skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And honestly, I don't think this is an issue that needs to be addressed with heavy software or complicated programming gestures. So, for instance,

"One obvious quick and low-cost solution is to make a CNAME Record that renders the dyslexic font via CloudFlare; like mobile."

I just spurted that out while reviewing another forum where I have made the suggestion to render dyslexic fonts. The above suggestion would not have to impact anyone, and it is trivial to pull off. The outcome is there becomes a reserved DNS space for http://{dyslexic_contextualization}.{domain}.{ext}.

So, for example, like with mobile's http://m.domain.com: http://d.domain.com or http://dys.domain.com.

What is needed here is not more code, but agreement and strategy. But before all of that, an understanding that this is a problem, regardless of the number of people it affects. Dyslexia is a feature of nature; so pointing out that it only affects a small number says nothing about the future holds. And even further, dyslexia is a spectrum disorder, so it plausibly could be and probably is more widespread than we understand it. Most people live with it out of shame or fear the consequences of "coming out."

I'm _sure_ we're all on the same page with these points I've made, and that I really did not need to express them. Then again, the tech industry is hotly debating sexism as if women were "coming out of the closet": "I'm a programmer!"
Since the algorithm can only detect the relative swirled amounts of a set of the same images, a solution could be to, rather than using a set of the same image, use a set of different images swirled different amounts (or with some other transformation), and the user must select the unmodified image.
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are they valuable?
To someone who has built something related to it and fully intends to run with it, yeh. I bought that domain with every intention to build something myself but am fully absorbed with something else... would love to see it put to good use, I fucking hate squatters :)
First thing I tell people who ask "how would I get started?" 1) talk to people you think might want to use what you have in mind and see what they think and 2) build it on paper, because no matter who ends up building it, your ability to clearly express what you want in a very literal way is going to be key to getting what you want.
Yes, megavideo was a large part of their platform. I think it is only a matter of time before we see them build a video player on top of mega. I suspect there are technical hurdles to over come with decrypting and then playing the video using javascript though.
Most here would prefer that they take home a lesson not to throw the book at people who are trying to make things better.

Swartz thought that JSTOR was an illegitimate institution and he thought that justified him doing whatever he wanted to them. Why should prosecutors respect his moral judgments in that regard? He thought the law was wrong...so you think prosecutors should assume that everyone who thinks the law is wrong is "trying to make the world better"?

I get that lots of people here agree with him: they think JSTOR is awful and they think they're entitled to do whatever they want to JSTOR, the laws be damned. But why should prosecutors believe that?

that's why Reason magazine (among others) has endorsed Aaron's law to at least fix one part of this.

I believe that "Aaron's law" wouldn't have made any difference in his case at all.

I've seen people propose minor tweaks, but none that would have made a real difference for Swartz. And I've seen a lot of incredibly vague proposals that boil down to dramatically weakening prosecutors' power in criminal cases. But these are jokes: they're so vague that no one could ever advocate for them or they're politically impossible (Congressman, I write you today to urge you to make it harder for federal prosecutors to offer plea bargains for less than 1/5 the maximum sentence they're seeking).
As I was trying to get across before, in a thread where you might have been a bit more receptive:

The reason the Innocent Black Guy in rural Ohio ends up with an impossible battle and travesty of justice IS BECAUSE the system gets lazy and invents crap like "suing property" and "plea bargain poker" in search of expediency against numerous truly unsavory characters. You can't claim to be concerned about IBG's plight yet be unconcerned with the deterioration of the legal system that eventually causes IBG to end up at the complete mercy of one prosecutor.
Small correction: Chrome and Firefox teams are using basically the same implementation of WebRTC; see http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/media/webrtc/t... - it's an import of the Chromium code into Mozilla. Having the source available definitely makes interoperability easier and is better than having a blobby bit, though.
In Opera 11.x you don't get a warning, but the site never loads.
Hey nice work!
So he's a real estate agent then?
Setting up Wifi on the Raspberry Pi
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Maybe the most insidious "bug" I ever had to solve: a performance test environment showing very strange behavior. Eventually I found that time jumped 30 seconds forward every minute, and soon after 30 seconds backward every minute. Had some kind of redundant time servers configuration, messing time up. Took longer to find out than seems reasonable, but it is the kind of thing you don't really expect.
I think you are probably misinformed about the history of this property. The directly cited criminal cases in the evidence for the property spans a 7 page bulleted wall of text. Multiple people died there. They found meth labs there. On multiple separate engagements, retail drug operations were found running out of rooms in the property. And that's just the drug crimes.

The government can't just "seize" the property. They're suing the property in civil court. For what appears to be very good reason. The whole thing is receiving a full hearing in front of an impartial judge.
I would like to visit solely because I have family in North Korea, and I would very much like to meet the separated half :(
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Much ado about nothing. He's pretty clever.
This is nitpicking. Well, maybe not.

This code does not take a swirled image and solve it. It takes a set of images with various swirl levels and finds the one with shortest sum of edge lengths.

The code does not do any un-swirling of the image. It also uses external libraries to convert to grayscale, apply the Sobel filter and the sum of edges.

I other words, it is far from breaking the swirled CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python. If you had to write the un-swirling, gray-scaling, Sobel filtering and summation code in Python you'd be looking at a much larger pile-o-code.

The demo and the intent is good. I just wish the title didn't say "23 lines of". I don't think the article would have suffered at all if the title was "Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA with Python".

Again, the intent and what is being demonstrated are excellent. The title, in my not-so-humble opinion, is hugely misleading.
When I was a Junior Developer I though I was a genius and knew everything about programming itself, I was not even interested in improving my coding skills, because I thought they were perfect, now after 8+ years I view myself as a rather ignorant guy who can barely create working programs.
That's pretty much how I got to the idea, my friends on I often make the same recipes and then discuss what we changed about them. This just facilitates the conversations.
"99% of all crimes are small potatoes compared to LIBOR"

I doubt that you can show me that Swartz's "crime" was somehow doing more damage than 99% of all crimes.

I doubt that you can show me that it was doing more damage than 51% of all crimes.

In fact, I doubt you can show me that it was significant at all in the grand scheme of things.

What Swartz allegedly wanted to do is something similar to sticking a Windows ISO on BitTorrent.

If you think that's "extremely serious" or worth comparing to a bank robbery, this conversation is over.
Which would, as I said, say a lot about where they are as a company. Originally features were developed for the users. Now that they have enough users, features are developed for the advertisers. I wonder if people will start moving away from FB soon.
You don't think there is anything with knowingly profiting from illegal activity?
No one would want an invite. You need huge amounts of users to successfully run a sharing portal.
But a vendetta against a prosecutor because people are fed up with plea bargain abuse DOES.
I agree. I programmed a few internal LaTeX "packages" for my department in the university. I not only typed some math, it includes a lot of strange macros.

The "programming language" is horrible. It's a clear example of a turing tarpit. For example you don't have arrays, so you must fake them. You don't have function, so you have to return the value in a glob@l. Monkey patching is considered an art, but this makes many of the different packages slightly incompatible.

The "printing library" is amazing. If you only want to do a standard thing (and someone else had programmed it) the result is nice.

The other advantage is that everyone knows it, so if you make a package correctly it is easy to use by mathematicians that can't program in LaTeX.
I've been a big fan of a TV show "Departures" (awesome videos by the way) and one time they went to North Korea.

You can check out some of the video clips of their trip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJJSx3Vr0c (some intro..)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr3lt34bnWQ (elementary school)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZvwaObOXc (school)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moq6ZkKZJm0 (Arirang Mass Games)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tMoAoFy3JQ (War Museum)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqA7pNN2r9k (Kim Il Sung Burial)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbUxLAj_k18 (trip somewhere)
200/150. only 33% higher in those states you mention than the UK. That's some disparity especially if it's the lower end of the incarceration rate for the US. Rather than racial issues, I think drug laws - specifically decriminalization and subsequent recriminalization of marijuana in the UK[0] would be the differentiator. I think states that decriminalised marijuana in the U.S. will see a reduction in incarceration rate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_reclassification_in_t...
You post is essentially rubber-stamping the government's civil forfeiture laws when it's against someone you (and the government) don't like, like this motel.

That's not justice, and frankly, no one should support the government's use of civil forfeiture, ever, for any reason, full stop.

Civil forfeiture is so abused by the government today as to be evil in and of itself. No "ends justifies the means" argument applies when it comes to civil forfeiture, in this case, or any other. It's that bad.

Of course, the government disagrees, as do you: that's what makes you "pro-government" in this case.
I think the US Attorney's office should absolutely be able to sue the owners of a property for operating it so negligently that it becomes a blight on the whole neighborhood. I think that the same way I think they should be able to sue factory owners who dump toxic sludge into the waterways.
enders game?! had no idea this classic was coming :) Awesome site btw! Care to give any details on how you built it what stack?, I always find that part interesting :)
Ridiculous. You could use the exact same logic to call me "pro-government" in supporting the government for suing to shut down a factory that pours mercury into a river.

What the fuck does "pro-government" even mean? What an asinine line to argue. I'm anti-flophouse, like the government. I'm anti-military-occupation, unlike the government. I'm anti-copyright-infringement, like the government. I'm anti-patent-system, unlike the government. I'm anti-meth-lab, like the government. I'm anti-marijuana-prohibition, unlike the government.

Do you want me to go on?

Are you pro-abortion-clinic-bombings? You must be pro-government. Are you anti- workplace- race- discrimination? You must be pro-government. Are you uniformly against every intervention the government pursues? Is that the ideological line I to which I have to hew to meet your approval? I guess I'll have to do without that, then.
You can't use that action if person being impersonated is not on facebook. They require you to identify the account of the person being impersonated.

I know this because I tried to report an account impersonating my grandmother, who doesn't have a computer.
I love it. It was exactly what I was looking for.
But he wants to keep his own private copy of the data. Then recycle the Next Cubes. For archival purposes.
No sort by rating?

This make the site utterly useless and pointless, the cool of review sites like this is see new good movies that you did not watch.
Short domain names are hard to get on account of there being fewer possible combinations. Finding a short domain that meshes with your application is definitely valuable, since it is easier to remember and type. We can debate whether or not a five letter domain counts as short, but I'd say it's valuable to someone who wants to make money. Certainly a good deal at $0.
No, it's not "just like" at all. And that's for the not-difficult-to-discern reason that people and pigs are not interchangeable, which why you can have bacon for breakfast without being charged as an accessory to murder. And I'm sorry that think that getting the artists out of art and just handing the satisfaction of the human intellect to machines is a situation where "everyone wins."

A liberal education may not get you a job, but it'll save you from embarrassing yourself with stuff like this.
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I'm not following your train of thought. What does "white people" have to do with anything?
Awesome! Fun site, thank you!
I have been following this case for quite some time. I think it is worth noting that the defence lawyers[1] are a pro bono libertarian law firm, initially funded by the Koch brothers, that strategically litigates media friendly cases. It has been said that "In pursuit of its goal of a radical laissez-faire capitalism, the Institute has initiated a number of lawsuits aimed at ending government regulation of business. While the lawsuits generally involve small businesses, often in communities of color, the goal is to set a legal precedent for the deregulation of big business in general."[2]

As a bit of silly trivia, in the movie "Invention of Lying" Ricky Gervais' character had a quicky fling set there where it was named "A Cheap Motel for Intercourse with a Near Stranger".

[1] http://www.ij.org/massachusetts-civil-forfeiture
[2] http://my.execpc.com/~ajrc/ifj.html
[3] http://www.futuregamez.net/movies/inventionoflying/invention...
Ideally you'd have mental health hospitals with a variety of security levels. Some of those hospitals are for people who pose no risk to others and who have never been involved in offending behaviour. Other hospitals are forensic, are part of the criminal justice system, and take people who are mentally disordered offenders. You have different levels or different wards - wards for people who pose a serious risk of harm to others; wards for people who pose little risk of harm to others but who are really ill and who would otherwise be in jail.

In the UK prisoners have a sentence. They serve the sentence, and then are released. A prisoner who develops a severe mental health problem is transferred to a secure[1] mental health unit (a forensic unit). They stop being a prisoner and become a patient. They get returned to jail when they are well. Some criminals are ill at the time of the offending behaviour, and get sent straight to secure hospitals. These people do not have a sentence. They just have to convince people that they're well. And once they've done that they get returned to jail to continue serving their sentence. So being a patient means things like forced medication, and a lack of information about when you're going to be released or what you need to do to get out.

I take your point though. I hope I haven't suggested that people can use mental ill health as an excuse for offending behaviour.

[1] Secure is a jargon word here, meaning units for people with some police involvement. There are plenty of locked wards, but they don't get called secure units. And there are 'section 136 places of safety' which used to be police cells (still are in many places) but which should really be somewhere therapeutic / clinical. (Section 136 is used by police to take people who are 'mad in public' to a place of safety to be assessed by a doctor.)

EDIT: Wow, wall of text. Sorry.
I've noticed the same thing.

I apologize in advance if this is completely off-base, but, my personal theory is that due to tptacek's work in security, he is afraid to take a harder stance against government wrongdoing. Perhaps this would risk his (or his company's) eligibility for future security clearance and/or government contracts.

To quote Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it!"
This is how similar services have responded to warrants. They voluntarily alter javascript for some ip addresses in order to capture passwords to use for decryption of the user's files.

It would probably be easy to write your own login page or a browser toolbar that would either do the hashing on a page you control or check that the javascript was what it should be.

At that level of distrust however you might as well encrypt the stuff yourself (and send the decryption keys to the people you want to share with in some other, more annoying but secure, way)
Ah, but negative numbers are not included in the set of counting numbers, and your initial comment referred to "the leap seconds" with no reference to "the leap second offset" or other verbiage that might imply anything other than a simple count of leap seconds.

Alas, I'm afraid you've no other option but to admit a minor error, as traumatic as that may be.
It's more than 'no big deal' because it does it irrespective of the Safari 'Private Browsing' feature.
SSL Poor error, cannot connect to server.

Is it down, or is my ISP blocking the SSL certificates so I cannot use it?

I am using Google Chrome.

I assume the site was DDOS'ed or failed under heavy bandwidth.
We do zero work at all for the government. Our clients are startups and technology companies, along with large F-500 IT shops. I would personally have a moral problem with assisting the US military in 2013.

I shouldn't have to spell that out simply because I (a) disagree or (b) read news stories more carefully than you do, but every time a story like this comes up, I inevitably do have to defend myself from someone who thinks my opinions are bought and paid for. In reality, arguing against random HN people argues against my own interests.
Before we launched the site, there were no ratings so it seemed pointless to add sorting by ratings.
We're already getting quality reviews and ratings and sorting options will be added soon.
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> I think the US Attorney's office should absolutely be able to sue the owners of a property for operating it so negligently

So, given that this is not how civil asset forfeiture cases actually work, does this mean that you've changed your opinion?
That is far from horrible advice. And you are taking "locally" way too literally. You get to define what "locally" means. It definitely means "not trusting a third party with your important data".

In my case it means that I keep three full backups of everything at three different locations and with various incremental and full-backup schedules. Old data that doesn't see a lot of activity is archived and even burned to DVD and stored in a fire-proof safe. I know that some of it is a bit extreme, but I actually take my work product very seriously and most of it represents "cubic hours" of work. I take the position that my business data is my responsibility and I store it "locally" with enough redundancy that it would take a pretty major event for a significant chunk to be lost.

That does NOT mean that I don't use remote storage/backup services. It DOES mean that I operate as if they could be reduced to dust tomorrow. Which, in turn, means that I have all of the convenience some of these services offer while not having to worry too much about issues at the backup provider ruining my life.
Thanks! This is what I was looking for as well and I decided to build it :)
Why did this case ever go to a Federal case?

If the Tewksbury PD had knowledge, did they not also have the ability to give the info to a local county or state prosecutor? And if they knew and did nothing, either the community by way of the police chief give tacit approval, or, there is corruption somewhere.
QR codes as standardized visual targets for coding information are a brilliant innovation... for a group of tasks which do not include "Transmit company URL to customer".

This is a simple deliverable that "marketing experts" can use to convince a client that they're ahead of some imaginary curve. They were approached in a nearly identical fashion as CueCats. A solution searching for a problem.

Outside "Transmit company URL to customer", though, there are a number of places they could be useful. From specific computer vision (robotics and augmented reality) targets, to perfectly-private one-way or two-way near-field communication, to inventory management, to simply tracking entries from a discount-incentivized marketing campaign with referral codes, the potential application space is large.
"Even better, if there was an oldtimer around when the world is telling you you're a god and can do no wrong, to tell you that's bullshit, to kick you in the butt, in a friendly way, tell you you're a mortal human being, and you need to understand that life has its ups and downs"

I know that it's pretty fashionable to hate on religion, but this is something that religious wisdom literature and religious communities are often very good at providing.
Wow. This has tremendous potential to finally update the classroom from textbooks to engaged electronic learning. I sure hope it lives up to its potential!
>it is far from breaking the swirled CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python

Except it does break the captcha in 23 lines. I don't get your point.

Why would he need to do any 'un-swirling' in the first place? That's not the point of the captcha. The captcha provides you with multiple images and you have to pick the least swirled one - which is exactly what his code does.

And you argue that because he did use external libraries it's not 23 lines of python. Of course it is. He had to write only 23 lines that make up the logic to break the captcha. If you'd argue that one would have to add any previous work (or lines) done by other people to the linecount of your own project, I could also argue that 'print("Hello")' is not one line of python, because it uses some standard python library, which in turn calls native code, that native code would make a few syscalls and at some point resulting in multiple hundred lines of compiled kernel C code being executed.

So the linecount of his 23 lines python script would actually be:
23 lines of python + various libraries + the entire Linux kernel = roughly 20 million lines of code.
Good job.

And yes, that was nitpicking. And I'm angry for some reason.
With all the discussion about how Unix represents time, it's surprising that the article made no mention of the Year 2038 Problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
It was a very subtle change but yeah we lightened it up a bit after the feedback from this thread. We made quite a few changes actually and summarised them here: http://alias.sh/thank-you-hacker-news-community
I'll never admit to an error, although perhaps a negative value for correctness.