skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't win on this.

Facebook recently came under fire explicitly for their real name policy. Actually, they come under fire a lot for this, we just kinda forget about it until someone new decides to make an issue of it.

Anonymity is very useful to a certain kind of person, those whom individuals, call them criminals, are motivated to attack. But bullies themselves will use the tools of anonymity to ply their trade with impunity.

You can't have it both ways. If you need anonymity, your only recourse is to stay off of Facebook. Plenty of people have tried to keep their anonymity on Facebook, only to get outed by their huge data engine.

I would love to be able to find a happy medium, but at present it doesn't look like there is one. There's some hope that pseudonymity can give people the best of both worlds, but unfortunately does not protect against bullies.

The difference I can see is that bullies are unmotivated negative users, that simply need dissuasion from doing what they would otherwise do naturally, whereas the people that truly need anonymity need protection against motivated negative users, criminals, who will find a way to attack the person they want to attack regardless of policy. I can't imagine a policy that can usefully protect against both types of bad actors. Maybe there is one, I dunno. But vilifying the social networks themselves is definitely not the solution. We don't have any idea what they should be doing, so it's unhelpful to lump more hatred onto them.
Exactly! I asked our developer team and they said me this reason.
So it's pretty obvious all the other comments in this thread were made by accounts created in the last hour, and I assume that's what the upvotes are from.

Finally I have seen real life shills.
Do Bing, Duck Duck Go and Yahoo also have to disclose their algorithms? Or is it just Google? Who would want to compete in this space if you have to disclose trade secrets to do so?
The story behind the remakes is pretty interesting all by themselves:

John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven (1960) was based on The Seven Samurai (1954)

When first released in America, the title for Kurosawa's film was "The Magnificent Seven", it created a stir and the rights for "The Seven Samurai" were bought for US$250 from the Toho Corporation, Toho entered into the contract under the pretense of being the sole copyright owner. Over the following 30 years, several lawsuits followed since Kurosawa hadn't received royalties and hadn't given consent to remakes, the end result of which was that Kurosawa and other principals were paid back royalties, but were countersued and Toho Corp ended up having to pay $50000 to MGM (who also gained the rights to any future remake of The Seven Samurai set as a Western). I guess in the real world, the Bandits end up winning after all.

Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964) was based on Yojimbo (1961).

Leone didn't acquire the rights to Yojimbo, he just went ahead and made the film, which was surprisingly successful. Kurosawa reportedly said, "I’ve seen your movie. It’s a very good movie. Unfortunately, it’s my movie." Leone is supposed to have settled out of court for 15% of worldwide residuals plus $100,000.
Unfortunately, refusing to comply with the government because you don't trust it is not supported under the law.
Agreed. Approaching someone with the question of "can you be my mentor?" is unlikely to work. These sorts of relationships often form organically throughout the process of working together on projects. So seek out projects where you can meaningfully contribute, even in small ways at first. And then show that you're the hardest working and most reliable person on the team.
> Why hadn't it? I mean, not only doesn't it posses a drop of intelligence, there isn't even something similar that does.

If you were an intelligent fungus (on a planet without humans) and could express similar thoughts, you would be saying exactly the same thing about monkeys. Same goes for all of your other reasoning.
They have: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/using-large-scale-bra...

Furthermore they already published their search engine algorithm: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
> Now if Microsoft came in and decided to fork Android similarly to Amazon, and put their full weight behind it, with their own appstore and such, now _that_ might scare Google.

^This

I don't understand how providing a GApps Suite made of MS products can scare Google. CM market share is pretty small compared to Android. If MS decided to use CM in its devices and ditch Windows Phone then that might be a little more scary. Nokia used to be king, and its hardware still is rock solid, it just needs the proper OS/pricing and sales could explode. Maybe they'll test with a couple of devices?
For people buying their cameras and shooting landscapes and waterfalls on their vacations, sure. That's the only photography I do, and I do it fairly well. But nobody is going to pay for that, because everyone has that friend they can just get the pictures they want from.

But fine-art photography necessarily must set itself apart from the masses. It's about selling a story to fine-art customers. And you can't sell the story of "I bought this camera at Best Buy and I sat in my livingroom pushing pixels in Photoshop on my laptop to make this image."

I know people who are grinding their own lenses. I know people who are making cameras out of box trucks. They are making film negatives the size of posters. You're not going to find a CMOS sensor anywhere near that size, for any price.

That said, I know people who are deliberately glitching their digital cameras to make different types of images. You can't do that with film.

And that's the point. Yes, if your notion of "fine-art photography" is the dime-a-dozen wedding photographer stuff you see in the background of every Medium blog, no, there is no difference between film and digital. But anyone can do that, thus nobody is making money off of photography like that.
One thing I'd suggest right off the bat is psutil. It looks like y'all did a lot of manual work to gather basic system information that you'd get out of the box with psutil. Plus, they've abstracted a lot of the cross-platform inconsistencies.
Red Hat joins Khronos
The reason is that google has established a monopoly on search, and search provides market power over customer's selection of Internet services.

The reason is clear. You might want Google to have that power, or dislike the concept of antitrust, but the reasoning for the action is straightforward.
That's not what [natural monopoly] means.
Thanks, this is highly relevant to business models for 3D printing.
Sure, but data isn't an idea. Information is not an idea. Ideas are unproven and are mostly intangible. Do you have any examples of actual, real ideas that were sold or bought as is, at any time in the history of mankind? Any kind of idea that was purchased and turned out to be profitable?

If the problem isn't lack of buyers, than why haven't we come across a single person who makes a living purely by selling ideas?
> ...government totally should be trying to influence parents. I guarantee that their are some kind loving parents reading HN right now who do not have working tested fitted smoke detectors. Government here should be playing persuasive adverts; subsidising the costs of smoke detectors; providing assistance to fit those detectors; regulating the manufacture of detectors so we know they work.

Wow, so nobody wants the government reading our phone metadata, but its no big deal if they tell us how to raise our kids? Are you kidding me? "You can't have my privacy, but I'm OK with you taking my freedom." Really?

> Home is where children are murdered by family members; physically, sexually or emotionally abused by family members (and siblings are the greatest risk of being the abuser); most accidents happen in the home.

Most accidents would happen where one spends the majority of their time. One in three car accidents happen within one mile from home [0]. Your statement says a lot of nothing.

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6018081/One-in-thre...
Finding a mentor for getting better at code is probably not the best way. The best way is to build, break, build again. Great programmers are masters of detail, you only get to detail with daunting experience in things that won't work.

That said, if you decide to find a mentor, start with people closest to you. Ask your family members and friends first. You'd be surprised how many great people are within 2-3 degrees of separation. This is old school, but works.
Not to mention that Campbell's monomyth borrows liberally from Otto Rank and Lord Raglan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank-Raglan_mythotype
Stand on Zanzibar was a great book because of its bold styling and because assumed that in a few decades' time humanity would be fighting each other in a still desperately poor developing world rather than conquering the galaxy.

On that level it's fantastic, and the bits about ghost town Detroit and its music scene is eerily accurate. But on a grand scale, once you've got past it not being space opera, its core premise is basically its worst prediction: overpopulation is the most pressing issue in the US despite draconian eugenic policies. A large part of the plot concerns black ops in s socialist southeast Asian archipelago.

It is very successful at anticipating how sexual liberation, civil rights for black people and widespread televisual media might pan out, but that's not especially unusual in New Wave literature

Most jarringly of all for hackers, the world of Stand on Zanzibar relies on a single hard AI supercomputer equipped with a personality and near deus-ex-machina predictive power, which involves human-computer interaction of the type parodied in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The word 'liberal' in a European context ranges in meaning, and often encompasses many aspects of what those in the US would recognize as 'libertarian'. It just really depends on the context though. Depending on the country, 'liberalism' may be associated with center-left, center-right, or both (see UK LibDems as an example). In general, though, it is typically used in contrast to both right wing conservative parties and left wing social-democratic parties.
I spoke with both IBM and NetApp vendors several years ago, just seeking an appliance. We didn't want phenomenal capacity, but needed something with good performance.

I've never dealt with such completely incompetent salesmen before. Other vendors I've engaged have had salesmen relentlessly pursue me for the sale, even when it was very likely a small contract to them.

Both NetApp and IBM left me having to do the chasing. I don't mind doing that to some extent, but the amount of chasing I was having to do left a bad taste in my mouth and pretty much ensured I've no real interest in dealing with either vendor again. I wonder if companies really realise the importance of care even on small contracts. People change jobs all the time these days, and just because they are buying something small from you now, doesn't mean they're not going to be interested in something very large in the future. How you treat them will have a large impact on whether you even get a look in on something bigger.
>> I just said people spend an insane amount of time arguing who is a "real" photographer because of that difference. Like "you cannot possibly shoot wedding on APS-C!!!" until it became the most popular format for weddings, and now it is "you cannot possibly shoot wedding with m43!!!"

The thing is that you can say this for just about anything where someone can take himself (or herself) a little too seriously, whether it be cameras. coffee, wine, vinyl records, operating systems or programming languages.

Myself, I buy cameras that suit my shooting use cases, and more often than not, a small sensor is perfectly fine. I went from using an APS-C sensor to using 1" and 2/3" sensors, and have been perfectly happy with my transition, although I'm sure some camera purists would scoff at my choices.
It looks like its success depends on Croatian attitude. Basically, Serbs believe that anything West of the Danube in that area is Croatia, whereas Croatians argue that borders are more complicated (apparently following the old path of the Danube, which has long changed). As part of the complication, this territory is left unclaimed by Croatia because, following the disputed border, it would be Serb; but Serbia doesn't care about it, because it's West of the Danube and they're happy sitting on the Eastern bank.

Basically, the minute Croatia accepted the current state of things (which they will probably have to do, once Serbia joins the EU), they would likely take over anything West of the Danube, ending "Liberland". As it is, they have to decide whether maintaining their (likely doomed) claims is worth accepting this "Liberland" entity trolling on their border.
If you take people who feel so strongly against libertarianism, the country won't remain libertarian for long. Of course, it means the person is charge is shaping his society, which is non-libertarian, but it's a sort of trade off.
Totally false. The cost isn't in the action of switching the setting. The cost is in overcoming the effects of Google's marketing, and evaluating re-learning the alternative products.
What's the challenge? It sounds like simple supply and demand.

http://www.phonographcylinders.com/custom-made-phonograph-cy...
I really like the idea but unfortunately you guys aren't in Montréal yet and I'm not comfortable hosting. I'm afraid that when you do get here that I won't remember to check it out. Would it be possible to sign up and get notified when your service expands?
I'm aware of Kuhn, but I think Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery is more germane to this discussion, particularly his distinction between logic of proof and logic of discovery.

Going back to your opinion poll example, there is no opinion about mixed marriages which is more "true" than any other. Even if scientific facts are approximative, they are at least rooted in physical reality; whereas opinions and norms simply relate to preferences and conventions. So I continue to maintain the truth of any assertion is independent of the identity of whoever formulates it, or more generally of the psychological and social context within which it arises. To deny this would be to deny that such a thing as truth exists. In which case any position, your own included, becomes indefensible.
Believe me, I did consider it. It'd have made things easier a bit. But the goal (as stated in Github) is to not depend on any external module. Execution flow should be to wget && python varnishtuner.py similar to the way mysqltuner.pl works.
I don't think there is any evidence that Kurosawa borrowed from Joseph Campbell
The only reason we lose focus --

-- I know what you're gonna say and I totally agree --

-- Wait... Shh! The only reason we lose focus is because we accept it as an inevitability!
I'm not saying "don't throttle". I'm just saying tokens can work pretty well too...
Thanks, I hope it will continue to be interesting when you dig deaper, let me know if you want to know more.

It is strange about the adblock!

If you are ever in Copenhagen, ping me and I'll offer you a cup of coffee!
Last point, I live in Hamburg, Germany.
This article seems to make no point, and certainly doesn't answer the question. It gives examples of tech firms doing things differently, then it gives three examples of tech firms doing things that regulators frown on, and signs off by making a true comment that applies in specific cases, and probably not to any company mentioned in the article.

You could write a similar article about any industry that has both positive and negative stories.
Twitter can fix this with an existing feature that has perceived value to the user base: Open up being a "Verified User" to anyone who uses a real name (or otherwise proves a real identity). Then, allow all users to filter notifications/replies/viewable tweets by whether or not someone is verified. It doesn't remove the option to be anonymous, but others can limit their interaction with anons if they choose. (They could even charge for verification I suppose.)

I'm sure plenty of "regular" people (i.e. non-celebrities) would verify themselves for the blue check mark. To date it's been reserved for select users and gained a value on Twitter. They could capitalize on that here very easily.

E: typo.
Well, this is just generally any industry. Take a gander at /r/programming sometimes. It's a whole bunch of mediocre people arguing about things they've never done, while the people who really know what they are doing are nowhere to be found because they're too busy getting shit done.
Sadly JSONP continues to flourish and so requires substantial work to get some semblance of good performance for large datasets. JSC explicitly checks all program code for the common JSONP idioms and pushes them down a completely different execution path (that is equivalent to simply calling JSON.parse) :-/
First thing to get a little closer to that better society -- we need to lose the shady system of secret courts the parents are taken through.
How can they identify weight loss as a symptom if they die within 24 hours of becoming ill?
I'm glad to see efforts to preserve old computing history like this!
I second the motion for Montreal!
As it says elsewhere on this thread, technical meetups are probably your best bet to find assistance/support in real life. You get to meet interested people and it is a good opportunity to find friends and for networking. You'll get to meet smarter people who are willing to help you out.

If you're from Chennai, I can suggest the Chennai Python User's Group. It's a great bunch of people and pretty welcoming for newcomers. A quick search on Meetup shows a lot of other language-based meetups popping across the country. Take your pick.
"The dirty little secret of psychiatry isn't that SSRIs don't work; it's that everything sort of works, but any single thing doesn't work very well for most patients, and there's no validated model that predicts which treatment is likely to work for which patient."

I sometimes wonder if all long term improvement in all treatment modalities can be attributed to The Placebo Effect, poorly designed/collated drug/treatment studies, and the brain repairing itself with time? My view on Psychiatry is if you don't have the money to see one; you just might be better off on the long run?(That is assuming you are not suicidial, or psychotic?)

I wish the profession well, but you have not come a long way baby! I do think any patient that has been on a psychotropic drug(especially the
addictive ones) a long time, should be able to get that particular drug without seeing a Psychiatrist. I know that will never happen on the U.S.

After hearing that Robin Williams committed suicide and the last tabs open on his IPad were the side effects of the various drugs he was taking, I wonder if he would still be alive if he didn't have access to the best Psychiatrists?
Yep, came here to mention that also. The country is really needed as well.
IME - get a job.

My last internship (before my senior year of college) and my first job after college boh had me working with people who had been in the industry for 10+ years and were both at the top of their game and extremely patient about getting me up to speed with how things worked at their companies and in the industry in general, technically and culturally.

I know I hit the lottery going 2/2, but I don't know how else it would have happened. I can't imagine going out and just nagging people to teach you would end well.
I dishonoured my hacker mentors.

I must commit rm -rf /
You don't think that the shift from traditional RAID / NAS to object storage isn't really what's hurting them?
>Who would want to compete in this space if you have to disclose trade secrets to do so?

Someone who wants money. It's the same argument that Big Pharma presents against those who want to make the patent system lighter, or any company that protests against IP freedom. They just don't want fair competition.
A tolerant ideology does not require one to tolerate people who are actively trying to destroy that ideology.
Start with prostitution, drugs, and alcohol, and you will see this country's neighbors come to an agreement on the exact location of their borders fairly quickly.
"Third smallest sovereign state?" Atlantium would beg to differ ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Atlantium
Except there's a cost to every security measure you take. When you're talking about "never let kids out of your sight", that cost is having your children grow up with a constant, subconscious attitude of fear. That has real ramifications as an adult, where you are less likely to take risks, less likely to trust strangers, and less likely to try new things. In a world that's constantly changing like ours is, and a large part of your success comes through serendipity, you're setting your kids up to be left behind.

There are prudent things you can do that will make your kids much safer but don't create an overall climate of fear. "Buckle up." "Don't get in a car with strangers." "Look both ways before crossing the street." "Stay away from areas of town where there's active gang violence going on." "Learn to swim." It's all about specifically targeting real, verified risks, and not about generally targeting things that might conceivably be risky but that you don't know much about.
This. I hang out in an IRC channel where everyone is either working to learn C or working to help others do so. But, the best way to get involved is to actually ask one of the folks that's there as a teacher to help you out. :)
"These sorts of relationships often form organically throughout the process of working together on projects"

Agree. And in fact the other way around in a sense smacks of someone being used regardless of whether that was the intention or not.
People would just be more creative; a curl url | sh, that script copies rm from bin to current directory, executes it there etc.

Might help in a few cases, but would lul people into a false sense of security.
Critical Magento Shoplift Vulnerability (SUPEE-5344)
While this is interesting to some extent, surely this emphasises more that there is something wrong with the state's tax processing? If all the paperwork was in as necessary, why were they having to pull strings at all to get them processed?

Why is the state's system so inefficient?

How much money could the state be saving by improving the process?

How much are businesses being negatively impacted by the slow speed these credits are being processed?
I think award is title, not ebooks. Title will look great in resume.
Reversely, I wonder why `rm` hasn't been patched to abort when the `/` path is passed as an argument (with maybe a --no-really-i-mean-it argument for the really rare cases where that's what you want)

EDIT: not sure why this is being down-voted. It's just an idea, albeit possibly a bad one.
Why exactly do you think the Serbian claim has more merit?
Just make it work at the kernel syscall level. Maybe make it so you can have policies where syscalls can only affect some directories.

Maybe we should call it "selinux"
Why? Huge amounts of knowledge areost whenever someone dies. This is always going to hold back human progress.
People who use this term often "don't want" any opinion that conflicts with their own.
Of course, but that has a reputation as being hard to set up into a configuration that doesn't get in the way.
GNU rm has exactly that built-in:

$ rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
DPI of final print, not the sensor. Large format cameras could even have larger DPI than an SLR and still get vastly better pictures. Large format CCDs exist, but are very expensive, and of course have different performance characteristics than film.