skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"and indeed, many past and present SCOTUS justices interpret the second half as barring any restrictions on gun ownership, including restrictions on felon ownership."

Name one, let alone a few, who seriously put that forward. No right is absolute, just like the sainted freedom of speech famously doesn't extend to falsely shouting fire in a theater.

I also fail to see how the plain language restricts the first phrase to the goal as opposed to a goal. You think the Founders didn't believe in personal self-defense???
I've played with it briefly, and found it okay. It didn't really fit my needs, but the code quality (on a cursory audit) seemed reasonable; it looked to be heavily leveraging Akka to do a lot of the hard work. Not a criticism--Akka is awesome--but it means they have generally less code that they have to worry about directly.
PyCharm 2.7.2 released
Okay, so I've curated it a little bit - flipped everything right-ways-up, and arranged it into what I think are three logical sequences in what i think is the correct order:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r9m1nlo4c7i7umf/cpUb9PU6pJ
"User-to-user encryption is really not feasible/possible for...social media"

The research community has a thing or two to say about that:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/social-ne...
On a related note, is there a list of cloud providers and hosts with zero US presence?

I'm looking for a European provider of virtual machines, with competitive prices and features, but with no US company behind it and ideally not even a US datacenter. Just a strong IaaS offering within the EU and a commitment to stay out of the US.
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In practice if you're working in high dimensions and don't do PCA then you have very little chance of building a good model. It certainly isn't linearly valid if to you valid demands scale invariance, but it's an essential tool for unsupervised feature engineering.
2 trillion Post-It notes would cover all of Los Angeles county.
There are some instances where this is necessary though. For example, my company has an internal messaging system and for HIPAA compliance we never send out the message contents or subject line. But I agree with xoail, most companies are just trying to get you back to website.
Nice project. From what I can tell from the examples, you might need to add right justification for numbers. Better would be to allow me to specify a class array for a column so I can apply styles to the values returned.
Ask HN: Why isn't there government supported / backed accelerators?
I haven't found any in U.S. but you would think that having government run / backed accelerators would be a good idea to spur the economy.
And if there are any issues with government running the accelerators then there could be grants that are offered for privately run accelerators.
This would give more startups opportunities to succeed.

What does everyone think ?
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CISPA allows only for the sharing of "cyber threat intelligence", which is defined as:

(i) A vulnerability

(ii) A threat to the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of a system or network or any info stored or transiting one

(iii) Efforts to deny access

(iv) Efforts to gain unauthorized access (with the exception that violations of consumer terms of service are not covered by CISPA)

Help me understand the scenario in which anyone would push health records in response to any of these 4 scenarios?
You can't do anything. The complete system is corrupted to the bone. If you are a successful company someday somebody with very deep pockets or a huge bank credit will show and buy you up. A few days later the encryption will start to disappear (e.g. Skype). If you don't sell your competitor will get the money and drive you out of business by the sheer force of money - pay higher salaries and get better ppl, better locations, more ads, etc.
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Thanks, you're welcome to take Takipi for a test drive and let us know what you think :)
Your Product isn’t the Product
But, a simple call to followTheMoney(Players, Amounts) will give you a pretty clear understanding.

Note also that "limited" in governmental terms is about sigma shy of "all."
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On this topic:

I realized recently that my tries to stay or become more anonymous on the web didn't really have the ideological reasons I thought it had. I thought it was all about internet privacy rights and avoiding the inevitable creep of privacy loss; once your data is out it is unerasable.

I found out that my interest in internet privacy varied wildly with how depressed I was during that period. That when I'm clear I don't really care about it.

But when I'm depressed I wish that my every contribution on the web of forums, github, etc was disconnected and anonymized. Commenting without committing your identity to it, seeking praise (github stars) without a face..

In truth, most of my motivation to disconnect my online identities is just an echo of my unwillingness to be one, whole, person; unwillingness to be me.
Sometimes I have a tendency to read the top comment before clicking on links. Most of the time the top comment is a contrarian comment if it's a news article or blog post. So that makes me view the article in a different way, which can be good but might also be a self-fulfilling prophecy that causes me not to form my own opinion. On the other hand, regardless of what I read first I side with the HN commenter's point of view over seemingly uninformed articles.
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When politicians say "small government" they really mean "low taxes", and when they say "liberty" that is measured as 100% minus the top marginal tax rate. Restrictions on people's behavior or privacy aren't really part of the discussion. When they say "spending" you can safely suffix that with "on someone other than me".

Seriously though, the Republican party isn't a libertarian organization and never has been. They've been marketing themselves that way lately, since they are a bit closer to the libertarian ideal than the Democrats (I guess not in this case though!).
Keep dreaming ...
Just checked this out and it is much nicer! How are you producing these pdfs? I'm using the very low tech method of "print screen" ;)
PCA and other similar forms of dimensionality reduction are used all over the place, from healthcare to control systems to financial analysis. These days it is most often used as a preprocessing step for some other analysis routine, though.
I hear a lot about ExtJs actually. I've been using their framework for complex Javascript systems for a while now and it keeps getting better and better. I can see they invest a lot of resources in it. Its not popular with the 'gimme it for free' crowd though. I agree its not for everyone though its a commercial project (albeit free with GPL licence for open source projects), but then again you do get what you pay for here - nothing else that I've seen so far (and I've seen a lot) even comes close in terms of polish. Another common extjs deterrent is that its a complete framework with all batteries included, and requires an investment in a new mindset as far as how to develop single page browser apps. I found it more similar to Java Swing apps or other Desktop tool kits than any other JavaScript framework.
Note that you can abbreviate :vsplit as just :vsp .
Having programmed with extjs for 5 years my experience is that it is extremely popular in the corporate space, but never caught on in the open source space due to licensing. There are still many more corporate developers than open source developers, but they are far less vocal.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_g...
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Ah, the "indignant post-it note on the fridge". Works every time.
Worse: Sending me an email after I unsubscribe because I don't want your emails, to let me know that I've unsubscribed.
It still has to pass the Senate.
My comment was a tongue-in-cheek snipe at AT&T for the way they handled Google's Austin Fiber announcement; and for continuing to extract rent from their shabby old infrastructure when there is clearly a demand for more data services.
And the same way as individual freedoms and democracy ...
"Any costs and benefits arising from the transaction are factored into the price of electricity."

You are assuming a perfectly competitive market for electricity, in which there is no consumer or producer surplus. The parent you are replying to is essentially asserting that this is not the case in the real world - The pricing of electricity is based on a comparison of marginal values and costs, not absolute values, and thus misses the entirety of the consumer surplus (by definition). This is a positive value that belongs on the ledger next to any positive and negative externalities that is not taken into account by the price of electricity.
When I was looking for a survey system, I looked into Google Consumer Surveys, but I couldn't set it up like I wanted to for my budget.

We found Survata, an Y Combinator company, they helped us a lot and overdelivered :) - our project is still on standby / awaiting money, but the results Survata gave us were top notch and gave us several insights. We were looking for a much better confidence interval, so we had a screening question.

http://survata.com/home/

We also thought of using Mechanical Turk, but it's the wrong place for Rewire Attire.

I've toyed with some notions for better fits :) , mostly based around getting measurements through photos (android, webcams, whatever), and systems for that appear every so often on the news :) .

Edit: I'm not related to Survata in any way, just a happy customer.
Get the pcl6 utility.

pcl6 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf infile
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Everything I knew about food was wrong
And what kind of judicial oversight?

Meant to say "accidentally" w.r.t. health records.
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I'm going to guess (purely a guess) that before your experience with rich people you already held some sort of grudge against rich people in general.

I say this because most of your complaints (besides the first complaint, obviously) either apply to consumers in general or are based on nothing more than your opinion. And it appears to be a poisoned opinion.

If I have a net worth of $10B or -$100K, paying $250 or more for a pair of jeans is going to make me far more critical of sub par performance from the vendor.

Do you think rich people go raise a fuss at Walmart when they get poor service or a poor quality product? Of course not. There's no expectation of a great experience at Walmart. Paying extra for a high end experience makes critics out of everyone. And if you start the experience with a vendetta against people who have more money than you it's not going to turn out well.
Anecdotally I've seen a notable upswing in the self-identification of republicans as "libertarian" in the last 6 months (when that's clearly not the reality).
npm's default for -g is to install to Node's prefix, which is usually /usr or /usr/local. If you want it to install to your home directory, you can set the prefix to somewhere appropriate in your ~/.npmrc, which gives roughly the same behavior as pip's --user flag.

Edit: perhaps you changed your .npmrc or set the option via npm and forgot about it? I just checked on a fresh user, and 'npm install -g' definitely tries to install to /usr, just like pip.
He is the author of the other app - link to his site is in his Bio!
Yeah, a big part of the next release will be a better way to add one's own styling to the table. I like your class array idea. I'll also be sure to change the default to right-justified for numbers.
That's what trust costs...
It's so many objects that you had all their names printed out, and spent the rest of your life reading them, you wouldn't have time to get to the end.

In fact, even if you and all your friends spent your lives reading the lists of object names, you wouldn't have time to get to the end.

In fact, even if you and all your friends and all of their friends devoted your lives to reading lists of S3 object names, you wouldn't even make a dent because new objects are arriving faster than you could collectively read their names.
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I tend to get to a point that I just delete the game. I used to play Tiny Towers and did some small in-app purchases but nothing big.

The biggest issue I have with these games is that they can be great time wasters.

At some point, I just deleted the game as I realized my addictive side was taking over.

It would be great to have an app that you can selectively pick apps that you want auto-deleted after a certain time depending on how much time you have spent in the app.
The NSA is the reason NIST got behind Suite B.
Most companies doing this are not naive in their design. They want you to come back to the website so you can read it and hopefully be lured into doing something else on site while you are there. I agree for the PSD2HTML example it is silly though.

Most social networks and dating sites are the biggest offenders as they want you to continue browsing or in some cases, upgrade to pro to read the message.

It may not be 'desirable' ui/ux in the endusers view, but when its done like that I suspect the provider has found out "this makes me more money both now and in the long run"

I think we could just as easily see a post on HN tomorrow saying "One simple tip to increase your email click rates 2500%"
Uh, they kind of have more important things to deal with right now...
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I think we can trust HN commenters to produce a contrarian viewpoint for anything thrown their way, unfortunately.

At this point, HN might be better off without karma at all for comments, or just a "flag" like for submissions.
Nice! Even CC-by-sa licensed!

Do you know how its Spartan-6 XC6SLX9 compares to the Zynq 7010 on the Parallela?

If they are roughly equal, I guess the Parallela is a better deal since it has an ARM too.

Too bad Icarus Verilog can't synthesize at all anymore, Xilinx ISE is very heavy-weight and not FOSS. And they both use that.
Game of Thrones (Narrated by Roy Dotrice) would be a great choice IMO.
I don't really mind fighting the exact same shitty bill each year. Imagine if they start making new, shittier bills when their efforts fail!
"giving agencies the ability to do their jobs in the digital age without unnecessary restrictions"

Personally, I would happy to see less power given to law enforcement agencies. Maybe a quid pro quo: we let them access communications more easily if they stop using soldiers to do police work.

"that whole issue of having the ability to do something about cyberterrorism"

Something like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil

Do you really think we need another E911 document prosecution in this country?

"The CIA and FBI need to be able to research and distribute malware"

They already do that. What does CISPA add?
You are selling them the result, not how you got there.
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Related: https://github.com/bsandrow/_why-spool

For grabbing / building the files.
You mean why am I opposed to blanket legal protection for ISPs to quietly share my packets with the NSA and their contractors?

Why am I annoyed that everybody behind CISPA is participating in a charade, when we could just cut to the point and debate the merits and concerns regarding the project motivating it?

Why am I annoyed that we don't get a voice in this, and the companies receiving the billion dollar contracts for this specific bill, who also fund the politicians putting it through, do?

Why am I annoyed that attempts were made to amend the bill to actually almost fit what you're claiming it is for, by protecting customer payload data, and they were shot down?

I am confused about why you aren't. I feel like you've been stuck in anti-rageview mode when it was first said that this was about copyright issues, and you over-committed to that position, and that you normally wouldn't support this.
"Libertarians" are just hipster Republicans.
How are these sensors affected by or immune to being in peoples pockets/protective cases/vibration/smoke/contaminants?
Leading sourcesof queries for these frameworks

Embers: USA

Angularjs: India

Extjs: Cuba, china and then India

Knockoutjs: India

Backbonejs: India

My hypothesis is that this graphs shows what people want to learn, perhaps not what they are using. Although, Cuba just looks out of place.
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Sometimes it's tough, and a survey is a poor but doable substitute - I don't know how I would go about interviewing women in the +100k earnings range, and for one of my projects I did a survey because the potential customers were geographically far away.

However, I'd never have invested so much before knowing the audience.

And he had this HUGE problem of having invested his ego on a (probably very cool) solution, which is one of the toughest challenges for us tech types.
tl;dr:
"myth: true concern in a tin-foil-hat tone"
"fact: here are some quote with vague legalese from the bill"

if you really want the facts without the tin foil hat tone, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57580268-38/cispa-permits-...

"Rep. Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, proposed a one-sentence amendment... to secure a warrant ... that House Republicans "wouldn't even allow debate on requiring a warrant"

"CISPA is controversial because it overrules all existing federal and state laws by saying "notwithstanding any other provision of law," including privacy policies and wiretap laws, companies may share cybersecurity-related information "with any other entity, including the federal government." It would not, however, require them to do so."
> If you change the units that one of the variables is measured in, it will change all the "principal components"

By the way that's worded, it sounds like a case of sensitivity rather than the method. If you change one of the variables to a unit that is way out of scale, then it's quite possible that the results of PCA, and many other methods, will change. But that's because it's not scale invariant, and so if you want good results you need to present your variables in the same units, and/or in some normalized format (zscored, etc.) where the scale of one unit doesn't blow the others out of the water.

These methods are not magical, and they are not intelligent. They do not know what they're looking at, so it's your job to feed them something reasonable.

That said, if you take some physically grounded data and change units, you won't recover different eigenvectors as long as your input data is good. The physics doesn't care about the units, or the coordinate system, or whether you use python or anything else.
That's not so bad though
Sometimes that's the best way to do it. HIPAA requirements are a pain, but they exist for a reason.
A GAE app without a credit card attached + debug = True in the settings ^^
The whole point of the bill is to enable real-time operational network security information. You can get a court order to share data today.
Nothing says "civil liberties" like getting multinationals to share data freely with the FBI and CIA. This is why I don't understand what the Democrats actually stand for either, and there are plenty on that list.
It's then breaking them down into subcategories. Look at the confidence interval on the posted charts: +/- 80% on the high income responses this survey was interested in. I.E. worthless.
But rationally supporting the adoption of encryption among all citizens would still be counter to many of the NSA's primary goals.

Maybe it was just primarily a technology contribution among the nerds at NSA, and not the bureaucrats intended goals?
Yeah but it may take me a bit because I'm commenting in between Ansible runs. You may find a good way to get me to write a canonical summary is to make a bunch of egregiously false statements about the bill. :)
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> there is certainly a cost involved in on-going maintenance, security, expandability and flexibility.

As there would be on a commercial platform (plus some extra), so what's your point?
No.

PCA tries to project to the subspace that preserves as much distance in the input space possible. If you multiply a coordinate in the input space by a factor of 2, it will contribute relatively more to the distances, and hence change the fitted projection beyond just a scaling factor.
There is actually a fix to this problem in classical statistics (as far back as Pearson in the early 20th century) if the object is to perform PCA on data matrices: Don't use the covariance matrix for PCA. The issue of units is only a problem if you're using a matrix that has units itself. This problem is readily solved by using the correlation matrix instead, which is dimensionless by definition. The downside to this circumvention is that you have essentially re-weighted each of your variables, so the weight contributed by each variable is more similar. This may not be what you want.

If PCA is not being used to reduce the dimensionality of multivariate data, this might be invalid. There are other uses of PCA besides working on data (that image reduction technique using SVD comes to mind) that he might be addressing.

If you want a treatment of PCA in a respected text (at least by the statistical community--not sure what the ML people think ;) ), look no further than Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman's Elements of Stastical Learning.

http://www.stanford.edu/~hastie/local.ftp/Springer/OLD//ESLI...
I think your general point stands, but NSA and NIST are pretty tight.
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I would recommend Django Rest Framework. It gives you more fine grained control. We just use the serialisers for example.
Borrowing from Arnold Kling's "three axes", generally speaking:

- Libertarians evaluate things on a freedom/tyranny axis.

- Republicans evaluate things on a civilization/savagery axis.

- Democrats evaluate things on a fair/unfair axis.

I think that explains Republican voting behavior here fairly well. They're not for small government because they're libertarian; they're for small government because the US is historically connected with libertarian philosophies.
Damn, interesting article suddenly turned into American propaganda.
The only one that comes to mind is Hetzner.de as far as I know they don't have any US datacenter.
Not intended to but might/will be used to ?
By "even less so," you mean "never," right? Because they literally never have.

Disabling a feature within an app != shutting off push messaging. The first doesn't use Apple's infrastructure. There aren't a lot of apps that have been permanently removed from the store by Apple, and I can't remember if any of them used push messaging, so I can't be sure, but it seems reasonable to infer that if an app is permanently removed, its APNS profile might be automatically removed as well.
Take a look LowEndBox, and the related forums LowEndTalk.

The first site collates prices/deals, where you can filter by location.

They also carry out a quarterly survey as an attempt to gauge customer satisfaction for each provider (http://www.lowendtalk.com/wiki/top-providers).

I've been looking for a VPS recently and found the above 2 sites very useful.

http://www.lowendbox.com/
http://www.lowendtalk.com/
Yes, this is a well known problem with PCA. So often we just whiten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitening_transformation) the data first.
I worked a little in Umbraco on some content on existing installations. I guess if you run a Windows server, it's a good alternative. But I'd recommend ModX or Joomla before that.
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And "anarcho-capitalists" are hipster libertarians?