skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've helped IBM explore some consumer applications around Watson.

We were basically using it as a recommendation engine. In contrast with regular recommendation engines which require other users to feed it data on preferences and then try to match you with similar users, the project we were working on had Watson build a feature space on its own (something it is very, very good at) then match a user profile within that space. In short, it cut out the 'similar person' middleman. It showed what 'shape' a user was in a feature space, the overall shape of the full feature space, and where that user was in that space. Thus, if a person wanted to get from where they are to somewhere else in that feature space, Watson provided a map, more or less.

Why is that important? Well, building a proper recommendation engine when it depends on a network of people is hard. Think Amazon and Netflix -- part of their competitive advantage is that recommendation network effect built by their users. The more people, the more value. The fewer people and it might be way off base and turn off your early users. What if you didn't need to move through the preliminary steps of building that network? What if you could jump to the end? Suddenly that moat dries up. That's what Watson offers, at least for that particular application type.
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It's an open source project so, maybe it's not meant to make money?
Can't you, in theory, challenge any detention without trial with a writ of habeas corpus, including detentions for contempt?

It won't stop them from throwing you in jail, but if your detention is bullshit, and someone on the outside knows it, that is supposed to get you out.
Do you think lie detector operators are "well meaning" or are they knowing frauds?
"Showing 930 changed files with 13,029 additions and 10,187 deletions. "

Feel free to try: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/compare/selenium-2.47...

It's a dependency of a dependency with multiple language versions in the one repository.
This is new information, earlier things were like this:

If Mr. Zuckerberg were to leave us or if his employment with us were to be terminated for "cause," under the Current Certificate, he would not be required to relinquish majority voting control. Moreover, under the Current Certificate, Mr. Zuckerberg would be able to pass along his shares of Class B common stock (and potentially his majority voting control depending on sales or transfers by Mr. Zuckerberg, as well as changes in our share count) to his descendants after his death, thus leading to potential multi-generational majority voting control of the company.

The Special Committee and the board of directors believe that attracting a qualified chief executive officer to succeed Mr. Zuckerberg would be significantly more difficult if Mr. Zuckerberg, our founder and (in that event) former chief executive officer, continued to retain majority voting control of us in such a circumstance. The Special Committee and the board of directors also believe that the quality of a chief executive officer who would step into the role under these circumstances is likely to be significantly lower than it would be if we were no longer controlled by Mr. Zuckerberg, which could result in the potential loss of significant value for us and our shares of Class A common stock.

But after this deal Mark cannot retain voting control if he leaves or is fired for cause. He also cannot pass on his current voting rights if he sells is shares or his kids inherit them.

Seems like FB did get something in return.
"Edit for the downvote"

Don't discuss your own votes. Don't even mention them.

Do not interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.
Right, but training isn't productive unless it's means to an end. Has there been a productive end, and can you share it with us?
In my world, there is no such thing as an "encrypted drive" in that no drive is ever not encrypted. Other than booting, there is no reason for data to be stored unencrypted. Whether it's full disk, home-directory, or volume-based encryption, nothing should be in plaintext.

The only non-encrypted drive I need are thumbdrives for playing thing on my media player (WD). But I'd love to close that gap should anyone market a reasonable media player that can handle encrypted drives.
She brought her situation to the world. This is a discussion forum. People are discussing it.

You seem to be arguing that we should only discuss things that are positive and supportive, and that in seeking the truth of the situation we should ignore anything that is not "kind"

Please try to avoid sarcastic terms of endearment in your response, if you choose to make one.
That's not really the issue that concerns me. If the state can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is capable of complying with the warrant (but is choosing not to) then contempt and jail is wholly appropriate. Similarly, if the state could prove he knew where the body was beyond a reasonable doubt then that's enough to lock him up, sure, absolutely, 100%. Even if he didn't do it, concealing facts about it when subpoenad or served with a warrant etc is certainly illegal.

But the difference here is, can the state prove the drives are encrypted? Probably. I'd assume that's the case (forensic examination could reveal file names, logs, etc that provide evidence of that volume having been decrypted, the vast majority of encryption systems are readily identifiable)

Can the state prove he is capable and unwilling, rather than willing but incapable, of decrypting the drives? I don't think that could ever happen. What if he genuinely forgot the password? What if he never knew it (was storing them for someone else, a common lie/excuse to give to police but something that could be true, any number of other reasons)?

Does every person have to be able to provide access to all encrypted data on their devices if served with a warrant, with the consequences of being unable to do so indefinite imprisonment? Is forgetting or losing a password in unlucky combination with an false accusation of wrongdoing grounds for a life sentence?
Somewhat unrelated to the ELB problem identified, but an alternative solution to the original deployment problem: assuming that the collectors are stateless (seem to be) start off the deployment by spinning up a new collector with the new code installed. Then, proceed with the deployment in the original fashion. Once that's over, kill the extra collector. This will ensure that load is distributed roughly in the same manner, over the same number of nodes during the deployment as before the deployment. Depending on load caused by initiating a connection, more than one extra mode may be utilized. In any case, this is a much simpler approach than baking in application-level connection termination. All for a few extra bucks per deploy and a small amount of engineering time up front.
Forget the voting rights, last time I checked Zuckerberg's net worth it was about $10B. I remember being a critic of $FB when it was reaching the $19.00 mark after listing. This is impressive!

Hopefully he cedes control (majority voting rights) by selling a bit to diversify his wealth :)
It could be a simulation.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a...
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Wow, what an utter waste of time this was. How about sharing some templates, frameworks that can be used to create some, websites used to test responsive email templates. Hell, share anything other than a statistic and say "this is important."

Here's some that you could have shared: https://github.com/sendwithus/templates or https://github.com/zurb/foundation-emails-template and lastly https://maildeveloper.com/
As a small business owner of private businesses, I care about corporate structure! it affects financials and banking and employee organization, as well as private capital infusions. Just saying... I do agree re Alphabet/Google though.
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>"The other was a forensic examiner who testified that it was his "best guess" that child pornography was on the drives."

This guy needs to be fired. How in the hell can you tell that it's even images or video let alone children if it's encrypted? I'd love to see a technical explanation of how he came to that conclusion. Can the defendant sue for such a statement given that it's almost entirely fabricated?
I'm not in the legal profession, but I don't see those two as equivalent at all. Are you sure those are legally equivalent?

The first case allows police to make a search they couldn't make before.

The second is... I don't even know what. I would expect if you wanted them to be equivalent, you'd make the second more like: "We know you hid the body in your yard. Unlock your gate so we can enter and find it."
Hire him.
I have only ever heard the opposing argument, but I am interested in understanding to its fullest extent how to implement good DSLs with macros. I understand CL and defmacro; I am just looking for good patterns of use. Can you point me to any resources, documentation, or examples of this?
Media outlets like Tech Crunch covered it as well :P

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/06/y-combinator-flirts-with-ha...
If you were an actual engineer then yeah those organizations would certainly be interested (but you aren't)
The stock is still GOOG and GOOGL. I think that and popular perception (Google is a household name) is the reason.
Did you reply to the wrong post? It isn't AGPL, and corporations have nothing to do with what I said.
Habes are possible, but they take time. And courts, in my experience, do not want to talk about habes where the prisoner is still "going through the process". The fact that the process can take years doesn't seem to phase them.
ITT: People who have not used IBM Watson for something productive..
If 12megapixels can produce 10 to the power 86696638 images, and we came up with a way of enumerating those images, could we then build a function that given anyone of those images return the index of that image within reasonable time with current hardware. ie. "you have just taken 3999999987493th image"?
Not to be overly pedantic, but I intentionally said "size" not "mass". As car manufacturers increasingly use aluminum and various composites in place of steel, bigger isn't always heavier.
No, it's a crap place to be a spammer, like you.
Just because you are happy with it, doesn't mean it is an overall good.
Ridiculous advice. Mobs in this place routinely abuse the system to sink lengthy, well-written posts that they find objectionable. To not discuss this is to let it carry on as normal.
Lol. I'm the wrong type of lawyer. I'd send you to a friend who deals with criminal matters on a daily basis.
So the burden of proof is on the defendant here? Shouldn't the state have to prove that he does indeed know the passcode and refuses to reveal it, rather than have the defendant prove that he forgot it?
Key detail — unlike in the previous arrangement, he (and his heirs) will lose voting majority when he is no longer CEO or Chairman.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-28/mark-zucker... (attempted to link to footnote 8)
This seems like a perfect use case of google books.
The GNU mtools also used this scheme. So the idea goes back pretty far.

(Mtools is a collection of tools to allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS files: read, write, and move around files on an MS-DOS filesystem,
typically a floppy disk.)
I forget the story behind Hasseb, but wasn't he considered a scammer or dishonest? Is that what you mean by "(in)famous"? A quick google search reminded me that Cardrunners drop him.

Anyway, everyone gets a fresh start. However, he'll have to be proficient at shipping code (instead of chips) and be productive if he's to keep his job/compensation level.
Uh.... what?

It says "he would NOT be required to relinquish majority voting control".

And that he WOULD be able to pass his voting shares to children; "thus leading to potential multi-generational majority voting control of the company"

Which is the opposite of what you just said...
all you need is gdp growth + inflation to be larger than debt service payment. So, back of the envelope, current debt service is about 1.3% of gdp. We are growing at 1.8% and inflation is 2%. So, we are easily going to be able to service our debts at current levels. So, there is no problem
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Sorry I don't have time to dig into their choice of implementation but one way would be for Bitcoin to be a secondary payment option for those who have already registered a credit card.
no joke. he would advise her to babysit for $20 an hour on the side. Mow lawns. Move away from SF. She's the classic victim and dave screams "YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM"
A friend of mine made a tool that did exactly this, but with Haikus instead. He had a dictionary of syllables, and then just iterated through the syllables (following the rules of a haiku). You can type in a haiku and find its index, or just iterate through the indices to see the (mostly nonsense) generated haikus.
One the things I have read it is intended for (and which strikes me as a plausible use of the technology) is to read the medical literature and direct the physician to it when relevant issues arise in patient care. The example they gave was a doc considering medication A for a patient who was allergic to medication B. The doc learned long ago that there was a high correlation between bad reactions to these two drugs so he was surprised when Watson recommended drug B anyway. Watson then gave him the link to a paper from 6 months previous debunking the correlation. I think Watson could be very helpful if this ever works reliably but I see several difficult problems.

Number one is, how does Watson judge the quality of a journal article when the overwhelming majority of them suck?
Also with drugs, there are no autonomous search dogs constantly rummaging through your stuff.

For child porn, meanwhile, every major "cloud storage" is continuously monitoring your files in a manner similar to YouTubes "content id".
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Great job - very well presented
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Facebook's stock price has gone up a lot since you last checked. His net worth now is $44.6B (making him the 6th richest person in the world).
Just from this text, your conclusion appears to be opposite of the actual case.

Control of FB is by bloodline.
The Portland real estate market is extremely hot right now, and you can't get a decent house in a decent (or even not decent but "up and coming" neighborhoods) without an all cash offer, or way over asking price. Every friend that has been through the market in the last year has been beaten out of multiple bidding wars by all cash, no inspection offers 10+ % over asking price. Lots of bay area money moving up to PDX, tons of satellite offices opening up for tech companies, it's a big cultural shift that's happening pretty fast.
As someone who submitted yesterday [1], I'd think we need to give new applications more days to catch up with early applications before making a decision.

Also, I think in order to give more reliability to the HN votes and ranking we need to find a way to give a similar exposure to all the applications, this would make up for other bias like time of submission.

One idea is to feature a subset of the applications in the front-page for a given amount of time. (not sure if that's what you're trying to do with /applyrand)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586948
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I guess they are referring to a climax point and that momentum must be built up.
A couple of years ago I read an SF novel where people traveled between the planets and star systems on trains. As I recall, the trains went through wormholes or something, with train stations at each end.

The name of the book escapes me right now. I don't suppose anyone here knows of it?
I have been power lifting (deads, squats, bench, OH press) in addition to beach lifts for 10+ years. I have never needed 30-45 minutes to warm up. Ever. I have also never been hurt lifting. It is much safer than the stupidity I see with XFit.

The key is good form and gradually warm up to work weight. I was doing okay DL singles in the #405 range the other day, and it only takes a few sets to get to work weight. If someone can DL #405, they are not adding #10 each set to warmup.
Best comment on this story thus far.
Somewhat tangentially related: a non-scientific discussion on what Type I, II, and III Societies are, and why they might not quite make it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhkwT466ykc
Can someone explain why someone would want to own Class-C shares? I did some google searches but did not come up with much information. It seems strange to sell shares of a company where you don't actually have any say in the company you own part of.
Ah, not even a full-blown case of FOMO will induce me to read TechCrunch.
Is this a meaningful risk? If law enforcement are willing to plant evidence, couldn't they just plant actual child porn and skip the expert?
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As a citizen of the US, I find this subthread a bit 'crazy town' and nobody I know would believe this story. Perhaps you are an extraordinary case? To be clear, I'm not saying your story is untrue, but such claims require some proof before you will get people to make an issue of this problem you allege.
> For example, grep and egrep are two commands that perform very similar functions and are therefore implemented as a single program.

Not everywhere:

$ ls -li /bin/grep /bin/egrep /bin/fgrep
37748784 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 183696 Jan 18 2014 /bin/egrep
37748788 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 138352 Jan 18 2014 /bin/fgrep
37748794 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 191952 Jan 18 2014 /bin/grep

(That's on Ubuntu 14.04.)
The one missing thing is a tempting ebook or something that I can only get if I give my email address.
> crank

Using labels and insults should almost always be avoided. Attack a person's arguments, not their personality. I'm sure you've heard it before, but this is called "ad hominem".

Personal attacks and labels are a cheap and easy way to associate your target with a social stigma, immediately biasing others' opinions, whether deserved or not. "crank" isn't much better than "conspiracy theorist" or "libtard" or "moron".
You should know what your limit is to not get sick if that is a recurring problem. What I was referring to is some people stopping a set right when they feel slightly fatigued or feel the burn. I was referring to people who smile and talk as they are lifting or working out.
Plot twist: the "dark matter" in the universe actually consists of Type III societies harnessing the electromagnetic radiation of their galaxies by a means as-yet unknown to us.
> It provides marginal gains in efficiency

Some automakers claim 15% increased efficiency and 50% increased low end torque. That is not marginal.
Science is about reaching an expert consensus of the most probably explanation of the available evidence. It is not a democratization of thought - it is evidence that matters not majority opinion or vote of scientists.

More generally, it takes a lifetime of study to truly understand even a small aspect of physics. How can you expect someone to explain a lifetime of study in an article for lay people without glossing over the details? I trust the opinions of one physics professor about quantum mechanics much more than 1 million lay people.
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Betting on local instead of cloud is always an interesting gamble.

Pros:

- Security

- Control

Cons:

- Resource limitations

- (...)
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Well, both evidence planting as well as using parallel construction to fabricate an intricate web of lies to present to courts as the origin of some piece of evidence are already normal.

Just combine them, and simply lie about false evidence instead of correct one. Since it is already obvious that the law is not considered binding if inconvenient, there really is no obstacle to overcome anymore.
The problem is that it is actually possible that someone no longer knows the password to some piece of encrypted data. If the government can just hold you indefinitely because they don't believe you then that is a huge issue.
Eh. Don't tell that to a customer ;)
One potential issue with spinning up new instances on EC2 is that for larger instance sizes, if you care about the instances being in a certain AZ, there may not be enough available to do this.
Most modern math proofs are incomprehensible to anyone but experts. Is modern math suspicious?
We know that at some point someone that has a shred(1)ed disk will be told to "decrypt" it or face indefinite detention...
I've had good luck with these [1] - just copying music files back and forth over USB.

[1] http://amzn.to/1VWMwUe
>Tech workers wish they had the union protections and job security of animators in Burbank/Glendale

Are... Are you trolling me?

Dreamworks has already undergone several rounds of layoffs recently. http://bit.ly/1uzveR9

Animation/VFX is already heavily outsourced, and it's not getting better. Dreamworks has already said they are outsourcing future work to canada.
http://bit.ly/1P8FKX8

Illumination already outsources all their work to other countries (France in particular). Government subsidies from non-US countries has already gutted US VFX/animation, and pretty much ensures nothing but executive level positions remain at big studios.

There is zero US job security, and those going into the industry only have three guarantee's : long hours, low pay, and frequent moves to keep steady work.
I bet he's real proud of himself, way to contribute to society you lame scab.
They would give you all the economic benefits and likely trade at a discount
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Sid Meier divides game enjoyment up into four categories: Easy Fun, Hard Fun, Relaxing Fun, and Social Fun.

"Relaxing Fun" is basically what the GP post was talking about -- a diversion, something you do to pass the time, which is typically not completely passive but mostly so. A lot of sandbox-type games do this well, where you're mostly just sort of looking at the scenery and derping around and having a good time without being particularly threatened or challenged.

"Hard Fun" is nearly the opposite -- it's competition and challenges and stuff that gets your heart rate up. It's "play to 20, win by 2" and you end up finishing 25-23 in a high-stakes match to improve your global rating [0]. It's beating a level in a single life when it used to take you 5 or 10 lives. It's shaving 3 seconds off of your speedrun by perfecting a tricky maneuver.

"Easy Fun" is things like shiny in-game treasure, achievements, even satisfying sounds like the Mario coin pickup sound. It's stuff that makes you smile just for playing and making ordinary progress.

"Social fun" is, of course, anything that connects you with other people -- playing cooperatively or competitively, or even talking about the game outside of the game itself. (I met my wife on a video game BBS 18 years ago.)

[0] A Descent match between two of my friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mq6hyfFAo4&index=2&list=PLo...
No, it does not, sorry. I've been asked this before and perhaps it's something I should prioritize :)
You don't need a machine other than a watch. You can use almost any exercise. Keep a thirds ratio. So 1 minute full, 2 minutes not full. Or 20 seconds full, 40 seconds not full.

I have used the treadmill and just ran. Or the stationary bike. Or when I want to really get at it I'll use the treadmill at a jog for my 'rest' and do my full on with heavy DB snatches or something.

It is really not that complicated, and only requires that someone put in some effort.
That is what the current situation is, that changes with this deal.