skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are the least sophisticated spam networks, based on what we've seen. Following each other and properly retweeting makes it easy to plot the network and relationship within.

The bigger (and more effective) ones designed around a few rules, we found:

- accounts they "follow" are often a diversion, they are usually selected at random

- who they truly "follow" (i.e. actively listen to) is defined outside of Twitter

- they don't do "retweets" correctly, because that would also make connections visible; instead, they post messages fed to them externally as their own original tweets

- IFTTT plays a big role in simplifying automation while keeping the true relationships "invisible" to Twitter and people using Twitter APIs
At least, Android Wear could do the same that Pebble does, isn't?
I'm not totally convinced by that – it's really easy to see that there could well be long-term positives. For example, what proportion of people who travel for work end up returning to their home country, bringing back skills which are beneficial domestically?

I think we'd need to see some studies on that to draw any real conclusions, but your reaction seems too negative.
I know what you mean. I once wanted to play as a pansexual elf/dwarf voyeurist who lives in a tree trunk together with minotaurs. Unfortunately my action-rpg only had two preset characters that were close to that, so I had to settle for a pansexual narcoleptic elf with a fondness for bull-riding.
They are mostly design experts not a front-end stuff
I mean, I know about the mod operator because I did Projrct Euler problems in middle school, but if I hadn't, nothing I've done since would have made me learn it. The extent of the math I've had to do was tracking send buffers in C, which was just addition and less than/equal to.
Relevant: http://ldln.co/#howitworks
The Pirate Box[1] firmware is the perfect thing for this. The problem is finding power to keep the box running, but with wifi, you can hide the box somewhere out of site.

I have always thought it would be cool to set up a piratebox somewhere running from a solar panel. Then in daylight hours the dead drop would be there, but it would be gone at night.

[1]: http://piratebox.cc/
Long time top selling iOS app vanished from the App Store. Were we pulled?
Our app, disappeared from the app store rankings. We've been a top 10 News category app (US apple app store) for the past 5 years. Last night the app vanished from the App Store rankings.

I called iTunes Connect support. They said that nothing appeared to be wrong with the app. No flags were present. They said this is normal app store ranking algorithm behavior. (normal to go from top 10 to not in the top 1000 over the course of one day?)

I am trying to determine if we have been pulled from the store. The app still appears when it is searched for.

We have no communication from Apple regarding why our app may have been chosen out to be removed from rankings.

Anyone out there with similar experiences or advice?

Anyone out there ever had their iOS app pulled?

Thank you!
Matt
Is BadUSB possible with any USB stick? ( Or is this only a risk if a modified USB stick was installed in the first place?)
Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary
Screwed up and flawed HOW? If it wasn't for a job that provided me a work visa to work in the US and then France, I would have never left my home country for better opportunities. Are you even an immigrant to be talking so negatively about this? Sure, I'd like a job tied to no VISA, but sadly that's not how the system is setup.
It's small, uncomfortable, and expensive, as well as having poor mpg on gas. In about any calculation, a Corolla is a better deal.

The Leaf, on the other hand, is selling gobs of them for a good reason.
Follow the money: the donors network
I think Michael Pollan summed it up best: eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
They're also talking about processed and refined sugars, not naturally occurring sugars.
Into fat, glucose, glycogen and other carbohydrates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructolysis
This looks really cool. Although I don't know any of the games you have on there so far, I'd definitely consider this for games that I do love.
First ‪acquisition‬ for Uber
Give me a break. She's been raped, bribed, assaulted, abused... the list goes on. Could it be any more dramatic? I see a movie in this. Perhaps someone is writing a script?

More fiction:

"I have spoken at a professional conference and had about two dozen drunk fully grown men shout-chant at me to take my shirt off."

If you can't recognise that as BS, I can't help you.

I'm not denying sexism exists in the world, but we shouldn't deny that some people do have a tendency to fill in the blanks of an otherwise uninteresting but personal incident in their lives to give it more attention.

She needs support and help, and probably not the wrath of comments like mine. But as "someone on the internet" I have no reason other than to call it as I see it.

The other possibility is she suffers from schizophrenia and actually believed two dozen men were chanting at a professional conference for her to take her top off. Most conferences are recorded... let's see or hear the tape. Show me the evidence of this event and I'll donate $500 to the charity of your choice.

She wrote this for international women's day. But it's not about women, it's about her, and it's fiction.

My advice to her would be to stick with robotics, games and the other interesting things she does, and report incidents as they happen to the relevant authorities. MOST MEN in tech are decent human beings, and I for one am not going to sit here and take an article meant for international women's day turned personal vendetta aimed at an entire industry and the men within. With lines such as "fundamentally change the balance of power between genders", and "sexism in tech is out of control"... she has a hidden agenda, and I'm not on board. Good luck to her anyway!
The more followers you have, the greater your social status.
There's an Android version in case you have old smartphones lying around. They're more powerful than the OpenWRT routers and they do have their own power. You need to root your phone first though.

http://piratebox.cc/android
Would be great if you aggregated job postings with H1Bs or similar from HNhiring. GREAT PROJECT though!
Translating MDN into French
Wow. On the one hand that's pretty tough, but on the other it's presumably a semi-useful way to curb air pollution & traffic. I can only imagine what things would be like if it was a free-for-all.
You've misunderstood the author's sentence. His point was that many companies tend to think anyone applying for a position is 100% unqualified instead of focusing on the dead weight within.

I've anecdotally experienced this in the form of watching employees who contribute near 0 take years to be let go due to internal politics.
这样做好吗。。。太明显了吧？？
Not true. Facebook & Twitter have official apps, meaning they have a manifest to let the OS install them, and in Twitter's case they have a bit more integration, like being able to use Activities to attach pictures.
I'm not surprised by his experience as it mirrors a bit of mine. This was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674841

Although in his post, he says:

"Another lesson learned: you can’t force cultural change. It has to start from the bottom up, and it needs breathing room to grow."

I would argue that cultural change has to also start from the top. You can't change the culture if the leaders of the company don't work with you on it.

The tendency of people at the bottom is to eventually start behaving like their managers as the managers project what is acceptable and not acceptable behavior. Trying to start change from the bottom up is a hard, hard thing to do, with a low probability of success if senior management isn't on board as well.
>I think Twitter would have stopped these much earlier if they could.

If Twitter clamped down on bots on the site/network it could end up revealing a very unflattering (to investors) picture of the sites true user traction.

The site has struggled to grow to its targets and has a significant issue with people creating accounts and quickly abandoning the site.

So Twitter has a very large incentive to do nothing about the bots.
It's possible that an alien spaceship is buried under Antarctica.
In the article it's said that's explicitly part of the idea - it's supposed to be dangerous.
To do something similar with Bootstrap you just use the grid mixins within your classes:

.left-side { @include make-md-column(3); }
Why 90% of Remittances Happen Offline
there's a long road between "giving up drinking" and lethal DT's.
I thought about doing, definitively on one of my todolist!

Thanks for the kind words.
It's partially intentional and partially a holdover from Cold War strategies.

Our own military and government barely know what the hell is going on within its own circles, there is absolutely no chance someone will be able to make sense of what is important and relevant. It's essentially a strategy of overwhelming with force and noise signal.

As the economic and global power we had been over the American Century we were able to play fast and loose and wild, whether our strategy will still work in this new century is a different story though. It may very well still work, it may very well lead to our demise. The only thing going for us is that there does not seem to be any alternative power and authority that is any less shitty than ours; whether that is due to natural factors of by CIA sabotage is a different story. Are we really all going to support China's or Russia's supplanting of American power in the world? It's not a good choice, but as horrible as we are, I'll go with the less bad over the worst any time.
The article explicitly states that this project started in 2010.
It is good initiative. I am looking for a job in US without immigration intention. I just want to spend good time in vast land with beautiful nature before my 2 years old son goes to school. currently we stayed in city state on tropical island. it is clean and civilized and low tax. but just nowhere to go during the weekend other than air conditioned shopping mall. seriously I am open to be exploited
Something like the Raspberry Pi would probably work well.

It's small, can be powered from a battery pack, you can add some scripts that automount the USB stick and copy everything off (and/or add some things of your own)
What I find unusual is that the professor told the student the exact reason she was rejecting him. I would have imagined that many people hold such biases in their minds but generally brush applicants off with "you don't meet our needs" or "we're currently full now". After her apology, she did change her statement to "currently full", but I'm surprised she didn't use that in the first place.
Another consequence of the oil price collapse. The dominoes are starting to fall.
Oh yes probably.
How Iran Traps Its Facebook Users with “Black Spider” Program
And that's what you get when you place diversity above merit: incompetent people getting jobs they don't deserve - and are not prepared for - just because they are female.

For the record, India has approx. 2 rapes reported per 100000 people, while the US has 28.6 and Germany 9.
Is it just me or are development practices (sem ver, git flow, test coverage, in-house code guidelines, even vcs and CI) the kinds of things that go out the window when a DevOps team forms, because they're "too slow"? For example, who has time to ensure 100% code coverage for your script that's going to fix the problem with your load balancer?

The exact same thing I'm noticing is happening with the "automation" teams that are cropping up. It's like folks are discovering ways of getting around process, forgetting completely why the process exists in the first place.
Linux Netlink Mmap: Bulk Data Transfer for Kernel Database
>You can’t have DevOps and still have separate operations and development teams. Period.

I cannot disagree more. You can't have developers of your product knee deep in DevOps and be effective (at a certain size, smaller teams with less demanding operations needs can).

DevOps should have very clear demarcation of responsibility in an organization. What the OP describes is an blending of responsibilities and that is the root of his problems.

DevOps /is/ operations. It is just that simple. It is design and automation of support systems. Nothing more, nothing less.
The Firebombing of Tokyo
The Volt has an answer for long distance. The Leaf does not.
I don't know. I got a sense that Tesla was trying to deflect. If not, at the very least, it seems that the blame falls on HQ by not providing proper training resources.

I suspect the underlying reality is that Tesla is trying to gloss over the consequences of the oil price collapse and possible under-reported Chinese economic slowdown.
Some years ago in McDonald County, Missouri a new highway was being built when they discovered a cave of Native American artifacts. The new highway was being built alongside the old one, and the existence of the cave was soon made public. For months afterward there was a guard vehicle posted at the entrance to that cave 24/7, until the site could be suitably explored and artifacts cataloged.
Well, I suggested to expand on idea (of finding jobs by some interesting feature).

Also, you might want to [partially] work from home, but maybe from the same country.
What is the Piratebox
Freedom fighter who denied being DPR and tried to save his ass by pointing at another guy? http://www.dailydot.com/crime/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-mark-k...
Liquid calories (especially in the form of sugar water) do not satiate somebody in the way e.g. fruits would (since fruit contains fiber and "fills" one up better). If one took a top-down approach to diet and planned out intake appropriately (as it sounds like you do) then it would certainly be easy enough to slot in some sugar water and still meet all of one's nutritional needs. The sad truth is that most people are not very mindful of what (and just as critically how much) they are eating, presumably due to poor education.

I would be inclined to speculate that in humans most of the benefit of reducing sugar intake is in the form of improved satiety when sugar is replaced with other foods. Sugar water and the like simply don't satiate in the way most other calorie sources do. That doesn't matter to a person who is mindful of how many calories they need to consume, but a person who is not educated or mindful of caloric and nutritional requirements might grab a glass of sugar water and later on (upon not being satiated) they might simply return for another one.
In the source: "bastardTouchMoveWhatTheHellIsWrongWithMobileBrowsersSeriously"
A computer on every wrist
Liked the concept. It's like applying free market models for developers! But I'm curious about anonymity? How does it work?
This may as well be called "visualizing random data"... it doesn't show anything interesting about the Bitcoin transactions.
If you are a popular TV show, your social tv rating ends up in your Nielsen reports, enabling you to charge more for advertising. Ad agency gets paid for their promotional work, etc.

As an individual with lots of followers, you could advertise paid gigs, like "I will mention your product to my 100k followers for $10". Then somebody like Kim Kardashian can charge $100k or more per "endorsement".

There's a whole vaporware "value chain" here.
That's a useful post. I wonder what they used for the visualisations. Anyone know?
Obligatory lusis quote and link...

"Devops means giving a shit about your job enough to not pass the buck. Devops means giving a shit about your job enough to want to learn all the parts and not just your little world.

Developers need to understand infrastructure. Operations people need to understand code. People need to fucking work with each other and not just occupy space next to each other."

http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2013/06/04/devops-the-title-match...
The firmware on a USB peripheral normally isn't write-protected, so it's possible to infect an existing stick.
I mostly but not completely agree with your opinion. But, put it into context, there are more than one "right" definition of devops, just like there's more than one "right" definition of "Cloud" or "Cloud Computing."

I think the author's story is more an admonition of blind foolishness and deceit than it is an indictment of the automation.
There is no better tool than a geologic hammer.

MRI machines weigh tons, as rocks do, so there isn't any practical way to do field sampling. The only portable tool available for field work is a ground penetrating radar, and it requires lots of power. Making even a moderately steep hike to these remote locations with just your survival gear is beyond exhausting, so lugging machines and rocks becomes a huge challenge: impossible. Transporting the equipment mechanically is an incredibly costly endeavor.

An image from a GPR looks like this: http://mysite.du.edu/~lconyers/SERDP/figure1_pit_house.jpg - as you can see, the GPR can go through rock, but, what they're seeing is a pattern difference: signal pattern, that is. The GPR doesn't have an imaging resolution to be able to assemble an accurate point cloud, like you would with photographic imaging to make a 3D model. Instead, it's like watching spray from a water hose encounter an object - you can only really tell the water stream hit something, and its rough shape.

I haven't used lasers for imaging in a decade, but they didn't make clean cuts: they burn right through what you're trying to image. I believe it's not a solution for sampling rocks. Though, a hammer can cleave right through a rock and be done with it.
Actual new method: dev logs in to production server, changes something live as part of a emergency / hot fix. It never gets documented anywhere.
So its a USB glory hole?
Excellent! How does its performance compare with Crossword Maestro (http://www.crosswordtools.com/cm/) which I think is the current state of the art?
Media Hacking
It's a legal defense, this isn't a morality question.
CoreLogic Reports Home Prices Rose by 5.7 Percent Year Over Year in January 2015
Dresden was fire bombed too.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_firebombing

I think 40m-50m civilians died in WW2.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

It sure would have been nice to avoid the war. America certainly didn't want to be part of it.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Reuben_James_(DD-245)
Co-founder here. Thanks for the liking it. Our anonymizer is semi-automatic for now but listing for recruiters is automatic.
Add to this list the Secret Service for financial fraud related things (as well as protecting government officials), including credit card fraud, phone fraud (at least in the 80s), and the odd whatever-the-hell-we-feel-like-doing fear-based thing (e.g., Steve Jackson Games).

Rule of thumb: If something contains the word 'Cyber' in it, it's gonna be clueless, bureaucratic and political, and utterly incompetently done.
But, the purists would reply, if you simply outsource all your hardware to AWS or another place, you don't ned that ops or capacity planning. Until you do. This weekend AWS ran out of i2.2xlarge instances in a particular AZ, for example.
It's hard to imagine that traffic in Beijing could get much worse. I think there are already a lot of people there who wouldn't have a car for city use, even without Beijing's restrictions on cars.
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I'm happy to disclaim that I have nothing to do with the mess that is the HTML standard! But if I had to guess I would say that the ending tags in HTML add a modicum of redundancy that allows for some of the crazy/creepy/smart error correction browsers have been doing for decades:

You can close your P tags or not; if you don't, the next opeining one is a new paragraph, with the previous one assumed closed. Similarly with LI tags in lists or the multiple levels of stuff in TABLE.

That makes HTML "code" marginally easier (at least in terms of effort) for humans to write and maybe also read, and for programs to error-check and correct. It's also led to waves of shitty HTML code and generations of smarter programs to guess the intentions of stupid HTML generators.

XML, being more strictly defined, could have followed the lead of Lisp and done without the closing tags. I guess people felt the need for a security blanket of closing-checkable tags, or its slightly better human-readability.
Are you planning to open source the code at any point? As someone versed in text mining and currently trying to learn how to build similar projects, I would have loved to see how it is built.
Thanks.

To answer your first question, I (perhaps naively) assumed that the synaptic library used correct naming for its network prototypes [1].

My implementation contains a few modifications to the one defined as 'Architect.Hopfield' [2], which is why I decided to put it in a separate file. It also helps a visitor to know how the network is defined without needing to browse the source of the synaptic library.

[1]: https://github.com/cazala/synaptic/blob/master/README.md#hop...

[2]: https://github.com/cazala/synaptic/blob/master/src/architect...
One of the nice things about Open Graph Protocol is that these sorts of things are often in the article's metadata:

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2012-04-05T11:50:46+00:00" />
Mazzucato provides no real evidence the government is good at funding commercially viable innovation.

I don't think this is her point. Either way, I agree with you.

I also agree that private enterprise is much, much better at commercialising research.

I think her point is that basic research - which the governments are generally pretty good at funding - doesn't provide a good return on investment.

I have some sympathy with this argument, but at the same time I don't think she provides a viable solution for the problem.

As a specific example: DARPA kick-started the entire set driverless car technologies with their well-funded competitions in the early 2000s. This involved both prizes, and direct funding of robotics labs.

One can argue that this was done to seed a solution in the 20-year timeframe, and the fact that we'll probably see a decrease in combat deaths from IEDs in a future war in 10 years as driverless trucks come online is reward enough.

One can also argue that society should see some financial return on that - very risky - seed investment.

Both arguments have merit, and I remain unconvinced either way.
Girl, Interrupted: Who Was Sappho?
Integrating Data via Xplenty's REST APIs
It's supposed to appear dangerous. The first time anything actually dangerous happened the user would immediately stop using them. Or worse, they'll end up in prison. Copying a random zip file of the Anarchist's Cookbook on to your PC will get you a few hours of questioning by the police and a caution not to be so stupid as to be a pretend spy again; why you downloaded an archive of several thousand child porn pictures is quite a bit harder to explain away as a bit of fun.
You can't believe the reporting rate is the same.
Java Runtime updater now installs ask.com toolbar on Macs
That's extremely impressive. Dang.
DevOps may be hyped, but it's not outright bullshit. DevOps is just the realization that you would rather have a fewer people knowing everything, than many people knowing disjoint areas. The same force underpins the full stack crowd, or the notion that pizza size teams are more efficient. While this is not always possible in practice, in my experience it is better if the project is small enough that you can pull it off.

The memory bandwidth in one single person's brain is simply much higher than the bandwidth between people. To maximize performance you want to run your project on as few brains as possible.
The first sentence of your second link:

> The excesses of 1980s New York investment banking as captured best (and with just a dose of hyperbole) by Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho may be long gone in the US...