skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Offer HN: Let me give you a report on your customers?
HN,

I am working on a few network analysis algorithms. However, I would like to run them on some real world data to see if anyone is actually interested in the results.

What do you get?

That's where you (hopefully) step in. If you supply me with your anonymized customer data, I will provide you with a report containing:

- Basic network statistics (found here: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis))

- Clusters of related customers

- Pretty pictures of your data

- Some new analysis that you can't get from current graphing libraries

Contact

If that has piqued your interest, please get in touch with me the address in my profile.

Details

The one caveat is that I can only take a certain type of data. Namely, where your customers are connected in some way to other customers. This can be through:

- one customer referred the other

- both bought the same item / rented the same movie / etc.

- one follows the other on Twitter

- basically, anything from which I can create something like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graph_betweenness.svg

(Also, you'll probably need > 50 entries to get anything significant in the report.)

If you aren't sure if your data complies, send me an email!
I think you can also use a prism to just split 1 fiber into 2 or more, much like a mirror, similar to how some laser systems work. So in essence the original beam goes on it's merry way unaffected and the duplicate(s) goes into a black box. Though I know very little about this subject I would assume the splitter has to be exact and completely lossless. I also think there are tools to measure any interference.

For example a device like this is used to reflect fibers: http://www.ozoptics.com/ALLNEW_PDF/DTS0095.pdf
Finally. They should've been on this over a year ago.
You are absolutely correct about the compartmentalization and physical separation of classified and unclassified systems.

I disagree that this is about keeping "clean" systems clean. That is the justification for the block. The implied task, which typically carries tremendous latitude, is in this clause:

> Leadership must establish a vigilant command climate that underscores the critical importance of safeguarding classified material against compromise.

Officers will discuss this in an email, maybe during a routine brief, and issue intent (maybe guidance) to the NCOs. That clause about the vigilant command climate being underscored is where the NCOs will be interpreting the implied task(s). Somewhere, for some units, this will be similar to the way alcohol and pornography is handled. There will be an amnesty and then there will be barracks inspections. Platoon and team leaders will treat any device used to access an unclassified system as though it were a thumb drive. Most of the lower enlisted depend heavily upon their Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) portal and webmail. Many use personal computers to access from their barracks. Medical records, address books, professional development, college coursework, all are accessed through the portal. If you have been keeping up on the Snowden leaks on your personal laptop and you are caught with that material on your personal laptop, which you use to access DKO, you will be charged with a security violation. Your clearance will be revoked. You will lose your job and there will be a criminal investigation. If you sync your phone with your laptop, that will be inspected, as well. Your phone might as well be a thumb drive. If you have an email with Snowden material attached to it in your GMail Inbox, and that is pushed to your phone but you fail to report and scrub it, you will be charged.

These are marching orders. Soldiers will feel the squeeze from this.
Read Smith v. Maryland and get back to me. The issue of standing is more complex, and lies along a philosophical fault line about the role of the judiciary; I refer you to this law review article for an overview of those issues: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
I was wondering when they'll actually start attacking the 1st amendment (well I guess they started when they went after the press, and chilling speech), and when they will be actually censoring stuff. It happened a bit earlier than even I expected.
I think the State Department was moving to Chrome.
However C and C++ developers are forced to either reach for a middleware solution, or spend quite some time wrapping Android APIs.

For anything outside graphics, sound, hardware sensors and sockets wrapping Java APIs via JNI is required.

The new Games API released at this year's Google IO is Java only and the bug request for providing a NDK version of it was closed.

Also at the same Google IO, Google was advocating using Renderscript for CPU intensive tasks.

The NDK bug tracker is full of broken code generation issues and the move for Android Studio still does not offer a path for C and C++ developers.

Developers targeting iOS, WP8 and Blackberry have a much better vendor support in terms of C and C++ tooling.
this is all and good for something like engineering where it is possible and maybe desirable to set some reasonable, objective standards. What about something like political sciences? Almost all of the upper-level public servants in a country like France come from the same school (ecole sciences-po)... Doesn't this become dangerous? Who gets to be the gatekeeper?
Do you happen to be paying any attention to any of the top stories right now? Or does your anecdote answer back ALL of them too?
Maybe that is my European view, but how can anyone seriously expected secret services to respect any laws?
I'm not all that sure it is unconstitutional, for one thing - aren't you begging the question here? And on a more general level, shouldn't you be considering precedent on justiciability, rather than basing your whole argument on your personal opinion of the waht the constitution means?

I might note in asssing that I favor a constitutional amendment that would create an explicit right to privacy; I'm not in favor of a surveillance state. But that doesn't alter my skepticism about how a class action lawsuit would actually fare in the courts.
If it 'generates some buzz' but in doing so helps push others to follow suit and help build the market - Then I'll count it as a win. Also, if it ends up being enough of a threat - Maybe it will push Microsoft into allowing self publishing.
how about making academic debt dischargeable without question during bankruptcy - so that the school is 100% on the hook for the balance of the funds if it educates the student poorly and can't get them a job, instead of keeping them in (albeit voluntary) virtual slavery to service their debt?

Yes, interest rates would go up, to cover the risk of defaulters, but then only serious students would go to college.
The recent discussions of SSL/TLS on the server made me wonder about client configuration. I looked around for a SSL Labs like tool for browser and asked on security.SX[1] but I was unable to find anything comparable which was troubling.

Am I missing something to think that an SSL Labs like tool for the client is also important? Does anyone have any recommendations?

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/q/38084/4564
I think the point was that the bank's claim that $6,000 was spent cleaning the sidewalk is bogus. Regular chalk is indeed difficult to remove from porous surfaces like brick or concrete, but this type washes off in the rain. My kids use it regularly on our patio, which at the moment is spotless despite my expending zero effort removing their previous artwork.
Oops, iPhone slipped. Any way, the city attorney office in San Diego is one of the worst. If they could execute you for jaywalking, they would, and they drag everything to trial.
So if Google enables forward secrecy for Google searches, would that mean every single Google search would be encrypted with a new key, or only the "open session"? Would encrypting every search be possible with perfect forward secrecy [1]? And if so, can't we get that for TLS 1.3, too?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy
Calling on the government to monitor and regulate private communications is an odd call to action these days.
That doesn't really bear out your point.
why is 'leaving it to the market' immoral? If you think the poor should be granted preferential financial treatment, then you should reach into your own pocket and help pay for them. Or help scholarship funds raise money. Or at least pressure your alma mater to set aside some funds for the economically underprivileged. If you don't do any of the above, then you don't really believe in it, do you?

It's also kind of insulting for you to assume 'the poor are the ones who won't be able to pay back'. In my experience (and it's possible that I had a unique college experience) it was the students who came from tougher backgrounds that buckled down, didn't get stupid degrees, or even if they did, managed to pull decent, well-paying jobs out of college, because they used their education, and it was the upper class students that were loafers or chose their degrees in a silly fashion, so in a way, the good education of the less privileged was subsidized by the poor choices of the rich.
Here is a source that talks about this issue in more detail:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.66....
Having education available to everyone is a net gain for society, like having public roads. Also, the "lazy poors" "stealing" your money to educate their children have snatched up the slightest fraction of what the wealthy extract from the economy, so I don't see why that's the problem to focus on if your concern is "entitlements".

> Were it not for government control of education, education would have already undergone the same kind of massive transition that has happened to every free-market industry: much better, much cheaper, much more widely available.

Yes, like the for-profit prisons.
I've been anticipating rumors such as these ever since Google announced Google Game Services. I just hope said services get improved before the actual console launches.
You have alleged that there are several factual inconsistencies in this story, could you name them for those of us who might be in the dark, or are you just a troll?
Thanks for your advice. Human needs and emotions, privacy, customer service, design are great directions!
I will try the 2nd & 4th to beat google.
I definitely think both sides of the situation have a good point. I'd just like to take the opportunity to point out that I've been less inclined to use Digital Ocean because their invoicing system is rather spammy and has a hair trigger on sending unpleasant emails. Even when I add surplus funds and pay on time, it seems, I get waaay too many invoicing emails from them.

I understand these guys are running a subscription service and that they need as high a percentage of on-time subscriptions as possible, but changing payment details are a fact of life, especially when you accept one-time paypal payments. A lot of the people who use their services are hobbyists, and while I'm not justifying my or anyone else's late payment, I think that any service provider in this game should definitely account for such factors.

I'd certainly hope that they take this into account when they offer the pricing that they've provided; I'd be willing to pay a little bit more for DigitalOcean every month to not be harangued and to feel confident that they aren't going to go under if I don't pay them.

Something as simple as slightly more friendly messaging would go a long ways towards making me feel better about using their service long term. Amazon AWS's messaging about a missed payment, for example, is very relaxed, patient, and assumes 0 blame. Missing payment isn't always something people do on purpose; sometimes it's a genuine mistake and penalizing that person unduly can put a strain on customer relations.
Indeed, there are 850000 apps in Google Play store according to Wikipedia, if 1% had been better than any console market we'd had hundreds (hard to say how many of those are games, but I've heard it's a significant part of the apps there) of games better than such console titles as Metal Gear or Final Fantasy.
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I'm not at all enthused about the guy being prosecuted. But we both know that he's not facing 13 years, and that if the judge rules the first amendment isn't a valid defense in a prosecution for vandalism of private property and then tells his lawyer that he can't try that argument on the jury, it doesn't mean the Constitution is being murdered in the judge's chambers.

I'm not arguing for the prosecution here. I'm arguing for the inclusion of relevant context in news reporting, and for people to engage their critical faculties in discussions of legal issues.
Schools would immediately close departments that tend to graduate low-paid folks -- humanities, acting, psychology, history, anthropology, all gone. Not sure if it would be a problem for society because those who actually produce art tend to learn to do it before college and just spend their time in college refining, which they could as easily do in clubs and societies without the BS that goes along with college.
Using copyright to protect one's privacy is stretching the law, as copyright is not meant for protecting privacy, but rather for protecting against unauthorized distribution. The 2 issues seem related, but they really aren't the same thing and shouldn't be treated as such.

And I'm willing to bet that Facebook's user agreement, in so far as copyright is concerned, is entirely enforceable, because the service couldn't operate otherwise and also because, no, you're not forced to agree to it, you're not forced to use Facebook and you're not forced to distribute pictures from your wedding on Facebook.

This isn't to say that we don't need privacy in the online world. We do need it, but you also can't reasonably expect to be protected by privacy laws, once you distribute your pictures to a big list of people, many of which are probably strangers. Once that distribution happens, your pictures are no longer private, no matter what you think about it.

Even if governments and technology manage to somehow eliminate the unauthorized redistribution of photos (something unlikely because it's a people problem, not a technological one), people can always describe what they've seen in freaking words and other people can always take those stories, flourish them a little and redistribute them further. And what then? Put a ban on freedom of speech?

This is a slippery slope, because really, the need for protecting intellectual property is very, very different from our need of privacy and privacy is totally incompatible with wilful distribution of info to other people.
> Second, the role of the prosecutor is not to scare people and score points, it's to try to punish a crime appropriately.

That's the theory. Now look at any prosecutor and tell me he/she does not try to score points.
Good advice. I will try building an AI product to beat google.com. can siri and google now be called an AI product?
> "Positive" comments only serve to make people feel good

Even if this were true, positive feelings are a powerful motivator.

But it's only true of vaguely kind/affirmative comments, and not all positive feedback can be categorized that way -- it's less common than it should be, but I've observed constructive positive feedback where the purpose is to describe specific positive effects and mechanics.

> "Negative" comments, on the other hand, often make flaws and problems more obvious.

Depends on what you mean by negative.

If it's really pretty much about statements of fact making explicit the negative connection between some attribute / process and a goal under discussion, then sure.

But just as positive comments can be vaguely affirmative and only serve to make people feel good, negative comments can be vague and only serve to make people feel bad rather than illuminating a problem.

You could argue that making people feel bad is a powerful motivator, too, I suppose, and I suspect that if you do feel that's an important tool, people would appreciate knowing that up front.
Kindly read my other contributions in this thread and the thread where this story was discussed and debunked yesterday.
Hi Ford.
and since college loans aren't dischargeable, you get to keep the student in hock for the rest of their life!
That doesn't mean they shouldn't be punished when found to be abusing their powers, though. Otherwise we might as well agree to having a shadow government in our democracies, and be fine with it.
Are you being facetious? All of those things have been dramatically changed by the internet. Or are you saying because they are older, universities are impervious to change?
or in select conservatories.
Elliptic curves and their implementation (04 Dec 2010)
Gabe Newell on this point:
“Economies get better the bigger they are,” Gabe Newell.

John Carmack on this point:
“I was really happy that when mobile came along with the more ‘pure’ games, they didn’t have to be a $50 game that had man-centuries in them,” Carmack tells Ars Technica. “You can have these small things that cost people a couple bucks.”

“I don’t have a lot of free time and I don’t have 50 hours for Skyrim. That’s not to take anything away from the massive titles, but it’s great to have this broad spectrum of gaming,” Carmack added.

Yes there will still be blockbuster games that can't be made on the current devices (although I'd argue tablets and TV consoles will surpass game consoles not long after the 2013 refresh). The idea is that you have so much competition that games and innovation have to become more fun. On controlled environments that level of competition is not explored because of the high dollar amount needed to play or compete.

Game companies like Halfbrick, Firemint, and others wouldn't exist without the openness of mobile. If consoles were truly open there would be games that the bigger companies cannot even risk trying that are immensely fun. PC games allowed anyone in and companies like id software appeared, leading to PC games from Valve as one example. Market determination of good is better when bigger.

The internet itself is an example of this. Would Hacker News exist if there were only 10 publishers of content on the web? Bigger and more open always makes for better content. Even if not now, it will shortly. Games have gotten back to arcade level fun rather than trying to create movies. Controlled, top down ivory tower markets never create better content, the currents get too stagnant.
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Nice article. But there are bigger questions to be answered,

1. Did the person who made it in the top 4000 of the JEE actually want to pursue engineering at all ?
I have numerous friends in IITs who join the bandwagon for nothing but the brand. They are clear in their minds to pursue a MBA right after their undergrad (IIT+IIM makes parents, family, girls droool). Then there are people who get into it because of family pressure. Its not a very healthy environment at home for two years at any engineering aspirant's home. Trust me.

2. What about those people who didn't get in ?
That feeling of not getting into an IIT can be heart-breaking. Those two years of getting up early and sleeping late, numerous hours spent on mind-numbing problems. Missing family functions and gathering for the sake of your coaching exams. That peer pressure of making it into the next FIITJEE All-India list. Everything in vain ? We live a very black and white life in India. You are either an engineer from an IIT or you are from any-other-college. What about the person who didn't get in ? Does this mean that he just isn't good enough ? Wait, let me re-emphasis does a 6 hour test get to decide that i am good enough for my dream ? This is unfair. One exam cannot definitely be the make it or break it. Anyone can have a bad day.

3. Boards or JEE ?
For people who may not be aware, the other exam results which are 'supposed' to be critical in your making it big in life are the class 12th boards. Deciding in classes 11-12th on what to study for is a major dilemma since the level of the courses are somewhat different. It isn't easy going into this thing. The horrendous pattern change in 2013 actually shows how the education ministry is actually using kids for experiments of their own.

All said and done. The JEE does a great job bringing like minds together and IITs automatically becomes the hub of the brightest minds the country has to offer.
Delighted to see this on HN.
Nope it's not European view, it's yours. Unless you men "secret" with no oversight and such, so there is no judge on if they are following the law.
should clarify, my 'unique college experience' was that I went to a fairly expensive private research university in the US; I strongly suspect that the waste of time in college cuts across socioeconomic lines at many big box state schools.
So he's such a danger to society that he needs to be put in prison for 13 years? God forbids he might be involved in another protest against the banks in the future!
It's criminal and people should go to prison. When we talk about locking people up forever because they're a threat to society, I can't think of a better example than this.
He's saying that universities have not been significantly changed by the numerous communication technologies that came after them, and implying that the Internet does not have a property distinct from those previous technologies.
Could someone fill me in on Buzzfeed? Their menu says LOL Win OMG Cute Trashy Fail WTF? What's Hot.
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Some technology blog posts are starting to become largely indistinguishable in content from Cosmo magazine.

Oh, you feel inferior to you peers, etc.

So what? Do something about it, or shut up. Because you read Hacker News and a variety of other tech blogs you're predestined to be great? What is the difference between you and the teenager that reads Cosmo and wants to be beautiful and famous? Why are you even pursuing fame, or if that's not it, what are you pursuing? Why are you taking time out of your day to write blogs, don't you have something more important to do?
Allowing to write additional code generators as plugins in a language agnostic way is really nice.
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U.S. availability only?
Based on that criteria, wouldn't universities also have to close math, biology, physics, foreign languages, environmental science, psychology, architecture, civil engineering, etc?
It would be interesting to see how things have progressed (or haven't) in the intervening years.
It has already happened.
I made the same connection.
Here's the thing. If file-sharers have the right to anonymous speech, what does that say about everyone being spied upon by the NSA?

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-have-right-to-anonymous...

I'm starting to think more and more that beyond this being a US Constitution issue, it's a human rights issue, and we should fight to ban all such spying internationally. Yes, I realize how hard that that may be to achieve, and how long it would probably take, but we need to do it because it's the right thing for humanity, not because it's easy or hard, just like everyone is fighting for gay marriage all over the world, and have fought for free speech, and so on.
For any small window of time evolution is the hum-drum existence of daily live - being born, being eaten, etc. Only over significant periods are the patterns of change discernable. There are good examples of evolution at work over periods that humans can easily understand, bacterial resistance or peppered moths, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution, for example. But these are not nearly numerous enough for widespread understanding of the process. On a side note: hence the reason why Creationism is not extinct.
It's not hate, it's constructive criticism. Just because it's not delivered in a compliment sandwich doesn't mean it's hateful. ChrisNorstrom is even supporting the developer's general direction.