skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: should we not be able to arrest people we have arrest warrants for? Is there a right to flee arrest?

The only difference from the status quo is that currently, you could try to run from the police once recognized and they might not be fast enough to tackle you. But as far as I know, the Constitution does not enshrine any principle of "the right to a sporting chance at escaping trial" - just "the right to a fair trial."
The Zurich airport has this between the terminals and passport control.
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This sounds to me like a pointless exercise. There is a reason for using mathematical notation for non trivial formulas, which is that is more compact and succint, to allow it to convey information efficiently and unambiguously. Think of a formula with a few levels of parentheses; you're not going te be able to express that clearly in a paragraph of text. It's not so much the symbols and notation itself which is hard to grasp, but the mental model of the problem space; once you have that, the formula will usually make sense because you can relate it to this mental model.
I once encountered a big self-revolving door exiting the secure area at an airport, and I wondered what would happen if I kept going around it in a circle. Let me tell you what happens: it alarms loudly, and the TSA employee was not amused.
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As a former resident of Syracuse, I think these beat the old barrier ropes, doors which looked like they were from a mental hospital, and a lone slightly pissed off and exhausted TSA agent eyeballing you and your fellow passengers in an otherwise desolate airport at 11 evening.

And there are very, very, very few arrivals (and also virtually no departures) between 10PM and 5AM, which means it doesn't make much sense to pay a single TSA agent for an eight hour graveyard shift for 2 or 3 incoming flights.
I have to disagree. You should always put limits on everything, as said nicely here [1]:

"Put a limit on everything. Everything that can happen repeatedly put a high limit on it and raise or lower the limit as needed. Block users if the limit is passed. This protects the service. Example is uploading files of logos for subreddits. Users figured out they could upload really big files and harm the system. Don’t accept huge text blobs either. Someone will figure out how to send you 5GB of text."

Sure, you should ideally do this in your application code. But if there is multiple interfaces (such as a REST api etc) to your database then you have to remember to put them in place everywhere. I don't see a good reason to make a username field to be TEXT instead of a generous VARCHAR(300). If somebody wants to choose a longer username than that, he's probably malicious. It protects you with zero cost and allows you to make some user input sanitation mistakes (we're all humans) in your application code.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/26/reddit-lessons-lea...
I don't know about you guys, but I've this news just ended my teenage years =( I've used winamp to store my 2TB music collection for like 10 years. yeah back then to get 2TB from 120gb hdd's was something big, but anyway, even after dragging and dropping the whole 2TB directory into winamp, it processed track by track, without destroying my ram, and my CPU. I've had a zillions (Around 10gb, it's 1-2kb per song) of modular music from: atari, c64, nds, n64, sega, ps1,2,3 and etc and etc. All of these was supported by winamp plugins. This was working perfectly, sorted in my winamp by categories/genres and various other methods. I've been really enjoying this player for all my geeky life. And now it's going way =( They could at least release and opensource. That classical design is masterpiece, I don't know any player you can beat winamp's design, unless it's xmms player in linux, which is probably also dead for a long long time. Although I'm currently residing on OSX, and I'm using iTunes to sort all my stuff, it's still not so great as Winamp. All I need is proper music indexer, and all possible music format support. What could be better is having transcoding software together with this cute player, and I'd be happy till the end of my life lol. Now I have to use only ALAC instead of FLAC, and ofcourse mp3. For converter I'm using XLD, for video VLC or mplayerx, for converting videos Handbrake. C'mon Winamp was universal tool! I belive some plugins could provide transcoding.

LET'S CRAWL WINAMP SIDE AND SAVE A HISTORY OF GREAT SOFTWARE.

Lol i think this should be in computer museum or something =/

Winamp, I'll miss you so much, I know that "justin can't code it" sometimes, but I still love all your team, your product, your efforts, Thanks for being with us with our teenhood!!!

P.s and what about winamp shoutcast? this was only ultimate radio solution in the whole web!!
Holy hell, antibiotics are used on fruit?

To be honest I was a bit smug because I don't eat meat.

So much for that. Wow we are in trouble.
I'm not sure I agree:i I'll say it differently:

As far as I know, k-means (as the author described it) has two parameters: initial number of clusters K and max iterations (although I could be wrong), SVMS have:

UPDATE: here is a gist:

https://gist.github.com/josephmisiti/7572696

taken from here : http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/

I do not think that picking up LibSVM, compiling it, and running it is straight forward for everyone ...
Perhaps Tumblr to a certain degree? I've met some young front-end guys that cut their teeth making Tumblr themes. I suppose what you can modify with Tumblr Themes is more limited than winamp skins.
[EDIT: All that is wrong, because there is no check, and the doors always open]

Every place I've ever seen one of those doors, when you can't return, you can always go forward, when there is some check, and you may not be able to go forward, you can always return.

I guess, the police would be able to legally create a silo that may detain you, but nobody else can (at least on most democratic countries, I'm not sure about the US specifically).
Seems like yet another challenge when flying with a few little kids...hope it doesn't spread.
Man, I'm gonna start a list and track sites that do this, like plain text offenders.
I use Windows 7 WMP every day because the media keys on my laptop only work with that and I have never ever encountered any of those problems you are talking about.

- I can pause/unpause with space.

- The song order remains after I drag in the folder.

- Right after the very first start (i.e. on clean win7), it asks you if you want to see ads of songs of similar artists you listen to.
I think that unlikely. Germany would have fallen to the Russians. Soviet Europe would have stayed that way for a few decades before reverting to independent mixed economies. The real question is what would have happened between China and Japan, without the American nukes.
The FBI/CIA has one last chance. They can shout from the rooftops of the glory of God's temple as penance. Or they're fucked.

God says...
Mission_Accomplished Is_that_your_final_answer what_a_nightmare
little_buddy not_in_my_wildest_dreams now_that_I_think_about_it
hit take_your_pick you_should_be_so_lucky Oh_really are_you_insane
you_hoser you_don't_like_it theres_no_place_like_home
high_mucky_muck come_and_get_me comedy awesome a_flag_on_that_play

----

At Moses' birth, Egyptians killed Hebrews. It took 40 years for justice with Passover killing firstborn.

FBI and Britain have waged wars against the church. They're fucked.
laziness crash_and_burn oh_oh game_over That's_gonna_leave_a_mark
not_good middle_class

----

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

by the
balance of trade, and we could never become a farthing the poorer by
any expense which we could lay out upon them. They were our own in every
respect, and it was an expense laid out upon the improvement of our own
property, and for the profitable employment of our own people. It is
unnecessary, I apprehend, at present to say anything further, in
order to expose the folly of a system which fatal experience has now
sufficiently exposed. Had our American colonies really been a part of
Great Bri

----

The Egyptians feared so they killed male babies. When the police state goes too far, justice happens.
You are responding to something totally different than what I was saying. Yes, we all know that there is a one-way exit from security zones in airports.

When you are passing through such an area, you are free to move unless you are detained, which in theory would not happen without good reason. The idea is that you are free to exit and just cannot go back in.

When you enter one of these chambers, you are detained by default until you are released. You are not free to go in any direction. It is very different.
That's a fun story told often around a most factories. I've also heard it told that instead of a mechanical arm the operator would have to stand up, walk over, remove the box, and go sit back down. Since the guy was a little lazy he just put a fan there. The moral of that story was "ask the laziest guy how to fix your problem and he'll give you a good answer".

It's a dangerous methodology to preach though. In this story they found out that they had a problem where they were producing boxes without product and instead of actually figuring out why they were producing empty boxes in the first place (i.e. determining the root cause of the problem) they over engineered a 100% quality control inspection on every piece at a huge expense.
Goldman Sachs, shitbags of Wall Street.

Sergey Aleynikov.

Deal with Putin.

Bilking municipalities worldwide.

But wait, there's more:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Controversies
No, it didn't. It said you used it incorrectly. You just failed to understand the usage. Try searching for it.
Arguable. According most low-carb diets, eating meat is good for you and it's carbs that screw you over.
If by Mario clone you mean side-scolling linear platformer, Rayman might fit the bill.
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http://app.given.to is the only API that automates the process of buying iPhone/iPad apps, iTunes music , movies, books, and anything else in the app store individually or in bulk . Then those digital goods can be distribute through email, text message, Facebook, Twitter, QR codes, physical cards with branding, or any other way someone care to distribute them.

The links Given create allow for a digital item to be downloaded in one click without going through the hassles of the app store. These links have been used for marketing campaigns, incentives, rewards, contest and more.
As I said, I'm not actually about to do it. Perhaps just yelling: "If I were a bomb, you'd all be dead. This line makes you less safe!", or something like it, would avoid causing a panic. Even so, I'd still have the expectation of being arrested.
Agree about Foobar. It's about the only app from Windows that I miss when using OS X.

Anyone have a Mac player they use with similar philosophy/featureset to Foobar?
hmmmm I just flew through the Amsterdam airport about two weeks ago and it had this system in the International terminal, except the doors were about 5 meters apart.
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For the vast majority of stores that don't support NFC.
Than, not then.
Do revolving doors decide when you get to leave or do you?
I've used AHK for the same things - it's about the best free/open source thing I've found, besides just adding a scripting language to your program.
You are asking exactly the right questions. As far as I know k-means will work well when you can answer those questions for your problem, otherwise not so much. In other words there's no silver bullet.

If you rephrase the "ML is easy" idea from the article to "it's easy to do some simple but cool things with ML" then it's true, but in pushing the envelope you can make it as complex as you like.
I feel the exact opposite. ML is a huge part of my job (or was), and I topped out at Discrete Math 2 or so, finishing up a few courses of the usual Calculus but never anything as esoteric as Real Analysis or the like. (I think I finished up some Linear Algebra.)

Anyway, my math is not that great and I'm way out of practice when it comes to theoretical work. Not only that, I suck at algorithm design and I'm at best a moderately decent developer from a theory standpoint.

But applied machine learning came natural, because I have a strong grasp of frequentist and Bayesian statistics as well as solving the problems backwards. If you try to apply ML or any other "exotic" solution by starting with "oh man here is this awesome technique," you will definitely be frustrated; I know that feeling all too well.

ML is just another tool in the shed. With practice, you start to understand where simple linear regression techniques are useful and when more heavy-duty methods are applicable. Keep solving real world problems rather than trying to look for stuff to hit with your new hammer (ML in this case) and I bet you'll come around a lot quicker.
It's not that it's hard to code, it's that a aimplistic approach will lead to questions that might not be intuitive.

If you use Euclidean distance, then you essentially count 1 for each word difference. That means long posts will have longer distances from shorter posts with the same topic.

If you fix that by treating "important" words differently, then you have to figure out importance, and then normalize by number of terms, etc.

Before you know it you're building a naive Bayes classifier. Again, the challenge isn't in the coding, it's in understanding the limitations of the more simplistic design.
It's common - there are a number of reasons that the result count is only an estimate, and there are sometimes dramatically fewer than that. In this case Search even tells you why - "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 18 already displayed." If you re-run the query with that option selected you get at least 15 pages of results.
You can put check constraints on a TEXT field to prevent bad data.
If the mountains of downvotes don't do the trick you can ban accounts directly. Hellbanning is cowardly and ineffective.

This isn't Wikipedia, it's a discussion forum--and the discussion pages on Wikipedia are moderated fairly and openly.

I didn't mean that quality as a whole was fictional, I meant that the notion of quality this policy is attempting to enact was fictional/unattainable.

Flame wars still happen. People still complain about the nastiness of HN comments. It's a discussion forum: angry conversation is what it's for.

Hellbanning does absolutely nothing to improve 'quality of discourse,' it just makes this place nastier.
> When did journalists become biomedical experts?

When they write books on the subject? http://superbugthebook.com/

She seems to specialize in medical topics. I don't see any mention of official credentials, but that's not the only way to learn things.
What happens if there's a fire or something?
It's one thing to play the game by rules you have said you disagree with. It's another to then lobby congress to keep those bad rules.
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What if the US stayed out of Europe and only declared war against Japan? If the US had invaded Manchuria while Stalin was still busy with Europe, the Chinese civil war might have panned out differently.
I attended this conference and spoke with the presenter about his talk both before and after. My takeaway was that the presenter was trying to accomplish one thing: educate front-end developers who (rightly or not) have been characterized as unfamiliar or ignorant of cryptographic techniques with a survey of those techniques. I believe this was the sense "Bringing Crypto To The Masses" was meant.

I appreciated the energy and enthusiasm the speaker had for the subject matter and would be delighted if any of that transferred into his audience, but I don't feel it was effectively communicated. In the time constraints presented, even something as simple as, say, discussing what cryptographic hashing (or symmetric crypto or public key crypto or digital signing, take your pick) was and doing a deep dive only in this domain would have been a valuable experience and opened a lot of eyes. I'm fairly familiar with all the topics discussed during this talk and I had a difficult time following along with it. I can't imagine what the experience of the intended audience was or what they managed to glean from it.
>There is a reason for using mathematical notation for non trivial formulas, which is that is more compact and succint, to allow it to convey information efficiently and unambiguously.

Maybe, but not always. Remember that Richard Feynman took great issue with how integration was taught in most math classes and devised his own method (inspired from the Calculus for the Practical Man texts).
The intersection of tech culture (and notably Silicon Valley) and 60s counterculture is a fascinating topic.

The best book on the subject is, in my opinion, "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff [0]. It's a fantastic book, although it requires the reader to already have some knowledge of the people and historical events, as it is not meant to be a computer history primer.

But yeah, it's a great book, and a lot of stuff in there might surprise some readers. For instance, I learned that there was LSD research happening a few blocks away from where I used to live in Menlo Park :)

Timothy Leary also has an interesting essay in Laurel's "Art of Human Computer Interface Design" anthology[1] about what he believes are the intersections of computing as a human tool and psychedelics.

When you start to look into it, you'll realize that the tech industry and California's friendly attitude towards psychedelics have always somewhat gone hand in hand- and people who are not familiar with California's atypical culture might be surprised to know that some of the engineers and designers behind their favorite products share a few things in common with the ol' Timothy.

Queue the necessary: "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Pers...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Human-Computer-Interface-Desig...
Electronic revolving doors can stop and trap you, yes. For example, if it bumps into someone in another segment, it will stop and then you are trapped. If "big brother" had a camera that identified you in one of these doors and wanted to stop the door, they could. There is really no difference between that and this.
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They were able to connect to the centrifuges through the internal facility by infected machines.

I remember reading that one of the methods Stuxnet used to transmit data through the facility between two infected machines that were not networked: sound cards and microphones.
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This looks like a giant PITA for people with small children or anyone escorting someone with a handicap.
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Like another comment above alluded to, mathematicians tend to have parallel gripes about code. While technically we're speaking the same language, the dialect is often quite different.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but www is just another subdomain. http://www.pizza is technically no different from http://superawesometasty.pizza.
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Don't be obtuse by trying to act like that since I didn't specifically enumerate every case in which deadly force is applicable, that means I don't believe any other case allows for it.

And don't be idiotic by trying to equate "kidnapping of my family to be put into slavery" with "oh no this guy might give an accurate statement about myself to someone important!".
> eating meat shortens it

What a massive load of shit. Even if we're going to get on the train that eating meat vicariously results in antibiotics being rendered useless, the two are not any more directly related than watching Netflix destroys the environment (Netflix runs on computers, producing computers causes pollution, pollution destroys the environment).
I do not accept as axiomatic that war can be made less horrible by adding more combatants.
Cool, reminds me of Cyberhippietotalism, a residential hackerspace. An average of 4-5 people in the house, being able to improve your programming skills, learn to cook a really good meal, and have a lot of fun on the go in a warm climate (Canary Islands).
Man..

To other readers, follow that link at your own risk. Vikp has a blog[1] which has hours and hours of excellent writing about machine learning.

[1] http://vikparuchuri.com/blog/
DNA is the hereditary material, RNA isn't "decorating itself" with DNA.
I think if you take a look at Chinese emperors you will find that they had a similar view on using tax money to protect their own stability.

For instance, the Qianlong emperor, one of the best recent emperors, banned over 2000 book and burned 150,000 copies of revolutionary literature. [1]

I'm guessing European kings also had a similar view of dissenters...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianlong_Emperor#Burning_of_boo...
Low-carb diets advocate replacing carbs with fat in addition to protein, and there are many non-meat sources of fat and protein.

And the premise of the diet is supported by sound scientific research rather than simply hearsay (as your comment implies).
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> Sure, you should ideally do this in your application code. But if there is multiple interfaces (such as a REST api etc) to your database then you have to remember to put them in place everywhere.

If its not a logical constraint on the data but a limit on input to prevent malicious actions, the right tradeoff to prevent malicious action may not be the same across all interfaces, and, in any case, even if it is its not clear that -- not being a logical constraint on the data -- it belongs in the schema in any case.

> It protects you with zero cost

No, as TFA, the detailed analysis linked in TFA, and the documentation point out, it is not "zero cost". CHAR(x) and VARCHAR(x) have a non-zero performance cost compared to VARCHAR and TEXT.

It may be a justified cost, but its absolutely not zero cost.
From the site: Based on Java technology

Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
Yes, ironic isn't it? The mainstream media reports something like this, the normally imaginative HN crowd has no response other than, "Meh. No big thing" rather than applying its usual microscope.

Not meaning to troll, but I genuinely wonder if the report came from a different source, how it would be treated, and why there is no one discussing the potential of misuse behind this?

We all know the dangers from our govts & businesses are in the form of creeping erosion, not the earth-shaking policies.
Can't help but feel that you missed out on a much better name: fiddleR. (or perhaps fiddle-r.)

Awesome tool!
This is really only an argument that the example in the article is not realistic (which it doesn't have to be, it might be expository). There are in fact countless applications of machine learning in actual daily use, such as detecting credit card fraud, where simpler manual methods would perform measurably worse in terms of money lost.