skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would it take to port this to other architectures (Linux / Windows).
Maybe if this were /r/nottheonion
I don't think there's a full-fledged conspiracy at play - it's more like a progressive process of disneyfication of the internet: apps and not websites (easier to control and monetize), progressively more bland content, soon preferential allocation of the band for the majors, and so on. This is what happens when a resource becomes economically appetising: the stakeholders try to enlarge the user base as much as possible by means that include the sanitisation of the image of the media (cinema too, for example, was considered dangerous when it was young).

Soon enough they will be able to sell 'the internet' to people like my mother ('omg, you work "on the internet"? but there are pedophiles "on the internet!"' 'Mum, am thirty' [sic])

We knew the internet while it was the Far West. It was (allegedly) dangerous to some extent, it was fun, and very much free. I hope it will stay such (well, it still isn't that much anymore, but still) to the maximum possible extent but I don't feel very optimistic, bar for some marginalised areas like IRC.
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One cannot frame the position of someone on a topic from a quotation or two, and then have the ironic audacity of calling that person myopic.
Talk about polish. When you map buttons, the controller greys out with a circle that animates its position as you choose the next button to map. Im going to hook up some dual shock 3 controllers when I get home to really test this out.

edit: I assume these little things are the reason why it would be difficult to port to other platforms. From what I understand, Apple has animation built into its core UI framework
No plans. We're focusing on OS X but there is a great multi-platform emulator called RetroArch: http://www.libretro.com
Equating attention to an internal mapping of mental processes makes sense. I don't see how that leads to the subjective feeling of consciousness. This article, and Dennett's Consciousness Explained both argue for schemas that would seem to accompany consciousness, or even be necessary for it. But they are both unsatisfying because they don't explain the subjective part.

I can imagine software interacting with sensors of the real world, and many levels of organization above that, in which there are schemas allowing for symbolic manipulation of the layer below. I can also imagine how such a system might reason about (i.e., manipulate a symbolic representation of) some other computer's layers of representation and reasoning. But I don't see how the subjective feeling of consciousness arises here either.
His country had just been invaded by Nazis. Not to imply that Stalin was any better, but if Hitler invaded your country, killed a bunch of people and devastated the land, you might feel the urge to design weapons.
Hi, UK resident here, living in N7.

Tell me operational steps I can take at the 27-28-29th of Dec that will exercise leveraged optimisation pressure against this.
A more important and often overlooked adage - make it correct before you try to make it fast.

My confusion at your (and others, not meaning to pick on this one) response is more fundamental than that. There is no way in which thinking about these things is somehow divorced from thinking about things mathematically.

To me "Merely depending on a mathematical model" isn't a problem that actually happens much. Failing to think about these things, on the other hand, very much is.
I've been thinking about this as well. A lot of people seem to think that the plan is to, at first, block porn under the guise of protecting the children and then move on to full blown censorship.

If that is true, then who are the people that came up with this plan? Has there been a company that has been lobbying just to sell more equipment? Are people in the government realizing that free flow of information makes their jobs harder? Or do they want to trick people into believing that they care about the children?

What's really frustrating is that, while people report on things like this, you never really seem to understand what the main driving force is behind decisions like these.
You don't get it. The whole point of laundering money is so the criminals can spend it on legitimate things, like cars, houses, and burgers (or tacos?).

You don't launder money to buy more illegal things, you launder money to buy things legally.

Edit - the easiest way to launder money is actually to run a legit business (like a restaurant), and create fake transactions that are settled in cash. And of course, business men will take that cash to the bank. Now how is the bank going to determine if that cash coming in is from a real business, a fake one, if it's drug money, etc...? Because plenty of real businesses, especially in places like Mexico, do most of their business in cash...
2 * 47
That would be immoral.
They did, and so Great Britain and France pacted with Nazis to give in Czechoslovakia in "Munich betrayal" Czechoslavakia was an ally with Fr/GB agreeing to defend each other and they were much better prepared for war. In WW2 none of the main actors were innocent.
Answering who is behind it can help answering the why.
It doesn't matter what you ask anyway, once something like this is in place it takes a lot of bureaucracy to get rid of it.
The logistics behind keeping track of 100+ students a trimester can become daunting. Most tools available to teachers are wanton.

Then throw in classes with 600+ students requiring multiple teachers. Trying to align fairness (rubrics), plagiarism (tools like Turn-it-in) and the uniqueness of teaching style is difficult.

We'll, I think it is more about teachers being overloaded with the minutiae of data that causes them to lose focus of the bigger picture (education). Actually, in my opinion, education has lost focus on the bigger picture of education and may have never really had it.
And incomprehensibly, Python 3 removed the cmp argument, leaving only unwary sort.
Well shit, anyone else have any ideas? Depending on how strict they are with stalking or watching you I think typing things up on my phone wouldn't be to difficult to do nonchalantly.
Thanks, nice find! But doesn't the max RAM say 8 GB?
So crazy that I have been parting out an almost identical build with an E3-1230v2 and a Supermicro board, Fractal design case, etc... and then boom the creator of PHP mentions that he built one too.

That's the sign I needed. Gonna take the plunge. @rasmus have you been on the 9.2 RC's and now the release or are you on 9.1? I've been having significant issues with 9.2. It's the best software out there to roll your own NAS though. Nas4Free is pretty rad too but falls significantly short when you compare it side-by-side with FreeNAS.

Also, regarding LAGG/LACP, I noticed some pretty radical throughput increases after experimenting it on my home network. It took me a while to decide on a Layer 2 managed switch, but I ultimately went with the TP-Link SG3216 (new from Amazon, pretty cheap for a 16port gigabit managed device) and it's been great.

I think that once a connection is open, it will route through one single interface, so it won't help much between two boxes. But, as you said, having multiple devices connecting and backing up simultaneously will take advantage of the multiple links.
Not sure where you're going with this? The Queen did dissolve parliament and wasn't ignored?
Schools need industry mandated open standards that force the systems to inter-operate. This isn't it.
I think an important question is whether the version in the LOC is the real version. Since there are so many red flags, it would make a good deal of sense that they simply placed a watered down version of the material in the LOC for a "lucky" reporter to find and take the heat off them.

Basically, this version is a sensitive detector for describing government wrongdoing, but it is not specific - it doesn't prove that certain forms of wrongdoing were not in the training manual.
Indeed not; implication does not depend on interpretation; it seems to me that p => q implies !q => !p regardless of any opinion I might venture to hold on the subject.

Perhaps I misunderstand. If so, perhaps you'll formalize the matter closely enough that I'm able to spot where I have gone wrong.
FYI, I'm using a BT business account at home and there's no sign of any filtering yet. Are companies excluded from this nonsense??
Violence is a key part of the human experience and unsurprisingly we devote tremendous intellectual resources to the task. Much of the history of engineering is devoted to facilitating violence. I never got engineers who tried to distance themselves from that aspect of the profession.
You mean the criminals would have to like, break the law, to get one?!
I believe the mindset behind this behavior is A) they take it for granted that you're proficient in your stated area of expertise, B) they're not necessarily proficient in your area of expertise, so wouldn't be able to assess your skills anyway, C) algorithm knowledge is hard to fake, so your false positive rate for hardcore engineers will be low, even if your false negative rate will be ridiculously high.

Google's publicly available prep material reinforces this third point, even if they don't say it explicitly. They recommend books, point you toward places where you can learn the concepts, and tell you if you fail once, try again in a few months.
Obviously when you get to this level, it becomes difficult to tease out variables, as now you're dealing with individual cases. By and large, you could draw comparisons between guns and other methods/means of killing:

Gun advantages

+ Lets you kill from a safe distance

+ A lot of killing potential (potentially 1 death for every bullet)

+ Also useful for other methods of killing (you can certainly bludgeon someone to death with a gun just as easily as shoot them)

+ An individual can potentially kill many more people per unit of time through the use of tactical advantage (sniping, guerrilla warfare, etc.)

All of these benefits are lost by having to use something more primitive, and all of them aide directly in the extermination of life. I think it's fair to say, at the least, that `gun` is far more potentially deadly than `!gun`.

Let's say, for instance, I saw a caravan approaching. Four people, in close proximity to one another. If I was equipped with even a semi-automatic weapon, I might not chance a guerrilla encounter. Forget hand-to-hand combat. Four on one would almost certainly lead to my death. Encounter averted.

Now let's say I'm equipped with an AK. Fully-automatic. At the very least, I can kill one immediately and then create chaos in the caravan by laying cover fire. If they are not similarly equipped, it would probably be a slaughter.

Before dismissing this scenario as contrivance, consider that if we are to assess individual interactions with such a device, we have to consider what it would mean on the fringe cases. If avoidance of violence is the ultimate goal, which of these scenarios would get us closer to that goal?
Man, I need to check up on my VIM helptext, I have no idea what 'ML algorithm' does as a regex flag.

Also, vim will accept any character right after the 's' as a regex boundary, so you could rewrite it as

:s:AK-47:<your favorite AI/ML algorithm:

, and it would work!
And turning shipping containers into bite-size concentration camps wasn't? Your concept of morality fascinates me! Please elaborate.
That's because Disney is trying to ingrain their brands into pop culture. Modern Marvel movies can't stand on their own merits so Disney has to give them away in hopes of getting people to see future movies in the franchise. It's manipulative bullshit marketing to cover up the poor writing, bad cinematography, overused CGI and post production added 3D effects. Since Disney bought Marvel in 2010 that's what has been produced. There is no vision beyond maximizing their ROI (selling made in China toys and clothes to children, etc.) and setting up future installments in the franchise. It is dishonest and I hope they fail miserably.

Do you want to see a real super hero film? Go watch Nolan's Batman series.
The ones I work with are math sites - one example is
http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage, another is http://www.samholloway.co.uk/.

Here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BcME5NvCAAAeslD.png

I'm also told that Boots, CEOP, Childline, HM Govt, NHS, Police, and Samaritans sites are blocked, although I don't have first-hand confirmation.
While the two are somewhat similar in external appearance, the STG44 and AK47 are very different rifles internally. Basically the only thing they have in common mechanically is that they both use a long stroke gas piston, along with many other contemporary small arms (Garand, BAR, Bren, DP, etc).
Similar situations, but different in the sense that Russia took Poland from a position of power, while GB/Fr gave up Czechoslovakia from a position of weakness and didn't make any territorial gains from it.
Phrasing it that way puts the weapon in the foreground of the reader's mind and the shooter in the background. That may be the the grandparent's intent, but if not, "with" might be preferable to "by".
Congratulations on what looks like a really nice effort - I'm looking forward to trying it out. Out of curiosity, what are your main reasons for not making it a joint effort with RetroArch? I'm a modularity and reusability freak, but I know often there can be quite compelling reasons for not doing it.
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We are a venture backed, based on University Ave, Palo Alto. A flexible position with distributed/remote working over the Holidays.
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I was going to disagree with the "cargo culting" statement, but then read the OP...
You are right, knowing who was behind its creation is very helpful. Focus will swiftly turn to who currently controls it and then the tracks can be lost though.
My wife and brother are both teachers. While the systems that they use are far from "joyful", the issues being portrayed from the teacher perspective are being overblown. Perhaps the administration has bigger issues?
Show HN: 4k word epic tutorial on setting up a Printrbot Simple 3D printer kit
OpenEmu is a front end for a lot of emulator engines. Porting this to Linux or Windows would require a rewrite since it's written for OS X technologies.
Incomplete sentences confuse me. Of course "pay for opt-out" is kind of how it is now, since those who opt out will still have to subsidize the support burden of filtering.
A complete rewrite as this is a native cocoa app. We don't have any plans to do this but I recommend using RetroArch which is a great multi-platform emulator.
I don't care where the money comes from. I care about the science. And nobody seems to be able to explain it to me (at least not since my simplistic - and wrong - environmental science class in high school).

Catalytic ozone depletion is a result of chlorofluorocarbon pollution. Molina, Crutzen, and Rowland won the 1995 Nobel prize in chemistry proving that [1]. CFCs are now banned, and the ozone depletion is reversing with a full recovery expected around 2050 [2].

Maybe there's something super obvious I'm not seeing because I don't get it. All I hear about is intrigue, conspiracy, and vague references to consensus. Hopefully we have a real climate scientist among us because I've studied ozone depletion and I'm just not convinced that there's a problem. If the Koch brothers want to pay me to hold that opinion my emails in my profile. Cash only, please.

[1] http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1...

[2] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
Was it a Libertarian?
There is a parallel "next step" in that non-filtering countries will try to impose filtering in the name of harmonizing international law and policy.
It's pretty tough to reliably stop/disable somebody without at least a risk of killing them. Tasers still kill people every now and then, and their effectiveness is low enough that police usually only use them against unarmed people or with lots of backup armed with lethal weapons.
That could be real or it could be posturing. That's why we have a court system - to hash these kinds of things out.

It's not at all uncommon for prosecutors to say things like that and then not file charges because they know they can't get a conviction.
I do lots of front-end work and have tended to do front-end phonescreens for the past few years. I'm a huge fan of Steve Yegge's five essential phone screen questions: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...

Good breadth, no one gets bounced for not knowing a couple of the answers, great way to get a larger picture of what the candidate knows (or doesn't!).

Designers-turned-JSers tend not to do so well on data structures and bits and bytes.

After the five questions, I move to HTML/CSS questions: inline vs. block, what does float really do, the display property, valid values for display besides "none", visibility: hidden vs display: none, position, absolute vs. relative (with relative offset parent questions thrown in).

For the JS portion, I ask scoping, closures, global object, the values of "this" based on calling context.

I like front-end engineers who are also, y'know, engineers. I like working with people who I can say "that distributed system has performance characteristics akin to a hashtable" and they know what I mean.
Statistically speaking, I haven't had to look them up that many times. I've a high percentage of the JDK memorized though, and a pretty good portion of the CocoaTouch and Objective-C Foundation framework. :-)
If the average HN reader knows what Tinder is, that could mean that 51% know and 49% don't know. Never ignore the 49%. :-)

Definitely agree about the "YOU THINK THAT'S A BAD IDEA" language. Besides being negative, it puts words in people's mouths, which is very off-putting.

Your project sounds neat, though. Best of luck with it!
94 : 2 =
Plausible deniability is always best in situations like this.
Agreed. There's a place there where the judge asked the lawyer for Lavabit something like "if you don't trust the government wiretap box then why should the government trust that you are providing the required information"?

The lawyer had no real response, and agreed that the judge had a good point.

I can think of some answers which might have been better, but they require technical collaboration to come up with a mutually acceptable answer. Or, with the Snowden information we know now, there's a reasonable suspicion that the unreviewed information might be stored for later, should the government decide there are other justifiable reasons to review it in the future.
Google Glass.
I've become a fan of bitstream charter lately[1], available through the mathdesign package

\usepackage[bitstream-charter]{mathdesign}

I am not a designer, but I think it looks good with adobe's source code pro[2]:

\usepackage{sourcecodepro}

[1] http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/charter/
[2] http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=d...
Lisp has keywords:

(look #:attr "at" #:attr2 "up" this (awkward problem))

Or to handle XML on the fly, cons cells are another option:

(look '(attr . "at") '(attr2 . "up) this (awkward problem))

Going further since it's Lisp and we're just parsing, we could pretty much use whatever syntax we want by adding a macro:

(look (attributes attr "at" attr2 "up") this (awkward problem))
Page 84-85 of the PDF references: "websites that Alba visited" and "the to/from addresses of Alba's E-Mail"

Did they forget to redact the suspects name there?
Well two things:

1) "Organization X in some part denies climate change"

Organization X in _totality_ denies climate change

2) "This seems analogous to someone on the right "

The difference (at least in your quote) is that espousing the benefits of abortion is different from actually performing abortion, and no one is claiming that the organizations mentioned are actually burning coal with the $Y in funding.
http://hnapp.com/ -- This is the best HN Scraped site.. returns data in JSON / RSS format.
OpenEmu has been in development for a really long time, first around 2009 which is before RetroArch came around. Our focus has always been a native OS X application while theirs has been cross-platform. Also, cross-platform UI's are a pain!
Google should hire this man.
>My response can be very simply stated as the well-known adage - Profile Before Optimizing

Well, profiling IS also math.

If anything, it would be "optimizing" which is programming proper.
I'm getting phishing related to Target, which probably works. It's like a terrorist/military bombing where the attackers wait around and then take out the first responders. Twofer!
Clickable links:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jrgphx4vn95va4z/LegimonChristmasSe...

https://www.facebook.com/legimon
Something that was posted on HN once or twice before was EWD 1036: "On the cruelty of really teaching computer science", by Dijkstra.

It makes, in my opinion, a much more lucid argument than this article as to why a firm background in math, particularly theoretical math, is important for programmers of all sorts. It's definitely something I'd read if you're thinking about the role of math in computer science and programming as fields.

The article is here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW...

There have been numerous submissions of it to HN, of varying popularity. The ones I could find with the most comments are:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6838434 (three weeks ago)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3553983 (one year ago)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1666445 (three years ago)
Thanks, we have a link to the repo at the top of our webpage header too.
Scala as a platform for statistical computing and data science
I have yet to persuade a single chemist, earth scientist or environmental scientist to switch from Word to LaTeX. They can be persuaded to use Libre Office, however.