skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But as I stated above, that path leads to ignoring mens rea. Instead of "did you mean to", it is "you possessed it, too bad". This is badness to the point that I could send people CP via picture message on their phones, and turn them in.

Well can't we just make it a law that it's illegal to possess and intend to possess child porn? What's so hard about that. You can often tell based on the files in a computer whether they intended to posses it. Are there dozens/hundreds of images, or only one? Are the images organised, or in the temporary browser cache? Have the images been saved over many dates or were they all created at once? The solution is better written laws, not no laws.

Or worst yet, a 15 yr old girl sent a naked picture to her boyfriend. And then, SHE was prosecuted for the production of child porn. And it's her own fucking body!

Oh I agree that that should not be illegal. So it's just a matter of tweaking the law to exclude that.
Boston's Hubway: http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/

London's Cycle Hire: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/16493....

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I have nothing against that. Some people collect postage stamps, some play a tube, some dress.
Combining bi-directional path tracing and ray differentals(needed for texture filtering and geometry subdivision) doesn't really work well together at the moment, sadly.
That may be a reason for them to present the argument, but it doesn't by itself make the argument wrong or "silly".
I understand how you would break up an individual frame if you are using the 'local illumination' described in the ancestor post, but if the 'global illumination' has interactions across the entire frame, how is that compatible with parallel processing?

It sounds a bit like the n-body problem, which has parallel approximation algorithms, but nothing terribly straightforward.
Nice! :) We did one of those recently too https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/
Yes. But I'm the good kind of lazy. I choose to spend my time working on solutions to big problems, rather than working on what shirt to wear tomorrow. I do use different brands with different cuts and styles. Mostly because I grab whatever is available at the store. I also only use name brands, because the last twice as long.

It's also a sort of camouflage. I blend in very easily. I like that.
I admire skepticism, and yes this kind of guerrilla marketing is common, but I don't think Walgreens would be targeting Hacker News. Hackers are not a prime demographic.

A point in your favor though, The author is pretty new. This being his second blog post.
sigh WHY has he locked the font size down on his blog such that CMD + and - only change the text area width and image sizes?
Weird thing is that since being a nerd is in these days, peoe have complimented my style. If they only knew I lack it.
Availability in SoCs is paired by actual deployment of those SoCs to end user devices. The majority of currently available end user devices don't have hardware VP8 decoding yet. As time goes by and newer SoCs push out older ones this will improve, but we aren't there yet.
All good engineers know the only appropriate footwear for slacks is a pair of New Balance sneakers.
Oh yeah, because a good scolding works so well for addicts.

Here's an example: Gay men. For decades they were shunned and told they were horrible. The act was illegal, and if a gay man flirted with someone, no-one'd look the other way if the fliter was assaulted, possibly killed. You could be fired for being gay, or kicked out of your home. As a result there were very few acts of gay sex and many gay men did not live as gay men, instead staying in the closet and living as if they were straight; wife, kids the lot. So yes, shunning and scolding people can work to reduce the rate of which the sex act is done. (How else can you explain how many gay men lived as straight men for so long?)
I tried blue and dark grey. But the. I couldn't decide on the color.
That wasn't lost on me. That was my point.

A better word for it would be "group-determination" or "people-determination."
The personal computer industry has its roots in the late-60s/early-70s California counterculture, which deliberately rejected those "professional standards" and the corporate mindset which went with them. It is not a "failure", but a conscious expression of a different value system.

People typically care more about the respect of their peers than the respect of random people in general. Wearing a suit among software people doesn't make you look "professional", it makes you pretentious at worst and just a bit weird at best.
Two of my biggest gripes with the peer-review process would be relatively easy to address:

1. Time

2. One-way communication

1. You sometimes have to waste a lot of time to get articles published. The way the current process works, it is very easy for referees who are either competitors, incompetent, or simply assholes to effectively filibuster the review process. Even when things go smoothly the process is often agonizingly slow.

2. The peer-review process operates under the obsolete limitation of snail-mail correspondence. There is no two-way communication between the referees. Referees often return either unprofessional or obviously wrong (to everyone but the editor!) comments. If the referees could talk to each other this would be sorted out quickly. It doesn't help that editors are typically very reluctant to reconsider rejection verdicts even when they are based on clear cases of referee error.

How would I address this? Use the #$%@!ing internet people! Journals should abandon this one-way snail-mail process and build a private message board for each paper being reviewed. Referees are invited to post their comments anonymously on the forum. Other referees and, ideally, the authors could then reply to those comments. After a reasonable time period has elapsed, perhaps a couple of weeks, the editor should take stock of what valid concerns remain and reach a verdict.
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There's a secret ending to Hotline Miami that made it one of the most thought provoking games I've ever played.

Rarely am I moved by a game nowadays. It's heavy. Hotline Miami alone is worth it.
Liking does cost me something.

It alerts everyone that I'm friends with that I "liked" something.

I'm not going to go around handing out likes for things because it will make me seem annoying and not genuine. I also don't want to represent myself as someone that likes Wal-Mart or Samsung unless those are things I actually like.
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This.

60 years ago, wearing anything other than a suit and tie was considered informal. Even just a tucked-in shirt without a tie and black pants was informal dress.

Men commonly would be seen in business suits; and usually wore hats as well.
I should add that Singapore politics is somewhat complex, and it takes months, if not years, of following Singapore news to have a grasp of what the sentiment on the ground is. Some of the points that I think are relevant to this thread:

(1) Much of the older generation and many newly naturalised immigrants feel that the incumbent government brought them to where they are today, and are willing to give up some liberties for economic success.

(2) Many of Singapore's constituencies are banded into groups for election and town management purposes. [1] The party in power has the advantage in that Cabinet ministers are members of the majority party appointed by the leader, enjoy a much higher media profile by virtue of their jobs, and are more often than not the heavyweight in a group electoral contest. This makes it difficult for opposing parties to win in a positive publicity contest, since they enjoy far fewer opportunities for positive media coverage.

(3) The perception of opposition quality in Singapore is still very negative. While there were opposition candidates with stellar educational and professional backgrounds in the previous election, much of the talent willing to enter politics tend to be courted by the leading party. Also, no opposition party thus far has spoken out against this policy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Representation_Constituen...
I made a proof of concept application that made it easy to combine different opencv image filters to make a filter pipeline. The neat part was the genetic algorithm on top that "tuned" the filters for best results for some task (finding circles in my test case).
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Just click the 'MY ACCOUNT' link and create an account. Don't tick the 'no newsletter' box to make sure you'll get the news when the player is out. We'll probably post something here as well when it gets out anyway.
The slipperly slope derailing tactic is silly. You could say that about any law. "Why have legal minimum wage? Eventually it'll be €1,000,000 per hour?", "Why allow people to kill in self defence? Surely eventually everyone'll be able claim anyone will be able to kill in self-defence and murder will be legal!!"
Hmm... wouldn't it be good to display an album icon for it on the bundle page then?
Based on previous rulings, the 5th Amendment doesn't apply because the State already has specific knowledge that this guy has child porn on an encrypted drive, through other means. That being the case, the act of decrypting the drive is no longer testimonial, as, by itself, it does not implicate him.

If they merely believed really, really strongly that he has CP on an encrypted drive, then compelling its decryption would be testimonial, because the State would have knowledge (namely, that he possesses child porn) after the act of decryption that they did not have before it. That makes the act of decryption, itself, testimonial, and subject to 5th Amendment protection.

EDIT: as has been noted else-thread, however, Wisconsin is in a different Federal Circuit than the aforementioned previous rulings, and so isn't bound by them.
I'm not arguing anymore whether it's constitutional or not. I think the argument is that he's already proven to be in possession of Child Porn, so there's no harm to his case in providing the rest of the evidence on the remaining drives.

I think that's a despicable argument, as I thought "what would a frame-up look like" and if I was doing that to someone, I would have left the keys hidden conspicuously in an accessible place to one drive that I 0wned while in the process of setting this guy up. Now the remaining drives are automatically suspect.

The difference now is that they claim they are not asking for his testimony implicating him, since he's already implicated. I just don't see how things are much different now than they were before. You might be right, about the difference between aiding and being a witness. I'm not even sure, though, how to go about proving that a person is in control of a hard drive, encrypted or not.

Unless of course you found a thumb drive on their person with the keys, unprotected by a passphrase, and they can immediately be used to decrypt the drives.
Laziness is first of the three great virtues of a programmer (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris), so that's probably a successful example of social signalling.
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China is not remotely as economically free as the US. More than half of Chinese workers are employed by state-owned businesses. State-owned businesses generate something like 40% of all Chinese business profits, often by wielding monopolies.
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Either you put a demo and it interests me enough I might remotely consider logging with Facebook ... maybe. Or you accept fake accounts and be thankful for a lot more feedback from HN. By being greedy you have more to loose than to win.

I really don't understand the Facebook deepthroating trend. But feel free to ignore the advice that have been repeated here times and times again.
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Yes, the court can hold you in contempt for not giving them the key. See: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1347018669319368... ("He may in some cases be forced to surrender a key to a strongbox containing incriminating documents, but I do not believe he can be compelled to reveal the combination to his wall safe — by word or deed.", Stevens dissenting).
dave said:

> Nothing changed in my view about the relationship between outlining and general writing tools.

> Here's something I wrote recently on the subject.

> http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/april/outlinersAndWordPro...

right. and earlier, in march, you wrote something similar, here:

> http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/march/imNotMakingBlogging...

but since then, you added markdown support, which seems to indicate movement toward writing and editing and publishing, in addition to the outlining.

further, you just recently retracted the march post, here:

> http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/mathewTaughtMeSomethi...

and, as i said, i think your earlier take (in march and april) was more accurate, and that an attempt to go broader will cause fargo to lose focus, just as you said in the april piece. but, again, i would love to be proven wrong. because my tool-set attacks the issue from the other direction -- with a focus on the writing and editing and publishing of long-form documents -- and i've decided not to incorporate any outlining capability because i think it would blur that focus. but if your users can show me how to avoid that blurring, i will learn from them. but lacking that, i believe that (early) outlining is best seen as a good complement to (later) editing and publishing, at least for long-form documents.

*

> I don't feel any animosity toward you, I don't know where that's coming from.

well, dave, you probably cannot be expected to keep track of all the people you censor and block.

but you have censored my comments more than once, and blocked me on twitter.

and while i am quite sure that you don't have any _personal_ animosity toward me, since you don't even know me, the acts of censorship and blocking are _not_ friendly ones. from your perspective, you're probably just "protecting" yourself from us "trolls". but i'd guess that you can imagine it looks different from my perspective.

so no, i'm not gonna contribute to a listserve where you can censor my input. i'll stay independent, so i can call you out when you're wrong, and give you credit when you do good.

-bowerbird
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I know he really doesn't identify with "teaching children." Making tools that will be a useful basis for technology 100 years from now is different, but related, to caring about pedagogy.
Until they do, you could always write a thin wrapper over the client driver to gzip/gunzip non-indexed fields. Something like Google's Snappy would be well suited to that.
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Cool ease of use, but trusting a third party seems to defeat the purpose of a paper wallet to begin with.
But do they pay 5x for a relatively thin layer on top of Twilio (or similar service)?
Sure, this agreement doesn't really affect any encumbrance or non encumbrance of VP8 by any patents. One can ignore this agreement altogether. The reason Google made it was to reduce FUD, but Simon Phipps suggests that it might not reduce, but actually increase it.
based on the two numbers: 170 years and 11.5 hours, that means 129581.580089 tasks in parallel over 11.5 hours
I don't understand this. Sure, it's against their policies, but you're still paying Netflix, and they in turn are still paying on your behalf for all the content providers smart enough to let them.
And given the kneejerk replies about "Being Tough On Criminals" ™ leads to idiotic laws that fail in all sorts of bad ways.

We have too many laws on the books (via local, state, and national) that nobody can be sure they aren't breaking SOME law, sometime. Last thing I want are more laws, that weren't tested to check validity.

And frankly, I don't trust the Democrats, Republicans, Independants, Libertarians, or whomever is in Congress. The lot of them have proved, time and again, that they are incompetent.
After reading this comment and re-reading your first comment, I've come to the conclusion that we work from different definitions of the word "sarcastic".
Can someone please create an account-sharing service that just blends netflix/amazon/hulu/itunes/whatever-else together? I'll pay you $X/mo and you provide me with a massive library of content. I don't care which provider it comes through.

Thanks.
Post-publication peer review is already catching on, for example on Epistemio - http://www.epistemio.com.
They are an embarrassment and I strongly doubt that I'd be punched.
I wear suits at work fairly often; it depends on the client and if I'm interacting externally often in a given week (month). I like wearing a suit: I have an enhanced sense of professionalism and self-confidence when I'm dressed to the nines.

I'm not a developer or in "tech" in the pure sense, and I know this depends on the "culture", but I'm also on the East Coast and a bunch of our devs have Bow Tie Tuesday and really get into it. May be a geographic thing as well: I'm as like as not to wear dark jeans, nice shoes, a button-down, and a blazer on weekends.

And it isn't cheap. If you shop around, you can find a reasonable suit for under $500, which is still a fair amount of t-shirts and hoodies. However, the key to dress clothes more so than quality is fit—you should have all your suits tailored to fit you, and that's another $100 or so between jacket, pants, etc.
Child-Porn Suspect Ordered to Decrypt His Own Data
Yeah, you're right. I would like to know how they decrypted the drive though. "Substantial resources" does not say much. It could mean a lot of computing power, or just a lot of brute-force sleuthing to find the backdoor. What exactly should a third-party frame-up look like?

In my mind, at least, how they came to be able to decrypt the drive could possibly lend some credibility to their claim that he owned it and was in control of it, and the remaining drives as well.
If you're technical enough to encrypt your drives, you are technical enough not to use the same passwords on everything.

I couldn't tell you any of my passwords off the top of my head. They're all stored in password managers.

Additionally, as someone else pointed out, it could be the case that the password he has expired and is no longer valid.
I'm still learning on this subject, but I find local and global illumination easier to grasp when using the term direct and indirect illumination.
The naming conventions are a bit strange. I'm used to bootstrap and others that have similar namig conventions. Still a nice framework. Will try it out.
I've known plenty of smart people who didn't get anywhere in their career. Why? Lots of different reasons, ranging from personality, lack of communication skills, entitlement issues, lack of self control, etc. Sometimes all of those reasons.

If you are in a tough spot in your career, try to be honest with yourself about how/where you can improve, and make an effort to improve. At 30, it sounds like you are looking for instant gratification.

My recommendation: stop getting on these boards talking negatively and using profanity. It's not helping. Start bringing relevant insight and commentary that highlights your skills. Be open to constructive feedback from friends and colleagues. Work to improve. It may take a few years to rebuild - but think of it this way: 5 years is an eternity in the tech world. If you do things right for 5 years you may have an entirely different outlook.
US Gov serious about digital currencies: Liberty Reserve founders arrested
If that's the case, they don't care. Ember-Data is the datamapper pattern in Javascript.
I'm really bad at parking my car. I'm not interested in getting a machine to park it for me, but a simple and accurate guide/tutorial on how to park might help.

I am a member of my university's programming team, but I never have the motivation to practice. I am aware that practice is what is needed, but when I get time for programming I always spend it on other projects, rather than contest practice. I don't know how to solve this.

Init scripts are a right hassle. You could provide (or write a guide explaining, if one already exists) a tool so that you can turn any program that runs as a main loop into a daemon, with an init script. And with as few dependencies as possible. For example, I could just put a shell script in /etc/init.d/my-program that has

#!/bin/sh
run-magic-daemon $* "my-program --options"

which then deals with the arguments to the init script, and deals with starting up and daemonising my-program. It should also deal with redirecting stdout/stderr to a log file, writing a pid file for later usage, etc.

I often end up with hundreds of tabs open. Something to close the ones I used least recently might help.

Buying domains is really annoying. Why can't I just type the domain and click "buy" without the registrar trying to sell me other services, or the same name on other TLDs, etc? Just a simple domain registrar for human beings (or a decent guide to the pros and cons of existing domain registrars) would be very helpful. If you end up starting a registrar, it may be easiest to do it as a reseller rather than ponying up the ICANN fees.

Hope these provide some inspiration.

If you want to talk via email, you can find me at james@incoherency.co.uk
I suppose the holy grail is when ray tracing can be done in real time. At that point things would look so real we might as well call it quits from real life.
This seems to fit the bill: https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci
Google debuts Roll it & Racer: A racing game played across many screens
looking forward Mac version (or web version)
I find it amusing how people want beautiful architecture, good weather, nice greenery, and so on, but don't make the next step and want people (including themselves) to dress better. Clothes are just another facet of visual culture.

That's how you get tourists with sweatpants and fanny packs outside the Florence Duomo.
I said it was _more_ economically free than the US. That's setting a very low bar. The US is a quagmire of mostly (not entirely) pointless regulatory agencies, lawyers, and high taxes. I've heard from businessmen that it's _much, much_ easier to start a business in China.

Of course, if you're a huge multinational business, you can just devote .001% of your income to lawyers in the US to make those problems somewhat go away. But that situation is not relevant to me, personally.

Of course, you are going to be able to find particular issues where the US is better. For all I know, it may be harder to move RMB in and out of China than it is to move dollars in and out of the USA.
PS I'm studying French too because I'm moving to Luxembourg next month. Any HNers there?

There has just been last week a Startup Weekend event but unfortunately I couldn't have been there...