skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you fundamentally misunderstand reddit.
I guess the approach is something like: 3 PC's? fine, 6? fine I guess. 58? ok something is going on.
Everything in moderation, even moderation!
Let's also remember the fallacy of multiple endpoints. Many artists have rendered visual guesses at what Pluto might look like. And many will be totally wrong. We're cherry-picking the best example in Dixon, not a typical one.
Uber should be suspended in California and fined $7.3M, judge says
First, it didn't highlight design problems, only very inefficient prioritizing from clients. Second, those numbers are ridiculous.
> This site and hundreds like it are totally legal in the US.

Maybe only because they haven't been sued yet? E-Harmony got sued in a class action lawsuit because they didn't support same-sex matching[1]. They ended up settling out of court and establishing a site that does same-sex matching, because it wasn't clear to them that they would win the lawsuit.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/EHarmony-sued-for-excl...

See also http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

To be fair all this stuff seems like concern trolling to me, but it's also not clear to my non-lawyer self that it is totally legit.
reminds me of Progol :http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/progol.html
Please help us understand reddit by sharing your understanding about reddit.
It sounds like the requests were a bug:

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues/431#iss...

This looks like it's trying to exercise every dark corner of the user's browser in order to ensure that the browser is a real, eyeball-facing browser and not just a URL fetcher, PhantomJS/SlimerJS, or a clickjacking plugin being used to fraudulently click ads.

I think it's easy to see both sides here: tools like this are a powerful way to detect and combat botnets and click fraud, but if/when weaponized they're also a form of browser fingerprinting which is a nasty way to ruin anonymity across the web.

IMO there are a lot of bigger targets on the Taxonomy of Bad Internet Things: malware-serving bottom-tier ad networks, "wrapped download" sites, clickjacking, and especially cross-site correlative "analytics" companies come to mind as being more sinister to privacy than Dan Kaminsky going botnet hunting.
Thanks for the support! We are definitely planning to use our technology to improve the food production on a larger scale as well. We are currently in discussions to start testing it with a company involved in large scale food production. Our technology actually helps save quite a substantial amount of water in comparison to traditional agricultural practices (up to 95%)! So we see there is a lot of potential to make the whole process a lot more efficient, make the ecologial footprints smaller while improving the yields and health of the plants.
In other news: If you create a IP connection the other party knows your IP-Address. With WebRTC some parts of this ugly NAT madness are gone.

Nothing to see here.
Rumoured BlackBerry Android Smartphone Circulated Online
Yes, but we present several techniques on how to generate these amounts of data. For TLS and HTTPS you can use JavaScript. For WPA-TKIP you need control of one TCP connection, and that is enough to generate the data. We're not saying it's a point and click attack, but it's a very good reason to start worrying :)
I've found that as I've gained more experience, I learn from my previous mistakes, and over time it slowly improves so that I'm making fewer mistakes and debugging the mistakes I do make more quickly. I remember that when I started learning software development, there were a lot of roadblocks to progress that were caused by my lack of experience. Such roadblocks have mostly disappeared for me.

My code still has bugs, of course, but I can usually identify and squash them a lot more easily now. I still encounter the occasional frustrating issue, but it's a lot better overall.

My mistake rate spikes when I'm learning a new technology or language of course, but that subsides once I get used to it.

Attention to detail helps a great deal, but I know that this can sometimes get tiring.

Of course it also helps to work with compiled languages rather than interpreted languages. :) More of those mistakes get caught by the compiler.

For interpreted languages, I find that linters are good for finding issues and some IDEs have integrated linting and possible mistakes are highlighted right there in the editor. I like the WebStorm IDE for Javascript development (node.js or client side) and it wouldn't surprise me if SublimeText had something to help spot code issues.

So if you stick with it, it'll likely get better and less frustrating. In the near term, my suggestion is to use tools that assist you in avoiding simple mistakes like typos.

Another suggestion would be to walk away from something that is causing you frustration and come back later. I sometimes find that a particularly infuriating problem is more easily solved if I take a break from it for a while.
It's actually almost 30 years to the day since the launch of Commodore Amiga.
> The Jargon File, a compendium of hacker's lore, defines "bit rot" as a jocular explanation for the degradation of a software program over time even if "nothing has changed"; the idea being this is almost as if the bits that make up the program were subject to radioactive decay.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot
Hopefully! Hope we can reintroduce homegrown fresh food to urbanised environments.
Badly designed? Reddit seems ok as a website.
Flipboard now has 70M monthly active users, says CEO Mike McCue
NAT is generally paired with a firewall.

Tell me how you would ship a device for $20 that will support an arbitrary number of IP devices behind the firewall on virtually any ISP scenario out of the box with zero or minimal installation?

NAT itself doesn't create security, but it brings a standard use case that is easy to secure.
Make Products Like They're Games
Yes backtrace() and friends is a glibc thing, but libexecinfo tries to be compatible and portable. Back when I used backtrace(), that was about the best there was, and it was not that great really. I'm glad I know about libunwind now thanks to this post.
JSX Everywhere
Or just find a way to cover operating costs and let Reddit be, you don't need to push it into a billion-user company, SV profiteering style. Maybe there is something I'm fundamentally missing, but Reddit is great right now and has been the last couple years. Just cover costs (Reddit Gold is effective) and leave her be.
The value of Reddit is the userbase. Unless you can convince a critical mass to move over to your new Reddit it's dead, and how are you going to convince people to leave their established communities and pay money to start over somewhere new?
That's because the human eye works across an amazing range of light intensities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_(eye)#Efficiency:

"The human eye can function from very dark to very bright levels of light; its sensing capabilities reach across nine orders of magnitude. This means that the brightest and the darkest light signal that the eye can sense are a factor of roughly 1,000,000,000 apart. However, in any given moment of time, the eye can only sense a contrast ratio of one thousand. What enables the wider reach is that the eye adapts its definition of what is black."

Pluto is 30-50 AUs from the sun, so ignoring the effects of any atmosphere, there's "only" a factor of 900-2500 more sunlight on Earth than on Pluto (sun vs full moon is 400,000:1 or thereabouts)
Please? tanderson@exherbo.org
a little context on what your code is trying to accomplish would be useful.
Mark Zuckerberg did not have CEO experience but I believe he along with his dormitory friends at Harvard were always talking about ideas and Mark would actually start working on those ideas.Facebook itself was his pet project long before he met Sean or decided to start a business. Though, with Sean's experience in social networking business helped a lot. P.s. Snapchat CEO spent about one year on a college application management software but the product did not take off. :) Here: http://www.techjuice.pk/9-entrepreneurial-lessons-from-evan-...
How many investors will be happy with that?
I did and found the CEO and his email address and an article written about him on mormonentrepreneur.net and an old home address and some more information. Z-Corp is just a shell that owns a handful of genealogy websites.

I suppose emailing him directly is one option now, but what do people do that don't know how to sleuth on the internet take care of this?
"It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet."
I love Reddit's design, it's very effective and to the point. You don't visit Reddit to view Reddit, you visit to read posts and comments. The design gets out of the way and lets you do that.
How to Scale – Lessons from Patrick Collison
> It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that.

Care to elaborate on how a savvy business person would extract a profit? Unobtrusive ads obviously don't make enough money. Obnoxious ads are going to push users away / to use AdBlock. Sneaky manipulation of rankings will get out eventually, and when it does, is also likely to lose users.

> I think that the whole website is pretty bad. It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet.

Really? I find it quite functional.

> Open a new one as a subscription service

Yeah, a reddit paywall is going to go over real well. (And if the free version doesn't compromise basic functionality, good luck convincing anybody to pay for frills)
Prior to taking on a $50M round? Maybe.

Now they owe it to their investors to offer the biggest return possible. And there are some big names on the cap table:

http://i.imgur.com/BSALe7M.jpg
Doesn't it help if two people are sitting right next to each other behind the same NAT?
What do you mean by "worst designed"? Are you talking about usability? Something else?
Just getting window resizing across curses implementations took me 200 lines of C
I'm not really a redditor, in fact I don't even have an account. But whenever I do visit it's immediately apparent where to click or search to find a discussion around whatever content I'm interested in. I'm genuinely curious if there is a non-aesthetic reason I should I think the design is "bad"?
Well, to start, it's not a place that people wake up in the morning and visit hoping they'll be drenched in video pre-roll ads. For that, we have Wikia. ;)

EDIT: I noticed that the article kindly compares reddit to Wikipedia, which Wikia is basically the for-profit sister of, in fact originally created by hosting content that was removed from Wikipedia and putting Google Ads on it. Both Reddit and Wikia have the problem of generating revenue from the people who create the content that the revenue is generated by, many of whom are children.
1.5 TB of Dark Net Market scrapes
I had the underlying files deleted - 1-2 songs missing from what used to be a full album, and iTunes' XML index still had references to the files. This was several years ago, long enough that I don't remember what the iTunes version numbers.
> Or just find a way to cover operating costs and let Reddit be, you don't need to push it into a billion-user company, SV profiteering style.

Sure, if you can find investors willing to sink capital into a non-profit-making venture to replace those who currently are invested in Reddit, and who would probably prefer liquidating their holdings at a loss to have something to put into a profit-making venture than to let it sit in supporting a non-profit-making discussion forum.
They are using it, they just don't reference it specifically in the article.

You can try the demo: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gabe-cc-form/index.html
Social-Media Sentiment Presages Market Moves, ECB Paper Says
> * Key Value Stores Redis / Memcache

> * No-SQL land: MongoDB/Cassandra etc.

> * “Traditional” Schema’d SQL: Oracle/Postgres/MySQL/Amazon RDS Etc.

> * Hosted DBs: AWS RDS / DynamoDB / AppEngine Datastore

> * Heavy lifting: Amazon MR / Hadoop (Hive/Pig) / Cloudera / Google Big Query

> * Batshit crazy stuff: Erlang’s Mnesia, iOS’s Core Data

Cringeworthy to be sure.
I said this when the vulnerability/bug/whatever you want to call it was posted here: I use the same method for fraud detection, and it works unreasonably well.

That said, I'd rather there be permissions surrounding WebRTC, but my clients are happy.
USA! USA!

I've seem comments on here that it's not OK to say that, but if you are a US citizen then I think you damn well should be proud of this and I'll applaud anyone who makes space work. It's frikkin' hard.

When I see a Soyuz launch I think "Go, Russia" and I felt similar things when India, China or Japan launch rockets. Just today Ariane put a satellite in space. Go, Europe!

Hell, as a Brit I'm proud of Prospero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_(satellite)
Considering the massive backlash Uber has received around the world, i'm quite impressed how they can keep the show going, and investors keep funding them.

Doesn't this seem like a lost cause for VC's?

Edit:

I get that the service they provide is hugely beneficial to the customers, but if that is only possible from breaking the law, then it's doomed to fail.

E.g. If an airline company provided extremely cheap flights, by having people who just received a license to fly be the captain, then you are asking for trouble, legal and illegal.

Truth be told, if Uber pivoted to instead of cutting out the taxi companies, instead delivered the app as a service for the taxi companies, then they could probably optimize their respective companies to be able to provide taxi services cheaper and with better service.
Hi, I'm the publisher of the site. Great suggestion, and we've updated the text to background colors.
I'm just pulling ideas off the top of my head since this isn't challenging honestly. Retroactively give everyone that has ever purchased or been purchased reddit gold a one year subscription. Do the same for reddit gold purchases going forward. Immediately you have a new reddit populated by users that are valuable.

Nothing is stopping anyone from returning to their old communities. The whole thing hinges on the new website actually being good, fast, and better.
How much would that have cost in speed 10, 20 years ago? Function calls aren't free, and their cost was pretty high before Moore's Law all but erased it.
Yet another Vim bashing post by the Floobits bros.

It's getting old.
Their motives might be good, but if their actions are indistinguishable from the bad guys, then there's still a problem.
> Obviously your product, ScreenDoor, addresses some of the concerns you're raising around better data collection. Glad to hear you're so enthusiastic about that approach.

Not sure what that's about other than it being a strange comment to make.

> The EFF isn't planning on selling software to members of Congress.

Who said anything about it being commercial? I think that if you talk to a member of Congress, or an LA or SA inside of the hill, they'll all tell you the same thing: we take electronic messages and basically throw them away. That's nearly universal feedback. And before we start thinking it's out of cynicism or dislike of the constituent, it isn't out of malice. It's because if they started reading every message they receive right now, they'd be stuck in July of 2015 for the next 10-15 years with the resources they have.

So my point is: why bother with increasing their volume. It's a bit like shipping gasoline to a forest fire.

The reason this is a problem is because it drives up apathy and cynicism. People will send more messages, get worse responses, and continue to be validated with the idea that Congress doesn't care about what they have to say.
> I've seem comments on here that it's not OK to say that,

Oh man. My kingdom for this thread not starting again.
No. Net neutrality means the ISPs cannot "optimize" this stuff. Everyone else is welcome to do so. That's the entire point.
I am a 5th year computational biology student, and have yet to take any real coursework in theoretical biology, despite the fact that most of what I do could be broadly classified as exactly that.

Theoretical biology seems to be the black sheep of both the wet-lab biology and simulation communities, a situation that I wish were different, but honestly it can be difficult to make a compelling case for the role/yield of theory in biology beyond a few simple models and natural selection etc.

It's frustrating, because I think the most fruitful area we can work on is developing a better understanding / mathematical formulation of the incredibly high dimensional, nonlinear, stochastic spaces that biological systems live in, but it's difficult to see the way forward because no on (that I know of) is putting time into thinking about it.
Ask HN: Where can I find new horizons probe data
The images of new horizon so far look good but they all seem to be just for press releases. I'm interested if Nasa provide the raw data collected by their probes (not just new horizon I'd also be interested in other datasets).
On Kabletown, and Empathy
Reddit is partially owned by Advance Publications, parent of media company Condé Nast. I don't think this is an option for them.
Throwing a 40 yard pass to myself and catching it
Same here for #2
Gold price has been falling for the last few years. Even with all this economic uncertainty and recession it has not had the usual uptick you would expect to see if people considered it a safe haven. In addition it seems likely that there is far less gold in Fort knox than there should be. They could not actually open the doors to Fort knox to exchange for dollars because at that stage the game it up. They just keep them closed and tell everyone their gold is safe and secure.
Everywhere I've been people/customers love Uber. I live in Toronto and I think it's safe to say the people much prefer Uber over taxis.

The only significant entities who dislike Uber seem to be taxi companies and governments.
As a user I go through several security hoops per day, and I'm damned tired of it.. So many errors all the time..

stuffs money in mattress

stuffs facebook profile in there too (printout)
You can easily skip over the #ifdefs - they're all very short.

IMHO I'd rather scroll over code I'm not interested in, than have to jump around to figure out what really happens if they are defined.
Executive Decision: Do you need an objective for your resume
VC's aren't trying to make public opinion, and uber makes money.

Frankly, it probably wouldn't hurt their business as much as their ego to stop operating in CA forever, even, since they launched here years ago and duplicated the model around the world.

They would probably move their offices to NYC eventually.

Anyway, we'll see if this is anything more than posturing.
Google Deep Dream ruins food forever
I question the value of CPUC wanting detailed historical operational data. It seems like an attempt by an outdated regulatory organization to shoehorn itself by flexing its authority, creating nothing but more bureaucratic inefficiency.

What purpose does it serve? How will it make California more safe? How are the legal costs, the administrative costs, and the overhead costs justified? I think these questions should be asked more often, instead of blindly respecting that authority is good, and regulation is a net positive.
That should probably be titled "7 Reasaons Why You Don't Want A Static Standing Desk"
.. and the victims of accidents who find that the drivers are not properly insured, and the drivers who find that their insurance company drops them and they are liable .. and people who think that you should be able to get a fucking cab in the rain for less than $400. ;)
You don't need capital if you're not expanding.

Running costs include the wages for those working there. I think $150,000 or so per employee is more than enough + volunteers. Of course you would have to give up the dream of being a billionaire. Off the top of my head I can think of less than 10 people to have done that, and none of them did it after 2001.
Absolutely. We're proud of our football teams, why not be proud of our space teams? I only wish we could stir the general public to equal levels of excitement for space as we can for sport.
This is great! Any chance of making it so that it can use email instead of SMS in the mobile app though? SMS gets expensive really quickly in Australia. Thanks again! :)
I think Uber is a great company and I love the product.

However, I can't remember a startup that received billions in funding and having such disregard for local laws around the globe. I just don't get it. They literally don't comply with any law in any country and give zero shits about the consequences.
I don't understand how this argument supports GMO. If anything, it weakens support for GMO.

Any programme that encourages rapid change in the germline in isolation from the wider ecology is asking for unpredictable outcomes when those isolated organisms come into contact with the environment that has not had the chance to exert selective pressures.
Uber is not receiving 'massive backlash' from users. It's receiving backlash from authorities and regulators. Personally, the more authorities want to ban uber the more I want to use it.
Maybe it's not a win or lose situation. I wish Uber would just play by the rules and make their drivers real employees. They have so much money that sure, they won't make as MUCH profit, but it will probably still be a service worth using and will still help break the medallion monopoly. It won't happen until the governments force their hand, but hopefully it's just a matter of time.
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If data costs and speeds weren't an issue, would we be aided by having a simple and secure web server on every mobile device? I know that's a big if, but if apps helped people create static content on their device that was optionally mirrored when they were unavailable, this could be an interesting shift?
https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht
Ctrl+f junto

The really interesting part is the last paragraph:
In a related case, Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, aka
Gribodemon, 26, of Tver, Russia; and Hamza Bendelladj, aka
Bx1, 27, of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28,
2014, and June 26, 2015, respectively, in the Northern
District of Georgia in connection with developing,
distributing and controlling SpyEye, a malicious banking
trojan designed to steal unsuspecting victims' financial and
personally identifiable information. Bendelladj and Panin
advertised SpyEye to other members on Darkode.
Note that they were arrested in Georgia. Do they mean the country of Georgia, enemy of the Russians and friend of the US? Or do they mean the state of Georgia in the US?
Either way, the US has them in custody, which suggests an arrest on US soil (come visit the US trap style) or a foreign arrest and extradition.
I'm guessing by the tone of that last paragraph that this is how the FBI got in. They flipped them and offered them a pkea bargain. We'll find out at sentencing.
Uber loses battles from time to time, but they are winning the war.
Pretty much exactly what I did, $25 treadmill at a yard sale, lay a board across the arms for a "desk", have a shelf mounted on the wall above the treadmill console for my monitor and hook the laptop up to a wireless keyboard/mouse set.
class Planet {}
class DwarfPlanet : Planet {}
// ...
var pluto = new DwarfPlanet();
Console.WriteLine(pluto is Planet);