skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Insurance providers, banks and other people required to send secure messages probably already have you as a customer. They're not trying to drive traffic to their site for an extra ad impression.
This article doesn't address the "why you should never cross your arms again" that is in it's title at all.
Perhaps reddit needs a NSFW-like roadblock for special cases like this: Before you can enter the subreddit, you need to acknowledge that everyone is presumed innocent, that reposting things elsewhere can severely harm innocent people, that vigilante justice is bad, etc. Click each checkbox, hit submit, and only then do you get to start reading and participating.

You're absolutely right about vigilante justice, but there's a big difference between that (i.e., playing judge, jury, and executioner) and public evidence-review assistance (i.e., playing forensic investigator).
But isn't giving respect low-power? If you're the alpha, others give you respect, and you do as you please. I'm exaggerating, obviously, but respect is a form of deference. Deference is low-power.
They don't want to report daily revenue because it would average out to a lot less than $900 million a year, I think. Two weeks ago they were making over 1 million a day, now it's over 2 million a day.[1] To me, that growth rate at this kind of scale is more meaningful than a yearly figure (or a daily figure, to be honest).

Of course, the reason they use "2.5 million per day" is to give you a classic Scrooge McDuck kind of visual, with a big semi trailer packed with money entering your palace every day.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/28/supercell-2/
Does anyone know what these characters in the middle mean?

Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/sSLu

(from http://celebsbukkake.com/thdvl/)
His book's so funny and quirky that it made me forget my troubles for a little while. The world needs more why.
Interesting that the FBI emphasized in their press conference not to give credence to other images. He certainly looks similar to one of the FBI Persons of Interest.
It's interesting that Carmen Ortiz is the (a?) US Attorney who is working on this. I would have thought they were compartmentalized by type of crime a bit more.
"Unlike computer chips, human beings can only process one thing at a time."

Many computer chips can also only process one thing at a time; they just do so fast enough that it is nearly imperceptible to the human operator.

I feel like this particular remark takes away from the author's "authority" to talk about technology as a media theorist, as it illustrates a superficial-at-best understanding of technology.
My happiest thing lately is to use NERDtree and then on selecting a bookmark, folder or file to then hit t to open that in a new tab.

So I have tabs and those are then split. Each subject of work or exploration has a tab with a few splits. I end up with much less clutter than sublime text. Easy to close out a tab.

Also ctrl-w v is my favorite way to split.
Since this has been downvoted, allow me to explain. The parent to my previous comment implies that Europeans are more tolerant of swearing than Americans, but they (or at least their governments) verge on paranoia when it comes to any mention of Hitler or the Third Reich.
who posts a link to the cnn.com home page on HN...

Here's the actual URL http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/boston-blasts/index.html?hp...
So I take the photos aren't clear enough and/or the FBI doesn't have the facial recognition capabilities (read not in the database) to identify these fuckers?

Can anyone elaborate on the scope of facial recognition technologies used by law enforcement? NSA surely has something powerful...

Also - cell towers - they can look at logs for the time period when these guy were on the phone and nail down a list of suspects, etc.

Wonder what their approach is here. Clearly enlisting the public to help is key but I'm sure they have a variety of technologies to find these fucks.
Yeah, I hate to say it, but my first thought was: "Is there no one at the FBI who has ever heard of a CDN or S3 or even Imgur to upload static assets to?" The issue at hand isn't a national emergency (because the attacks happened a few days ago with the suspects apparently quiet) but one of these days, they'll need a more robust way to disseminate info.
I think there's a little more to it than that. If the exception in question can be seen to have specific properties which are clearly the cause of its exceptionality, and if those properties can be seen to be rare, I think the exception supports the conclusion that the rule is a pretty good one, by showing what an unusual combination of circumstances is required for it to be violated.
I would like to just give a difference advice regarding creating virtualenvs and installing dependencies:

When you create the virtualenv, the current package you're working on doesn't get added to site-packages, so you're forced to be at the repository root to import the package.

The best approach is to have a proper setup.py file so you can do `python setup.py develop`, which will link the package you're working on into the virtualenv site-packages. This way it acts as it's installed and you can import anyway you like.

If you define your requirements on the setup.py (I think you should), you can even skip the `pip install -r requirements.txt` step.

I've cooked up a package template that can help getting this working:

https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/python-package-template
unless they were using burners
Well yes: know your audience. Only bad salesmen blather on about the wrong thing to the wrong person, whether it's low level technology to the enterprise CIO, or "solutions" to the startup founder.
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Someone has an Imgur mirror of the pictures: http://imgur.com/a/wRl0g
Are house sale prices not documented publicly in the US?
Are There Countries Whose Situations Worsened with the Arrival of the Internet?
Well, one has to wonder why they'd want to hack into Logica's systems. I can't see a reason. What would they want from Logica, and why would they risk getting caught hacking companies? Haven't they got enough trouble with TPB already?

It just doesn't make sense. What does make sense, however, is the US entertainment industry (and governments) wanting to make an example out of them: Here's what happens to naughty little copyright-infringers/freedom-fighters.
It's not particularly interesting. She's the U.S. Attorney for the Massachusetts district office and therefore, the official spokesperson and executive decision maker for federal prosecutions in her jurisdiction:

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/
I just read everything (so far). Given the person behind it, I'm finding it difficult to separate the man from the character; however, I did note that he chose to use his real name at least once and the perspective seems far more personal than it seems in-line with the _why character.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong but this whole thing reads like a suicide letter. I'm wondering if anyone else has had that thought while reading it? Perhaps it's about the death of the _why character; however, given the seemingly personal nature of so much of the writing I can't shake the thought that there may be a very real person in real trouble behind these writings and there's a whole community completely missing that piece of the puzzle.
I disagree. If you're the alpha, others give you respect, but this doesn't imply that you can't show respect to others. Respect is not only a form of deference. It is also a form of understanding.
No one knows whether they're right or not after submitting their ideas to the crowd for a full and proper vetting, either. 'The crowd' is not a substitute for experimentation and investigation.

Noticing that someone looks suspicious in a picture and reporting it to the proper authorities (preferably a division thereof known for evenhandedness) so that they can look at all sides of the issue is reasonable. Someone has to handle crimes, and whoever that someone is will always be human. Noticing that someone looks suspicious and posting their picture on Facebook with an accusatory tagline is entirely indefensible.

It's bad enough when their are no proper authorities.
Or aren't the bombers, but just suspects for the time being.
I sort of agree. I find that avoiding bad sorts of physical signals is definitely useful, but consciously instantiating new signals in a convincing way is (surprisingly) very difficult.

That said, there are a few people who are really good at this stuff. One technique is based more on directly altering your mood rather than consciously positioning your body, and some people just seem better able to manipulate their mood than others.
The video is embedded on the homepage, that is how i viewed it. So you don't have to click through. If i did something wrong i apologize.
There's some overlap between leadership and not caring too much what others think.

The stereotypical brash alpha-male behaviours aren't necessarily affected. They can stem from just not even considering for a moment that you're not entitled to succeed, or to do as you please. While this can be annoying, it's also magnetic.
The judicial problems came about as the Office of Civil Rights demanded schools lower evidentiary standards in sexual misconduct cases.

institutions should consider such allegations under the "more likely than not" standard of evidence, rather than the stricter "clear and convincing" standard that some now use.

Why would the OCR do that?

Cui bono?

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/04/sexual-h...

http://title-ix.blogspot.com/2011/04/commentary-on-yale-and-...

Looked at another way, the author of the WSJ piece, a woman, a lawyer, a feminist, tells you that underlying this is a feminist demand. What knowledge do you have to disagree with her? Is it possible your "reasonable skepticism" might actually be a "ignorance of the issue at hand and its history"? (BTW, I do agree she could have been more explicit in making the connections.)
Private military operatives hired to 'work' the Boston marathon
Imgdr: A self-hosted image service for Tweetbot
True good point, damn burners.

Two gigantic idiots - walking the streets together, around corners carrying heavy backpacks. Can't fathom how they didn't know with todays surveillance and a million people taking photos that they wouldn't get spotted.
Photos of Boston suspects released by FBI
Does anybody know if there's a way to get view like the one in the mobile (Android) app, recent discussion entries, closed or updated bugs, etc. in the web version?
Well. Ideally, I'm sure they'd like to do both. Pull out of the country(for human rights reasons) and then turn the data over to the feds(for investigative purposes). Goog doesn't have the power to protect the nation or other businesses from similar activities, but they could certainly help the CIA do that, if needed.
It was so uncontroversial that nearly 90% of the American public supported the reform, including 85% of gun owners.

I keep on seeing this number quoted, but looking at the survey it looks like it was limited to Florida, Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia. I wonder how the question would go in Texas, for example. Is there a standard definition of a national poll?

I do appreciate Seth linking to the poll's press release. If anyone's interested, the poll data is available at http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes--centers/polling-instit...
Microsoft, Foxconn ink patent licensing deal
Does anyone know if the crowd sourcing of suspects on 4chan the other day picked out the same suspects the FBI announced today?
If you'd like to follow in real time I wrote a shell script that pipes all new entries directly to your printer:

https://gist.github.com/spro/5416485
Only some states require consent of the person in the photo.
And chat logs couldn't possibly be forged, right? :p
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Updates on Aftermath of Boston Marathon Explosions (FBI photos of suspects)
> Liberal arts students = capitalists

Anarcho-capitalists are _not_ capitalists. So liberal liberal arts students can be anarcho-capitalists, despite not being capitalists.

Actually, the term "anarcho-capitalism" is completely invalid. It's like "blue-reddish" or "big-smallism."
Exactly, the basis for research like this is entirely social.
> Therefore, it eventually becomes ineffective

This is in conflict with the continued usefulness of timeless classics like "How to win friends and influence people".
"It hurts"

"Well, stop doing it then..."

Jests aside - Go is appealing for many reasons but your self-inflicted pain is not necessarily one of them. ;-)
Here's the actual actual URL, from the source:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multi...
The BBC have mirrored some of the data: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22211190
Also, does anyone else have a problem with Kaggle offering money and points for resolving the matter unofficially?

When the offer was made, I was really surprised because it seemed unethical and unfair - both the the other competitors as well as the sponsor.

Just curious what other, non-Kaggle competitor opinions are on this topic.
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No, Homebrew solves a different problem (compiling and installing software in the global system).

Think that virtualenv is way to package a complete Python environment together with the package you need or are working on.
Because normalization reduces the influence of variables that have a higher variance. In raw data, if you have marathon times and heights for runners in a race, and you measure the times in minutes and the heights in inches, the influence on the principal components from the times will likely be much more.

Like all problems in statistics, it ought to depend on the specific task at hand. If there is some a priori reason to use the original scale (or a different re-weighting), it ought to be used. In general, PCA on correlation matrices is much preferred for exactly the reason you mention.
Typically HN is used to share links to articles. The problem is tomorrow the cnn home page will have different content and this thread will not point to the thing you're referencing.

Also HN only allows URLs to be submitted once, so now nobody can submit a new thread to cnn.com/
It's regional, and she's the boss of that region.
In addition the linked footprint site is not responding!
They are. It's a very strange question to use.
I suspect we're exploring well-trodden ground here, but perhaps one-time unlockables would be better than consumables because there's a natural limit (you can't unlock the same thing twice). IIRC AoEO mostly worked this way.
I see what you're getting at and agree it could be offensive but it could also be Charles Spears. At the same time someone could name an account CharlesSpears and probably no one would find it offensive.

It is interesting to think about where the line should be drawn. Especially in human moderated cases.
"... during the clarification process all of the milk fat is burned off"

Ghee is milk fat. The clarification process removes the water and protein from the butter.
No, the US attorney is a per-state office. They're like attorneys-general for Federal law.
the link up top is a malformed url - looks like maybe a bad c&p

http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multip...

worked for me
Yes, sale prices can be found in public records. Just look at sites like Zillow, you can look up any property and they'll show you a history (I'm not sure how far back they go) of the sales history of the house.
No they didn't
google doc is private
Yeah, I guess I had no idea USAs were segmented like that. Would it not make more sense to have them segmented by type of law, since they're all arguing in federal courts anyway? (Obviously I know nothing about law :-)
> Source? Do you have ANY evidence of this whatsoever?

Sure, let me just dig up that link where the Swedish government says the whole case is a sham!

> Are you suggesting, because Logica is big, bloated, makes "shitty" software, or makes tax software, they should be open game to hackers? You are ridiculous.

I implied that tax records were mentioned because someone seeing everyone's tax records is bound to make a lot of people feel uncomfortable. In other words, mentioning tax records in that context was done to shape the public opinion on the case.
Will Bangalore have to be evacuated by 2023?
There are certainly Republicans who are all for family values for other reasons besides Christian morals. They equate this with civilization not in contrast with uncivilization, the question for them isn't "civilization vs. savagery" exactly, it's more nearly "civilization vs. decadence." Open homosexuality and abortion call to mind the Roman Empire in its decline, not the Dark Ages.

A really powerful argument in this vein comes from the Nixon tapes. It's very much worth listening to, no matter what your views on the matter are, because I think it really crystallizes why conservatism and the religious right have so much common ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TivVcfSBVSM#t=5m27s
cnn.com, nytimes.com, nbcnews.com
Yep your link (kind of) worked. It's not loading quickly or entirely.
I've had good experiences moving a few thousands of dollars around through Dwolla in order to get them into bitcoin exchanges.
To be fair, I don't think that many people on HN are facing the kind of traffic spike the FBI site just got.
Gotta love that description
Power is not the same thing as domination.
Wrong - it may look like a bad c&p, but if you go to fbi.gov and check the link on the right hand side, it is, in fact correct. The servers are just struggling right now with the assets, now mine are cached it loads instantly.
Are you trolling?

The primary use case of npm is quite different. No one installs system-wide npm packages.

Virtualenv solves a different problem (create a complete Python environment inside a directory) so you can replicate the various production setups in your machine and develop. It's not a way to avoid admin-privileges to install system software, for that you can just pip install --user, use homebrew, whatever.
Don't worry, it's just a PR-stunt. Just sit back and watch CISPA pass.
> Meanwhile, we have the case studies of....

The umbrella man is my favorite falsely accused bystander - I mean he looked SO GUILTY!
I've finished that book and I think it could be edited down to a quarter of its length. useful but the page count is highly inflated
What vigilante justice? There was a bunch of speculation on some websites the vast majority of the people don't read. The blame solely falls on unethical media organizations like the NY Post. They're the ones that decided to run with their "story".
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I imagine you're right. I am not interested in American sports, so probably never see them in the right cultural context for America.

I always presumed sites like Cracked and Huffington post were transmitting the US view to me:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/dallas-mavericks-da...

http://www.cracked.com/funny-2072-cheerleaders/

Certainly in the UK it seems to me that there's a general presumption it's sexualised. For example the tabloids:

http://metro.co.uk/2011/03/30/crystal-palace-fans-defend-sex...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/athletics/hottest...

and even the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/mar/15/ussport.stevenwe...

As a single extra data point, I asked my wife about it and obvious sexuality was the first thing she mentioned. I think this may be a peculiarly British view, though.

By the way, I don't think I'm a prude either. If girls over the age of consent (16 in the UK) want to be sexual I don't have a problem with it. My surprise is a cultural one that it could be viewed any other way.
I currently use Dwolla for transferring funds over to Mtgox. Given this information, is there a better service for getting funds from a bank account over to Mtgox without doing a wire transfer?
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They don't have to be the bombers to have been using burner phones.
There are divisions by type of crime (financial, terrorism, government corruption, capital murder) but these types of crime often overlap and thus require overlapping resources and personnel from a DA's office...and someone has to be the person who decides how and what to allocate to each case.

This is not much different than police departments, which have separate departments for patrol, homicide, burglary, vice, internal affairs, etc....no matter how the squads are organized, there is still a chief and/or a commissioner who makes the policy and management decisions and who makes the official public statements.
This kind of confuses me. The mother is calling our witnesses for having no way of knowing about the alleged events, yet she herself also has no way of knowing. I'm not saying the process isn't flawed or unfair but something also seems wrong with me being expected to take the mother at her word while trashing the credibility of the alleged victim. I also feel that mentioning feminism came off as a bit of an "angle" for the piece.
In addition, I'm not sure how this got to be trending on HN - I'm concerned about the relationship to the "men's rights" movement, which while their underlying idea is sound, the proponents often end up scaring me with their misogyny.
Because two friends don't walk streets together carrying backpacks... Because the FBI is always accurate in their information...
Two reasons, they might not care to get away with it, or these aren't the people responsible.
There's some photos on this FBI page of a 17 year old kid, who was fingered by our internet detectives - and has already come forward to clear his name

http://news.yahoo.com/teen-am-not-boston-marathon-bomber-175...
>I've been closely watching this subreddit from the beginning, and have not seen anything of non-negligible prominence (including the comments you link to) accusing anyone of anything other than being worthy of a closer look.

Either you got there late or weren't paying attention. There are no shortage of people in this thread and the one I linked who witnessed that thread getting out of hand.

>The spreadsheet has 10+ people on it. You'd have to be willfully misinterpreting it to an absurd degree to conclude that reddit thought they all were simultaneously guilty.

I have no idea what kind of point you're trying to make here.
Whether property sales are public depends on the state you're in. Texas, for instance, doesn't make sale prices public.
While these photos and video are the opposite of confidential, I am not the least bit surprised that the FBI wants to keep the FBI's data on the FBI's servers given the nature of their business.
| Would it not make more sense to have them segmented
| by type of law, since they're all arguing in federal
| courts anyway

She probably has many specialized areas under her, but she's at the top of that particular power structure.
It appears to me that the two bebackpacked individuals are together. The second one loses his backpack in the footage. I assume the first has the first bomb in his backpack.
Sorry, what's a "burner" ? I've no clue what that word means in this context.
Everything Changes with the Internet of Everything
From what they are showing us, Suspect #1 isn't seen as doing anything just walking in front of Suspect #2 and wearing sunglasses and a backpack.

Like I said, from what they have shown us Suspect #1 might not have been involved at all.
The source material here looks to be CCTV cameras, which were probably not posted online.