approximately 500 affected users in an attempt to test automating this message. By accident, I included the email addresses of these users in the "to" line in plaintext. I am EXTREMELY sorry for this mistake and for the breach of privacy. I can only apologize for making such a terrible mistake and ask you to please delete the previous message as a courtesy to your fellow SpiderOak users.

Again, my sincere apologies for the error.

Best,
Laura

--------------------

Yes, the original email contained the contact info for numerous SpiderOak users. Even the most secure services can be compromised in some way, even if from within...
Thanks for taking the time.

The new keyboards look different but polish, would definitely give it a try
No, it's not a better idea to "educate users" it is rather to respect the users. Imagine when your car would change the controls on random mornings. People want the work done like you just want to drive. Don't project your untypical preferences to the others.

I'm almost sure that if you're a serious programmer you use a command line. You know, where you type in one line, the output is written in the following lines, emulating the electrically-controlled typewriter which prints the letter one after the another on the roll of the paper from the sixties. Think about that. "Carriage return" once actually caused the physical carriage to return and the line feed actually activated the paper feeder to roll the paper one line up.

A lot of changes in the UI are often driven more by the changes in the politics inside of the company (who is going to be seen for his visible contribution to the "change")
than any real need. Think about that.
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That's true, and I'd forgotten the point about salmonella.

I'm sure a lot of it does have to do with conditions though. If you have to wash the eggs anyway, you can keep them in factory conditions, and wash off all the shit. If you're not allowed to wash the eggs, then you tend to be a bit more careful, and keep them in better conditions.
Ask HN: Can someone point me to this old thread?
This has been on my mind for a while, and I have forgotten the website/original submission on HN.

From what I remember it was a beautiful website that he was using to document his travels and also fitness/health related information. The comments were mostly about how great the site looked. It was a blue with awesome animations between pages. If someone remembers and can point me to the site/HN submission I will love you forever.
Normally one would expect the rankings to be more or less constant without any balancing, this is exactly the point of the article.

The shuffling indicates that new tactics/play styles are found and widely adopted (as well as preferences are shifting) over time. With rebalancing, the shuffling should be more or less random (or at least you would see a higher "volatility"). Without rebalancing most characters which were judged as strong stay strong but players perception for some characters changes with tactics etc.. It would be interesting to not just see the overall standings but some kind of "consensus" rating (which characters are rated similar and for which characters ratings are mixed).

By the way, your point also shows that SSBM has an extensive gameplay and is (if intended or not) well designed for competitive play - otherwise ratings should be more stable.
Here are a few of the resources I have used in the past to help explain to non-technical folks some of what a developer needs to deal with when involved in a large project.

1) Ward Cunningham explains "technical debt":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE

2) comic strip - "How Projects Really Work":
http://www.projectcartoon.com/cartoon/2
It's search v's directory. The idea is you can post meta-data on an API on your own domain using a format http://www.apisjson.org/ that can then be crawled. Right now you still submit links, but it'll start crawling. So then anyone can write a search engine (the code for apis.io is open source).

With a directory like programmableweb it's useful but you need to put your data into the repository - and then remember to update it.
This is almost apples and oranges. Mahout's power lies in it's ability to handle huge amounts of data, in a parallel fashion. Weka (which is rarely used these days anyways) is for smaller problems and experimentation.

None of these (Mahout and Weka) are mainstream anymore. For large-scale classification, people are using packages like VW[1] . And for small-scale experimentation, SciKit or R.

[1] http://hunch.net/~vw
A bit surprised to see the analysis was of Super Smash Bros Melee and not Brawl. Not quite as much data on it (7 years vs 12)...

For what it's worth, I actually wore out 3 Wiis playing smash bros for probably thousands of hours.

Also, great marketing effort releasing this the day before the new one releases.
Yeah. Welcome to the world of an HTML 'standard' that is 'living'.
Add them to the awful recruiters list:
https://github.com/soffes/awfulrecruiters.com

Reply with a link to their pull request.
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> Just because a data aggregation site does not show your data on the front-end, does not mean they deleted it from the back-end. So now you can charge 50$ for people to search in the "special" data pile

Do you have evidence of aggregators doing this? It's plausible, but I haven't heard about it happening.

> Telling them to remove your data, only slows down the doxxer, it does not stop them at all

I think you have a good point overall but let's not dismiss the solution in the ComputerWorld article, which is valuable. All security solutions do the same thing: They increase the attacker's costs, which stops attackers unwilling to pay the price. There is no perfect security.

For example, we tell users to use strong passwords on their Windows logons, but that only raises the cost of an attack and does not completely secure the machine.
>Absolutely no wonder that in "poor" countries they are happier.

what?
Does anyone use pin unlock on their phones? With lollipop you now have to swipe the screen just to get to the pin unlock. That's an entire extra gesture that serves absolutely no purpose but to take an extra .5 seconds from my life every time I unlock my phone.
Jumphosts have their uses, but in this case, I really don't see it. As others have pointed out, better yet is VPN only access.

As for the port knocking silliness, well, I don't see any reason for it.

http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-not-use-port-knocking....
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Not at all. Maybe you misunderstood me? Violent threats are totally unacceptable and cannot be justified by pointing to other instances of violence.
Anyone have any other suggestions like these?

Source Sans Pro is Adobe's first open source typeface and was designed by Paul D Hunt. It was specifically designed for user interfaces, and is available in multiple weights. I think the regular weight also works well for body text.

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=...

The font is also available on Google fonts

Shameless plug: I use Source Sans Pro on my website if you want to see an example of what it looks like for body text and headlines :-)

http://www.interfacesketch.com/
I'm aware, but until the majority of people are using a system where basic window management exists, vendors have little incentive to sell double wide monitors because so few people would be willing to use them. So those of us who can make good use of them have to wait forever, just like we did for reasonable DPI LCDs.

Also, even in the newest windows it is still crippled. Applications can prevent themselves from being resized like that, and often things like games that you would want to run in borderless window mode can not be moved around using windows shortcut keys.
Total n00b here.I took a look at Creator and it looks straight-forward with its drag and drop approach, but do I need to know more (e.g. a language or the Ionic framework) before I can do anything useful with it?
Interesting. So what would happen if you drew, say, a 100 dip box on an N7? Would two edges just be blurry?
I really enjoyed Accelerando by Charles Stross. The book spans from present-day to post-singularity, and plays with the idea of what AI is along the singularity curve.

There's also the even-closer-future of REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.
I've been happy with Alarm Clock Plus as my wake up alarm. has the ability to set an alarm on some days of the week, and the "skip next" feature.
TLDR : "the age U-shape in life satisfaction is driven by unmet aspirations that are painfully felt during midlife but beneficially abandoned and felt with less regret during old age"

Basically, most people hope they will do great, but instead fail miserably in their expectations and finally even let go of the hope.

Thoreau said 'Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.'. Apparently, this is wrong, as this would suggest even the song leaves them.

They live a life of quiet despair, then forget their dreams and - boom - happiness! Ignorance must really be bliss.

As another commenter said, "Basically "midlife crisis" is a way for people who are married with families to put down anyone having more fun or experiencing more freedom than them."

Agreed. I plan to have fun without encombering myself with things that would reduce my freedom (and I'm sure a lot of people will hate that and say that's not responsible, etc)

Doing without kids will be a good start, so that the life/energy/money is invested on my projects intead of another biologically related person.

EDIT: I'm not bitter, I just want to avoid a potential problem by making adjustments. I would consider giving up on my hopes and my dreams a much more serious issue that trying to adapt myself to a problem
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Unsure what you mean: There is power ranking of brawl at the bottom from which you can extrapolate some of the same conclusions he talks about wrt melee.
> The universe as a whole (very probably) has zero angular momentum.

Relative to what? Or do you mean the observable universe relative to the CMB?
>If you do, please make sure you aren't serving up 4MB images to people over 3G

I wonder how many sites really accommodate for that.. very few in my experience. There's always Opera Mini though.
I didn't hear any rumors like that other than Gruber's very-late-in-the-game speculation (on the potential resolution, not the yield). If there were any, they were more than outpaced by rumors that the larger iPhone would feature a 1080p (or lower!) resolution.

Here's one from all the way back in October '13 that predicted the 1080p screen on the "5.7 inch" phone:

http://www.displaysearchblog.com/2013/10/in-2014-apple-will-...

I think they have made a conscious decision to bet on display scaling technology at high PPI's, so they have the flexibility to always buy the best displays they can get manufactured at the price point they need to hit.
I'm hoping to see Yoshi come up in the ranks because of aMSa.
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Where is your source for this? Buzzfeed guy was not an invited guest. His excuse was that, since he was not invited, he was not bound to the terms of the invitation.

As someone else has written, if you think you need a (written) contract to enforce ethics, you don't understand the concept of 'ethics'. Contracts are useful because they create legal -- not simply ethical -- obligations.

In any event, if you don't appreaciate any of this, we can agree to disagree.
Bah... this hit HN a week too late...

Our extended family decided to use this exact model this year, and managing the email lists was indeed a major pain in the neck.
What fraction of the words you type are not in the dictionary? Why not revert to tap-typing for just those words and use the faster method for the dictionary words?
This was my exact thought and it would be even simpler if Monotub[0] or Orbit[1] existed/worked.

I know this is really about AI challenges rather than washing clothes, but the list of steps seems more complex than it needs to be. For example, I already put my dirty clothes straight in to a laundry basket. I don't think I'm ever going to need a robot to scoop them off the floor for me, I can't imagine my time being so valuable that I can't put my shirt in the basket.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1740246.stm

[1] http://www.coroflot.com/tiffanyroddis/orbital
One of the most original thinkers I have ever met
I suppose the 2nd amendment prevents the government from denying me the ability to use a gun to shoot someone too... but saying that isn't constructive to the discussion of how to do we stop people shooting each other with guns.

Yes, I have the right to threaten someone because it's free speech, but I should still be punished for doing it.

(i.e. I have the right to have a gun and use it to shoot someone, but I should still be punished for doing it)
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there is one other site that i have been using since FOREVER that does this with client side code snippets and sdks

EDIT: found it its http://www.mashape.com
- underpowered hardware

At my previous job I requested an upgrade from a 3 year-old laptop. Initially they approved it, but before ordering one they reversed and denied my request. The justification was they'd spent too much outfitting new hires and it was no longer in the budget, despite my request coming long before the interview process started for the new hires. To make it worse, the new hires were entry level and I had the second longest tenure at the company (~90 people).

Now I work somewhere that happily provides every technical employee with the latest maxed out hardware. The difference in amount of work accomplished is staggering.