skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I can't seem to hear it. I just hear the general tempo and beat but not the words.
Probably a dumb question... but I'll go ahead and ask anyway.

Why wouldn't Oregon simply make a condition of the free education be that you have to work in Oregon for X number of years ???
Information diffusion is a function of time. Some people have the data now. Many more will use the data over time. Most of those new data users will simply click on a link in a blog or google or HN. The data may also be stored in a canonical open-data location. Each of those instances can have anonymized data.

What's the difference between distributing open-source with a known vulnerability and distributing open-data that knowingly violates the privacy of many people? If this was source code, there would be "responsible disclosure" that allowed the software author time to issue a new release of software. One could similarly work with NYC citygov digital team to anonymize the data properly and have them reissue an official dump, possibly with additional data from 2014. That would provide some incentive for developers to use the newer data.

Yes, malicious analysts can find the old data. But that is no reason for non-malicious analysts to keep replicating data that violates privacy. If this were data where the loss of privacy had significant financial or legal consequences, then naive data distributors and analysts would be inadvertently contributing to those consequences.

One should try to do the right thing, even if it seems technically pointless. In this case, working with the people who shared the data to fix the mistake. Otherwise, one could imagine future citygov publication requiring much more slow and expensive review of data to be released, e.g by lawyers who still won't find the next technical mistake. It's in the interest of all parties to make this particular instance right, to ensure future openness of privacy-protecting data.
"The most humbling part"

You keep using that word...
Well then the obvious answer is to hold no one responsible. Especially the people who are currently, willingly, and knowingly violating Federal Law and their own policies..... sarcasm.

In reality, they will pass legislation, that will probably go way overboard and will budget 100 times more than is necessary in order to payoff some friend or group of friends (business as usual for Establishment Ds and Rs). Now mind you that the house will do this and because of the politics the Senate, led by the Majority Democrats, will promptly ignore it. Or they will pass it because it will benefit some friend of theirs and the President will sign it but decide to include a signing statement saying that they don't agree with any of it and that they will not implement it. Oh and they will put it as part of a large non-related omnibus package with a title talking about helping Homeowners Purchase Crop Dusters.
Ancient Greek Geometry Game
An objective-c object is just a pointer to a struct.
You don't need the objective-c runtime to call a block.

Block_copy etc are implemented in libclosure which iirc does not require libobjc either. But of course if you ARE writing objc, they are valid objects and can be treated as such
I recall Chomsky saying something along the lines that this position was a common position of most proletariat in the late 19th century. I am sure he has sources to back this up, but I don't know those. So I would be wary to designate that as an "illogical" and not a cultural thing.
The FAQ's explain when a license is needed:

http://www.1060research.com/resources/#open

Essentially, if the code that uses the framework is open-source, then the framework can be used with a public license at no charge. If the code that users the framework is proprietary, then the framework has a license fee.
You do, I've used them on Linux myself.
Drone.vc – Request for Companies #1: Better Audio
We have had actual cases where someone mailed a bunch of anthrax through the US post.

Given that the post can be used to send dangerous physical objects, it seems prudent to maintain medium-term records of what was sent and where to assist in the prevention of this type of terrorism.

Because the alternative, is we wait till it happens, we have no record of where anything came from, and then we get to engage in a multi-month campaign of opening and inspecting mail arbitrarily considered "suspect" to try and prevent the next round.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/15/m...
Is child poverty an issue or is it not? Is it left to the schools to correct?
Finland is the best in the world for child poverty. America, (ahem) less so. So the question is not really answered.
Having read the sentence before listening to the jibberish version, I clearly understood each word. It wasn't more or less clear to me after hearing the non-jibberish version.
Try Android programming[1] atleast once. Who knows, maybe you'll enjoy it. That's what happened to me.

[1]: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/25/get-started-devel...
I'm curious about exploring your perspective, if you don't mind indulging me.

Suppose, in the course of their everyday routing systems, the USPS were tracking the information in question. Pretend it were free to transfer that data to the law enforcement authorities.

Would you have an issue with it, if it were free as part of doing business?
As i dont think people actually conciously choose to write in those languages because of its features

Incorrect, or at least badly lacking historical context and perspective.

Basic: interactive. (Primitive REPL.)

Javascript: it was there. If it wasn't there, everywhere but influential people just wrote about it then it would have languished. Also, it is interactive.

Objective-C: has a lot of very good OO which was heavily influenced by Smalltalk. It is precisely the OO excellence that it was known for and which engendered fierce love for it in certain circles.

Remember also that these languages have been around for a long time, on hardware far less powerful than what we have today or even had a decade ago. The youngest of these languages is Javascript by far, and it is almost 20 tears old! For their day, they were advanced with respect to the programming mainstream by at least one measure. (In the Apple II days, BASIC was there, and it was interactive, and that was enough.)

I'm not saying these were the best available. But there is more to it than just fashion and influence/hype. (Otherwise we'd all just be using Java in the browser and for app servers.)

Also: Ruby was a hobby language once upon a time.
This looks great. Works well and very simple to use. What about a way to take photo of the receipt?
Umm, Jim Weirich's explanation in this video makes pretty much perfect sense:
http://vimeo.com/45140590
Adventure: Building a SpriteKit Game Using Swift
Anonymization projects should really invest in an hour of consulting time with a cryptographer-- they would be able to see these flaws instantly.

Nit: this is a lookup table, not a rainbow table. Rainbow tables involve a clever optimization that compresses multiple passwords (in a chain) into a single entry in the table, saving a great amount of disk space.
The iPhone 42s contains all the worlds knowledge past present and future and you just need to think about what you want to know and it will send it to you telepathically. Why on earth would I use something as archaic as Google search from the 21st century?
Siri is a still humourless cow though.
Hey, someone's got to stand for freedom and democracy, right? Now let me rendition you to a situation of torture and solitary confinement without trial.
I was thinking of starting a free 'service' where anyone can send me letters and I will remove the outer layer and re-post what is inside. Of course you'd have to put postage on the inner envelope as well and you would be paying double.

That would be very similar to the way Tor works, where you could have multiple hops.

How many people would be interested in this? My mailbox is in Europe.
You can practice with a See 'n Say and mess with the dial while it's playing.
My understanding that part of what caused the housing bubble crisis in the US was the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act by Bill Clinton. Besides, I suppose that governments, if they took their responsibility, could break up large, "too big to fail", banks, in the same way that Bell was.

I'm not sure why you think that an industry with so many instances of irresponsibility and dishonesty is fit to essentially govern itself more through deregulation.
That would be one way. But perhaps the tears in wfunction's envelopes are used to insert a light/camera and the contents of the documents therein scanned. I wouldn't think it difficult to design a device to automatically scan most mailed documents in this manner.
Have you ever considered that other people's circumstances might differ from your own? You should like one of those Paul Ryan-types who believes anyone can just stop being poor by trying harder.
I hate exclusives as well. If it were up to me, consoles wouldn't exist anymore. They're too plentiful and too underpowered and too expensive.

That said, there's just no way to enjoy all the best games by restricting yourself to only a PC. It sucks, but it's how it is right now.
I live out in a rural area and our post office is horrible. When I moved into town, I didn't receive mail for 8 months even after approaching them numerous times and complaining. At one point I opened a mail box in a neighboring town. UPS and FedEx had no problem delivering packages. I actually bragged to my neighbors that "I don't get mail" at one point. Anyway I finally complained big time after not receiving some USPS package from aliexpress, and they started to deliver. I wish I could opt-out, I have never given out my address before, officially, and only receive junk mail. Makes me think of the Seinfeld skit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hox-ni8geIw
Stop rainbow attacks peeps, salt your hashes.

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/1776/can-you-help-...
This quote was written on the wall of a company that did nothing other than send spam on behalf of anyone who would pay them. The irony was palpable.
Hmm, I was expecting the end of the article to be an analysis of which investors are most active among ProductHunted-then-funded companies, not a list of the companies themselves. Unless I'm missing something, that's the most interesting piece of data in the whole analysis: effectively, "who reads and pays attention to PH?".
Correct, the problem is to call the function you cannot treat it as a standard function since it's pointing to a struct, the struct does contain the actual function pointer but there is an implicit `this' first argument to that function pointer which has to be that struct itself. This means you cannot use the block in an API that explicitly requires a function pointer, instead the API must specifically be aware of the block and would need to support it.
Or just tax the people who move into the state... state populations don't generally change that much, with a few notable exceptions.
Deviance or log-liklihood are good measures (and when properly normalized give you one of the cross-entropies). Roughly you do -sum(ifelse(rained_i,log(p_i),log(1-p_i)). So you git a high (bad) penalty score if you get wrong probabilities and a nice score of 0 if you put 1's on days that rained and 0's elsewhere.
But Google does keep precisely the information you described and will quickly give it to federal law enforcement as required by law without informing anyone (also required by law).
Doesn't the federal government already have an entire organization dedicated to preserving and archiving every email sent by government employees, as well as members of the public? The NSA?
Same here FWIW
Coming from the opposite direction, I understand neural networks quite well, including deep learning, but am lacking on many other topics such as structured SVMs, conditional random fields, etc. Any recommendations for me?
Although you did assume addition is associative (I wonder if there is some duality involved here)
The Science of Hangovers
> Why isn't this data used to do something for good, rather than for what we can safely presume to be evil

Why do you presume them to be doing evil, and why do you not consider breaking up organised crime and catching attempted murderers as good?
"type of terrorism"

what makes your example "terrorism" and not "crime"?
These are old lessons: in 2006 AOL [1][2] and Netflix [1][3] both released datasets that were supposed to be anonymized but were easily de-anonymized. There are older examples based on Census data[4]. It's difficult if not impossible to release a dataset that is both useful and truly anonymized; in Schneier's words:

The obvious countermeasures for this are, sadly, inadequate. Netflix could have randomized its dataset by removing a subset of the data, changing the timestamps or adding deliberate errors into the unique ID numbers it used to replace the names. It turns out, though, that this only makes the problem slightly harder. Narayanan's and Shmatikov's de-anonymization algorithm is surprisingly robust, and works with partial data, data that has been perturbed, even data with errors in it.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/anonymity_and...

[2] http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/286

[3] http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11497

[4] http://crypto.stanford.edu/~pgolle/papers/census.pdf
I'm a French expat living in Denmark, which is definitely not blessed by large amounts of resources of any kind. But you could take Germany as another example of a country who is not about to run out of other people's money any time soon.

Or to take examples in a different way: Spain and Ireland's issues were mostly caused by a housing bubble.
Thanks. But I see them as a successful ripoff. And the stressing factor isn't Indian or not but a Silicon Valley ripoff in India that seems a huge hit.
This is just a single good example of an extremely wide reaching pattern of large scale data acquisition, processing, storage, and data mining.

License plate capture, facial recognition, mail and email envelopes, contact lists, credit card receipts, CCTV, social network trawling... soon enough drones will capture and store 24/7 aerial video of all major cities.

I take it for granted that the government will know everyone I know, know everywhere I go, and know everything that I buy, sell, earn, and save. Pretty much the only thing left you have a chance at keeping private is the content of your conversations, and good luck with that.
Same here. My brain can translate it due to the tempo and inflection, but I do not hear it in the way that I see a ghost image in the common optical illusion.
And precisely 60 tweets later... here's a game! Hold mouse down to move, catch the stars, avoid the spikes. http://gdevbot.sparklinlabs.com/p/starpick/edit
This article brings me back to a thought I have been having for some time now - could we use illusions (audio, visual) to distinguish between humans and bots?

If CAPTCHAs are becoming increasingly easier to break, could illusions give stronger guarantees because they use more inherent "human" features of our brain - things that bots will not easily decipher in the foreseeable future?
Suppose they had generated a random unique ID for each driver and used that instead of a hash throughout. If you had a record of a single ride you made with a taxi driver, you could still find that ride in the database (start location, time, stop location, time). Then you can take your driver's ID and track all other trips that driver has made. Is that truly anonymous?
It greatly saddens me to read this, C. Best of luck with your future battles, whatever they may be.
Whoa, whoa.... You're telling me there's a public data set of all taxi trip geolocation data with GPS precision? That's f'ing insane!

I think there's a MUCH bigger privacy issue here than what the author focuses on.

Couldn't you deduce many passenger identities based on addresses? There's a lot of scenarios where passenger identities could be effectively de-anonymized, just based on GPS data. You could then use this data set to analyze their comings and goings.

1. For people who live alone in a single family home, you can pretty much completely track when and where they went by taxi. From this you can deduce a lot about their interests, lifestyle, workplace and schedule, private life, etc. It's profoundly invasive.

2. Even if there's a few people sharing an address, the other dropoff/pickup point can be used to narrow down the likelihood of who it is, especially when combined with other easily obtainable data.

For example if you knew an employee (e.g. that cute barista) lived in a certain neighborhood you could track their trips to/from work and deduce their home address.

Or if you knew there was only one senior citizen (or Muslim, etc.) living in a building, a regular trip to a senior center (or mosque) would reveal when their apartment is vacant.

Or if there's only one young man in a building, a single trip home from a gay bar could out them.

Holy shit.. can you imagine someone just plotting all the trips from a single gay bar? Listing off all the connected residential addresses? And not only that, any subsequent trips home from those addresses the next morning? Taking the walk of shame to a whole new level!

Likewise trips could be used to deduce affairs and other deceptions by fellow residents. "You said you were working late, but the only taxi trip to our building that night was from a bar."

This is just off the top of my head.. I feel I could go on for hours listing all the possible ways this data set could be exploited.

How is this not front page New York Times???
I wonder if I have something similar. Often times when someone spells a word or recites a number, it's as if I'm completely "spaced out" and don't get any of the information (while actively paying attention) unless I make a conscious effort to visualize the letters/digits as they are being spoken. I also frequently experience visual disturbance type dyslexia when reading and I always assumed the two phenomena were somehow related.
In anarchism, you take the egalitarian society that is willing to take you, primarily to put food in your mouth and roof over your head.

All of this argumentation is primarily emotional. It makes a lot more sense to talk about what you actually want (utility?) and what social changes would be an improvement, than to try to argue that some social institution is intrinsically bad.
The vaccines are once or twice in a lifetime, but the allergens are not. The MMR vaccine is manufactured using neomycin. The CDC says [1] for the MMR vaccine:

Anyone who has ever had a life-threatening allergic
reaction to the antibiotic neomycin, or any other
component of MMR vaccine, should not get the vaccine.

Neomycin is used in many topical creams and ointments, so there are opportunities to find out that you have a problem with it other than through vaccination.

Also, as you noted, some vaccines are twice in a lifetime. MMR, for example, is given at ~1 year old, and at 4-6 years old. If someone has a life-threatening reaction the first time, the CDC says that they should not get the second dose.

Note that MMR vaccine allergies are very rare, so we aren't talking about a huge number of people who have to go around without MMR vaccination.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mmr.html
Proactive mass surveillance does not work. So even if the USPS is not spending money other parts of the government is going to waste money dealing with this crap.

Sure, we can get into a debate about the ethics of surveillance, but as long as there is zero benefit it seems pointless.

As to why it fails, there is simply to many false positives.
This is a low-quality article. "Zaharoff has his own evil skills to operate.", "In spite of it, Zaharoff used perverted methods, well-known later on".

That's not the kind of language one expects from an encyclopedia, even if you give the poor quality of the writing a pass. That said, I'm not convinced the international arms industry has grown more honest and open since the days of Zaharoff.
Is HN also going to have a weekly anti-anti-vax post too? We're converting to Reddit format right?

..a place where we can all pretend we understand this stuff, suddenly manifesting degrees in medicine and/or a full understanding of the research.
I'm not a native speaker and I feel a similar effect to have happened to me very often with song lyrics: Parts I could not understand clearly are like text that makes no sense, I hear other words than the real ones. Once I read through the lyrics, I always hear the right words, the real text.
We could always drop the (ridiculous) expectation that the USPS should show a profit and just fund mail delivery through our tax dollars, of course. We did things that way for nearly 200 years -- the current quasi-private incarnation of the postal service only goes back to 1970 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Reorganization_Act) -- and it worked pretty well.

It's always amusing to hear people complaining about the USPS putting junk mailers before the rest of us. The reason the USPS does that is because we forced them to. If you take a public service and turn it into a for-profit corporation, you shouldn't be surprised when it starts looking out for the interests of those it can make the biggest profits off of.
A slave owner makes you worse off than if they didn't exist, by chaining you, beating you, and threatening to kill you if you try to run away.

An employer doesn't necessarily make you any worse off than if they didn't exist; if you'd be starving without food/payment from them, then their actions aren't the root cause of your starving, nature is, as if they didn't exist then you'd still be starving.
when i was a kid (90s), i saw these planes going between the hills/tree tops. they were too large to be a remote control plane, but too small to be a maned aircraft. when i was in the woods i saw the belly of one of them going over the tree tops 'us airforce', but didnt look like any plane that i knew of. then there was this one night on the news about an airplane crash everyone was calling in, but FAA and military was saying nothing crashed. however...

i go outside and there was about a dozen chinook helicopters coming my way. they were going over the ground in a grid pattern. one of them stopped, pointed lights, and landed. they were there for about 20-30 minutes and took off. I would have checked it out but it was night time and I didnt have a flash light.

this is the type of thing that makes people think UFO's exist. at the time i knew something was going on, that the air force lost something and now they found it, but I couldnt quite figure out what.

now that i know what i know now, i figured out they were testing drones in my area, and they crashed one of them at night. (specifically an early form of predator drones, propeller on back, some weird jet engine thingy on top, and a strange bubbled front is how i would have described it)i guess my area outside pittsburgh was ideal for testing, hills/trees, and they probably didnt think anyone was paying attention.
Not all illusions are universal, but what a fantastic idea, very clever.
A low quality article from Wikipedia? Poorly written? Dubiously sourced? That's unpossible!
The first time I encountered this effect was when I was listening to this TED Talk "Michael Shermer: Why people believe weird things" https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8T...

The whole thing is worth a listen ..but in the relevant clip he talks about audio illusions and gives a great example.

This just reinforces the lesson, it is the Brain that is Hearing!
Same here, I checked it every day for many years. It was one of those fundamental parts of the linux experience in the late 90s.

It surprised me how much emotional impact this announcement had for me. I hate to see freshmeat go, even if it wasn't much anymore compared to what it was. Oh well, you can't go home again.