skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do state the law correctly, your confusion seems instead to be with regards to the phrase "due process."

It means literally what it says: everyone is entitled to "due" (i.e. warranted) process, not judicial process. What process is "due" in any given case? It is, on its face, a context-sensitve inquiry.

If you trace the due process clause back to its origins in Clause 39 of the Magna Carta, you'll see that it is not a guarantee of a trial in every case, but rather a protection against arbitrary action: "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land." The AUMF is, for better or worse, the law of the land.

People gave Eric Holder a lot of flak when he stated that the Constitution guarantees due process and not judicial process, but his comment was a totally uncontroversial statement of the law. I'm pretty sure Greenwald knows that too, since last time I checked NYU (where he got his JD) doesn't teach some bizarro version of Constitutional Law where down is up and due process always requires a trial.
If a Facebook post is public it can be seen without an fb login
They were also presidents in a bit of a different era.
There is plenty of criticism of San Francisco coming from people inside, and outside, of the startup/tech scene.

His post was misogynistic and hypocritical, which encouraged the pitchfork mob. (I don't intend to make a value judgement regarding the response his post got.)
The UX of this site is pretty bad. There's nothing to tell you what you should click on or what clicking on those elements do. I found myself clicking on random things, ending up in places that weren't related to what I clicked on, and not sure how to get back.
I'm thinking that most simply don't have the intelligence connections to endure the blackmail game.
How would you determine how to write engaging content your followers would enjoy reading? Things like asking your audience, etc are not scalable.
I don't think it'll work. He's neither Republican nor Democrat (and in fact has been both at one point or another) - even someone as well-known as Bloomberg I don't think can capture the Presidency as an independent candidate.

Not to mention his stance on things is too complicated for modern American politics. He's socially liberal (supports heavy social programs, large-scale public education, gay rights, pro-choice), but also largely anti-civil liberties (stop and frisk, crackdowns on demonstrations, pro-surveillance). He's the exact sort of candidate New Yorkers vote for, but I don't think the rest of the country would go for it.
I agree. He's a remarkable man. Not sure he's powerful enough to win the race for US President.
Sony Wants to Sell Lenses for your Smartphone
I do. Usually reviews work pretty well, especially if you actually read them and don't just look at stars. Fake ones usually are easy to spot, and for sites with a lot of reviews there's usually a pattern. Of course, the system can be and is abused, and you have to take it with a gain of salt, but it's helpful, especially if you don't know much about the place or the area.
One problem with this approach is we, developers, have different problems then a majority of the population. That's why a lot of SaaS apps are geared towards developers & their problems. Take this advice one step further, try to identify pain points your non-techy friends constantly have and solve those.
The purpose of the -i flag is to prompt the user before deleting. Mixing the -i and -f flags is a little moot.

Try removing the -i option to obtain what you want.
I work with Dentists in their online marketing. Guess what: nothing, in our measurement, has quite and impact on their bottom line and new customer acquisition as Yelp & maybe a little bit of Google Plus Reviews. So, the answer to your question from a quantitative point of view would be HELL YEAH THEY DO!
With So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring?
When SES is 5 time as less (although less features, I know), there's really no reason why I would go with Mailgun. 10 cents for every 1000 emails is very very hard to beat. And when I'm just relying on you to email, I don't need things such as UI, analytics, etc as much.

I typed in 300000 in the pricing calculator, and got $150.00/month as my price. For any startup, that is just too much. With SES, it's $30.00/month. I know that there's a premium to be paid for certain features, and I know the pricing is better than what it was originally, but SES to me is still superior.
The NYT is doing alot of coverage about him with the elections coming up and all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/nyregion/what-new-yorkers-...

I think jobs and the economy matter most to people and since Bloomberg was mayor during the 2008 recession, that's going to make him seem worse than he might have though he may not have been able to affect the worst of the economical situation in any way.

In the story linked to above, it says less than half of surveyed think that crime has improved under BLoomberg. That is just plain absurd no matter how you look at the stats...Bloomberg's (arguably too strong) law policies have made the city safer than it was in 2002. IT just shows how hard it is for people to remember what things were like a decade ago, due to nostalgia, etc.

Also you say he won his re-election "just barely" but that's because he bent the term limit rules for what most people considered in an illegitimate way
But is it any good at those problems?
I'd say generally favorable and he's certainly done a lot, but a lot of people have grown to resent his tendency to force his own agenda regardless of public opinion, e.g. his crusade against soda, his third term, etc.
Well make sure your hardware is supported on the kernel you are going to use, this is where debian tends to lag behind with its stability.

Try looking for people running your expected hardware with debian online and you'll probably get a better idea.

Unless you don't mind using updated kernels, most thinkpads should work reasonably well.

This should help too: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/make/Lenovo/?cat... (Precise is close to wheezy kernel).
I see your point, but I have always assumed that sales people were selected for their ability to remain positive in the face of closed doors or hung-up phones. Seems like a necessary attribute!
You're rarely going to get a personal reply to a letter to your MP. The sheer volume of correspondence prevents it.

Your MP's surgery sessions are a much better place to bring up issues like these. They're usually held every week and some don't require an appointment. When I went to speak to my MP about this issue, I was seen in 20mins and had a good 15-20min discussion.
Mayor of New York City is a harder and more important job than governor of Arkansas, which was Bill Clinton's highest elective office before being elected president. (Although he ran for Congress, he did not win.)
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"Is it an AI" tests based only on text are pretty silly anyway. There are probably a few billion people alive who can't form complete written sentences. If you have a job, you probably encounter dozens of people a year who can't write coherent emails.

The Turing Test concept appeared when everybody thought intelligence was mostly words, and we could probably easily make computers spit out meaningful sequences of words. Nobody believes intelligence is how well you can write and read anymore (except fad-based media reports "OMG SIRI IZ INTELLUGENT AI SKYNET!"). The Turing Test concept persists because it's simpler than dirt to explain, even though it has never been a valid method of evaluating anything.
> Furthermore a function call has a vastly restricted set of valid behaviours: at some point it must terminate, and prior to termination, update the system state (stack) to include its return value.

Hooray! We've solved the halting problem. Without formal analysis, it's not possible to show (in general) that a function will terminate.

More seriously, I've seen function behavior that's just as bad as other types of flow control (including gotos).
Woud be interesting to see the backstory on how they got access to the data/subsamples. The visuals are well done, but the story is sort of interesting in terms of how its edited. It neglects any mention, for example, of the role of Finance in the building boom. And by extension, glosses over the Financial crisis spawned (under his tenure, in new york) by real-estate investment instruments and the general bubble-icous tendencies that follow from "free money". NYC basically skims the profits of wall street both directly (retail&real estate sails subsidized by incomes from the financial sector) and indirectly through double taxation of corporation (financial lagest sector) and city income taxes. So, there are a lot of grandmother's withs withered pensions and decimated savings outside of New York that are basically subsidizing all of this. Just worth thinking about.
No, the platform doesn't matter. It's about the act of forcing someone to do something against their will by threatening them that is illegal.
It's best to just let Cyc people continue to think they matter and let them stay busy expanding their knowledge base in the church of first order logic. It'll never go anywhere, but it's better to keep them all contained in one place rather than polluting other fields of study.
Thanks! Also, since alot of OSX paths contain whitespaces, I had to modify the mark function like so:

function mark {
mkdir -p $MARKPATH; ln -s "$(pwd)" $MARKPATH/$1
}

Disclaimer: I'm not very good at bash, perhaps there is a nicer solution to this problem?
A lot of the photos are aerial, I'd imagine it'd be nigh impossible to get them lined up so perfectly to overlay each other, but it would be very nice indeed.

On the Times Square picture: the entirety of Broadway (the slanted street on the far right) has been closed to traffic and is now entirely a pedestrian mall. It's not just Times Square, large stretches of Broadway has been reconfigured for bikes and pedestrians.

Interesting sidenote: they've been digging up Broadway in Times Square lately to put actual sidewalk in its place. My guess is that Bloomberg is doing this to cement his legacy and throw up additional barriers in case future mayors want to re-automobile-ize Times Square.
Okay, that was way too nasty and out of line.
Well, that also lets the NSA (or anybody who intercepts the CD) release the key to try and make it look like it came from Wikileaks.

Depending on how an adversary times that, it could be damaging for Wikileaks.
Anecdotes maybe, but supposedly all anecdotes from the same source. Instead of stuff that's like "my friend" or "I know lots of people that...", which is different from person to person, a bunch of people reviewing the exact same location is a bit more accurate. Also, after awhile you can usually separate the quality comments from the noise. Kinda like we all do on HN or any other forum. I think I can mostly tell when someone is just pushing an agenda/cherry-picking facts to support a particular claim, versus a comment giving a mostly objective review. Particularly when they point at facts & actual events rather than vague feelings.
Well I like the post were he apologys for.
I mean it seems like he got a point at what he says, are the other SF people just running mad or wth?

If something is shit there's someone who calls it and someone who clears it, or not. Why make a mess about it?
I'm glad he's at least not trying to claim it was "satire" because that's an insult to satire. He wrote complaints that lots of SF people share and that's probably why he thought it was a great thing to publish. But there's a difference between:

1. SF has a bad homeless problem

2. Why can't SF clean up after all these dirty drunk conniving homeless people?

And being unhappy about finding a date can be handled differently than trying to blame SF's "ugly" women for acting self-confident and rational
Why should the terms go away? Obviously the networks have been widely broken up and shuffled around, but I see nothing wrong with calling 11.5.0.0/16 a class B network.
Here is a copy of the original post: http://cdn1.uptownalmanac.com/cdn/farfuture/NSQW_1fiNhQgHaAK...

The original post was unsurprisingly deleted from Peter Shih's blog.

His post was a little rude (and a bit sexist), but I feel he makes some good points. San Francisco is kind of shitty, but the people I met there were so insecure about SF not being New York/LA that they would pedantically argue about the pros and cons of each place, always convinced that SF is some glorious wonderland that encompasses the best of all worlds.

San Franciscans need to travel more.
I can think of many things in science more important than efficiency. It's not as if you can realistically be 'efficient' at things like drug discovery where you are basically brute-force searching a possibility space with the assistance of some basic heuristics...
Threatening to hurt someone's reputation qualifies as extortion though, and the victim doesn't have to necessarily go along with it for it to also qualify as coercion. He actually did hurt their reputation, so technically, the restaurant can call the law right now and get this dude to spend a night in bookings, but, I don't see this really getting there and I don't think it should be.
Like the Facit typewriter that was innovated out due to the PC. They never saw it comming.
Mayor of NYC is probably a better executive experience that many (most?) state governorships. Bloomberg isn't my cup of tea, politically, but he's certainly qualified to run if he decides to do it.
> This could get ugly if something isn't done right away.

What might happen: front page of Reddit, followed by the guy being sacked shortly afterwards.
I agree, that is very curious. I clicked through to Levesque's paper, and there is no mention of Cyc there either.

I gather Cyc has long been considered a failure by many in the AI community, and perhaps even an embarrassment by some. Still it is hard not to read Levesque's paper as a vigorous endorsement of the goals of the Cyc project, if perhaps not of its exact methods -- see sec. 4.4. I think it is incumbent on Levesque to explain what Cyc has done wrong, if he has a good theory about that -- and if he doesn't, he needs to admit it, because Cyc's ostensible failure makes it seem unlikely that any symbolic, reasoning-oriented approach to AGI could ever succeed.
Sandman "makes things REST"
I've lived all over the country, and I've never seen such a big divide between two groups (wealthy tech and everyone else) as I have in the Bay Area.

The last time I was there, I realized why most of the protests for economic reform and "the 1%" are so strong in the Bay Area: because it is so blatantly thrown in people's faces! The streets are filled with Porsches and Teslas driving by the many homeless people in SF everyday. Rent is absolutely absurd. Most big cities have this problem, but its especially pronounced in SF (probably moreso than everywhere but NYC).

I think the thing that probably makes it worse in SF is, as mentioned in the article, many people don't work in SF. I don't know of many companies in Chicago, NYC, or Dallas providing free transportation to their headquarters in the suburbs, people that live in those places usually work in there too.

I'm not sure what can be done about this; Google isn't moving their headquarters to SF (nor should they). At some point this issue is going to boil over and something will have to change.
Mens rea is a state of intent, not knowledge.

Suppose, for example, that you discovered a locked storage box with 'property of Big Bank' on the outside. You're supposed to report found items to the police; instead you take it home. Someone sees you and the police turn up; it emerges the box contains a lot of money, and you are charged with theft. You argue at trial that no mens rea existed because you didn't know about the money; true, but the possibility that a locked box belonging to Big Bank would be full of cash was what motivated you to take it home. If, on the other hand, the both contained a brick, you could still be charged with attempt because your intent in picking up the box was impure, even if the contents were valueless.

In this case, Wikileaks 'insurance' documents have in the past contained classified information; they are meant to function as insurance because the contents would embarrass or injure someone if revealed; revelation would be contingent on Wikileaks' dissolution or disablement; and it's reasonable to suppose that only a government could bring that about. Thus, your decision to host the files, even without knowledge of their content, involves an awareness of the strong possibility that they do contain classified information. So whatever the contents actually turn out to be, you would be judged on your intent given the information available at the time.

Now you might also argue that there was some higher interest motivating your actions, eg the belief that all secrecy is evil and that nothing should be classified, ever. But such moral beliefs are normative, ie expressions of what you think the law should be; they have no bearing on what the law actually is, and it is the latter which is supposed to govern your actions. For comparison, I might hold a sincere belief that any insult to a person's honor justifies violent retaliation; but if I kill someone in defense of my honor, that won't spare my from charges of murder, because my private belief is not the law of the land, no matter how sincerely it is held.

In short, don't take deliberately engineered ignorance as equivalent to innocence.

You may find this law review article of interest: http://www.columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/... This discusses a narrower reading of mens rea than I have outlined above, but bear in mind the elevated likelihood of a public welfare argument in a case where national security turns out to be at stake. So I would be reluctant to rely on Flores-Figueroa as an escape hatch because that was a case in which the harm largely befell a single individual (the lawful possessor of the identifying information that F-F appropriated), as opposed to the general public whose collective security could be compromised by the release of classified information, personified in the form of the Untied States.
I suspect that's because a lot of Brits (and the commonwealth, certainly here in NZ) don't take well to commercial friendships. We don't want a random barista knowing our name.

However, if we've seen the same barista every day for a year it's different. So the Italian situation is fine, but asking up front and pretending is not.
Apparently having used TOR makes you a person of interest. Not that difficult.
I've converted a few people to the z side. And yes, it is wonderful.

[Disclaimer: rupa is a good friend of mine, as well]
I think the majority of New Yorkers support his policies. He has basically engaged in a massive gentrification of the city. This has pushed poor people (many of them minorities) out of Manhattan and even Queens and Brooklyn, has led to higher housing prices, tearing down of "historic" buildings, etc. As a result, there are tons of people who hate him for these things. But I think the core demographic of upper middle class Manhattanites generally supports these policies.

As an aside: I was watching a documentary about Giuliani (then U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York) the other day. It was about how in the early 1980's he led a full-scale attack on the Mafia, by bugging the cars and houses of the heads of the five families and using the collected evidence along with the RICO Act to send them to prison. Apparently, after being indicted one of the bosses (Paul Castellano) was assassinated just a few blocks away from where my office was in Midtown. Today, that whole area is basically Disneyland. It is crazy how different New York is today than how it used to be. Last year, My wife used to stroll all over Manhattan with our daughter, often late at night waiting for me to get out of work, without any worry at all.
A Glimpse into the Meditating Brain
Fair point. Perhaps some labels on the images, at least, would make it clear what they were trying to point out. The Times Square picture in particular was confusing because I saw the pedestrian mall, but thought that the point was about bike lanes which a pedestrian mall isn't.
Zachary Taylor*

US Grant*

Chester A Arthur (if you don't count VP)

Taft (if you don't count appointed governorship of territories)

Hoover (if you don't count VP)

Eisenhower*

HW Bush was barely a representative (2 terms, most well known as CIA director prior to VP).

*military generals
Also worthwhile to explore other image formats, of course.

For photos (like lenna.png), jpg is nearly always a better choice if you're ok with lossless, even better than png with the tricks mentioned in the article.

Of course there are some situations where png simply has features you want, like an alpha-channel, but some people even work around that (eg. in some videogames) by encoding the image part as jpg and a separate 8-bit alpha map in a lossless format to go with it and these are merged back together at load time. Not really suitable for the web, though (possible, but wildly inefficient compared to just letting the browser do the compositing).
Norway Service Touts NSA-Free Storage As Alternative To Dropbox, SkyDrive etc.
I've been in a similar scenario. I bootstrapped my first Startup. It failed, and I lost a lot of money. We developed (in Stealth) an amazing product in the "Ambient Discovery" space. We didn't call it that, but that's the buzzword that everyone started using. Anyway, turns out a few other Startups were developing in the same space (in Stealth). They executed faster than we did, and they had better connections. We were too slow, and other Teams launched / secured funding before we could. Ironically, it turns out that the Market never truly embraced the idea, and it kind of flopped. The timing was off. The idea itself was ahead of its time and the Market was not ready for any of these Products. Some Teams got funding, but I never heard about them again. One Startup made an exit (good for them!). Everyone was ahead of the curve. Everyone failed. Doh!

I don't really have any input about the plausibility of your hypothetical scenario (too many variables), but I do have some advice; Do not assume that you know what your customer wants. This is a harsh concept. Everyone loves their own ideas (myself included). But falling in love with your idea can become detrimental to product development. When it comes to the product, the Customer is King, not the Idea. If you can embrace this, you will become more effective at building your product. This lesson could have saved me lots of money on my first Startup. Instead of assuming things, validate with the customers (or potential customers). Do not leave it up to chance. Why am I saying this? You've laid out what seems to be a pretty "hands-off" approach to building the Product. I would recommend defining a relationship with your Developer that allows you to continually integrate customer feedback into the development process. This will likely result in a product that is more aligned with what the customers actually want, which should increase your likelihood for success.
Greenhouse.io is hiring our third Full-Stack Engineer in NYC.
His former career. As of now he is likely between jobs.
Bad example: that is really the most efficient way of doing drug discovery, given the intellectual and material resources we have. That may change in the future. I'm not totally optimistic about it.

You're confusing efficiency for elegance.

Moreover, "I can think of many things in science more important than efficiency." - I can think of many things in society more important than science. Those things get a relatively higher proportion of our resources, which are finite - so what gets cut?