skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a comment on there parodying this exact statement. Not that you're wrong, just that this place is pretty predictable in what we say and post.
> Q: Does this plugin require Skype to be running? A: Yes.

From the FAQ: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin#faq
Cure for AIDS? Is this Hyperbole or was there some news I missed?
Ask HN: Outsource.com – Scam, Dark-Patterns or Just Bad Security?
Signed up at Outsource.com yesterday to determine whether quality projects can be found there. The first thing that stood out was the requirement to pay to submit a quote on a job.

Then, today, I received a series of e-mails with the subject "[First Name], you have received a job request for Web Development‏".

In each, there is a "Send Your Quote" button.

It seems that they are deliberately misleading people into thinking that a client is sending them an offer. However, on closer inspection, they appear to simply be automated e-mails that match jobs with you per your profile.

Then, of course, when attempting to send a quote in response, you must pay.

Worse, when you click the Send Your Quote" button, the underlying URL auto-signs you in! So, if you forward the e-mail to a friend, that friend can sign in to your account by simply clicking the link.

Does anyone have any experience with this company? Is it really this bad? Are there others that are of higher quality?
Donald Trump has been an outspoken advocate for the movement that has insisted that releasing Barack Obama's birth certificate to public scrutiny was absolutely a requirement for the job. People still insist that Obama is not actually an American and that his birth certificate (which was eventually released, but of course birthers won't be happy until they can pass it around amongst themselves by hand and probably not even then) is probably a forgery, in no small part due to Trump's efforts.

Realistically, he shouldn't, because apart from the specific case of Obama (for some strange reason) it's never been an issue.

But because Trump is a pompous hypocritical prick, I demand provenance of American citizenship going back at least three generations.
To me: Javascript, Python, and Go aren't all that different.

You must know Javascript in this day and age given it's de facto presence on the web.

Python is my go to language, especially for mathematical analysis. I can do everything in Python that I used to need Matlab for. From my point of view, pick your favorite modern scripting language and run, the differences really are the libraries, not the languages.

I have used Go, but Go just doesn't do it for me. It doesn't offer me anything I can't get, better, in another language especially if I can choose among Python (smaller headspace), Erlang (way better concurrency) or Lisp (way better abtraction power).

Erlang is my go to language for concurrency. Once I architect it in Erlang, I probably understand the problem.

Lisp is useful when my problem requires powerful abstraction. Otherwise, it gets in the way because people can't resist using that power. Clojure has changed my opinion on this quite a bit, but I don't yet have a big project that fits in it's space quite yet.
So, speaking as the thing that goes bump in the night (NRX, HBD, the works), I'd agree that your average anti-gay-marriage person is not reading Leviticus and pulling out political positions based on such. I'd even agree that it's a proxy debate.

But I don't think the real issue is crypto-racism. I mean, for one, I'm what you'd call a "racist" and I don't mention such to my anti-gay marriage family. I mean, hey, if racists and homophobes are all one big happy family, they'd know it, right? All I can say is that I'd advise you to take it in good faith when someone says they're against gay marriage and abhor racism. I'm not one of those people, but I used to be, and there are many of them.

(Another way you can tell: when conservatives parody protected classes by assigning as many statuses as they can think of, often they will come up with the black disabled lesbian with a liberal arts degree. But that would be an object of glee rather than outrage for the person you describe: the suicidal enemy. That conservatives don't like the BDL tells me that they don't really consider the homosexual part (or the degree!) a handicap. That's a victory, of a sort, for someone)

But I do think you're right that it's a proxy debate. I think it's an attempt to re-fight the sexual revolution, and gay marriage is seen as yet more lost ground on that front.

Was this a viable political strategy? Intuitively no, and empirically, definitely no. But voters gonna vote.
Just today I was actually thinking laziness was one of my greatest assets as a developer. Always trying to find a way to make my work do as much of itself as it can, haha.
Urban traffic shouldn't be traveling faster then 30, maybe 35 mph on roads where traffic calming is used.

If you can't control your road rage, hang up the keys and walk.
There are a few notable companies that were side projects. Twitter, Slack and Instagram are three I can remember offhand.
I wonder... you could advertise something like this as a health product. Let's say you have Celiac and you need to eat gluten free. Using this AutoMicroFarm, you can grow exactly what your customer needs (some lettuce strains may be hard on the stomach, some much better etc), so using your combined data from all units, customers, you can make sure that a certain AutoMicroFarm unit is completely fine tuned to that customers health needs.

Celiac is a silly example, but hopefully you know what I mean! I'd definitely be looking into this because it's realistic, and could help people a lot. Another wee example is that a lot of mass-produced foods are probably genetically modified and have odd chemicals which of course a lot of the population have adverse reactions to -- using an AutoMicroFarm unit, you can make sure that the food is completely organic, no chemicals, you have a record of everything that's gone on so you know you're safe to eat it.

Though, I'm probably talking crap!

p.s. I'm into hydroponics, etc. Done a few things like this unit with Tessel and stuff so I'm excited to see where you end up.
What's ironic is how condescending and formulaic your writing is, considering your hatred of the 'overclass'.
Wow! That market doubled in the past year? I knew it was hot but I didn't know it was that hot. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
formulaic, how?

Ironic, how? It is ironic like, it's ironic, the lakers beat the supersonics, or is it like rain on your wedding day sort of ironic?
How ready are they to go commercial? The update process has been extremely flaky at best, over the past several years. On many machines, I've had to uninstall and reinstall the software for it to make any sort of connection to its updates servers.

It's not clear what their value proposition is when compared to the other well established commercial & free AV vendors. Some like sophos are quite light and unobtrusive.
Fake Servers in SinonJs
"Effective treatment" rather than "cure".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS

The results of antiretroviral drugs have been astonishing, and most people with a new HIV diagnosis for whom multidrug antiretroviral therapy is available (and who comply with it) will never expect to develop AIDS symptoms.

"Effective treatment" is in the body of the post, while "cure" is in the title, and is misleading.
It's probably making fun of Paul Graham's essays, which have footnotes in that style (though not usually nested)[0].

[0] Like this.
What is your opinion of D?

Do you think when the standard library is totally GC free it would be good for your use cases?
Well, to give credit where credit is due: Netherlands, Belgium, Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, Massachusetts.
If he wants any shred of credibility he should. If his supporters want any shred of credibility they should demand it too.
Your experiences in life are not indicative of the whole of the populace and it would be shortsighted to assume that they are. Many people cycle through life both with and without a given medication and find that the world is more manageable when substance X, Y, or Z is in play. Classifying Lithium as a "nightmare of a substance" is a sweeping judgement that, whether intentionally or not, also casts a negative reflection on those who intelligently and rationally choose to employ it daily to improve their quality of life. What works for you is not what works for everyone.
Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind! I have a friend who eats only organic for health reasons and to avoid ingesting the odd chemicals you mention, and he's definitely interested in an AutoMicroFarm.
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Why is there no package? I have to use docker? Why? Why? Why?
I'm also waiting for more commentary to this original question. I would wager that no it is not possible to detect propaganda effectively. Effective propaganda notably presents only one side to the story and uses various other tactics to send that message home but detecting one-sided but factual statements is impossible with today's natural language processing tools, as they struggle enough with being able to make sense of anything.

On another note, what happens if Facebook is able to detect "propaganda content" but it only silences propaganda it doesn't like? This is what I originally meant.

It's similar to how propaganda works in US media. It's not the news stories themselves, it's all about the news networks which are told from above which stories to run. I can see Facebook operating in a similar fashion today or in the future.
MirageOS, HHVM and learning how to build compilers have been my main impetus to learn Ocaml, and I'm glad I did. It's a lovely language, and now that mirage supports TLS directly it'll be an easier sell for certain tasks where I work, I'm quite excited!
150 lines of python: create from scratch a double-linked boot2docker container
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Ask HN: Recommended non-technical reading
I haven't read a non-technical book in several years, but I finally have time to read again. I'm looking for some good book recommendations. I got a degree in physics 20 years ago. I'd love to know some good math and science books that are non-technical, but also don't overly simplify things. I went to Barnes and Noble today, but couldn't tell quickly what recent books have substance and which are full of fluff.

Any recommendations?
The way the GitHub page is set up is weird. Basically two different plugins are hosted on one repo. The root tree you linked to has the original client required plugin. Go under "Skypeweb" folder and you'll see it's an entirely different plugin that you can compile and don't need a client (also has its own README).
http://expedia.com/pictures/ -- choose a location, start the music player and press the Slideshow button :)

I'm in the process of rebuilding it, it's a prototype that ended up in production and I was tasked with rebuilding it on a modern stack; the new version is a fully isomorphic React and Flux (Flummox) application.

Working on it has been great, though it's definitely fired up my imagination and made me want to plan a holiday! We have the slideshow running on a 60" LCD all day at work :)
In my mind I see this as a social health crisis. The elderly provide an unbelievable amount of wisdom to the next generation. By abandoning them, we abandon our children's future. I think of the elderly as an essential vitamin for children. They impart valuable social memes and at the same time tell the children, by there mere existence in their lives, that we value our family and when the children's time comes to age and pass away, they can expect to be valued as well.

In other words, by abandoning our elderly, we're sending a clear message to our children that human life has no inherent value if you can't produce. No wonder children in industrialized nations can't seem to feel a sense of belonging.
Async/await is not the same as bare promises though with then() and catch.
Maybe Brody will enjoy Michael Haneke's upcoming foray into children's films: Funny Games Too
Miux by Microsoft – Why Windows 10 Maker May Release Its Own Linux OS Distro
That's my point. They reason they evolve is that people don't blindly stick to the idioms and try other approaches which then stick on.
I would suggest looking at the number of ready templates (e.g. themeforest etc) that you can use as an initial setup while coding the business logic/back end.
There is still coding involved, but it's more like taking blocks and assembling your product, rather than having to start from scratch with all the css etc. Many of these are Bootstrap based, but there are Wordpress templates as well if you prefer.
Not affiliated with any of these template sites, but have used this approach myself as I'm a one-man shop at the moment.
don't know... their website kinda said that you have to purchase credit before you can bet on a job and list a reason for it. they also have a toll free number you can call with any questions next to email. I would say call them first and grill on every details. And if you feel its kinda fishy then abandon them completely...
There are others and some of them already established their trust. Take a look at the following review, its a little bit old, but still relevant: http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/09/11-freelancer-virtual-assi...
Good luck!
I tried Meteor but could not get around the slow hot-reload. 5 to 10 seconds, I just could not withstand it.
I'm not at all sure what point you are trying to make.

I would say working to increase diversity is a lot like firefox, or the linux kernel, or another open source project, where you keep working and making things better, but you never really finish.

As you work, you also develop better tools and metrics that more accurately reflect performance. It's a process of improvement, not a solution.
How I became and un-became a manga translator
They are also often sole proprietors. Like independent software developers, they may not have a public "place" of business that is distinct from their home. What they do often amounts to contracts between private individuals and not so much businesses open to the public (like a restaurant or retail shop). I don't know enough about the law to say if this falls under a different set of rules, but it would seem reasonable that it might.
So did they build the Rendering Engine, JavaScript Engine, Network Interface etc. stuff from scratch? If so I'm impressed. I also wonder how it's supposed work better on bad connections.
Apple acquires dozens of biometric authentication patents
It depends on whether the question on the table is, "What did the founders think?" or "Should what the founders thought carry any weight?" The intent is obviously salient to the first question, not necessarily to the second.

The question on the table is "What did the Founders think?" I pretented cited, historical evidence of the context of the clause which make clear what the Founders thought. We're arguing about it because you do not find that evidence compelling, and I'm attempting to tease out where you've gotten your facts about this intent. I'll have to dig up the SCOTUS case for the DC handgun ban being overturned (2007?) to see why Roberts believed in an individual right, or believed that it was to be found in the Founder's intent. You appear to be basing yours on our 2015 grammar rules, which doesn't quite cut it if we're going all way back to 1787. Also, keep it mind it was manifestly clear for years before it was challenged in court :)
I find it amusing to quote Spinoza whilst talking about such philosophical things like lithium and mental state.
Ask HK: What about niche market software startups
It seems that most information out there are about public facing product, by that i mean startup companies which have their main product geared toward the general public ( Yelp,facebook,Airbnb etc...).

I am wondering what is it like for companies with a specific/ constraints demographics, like security system for stores, Financial application for trading firm,medical/research/weather forcast. applications etc... Are those market amendable to startups ?
Does targeting those market change something significant (like more focus on revenue instead of share value)

Anybody with experience in this care to share his/her point of view.
Most of these are incredibly accurate parodies of HN. As someone who reads HN every day, these are making me cry laughing.
Definitely not all strategic communications could be detected and blocked. However some research has been tasked on the issue. Take "Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities" (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.00680v1.pdf). This paper, though it terms it 'antisocial', studies online influence operations and is mentioned on NATO's propaganda ("strategic communication") centre for excellence Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/StratComCOE).

The point of having a rule set that can be pushed to like the system described here is that it can be fed information from a centralized task force. Indeed, these systems are used across industries with patterns and rules to detect malware, hacking, and a host of other activity (using formats such as STIX or TAXI).

It's unlikely that Facebook itself would be trying to determine whether a post to some content is propaganda - it's more likely that their automated system will apply the rules it receives from information defense agencies.

As per your other note, the selective censorship of information is absolutely a form a propaganda of its own. Facebook (and the US government) don't have the best history here and have 100% certifiably censored information to prevent effective organization of (for example) May Day protests. I'm not going to go speak about that at length here - hoping to get some technical clarity from those involved.
Airbnb Raises $1.5B in One of Largest Private Placements
Couldn't agree more.

"How do you know where you're going if you don't know where you've come from?"
I know you two fundamentally don't agree, but I found this discussion illuminating. Thank you both.
I wonder if things like bipolar disorder fall on a broad spectrum and a lot of people might not have very mild and perhaps undiagnosable mood disorders that might benefit from very low level lithium supplements. Is lithium supplementation a thing (can you buy it in "health food" stores) and is there any evidence of efficacy for non psychiatric cases?
To be honest, it's not actually 'laziness' as much 'desire for automation'. I've worked with a few actually lazy developers in my time, and it's not fun. For example, it's hard to be a software tester when the design documentation, in it's entirety, is on an A4 sheet in the lead developer's desk, and he's too lazy to make a copy for you. That was medical software, no less...
>implying 4chan users only post like that
> Urban traffic shouldn't be traveling faster then 30, maybe 35 mph on roads where traffic calming is used.

Why not?
If only there were 800 characters representing all of Riley's emotions and the parents were meaner the movie would have been much better...
They very much do when those "edge cases" are frequent.
Thank you for the detailed reply.

Glad to hear you guys have plans to build a client app if needed.

Regarding matrix home servers, are users expected to just trust that they won't read/leak/share their private data (contacts, chat history, profile info, etc)? Or do home servers store user data in an encrypted form so users can just treat them as a zero-knowledge storage server without having to trust them at all? (I couldn't find storage encryption mentioned anywhere in the spec or anywhere on the faq, so I'm assuming it's the former)

If it is the former, are there any plans to move towards the latter? As we've seen in the case of email, even federated services tend to eventually gravitate towards a usage model where a handful of very large service providers service an overwhelming majority of users. I don't think allowing these service providers access to the private data of all of their users is in the best interest of the matrix community.
I don't.

Take the extreme programming approach. Don't try to familiarize yourself with a new codebase all at once. Start small. Work on a small ticket. It will, organically, help you assimilate what's happening.
To expand a bit, implicit declaration works great for small programs. But it doesn't scale to larger source code bases, as misspelled names become hard to spot.
This is going to mean a lot of jobs for database programmers!

http://qntm.org/gay

15 years ago we solved the Y2K problem. Now we've got to solve the SQL2Gays problem!
Society. The very notion of "well" etc (and most things we believe to be "good" or "ethical") comes from shared culture, else it's totally arbitrary personal preference.

It's not about "logical objective reasoning" either. Treating people bad for example. Nothing "logical" about it being more wrong that treating them nice (especially if it benefits you to do so). But the culture we co-created and live in makes it wrong (and that's a good thing).
In the rare cases I would ever downvote something, this would be the case.

This is just complete snark, that misunderstands the general thesis of the article (intentionally?).

Having a core language writer on your team by no means implies that the language in itself is unusable without the designer himself. Your comment explicitly mentions this, and you could really generalise this to any language at all.

The fact that they hired a haskell contributor over a PHP or Ruby contributor was perhaps something you should consider. Or, you know, you read the article, where they answer some of these basic assumptions.
Added a pull request to use git ls-tree for filenames so you only check stuff in the repo, instead of find. Hopefully it will end up on an open source license of some sort.
> I can't ever remember reading about a consumer-facing app using Common Lisp.

There was ViaWeb: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

I'm told that Orbitz uses or used it a lot too.
This is one of those historic artifacts, like the Mother of All Demos, that really brings home the sense of possibilities that people had for computers a couple of generations back.

Back in 1995 MIT had a symposium with computing luminaries talking about the impact his essay had on them. When I realized that people like Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, Tim Berners-Lee, and Alan Kay gave talks, I realized this was someone that I should have known about. Videos of the presentations are still up at the Internet Archive and Engelbart's site has a list of the relevant links: http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium....

Engelbart's site also has a PDF of his marked up copy of the essay from his SRI days.
Thanks for the feedback. I definitely didn't understand the context around why the Fosbury Flop became possible.
Society is bizarre in innumerable ways. The number of people who I know that have contempt for children or people having children is repugnant to me. I think the disdain for the young and old is a sign of decadence.
Looking at the references, I found RFC 7366, by Peter Gutmann (author of the dual-licensed cryptlib), which proposes an extension to make TLS encrypt-then-MAC instead of MAC-then-encrypt. Interestingly, that RFC cites three informational references, two of which predate TLS 1.1 (2002).
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas (Burger, Starbird)

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Gordon)