skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made something similar for myself that I've been using:

https://c-cr.it/new/

(The "new" version is a few in-browser algorithms instead of my original PHP backend) It's a pretty decent scheme, I think, for most people who are unlikely to be the specific, individual target of some crafty password thief. The technical details of my implementation are described on the about page:

https://c-cr.it/new/what.html
Is it feasible to just track them from above with a helicopter? That would reduce the number of speeding cars on the road at least.
A few people have raised questions about the practical value of creating logos on the fly with CSS. Here are a few benefits, according to Chris Norstrom (re-posted from the comments section of the article):

"- The code for these logos is Extremely Tiny in size compared to the size of an image of these logos. You're saving space and bandwidth while increasing the speed of your page loading by using the css logos. Your server and customers and bank account all benefit.

- The quality is much better and crisper at any size. You can scale these up or down to nearly any size without needing to use or reupload a new image. And the size of the code pretty much stays the same.

- If you use a large version of your logo in the header and a small version in the footer you don't need to have 2 seperate images. The code for the css logo can be alterted a bit and you can have a whole bunch of different sizes of the same logo."
I'm trying to get Matt to give some official or semi official numbers on this. I have worked in nothing but high end enterprise level stuff for a while which means I have all kinds of NDAs in place about any specifics. But speak with anyone who does this for a living, I'd be shocked if you could find a single credible person who would disagree (though I would love to hear their opinion).
I see a lot of shock at the negative comments about RMS here. Those who are appalled at the lack of respect here need to understand that there are a lot of people within the tech world that have developed very complicated feelings about RMS over the course of the past 20-30 years.

I mean, sure, a lot of people who don't know a whole lot about him or haven't had to deal with him over the course of decades might have shallow knee-jerk opinions on him: they hate him, they love him, or they barely know who he is. But I suspect a lot of the anti-RMS sentiment that you might see on someplace like HN comes from a much deeper place than that.

I don't hate the guy, personally, and I do think that the good he's done has outweighed the bad. I also agree with him on quite a few fronts, to a degree. However, he has alienated a LOT of people over the years for no good reason other than his own personality issues and a seeming complete lack of a reflective nature or an innate sense of perspective or empathy.

I feel sorry for him more than anything else, because I think he's a deeply troubled guy who unfortunately ended up in a life path that sort of rewarded him for staying in his deeply troubled state. He's always had lots of admirers and supporters, not to mention grants and speaking gigs. As a result, he never had any external forces that might compel him to grow up beyond a certain point, intellectually or emotionally.

I think a lot of the more nuanced, deep, and well-fermented RMS hate you might see stems not so much from total disagreement, but rather disappointment from wasted potential. He's somebody who's had a lot of great ideas from which so many great things have sprouted, but he's a terrible steward for those ideas. He ends up making it about him somehow, or takes so many things to such ridiculous extremes, or justifies his ideas for all the wrong reasons, or intentionally alienates the people that he should be trying to build bridges to, that he ends up discrediting the kernels of brilliant truth that are at the heart of much of his philosophy.

So, there are a ton of people who at one time or another were inspired by RMS in their larval stages to value freedom and sharing and openness, but grew to see him as an impediment to those very ideals. I'm one of those people and I so wish that it didn't have to be this way. I don't think you're seeing people criticizing his views on ties, so much as you're seeing disillusionment at a much deeper level with RMS' personal and intellectual failings, which are pretty broadly on display even when he's writing about trivial things like ties or hobbies or cell phones.
Ask HN: What are minimal validations to be done before starting on an idea?
I am at a hackathon, there are several ideas being proposed. I can contribute as a developer.

But I want to make sure, I choose the idea which makes most sense from business POV.

So what are the minimal checks that I should do, to validate that the idea is good enough, and I can proceed further.

So the question is what minimal Qs should be asked before to validate the idea?

Basically it boils down to How the need analysis/ideation stage should be approached, the basic checks.

Thanks!
Just because the well runs deep, doesn't mean it's right to steal water from it, unearned.
I ask out of respect of Reisse, and my good natured father that we keep at the very least this thread on topic.

Except there's no point in this story if it's not turned into some general political discussion about random aspect of society.

The template of these types of headlines is "Random incident happened to semi-famous tech dude". Therefore it's going to turn into some kind of "Let's discuss policy surrounding random incident".

Generally, these are just bad stories.
Apples and oranges. The U.S. didn't crash as hard, and doesn't have some of the EU's unique challenges.
This is a prime example why you should leave crypto to the experts. This method in no way should be used.

Imagine one of your hashes leaks. A cracker can notice your password was a hash of something and just run their normal attacks on it for leaked password + salt hashes. They don't know the salt exactly, but it will likely be part of the leaking site's url.

Now the cracker can generate your password for any account you have. Great.

Please use Keepass or another password safe to generate pseudo-random hashes. These were designed by experts.
alpha 5 is not yet open to the general public, access appears to be whitelisted
I thought his opinion on ties (or really on the social pressure of ties) was one of the more interesting sections.

BTW, he uses more text to describe his taste in music.
You should be able to get (illegal) PDFs of most popular books with a simple Google search. I found a PDF of the ML book I mentioned earlier as the top result on Google for "<name of book> pdf".

Admittedly epub is a better format, because it naturally reflows on smaller screens, but "free" epubs are harder to come across. I've been thinking of converting some really good PDFs that I have, to ePub myself, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
It's like asking what makes 5 greater than 5. Humans are all significant simply because they have rational minds and are rational beings. A human being cannot impose on others a value or worthiness, because we are rational beings and have independent minds. As you probably have noticed by now this is not me saying these things, it's from Immanuel Kant. I found these lectures on the topic absolutely amazing to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY
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Yeah, I gave them my email and created an account only to realize that I can't use the service because I don't own an iPhone.
Excellent insight, Mr. "Account Created 66 Days Ago".

Reading HN is not the be-all-end-all of technical knowledge. In fact, at a certain point it most definitely becomes negatively correlated with productivity (and subsequently value/salary).
you could donate it.
The issue is now getting the dictionary file used by the Boston City Council stenographer (or re-creating it, by matching the decoded steno "chords" to what's spoken during the video of the Council meeting).
It's not dead, it's behind a paywall, just as on the site you linked. Can anyone post the actual pdf?
>"if you're an engineer and can't retire by 60 then you've >done something wrong."

I used to think that too....when I was 30&40 something. Life has a funny way of throwing a few curve balls at you that can drain your finances in short order.
Well, technically, it is a substring :)
Once police have drones high-speed chases become much harder to justify.
"I refuse to have a cell phone because they are tracking and surveillance devices." - RMS
I really want to take the course -- but I wish there was a textual version of it. I strongly strongly prefer text to audio/video.

Also, the voice of some of these lecturers have this sort-of monotone to it, that has the tendency to let you mind wander off. They're just not "arresting" enough.

For instance, I took the Crypto I class part-way on Coursera, and had this experience. The instructor voice was slow, drawn-out and kind-of put you to sleep. I actually downloaded the videos and just played it on VLC at 1.25x or 1.5x the speed (because he spoke so annoyingly slow).

On the other hand Tim Roughegarden (I think that's his name), who teaches an Algorithms class on Coursera, has an amazing "video personality". Just the way he speaks -- it catches your attention. He passion and enthusiasm for the topic really come across. Now, I'm not saying the other professors aren't as passionate about what they teach -- but it's just that some of these lecturers have a really good way of bringing it through (their love for the topic) on video. Not everyone can (or is) doing it.
"I refuse to have a cell phone because they are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices."

[citation needed]
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Ugh, even just seeing that picture of an airport security checkpoint makes me angry. I cannot believe we are collectively so dumb as to require the waste so many hours, so many billions of dollars, and so many lives on this ridiculous security theater. We pay morons in blue outfits to actively make our trips less convenient and our lives less safe. The cost is staggering. So many politicians claim they want to "repair our crumbling infrastructure", presumably so we can get where we're going faster and more safely, yet this option is constantly overlooked: abolish the TSA. Leave security up to the airlines and passengers. That one change would do far more to improve our transportation network than any bridge or road project, and it costs nothing - it would save money. And time, and lives.

Forget trimming the leaves on this tree - we need to find some way to hack at the roots and the trunk.
Thank you for the clarification, and sorry about the snark - I regret it now. Best of luck in your new position.
It's worth mentioning that all humans are -humans- just like 5 == 5.

However, the fact humans are humans doesn't make them equal. Unlike a number humans have dimensionality. They can be taller, shorter, stronger, weaker, smarter, dumber, richer, poorer etc. Along with any number of other attributes like job, geographical location, father, mother etc.

Equality is a very precise thing and humans are anything but equal.
I totally agree. It's the fact that a degenerate like that can end the life of someone awesome--the asymmetry--is what is really curse-worthy hard to understand.
Show HN: CMS Server written in Go (alpha)
Probably he meant that the military for securing a secular state, when it looses influence on the government you'll get Islamic government.
So depressing...a grim reminder that some things are simply out of our control
The particular history of Turkish civil-military relations is something you should read into, because it's incredibly interesting. The military has historically been the guard of the official state ideology, ie Ataturk-ism, which is secular, nationalist, and in opposition to Islamic rule. If you think the greatest threat to democracy is theocratic Islamic rule, and that Erdogan's broadly Islamic (though democratically elected) government is likely to lead to that, then yes, it makes total sense to talk about the Army as the guarantor of democracy.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
I appreciate the second perspective.

This book was recommended to me by a friend (who is a genius and great at ML), and I've just begun reading it.

My problem with MOOC is that I strongly dislike the audio/video format. I love textbooks. I learned a lot of what I know about computer science from books, not lectures. I went through many of Tanenbaum's thoughout high school -- and was more addicted to his textbooks than many of the novels that I read at the time.

I would really like to get some recommendations on some good _textual_ ML material.
Based on the comments I've seen so far I'm surprised nobody has linked the YouTube video of him eating something out of his foot.
I use a similar scheme, and one definite advantage has been being able to access my passwords anywhere, on any device with a web browser, without worrying about synchronizing something to my phone, work computer, etc.
That could be stretched to making it a crime to sell maps (plan a getaway), kitchen knifes (stabbing) or gasolin (arson).
What a worthless study and article.

It's like if you asked a group of people from the 1930s to "draw an alien", and you compared that to modern people asked to draw an alien.

People from the present would draw the "gray" aliens you see on TV. Are they less creative than the people from the 1930s? No - they're just relating what they think is the accepted or most likely "correct" drawing of an alien.

Then theatlantic.com comes along and writes an article asking "do modern people really understand SCIENCE? Why are their alien drawings all the SAME? Are they missing a significant IMAGINATIVE STEP?"

No they are not - you idiots. Next time ask them to draw an "original interpretation" of some concept if you want them to draw something creative... otherwise people will just draw what they think is the commonly accepted answer among their peers.
In most of the world, revolutions come bottom up. In Turkey, they came top down. It was the military that toppled the "sultan" and established the parliamentary system / Turkish Republic. And later it was a former general who set up the multi-party system (and didn't get elected).

I know it sounds off, but what the Founding Fathers did for the US, the generals did for Turkey. Not a very healthy one I agree, but at least they established whatever form of democracy Turkey has today.
> The difference between a really great QA tester and an okay QA tester is probably less than 2x.

I did QA for about 5 years at a Fortune 100; my admittedly anecdotal experience was that top performers wrote more Priority 1 issues that resulted in more fixes than many people combined. It depended on the team and the project, but for me it was closer to 6x.

Beyond find & fix rates, there is the general quality of a bug, good QA understand the system well enough to quickly & correctly isolate where a problem occurs even without looking at any code. This can result in a ton of saved time for developers.

Regression testing is a small part of QA, just because you have a focus area for a particular day doesn't shut down your capability to find bugs in issues unrelated to say, regressions.

And for a final tidbit, regression testing (going through bug reports that have already been fixed, ensuring they are still fixed) probably has the lowest find rate out of almost any type of other testing in my experience (in terms of the original issue being 're-broken'), and it should be done by software, not people.
Police remotely enabling mobile phone microphones.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
Those different factors can be controlled for. Interrupted time series analysis is done on things far more complex than "How many hits did a page get" every day.
the rules all change when one of their own is killed. though it's largely emotional the resulting logic is strong. protection is generated from the fear of an emotional, armed response; so it survives as unwritten police policy everywhere.

just as if for example, we felt the same way the police would be quite scared right now.
Will.i.am on National Civic Day of Hacking
They have a similar end result on wages, maybe. It doesn't matter if your paycheck (and public benefits) decrease outright because of austerity or its silently inflated away.

They differ though on who pays overall.

Inflation is a tax on anyone holding €-denominated assets. For those who have denominated debts at a fixed interest rate, it's a boon. I'm sure France wouldn't complain if they end up repaying their 10-year bonds at a negative real return.

Austerity is largely the opposite: countries (and people) who are in the worst financial situation feel the most pain.

It's perfectly understandable that those with money will want more austerity, while those without want more inflation.
I'm not even sure if Will.I.Am knows what a hackathon is, but this is awesome.
So, I built something almost identical for myself[1] but lately I've been switching to 1Password. Why? Essentially, it's difficult/impossible to create passwords for all the weird/stupid requirements people think up (no more than X characters, no symbols, require at least 2 symbols, etc.) without storing information about the passwords themselves somewhere. And once you have infrastructure for storing information about passwords, well, you might as well just encrypt the password itself and store that.

In the end, it was fun to build and a cool proof of concept, but the problem it solves is solved more robustly and just as securely by existing solutions.

[1] http://mawud.com
These arguments really are arguments for vector graphics. There are definitely saner formats for vector graphics than hand-crafted CSS.
I seriously doubt drones will cause less innocent deaths.
It only seems esoteric because it isn't what you're into. Spend some time hanging out with metalheads[1] sometime, and see how quickly their discussions descend into esoterica (from the perspective of anybody who isn't into metal)...

"Dude, check out this awesome new Death Metal band I found!"

"Dude, that's not Death, that's lame melo-death."

"Nah dude, this is ambient drone death!"

"There's no such thing as ambient drone death."

"There totally is, haven't you heard of $FOO?" (where $FOO is some random Finnish band that recorded one EP in a shack in some guy's backyard, using gear that nobody has ever heard of, musicians that nobody has ever heard of, a producer nobody has ever heard of, and only release the album as ogg vorbis files transferred onto 8-track tapes)

(Some other guy comes along) "Oh, that band... no, they're not ambient drone death, they're avant garde post-moral melo-death-core"

(Yet another guy comes along) "That's not avant garde post-moral melo-death-core, it's avant garde drone viking noise metal."

(everybody sane) "Aaargggghhhhh"

("that guy") "Yeah, they're totally tr00 kvlt, dudes. Let's go sacrifice a goat."

I'm sure devout fans of Trance, Country, Jazz, Classical and all sorts of other kinds of music likewise get into some pretty esoteric knowledge, when viewed from outside their sphere.

[1]: http://metal.reddit.com
Occupygezi - Media Blackout in Turkey
> Nationally, it's estimated nearly 300 people die each year as a result of high speed police chases.

That's a huge number. I'd love to know how many of those 300 are innocent bystanders. The fact that people involved in the chase (i.e. those running away) lose their lives seems like it's part of the risk.
I used the service and it was great. Had one hiccup (timer to ship out started on a Friday and no pickups til Monday), but reached out and support was on it lickety split. Great service.
RMS has a pretty detailed way of writing. Condense what he wrote: "I generally like folk music from all over the world."

Also, he is 60 years old, so developing such a broad taste of music is not even a huge effort!

Thats not _that_ unusual.

Also, folk music is not esoteric.
How can one block .su (Soviet Union gTLD) from resolving?
This is a great, straightforward idea. But the main problem with these kinds of approaches is that the system breaks down if you ever need to change any of your passwords. There's also the problem of sites with password restrictions like alphanum-only, or maximum of 8 chars, which are unfortunately things a practical password scheme would need to deal with. I think KeePass (or one of the alternatives) paired with a browser extension is still the best solution out there right now.
Read more closely.

"When officers went to investigate, there was a physical altercation between police and 26-year-old Gerardo Diego Ayala that ended with a fatal officer-involved shooting."

The cops killed one of the suspects then pursued the rest, then a pedestrian died in the chase. But the fricken media did a great job phrasing things so the cops seemed justified, woo-hoo.

See:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/05/santa_ana_pede...

(taken from further on this page, belongs further up btw)
Are there resolvers that block all of it instead of known bad sites? Can you do anything on your own OS or browser to block it? Can someone make a browser extension to do this?
How many people has he murdered, so far?

The lot is a bunch of bullies who didn't want to grow up.
Just to clarify: he didn't "throw it all up online". He gave it to Zeit, a newspaper, that then did the data processing and created a series of articles about it. So its was not a random "someone".
100% agreed on voice control and natural language. Regarding learning the fundamentals of computers vs. dumbing down the system, I fear that no one knows the right answer, and that there may not even be a right answer. There are arguments to made for both approaches and there's no one-size-fits-all sweet spot for that design decision.

I have my own opinions on it but I'm pretty sure I'm wrong too. I think this is one of those things where a bunch of well-intentioned people implement a bunch of different designs over the next few decades, and it just sort of converges on something even though every design leading up to it was fundamentally wrong in some sense, or went to far in one direction.
This is a side question, but we're going very soon on a 2 week holiday in Kemer, is there any real danger for tourists? Not that I don't agree with what you're doing, but I'm traveling with a 3 year old and there's not enough information on this from news media.
I'm sorry but that sounds like an appeal to authority to me. The original author is basing his article on solid figures (which, granted, he may be interpreting incorrectly) whereas you are making an argument based on your intuition.

Do you have any data at all that directly tests the effect of headshots on organic search results? Extrapolating from other rich metadata decoration is invalid. Small changes in design can lead to big differences in user behavior. That's why we A/B test in the first place.
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The way I read it, gang member Gerardo Diego Ayala was killed by a police officer. Then Victor Sanchez and 2 unidentified subjects fled the scene in a car. It's unclear what "officer involved shooting" means, but that's how I took it...
You know, police in EU normally don't chase criminals at high speed and they normally found them easily after the fact (especially if they wound/killed a cop). High speed chases are extremely rare,
there is no rational need for them (and the consequent danger for passers by).