skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of questionable things are becoming illegal to publish lately.

For example, it's illegal to film what's happening inside a slaughterhouse[1]. Some people are getting into trouble for filming cops[2].

I'm not saying Gawker shouldn't be punished, but legality doesn't imply morality and free press in theory could be helping to review and change the immoral laws. The chilling effect from Gawker bankruptcy will be that, among other things, every publisher will know not to mess with the status quo.

One can easily imagine a next generation of laws that will make it illegal to publish leaked documents, like those that Snowden or Wikileaks released.

[1] http://www.thenation.com/article/charged-crime-filming-slaug...
[2] http://www.copblock.org/1281/filmingpolice/
> What was the answer? Sorry that's not we wanted. We would like to see, how you would solve it with general code.

This could have been poor communication on their part, or it could have been a test of your communication. Was there an opportunity to ask about requirements before coding up a solution?

When I interview (usually in person), I encourage candidates to ask questions. I'd certainly never ding anyone for asking "can I use <library X / programming language Y / tool Z>?" but my answer might be no.

I'm not a total jerk. When I see candidates make a bad assumption, I'll try to correct them, but depending on the assumption and their communication style that might take 10+ minutes (of 45). I don't want interviews to be about speed, but losing that much time (maybe more than once!) hurts for sure. I'm probably thinking of another candidate who asked the right questions, described an efficient algorithm and its time/memory complexity, implemented it, debugged it, and moved on to something else.

Ideally, interviews are a microcosm of the job. And at least in concept, that principle holds here: on the job, people often rush the requirements and design work, which wastes much more time than it saves and/or causes the project to fail.
The government equivalent would be loss of citizenship or residency rights (exile), not jail or death.
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The best part is that when they removed the bounty, the people breeding rats just let them all go, causing a larger problem than they had at the start.
It would take quite some time (likely at least a few years) even after a positive vote.
The problem is that a sufficiently wealthy adversary can fund a case with little to no merit and the worst case outcome is having to pay the attorney's fees of the defendant. In the best case you can just bleed your opponent dry. This happened to Mother Jones.
Yeah, maybe that's why their productivity has increased? :)
The jury is the closest thing to a direct democracy America has.

Judges can be corrupted. The jury is basically a direct poll of 12 average Americans. Its known that the court system is imperfect, but juries serve as a restraint on otherwise powerful judges.
With those methods and enough time you can convince a lot of unstable people to commit a crime. Pretty much every group has some people that are unstable and can go over the top. I bet you could get some right wingers to blow up mosques or environmentalists to blow up power plants (just examples).

If you want to get potential criminals into jail then jails will soon be very crowded.
Im using it on linux, its pretty good in my opinion, im still learning, but packet and stuff like that seems to work fine. Im using it with emacs, so i dont really know how you will fare with other editors.
As a rule answers have to be as general as possible.

So, sort of the same strategy used for patent claims?
I think in addition to histograms and features like SIFT, SURF, and others like DAISY[0] that would permit searching with images as a query it would be beneficial just to use a neural network to text index using the classes at very top of a neural network, although you are right some features in layers just below that could be used too as I understand it.

You could then use classical text indexing on the text, perhaps with a topic model like LDA. Then an image with a plane in it will be indexed by "plane" via the output of the neural network but would also come first, or in the top results, when using "flight" as the query via a topic model.

Ditto for word2vec or para2vec over those words, the benefit being you can bring the knowledge of relations contained in the textual training data, Wikipedia or something else, to bear on the problem. I.e. a golf club and a baseball glove might not be correlated in the neural network that annotated the images but might be correlated in the text based knowledge model trained on Wikipedia and so a query of "sport" might bring both images up.

The big players like Google already have caption generation that's capturing relationships between objects.[1]

[0]http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/features_dete...
[1]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4555.pdf
> Standing in his simulated apartment and looking at a painting—Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”—Paul can’t quite forget that, when he turns around, the simulation will stop rendering it, reducing it to “a single gray rectangle” in an effort to save processing cycles. If we live in a simulated world, then the same thing could be happening to us: Why should a computer simulate every atom in the universe when it knows where our eyes aren’t looking? Simulated people have reasons to be paranoid.

Sounds uncannily like the quantum wave collapse, except that we shouldn't be able to so easily discover the phenomena (reboot/patch incoming?). Then again, maybe that's partly the goal of the simulation ;)
>What if the Koch Brothers decide to start funding lawsuits against Nature or Science magazines that publisher articles about global warming?

If those articles were somehow actually legally libellous, that would be fine. But that seems unlikely.
Definitely going to need an estimate of testing hours. Trusting devs with testing is like estimated hours times 2.
Ues there is - hogan is a public figure who is involved in politics and has repeatedly announced his conservative/be faithful/young-people-have-loose-morals bullshit.

Hence cheating on his wife was news, the public should have been informed, and unlike that fappening this wasnt stolen.
Bollea couldn't win this on his own. He's a millionaire, but that's not enough when you're up against a 100 million dollar new media company. He would be forced to settle for a pittance. Thiel in contrast could afford to refuse all settlement offers and to take it all the way to a jury judgement. It's a messed up justice system, but in this case it worked out alright.
One possible solution is the constitutional right to an attorney in civil cases as well as in criminal, but I don't know how you'd protect that against abuse.
Same here. I had one of the stereotypical insecure manager types try to compete on an enterprise business intelligence solution by creating something in powerpoint that read some data point from an excel file. Not too sure how that worked out for him.
We're currently discussing architecture decisions.
There're ton more local features proposed since SIFT but SIFT, arguably, still among the best. Deep feature, on the other hand, is more like global feature. May be a combination of these two could give the best?
Unfortunately, like other countries, the UK's Border Force[1] clearly has an above-average share of incompetents and bullies.

We need to get those people a job in the Department of Motor Vehicles where they belong.
"A short vacation" would have been a lie. "I'm attending a conference" would have been better - I agree with you, give them minimum, make them ask for more. Unless you're triggering red flags, they'll move on.
I've only read two of Eco's fictional works: The Name of the Rose, and Foucault's Pendulum. I loved them both, but then I picked up The Island of the Day Before, and didn't finish it. I have also read his essays.

The book I was referring to was Theory of Semiotics by Eco. I picked it up in 1982 or 83, after having read The Name of the Rose, and I honestly didn't know what Semiotics meant until I spent 20 minutes reading it in the bookstore (no Googling then!).

I had read Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus around the same time, 1983 or so. I read most of it, some pages multiple times, but I didn't finish it. I only grasped enough to know I wasn't going to change my major to Linguistics. I was hopping off of references in the bookstores the way I now follow links down rabbit holes.

I should revisit these works now that I have some more years on me!
Whatever the outcome, I hope Jalopnik sticks around.
That difference (getting paid) is spelt out quite clearly on the UK Home Office's website and is certainly not a secret. Failure to check upon requirements does not excuse her even if personally thinking that a policy change is needed.
None of GP's points would necessarily absolve a suggestible accomplice of a crime that actually occurred. The FBI's cases, on the other hand, were entirely fictitious except for the suggestible person.

It would certainly be a strong case if a suspect had actively sought the final ingredients of a self-planned act of terror, which would have killed people had the FBI not responded to the call first with fake equipment. But the objection in these cases is that when you subtract the FBI-provided motivation, plans, and equipment, all that's left are the person's own suggestibility and weak moral compass. Those don't constitute a criminal act in themselves. Experts could argue that they aren't likely to have ever resulted in one.

The religious targeting aspect is even more unfair. As far as I know, the FBI isn't spending similar time and resources to identify disaffected and suggestible non-Muslims, and then convincing them of the glory and honor awaiting them if only they would help push a button to bomb a local mosque.

Edit: In the above example, the "predictably persuadable" person isn't criminally responsible for murder if the ride was given to an FBI agent, and there was no actual robbery or murder.
The jackpot in the sense that Thiel's goal was to litigate Gawker into bankruptcy and the Hogan case played out perfectly for him.
Yes, but they were good even before being bought by FB

And as the product matures the develop-test-deploy cycle gets slower
Why are you using "muckraking" as a negative term?
PgCluster, BDR, rubyrep, and Postgres-XL all provide master-master (or analogous) replication schemes. I cannot attest to the robustness / production-readiness of any of them. And yeah, it really is a PITA to set it up with Postgres. I will note that I once[1] lost a whole cluster's data due to a combination of Slony's sharp corners and operational difficulty of Postgres.

The schema visibility thing seems like it might be solvable with row-level security in 9.5? (I.E. apply constraints to the system catalogs, perhaps?)

The UPDATE one is good to know. Did you work around it by doing `SELECT ... ORDER BY id FOR UPDATE`?

[1] - Slony had a problem where global transaction IDs rolling over caused it to do Very Bad Things and we had had to turn vacuuming off because performance during a peak period -- but we forgot to turn it back ON and... So yeah, a combination of sharp corners in Slony and Postgres + user error == our cluster systematically ate itself.
Just out of interest - insurance may not have saved them. I have liability insurance etc but it's capped at £2 million. I doubt any corporate insurance plan for Gawker would be uncapped, so they may well have still gone under.
How was it excessive?
The ransomware would still be about. Even if the US banned paying, there are other countries.
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> Especially given Thiel's motive that "they outed me" - come on, Thiel's sexuality was probably the worst kept secret in the Valley. When you pose shirtless on a gay cruise, I think it's fairly safe the rest of the world didn't need Valleywag to tell them of your homosexuality.

Does all that evidence matter? Shouldn't it be up to Theil when and where he outs himself instead of blog like Valleywag doing it for him?
And engadget and kotaku and most of the other tech related websites you probably read.

Also its a good lesson to other sites to police content to ensure no one says anything bad about billionaires.

Thank god for thiel protecting us from horrible things like censorship!
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You're making a common mistake here about free speech. Free speech in the First Amendment is a restriction on the government, not individuals. The reason we treasure it so much is because of the history of government's in Europe and elsewhere restricting the speech of individuals. Having experienced the perils of government censorship themselves, the Framers put this into the Constitution. Free speech has never meant "You have a right to say anything you want without consequences".
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I never said they'd get their instructions from their parents. My point is that first or second generation immigrants often feel neglected by the society they live in and are interested in the culture their parents/grandparents lived in. So they revert, or visit those places and become radicalized, usually with absolutely no support from the parent because that's what they were trying to escape. Then the cell will "activate" them, again, this has no barring on their parents.

There is one common aspect to most "lone wolves" and other types of terrorists is that they don't feel like they belong in their current society.

The rest of your argument is a bit of a straw man to what I was actually stating; however if you think disaffected youth aren't "radicalized" (because they feel they finally belong to something), you're wrong. And it's not just a TV term, the FBI and the rest of the alphabet soup agencies use these terms, so I don't really see your point.
Surely thats the 'cost' of using someone elses' work without paying for it/otherwise remunerating the author? Its hardly their fault you found a bug that you decided you couldn't/wouldn't fix ..
"You cannot expect people to maintain racial or cultural blindness in such a situation."

If not in this situation then when? We must place expectations on people in positions of power over others to treat all people fairly regardless of race. People should be judged by their actions. Those in positions of power who violate the trust we put in them should be punished.
The ACLU typically expands rights and free speech while this is somewhere on the opposite side of the spectrum.
I don't think that poster is talking about Hogan.
thiel couldn't nail them when they wrote about him. it was in bad taste, but totally defensible. they crossed the line when they posted a private sex tape without consent. if you can defend that, you can defend revenge porn (that is, you can't).

gawker played themselves.

> who's going to want to write anything nasty about Peter Thiel

you can write nasty things about Thiel but remember rule #1: don't play yourself.
Why do you need an attorney at all? Perhaps that is the question we should be asking. Rather than figuring out how to give one to everyone for free, and then protecting it against abuse.
> sex tapes don't become newsworthy just because the subject is a celebrity

What if the sex might have been non-consensual (see: Dominique Strauss-Kahn)? What if the sex is between a public official and his employee (see: Bill Clinton)? What if the sex is illegal (see: Eliot Spitzer)?

The fact is that sex can be of interest to the public, which means video of that sex can also be of interest to the public.
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Not built in, but you can do this:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION bitcount(i integer) RETURNS integer AS $$
DECLARE n integer;
DECLARE amount integer;
BEGIN
amount := 0;
FOR n IN 1..16 LOOP
amount := amount + ((i >> (n-1)) & 1);
END LOOP;
RETURN amount;
END
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
Except that's not what happened here.
That raises an interesting question. If you were poor, would you want to sacrifice your happyness a bit to ensure that your children will be better off than you? Sure this is quite a slow solution but it would actually work if done consistently.
I have put quite a bit of similar effort to image retrieval using Elasticsearch before. While it is nice and convenient, what I found was that Elastic Search is too slow for larger scale (million of Images with dictionary of millions visual words in BoW model). May be there're some steps that I did not do right, but I gave up.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11842051
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> Do you think that the people at Ford were 'punished' when the leadership of Ford made bad decisions that cost people their jobs?

Yes
That's the breaks when your corporation makes criminal mistakes and it is proven in a court of law, unless you are a bank or financial firm or politician.
> I have a heuristic that if you're doing temp tables and derived values and whatnot, you're edging into reporting, so denormalizing and aggregating makes a lot of sense for that.

Totally agree.

> 10sec load times are similiarly the domain of the DMV and trivial hobby apps on a free Heroku.

Unfortunately, the app I was talking about:

1) Allows customization of several views, including adding several columns that are expensive (and users can add all of them, if they want). This was not a big deal with hundreds of items, but is with hundreds of thousands.

2) Has a hierarchy above these objects, but doesn't enforce any context. So literally you can load this view for the entire system (which can be hundreds of thousands of objects, with some columns that summarize data from tens of millions of rows)

3) Some of the expensive calculated values are time-dependent, eg "past hour", "past day" etc, which also makes pre-calculating a very expensive operation (not impacting user time directly, but adding overall load to the system).

4) Was built on top of MS SQL server, deployed both as a "cloud" model and as a product on-premise at customer sites. This meant several customers were heavily invested in SQL licenses, and beefy hardware to run it all. Even if we overlooked the challenge of updating our own product (half a million lines? give or take) and data migration (dozens of ten to hundred-GB databases, and hundreds of smaller ones), changing to another DBMS and telling our customers that their tens-of-thousands of dollars investments in hardware/licenses were useless was unacceptable.

So yes, in this case it was possible to get multiple-minute load times in the worst cases. Why would anyone want to see many of these columns for hundreds of thousands of rows at once? I have no idea, but they could, and it was slow, and they complained.

To your point: this absolutely should have been considered 'reporting', but the app didn't make that distinction. This was the main view of data, essentially, and it was possible for users to make it really slow.

We ended up redoing part of the UI at one point, and during that time, removed sorting from some of the columns. Users complained about this at the time, but got over it. We also put a hard limit on of 20,000 objects: more than that and it just says "please pick a group" first. Again, users complained about this, but got over it. Going through that was crappy, but the constant complains about being slow stopped. I should note, there is a separate reporting UI that does allow sorting by everything.

I wanted to go much further than that, and completely re-think the UI and some of the design concepts (such as not allowing a single list to be viewed for the entire system at once, and instead either summarizing multiple groups, or displaying detail for one) but at the time the business side (including up to the CEO) was unwilling to do a change like that, and we also had no formal product management to really push the issue.
They did have insurance, and when that became clear the claims were changed so that their insurancr wouldnt cover it.

This is: you hit me with a car, i find out what your insurance covers, and then make sure that your insurance wont cover it.
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The estimates are for a "functional prototype", which is, the implementation of ONLY functional requirements. Non-functional requirements are not mentioned here, and in the case of Instagram, there are many.

Then, since Instagram is a service, you need some sort of operations team to manage and monitor the infrastructure. You will also need some sort of testing (quality assurance, performance and scalability, security...). Then you will need some degree of organization to accomplish this.

Additionally you will need some visibility and minimal critical mass of users to get the ball rolling (aka user acquisition). That is of course, not development, but this is one of the most expensive items, to the point that for some apps, development costs are marginal compared to user acquisition costs.

You might get a software with the Instagram user-facing features, but don't expect to be able to handle the volume of traffic that Instagram does, at the level of security they do. That last part is actually a key aspect of the business model that I couldn't found anywhere in the article.
I'd be more concerned about the precedent it set if Gawker had won.

The publishing of secrets derived from an invasion of privacy is defensible by "free speech" if something of great moral/ethical imperative is gained. Publishing papers that reveal years of lying and misleading the American public about the true extent of the US government's involvement in Vietnam and surrounding countries, aka the Pentagon Papers? Defensible. Publishing a videotape without consent of someone having sex? Gawker can scream "free speech" till they're blue in the face; I think your average person is going to recognize a blatant violation of privacy occurred with little gained.

Look, I get it: free speech = awesome. But I don't think your average person sees free speech as an automatic get-out-of-jail-free card.
Funny, my experience as South American is the exact opposite: expensive USA VISA (USD 160!) for attending a conference, US border asking about everything, checking my story and even knowledge about programming (!), etc - UK border just asking the purpose of my travel, stamping the passport and saying "welcome to UK". And I didn't even need a VISA.

One thing for sure is: you have to know the visa requirements and you have to answer what they want to hear. That's true everywhere - USA included - so you're just lucky as a USA citizen to never go through the USA interview process.
There is no way someone would build an MVP this involved. Think of what Instagram launched as, then you're a bit closer.

They say hindsight is 20-20, this guy is going at it with a telescope..
When team chat goes down, are you ready?

https://sameroom.io/blog/when-team-chat-goes-down-are-you-re...
The Hogan lawsuit has nothing to do with libel or slander.
Well, they had 2 engineers till they hit 30 million users, and 6 engineers until they hit 150 million.

http://www.slideshare.net/InfoQ/how-a-small-team-scales-inst...
Index only scans work in some cases but not all. In order for an index only scan to be more efficient than a regular index scan, the visibility map needs to be up to date. This is a problem because (currently) the only thing that updates the visibility map is the vacuum and the autovacuum only runs after a large number of updates/deletes happen on a table. If your table is largely read/insert only, the only way to keep the visibility map up to date is to manually call VACUUM on your tables periodically which is a huge pain.
If you post a profile picture like that when you are a person of public interest, I think there's a fairly good argument that you -have- outed yourself, at least implicitly.