skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, thanks for replying. I don't really understand where you were going with your first paragraph.

My point was there should be a damn good reason, and damn good protections, for the use of public data if it has the potential to transgress into the private boundaries of public servants. I think the additional potential for abuse of position in public service roles certainly forfeits some expectations of privacy. But do not see the public utility in allowing that kind of open data.. if you mean to point out that such a system will be abused, then I fully agree.

My greater point, and the reason I posted, is exactly the opposite of your second paragraph. People often confuse privileges with rights, but they are simply something conferred on you by another. It is not like rights or responsibilities which tend toward a sort of universal human condition. They are given quid pro quo. Just because it may be given in response to exercising your responsibilities, does not mean it has anything whatsoever to do with them.

Also, a driver's license is an interesting example. I generally think I have a right to do whatever the fuck I want as a human, provided I do no harm to others. Theoretically, it is not a privilege the state gives me. A drivers license is a social pact and further, a recognition that I take my responsibilities seriously. In reality, the state has taken away my right to drive, by threat of punishment, and given it back to me as privilege. Power games..

This sort of subtle manipulation of power and privilege makes me think that perhaps privilege is fundamentally morally wrong. Though probably unavoidable, they have a way of corrupting, both those who think they have a right to the power and those who think they have a right to the privilege.
Also: If you need the money, you're going to get fucked in the negotiation. You should be able to walk away from an investor who talks to you, otherwise they'll use your desperation against you and dilute the hell out of you.
that people clearly used a decent part of their week in order to participate

And $499.
Cartel bosses, gang members and drug dealers have been known to have their perceived enemies killed to defend their money, territory or evade capture. Let's not pretend that 'facilitating the sale of drugs' at that scale is an necessarily nonviolent business.

And besides, what does the government have to gain that's worth the risk of damaging their case if its discovered they fabricated evidence?
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Yeah, that's a fair expectation of what a date is, you drive and you pay. Anything else is just two people hanging out. (Source: I dated and eventually got married.)

That's ridiculous. Here's a real source:

http://blogs.chapman.edu/press-room/2013/08/12/research-on-w...

The self-reported study indicates that around 40% of women split the costs of dating, and 44% of men say they would end a relationship if the costs were not shared. This is increasingly true of couples in their 20s. Your statement that "anything else is just two people hanging out" irks me and is not true for 2/5 of couples (in the US, I presume)

I'll relate my own situation. I am an American living in Cambodia. I started dating a local girl about a month and a half ago, and we split the expenses for everything. She has a relatively good job by Cambodian standards, but I have to be very cognizant that she has less money than I do, so we choose restaurants and activities that both of us can afford. She is clearly proud of being able to pay for herself, partially I think to distance herself from the stereotype of Cambodian girls marrying for money and/or being prostitutes.

If we decide to get married, then sure, my money is her money and vice-versa (and who knows maybe she'll end up being the breadwinner). But as far as dating is concerned, I will forever take a hard line on splitting the costs (or at least contributing in amounts proportional to our income) and if a girl isn't down for that, I'll find someone else.
given the copious amount of US laws regarding giveaways, it's probably illegal too.

did it for fun because of a coupon code, but I feel sorry for anyone who paid the full price of admission. if they were going to rig it anyway, why sell hackathon-only tickets? that's pretty malicious.
Life expectancy in aboriginal populations is hard to measure. Modern populations have many complex factors affecting life expectancy, including cheap alcohol.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/080123/dq080123d-en...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/23/us-inuit-idUSN2362...

I dunno, that doesn't sound okay.
most of the comments tend to say that he was stupid, but in some respects, i think the guy was quite bold and somewhat intelligent if he was able to roll something up this large over that long of a time period even if what he was doing was highly illegal. sure he could have been smarter about some things, but honestly, the fact that he got this far, this fast means that he was an enterprising individual, just on the wrong track.
Last week in the official cognitect training they said that the transactor can handle 10k writes/sec with appropriate hardware, which is enough to handle all the credit card transactions in the world.

[This next part is me, not them] So despite being theoretically write bottlenecked, it still does better than postgres, because the transactor does less work (though they're in the same ballpark). What do you think?

I hope I'm quoting them right, from memory.
They did release a new version of their Active Directory service in Azure yesterday. Wonder if its related.
Something nobody is reporting is that the Hackathon actually started October 25, not Monday, so teams were allowed many weeks to get started in advance.
Channels have the average posting rate so you can pretty easily avoid subscribing to noisy channels.
I don't think you read what I wrote: I noted that I see negative news about the economy more than negative news about the financial markets.
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Can we live forever?
That's really really not possible if you understand the basics of how this works. This is NOT a browser API, this is an API for Apple's own cloud push notification infrastructure.

This technology can ONLY work with a giant third-party server doing the legwork.
I know, you're enraged, but truthfulness is still not optional.

The defendant did not "make the law available for free", he (allegedly) distributed a copyrighted standards text. Which is not law. At all.

And no, it is not incorporated into law, either. Despite what some people usually claim.

(There are a few DIN standards that are actually incorporated, but I've never come across those, I think they are used in some building construction code or whatever).

I know, I also think it's bad that there is no way to read and use standards freely (or cheaply), but the headline is totally misleading.
With a Filter Bypass, Credit Card Numbers Are Still, Still Google-able
There are ethical considerations that would mean it could never happen.

People don't self report accurately.

> I'm sure there are lots of institutional opportunities where we have large populations of people who would be happy to volunteer for this type of study.

Foxcon?
The dutch website tweakers.net contacted LG and confronted them with this behaviour. They replied that it was a left over from some functionality that was never fully implemented and it will be removed in an update.

Most of the commenters there don't buy that story, just like here. Full story (dutch): http://tweakers.net/nieuws/92747/lg-erkent-versturen-privacy...
It'd be nice if someone gave a shot at patching rather than forking, for once. It's not like the problem with finding documentation about Linux and its ecosystem was the lack of options.
it's fine to not win. i've won and and i've lost. i just won at Facebook last week. but i expect that what they ask to review, they review. i can't find anyone who said they detected any launches during the review period. i would have expected to find ONE person. don't run a hackathon with strict rules and a long development period and ask for source if you actually are NOT going to run the app. just be honest and ask for a wireframe or a f*ing powerpoint.
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Why not just make it a Mac feature as opposed to a Safari feature? This feels a little like Microsoft trying to integrate IE into Windows.
And no, it is not incorporated into law, either. Despite what some people usually claim.

So you are disputing the part of the article that says: "Every country in the EU is required to implement and publish these standards."

I've followed Malamud's work in the USA and there he has been 100% accurate in his claims that the standards he publishes are incorporated into law by reference. You seem to be saying that he's wrong about how it works in the EU, and that what he published is not incorporated into law by reference. I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt given his history.

http://legalresearchplus.com/2008/09/27/carl-malamud-liberat...

If you have an explanation for how it is that he has mistakenly assumed that the standards he published are incorporated into EU law by reference, I'm all ears.

Don't forget the cited document here:

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/h...

Which is a directive of the European Parliament and Council that specifies DIN EN 1400, the baby pacifier standard he's being sued for publishing.
i wish it was a days work. they opened the competition oct 25th. so people were developing since then. and they might not have even gotten run.
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I live in Dayton, a largely .Net town, not too many web app companies around, and not many specializing in Rails - I want to change that - but one caveat is that I'm currently underemployed as a PHP developer @ $15/hour, so w/ little money how can I start this endeavor, tried reaching out to companies to sponsor, but all I got was a lousy t-shirt from Stripe(no offense, very thankful for that lol..but won't pay the startup costs..)
The opportunity costs from an open plan office are invisible and difficult if at all possible to quantify, but the savings from cramming twice as many people into the same space are very real and tangible.
Yeah! The same Thom Kim who demo'd UPSHOT at Salesforce before the hackathon was even announced. :http://www.meetup.com/Salesforce-com-Integration-Analytics/e...
Thanks Kyle, great questions and very engaging energy, looking forward to more informative videos!
> I've seen nothing saying ketosis is harmful.

Really?

During ketosis, the body forms substances known as ketones, which can cause organs to fail and result in gout, kidney stones, or kidney failure. Ketones can also dull a person's appetite, cause nausea and bad breath. Ketosis can be prevented by eating at least 100 grams of carbohydrates a day. [1]

Ketosis occurs when you don't have enough sugar (glucose) for energy, so your body breaks down stored fat, causing ketones to build up in your body. Side effects from ketosis can include nausea, headache, mental fatigue and bad breath. [2]

[1] http://www.webmd.com/diet/high-protein-low-carbohydrate-diet...

[2] http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/low-carb-diet/NU00279/NSECT...
> A screen name on the internet, possibly a sock puppet, may or may not be tied to a real world person.

Are you suggesting that there are advanced AI botherbots out there just looking for other entities, presumably flesh and blood, as prey?
That is sad. There should be a some kind of TOS for public internet companies. While this kind of exploits does not hurt google but they can be very dangerous for users.
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Offices were a response to open layouts.

Cubes were much cheaper than offices.

Open layouts were much cheaper than cubes.
> going down to a 500-calorie-a-day diet for 2 months

Re-feeding programmes for people with anorexia are carefully worked out to avoid problems. How were you re-feeding after this extreme modification to your diet?

> http://www.huffingtonpost

This ruins your credibility.

> calorie counting is NOT science, physics or thermodynamics,

It is. Really, truly, it is.

> and produces miserable results for some people.

This may well be true. Reading this thread is clear evidence that people have horrible understanding of diet and nutrition, and that people get information from weird sources. I can easily imagine someone reducing calories to 1,800 per day but having a miserable time because they're also following some stupid advice they got from a quack.
I'm quite certain Mikio knows about ggplot2.

Ggplot2 and friends are great, but theres plenty of room for even better tools in the data vis space.
ironic he recommends regular phone calls which use software that is not free to just using skype
A comic about a guy who wrote music notation software without his hands
"Worse is Better" has a plausible explanation why C won out:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

Curiously, both Google and Apple follow the "MIT/Stanford" school of design (though Google has lately been trending toward the "New Jersey" school). And it's generally been working out for them. Microsoft was always the New Jersey school, and it isn't exactly working for them now, although it did for many years.
That is very fast for something at a huge scale like Gmail. They had someone responsibly disclose the exploit so they fixed it quickly but not so quick as to destabilize Gmail by not properly testing/deploying. Making changes to software used by millions is not that easy.
I might not be the best person to ask, since I don't generally have the attention span for tutorials and usually prefer to learn by reading/writing code. With that said, the manual (http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.2/manual/) is quite good.
I have a remote DOS and possible code execution on one of the world's most widely deployed desktop applications. Their security team has been on top of it (got back an initial human response and responsible team member within 48 hours, etc), but the nature of the beast means that all subsequent steps take weeks to months. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I think we're at 4 months and counting.
As is PayPal with their debit card. I wouldn't say this is amazingly new or revolutionary, it's just something you can choose to use if it works with your workflow. Incremental improvement.
Yeah second this, Jerry is pretty amazing and makes the game pretty accessible for those like me with only a passing interest in chess.
When you get into those dynamic applications I think you'll find the likes of Foundation much more appealing. This is not a WYSIWYG-style tool, this is for developers building sites by hand and the example styles aren't often used in production.
> Those who cut carbs and and continue to eat a moderate amount of carbs while keeping their calories in check will lose weight.

Those who do anything while keeping their caloric intake in check relative to their caloric expenditure will lose weight.

Controlling carbs may be particularly effective for some people in acheiving this, particularly because some people are relatively resistant to the satiating effect of carbohydrates, and thus have a higher tendency to overeat when eating carbs.
Given that dude indicates that even he's an exception to his supposed rule, i think i'd like to see something more comprehensive argument to buy this particular line.

Python is definitely major player in data processing (heck i'd even just be interested in how he's defining data science), but it's definitely not the only game in town by a long shot.
Definitely true, especially for >3D data sets.
This is the problem of the commons in its classic incarnation. If the private offices are shared, pretty soon you will have people either squatting in them or accusing others of squatting.

Open layouts are a way to save lots of money per employee. They provide no tangible benefit over private offices that are big enough to have coding sessions in, but they cost a hell of a lot less. Next time someone tells you that they are more productive in an open layout office ask them if they had ever worked with an engaged and energetic team where everyone did have large private offices. Chances are, they did not and therefore have no basis for comparison.
Satiation has a lot to do with responses that vary between individuals, too; there's no one-size-fits-all weight loss recipe (much less a one-size-fits-all ideal diet recipe.)
If they're only starting out, it would be okay if there would be no testing at first, but as the months roll by, they'll need testing sooner than they think.

If they've been working at it for a while, joining them is going to be a lot hard work. For one, it can be a warning sign, in the first place, their code will be hard to test. Dependencies will be out of this world, who knows where they put their business logic, random classes doing random things, random database session handling, god objects, and other elaborate hard-to-maintain hack stacks.

If you still want to join them, introduce testing to them by creating tests for one small part of their stack, it will easily show off the merits of testing:

- It's not just about putting something out there faster, it's also about failing business assumptions and the capability for your code to iterate/pivot quickly. Testing helps you in that aspect. Spend 10 minutes running the entire stack and tracing where a bug occurred, or just run your tests and find out what went wrong.

- The great thing about automated tests is that whenever I make huge changes in my code and the tests still run it means I can confidently say I didn't break anything at all. If I did, then I can easily know where and how, and I don't have to run through the entire app. I could easily isolate a single piece of my stack and test directly.

- Testing forces the team to write maintainable software.

- Another amazing meta-feature about tests is that, whenever you're debugging, it takes a huge chunk of business logic out from your cognition. You don't need to carry the extra cognitive load that 'x' part of your stack be able to 'y'.

Anyway, join them not for the sake of their code, join them if you just love what they're doing. You'll work through it.
I'm confused. Is python really so far ahead of the competition to be considered the "language of choice for data science?"

My impression (and I am not a statistician/data scientist in my day job, so I would very much like to hear opposing perspectives) is that the R ecosystem is far more mature and widely adopted than scikit-learn for things like regression, classification, clustering etc.

The author also cites expensive MATLAB licenses as a driving force behind python adoption, but here too I'm skeptical. As a grad student, I get MATLAB for free. But I switched to R/pandas for data analysis because R has a native data structure for working with multidimensional datasets (i.e. data.frame).

To illustrate the utility of this, let's say you asked developers all over the US for their zipcode and salary and recorded the results in salary.poll.data. Here's an interesting question: what is the mean salary in each zipcode? In R, all sorts of libraries make this computation concise and highly readable. Using the excellent data.table package, you would do `salary.poll.data[, list(mean.salary.by.zip.code=mean(salary)), by=zipcode]`.

No such libraries exist in popular usage for MATLAB. You'd have to roll your own, or more likely, write a lot of crufty loops and conditional statements. (Or use higher order functions with map/reduce/filter, which, by the way, you would have to implement yourself).

For me at least, just having the right data structures for working with data makes R/pandas a clear winner for doing statistical analysis of data.
"Because, as Y Combinator's Paul Graham puts it, you can't ride a Segway without looking like a "smug dork." And people generally try to avoid looking like that. "

Thinking about Google Glass, I feel like the author may have picked the wrong new tech to compare to a Segway. I still wouldn't agree with it, but he would have a better argument.
A few dozen? More than 6 and you've got everyone's occasional quick chats adding up to constant distraction.
>There was, for example, a snooty French paper that sort of dismissed Lamping as an "autodidact," before proceeding to build (with, let me be careful to note, proper credit given to John) on his work

Is there a reference to this paper available?
Some added commentary from a lawyer:

http://www.popehat.com/2013/11/21/wordpress-goes-on-the-offe...
I think this is usually called What You See Is What You Mean, or WYSIWYM.

However, there could be a performance problem. Font setting and layout in Latex is markedly superior to, say, web browsers or Word. But Latex often takes several seconds to lay stuff out. Then again, Indesign can do it, so it should be possible in general.
Don't forget the blue-collar alternative: http://www.amazon.com/3M-WorkTunes-Digital-Protector-Compati...
I always love reading writeups of these vulnerabilities.

On a related note, I love that bug bounty programs are becoming more popular. Still too rare, but great. That said, the majority of companies out there still make reporting vulnerabilities tough. I've reported a number of vulnerabilities, and all but a few companies had no security@ email address nor a security contact under Contact Us. The tech/admin contact of the DNS record often does the trick, but doesn't always work.

Please, companies, make it easier for us to report security vulnerabilities!
Small aside but IRC works just as well as HipChat without the price tag. And if no one is logging on you can get a bot installed and talk to it :).
The last exploit I found in windows took about 6 months to get patched (this was in 2010, they may have improved). It was a 'ping of death' style instant bluescreen from one packet kind of exploit.
10 days is _nothing_.
Also this: http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/
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I think even most of Microsoft's critics agree that the criticism over integrating IE and Windows was pointless. Basically every major desktop and mobile OS does the same thing these days.

Also, Safari is only released on OS X. So I'm not sure what your first sentence really means either.
Shy should we care if she is she or he?
Speaking as someone who has a lot of work invested in the numeric Python system I share a lot of the same sentiment. I'm unhappy with how lot of the current thinking is centered around building essentially large embedded DSLs to invoke C libraries. Although it's a technique that works and has been successful, it's become a big pain to maintain and extend over the years. Just look at how much work has been spent just trying to get simple things like NA values into NumPy.

My recommendation to other numeric Python devs is that if you don't have any investment in a specific numeric Python library think about moving your project to Julia, I suspect the ecosystem will bloom pretty rapidly and provide a much more future-proof set of tools for technical computing.
There is a problem: traditionally standardizing bodies finance themselves by selling copies of the standard. I can see why someone might liberate the standards, but they should at least offer up alternative models for financing. The financing model may be obsolete, but the body that issues the standards is not.
I think it might be this paper:

http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~abadi/Papers/proofs.ps

The reference to Lamping being 'autodidactical' is at the top of the second column.
True, but not in contradiction with my earlier statement.

The corporation's charter is to support the Foundation's goals through market activities not allowed for nonprofits, not to generate profit as a traditional joint-stock corporation.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
How do we know it is a reasonable possibility? We have zero evidence to suggest it is the case.