skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggle to grasp this concept when USA, a very Christian county, doesn't seem to have policies that follow loving each other. Income inequality is rising and there is plenty of argument on who can marry whom, etc. It's very strange that a religion founded on love has not been in some military conflict more than a decade or two.
I don't disagree, but isn't it also a problem since they'll be indiscriminately gathering a lot of irrelevant data? It's not like bugging a suspect's house; they're bugging a lot of unrelated people.
> FBI agents caught bugging courthouse.

> therecorder.com
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So you are proposing that the French should respond to having over a hundred of their fellow citizens killed, and hundreds more injured by loving the supporters and leaders of ISIS?
streaming robots doing stuff... seems a big entertainment area in future. I could see a company that rents out 'teams' of robots/drones or whatever to subscriber groups and then these groups 'duke it out' or participate in whatever other contest remotely. The actual dangerous physical elements happening in some remote desert/warehouse and being streamed to the users/controllers.
I think surveillance is completely retarded. Not completely but pushing for more and more, I see people asking to give away their privacy because terrorist succeeded an operation?

All of the french terrorist (yes, they are also french, born in France and turned in France), including the ones from january, were already known from the police. We knew they traveled to Syria. Some official said back in january that they just couldn't afford to follow them 24/7, just not enough manpower.

So what more surveillance will do? We already know who they are, we can't arrest them before they do anything, and from interviews on french TV (I am french), our services already stopped a lot of them before they act already. Like earlier this august, apparently some dudes was planning on hitting a music concert, probably during one of the numerous summer festivals.

I realize that this could be an argument for more surveillance since it is working for most cases, but I still strongly believe that more surveillance means:

- Working on consequences instead of causes (causes would be french people getting radicalised)

- Completely prepare the field for abuse if futures gouvernements feel like it, which I believe they will (they already do basically, to some extent). Let's remind everyone Hitler was elected, majority of people voted for him. I'm not saying I'm scared that a new devil will rise in France, or even western countries, but none of our liberties and rights are secured by any means.
Abstracted color getters! This seems to be the biggest issue with users. You have to wet the brush and wiggle on the color to actually get anything on the brush. They can't seem to get that far.
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That was a different trade-off, you are making this tradeoff by not living somewhere else.

edit: clarifying the subject trade-off
If you think ISIS doesn't have a carefully planned PR strategy, I have a bridge or two to sell you. Of course they're using medieval methods, since their branding is "pure, original, undiluted Islam". But it's absolutely calculated.
The Education Myth
Yep see your point and agree totally on which problem they face most often likely.

I did talk to customer service to get an explanation of the statement since it just looked weird. When I talked to him he did say that if the first smaller charge (50%) goes through, the system automatically tries one more charge on the same day for a lessor amount too. He stated very matter of fact it is to try and collect as much as possible of the total due. He didn't say what that amount would be though.

I guess I am somewhat conflicted because I don't necessarily see this practice as all bad, but it does seem to have the potential to cause a problem for the very people that are most at risk to having an overdraft charge. After thinking about it I think you are right and it would not cause much of a problem for a traditional credit card, but for a visa debit card is where I could see the greater risk.

I was curious too because how we setup our monthly billing for clients is if we get a denied charge we send the client an email and let them know we will retry the charge in 3 days. This gives them time to update their payment info if necessary or fix the issue before we retry. That seems more standard to me with an autopay type solution.
Goodbye, Rdio
Jumping to the conclusion that there were ancient terrestrial microorganisms that metabolized iron as an energy source to explain odd isotopic ratios seems like a stretch to me. In the same way that it is unnecessary to pad out a science article with questionable metaphors.
That and the fact that there is no central religious authority for Islam.
It's only a small thing like someone firing a few rounds into a school but missing everyone is a small thing.
Fair enough. But I've heard many sorts of voices in my head. There's the usual one that observes and echoes what I'm doing. But there are other voices that come with stress and anxiety. Sometimes they warn me, alert me to danger. Sometimes they converse, and get into arguments. Then there are other fainter voices that come with various drugs, under various circumstances.

When people seek help about such matters, they often find themselves working with therapists who have this or that conceptual framework. And so patients learn to frame their experience accordingly. Explanations are comforting.

So anyway, I'm dubious about the distinction. I think that it's an artifact of social norms and therapeutic bullshit.
Step 6: Write a Medium article about it
at least you admit it
Awesomely feature packed! And thus a bit beefy at ~1MB minified, but I guess that is the tradeoff.
No, actually they're not saying that at all. They're saying that the article only barely mentions encryption and doesn't try to push an opinion on the matter.
What is your alternative explanation for the claimed isotope imbalance?
Not a joke -- there are cases where the government can get a warrant to compromise an RSA key and gag-order it so you can't say so.

The implication is that it can be illegal in some cases to say "The government knows the factors of X" or even "The factors of X are Y and Z."
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Ultimate Hacking Keyboard – Mouse Add-On Modules and Palm Rest Are for Sale
Awesome and straight forward, great examples to get going and using the libs. Thanks for putting it all together!
If you naively extrapolate, ...

Yes, this is definitely an appropriate time to make sweeping generalizations based solely on naive extrapolations.

https://xkcd.com/605/
Did you ever have trouble with keeping apart intellectual property created for your employer vs. for yourself on your own time? For example, did you use different computers and made sure to never do this at your work place? I'm always worried that this might become a problem if you create apps while still being employed somewhere.
A lot of women don't realize that their monthly "birth control bleeds" are actually fake-periods. Chemically-castrated women's cycles are nothing like those of non-medicated women.

Your FAQ could point out that the device is incompatible with chemical castration, but that it should work with the drug-free copper IUD.
It's been pretty clear for a while now that data has enormous financial and strategic value.. But that doesn't mean code _isn't_ the future. You really don't have much value out of one without the other, at least in the age where most of our data is not easily understood.

The biggest issue with our learning algorithms is that they are incredibly complicated and require high levels of mathematical understanding. The number of people driving forward machine-learning is small simply because it is such a difficult subject. There are many more people aggregating large and interesting collections of data. I think by releasing TensorFlow Google is encouraging data-collection built around their software; making it easier for a majority of people to benefit from machine learning while ensuring the continuation of their own product, code, data-collection, and ecosystem.
Thank you! Was using FusionCharts in production, but I've been looking for something with the features I need already built, that's open source. This is awesome.
If AD Blocking becomes too prevalent I feel bad for the internet. There just seems to be a large contingent of people who just don't want to pay for content.
In theory this will be the second Django version in a row to not have a big release-date slip, which is quite nice.
Just sayin' that we see this as first of a series of amazing stories about bugs--ones that are so vexing, with fixes so illuminating, that telling the story casts light beyond the specific problem... If you got 'em, respond to this piece on the page!
Thanks for the detailed description of your experience.

I don't like framing the issue in terms of "missing out". It leads to the "paradox of choice"-type worrying. There are always more interesting and fulfilling things to do than hours in a day. You seem to have developed a good social life framework for yourself that doesn't include Facebook, so I wouldn't say you're missing out.

As for stream, if mine looked like that I'd be unhappy too. You could probably clean up yours quickly though - just scroll through it and/or visit profile pages of some of your friends, and start "liking"/commenting on posts that you find interesting. Facebook filtering algos will quickly catch on your interest, and you'll be seeing much less crap.

RE etiquette, as far as I can tell you're correct; generally you accept people you met IRL, with rare exceptions of both kinds - sometimes you don't really like your new acquaintance, and other times you may decide to add someone you met on-line if you know them well enough already. At least that's how I myself and people I know use Facebook - maybe the culture is slightly different in other parts of the world. But the rule of thumb seems to be: if you think the person is OK and you might want to talk some more in the future, it's OK to send/accept a Facebook friendship invite.

> It just doesn't fulfill any purpose in my life and actively makes me angry.

That's totally fine and, IMO, a perfectly good reason to not use Facebook.
Then the terrorists would just use non-encrypted communications and blend in with the massive flow of everyday data...

...Unless you're intercepting and sniffing everything that's unencrypted. Then we're back to square one.
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That's part of the strategy. The most eyeballs see it right after it's released, and the intended effect is created. They've been doing this for quite some time. The first experiments were with using different headlines for the same story in the online and print edition. Generally the print edition headlines are the most restrained.
Presumably judicial oversight would take these factors into consideration. Lack of judicial oversight allows them to value their own goals over the rights of other people.
Thanks for providing this useful service!
Out of curiosity if I wanted to place microphones in random public places and record could I? Isn't it legal to take someones photo in public? So could I also place a camera where I'd like and record people?
Dokany – user-mode filesystems for Windows
I find the idea of you funding this via kickstarter really interesting. So, you're looking to get $1000 which, if all goes well you will have in 3 days. What exactly do you plan to use the $1000 for? How do you see this pushing the project forward? Where are you hoping to go from here?
I work at Okta(https://www.okta.com/), a SSO product among other things, and we deal with this all the time. We use a variety of techniques to help secure the user's identity and access to various applications.

1. Use the SAML protocol to log in to apps as opposed to passwords. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Lang... for more)

2. Use MFA as much as possible. Our product works with a variety of MFA options, including hard tokens, such as Yubikey, and more software based ones, like our own MFA app that pushes a notificication for MFA.

3. Generate random passwords for other applications that can be rotated frequently and easily.

There's a lot more we do underneath the covers and other ways of improving passwords and logins, such as adaptive MFA (prompt MFA if the login passes some threshold of suspiciousness)and no password login (simply use the multifactor token as the primary factor)
Step 7: Finance becomes the hot sector again
I suppose I could be convicted of littering...
That problem isn't destroying coins though, it is verifying that coins have been destroyed. A person can destroy them easily, verifying that someone else is destroying them is hard.

The whole situation you described is completely ridiculous though, because instead of 'destroying' coins the developers could have distributed their own coins to all other addresses proportionately based on balance.

The whole thing is an obvious scam from top to bottom, but I'm not surprised any more that some people would take the bait.
What you are describing as a private revelation from god is not different than the ones in christianity, such as seeing that burning bush.
Thanks! It's surprising how we still don't have a good open source charting library. I've checked most of them out and Highcharts/FusionCharts blow them out of the water.
Frontier Sends Cease and Desist Letter to County Complaining About Service
> They can. A neurotypical person's brain could spontaneously generate a violent psychotic episode due to a stroke or adrenergic tumor or somesuch. Just like any area of the sky could spontaneously throw a lightning strike at you at any time. It's low probability, certainly, but murder is a low-probability event to begin with.

I think if we eliminated all murders except these, we would be in excellent shape. My point is these are not the ones worth focusing on, because we don't have good tools to deal with "random, history free, psychotic break."

> The important point is that a model with "non-deterministic" people in it has more predictive power, epidemiologically, than a model where it's impossible to become a murderer without "warning signs."

Well, if your probabilistic model has no "warning signs", then how does it provide any information at all? If you don't have a method of using information to differentiate the probabilities when given a person/group of people/location etc. then you have no predictive power at all, except for the average murder per capita.

> building education toward methods of "de-escalation" for psychotic episodes, crimes of passion, etc.

De-escalation of psychotic episodes is an impossibly hard thing to teach without protracted work with a mental health professional. In addition, I seriously doubt that there would be any effectiveness when taught to people who have not experienced psychosis. Teaching this to everybody would be inhibited not only by cost, but by the fact that there is not likely enough people in a society that would be good enough therapists to do this on a large scale.
Very cool! Love the inclusion of SVG and not just canvas, I'm personally very invested in that format so it's nice to see the tech being pushed forward.
Do you also point out articles in the Free Press about people in jail?
I think if they are interested in the conversation it is worth throwing more than a drive-by "srs pls" comment into it.

For example it could have been "Well I think the budget is a bit off, CIA itself doesn't get that money, did you mean the total intelligence budget".

Or "Agreed, do you have any sources for the fighters who switched side? that would be interesting to see".

Imagine you are sitting by the fire and discussing something, and someone just chimes with "src pls", "srs pls", I wouldn't consider them contributing to the discussion, rather derailing it.

So I agree, source would help here, did provide sources but responded snarky to give the person asking for them a hint (not so subtle, perhaps) that in general that is not a constructive way to hold a conversation.
Hey, a bit late. But thanks for the words!
I'd looked away from this thread for a while, then came back. Upon return your comment was the only one visible and until I scrolled up I did not realize who 'the leader of one of these organizations' was, I thought you were talking about Bin Laden...
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/24/8652925/freelance-spies-ns...
A flash drive that lives on my keychain would be much more convenient for me than a watch, which I dislike wearing.
For years I was misled by statements like this, into thinking that immigration is a decision you can make one day, and just polish off your passport, pack a bag, and flip the middle finger to your place of origin.

Who knows, maybe 40 years ago that was true, but it is emphatically NOT true now. Getting a work visa in another country is extremely difficult and generally takes years of preparation, outside a few narrow carveouts like working holiday. And yes, we in tech have it easier than others (besides medical doctors).

My corollary is yes, you are free to emigrate at any time, provided you have met the stringent requirements of your destination. To me it's like saying, you are free to swim across the Pacific Ocean.
All ether theories weren't really falsified, just discarded on a metaphysical basis as being redundant.
This is one of the use cases for an App I've been working on.

Biggest competition is Facebook, how can you make it different and useful enough compared to just using Facebook.

I like the app name you've chosen.
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> different service levels (faster/slower) to specific content types.

Major commercial video gets unlimited streaming, everyone else gets rated.

It is literally the exact same tiering by another name, made worse because rather than being slow you literally run out of data and cannot access the rest of the Internet at all.
Not sure why you downvoted my post. At 300% of GDP, Japan is the most indebted country in the world and essentially bankrupt (Greece is at 180%).

The government has a mountain of debt (300% of GDP) which it mostly owes to the people of Japan. Debt means the money has been spent, but -at maturity- the money needs to be returned to the lender (not all of them at once, of course).

But Japan does not have money to reduce the debt so keeps servicing the debt by artificially lowering borrowing costs and just finding new lenders to pay off former lenders. In case the Japanese find better safe places to park their money, borrowing costs will go up, causing the debt to balloon, and may cause financial meltdown.

This has been going on for the past 20+ years resulting in stagnation in Japan.
often, when browsing website on mobile, and this is probably because I am a tech savvy superuser, I use the "scroll" feature.

obviously, moving the page or "scrolling" as I've taken to calling it, isn't typical behaviour. i really appreciate PC mag building on top of this feature.

with so little screen real estate available, I like them using as much as possible to show me other things i might find interesting.

sure, it is almost impossible to read the current article, but the article is someone describing a price tag. i am glad i can quickly consume the first paragraph of many articles quickly, it gives me the insight and confidence to espouse my opinion everywhere with little effort.

cheers pc mag.
> So they probably would agree with this passage from their bible: Deuteronomy 13:6-10:

No. The bible says itself that those laws no longer apply.

Romans 7:6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

Galatians 5:13-15 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Here's the video from @scale that explains it if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptsCWGZW_P8
Daesh

What do you think of this piece by Maajid Nawaz?

Why Not Calling ISIS “Islamic” Hurts Muslim Reformers:
http://jrbenjamin.com/2015/03/06/maajid-nawaz-why-not-callin...
Giving voice to the messages in social media on a public space
Now that the Islamic State has officially claimed responsibility, I can say that this ideology is fundamentalist Islam.

I highly recommend this podcast by Sam Harris on this matter: https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/still-sleepwalking-01
I worked with Robleh on a memory game using images from Instagram back in the day called InstaMatch. I had made the simple game and published it, and he helped do all the marketing and design to make it quite successful. He was always great to work with and we made decent money until Instagram decided to stop having apps use any part of their name in the title.
http://www.annarbor.com/news/eastern-michigan-university-fis...

That was their athletic department's official budget for 2014.

HuffPost has a table that implies an annual budget, but the numbers are actually for 5 years, and that is not clearly stated directly on the table. That fact makes all of the other numbers that they provide suspicious.
The Iliad and the IPO
Don't read too much into me not saying "climate change is X". I refrained because it involves human agency, but I wouldn't call it truly adversarial either. Let's add "intentional" to the mix. ISIS/Da'esh is an organization that has intentions to kill people, and is essentially a singleton in that regard even if it influences people to kill in packs of autonomous cells ("autonomous" used loosely, they're on the Internet and talk to each other).

Climate change, on the other hand, doesn't really have a central bureau that seeks to engineer more climate change. At best it's a nasty side-effect that some large organizations might chose to ignore, but they don't explicitly optimize for it and it's obvious it's not large organizations doing most of the damage. It's like a tragedy-of-the-commons problem, which once again you can construe as adversarial – I wouldn't. But if you continue to, I would implore you to consider that the attacks are adversarial-intentional while climate-change is adversarial-incidental. Terrorism isn't a tragedy-of-the-commons, it's a design.

I think the classification matters because it alerts us to some facts that I'm afraid we might underrate: like the notion that the people Actually Believe This Stuff as the simplest explanation, rather than convoluting it with some hammy sociological explanation, or even a statistical one. Because I think that they Actually Believe This Stuff I continue to think that they are ideologically incompatible with the West and should be isolated rather than risk being welcoming to them (by accident). The deaths of the Parisians should, if not be avenged, then be taken seriously as a failure of our ability to protect ourselves from our enemies.
There was an Internet (WWW, even) before the current ad boom, and there will be one after, if there is an after (fingers crossed).
What if I don't want to confirm that I'm Pavel Lishin to a given website? Do I have to create a new Facebook, etc., account? One per website I don't want to identify myself to?
Or New York Times articles about events in Syria?
> "a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society."

Not sure where you got that statistic, but the much better documented statistic are those of...say...US Republicans. An actual significant population (backed by polls) support outright genocide. Here is a Christian Pastor calling for genocide. Its not some conspiracy-esque statistic like yours, he does it out on the puplit.
http://aattp.org/christian-pastor-calls-for-genocide-of-all-...