skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard this argument many times before yet I've never once seen a shred of evidence to back it up. I'm not sure of the situation in the US but despite dealing with hundreds of UK tech companies and conferences in my career, I can categorically state I've never once witnessed anything that could be construed as sexism.
Interesting! Given that the US has even been attempting to extradite people who aren't even US citizens on DMCA matters (although not with entire success) I am not certain if the powers that be entirely agree on where their rights are (nor arguably will anyone know until they conclusively win or lose such a case).
> and attendees from all over the world

So you can choose to quote your 50 euros and say that it's a conference, or you can examine how much money the "attendees from all over the world" paid in travel and hotel paid in and note that their money is now being substituted by the web.

Your call.
Didn't this exact type of problem just get posted to HN this morning?
The problem with complain to microsoft about this is they are locked into some of these things with deal skype setup before they were bought out. Microsoft is contractually obligated to only supply skype TOM in china, this is the reason why they wont shutdown MSN in china because they are unable to control the skype network within china. You cant expect microsoft to reveal all these things while they are trying to clean house and get skype in order. Dont hold your breath on microsoft revealing anything
Backdoor root login found in Barracuda gear. Barracuda is OK with this
i wonder if http://sparkleshare.org would do you any good? I've not used it, but it seems like a friendly frontend to such an operation.
This is almost certainly a bubble at the moment. I for one have sold all of my bitcoins in anticipation of a crash.

EDIT: And within an hour of me posting that, the crash has come.
The problem here is way deeper than just the possibility to unlock a phone (which obviously is already quite a big practical problem, you just have to read a couple of comments above who explain why very well).
The problem is the culture in which we live in, and the transition that we are experiencing, going from `free culture`(read more about this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement) towards a 'permission culture`, in which big companies basically control assets which should be creative commons.

This transition will not pull through, it will most probably lead to a revolution of some kind (this is a pattern seen throughout history).
I'd advise giving this a watch. The data has surprised everyone, including the people researching it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
You win at HackerNews.
Now, we need harthur to make fun of these people and it will all come full circle.
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http://vine.co/blog says "Today we're launching Vine... Vine has been acquired by Twitter." So that was fast.
I also had to look up who the heck the Librarian of Congress was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Billington

Yep, we've got an 83 year-old historian making legal edicts regarding cell phones.
Are there any plans to add a keyboard shortcut for this?
In the first example I think that being rude is the way Linus shows his love; joking aside as a developer for kernel you should be aware of the implications of an apparently small bug; and if you don't like Linus,ok, don't work with him.

Regarding the second example... my personal opinion is that people overreacted. I appreciate comments about my code, but when the person that makes them explains what I've done wrong, or how it could be improved but if they just say that my code sucks and no arguments... ignore them.
One would expect that supply and demand would not increase together for any significant period of time.

Why? It happens like that for lots of things. Furthermore, keep in mind that growth in the supply of Bitcoins is somewhat artificially capped.

Is this an aberration or is Bitcoin going to stay at these pricing levels?

Any answer to this question is a guess. You can make plausible guesses either way, but if anyone knew for sure, they'd invest appropriately, keep quiet, and become rich.
OK, I have to ask though, did he use a gun or a threat of a gun? Or was this just one where he had a note that said put the money in a bag this is a robbery?
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The Unicon team recently released a CAS AddOns Project that uses Stormpath as a primary authentication source for CAS servers. Stormpath integration is included in CAS AddOns, a Maven-compatible dependency you add to your CAS server. CAS AddOns also makes it easy to integrate with a number of useful extensions in addition to Stormpath; JSON and MongoDB service registry is now supported, as is the JSON Person Attribute DAO.
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Nice. Surprisingly, we weren't aware of Makeflow and kinda missed it completely. On the first look, it seems like Drake is quite a bit more feature-rich than Makeflow. Please see the designdoc and/or the tutorial video for details.
I wrote a workflow processing system (http://github.com/madhadron/bein) that's still running around the bioinformatics community in southern Switzerland, and came to the conclusion that something like make isn't actually what you want. Unfortunately, what you want varies with the task at hand. The relevant parameters are:

- The complexity of your analysis.
- How fixed your pipeline is over time.
- The size of a data set.
- How many data sets you are running the analysis on.
- How long the analysis takes to run.

If you are only doing one or two tasks, then you barely need a management tool, though if your data is huge, you probably want memoization of those steps. If your pipeline changes continuously, as it does for a scientist mucking around with new data, then you need executions of code to be objects in their own right, just like code.

Make-like systems are ideal when:

- Your analysis consists of tens of steps.
- You have only a couple of data sets that you're running a given analysis on.
- The analysis takes minutes to hours, so you need memoization.

Another Swiss project, openBIS, is ideal for big analyses that are very fixed, but will be run on large numbers of data sets. It's very regimented and provides lots of tools for curating data inputs and outputs. The system I wrote was meant for day to day analysis where the analysis would change with every run, was only being run on a few data sets, and the analysis tool minutes to hours to run. Having written it and had a few years to think about it, there are things I would do very differently today (notably, make executions much more first class than they are, starting with an omniscient debugger integrated with memoization, which is effectively an execution browser).

So bravo for this project for making a tool that fits their needs beautifully. More people need to do this. Tools to handle the logistics of data analysis are not one size fits all, and the habits we have inherited are often not what we really want.
All awesome tips! Thanks.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444855 - I've seen these tips and what you're saying seems to be aligned with the stuff said in there.

I am stoked! Thanks again for your tips.
seems to be more like a user fail, since those keys are in their public repositories.
I'm also wondering the same thing as others. What specifically made it worthwhile to make this a separate language, as opposed to a domain-specific language implemented on top of an existing language with an existing ecosystem? You could even enforce the usage of only a subset of the base language if you really wanted.
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As a lighting designer my first thought was exactly the same, this is great, but how are you controlling it?
I couldn't comment on that, as I hadn't heard about these concerns before. My personal opinion is the opposite from yours, I think you're reading too much of a bad intention into a startup having its hands full with development. I guess the issue will be put to rest when the code is released, so there's no point in arguing about it too much.
Traditionally, there are three reasons for locking people up:

- punishment: you did something bad, so you should suffer.

- revenge: you did something bad to me; I'll be happy to see you suffer.

- prevention: you did something bad; to prevent you from repeating that (for a while), we'll lock you up.

Perhaps surprisingly, "paying back one's debt to society" does not figure here. Also, why do you think punishment would be paying back one's debts?
His technology-paradigm is definitely not a modern one. For example, he doesn't really understand open source software; just the concept of it--and how good it can be.
Wow, great suggestion. I will check this out for sure.
When I saw the headline I guessed Macklemore so from an information theoretic sense it helped me out. Although I'm a face recognition researcher who has written ethnicity detectors so maybe I'm biased.
I would love to know what other people are using.
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I would rewrite these functions for fun, even with an understanding of them. It doesn't matter if the end result is useful or not, we're programmers, we enjoy programming, not using. Of course that's to a point; time spent making something useful that's fun to make is more rewarding to most.

I'm just making the point that it's not just about learning, it's about writing the code. If you're the type of programmer that is only looking for a means to an end, this isn't for you, but if you're like me, the fun is in figuring it out yourself without the help of libraries.
Let’s spend $400 billion researching “the singularity”
I'm a convicted federal felon. To top it off, it's a computer fraud conviction involving a former employer.

I used to think I'd never even be able to flip burgers for pay. I'm actually probably right - McDonalds would never hire me. But since my conviction I've worked a decent string of IT jobs.

First, he needs to understand that there are a lot of people with a criminal record. I've met plenty of people with criminal records (mostly DUI, fraud, and drug charges) that have been able to find normal work, raise kids, volunteer, etc. Every time I tell someone my story, they tell me that their gainfully employed brother / uncle / co-worker / etc. has a criminal record that I used to think would force someone into washing dishes for the rest of their career.

Second, he needs to make a clean break with anyone shady. I've had tempting inquiries and offers from friends-of-friends. He needs to find new friends. Take up a hobby, join a church, go to user groups and meetups, go back to school, etc. Something to find a new set of friends that will occupy his time with things that won't land him in trouble.

He should be able to leave Indiana, especially if he has work lined up. I'm a little unclear on that since I wasn't in the state system, but I think he can be somehow transferred to another jurisdiction's probation office or remotely report in.

I don't agree that his only chance is writing code, but it's certainly not a bad approach. I'd particularly suggest mobile apps. It's not steady work, but jobs on Fiverr.com could bring in some cash while he looks. There's also affiliate blogging / Pinterest Pinning. I could probably sit in a public library, pinning Amazon links a few hours a day and earn enough to get by.
How is it different from:
http://goo.gl/YfHF5
I think there's a big difference between killing someone and threatening to do so. Though I also think it's entirely possible to kill someone and regret it and not do it again.

I think recidivism is high due to ridiculously long sentences, as well as the fact that our prisons are brutal hellholes that leave people much worse off psychologically than when they went in. And of course the fact that no one will give you a job.
Thanks! That's actually great to hear! What I normally end up seeing, however, are a bunch of cases where the US not only claims jurisdiction over their own citizens, but even demanding extradition of people from other countries for "helping or encouraging others" to violate the DMCA (one well-known example being Richard O'Dwyer).

Although, such cases that come to my mind were websites, which operate internationally, even if hosted entirely outside of the US. This is obviously a different situation than the seemingly commonly-cited "underage drinking" examples. For the people who build unlocks, though, like MuscleNerd, that is apropos, and those are the people who I mostly spend my time contemplating (although whether the DMCA exemptions actually help them much is another question).

(For individual users messing with their phones, of course, most of this is pointless: there is really no practical chance in hell that individual customers will be taken to court over things like this; it would be more a looming situation for people who offer this as a service at their store, which is quite common at phone repair shops.)
We love Clojure. Lisp is an extremely powerful language, and Clojure brings all this to the practical JVM world. And Lisp is quite good in operating on lists and graphs, which is a big part of Drake.
I can comfortably say, based on more than a few arguments and discussions, that Steve Klabnik is not a bully. This situation sucked all around for a lot of reasons, but "that's it, this guy is an asshole end of store" is a poor reaction to it.

If you want to judge a person with any degree of finality by one isolated incident that you barely were involved in, that's your prerogative. I think that speaks more about you than it does the person. Hopefully you'll give me some evidence that changes my mind, I'm at least still open to that.
I always assumed a Markov chain was some kind of Siberian drinking game. Hence the interest in the running the chain to its stationary distribution.
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Life expectancy at birth of both humans and Neanderthals pre-agriculture (Upper Paleolithic), is also just over 30 years. That works out to be almost exactly 1 billion heartbeats and correlates well with the regressions, according to those charts.

Given the above, it is kind of amazing how long humans remain fertile, even without modern medicine [worrying sigh - parents just don't tell you these things].
GitHub Search Makes Easy Discovery of Encryption Keys, Passwords, AWS Keys
For a long time OS X didn't have `pkill`. I think it's there now with 10.8, but was missing for too many years.

I remember the one weird thing was that `killall` used to behave weirdly on commercial Unix. It would ignore its arguments and simply attempt to kill all processes. It's been a long time since I've logged into such a system, but it was then that I got used to typing `pkill`.
Saw this yesterday.
> notpology

That basically summed it up. I guess it's clear the 140 character limit was never the issue.
I heard there was a military bootcamp program you could go through and get your criminal record scratched. Is this applicable, or am I confusing things?
>A guy who killed his cheating wife isn't a big concern

You have no problem keeping company with outed sociopaths?
He had a gun, though I don't know if it was actually displayed.
This is super misleading. This spectrum is part of the sprint roll out of TD-LTE on clearwire's 2.5ghz. They expect to light the first portions in summer 2013 and have said handsets will be available that can use the spectrum in 3Q13.

The equipment is undisclosed because sprint's TD-LTE basestation vendor is as yet undisclosed and isnt one of the existing chinese firms. Google needs a place to test the handset chipsets but has to have a experimental license since none have fcc approval.

The analyst pushing this story is totally aware that's what's going on - the fact that he fails to mention it at all while talking up longshot deals means all he's doing is market spin.

The firm he works for provides services for institutional investors and hedge funds and includes an "event driven strategies" group which amounts to people you can hire to influence M&A events to your benefit.

If you look at their coverage they are clearly working for someone trying to drive the price up on the sprint clearwire deal. The more you talk up other uses of the spectrum, however unlikely, the more pressure it puts on sprint to up their bid for clearwire under the shadow of the fcc stepping in if washington can be convinced the spectrum is being undervalued.

Basically he's just somebody you can hire to manipulate the press to benefit your investment positions. Truth or reality doesn't enter in to the equation.
Can't wait to start using this! I <3 Evernote
Considering how often they'll be glued to the bacteria they're fighting, sounds fine to me.
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Whats exploitative are the roaming fees levied by carriers.
Seems like it's weighted to be more beneficial earlier in the contract, and later on makes more sense as the user to see the contract through to the end.
So, suppose the crime were downloading academic articles, and the punishment was to be up to 35 years in prison...

What you're arguing for is the inherent rightness of State violence. But the government can be wrong, and it often is wrong. If it's wrong, it's not moral to say, "Well, the government said it would do [wrong thing] to him, who am I to question it?" Instead, you question it and call it into doubt, not try to make a descriptive consequence into a prescriptive consequence.
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The Barracuda device doesn't allow you to do anything you couldn't already do with other tools.

However, if an organization were able to get a widely-trusted MitM cert (such as this one http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/09/tustwave_disavows_mi... or this one http://ssl.entrust.net/blog/?p=1696 ) and deployed it on their Barracuda, it could likely be extracted by someone with root-level access.

It wouldn't surprise me to see some "loose nukes" arise out of Barracuda's utterly irresponsible behavior here.
Why would they just switch their stance? https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26 Something's rotten in the state of Denmark^H^H^H^H^H^HC

(Yes, I know DC isn't a "state")
One reason I can think of is that most Antibiotics do not only kill bacteria, they also stall bacterial growth.

So while the most resistant bacteria are killed at last, they still might not be able to multiply.
Out of pure curiosity, what use do you have for this? I can't wrap my head around this being anything more than a shiny new thing. It doesn't have syntax highlighting, doesn't have keyboard shortcuts, and therefore seems to be worthless for anything other than markdown editing (for which I would rather just use my text editor).
Just as an aside, the Quaker church is pretty much awesome. If I were a believer, I'd join the Religious Society of Friends. They're pro-peace and tolerant to a degree that should shame most other Christian churches into trying to be better Christians.

And, you're right that churches can be helpful to folks dealing with situations like this. I've become a lot more tolerant of churches and devout religious folks over the past year or so that I've been interested in and working on homelessness issues.
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spacechem is really good for like, spatial logic puzzles that are fun to solve
Since he's a vet, have him talk to the VA. They have this http://vetsuccess.gov/ and especially this http://www.benefits.va.gov/vow/ Also see if he has service-related disability and thus can use VA Vocational Rehab. http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/ Even if he doesn't have a disability rating now, if he can trace something back to his time in the military he can still get a rating and be eligible. With the skillset he has they ought to be able to help him out somehow. I'm not sure how the prison service will tie in, but it's worth a shot.

Along a similar vein he might try his local American Legion or VFW chapter for assistance.
Pretty much the same, actually. If anything, I'd suggest even more leniency.
Pro tip: find a professor at your school that will let you do this for independent study credit.

You're likely to be able to get the funding through the school for your materials for the drone, you'll still be getting credit towards graduation, and you won't be doing anything that might be illegal with financial aid money.
You said you were a good software developer before prison - was your crime a white collar one? Do you mind sharing what you were convicted for?
Until the day comes that you can ACTUALLY spend your BTC (I know there are places you can, but in all reality it's still very much a novelty currency today) and prices stop fluctuating wildly from month to month I am staying away from the entire Bitcoin craze.
That's way beyond driverless car, that's a global optimization problem. If it were possible, you wouldn't even need driverless cars to implement it. System-to-car communication and slightly more complicated street lights would be enough.

For example, many cities already have lit signs that forbid turns from cross-streets onto oversubscribed roads, your nav system could allow you to pay the congestion fee and get authorization to disregard the sign and take the turn. Similarly, you could get out your smartphone and queue yourself to a destination and be told when you get to leave and take the fast route for free. As long as queuing at home got you to your destination faster than queuing in traffic, it would be the individual best strategy to do it and enough people would use it for it to work.

The hard part is probably doing traffic scheduling at an acceptable latency, for a city like LA you'd need to model the behavior of millions of cars however many iterations your optimization algorithm needs every few seconds. These kind of problems are really computationally expensive, it may not be economical with current systems and algorithms.
You're missing something.

These aren't certificates signed by a CA that's trusted by most browsers - they're self-signed certificates (signed by the appliance) that are trusted within the organization using the Barracuda hardware by provisioning employee browsers to accept the CA.

If you were to extract the private key and use it to sign certificates elsewhere, you'd get the same warning as though you generated a random certificate and used it; the key is only useful within the organization that trusts it.
I thought that it's a pretty well known fact that small dogs live longer. Can't find a really good link, but this one is OK: http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/features/dogs-and-life-span-which...
I feel like our system probably shouldn't really cater to sadists.
To look at it the other way, the value of the bitcoin has not changed. Its price increase in dollar is just a reflection of the inflationary nature of the dollar.
No worries. Thanks for replying back with a link to a working example. It's the first thing I like to see when looking at something like this.
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I'm not so sure. What's the difference for most people?

A keyboard? They make keyboards for iPads, Android, and Windows tablets.

The OS? That's not a terribly hard thing to change.

I would venture to say that a tablet could replace a laptop for 80+% of people. I type, browse the web, email, and program on my laptop. I tablet is more than capable of that. I'm not often doing heavy processing or graphic-intensive gaming, nor are many/most people.
A bank teller can't know the gun isn't loaded. PTSD is a real bitch and could easily have ruined the tellers life permanently. If there were any customers in the bank they could have been a victim too. Families could have been destroyed.

Frankly 18 years sounds kinda cheap. If you have to rob a bank, at least tie a chain around the atm at 1 am -- more money and less hurt to all concerned.
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