skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair use or not, if you could do it I would buy it :)
Fine, forget conference papers. If you can demonstrate fast NER in multiple languages, across domains, with competitive precision/recall metrics, I will buy it. The rest of it is not particularly interesting to me because it's frankly not that hard.
I can rephrase. Google releases their billions of NGrams. They did so because they knew that it would scare anyone from competing. Not because they thought it would help. They aren't that nice.

Will I ever share? Possibly. But like Google it will likely be when I have a competitive advantage. I don't not share because I'm mean. I keep things close because as someone on the thread mentioned that they are competing if I published all the information you mention, then Google would build what I have built and we'd be out of business.

Those brain mapping projects aren't done purely for the good of mankind they are trying to make money and get funding. My goals are the same.
Thanks. Good tip regarding this "google" site. Wikipedia looks pretty interesting, too.
+ one of those four people was a police officer
The News is Killing Us
Non-profit organizations are still companies. They are required to retain their revenues rather than distribute them as profits. From Wikipedia: "Designation as a nonprofit and an intent to make money are not related in the United States." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization)
The water may not run up his hands? Although I would expect it still to form that water column around the towel thing. Maybe?
Surely it's overly reductive to imply -- as he does -- that it's simply the number of deaths, or even the number of deaths and serious injuries combined that should drive our response to these events. The social significance of a truly terrorist act directed at one of the biggest annual events in the Boston area warrants some degree of extraordinary effort, not to mention the public danger of literal bomb-throwers on the loose.
I wouldn't give him THAT much credit for Pixar. He had really very little to do with the product at that company. It was a smart investment.
Never confuse actual security with the theater of security.

It is the latter than our country wants, or at least our politicians say we want.
Well, ok. I suppose anecdotal samples are not the best evidence for either side. I'd like to imagine that most artists are relatively well-adjusted.

Anyway, that's the kind of world I'd like to live in. Everyone can (and should) be an artist to some degree. While I do agree with the fairly obvious point that some people are more talented than others, I reject the idea that there are "genius artists", spikes of talent on an otherwise smooth talent-graph.
This is what Stallman wrote right after the suspect was caught.
My personal response is:
There will always be a situation that is worse or where more people died, but that doesn't mean this isn't a very emotional and trying time for many, where the police and people of Boston were desperate to catch a person throwing explosives and shooting magazines of bullets in their city. Telling people to stay home for a few hours does not seem unreasonable in this situation.
Have some decency and respect for the lives lost, and save your opinions for a more appropriate time.
No Miranda rights for now for Bombing suspect
How about celebration for the simple matter that a couple of murderers are off the street, and people can stop hiding in their houses?
This would be great, if you could pull it off. I'm stuck in a bad situation like this - most sites connecting you to a single person are dating oriented, and that is HELL as a female user, and otherwise I have made a little bit of use of meetup.com and couchsurfing.org, but I do find it lacking. The issues with meetup.com is that you have to tolerate sometimes awful group meetups, and one person will come every time and be really awkward or something...I'm much better person to person. When I've used OkCupid to meet people, guys assume they're on a date and start doing a ton of inappropriate crap even though we're just meeting for coffee. Would love to see the niche filled, and please see if you can do what you can for gender balancing/creepers, which is a huge problem for female users of such sites.
What's the maximum reasonable spend to catch a bomber, for an efficient force? $1M? $100k?

A large part of the expense was due to the successful effort to apprehend him without killing him or bystanders.

Tweets aren't precisely geolocated, so that's not really relevant.
I'm just thinking environment -- would I be comfortable with my wife and child walking the street in that city? Would she be comfortable?
They did indeed mention the uh Mulugato guy (however it was spelled, I'm going from memory.) I was listening to it live last night, but what is unclear is why they were saying/spelling his name. They never said he was connected to this, they just mentioned his name/spelling on the same radio as the Boston Bombing investigation. Probably around 2:30AM EST if I had to guess (I heard it live.)

Edit: Mulugeta, I guess, is how you spell it. I certainly didn't hear a first name, though, when I was listening, just the last name plus spelling of it.
Is killing a police officer worse than killing a "normal" person?
"3TB hard drives cost ~$130 these days and have room to store … "

No trying to call out jinknee specifically, but I often see this argument:

"But storage only costs ~$50/TB!",

and I read:

"here's someone who's got no idea - who's never seen what 'enterprise' pays for proper secured/redundant/backed-up/auditable/managed storage."

Does anyone _really_ think sending the IT department junior round to BestBuy to grab ~$400 worth of external USB drives would then let you say "Right, that's then next 5 years worth of storage and archive of high-security and potentially-lawsuit-relevant employee data sorted!"?
The content is still gone for 14 days though.

One of my friends had his server taken down by his hosting company due to a DMCA. By the time he had filed a counter-claim a few hours later, they'd already binned his server, binned the backups, and filled the slot with a new customer. The kicker was that it was completely false; an infringement notice based on him having a text file containing the names of TV series he had watched over the year.

Just because you can file a counter notice doesn't mean that the DMCA isn't devastatingly to the owner of the website.
Actually my initial motivation for developing pss was Windows. I had to use Windows at work at the time, and installing Perl just for the sake of ack was pain. ack also needs an additional module from CPAN (for console coloring), so double pain.

Python, OTOH, is always one of the first I install on every machine that doesn't have it :) pss requires no installation, no additional modules, just Python.
Today's effort was actual security.
They were actually about to abort the "bruteforce" operation before they got a call that someone had found the suspect in their boat, outside the perimeter. I really hope they evalute the operation properly. A good outcome doesn't necessarily validate the process.
Note that the answer below the question contains this link to the Google cache of the original article that was taken down:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FYBbAFU...

There doesn't seem to be anything in there that looks like an infringement of anyone's copyright.
Not to mention inconsistent with his own reactions. I don't think rms spent all day today mourning the Holocaust or the fallen soldiers of the Civil War.
I'm not really sure if I'm qualified to comment on the selectivity idea, since nothing I've written has ever been scrapped (if you don't count my personal projects, that is). Mind you, I've never shied away from or maneuvered away from a project; I've just said up front that X and Y is how it should be implemented.

What I do know is that I have been the 10x guy up until my latest thing, where finally, thankfully, I'm surrounded by people who are on average better than me.

10x, though it sounds objective, is a very fluid term. What I've noticed is that everyone who plays at this level cares deeply about code quality. It's about art meeting functionality, and all of that being shipped on time. It's about avoiding technical debt, except in rare cases of grudging agreement in the face of cold hard facts.

10x is discipline and drive. It's not that they choose to, it's that they're DRIVEN to.
Warning signs of a dangerous cult:

* The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
‪ The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel.
‪ The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members.
‪ Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
‪ The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
‪* The leader is not accountable to any authorities.
‪ The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group.
‪ Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
‪ The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
‪ Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
‪ The group is preoccupied with making money.
‪ The most loyal members (the "true believers") feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.

Jobs was a cult leader, a pathological narcissist who would do anything to shape the world in his image. By some billion-to-one fluke, Jobs was right about nearly everything. His impeccable taste was the driving force of an entire industry for several decades. You can't emulate an outlier like that, any more than eating chicken nuggets will turn you into Usain Bolt.
Yes, though I may sound cliche, they put their life on the line everyday for us. When you go to work do you need to carry a gun with you and know that you might not come home at night?
"Keep your options open" is also called "analysis paralysis" when it is unwise.
To say that somebody is mentally ill is not an insult. Anyone can be mentally ill, just as anyone can catch the common cold. I do not know to what extent Jobs had control over his behavior, which is why I do not know to what extent I dislike him or feel sorry for him. However, between the experiences that everyone had with him, his book, and other sources, I think I can pretty safely say that to many people, he was not a very nice person.
I didn't really hear about any responses to law enforcement entering homes. If they were sweeping the area did anyone refuse entry?

Also really looking forward to the knee-jerk anti 2nd ammendment lobby using another tragedy as a prop.
In a police state, it is.
Wow. I agree with RMS 100% on this point. (Should I be worried?) For all of our wonderful attributes, humans are irrational.
I wrote a little blog post in tribute to why, "Nobody Knows Why": http://www.sfcgeorge.co.uk/posts/2013/04/19/nobody-knows-why

The post also links to an updated PDF compendium of all _why's recent documents. All rotated and in the correct order (maybe). Bursting with _whyness.
Stupid and tone deaf.

These guys filled hospitals with people who had their limbs blown off. And they shot cops willy nilly. The fact that only a few people are dead is small comfort. These were some of the most dangerous people in the entire country, comparing their danger to the danger of industry or automobile transit is just silly. Those are very different problems with very different solutions.
Good points - I'd have to say I agree with you.
It would be interesting if someone other than the author submitter had that opinion. Nice astroturf attempt, though, alexwg/alexvr.
So, you define technocrats as white-hat sociopaths, basically. But don't you think that almost every sociopath sees himself or herself as being white-hat? You've built this narrative about a cosmic struggle between good vs. evil, but do you think anyone self-identifies as being evil?

I think your chaotic/lawful dichotomy is very real, but the good/evil dichotomy is really a matter of perspective, I don't think it exists in a concrete sense. Selfish/generous might be a closer representation of reality. What most of us perceive as "evil" is really just a person wielding power over others for selfish means.

There's a growing contingent of people using technology for generous rather than selfish means (yeah that's what "open source" is) and their philosophy is extending into social activism, but the industrial authoritarians have a big head start on us. They've been using technology as an expedient to their selfish purposes for a very long time already. (What's worse than being a MacLeodian Loser? Not even being one anymore because your former employer figured out how to make a machine do your job and had no reason to keep paying you. That describes 11 million Americans.)

I've always found it funny that generosity and sharing are "radical" and "activist" while greed and selfishness, even to the extreme, are now considered normal.
Aren't DMCA takedowns required, under penalty of perjury, to assert a non-frivolous copyright claim? Is there any recourse for what appears to be clear abuses of the DMCA?
No Miranda rights for now for bombing suspect
If I were CipherCloud, I'd file a DMCA to attempt to cover up how bad my "homomorphic encryption" works.
No offence, but this was islamic terror, read thenews. What explanation do you expect to find ? That there are muslims in America that try to teach every kid they can get their hands on to massacre their neighbors for not being muslims ?

Because if history is any guide, that's all you'll find.

Oh and it's the same story Russians (google "Beslan" and see how lucky the US has been so far), Britons, Spaniards, Chinese, Taiwanese, Philipinos, ... encounter. Which makes it very hard to believe those few extremely weak explanations like "it's the Iraq/Afghanistan war" that are given.

Sorry to state the obvious. Someone has to.

Let me just say : this is very likely to intensify from this point on. The attacks I mean. Why don't we just start the "but drone strikes justify random attacks on civilians" thread ? We all know it's coming. Don't expect me to post anything though.
We started 14 months ago. Papers and Patents take a bit longer than that to get through. We have two pending patents. Much of the "magic" is trade secret rather than patent because the changes in patent law are now requiring enough information for you to build the tech. We don't have the money for enforcement, so making that much IP public scares us, especially if someone like Google decided that the patent was "obvious". So we are balancing our portfolio of IP. Enough to be worth acquiring, not so much that you could dupe the work with the part that are in the public record.
rms is rms.

this is not a bad thing.
I hate to say it, but Stallman has a good point. Plant safety cuts into profits, left to itself management will not encourage safe working practice - there must be meaningful oversight by an outside agency.

Thanks to regulatory capture oversight is weak, and this is not an accident but an intended outcome of the political system.
Did you just refer to stackexchange as a "blog thingy"?
Aside from the NLP-related aspects, which are pretty interesting by themselves, I was glad to see this:

> The biggest thing I learned. The thing I also hope my team has learned. Everyone else has hit the limits of what they can do because they weren’t willing to burn it all to the ground and start over. We start over a lot. We code for 3 days and then decide this won’t work, and we do it over again. We take the lessons we learned but little of the code. The second, or thrid time we do it right based on what we now know.

I am a big fan of rewrites, and am sad to see how much of the software engineering world has centered around the Spolskyesque idea of rewriting being a horrible waste of time. Truth is, 99.9...% of software just sucks. The more and more infrastructure we build up around it, the more constrained we become. Just look at the most common languages/tools/technologies we use on a daily basis. C++/Java/JS/Python? These are just awful. Hell, I'm even like Python compared to most languages, but there's still so much historical cruft, and it's ridiculously slow to boot.

I think this is mostly because people just suck at writing software in general. Rewriting in the industry usually doesn't buy you anything since it's the same people writing it, and they're still constrained by all the other software that they interact with. But if everyone was more willing to rewrite, focusing on code quality, I believe our tools would be less intertwined, we could achieve much faster rates of progress, and the life of a software engineer would be a lot more tolerable.
> but that doesn't mean this isn't a very emotional and trying time for many,

I think you're right, it is a very emotional time for many. I think he's trying to put that in a more rational perspective so that we, collectively, don't forget about the big picture.
And how do you suppose this broad-brush lockdown could have been avoided? The first ideas that come to my mind involve better surveillance and other privacy intrusions.

In fact, it's pretty unavoidable and perhaps even desirable that government have access to a fine level of information which could be used for utter tyranny. So the energies spent worrying about or averting such threats had best be focused on controlling what government will actually do with the information it has.

http://www.dbms2.com/2010/04/04/privacy-liberty-continued/ on the subject is 3 years old, but I think it still holds up pretty well.
The library names are unnecessarily sexual -- "Hardon Collider", "AnAL", "LUBE", "Polygamy"...
It's actually poor quality because it's at max zoom on a Galaxy Nexus. It was an Italian wedding party with raucous singing by the men and I wanted to stay a respectful distance. This happened at about 5PM as I went in search of someplace open where I could get something to eat.
Nooo, they wouldn't do that would they?
Right, intention is what's important, a guy who's gun accidentally goes off and hurts a few people is not the same as a guy who's actively shooting into a crowd.
He seems to make the mistake of comparing damage done to response instead of potential damage done to response.

The two suspects, after settings off anti-personnel bombs in a civilian area, executed a police officer, then got into a firefight with automatic weapons, grenades, and more anti-personnel bombs.

They demonstrated the means and the lack of conscience to do a LOT of damage in an urban area. A lot more than the average day in greater Boston's automotive death toll and as such were met with a massive response to prevent that possible outcome.
>Ctrl+F link
>cannot find 'Aaron' or 'schwartz'

way to pad out your clicks.
Most evidence suggests the contrary.
I thought it was really odd that they told people they could go about their business after completing the Watertown search without finding him. It seemed to me at that point the probability of us being injured had just gone up. However, lifting the stay-indoors request turned out to be crucial, because a man spotted the blood on the boat only after going outside for the first time all day.

On the other hand, if they had simply expanded the search area block by block without lifting the stay-indoors request, then they probably would have found him quickly with less risk to Watertown residents. In any case, I agree that it's important for the governments involved to evaluate what could have been done better.
As unfeeling as his statement might sound, he's entirely correct. I told a family member today that the saddest thing about this whole Boston incident isn't the (still very sad and senseless) loss of life and limb, but that it's undoubtedly going to be used as an excuse to further degrade civil rights nationwide in the coming years, to continue to justify state-sponsored human suffering like Guantanamo, and to further enforce money-wasting, civil-rights-violating theater like the TSA... all while real threats to life like car accidents and disease get left behind.
If they had a helicopter that could detect infrared, which indeed sufficed to find him under the boat, why wasn't that already deployed to look into shed, boats, etc. around the neighborhood? (Including outside the main perimeter.)

I doubt the reason was 4th Amendment scruples.
Boston authorities grossly over-reacted when they were attacked by the Cartoon Network too. So I'm not surprised to see how they handled a real terrorism event. I'm just relieved that they haven't managed to kill any bystanders. I hope people apply some scrutiny to what's happened here. Two amateur terrorist/griefers shut Boston down for days, caused the police to impose a de-facto martial law type curfew. If there are any "professional" terrorists, they are paying attention and taking notes. They will leverage this kind of buffoonery and it will not be funny if they succeed.
I wish I knew more people (AFK) who thought like this...
What an unmitigated asshole...seriously RMS, go fuck yourself.

(I had something more pithy to write but I think this captures the essence better)
except we havent seen this, so let's focus on the loss and talk about this when we see a disproportionate response
> 4 people killed in a week is not a lot compared with the background level of deaths in the US

It's not every day that people have their legs blown off while enjoying a public social event.

There's an expectation of danger while driving a car. There is no expectation of danger while spectating at the Boston Marathon.

It's not complicated.
if anything, people seemed to critique that they called off letting people outside too early. its never good enough it seems
I am having a tech & economics discussion. My sarcasm is a learned response from dealing with an unending parade of interlocutors who assume that the NBN is an unalloyed good. The main problem is conflating the technical characteristics of FTTP/FTTN with the total net benefit. They are not the same and should not be treated as the same.

Nothing in life is that simple. Nothing. There are always alternatives and it always pays to do a proper cost-benefit analysis.

Whenever I try to argue this case I am accused of all sorts of things. Trolling, being a stooge, a shill for tin-can-and-string manufacturers.

What I believe is that it's not enough just to want to build the right thing. You have to build it the right way and for the right reasons. 1/3 is not enough in matters of the public treasury and I consider that both major parties suck in this respect.
Or maybe it's the OTHER simple and cultural answer: they were seen as "losers", then lost it and decided to kill random people. Pretty much like Columbine and all the other "seemingly normal kid kills random people with guns" incidents that keep happening, again and again. It doesn't matter, though - at this point, it's all just random speculation.
I highly doubt it.

EDIT: The parent comment was along the lines of "Well RMS wouldn't think this way if HIS legs were blown off."
going to be used as an excuse to further degrade civil rights nationwide in the coming years

I don't necessarily disagree, but I look forward to RMS's anti-terrorism proposal.
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