skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There was a wave of terrorism by labor radicals and anarchists.

A small observation,a little off-topic: The author need to study a little bit more about what anarchism really are, to not get confused with terrorism; or equalizing it with the destruction of the current rule order.. this is chaos, not anarchism

Anarchism has to do with individual freedom.. the natural one we all born with, and no force can take that freedom from you.. its the ultimate freedom..

The anarchism is the most advanced form of politics(by not imposing any particular policy by the use of force), but it need a very sophisticated type of human being.. (we can find nowadays but are very few proportionally speaking).. So its not feasible in the current social reality.. (so i dont think is a good idea to try to put it to work right now :))

To get a real taste of anarchism, its imperative the know the works of Bakunin, Proudhon, Thoureau, Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault (I can even dare to say Jesus Christ was one too)

Anyone that says that anarchism is the same as blow up things and mess with "the established order" (as sampled in the Fight Club movie), dont know what they are talking about

Edit: Also the people that do awful things, and call themselves as anarchists (i guess unabomber had this image of himself) are also wrong.. and are making a diservice to the real concept, the same way people misuse the concept of "hacker"..

I just fell the need to also make justice to the concept of anarchism, the same way i would do with the concept of hacker
Oh, look! Who’s a good boy and learned all their logical fallacies! You! Adorable!
Most everything over the past 3 years have died in the house: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/10/31/wo....
Most big companies in the US are legislators...
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This is awesome. I always ask people to code in phone interviews and I use Googe Docs.

You will be surprised at the number of people who have good resumes but cannot code at all. Watching someone code even a simple Fizz Buzz problem will help you understand the person's programming abilities better.
> Most machine learning concepts are very simple.

Adding to that, a lot of methods that fall under the "machine learning" label are concepts that are pretty well understood in statistical point estimation, testing of hypotheses, and numerical analysis. I'm not 100% that it really ought to be treated as a new discipline.
Well think of it this way, I am sure law makers and law enforcement don't have to use them so it's no bother at all.

I get panic attacks, can you imagine if one of those things accidentally locked on me?
Possibly more than you asked for, but it's great material:

http://scratchapixel.com/

(on a not-particularly-raytracing-related note, I can really recommend to anyone interested the lesson about colour spaces, first time the point of CIExy and sRGB became clear to me. also for anyone wondering why the colours in F.lux / Redshift shift the way they do, check the "blackbody radiation" chapter)
Spot on. I agree completely. I work at this stuff for a living, and it never ceases to amaze how the academic literature and math papers are discussing fundamentally simple ideas using styles and techniques programming evolved past in the last few decades. Comments, structure, not-greek-characters (but they make me look smart!), abstractions. When was the last time you saw a stat/math paper in machine learning with comments/structure? And guess what, its as undecipherable as code without comments/structure.

On the other hand, I'm also learning that what I/others find easy, a great deal of people/programmers find hard. The number of programmers/hackers who can actually implement such techniques on new real-world problems if they don't have someone holding their hand I'm discovering is a very small minority. So maybe its harder than it looks after all, and we just think its easy because we've spent so much time with it? After all, programming isn't a walk in the park for most people, and machine learning isn't a walk in the park for most programmers.
Thanks for taking a look. Its mostly for searching for courses, majors, degrees, etc. Ideally we'll have tight integration with existing ERP systems, but I think prices we'll need to rise too (you're probably the 20th person to tell me that today!).

I agree with you about ditching the high school offering and then differentiating price a little bit more based on college size.

I know that I want to sell this to colleges, but the harder part is how much is going to cost to sell. I think smaller colleges are the lower hanging fruit, but it's still going to be a quite the courtship to make the first sale.
Ask HN:  Would you buy a computer without network hardware?
Just curious. If you were a person that had trouble with distractions (internet browsing) would you buy a computer that had no way of connecting to the internet?

Thanks
This view is common. It is the tragedy of negative externalities. Since the damage that MS did to the industry in the 90s was widespread and not easily quantifiable, it is not easily identifiable and as such is not felt.
The chat panel uses Disqus, so is blocked by browser plugins like Ghostery.
So, I decided to take a look. It used to be that Flash's terms forbade you from ever working on a competing Flash implementation.

English is on page 87: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/e...

Heh, it might be forbidden to spin it up in cloud VMs, though local VMs are okay as long as you don't run nginx on your laptop? "3.2 Server Use. This agreement does not permit you to install or Use the Software on a computer file
server." "4.1 Adobe Runtime Restrictions. You will not Use any Adobe Runtime on any non-PC device or with any
embedded or device version of any operating system" ...

This provision is really broad: "9.5 Indemnity. You agree to hold Adobe and any applicable Certification Authority (except as expressly provided in its terms and conditions) harmless from any and all liabilities, losses, actions, damages, or claims (including all reasonable expenses, costs, and attorneys fees) arising out of or relating to any use of, or reliance on, by you or any third party that receives a document from you with a digital certificate,
any service of such authority ..."

If you are acting on behalf of a business, you might not want to authorize Adobe to occupy your business's time telling them your business secrets: "15. Compliance with Licenses.
If you are a business or organization, you agree that upon request from Adobe or Adobe’s authorized representative, you will, within thirty (30) days, fully document and certify that use of any and all Software at the time of the request is in conformity with your valid licenses from Adobe."

I'm not sure whether this persists: "4.5 No Modification or Reverse Engineering. You shall not modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works based upon the Software. You shall not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software.", where "“Software” means (a) all of the contents of the files (delivered electronically or on physical media), or disk(s) or other media with which this agreement is provided". I'm not sure whether "Software" includes bit-for-bit identical copies of the software obtained by other means at other times (see http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 ).
Unusual TLDs recently added: .SEXY, .LIGHTING, .ENTERPRISES, et al.
I'm pretty sure it was done in response to the first Microsoft Surface release. It was obviously possible to create the 128 GB iPad and it must have fit within Apple's profit margin structure. So I would guess it was a hedge against losing some number of sales to a high end Surface.
How legal is this? Is Microsoft willing to accept a lawsuit thinking that the PR damage might be worth it?
http://scratchapixel.com

+ see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6771403
> Quit comparing them to gasoline powered cars.

Why? That's what these are being compared to in pretty much every other situation. It's a car. It's powered by something different, but it's still a car. Is it more or less safe than other cars?

Are you really saying that if this is less safe than a Nissan Leaf (one specific car that's not in the same car class) it should be forced to change its design to raise the batteries higher -- raising the center of gravity and affecting handling -- even if it is as safe as or more safe than similar gasoline-powered cars in its class?

If that's the situation, should we force one specific gasoline-powered luxury sedan to change its design if its less safe than a specific gas car in another class?
thanks man, and yes. I had already 2 or 3 years experience with the different scriptable elements and partial differential equations in Milkdrop when they introduced the shader editors in the 2007 Winamp5.5 release. There were several original shader presets by Ryan Geiss and i started to edit them and that's how i learned it in the beginning. A good bunch of my presets has also made it into the official download since then too, but i have literally thousands more on my hard drives. I'm still looking into the Milkdrop forum every once in a while but i haven't been much active there since i graduated from university. Have you published something too? What's your handle? In 2010 I started with my first OpenGL clone of the shader pipeline in a Processing sketch and then came WebGL... and I must have gained enough attention with that to get invited to talk about the stuff i do at the FMX2013 this year. The thing is, my current position as a database backend programmer has pretty much nothing to do with my hobby. Thanks for heads up, it's much appreciated! That's surely something i need to fix asap, but soon i will also be the father of _two_ daughters.
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Firstly, it is a conspiracy hypothesis. There is no expectation that it conforms with the facts of history. It was presented to illustrate how a timely leak of a secret might have impacted history positively, rather than negatively, as implied in a previous post.

Secondly, even if it were remotely true, there would have been significant incentives for any involved parties to alter or hide any evidence. History continues to be written by the victors, and crackpots continue to doubt it.
You forgot Nobel, who invented smokeless gunpowder.
...or didn't make it a reality. What if Edison, Bell Graham, etc etc filed their patents and then never went into production. Then when someone else had the idea, they sued them for billions of dollars. Where would the US be now?
But Peter's method, as he himself said, isn't good enough for software that would be released by a company for people to use:

> Thoman says the difference between his fixes and official patches are primarily an issue of quality assurance. “When I write and program something, I make sure I didn’t make any obvious errors, and then I just release it,” Thoman told WIRED. “If it works for 90 percent of people, I already consider that a success.”

> From there, Thoman starts working for that other 10 percent, but he says that there’s probably one percent of people that he will never be able to help. If he were in charge of a commercial product rather than a fan-made patch, he’d have a responsibility to make sure whatever he released worked for everyone and didn’t break anything.
You win this time llama's ass!!
Oh cool, stronger locks on the same centralized data warehouses. If not by MUSCULAR, then by blanket court order. If not by court order, then by economics. The "Web" _is_ the problem.
>Fixing broken game ideas is easy.

Tell that to anyone who has actually tried to implement a fix for a broken game design. I'm not even talking about programmers. Game design is not trivial. That's why so many games these days are either Mario clones or Doom clones. We know those are a safe bet.
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At least in the Uk, there seems no democratic lever to adjust to change this. I don't know of a single national party that wants to roll back the surveillance.

Following Russel Brand's interview about why there's no point in voting:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/russell...

... all parts of the establishment rallied around, saying how people had fought for years for the right, and how important it was in a democracy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ignore-russell...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/05/opinion/liu-not-voting-for...

http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/russell-brand-robert-web...

... but really, what's the point? I know there are big differences between the parties, and that voting will make a difference. But so many of the places where their policies are identical are the ones I care about.

I wish this post wasn't coming from a place of deep frustration, but the only way I can imagine this working is as described by Daniel Ellsberg, where learning top secret knowledge changes people:

"... it will have become very hard for you to learn from anybody who doesn't have these clearances. Because you'll be thinking as you listen to them: 'What would this man be telling me if he knew what I know? Would he be giving me the same advice, or would it totally change his predictions and recommendations?' And that mental exercise is so torturous that after a while you give it up and just stop listening. I've seen this with my superiors, my colleagues....and with myself.

"You will deal with a person who doesn't have those clearances only from the point of view of what you want him to believe and what impression you want him to go away with, since you'll have to lie carefully to him about what you know. In effect, you will have to manipulate him. You'll give up trying to assess what he has to say. The danger is, you'll become something like a moron. You'll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours."

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsberg-...

But if politicians always believe they know better on this subject, what does that say about democracy? And how does this line up with the same people happily admitting they don't understand modern technology?
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Here's an article about it if you don't to watch the video:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/syracuse_airp...

It sounds like it's an electronic one-way gate to exit the secure area of the airport, replacing the TSA agent who used to sit at the exit. Physical one-way turnstiles have been around for a while - I'm not sure I've ever seen one at an airport.
We often sell our machine learning as mathematical optimization, because ML & AI have bad connotations to industrial customers.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
You can change that with a setting in the preferences.
At my last gig we used Stypi or Google Docs plus a phone to do live code exercises, and CodePair likes like a step up from that.

But what we're running at my current gig is sending a trivial problem ahead (after an initial phone screen) and then asking for extensions over a Google Hangout with the candidate doing a screen share. This lets people work their way in their own environment with the language of their choice, and do any boilerplate or other overhead up front.

It's not perfect - I'd prefer not to require someone use or make a Google+ account, but it's the best I've seen so far.
I don't have enough background to flesh out this argument, but my hunch is that this classist bent can be attributed (at least partially) to the inherently conservative nature of the "cliometrics" take on historiography.
Possibly Vox: http://coppertino.com/vox/
Entangled through a Wormhole
Android user here too. I remember just a year ago I tried a dozen apps for ShoutCast playing and it was the best. Sad to see it go. Used it a lot back on Windows back in the day when that was my OS as well. Was one of the few players with lots of high quality skins, including large size ones, and game pad controls, great for parties.
How is crash data not relevant? Why would the regulators not be able to identify and go for the lowest-hanging fruit, regardless of manufacturing origin?
Obviously there are fewer data points for the Teslas, but they've outshone other manufacturers in all other safety tests (if I'm not mistaken).
We're talking about people's lives here.
Agree. I'm doing the same with everything related to "the cloud". The current international political climate doesn't support this model.

Also with music, I point blank refuse to let music turn into a subscription based service. I still buy CDs when something agrees with my ears and listen to them.

I also quite happily transcribe things to sheet music and play it breaking many a royalty and public performance law. Fuck 'em.
My Dad used to write software for large technology companies. When he was with Control Data, they had just finished a huge project where they automated a ton of processed for the local energy company to make it more efficient.

When I was in college and the internet got big I and I was touting all this cool stuff you could do, he told me about this project they did way back in the 70's. He said it terrified him at the time because it took the human element out of the equation. If something went wrong, it could do some serious damage. A misplaced decimal point here and it could basically bring down an entire region of the power grid.

He always said the software was great, but it made the people using it lazy - which is where the real danger is.
Gandi does a pretty good job explaining this [1] as a 'trademark brand protection phase'. Basically, if you have a registered trademark and want to defend it from others registering <YourTrademark>.<NewTLD> your opportunity to do so is during this phase. The rest of us commoners get to by the leftovers starting on the General Availibility date.

[1] http://www.gandibar.net/post/2013/10/29/The-launch-of-the-ne...
That appears to be a conjecture worthy of a thesis in philosophy and/or mathematics.

And where do statements of indeterminate truthfulness fit in?
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RecipesAndMe
This is new blog type website which was created 2013-11-01. It has great responsive design and various interesting posts including food recipes. Also all recipes are tested by the post authors. There is fashion and funny images section. In addition to this most popular social networks are fully integrated.
Well you've changed my mind. I definitely don't think you're a shill.

> OWS aren't terrorists, but ... were mired with rioting, looting, and violence. It made the movement completely toxic to any support ... Over time it became largely associated with crackpots and extremists ... they never gained the support of the undecided everyman. OWS died because of its violent internal elements.

You're a sheep. You preach non violence and think that any protest with elements of violence as illegitimate. The main message of OWS was of solidarity, hence the whole complexity of the group. You missed that point entirely, even though you say most people you know identifies with their grievances.

So in summary, you don't believe in protests, as you don't believe in outliers or subverters as being separate from the core grievances of the whole movement. Because of this, you dismiss any movements or protests you or others may find hopeful, because others who share different philosophical underpinnings, are also involved in the narrative.

> Jesus, go back to /r/conspiracy already.

Absolutely. Here's something to mull over while you beg the government to reform itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

It's extremely easy to shout terrorist and praise pacifism and trust your government. The hard thing to do is become outcasted by sheeple like you who think this massively powerful set of institutions has your interests at heart. I'd much rather go to /r/conspiracy then be told me someone like you that terrorism is the biggest problem towards social change and not government central planning of socio-economic development....

Excerpt: "Operation Northwoods proposals included hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government.

Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense."

TLRD: You need to seriously rethink your sheepest trust in institutions based from Monarchy, and governed mostly be the elite. You need to stop dismissing theories and actions against oppression as negative and opposed to progress, as that pretty much enforces the belief that the government (US specifically) isn't the one creating/causing/permitting an enormous amount of negative events globally for special interest group gains. The War on Drugs, The War on Minorities (Prison System), The War on the Internet, and The War on Terror, are all legitimized by your sheepest trust in their creators continued success....

Oh Look... : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6771306

Trust them. Be peaceful. People like me are the problem. Definitely not the ones with the money supply and army...
I'm curious what you consider to be "cargo cult bad coding questions."

When I do phone screens, I generally do two coding questions, plus several other technical questions. The coding questions are a fizz-buzz level warmup question (not fizz-buzz itself, but something fairly trivial that any programmer should be able to do in 5 minutes), plus a more real-world question that requires walking over the filesystem, looking for particular things in particular files.

Beyond that, I do non-coding technical questions that are based on actual problems I've had to solve on the job, and actual technologies that we use every day like standard networking protocols (HTTP, TCP, DNS).

This seems like it would be fairly useful for my coding questions. So far I've done them in Etherpad or Google Docs, and told people not to worry about the precise syntax since that can be hard to do in such a different environment and without being able to run and test your code; then I inspect it manually and look for obvious logic errors. However, something like this would be fairly helpful in letting people write real code and run it.
Took them long enough but the app looks great!
Glad you mentioned this. This is my favorite, out of the way player. All I want is to just listen to the music and Billy does it.
Not true, the Mini-E has them in the back seat, and it handles pretty well. Batteries are heavy, and lower is better like you say as a rule, but it's not the only realistic solution by far.

Also the Tesla battery pack isn't as well compartmentalized as it could be. There are things to be done to the battery pack to cause fire to be less damaging, so between the onboard warning systems, and firewalls, it's not a big deal when the battery does catch fire.
Ha yeah welcome to the field, linear regression is now machine learning. Formerly known as pattern recognition > artificial intelligence > statistics.
Yep. This is a prime example of the massive media bias working against Tesla. Keep in mind that Tesla doesn't advertise, whereas the incumbent auto manufacturers do. Therefore the media channels know where their loyalties must lie.
Guess I'm slow. I'm halfway through recursively fetching download.nullsoft.com/winamp/ with the intention of seeding a new torrent on TPB. Is that what you grabbed?
One dollar is too much for something that was a solved problem (media sync).
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I would assume that getting a cartful of bags through the turnstiles is kind of difficult, and that's the reason that strategy has been avoided.

EDIT: Grammar.