skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming that I misunderstand the point of this technology, as used by the NSA. It seems that they have pictures of people that they want to arrest. And they have information about those same people, but without pictures. And so they have developed a technology that matches a picture with the name of the person in that picture?

If the NSA wants to have person A detained then wouldn't it be a good idea for them to already know what that person looks like? Am I entirely missing the point?
£1
This was a great description of the situation
Truecrypt warrant canary confirmed?
That depends rather a lot on what kind of traveling one wants to do. Posh hotels in major cities? Remote mountains in developing countries?
Amazon is not doing a good job when it comes to PR in this case. Jeff Bezos should issue a statement arguing their case
The Onion has their article urls in the format:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientific-community-baffle...

/articles/slug,id/
I can see that. I've been hoping more for the FU money that would bring jump #1 (which is more how I defined it in my other comment), since jump #1/FU money #1 would be the only reasonable way for me to get to jump #2/FU money #2 with the cars, travel, and no work.
Where in Mexico are you?
> understanding how to choose - or define - a set ground rules to apply in a given situation.

Which, of course, perfectly describes abstract mathematics... just not the sort that non-majors ever get to.

Many of the interesting parts of mathematics (and, I should add, computer science!) are all about coming up with the mental framework and abstractions needed to look at a problem, give you a new perspective and ultimately come up with a solution. Choosing or coming up with the logic to treat a situation is exactly what you'd be doing.

It's also particularly good at illuminating the underlying structure of different domains and giving you tools to recognize similarities between them that may not be readily apparent. This goes well beyond what most non-mathematicians regard as "mathematically accessible": just look at all the various modal logics[1] both for the breadth of their applications (belief, knowledge, time...) and their internal similarities.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_logic

Moreover, I would argue that mathematics goes further than most fields in talking about and working with its own limitations. Metamathematics and logic as fields are all about this—with greater clarity than the fuzzier subjects, in the usual mathematical style. Mathematics is also great for consistently and rationally accounting for uncertainty and limitations of other systems, fundamental to probability and any sane treatment of risk.

Mathematics, as practiced by mathematicians, also teaches another really important idea: having different levels of rigor, as appropriate. Often, an argument only needs to be convincing, and many of the important details can be left out. However, in math, this is always done with the understanding that those details can be filled in, and the understanding that you should be able to fill them in given enough time.

I figure the focus on clarity, thorough introspection and different levels of rigor, abstractions and logic all make mathematics qua mathematics one of the ultimate "humanities". The problem is that classes for non-majors (and, perhaps, many undergraduate classes for majors) often don't teach mathematics for itself; instead, they teach mathematics as a tool for engineering or solving specific problems or getting a specific result. And that, certainly, could be fairly described as "data analysis within a framework".

But mathematics in general? Much deeper!
Is Google Crazy for Selling a Desktop PC at $350? Definitely Not
Except you will eat up all your principal in about 30 years. You're going to need yo earn more than 3% or spend less than 300k yr.
$20M at least. To me, the definition of FU money is having enough money to turn down an opportunity to make $1M simply because you wouldn't enjoy the work. Even at $5-$10M, you're still considering those kinds of offers.

People are saying much lower amounts in these comments, but one or two million doesn't go nearly as far as people think. When I think about the people I've known that are truly free and are easily able to afford enviable lifestyles, $20M seems to be starting point.
I don't know how I feel about this to be honest. On one hand I can see the benefits of reduced costs. Why fly up a helicopter if a drone can be used in its place? Why send police to patrol high-crime areas if a drone can do that much more safely without any casualties?

Then there are the downsides.

> The LAPD is not the military. With these new tools at their disposal, the police could use drones to overstep their boundaries as police.

> If the drones are equipped with any kind of tactical ability (firing ammunition or firing a taser) this could result in innocent civilians being targeted by drone strikes.

> Drones would allow for extremely affordable surveillance which in turn would mean the fears of a state becoming a surveillance state (even worse than it is now) would be realised.

> Regulation. Who is going to regulate the use of drones by the LAPD? Who decides what the purpose of a drone being used for is and are there processes in place to prevent abuse? Who regulates the regulator?

> Remember what happened when SWAT teams were introduced? They were meant to be for only serious crimes and then look what happened. Before we knew it, SWAT teams were being deployed at relatively peaceful protests, they were being used to evict people out of their foreclosed homes and they started being used on people accused of copyright infringement. Are we going to see something similar to that of the Kent State shooting in the 70's only this time drones will be used?

I think the downsides far outweigh the benefits. The police are becoming far too militarised for my liking. Although many refute these claims, you only have to look at what tools police have at their disposal nowadays compared to what they had 20 years ago. We've gone from cars and pistols to high-powered machine guns with heavy rounds and tank-like vehicles.
This is interesting. So you were a Snowden supporter at first, but changed your mind after seeing more evidence. I'd like to know what made you change your mind.
Re 8. The android slide-to-type keyboards (swiftkey and the likes... I believe a similar typing mode exists in the builtin keyboard also) is so incredibly superior to anything else out there that anytime I have to type something on an iPad or my wife's iPhone I feel like I've been transported back to the stone ages. The OP should really poke around in the options a bit.
Where in Mexico would you recommend? And is this for someone who speaks Spanish, or a true gringo?
This is mean.

If a CEO behaves a certain way, it is admissible to put them under the microscope, but for something they have done many years ago, it is extremely unfair to resurface it unless it supports their current behavior.

This is hypocritical.

EVERYONE without an exception has things to hide, journalists included. Forget what people have done before, but rather, what they are doing now. Look no further than their browser history. To "cast stones" as if one is innocent is just unfair.

As long as someone's views, ideas, actions cause no harm to others, than we should simply not be judging them.

I have no idea what kind of person Spiegel is, and frankly IDGAF, but if those emails do not reflect who he is today, why bring it up?
The team at the Internet Archive, responsible for Wayback Machine, ArchiveTeam, the TV News Archive, and many other projects, are true gems. I had the chance to meet Brewster and many others whilst last in San Francisco and their passion is infectious.
If anyone is interested, they have an open lunch on Fridays[1] where you get to see the church, the tech, and meet the team. Each team member and guest gives a few sentences about who they are and what they do, which really gives you a feel to how much work is going on under the covers.

I feel humanity will look back on this period -- lost diskettes, CDs, DVDs, game consoles, Betamax, VHS -- and lament the comparative black hole of information. Myspace history deleted with no warning, Justin.tv deleting history with only 8 days warning[2], ... and a million more examples. The Internet Archive are fighting that one bit at a time.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826313

[2]: https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/31565557291982848...
I see your point. While breakthroughs (such as Penicillin) can still be a result of unrelated research, it is true that focused experimentation is more likely to make an impact.
Its fairly easy to live on $<300k anywhere in the world.
Part of US-VISIT perhaps?
Well some people love the rich life here!

Assuming no need for work, I would say £2.5m to never work again. Tax free savings aren't much in the UK: you can put away £11k per year in an ISA and £40k total in Premium Bonds. For non UK people, ISAs are tax-free savings accounts that can either be cash only, stock only or half cash/stock (but stock only has a higher annual limit).

An initial £500k is used to clear any debts, clear the mortgage (or buy a new house) and buy whatever creature comforts are needed e.g. do up the house, buy a nice efficient car, etc. I would probably go and live in Spain and build an eco house, solar is actually decent there and living costs are pretty low (if you don't need to work!).

Let's assume a poor rate of return of 3% on the remaining £2m, or £60,000 before tax. The taxman will take 20% of that giving £48,000 to you. £11k of that should go straight back into tax free savings, so you've got £37,000 remaining. Some years you'll do better, some you'll do worse, but you could probably push for 5% without much trouble most years. I think my first port of call would be to hire a very good accountant.

That's not a bad salary at all, especially if you own your house, car, etc. It's also more than enough to support dependents, but if you start thinking about private schools then it eats into it a bit. You have plenty to live day to day and enough to go on a good holiday each year.

Let's assume you're fairly old when you get this magic windfall and have 40 years left to live. By the time you die, you'll have around a million in the ISA, by the power of compound interest. The bonds will pay out on average 1-2% a year leaving around £80k unless you win the jackpot. You'll also still have your starter £2m.

Remember that rich people stay rich because they don't spend money.
They were not even at the height of their popularity in 2006. And that (very new) hosting company was raided and all 190 of their machines were confiscated, even though only 11 were being used by TPB.

They scaled up a lot from that point too, so that is not an accurate picture of their costs at all.
You're like the Paul Revere of HN.
200m usd
Crazy how these broad trademarks are allowed. Despair Inc (home of hilarious "demotivational" posters) registered the frowny emoticon some time ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despair,_Inc.#Other_works). They did it more as a publicity stunt to my understanding. The press release threatening to sue people who used it on their less favorite IM programs or in hideous font faces like comic sans was hilarious.
It honestly disturbs me that Myspace, Justin.tv, and these other companies don't seem to ever consider shipping their soon-to-be-deceased data to the Internet Archive. Why not help preservation a little? It'd likely be simpler to handle than the oncoming denial of preservation defense that the ArchiveTeam launches. Have there been any examples of companies doing this?

You might think that this is all useless information, but I guarantee we'll look back in likely only a few years and think in horror at all that we've destroyed.

The best art blog about a half decade including a kid who's dead now just disappeared. When Myspace deleted all of their content, I lost all the content of my dead high school friend (turns out you need to back up everyone and thing you care about, not just yourself[1]) and @maxfenton mentioned "The best art blog about a half decade including a kid who's dead now just disappeared.". It's not an isolated problem.

I almost feel like we need a name-and-shame registry and/or public awareness campaign. I'd love to see this written into the user rights of a website when it launches.

"If the website is to be shut down, all publicly accessible content will be sent to the Internet Archive. If you would like to opt out, tick this box."

[1]: http://smerity.com/articles/2013/deleted_digital_tombstones....
Here's the problem that no seems to get (especially the police and our politicians): the more they weaponize, the more the citizenry and criminals weaponize to match. How much longer before we hear about the first mass shooting using a drone?
> What shall we do, then, if we receive a pull request for a
> certain feature or bugfix with, say, 300 commits
> 1. Request that the user squash all the commits into a
> single commit
> 2. Adopt a security policy that requires signing only the
> merge commit (forcing a merge commit to be created with
> --no-ff if needed).
> 3. Sign each commit to be introduced by the merge.

Or, tell them to rebase their branch on master, while cleaning up all their "oops", "revert", "typo", "debug" and whatnot commits; resulting in a sane history and 20 commits to be signed. I find this oversight especially sarcastic as he mentions how 2. ruins git bisect, while such uncleaned 300 commit branches ruin it just as effectively, as you can never be quite sure whether the commit you arrive at isn't reverted by one 20 commits later and the real issue was introduced another 20 commits later.
Youtube version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8
10 million dollars after taxes so I'm guessing the actual amount is higher, possibly around 15 million dollars. on top of that 300k a year will be subjected to taxation, you will end up with 188k a year, not quite the 300k. you would need around 450k a year and after taxes, you will end up with 300k. to be able to produce that much you'd need about 15 million dollars after taxes. so in reality you'd need about 20 million dollars.

20 million dollars, would generate 300k after taxes if invested in bonds. from the 20 million, you'd end up with 15 or 14 million dollars after paying taxes.

so 20 million dollars is what one would need to target for.

however, note that you'd need to live in a large mansion that's already paid for and maintenance and expenses, property taxations being paid, I'd put away 30~50k for upkeep. You will probably have two kids on average so it will be another 100,000 to support them.

21 million, seems to be the true 'FU' money. After that leave off 400,000 after tax a year in money.

21 million is a staggering figure for someone starting out. I don't even know if I will get to one million.
What startups can learn from Indian PM?
Interesting this debate is trying to answer some of the questions posed in this article, also on the front page right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826976

If the value of universities for most people is vocational training, that will be far more efficiently accomplished through online courses.
Well, you need

'\n'.join(...)

for the "unlines" bit.
...events that are farther away than the range of an electric vehicle.

This would be a reason to have four or five conventional-fuel vehicles. 90% of most fleets could still be shorter-range.
I was really excited by the idea. At least it was interesting.

When I first saw the video Freakin Solar Roadways... I came across with the first problem. The solar panels produce DC... which it's really bad for transport energy, then you could transform it to high voltage AC. So I'm ok with it but then you will need wires and wires. So immediately I supposed that it won't scale to a Roadway system.

So in a second thought probably it will work for sidewalks and parking lots and maybe if you could storage the power then use for street lighting. At this point for me this idea will work in the cities only. But then put solar panels in buildings sounds more cost/effective (and way more efficient). So I wasn't sure anymore at this point.

The video pointed to me some other flaws. And now meh.
I remember Computer Shopper. I used to have a subscription at work. I would keep the issues in a bookcase. Back in the mid nineties, each perfect-bound issue was the size of a major city telephone book and consisted of perhaps a 100 pages of editorial content on decent paper spread out in a sea of advertising on cheaper paper (the kind that gets ink on your fingers). Then, as the internet ramped up, the magazine got slimmer and slimmer. Looking at my bookcase, it was easy to see the trend. I see from their Wikipedia entry† that they finally ceased print in 2009. The started in 1979. I lost track of them in about 2002.

†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Shopper_%28US_magazine...
What possible good can come from collecting a bunch of private data that wasn't intended to be collected by a third party? They're not collecting it for nothing. If you think it's okay to collect the data you must consider what can be done with it.

Catching criminals? Sure, but that's very minor compared to the real harm that data can do to a bunch of relatively harmless people. Like using a gun to kill a housefly. The chances of you hitting the housefly are very low, but the chances of you harming a bunch of innocent people while trying are likely.
One of the best type features of Go is the lack of need to do something like this: "@implements(IEatable)". If a class implements all of the methods of the interface, then it automatically implements that interface. Yuppy seems like a step backwards in OO in this regard.
OK so I never knew Peter, but I knew Gottfried. And I live next to Laos and Cambodia. Full disclosure: I am presently in Luxembourg, solidifying legal situation for cryptographic currencies, and we are kicking ass.

Just this morning I was reading Peter's blog, including the Swedish parts, and although I don't have the background on the (dis)agreements between the various TPB founders, I know they are all legit people.

The fact that Peter got smacked-down is clearly a result of his political positioning, and nothing to do with anything else.

The reality we are living in is this: keep quiet, shut up , and you are OK. Start talking like I am now, and they target you. Well, fuck you US authorities. We are fucking free, and we will keep talking, and we will fucking send you to the graveyard of anachronisms that you belong in.
Well somehow I doubt that the NSA has a decent picture on everybody, but for those that they do then yes, it's a way of doing identity matching between pictures of people and data involving those people.

Think doing relational SQL joins based on photos, IMO.
For US citizens, it's an obvious yes. If you disagree, can you show me where collecting this information has held detrimental effects on the common good of US citizens?
Google already has 12,000 requests from E.U. citizens to be 'forgotten'
Personally I find the objective c stuff to take longer to read and understand just because there is allot more text.
What is he going to say? Amazon is letting a business dispute worsen the customer experience. Bezos has said that their job is to make the best customer experience possible, and if they did, that everything else would work itself out. Apparently, this dispute is worth dismissing that vision.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4007229
The boat!
I think you'd be hard pressed to find people at the NSA who don't care about the common good. Perhaps you don't share the same understanding of what constitutes the common good, but your accusation is unfair.
Why aren't residential connections symmetric?
Ok, that is a clever application. I'm wondering if you could put a radio tranceiver on a nanosat as a flat surface and then have it fold up into an antenna + tranceiver once the Sun hit it on orbit.
More like that other guy no one can remember. ;)

It is interesting to watch the ebb and flow of political opinion on discussion forums. And it would be extremely interesting to have logs of HN or Reddit to do shill and multiple account detection.
How Graph Databases Uncover Patterns To Break Up Organized Crime
Aren't the top two things you get from HBS the network and the brand name? You can theoretically replicate the "knowledge" you get from HBS, even those from your peers, but you can't recreate the connections or the name.
They provided him value, but only because he provided them more. Just because one superstar with leverage gets value from the labels doesn't mean every artist does.
there's few different categories of FU money each with increasingly lower probability

1 million dollars: doable but very hard. you can finally buy that crack shack in vancouver, bc

10 million dollars: could be doable depending how you got to your first million. if it's scalable operation, no problem.

100 million dollars: continued growth from previous operation with compounding returns or have been part of a successful startup that was sold.

1000 million dollars: founder/co-founder of a company that was sold previously to a very large search engine or social network.

10000 million dollars: own majority equity in a very well known public company, inherited.

100000 million dollars: run a country that produces oil or cocaine as it's most popular exports. You can't have any competition around. launder it excessively.
Seneca Rocks
To be a bit pedantic: NSImage isn't part of a GUI toolkit -- don't confuse NSImage with UIImageView! The NSImage is more equivalent to a .png, not to a web <img> tag; it's completely separate from a framework for routing data to the screen.
> The point is that the wealthy have taken a vastly disproportionate share of income growth.

Of course they have. If you make $5 and you just ate, you invest the money. If you make $5 and you have no food, you buy food. Tomorrow the person who invested money still has the investment and is reinvesting the interest but the person who bought food is hungry again. And the top 1% reinvest nearly 100% of their income.

But that's capitalism. Unless you're suggesting to confiscate their assets so they can't keep reinvesting the interest, the solution has to be to bring the middle class up rather than bringing the 1% down. Which we certainly aren't doing as effectively as we could if we committed to the idea, but it's not like engineers and middle managers are out starving in the streets.

I don't even know if we're arguing about anything. Whether median incomes being up 3% over some period of time is equivalent to them being flat is not a very interesting question. What pretty much everybody wants is for the average American to have more of the good life. Is there a policy proposal on the table to do that? "Kill the rich" sure sounds good but it might not be as effective as it would be satisfying.
You get the name but you also make the name, the future reputation will be based on the current students. If the online efforts "works" the reputation will follow.
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Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion, but I think the Duck typing philosophy of Python is a feature, not a bug. Imposing the verbosity and rigidity of Java-style OO onto Python seems like a step backwards to me.
Alternative advice that helps avoid this problem:

Do code reviews.

Write tests.