skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no advocate of violence but this makes you wonder about the ethics of beating such guys up. The legal system seems pointless.
That's really cool. Even if you don't find the project itself all that useful, bounce on over to the github and have a look. This is a good example of how to put a project together and share it with the world. Kudos.
What incentives do the banks have to fight on behalf of their customers?
grouping dont always yield better results, and I think it would probably do pretty poorly in this case because there are few observations.

Random Forest won in the samples tried, but I wager a support vector machine with a histogram kernel would do fantastic.
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So I'm remaking a product and was approaching qt about the commercial version. The rep was very insistent that I can not develop an internal prototype using the open source license and then move to the commercial license. So that makes qt pretty unattractive to me since I have to pony up cash and hope it's good.

What I would like is something like electron that can run on a frame buffer. What's the current state of the art for a html5 based embedded interface?
As I understand VPN providers make users share single IP. Doesn't it give some extra anonymity? For example if you create your own Droplet someone still can listen for your traffic (but not coming from your PC but from the Droplet) and you are quite easily identifiable (because you are only user).
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So, no attempts to bring Davis in front of the Texas BAR association for unethical practices?

I'm also curious why numerous developers have not demanded an Insurance Protection Product / Plan that would take a premium in return for subrogation (defense) if a frivolous Patent Suit is filed. I'm rather certain the market exists and while it may be for larger businesses or players, developers forming a Mutual Company and writing on some big name AM Best A paper (or even going to Lloyds) could be helpful.

Anybody know of such an organization or idea?

I guess my line of thinking here is that "Yes, this is totally unfair and rigged" and then move on to "How do I work around the issues, at least to a limited extent, to avoid these pitfalls?" Sign me up for reform, sure, I'm all for it. Until then, I don't like banging my head against walls, I prefer to figure out ways around or over them.
It seems a good idea.

I used the Ruby code at the beginning of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16323571/measure-the-dist... to calculate the distance between the package names at page 60 of the thesis and their typos.
The maximum is 2.

I checked some similar package names from a Gemfile.lock of a project of mine. Unfortunately the two gems hike and hirb are also at distance 2. Probably many short names are close with this metric.

A combination of the two approaches could be ok: knowing that a name was blacklisted should be an indicator that's not a good name, despite the distance with any other name, plus an approval of the maintainers for distance 2.

But a blacklist could generate another type of squatting, with people trying to pre-blacklist perfectly legit names. Only one thing is sure: there is more work to do for the maintainers and this extra friction is not good.

Edit: the distance suffers from the same problem.
> This is the thing I really don't get about UBI. It really, really doesn't remove means testing. Your tax burden is still means based

There's a degree to which this is true, but there is a radical difference between tax system "means testing" and that with existing means-tested public benefit programs. With existing poverty support programs, its quite possible to lose nearly (and in some cases even more than) $1 in public benefits for each $1 in outside income (and much more at certain breakpoints), and to do so while your total income is under the federal poverty level.

OTOH with stae and federal income and payroll taxes together, you can -- in a relatively high income tax state like California -- currently reach a maximum marginal rate (including the employer share of medicare taxes, and assuming that payroll taxable income and income taxable income are equal, which both overstates the tax rate on nominal income and ignores minor differences between the income those two taxes apply to) of 55.8%, but it takes $1 million in taxable income to reach that point (some UBI proposals would add higher maximum marginal rates, at even higher income levels.)

So, sure, the tax system reduces the incentive for earning additional income, especially at higher income levels; the problem UBI address is that existing poverty support programs do much more to reduce the benefit for earning additional -- or even any non-benefit -- income, and they do it at poverty levels.

(And, on top of that, they add -- with each program -- additional layers of bureaucracy to enforce those rules, rather than letting the tax system be the single point in which means are considered.)
I would argue that if your goal is to destroy Jacob Applebaum's public persona, then smear campaigns and character assassinations are productive. Even if this were to make it to court, and Applebaum was found innocent on all charges, the damage has been done.
Damn, didn't take long to get to the real reason. Governments are scared shitless about the public pension default issue. The hundreds of billions of unfunded liability with regards to public employee pension payments has been well known and no good solution has been found. From straight up state employees to those working for transit authorities. The numbers of truly staggering.

So I guess need a new means to sell people on a lower payout? Perhaps this will also end up in a way taking over SS?
>They should be able to, but they can't.

Why should they be able to? Mass + velocity = splat. You can't deny the physics.

The Americans worshiping cars boat sailed like 70 years ago, it is too late to do anything significant about that in a short period of time without spending trillions. Unless you think replacing most of our infrastructure and moving massive numbers of people is a good idea.

And the roads are treated like scared land. They are the arteries and veins of our economy and life.
When you think about it, how different is the destructive potential of an npm/pip install from curl | bash that (some) people tend to froth at the mouth about?

It's pretty mind blowing how big of a blindspot package installers are. I guess running everything inside a e.g. Docker container/VM would be a partial interim solution for the paranoid?
Right, but then you get fragmentation in the allocator unless all you're doing is stack operations (in which case you might as well use an array). Once you get fragmentation, you have the same problem as with any other linked list setup.
There are a decent amount of yeoman generators that allow selections between the different layers. Plus I feel like beginners (certainly for me at least) generally struggle with this heavy boilerplate anyway.
Right, it's only useful if you've prevented typosquatting.

Which Debian has, because submitting a new package is a much more involved processes than sudo apt-get publish.
Yeah, this is what I came to think too. I mentioned it in another comment. Somebody suggested to use a distance indicator, but trolls could attack that too.
Its mostly for use against prepaid gift cards and the like. Also those cheesy pre-paid credit cards.

Supposedly its already in use at borders. The news is that now if you get pulled over in OK the cops will now keep any gift cards they find.

Ever wonder why there's such a push to get RFID everywhere? If they RF scan your car and find a card in the trunk now you're at minimum guilty of obstruction.
From the article:

State Sen. Kyle Loveless, R-Oklahoma City, said that
removes due process and the belief that a suspect is
presumed innocent until proven guilty. He said we've
already seen cases in Oklahoma where police are abusing
the system.

"We've seen single mom's stuff be taken, a cancer
survivor his drugs taken, we saw a Christian band being
taken. We've seen innocent people's stuff being taken.
We've seen where the money goes and how it's been
misspent," Loveless said.

If State Sen. Loveless's statement is accurate, it appears that these victims were unable to get the charges reversed by their banks' fraud departments.

So what would this device look like? Is it performing ACH or wire transfer transactions? Or is this just sending card information to the company, which then automates the state government's garnishment process?

I'll be interested to get the full story when details are available.

I'm glad there's some pushback from the state legislature!
`printf` debugging is still often the easiest way to go.
Asset forfeiture is explicitly provided for by the law in most states. It can and does routinely stand up to being challenged in court.
naive bayes does well on small data sets, but would in general do poorly on larger text sets due to its independence assumption (which is horribly wrong in language).
The important point for a report on 2015 is that OpenOffice's six-month security hole was a huge embarrassment, and it had been deliberately kept out of project reports to the board.

Jim Jagielski, who was interviewed for this article, was one of the people pushing super-hard for Apache to take OpenOffice in 2011, insisting Apache could maintain a desktop application, then having nothing to say when they utterly failed to.

And Matt Asay knows all this! And that's why its absence in a report on Apache in 2015 is conspicuous.
The officer doesn't have to know. Or care. He just takes every penny the system allows and lets you fight the DA over it at a later date. Even if the money is returned, it doesn't cost the cop anything to try. And if they keep the money, some moeny goes back to the police department.
Did anyone else find it surprising the the number of total requests (45334) is so much higher than the number of unique total requests (17289)? It is more than twice the number of unique requests!

Possible explainations:

* Perhaps many of those are automated build systems, which would also explain the high number of systems with admin access (for example, if you use travis without docker, every build runs in a clean vm with admin access).

* People download one package and install it multiple times? Seems unlikely

Any other ideas?
I've seen it said before and I'll say it again. Anyone who works for companies who make products like this in any capacity should be blacklisted in the industry. The missing scruples here could fill several large containers.
>If the price point were low enough, I could easily set up acres of this technology and map out my crops using my computer. It could keep track of when crops needed to be harvested, when I needed to weed, how much I need to plant of one thing for a season.

All of that is just garden planning software, which has existed for 20+ years.
Og says

"Look, if we sacrifice a virgin in this spot, we will have abundant crops. See how the tree is getting bigger as the person dies"
I'd like to see this method compared to random sampling and something really simple like, say, probability matching via tinkering.
Because for me it looks a bit too complex to work good.
From my understanding of the licensing, that doesn't sound right. The internal product will be subject to the LGPL, but eve if that's a problem you only need to make sure you don't distribute it to anyone so that no one can ask you to oblige to the license.
The state refunds it to you, the 7.7% percent is the fee the state paid in order to withhold your funds so conveniently. The trick is you have to prove that those withheld funds are wrongfully withheld (the burden of proof is on the accused in this case) without access to the seized assets. In short, the 7.7% is negligible because in the cases of this abuse, you probably weren't getting that money back anyways.
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Nim feels higher level to me than Go; can you educate me on how you drew the opposite conclusion? Maybe I'm looking at something wrong.
I'm confused.. is it 17 computers or 17000 computers? inconsistent use of decimals in this article.
I'm by no means an expert at machine learning, but, given how organized the scikit learn libraries are, building a simple classifier as show in the example would be a few days of work at the max. In fact, an initial first version can be built within a day. After that, one has to tune the hyper parameters and spend time with feature selection to improve the baseline accuracy.

The most important thing will be the training data. You need a good number of samples, and the data also needs to be reasonably "clean".
> which pits the bank against a warrantless seizure that's impossible to defend in court

Your argument could equally be applied against regular (cash) civil asset forfeiture. The outcome is the same either way.

"Sorry, it was authorised by the authorities, nothing we can do".

You'll be short of the money until you sue, same as in regular civil asset forfeiture. When you do sue, you'll have to prove that you're entitled to the money, same as in regular civil asset forfeiture. What you get back will be less legal fees, same as in regular civil asset forfeiture.
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If Takata was allowed to use the mixture that was "invented" by other airbag makers, would they invest money into inventing them in the first place?
This comes up every single time, but it remains false. Loser pays does not mean that the loser has to pay a gigantic amount for the opponent's extremely expensive lawyers. Loser pays means that the judge determines what is a reasonable amount for the legal fees. Often the amount you have to pay for your opponent's lawyers is limited to what you paid for your own. So unless you hire extremely expensive lawyers yourself, you won't have to pay a huge amount if you lose. If a party wants a much more expensive defence they have to pay for that extra cost regardless of whether they win.

Almost every country except the United States uses this system.
Thanks for providing the link to our application, I wasn't sure if it would be a faux pas to mention that in our "Show HN" as well!
How much are you willing to spend to get the money back?
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We could always use pre-trained word embeddings, the few observations won't matter then.
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The despicable logic they use is that they're not charging the person with a crime (because people have due process rights), they're charging an inanimate object, the money, the car, etc. Property doesn't have due process rights, apparently.

Seriously. If you look at the court cases for asset forfeitures, it is titled "The State of Oklahoma vs $1,534.32 in cash" or "Iowa vs 2014 Mercedes".
As a counterpoint: https://twitter.com/bodil/status/597766837548507136

(I add this not as a refutation, but merely because I found it amusing.)
This also happens in New York— one can buy an apartment with a rent-stabilized tenant in a building which has been converted to a coop. The tenant has a right to lease renewals until they die (and any family living with them at time of death has a right to lease renewals as well).

Here is one:
http://streeteasy.com/building/243-west-98-street-new_york/7...
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That is physically revolting.

First you have civil-asset forfeiture that let's police seize money from you when you are carrying large amounts of cash (with a generous false positive rate potentially disastrous to victims).

Now to get around that, you could try handling everything by card or bank transaction (unless you're one of the unfortunate few without access to a bank account due to low credit rating or other legitimate reasons). And now they can seize that too?

That's not ripe for abuse, that's designed for abuse.

As a non-American, what's wrong with your country?
The DHS says this is only for prepaid cards, which are more likely to be fraudulent: https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/prepaid-card-read...
Hi, I am learning more about farming, can you explain why you have to dust tomatoes or cover the broccoli?

Also, I seem to have a pest problem as well, I think rabbits, as all the leaves on my bean stalks have seemingly been chewed off.
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Restrict SSH access inbound to trusted networks only. Then you don't have to worry about all this hoopla.
Doesn't need to be airgapped, just defended, and not in the cloud.

If the client is someone like Juniper or Cisco (which, if you're a pentest firm buying 8x gpu servers for cracking hashes, would be a reasonable customer) nation state actors would absolutely love to have access to your dataset. And they're already in AWS's datacentres.
Well, ideally you'd set up some sort of system where multiple people work on managing a repository, similar to maybe how linux distributions package applications and libraries.
Social security is the United States' federal mandatory pension, and it does not generally apply to foreign income (unless in a country that also has a mandatory pension with which the US has a tax treaty).

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/soci...
Every time I've had a fraudulent charge on my account, I've contested it and had the money returned to me. I can only assume that in some cases the bank simply bites the bullet and writes this off as a cost of doing business. There's probably an upper limit to their general benevolence. Given enough fraud-like losses stemming from asset seizure, the reasonable action would be to simply block the charges before they can post to the customer's account.

My bank does call me every now and again to verify charges on my debit card. Some of these calls make me wonder if the system has a hair trigger, which also means it's probably smart enough to just blanket block anything that looks like an asset seizure. This can't be too difficult, and will save banks money. The incentive to save money is a powerful one and has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting customers.
Well, he didn't back up the plagiarism claims he repeats either, mentioned emails "from Jake and important CCC people" without quoting those emails, mentioned notes he didn't even take photos of for some reason, and says nothing about any sexual conduct, or what exactly he said to whom and in what way he was claimed to be the troublemaker. It's not very verbose in many parts I would like it to be more verbose about.

For me, that people (I don't know at all) trust Nick Farr (whom I don't know at all) about Appelbaum (whom I don't know at all) being a sociopath is certainly something I wouldn't easily dismiss, but it's also not something I can go by, you know? One thing I notice about the story is how short it is, and that Nick didn't answer my questions to it. That's literally the only interaction I have and it's negative, so there. What I consider a much stronger "signal" is that nobody who knows Jake personally came out saying what a great and prude guy he is, to exaggerate. That I did notice.

And even if the claims are true, it's still orchestrated character assassination in a way (even that is putting it mildly, that is, not the full picture, considering the "TimeToDieJake" account and the image with a guillotine) since "rapist, plagiarist, sociopath" is now supposed to be his tagline. Trying to push that in an orchestrated fashion is character assassination, not in the sense of totally fabricating things out of thin air, but certainly in the sense of taking some truth, mixing in a lot of hyperbole and uncertainty and making a huge hammer and a virtual death sentence out of it.
then the maintianer must have perfcet sigth and never ovrelook even one tpyo :]

and then also have perfect memory of all packages and notice that similarly named package is too (for some value of "too") similarly named to some already existing one... even if e.g. both are a correct dictionary word.
What does this say about the security of our electronic funds? Gold bugs are going to have a field day with this.
Good Job. Hope it gets traction... Looking forward to Angular2 and Meteor additions.

Express tip: add swig template engine

Angular tip: use a feature per folder structure for better componentization and "controller as" syntax (checkout John Papa's styleguide).
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Going from 2,700 to 22,000 in 12 months sounds difficult too, as does going from 22,000 to 32,000 and from 32,000 to 50,000.
> When you think about it, how different is the destructive potential of an npm/pip install from curl | bash that (some) people tend to froth at the mouth about?

It's a bit better - there is only one possible source of compromise rather than everyone on the network path. Given that npm/pip likely keep archives of all packages uploaded, it would be much harder (perhaps impossible) to attack someone secretly this way, at least in the long term.

Good package managers require signing of uploads (e.g. maven central requires every package to have a GPG signature; Debian goes further, and requires your key to be signed by an existing member of the organization). If the client checks the signatures you end up with a system that's perhaps actually secure.
There's no need to be pedantic about definitions. France had a socialist government as recently as 2014: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/25/frances-soci...

There are other countries in Europe that have or have had (and moved on from) socialist governments in recent history.
from my understanding, reverse mortgage is a mortgage where the owners slowly encumber their property with debt. If the owners die (or decide to sell), the property is still the owners, but it has the mortgage debt on it so they have to pay that off as part of the process.

these days, it is better to just move into a smaller flat and rent out the larger property at market rates.
I only know for German law, but over here the requirement is that the crime must have a basis in physical law. That is, somebody trying to murder you with a Voodoo doll cannot be held responsible, but somebody weak throwing a rock at you and falling short can, because even though the attempt had no practical chance at succeeding it was based on a legitimate physical premise.
> If you can prove can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money

Exactly, why is it not incumbent upon them to prove that you have gained that money through illegitimate means?
The issue is that Tomahawk has far less than 610K entries of TCAM and a dozen different teams are exploring various types of RIB caching to accommodate that.
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I think you're correct. The quotes in the article make more sense in the light of stolen cards being "concealed" in other magnetic strips which aren't credit cards.

Many times, criminals illegally clone valid payment cards
on to non-descript pieces of plastic like hotel room keys
and subway cards, making detection and interrogation
nearly impossible. Since virtually any plastic card with
a magnetic stripe can re-purposed as a credit, debit or
prepaid payment card, being able to determine the
identity of the card is critical to your investigation.

The whole thing is moot once chips are (finally) in major use.
The implication of the pro-conspiracy crowd is that Andrea, Meredith, and Nick are all working for the Feds. Is this really the conclusion you're expecting us to reach?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

A lawyer's salary depends on him not having the opinion that most lawsuits are meritless.