skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you'd set up a custom CA on your proxy so you can spy on the https traffic. I'd be suspicious if I saw large blogs of data that had been encrypted in the application instead of at the network layer.
That is exactly what we're doing. I used Selenium to create all the tests. We have 10-15 websites that we build on the same framework, so in many cases, one test is applicable to every site.
As I say in the article, it's hard to know where to go. There is nowhere I know of that covers the same ground (long-form articles, lots of code, algorithms, and serious reviews).
> Given that I've never bought a single item by clicking on an ad on a website, this conclusion seems correct in the small.

Neither have I. Who's clicking these links?!
he is, by most measure. But really, so what?

If I was rich, and I saw all this unfair bullshit going on, I'd still be pissed off about it. Just because it's not a problem for him doesn't mean its not a real problem. If anything, he's exercising his position to give light to the issue.
From a 10k foot view, you know things are bad when BTC is your stable currency of choice.
> The initiative will cost nearly $5 billion through 2019, a hefty sum considering that the state’s current two-year budget for public education is around $15 billion....Project STAR is the gold standard in class-size reduction literature because it’s the only randomized study on the issue that’s been conducted since the early 20th century...Florida’s program cost $20 billion over eight years, about the same as the estimates for the Washington initiative. And Project STAR was estimated to cost about $400,000 for each student who eventually went to college, compared to $133,000 for HeadStart. “Reducing class size is one of the most expensive things you can do in education,” Chingos said.

And people keep asking whether we can afford, ethically or financially, to run randomized trials...
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must admit I am a bit skeptical about somethings longevity in 2014/2015 being built on flash...
Then you would also have to trust that your knowledge of how silicon processing and manufacture is correct, and that whomever taught you how to do so was not malicious. At some point, it all becomes a circlejerk of Cartesian doubt.
Maybe this is re-assuring if you're bothered by the possibility of determinism.
He says that there is a 1-in-a-million chance you'll get rich. There's 314 million people in the US. Is it statistically true that only 314 Americans will ever get rich?
Hence why I said "technology". If this gives Stephenson a jaw-drop moment, it's something I'd like to see turned into something we can all use.
Stack ranking may, in a sense, exist at Amazon. But as a developer here, it's invisible to me. I write my reviews of some of my colleagues (I choose which), they write reviews of me. All reviews of me go directly to my manager, who will compile them together with his review of me and my review of myself to build a full year-end review of my performance.

Those yearly reviews will factor somehow into my pay, bonuses, etc, but I only see the final result of it. Was I stack ranked?
Good point. Given sufficient paranoia this train of suspicion can be continued even deeper down the rabbit hole: you'd need to inspect the hardware designs and make sure the hardware you've got was actually produced according to the inspected designs.

In technology as elsewhere, it seems life is ultimately based on trust in someone.
I got a 404... I assume that means I will be rich?
> Anyway it's interesting to know that there are Maori who hunt, that's something that I'd like to learn more about.

http://www.maoritelevision.com/tv/shows/hunting-aotearoa
Ask HN: With urli.st shutting down, what are the alternatives?
We use http://urli.st to maintain a curated set of links to various articles, blogs, etc. that are of interest to our students (I run a software training company focused on a specific enterprise software product). We group links under categories, and would maybe get into tagging as well, but the key is that anyone can subscribe to updates to our urli.st library, and that there is a decent looking web interface that grabs metadata about a link when we paste it - I suspect they're combining OpenGraph and other meta tags.

Are there other options you've used and would recommend? Perhaps you have a pet project to plug that integrates with pinboard? I dunno - that's why I'm here to Ask HN!
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Even a 1:1 teacher-student ratio would not improve education if that teacher cannot respond and adapt to the needs of the student. If that teacher is bound by a common curriculum and testing regime, or an otherwise rigid administration, you might as well teach with a bunch of robots.

Bring on the anecdote. Math is taught by very different methods now than those I remember, and I shudder to think about what is being taught in class now when my child can do a homework worksheet and get every single question on it completely wrong. And the reason, as far as I can tell, is because the curriculum is sometimes using logarithms and decimal-shift operations to teach multiplication and division. They are literally teaching kids to simulate the mechanical processes behind slide rules and abacuses in their brains in lieu of just memorizing the multiplication table. The entire system seems constructed around the complete avoidance of rote memorization.

But that is how I learned to multiply. Memorization of the multiplication table from 0x0 to 9x9 was absolutely required. You could not progress at all if you could not quickly look up any of those 100 numbers. 55, really, thanks to multiplication being a commutative operation. Or 36 if you could also remember that 0xn=0 and 1xn=n.

Rather than ask kids to memorize and index those 36 numbers for quick recall, I see piles of nonsense about "compatible numbers" and "reasonable numbers" and other concepts of dubious value outside the narrow context of quickly selecting the correct answer in a multiple-choice test, without actually doing the work.

I actually had to teach my child that the exact answer to a math question is, in fact, a reasonable estimate.

To top it off, judging from Feynman's anecdote about being on a textbook selection committee, this same nonsense, or cleverly repackaged iterations of it, has continued unabated for decades. Wakalixes make it go. Wakalixes pay the bills. Wakalixes extract the tax dollars and deliver it to the rent-seeker. And the students continue to learn, or fail, largely based upon whether their individual teachers care more than the median amount.

The economics of public education create too wide of a separation between the interests of the student and the signers of the checks. No matter how hard you push on that rope, the load will barely move. Adding more money will not help when there is already very little connection between the amount spent and the observed outcomes.
It's amazing that you can complain about something... and then get that rich off of it. Definition of hypocritical.
Article reminded me of the John Steinbeck quote... "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Right - in the traditional escrow system, it takes weeks to wire money around. When buying a house that is not a big deal. But if we wanted to move escrow to be useful for much smaller payments, such as a TV set, then you could not use traditional escrow for that due to the high latency and fees ($40+!!!) that the banks will charge you overall for the fund wires.
That's not really the tl;dr version of the article.
I think we will confirm life within 50 years by reading the spectra of distant planets and finding free oxygen in the atmosphere. As far as we know, that can only happen if living creatures are replenishing it.

I think it's unlikely that we will find life anywhere else in our solar system. It's possible that we'll evidence of past life on Mars, but not current. Basically, it's just way too cold or way too hot everywhere but Earth.

edit to add: I hope we do not discover intelligent life until we travel to distant star systems ourselves. If it discovers us here, the outcome will almost certainly be terrible for us, based on the long Earth history of species encountering species.
...there are Maori in the South Island too. You speak so assuredly from a position of cluelessness. :/
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In the internet era you simply don't need a multinational corporation to publish your blog post for you. They're already being published for free.

You still need a trusted editor to collect and curate... but that editor certainly doesn't need the multinational corporation, not anymore. Its not 1975 and ink on paper.

The future probably looks a lot like "Clojure Gazette", which is a curated edited list of links to blog posts and projects focusing on a rather small field, and THE (emphasis, "the") only human involved is a trusted editor and he gets beer money plus considerable fame out of being the editor.

Reading between the lines, at Dr Dobbs a small team can pull down less than a million bucks. To a multinational megacorporation, thats hopeless, sunset it. Divided among a very small team, however, that's one heck of a lifestyle business...
Our take on gift cards is that you should get money back if the card isn't used.
guesses based on analysis and conjecture: imagine a tiny projector which is tracking your eyes (and surrounding light conditions), and can project a 3d light field, rather than a 2d image onto them. With this device you could create the perception that you're looking at something in the real world which just ain't there. Hence the flying whales and tiny elephants n' such. It's a AR/VR/Display technology.
> No disrespect to you in particular but this way of handling the problem comes off as very blunt and uncivilized.

1080 is hardly any more civilised. But it's the possums or our native trees/birds, and we're fond of having forests with bird song.
Apparently I missed where to tag this appropriately to land in the Ask HN list? A little help, mods?
This article is from 2003. Did it take hacker news 11 years to find out the shark has been jumped?
Do people who otherwise did an acceptable job get canned just because they ranked at the bottom? That's the concern about the practice, I think.
To all the naysayers, I say this: Think of this as a data forensics effort rather than just some kind of look up table. When you have massive amounts of data, you can do simple checkpoints like amount of money flowing into any point in the circuit is the amount of money flowing out of it, that kind of stupid validation system alone will uncover a ton of stuff, and imagine doing a little bit more machine learning, you can discover all sorts of stuff, at least a probable cause to alert a govt agency who are both understaffed and clueless at the same time. This is very hard problem and complicated enough that it cannot be trusted to the government alone. I welcome this open source effort to data forensics.
>I assume the state will eventually tip demographically in favor of the coast and end up resembling California

So do you think that this will be a result natural population growth, migrants from California/Oregon, migrants from other U.S. states, or migrants from other countries? I tried to look up population trends for various counties, but it isn't as straightforward as I had hoped. It seems like there should be a heat map showing population growth per county, so that we could see which counties are growing fastest. Also it would be interesting to look at the population trends east and west of the Cascades. Somewhere this data must exist, I'm surprised that it isn't in an easy to digest form, or that tracking it down hasn't been simple.
That's what's going on? I thought it was just a bug in Firefox Nightly or something.

BTW a normal click also does the thing of opening the new link in the current tab and spawning a new tab with the original page.
Back in the 80's DTACK Grounded and Micro Cornucopia, then later Computer Language and DrDobbs (remember those Cauzin soft strips?). Now I just depend on HN posters to TLDR stuff for me unless a subject really grabs me.
A few days ago: "Google Just Admitted More Than Half Of The Ads It Serves Are Never Seen": http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2ojl90/google_ju...
Lots of people are calling him anti capitalism, communist etc. IIRC he's not against capitalism, or free markets. He's against uneven playing fields. Ones where robbing a 7-11 gets you shot and killed vs committing a multimillion dollar crime gets you a relatively small fine (one by which it's still profitable).
He's against markets where CEOs are worshipped despite there being zero correlation btwn CEO pay and company performance [1]

Michael Moore is against people being treated as means, and not ends of their own accord.

[1]:http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-22/for-ceos-cor...
>And it does not really matter if they entered U.S. with a tourist visa 10 years ago or just crossed the border in desert.

From a legal context, yes actually, these facts make all the difference in the world in terms of relief one is entitled to under the law.

So for example, if someone is in the US as a unaccompanied minor - just another "illegal immigrant" to you, all of them being the same and what not - whether they just got here or have been here 10 years lawfully on a tourist Visa, under the law they would be eligible for a Special J Visa which would lead a pathway of citizenship. Or as occurs regularly in Miami, where I practice law, there are tens of thousands undocumented immigrants - "illegal immigrants" according to you - but they may be eligible for immigration relief because of the Cuban Adjustment Act (Wet Feet, Dry Feet Policy).

I think you make the point yourself, that acts themselves are illegal...not people.
The PCs didn't sit in your pocket all data with sensing GPS location, mic, camera, footsteps, discovery of bluetooth and wifi devices around you; neither were they single point of communication with the rest of the world.
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However, the GPU on the beaglebone is much more closed and undocumented than the one on the Broadcom chip.
The unscrupulous advertising practices out there (e.g. straight-up malware deliver) make it too dangerous to not run ad-blockers. Until the security issues around advertising are addressed adequately, I consider blocking entirely ethical. Compare it to the idea of Target shaming users for not trusting them with their credit card info.

Besides, I expect direct patronage models to supplant advertising for smaller sites sooner rather than later. And yes, I already use Patreon.
Perhaps the additional user trust is worth it?

But the other cost is searchability, which is a pain for a search-based email system. I don't think many people use labels very much.
It's a bit ridiculous how Google shows those numbers on top and people constantly quote there are X results for Y when the real results are always far off from that. There are 382,000 results for {number of "google results"}!
I've hardly ever read anything at dr dobbs.
Google searches rarely took me there.
Just now when i visited I was locked out after viewing to pages.
Building your user engagement pyramid
i think the major issue is going to be power. the battery requirements for processing a small-scale holodeck will be huge. making something portable that lasts for a sufficient time is going to require an energy breakthrough
Can you elaborate on the impact of capital controls? Are bond investors not able to trade out of their positions?
A lot of these bash scripts could be replaced with Go programs. It doesn't take much code for a bash script to get ugly.
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Yes, this is actually one case where as a privacy conscious user, I would be ok with browsing data being used for job ad purposes. Also job ads are probably the only ones I click on. And if the ads are intra-site I don't think AdBlock would touch them (even if they do, their AdBlock detection script could say, "looking for a job? make an adblock exception for us", which is valuable data in itself). Besides, a link in the header to a job board might generate enough traffic alone.

Dr. Dobb's Jobs has a nice ring. And a freelancer board could be Dr. Dobb's Odd Jobs :)
Do BTC exchanges process the currency exchange for you automatically or do you first have to get your USD exchanged and into a Russian account?
nice work. keep it up.
Reference counted smart pointers are more expensive than regular references in rust, but not as expensive as those in C++: Regular Rc pointers live on a single thread, and so don't have to use atomic increment/decrement like they do in C++. In addition, Rust's support for borrowing means that when passing smart pointers around you typically don't need to increment/decrement the pointer at all - because the compiler statically enforces that the borrowed reference lives for a shorter time than the smart pointer it's borrowed from.
If you define rich as billionaire, that's about right. There are 492 billionaires in the US, according to Wikipedia.
So are you outside the US? I have bought all of mine from Digikey, they currently have 787 in stock (http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/BB-BBLK-000/BB-BBLK...) so presumably if I ordered today I'd have it in 3 days (priority mail)(Mouser has over 1200, Element 14/Farnell has eight thousand)

[1] http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/CircuitCo/BB-BBLK-000/?q...
[2] http://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/si...
he didn't complain about something and get rich off of it. He actually did a lot of research, interviewing and general filmmaking about the topic and others, and thats what he made his money from. Because we, the consumers, paid to see it.

That's not hypocritical.
Because Apple is a US company?
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This sounds pretty similar to http://nerdydata.com which lets you search the source code of webpages. Does this only look at the window variable on webpages?
> I've got a computer that works, a room, some heat, cats and a piano

Sounds like you've got everything you need.
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I loved The Diamond Age as well, although I remember mostly bits and pieces now:

* cult sex scenes

* a forced-participation theater that humiliates you using Occulus Rift-technology

* the Kill Bill-esque ending

* ... and, most of all, the idea of continous education using an immersive Minecraft-like book/world that expands in complexity as your education grows.

Too bad we (the hackers) never completed even a crude version of the Primer (the book in the last bullet point) for the young geeks out there.
Thanks, would be interesting to learn about your stack. Let me know how you get on, it's very easy to add custom build tools to reserver, literally a few lines of code.
Honestly, coming myself from a currency that had huge devaluations, the fluctuations of bitcoins' value are relatively minor in comparison.
They are probably more transparent that a lot of charities, the approach is great and the whole culture seems very neat.
Anyone could use a network sniffer to see it is uploading something, but you can't tell what since the content may be encrypted. Advanced user may be able to follow the data in a debugger, but that's a lot of work. Very advanced user could instrument the code to perform data flow analysis, see https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wklieber/papers/soap2014-didfail.pdf
hey Andrew,

I wonder if you could make enough revenue via crowdfunded support? Recurring subscriptions and one time contributions can really add up.

At Beacon, we helped Techdirt.com raise $70k to cover Net Neutrality full time.

I think your community is incredibly passionate and probably would cover what you need.

Email me (adrian@beaconreader.com if you're keen, we'd love to help (and give you a big discount on our cut).

cheers
Adrian
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Exactly. And those 314 people probably control the country anyway.
> robbing a 7-11 gets you shot and killed

I have absolutely no problem with people getting killed when they put lives in immediate danger (armed robbery) and not getting killed when they don't (most white collar crime.)

You point a gun at someone, you might get shot. And you should.
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I think the irony is that the ability to see a path from view->CTR->action has severely devalued online advertising even though the theory behind it is no different from other, less introspectable forms of advertising.

In other forms of advertising, the advertisor is forced to confront the fact that the connection between advertising and purchasing is not a direct process because they can't see it anyways. They can see that they advertise and somewhere down the line they can observe a general rise in sales or brand knowledge, but they can almost never tie that to even a campaign, let alone a particular impression.

So you have this market for advertising where the advertisers can point to abysmal CTRs and say "See? I shouldn't be paying this much for such terrible action!" while still reaping the benefits of less tangible brand recognition down the road. And thus is born a race to the bottom.
This is a really slick idea.

It'd be awesome if some ambitious individual would make this, but for Python. nudge nudge, wink wink.
You're overlooking my entire comment...
Certain circles but I don't install AdBlock because of the huge performance hit and because I've seen plenty of false bug reports caused by malfunctioning ad-blocking extensions.

It's much easier, not to mention safer, to uninstall Flash and stop visiting sites which don't respect their audience.
> Take the UVA rape case. This sort of thing happens often

By "this sort of thing" you mean the violent premeditated (large) gang rape of a sober, unwilling victim as part of an official fraternity event? No, that does NOT happen often. It seems unlikely that it has ever happened even once outside of fictional stories. Which is exactly what made the claim newsworthy.

Think about the situation described - it implies that 9 (nine!) young men with everything to lose conspired to commit a felony act that could ruin all of them if discovered and believed - an act easily traceable back to them - and then released the victim knowing that nobody would ever believe her word over theirs AND knowing none of them would ever spill the beans.

This is a movie-plot threat.

The story is only plausible if you start out with the assumption that frat members are ALL an oddly incorruptible strain of pure mustache-twirling cartoon evil AND you also assume that "rape culture" values completely guarantee the woman wouldn't be taken seriously.

Whereas relaxing either assumption in favor of ordinary common sense renders the UVA story absurd.

> even though it's not clear that it has been refuted, only that she recalled some of the details incorrectly

She recalled ALL of the details incorrectly. Essentially every claim that could be checked has not borne out.
Please send me your bitcoin wallet address so I can pay you for complaining about his complaining.
I'll be sad to see Dr. Dobbs go, as it's been there almost my entire career. Unfortunately, though, magazines (and their web versions) have become less and less relevant through the year.
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