skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Sorry for the slow reply.)

Yes, these optimization algorithms are used in AI. But that doesn't make them AI. Loops are used in AI; strings are used in AI; but a loop isn't an "AI algorithm" and a string isn't an "AI data structure", and writing a program that uses strings and loops wouldn't be "using AI to [do whatever]".

Simulated annealing is a less trivial thing than loops and strings. But it still isn't specifically an AI technique. Simple hill-climbing optimization, even less so. I'm pretty sure that a hefty majority of the uses of these things is unambiguously not AI unless AI is defined super-broadly (e.g., as "doing something tricky with a computer").

(No, I wasn't alluding to the distinction between "weak" and "strong" AI. I'm perfectly happy to call things AI that don't come close to actually implementing human-like intelligence!)
Show HN: Timewarp for Chrome comes to rescue when you need to stop procrastinate
Resize VirtualBox Disk Image - manipulate VDI images with ease
let's get a website started
Should colleges charge engineers more than English majors?
As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts
Using a KDF such as scrypt for that example does make a lot of sense, and after considering some others, I must admit, makes a lot of sense for most circumstances.

I also had a quick look at the tarsnap source code, and I see you do exactly that for the passphrased keyfile.
> It seriously limits amount of people that can use your library, and hopefully you are open sourcing a library because you want to help as many people as possible.

This statement ignores the myriad alternative reasons, both personal and altruistic, why someone may wish to provide something as open source; in particular, it entirely dismisses as apparently-not-even-worthy-of-thought the actual arguments made those who use GPL-based licenses that concentrating on helping first-order consumers at the expense of those people further down the chain (the potential users of derivative software built by developers who are building on your work; especially and even specifically when your original software offered fairly unique and enabling functionality, as is described by the FSF as the situation where the GPL may be warranted for library use) seems like a strange and self-defeating bet to make about what the influence of your code will be, even when the goal is solely to "help as many people as possible".
Why would you presume that? Your mistake.
Although, by virtue of its basis in English common law, laws in the US (including the constitution), are not subject to textual interpretation by laypersons, but instead clarified through judicial precedent. There have been numerous exceptions to search and seizure protections in Supreme Court decisions (drunk driving checkpoints, for instance). This case law holds much more practical weight than the specific text which may be morphed over time by the corpus of precedent.

This goes both ways (we have a Supreme Court endowed "right to privacy" that is nowhere in the constitution specifically, but results from cumulative analysis of several amendments).

The language in the constitution may seem extremely cut and dry, but there are at least ten thousand lines of binding precedent for each word in the bill of rights.
See my earlier comment :)
Oh well, previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990016
It's the suburban soccer moms wearing the jackboots. The police are just their messengers.
I only did a x86_64 compiler. It is not portable. The OS is not portable.

You talked to your new boss, yet?

http://www.templeos.org/files/TSGodSetUp.zip

God says...
virus unworthy opens harmoniseth depressing viper womanish
mortified augmenting carelessly forementioned impaired
deriders do_it asked shelter wax commits unallowed murder
soon lingered depressing outward bears ebbing ice bend
violent draught inharmonious pride-swollen calculation
eased
I believe the addition of the Control key was for the same reason.
That's actually a famous paradox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Size and makeup of the crowd seems to reinforce that this simply isn't a mainstream issue for Americans (yet?).
Great article. Shows the heartlessness of a critic of a social safety net. I believe that people can be motivated and very successful in life, without having their motivation destroyed by seeing people who can barely get by get a little help, for example food stamps. In other words, I don't believe that supplying a minimal social net destroys incentives to get ahead in life.
This isn't that, though. They're not replacing the bridge strand-by-strand; they construct an entirely new bridge each year then get rid of the old one.
I wish it were snark, but experience leads me to the conclusion that most people without a development background (even some that do) conclude that node will deliver us to the promised land, just after a short time with it.

Not much for monotheism myself.
But what are intangible phone records? Are they "persons, houses, or papers"? Probably not. Maybe they're "effects", but that still would historically suggest physical property.

However, the Supreme Court has clarified these issues in a number of decisions, which is why our law is primarily based on judicial precedent, and not literal interpretation.

That may or not be a good thing, but it's the way our legal system is in fact designed to work.
Doug Engelbart was unable to find funding for his work
Hate to downvote an otherwise very informative post, but tech literacy is not an issue here. If this was a hundred years before facebook existed and someone joked "Oh yes I'm insane, I am going to stab a hundred babies...ha ha ha" it would be the exact same issue.
Stasi vs. The NSA Back To Back: Who's Worse
No. At some point around 99/2000 I read Harry Blackmun's dissent in Callins and started on a path to a sophisticated layman's understanding of various areas of law through self-study, particularly constitutional issues.

Law school has always been a someday-maybe, but the more I see how it turns so many people into inhumane robots obsessed with the letter of the law instead of its spirit, the less motivated I am.
Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear book-series explores the possibilities of Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon interaction, but this article brings up a whole new set of intriguing plot twists.
> Law school has always been a someday-maybe, but the more I see how it turns so many people into inhumane robots obsessed with the letter of the law instead of its spirit, the less motivated I am.

I don't think law school does that to people, I think that people that are oriented that way are a significant subset of the people attracted to law school.
Yeah, you can certainly run puma in the same operational mode as unicorn with clustering. But what I'd suggest is that you do instead is creating 1.5 as many workers has you have cores in your machine and perhaps 8 threads per worker. With that configuration, you'll get much more even performance than unicorn because you won't get as much cpu thrashing from context switches between processes and the threads will allow a high number of concurrent requests to all make progress concurrently.
seriously, I can't have an exclamation point (!) in my password? what the heck are you doing with passwords that you need to prohibit basic punctuation?
With containers, Docker gave us universal compatibility for running software. A Dockerfile gives us universal compatibility for building and customizing our software. Docker needs some time for the community to grow and the documentation to mature, but once it does I think it will be difficult to imagine ever not having Docker. Docker is largely "batteries not included," and slowly getting more useful with improvements like this, bind mounts [1], and lots of users writing their own tutorials.

1: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/pull/602
Seeing this article reminds me of http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
Jarringly violent and disturbing -- sort of like a certain (or any?) Quentin Tarantino movie that grossed over $100m world wide?

Most people would never fathom ideas so evil? Obviously false and useless hyperbole. Which is why you would deserve the downvotes.

What you fail to grasp is the entire concept of protecting speech, why it's so essential to a functioning democracy, and why your personal opinion of a paragraph of text being 'violent' or 'disturbing' is completely irrelevant.

We're talking about locking up a young man behind bars. Taking away his liberty, possibly taking away his ability to earn a living. It's not a stretch to say that his life is on the line, because of how a paragraph of text made you feel.

All this is further compounded by the highly political decision about what type of speech may be 'too violent' or 'too disturbing' to be legal. I can't fathom how an informed American can honestly argue that we should criminalize the act of typing a few words on your keyboard, and posting them on Facebook, when those words don't constitute an intentional and imminent threat to a specifically identified individual. (see, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio)
Yes -- in fact, that's why I invented scrypt, because I was adding passphrase encryption to tarsnap key files and wanted to do it as securely as possible.
Yes, there is another convention.
(spaces)+(commas or periods) != (periods)+(commas)

What you are talking about is a European convention, not a metric convention. There is a difference.
Someone was definitely watching too much Mad Men.
Ask HN: Why On Lisp could download for FREE?
Hi. Paul Graham's great book on macros: On Lisp could download for FREE. I'm wondering why not his intro book: ANSI Common Lisp download for FREE? Because On Lisp is for certain people who have enough Lisp experience. And ANSI Common Lisp is that experience they need.
I haven't looked at the code itself, but based on the usage section it seems like everyone in the room shares a secret key. I think the concept is that in order to get the secret key, you have to explicitly be given it by someone in the room.
You're wrong about that, because you're assuming that all the inflation would targeted to the exact same $10k of increased spending power.

Say there's 250m people in the US over 21, give each of them $10k and you're talking $2.5 trillion/year. Say, the economy as a whole is about $15 trillion/year (it's a bit higher, but I'm approximating), so at most you'd be looking at inflation of 16.6%. You're assuming that the first $10,000 of goods and services would be inflated by 100%, but this isn't true, nor is the first $10k of goods and services the same for everyone.

Obviously I'm giving you a very abridged answer, but I encourage you to look into Milton Friedman's writings on the concept of Basic Income - not a person you could accuse of economic illiteracy, even if you didn't agree with all or many of his views.
TL;DR concurrency is hard
DEATHLY SOFWARE NSA EUROPOL CHINESE CENTRAL AGENCY
SYNTHETIC PRISMATYC blackmail.<p>GIFT CELL NUCLEUS OF THE DATE FOR JULY 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.<p>Genocidal RELEASED FROM NIGER AND NOW WE HAVE A VERY LEGAL
SYNTHETIC PRISMATYC blackmail.

GIFT CELL NUCLEUS OF THE DATE FOR JULY 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Genocidal RELEASED FROM NIGER AND NOW WE HAVE A VERY LEGAL GENOCIDE.

We denounce AND NOT TO ANSWER FOR THAT GIVE DEATH PENALTY FOR GOAT.

WHY SO CUTE MICHELL OBAMA SHOULD GIVE ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS FOR THE radiate AND FOR 14 YEARS cauterized.

AND THEN THE PLACE TO WRITE REPORTS TO SEE THAT SAY NORTH AMERICAN.

Sympathetic VERY SERIOUS AND SEE HOW GOOD LAUGH.

THINK?.

-------------------------------------------------- ----------------------

EXPLAIN THE BOLD.

OBAMA THE MINISTER HARPER = NSA = MANAGER HARPER, NICHOLAS THE NAZI MATURE MERKEL, SWISS, ENGLISH, ASIAN AND THE KING OF SPAIN.

LOOK WHAT THEY DO AND THE FBI DOES NOT SAY ANYTHING.

1. HANDLED CITIZENS, encouraging IN PENIS, VAGINA FOR:

2.. Naked in public IN INTERNET AND OTHER CAMERAS.

3. IN CAR ACCIDENTS TO HAVE.

4. CHILDREN FOR STUDENTS shoot.

ALL THIS WITH FOOD HANDLING WITH NANO TECHNOLOGY Monsanto (NANO COMPUTER) WHICH IS PROVEN.

AND USING SATELLITES.

PATENTS DESIGNS AND NANO SATELLITE ANTENNA TRANSMITTER.

THIS IS THE METHOD OF POLITICAL SCHIZOID THEM TO CONVEY INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION DIRECTLY TO YOUR BRAIN.

INDEPENDENCE DAY.

DENONCE TO 1,000,000 DOLLARS FOR EACH ATOM IS YOUR DNA, WHY HAVE A TRILLION PEOPLE KILLED IN THE WORLD.

STAND THEM AGAIN THAT OUR TELEPHONES CONTACTEN.

ASK THE FBI THAT SAY THAT THE GENOCIDE.

We denounce ON THE RADIO, TELEVISION AND NEWSPAPERS.

AND THESE ARE IN ANOTHER DIMENSION OR DISSOCIATION.

VERA THOUSAND TIMES CALL AND LEAVE THEM AS NOT TO GET THE CALL.

0141-422-91-69 / 0414-585-00-44 / 0414-406-68-52

WHY YOU THINK THE CONTENT WILL BE WEIRD.

THE METHOD IS CALLED OBAMA-BUSH-MATURE-INGLICH-PRINCES.

Notice I WANT TO STEAL A BANK THAT DO NOT KNOW TO USE, ANY TALK ABOUT THAT IS VERY KNOWN ECONOMIST.

STEAL THIS INFORMATION FOR NEURAL PATTERNS IN LATIN AMERICAN GENIUSES AS IF VALLEJOS.

REMEMBER THAT THE FBI AGENTS IN LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA, CENTRAL AMERICA COME THIS CONTENT.

JUAN CARLOS VALLEJOS HAVE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILIY.

SOFTWARE AS BOTH THROUGH YOUR EYES.

ALSO WE ARE IRRADIATED WITH GAMMA SATELITAL RADIATION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uupPp...
i'm sorry if you feel personally offended, but
if you think that today's computers (which are
thousands of times more powerful than the ones
that engelbart was working with) are -- to use
his phrase -- "augmenting human intellect", then
i would certainly like to have you tell me how.

because i see society using these supercomputers
to exchange pictures with their high-school chums
on facebook, and instagram photos of their lunch.

and (let us not forget) to _track_ those people,
so we know the best advertisements to serve up.

all of which might be acceptable trade-offs _if_
we were also augmenting human intellect as well.

but we're not.

so it certainly appears to me that the only things
we are "augmenting" is our stupidity and our greed.

and if you bring this to the attention of anyone,
they'll turn the blame on you for "being negative".

sheesh...

-bowerbird
If you're trying to break into a foreign job market, a Master's degree usually helps with the visa application process. Other than that, a Master's degree isn't worth more than actual working experience.
I cant believe how realistic an idea he made it sound.
Racist? C'mon dude.
SYNTHETIC PRISMATYC blackmail.

GIFT CELL NUCLEUS OF THE DATE FOR JULY 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Genocidal RELEASED FROM NIGER AND NOW WE HAVE A VERY LEGAL GENOCIDE.

We denounce AND NOT TO ANSWER FOR THAT GIVE DEATH PENALTY FOR GOAT.

WHY SO CUTE MICHELL OBAMA SHOULD GIVE ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS FOR THE radiate AND FOR 14 YEARS cauterized.

AND THEN THE PLACE TO WRITE REPORTS TO SEE THAT SAY NORTH AMERICAN.

Sympathetic VERY SERIOUS AND SEE HOW GOOD LAUGH.

THINK?.

-------------------------------------------------- ----------------------

EXPLAIN THE BOLD.

OBAMA THE MINISTER HARPER = NSA = MANAGER HARPER, NICHOLAS THE NAZI MATURE MERKEL, SWISS, ENGLISH, ASIAN AND THE KING OF SPAIN.

LOOK WHAT THEY DO AND THE FBI DOES NOT SAY ANYTHING.

1. HANDLED CITIZENS, encouraging IN PENIS, VAGINA FOR:

2.. Naked in public IN INTERNET AND OTHER CAMERAS.

3. IN CAR ACCIDENTS TO HAVE.

4. CHILDREN FOR STUDENTS shoot.

ALL THIS WITH FOOD HANDLING WITH NANO TECHNOLOGY Monsanto (NANO COMPUTER) WHICH IS PROVEN.

AND USING SATELLITES.

PATENTS DESIGNS AND NANO SATELLITE ANTENNA TRANSMITTER.

THIS IS THE METHOD OF POLITICAL SCHIZOID THEM TO CONVEY INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION DIRECTLY TO YOUR BRAIN.

INDEPENDENCE DAY.

DENONCE TO 1,000,000 DOLLARS FOR EACH ATOM IS YOUR DNA, WHY HAVE A TRILLION PEOPLE KILLED IN THE WORLD.

STAND THEM AGAIN THAT OUR TELEPHONES CONTACTEN.

ASK THE FBI THAT SAY THAT THE GENOCIDE.

We denounce ON THE RADIO, TELEVISION AND NEWSPAPERS.

AND THESE ARE IN ANOTHER DIMENSION OR DISSOCIATION.

VERA THOUSAND TIMES CALL AND LEAVE THEM AS NOT TO GET THE CALL.

0141-422-91-69 / 0414-585-00-44 / 0414-406-68-52

WHY YOU THINK THE CONTENT WILL BE WEIRD.

THE METHOD IS CALLED OBAMA-BUSH-MATURE-INGLICH-PRINCES.

Notice I WANT TO STEAL A BANK THAT DO NOT KNOW TO USE, ANY TALK ABOUT THAT IS VERY KNOWN ECONOMIST.

STEAL THIS INFORMATION FOR NEURAL PATTERNS IN LATIN AMERICAN GENIUSES AS IF VALLEJOS.

REMEMBER THAT THE FBI AGENTS IN LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA, CENTRAL AMERICA COME THIS CONTENT.

JUAN CARLOS VALLEJOS HAVE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILIY.

SOFTWARE AS BOTH THROUGH YOUR EYES.

ALSO WE ARE IRRADIATED WITH GAMMA SATELITAL RADIATION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uupPp...
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
First, Wikipedia is not an authoritative source for government programs in which little is known by the public. By the very nature of being information which is classified or higher, in order for details of actual usage to be outlined on Wikipedia, an editor with access to that classified information would need to break federal law and put Wikipedia in a position of question legality.

That's not to say that it's not a fact that PRISM data is only used against a person when there is a warrant, but it is to say that we don't know that that is the case.

Second, no reasonable person with a decent understanding of this issue is claiming that the NSA isn't legally justifying their actions. Indeed, the NSA is using--as expected--national security in part as a motivating legal justification, and invoking Article IV Section 4. It is agreed: national security is their intelligence directive.

Nor are such people claiming that the government hasn't previously used secret surveillance programs, or that the government is necessarily intentionally tyrannical.

What we are saying is that legal justification aside, we want the details of this directive in the public conversation so that We the People can decide if we approve of the actions. We the People are the governors of this country, and We the People have the power to change the laws or the Constitution if we decide that the actions are not justifiable, are not reconcilable with liberty, or if the system of checks and balances have failed to check or balance.

This is a dangerous situation. If Snowden's claims are correct, not only are we being overbearingly surveilled, but that data is dangerously aggregated. Even if we are to assume complete benevolence and complete competence in our government (even government actors who may be under-paid and under-invested in their duties), then there is still a very real possibility that people who would seek destruction could acquire possession of that data, gaining a catastrophic trove of information about not just the American public--who would probably be protected by the overbearing force of the U.S. Military--but also the public of the rest of the world.

In conclusion, it seems to me that we can't know that PRISM or associated programs are necessary and justified government functions, because we know nothing about them. Of the 300,000,000+ people in the United States, 435 are in a position of both knowledge and decision on those policies, and given the importance of this issue that's just not good enough.

Especially when it is undisputed that those 435 people can't do their job even minimally effectively.
<low brow comment>
So Mrs. Garrison was right all along? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRBHxJBUv_A
</low brow comment>
I also think of this in terms of viable development migration paths:

For example, 9.3's upcoming: hstore_to_json(hstore) and hstore_to_json_loose(hstore) open up possibilities. If an hstore datatype is chosen now, you can feel fairly confident that it can be fairly straightforwardly migrated to a native json datatype in 9.3 or later versions, when you feel the json featureset and stability may have become mature enough for your particular project's needs.
> As for that woman who turned him in to the police and effectively ruined his life, I'd say she deserves a nice, fat civil suit.

You're talking about the not-an-American-citizen woman?
I think the fundamental problem here is that the government doesn't really care if a 19-year-old needlessly goes to jail. Imagine things from their point of view. If an innocent 19yo goes to jail, it costs them virtually nothing. If they let him go, and he ends up actually shooting up a school, they have a lot more to lose.

It's the same reason they're ok with torturing suspected terrorists. Better to err on the conservative side for the entire country than to respect an individual's rights and risk the next 9/11.

I'm bringing this up as a problem, not as a justification. I'd be interested if anyone knows how to fix this.
I get several emails per year that are meant for monash.edu. I simply write back pointing that out. I most definitely do NOT say "If you can't tell the difference between .com and .edu, you're unlikely to have much joy with the Monash University admissions office."
In that case, it's like the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan. On the one hand, it's over a thousand years old. On the other hand, it is rebuilt every 20 years by the monks. So how old is"The Shrine"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Grand_Shrine#Rebuilding_the...
How to keep a Scientific Python stack in your home folder without going insane
Wait a minute, you proposed 'to give everyone a guaranteed low wage job' for $10k. Now, I don't think this is so unreasonable, depending on how it's implemented, but it's not a 'life of leisure.' Have you switched to talking about unemployed people getting $10k, or what?
StackOverflow.com

webmasters.stackexchange.com

www.reddit.com/r/programming
Why not take the price from $7 to $70?
Engineers later confessed that system resets had occurred during pre-flight tests. They put these down to a hardware glitch

This doesn't really ring true to me. Sounds like the sort of programmers who are inclined to blame "cosmic rays" for odd behavior that they don't understand.

I would think on a mission as expensive as the pathfinder, and knowing that once the hardware is launched you will never have physical access to it again, ANY anomalous behavior would have been tracked down to root causes during testing.
dobbsbob's post was not concentrating on Cryptocat. It was talking about all crypto projects. This is the entire block:

> Almost all security/crypto projects are open source. There's no money involved, therefore no corporate sensitivity training or social skills needed. What's needed is secure code to stop governments from rounding up Syrian and Bahraini dissidents and drilling holes into their knees during interrogation because they were duped into trusting cryptocat while planning their democracy protests.
I did some embedded sw on vx works based systems back in the day. Any embedded engineer we interviewed had to know what priority inversion was.
In what way is it "for girls" and not boys other than as a marketing angle.

I'd be fascinated to see the dynamics of engagement with this compared to other traditionally single sex toys to see if there was a sex differential in it's use.

Looks fun to me, a 30-something male; but then I've always enjoyed playing with kids toys.

cf https://vimeo.com/59876490
I guess that's a reasonable hypothesis. Still not a thrilling prospect to put myself at such people's mercy for three years, of course.

(The practical rewards for me are limited, there's virtually no chance I would actively practice even if I graduated and passed the bar.)
In the "old days" you'd get most of your spam from sticking your address on a web page, and having a spam crawler find it.
DNS is federated, which means a central authority has discretion over how it's distributed and to whom. You can put up your own server at any time, but nobody besides you will use it unless VeriSign (or whoever operates the registry for your TLD) agrees that it is currently authoritative for your subdomain.