skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not downvoting. I'm not pro-cheating either. People should have sexual freedom and be open about it with their partners, if they feel the need for it, to be happy.

I see the need for privacy at all level of our lives. Unless we all make a democratic and informed choice to drop this value. But since this requires enormous maturity, society might be ready for this in a couple of hundred years.
They all have surprisingly fashionable haircuts.
> This question is structured, specifically, to see if the reader knows about the laws of libel and publicity

How would one's answer change if they had never heard of these concepts? For this question, these topics only come up to be ruled out. I can see these things tripping someone up if they know enough about the concepts to involve them, but not enough to see that they don't apply, and perhaps this is the only point.

> not mean we use the commonly used english definitions of those words in the legal context

IMHO "newsworthy" as a term of legal art doesn't seem far off from "newsworthy" in the common vernacular, just a bit more formalized and specific. I think the problems arise when someone attempts to stretch the lay meaning of the word to justify something (say equating newsworthy with gossip-worthy).

On the other hand (and this is opening up a whole nother can of worms), I would say that there is merit to idea that words in laws should be interpretable as plain English instead of being defined arbitrarily by previous cases. The law should be written such that the average person can read and understand it themselves with a modicum of effort - being forced to hire a professional and expend considerable resources to answer fundamental questions about what one is permitted to do is itself a violation of equal protection and an erosion of the very idea of the rule of law.
Interesting stuff! It would certainly benefit from a comparison to other super-resolution techniques, e.g.

Glasner et al. "Super-resolution from a single image"
Freeman et al. "Example-based super-resolution"
Interesting Patterns on Flightradar24
So, you're saying that baby boomers caused a disproportionate increase in the rate of crime that no other generation before or since has caused, for no reason at all.
Just don't drive to their house, because when the cars get hacked and that data leaks...
> The syntax was heavily influenced by Ruby, which then found its way into ES.next.

I pointed out the major syntax additions of ES6 and to what extent they are based on Ruby or not.

> You also seem to be discounting the obvious popularity of ES.next transpilers.

I'm not. Babel and other "ES.next" transpilers are drastically different in spirit from CoffeeScript. With some exceptions (e.g. JSX and Flow type annotations) most of the syntax it adds to JS are either already part of the language and just not widely supported (i.e. ES2015) or experimental proposals for new language features intended to eventually land in a future JS spec.

CoffeeScript doesn't work because it requires you to learn a new language on top of JS. ES.next works because it's bleeding-edge JS (plus some speculative additions). The code you write for Babel today will likely run without transpilation in a JS environment a year or two from now.

This is a general trend in web technologies. CSS pre-compilers like Sass are being replaced or enriched by CSS "post-compilers" like postCSS (that consume vanilla bleeding edge CSS and spit out CSS that works today). JS transpiler languages like CoffeeScript are being replaced by ES2015 (and speculative ES.next) with compilers that translate the code to JS that works today (or yesterday, even -- Babel generally works fine with IE8/ES3 if you use the necessary shims and shams).

Your point is that Ruby's role to all of the developments you mention is essential and unique. I'm arguing it's not. By far.

The only remarkably unique thing about the Ruby community I keep noticing as an outside its rise and fall of the Brogrammer culture and the aftershock we're still experiencing to this day. But even that, I think, would have happened even if Ruby never existed.
If that is the case, that it's so successful you pretty much have to do it, that sounds like an absolute success. Sounds like the process pretty much works and is good.
he's explaining how tag database indexing and searching works - "use postgres" is not very illustrative.
Alright, I'll clean it up and post it ASAP.
Beware, it's (probably) awful, terribly unidiomatic code; I'm not a professional.
Is it this paper - http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/170059/A%20comparison%20o...

I think if you read back though people like Will Chan's and others blogs it becomes clear that pipelining doesn't work reliably enough outside a test lab environment plus HoL blocking is still an issue for it
I'm not accusing them of being cheaters, I'm accusing them of signing up for a website with the explicit goal of either cheating on your partner or entering a relationship with someone who is doing so. Whether or not that's moral is up the individual to decide (in my eyes, it's not, but that's pretty irrelevant to my point). Either way, leaking the data was NOT a moral thing to do.
Timeline was fun, but there are much better examples of similar stories. Connie Willis's "Doomsday", "Black Out" and "All Clear" are better.
Mr. Felder, who is also a former federal prosecutor, said the criminal ban on adultery has no practical significance. “It’s a celebration of hypocrisy, with a nod of the head to religion over reality,” he said.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/is-adultery-a-c...

I think it's fair to say that - within the US at least - laws against adultery are leftover relics from another time. Apparently there is still a $25 fine for flirting in public on the NY books. As the article states:

About a dozen people have been charged with adultery since the early 1970s, most of them upstate. (Most of the charges were dismissed, or apparently were dropped after the defendants pleaded guilty to other charges.)
I'm also wondering this. It looks like a huge design error.
So far the settlements in data breach cases have been pretty small: http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/how-much-do-data-breaches-actu.... It's small enough where liability for even a huge breach would be pretty survivable for most companies.
The wing of a plane is incredibly simple compared to the wing of a bird. No muscles, no bones, no feathers - it doesn't even flap. And yet it gets the job done.

Nature has a lot of path-dependence that can be avoided with design. Think of how much cruft accumulates in a software program after 15 years of continuous evolution, and then multiply that by a million. It's not unreasonable to think that whatever hardware we use to emulate various human tasks might be a lot simpler than the wetware that makes up an actual human.
I have used and recommended zapier a number of time and actually wrote some custom code to integrate with another startup (Lob): http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/1468

My favorite Zapier story, though, reflects how accessible they are. My company has a FAC, and we had just started using Zapier (this was probably 2 years ago). No one knew how to pronounce Zapier, so tweeted Wade and before the FAC was over, had an answer. Obviously a trivial question, but indicative of how they treat customers.

The article has some good actionable advice too.
For someone so concerned with the future, he was (for my tastes) entirely too instrumental in working against a viable future for humanity. I'm referring to his public support of Jack Inhofe's climate change denial. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/michae...
I'm sorry, I was trying to be funny. I really found your points valid, and the helpful reminder was very appreciated as it will get me better answers next time.
> I'm accusing them of signing up for a website with the explicit goal of either cheating on your partner or entering a relationship with someone who is doing so.

Are they "guilty" even if that very action of them (signing in to the site and "just looking") effectively reduced the total number of cheats in the world? Is the site "guilty" if their "grand total" had the same effect?
quick script to check if your friends are in the dump: https://gist.github.com/eridal/ae69aa16a0117954edca
I think there's a big difference between "lead/director" and "primary". I wouldn't ever call Linus the primary developer of Linux (well, at least not after the early '90s) but "lead" sounds much closer to right.
Can you see the bug?
Curious if there's any analogue out there in the current tech world? Printers that can print or assemble themselves? A/B testing coupled to genetic algorithms that can switch off functionality for certain user groups if it's not useful?
Show HN: Are your friends' email in the Ashley dump?
juletide's comment was excellent constructive feedback. It had the right tone[1], explained context[2], and included a specific actionable suggestion[3]. This is the exact sort of feedback good authors want; it was in no way an expression of entitlement.

While patio11 may not follow this particular suggestion for potentially valid reasons that he may or may not have, it was good feedback either way.

[1]-It mostly referred to his or her experience negatively, not the text itself. This seems superficial, but it does matter anyway.

[2]-The RSS point validates the experience, and makes it easier for the author to understand.

[3]-The tl;dr bit was a specific suggestion to improve his or her experience.
Companies don't take tax deductions the same way as individuals. For individuals, charitable donations are made with pre-tax money. So if you pay taxes at a 33% rate and give $100 to the EFF, it's $67 of your regular post-tax income you're contributing, and $33 of what would otherwise be tax revenue.

For companies, essentially all expenses are deductible, and they pay corporate tax on what is left over. Corporate taxes are on profits, which are revenues minus expenses. So, there is no advantage to Apple or any other company in providing funding to a 501(c)(3) vs. a 501(c)(6) trade group or a consulting firm.

And, I doubt that LLVM will be raising that much deductible money from individuals. But, there is also a branding and marketing aspect to tax status, separate from the actual financial implications.
> I have plenty of experience with lawyers who graduated from high-ranked law schools. I won't claim to speak for everyone, but at least in my experience, discussing moral considerations or moral consequences of the law with them is like talking to a wall.

You should find some different people to talk to. This attitude is not only not the norm among my friends, colleagues, and classmates (virtually all of whom went to good law schools), this attitude is almost totally unknown to me.

It's true, of course, that lawyers have to understand and accept that legal outcomes are not always moral outcomes. So it's true that "right and wrong don't have anything to do with the law or a courtroom" in the narrow sense that when law and morality conflict, law typically carries the day in court. But don't mistake this practical understanding for a lack of moral awareness more broadly.

Believe me, nobody knows better the injustices perpetrated by our legal system than lawyers. This, after all, is why many people become lawyers.

But also consider that some of the injustices widely believed to be generated by our legal system (though certainly not all, such as racially-biased mass incarceration) are, in fact, not injustices but are simply widely misunderstood. I would say that legal reporting is about on par with science reporting in terms of the misinformation and half truths that get spread around.

Also remember that a lot of the injustices widely attributed to the U.S. judicial system (and here I am talking about mass incarceration) are not primarily products of the judicial system. They are products of the legislative system (i.e., Congress), which the judiciary is constitutionally bound to obey. Lawyers and judges have very few tools to minimize this damage while also performing the job that our system of government assigns them.
I think an open source coding platform is not the most unbiased place for checking whether open or closed source 'has won'
Yes you can "release" that as a torrent as well
It was "just for fun". I read about the Stack Overflow tag engine and I was intrigued what it would take to build it. Plus they make a dataset available, so I had ~8,000,000 questions to try it out on.

It's been a good chance to learn some optimisation techniques and new data structures, such as trigrams and bit map indexes (coming up in the next post)

Also AFAIK SO still use their own custom solution for tag searches. They've moved to Elasticsearch for regular searching, but not tag searches. So their must be some benefit to their custom solution.
Yeah, 生 is a good example. Fortunately, there are corpuses out there with hand-parsed sentences, so we at least train on those to pick the word for 生 on its own that's most common (I just tried - it's なま). We could use this to get our confidence even better than 50-50 for 生す.

I can see how giving users more options could just bring more confusion. Such a tricky problem! I'll be thinking about this one.
Slackmail – An email to Slack proxy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_%28politics%29
C++11/14: Easier to Use, and More Expressive
That so much CSS is "bad CSS" indicates that the problem isn't the craftsman so much as the tool...
I suppose this depends on country. In Poland bulk of low level gov bureaucrats earns barely above minimum wage. Mostly young (or old) women are hired for that positions.
How would an insurance company price this risk?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain%27s_call

I wonder if the boatswain calls count as a whistled language?
Can you comment on why the project was kept private? Don't mean that as an implicit criticism: I'm just curious.
This article was a great read, full of little nuggets. I highly recommend reading it.

It was also interesting seeing that he really applied Kevin's advice and philosophy (check Kevin's talk for the YC Start a Startup).
yay! We've been needing good Golang->R system support. I was just looking at rserve last week, and was saddened to not see a golang one. So excited!
Yes.

No, it's not equivalent to cheating on your partner, but it's still wrong.

Much like drawing/distributing pictures of sexualized children is still wrong even if it's an outlet that (and you can't prove this, which is where the real problem with your logic lies) prevents a child from being abused.
I wonder how he compared with John Sculley at this time.
This is a poor methodology - Ashley Madison doesn't verify e-mail addresses, so someone could easily put in someone else's e-mail. If you really want to build a checker, you should also check the billing address of credit cards against public records for the ownership of homes, and check GPS coordinates & geolocated IP against that address. Then make sure that name, email, billing address, and location point to generally the same person.

Actually, an interesting project with this data set - one that doesn't dox anyone - might be to look for Ashley Madison accounts created with stolen credit cards. You'd look for accounts where the billing address of the card is wildly different from the login location. Doesn't prove anything, but it would make you very, very suspicious.
It'll get dumped into the internet archive at some point.
because it's a commodity business
Thank you. I have no more questions.

The start of this discussion was the assumption that every person on the list made the actions that hurt others, validity of which I questioned (asking if even the majority did something that hurt anybody, giving the arguments that with the high probability most didn't actually hurt anybody and maybe even reduced the number of actual "cheats"). And you claim that you "don't condemn" everybody but still find everybody "guilty" for doing the "wrong" thing to the equivalence of an unproved but possible child abuse. O-K.
Well, no, the alternative perspective is that most people are at one of the two extremes, which seems to be common, hence the idea in the comment I originally replied to that "more time drinking" is "working against you". My point is very simple: I think lots of people want to spend time drinking (while socializing) without getting drunk.
I suspect you fall prey to a question of scope. I imagine you spend more time with statisticians than, say, paleoceanographers and geologists. They might say, and reasonably so, that my reference to the ten year "break" in alleged global warming is irrelevant (as you say it is) and that your reference to a purely centurial warming trend is just as irrelevant. They might then accuse you of failing to understand variance and of having failed high school mathematics.
HeroX Cognitive Computing Challenge: read a document, load database with results
100% correct in my experience with medical device VCs.
While I won't be downloading the data to my own server, I have no issue with others analysing it nor with reading analyses by those folks. Especially ones like this one, which is essentially anonymous.

As long as the action stops at analysis, and doesn't provide tools for others to easily go further, then that seems fine to me.
Link 2, that's pure magic. I recommend to everyone, just listen the files in the order given.
30 years ago .com may have been intended specifically for commercial purposes but that is buried underneath three decades of use as a generic catch-all TLD and as such using it communicates almost nothing about the site in question.

.org is by convention and usage largely reserved for nonprofit organizations. As such use of .org (intentionally or otherwise) communicates that the website in question is for a nonprofit.

xxx is, at merely 4 years old, brand spanking new. There hasn't been time for intent and practice to diverge meaningfully, ergo it's perfectly reasonable to assume a site that uses the .xxx tld is in fact a porn site.
Glad it will be of use! It is still in its early stages, I will be pressing on with development over the coming weeks to enhance the support for more types and introduce support for authentication.
Enjoy
Introducing Anda: A New Crawler Framework in Lucidworks Fusion
Best to also link to https://ashley.cynic.al/ because that gives the email checker a bit more credibility.
Amazon had a nice tax dodge for a while too. Lower price for the same thing; not bad.
There must be a name for in-the-end-everybody-dies-so-why-bother logical fallacy...

(For some reason, these same people are often pretty worried about the state of the economy. Nations have fallen since the beginning of history, and in the end every business and every nation collapse, so why don't we just let them fail and see if the next one is better?)
Unicode Version 8.0 – Complete Text of the Core Specification Published
My wife picked them out almost instantly, it took me a couple rounds. I wonder if there is a gender difference or other things at play there.
Pretty sure yeah, I looked at a lot of profiling logs.
Took me three tries but my wife got it on the first listen.
There are some symbiotic relationships between ocean water desalination and molten salt electrolysis and photo-voltaic electricity collection.

Create

* salt (hopefully of the same kind required for the process described in the article),
* clean water,
* carbon fibers (which can be used to create batteries to store surplus energy from solar during peak solar hours), and
* remove carbon from the air (while creating pure oxygen gas)
Burn the heretic!
I am always surprised that letting residents work such long hours is acceptable given the risks involved. Does anyone want to operated on by someone who is late into their third back to back shift?
Interestingly in the first audio example of [2] I was able to understand the sentence before listening to the clear version. I've heard other examples of this phenomenon before (perhaps these exact examples on NPR?) and I recall definitely not making it out then, so maybe something was stuck in my brain the first time.
Contact us on rdios@microsoft.com and send us some details on your issue. Use as well the moderated Technet forum http://aka.ms/technet-rdc to post issues.
In my opinion "When Apple opens up, you’ll know the world has changed indeed" is a good last statement from the article and there is truth to it.
~20kSLOC IIRC. It's not a fair comparison since it does more, but let's face it, if these implementations did the exact same thing I doubt they'd pass the 5kSLOC mark.
In Microsoft’s Nokia Debacle, a View of an Industry’s Feet of Clay
iOS only :<

No planned Android support anywhere? No signup for android news subscription system or RSS if you don't want to setup a mail system?

Sadface.
Now to get a Slack account. How much do they cost a month?
Investors Hope to Ride Swell of SoulCycle Enthusiasm in Coming I.P.O
I would imagine they'd come up with an algorithm to calculate the cost of lawsuits and lost business that would happen should an AM-magnitude leak occur.
Damn. That is even worse. To me DNF means either Duke Nukem Forever or Did Not Finish. I'd rather not chuckle every time I mean to update a package... :)
That could be true. I saw a series of photos of person "implementing" the art that was a guy.
Back then I tried GOMAXPROCS from 1 to 8 and it didn't make much of a difference. Later on with a different version of Go (I don't remember which), increasing GOMAXPROCS to 2 made a difference, but any more than that was pretty much the same. In any case (and again, the last time I tried), the Go implementation with GOMAXPROCS=2 was the slowest even though it was using twice as many threads as the other ones!

As for showing "their"/"my" language: there were implementations from 4 different sources, and I didn't write the benchmarks; the guy who wrote the Go implementation did (and that's why the benchmark app is in Go).
Adultery is very much illegal, and actively prosecuted, in the US military. According to news articles, their customer database included thousands of .mil email addresses.

They didn't even make a token effort to deny access to email addresses belonging to a TLD whose controller criminalizes adultery.
Breadth-first vs. Depth-first Programming
I'm still waiting for a movie adaptation of Prey :/
i feel at least half-vindicated :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10049619
Well that's very nice of Python to have an SMTP server module.

I did a very similar thing in the past that was an email-sms proxy with the email end being a Postfix email server. It was incredibly painful configuring postfix to pipe emails directly into a Go program I had written. All the docs were close but none got me all the way there. Neat to see how much easier it could have been.
I don't have a Lean Canvas of myself that I can share with you but there are some out there. For example: http://image.slidesharecdn.com/leancanvasprocessandexamples-...

But I guess there is not one right way to fill it out. In my opinion it is the process of filling it out that is valuable.
Prey has a great story to it, and is pretty free of any political bias.
There's been a big move toward overcharging to force a plea rather than a trial.
Many self checkout systems are purposely designed to run slower than possible to combat shrinkage (theft). There are some systems that do run at full speed and don't depend on weighing each item after a scan. I was a grocery store clerk many years ago and the funny thing is that the IBM systems in the early 90's could run circles around the throughput possible with today's ponderous staffed checkout systems.
You sound like someone who dislikes Reddit because they think the defaults are all there is. Twitter could do a better job helping people discover their interest communities, but Twitter is more than the gossip-focused logged out home page.

You need to look deeper if you think it has nothing for you.