skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9310006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/03/kevin-bollaert-reve...

Bollaert earned about $900 a month in website ad revenue and collected about $30,000 from victims.

Ha ha ha. Yelp and the Better Business Bureau laugh at him. This guy was an amateur in the extortion business, that's for sure. And he's paying for it with 18 years! Can you believe it? 18 years! He should have raped a nun while he was at it and got 19 years instead.
So you are saying that this law will never impede anyone from paying for a lawyer? If the answer is "I don't know", the point still stands.
I think this may be the proof.
Start by assuming that the predictor is a decider P for a computational model of a human M in a situation encoded by w. We can then construct a Turing Machine S that decides A_TM.

S <M, w> {

1. Run P on w.

2. If P halts, run M on w; if M accepts, accept, if it rejects reject.

}

Since S decides A_TM we must have made a mistake somewhere in our proof, our only mistake could be that the predictor P is a decider. Therefore the Predictor is not a decider.
Psycho-Pass-Words!i

(I missed your social-emotional commentary because, well, hacker news lacks and blocks access and permission to basic data open filters needs sadly.)
I skipped that part. I emailed the person, but they were absolutely convinced that I'd ripped them off (they accused me of colluding with their publisher to steal, completely redesign and then share their work for free). My mistake was assuming this person would be rational.
The US is a weirdly moralistic society. It is almost as if Americans pride themselves on punishing people as severely and brutally as possible. Perhaps in order to reinforce in our own minds how righteous a group of people we are.

18 years is absolutely insane. Utterly, terrifyingly insane. That's more than murder gets in many countries. That's more than rape gets. That's more than terrorism gets.

How long before someone just automates building these sort of websites on a prepared template. Who'll be punished then?
Well, it's the same reason have both chose to write our comments here instead of self-hosting it on our blogs, I suppose.

I would like to add the spam problem to your explanation. A distributed system needs a distributed solution for spam, which is much harder.

But we also need to add a little complexity to the description. There is a difference between decentralized and distributed systems, with email the former and usenet or irc the latter.

Both discoverability and search are trivial with distributed systems, but also offers the possibility of competing networks. It is interesting to note that the open protocols actually faired worse in those cases, as it lends itself to competititon, and a someone with access to deep pockets can leverage that against you.
Complaining about or goading downvotes turns a comment into a soapboxing whine. It's a juvenile debating tactic where if the author gets modded up they claim victory because of assent, and if the author gets modded down, they also claim victory because "I called it, you all suck!".

>it only reinforces how reactionary people can be

You're calling raldi reactionary even though the downvote was not for your 'meaningful comment', but because you literally asked to be downvoted?
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I love your angular review.

After using it for a few years, "passive-aggressive architecture" really is the best way to refer to it.
Is it me or it's 1999 all over again for a lot of stuff? Silicon Valley is back, IPOs all over the place, now stuff like this... time to try again with pets.com maybe?
for(;;) existed way before Go came along.
Firefox crashed for me as soon as it started on #heart. Presumably a bad add-on.
Richard Feynman on What It Means
I didn't ask to be downvoted I expressed my expectations. I didn't force anyone. Also, I've since made an edit.

Edit: on inspection of your profile you seem intimately aware of the gratuitous downvotes on HN. Why is pointing it out considered a faux pas? Why should we be goaded into not bringing it up?
This is a forum full of the people that are on the frontline maintaining the businesses that would be harmed by these hackers. Maybe it's just that we know that most of the hysteria about hackers is bs.
USA is one country under God, for liberty and justice for all... that includes the asshole who abused these women's privacy - which isn't only illegal, but immoral as well. He deserves to do time.

Having said that, 18 years does seem unusually harsh, as I know countries where the maximum penalty for murder is 25 years, 7 over and above what this guy got. Chances are the sentencing will be appealed and/or he will be able to get out on parole probably within a fraction of his sentence.
I think it's overly cruel as well, but it's worth noting that this is multiple counts of extortion and has done significant damage to quite a few people's lives.
California has crime victim compensation, but only for certain violent crimes; neither extortion nor identity theft qualify. http://vcgcb.ca.gov/victims/
I've used Purescript[0] and thermite[1] (purescript's react bindings):

0: http://www.purescript.org/

1: https://github.com/paf31/purescript-thermite
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The real travesty is the last paragraph:

> Well, as we were eating I glanced up at the Keno board and Sara had won $7500.

> The downside of this is that Sara gained $7500, I lost $7500, the government gained $7500 and the casino lost $7500. You see, I had to fork out the $7500 to my daughter and collect the winnings myself. But about half the winnings would be paid by me on my taxes as income, and other half of $7500 would be paid as gift tax for giving the winnings to my daughter (I'd already transferred the maximum yearly tax free gift of $10,000 to each of my kids).
Suggesting that moving to Docker obviates the need for configuration management is frankly naive.

The whole point of CM tools is to make the layout/configuration of systems predictable. That doesn't make Docker or CM redundant. It means that when you build Docker containers, it makes good sense to install a CM tool and use it to do the systems configuration.

Saying that the Dockerfile works like BASH and thus makes life easier is a huge step backwards. Ultimately, administrators have to enter, troubleshoot and debug containers. Moving back to shell script-style configuration inside of containers just kicks the problem down the road.

Docker, and containers in general, are great. And you should treat their contents with the same respect that you do any system.
While it is patently[1] true that corruption has always been a problem in law enforcement, you cannot explain recent-ish events with better reporting and legal loopholes. Unexplained topics include:

* Asset forfeiture, at least in its current widespread form that now includes whole departments and is assumed to be a regular part of the budget.

* It used to be a scandal in all but the worst cities if an officer killed an unarmed suspect, that at least warranted an investigation or trial, instead of the current norm of rewarding murder with a paid vacation.

* Even in a country stereotypically known to love firearms, we used to limit regular police work to the same type of small arms that the average citizen might own. More powerful weapons were limited to special-purpose groups. Now, police = without adequate training - get to play soldier with APCs, camo (!), and a variety of modern weapons that are overpowered or unsuited for police work.

* A gang-mentality that has been growing for a long time. There used to be some truth to the idea of a police department having "a few bad apples" among many generally decent officers. Now we have a situation where former officers have spoken about how they had to resign (some voluntarily, some force out) because they didn't want to aid and abet the crimes of other officers.

[1] the problem was big enough that significant parts of the Constitution attempt to limit corruption and its effects
The guidelines ask you to not do it.

People commenting are asking you to not do it.

Saying thigs like "I expect I'll get downvoted for this" guarantees downvotes - but those votes are for that part of the comment and not for the rest of the comment.

I've seen people say "I expect I'll get downvoted for this" but then say something bland and uncontroversial.
> The most popular language, namely C#, Java and C++ became popular quite quickly.

But those languages had corporate backing. Haskell doesn't have corporate backing, so shouldn't you compare it to languages that became popular and didn't have corporate backing?
I don't think the schism is because of fallible vs infallible so much as people being stuck in naive decision theory (just take both boxes; it's already decided beforehand!) or not (hey, the kinds of decisions I'm willing to make might have changed what Omega decided in the past!).

After all, Omega need not be infallible. So long as he predicts your decision with an accuracy of 50.05% (slightly better than a coin toss), you profit:

---

Let p be the probability that Omega predicts your decision correctly.

E(one-boxing) = p⋅$1mil + (1-p)⋅0

E(two-boxing) = (1-p)⋅$1.01mil + p⋅$1k

Solving for E(one-boxing) > E(two-boxing)

p⋅$1mil > (1-p)⋅$1.01mil + p⋅$1k

p($1mil + $1.01mil - $1k) > $1.01mil

p⋅2mil > $1.01mil

p > 50.05%

---

And if he doesn't predict you slightly better than a coin toss, why is he called the Predictor?
You don't have to go back to lurking if you don't want to. What we're asking for can very much be learned. Like a lot of people here, I started out as a caustic commenter. I thought that was a good thing to do, for a bunch of reasons, and it took me a long time to realize that it was a net negative.

There's a lot of learning behind these guidelines and some of us learned it the hard way. You don't have to. Your fellow community members will give you amazingly thoughtful and practical feedback if you show any sign of wanting sincerely to improve.
They say resist it, which is materially different from saying not to do it. Goading is another story entirely.

I will add that in practice, adding this defensive layer has had the opposite effect, it has resulted in more compassionate voting, rather than more downvotes, on my comments, which reinforces why I did it here and have done it in the past, so I question why it's such a big deal, to me, the big deal is the fact that there is an expectation of surprise downvotes, that you can't expect a discussion without driveby negative feedback is a sign of a very toxic community.

Since this is a point of contention, though, I'll try to resist in the future, but I still call out to anyone to ask of the community – why do you downvote so readily, rather than upvoting equally as readily? Check out the Wikipedia article for critical positivity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_positivity_ratio – there's no reason we can't make HN a positive environment.
That chart on slides 29-35 which claims you will be 600% more productive with Haskell than C#/Java after 5 years...

Its just made up isn't it? This is part of the problem. If you try to convince someone smart, experienced but skeptical by making things up, you hurt your own case.
East Texas judge who oversaw 1,700 patent cases joins biggest IP law firm
Cool, didn't know that.

Seems like the hardware has to be modified and it only supports 0-1V though: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8757/using-pi...
Oddly enough, the original inspiration for GNU was a proprietary printer control program that upset RMS enough that he decided to start a revolution.

You'd think somebody would be working on that. Printers are so evil, in general, that I try very, very, very, hard to avoid them entirely. I've been known to take a picture of my signature and edit it in GIMP and paste it into a document in order to avoid using a printer to print/sign something.
Docker on a single host is good enough for my develop/use, but I don't know whether swarm like tools is ready for real multiple-servers on production.
Agree. It's time to leave AVR uC's behind. There are many ARM chips on the market which are both faster and cheaper than AVR.
Log is an act we miss. (Change is act limited by log law.)

The steelmanning combinatorially #buildingmentalhealth and emotional regulation while mods are drone operators hiddren unrestricted violently cutting and copping audit logs to get page views clear for what depth of order of self empowerment determination?

[1] http://web.archive.org/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i... [2] https://archive.today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9... [3] http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1428133249694151
If they did, the feature would stop working correctly by the end of the first ink cartridge.
I don't live in Canada anymore, but I'd suspect your second point is somewhat negated by the articles reference to private lenders supplying sub-prime loans.

I have no idea what types of systems are in place in Canada to manage this, and I thought the banking system would not allow private lending on that sort of scale, but I'm really not knowledgeable in this area.
I wonder how much it was taken into account that a significant "part of the damange" was done by people posting the photos.

His platform was merely an enabler and the nude photos could have been also posted elsewhere.
While I agree wholeheartedly with your point, I think some insurance companies, in some countries, may also require an honest readout of the mileage.

Once again, not illegal to make the change, but probably fraud if you were to lie to your insurer about it.
Especially on Show HN posts, there are people that can be categorized as fanboys and haters. Both groups add nothing substantial to the discussion. The constructive, interesting and insightful comments come from the normal users.
That actually sounds like something an accomplished lock picker would say!
tldr: Bill will be technical advisor and microsoft is great.
I can kind of understand the extortion charges, but from what evidence did the charges of identity theft stem? Seems like an unusual charge unless he was involved in doing more than just hosting revenge porn.
How Israeli technology could solve the next food crisis
I'd like to see tests running as I type. Something like this: http://www.nileshtrivedi.com/livecoding_js_demo/
It's unsatisfying because it's so poorly defined. As you attempt to define it more precisely, the problem just converges on the problem of whether free will exists.
It seems like the kids these days would rather write a completely new tool than just learn the basics of Make.
Who would take the other side of that bet?
My hunch is that the overwhelmingly dominant and important use case is where these identifiers appear in URLs, including URL fragments (and potentially in brand-new protocols). A few other important cases are also where they're visible to people, as in the example (or hypothetical) command-lines that kicked off this thread. In those cases, explicitness-at-a-glance helps, as will having one canonical encoding (such as b32, b64, or b58).

Compared to that, adaptation to other constrained systems is a case-by-case issue. And if those systems are already capable of squeezing in these non-native slightly-longer hash-like-strings, then a few more bytes usually won't hurt, or if they do then whatever deep-in-the-bits coder (like yourself) who's shoehorning things in can handle compactification. The display/exchange format should be as casually readable as possible.

Such an ASCII-name-inspired prefix is readable in all encodings. In some, it's just a magic number (but one that any coder can make educated guesses about); but in the one encoding that's likely most important for mutual comprehension between humans (user-exchanged strings and URLs), it's super-duper-readable.

And yes, the prefix should in general have special handling: as the multihash project README notes in an important "warning", the prefix lacks the same distribution as the other bytes. Treating the whole thing as an opaque-but-still-reliable identifier invites indexing misoptimizations right off the bat, and then other later bugs, if any of the hash functions become deprecated, or a new hash is added with variant semantics.
"In ZenoArrow's case it's the arrogance of his thinking he can manipulate me into whatever direction he wants to go."

We clearly disagreed, I'll not deny that, but the arrogance and manipulation you're referring to was an invitation to comment on something I believe is fundamental. I didn't tell you whether you had to agree, but instead was looking for the point at which our opinions diverged. I can't make you agree with me, nor would I necessarily want to, a world where we all thought the same would be lesser for it, instead I'd prefer to find out about the thoughts guiding our differences.

Perhaps the problem was that I wasn't angry, that you needed conflict in order to bring out what you could've said. I can't be sure that it's true for you, but in my experience some people are fuelled by that sort of drama. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just not what I personally want.
It's good to hear that you're fine enough to find some work and that you have help. As someone who has also been through a lot of pain, I find that some of your comments resonate. I feel a positive intention in them even when I don't understand the words.

At the same time, a semi-anonymous online forum is not a great place to process major pain. What you need (in my experience) is warm connection with specific people you can trust. Internet comments aren't real enough for anything but a small portion of that. To heal real pain, you need more. I hope you find that too.
You're misrepresenting the article. It gives multiple, clear, specific examples of the "trap".

Buffett's mobile-home empire engages in typical predatory practices, taking advantage of ignorant poor people. For example:

But the closing documents he set before them
held a surprise: The promised 7 percent interest
rate was now 12.5 percent, with monthly payments
of $1,100, up from $700.

Gotta hand it to Warren, he's got great PR people working for him. He cultivates an image of a folksy, down-to-earth elder statesman. He advocates feel-good social policies such as having the rich pay more taxes. He claims he runs his companies for the long term. But when push comes to shove, he has no qualms about making money from the "little people".
No, my profile is talking about the braindead combination of "disagree" and "censor this comment" in the downvote button. People are free to disagree in my book, and in droves if they like, but a polite-yet-unpopular comment should not be pushed out of view.

I didn't force anyone.

I didn't say you did. If force is involved, it's not an 'invitation', but a 'summons'. In any case, if you think you can pass off "Let the [X] flow" as being something other than an encouragement for people to do X, perhaps you should consider a career in politics.
Trijet design will almost always consume more fuel than a comparable twin engine design. This results in higher operating costs and reduced range. Although trijets are more efficient than four-engine aircraft, the difficulty and complexity of mounting the center engine through the tail will somewhat negate this advantage.

quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trijet
So, "because it's funny, huh!?"

People should know that there's a time for serious business and a time for jokes.

Talking to LE or even a Casino Security is not one of them.

How would you feel if you went to a doctor and he acted humorously and dismissively of your complaint (and it looks serious)?
How to get a job at Google: Meet the man who hires and fires
If great engineers didn't care about money Facebook and Google wouldn't have to pay them 250k :).
holy crap I just have a renewed respect for Wozniak. He is a true thug.
> This is about me not wasting time on people. It has nothing to do with respect or disrespect.

Your first flagged comment says:

> I'm quick to write off people and I won't apologize for it. I have better things to do with my time than to give everyone the same amount of time and respect.

So people think it's about respect because you explicitly said it was about respect.
> the first engine in Google was implemented (at least in part) in Python ;) Later they had the cash/resources to afford rewrites in C++/Java.

It seems Larry Page started trying to write it in Java then gave up and switched to Python for version one. Guess Python's easier, Java runs faster.

http://carlcheo.com/fascinating-posts-from-tech-founders-who...
That's a fairly simple one. If all you value is the benefits to you of your influence on the election, do not bother to vote (and especially don't bother spending the resources required to educate yourselves so as to vote responsibly). It's very clearly not worth it except perhaps for the smallest local elections or closest large elections.

If you value other things related to voting, like feeling as if you've done your civic duty, or feeling like a member of a group (like a political party), then by all means vote if the hassle of physically voting is less than that benefit.

This seems like a pretty clear description of rational behavior, and if you expect people to behave largely rationally, this description seems to explain some of the problems often attributed to elections, like low voter participation and low voter knowledge of the candidates and issues.
Appreciate the comment. The point I was hoping to get across wasn't that Docker would completely replace CM (or that CM is a bad thing), but that it could help reduce the amount of work in the CM world. As mentioned, we still needed to use Chef anyway (and using Opsworks to get a head start), so at least in this kind of environment CM is still necessary. That said I can see how the article could be slightly misleading =)
Since it is a rule of the game that the predictor is infallible, anyone with $500,000 would take that
I felt an upvote wasn't enough, I completely agree.
"Rare earths aren't all that rare worldwide"

They are called rare because, (almost) whatever hand of earth or rock you grab, they are rare within that hand.

some of them aren't rare in the "there isn't much of it" sense at all. For example, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element claims Cerium is the 25th most abundant element in the Earth's crust.

Interesting tidbit: that page also shows that four rare earths are named after a single village in Sweden (Ytterbium, Terbium, Erbium, and Yttrium)
I guess it's time for an opensource DIY kit for printers which, of course, an opensource firmware...
Since you folks serve real users in the real world (as opposed to being a much higher QPS product like a consumer oriented game or analytics or data service), I can't imagine your needs are extremely high in terms of QPS. Why not optimize other front-end experience, like serving one CSS/js file instead of many, serving assets from CDNs, etc? Cheers on moving to AWS and using Docker, though!
Hmm...I would assume the key to any criminal activity is making it economically unfeasible for the authorities to go after you.
Maybe that basic income, basic speechcome, could help make some sense of logic pains.
It seems a bit improbable that everybody in the government is not wise enough to see what they're doing.

I think I fall on the opposite end of spectrum from you, as I tend to think that 99% percent of the politicians holding office at high levels don't actually care about their constituents. I have yet to see any evidence that contradicts my current belief.

If Obama doesn't fully understand what he signed, that would be even more frightening than him not caring.
No, someone posted a comment about the abysmal rating system on youtube that promotes crap. There are no downvotes. This imbalance promotes one-sided views because people like to upvote stuff they agree with. The comment section becomes a nightmare of extreme opposites arguing and every sane person is driven out.
Should designers learn to code?