skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia is actually falling victim to this. Some articles now show noticeable bias (e.g. compare the "Men's Rights 'movement'" article to "Women's Rights"). On many pages, particularly gender related articles, there is a band of aggressive editors who will fight reasonable efforts to balance the tone of articles. Outside contributors who try to improve these pages will get dogpiled on. Unless you are an expert at wiki-lawyering, you won't survive even a couple edits before you are banned or restricted from editing. They enforce/investigate multiple accounts, VPN & proxy usage vigorously, so once you are out, you are effectively purged.

If you are ambitious and make edits similar to what others have tried (often because all of them are trying to fix the same biased statement), expect to be accused of being a "sockpuppet" or of being a "meatpuppet." If that fails, you will be accused of "tendentious editing". Of course responding to these accusations takes extraordinary amounts of time -- which is the point. These tactics are used (very successfully) to reduce people's resolve to contribute or fix biased articles.

Wikipedia's ideological hijacking is a serious problem and arguably represents the biggest threat to Wikipedia's longterm legitimacy. Those engaging in ideological hijackings have (very rightly) realized that if they can define what is written about a movement on Wikipedia, they can control what society thinks about it.
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I didn't see anything about pricing on your website?
I'm guessing you are not developer, because that kind of comment wouldn't come from someone who's thinking logically.

We don't need another flame war here.

And yes, most of the web is build on Wordpress/PHP - but you don't need to be a developer to install Wordpress.
Links as originally imagined were a separate layer of annotation on documents
Small scale solar energy subsidies set to end
I agree with your post. I find the attitude on that explanatory page very off-putting and would never buy from someone writing like that. It's really negative.

OP should think of those using the listed knives (Global, etc) as people who might consider an upgrade. But if they've already bought those knives thinking they've bought the premium option, I'm not sure they'll react well to being embarrassed so bluntly straight up.
Tailgating is illegal (at least, here in the UK) precisely because it is so dangerous, for many reasons including the one you point out. Of course, that doesn't apply to officers of the law.
To be fair; as the OP I didn't find the original comment humourous but dismissive and therefore rather insulting (Hence I never bothered to follow up) as well as many issues with the "Analogy".
I've remapped caps lock to ctrl, there's also the possibility to use the palm for ctrl not the pinky.
It also has to do with what kind of data is allowed in transit and at rest as per the examples I gave which are all around legal and commercial regulatory compliance. It has never been a free-for-all where operators use their personal judgement. In several territories you need to be registered with the government to collect certain kinds of data for a start.

But now we are at the point where there is sufficient data being collected and aggregated (by both public and private orgs) that hacks can damage economic infrastructure and harm wider society i.e. not limited to those who have interacted with a particular entity. This means that light touch regulation is completely untenable (quite apart from the general naivety of looking to the market to solve problems it could not even theoretically be solved in the marketplace when your infrastructure itself is toast).
I don't think you're clear on how journalism works.

News pieces report relatively factual material. That's the first part of what you identify. But then there are other kinds of writing that also appear in newspapers. [1] This in particular is from their blog The Intersect [2], which is cultural commentary focused on the Internet. It is written by their "digital culture critic". [3]

So cultural commentary is exactly this person's job. And I don't think it's a giant stretch extrapolating research about men harassing women online to... men harassing women online. Of course, you could be right: some online harassers may also be high-status winners sending out semi-literate email screeds from their mansions and yachts and whatnot.

So no, this isn't shitty journalism. It would be a shitty news piece if it were a news piece. But since it's not, I'd call it a decent commentary piece.

[1] Hopefully this isn't too big a surprise; this is literally what they tell fifth graders about journalism. E.g.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/creativewr... or http://www.dispatchnie.com/content/pages/types-of-articles/t...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/

[3] I learned all this by a) clicking on the big title at the topic of the column, and b) clicking on the writer info at the bottom. Next time if you're wondering what sort of article you're reading, those are good places to start.
Geoengineering is really no different than any other international issue. Ultimately countries need to agree or go to war as a last resort.

None of the scientists in the article are talking about implementing geoengineering - they just want us to do the research so we have options if the worst of the worst happens. In my opinion it is always better to have options when faced with a bad situation rather than none especially if the reason you have no options is because you refused to plan.
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1. The presented construction is pretty simple and falls in the category of computing the output for all possible inputs in parallel and then extract the correct or best input.

2. This is exactly the type of construction that is often(?) believed not to work, i.e. even on a quantum computer you have to exploit the structure of the problem and can not just throw quantum parallelism at the problem.

3. They already published a paper in May [1] in which they applied the same techniques to graph partitioning problems.

4. Which option is true? The algorithm is wrong, the believe that quantum computers are of not much help for NP-hard problems was wrong, or there is a way to translate this algorithm to classical computers? The last one would be awesome but the first two seem much more likely.

5. There is one thing in the paper that struck me as a bit odd, namely that they just add a couple of dummy qubits to boost the probability of one measurement. It is certainly possible that something like that works but at least it runs counter to my intuition. It reminds me of zero-padding FFT inputs to get a result with higher frequency resolution which of course is not real.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06284
People's confusion about whether being too methodical about winning the game is against the game spirit are missing that games, especially spectator sports, have conflicting goals.

As a player, your goal is to win the game, period. But for everyone else, including spectators and the whole support industry that is built around the game, it doesn't matter who wins. It matters only that the crowd is entertained. A player being too good makes the game boring, and so it is discouraged.

You can see this dynamic more or less clearly in pretty much every sport (F-1 being a notable example). The rules of the game are so constructed as to "level the playing field", to mostly eliminate any kind of advantage a player may bring to the field - like better tech or supplements. The crowd needs to see fierce competition, where everything depends on the talent of players. But then again it can't be too obviously random. If people feel they can't predict the result, they won't enjoy it. Doesn't matter if the game is inherently random or not; it only needs to not look like it. Then there's danger. Safe sports are boring, but actual accidents will detract people from enjoying the show, so again you need to create a sense of imminent danger while minimizing any real chance of a problem.

I mentioned F-1, because it's a notable example of a sport where all rules are constantly adjusted to ensure that you can't win by having better tech.

Personally, I hate this whole showbusiness and the engineering of enjoyment. I would appreciate a game with rules set up so people would be free to develop better strategies and better tech in order to dominate.
Career stuff is ok on HN, just very focused on startups and the valley. The embedded world is underrepresented for example, but afaik pretty big.

BigCorp other than Google and Apple is underrepresented. Where are the guys who produce 5 billion lines of COBOL each year hanging out? Where are the SAP and IBM programmers?
Looks pretty awesome. If I have to criticize the "Add a Startup" button bothers me a bit, its placement is a bit off. It feels like it should be a bit lower and more in line with the rest of the page.
22 Dream Jobs Way, Way Out of the Office
What, no timecode? Has it been removed?
And if don't express certain viewpoints, you're downvoted to oblivion. I wouldn't mind a filter for these types of articles (every other website on the world is already discussing the police+victim story of the month), and you can't ever side with the police here.
Scan a QR code or visit a URL for the full parking schedule in that spot. Not ideal, but a bit better.

e.g., the sign could advertise its own URL of sydneyparking.com/DF7S9 and show any extra detail there.
[Note: I am a master student doing my thesis in this area]

Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb here and call bullshit, based on the meta-reason that they cite a paper of theirs which already claims to show that NP is contained in BQP using a different NP-complete problem, published in may 2015 (which is basically the same groundbreaking result as this paper), but this somehow completely failed to make waves in the community.

Additionally, on a superficial reading of the paper nothing seems wrong with it, except that it has this air of everything being too easy, too novel, not building on any widely recognized partial results. Considering this problem has been attacked by hundreds (?) of researchers over the years, it seems highly implausible that they just happened to find this one weird trick nobody had thought of before.

Anyway, those are just heuristics, and I'd love to be wrong on this occasion, but life is too short to give my full attention to a dubious paper for more than 15 minutes. I could attempt to whip up this algorithm in a quantum simulator, but that would take a considerable amount of time to do right, so I'll let somebody else do the work of debunking/confirming the result.
Why would you discover new things through patreon? Aren't you supposed to discover things on the wider internet then their creators link you to their patreon page or other funding method?
It happened to me once too, but after answering a couple questions, which I probably should not even have done, I asked them if I had to stay there and talk to them and was let go. You should not talk to police: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc .
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> so they have fancy versioning, deployment and continuous integration for all their code, except for stored procedures.

Exactly, because those things are extremely important to how code gets shipped and delivers value to the business. Stored procedures become a huge risk to future development which ultimately means it's a risk to the businesses ability to deliver value. What happens when you need to change DB vendors because the business has been so successful that you've outgrown a relational database? You have to rewrite the ENTIRE MC portion of your MVC application. Why would someone ever do this?
Someone famously did this in LA:

http://jalopnik.com/5516635/the-secret-of-las-10-year-old-fa...
Microsoft issues a critical patch to fix the Hacking team security hole
As much as I'd like to be on the cutting edge of science/math, I (suspect most of us here) don't have the tools to understand, let alone evaluate this preprint. So before we make a tweet storm and start blowing our horns, let's try to hold our horses and wait for peer review. That could take well over a year.

Well, in the meanwhile, I have a question: what's a good intro resource to quantum computing? For general complexity intro, I like Michael Sipser's Theory Of Computation
> Avoid state at all costs. Stored procedures are stateful. Schema and migrations is pain enough already.

What do you mean by that? How is having a bunch of queries in a stored procedure more "stateful" than having the same queries in the application?

> Write me a check constraint that validates an email address being put in a varchar column and reports back a sensible message which can be bound to an entry field with metadata about the error.

Postgres gives you metadata about the error, though the error message will still be a generic "CHECK constraint violated" or some such.

> Write me a constraint and key arrangement which is unique across two and three columns in separate groups.

I'm not sure what you want to see based on that description, but surely you're not advocating enforcing unique constraints in the application?
See also http://www.academia.edu/9974664/Looms_Weaving_and_the_Austro...
You came along and dismissed the parents views without any real thought.

If you write the tests afterwards you can better gauge how well they catch bugs. It sounds like the parent has tried this and has found them pretty useless.

I've personally found that unit tests are not worthwhile for many components, and yet are critical for others.
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Yep, looks like it's been edited.

http://time.com/3967329/sandra-bland-video-continuity/
The arrested woman is "lucky" she didn't get charged for the officer's dry cleaning.
Nowhere did I say it was bad if they had to post their changes, but in reality it just means they won't touch it, won't have changes to post, and they will keep looking for more permissive code to use.

If a viral licence is an impediment to people using my work, then releasing it seems like a waste.
Spender is the originator/maintainer of the venerable grsecurity patch set, he knows a thing or twelve about this subject.
This is what Brazil’s startup ecosystem looks like: An open source guide
I think this post was the first to call out the _edits_. It provides a few more details than the LA Times article, I think...

http://bennorton.com/dashcam-video-of-violent-arrest-of-sand...
I will try and dig out some of the good papers I have tomorrow (it is getting later here), but a good place to start is wiki [1]. Have a read through all the references they have.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering
Why comment when you don't have the time for more than superficial analysis?
Things I've noticed about this discussion:

* The vast majority of participants in this discussion are extremists. Both sides. No matter their claims. No matter their organizations. No matter their cause. There is rife misogyny and misandry to be had. Nobody knows why they are fighting so they fight over genitalia.

* Participants on both sides are just as vile as the other. Have anti-GG been harassed? Yes. Have GG been harassed? Yes. On equal terms of severity. There are a few sane participants but they tend to be quieter and also seem to be taking a step back from it all.

* Out of "real-life" people these thought patterns seem to be a minority - they are just making a lot of noise and drama on the internet. I've challenged people with both sides of the discussion in "real-life" and was met with disbelief.

* Social justice (anti-GG term) within the argument is not social justice. Ethics and egalitarianism (GG terms) within the argument also do not hold their true meaning.

None of these people are worth getting involved with. Just stay away from this whole discussion. It doesn't matter how liberal you are or how well-intentioned you are: someone is going to find your weakness and provoke you.

Let Reddit burn. Really. It's just a website. It doesn't matter. Whoever wins the war will simply be the rulers of an empty kingdom.

Edit: glad the post was flag-killed.
"Cause you're entitled to start a conversation with every girl that seems interesting to you right?"

Yes, because I'm human, and yes, a women is entitled to start a conversation with anyone they want since they too are human. There are some cultural rules depending on place, but yes, this is how humans meet each other.

So, in your world, guys cannot go talk to a random girl, and since we are for equality, girls cannot go talk to a random guy. Everyone marches to class and leaves class without interacting with anyone. What kind of horrible world is this for the social creature that is human? Some of my best friends were met through random hall conversations. I can only imagine the feelings of isolation of a person in this world.
The whole idea is that Users and SysAdmins don't have to do anything - it just works. With SELinux, the first thing that users/sysadmins do is disable it because it's screwing up their environment and annoying them.
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No that is something unrelated. The way you would have to detect this is by obtaining the document from multiple sources and checking them for differences.
There are a lot of terrible opinions on that person's blog.
Thank you for the advice. The company doesn't focus on any particular domain but handles many different projects.
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> And you need an invite to post iirc.

To me, this is a (major) downside. Among other reasons: I'd want a website where people like me felt welcome. And I know that for me, personally, I do not feel welcome at any site that didn't even allow me to join.
Interactive lets you fly through a software galaxy
Is religion blocked here? God forbid we discuss that.
It couldn't hurt to go back and review but I'd ask them for what tools they use and what they think you should study.

You will also want to be familiar with some tools to debug code for their stack. They'll likely give you some bugs to track down to start off with. Definitely install and play with whatever database they are using.
Thank you. The language will be mostly Python. Being pragmatic is a good thing but I guess that comes after I start working.
I think this list could use some updating. Most books on the list are super old. Also, from cursory look, there appears to be only one book on discrete math in Intermediate. There are tons of discrete math books that should serve as stepping stones for the one listed. For example, Discrete Intro to Math by Edward Scheinerman and Discrete Math by Susanna Epp.
The company that provided these (Visionect) also sells affordable e-ink developer kits [1]. The best part is that you can build apps in plain HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

Disclosure: I worked with Visionect a few years ago to develop an e-ink restaurant menu.

[1] https://www.visionect.com/development_kits
Riak makes sense for some workloads. For the vast majority of workloads out there, you will save time and money with an ACID system. Good ACID systems are mostly RDBMSs, so I would say, for now at least, that typical RDBMSs do have a leg up on other technologies out there.
Not really to prepare, but during your first weeks identify the best programmers there and look through their commits. Books, tutorials, etc are good, but nothing like seeing how a good programmer writes code and solves problems on a day to day basis.
http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
The viral nature of the GPL leaves a bad taste in my mouth like a ideological chain-letter!

I like public domain, I like MIT, I like libPNG, but I don't like forcing ideology or licenses on people and THEIR code. Take it, learn from it, modify it, USE it. If I didn't want it to be taken and used I wouldbt bother to post it! The GPL gets in the way of that.
I was hoping someone would touch on this. The article title reminded me of ASMR, which I experience, but I've never felt it as intensely when I listen to music even though I played drums a lot until a few years ago. It seems the trigger is different but the physical sensation may be very similar.
He's probably getting down voted because his statement does not appear to be even remotely true, at least judging by the data in your first link.

I picked a few at random from the July group, and the closest any came to someone being killed for "disrespecting" the police was a couple of them who were shot for pointing guns at police, which is certainly disrespectful.

I have no idea why you are getting down voted.
Here's the presentation the post is based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K6bwikZulI
I was lucky to get a 3-day a week contract, but still had to do my freelance work in the evening/weekend for a bit.
According to that criterion, no one should comment on HN ever, unless they are writing at the level of a peer reviewed journal.

I supposed it would be interesting for people here for me to at least point out some obvious red flags.
Does it also have a algorithmic ranking model and is the algorithm customizable? Any chance of a self-hosted alternative?

This looks awesome, I would love to talk more, I have been looking for something like this
> Do you go up to men and start random conversations? Does that sound like it might be annoying to deal with?

Yes, I do. I've met lifelong friends that way. In fact, I seem to get approached by a lot of strangers and told a lot of things. Learned about the history of rocks in Sioux Falls that way.

> So when you, a stranger, approach me, I have to ask myself: Will this man rape me?

If that's the first thought then society has failed this person with fear mongering and bad statistics. Crime has gone down since the 70's, but we act like the world is much more dangerous. We need to work on that instead of forcing an inhuman social isolation.
I think it's quite simple really. Sure it's a bit ugly but most APIs are behind the scenes. As long as the API itself is clean, that's not necessarily a problem.

In this case though, the problem with growing the permission set is you then need rules to define the sandbox "size" outside the process, then tools to administer it, then the policies to be deployed with the program.

If you're using tame which is restrictive, based on how they do privsep in OpenBSD, you're forking tasks off from a control process and then removing privileges. So the program defines the policy internally, very granularly and correctly.

How you'd do that with seccomp-bpf with forked child processes etc would be vastly more complex. Consider OpenSMTPd for example which consists (I can't remember the exact separations): master process, smtp listener, queue, writer. These are all forked from the master process and talk to each other with pipes. How would you mandate the call limitations efficiently if this was externalised? Also how would you assure that a misapplied external policy doesn't compromise your system.
Programmers make things more complicated?
Because even the superficial analysis provides more than zero useful information. (Nothing super-obviously wrong. Nothing that looks clever enough to overcome the guess that, none the less, something's probably wrong.)
Datatau is a HN clone focused on data science.
Thanks, sound advice! I have already some experience with most of the tools they use but I was wondering if I should focus more on doing, e.g., programming challenges on sites like Top Coder or complete tutorial after tutorial about the stack. They use git by the way and I have been using it for a while now.
I haven't checked all around the site but on http://www.postatic.com/admin/hello/tour this stood out:

`User your own domain name` should be `Use your own domain name`