skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, the article seems to have inaccuracy: Alex has actually free-soloed University Wall: http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web14x/newswire-alex-honnold-uni...
The Value of Data, Part 3: Data Business Models
If you can't beat them, join them! Of course your comment was meant sarcastically, but I wonder if authors(of genuine books not the spammy ones) might turn to posting fake reviews and justify it by saying that they have no other choice.

We can see this happening in the case of SEO with many white hat sites employing black/gray hat techniques simply to maintain their current positions in Google.
Heh. The proxy at work blocks superfish.com as "Potentially Unwanted Software".
A discount on X is nice but if you can translate discounts into something more valuable that would be great - using services effectively to influence the outcome of your startup vs shaving likely $10s off the bill.

This list might be a nice starting point for problems you can solve with these services:

http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice-briefly
> I'd say it's more likely that this is a complex problem, and will take a bit of time and computing power to work through...

It is a complex problem - but amazon has a serious advantage over other sites that have to deal with such issues (i.e. Twitter) - in that they have significantly more information on each user. I don't think Amazon is short on computing power either.

Taking into account order and browsing history, product review trends, linguistic similarities in review posts etc. They should be able to get very low error rates in identification.

Further unlike something like twitter feeds, it's quite possibly to silently de-prioritize abusive reviewers and associated products. Really, I'm quite surprised at how bad of a job they are doing - most of these cases are so blatant and obvious they should not require an author and a live representative to resolve.
> Semi-related: does anyone know why installing gems is so ridiculously slow? What is the thing doing? Downloading tarballs, yes, but then? It's a dynamic language; there is no compilation or verification!

Source gems that include C extensions may well have compilation; there is also, IIRC, automatic doc generation in the usual, default gem installation.

> Why can I install Ruby packages using apt almost immediately, when gem/bundle install takes half a coffee break?

Because the apt packages are prebuilt for your OS and architecture, they don't need to resolve platform constraints, possibly build after download, and do doc generation after download.
Where do I report issues?
I live in Plymouth, UK.
Ringo: An Arduino-powered robot bug for kids
I think some tasks are more suitable to remote work, and some need high bandwidth face to face interaction.

At JotForm, we do core development in a co-located office. But we also have two remote teams: The maintenance team and widgets team. The maintenance guys will simply work on the next most imported bug or small feature. It does not matter where they are or What time they work. They work alone. Same for the widgets team. They just maintain or create new form widgets for our users and they also work individually. This work style works well for us.
It is sad that the link to the School House Rock segment "My Hero, Zero" appears to have been hijacked.

The last good capture was in Feb 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090214010119/http://school-hou...
The good news is that you don't need to read all the books, because many bogus reviews tend to be written by the same "customers". Simply seeing a correlation of bad books getting good reviews, would result in those "customers" losing their ranking power from their reviews.

What's bad (really bad) here, is that not only are the books that are being ranked highly absolute crap, but they are crap in different categories. I.E. A "book" on swift, that was apparently "written", in a few hours, shoved onto Amazon, falsely ranked up - now ranks ahead of a 700 page opus on Perl, in the Perl category.

That's a total fail on Amazon's part, and really, really disappointing.
Are you really suggesting the best solution is to make the reviews more broken and useless?
70-80k is a menial salary? What fantasy are you living in?
Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Fair enough. I still think that it's not that surprising. For example, nobody in the part of my ancestry that matters evolutionarily had to jump out of the way of a moving car, yet I am able to do this. Perhaps this analogy is too simplistic, but I think you see what I'm driving at.
Upvote rigging actually doesn't work, which is the case here.
Well the article is on the Tilt engineering blog (engineering.tilt.com), so I'd assume they do work for Tilt.
Alex knows how to climb like a top formula 1 driver knows how to drive.
I think if you receive feedback from a number of people, you'll get a pretty good consensus for what people like. This may help you create something better for when you go find your target audience.
For middlebrow comments, please see below:
In the thread below she quickly introduces herself as Lexi, which is not only a more feminine name, but also perhaps an allusion to a lex-er, as in lex and yacc?
You may want to use a more appropriate font.

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
They solicited him to buy a murder for hire. It's a crime when you do it. It's a crime when the cops do it. It's a crime when Richard Nixon does it.

The evidence of other crimes was collected as a result. Even if he was guilty beyond doubt, that's still poisoned fruit.
Same here. Blue Coat proxy? :)
Easy installer for ejabberd contributions
I'm not allowed to edit this anymore, so let me reply instead. To those downvoting I ask: do you think this comment wasn't serious? You think there aren't at least 47 senators who would filibuster a bill to, say, convert the US highway signs to metric because it's "unamerican"?
I think you over-estimate the average skill of non-Web devs, and over-estimate the attention paid to performance even by groups who probably know what they're doing.

One example, from Chrome: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromiu...
don't type `cd ~` just type `cd`
What crimes has Assange committed that are worse than what this Swedish prosecutor is accusing him of?
I think it has more to do with iPad Mini being differentiated from iPad Air as a entry level iOS device.
This is a romantic idea, but the obvious problem is that bad computer generated reviews are cheap and easy to produce, so there are naturally too many of them for the author to reply to individually.
Did you consider Summingbird? Seems like a lot of what you are doing might have been simplified by using Summingbird rather than building separate speed and batch layers in Hadoop / Spark.
Eurobank: Score: F! https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=eurobank.gr twitter:https://twitter.com/Eurobank_Group

This one is interesting, as it shows IIS 5.0 (Win2000 SChannel) affected by POODLE TLS.
To be fair, IE gave us non-beautiful, non-fast interactions for .... how long?
The Parents Who Give Their Children Bleach Enemas to 'Cure' Them of Autism
Can't say I disagree with you there. But America has a long tradition of people doing whatever it takes to get here - lying, twisting the rules, or hiding in container ships or swimming rivers in the dark of night. People take incredible risks to become Americans.

THOSE are the people I want in my country! Serious immigrants are generally more entrepreneurial and more courageous that citizens. If there's a root cause justification to American exceptionalism, its that we came from above average stock.
He's been kept in limbo at the direction of the US government. You don't mess with the bull and not get the horns. If you keep in mind that this is a man exposing some of the deepest darkest secrets of the most powerful governments in the world...is there nothing they would do to silence him? Rape seems like a good charge as any.
Niche sports will never be understandable to the public. Even mainstream sports aren't. The only thing the public knows is how to recognize patterns. The best you can hope for is getting a trickle of a few more people interested in the sport so they make the equipment a little less expensive over time.

Talk about amazing things people can do... do you know how many amazing athletes are in the street begging for change? Whether they be breakdancers or doing magical acrobatics. Practically homeless, amazing skills. People think the novelty of niche sports is interesting for about 45 seconds but don't give a shit about the details. I'm not even sure how anyone has ever been made to care about a sport. Seems impossible from where I stand. Maybe because beer and sitting on your ass daydreaming is the majority of being a spectator and people are happy to do that on the weekend without argument.
In this case there were a few things that made it glaringly obvious (to a human at least).

The bogus reviews had one or more of these aspects:

- bad reviews from reviewers with no other reviews

- mentions of the same competing book in my bad reviews

- 5 star ratings of that mentioned competing book (and no other reviews beyond those)

- 1-star reviews of another random book. This one was interesting, there was another book (Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies) that is entirely unrelated. But 2 of the reviewers also gave shitty reviews to that book as well as mine. There's no logical reason that the same people badmouthing my book would have also read, reviewed, and badmouthed that other book (totally different topic) within a few days. So they were clearly hired for a number of books at once.

So yeah, you'd think some of those patterns would be easy to automatically detect. Although I assume it's constantly a game of cat and mouse.
If I were you, I would ask Amazon directly. In my experience companies are willing to speak candidly about what they do and do not allow with regards to penetration testing on their platforms.

For example, DigitalOcean has given me explicit permission to use their VPS's for authorized penetration testing and security auditing for clients.

Amazon in particular has a policy that requires written permission when testing AWS for both peripheral and direct auditing. This means that even if you're attacking a company hosted on AWS, you need Amazon's permission (as well as that company's), not just if you're attacking Amazon's AWS infrastructure directly. Now, you could say this means you've given yourself permission for attacking the honeypot, but you still need Amazon's permission for attacking AWS hosting the honeypot.

I am not a lawyer, but I am a security engineer, and I'd say this is likely fine in this particular scenario. However, I urge you to contact them directly or find an explicitly written public policy on the matter. Hacker News is not a good place to find a definitive answer on this.
Google Code Shuts
No, that only happened once. He's talking about the "million bazillion times" they ignored standards in favor of proprietary APIs which resulted in much pain and suffering for both developers and consumers alike.
Just give them a week or two to rename their company and start peddling their malware-addled spyware/adware again.
And for our Windows developers? My team is mixed: half OSX, half Windows. Should we maintain two separate scripts for each step and have our (repeatable) build process platform-detect and run the correct script?
Angularjs directive for Ladda button
Do you have so many visitors that this mail is insignificant? or are there that many people who are both clueless and angry enough to look for an email in the footer?

It amazes me that an unintentional "contact us" would convert even 0.1% of visitors whereas regular sales sometimes struggles to get 1%.
Great idea.
my 2 cents:

1 - you HAVE to say something on whether this is a bot or a human. when I was single I would have happily paid for unbiased professional advice from a real person of the opposite sex on what to say / behave in a date. Once married, I think the notion of my wife finding me texting a woman named Alexis is going to have the opposite effect ;)

2 - no validation on the form. I just pressed the button and saw a yellow banner saying "Finding Alexis...". It still does that. (no timeout handling either)

3 - no about, no FAQ, no address, no phone number, no company name, no support email. I'm not going to give you my phone number, sorry

Again, this is a great idea, but a little too Minimal to be a Viable Product in my humble opinion... (fast forward 3 months, this is a YC company with a valuation of 1 billion and I look like an idiot... but I think the above 3 will help it get there sooner...)

EDIT: favicon - this is silly, but everyone has it...
Maybe I skimmed the article a bit fast, but I saw no mention of desalination plants, which are the obvious solution (though expensive and as far as I'm aware not implemented yet).
Also a good tutorial for getting a good feel what good Haskell code looks like and how to lay out an application is the howistart tutorial[0].

0: http://howistart.org/posts/haskell/1
Imagine the diplomatic row if UK jackboots stormed the Ecuadorian embassy. The embassy is as safe as any other place right now.
OpenDNS blocks it.
Most times I never even got a reply... looks like I have to continue with reverse engineering :(

By the way if you want you can still play it on Win7 x64 (!), although without joystick support so you will need a numpad for controlling your herc. I haven't found out yet why exactly it is broken but I guess that "something" deep deep in the engine can't parse what Windows API returns to it...

And if you've lost your disc, I put up some ISOs onto a google docs site that you'll easily find with google ;)
IIRC in Kings Quest III (or, the one where you start in a shack at the top of a mountain) I got down the mountain (after falling to my death a hundred times) and across some body of water only to discover I had missed picking something up in the shack that was required to continue. Of course there was no way to go back...

Those games were brutal.
A historical view: http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_1_california-drought.htm...
Been waiting for the Android love for some time... FINALLY!
AngelList is for discovering deals, Streamline.VC is for closing them
It's not going to be easy to build few of them in less than a year.
A friend went through the Swedish banks and ranked them (post in Swedish https://friendlybit.com/security/hur-sakra-ar-svenska-banker... and Google translate https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... )

The response he got was the banks starting fixed their problems. He had one group of banks that he classified as you should stay away from. All those banks fixed things so they are not longer in that category
This is how they rolled out the Kindle SDK. That app platform was a flop, but I'm sure there were a number of contributing factors.
I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn't that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn't run on Mac OS or GNU/Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at least of people who would use features like this) doing so on other platforms. Until IE is cross-platform, many developers will continue to ignore it because they have no reasonable way of using it and getting to know it.
No lowpass filter though :(
(not that I expected one.)
This is flat out wrong.

Gathered feedback is only useful if you get a large amount of feedback and, most importantly, if you get diverse feedback from people with different backgrounds, experiences, and opinions (I.e from people who likely would not use such a service.), otherwise you get the echo chamber as mentioned above. Therein lies the paradox.
> I'm trying to change (oh so slightly) the system.

Right On...
Every now and then, you hear of startups promising platforms that will be the Match DotCom for recruiting. I've yet to actually see one. The deciding human element in hiring is difficult at best.
No, that that bank on the other side of the world is likely insured by a company in the US. The global financial system is intricately linked, and the bankers and insurance companies effectively run the global economy. Given that, do you think it's really a huge stretch to think that three letter agencies from the US - the ones with documented capabilities to de-anonymize your VPNs if your OpSec is even a little sloppy - might get involved? Jurisdiction wouldn't be an issue if the bank asked them for help.

There are many ways to ensure security: one is technical, and another is investigative. The amount of resources a bank can bring to bear on you if you steal money from them is immense - IMO it's just best not to mess with that shit. It may have been true at one time that you could outsmart the banks and get away with it, but there are just too many smart people watching anymore.
In practice, the ΔV differences are actually way smaller than that chart suggests. Those figures are for direct transfers (per the legend). But if you allow indirect trajectories with gravity assists [0], that makes things drastically cheaper. To intercept Jupiter, you can steal much of the needed ΔV from flybys of the inner planets (at the tradeoff of time, waiting to go around the sun multiple times). And maneuvering within Jupiter's gravity well can be practically free, by flybys of the Galilean moons. The map tells you 8,890 m/s to intercept Europa, which would be horrifying, but none of that actually needs to be propulsion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist
Let's be crystal-clear: All of these fail PCI compliance, because they have RC4 enabled. These sites have no business processing anything, let alone personal or financial info.

Yes, having RC4 enabled is now an instant PCI compliance fail as it has a die-die-die RFC and as a result NIST changed it, on request, to a CVE grade above a 4.0 - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7465 - https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-25... - web browsers have already started turning it off.
It's nothing new. Scrolling behavior logic has been in CSS since forever with all of the different overflow properties.
Very true. I have difficulties in training new recruits with UNIX. For some reason, beginners have developed an aversion to UNIX/shell scripting. I myself have started more and more of Ruby/AWK/Python, but it is always SHELL that blows me off with the sort of impact it has on the daily work.

I ended up highly optimizing my work environment to replace long ssh connections with `conn prod` (will use my RSA key and connect). File tranfers with `go get prod filename` or `go send prod filename`. Another script that can remember directory paths (I have to go over lot of them every day, and typing long lengthy ones does not help).

To me, UNIX shell scripting is a lazy men's most effective tool, only if you know how to use that rightly.

Loved the post. And thanks much.
Yea, more important is the RC4 at the top of the list with nbg.gr.
So what happens when they run out of water? Are there water sources that are just undrinkable that can be cleaned up; similar to fracking now being cheap enough to compete with OPEC is there no water or just no drinkable water? Can they just "ship" or "pipe" the water in from neighboring states or are they too on the edge of a draught. Is this country-wide, just Western states, or just California and can other states give up water without risking throwing them into a draught?

I know that's a bunch of questions but this article seems to raise more questions than it answers, at least for me.
You're entitled to that opinion, but it was intended in good fun.
It's kind of ironic that this article praises IE, yet the article itself doesn't display properly in IE. The main article content is covered by the current projects. Works fine in Chrome though.
And yet another problem with this is that on computer systems root is the god - it is very hard to prove honesty in the system. Maybe with crypto we'll have some methods here - I am all for experimenting with this - but it is important to remember that it is very different from physical systems and that many things that we take for granted will not work there.
DHH Switches to PHP
> The industry shapes the culture, but worse, the law and the market.

Any society that wants to remain sane and viable over the long term needs powerful feedback loops to counteract this effect.
That certainly explains why the standardization process went nowhere. Ie. It was a UI feature largely specific to a single platform's native UI paradigm, and at that a platform with a minor marketshare.

Regardless, this is a great example of how innovation should happen. That is browser vendors try out new things, and those experiments that succeed become standardized. In this case it sounds like this experiment is a step forward, but not quite reusable enough to support standardization across platforms.
It looks like there are proposals, but who knows how serious that is:

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-large...
California's power grid is already stressed. Desalination takes a lot of power, so any new plants will probably have to install new power generation as well.
The critical point here is that British law has nothing to do with it. British police is co-operating only because of international treaties and obligations (europol etc) on handling fugitives from other countries. The effort intensity is suspect and likely politically motivated, but it's quite clear that Assange did not break any British law.
It's amazing what you can do when you've run out of water... But you are right, it would/will be a massive undertaking. I wonder if desalination will become water's "fracking", something we only turn to due to high price of what we used before or unavailability of what we used before.
My understanding is that under most scenarios water for humans is fine, but agriculture will be totally dead in California.
Timing, team and traction: Startups
I stopped eating all sugar for 3 years (all carbs actually).

My dentist loved me. My dental visits consisted of me walking in, getting briefly looked at, the dental hygienist doing a quick go over my teeth, complementing me on how clean they are, and sending me on my way.

When I want back to eating sugar, my dental visits suddenly got a lot longer. The cleaning of plaque alone is now at least twice as long.
A lot of water in California goes to farming. They'll have to close farms, which will drive up prices of produce.
> But in a way , cheaper is always better. Nutritious food is also cheap, relatively, unless the "nutritiousness" of it is also a price differentiator.

Well, to get things into perspective, one needs to consider a few things.

We start from the fact that there is a disproportionate amount of people living on food stamps, which will be effectively forced to buy junk food.

Then we factor in that junk food is harmful (not just unhealthy or less nutritious).

Finally, we correlate with a huge amount of people having disease which are linked to unhealthy lifestyles, primarily food-related (60% obese people is the very general guideline given).

I see a very strong thread here.

Food is not just calories, it's a complex mix of things - the way the industry is working, in a way, it's giving cheaper food by stripping that mix of things; this doesn't match the idea of "making food cheaper" in a generic way.

(Note that I'm strongly identifying junk food with processed food in the logic).
Ask HN: What tools do you use for development?
Hi HN. What tools do you use for development? It doesn't matter what Operating System, nor the language. I am specifically looking for some interesting tools related to C/C++/Java that could make my life easier, but I suppose anything is welcome since perhaps some others will find them useful (i.e web development related tools, etc).
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/110630skeletonargument-13012...

Allegedly SW was re-interviewed and confirmed that she was half-asleep.

Page 54 of the document you cite also says that she was "half-asleep".