skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that the problem here is not that likes mean the wrong thing, it is that the developer wants to post-process likes to create a metric that means something and it isn't working out to what it desired.

The simple solution is to post-process likes in a different way. See http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.... for a suggestion that makes them more like a rating, despite the fact that some people use them differently than others.

But we can do other things. Here is a fun one. If a person likes 2 different photos, we can say that is a connection between them of strength 1/log(# photos liked by that person). The total connection between any two photos is the sum of the connections. From each photo we can now find other photos that are in some sense likely to be liked by people who like the first. People enjoy following connections like these.

This system is similar in principle to the one that I wrote about at http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-related-items.h.... Which drove a noticeable sales bump.

So the challenge is not to remove likes as a mechanism because it doesn't give you the information that you want. It is to find ways to process the data you get from it to pull out useful information.
I like the new Data Science term, because it suggests people might be more open to paying money for math. Coming from an operations research background, I know it can be a challenge to convince people that this is worthwhile.

But really, the term to me more or less means "mathematically literate." I know, there are some techniques that seem to be specifically associated with data science, like the analysis of large scale datasets, but many engineering and mathematical disciplines do deal with this already.

There's a reason these jobs want someone who has a degree in... math, statistics, computer science, operations research, physics, engineering, hell, let's just say "or related field" and be done with it.

It's partly because these fields contribute to intersection called "data science", but my real guess is that a degree in any of these fields means that you're probably mathematically literate. You've done one of those majors that requires you to take calculus of several variables, linear algebra, some differential equations, some kind of probability and statistics, probably write a computer program or two, and then focus on some more specific branch in depth where you learn to model things mathematically.

A good humanities curriculum will impart knowledge, sure, but it also trains you to read dense material, make sense of it, and express some kind of insight about it. A good "stem" curriculum does the same thing, except with numbers and data.

There was a time when someone could get a job by being highly literate. I see this as a similar situation - if you're mathematically literate at a reasonably high level, you're probably employable.
Haha, yes, yes they do. You can see a few pictures of Pixar's render farm in [1]. According to [2] (which is where that 11.5 hours comes from) for Cars 2, they had 12,500 CPU cores for rendering.

[1] http://www.slashfilm.com/cool-stuff-a-look-at-pixar-and-luca...
[2] http://jalopnik.com/5813587/12500-cpu-cores-were-required-to...
It's still not working for me. I even tried emptying cache, but no luck.
> the Milwaukee-area man now must either ... or must provide an unencrypted copy of the data

How will they know if he provided an unencrypted copy of the data or some other data? Also, what if he forgot the password?

I have at least one pendrive with an encrypted partition that I wouldn't be able to decrypt. It's empty but that is supposedly unprovable. I should probably reformat it.

On the political side, the government is cleverly eroding the right to privacy. Virtually no one will stand up for a paedophile (whether the charge is true doesn't matter) so they get to set a precedence here and use it against whomever they want later.
The Unexotic Underclass
"But if you were to go to Bulgaria to volunteer or to start a social enterprise, how would the folks back on Facebook know you were helping ‘the poor?’ if the poor in your pictures kind of looked like you?"
Mimicry has its place for those who haven't succeeded globally by the age you're supposed to start wearing formal, or at least "decent" clothes, like Zuckerberg and Jobs did.
Maybe I'm missing something... if Twilio's going rate is $0.01/message, wouldn't it make better financial sense to sit down and just build this yourself? It's not like it requires a bunch of infrastructure...
> hint: you probably don't unless you are manager/team lead/product owner

Depends on how you're working. I prefer a collective responsibility model. I know some people prefer to have their units of work spoon-fed to them, and are willing to trust some manager that everything will fit together in the end. But especially at startups, I think things go better when everybody feels responsible for the results.

I do agree that minimizing 1 and 2 is good, but I think you can get a lot of that just by holding the meeting around a physical Kanban board and letting people point at things.
IE10 is being rolled out via auto update to IE[89] users on windows 7 if they are on automatic updates, so that'll help some, FYI. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/jj898508.aspx
Agreed. If people insist on "styling" with placeholders as labels, they should at least include <labels> that are hidden visually but accessible by screenreaders.
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I'm assuming they would have taken forensic images of the drives, rather than the drives themselves.

Tampering with evidence would be stupid. They'd go to jail, they'd risk all previous cases they've been involved in, etc. I guess it happens, but you need a lot more than "I bet they did it".
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I live in New Zealand... there's no other way to subscribe to Netflix.
Try "Un gar une fille", it deals with typical, every day situations so it's good for vocabulary. Unfortunately, it may not be suitable for beginners. The conversations are fast paced and I haven't been able to find any French subtitles for it.
Upvoted for being a good comment, but also for the (unintentional?) "apt" pun.
Not true. My bank in Switzerland uses the following scheme:

- For logging in, I enter a 6 digit code to the dongle. It spits out a 8 letter pass-phrase, which I then enter to the website.

- For authorizing payments, I need to enter the last 5 digits from the account number to the dongle. Again it produces a passphrase.

- The authorization is only required the first time you make a payment to an account. So it's not even particularly annoying.

This is basically malware-safe, assuming a user who understands how the scheme works. The result from a 6-digit input code is useless to an attacker, and no amount of malware on the computer can make me enter a 5-digit code (since I'd read those numbers from the paper invoice). Likewise highjacking form submission and changing the account number when I enter a payment would do the attacker no good.
They explain the extent to which they used to use raytracing in the article - is it misrepresented? It's in a direct quote so I doubt it.
Reading between the lines, it seems to me like he was taking advantage of the free medical care in prison ("Meanwhile, the clock was ticking as Beatty Chadwick's health deteriorated. He has been treated for non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, which could recur at any time. "Here he is, 10 years, he knows he's not well," Bobbie told "Primetime.")
> it is universal that a sense of fulfillment comes from laboring for something

I'm not sure I can agree with this either, though it's hard to come up with universal truth statements when dealing with a concept as abstract as "fulfillment." I acknowledge that labor can be (and often is) fulfilling, but I wonder if other life philosophies (e.g. Buddhism) may approach fulfillment through other means.

One could argue that fulfillment in Eastern philosophies is still attained via the labor of contemplation, but the question then becomes whether the point was the labor or the resulting awareness.
Because one hard drive still gives him a considerable degree of deniability. The court is essentially arguing that there is a threshold of suspicion beyond which it is OK to punish someone into admitting guilt.
well it's either that or security cannot really be guaranteed.

Maybe one day password will just be 1MB files kept on people's computer instead of remembering a short string.
I didn't call anyone a name, and I wouldn't be ashamed to say it face-to-face because it is in fact what I think. I'm tired of the JS framework of the week being posted on here in some vague attempt to become the cool new thing on the block. What happened to Backbone? Not cool any more because it's remotely stable? No, of course not, because developers need to have their bespoke framework of the week.
I'm not a hiring manager but as a peer I'd be very uncomfortable sitting next to a felon.

Now, a guy convicted of a non-violent misdemeanor, that's another story. Depends on circumstances.

I myself was guilty, in the Marines, for offenses that would be classified by a civilian court as misdemeanors. I was young, and stupid. After the second office hours hearing I got with the program. Too late to have a career in the Marines, but I finished my enlistment, honorable discharge, and got on with life.

And I'm a pretty good employee.
They're using uni-directional path tracing - if they're using PRMan 17 (Which I think they were), it'll probably be unbiased like with Arnold. So it's unbiased, but unidirectional, unlike LuxRender's MLT (two-way path tracing).

PRMan 17's a fairly good raytracer now (Arnold was giving PRMan a bit of a kicking in this department over the last two years).

All on the CPU - there's no way GPUs can cope with the size of textures and geometry feature films need to cope with (up to 200 GB of textures and Geometry in some of the complicated scenes) - there's no way that's fitting on a GPU.

I don't know what Pixar have, but SPI (who use their own version of Arnold) used to have quad socket i7s, so 64-thread machines with 96 GB of RAM two years ago - some of the more complex frames were taking +30 hours at 2k.
The worst part about this from a parent's perspective was that there was absolutely no warning. My daughter was all excited for her once-daily episode of Dora, and suddenly it wasn't there even though mommy and daddy said it would be. (I take this whole thing as a broad lesson on the dangers of relying on the cloud.)

By the end of the day, we'd signed up for streaming via Amazon Prime (which includes Dora). And cancelled it via Netflix.
Singapore has, at various times, used the pretext of police investigation to detain individuals who have openly criticised public policy in the mass media. [1] and [2] are recent examples.

What it comes down to is rule by fear — Singaporeans, having read about said people being detained in the news, become conditioned into being scared of getting into trouble and breaking the law.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/04/25/singapore-probes...

[2] http://www.lianainfilms.com/2013/02/in-which-lim-makes-me-ko...
Not clear about what you are saying - what situation? I had a choice - keep working on .NET or take another job at a below market salary to work on Python. So I did the latter because I loved Python. This was with the goal that I would gain enough experience in Python to jump ship and work in a Python-based environment, back at market-salary.
Interesting and relevant question, but not the right one.

Liberty was a business that built technology for dodging the law; Bitcoin is itself a technology.

If what you're asking is, will Bitcoin exchanges and services face similar prosecution, the answer depends entirely on the exchanges themselves.

I hope other exchanges take steps to comply with the law; my colleagues and I certainly are.
Getting a 404 :-(
I don't disagree with your points but do keep in mind they are a large company and work towards new features (such as this query matcher) does not imply they don't also have people working on the features that are important to you.
Lawless != freedom.

For example, the fair enforcement of property or contract laws is essential for economic prosperity.

Also the comment you cited implies relative prosperity within the country itself, not compared to every country in the world.
They've found some evidence. If they can find more, it makes their case stronger.

It also could potentially allow them to either (a) identify and rescue a victim, or (b) identify and prosecute producers.
This drives me nuts. Every time I encounter a website that was setup with constraints it drives me nuts. Could probably find a few rants on my Twitter feed without much effort. I actually just sent an email to my new utility provider complaining about this over the weekend.
In addition to per user salt, it would be good to also add "per application" salt. A random, long string, that is stored somewhere in the application code and not in the database.

Obviously this does not help if the whole site is compromised, but it may help against SQL injection attacks where the attacker gains access to just data from database.
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So they can only force you to violate your 5th amendment rights if they "really really know" that you're guilty anyways?
I don't see an erosion here. Has the right to privacy ever allowed people to prevent access to something where there is probable cause to think there's evidence of a crime?
Thanks, I'm happy that you like it :)
Also, what if he forgot the password?

IANAL but surely it would help to be able to prove that you've forgotten the password. If you use the same password (or small amount of password) for everything, and you can do it by muscle memory, then you probably haven't forgotten.

If you can show a blog post you wrote 2 years ago explaining how you change your passwords every month, then you might be safer.
Even if he were a public employee, I'm not sure how you that you have any right to complain about what he spends his salary on.
Definitely in agreement on the causation running the other way.
"One day you put on a tie, the next day you are driving a Hummer and voting Republican."

My official nomination for quote of the day.
I don't claim that W3C or IETF should standardise on H.264. I think it is perfectly sensible for them to hold the line but the practical reality for implementers is that H.264 is a commercial requirement.

Note that I said "greater risk" not that there was no risk for H.264 or that it is a massive showstopper for VP8. I stand by my statement although this really isn't critical EXCEPT for the fact that due to FRAND commitments potential claims are limited (as the Motorola/Google case is showing). If you have made no FRAND commitments you can get injunctions or ask for outrageous (hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions) licensing fees but if FRAND commitments have been made you cannot do this as the courts are educating Google/Motorola.

The obvious baseline for W3C to adopt would in my view be MPEG1 allowing a fallback to a safe free codec and modern non free codecs to be used otherwise.
I've wanted to play Dear Esther for so long. I have NO idea what it's about other than you're alone in an island with no soundtrack or guns, etc. Just you and the open field. Love the idea!
The (now) encrypted drives might have evidence that can be used to prosecute other people?
It's part of the complicated dance that prosecution has to do to not overstep the bounds of the 5th Amendment's ban on compelled testimony. 5th Amendment protections means that if you compel someone to give you information, then that information and its immediate consequences are no longer court-admissible evidence. If there is any information that you don't want to "poison" with self-incrimination, you want to make sure that you can establish that information separately.

So, if the court compelled the defendant to decrypt his hard drive, then the fact that that type of content was on his drives is a direct consequence, and therefore not court-admissible. However, now the existence of that category of content on drives under his control has been established independently. Therefore, the "cost" (in terms of information rendered inadmissible) of compelling decryption has been reduced considerably.

(IANAL)
> it's private to you, in which case this service is very likely not going to provide you a great deal of value

Why does this service's value depend on Facebook? I use Facebook to communicate with a few friends and family. I don't list my interests on Facebook.

> which puts you outside their market

Then they're unnecessarily making their market smaller. Unless they don't have the time or skill to implement an interest questionnaire, this doesn't seem like a good decision.
Yes, because the article (and the person in it) doesn't seem to understand the difference between path tracing (ray tracing with global illumination - multiple bounces even with diffuse surfaces), and ray tracing = sending rays around a scene and bouncing them off specular reflective/refractive surfaces - which Pixar have been doing for years. It's been possible to write raytraced shaders in PRMan for over 12 years now.
Profit per visit seems flawed as well. Why not just optimize profit, or long-term expected profit?

The vague statement, "the shift in metric played a huge role in aligning the company’s focus," seems at odds with the article's emphasis on metrics. Let's get some measurement of the effect of the metric.

I imagine that the metric change from profit per store to profit per visit was just part of a bureaucratic shift in the way Walgreens divided territory among managers.
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why is child porn illegal? It is only a picture of a CRIME THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE.

An important question is: Does criminalizing the possesion of child porn reduce the chance of those original crimes from happening? I think it does, and I think that's a good reason to ban it.

It's also a good way to discourage people who like child porn, to tell them that there is something wrong with them, and that they should not do it.
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See, that's pretty interesting - having that description you just gave me, alone, would interest a lot of readers.
Thanks. I was hoping it was just release-time rush.
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I love the concept. You may want to fix the language autocomplete during sign up.
Troy Hunt: The responsibility of public disclosure
Can somebody (in the US) be ordered to aid their own prosecution? In the EU it would be against the European convention on human rights as far as I know. So I'm guessing the US constitution protects suspects in the same way?
Here are the games in this bundle I have played, and what I thought about them:

Hotline Miami, in my opinion, is the centerpiece of this bundle. It's about storming a building and killing all of the occupants in interesting ways. It channels this weird 80s rave aesthetic and feels like something between an arcade game, a puzzler, and an action movie. The art uses low-res 2D graphics in a way that's distinct from the usual "8-bit emulation" style, focusing instead on small details. The gameplay complements the art/sound/story elements, and somehow manages to convey more violence than I felt playing Gears of War. I mentioned a story -- it's pretty good, I think, although it's not really the main attraction of the game. Hotline Miami is a game that works very hard to make you feel like you're part of the universe, and, for me, that definitely paid off.

Little Inferno is lots of fun, and casual enough that you can play it in little bites sometimes. If you're going to play it (and you should!), I would not recommend reading past this point. I really like Kyle Gabler's description that "Little Inferno is a quiet introverted art project masquerading as a loud extroverted shopping game." It's fun (although not really challenging or game-y, not that it's designed to be) at first, and then pulls you into its story very effectively. The result is that I didn't notice that my little casual play session had turned into a kind of desperate dash to unlock the next tidbit of story until the game commented on it. It plays on your feelings very well, and the ending is up there with Portal as far as innovation and poignancy are concerned. Both Little Inferno and Hotline Miami gave me trouble sleeping the days after I finished the game, and that's a good thing.

Awesomenauts is like DotA, but 2D and simpler. The graphics look a little childish, but that belies the tightness with which everything handles. It's well made, and fun for the occasional bout of competitive play, especially if you don't have the time/nerves to get good at DotA/LoL like me. That said, I don't find myself playing it very often, although that's probably more because of me than because of the game. Oh -- and it has microtransactions, but they're well-managed and totally optional.
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FWIW, wearing a suit (in the modern "business suit" sense of term) isn't technically "formal" dress. Heck, it isn't even semi-formal. Semi-formal would be a tuxedo (for men), and formal wear would be "morning dress" or "white tie".[1]

"Business suits" fall into the category of "lounge suit" which is considered informal dress.[2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_wear

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lounge_suit
Excellent! I like to work with:

- Loose sentences/notes, which I group into 'clouds' of related topics (without a mindmap's edges). Scapple [0] on OSX is good for this (and spider diagrams), and Microsoft OneNote.

- Spider diagrams - I find mentally these much easier to create when listening to a presentation or in a meeting. The straight lines help for some reason

- Mind maps. My weakest skill, but as someone else commented they stay in the mind better than anything else does, and I can remember some from 3+ years ago.

[0] http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple.php
My attitude is simple.

If they have enough information to incriminate him, then they don't need the password. If they don't, then the 5th applies.

After he's been duly convicted by a jury (and NOT by the judge!) and being incriminated is no longer an issue, then they can compel him to decrypt the rest.

Or, alternately, they can compel him to decrypt it, but then all of that data is inadmissible in court.
Convenience. But more as a proxy to whether the game studios really care about their Linux ports, or are just checking the box then forgetting about them.

(I like the convenience of Steam, but I think having DRM-free downloads is important too.)