skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you have so many greater rewards that life can offer than a frankfurter.

Many of which are unhealthy or dangerous. Also, I can assure you that after not eating something enjoyable for a long time, the experience is incredible. I was a strict vegetarian for 7 years. When I decided to change that, I walked into a McDonald's (of all places) and ate 10 cheeseburgers. Biting into the first one caused a sensation much like when you realize you're shortly going to sleep with that hot new girl you've been seeing for a while.

IOW, I feel sorry for Woody Allen - he must really miss Frankfurters. Unless he's winding us up and doesn't really think they're enjoyable (it's normally pork too, not kosher, I don't know if he cares). Perhaps he's neurotic enough to fear unhealthy food.

> make me wonder why they don't take better care of themselves (now that they've "made it")

"Taking care" could mean living a bland, boring, ascetic life or exercising, investing time and energy in extending one's life. Either seems unfitting for the lifestyle of people who worked hard to live their dreams and know they will die anyway. They can afford the best medical treatment anyway.
This looks great, thanks for sharing.

Any thoughts or relevant benchmarks you would like to share about its speed?
> have you ever lived in an area where concealed carry is shall issue and self-defense was encouraged by the local authorities?

I have not, I have talked to several Texans for whom this is the case, given that police help was 45 minutes away. It enriched my perspective on gun culture quite a bit.

> I wonder if your take on drone warfare is a bit off.

Yeah, I'll admit that I'm not exactly extrapolating from intimate knowledge of details. And you're right that "enemy combatant" is the term generally used. I do still think that is an imbalance in that is effectively impossible for us to see those combatants as legitimate in the same way as the social construct of "soldier", because they fight for a sect or tribe rather than a nation-state. But then, past wars have often involved pre-emptively describing the enemy as sub-human, so perhaps it's just more of the same, if not a slight improvement.

I'd be very curious to learn if there has been any attempt to "sharp-shoot" or otherwise physically defend against drones. Or do they simply strike from too far away for this to be feasible?

Also, I'd wager ten-to-one that in the next decade, we'll see a Supreme Court ruling on whether personal defense drones are covered by the 2nd amendment.
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Microsoft has been trying to do that for well over a decade :-)
I'm pretty sure Ben Horowitz always uses the feminine pronoun, regardless of the quality of the person.

Please tone down the rhetoric; this isn't healthy for you or the women you purport to defend.
> This persons is clinically afraid to ever admit they are wrong, to the point of attacking anyone that brings a superior implementation to the table.

That's narcissism, not merely annoying behavior, and sometimes dangerous: http://arachnoid.com/ChildrenOfNarcissus

> My patience with the imbecility is at it's end and I'm ready to bring thunder down on this individual but is it ever okay for this to happen?

Confrontations don't work with people like that -- you have to get rid of them.
What JshWright said is correct. Specifically for Silent Mail, the mail server is the last thing that can decrypt (because it has to work with plain clients), so it can see your plaintext. With Silent Text, the last thing that can decrypt is the client, so Silent Circle can never see your plaintext. That's what was wrong with it specifically.
It's a US thing. They change their oil every 3,000 miles whether it needs it or not (it doesn't).
That sir, is a generalization used to raise the importance of the article. I skip that. What you say is a relative explanation of the causes, but not showing evidence of a definitive neurological trigger, which they claim to have discovered as responsible.

This is also one reason why many people I know, don't take psychology serious, because it lacks on the neurological background and tries to explain things that 'could, would, should' happen in cases like 'a,b or c' without giving a definitive answer. This leaves the asking person in a uncertain and unsatisfied state. definitely. There are other psychologists who explain things logically and simple, that convinces much more people and gives them more insight into the 'why's' rather than squishy explanations of the 'what's'.
Ha, that's only for the rich and powerful who have bought influence with the Administration.
Big fan of Lua. I have only poked around at the language, and never really done anything significant with it, but I love how simple and powerful it is. Every time I break out the lua programming book I wish I were using that at work instead of python. I don't agree with every choice they've made, but it's a great language for sure.
Make sure you read the fine prints before you view source on a page.
Relax, God is perfectly just. Joseph in the Bible was falsely accused of rape. He was in prison for 7 years. God made him rule Egypt.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\PLATO.TXT

And as in the city like was helping like, and the change was effected
by an alliance from without assisting one division of the citizens,
so too the young man is changed by a class of desires coming from
without to assist the desires within him, that which is and alike
again helping that which is akin and alike?

Certainly.

And if there be any ally which aids the oligarchical principle
within him, whether the influence of a father or of kindred,
advising or rebuking him, then there arises in h
Palo Alto bans vehicle dwelling
Our betters love gun control and don't believe that anyone committing a felony deserves to possess any, or ammo in this case.

Given how harshly "citizens" with no records are often treated for the same thing, I have mixed feelings about this case. E.g. any "citizen" of Massachusetts doing this without having a state Firearms Identification Card would be going to jail for 1 year, no judicial discretion allowed. One of the first cases was a teen who borrowed the jacket his father had used for hunting, which had a leftover shotgun shell or two.
Point by point:

"He later found, mixed in among them, seven shotgun shells, and he put them aside so that his children wouldn’t find them. "

Ok so why did he "put them aside". Why is this taken as a fact anyway?

"“He was trying to help me out,” Mumpower told me. “My husband was a pack rat, and I was trying to clear things out.” "

Why does this matter at all? The fact that he was helping her and the fact that he held on to the shells has nothing to do with anything.

"Then Young became a suspect in burglaries at storage facilities and vehicles in the area, and the police searched his home and found the forgotten shotgun shells as well as some stolen goods. "

but then:

"It didn’t matter that the local authorities eventually dismissed the burglary charges. "

So we find out that he was enough of a suspect to be charged with burglary. (Not a big deal but not the same as "walking through his house they saw shells" or anything like that. Apparently even though he had committed no crimes since 1996 there were circumstances that made him a suspect in a burglary.

"So the federal government, at a time when it is cutting education spending, is preparing to spend $415,000 over the next 15 years to imprison a man for innocently possessing seven shotgun shells while trying to help a widow in the neighborhood. "

What does education spending being cut have to do with anything? What does the amount they are going to spend have to do with anything? What does the fact that he was "innocently possessing" have to do with anything? I didn't know that that mattered and of course where is the proof that he was "innocently possessing" or is that just a conclusion that Kristof came to?

" With less than 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States has almost one-quarter of the world’s prisoners. "

Why does this matter at all? So other countries don't lock up as many people. Who cares about a comparison like this other than to try to get people all emotional about this case (clearly the point quite obviously "ah the injustice of it all").

"Almost everyone seems to acknowledge that locking up vast numbers of nonviolent offenders is a waste of money. California devotes $179,400 to keep a juvenile in detention for a year, and spends less than $10,000 per student in its schools. "

Who are the "everyone" and why does it matter comparing prison spending to education? They are two different things. People get locked up in prison when they break laws. Stick to the argument of the law part don't say "we could feed 10000 hungry children if we didn't lock this guy up".

"Granted, mass incarceration may have been one factor in reduced crime in the last couple of decades; there’s mixed evidence."

The NYT "to be sure" phrase. I'm surprised there is only one of these in the opinion.

" One careful study of 35,000 young offenders by Anna Aizer and Joseph J. Doyle Jr. reached the startling conclusion that jailing juveniles leads them to be more likely to commit crimes as adults. "

"One study" - speaks for itself. So what. One study.

Etc. Etc.

Sure it's an opinion piece. I know. Just pull at the heart strings with a compelling story and we will all fall for it.
To take it further, I suppose they want to protect US citizens, companies and government from crypto attacks while using US laws to snoop on them easily. That way, they prevent foreign threats by making it very hard for everyone to break any system in the US. And on the other hand, they can still read everything by issuing subpoenas to any company and ISP they feel like (with borderline constitutional legality in some cases).
Single payer is not necessary to have a good health care system. Proof: Switzerland [1].

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/c...
IPhone Patent Wars: Xerox PARC & the Apple, Inc.
I drink 2-4 cups of caffeinated coffee each day and I really don't have any problems. I drink Red Bull every now and then, too. On days that I don't have caffeine I do feel "sluggish" but it's not awful. I enjoy the ritual of drinking coffee plus the taste.

I don't have any problems sleeping unless I have caffeine very late in the day. I get a solid 7-8 hours of sleep each day without any problems. So, I don't really see the reason to quit caffeine.
Heuristically speaking, this problem is at least as hard as the P != NP question, which is one of the millenium problems for which the Clay institute has awarded one million dollars to whoever resolves it.

From a theory point of view, breaking a crypto-system typically means something like being able to do the following fast (i.e., in polynomial time): Given two plaintexts and a ciphertext which is the encryption of one of those two plaintexts, decide which of the plaintexts it is. Of course you could flip a coin, so the essential condition is that your success probability must be larger than 1/2.

So to show that a crypto-system is secure, you have to show that the problem of breaking it cannot be solved in polynomial time. We simply do not know how to show that any useful problem cannot be solved in polynomial time (we do know that P != EXPTIME, but we don't know any problems in EXPTIME that would be useful for cryptography). Hence the lack of provable security.
For music, the formal curriculum does involve memorizing songs and scales and whatnot. The problem is that the best way to start a subject is to fuck around with it (playing random songs you like on your guitar, drawing cool shapes and noticing patterns in them, etc), but our schools are ill equipped for such things, and enabling this style is difficult and incredibly expensive.
Yeah...but I don't think that's really a good point of comparison, as all the electronic sounds on there are analog rather than computer-generated. The actual recording was tracked on tape but played conventionally from keyboards, analog sequencers, drum pads etc. There's no sampling going on here, except insofar as tape edits are equivalent to sampling.

I'm being pednatic here, it's just that I'm an electronic musician myself so there's a very bright line between analog and digital (computer) methods for me. By the way, you will probably really enjoy this short documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkW8Ul7Q1I
MIT student applies predictive modeling to improve emergency-room wait times
>> ... discuss startup/programming stuff. I like having a venue that is typically devoted to such stuff.

Did you look at https://lobste.rs/ ?

I also feel programming stuff is depleting on HN, however I can relate to all the talk about Snowden on a forum like HN though.
> What does education spending being cut have to do with anything?

Nothing, but it was clearly put in to put societies slanted priorities. That is, sending people to prison >> children education
I'm by no means a cryptography expert, but a few difficult bits from what I've gathered, observing from a different area of CS that also cares about hardness (AI):

1. At the base, we need a one-way function [1], something that's easy to compute in one direction but hard to reverse. For example, it is believed to be much easier to multiply two large primes than to factor the result back into the original two primes. However so far nobody has come up with a way of proving that a function is one-way for any plausible definition. This is often, in the popular press, thought to be the P=NP question, but that would only prove the negative: if P=NP, then there are no one-way functions (for a certain definition). But even if P!=NP were proven, it is still not necessarily the case that there are one-way functions. In particular, NP-complete problems are not automatically one-way functions, because that is only a worst-case hardness notion, and cryptosystems that are only unbreakable in the worst case for the attacker are not so useful [2] (and indeed none of the major cryptosystems currently used rely on NP-complete problems).

In short, the seemingly hard problems that have had practical cryptosystems built out of them, such as integer factorization (closed related to the RSA problem) and the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves (ECC) only seem hard, but are not proven hard in any rigorous sense. This is an interesting outstanding question mathematically, because it would be nice if we understood either why these are hard and be able to prove them hard for some definition, or else to discover why they in fact aren't.

2. At the practical level, it's hard to produce a security proof that takes into account an attack completely outside the conception of the original framework. For example, early security proofs were completely oblivious to the problem of side-channel attacks, since they were proving the security of certain mathematical procedures, in a framework that did not countenance things like "your mathematical procedure might be run on an EC2 instance where your attacker can also get a VM and collect some (noisy) data about what it's doing". This is arguably a quite different question from whether the fundamental cryptosystem's approach is flawed, but this kind of consideration is the source of many practical attacks.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_function

[2] http://www.kmjn.org/notes/nphard_not_always_hard.html
Regarding different tiers, what would prevent a large entity from creating smaller ones to hold their patents? In fact, they already do so, for others reasons.
As far as I know lobsters is invite only. From what I understand it's a forum I'd enjoy though.

I'd love an invite if you happen to have one. Contact info in my profile.
Can you be more specific about what sorts of optimizations it could be making?
Typically restricted access computers (govt or not) require an authorization form to install software and require software to be installed by an authorized person. Any use of programs not installed via that process (with supporting paperwork) would be considered misuse. Even if the settings of the system do not prevent an authorized user from performing those actions. Furthermore, access to such systems will require the user also to sign an authorized use form.
Do you really think that people can afford to crowdfund multi-year complex research into illnesses and diseases?

Of course they can. Where do companies get their money from? Thin air?
http://showterm.io/5837e92554dcbeaea129b answers the ncurses question and i'm impressed.
The problem is the two party system which exists because we have single member districts rather than proportional representation. It's a race to the center, and we all lose.
Add syntax highlighting to the cat command for rubyists
He said one designed by people who understand the issues. MAPI/NSPI are quite awful protocols. The openchange[1] team has reverse engineered pretty much all of it. I helped edit the very first release doc a few years ago as Julien (the lead openchange dev) is French and not a native English speaker.

[1] www.openchange.org
How is that better than CSS?

http://jsbin.com/ezocec/1/edit (25 lines counting the HTML)

CSS has columns and grids, custom text wrapping. These features are available now in >90% of browsers. The `.dialog` class can be used as component without any changes, and we have things like component.io and browserify to package them up with behaviour.

result: http://cl.ly/2w1o3h0i1t0r
I covered JS...

You have nowhere to begin because I'm absolutely right. The DOM is klausterfokken.
Still arguing about philosophy? Who hasn't heard that philosophy was replaced by science over 100 years ago?

And ... how would anyone decide that a particular person had flunked philosophy? It has no fixed, testable content, so there are no right answers, so no wrong ones.

Philosophers talk the talk. Scientists walk the walk.
If you mean "matters" as in allows them to share their emotional experience then sure, of course.

If you mean "matters" as in allows you to gain knowledge about what actually happened to you? Then it means nothing, from whichever perspective you care to choose.
should we always expect that the hidden input checkboxes are being checked? Wish the documentation addressed this...
“Tea is just as caffeinated” — Citation needed
Right. It is quite easy to build convoluted Haskell code just as it is easy to to build convoluted Java code.

One of my primary complaints about Haskell, however, is that Haskell code is impossible to debug. You can reason about it, the type checkers can check deep properties about it, but it is difficult to actually observe the computer executing it! To me, this is a deal breaker.
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> Why bring him into the conversation when we're talking about Python?

Just as words of encouragement for more programming-related content. I'm venting off steam, really. In the past few weeks I've been spending more time on /r/programming than on HN, something I could not imagine a year ago.
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I would be visiting lobsters if it wasn't invite-only, I am not convinced that a system like that guarantees quality content over something more elegant like weighted votes.
It's still a mystery to me.
The gaps in Kristof's narrative really highlight how he's trying to spin a story out of this:

1) Why didn't he dispose of the shotgun shells? Surely someone told him that as a convicted felon he wasn't supposed to possess firearms or ammunition?

2) What led him to be suspected of the burglary?

3) He notes: "Then Young became a suspect in burglaries at storage facilities and vehicles in the area, and the police searched his home and found the forgotten shotgun shells as well as some stolen goods." He keeps mentioning the shotgun shells, but never returns to the issue of the stolen goods found in Young's house.

I agree with the sentiment of the article. Minimum sentence laws are wrong. Felon in possession laws are wrong. The disabilities applied to convicted felons after they've served their time are wrong. The U.S. imprisons too many people, especially in states like California where there is an toxic amalgam of scared suburbanites, police and prison workers unions, and for-profit prison companies that have created an unsupportable situation.

BUT: the fact that the author has to resort to presenting a story that's as much of a mixed bag as Daniel Young's should give you some pause. It should give you some perspective of the scale of the problem.

Kristof's exaggeration is unnecessary ("totally innocent people sent to jail just for helping their neighbor!"). I once had to watch a sentencing hearing for a class. The guy was a scumbag. Drug dealer (not the harmless neighbor kid who deals pot mind you), had two kids with two different women but didn't support either of them. One of the moms came to testify that he was trying to be more of a father to her kid recently and that imprisoning him would destroy that. The judge handed down I think a 15-20 year sentence based on the raft of prior enhancements (I think he had assaulted his other baby momma, did some burglaries, etc). He was not an innocent guy. At the same time, it was unnecessary to sentence him to 15-20 years. Our sentences are just too damn long, even if they are mostly applied to scumbags.
Come on. Guns are only for police, military, rich people, and celebrities. Now how about I give you a slightly bigger mortgage interest deduction to take this off your mind?
I think the old engine is still included, and used in the cases where the new one can't do the work.
Just a quick word on Pattern[1].

TextBlob is probably just using the en module, I would suggest everyone take a look at the other modules in particular the web module should you be doing any light data scraping. It has nice wrappers around BeautifulSoup and Scrapy among others, jumping into BeautifulSoup and Scrapy can be daunting for beginners.

[1] http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern
Why would Brazil and India being fat have to do with it? If its an evolved attribute in all humans/animals, then there hasn't been enough time for migration to play much of a role in the adaptation. It would be quite weird though, it means it would have to have come very early in our history when we basically lived in the same place, pre-human even, and somehow the adaptation has survived through multiple cycles of speciation. Highly unlikely.
Surprisingly, this article omits to mention that the DoJ is asking the US Sentencing commission (and independent statutory body) to dial back mandatory minimum sentencing: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/foia/docs/2013annual-letter-...
The thing is indeed fast. Looking at these benchmarks[1], it always makes it to the top 10 on the tests where it appears.

Edit: Apparently, OpenResty[2] is largely responsible for the impressive performance in those benchmarks, and Lua may be secondary.

1. http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...

2. http://openresty.org/
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It could be tabular data, but it depends on context. If this was an order list, for example:

Napkins 21-07-2011 14:52 Change Remove
Pitchforks 21-07-2011 14:52 Change Remove

It's not necessarily tabular data, you only have two columns. It could be represented differently without any loss:

+-----------------------+
| Napkins (21/07) |
| |
| +--------+ +--------+ |
| | Change | | Delete | |
| +--------+ +--------+ |
+ ----------------------+

But if you had more data columns and headers it'd probably make sense to use a table. It's about providing meaningful context, relations and hierarchy, there are no hard rules.

Unordered lists mean the order they have is not meaningful. It's physically impossible for something not to have an order...
I've been drinking the decaf they talk about in that article today, and it's absolutely ace - it's pretty good for a coffee, and stunning for a decaf. Give it a go!
ElementaryOs Luna released