skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and their contract, it seems like, says that they can police content.

It's still policing content. As a customer I didn't expect that they would for anything short of illegal.
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Awesome! Are there any resources I could read to learn how to de-Google an Android phone? Thank you so much!
Thank you. I'm just about to install it. Maybe I'll do some drive-by editing on the bus tomorrow :)
Interestingly, the creator of 24 (Joel Surnow) gave a much more nuanced treatment of torture in his earlier "La Femme Nikita". The protagonist agency regularly used torture to hunt down terrorists, but the people practicing it are portrayed as far less sympathetic than Jack Bauer.
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I have one of these and think it's pretty good. I am really happy to have been able to give my money to someone selling me something with Linux on it.
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Sometimes those in power can refuse to kick out others alongside them that are in power. Friendships could've been formed etc.

So the logical conclusion is to request the removal of the CFRG chair, too, and replace him him with someone who will remove the NSA co-chair. Or just start boycotting and ignoring everything this group is proposing from now on in cryptography - whichever way works.

> Should we then eliminate all
individuals affiliated with the NSA from participating?

Um - hell yes?! After all that's happened and everything NSA has been trying to do to undermine the security of the web and US infrastructure, too? Of course the answer to that is YES! Otherwise, I personally have no trust in everything this group or IETF on the whole, will be releasing from now on, if that's their attitude about this.

International security standards should be created without the involvement of spy agencies - especially when they've already been discovered to be trying to implement hardware backdoors on multiple occasions (even in the recent UAE satellite). NSA is hostile to security and to security standards. They've proven it already. So treat them as being hostile.
I'd be more curious in dollars per developer-hour.

Numbers would get screwy throwing in every curious person who got skin-deep into UIKit enough to pop out a 3 hour TODO app.
Interesting that they're moving so fast to depend on C++11 support, rather the opposite of the GCC philosophy (which AIUI keeps a stage1 written in K&R C to ensure that it can build on any platform). Could it be that even after clang spreads, we'll need to keep gcc around for bootstrapping?
Bike-friendly Portland had zero cyclist fatalities in 2013
people would be able to organize protests? it looks more like a "manifestation censorship"... this is the established power controlling what people can and cannot in public spaces in a spooky way.. this is ridiculous..

sorry to tell you that but.. you are no longer in a democracy in UK.. because you dont control anything anymore

Is not politicians that should control people, but people that should control politicians
I really tried the violin (I think it is one of the most beautiful instruments), and for more than 'a couple of hundred hours' and it did not work for me.

I'm not sure how to articulate the mismatch but I'm pretty good with other musical instruments but between the violin and me it never was love to play it, just endless frustration.

At least I can appreciate others that play it a bit better :)
> He even closes the article with the following:
>
>> Your time may better spent getting in there and trying things rather than reading about what other people think.

But collectively, those people have spent a lot more time on the technologies, in many more situations, than I have used them or am likely to use them. How am I better off ignoring them and throwing away data? How does listening to them make me worse off?

When I was looking at statistics languages, I didn't spend a year trying Stata, a year trying SAS, a year trying Julia, a year trying Matlab, a year trying Panda+Python, a year trying R; I just looked at what people were using and blogging about and opinions on them, and picked R. How would I have been better off ignoring all of the community discussions and picking on my own? What systematic tendency causes the discussions to be literally worse than random noise?
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And the various copyright extension bills.
Interesting that, if done today, analysis of a few months worth of meta-data would show exactly who they were.

Edit: Also interesting that today they would be called home grown terrorists instead of anti-war activists.
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Then better implement something like the "tainted mode" in the Linux kernel: if you load a closed-source (tainted) module, you can continue to use it, but the vendor (in this case the kernel developers) will refuse to give support.
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> you can download the code and data and run it yourself if you like.

Check out Gisgraphy:

http://www.gisgraphy.com/

You install it and basically get a local Nominatim.
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Great laptop. I got mine over Christmas and I have no complaints. I hope Dell continues to support Linux.
Notebookcheck has a test of this laptop:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-XPS-13-Ultrabook-La...

I love their review because they go into very much detail and some of the information is hard to found elsewhere, like real measurements of screen contrast and brightness, the one parameter that already eliminates 95% of laptops every time I look for one, and of loudness.
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Chartalism is the school of thought that's been rebranded as modern monetary theory. In a free-floating digital currency regime, the government charges inflation to quantitatively influence the inflation-deflation dynamics of the total user base.

When more people begin to look at money from a systems approach and user base, more things will be possible.
Author here. What I’ve written regarding the reflect behaviour isn’t entirely true and I should probably update the article to reflect that. It’s possible to get (but not set) the value of unexported fields as long as they are of a built in type (e.g. int). What’s not possible is to get access to unexported fields as empty interfaces, which means you cannot type assert them to structs or other types. This seems like an arbitrary limitation (although I’m sure there is a reason for it) and somewhat limits the usefulness of the reflect package.
Here is a graphic to add to that explanation if anyone is curious: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/12866/why-does-gps-po...
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Have you considered pluggable backends (with a Sidekiq/Resque/Rediss backend) so you can easily upgrade a Sidekiq stack to Sneakers?
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you just compared aircraft carriers and a electronic/software company.
> They had months while they could (even just to make the reviews easier) simply scan everything. Page by page while going through the boxes. They didn't have to retype, OCR, describe or do anything else to the documents. Just copy and preserve.

They were probably worried about damaging the books or pages. They had no idea of what was coming, so why would they damage their newfound discovery just to make a bad copy?

(Usually, backup stories are good morality plays because the only cost of backup are time and money; but if you had a 0.01% chance of corrupting both copies of a file every time you copied it over to the backup drive...)
Rather than legalizing torture as a result of these sorts of fantasies, one might argue that in such extraordinary cases, the interrogator should be willing to suffer the consequences of committing the crime of torture.
They were burned to abate an invasive mold problem, not cover up mysterious Nicolas Cage movie plots.
Made an extended version with some JavaScript toppings: http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/de50114d70b2b94b404acec...
Doubtful that everyone will switch to some yet-to-be-determined altcoin.

Bitcoin is open source. Nothing is preventing its flaws from being patched. That's all altcoins are anyway; Bitcoin with a patch to a perceived problem with the protocol.

With a market cap of $21bn, that kind of capitalization doesn't disappear overnight, which would need to happen to counteract a massive flaw that arises from centralized mining.
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Exactly. If the post is "socially negative," then that interaction is between the two people having the interaction. They have to work it out between themselves and let other people make up their own minds based on what they see. If the playground/commons/social theatre gets terminated every time two people disagree, then we'll never be able to work out anything worthwhile, justice will be harmed.

Harassment is pressure and intimidation. Travis Collins is a prevaricator for fabricating the story that the author was following him online and harassing him. DO doesn't have the resources, wisdom or dissociated self-interest to be able to properly police things and will botch themselves up seriously if they try. They should learn from history instead of retreating into Cover Your Ass mode.
I wish the core developers would do two things:

1. Add a new string type to Python 3 that mimics the old Python 2 str type (ASCI)

2. Backport the usefull new features from Python 3 to Python 2.

If they don't do these things, then obviously some group will fork Python 2.7 and 20 years from now, there will
still be far more people using Python 2.x than Python 3.x.
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All of what you said misses the point entirely. Was the original blog post stupid? Certainly. Is it irresponsible and probably harmful to a guy who did nothing wrong besides saying something maladroitly? Yes.

I don't care though: all of those things are well-within the law. If DigitalOcean's TOS means that they personally police content, then I'm out.
Yeah, but it's not about helping people - it's about sending a message

(at least, in the US)
Yes. I dislike reinventing the wheel, I actually bumped my head against making Sidekiq use a different backend.

Three problems - one - it is too tightly coupled to Redis. Secondly, Celluloid (the actor model behind Sidekiq) proved to be some of the problem here. Lastly, I wanted both a process and thread processing model which doesn't exist there.

Then, I tried rigging Celluloid to perform all these but after failing and speaking with Celluloid commiters I understood that it is under "major revision" and that they are not happy with some of the core elements right now (threadpool).

THEN, I opted to reinvent the wheel. Even here, I've chosen serverengine as the basic process management infrastructure to work on - a production tested core, to build Sneakers on.
I think you are right about television being largely reactive, but I do wonder about feedback loops.

CSI is set in Las Vegas. They show multiple murders on a typical night shift, yet in reality there is "only" a murder every 2 or 3 days. Of course it makes sense that they would actually show things happening, but I wonder how that feeds into people's perceptions of the world (The "CSI effect" is apparently a real thing, so people have taken some lessons from it, right?).
I've been using it for a while and it handles most of the things I've tried to enter. The only thing I've not been able to add using Pushpin is the many bookmakers/betting shops I find in London. I'm going to email the developer later and ask him to add it.
As a founder of another service, http://bitdeli.com, that provides analytics for GitHub, I would be curious to hear what kind of analytics would you like to get for your repos?

There are a number of GitHub-specific metrics that we could add, like being able to track the number of forks / stars.

We will be adding weekly email reports soon - what metrics would you like to see included?
Do they get saved to your phone? If not, how else would you get the picture? They have to go somewhere.
It's a defense in New York, which is Digital Ocean's jurisdiction.
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In 24 at first they tried to attach consequences in the form of the physical and emotional degradation of Jack Bauer, but after a few seasons of successes and redemption, it made no impact anymore. I can't recall instances of the good guys in Fringe using torture directly. I'm sure they are there, and I've just become numb to them.
does Ubuntu use some kind of DPI scaling on this or is it just native FHD ? That could be pretty small for some people. How does it handle setting to lower resolutions ?

Also 6hours of battery life seem a bit on the short side, though he had quite a few programs running. Id like to know how it would do in Windows8 though.

Id also be interested in how well it handles sleep/awake scenarios with an external display attached etc.
I have been using Sidekiq in production for over a year now, running over 11B jobs over that year, peaking around 20m jobs per day.

I've been wanting to migrate away from it to use more of a micro-service approach, so the code doesn't live inside the monolithic rails application.

Bunny looked like a start, but I really wanted something more, this seems like the answer, will definitely be using it for the migration.

@jundot, great job! looks like a solid project!
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If by sometimes you mean hypothetically. Still, we don't need to make torture legal.

But I bite. Let's say that thing you describe happens. People who torture should still get hard sentences, say 20 to 25 years. If they are not willing to sacrifice their own life and break the law to get the information, the torture is not justified.

In other words: torture should always be big personal sacrifice for the torturer.
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If you know everything ahead of time, you could probably just use something like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function
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Why is it absurd that an extra $3600/year might tip someone across the poverty line?
Thats a review of the 2012 version though, the 2013 haswell version should be much improved.
The dis-ease is the current distribution of resources, which is a symptom or side-effect of capitalism evolving to its extremities - those systems can be influenced to incentivize different behaviours and patterns though to correct the dis-ease. If people believe resources are scarce, then there may be an issue. If people believe we have access - through human will, passion, and ingenuity - to the resources of the whole universe, then scarcity is only an illusion and we need not allow this fear to perpetuate, as it only leads to unnecessary suffering through fear of survival, and fear-mongers being able to control populations and create wars or at minimum perpetuate the suffering of one group for the gain of what they consider their own population.
This is not the haswell/HD screen version though.

I'm currently looking for a laptop and it will be either the XPS 13 or a rMBP 13 inches. I'm currently favoring the rMPB a little bit because it seems it get less hot than the XPS. It kinds of scare me when the review says the laptop gets somewhat warm while surfing and I've had really bad experiences with overheating Dell laptops.

What's your experience XPS 13 owners ?
I also remember the Babylon 5 fourth season episode “Intersections in Real Time” as being particularly good.
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24 is a much better example than Fringe. If Fringe depicts torture as a tool, it also depicts time travel as a tool and wacky science as a tool, but I don't see the author taking umbrage.

Fringe, like 24, is a work of fiction. The problem is not the series' content. The real problem is letting politicians and media use a work of fiction as an actual situation. Using "Jack Bauer" in the debate about torture is like using Planet of the Apes in the debate about space exploration.
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So, published 3 days before the OP's post (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7017552): http://www.wral.com/historians-lament-destruction-of-frankli...

Which says the records were burned because they were full of mold, a health hazard, and had already been designated for destruction in 1964.

This wasn't a nifty little storage room full of rare old materials, it was pile of boxes in a basement with a leaky pipe.

It's sad for sure that a few really cool documents were lost, but they needed to be destroyed to remove the mold threat -- I doubt it was economically feasible to clean or restore the lot of them, and it'd have been dangerous to have folks rummage through them to find things worth restoration (can you remove mold from a ledger book?).
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ASK ISRO.
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What leads you to believe that the ability to solve fizzbuzz is a valid selector for individuals who will contribute in the desired manner? In my experience, technical ability is not linked to social ability or empathetic behavior.

I think the expectation behind invite-only membership is that members will curate their choices beyond basic tests such as this. Look at it this way, if the ability to solve fizzbuzz were a valid selector, the site could establish a simple screening process that doesn't involve an invite system.

If your standing on the site is affected by your invitees' behavior, you may be in for a rough ride.
I was wondering why no highish res photos of the outside appearance of the documents at least, simply as a sort of inventory of what was there, and perhaps any dates, titles, case names on the document envelopes.

I can understand a reluctance to actually open any folded documents in dockets that have been stored in damp conditions and left for 100+ years. I've recently scanned and photographed some documents relating to my family from the 1880s, these have been stored in a tin box and were very dry and fragile. We are just keeping them in the box at present!
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It's too bad he didn't try to tackle the optimal regexp problem and settled for approximations - it may be a NP-hard problem, but all the example solutions are short enough that the instances might be still tractable. Would've been nice to know for sure.
Hm, the United Queendom's people should revoke those laws as incompatible with their constitution.

Oh wait. They don't have one ...
Bootstrapping from the previous version of clang would be easier. GCC cares so much about portability because the GNU project's goal was to replace the userspace on proprietary Unices, however ancient or quirky. There are few such systems left, and they are not clang's target audience.
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Boulder in particular has a very active startup community, BDNT, the Foundry Group and a highly-educated, open-minded progressive community. You can view all 500+ at coloradojobbase.com.
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Yeah, for $1500 after tax, I'll stick with the 11 hours a MBPr gets and install a VM if I want to use Linux.
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Interesting! A few questions, if you feel like answering them:

- Did you try a professional / teacher?

- Did others also think you didn't become better with practice?

- In hindsight, would you characterize your practice as deliberate practice?

- If yes, what was the thing(s) you never managed to get right?
I use and love Apple hardware, but if you're not going to use OS X, does it make sense to pay the price in driver potential wonkiness?
Although the article is pretty lame, it seems to me that the UK is turning out more and to resemble 1984.
11B == 1B, sorry
The article is interesting, but what caught my eye more is the possibly spoofed DNSSEC cert.
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Hi, I'm the genealogy geek who first posted to HN about this story three days ago, just before the HN downtime, in the thread about Canada's similarly horrible records destruction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7010885

Since then, the story has gone viral on Twitter and is now back on HN as a post in its own right. And yet there were people like me who knew (and tweeted!) about the impending records destruction through the genealogy grapevine before the burning -- but we felt powerless to do anything about it.

If ever there were an example of how important it is for us genealogy/archives folks to break out of our little world and interface more with the general public more often, this would be it. I'm so glad people here, and on Twitter, seem to really grasp what a big deal stories like this are, and how shameful it is to have destroyed records.

Now, pull up a chair and let me explain to you all about the worrying trend of privatization and commercialization of public archives and public data, or the saga of the SSDI closure...
I owned one of the early 2013 1080p versions for about a month, but had serious issues with backlight bleed. After having it replaced twice it became clear that the issue was inherent to the hardware.

Aside from this, it seemed like a fantastic machine, but beware of the potential backlight issues if you spend a significant amount of time with dark or black windows / backgrounds. For me, this was 90% of the time between terminal windows and Sublime Text.
I am disappointed with the article - flagged for low quality/lack of insight.

The author reinvents standard JPEG forensics tools that ship with every distribution, badly, for no discernible reason other than that he's not aware of doing forensics. That's the worst kind of hacking.
I'm conflicted about the price being in the range of MBPs and Dell competing with Apple, supposedly, based on quality and design. I think they would be much more competitive if they were to price this laptop significantly cheaper than MBPs without sacrificing too much quality. I think Dell has the resources to do this. It's difficult for me to ignore brand image and I guess this makes me a fan boy. Although, I really do want a decent Linux laptop. I will keep an eye on the XPS13 in case I make the switch.
http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html

practical tradeoffs, but yes, his preferred language is Python.