skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They'd just rather not go to the effort of doing what they can do."

What do you think police can do? He cites case law that indicates police can't prevent you from re-entering the country.
Why did they disable comments under the video?
We build a mystical, medieval universe atop these real places.

Please, not another one. Although it is the most popular trope, and thus probably has the greatest potential market, that also makes it difficult to differentiate your product. There are lots of alternatives - secret societies, Cthulhu mythos, robots/AI, or some Diamond Age type fusion of several genres.

Browser playable is good, but if you have location based checkins I think the mobile app (or rather, mobile version of the browser page since you're text-oriented) should certainly be available from the beginning so people have access to it when they're bored or with friends. It doesn't have to be be exhaustively capable.
The Stanford Prison Experiment suggests that we be on guard for situations where power dynamics encourage thuggish behavior. It does not, however, follow from the experiment that every law enforcement officer is a thug.
Why I bought a Mac ... And Why I'll always be a Windows guy too
New blog and new blog post. check it out I would appreciate the feedback. there is also some information about me and some of my concepts on the website. i would be happy to talk to anyone or hear their feedback about any of this. Hope you guys enjoy it!
groovesharks desktop version runs nicely though
If a police officer is lost and pulls into your driveway to ask directions, sure, you should probably do your best to help even though you have to responsibility to do so. However, as soon as an on-duty public official exceeds his or her authority in an offensive way (like if the officer demanded your help or shot your dog [1]), he or she deserves no gracious human-to-human "emotional" kindness from you. On top of that, I wouldn't consider any of this guy's answer impolite, unethical, or even impractical. Sure, your exact wording might be better to avoid being hassled, but there's no guarantee of that, plus not everyone is good at wording things tactfully especially when they're being wronged.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mvIWFXbHNo#t=0m48s
Sounds interesting, but I'll probably forget about it before you finish it. Do you have a landing page where I can sign up to get a reminder email and/or updates?
You're doing a fine job illustrating the banality of evil, but you're not explaining what that has to do with the situation at hand. Yes, we need to be on guard for situations in which authoritarianism provides cover for evil. That's why we have a constitution and a court system and why we elect the people who create laws and appoint the people who enforce them.
Do you have a web site, mailing list or Twitter account?
Really? My Google Apps email has 57930 emails in it and if I search for something, I can usually get the results back in 3-4 seconds.
Yes, I think components rather than apps is where things will be going.
I've never seen the appeal of grad school CS. I love programming, making money, learning, creating, building, reading and writing, but I can do all of these things outside of grad school. And do them much cheaper and faster and with greater flexibility. I can even try to push the state of the field forward, if I wished. (Personally, I don't care about this aspect.)
It really depends on the industry. There are two factors at work, speaking as an interviewer. Experience trumps everything, really. You will learn more about being a real, working programmer in one year of doing it than in 5 years of study. Remember that we're not here to write code, we're here to solve problems using code as a tool. An important tool, sure, but there is more to it than that.

Secondly a PhD is really an apprenticeship to be an academic. A PhD who is not on that track needs to have a good story as to why.

Starting in industry after a PhD doesn't put you any higher on the ladder than a fresh BSc graduate.
It doesn't help when you have a society led by Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler. By which I mean to point out that Nazism is a silly comparison to make.
That was the last day I ever used my old pager. I'd had that pager since 1996, and I hadn't actually used it for anything for a good few months. That morning, I listened to my instincts and put it on.

I was at a New Age store buying incense and charcoal blocks for the burner when the pager went off. It was almost 15:00. It had taken till then for the news to come through.

The pager went off just three further times: when the second plane hit, and when each of the towers fell, in turn.

That was the last time I ever received anything on that pager service.
Funny how the thugs in uniform are to be treated as humans with emotions, but our victim deserves the abuse he got!

We are trained in our society to be absolutely obedient to authority, and no abuses by authority, such as the lies this guy was told, the harassment he endured, and the threats he was threatened with, matters at all.

But for him to politely refuse to display subservience to this authority, you pretend like he was being rude.
In 2007-9 I developed some software for reading datamatrix patterns. Often these patterns were difficult to read, being indented into scratched surfaces with all kinds of reflectance properties, fuzzy chemically etched markings and so on. I used a GA to fine tune various parameters of the vision algorithms to give the best results on a database of 300 images having known properties. Parameters were things like downsampling resolution, RANSAC parameters, amount of erosion and dilation, low pass filtering radius, and a few others. Running the optimisation over several days this produced results which were about 20% better than naive values on a test set of images unseen during the optimisation phase.

This system was completely written from scratch, and I didn't use any other libraries. I'm not opposed to using such things, provided that they give a reliable result, but you have to be careful about license compatibility and code portability issues.
lazy breakfast
a walk in a nice open view
rest
Only that you're probably less likely to pull him out of the car and beat him within an inch of his life, than most "officers" would to someone being sarcastic or joking.
Sorry to pick on this one, but are these posts going to keep appearing on Hacker News until every Google service is covered?
Strangely enough (certainly just a coincidence), but the words "mov" (lead suggestion moives) and "drumm" (which leads to drummer boy) took me to the exactly same wild west view...
But said professor is currently on a break from research, working at Google. He has expressed a desire to "just write some code" and "deal with real problems".
You're still chasing a red herring: By all accounts this guy was polite.

You're using the word "politeness" to mean "absolutely subservient to the whims of authority".

He WAS polite, but stood on his rights. Including the absolute right to silence, which he politely explained.
How can an article talking about this not mention automator?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/
Use Low Color Contrast for User Interface Constraints
You assert that this does not apply at the border, but you miss the fact that nowhere in the constitution are these rights set up as exceptions "near borders with other states". All of the amendments that make up the bill of rights are absolute statements, thruout the country.
Whenever I see someone claiming a 'first' I wonder if they really did their research or if it's just the fact that anybody that has an idea automatically thinks that because it's new to them it is new to everybody.
I think it is a good thing that he refused to answer the questions -- I respect that.

But I find his aggressive attitude ("But that’s a small price to pay to remind these thugs that their powers are limited and restricted.") and obsession with the master/slave relationship ("I am the master, and the federal cops are my servants") to be fairly off putting.

It is not that he does not want master/slave relationships to exist, it is that he wants (nay, needs) always to be the master. He strikes me as the sort of person who would say something offensive just so that he could make a point about freedom of speech.

The world I see is not viewed through the same prism of master/slave relationships. In my world I am the master of myself. I am no ones slave and no one is my slave. It is a happy place to be.
Boxplorer: an interactive intro
I find that a lot of people seem to be more comfortable jumping from "I have a problem" to "let's make a GA" than to "let me formulate it as an optimization problem and optimize it". Which is funny, since GAs are essentially odd optimization techniques.

Most naive uses of GAs I've seen tend to mix two essentially separate things: how to formulate it as an optimization problem and how you're going to optimize if (if with a convex/continuous relaxation, local approximation, stochastic hill-climbing). In general, many GA formulations tend to be really naive, choosing parametrizations where (for example) some bits are highly correlated (this is bad because stochastic bit-flipping methods tend to mix very slowly with correlated inputs) in ways that could be fixable with a better parametrization (that would, however, not necessarily fit the "chromossome" metaphor).
> But having said that, there's an element of the social contract at play here. The exact same logic this guy is using suggests that he also shouldn't answer the questions of police investigating crimes in his neighborhood. "Have you seen this man? We think he just shot up your neighbor's car."

Quite importantly in this particular scenario, a police officer is not the same as a federal officer. Lying to a police officer is not a crime (at least usually, you may want to check your local statutes).
or give the others players a good pocket/early hand, whilst saving the winner's triumph for the later cards.
Well, I suppose my point is that Flash doesn't perform and so this video isn't in the slightest bit exciting.

Asking why people always bring up Flash video in these debates is like a robber asking why the breaking and entering has to be mentioned in his court case.
i literally laughed out loud ... inevitably someone is going to be the idiot to try it lol
Yeah, this is a problem with English. In French you can call anyone m'sieur or in Russian tovarisch and it's fine, but in English we only have sir or dude/mate/whatever and nothing in between.
Funnily enough, Country Club seems to be in the middle of a racism charge as of today. http://www.indystar.com/article/20100911/LOCAL18/9110325/3-q...
You're not saying to whom the matter is confidential.

My client work abroad is certainly confidential, though the US government may not care, the client does.
What I find most interesting is the use of spatial organization when taking the Jeep apart. You could probably walk those guys out half way through, bring in a different set of guys, and they could put it back together by just looking at where the pieces are on the ground.
For a more comprehensive treatment of this general issue see the book recommendation in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1371363

(Full disclosure: I'm the one who initially recommended the book.)
> Do you really think they have a blind suspicion of everyone?

They certainly act as though they are suspicious of everyone.
I always answer their questions with silly vague answers.

For example:
Q: Why are you going to do in city X?
A: Party

Q: Party?
A: and see some sites.

Vague questions get vague answers.
Eventually the criminals who believe that our only recourse is a constitutional amendment, and are counting on the difficulty of obtaining one, will be in for a rude awakening.
The U.S. border is awful. It was awful when I used to travel under visa waiver and if anything it got worse when I got my green card (currently fingerprinting, soon iris scans, in addition to abusive questioning). Edit: it is like a welcome mat that has dog vomit on it and spells FUCK YOU. I really appreciate it, makes me feel right at home.

Citizens are in a slightly better position as the fellow demonstrated but the U.S. border is worse than any of the other 35 or so that I have crossed.
I am not sure how a disclosure of information during World War II that was legal under the laws of the time has any relevance on how information is treated now. See http://www.census.gov/privacy/data_protection/title_13_-_pro...
Thanks. I'd not heard of it.
You might wish to look into "Type 2 Hypothyroidism" by Mark Starr as a starting point.

http://www.21centurymed.com/

Keep in mind, that Starr's work in controversial, but part of the bedrock of his research is that the standard blood tests for thyroid are unable to distinguish between active thyroid hormone, and hormone that has had the iodine atoms replaced with bromine, chlorine, or florine, all of which have a higher affinity than iodine. As such a blood test may appear normal for thyroid, when in fact, one is thyroid deficient.
Thats pretty cool. Could you do one for Flikr creative commons? http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&l=cc&ss=0&ct=0&...

I use it all the time for blog images, powerpoints for work etc

Loving all these instant search tools, will they stress the google servers beyond what they expected though? And if not will google eventually extend instant search to all their tools?
The YouTube Time Machine
I have to heavily second the Quicksilver.app recommendation. I can't really use OS X without it. Here's a link to the latest build of Quicksilver http://github.com/downloads/tiennou/blacktree-alchemy/Quicks...
totally. we need this kind of design back.
Most useful iteration of an "instant' copy i've seen thus far.

How many times have been searching for that ONE particular image, but not known what search query to input?

Both Google Instant and Google Images Instant will teach users how to search smarter. Great job, keep up the great work!
i also read the newsyc20 feed that contains only hn stories with at least 20 points http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc20

google reader says 211 subscribers
the url doesn't present anything for me
"absolutely subservient to the whims of authority"

That's reading an awful lot into what I wrote. By the author's own language he appears to bear a grudge against the CBP, so while he sounds polite by his own account he clearly goes out of his way to prove a (valid) point. I don't really see a problem with, most of the time, answering that I was on a business trip and packed my own bags, nor should most people in a "polite society". I don't see how this is being subservient to anyone. Wouldn't a better policy be to assume no problem and only raise the issue if they raise it first? It's healthy for society to have people push back against the system but it's also in our best interest, overall, to have security and part of that security is making judgments based on how someone responds to simple questions.
I'm kind of skeptical to these type of memories, called flashbulb memories, since most of the time subjects give vivid details and are confident when in fact it's just made up details they believed they experienced. So AFAIK I don't remember anything particular about 9/11.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashbulb_memory
So, just curious; where's the dividing line between "poor government schlub just doing his job" and "Nazi prison guard who knew he was doing evil", assuming you'd agree the Nazi guard is culpable on some level?

Fact is, government employees can choose to work elsewhere. But as a citizen I'm stuck with my government. That's why you won't see much sympathy for law enforcement in these situations.
Ask HN: Can I create this mobile app with a multiplatform tool?
Ok so i'm trying to create this app that is a simple ebook reader which allows the user to tap on any word for an instant dictionary look-up (either in pop-up or a separate frame).

forgive me, i'm not a coder. but i'm just wondering if this is possible to do in one of the multi-platform tools like phone gap or rhomobile.

An example of this idea as a chrome extension is this: http://bit.ly/cL8ZWt

here is a file called dict.js from this extension that has all the relevant code for the pop-up: http://drop.io/zowd7mo

thanks for the help!
Big congrats man
"Evidence suggests - and my experience agrees - that correctly teaching process creates the ground-work for moving to understanding."

Yes, but this discussion can't really be understood without understanding what it is that the US education system is trying to optimize itself for. In the US, teaching methods are NOT optimized for mathematical proficiency. They are designed to implement a "progressive" social agenda, "social justice," that puts "closing the achievement gap" ahead of all other considerations. The more rigorous the math curriculum, the more obvious our achievement gap, so the progressive ed schools have decided to de-emphasize objectively measurable math performance and emphasize other things that reveal less of an achievement gap.

Instead of reasoning through geometry problems and "finding the measure of angle A," which can be easily graded for correctness, we have them increase the amount of time spent "engaging in mathematical discourse." ("Who can name a job that uses math?") Of course all answers are correct so, voila, no more achievement gap.

We de-emphasize calculational proficiency--too likely to produce an achievement gap--and emphasize "conceptual understanding," which sounds great and can mean whatever you need it to mean for political purposes. "Do we all understand that there are many ways to multiply?" Sure we do!

Instead of "find the answers to these problems," our kids are assigned to "find pictures in magazines of math being used in real life, cut them out, and bring them to class." This is called "engagement." Who can't cut pictures out of magazines? Bye-bye achievement gap, hello social justice.

While the East Asians train their primary math teachers in techniques that have been found to maximize math proficiency, our teachers get a very different sort of preparation for teaching out kids:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_2_a1.html

Read the above article, consider what the proficiency-focused Asian schools are doing instead, and imagine the implications for our future.
Sounds like SPOOKS!
I think that the legal concept is that "airside" at the airport and the no-man's-land are not proper US soil but some kind of quasi-international place (which is also why foreign citizens are allowed to wander there without visas if they have connecting flights and why you can buy duty-free merchandise there in countries where that's relevant). There's probably a name for this.

So if you walk up to the desk, you're standing on non-US soil and the desk guy is standing on US soil and trying to decide whether to let you across to the other side.

You'll note that the Constitution doesn't actually state where the borders of US soil are.
Many "lower" castes are economically and politically powerful. Also, the caste hierarchy is fuzzy in South India compared to the north. Of course, where one's caste stands in relation to other is always a matter of intense debate ;)
True. But it's worth noting that those predictions are sufficient for a slow, partially-working substring search. Gmail could search for the n most likely completions of your query terms in addition to the normal search, and collate the results.
Ask HN: The Latest in (small business) Web Design
I been asked to advise a client on revamping their website. The client is a backend software shop with no usability expertise and no time to write a copy (my job). I have a pretty good handle on what they need. But would appreciate some visuals/links to the ever-changing small business websites samples.
I'm pretty happy with Hostmonster - my affiliate link - http://www.hostmonster.com/track/digitalmethodscorp - allows you to buy and set up via their site.

Also has cpanel hosting and SSH access for more advanced stuff.

I buy my domains elsewhere but you get a free domain when you set up an account with them so...
The guys at autoblog are discussing this vid. It seems that it has been prepared, there's no liquid coolant nor any fluid containers that can be seen.

Edit: here's the link
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/10/video-team-tears-down-the...
Well, I am accessing it from the US. I just compared the end result with real google image search and your instant image search. But somehow results are entirely different
file:///home/dan/proj/my-langs/cfa-js/cfademo.html

Err.. you forgot to upload it?
Well, we had a solution that used the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary but also had a lot of unknown handling on top of it. Then we used a heavily modified version of Levenshtein distance to measure distance from Shakespearean iambic pentameter, with weighted penalties for the various "common irregularities"...we consulted someone in the English dept. to set the weights reasonably. Our metricality algorithm gave Shakespeare's sonnets 0.85, some random Dickens 0.7, and the NYT 0.4 or so...so we think it worked reasonably well.

Happy to send you the paper if you're interested in more depth than the above.
Thanks, but I'm already playing a real-life location-based MMORPG which takes up most of (or rather, all) my time.
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Seeing "super rugged" and "money pit" separated by a single word is amusing to me. By my standards, my Toyota Prius is more rugged than most cars. It doesn't take me everywhere I want to go, though.
I was in my apartment in Tokyo. The phone rings and suddenly my roommate is yelling to turn on the TV. I was working for Nikko Salomon Smith Barney at the time and the next day they started ID and bag checks on entry into the building. It was a rather eerie feeling to see processes failing trying to pick up files from NY that, for the foreseeable future, we knew would not be arriving.
IIRC Around 1995 (I thought '96 but could be wrong) emissions standards were made stricter and cars made since then need to have computers that monitor the emission systems.
I like the emphasis on slowing down. A lot of life is more enjoyable if you're not busy rushing through it to the get the next big thing. I'm guilty of being in a hurry myself.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980784