skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even the dumbest, most corrupt cop isn't going to do anything scandalous while you're sitting right there. And the flatfoot giving you a ride has probably been told it's his job to babysit you for the night, while they tell you bs about what an unflinching view of the mean streets you're getting.
The search space grows exponentially with each additional word being added. With enough words, it gets infeasible to bruteforce.
If he wanted to put the effort and time to make this game, why would it have to use the Monkey Island IP?

I think that any new game with same quality, the humor and mechanics, but in a different setting (or heck, just a different name!) would still be loved.
There was a reality show along these lines a few years ago - how I remember this, goodness only knows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadets_(TV_series)
Yeah he shouldn't have known when the person was describing themselves or someone else.
Wait, that guy is the topic picture as well.
http://imgur.com/Wp2dH21
If I'm going to be living in this surveillance society future, do I at least get an app that navigates me to the nearest open parking space?
xkcd: Authorization
I'm just saying that this is the standard way now. Everybody wants to make it as easy as possible for new users to sign in.
American Airlines resolves computer glitch that grounded all flights nationwide
As someone who lives in South Florida (east coast, Jupiter southward), I can state that the only toll roads in the area that also have service plazas are the Florida Turnpike (north/south and can be used for commuting) and I-75 west of US-27 (runs east/west across the state, and at the point it becomes a toll road, you are basically heading away from the population center towards the middle of the state; also, practically no one lives west of US-27 until you get to the west coast of Florida). The other toll roads (Sawgrass Expressway, 924, Dolphin Expressway, parts of I-95 in Miami, Don Shula Expressway and I think 826 (it's been awhile since I driven that one)) are all very short (longest is the Sawgrass Expressway, at 20 miles) and all in a very dense urban setting and absolutely no service plazas.

Also, all the toll roads in South Florida use the same electronic system (EZ-Pass); it's also usable up through Orlando (from personal experience). With such a system, there's no need to even slow down to pay the toll (and there are no more toll booths in Miami; if you have no EZ-Pass system, a photo of your license place is taken, and a bill (not a ticket) is mailed to the license holder).

Edit: There are also three service plazas along the Florida Turnpike in South Florida, one in Dade County (Miami), one in Broward County (just north of Ft. Lauderdale) and one in West Palm Beach (towards the north end of the county), each separated by approximately 30 miles. Depending on where the cop in question lived and worked, he might have never even passed a service plaza (and besides, the gas there is more expensive).
#iSTEVE - the Steve Jobs Bio-Spoof from Funny or Die
There is a similar argument against AI. That a computer can't "feel" or experience any of the sensations we do. If you type 'emotional_state = "happy"', does that mean your computer feels happiness? Even if you have a complex simulation of neurons, if you zoom in, all you will see is little electrons bouncing through various logic gates and ending up in some kind of pattern.

But the thing is, the exact same thing is true for your brain too! If you zoom in on your brain you will find nothing more than electrical impulses and neurons that strengthen or weaken their connection to other neurons. If the neurons were suddenly replaced with little computers that performed exactly the same, you wouldn't feel any different. You would still experience emotions and feel sensations and have no idea any parts had been swapped under the hood, unless you looked.

I don't know why but this idea is confusing to me. This XKCD http://xkcd.com/505/ is a good example. My consciousness could be a bunch of static rocks and a man placing new rows based on simple rules. I find this thought disturbing, but there isn't anything fundamentally different between that, a computer simulation, and a world of a bunch of atoms hitting each other, following simple physical laws.

Different beings could exist in all three universes. And each would feel emotions and sensations and all that. And each would argue about how beings just like them in the other universes "don't really exist" like they do.

So how is this different from a character in a novel or a variable in a computer set to "happy"? I honestly don't know. The character in a book is completely static. Whatever is written in the pages, it isn't changing, it isn't taking input and producing output. But the rows of rocks are static too after all. They don't take any input from the outside world either. They change over a dimension of space, each new row one foot to the right of the last. As do the characters in a book. Each paragraph moves the characters forward through their own dimension of time. Maybe the process that creates the rows of rocks, the man following simple rules, is what makes it conscious. But the book is created by a writer following a process too, does that make it conscious?

The only thing I can think of is that the character in the book is far simpler than a human. Words that say "john is happy" is similar to setting a variable on your computer equal to "happy". Happiness in a human is far more complex, involving tons of interactions between neurons. But this answer isn't satisfactory to me. Complexity isn't what makes something intelligent or conscious after all.
Some data as to why.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/unilever-fourth-quarter-sales...
Bpython has a nice wrapper for pdb: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bpython/0.11

This is the nicest python debugger I've used.
iSteve - Video from Funny or Die
Isn't it obvious for most that for an advanced enough simulation, it is impossible to prove that you are in a simulation from inside the simulation? Even if we find proof that our current model of reality is wrong, it would only mean we need to search for another model of reality, we can't just say "but out theory doesn't actually match the reality because the reality is actually a simulation that computes approximations for some cases".

Imagine if Einstein thought something (let's say for the sake of argument that he had access to some real close-to-speed-of-light experiments): "classical mechanics, isn't wrong, but predictions for close-to-the-speed-of-light experiments don't match the reality because we live in a simulation and the resource constraints forced by the computations needed for the simulation computer to do for such cases make it distort things through heuristic approximations ...and because we live in a simulation I can further pursue my other line of work, the genetic theory of Leprechauns and Fairies...".

Now I actually believe the plausability of the simulation theory, unfalsifiable as it may be, and all, but I think such simulations wouldn't be run for "fun" alone: if we're in a simulation, we're either (a) "babies" in nursery that probably involve multiple existences in multiple simulations until we are "prepared" for the "top-level reality" or (b) we and our universes are a very advanced form of... future "bitcoin miners" :| (I sincerely hope for either (a) or the plain ol "reality is real" theory, but one can never now...)
A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember
Is the guy in the brown top meant to be walking away WITHOUT a backpack?

Because I can't see either way. He looks like me MIGHT still have a backpack on.

Also the backpack seems small based on what's meant to be in it?
They're not postage-stamp sized

Yes, they are, on my monitor.

nor are the people bozos for not making your life maximally convenient.

Yes, they are bozos. The FBI released those photos to the press for a reason. What do you suppose that reason might have been?
Wonderful, now the US have investigators, spies, money, and stuff for that, so thanks 4chan for tackling last Mondays terrors attacks on Iraq where 6 times more people died in a coordinated terror attack on many cities. And Iraq doesn't have any real police, spies or security for that matter, since you know, invasion.
Incidentally, that was the only sport at school that I ever took any serious damage from; a baseball to the forehead.

I was never interested in any sport though. I was standing at the back waiting for lunch.
They have the super power of working within a judicial framework which forces them to be prove the suspects' guilt thoroughly before any kind of punishment can be dealt. This is not the case with vigilantes.
People ought to be nominated for this. I nominate the Nobel Peace Prize winner Barrack Obama.
In what sense would the drones be ubiquitous?
Just wait until the media finds this
"I genuinely didn't think there was still that much debate on this"

You'd be surprised. Many people will deny anything happens until CNN/NBC/Fox/Insert-Big-Media-Company-Here tells them otherwise. Because of that, we need more things like this, more sources of information we can point to and say "do you believe us now?"

Also, any time an official refuses to look into the past, in this case because it's not productive to "look backward", that's a pretty sure sign that somebody is hiding something (and this report proves it). No educated person on the planet truthfully believes that knowing and understanding the past is unproductive. Not one.
The ability to effect justice through a legal system?
Not in the us. You are only shielded from pictures in places where you have the expectation of privacy; the bathroom or your bedroom when it's unknown to you are good examples. The finish line of the Boston marathon doesn't have this type of privacy guarantee.
Playing devil's advocate, what are the guaranteed abuses if drones are used in this context? You could certainly make a slippery slope argument, but at a huge event that is taking place in public there can be no assumption of privacy. Is a drone any different in this context than any other type of camera?
How to solve hard problems
Awesome! Now just add first-person view, and a 3D map, and different weapon loadouts, and classes, and... I may be getting carried away.
Agree that there's more subjective than objective in best practices. That said, there's nothing wrong with developing and publishing best practices. The fault is in those who turn them into a rigid "bible", rather than food for thought.
I imagine it would be like a computer game, where you only had to simulate the universe from the point of view of the user. This would fit nicely with the Copenhagen interpretation.
Surely no sane person would wish to inflict such pain upon themselves.
...and the main flaw of this still remains: we don't know the probabilities of a very advanced civilization running a simulation because we can have no idea of whether this would be interesting for them to do, we can't predict what would their goals and motivations be. Out great-great-...-great-grandchildren will not just be super-smart versions of us, they will have concepts and goals we cannot even imagine! A simulation of us, depressing as it may be to think it this way, would be just as interesting for them as an ant-farm to a little boy - he'd get bored of it quickly because he's as far away evolutionary speaking from ants as these super-iteligent beings would be from us, and that wouldn't make for a large number of ant-farms simply because ant-farms will be boring and useless...
It's been over 10 years since we've had an impeachment. I'd say we're overdue.
I am not a lawyer, but I think you're safe sharing photos of public places. I don't think you have an expectation of privacy in a public place.
And... HN is officially Reddit.
Training, experience, the requirement to follow procedures that safeguard the innocent.
And thanks to NDAA he can be detained indefinitely for that very reason! These are scary times.
Feature idea: safer gmail
Haha yeah, there's a lot I could do: Capture the Flag mode, player skins, Twitter/FB authentication to keep scores across games, various weapons, more powerups, ... I'll see how it goes :)
Free Online Course: Gamification by Kevin Werbach via Coursera
If just knowing that it's possible is all it takes to be able to independently reproduce an invention, then it shouldn't have been patentable in the first place. That's pretty close to being the exact definition of the "non-obviousness" criteria the USPTO is supposed to apply.
I feel the same way. This thing is ridiculous, someone could name the person in the image, and media will go after them. But in the end they will end up innocent and their life in ruins. As much as this may seem like a good idea, 4chan or the internet should away from pointing fingers at random people with backups.
Theory A has probability X of occurring. Another possibility is that theory B is what's really happening, but that has a much lower probability Y of occurring. X > Y, ergo A must be what's really going on. QED.
If only customer acquisition was easy
Sure :--)
That assumes America has much of a middle class left.
Exactly - it wasn't too hard to game. I bought a few at $88 and saw it go up to $260. As soon as it slipped a bit immediately cashed out.
I also got the email above for my startup activepractice.com.au. Apparently, they are not joking when they say you need a technical co-founder. Anyone who is interested, drop me a line.
HN Meetup, New Delhi
Curious to see if there are any HN-ers and aspiring entrepreneurs in Delhi/NCR area interested for a meet up this Sunday?

Location: Route 04 Connaught Place,
Time: 4pm onwards,
Day: Sunday - 21st April

Edit: Please drop your confirmation in comments below.
I think there is a big difference between the news saying "THIS IS THE GUY! THIS IS THE MONSTER!" and people on a forum speculating that "this may be worth looking into further".

The problem is that all it takes is one group to start quoting the other, and the effect starts to snowball:

"Internet detectives on the popular website Reddit have identified three possible suspects..."

"[Rival news organization] tonight reported on three new leads. The suspects, Joe Bloggs, Susan Smith and Bill Stickers..."

"Ask Reddit - who of the three suspects do you think is most likely to be behind the attacks?"
Just let it be, cageface is on a mission.
Good question - the answer to which is probably that he doesn't have to since others have filled in the gaps.

I find hacker news illegible and not very user friendly. So I use this on my Android phone:

http://hackerwebapp.com/
Trigger.io one year on
You can tell the ex-counterstrike players who bait their teammates.
So the simulation would take far less computational resources.
Securing and Hardening Red Hat Linux Production Systems
Interesting:

http://i.imgur.com/i1yLgzY.jpg

Racial profiling?
I'm sure the government will allow consumer applications like self-driving cars to be rerouted around traffic jams, nearest parking spots. The same thing has already happened with GPS.
> "God" forbid, we might feel guilty or responsible.

If it's anything like previous immoral incidents give it 30-50 years. After all guilty parties have died off and any claims of restitution undeliverable. Look at slavery, the gov't only recently apologised for that act.
Yes, but it's not as amusing :D
GRUB 2 bootloader - Full tutorial
Well, we can't all size things for your small monitor Bob. They're about postcards-zied on mine, but perhaps larger-resoltuion versions will show up on Google images in a day or two. I don't know whether the FBI intended for them to be released or not, according to CBS the pictures were obtained from a leaked intelligence bulletin to local forces. If the FBI really wanted them widely available I imagine they'd put hem up on FBI.gov, and who knows, maybe they will.

I just don't see the value in insulting people for having their systems run to your specifications. It makes you sound like a dick. I suggest you write to them and offer to host the high-resolution versions or something.
It would also create infinite amounts of happiness and joy.
Yeah, this one is very convincing. There are a few other pictures of this guy all over Reddit with different angles/face shot. The bag appears to match. But there were plenty of other people in the immediate area with similar bags.

Also, some people put their bags down near/between their legs to watch the race. That doesn't mean they were planting a bag. Something to consider.

I'm sure the FBI is all over Reddit and every site/photo they can get their hands on.

Neat little Google Spreadsheet here breaking down the suspects, photos, etc. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AgtCl8YvqiBodEl0...

I think there's a ton of photographic evidence out there, a lot of which we don't have access to (CCTV, pro photographers, media, etc.) FBI has all of this is analyzing it like crazy.

I wonder what kind of system they are using to create a virtual timeline of events with photos and video evidence to sift through the content...
Doesn't America have the perp walk of shame (considered unlawful in some other developed countries)?

Isn't that almost the same thing as this, just with a higher probability that the shamed person is actually guilty of the crime?
Did you read the paper? It takes that all into account. This is one of its three possible conclusions, as stated in the abstract.
Is there something about dataflow annotated instructions that would require lots of internal changes? I mean past the decoding step. Because Intel and AMD add new instructions and modes all the time, frequently stuff that is basically totally orthogonal to whatever's gone before.
Actual interesting criticism of economics by Charlie Munger:

http://www.tilsonfunds.com/MungerUCSBspeech.pdf
> used that tiny dos-box blue editor that comes with QB64 to code the entire game tho :)

And had a screen at an EGA text resolution of 80 x 25 chars with each character being in a box of 9x14 pixels. (With pixels means 'dots on the screen'.)

And saved the result on 5 1⁄4-inch or 3 1⁄2-inch discs.

And fiddled about with FOSSIL drivers and kermit or Xmodem or Ymodem and ProcommPlus to upload the game to a BBS. At 9600 baud.

(I'm not taking anything away from the game! )
How the Boston Marathon bombing proved news is pointless
I love "strong opinions weakly held"!! I couldn't agree more.
> we should be more worried about car accidents than terrorism

doesn't terrorism scale better, though?
Conflict of interest is one reason, but there are others. The process that PTO use, is one based on 19th century condition.

19th century administrative standards is very simple and got bright lines; they don’t require a great deal of expensive investigation. The assumption of the 19th century patent system is that everything that should be patented already is patented already.

Like other 19th century administrative structures, the patent office assumes that all it can be expected to do is to look in its own files and to make rough binary determination - 0 or 1, novel or obvious or not - on the basis of the consultation of its own administrative record.

This mean that PTO's job is to only answer questions based on its own records. A invention is novel if the clerk can't find a similar invention in the office. A invention is non-obvious, if the clerk do not consider the invention to be a natural extension of any existing files.

PTO stills live in that system while everything else has evolved forward during the 200 years that has passed, including what type inventions that are patentable. This mean that a large number of invention never got filed when they got discovered. If a patent application then get sent in several decades later, the result is simple. The patent office grants the patent because the invention is not in the archive.

This is crazy. We should not use 19th century administrative process in the 21st. We should not assume that government knows everything, or that their records can stretch over inventions when such inventions was unpatentable. Doing 20 years governmental intervention into the market should be a serious undertaking where the government are responsible if such intervention cause serious harm or is done faulty.
Not convincing, despite the accusations here. You can find the guy moving away from the blast, into the crowd, with his backpack in most of the shots being used for the other suspects.

What's hilarious is someone thinks it is very convincing while posting a spreadsheet that shows it is not...
There is the Space Apps Challenge thing happening this weekend at IIT Delhi so many people won't be able to make it.

https://www.facebook.com/events/133820356806339/
Making and deploying a website with Haskell
Why Entrepreneurs Ignore Networking Events, and How to Spark Their Interest
The game author can't really be blamed for the awful article.

Putting a screenshot of the game above a video of Gorillas, and then claiming they're both written in the same language, is misleading.
I've read a number of software patents and I would definitely not be able to reproduce the invention using just the information in the patent. Rather, I'd have to take the described functional claims and build something that does what it says. So they're almost fully functional.

The code should be included to uphold the spirit of the patent. A patent is a temporary monopoly granted in return for telling everyone how your invention works. If all you do is enumerate what your invention does in your claims, you haven't described how it works, and if the patent is granted, you've effectively only described any implementation of your idea, which is a huge problem.

Providing source code narrows the patent to AN implementation of an idea, and to experts in the field, actually explains in a common language (not legalese) exactly how it works.

Have a read of the brief the EFF put together for the PTO. It's somewhat readable, even for an engineer.
David Brin's "The Transparent Society" talks about this.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004P5O37W/?tag=dedasys-20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society

In short, the idea is to allow lots of watching, because it'll help reduce and solve crime, but also radically increase the watching of the watchers.
I wish the exact methodology that was used for this ranking is public, because it will help non-YC start-ups compare themselves accurately against this list.

The factors that goes into this ranking like 3-month Alexa Rank, Inbound Links, Facebook Likes etc.. are lagging indicators of a company. I wonder what the leading indicators could be. Maybe, current pipeline?
The parent comment was aiming at the fact that speed is rarely a cause of an accident, it is often a condition. The difference is small but relevant, as law enforcement focuses on speed as a cause, ignoring the real causes (e.g. Car parked before crosswalk preventing visibility of child that is crossing the road)
Neat! Admittedly, when I saw the title, "Pinterest for text," I thought of something more like http://www.quoti.ca/

I dig the way I can select some text on a website and automatically turn it into a quote. Slick. Nice product tour too.
Drone coverage can adapt and follow specific targets, that's the difference.