skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw your previous post and could not find egregious blackhat SEO stuff. The backlink profile was not too healthy though, with around 250 domains responsible for over 7000 backlinks. You said you got a spam warning on Google Webmaster Tools: These penalties are hardly ever permanent.

> As usual, if you make a public scene, a large corporation will often notice, and look closer at that individual's issue. I think that's what happened in this case.

> I made 8 reconsideration requests .. all of them were denied.

Probably because you did not show a good will effort to clean up your act. At least you do not tell us what were the contents of these reconsideration requests. For all we know it was: "Reconsider me!"

From your previous post I gather that you were heavily annoyed with the unnatural links actions and warnings. Instead of cleaning up your act for Google you focused on a suggested unnatural link to claim it was all BS.

> As usual, if you make a public scene, a large corporation will often notice, and look closer at that individual's issue. I think that's what happened in this case.

I do think that the people at Google notice a prominent post on HackerNews. But I do not think that they manually removed a spam penalty to avoid bad publicity. If anything: allowing spammy sites in the index without even a slap on the wrist is not good for publicity at all (and very visible to the users). I think the pre-set penalty period was over, or a recrawl found a cleaner site.

> But this experience showed me that Google has more power over my website than I do.

Google has more power over their search engine index than you do. You are free to do whatever you want to do with your website.

I do have a question: The DuckDuckGo widget you had on your site (now changed to a general link), was that an official widget? Did money exchange hands for placing such a widget/link on every page of your site? I am wondering why a site-wide link to a commercial page is not 'nofollow'-ed, and if that may have brought you unwanted quality guidelines attention.
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What Parents Tell Their Kids When They Plan to Die on Mars
Bohm theory is not well regarded by most of physicists, as it is a desperate try to use some intuitions from classic word. It helps with understanding double slit the same way as "God created it" helps with understanding universe - makes one calm and content. You may argue that Bohm theory works... but well, once you get other systems, you run into nasty complications and loose symmetries.
Not OP, but I assume because they named it "Female only" they were intentionally trying to exclude transgendered people. "Women only" could have included both born-woman and transitioned-woman, but "female only" is only born-woman.

Wouldn't surprise me if that was the case, there is a lot of overt prejudice against born males who transitioned to a woman from both men and women (women think they're men trying to steal woman's spotlight, for example).

However the fact that the OP has been heavily downvoted for bringing up this issue, says a lot about how HN feels about transgender issues.
I think it's the argument for the hidden variable 'issue', mostly. It may be 'clear' but it's also philosophical at the same time.
Stupidest benchmark ever. Tests nothing but procedure call speed.
Git reset behavior
Videos have been successfully reconstructed from fMRI of people's brains. This will certainly improve as fMRIs improve and more advanced machine learning is used to decode the data.

There is also fNIR which can potentially do the same job if I understand correctly.
Ok, so I'll be the one to say it. It seems to me that no one who's commented here served in the military. The threats that were given to this women are horrific, yes, she didn't deserve any of them. That being said, she should have never taken that picture, regardless of what excuse she had for taking it. And that being said, she should have known better than to post on social media. And that being said, she should have known about privacy settings. This is equivalent to walking around shouting racist terms on the streets and hiding behind free speech after someone attacks you. She didn't ask for any of the threats she received, but she also had exceptionally poor judgement.
If I wasn't clear, my question was the opposite, not is there still demand to run 32-bit software, but is there demand for new 32-bit software from people who can't run 64-bit.

I've assumed anybody with a almost 10 year old computer doesn't get that much new software. I tend to release supporting the last 2 or 3 OS releases and 64-bit only and haven't received any complaints.
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Female only is not transphobic and is not excluding transwomen.

Op is downvoted not because they have correctly identified transphobia and HN is full of bigots (although it is) but because OP has leapt to an unsupported assumption. There is nothing transphobic about the submitted link.

Edit: also, as far as I can tell op only got one or two downvotes, and so if they are being heavily downvoted they're also being up voted too.
"don't have hard data, but my intuition..." and everything beyond this sentence is just blabla.

the author has a well laid out case, researched and backed. you come in with feelings.
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Still though, Lua kicks JS' ass ..
> Cheers for the long and thoughtful reply :-)

I just want to help myself and everyone to have the right information so we can all make the best decisions for ourselves ;)

I get the feeling and I've had it before as well, mostly due to cabal hell. I've found it to be the biggest culprit of making the entire language buggy, but now that I'm using nixos for example I don't feel it anymore.

I can't expect everyone that wants to use haskell to switch to using a different package manager I guess, but I also hear that Halcyon and Haskell LTS (from stackage) solve this problem.

As for the future, I believe this will be the solution until other (partial?) solutions in the works such as backpack (ML like module system) are finished.
Thanks for the comments. When I get stuck i look up stackoverflow and various other forums for help and may or may not find the answer to the problem. However I feel like they're bandaid solutions and i can follow instructions to make things work but don't understand why the errors occur. Also what can prevent such errors in the future and how can i feel confident as a coder.
I believe the Born Rule[1] may address some of these concerns.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_rule
Because the brain contains extremely useful representations that are difficult to learn from scratch. Data from brain imaging has been used to improve natural language processing algorithms.
> Female only is not transphobic and is not excluding transwomen.

Someone is born male or female, they decide to be a man or woman. It isn't overt but the implication is clear, they want specifically people born female to attend.

Otherwise it is a very strange word choice.

> There is nothing transphobic about the submitted link.

The link? No. The event itself? Maybe.
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The author linked to the site something like 37 times in the article. It made me not want to click through, thinking the article was just a shill blog post. Your short comment reinforces this.

Why exactly do you think Frida looks interesting?
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Sure, that comes from a molten core IIRC.
J2ME got some bad naming due to the firware problems that OEMs brought to the platform, but Android is becoming worse than it.
I don't feel competent to contribute here essentially to the discussion, but one thing I noticed in the past is, that people often create consulting companies as "placeholder" spots. Meaning they are good at creating "real" businesses and when there is no high profile project for them to work on, consulting is a way that makes them feel busy. Not sure if the CEO is that kind of a person, but I would consider that option especially because of the "serial entrepreneur" background.
Not true. A reference counted program is deterministic, it is known in advance for a given set of inputs exactly when deallocation will occur.

Also, its not really fair to sweep "hard timing constraints" under the rug as a minority use case when these are essential for smooth modern GUIs.

Sure, GC is pretty much ideal in terms of absolving developers of resource management responsibilities, but it comes with some significant downsides which can easily effect the final product and should be understated. Rust is a great example of a new language which avoids GC for this reason.
As long as it’s automated and is sent immediately, sure, that’s perfectly fine.
You can reject Bohmians as being emotionally attached to their ideas, but you can also reject non-Bohmians for the same reason. Many (most?) who grasp quantum mechanics on any level feel they've climbed an important intellectual mountain and don't want to find out they discarded their intuition for no good reason.
To be fair, "a temporary ban expired automatically" seems equally plausible...
I feel there should be a different word available for a REPL that you can call out into from your own code, where the REPL has access to the lexical scope at the point of the call. Like binding.pry in Ruby, or 'debugger' in Javascript.

A REPL that doesn't let me break out with current lexical scope only gives me 10% of what I use a REPL for. Without that feature, they're of limited use; more suited to playing with a language than productively writing and debugging code.
The important truths are all very very simple.

"He who works for the fruits of his labor is a miser."
~Krishna, in The Gita
Depends on your OS. In Windows you can use your certificate manager (already installed).
A couple of us movie buffs got together to build this app ahead of the event this Sunday. Appreciate your suggestions/feedback!
Wow, nicely explained. Thanks for your time. :)
Presentation, or source code? They are two different things.
These academics are awful!

Before doing an experiment that involves a third party, normal ethical standards are to get consent, which they clearly did not do. It sounds like the Uni of Cologne forced them into taking down the spambot - probably for a number of reasons, including but not limited to: possibility of civil action being undertaken against the University (you might want to look up the Tort of Passing Off to start with, then perhaps defamation), the terrible publicity this was getting (largely caused by the smugness of the three academics, especially Dan O'Mara who contradicted himself a number of times and appears to have taken the position that their actions were the fault of Jon Ronson) and the unethical way the project was being conducted.

There are conflicting views of the @jon_ronson bot in the Guardian article - a few people are saying it was created as a parody account to satirise Jon, yet it was being done by an automated bot that apparently had algorithms that took information (fairly badly) from Wikipedia. That's not satire, and it's not parody - and besides, the bot for some reason got confused quite often and there were clearly a number of unrepresentative comments made about Jon. I'd be very interested in seeing the code though - if this was for academic interest, then the academics should publish these algorithms for review because they appear to be faulty.

It's remarkable that one of the academics wrote a response on The Guardian stating that they were trying to show the world the tyranny of how we are all being manipulated by the power of algorithms. Which they have done by targeting Jon Ronson to manipulate him to prove their point. That would be credible had their experiment been conducted in a more open, transparent and ethical way - and involved consent!

It appears though that you are related to the academics - what exactly is your relationship to them?
An excellent book that addresses this topic is The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene. You likely already knew it but consider this a reminder to actually read it if you haven't! It was bitrotting on my Kindle for long but once I started reading, it has got me hooked!
C++ RC requires good behavior from whole developers in the team and third party libraries.

It is hard to get right with existing code bases.

Additionally C++11 got a GC API, but requires explicit programmer control.

http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#gc-abi

C++'s memory model is tainted by C's compatibility, as such it is quite limited in the GC algorithms that can be implemented.
I agree about software RAID – I use it exclusively myself. Also, nice to know that an array can be recovered, even though it would seem to be a reasonable thing to assume, it is good to know that it is possible.

But my point was that:

1. You still have some lost data.

2. An RAID5 array which breaks in this way must be manually rebuilt, possibly from a rescue boot media. Your server will no longer even boot up by itself.
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How do you find this in practice? I mention this in the 3rd footnote of the post, but didn't have much to say about it because I haven't used it myself. The one person I've talked about this says it's rather awkward right now because Swift doesn't provide great tools for working with these objects.
Surprised by the fact that India buys and keeps it. And looks like China buys and give to all the Indian border countries. *Indian here
You are creating a drama where there is none. People identify as male or female, and that might be different to how they were born.

Ask a trans-person if they identify as male or female and they will usually tell you what they identify as now.

They choice of "female" is possibly for the aliteration with "founder". There's nothing strange about that word choice.
You cannot know how much the deallocation impact will be, if a big datastructure is getting its count to 0.
The whole time I was reading this was "selection bias".

> The easiest planets to find are those that orbit close to their stars.

> Tides drive the planet’s obliquity to zero, meaning that the planet’s equator is perfectly aligned with its orbit. The planet will also be “tidally locked”

Seems likely that the first planets we'll find life on are the planets that are easy to find.
I thought TDD seemed like a waste until I wanted to really figure out Rails and went through mhartl's Rails tutorial. By the end of the book, I realized that TDD had automated all the silly manual tests I did, and actually saved me time. I was kind of shocked, though thats what I get for thinking I actually knew an answer...:)
Detroit 'yarn-bombed' with knit hats and scarves
She has a different sense of humor. To compare that to racism is absolutely ridiculous. Racism has negative intention. The picture and her sense of humor don't. The only reason it was poor judgement is that she didn't account for the politically correct idiots of this world making a big deal out of it. The rest of your points about not posting to social media are quite valid.
programming is like handicraft.
design (web/ux/ui) is like a painting.

software is like a t-shirt or a vase with a nice picture.
It is their responsibility -- their responsibility to their shareholders. However, unlike an unsecured line like a credit card, the claim on the property that a mortgage entails, makes the more likely to be repaid even in the event of a default.

In the industry, the terms 'subprime' was often used interchangeably with 'home equity'. 'Home equity' was used not in the sense of the consumer borrowing 'Home Equity Lone of Credit', but rather that the basis of the loan was not the borrowers ability to pay, but rather the value of the home.

This made sense in an environment of rising home prices. No one defaults when they can just sell to get out of the loan. That was the realistic basis for the loan being repaid. (However in an environment of stagnant prices it fell apart.)
What about the icy eyeballs, where the substellar point is the center of a large ocean?
> For simple thermodynamic reasons

Thermodynamic?
> You realize that anything the real BofA site adds to increase security can be removed by the proxy?

This is true for targeted attacks only. A second JS layer doing crypto can at least prevent firesheep-class untargeted mass snooping of auth data.
Reference counting does not provide any guarantees when objects get deallocated on its own either, any removed reference may make the counter zero and trigger a deallocation. It may of course be worse with a full blown garbage collector building up a huge pile of unused objects and then cleaning them up all at once. But that is not a necessary limitation, there are already garbage collectors performing the entire work in parallel with the normal application execution.
I did not give Kiosk a lot of thought (it is not my use-case), but Lollipop's Screen Pinning feature looks like a good fit to me.
Two types of ignorance
I would say yes, software can be art. Just from a general point of view, video games are a subset of 'software', and I would consider them art.

But if you decide to ignore games, as you mentioned things like google maps can evoke awe and beauty. I would call that art.

as for examples, I find compilers to be beautiful. I love the way a well designed grammar comes together and the way that we can read a conforming program and turn it into a new program.
Yeah. That's the premise of the article. Given the kind of planet that's easy to find, what sort of conditions might support life?
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I had a classmate in 1969 who told me that his father's career was repairing old typewriters. He was Egyptian, had developed this skill post-WW2, and there we were in the late 1960s. We lived in a middle class/upper middle class area -- the "poor" part of Beverly Hills -- so I guess he did well.
I haven't tested it yet but I like to be able to inject into running native apps and control them, debug them, etc.

On MacOSX, there is the SIMBL project which enables such a plugin architecture for any OSX apps. E.g. you can get extra features like window-always-on-top, window-transparency, etc. And you can automate / script some apps which would not be scriptable otherwise or to such extend. Or you could add specific features to applications. E.g. Dropbox on MacOSX uses a technic like this to display some state-icon of its Dropbox directory in Finder.

Some links to SIMBL:
https://github.com/norio-nomura/EasySIMBL https://code.google.com/p/simbl/wiki/SIMBLPlugins

SIMBL would inject other native code into to some app. In most cases you would inject other ObjC code.

I like the idea to dynamically script or mess around with an app. For that reason, I used SIMBL to inject Python + iTerm + PyObjC. That way, you can interactively interact with any app with Python. https://github.com/albertz/Pyjector

A similar project is this: https://github.com/albertz/FScriptAnywhereSIMBL

And this Frida looks like a similar more modern project with JavaScript and support for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
Of course you can know that, because you know the type of every object. If you're deallocating a big data structure, then the impact will be big. Its easy to choose not to deallocate such objects at an inconvinient time by holding references to them. Compare this with GC where the collection can occur at any time after deallocation, e.g. during an animation.
You start with a test (that fails).
>Or why do we have this separation?

Because it's easier to be a big fish in a small pond.
"I suspect that a lawsuit-happy society is a good part of it."

In this particular case and specifically with respect to google (and their resources and profitability and for lack of a better way to put it "power") as well as how difficult it would be for those who are wronged to bring a lawsuit (and prove damages) I somehow strongly doubt that has anything to do with it.

The only thing that I think that google would fear is regulatory action (if even possible) or perhaps (once again if possible) a class action lawsuit.
this is nowhere near the repeat of the Dot Com Bubble. It's WAY BIGGER, but played with VC money instead of public money. We've got several startups valued at over $10 Billion each. Back in dot com bubble, a billion dollar startup was a huge deal. These days a startup raises $50 million and no one blinks an eye.
As I said: I am on the fence on the issue.

I am on the fence because doctors wrote me off for dead and had no goal at all of actually getting me well. They were content to watch me slowly die and blame my genetic disorder (in other words, conveniently wash their hands of all responsibility). The people who were actually helping me were extremely strongly anti-vax, and it wasn't an "ideology." They were actively involved in treating people with serious issues whom they believed had been harmed by vaccines (as just one of the underlying causes of the problems these people had). Some of them had impressive credentials, like PhDs. One was a former RN who had studied multiple alternative medicine modalities to keep her children alive, children who were anaphylactic to antibiotics. These were not "crazies" nor were they ideologues. They were people who were helping me save my life after doctors wrote me off for dead and found me annoying for not wanting to politely die so that they could feel like they knew everything.

These people who were so strongly anti-vax were people who earned my deepest respect. I never studied the issue and never came to a particular conclusion about vaccines generally. But these people who earned my respect and saved my life planted the seeds of doubt. Furthermore, the people who claim to have science on their side and claim that vaccines are absolutely proven beyond a shadow of a doubt are generally not behaving rationally nor respectfully when they drag my name through the mud for expressing doubt. They generally aren't behaving in a manner that earns my respect and paints them as truly logical and informed. They are the ones that come across to me as ideologues with closed minds, much more so than the intelligent, knowledgeable people who caused me to decide to skip my flu shot and see if that made any difference.
For .Net developers I can recommend the combination of local dev machine continuous testing using NCrunch, manual runs using the unit test runner in Resharper and then the NUnit test runner in TeamCity.

TeamCity is a gatekeeper. Builds that fail unit testing don't get automatically deployed. Locally NCrunch keeps you updated on what is broken without you having to think about running your tests, since it runs them in the background for you. Resharper unit test runner helps you run and debug specific tests or groups of tests.

I work on a large application with many other developers and this flow works well for us.
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But the text that I quoted has absolutely no hint of that.

It's ridiculous advice, unless you just enjoy paying your taxes twice. Start with a cheap, simple LLC, then sell the business to a newly-formed sub-S or -C corp when you need to seek outside funding.
People died to preserve her democratic right to freedom of speech - and that freedom totally includes the right to make bad jokes.
The other thing about "bad" ideas is this:

1) The public, reading about the idea doesn't know the full idea or the future plans.

2) The bad idea can allow a pivot into a good idea, once you have money and resources.

3) Impossible to predict the future and what will happen. Twitter is a good example of this (celebrity mention, mainstream media mention, civil uprisings, etc.)