skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has its own problems. Big fights are magnets for others, and because at 10x time slowdown, they can take several real hours to resolve, everybody and their mom has time to travel across the galaxy and join in. This was a problem at the relatively recent Goonswarm & TEST fight with multiple titans. So many others were opportunistically coming in and kept slowing things down and interrupting, where they shouldn't really have had time to mobilize.
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Thank you Keith Ellison for being sensible and voting no on this bill.
To be fair, my congresswoman (Maloney) voted Nay.
Just because it's a pet peeve of yours doesn't mean it's bad design. It's standard practice and should happen all the time.

If a user likes me enough to forward my newsletter to 60 of their friends and one of them clicks unsubscribe because they don't take 10 seconds to read the subject, I'm out an extremely loyal reader/customer if I don't send that notification email.
288 Yea votes. They're very close to 290, which would be enough to override a veto.

Even if it doesn't come to that, a credible veto threat is often enough to get the President to sign the thing. So bending even a few votes in either direction may have some political meaning here.
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What's noise for you is signal for someone else and vice versa, isn't that why it's a hard problem to solve?
None, but how much is really necessary here? [I would] Expect the ISPs in this case to be relatively complacent, regardless of the quote from the "industry insider".
While I agree with you, if the author believed the entire method is invalid in all situations, he could make a strong argument that it wasn't worth the space to put it in at all. It would be a long book if it was filled with all the methods currently in production that did _not_ work!
the term "majority" sorely needs to be redefined when the converse is "48% minority"
i.e. "the equities issue", which has been debated at NSA for decades. Is it better to strengthen the US civilian infrastructure from foreign attack, or to keep systems weak for (primarily) international intelligence purposes (since they use off-the-shelf US products like Windows and Android), and to a lesser extent, monitoring within the US (for NSA, of foreign entities, although I'm sure they also care slightly for domestic law enforcement's concerns, especially post-9/11 since terrorism within the US blurs the division somewhat)
Extjs is extremely popular. It's a pain to debug and to learn , but it's kind of the most "enterprise" js framework out there. It's is "full stack" (as much as client side can be) and comes with it's own IDE ,etc ... People coming from java-x-entreprise solution and Flex are using quite a lot.

Next to Extjs there is AngularJS , well known for it's dependency injection features and it's directives , and after that there is of couse Backbone.

But most of front-end devs dont use frameworks at all , it might not make sense for every project.
I want to thank my representative for voting against. Hopefully she can pull more of her colleagues next time 'round.
> I downloaded the zip (about a year ago)

Do you mean the project tarball or do you mean the bencher zip?

> I sincerely tried to make it work

Did you ask for help?

> This time I simply retraced those exact same steps

This time you've told everyone such-and-such isn't in the README when it is; such-and-such aren't written anywhere when they are; such-and-such aren't distributed anywhere when they are.

None of that stuff changed in the last year.

>>and this is why I want to make a new benchmarks game<<

So get the tarball tomorrow, read the README, find out what doesn't work for you and fix-it (if you're missing python-gtop install it), make measurements and publish them. Easy.
Agreed, I automatically exempt anything dealing with healthcare or finances from stuff like this. I definitely don't want my bank emailing me customer service messages which could contain who knows what kind of sensitive information.
I definitely agree that you need dimensionality reduction, though there are methods other than PCA (e.g. auto-encoders.)
>Also to put things in perspective, SuperCell makes 10x more money per employee than Goldman Sachs.

I'm not sure that the two are comparable, it might be akin to comparing the metabolic efficiency of yeast vs. an elephant. Could SuperCell scale to make ~$50 billion a year?
The trick is to move your hands to and fro between the two to keep the temperature ambient.
Please read the bill, not just EFF's summary of the bill. To be covered under CISPA, the information must be stored or transmitted on a protected system, and whatever the violation is, it can't be either a consumer terms of service agreement or a consumer licensing agreement.

Additionally, published content isn't confidential.
You need to work on your shilling.
Be careful. Many articles submitted to HN are just fucking awful articles, and we actually want contrarian viewpoints to counter the bollocks pumped out.

Banning Techcrunch, ExtremeTech (such a terrible website full of dreadful garbage), MotherJones and so many other shitty websites would do more to help HN than any karma modifications.
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The main pain in the ass I see in that is you need to travel to one of a few big cities to find a store that sells certain brands.

Personally I live the Howard Hughes lifestyle and don't travel a lot and being able to get fancy stuff without going anywhere.
dphase got it. i'm updating with new ones within 5-10 minutes at the moment to this collection : )
Not sure about this. If I think it is savagery to have lots of people dying without healthcare, that's a pretty Democrat sentiment isn't it? Or are we talking about the parties as they were decades ago rather than today?
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Just turned this on for the Fogbeam blog, and so far, I like it. It's nice to pull together both the G+ related comments and the "native" blog comments in one place.

And while I certainly have my issues[1] with Google and G+, I generally like G+ more than Facebook and if this helps encourage adoption of it, so much the better in that regard.

Just c'mon, Google, give us access to our social graph using FOAF, ability to subscribe to Circles / Streams / Groups / whatever using RSS, ability to add an RSS feed to a Circle / Group / etc., and a Write API based on AtomPub. Throw in SIOC for the commenting stuff, and we're BFF's again. :0)

[1]: http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/03/post-good-google-who-wil...
>Efforts to gain unauthorized access

So basically anything goes as per the CFAA definition of "unauthorized access"? weev got thrown into jail for it, and all he did was increment a number in a URL.
Thanks for the refresher, and a followup basic question: what methods are best at just ranking relative variance of each dimension/component regardless of unit scaling? SVDs, ?

Edit: Ah right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitening_transformation
Isn't "a game company that empowers its employees" the same story as Gabe Newell and Valve? It's cool that there's another company doing it but that management style has plenty of previous examples, some basic research would've made for a better article.
It means Google will divert traffic from Blogger to G+ before spring cleaning Blogger.
This is often a security feature.

If my bank has an important message for me, telling me to log in to my account to look at it is a good idea.
Do you mean this story? http://www.computerandvideogames.com/180867/features/murder-...
their demand goes up, which raises the price of electricity

If that were true, then electricity should be astonishingly expensive because we use astonishingly more of it than we did 60 years ago, yet the last time I looked, inflation adjusted prices for electricity were remarkably flat.

Economic theory tells us that this wouldn't have stalled our development

What economic theory is that? Plus, if you want to compare Economic theory vs History; I'll take History. History is filled with discoveries and technology advancements that were the results of cascading advances which were the result of an advancement that made due to some basic resource becoming available and/or cheap. Advances are in no way inevitable. Advances are in no way unhindered by prices of resources.

Really what we did early on was to trade our environmental resources for cheap power. From that tradeoff, we have reaped extraordinary benefits. Why are those benefits so hard to recognize in this discussion?
Sure there's consistency.

Obama.

Healthcare ideas that originated from the heritage foundation? No way.

Romney 'won' the first debate by agreeing with Obama's platform on every single issue. The difference between them? Obama.
Isn't that true in pretty much any foreign country? Contacts wherever you go are invaluable.

I've never been there, but my Japanese friends tell me Tokyo is getting more cosmopolitan all the time, with foreigners everywhere.
I wonder how they compare to Meteor and Derby, but they usually aren't called Derby.js or Meteor.js.
A slightly different view - removed 'js', limit to 'programming' category and in the last 12 month.

Then trend with Angular is quite amazing.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=knocko...
That's the wrong attitude to take. Perhaps you were the only person in your district that called?

This is roughly like saying "I voted for X, but Y still happened."
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> Republicans evaluate things on a civilization/savagery axis

By pushing creationism into schools? By denying gay rights? By pushing anti-abortion nonsense?

That's so incorrect.
And of course the rep I can't stand from my state is the only one who voted nay. Curse you, nuanced political reality!
Is it even feasible to block Tor connections?
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No. See 1104(4)(B).
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It's especially irritating on sites that delete old messages after a certain amount of time. I'd rather opt-in to an archival strategy than have one forced on me by a site.
What exactly did why do that has earned him this much love and adoration? (Honest question)
I have absolutely no trouble believing that this is going to be a giant waste of money.
I have an hyphenated domain name and it has a very decent page rank. What I have found is that for a particular keyword the sites with that keyword in the domain name will rank higher than ones without the keyword.
The man wants you use end-to-end encryption.

Why?
To be fair, these has been the most unproductive congresses since the 1940s, so take your statistic with a grain of salt.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/congress-unproducti...
Okay, now I'm really confused :D

steveklabnik found user thdvl whose is a contributor to http://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com (the source for whytheluckystiff.net). thdvl's repository http://github.com/thdvl/shore has this eerie little gem.

http://thdvl.com

Edit: Notice the pronunciation of that domain: "The Devil"
Regularization is an excellent alternative to dimensionality reduction in most cases.
Are there any open-source alternatives to Google News?
Specifically, keyword-based searches for news articles.
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KnockoutJS for me, its such a nice solution for the presentation view management. It also has some neat extension libraries, including external template engine, which loads rendering templates and caches them on demand.
I use Jquery dependent SammyJS for navigation management.
I have shell that manages loading view model/ views based on Sammy's intercepts...pretty happy, though I hear good things about angularJS, but it came along just a little too late for me to properly evaluate.
I would honestly be applaud if my bank or hosting provider sent any sensitive information via e-mail.

"Switch to email. Trusted since 1971."

Sure - Email may be 'trusted' but that doesn't make unencrypted plain-text messaging over the Internet secure.
You made quite a few statements which made me think quite a bit but my first advice is:

Do what you enjoy doing most...so if consulting does not tickle your fancy then just don't do it. Doing stuff that you really enjoy whilst making cash is definitely the best of both worlds.

Also you mentioned that "I'm not really sure what to do next"...I suggest you travel around the world for a while and experience the world as you could really discover new things about yourself whilst along the way figure out what you really want to do. This has worked for myself and a lot of people I have met. More importantly do not stress or hassle about finding what you want to do as the more you pressure yourself, the more you end up not coming up with a solution.

"I’d like the job to be meaningful. I guess I want to care about it."...that shows passion and having passion in a product is a good start. So why not build your own SAAS (software as a service) product? You are your own boss and you also get to create your own dream job. Sounds surreal or maybe unrealistc at first but with great determination comes great rewards.

Best of luck and enjoy life!
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NDAA, the Patriot Act, America’s torture policy, executing Americans without trial, GPS tracking, and law enforcements persistent infringement on our constitutional rights have already changed what it means to be an American
I didn't say that they could or would force anything. You apparently read this as:

OMG! On *WHAT* authority can they do this?!
It's a travesty!

while my intent was:

Do they have authority to take this further than
strong suggestions?
Where can I find how my congressman voted. http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/all does not yet have the results from today's vote.
Auto-encoders have some big advantages over PCA, but they suffer the same shortcoming (sensitivity to units of measurement) described in the original post.
Look at it the other way: maybe acrylic yarn serves a pain point. Maybe grandmothers spent 20 hours knitting a beautiful little hat or coat or something, only to have it ruined in the wash by a young, sleep-deprived parent, inexperienced in caring for quality hand-crafted goods.

Grandma figures out she can just use acrylic and now her work doesn't get ruined by washing & drying, and as a bonus the moths don't eat it because who has a cedar chest anymore?
https://gist.github.com/dokipen/5415806
This is great stuff betterunix
But the principal eigenvectors can change if scales are changed - and the directions in which they may then point can be completely different.
Are you trying to say the people here are, oh, wait...

Maybe you have a point!

Nah, just kidding. HN is a great community and I love the discussion here. Are there some wantrepreneur and "armchair entrepreneur" types here? Yeah, sure, but there are plenty of people who post here with a tremendous amount of useful knowledge and experience. I mean, you have pg, rtm, swombat, patio11, edw, danielbmarkham, antirez, and gosh knows how many other super smart, accomplished people that post here.. I'm sure I don't even know the HN usernames of most of these people. And plenty of posters on here probably keep quiet about their companies and accomplishments anyway. In fact, you never know who will show up on here. I do believe Marc Andreessen has even been known to post every now and again.
You are correct, that would be 270TB.

After applying the same shoddy math with each object being 100KB -- 270TB with 10 levels of redundancy across 3 RAID drives resulting in 8,100TB per day. This would be 8,100 drives (at 1TB per drive), or 8,910 drives after 10% being dead-on-arrival.

The math is sketchy, so let's cut it down by 10x (10KB per object): 891 drives per day. Keep in mind this is just for S3 and it doesn't account for existing drives failing, growth, or what other services require (eg: EC2, RDS, Cloudwatch, Cloudfront, etc).
I've spent thousands of dollars on Magic: the Gathering cards and stuff (across 15 years).

I think it's way more than I should have, and I'll never get it back. It does have the addicting part (packs and drafts are addictive as hell), and a "collectible" part for rationalization.

I have some kind of personal problem that leads me into these time sinks, because I've mostly quit, only to replace it with other time wasters (League of Legends and others).

edit: omonra, your post is dead.
They're comparing apples and rocks here. China has over 1.3 BILLION people. The entire population of the United States is just a shade over 300 million. How about a plan to retroactively tax countries for their past (estimated) use of all fossil fuels? Tax the REAL offenders who got us here, as well as the people trying to catch up now.
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Why do people hate their jobs?
Hopefully not. Knowing jQuery is no substitute for knowing Javascript, and you can see this problem with many developers who ask "How can I do x in jQuery" when all they need is JS. Bigger frameworks may hinder this development, because to use them, you need a better grasp of JS than for jquery. But I am already seeing "how can I do x in angular", so this may just be wishful thinking.
For many people in that target market, that's probably a feature; use your shopping trip as an excuse for a vacation in NYC.
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It's also unwise. Anti CISPA types have a lot of natural allies in the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) camp, but we've been forced to devote all our political mindshare and effort into beating back the greatest threat we've faced in perhaps a couple of decades. Heck, I only vaguely knew it had come back and was being considered, not that all the House action was happening yesterday with wrap up today, just like the Senate gun-control action on the same days.
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Start printing weapons.
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This shows that you can't just say "complexity makes something intelligent and conscious" by itself, you have to explain how it works, and "complexity" isn't an explanation, it's just a label. I agree.

But that's equally true of saying "complexity doesn't make something intelligent and conscious". All right, then what does? "Not complex" is a label just as much as "complex" is. Either way you haven't explained anything. That's what I was trying to get at.

Also, saying "complexity doesn't make something intelligent/conscious" is not the same as saying "something intelligent/conscious doesn't have to be complex", which is what I think the statement I originally responded to, taken in context, was really intended to mean. Do you really think intelligence and consciousness can be present in simple things like rocks? Might there not be a reason that the human brain is three pounds of complex matter, not three pounds of jello?
Netflix stores most of their user data in Cassandra (at the AWS conference last year I attended a talk by them, and specifically asked after some of the things they were storing).

(At one point, the stuff I was storing/logging for Cydia actually represented over a percent, maybe it was even over two percent, of all objects in S3; now I'm between 0.1% and 0.5%.)
ECC is a minefield of patents, making it basically impossible to deploy; pushing for ECC does little to advance cryptography in practice. ECC also does not address concerns about quantum computers. In terms of mathematics, ECC is based on a problem that is in the intersection of NP and coNP, the same complexity class as the RSA assumption; there are more modern constructions based on NP-hard lattice problems.

Really, if you want to point to the NSA/NIST helping to advance the state of cryptography, point to the AES contest.
Could someone give me a specific concrete example of how this would be bad? I read the bill and found that many of the online claims about it are simply incorrect. Maybe I missed something.
of course this could be an indicator of non-obvious documentation that forces you to constantly google "angularjs how in hell's name do I ..."
So.... if some of said data was not actually necessary for network security, I'm SOL?

Yeah. I'm not down with that. 4th amendment and all that.
The article for this chain (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll117.xml#) has the roll call (by last name, and they mention states where there is confusion)

If you don't know or don't remember your congressperson: http://house.gov/representatives/find/
Really hope someone could write a similar introduction to buildout (http://www.buildout.org/)
Well of course it is.

All CISPA is, is the next logical progression of the totalitarian[1] state. It harks back to the Patriot Act. There was an event of terror. Therefore there must be "terrorists" out there and we really need protection from them. So much so that we are willing to surrender our rights to a fair trial.

CISPA is the same thing. It focuses on one instance, or issue and abstracts peoples actions away from that to make it seem like something they'll never have to deal with. Case in point, no one thinks that they'll be detained and held without trial, but that still doesn't mean the government can't do that.

[1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism]
Because then they're the only ones able to snoop on you.
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That site (LowEndBox) is full of sketchy deals, and a lot of companies it promotes stop existing a few months afterwards.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that choosing their VPS provider by price alone can be a bad idea, but I really don't recommend it.
Whitening and (full rank) PCA use the same linear transformation except whitening scales the eigenvalues so all axes in the transformed system have unit variance.

In other words whitening the data before applying PCA should result in the same eigenvectors expressed in the original coordinate system.
How is this supposed to work? Most projects are going to require a specific demographic to show up and vote. For example if I am creating a tool to help dentists keep better records of their patients, how will you find dentists to vote on my project? I won't care what most other people think.

If someone is creating an application or tool that could be used by anyone, and thus, could be reviewed by anyone, they would be better served by putting a survey on a site with good distribution like facebook or HN.

I'm not sure what this app solves. I can already type up my app ideas and put them on the internet if I want. That's not the problem. The problem is getting a pulse from the right people. I'm dealing with that problem right now. I have a rough idea of what I should build but I'm hunting down the right people one by one because there isn't many better ways to do it and the general public's opinion of it would be worthless.
Most projects on github aren't clearly open sourced: does anyone care?
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Also frustrated by this. I understand there are other things happening, but we have absolutely no representation on this thing? Even some sort of absentee voting for such an extreme circumstance?
I'm working on a project called "decyphering_why" that seeks to explain that. He's an artist who created books, blogs, code, music, videos, and more.

For example when he released the book "why's poignant guide to ruby" (http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/) teaching the Ruby programming language, he released a soundtrack with it as well! Here's my favourite song from that: https://soundcloud.com/wondible/chapter-2-this-book-is-made

Hopefully the primer I'm writing will help for those new to the person that is Why the Lucky Stiff.