skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love it and the fact that support older sdk is a big plus to me. Plus is very easy to use.

Edit: Something that i would like is that the icons popup a bit more, they are too thin.
Firefox 22 was the last version to support it. The other big browsers have ended support as well.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...
Because Mt. Gox is totally the foundation of bitcoin rollseyes
But it's not a deterrent. It should be, but humans are not rational actors and it turns out that punishment doesn't work as a deterrent.
They don't want to do what?

Be a solider? Kill? Follow orders? Wake up so early?

And what happens when they want? A life sentence?
Don't ever download warez.

FLACs and movies, fine. Go nuts. But never, EVER, EVER try your luck with cracked software.

It's not worth it.
It would be interesting to see what exchanges had higher prices during the climb to see who started it.
Bitcoin has been pumped up and crashed 3 times. The fraudulent trading of Mt. Gox was only the most recent crash.
As someone else pointed out elsewhere in the thread, Yanomame do not travel to work and leave the wife. The man took two very different cultures and combined actions that are common in each but not the other. The combination was explosive.
I think you meant "correlation"?
Violinists and pianists also have to keep their finger nails clipped because nails get in the way of hitting the key/string properly. Interestingly, this is opposite to some guitar/banjo/mandolin players, who keep their nails long to help with picking, as mentioned above.

Add one more to the list!
I didn't understand half the terminology you used, which means I'm well on my way to become a CIO and buy lots of Cisco products!
I know plenty of 30+ year olds who aren't mature enough to make such a decision either. The age of 18 is just an arbitrary choice to plant a legal marker, because it's not practical to judge on a case by case basis.

Not that I'm condoning the behavior in this case....I'd think the intent of age of consent laws would be to protect those not yet able to protect themself with their own judgement - it should be obvious in this case, especially considering his age at the time, that taking a ~13 year old "wife" and proceeding to have sex with her when you had no intent to move there permanently was an incredibly wrong thing to do, by any moral compass.
It is quite puzzling that YC invests in and promotes companies that implement essentially DRM for documents and DRM for Q&A, with all the evil techniques that DRM requires and incites.

It appears that the movie and music industry are considered harmful, but imitating them in other domains is wonderful.
Support for the <blink> tag was dropped in Firefox 23 in August 2013[0][1]. In February 2013, Opera had announced that it would switch from its Presto rendering engine (which supported <blink>) to WebKit (which never did). Since Internet Explorer's Trident rendering engine never supported <blink> either, this would leave Firefox's Gecko as the only rendering engine to support it.
In April 2013, Chrome forked WebKit to create its own rendering engine called Blink[3] (named, ironically, because it doesn't support the <blink> tag.)

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857820

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes

[2] http://dev.opera.com/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webk...

[3] http://blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blink-rendering-engine-for-...

This was the HN discussion when <blink> support was dropped from Gecko:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6170392
> Isn't SQLite always statically linked with the applicaton?

SQLite can be dynamically linked, though static linking is probably more common.
Link for the lazy:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckface.n...
Just partially block the air intakes. It'll get hot fast. Just be careful it doesn't start to melt inside.
I agree. That single sentence irritated me immensely. It was a ham-fisted and misguided attempt to emphasize the 'exoticness' of the Yanomami.
Because a drunk driver thinks how many years will he spend in prison for causing an accident and killing people and not thinking that nothing will happen because no one will catch him?
> once we get away from "non-violent drug offenders" i think the argument loses force.

I disagree.

97% of federal convictions and 94% of state convictions are the result of plea bargains. At least 4% of death sentences are erroneous. In 2007 there were 2.4 million prisoners in the United States.

I'm guessing death row convictions receive much more attention than normal convictions, especially convictions from plea bargains. In this case, we can conservatively guess that the rate of false conviction is higher for plea bargains.. let's say it's 6%. Extrapolate that to the entire prison population, and that's 144,000 people who are wrongfully locked up. That number is far, far too high no matter how you look at it, and I'm guessing it's even worse than that in reality. The way our system abuses the plea bargaining system is morally reprehensible. This alone should be enough to warrant reform.

> people are capable of really heinous stuff.

People who were raised in shitty circumstances tend to do shitty things. 68% of prisoners don't have a high school diploma. I think that's pretty telling on its own.

The real question is: what is the point of prison? Is it a place wherein troubled individuals can receive treatment and be corrected so that they may be reintegrated at some point and become functioning and productive members of society? Or is simply a place that we punish people indiscriminately?

Recidivism rates tell the story. In California, 60% of the formerly incarcerated end up back in prison. Prison is obviously not a place for treatment or healing or anything that might improve the lives of the people who enter it. It is a place that society simply locks the people up that it doesn't like - for the most part, poor black people.

But there is hope. When I see things like this: http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/05/13/rehab-program-boas... , it gives me hope that people will realize that the way we're handling 'corrections' produces more criminals than it stops. Our system currently doesn't work if the goal is to reduce crime in the long run. I wonder how many criminals we have created because of false convictions. Or because of the war on drugs, since the number of federal prisoners has jumped 790% since 1980 (do you really think people have been committing 790% more crime since then?)
There are standards, but 3.5v isn't one. Big waste of power though to run a 1.2V part at 5.0V, and transistor geometry to make it capable of that. Most FPGA and some micros have separate rails for I/O and a low voltage core, like 1.2V.
The one thing it can't give you is freedom from the system. No matter how many holographic people you 'play' with, you know perfectly well it's just force fields and really good AI. Alcohol is forbidden, but everyone seems to have a bottle of something green and potent stashed away somewhere.

DS9 got a bit into genetic engineering as a result of the post-apocalyptic setting of the Trek universe with Bashir, who was secretly sent offworld by his parents (IIRC I forget the reason) to be genetically modified by aliens because (thanks to the Eugenics wars) that sort of thing was forbidden on Earth. So he was essentially an Augment hiding out. The Maquis were upset with Federation politics and essentially seceded. For all it's utopian pretense, it's clear at least as it's portrayed, that the Federation is a society with limits, and laws, and wherever you have limits and laws you have crime and a desire to game the system.

Even a soft prison can feel like a prison. I can easily imagine the Federation feeling like that.
I just try to keep in mind that eventually the Morlocks end up eating the Eloi.
I can't find an example on Google right now, but I've seen demonstrations that it's possible to visualize the intermediate layers of a neural network - for example you can see how an image recognition network is first breaking down an image into horizontal and vertical lines, then combining those into more complex shapes, etc.
The GNU GPL generally requires works be provided in the "preferred form" for making modifications. That might well be a hack around Scribd's methods.
Quora's principle crime is breaking the sharing nature of the Web and polluting search engine results with inaccessible content. Pretty much precisely what Scribd does.
Thomas Piketty, Apple fan-boy and sample biacist
Interesting insight. I've only recently found LibGen, and it's simply amazing for conducting research.

I expect it will be attacked, possibly successfully, but other alternatives will rise to take its place.
I wouldn't let that set you back. All you need is a sense of adventure mixed with equal amounts of common sense and money. I got round SK/Japan with a few basic words that I made sure to learn to at least try to be polite.
I agree that SOME 30 year-olds aren't mature enough to make adult decisions, but on the other hand almost every single 13 year-old on the planet is too immature.
alternatively, the guy with the gun will just want everything and you are left with nothing.

I think you might be overestimating the leverage you have with just your BTC
Great job! Do you know if she'll be making this for iOS?
My initial thought was your comment was bullshit, until I googled and read this article.

http://www.economist.com/node/21543195
When recidivism rates are so high (67%), I highly doubt that locking more people up is, in the long run, going to reduce crime better than methods which actually attack the root cause of crime.
Just out of curiosity, what is it about pay-walls that you hate so much?

I don't hate them (my wallet does, when the content I want is behind them of course), but I find it to be a pretty reasonable model. Have a bite of the content, if you enjoy it then pay for the rest. It doesn't seem crazy to me that people should be compensated for their work, and while the "pay what you want" model is a lovely ideal, some people are more comfortable putting a fixed price on it.

I'm not asking to be combative, I'm genuinely curious on whether or not you have a better solution, and I'm totally open to having my opinion of pay-walls changed if I've overlooked some flaw in that model.
Try not to let trolls get to you. No one was influenced in the slightest by their comments, so there's no reason to let it get under your skin.
New Republic – The Brutal Ageism of Tech
> Likely the next invalid format we'll have to parse is PDFs containing tables...

cough people doing e-invoicing with pdf's...
Your spam is someone else's notification from a service they use.

Can we stop torturing the definition of words, please? Spam is unsolicited commercial email. A service you registered for emailing you when one of your questions is answered or commented on, or a digest of interesting questions from the week, and so on is not spam by any possible definition.

Now, where have I seen that behavior before? Is this spam too, by your definition?

http://gyazo.com/df79d094acec54257a6d06b331664f5a

And here's the control UI

http://gyazo.com/db7e83881331c7dde7f028af3411f917

This is something I wish i could do over on Stack* - I'd love to be emailed when a question is answered or commented on. But alas, I have a newsletter, and a single checkbox that turns a bunch of stuff on and off. But you don't earn hate on hacker news for having too few features, apparently you earn it by having too many?

The worst thing you can accuse Quora of is being very, very granular as to what you can turn on and off... Hence why I call it confirmation bias. People have been told the site is crap and so go looking for reasons to confirm it.

Behold! The email settings UI is over-engineered! Let's imply a huge amount of mustache-twirling negativity into their motivations for doing so! The horror! They send an email once a week with interesting questions! It must be spam! Nevermind the fact that Stack* does the exact same thing!

All of this Quora hate is really, really unjustified for the simple difference of having a registration requirement to view their content.
It's their own project, open source, and available for (and used by) other projects: https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

And yes, it's absolutely fucking awesome. Better than any book reader, online or off, anywhere.
Early on in my career, just a year out of school, I, for some absurd reason, had the idea to build my own date library.

Primarily, I didn't fully understand the date objects and functions available in the languages/libraries i was using so simple things like formatting a string date seemed difficult to me.

This was an awful idea. Dreadful.

I came up with all sort of delightful helper methods to cover common use cases like adding one month to the current date. I made this decision to represent dates internally with a timestamp, so adding a month is easy, right?! No. ...What's 1 month from January 31st? February 28th? Well then what's 1 month from February 28th? The list of edge cases goes on.

Most things in life are more complicated than they, at first, seem.
Please post that as a Show HN when you feel you're ready. (Email hn@ycombinator.com if you want clarification of what that means.)

Edit: In case that seems foreboding at all, what I mean is: this looks really cool and will probably make an awesome Show HN, whenever you think it's ready for a post of its own.
This is such a dumb title. Can any of you suggest a better one?
You may not have noticed, but modern America has a deep-seated disdain of "experts", particularly when it comes to public policy.

This isn't accidental.
Agree completely and YC should disown (and stop linking) both sites.

I've found some use pulling content from Scribd using text-mode browsers, but even that is exceedingly painful.

My policy is to ignore both sites, and I may well simply block the domains to avoid frustrations.
I usually take advantage of the fixed formats of the individual exporting tool. Everyone does it a bit different - so what? I have a php parser for it and adapt it for every of my clients. It's cheaper to have a small parser, adapted for the customer's needs, than having one 10k SLOC library to handle a boatload of files...
Yes, she is. It's almost done. I set up a site for her at http://www.duckfacebooth.com. The iOS app will be linked there once it's done.
Is this actually true? If someone said "the ability to use the black pieces to compensate for white's clear first-move advantage increases with skill level, so white's advantage is greater when the players' skill level is lower", I wouldn't find it any more or less convincing than your justification. Is there data we can look at?
no it wont, there is a thermal cutoff inside
'jameswburke claims to be his friend. I think we can leave the question of what to reveal to his discretion. What he's said so far doesn't seem to me to be particularly sensitive, nor any more private than what was in the article.
It seems odd that a country of that size with a huge love for the sport, misses so many of the final stages of the World Cup / European championship.
It is, you are confusing two things. You can ask to temporarily suspend paying back your loan. That extends the period. However, this is not the same as the zero euros per month if you have minimal income and are part of the old system.
I'll stick with "crimes" .. people should be rewarded or punished for what they do not for who they are (or what some doctors claim they are).
A less mathy explanation with some real examples: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html

Coding a digit recognizer using a neural network is an extremely rewarding exercise and there's a lot of help on the web to get you started.
If you take a look at Louis Theroux documentary, "A Place for Paedophiles", you'll quickly see that the US don't just put sex offenders in prison, they keep them there (in facilities that are technically not a prison, because, well, lawyers) without judgement and without a known release date. Spoiler alert: They never get released.
I don't understand your question.

My point was that sentence guidelines should generally be data-driven, the dependent variable being the crime rate for a specific offense. I did not mention edge cases, judicial discretion, capital offenses, recidivism, rehabilitation, and other gnarly stuff.
I'd just finished reading it two hours ago and this pop up, thanks, :)
Hmm. I've got one here I use for heat-shrink tuning I used masking tape on to lower airflow and boost temp. I'm not sure its hot enough to melt solder (probably not) but its great for heat-shrink. I suppose a YMMV is in order.
.001% is enough...
Ah yeah, my phrasing was poor on that. 2.0 has yet to see a stable release, but they started warning about the default setting changing a while back.
Url changed from http://the-witness.net/news/2014/05/caseys-witness-wednesday....
And try not to achieve anything on an expected timeframe. Allow for delays; missed trains because you couldn't find a platform or taxis going to the wrong place because your directions were vague, etc.
The argument that 128 bits of security are enough is quite reasonable [3]. There are, however, a couple technicalities with using 128-bit security primitives and/or keys:

- Multi-target attacks. In the case of symmetric ciphers, one has to take into account that the attacker may have many messages encrypted under many keys, and that success is achieved once at least one of them is broken. [1] exemplifies this effect with AES-128: with 2^86 time, a machine of size 2^32 has near certainty of breaking at least one out of 2^10 keys. Larger key sizes effectively render such tradeoffs moot. Note that multi-target attacks do not affect the speed of elliptic curve discrete logarithm computation: while it is possible to speed up a discrete logarithm after a previous one (by a factor of ~sqrt(2)), you still need to go through a full 2^128 computation first. So pairing (say) a 256-bit elliptic curve with AES-256 is not entirely unreasonable.

- Quantum computers. The last paragraph mentions pairing AES-256, SHA-384, and 128-bit McEliece as a balanced choice. Quantum computers clearly affected this choice, with the AES key size chosen to thwart Grover search, SHA-384 being chosen to thwart the Brassard-Hoyer-Tapp collision-finding algorithm (although it is no better than classical search due to crazy memory requirements), and McEliece for its well-known post-quantumness. A little-known fact is that Grover also speeds McEliece breaking considerably [2]. Thus, in a quantum world the McEliece key size would have to be increased to get quantum balance (McBits's parametrization achieves 128 bits of classical security).

- Security margin and operational costs. This is covered well already by Adam, but is worth emphasizing. With AES, the cost of going 256-bit instead of 128 is 4 more rounds. In the case of SHA-256, upgrading to SHA-512 actually speeds things up in typical 64-bit CPUs. Except in the most extreme of cases, this is a very acceptable cost to get a comfortable 128 extra bits of security in case AES or SHA-256 gets wounded. In the case of RSA or Diffie-Hellman, going from 128 to 256 bits of security gives us an approximate 25x slowdown, not to mention the increase in key sizes: 128 bits of security margin in this case is hardly acceptable. The case of elliptic curves is more murky: the cost of an extra 128 bits of security margin is around 4x, which may or may not be acceptable depending on the application.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/papers.html#bruteforce

[2] http://cr.yp.to/papers.html#grovercode

[3] I made a similar argument not too long ago, on the specific case of SHA-256's collision-resistance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7747545
Certain crimes. But how many people do you think are currently in prison that are truly beyond rehabilitation?

Do you think that 68% of prisoners are mostly evil people who cannot function in society? 68% of men in prison don't have a high school diploma. Or are these mostly people who were born and raised in shitty circumstances with little hope for avoiding prison, hence why they didn't even finish high school?

Do you think 1/3 of black men are simply beyond rehabilitation? Because 1 in 3 black men will end up in prison at some point in their lives.

Let's just ignore the fact that the number of nonviolent drug offenders in prison and jail has increased 1,100% since 1980. Let's ignore the fact that black people use drugs at the same rates as whites and even sell drugs at lower rates yet at state and federal level they're incarcerated far more than whites http://www.csdp.org/publicservice/kids.htm . Let's ignore the fact that 4.1% of death row sentences are erroneous, and that 95+% of all convictions happen through plea bargains, meaning that the rate of false imprisonment is probably quite high, even higher than 4.1%.

I'm guessing that a very, very small percentage of the prison population is beyond rehabilitation. In those cases, prison makes sense. But our prison population has exploded since 1980, and I doubt that most of the people that have been swept up in that growth are like Anders Breivik.
I think at least part of the confusion here is the definition of 'embedded'. To some people 'embedded' means 'within the same process or thread as the core application', to others it means 'firmware running on small hardware devices'.
Doesn't that pretty much describe this, which was the trigger for the article?

...a two-year, 444-page study prepared by the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the Justice Department and others.
I didn't say put people with mental problems in prison.

Here's a thought experiment: Would you treat a man who took revenge on his wife's murderer by killing them the same as the murderer, a psychopath who decided to kill the wife because they were bored?

Obviously, neither One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or American Psycho is desirable, but if you ask me to choose, you can guess which one I'd pick.

(Btw. even if you disagree, the U.S. has a tremendous amount of hate-crime legislation, which does punish people for what's on their mind.)
For someone without the contacts, can you recommend a way to plug-in to the scene? This hackercamp sounds interesting .. any more on the way?
I just took a quick diversion from reading The Functional Art to checkout this story. The book covers information visualization and the three graphics in this story would rate very low according to the book's guidelines, in particular the series of pie charts.

I enjoyed the brutal comment though.
What does "the 5" refer to?
There are two main external approaches that help improve outcomes for people affected by incarceration, top-down = Policy change & bottom-up = Grassroots.

It is first worth noting that change is generally hard for everyone: governments, organizations, and individuals, because it's not typically not a simple singular event but a complex process:
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Womens_Hea...

On the policy front, this is one of many approaches being taken, and this specific one is coming from the White House, My Brother's Keeper:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/27/fact-s...

On the grassroots front, there are two organization that come to mind that are running programs showing promise in breaking the cycle of crime at different points: Roca & the Center for Employment.

Here are their theories of change respectively:
http://rocainc.org/what-we-do/the-solution/rocas-interventio...
http://ceoworks.org/about/what-we-do/ceo-model-3/

Both are taking part in scaling what works with Social Impact Bonds:
http://www.ted.com/talks/toby_eccles_invest_in_social_change
http://www.socialfinanceus.org/what-we-do/select-current-eng...
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/tackling-mas...

Additional case studies from David Hunter:
http://dekhconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/HunterC...
http://dekhconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CenterF...