skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for things like templating.

I'm excited for not having external libraries to handle string interpolation.
> That means the attack surface for accessing someone's account is NP hard, but N is always equal to 4.

FYI, the "N" in "NP hard" is not a number. It stands for nondeterministic. The mention of "NP hard" in the first place just seems...unnecessary.
Non-sarcastic question, what are the indicators that you don't find mostly meaningless when it comes to analyzing China?
> If a debt were a guarantee, then there would be no basis for charging interest.

Time value of money?
`class` trades the flexibility of prototypes for the familiarity of other languages. :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YesAllWomen
The cognitive dissonance is maddening.

It's a little more complicated than simply accusing the other party of cognitive dissonance. There actually is a right answer and a wrong answer to some of these questions.

K-12 education, for instance, has no business being a state-level issue. It is grossly unfair if a kid in New York learns about evolution while her cousin in Texas learns that Jesus rode a dinosaur to work. (Especially considering the disproportionate influence that Texas has on the textbooks that every other state must buy.) Yet Federal control of educational standards is one of the most contentious issues of all.
Continuing after arbitrary computation events that are meant to be fatal seems to me to be asking for trouble. It's why folk reviled Basic for its "On Error Resume Next" command. It has nothing to do with what Perl is about.

Optionally resuming after a computation event that is not meant to always be fatal in a principled manner is an excellent, well known, decades-old power programming technique available in a few sufficiently powerful languages. See, for example, Common Lisp's condition system [1] or Perl 6's similar system.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Condition_system

[2] http://design.perl6.org/S04.html#Exceptions
It's definitely not a "correction" for the poor schmucks who put down their life savings on margin into equities last month.
> 5. Magazine: MIT Technology Review for tech related research

Thanks. It looks very interesting.
A big factor in Digg's demise was that Reddit was a smaller, scalable competitor that was able to accommodate the influx of users.

This time Voat is there but it still isn't a viable alternative; given that it isn't able to scale its technology. If they focus on fixing this, then it's just a matter of time before everyone an incident occurs that decides the grass is greener over there.

I'm surprised that community happiness isn't taken more seriously at Reddit. It's their biggest asset, and the whole Digg experience shows that it can be lost so easily.
`set +e` is your friend, as is pipefail.
I've never been contacted to sell user information, but I have been contacted to purchase information. Before I purchased whois privacy on my email's domain, I was frequently propositioned to purchase lists of users and emails relevant to information security and general SaaS products. It was pretty sad, actually. The emails never explained where or how they got the list of users, they just promised I would have an incredible ROI from these "qualified leads."
Ask HN: What is best way to get clients for technical consulting?
I just ended my startup and was going to start consulting. How do I start getting clients for myself?
Thanks for your feedback. We are going to make the animations a bit faster.
No MathJax. I am disappoint.
Awesome book by Nobel price winning Thomas Schelling: Micromotive and Macrobheavior http://www.amazon.com/Micromotives-Macrobehavior-Thomas-C-Sc...
The problem is, just one person like this is "enough" to really mess people up. You can have hundreds of normal, positive interactions in a week and it just takes one a$$hat to make you forget all that. Thanks to the internet, one guy can ruin hundreds of other people's days. He (or she) can do it anonymously and safely from a great distance. For the overwhelming majority of us, there simply are no barriers to prevent this. We routinely filter out nuisance emails from Nigerian princes but very few people try to filter out the crazies.

Most of us, if given the chance to have our messages filtered, would choose not to do so. Most people are eager to please and want to know when somebody is unhappy so they can fix it. Only people in the most visible positions are faced with such a deluge of crap that they're forced to do something about it. For the average person, the aberrant attention that comes from a small amount of exposure, such as a conference talk, is just big enough to throw us for a loop but not so big that we'd think about taking steps to never see that stuff. This isn't only a problem for women. Men face it too.

Perhaps the time has come to approach harassment the way we approach spam. Namely, make it easy to report personal attacks so that we can start using the same techniques that block spam to block harassment.
Ask HN: Data sources for large scale real estate analysis?
I'm dabbling in real estate investments, especially in vacation destinations. I'd love to be able to do some targeted analysis on these markets, like average appreciation in value over a period of years and so on. However, access to this type of data is exceedingly difficult to find. I know that Zillow does have (sometimes) past sale prices, and if that's all I have to work with, I suppose I can try scraping that site. However, are there other sources of information out there you are aware of?

Again, I'm not making a business out of the data...it's for personal use. I'm just trying to make educated decisions.

Thanks!
To be honest both the email and tweet read like someone trying very very hard to sound smart. They're over-using concepts that don't help clarify the issue, so the only reason I can assume they even included that was so that we knew they knew that those concepts existed.
You are not wrong, nationalism is making a big comeback in aging europe.

As it should, with so many countries being invaded[0] by raping and pillaging hordes[1]. (I don't know what "an aging Europe" has to do with it, it's the older generation that has failed us, leaving it to us to avert disaster.)

[0]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9560982/the-invasion-of-...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2015/0617/Seeking-Refu...

"The jihadist forces, in solidarity with Daesh, have taken control of part of Libya, obviously seeking to organize a massive immigration toward Europe. In their minds, it is an invasion"
http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-islamic-invasion...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=europe+invasion+2015

"Refugees" in fact consist solely of military aged men
http://www.europeanguardian.com/81-uncategorised/immigration...

[1]
"As one police officer said to me, 'There isn't a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited.' We should start from the assumption that children are being sexually exploited right the way across the country."
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3846/britain-child-groomin...

"Jay's initial report published on 26 August 2014 revealed that the number of children sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 was, by "conservative estimate", at least 1,400."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_sex_trafficking_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_sex_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_sex_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telford_sex_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_sex_abuse_case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_sex_gang

"Or the spike in rapes that now puts Sweden at #2 in the world. Or the #1 spot in the world for school arsons."
http://swedenreport.org/2015/05/18/police-yes-there-are-no-g...

http://swedenreport.org/2014/10/29/swedish-police-55-officia...

"Last night was yet another flare-up in infamous Stockholm ghetto Tensta. A crowd of 50-something masked thugs were hurling rocks and molotov cocktails at police and fire fighters. But noone was killed and police only had to fire warning shots in the air, so no big deal. Ho-hum, in the “new normal” of Sweden."
http://swedenreport.org/2015/05/23/riots-are-caused-by-polic...

http://en.europenews.dk/Sweden-Tops-Europe-for-Number-of-Rap...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=europe+rape+jihad
>Val Adams

I don't know who you're talking about and curiously neither does Google. This comment appears to be the only mention of 'Val Adams' to ever appear on HN.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're above making up names in hopes that nobody will check your references. Could you provide a link detailing whatever incident you're talking about involving Val Adams?
"NASA’s New Horizons mission is returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly and remains on track for its July 14 flyby of Pluto.

The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter “safe mode” on July 4 has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby. No similar operations are planned for the remainder of the Pluto encounter."

http://www.nasa.gov/nh/new-horizons-plans-july-7-return-to-n...
Yes, i vastly prefer my doctors to be filled with the notion that they know all there is to know about my condition than to admit something like "Despite my demostrated expertise and obvious knowledge of the subject, I have learned there is much yet to learn. However, Treatment X followed by Treatment Y is the best we have to offer today and has demonstrated effectiveness in these ways..."
Yes, several years ago I ran a self-created political site in favor of a specific candidate. I stated in the Privacy Notice that all information collected would not be shared and be deleted after the election. As I recall, I collected name, birthdate, gender, email, address because I wanted to correlate and display the info in a summary fashion, and I allowed people to make comments and come back and edit them so I had a password system, and some other things.

I had a few people contact me and offer rather significant money for the info (in total over $10K) if I'd quietly sell them a copy before I deleted it - pretty disappointing to me that they thought I'd do that.
The consumer one does have Boingo access, though, which can come in handy.
> Rapidly growing companies tend to over-hire, and then have bored engineers that spend lots of time creating wheel-building framework frameworks instead of working on wheels. Sometimes good stuff comes out of that, but there's a ton of waste, too -- in the worst case, you end up in a company that has hundreds or thousands of people, but only a core team of a few dozen are doing all of the actual work. So you have to ask yourself: would it just be better not to hire hundreds of engineers, and cut away the complexity and inefficiency that comes with an organization of that size?

This paragraph is just a criticism of R&D, and when read that way, I think the counterarguments become obvious. Can large and/or rapidly growing technology companies (particularly Internet companies) afford to not invest heavily in R&D?
cognicast, techdirt, blog.fogus.me
Neither did the post that the commenter was talking about. It was just a generic status update put out by a #Brand
Western media has a tendency to see China through a pair of gloomy glasses, and thus often are so certain that next Tuesday is China's doomsday.

Here are ALL the headlines (contains the word "China" ) from Yahoo News in the last 3 days. 12 out of 13 have negative words in the headline:

-------------------

Xi Jinping has run into the one thing in China he __can’t control__

China's Boom Has World Bank __Worried__

The South China Sea is now a 'core interest' of Beijing — and that's a __problem__ for its neighbors

China’s __aggressive__ posture toward the South China Sea has been __stirring tensions__ in the...

China hunts for "manipulators" as stocks __tumble__

Is ‘China in Africa’ something to __fear__?

China __angered__ by new U.S. military strategy report

China says tourists __attacked__ in Turkey during __anti-China protests__

China Has World’s Fastest Trains, U.S. Lags

China’s __insatiable appetite__ for power

Zeroing in on __empty homes__, China throws developers a lifeline

S. Korean official falls to __death__ in China

China's __Unsettling Stock Market __Collapse__

-------------------

I wanted to record the headlines for a month, produce a fancy chart and demonstrate how extreme and rampant the bias is, but I keep forgetting about doing it. Besides, it's probably well known that most media outlets from any country (including the USA) are shit, so why beat a dead horse? Before you shout "foul", I agree we can debate all day on whether a particular word really has negative connotation. Oh, China's media outlets are shit too, even shittier.

As long as we get information from as many diverse sources as possible, we should be fine. The problem is majority of folks has been fed biased information since childhood, and once a system of beliefs and images is established it's nearly impossible to shake it off.
Greece must stop spending 50% of its GDP on bloated government bureaucracies. That is the bottom line. More money stops them from taking the hard steps.

Greeks make nearly nothing that anybody wants, but they want the goods everyone else makes. They are not adjusting themselves to the realities of the modern world. You want cell phones, computers, cars, shoes, t-shirts, refrigerators ... all these things ... but you want to not actually make anything ... just sit at desks in secure government jobs doing nothing productive. This has to stop.

But politically there is no will to stop it, because people there don't seem to understand that secure, easy jobs for life, where you don't make things, don't actually create wealth for the country. They think jobs are some thing where you just show up in the morning for work, do some paper shuffling and go home at night. And get your secure paycheck from government.

How do we change this attitude? The same attitude is in India's public sector too. The way is you have to cut off the money faucet for the government.

If the issue is poverty in Greece ... then let Europe provide basic needs for the Greek citizens as they reorganize the country. But feeding the Greek bureaucracy really shouldn't be done. Also continuing to perpetuate this attitude towards what employment is and what jobs are should also not be done.
A try block requires you to anticipate an error. The cases where a program crashes are usually not anticipated.
You could eavesdrop on some of the probes with a setup like that, just not anything as far out as New Horizons. Google "amateur DSN" for more.
I wish this was the top level post. OP, this is exactly what you should be doing.

If I could add my own top level post - just don't do any penetration testing on applications you have not received explicit permission to test on.

Would you like it if someone did you a favor by breaking into your house, explaining to you that your security is crap, and then justifying it by saying that they should be thanked because they didn't steal anything and they're doing you a favor?

No. You'd be annoyed. Don't look for security vulnerabilities when you haven't been explicitly tasked with doing so (unless there is a bug bounty or explicit responsible disclosure policy).

Also, seriously, don't offer your services after you find a vulnerability. Even if you don't think it's extortion, a jury would probably disagree with you. Imagine how it would feel to receive an email explaining you have a serious security flaw, and "oh by the way hire me because I'm great at this."
What's there to be smug about? People will naturally confide in individuals who don't challenge their stories. It's basic empathy.
Forgive my ignorance, but where is content hosted? Can you start with and lurk with zero bitcoin or do transactions have to take place for everything?
True, however the 'ad' in particular was just a generic (perhaps promoted?) status update to a #Brand page https://www.facebook.com/TassimoUK
I don't consider it a "other party" issue. At this point I very much consider it a both party issue.
So was I, and I'm not even a native speaker.

Things like this and the countless typos I see every day make me question what on earth people are taught in school over there if not how to read and right (ha!).

It's not like I had a fancy education or anything, I grew up in a mostly rural part of Europe with a (still today) shitty economy.
> All the while, there is absolute ZERO condemnation for banking entities making risky loans. There is not even a tacit nod towards acknowledging that if banks make loans that fail, it is their loss to eat.

Not sure you really understand the situation. Everything which you said "isn't happening" already happened. There was already a massive haircut on privately held Greek debt (but not the publicly held greek debt), and the banks already ate a huge loss. Something like 80% of Greek debt is now owed to the "troika", with much of the remainder held domestically.

The reason that EU governments focus on debt repayment, and why people talk about taxpayers is because they own the debt, and it's their taxpayers who will eat the loss.

> Not a whisper about how taxpayers have been surreptitiously bailing out banks, and not Greece.

Probably because that didn't happen. Private investors lost something north of 75% of the value of the loans they've made; what haircut has the IMF or French government taken on their holdings of Greek debt? (Hint: Zero.)
Is he perhaps joking? Even a brief read of the Wikipedia article makes it clear that NP-hard isn't a mathematical expression in which 'N' stands for a number...
The purpose of "the" is to reset the vocal tract to a neutral configuration, allowing the subsequent (and more arbitrary) word to be resolved more readily.
Yeah, I didn't say it casually. I'm all for a little polemic now and then but this is just foolish.
pretty cool project!
Actor: Open Source messaging with high-quality mobile apps
It depends on whether you want to show relative or absolute change. Huff's warning about scales not starting at zero occurs when the chart has a caption such as "A massive five percent growth!"

In my experience, not starting a scale at zero often DOES produce a misleading graph.
For what it's worth I thought the interview was moralizing too. I find it too much on the blame side, even though it's an attempt at being honest, but it's hard to consider post-war state and economic crisis. Also bringing back war isn't the best way to avoid nationalism.

Bringing a little more egoless theory in the picture is a nice idea.
http://atp.fm, but I rarely finish one episode these days... I wish I could listen to fun smart folks talking about computers other than Apple. Also, I'd love to hear people that weren't so overtly progressive.

Most stuff I find is too serious and I rather hear podcasts to entertain myself instead of trying to learn more stuff while driving.
Kousibei.net offer anonymous web serfing services
The app is developed by me. I'm pleased that after two months since its launch, it silently draws in 10k's page views per day globally.

It's hosted on openshift.com, scripted in Python, zero logging, no tracking.

I aim to provide a more convenient way to surf web freely and safely.
I'm not an engineer, but it's probably a combination of mission specs being drawn in 2001 and the fact that adapting technology for use in space is a multi-year process.

The Curiosity rover, which was commissioned in 2004 and launched in 2011, has a primary camera with 1600x1200 resolution.
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> Also, when you log into the United website, you can transfer airline miles. True, once someone complains about their miles disappearing, United might pull them back and ban the receiving account, but it might take a while.

Put that into context - there are several groups of people:

A - those who are accruing miles who don't know/care

B - those who accrue miles but only use them/care when they are going somewhere in which they want to redeem them (ie vacation)

C - those who check their accounts daily

I would argue the vast majority of United's customers fall into A or B. Which means that by the time the customer figures out what happened - the miles will be long gone. And I'm sure United's response will be "sorry can't do anything".

> When United takes them back, the buyers will be without recourse.

That is assuming they are even willing or the miles haven't been redeemed already.

Playing devil's advocate this isn't United's fault really - what is the balance between security and ease of use? From a business stand point you want the service as easy as possible to use so people give you money. The average person doesn't want to deal with email verification, complex passwords, or one time passwords - they just want to enter their credit card number and buy the ticket. Though, I'm sure United is making enough to lose a few customers...but it's all about money.
This sounds like a blunt combination of popular terms
I'll be perfectly honest, I'm half-serious, half-drunk-posting.

But on simple inspection, the idea that a word can fit into a single category is obviously wrong. So to generalize the idea, you have to assume that a word can fit into multiple categories.

Biology is undergoing a similar transformation from simple "this animal looks kinda like this one" to genomics classification, which is revolutionizing the tree of living things used by biologists to organize living things.

There's not really any reason why words, a biological artifact, have been correctly classified all along. Hell! A copy-editor neighbor and I have minor quarrels over the capitalization of college subject names.

Trees are a specialization of graphs, and they're usually wrong. Just assume graphs to start with and your data will organize much better, even if the properties of the organizational metaphor aren't quite as nice.
There's some commentary here that's helpful, and some that's not. I don't think it's fair to say "Facebook sux lolz" when many of us work, have worked, or will work in companies that suck just as much if not more. Plus, this is just one engineer focused on a certain set of tools and products. Lee does not represent the history of Facebook's decisions. He is not Mark Zuckerberg.

It's totally fair to say, "thanks rich pplz, wut do WE do?" Though there's a ton of "rich pplz" out there that don't let engineers experiment the way that Facebook does. Perhaps Google. But the vast majority of these don't, I don't think:

http://fortune.com/2015/06/13/fortune-500-tech/
Thank you for clearly explaining where some of the money came from, and pointing out this subtlety. It is perhaps interesting to compare Portugal's contribution to Germany's after crudely normalising by GDP:

* Portugal contributed about 0.48% of its GDP in loans, compared to Germany's contribution of around 0.41%.

* Portugal's GDP / capita is a bit less than than half of that of Germany
New Apple Wallet Patent – Peer to Peer Payments
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