skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Magnitude of crime is different. If somebody breaks into my car in San Francisco and steals a bag, I totally expect police to laugh at me if I ask if they plan to investigate it.

Except that I could provide a complete paper trail of where the money went (to a local scam artist) -- that's how the financial system works.

It would be analogous to providing and end-to-end video of a car being stolen to a previously unknown chop shop.

What the police actually did would be analogous to ignoring that video but then arresting a car thief on a GS executive's say-so.
Then Google should stop letting them use adsense, not delist them.

I looked up a number that recently called me: http://whocalled.us/lookup/2126621932

Not much info, but enough to know not to answer :-).
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One huge aspect of the problem is that the browser developers are in bed with the search engines. Whatever you type in the address bar, it will be redirected to Google or Bing.

I would almost go so far as to say browsers and search engines are killing the web. It's no longer a web.

People will tell you to not depend on the search engines. But what do you do now when you are blocked? Start advertising on AdWords? LOL!

My advice is to build a community. Get people involved with your site, make them return often.
I'll kick things off by linking to the comments from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769067.
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Chomsky, unfortunately, is not the most rigorous guy when it comes to empiricism. Look at how he interpreted the Khmer Rouge genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Choms...

He defended them saying that what we said about the Kh R was Western propaganda, etc. Years later, when the truth became undeniable, he defended his actions saying, but well, I couldn't very well know they were so bad and since I didn't have the data, I was still right. Yet, at the time, there we all kinds of information coming out from Kampuchea, all pointing to it being a disaster --even the Vietnamese were utterly alarmed.

So, you really have to be careful with him.
I do feel Americans are being brainwashed by Television. No, I don't have a DMS-5 classified disorder--discovered yet, but feel too much media is geared towards fueling the economic American machine. I'm not talking just commercials either.

I do see a few groups of people trying to do something different, but they get stomped upon quicker than when I was a kid(in the 70's).

Yes, I know the
Machine would breakdown if we didn't put so much into our
energy into conforming to society, but just the amount of conformity we currently have is troubling. I'm being vague
because I could go on for pages with examples. No, I don't
see quite the same level of conformity online, but that herd
mentality still seems to win? I've noticed even on HN there are some people who don't post honest alternative views like they used too? I'm not talking arguing just for the sake of arguing either, but I want to hear(within reason) the dissenters too. I can't because they get blurred out so quickly?

I am not a good writer, and having a hard time conveying what I am seeing. I just see people living lives they don't really want, or striving
for a life they think they want. Some doing Horrid things in order to get ahead, and when they do get ahead legally--they still do Horrid things in order to stay ahead.(I see this absolute greed in so many families during probate/Trust proceedings.
I see well off family members essentially putting brothers
and sisters on the streets--over money. I don't get it? They rationalize, and just because it's legal--They proceed?) And some are so distraught chasing the good life
they are brought to killing themselfs for something they think they want?

Again--I'm not a good writer, and lost focus, but just the level of conformity to get that perfect
mate, house, perfect health, and job seems like it might backfire? I think media plays a huge role in conforming society. Maybe
because Russian media is so obvious, it is having the opposite effect, while American media influence is so vague, we fall into their trap in the end? Yes, I know we have the
most money, but are we happy?
SO much easier reading it this way :D
The most useful refactoring of this is, "have non-sales conversations with actual intended customers, learn about how they see this problem including how they're currently dealing with it, which may or may not include existing tools."

At which point, we're talking about basic customer development interviews, which are way more useful than "google up a list of possible alternatives."
Unprofessional company, unprofessional contractor.
How are you qualifying the search?

I update my machine all the time with new versions...
It's not just payment. Google also considers an unnatural link profile as evidence of spammy actions.

This is perhaps reasonable in isolation and in most cases. But it certainly raises the possibility of negative SEO, where you point large numbers of spam links to a competitor's site in order to blacklist them with Google.

See this for example: http://moz.com/blog/a-startling-case-study-of-manual-penalti...

I run a site that has received a few tens of thousands of visitors. I checked webmaster tools. I have a bunch of spam links from btclush.com, marqueefy.com and some russian sites. I can't actually find the linking pages, btclush.com itself is blank and all content is on subdomains.

It's not clear to me what I, a small webmaster, should be doing about this. I'm hoping these sites send spam links to almost every site – in that case presumably google is aware that site owners are not at fault.

I don't have the time to contact spam sites to tell them not to link to me or to disavow all these links. Note that the composition of the spam links changes. The last time I checked different spam sites were linking to me.
Thank you I'm tired of this constant distorted view its really sad considering hackernews is built around intelligent conversations.
wow,, what bad code...and so many calls to external sources even if https presents huge exposure...
As a book review, it's a near-complete failure. You hear very little about what the book recounts about Russian propaganda, which is the main interest; instead we get fluff about his school chess club used his Sovietness to intimidate others. That may be a cute biographical detail fine for a book, but is a waste of limited space in a book review.
That's only 6 months. I don't know if I'd call an obvious research project like this "dead" after that time period. I think there's a difference between "dead" and "not exceptionally active". And I don't think that not being exceptionally active necessarily means anything for the quality of the software; people continue actively use a lot of software that hasn't seen a single patch in years.
Purescript[1] is also gaining some traction and even has a pretty nice looking book out. [2]

It has some changes however; most notably it's strictly evaluated rather than lazy, and there are differences in how it handles type variables. [3]

Personally though, I've grown more fond of F# than Haskell; I only wish the documentation for Websharper and Funscript was more solid.

[1] http://www.purescript.org/
[2] https://leanpub.com/purescript/read
[3] https://github.com/purescript/purescript/wiki/Differences-fr...
The project has nothing whatsoever to do with Ubuntu. It merely let's you build an own operating system based on a Linux kernel + Busybox. That is it. The kernel. And busybox. It's really cool. But it's not Ubuntu.
Have you tried Mono and Monodevelop? I have used C# with Mono and for back-end work (non-GUI) and it works pretty well so far. I think they have F# support as well.
Time to plug Kris' blog post about Haskell in the browser: http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/02/a-brief-and-partial-review-...

TLDR: he thinks elm's the most practical approach right now.
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I do not find the green of Italy indistinguishable from the blues. Maybe you should take a color-blind test (seriously, not being a jackass).
Do you, as a human, find the site to be uninteresting? It's very clear to me, and obviously useful.

If a number calls me, I can look it up. If anyone else has received calls, I may get information. I've used services like this to find out that certain numbers were spam, others were from my bank, etc.

It makes sense to have each number to be a page. How else would you design it?

This is of some concern to me as a small webmaster. I have a site with a few pages like this:

http://lsathacks.com/explanations/lsat-preptest-73/logical-r...

Only the test number, section number and question number change. And of course the text changes completely too, since each page explains a different question. But from headings, the page looks very similar to others.

To someone studying for the LSAT, that page is immensely meaningful, and they'll know the difference between 72 and 64 in the context of the LSAT.

Just like a human interested in phone number 123-456-7890 will know the difference between that number and 111-456-7890 even though the two numbers may look similar to a machine.
"I just read an interesting article on addictive behavior."

My take on this is that the OP is simplistically addicted to learning because it's easy and requires little effort and prolongs not having to actually do something.

Back in the day of buying books at Barnes and Noble, I found myself doing something similar where I would continue to buy books to learn but never took any action or put off taking action on doing because it was much more comfortable to justify the time spent learning as "being good for something". Even if learning just meant leafing though the books. Similar to a graduate student getting degrees to avoid real life (in some not all cases I mean) and the real world.

I broke the habit by deciding that I didn't need another book and I should spend the time actually using the knowledge that I had acquired. Not that these were all computer books (they weren't) but an example would be to actually sit down with that book on PHP or Mysql and actually start to do something (was a LAMP book iirc). I did that one day and built a tool that I could use that was really valuable. I forced myself to read from the start. Now I question each thing I think about learning in terms of the actual value and whether I should concentrate on things that I have already acquired knowledge wise.
(Note: no idea what mp3 encoder Audacity uses, and I'm sure the results will vary with encoder settings as well.)

I just fired up Audacity and generated a click track, with the first click at 1 second in. The exported 44.1k wav file, when loaded in Audacity, shows the click at exactly 44100 samples in.

The exported mp3 file, when loaded, shows the click to be around 46357 samples in. (It's a bit hard to measure, because the encoded has smeared the pulse.) Somewhere between 51-52 ms late relative to the wav file.

Listening to the wav and mp3 ticks summed, the delay is obvious--they are not in sync at all. Adding 2257 samples of silence to the front end of the wav file puts them back in audible sync.
If you can't hear it, was it ever information?
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I have a related question:

I've been a successful consultant, though that's tailed off the last 5 years.

A lot of what's in the other thread [1] rings very true. I'm massively torn in all directions, learn for the sake of learning and never have any ideas with whatI want to do with what I learn.

HOWEVER... the big difference, and one I have struggled with for years, but more so recently is... "why bother?" to do anything. Money no longer motivates. I don't believe in technological progress, I want the world to be different and can't accept it as it is. I want people to be nice to each other, in a utopian way that thinks I can make them happy and doesn't allow for their emotions.. I can't say the thought of anything in the world excites me.

I'm overwhelmed by the volume of information, but even more so by the volume of opinions. Take even a simple long-running one, what to believe religiously. I can hear one side, then the other, then another... and each in turn (usually) makes sense. There's not enough info to say one is right, but which is right?? Because each believes their point is right, and yet if I held a different position all would criticise me. I can't resolve that dichotomy.

Am I burned out like this chap talks about? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976685

Or is it something deeper like Borderline Personality Disorder?

I turned 30 this year, and spending my days wishing I knew what to do with meaning wasn't what I expected to do.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049208
Does anyone know the advantage of using two different pin outs on either side of the connector, instead of simply reversing one side?
I don't think creepy stuff is less creepy if you're not doing it for profit.
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That is the most beautiful javascript code I have ever seen.
I wonder if it's counterproductive to tell every programmer they should know an entire book about SSDs (or DRAM, cf. Drepper), especially when the later chapters tell you that you have no control over the stuff you learned in the earlier chapters due to the FTL and filesystem.
> About a third of the growth in income inequality since the 1970s can be attributed to the retreat from marriage, says Wilcox. One-third of the decline in men’s labor force participation over the same period can also be attributed to the decline. “We’d see median household incomes about 40% higher if we had marriage rates at the 1980 levels,

Or, we'd see marriage rates at 1980 levels if we had median household incomes 40% higher.
Actually this shows the opposite. The mainstream media is unwilling to engage in discussion with someone who is anti-immigration (unless that person is is an Israeli politician). Instead they do cheap tricks to humiliate the speaker without addressing their actual arguments.

The mainstream media, like all people, has the accusation of "racism" hanging over their heads so they are unable to speak freely on topics like immigration (see [0] for a deconstruction of the concept of racism). I know that the mainstream media in the UK, for example, publish some controversial materials on immigration and culture. But these are always from the perspective of "we're doing immigration wrong". All the mainstream right is allowed to say is that immigrants need to assimilate better. And they are only really allowed to say this about Muslims. They can't say it about Africans outside the context of Islam. And they can't say that assimilation is impossible, or that immigration is not worth the effort.

I don't believe that the Russian press in general is more free than the Western press, but the person you are referring to is correct in that the Russian press is able to say things about immigration that the Western press can't.

[0] http://beyondtheright.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-i-am-not-anti...
I think I proved my point here.
> What it usually boils down to on these projects is a spreadsheet written by an out-of-touch project manager who has to answer to a senior manager and pulls a timeframe out of thin air. A lot of planning and documenting goes into filling about 2/3 of this timeframe, and then the last 1/3 is spent killing yourself trying to finish a shitload of work in a short time frame to meet the original estimate

This is an accurate description of my last job using Agile practices. This was a shrinkwrapped product too. No customer demanding estimates, in the midst of fundamental architecture changes, and people still trying to slice-n-dice blue-sky new product development into sprints and user stories. The estimates were a joke and quality suffered because people rushed to get stuff done for the 3 week sprint deadline. All because some manager wanted it. Fucking stupid.
Elm is actually 3 things rolled into one:

1. an language very similar to Haskell

2. a set of runtime libraries

3. a technique for modeling a GUI as a declarative state machine

PureScript only competes with #1 and #2 here. Where Elm really shines is #3, which #2 helps with a lot.

Technically #3 could be done in any language. But it really helps to model it in such an expressive language with immutable data and no side-effects (except via Signals).
I benchmark Topaz alongside the implementation I work on, JRuby+Truffle, http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/deoptimizing/benchmar....

To see Topaz at its best, scroll down to Benchmarks and click Synthetic.
This is unrelated to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu has a minimal install - it's called the net install, it's a short iso, and it installs much less than a server install.
Is there a lighter side, one wonders?
> They are very difficult to troubleshoot. How do you manually turn on AUX heat to test if it's even working at all? As far as I can tell, you can't! The only way we were able to test it is to take the thing off the wall and manually short the wires together (and, of course, it worked fine).

I don't own a Nest thermostat myself, but was browsing their blog out of curiosity after reading this story, and it sounds like the latest software update includes a System Test mode:

https://nest.com/ca/blog/2014/11/04/whats-in-the-4-3-softwar...
Toolchains also matter and OPAM (the package manager) has gone from strength to strength since this post. It's the basis for the OCaml Platform which combines a number of useful tools and libs into a coherent workflow (making development much more productive).
Unless I'm mistaken, they didn't call people who download free software for free cheaters.
No units because its all about proportions. E.g. the bottom margin is "double" so it can accommodate page numbers and set the text body on the "horizon".
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I know plenty of sources who condemn Israel and the US. In the case of "Russia" as a villain, well, often the media doesn't really voice any opinion about who's bad or good, but 200 murdered journalists, no dissenting media, conquering foreign territory, tolerating extreme corruption etc just doesn't sound that well, but is supported by fact.
Thank you for letting me realize the reason I distrust most media outlets is because I've been brainwashed by Russian propaganda.
Not directly; iBoot outputs stuff to serial, but I don't think it accepts commands over it - or if it does, it would be the same locked-down interface you get over USB. (I should check which one.) However, serial over the old 30-pin connector has in the past assisted jailbreak-related software by making it easier to do low-level debugging.
If you know you are brainwashed, you obviously know the "truth". So how come you know the truth but believe the truth isn't told? You see my point?
The original Game Boy display was 160x144 pixels. The font's name implies that it's made of 8x16 pixel characters. So I'm guessing each glyph in it is used to represent a unique configuration of 2x4 Game Boy pixels because that'd mean an 80x36 character terminal, a fairly common terminal size, would fit perfectly. Since the Game Boy display only has 2-bit color depth (so, 4 colors), that means the font would need 4^8 (65,536) glyphs.
It's possibly the greatest outrage of our times.
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Did I just read 10 pages random guy bio? With one-liner about a question from the title.
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This whole article is rubbish by the way. This guy grew up in London, and here the article describes his TV experience:

> FOR a time, at least, Mr. Pomerantsev, now 37, seems also to have been at home in the raucous world of middlebrow Russian television, making films about gold-digging women (hunting men known as “Forbeses” — as in the Forbes list of the wealthy), ruthless gangsters and sinister cults.

From the sounds of it, he never even worked on news programs, just producing TV shows and movies. And this is someone the NY Times considers an 'expert' to 'uncover' the Russian propaganda machine?

While you want to talk propaganda, how about maybe bringing up the fact that this guy is a Brit. He lives in London, and his family moved away from the Soviet Union before it broke up. How about you talk about the fact he wrote a book, is obviously trying to drum up sales by virtue of the fact he's writing about propaganda while he was himself personally involved in low-brow TV shows.

Yet this makes it to the NY Times and front page of HN by virtue of? It's like getting a producer of real housewives of whatever to talk about US coverage of the Iraq war...

tl;dr - this guy produced shows about:

> making films about gold-digging women (hunting men known as “Forbeses” — as in the Forbes list of the wealthy), ruthless gangsters and sinister cults.

What does he know about propaganda... And HN is eating this up, talking about Russian propaganda like this article had something to say.
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Nice. I know of some people at the LinuxBBQ forums who should like this.
Sometimes all you need to do to create propaganda is just show some unpopular facts in isolation.

Sure, they're biased, but that doesn't mean they are always outright lying -- at least not more than American media.

The idea of a unbiased news is a pipedream. I'm fully aware that German public television was intentionally created in a way that would supposedly protect it from the government's influence, but that doesn't mean they succeeded.

The "Lügenpresse" chants are asinine, of course. It's not anyone's fault media isn't trustworthy, we were just wrong to think that it could ever be made to be unbiased, considering how biased the source material always is.

I think the only safe way to consume information is to keep its origin in mind. I distrust RT and CNN equally -- but if they both share the same details in a story, there's likely some truth to it.
I don't really believe Putin's approval ratings. In Russia there is no free press and private companies or academic institutes can be controlled at will by the executive branch. So if any institute or private company conducts a poll... well...
In my opinion, if someone is asking you for estimates on 1-2 hour tasks, that person should kindly remove him/herself from the software development industry.
First bullet point on the list of known issues:

* Most of the standard library is missing.

I don't think "high performance ruby" is very useful without the standard library, personally.
Plugging a book is hardly an issue comparable to for example 200 murdered journalists...
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I've spent a lot of time in Asturias myself, and the culture of sidra and the wonderful little bars (sidrerias) that serve it are treasures. If you are lucky enough to find yourself in the north of Spain, don't miss out!
What you mean by 'enable ssh in pf.conf'? What are you referring to?
There's a bunch of other nice features of OCaml such as named arguments, fast compile times, strictness, c-types, and reasonable records. To achieve (some of the feature in) Elm style "structural subtyping" records in OCaml you use the more verbose "object" keyword which is just a record with row polymorphism. Most choose to stick with standard records because they compile to more efficient code.

I think the ML module system (in OCaml and other languages) is very powerful because it allows you to abstract and operate not only on types but also on values simultaneously. F#, Haskell, and most others lack this but it would be great if they were to officially adopt it.
OCaml is also very easy to learn and I seriously recommend Real World OCaml - it's free online and excellent.
So software engineers write backend services in python and architect javascript code bases :). Good to know.
I hear tons of criticism from major media against both the US and German government, from both US and German media. You don't hear the kreml being criticized in Russian media though...