skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>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.

That's exactly the reason why I take it seriously. Because it considers many factors, and the multiple facets and interactions between a person and other persons and/or surroundings, and understands that human psychology does not work like some antiquated naive reductionist machinery.

The "definitive answers" on this front ("it's gene X that makes you behave Y, it's that substance in the brain that makes you violent", etc), are for people who believe in silver bullets and one-size-fits-all answers. IMHO they reek of pseudo-science, mixing cause and effect, correlation and causation and working at the wrong level of abstraction.
Ah, I'm still using python 2 which might be causing me problems. For now I'll just try to work around it by hacking it out my source data.

(My source data is my own HN comments, it's funny doing sentiment analysis on them, seeing how objective or subjective it thinks my posts are as well as generally if I'm cheery or miserable.

(My end game is to produce an HN reader which only shows positive comments and news to reduce the amount of reading I do. ;))

It gets it mostly right, except the occasional hiccough, one of which is this following passage, which stood out as my most subjective post (1.0 on subjectivity!):
""
Factorisation is unique, the addition of 3 primes is not.<p>e.g. 29 can be written 5 + 11 + 13 or 3 + 3 + 23<p>So even if it were a difficult operation to reverse addition of 3 numbers, it would be made easier by collisions.
""

I'm left stumped as to why nltk thinks this is not only subjective but a 1.0 completely subjective post!
Keep your overhead low
Open dconf-editor, navigate to (I think, if I'm wrong, just look around) org.pantheon.terminal and change the opacity field to 100.
You can't inhale water easily, there's a reflexive response to water hitting the face that prevents it.
Natural language generation is also an NLP task, but this particular library doesn't seem to tackle it at the moment.
London's bins are tracking your smartphone
You seem to be asking two questions that my comment already answered. Yes, I'm citing Boneh as an example of someone who has suggested that Joux may have practical implications on RSA.
I know the effects vary considerably, in my case it just happened to help me get rid of any headaches - travel, stress, caffeine withdrawal, lack of sleep, everything that used to give me a headache now doesn't (except for a hammer to the head :-).
It's pretty weird, and it didn't make me any smarter, but I like the effects. I take 2.4 grams a day - any more is a waste, any less is not enough.
Both of your themes also look similar to Metronic Theme in my opinion (especially the Discussion box). http://www.keenthemes.com/preview/index.php?theme=metronic_a...
You'd never install a non-apt system? You should try a pacman based system, I find it to be nicer, because it embodies the Arch philosophy of keeping things simple.
Possible nerve gas in package at JFK
Right, the most common part is design. Don't you find them similar? That was the point
By that logic, you should get rid of about everything in standard libraries. A simple RNG? Anything related to floating point? Multi-threading? Character encodings? Unicode normalization? Time and date handling? All fraught with danger for those who do not know, and "basically a semester course and well out of scope for standard library docs".

Surely, it would be better to supply good implementations of algorithms rather than refrain from doing that, and letting programmers write and use bad ones instead?

IMO, the discussion should be about what c/should end up in the _standard_ library, and what is better put in a separate product/download.
The studies that rebutted the MSG connection in Chinese Restaurant Syndrome used industrial products, like Ajinomoto MSG.

So, I was a little unclear: I offered two arguments against the CRS/MSG connection: first, that MSG is a scary-sounding name for a chemical that plays a central role in our metabolism and nervous system; second, that studies have attempted to isolate MSG as a cause of CRS and failed to find a link.
> Science has nothing to do with critical thinking ...

And I should take a philosophy course to be qualified to comment on philosophy? Science has everything to do with critical thinking. Without the scientific tradition of critical thinking, Bigfoot and the Loch News monster must exist on the ground they haven't been proven not to exist.

> ... science is entirely concerned with predicting and explaining observable phenomena.

You left out the part where scientists use gathered evidence to inductively shape and then test falsifiable theories about the evidence, a critical step without which it's not science.

> ... which is why philosophical arguments still hold primacy over naive empiricism.

The only reason philosophers (and others) live beyond the age of 40 is the naive empiricism we see all around us. As to philosophical arguments holding primacy over others, this hasn't been true for over 100 years, since the day when science combined critical thinking with reality-testing.

Philosophers don't reality-test, and they don't have a reliable basis for falsifying theories. The proof is that deconstructive post-modernism is alive and well among philosophers, even though it is a self-canceling notion that produces laughter among scientists and other critical thinkers.

Q: "What is deconstructive post-modernism?"

A: "Simply put, it's the idea that there are no shared, objective truths and that everything is a matter of opinion."

Q: "But shouldn't that idea logically be applied to post-modernism itself, thus nullifying it?"

A: "Can you run that by me again? I'm a philosopher, the idea of self-reference is out of my depth."

> Whatever "philosophy" as you are using it is, it has no clear relationship with philosophy as one would expect it to be used, i.e., published literature by contemporary philosophers.

The problem is not that I don't know what philosophers think about, the problem is that I do -- see deconstructive postmodernism as one entirely typical example.
Barack Obama on LinkedIn.
Free software color calibration has actually come a long way in the past few years thanks to Richard Hughes work on the software and hardware side.

https://lwn.net/Articles/460678/

http://www.hughski.com/
To be honest it doesn't look good.

I'm a windows user and like it. But I'm more likely to try elementary os then zorin. zorin's theme looks like another bad linux theme. The start menu looks ok, but that's pretty much it.
Blood from arteries are light red, while blood from veins is dark red. I don't know, but could not 'blue blood' be a term used for deoxygenated blood?
Vladimir Putin is not omnipotent
Finally, an American journalist who has a grasp of what really goes on in Russia. For that matter she seems to have a clearer understanding of Washington than most media people. In this piece she takes some potshots at Lawrence O'Donnell because she was invited on his show as a Russia expert, and then he basically didn't let her explain her views. Why has so much of the American media become a circus of repetition, mirroring the "official" views of some Washington power broker.

It's almost as if they want us all to believe that everything happening in the world today is the result of somebody, who is in total control, pulling strings behind the scenes. Who, then, is pulling the strings on global warming?
A screen that is suitable for reading books. Battery life that is measured in months instead of hours.

Those are the only benefits I can think of. But they both make and break the e-book experience. Reading an e-book on a tablet? Wouldn't cross my mind, ever. I'd much rather buy the book. Read an e-book on a e-reader? Yes, please - I'll gladly pay more than the book costs if I have to (which I do a lot of the times).
With all the talk of VLC for media playback...

I use mplayer almost daily for no-frills internet radio listening. I have my terminal window open all day anyway, so no need to waste resources (screen real-estate or otherwise) on iTunes or VLC.

For example, Groove Salad's AAC stream:

mplayer -playlist http://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls

Seeing a focus on OSX improvements in mpv, I am hoping we'll see it installable via homebrew some day soon.
I actively block GA for that reason.
Stupid question; can I not opt out of this by turning wifi off while walking around these places?
You can always use Tor to set it up from home. I was in China when I setup mine. Since I returned, I never had an issue accessing it from any ISP in the states.
Well, help(scipy.optimize.nonlin.Anderson) has the same problem, but you're right in that that failure mode is rare, and that numpy/scipy has good documentation. However, in the context of a stats library, I think it's okay to point out that scipy.stats has some annoying parts. ;)

In all honesty, I seldom use NumPy and rarely use SciPy, so I can't judge that deeply. I know that when I read their respective code bases I get a bit bewildered by the many "import *" and other oddities. It doesn't feel right to me. I know the reason for most of the choices - to reduce API hierarchy and simplify usability for their expected end-users - but their expectations don't match mine.

So I looked at more of the documentation. I started with scipy/integrate/quadpack.py. The docstring for quad() says, in essence, "this docstring isn't long enough, so call quad_explain() to get more documentation." I've never seen that technique used before. The Python documentation says "see this URL" for those cases.

Again, this is a difference in expectations. I argue that NumPy and Python have different end-users in mind. Which is entirely reasonable - they do! But it means that it's very difficult to simply say "add numpy to part of the standard library."

There's also a level of normalization that I would want should numpy be part of the standard library. For example, do out of range input raise ValueError or RuntimeError? scipy/ndimage/filters.py does both, and I don't understand the distinction between one or the other.

Now, in the larger sense, I know the history. RuntimeError was more common in Python, and used as a catch-all exception type. Its existence in numpy reflects its long heritage. It's hard to change that exception type because programs might depend on it.

But it means that integrating all of numpy into the standard library is not going to work: either it breaks existing numpy-based programs, or the merge inherits a large number of oddities that most Python programmers will not be comfortable with.
See also the film "The Abyss" in which a rat is submerged in an oxygenated fluid, thus breathing the liquid. This technique is used for some military diving.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing)
I typed "zero day .NET" into Google as a proxy for actual research and got back results from 2010, early 2011, and late 2011. All seemed to be publicizing critical .NET patches, which is what you want to see.

Presumably this barely scratches the surface of the list of .NET patches with potential security implications. The ideal security patch goes out quietly and gets applied quietly, after all.

I'm not going to take the time for a more exhaustive search, because I've got the knowledge I'm looking for: .NET is not made of magic, such that it has not had critical patches for half a decade and I can safely choose to let it run itself. If I run a .NET stack, I'll need to watch for critical patches and apply them ASAP. If I run a Rails stack I'll need to do the same. This is the state of the art and nobody has a silver bullet for it.

Meanwhile, it remains the case that the overwhelming issue in site security is my own decisions as an implementor, either architectural (e.g. "do administrators share the same login path as tens of thousands of users?") nuts-and-bolts ("did I sanitize each and every one of those queries or did I make an error late at night?") or even strategic ("did I notice that scary article about the new style of attack against compressed HTTP, and note how it applies to my stack and my application?")
It is probably not a competition to the foundation which gets a lot of his time but I'd imagine he probably sees Google as his competition.
Crypto is hard - we should teach it better.

This book helps with teaching crypto and python at the same time... http://inventwithpython.com/hacking/
It is installable via homebrew very easily: https://github.com/mpv-player/homebrew-mpv

The formula also builds `mpv.app`, I use that to open files directly from the Finder.
I didn't say you were scared of the acronym. I said people were scared of the acronym. That should be a non-controversial observation.

In fact, the attempt to distill a simple observation into a pointed personal attack is a good illustration of the kinds of bullshit arguments that happen on political threads here.

I don't feel good about singling you out and do appreciate the calm response to what was certainly an aggressive comment upthread. Please understand, I don't know you or really anything about you; it's not personal. My problem is with politics on HN.
This is true. It's a very unnatural experience, however it is possible to breath a liquid that can function as a transfer fluid for oxygen instead. Whether that's entirely safe is another matter.

http://chemistrydaily.com/chemistry/Liquid_breathing
And when they break your window because your lock was too good. WHAT DO YOU DO THEN?

what were we talking about?
I remember when I had to use MPlayer as it was the only video player with dual core support (some special build) and as my graphic cards are always rather old that was the only way for me to watch 720p videos :)

Some general comments about comments here:

Never checked back on VLC, back when I tried it 4-5 years ago it was terribly buggy and crashed all the time.

Codec Packs are a thing of the past for me ever since I discovered CCCP [1] many years ago

MPC-HC [2] or SPlayer [3] (back when it was released there were some GPL violations,open sourced afterwards [4]) are my go-to players. MPC with CCCP plays everything, SPlayer is extremely simple while maintaining top quality.

[1] http://www.cccp-project.net/

[2] http://mpc-hc.org/

[3] http://www.splayer.org/index.en.html (down, cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.spl...)

[4] https://code.google.com/p/shooter-player/
They are pretty close, but at the same time they are different enough not to be considered a rip of one another. General look and feel is very similar, but then it is also similar to a lot of other designs.
The breath reflex is controlled (in most people) by CO2 which is unaffected by this. You would not be able to hold your breath.
You are perhaps referring to Boneh's comments at the RSA conference last February. Boneh cited the new attacks in the context of arguing that we should diversify away from RSA and DH. The implication, to me, was one of general caution and urgency. I did not get any sense of RSA itself being specifically threatened.
Unfair comparisons
This sounds interesting. Can you specify an example usecase (what would be the input data and how would generated natural language look like), and I will try to see if I can do it.
Oh well, can't connect without his email address.

Anyone have it? ;-)
That is not consistent with their stated intention of targeting individuals with ads. They made that quite clear in the video.
Not in a public directory similar to a telephone book, no. At most you could learn the make/model of their nic.
I really want to understand about morphisms and category theory after reading this. Can anyone point out any good introduction to the category theory behind those catamorphisms?
Wonder what percent of those system administrators given the axe are going to walk out the door with tons of information.

Any would be whistleblowers among those that are likely to be cut now have more incentive to produce smoking gun evidence.
A research article about work by the same researcher:

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/140/140ra88

There have been several submissions of articles to Hacker News based on press releases from that researcher's lab that go far beyond the firm research findings here. This is preliminary research. Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, reminds readers of press releases about scientific research what to look for in his online essay, "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation."

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

The preliminary experimental findings here are a LONG way from showing that human beings can breathe underwater to do work underwater without scuba apparatus, or that patients with severely damaged lung tissue can recover from that life-threatening condition.
I'm not seeing multiple inserts per page, and I checked their 'stub' pages as well. They only have GA in the head.
Conventions that are work related and you work at a both promoting your work or products counts as well it seems. I had a client that went to Vegas several times a year for a convention and just running a booth made Vegas a nexus for him.
Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure
Thanks for the comment. Actually, PHP, I don't want. For several reasons: I want to teach concepts used in real world situations such as test driven development, object oriented programming, MVC, etc... and for all of these reasons, PHP is not a strong candidate. I know there are more jobs opportunities for Java, PHP, .NET, etc... but my goal is also not to produce corporate drones but passionate people :-)
One side effect is that this would accelerate the adoption of Python 3 in the scientific community
Put differently, you want the functions that count the number of permutations and combinations possible, not functions that yield/generate the actual permutations and combinations.
Not to mention using the public folder (which I believe does not exist anymore for new accounts, requiring users to share individual files) has a bandwidth limit. If a file exceeds the bandwidth limit, it will stop being shared.
There isn't one kind of "security" person. I work in security. But I don't install antivirus, I don't write hardened runtimes, I don't configure firewalls, I don't analyze malware samples, I don't design ciphers, I don't write policies, and I don't do forensic investigations.

All I do is break into software; I do vulnerability research, and that's pretty much it right now.

As a vulnerability researcher, it's not on me to provide you with a good crypto library. People like us write software in order to find vulnerabilities. We're specialized so that we can be very good at doing that by dedicating all our time and attention to that one problem.

But much more importantly: like vuln researchers, don't like vuln researchers, it doesn't matter. When vuln researchers complain about crypto libraries, they are informing you of facts. You can ignore those facts and probably be vulnerable, or accept them and act on them and not be vulnerable.

Having said all that, there are in fact good crypto APIs. You can use Keyczar, which was a Google project. You can use NaCL, which is Daniel Bernstein's project; it even has a Ruby port now. You can use Peter Guttman's cryptlib.
One of the extremely tough things about pension liabilities, is that they are costs with present benefit -- they a labor costs from labor performed decades ago. As a state, you cannot even expect that the pensions paid will be spent in your state. Since theses are typically states or municipalities they lack the sovereign ability to print money, and they face the problem that it is relatively easy (versus a nation state) to leave their taxing jurisdiction. This is especially true especially with income tax increases -- those most impacted are also those with the greatest mobility.

That is why the Federal government's response to the Detroit bankruptcy is so important. Are the rest of us going to be on the hook for the unfunded munis or not?
> use hosting in Iceland?

By the Snowden Exclusion Corollary(SEC) of client web services rejection:

Countries having rejected Snowden asylum are US/NSA compromised or will be.

Answer:

No.
> I'd much rather buy the book.

I have several problems with this. You can't carry many books with you, and you need too much room to store them. If I really really need something that I read quite regularly, then sure, I'd buy a paper book. But in most cases I'd prefer a digital book, and I have no problems with reading it on a tablet. May be there are DRM-free hackable e-readers out there, but I didn't research this.
The makers of the bins have a video showing a named person walking around, and the bin collecting information on that person's likes and dislikes.

The video makes a comparison between their bins and cookies, describing this as "cookies in real life".

It seems difficult to compare their tech to cookies (which have EU wide regulation) and to show information collected about an individual and to then claim exemption from UK data protection laws.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6194160)
What funds the NSA and the entire Military-Industrial Complex? If we changed the underlying financial structure that supports it, the upper dependencies would have to change or cease to exist also.

It's taken four or five generations to build this beast. It will take generations to change it again. But in the meantime, I hope a small percentage of people will take measures to defend themselves from the coup.
Not quite true.

The rule of thumb is that VAT is a tax on consumers, not businesses. Of course there are hundreds of exceptions to that.

If you are a British company buying services from Germany then the seller shouldn't charge you a penny, then you charge the British VAT on the purchase and then deduct it if only the purchase is related to _your_ taxable sale(s).

But if you are a British consumer then the seller should charge you the German VAT.

That's the general case, there are exceptions to that and exceptions to exceptions so don't bite me please :)

By the way, the national VAT bills have to be complex simply because they are meant to mirror the EU directive: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
sales tax, not import tax. the tax is implied internally as well, not only to transactions from foreign businesses.
Arson is a serious criminal offence!

You'd do better to steal the entire bin.
Critiques which say things like this:

"Karl Marx developed his theory of Marxism also in 1800s, finally culminating in the communist manifesto in 1848. "

instantly lose credibility. I studied political science a few decades back and even though I have forgotten more than the average student remembers today...

Marxism in no way culminated in the 1848 Communist Manifesto. Das Kapital, The Paris Commune and other works showed development of his theories almost 4 decades after the Manifesto.

The CM was a broadsheet, meant to be plastered on poles and the sides of buildings, like Luther's theses or the Declaration of Independence.

I would never hold up Marx's ideas as a prescription for today's world. The global economy has gone through 2 or 3 revolutions since Marx's time.

One thing I would argue is that he had a better analysis of his current economic situation than anyone else at the time.

His lasting contribution was the understanding of the capitalism of his time and the critique of modes of production. Not the application of Socialism.

He always critiqued from the standpoint of the whole, the totality. Something that we have largely lost the ability to do today - in part because our world is much more complex than the world he was looking at.
I'm having trouble writing a response to this that reconciles your last sentence with the sentence that precedes it. I think that might be because we're on the same page already.

I'm not endorsing the article's interpretation of the talk.