skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the big arguments for banning child porn is that having the material "out there" causes continual anguish to the victim. In fact, victims have been awarded financial damages from those convicted of possession. (Can't find the source now, but I recall reading about the case in the "cybercrime blog").

In my opinion, this whole argument is specious at best. One could argue that making the "Star Wars Kid" viral video (among so many others) illegal would have saved that poor dude some major suffering. Why are things of a sexual nature so special?

One argument for decriminalizing simple possession is the fact that crowd-analyzed investigation at the citizen level is severely hampered. I recall reading an amazing account of the investigation and rescue of the then-8-year-old girl in the "Tara series". A relatively small group of people analyzed the photos, identified paintings and drapes in a motel, which allowed law enforcement to home in on the victim and her captor.

Can you imagine the scope of such investigations if these pics were allowed to be viewed and discussed in a public forum? The power of anon and /b/ could be used for so much greater good than hunting down kids who torture cats.
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Dynamically creating django models for m2m relationships
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This is a awesome post, thanks for sharing.
I notice his choice of motherboard conforms to the thin mini-ITX specification introduced last year by Intel.
"I'm feeling sucky" bubbled up some real gems. Will Wheaton sucks a lot more than Constant pain. :)
Not to mention that sites like TechCrunch are run by shills and frauds: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/02/mashable-shills-hard-...
On the same note:

Your life sucks a lot more than Zynga games.

Oh.
Yeah, easymotion does make counting words/lines seem rather redundant. I'm just hoping that they'll extend easymotion so I don't even need to think about what I'm jumping to i.e. I hit leader leader and every non-white character is indexed to jump to.
San Francisco has limited land, so there is a natural constraint on growth; in addition, there is a form of rent control and then there are lots of stipulations for building new units in the city. these things contribute to the low inventory, I think.

I wish they would allow more common sense building in the city. For example, in some areas, the shadows from new buildings may not be allowed to cast on neighborhood parks from 10am to 4pm, or so. This has killed a few projects. Then you have powerful neighborhood groups (like the ones along the embarcadero) who won't allow dense building because they would limit their view. I understand their position, but it's a selfish one. No one "owns" a view. More over, their buildings obstruct buildings behind them, but they would insist on having their own buildings be demolished to give others a view --nevermind that this could go on till very few houses were left.

The building requirements, in my layman's view, is that the requirements are onerous (compared to say San Jose) and make housing in SF an artificially limited/scarce resource which puts pressure on housing. The Peninsula is not much better. Neighbors always bring up traffic but then never approve BART to alleviate some of that traffic concern (or some other form of local mass transit (let's say spurs from the main Caltrain stations meandering to the local downtowns which host offices). My frustration is such that I wish someone like ABAG were given the power to overrule locals and allow them to do proper (integrated regional) planning and allow building up (vertically) to take the pressure off of housing in the Bay Area.
It's really sad that much of the public get their scientific beliefs from misleading press releases that lead to utterly incorrect headlines and articles like this, and the ENCODE consortium should be ashamed of themselves. They've done lots of damage that many other scientists will have to spend time and effort to correct.

splatterdash posted a link to an excellent summary of the problems in this thread, and I'd add a couple more links: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1172 and http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2012/09/07/reports-o...
I just started renting a 3BR house in the tri-valley area just east of Oakland at $3100/mo. It's a more suburban area with good schools, though, which tends to raise the price for potential families.
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Single family home rents vary a lot based on school districts.

If you don't have school age kids, you can get something in most parts of the bay for $3500, but the schools are very medicore (and probably terrible compared to most other parts of the east coast or midwest).

If you need good schools, bump your budget up to $4000-4500. You might find a deal somewhere, but it's rare.
You could use the on-chip memory as "L4 Cache".
A package manager for the web (by Twitter)
Oh, you mean specifically the rotation of lead singers. You might be right on that count but I view that mainly as a by-product of the fact that they would want to sing the songs that they wrote.
But child porn is already relatively easily accessible for free via anonymous networks, maybe we could find stats whether this lead to increase or reduction of the volume that is circulating.

One thing that then legal ban does is it adds to the taboo factor that makes this stuff more desirable.

I think the bigger issue is that people still don't have frank discussions about sexual matters even in the west.
As far as I know from various legal issues I've had to deal with, the general issue with unbounded contracts is that 'forever' or 'lifetime' in legal terms actually has a legal definition different from the common definition. So a 'lifetime guarantee' could actually be held to mean 20 years. Different states handle this issue differently. Consult google or attorney friends for specifics.

Real trade secret issues like Coca-Cola's secret formula are very very unusual in the real world, and really shouldn't apply to most software if a company is claiming that their entire code base is a trade secret. I can understand how an incredible 5 line cooking recipe or encryption algorithm could possibly be a trade secret, but it's ludicrous to extend that 'trade secret' protection to an entire 300,000-line software code base. People who worked on trivial and basic parts of a codebase should definitely be able to talk about it after a reasonable amount of time. I believe that this is particularly true after a product is discontinued or a company goes out of business.

NDA's should recognize this and founders should put reasonable time limits in their contracts, even if their attorneys say that they should go for as much protection as possible and try to protect all code/data/etc for 100 years. When a software company discontinues a product, it would be great for them to just release the source code and share with the community. Our laws regarding trade secrets and copyright are outdated, and just because the law allows a company to do something doesn't mean that they should do it.

I totally respect John Carmack for being a great example of putting old code into the public domain. Carmack makes a point to release the source code of his old game engines (see doom3 code review: http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php ) once they're obsolete. I believe that this has a huge impact, and serves to help educate and inspire the next generation of game engine developers. An attorney or CFO could say that it's irresponsible to do that, but I'm sure that the benefits that he gets indirectly by doing this far outweigh any negative thing that has come out of it.
Sexual relationships for minors is also illegal in most jurisdictions. Why do you need to allow minors to send erotic images of themselves when they're not allowed by law to engage in physical sexual activity?
I've been interested in this for a long while especially in memory models for forgetting patterns beyond simplistic SR expanding schedules.

We developed http://membean.com that utilizes some of this technology and we've been able to make this a successful business albeit in a restricted domain. But as others have pointed out .. it's hard to sell this. We've managed it because of stellar content built around our engine: http://membean.com/exemplars. Without excellent content it would have been hard to get this off the ground despite us able to show that we outperform existing SRS tools.

Most recently Smart.fm tried this and failed.
If my landlord's unattended lawnbot runs over my kid, he's probably going to be held responsible, right?
Parent implied that female startup hires get paid less than their male counterparts. This is not something that can be proved "a priori", regardless of the presence of discrimination (or "WASPS") in the world.
I've tried this with GCC 4.7.1 on Debian x86_64 and did not get it to work in constant time with -O2.

I'm guessing (from the OP's usage of -install_name) that he's been compiling this on OSX. I wonder what did my compiler miss that the OP's didn't?

EDIT: just tried with clang and got constant time behaviour, interesting

EDIT 2: reading the comments in the post, I now suspect it has to do with integer overflow. However, compiling with -fwrapv did not change anything. Need to dig into it more.

EDIT 3: it seem that clang simply notices that the computation can be done in constant time, whereas gcc does not. I'm not sure if it's actually useful in real world code, but it's certainly somewhat magical to see a compiler understand that you can substitute the entire loop with a simple calculation
Here is an overview:
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/APA-Monitor-attachment.html

However, I see that there is nothing in the article specifically about primary caregiver being female. To summarize, it is better to have one primary caregiver who has established a strong attachment with child. Traditionally it has been a female role, and I do believe women are better suited for it.
I refuse to use Amazon for anything because of stuff like this.

They will randomly ban your books, kill your services, and do what random politicians or Internet mobs tell them without any sort of due process.

People love to give me flack for it at the office...
As a corollary to this, keep your eyes on relative prices, incentives and human nature. Dull be highly effective.

What technology does is send some the prices of some actions from infinity to nearly zero. Meanwhile humans remain pretty much unchanged.
Galago: a hardware prototyping platform
'that' sucks more than 'life'
The fan looks to have been replaced in a later picture.

I've got a RPi here which is doing sterling service for several tasks, but it certainly wouldn't be satisfactory for desktop use like he appears to want - that machine is a Core i5, the two are lightyears apart!
Plus the convenience factor - the RPi won't power USB devices that want more than a minimal amount of juice (an external 2.5" HDD, for example) whereas this machine could happily drive them at a temporarily increased power draw.
A vacuum sucks a lot more than Microsoft.
> where one song may have been remixed with three different
> people, now you have to start infecting the track names
> with the remixer.

For what it's worth, I don't consider that "infecting". It's really the only sane way to handle huge collaborative works.

There are always exceptions which break any categorization scheme. The point is to treat them as exceptions, ie. fold them into the 90% model as well as you can, rather than restructuring your model to accomodate for 100% of every conceivable artistic license.

> And then you've got classical music,

This one _is_ interesting, but I solved it (personally) when I realized I only cared about the original composer (eg. Mozart) in terms of "artist", and the minimum nomenclature to disambiguate movements, etc. in terms of "title". Trivia like the performing orchestra is perfectly well homed in the album title, or ignored entirely. I admit I'm only interested in listening to classical music, not cataloging it to some deeper academic purpose.
Yeah, if that's really their policy I don't see how they can offer a single public domain work in the Kindle Store. Is there a way to file a complaint that their guidelines aren't being followed and request that content be removed from the Kindle Store? Because I would be so all over filing a complaint against every public domain work in the Kindle Store.
I disagree completely. It's the same thing too with many people who are overweight due to lack of exercise and bad eating habits. Are you saying those shows are outside of the norm or that it's more fun to just watch rather than do it ourselves? How many of us can say we eat properly and get the right amount of exercise on a monthly basis? Yet these types of shows are very popular. And I can guarantee you that the average person is nowhere close to living a healthy lifestyle!!
To be fair, it was trying to compare JIT vs. non-JIT. As futile as that me be via a microbenchmark like this, you need to compare as similar an execution path as possible. As it happens, the C# version is doing 16000000 more lookups for the Encoding than the RealBASIC version. Remove that, and C# - and by the premise of the post, JITters - wins.
You shouldn't ever have to count lines in vim. The five line deletion example could have been done as:

10dG

Which would delete from the cursor to the tenth line.
Possibly Firefox doesn't clear the memory used to draw the image, assuming all will be filled. So different stack or heap values.

It could also be re-using a drawing surface of some sort.
>There have been cases [...] //

You know what's great about legal cases, particularly this sort, they are so well documented and mentioned in newspapers, etc..

Citations please.

Now there being cases where a crim' claimed that they didn't know the package was drugs, that I can imagine in a heart beat.
Exactly, even if email is forwarded, the To: should still be intact.
That implies the care and nurturing of the infant is solely the responsibility of the mother, and we're simply in a support role.

In my opinion, I don't bear any less responsibility than she does.
Youtube isn't really Google's own yard, though. Or isn't wholly their own yard, at least.

Google has chosen to make money from other people's content, and as such they have a responsibility to treat that content with respect.
From that article: "This groundbreaking prototype has 10 times the bandwidth and 7 times the energy efficiency than even the most advanced DDR3 memory module available."
And the latest cause of autism is ...
Is that actually common in any part of the world?
Speaking of Google, every mailbox I have is subscribed to a dozen Google Groups full of Arabic-language spam. These are mailboxes on my own domains, that don't have Google Groups or Google Account accounts. Anyone can add you to a group and start spamming you through Google, repeated "report this group as spam" reports don't stop new mails from arriving, and the only way to unsubscribe is to create a Google Account with that mailbox then leave the group.
Amateur astronomer spots huge triangular UFO over Sheffield, UK
This is far from a revelation, and this article is just popularizing what has been known for [at least] the past 2 decades. Several scientists have built their careers on studying so-called "junk DNA" since the 1990s. See Jurka 2007:

"Eukaryotic genomes contain vast amounts of repetitive DNA derived from transposable elements (TEs). Large-scale sequencing of these genomes has produced an unprecedented wealth of information about the origin, diversity, and genomic impact of what was once thought to be 'junk DNA.'"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17506661
That's easy to answer in general -- if a computer runs on line power, then it has at least one AC -> DC conversion step. If it has a small, light, high-efficiency power supply that doesn't require large 50/60Hz transformers, then it converts twice:

120V AC -> 170V DC -> 20 KHz switching inverter -> 20 V DC.

So with respect to frequency it's 60 Hz -> DC -> 20 KHz -> DC. Yes, complicated, but much more efficient than the old iron-core transformer days, even though the latter involved fewer steps.

The step from 120 VAC to 170 VAC is an unavoidable increase because 120 VAC is RMS voltage, not peak voltage, and the DC conversion yields the peak value:

Peak V = RMS V * sqrt(2)

It wasn't very long ago that 170V transistors were difficult to acquire and notoriously sensitive to voltage spikes, but this problem is essentially solved.

A computer that only ever runs on batteries may have one, or no, conversions, depending on whether the battery voltage is exactly what the computer needs.

I speak as someone who has been designing electronics so long that my first designs used vacuum tubes, and whose 20 KHz inverters flew on the Space Shuttle.
It's been a while since I coded in C and I'm confused as to how you made a double linked list that can read in O(1) time. Wikipedia has a page in it but even that says it takes O(n) time, does anyone have an example or tutorial on how this is implemented?
Please see my response to previous comment.
I am not sure about gay parents, there is probably not enough research data available yet.
in which case you've invested the effort in making the stateful one-time token for unsubscription (is that a word?) - it's EASIER to enact that via a web link than parsing response emails
My algorithms professor is using the videos from the Sedgewick and Wayne course entirely as a way to present new material in place of lectures. He's teaching their book and his view is essentially that his time in lectures is better spent answering questions and interacting with the class than introducing new material that has been extemely well presented on the web already.

I can attest to the quality of Sedgewick and Wayne's lectures, and I have a lot of respect for my professor's humble and novel approach to teaching this course.
Texas changed that law last year. Now if one partner is under 17 and one over, but they are four years or less apart in age, and the younger partner is at least 15, then consensual sex between the two is legal.

People convicted under the old law can petition a court to be removed from the offender list.
Yes, a great one, if-and-only-if it wasn't just another collection of anecdotes, gut feelings, and opinions presented as facts.
So murder, for example, should be legal because making something illegal - simply because the current moral norm is against it - is wrong?
Gmail accepts multiple forms of email addresses for a single account. first.last@gmail.com is identical to firstlast@gmail.com. I often get subscribed to email lists I don't want using a variant of Gmail address that I never use. Also, plenty of people using forwarding addresses; it may not be clear which address was the target.
This is perhaps crazy, but if you drop a line to their legal department, it may just work.
You are wrong by definition: parallelism is a specialized form of concurrency...
Reminded me of the tiniest "Hello, world" ELF binary:

http://timelessname.com/elfbin

I love posts like this.
Seems like it could lead to information disclosure
Gmail actually detects when you click spam and there's an unsubscribe method available, and will attempt to unsubscribe for you[1].

[1] http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-e...
Yes, I do have a daughter.
I have never said that babies do not recognize their fathers. It is just that their attachment to mother is usually more important in their first few years of life.
I was confused as to what it did, until I pressed 'I'm feeling sucky' and got 'Jutin Beiber sucks more than Socks' and the related tweets.

I suggest you start the page preloaded with an example like this which is curious and brings a laugh and which has then initiated many tweets you can also show. Maybe even just pre-run the 'I'm feeling sucky' once.

This way it's very clear from the outset what to do as this discover process is currently painful.
Well by that logic, I provide a service of funneling money into Wal-mart's bank account -- therefore Wal-mart is also my customer.
I'm the developer of Tumblr for iPhone and sorry to hear this. I know that web views have their drawbacks and we're working hard to make the app faster and more stable in every way.
It seems fairly simple to me: I like being alive. Therefore, I want to live longer. What reason do I have to stop?
A heavy duty well connected investor who is actively making connections and opening doors should get a better price than a bank whose involvement begins and ends with a term sheet.
You bring up a good point. Perhaps targeting a specific demographic would make the sell a bit easier?

I don't think it occurs to many people to seek out and use memory tools. However, there are groups of people who do have a very specific need for these tools and actively seek them out. I'm thinking of people like medical students, language enthusiasts, etc... Anyone who has an immediate need to learn and recall large amounts of information.

By intentionally limiting the scope of what you offer, you can better target prospects and tailor your offer to fit their needs like a glove.
If they really cared about quality control, then they'd have better proofing of kindle content based on older, scanned texts.
I don't think an extended debate over semantics is helpful, but virtually no one would use the word "customer" in this way. If the Wal-Mart CEO said they were going to lower prices for customers, the Coca-Cola shareholders are unlikely to be happy. Consider that Coca-Cola is selling goods to Wal-Mart for cash. That is generally not what a customer looks like.
Instructions on how to use NSURLConnection are already on the internet in the Cocoa docs, Cocoa tutorials and Cocoa sample code. Anyone who has the desire to look for them can already find them. So in this case, "teaching him to fish" would be to encourage him to look up the already existing information on his own and spend the time to actually understand what it means. Learning how to do this will make him a better programmer and save him countless hours of time in the future.

Someone doesn't usually need to "deeply understand" an API in order to use it. But if they can't even create the simplest working code that uses the API, then they don't understand it at all. And if someone's just going to throw around someone else's code without even understanding how it works, they probably aren't writing code that's very useful anyway.
why not posting a link directly to the referred site (http://www.bookseries.co/)? That blog post didn't really add any substance/info to it...
That's kind of one of the three legs of the article, that it shouldn't be rape for two 17 year olds to have sex and similarly it should not be a sexual crime for them to send each other pictures of themselves. Both of these "crimes" are clearly not the targets of their respective laws, so why are we creating "sex offenders" out of these people?
Do you have any reliable sources for this please? Or is it opinion? Thank you.
Awesome to see it here. Feel free to suggest more icon ideas on the GitHub issue tab.
Yup. The latest versions of the app has actually driven me away from tumblr. It is un-intuitive, clunky, and poorly thought out. I'm not the only one who feels this way too.