skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only problem with your view is that the prosecutor has a wide degree of personal choice about how viciously to prosecute, and thus bears moral responsibility. It's the same as a soldier who chooses where to aim his gun -- there are moral choices of where to point it and immoral choices. In this case, the prosecutor made an immoral choice.

So this is not about "The Justice Department", it's about a person in a position of power, who abused that power.
The video created by Facebook that explains their new "Graph Search" feature.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200156514653891
The fact that you refer to it as "giving them money" indicates you have a very poor grasp on the concept of marriage. A family generally lives together, pools their income, and pays for most things together anyway. There aren't usually many outright transfers.

To answer your question, living off the support of "random people" is not very comfortable or lucrative. You might see people around who try to do that. We call them homeless people. They don't usually pull in enough to worry about.
You make lots of good points, especially by stating that getting Oritz fired should not be the end-goal. A larger effort will be needed to start swaying the general population's opinion on tough-on-crime policies.

There are many ways to approach the problem, but every resolution needs a beginning. That is how I view the Oritz initiative: a beginning. I'm sure that other government workers are taking notice and will likely adjust their behavior in the future, even if we can't quantify it. In that sense we've already made progress.

I only wish this effort could have begun under less tragic circumstances.
An Algorithm for Snowfall
If you're depressed, the last thing you should do is read comments directed at you. The internet is a bad place at the best of times.

Anyone who's suffering should avoid negative sentiment or you'll just find more reasons to be depressed.
Anyone can come up with an idea. Lots of people can build a product for a wage. Finding someone who will develop their own idea is what's valuable. The question is whether people who can deliver technically want a partner who can deliver marketing and are willing to take the risk finding them.
It's fairly slow. I requested one in July and I just got mine a few weeks ago. YMMV.
Could explain what you mean? I have read Atlas Shrugged and hated it. I also don't care much for the philosophy put forth in that book.

How is the description of the expertise of Sherlock, and Ayn Rand's book related as you seem to infer? I am genuinely curious and would appreciate your feedback...
They probably wagered on people's tendency to use space bar to navigate pages.
That's where other social networks differ. On Diaspora for example one probably doesn't know anyone after joining, and you always meet new people. You follow interests, subjects and conversations, not your acquaintances from real life. So it may be "big" for Facebook, but it's routine for other networks.
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It's not net disincented, half of a professional salary is nice walking around money if you already have living expenses covered.
I actually used CBD in it's first iteration briefly several years ago. I only went on one date but it actually ended up being one of the best internet dating experiences I've ever had. Didn't work out in the long run with the girl, but we did date for a little while. The idea of actually creating a "profile" for dating I think ends up resulting in a good amount of disparity between the curated persona you offer to the digital world and who you really are, no matter what you do.

Wish these guys the best of luck with it. And if you are curious about the service, recommend giving it a shot!
Also left Texas for the Bay, but ... I just got off the phone with my parents, and they assure me Texas still has electricity, water, [public] schools, and roads.
Sorry, that was unclear: the study I was thinking of specifically looked at giving poor families children's books and founded a measurable improvement in English skills. Of course access to a library that is open when a parent doesn't have to work, the time and energy to read to children and many other factors also play a role in early exposure to literacy.
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If / else is a way of defining what to be executed based on some condition.

The ternary operator is used to guarantee assignment to a variable based on some condition. It's not only a way to save space, it's a way to express your intent clearer. It simply doesn't leave any undefined code path behind.

In your case of changing the code a bit, in the carmack version of the function there's a risk that you remove the assignment to sides[i] in one case and it will later be undefined.

Though i agree that the syntax is horrendous since it requires you to remember exactly what the symbols ? and : do. Compare to the much nicer and to a newbie understandable python syntax: x = y if c else z
You are still going to have the unions dominating the legislature and the cocomitant crushing pension obligations if you remove direct democracy from California.

The state is too big. You need too big of a budget to campaign here. So the unions dominate.

I say split the state in half.
I think this a big deal.

The first step to a Yelp killer? Type in "Italian Restaurant" and get back list of all the restaurants your friends have checked into. A recommendation engine.

For now, its mostly to filter your facebook data. But do you think it can expand and become the goto search engine, ala google?
Same thing happened to me on a Friday and they locked my account. CS claimed they couldn't unlock the account until Monday... just imagine if they were my only bank. Not impressed.
Interesting to compare against Path (they announced search on 12/20 - http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/path-social-archive/):

Path: search personal events; discovery via proximity (nearby)

Facebook: search graph events; discovery via common interest

Seems like facebook trying to hone in on cases like dating (discovering people with common interests), and interest discovery (ie, restaurants that others like). Path seems more about making most of personal time (creating life events) in the context of a social environment.
Is it called that because it is leveraging many feature from the OpenGraph API? Could I accomplish similar things with the API?
Appreciate the update. I'll go ahead and spin one up to see how it compares to my prgmr domU.
It completely baffles me how any reasonable person could look at the retirement and health benefits situation in our country and come to the conclusion that our problem is being too generous to the working class.

Yes, the private sector has been much more effective than the public sector in collectively diminishing workers' wages and benefits in recent years. The logical conclusion is not that the public sector should do more to keep up with the downward spiral.
So far you can only search entities related to the friends of your friends. A journalist who was at the FB live event said.
Great, now I have even more reason to stop tagging friends, like fewer things, tighten my privacy restrictions, and tell friends to stop tagging me or checking me in to places.

I have no interest in my personal info being used for their search engine, nor do I want friends of friends (i.e. strangers) to contact me just because I like the same TV show or went to their favorite restaurant.
I read somewhere that for a certain product (salesforce maybe?) that they discovered if a user uploads their own data they were 2x to 3x more likely to convert.

The first step is always identifying the actually qualification event. The problem is they are not always obvious. I see in a few years big data companies helping to find these patterns in data and identify a few high correlation metrics with ease.
For a company that claims to understand the importance of mobile, why are the videos still in Flash? There is absolutely no reason they couldn't have used HTML5 with Flash fallback here.
Your first sentence is correct, that's what I get for writing too late at night :-/ As far as the jury knowing to ignore it, that's what jury instructions are for. But note that the court sustained the objection to the police officer's inference that his silence was evidence of guilt, and required the prosecuting attorney to elicit a description of his actions (looking at feet, tightening up) in lieu of conclusory testimony about the significance of same.

On the other hand, the prosecutors reference in the summing up is not evidence. It's like pointing at a defendant and saying 'look! he sits there showing no remorse. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is there any doubt that this man is a cold-blooded criminal?' It's a an empty rhetorical argument, but no more so than 'My client has the face of a baby, look how sweet and innocent he is - you must acquit!'. Those statements aren't offered as facts for consideration, but as the opinion of counsel, which the jury is free to ignore. Witness testimony is supposed to be dry and factual; attorneys can work themselves into Shakesperean fits of indignation if they feel like it (I exaggerate, but not that much...I'd personally like to see stricter standards about this).

Surely that's the only way to ensure a suspect's silence will not be held against him?

But the jury is quite entitled to hold it against him. That's their call to make. What's not allowed is for the prosecution to say that the failure to answer is legal proof of guilt. Failure to answer does not unask the question, as it were.

I don't think we are sacrificing vital constitutional protections here. The guy wasn't under compulsion, and the record shows that his silence wasn't used as the basis of an improper arrest. The constitution is very explicit about scope of the 5th amendment, and there's a good deal of precedent backing up the court's decision.
I may be being a bit of a braggadocio, but the 5-person startup I work for in featured in their blog post announcing the product... pretty unexpected coverage!

http://www.facebook-studio.com/news/item/introducing-graph-s...
bfd, lame.
this could be the beginning of the end for facebook
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Social searching is the new business.
and with Facebook doing it, it will go miles.Huge!!!
I seem to recall a story about a Pepsi employee who made a bad decision that cost Pepsi over 10 million dollars. The CEO called him into his office, and the employee shuffled in saying, "I guess you are gonna fire me now." To which the CEO Exclaimed, "Fire You?! I Just Spent 10 million dollars educating you!"

Just something to think about here.
So Ark, Facebook just Facebooked ya.
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Re: interest, this isn't technically correct, though the rate is 0.01%. See: https://simple.com/faq/#interest and https://simple.com/policies/rates/
Communication vs. Insight
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To me it just looks like it's an improvement over what it currently does, it now supports more queries on the Facebook userbase. It's not like it will challenge Google Search.
I can't see it killing review/rating sites for the simple reason a Facebook recommendation is not equivalent to a decent review, and Graph Search is going to incentivise firms to do a lot more to astroturf their Facebook likes.

Facebook could do a lot with people who like x also like y searches though (which are somewhat harder to game by giving everyone that likes you a competition entry) but Hunch isn't going to be killed since its already been acquired
No overdraft fees I guess is a good offer if you run into that a lot. Personally I much prefer Schwab's offer: no ATM fees, worldwide. I don't often (I think ever actually) find myself over-drafting my account. I do often find myself needing to withdraw cash, and in a wide variety of locations. It's nice to not have to worry about the $2-4 most charge, and even better when traveling internationally.

Go looks to have pretty good ATM coverage, but you can't beat no fee at EVERY ATM.
Yeah I love how people keep acting like "oh, his life was ruined so now you need to ruin hers?" NO, we need to make her not have the power to ruin more lives. If because of this, her and her millionaire husband manage to rationalize this as their lives being ruined while not caring about the kid's death they are responsible for than that really tells one everything they would need to know about the content of their character.
Wouldn't it be neat if there was an "anonymous like" that you could use for the benefit of your friends and yourself, but that would be prevented from being revealed in a way that was traceable directly to you? I.e. differential privacy for the facebook crowd.

For me, the potential negatives of leaving a very precise data shadow for marketers and state actors to remember for all time often outweigh any potential benefits, for a whole range of 'codify yourself' opportunities even outside Facebook (e.g. GoodReads, Amazon Wishlist, YouTube subscriptions, etc).
I never implied that there's nothing else going on behind the scenes with Facebook's algorithms.
Imo, facebook is really focusing on the wrong things here. I'd have been much more enthusiastic if they offered me tools for better control over my data, for example (incidentally, I had to spend 40 minutes just the other day using a Greasemonkey script to erase my entire Timeline). Or if the chat would be less clumsy. Or if they added cloud-based tools to groups, similar to Google Docs.

I can't really explain what's going on in their heads… Perhaps I'm just completely out of their target market, who knows.
I've said nothing about distribution. Only packaging. And specifically giving people instructions on how to do it themselves. Which isn't illegal. Nor is it particularly endorsing something illegal.

> So you can say "the only legal way to get my software is to download this file which is bundled with InstallMonetizerForUbuntu".

But, once I have that downloaded, I don't have to go straight to installation. I can remove files and change the install script. Sure, you can give me a binary file, but the only binary files I've ever received are after I've paid for something, and I've never found paid software bundled with crapware, even on Windows.

I can still write a script that would get rid of the bundled things provided you already have the packaged file, and distribute that script to anyone who wants it.

And while yes, people will create decrapifyers, I'm talking about preventative measures (modifying the installer).
Original Stephen Heymann DOX was taken down by Pastebin (why would they do that?). SO here's another, albeit less info...

http://pastebin.com/WvY5RnjV
I just watched them on an iPad. Perhaps it's The other way round?
Also consider:

"It was a dark and stormy night" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night
[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C9p9mw62qB8/TsWPk2-GMcI/AAAAAAAACF...
unclear to me if this works. they're trying to build a revenue model, yet it's becoming overburdened with features. issue is right now, there is no real viable alternative (someone should build one), so users won't leave. anyway, this is zuckerberg pandering to the stock market - if your stock trades at 60x earnings, there's a lot of profit you need to fill up. and so far... this ain't enough.
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Oh, it's still a police state as well, no doubt. It has probably gotten worse under Bloomberg.
Turns out, Klout does work
Perhaps for other more compelling reasons he has decided to start a company elsewhere.
A new API to see what people build before acquiring first couple of apps and throttling access?

Being able to weight my Google results with demographic or social graph attributes would be more useful for me - especially with purchases.

'restaurants in 10km range popular with 30-40 age professionals'

'most popular cookery books up to 3rd degree connections'

'top movies my close friends watched last week'
I agree there are problems with California's cosntitution, but the actual issue here is that the QSB exclusion violated the US constitution.
I think it's hard to discuss these statistics in any detail without even looking at them, but this isn't a controlled experiment. If the worst marriages selectively end in divorce, you're comparing single parenthood to the marriages that are healthy enough to continue, not to the marriages the children would have actually been raised in.

Feel free to email me if you want to continue this discussion. It's interesting and I'm enjoying it, but it's grown into a bit of a tangent.
At least it's not Beefy Miracle.
While it is a relatively recent topic of interest, surprisingly it doesn't seem particularly difficult to teach. Much of the research is still in the preliminary stages, but one study found persistent improvement after a brief four-session intervention: http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/bitstream/2268/30253/1/Nelis%20PAID%20...

It will take further work to associate learning such skills with the positive outcomes associated with the skills themselves and figure out what the best ways to teach the skills are, but current research is promising.
Also looking at the Texas startup scene to name a few. TechWildcatters http://techwildcatters.com/ Texas Entrepreneur Network http://texasenetworks.com/ BarCamp Dallas http://barcamp.org/w/page/400642/BarCampDallas
First to replicate OKCupid's compatibility algorithm and automatically do it for Facebook profiles, throw it into a SoLoMo app, then charge $20 to hang out -- what the kids are calling it these days -- your top 5 compatible people and boom! You got a hit. Then watch it get copied.

But it's okay, you'll get the last laugh in another few decades when having a Facebook profile is more powerful than having government issued identification and we're in a topsy turvy world where if the Facebook personality emitting/detecting jewel you have to wear around your neck would light up if someone else compatible is close by for you to mate with.

At least you didn't contribute that to society.
> The X.org server has been rewritten to support 'hot' plugging and unplugging of GPUs. Specifically, this allows Fedora to provide better support for USB connected graphics devices exposed by many modern systems and laptop docking stations. The user is no longer required to restart the X.org server for such devices to be recognised.

Does anybody know if this means good things about the state of those nvidia/intel hybrid graphics setups?
So I guess you'll need to turn to the private side :)

What about the "Anjos do Brasil" thing? Looks promising.

There's a Startup Weekend in Florianopolis

http://florianopolis.startupweekend.org/

And, if traveling isn't your thing, there's DEMO Brasil in São Paulo to network and pitch, too.

Looking at last years' São Paulo Startup Weekend, you could try contacting some of the judges - it had a "mentoring" portion :)

http://saopaulo.startupweekend.org/

Edit: searching a bit further:

http://www.abstartups.com.br/

Associação Brasileira de Startups.

http://www.endeavor.org.br/

The Brazilian chapter of Endeavor, they offer mentorship there (sometimes in exchange of equity)

And a lot of events in your area !!!

http://startups.ig.com.br/eventos/

http://www.campus-party.com.br/2013/index.html

and even a Lean Startups event in the next few months:

http://startups.ig.com.br/2012/nova-edicao-em-sao-paulo-do-e...

and a Startup lab

http://laboratoriodestartups.wordpress.com/
My favorites are the "mens rights activists" who completely shit on women, complain about how "nice" they are, wear ill fitting fedoras, and then wonder why no one responds :)

There have to be normal people on OKC somewhere, right? ...right?
How much do maps cost and what are they worth?
Interestingly Facebook's recent "Facebook Global University Hackathon" was won[1] by students who also utilized natural language processing.

Here is the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4871854

[1] http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/news/facebook-hackathon
It's not retroactive taxation. The Supreme Court pointed out that a tax break enacted several years ago was unconstitutional.
Hacker News and the Harvard Business Review aren't really the same "we."
It seems like Facebook graph search has a lot more functionality, or maybe I just can't discover how to do everything that Path can do with search.

I did discover that it can do delightfully strange things like if you search for "snow" it finds all the moments that happened when it was snowing, even if the moment does not have the word "snow" in it. So it must link location and weather history with moments, which is pretty cool!

So Path has a lot of potential. I think the search interface just needs some work to expose more functionality like Facebook is.
I never saw the email.
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a prime example of fiscal policy going array. i hope our revered leaders figure out the fact that innovation is the key to the greatness that is America.
It's an English idiom (phrase) which means having to take a tough decision, it comes from having to choose between two roads when they split into two.
Heh, I had separately posted this up above, but I suppose I can go delete that one and just upvote this one instead. :)
In case you didn't realize it, that costs the states money, and money is what states don't have.
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This is what my friends at Loopt helped build after getting acquired by Green Dot.

If you have enough money to use Fidelity or Schwab there are better options, but their mobile tooling is really good, it's hard to get surprised, and the custom card image is pretty cool.
get ready for a slew of useless features. facebook is now run solely for churning a profit (nothing wrong with this, it's just a different company and we all have to be ready for that). zuckie is out, analysts are in.
Government spending has nothing to do with constutionality of law. The law was simply struck down by the courts, in this case. It's not some government plan to increase tax revenues.
The Supreme Court pointed out that the law was unconstitutional. So the effects of the law over the past 5 years were illegitimate, and should probably be fixed.
1. Weird marketing, the word "Graph" doesn't mean anything to average people. Just call it "Facebook Search". Also these cold hyper emotional sounds kinda turn me off, even Apple has more friendly ads. Did they steal the music from some apocalyptic space movie trailer?

2. Interesting problem, to make all that data available to natural search queries. Definitely an attack on Google who still can't really answer natural queries what Marissa Mayer was talking about ages ago.

3. There is just stuff from Facebook what I think is problematic because people don't share everything on Facebook. If they can expand it onto the whole web, it would be a game changer, but also way more difficult to solve.

4. I can't think of a query I would use this for other than testing it. If I search for Apple, I want to the Apple website. So I think this is more a solution on the search for a problem. Maybe they figure that out when it's out there.
You're describing foursquare.
Well, not in terms of syntax :).

No, I think they're probably doing proper natural language parsing, and from there hand-coded translation to (their internal version of) FQL.

I wonder how flexible their grammar is. It'll be pretty easy to reverse engineer the techniques they are using by looking at failure modes of parses and how intelligently they correct fall-throughs.
It's technically unconstitutional in Italy as well, but it keeps happening over ad over... "Emergency measures".