skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What disincentive is there for security guards to not just "report everything, just in case?"

Perhaps too many false positives and you get canned for not being able to do your job competently, then subsequently replaced by someone who can adequately assess threats?

Reporting suspicious activity and subsequently investigating it isn't a waste of time - analogously, if it were a waste of time we wouldn't keep security logs on any of our computers. The issue is adequately assessing what is a credible threat and what isn't, which the FBI is likely in a better position to do than the average security guard. That's likely the reason he just dropped off his business card instead of bringing along the SWAT team - based on whatever was tipped to the agent, this guy was probably not an actual threat.
Here's one example from JI http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_embassies_attack_pl...

Here's a reconnaissance manual: http://ruckus.org/article.php?id=809

In general, blacklisting or whitelisting specific techniques is not the path to security. Looking for people conducting surveillance activities around targets is a good way to catch terrorist plots before they execute. The alternative, catching them after they execute, is not particularly good.
Everything about this article seems hand-wavy and just...wrong. I don't mean to paint with a wide brush but as someone in "the industry"(and in SV) I have to guess that there is something else at play here if someone with a Stanford CS PhD really had this much trouble finding a job in 2014.
But abbreviations are ambiguous and convenience factors can be mitigated by UX.

Typing p-s-d is faster than typing p-h-o-t-o-s-h-o-p but typing the whole thing isn't the only way to skin the cat.
I'm telling you they shouldn't.

They should exercise some judgment, realize some bored-ass security guards (think about how dull it must be to guard a site like that) made a report just to feel important, and then toss it right in the trash can.

It was a guy taking pictures of a structure in public. No, the FBI should not be tracking him down.
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> you have a problem with private monopolies, but when a government runs some business, like building roads - it's somehow fine?

The theory of free market capitalism presupposes competitive pressure as a check on the power of market participants. A monopoly has no such competition, allowing it to be abusive and reactionary.

There is no such expectation of competition with governments. The check on the government's power comes from the political system. Checks and balances and the four boxes of liberty. It is completely possible for this to fail too, but when that happens the efficiency of telecommunications provisioning is the least of your worries.

> With a private enterprise, even if it is a monopoly, I still have a choice: I can stop paying and not use the service. Can I stop paying to the government?

Of course you can. You can move to another country, or another planet. It's becoming about as practical as not having internet service.
Depends on what your contract says.
A ninja startup with angel backing in it's early stages.

Looking for a competent remote iOS developer, with experience in Parse or other backend frameworks. XMPP familiarity is a plus. Web app experience preferred.

Willing to contract/freelance for lumpsum, or a share of equity, depending on level of interest.
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am i the only person who hates the fact that i have to pay $100 pa for the right to put my own software on my own iPad - language be damned? @#$#@ that. i'm taking my tablet needs somewhere that let's me feel as though i've purchased it, not borrowed it from Steve...
SamTrans Route 397. http://www.samtrans.com/schedulesandmaps/timetables/397.html

Catch is you have to pick it up around 4 AM and get to the airport that early, but if you're not flying until 7, maybe you can snooze in the airport for a bit...
Tried commenting on this earlier but was spam blocked.

1. Revenue
2. Estimated ~25% That number gets larger with quantity. I'm more focused on getting more people exposed to the concept and signed up for our shirt picking surveys.
3. Not really but it is a real worry. The submitted designs -> voting -> new shirts concept is repeatable. I also have my thoughts towards building a platform around that. Imgur for shirts.
4. Sustaining and growing, yes since my livelihood depends on it but really I love this concept and am having a lot of fun. I don't see why we wouldn't grow, that would be a failure to execute. I am also going to look for a minor seed investment to enable me to do more things.
Fair point, and as you mention it could be optimized by using an attribute for magic mime cache. Another optimization is showing only the icons for the files currently in view, which should scale pretty much forever (I can't imagine so many files being in view that this becomes impractical without the view itself being useless). File managers already do this for thumbnails, though that's because they need to read the entire (often megabytes large) image.
Quote: His ability to document relatively obscure facts helps him combat one of the biggest problems he sees in the Wikipedia community. Many entries, he argues, are made by white male "nerds."

Quote: "It saddens me that some don't think of Lsjbot as a worthy author," he said. "I am a person; I am the one who created the bot. Without my work, all these articles would never have existed."

And just how is he, a white male nerd, combatting the problem?
Offensive campervans and some interesting “information”
This company offends me: http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/john-webb-founder-wicked-campers-eliminate-misogynistic-and-degrading-slogans-and-imagery

Interesting: http://www.wickedcampers.com.au/administrator and an "au" username: JSite -> dispatch() @ /home/au/public_html/index.php:42 and then there is https://wickedoz.wickedcampers.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi and also https://wickedoz.wickedcampers.com:2083 as well as MySQL on port 3306, open to the world.
Scala books ordered! I have the original book written by Oderksy but it's pretty old a this point so I ordered 2 books from the in Action series and one on the Play framework.

Let's see how this works out. The only negatives I have heard about Scala are the binary compatibility issues with dependencies and Scala versions.

I had shied away from Scala before since I didn't see any clear dependency injection support (can't live without it) but seems like that has been solved with the Spring Scala module.
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Death by Caffeine[1] says 172.84 espresso shots to kill a 195lb human.

[1] http://www.caffeineinformer.com/death-by-caffeine
Actually not really, there is only one electric provider here, they just give you the option of choosing to prefer power generated with renewables or not.

I don't think the actual electrons come from there its just a budgeting trick I expect.
You believe that censorship by governments is universally wrong, but that view is not universal. German laws have been oriented to allow censorship since the allied occupation of West Germany. It is perfectly legal by German law as it is practiced where there is no contradiction with civil or European law.

The German populace was generally supportive of this censorship in the post-war period to mend the ideological rifts that drove society apart in the early part of the cold war. While views are certainly changing in the "information age," if the German populace changes its views on censorship then it needs only to change its own laws.
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there's a reason it doesn't enter economists heads.

Let me just respond to this: the basic income was in large part created by Milton Friedman, under the title 'Negative Income Tax'.

The rest of your post is similarly flawed. This is not a case, however, where there are 2 sides of the debate.
Lots of issues will need to be worked out for this to be viable. 4 layers minimum (ground, power, 2 routing planes). High pitch TSOP and BGA need tight pitches and traces. The width of traces and spacing and dielectric material need tight tolerances for impedance control for signal integrity.

But they are not asking for much of an investment so it may be worthwhile to try it out.
> For the same reason you want shorter domain names

Good one, hadn't thought of the analogy to .commercial, .network and .organization yet (.com, .net and .org, incase anyone doesn't get it). It's 2014, let's use the whole name already!
Squink has a built-in web server. The goal is to ultimately also connect it to a portal in the cloud.
Search does it:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=by%3Ajrockway+fbi#!/comment/foreve...
Care to expand on this? Thanks!
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Love SQLite. It was excellent for my first web app, as it had just enough features to be functional, but not completely overwhelm me.
There's different kinds of information that law enforcement can store.

Looking at extremes: keeping a record of which people have killed someone in the past seems like a very reasonable thing to do. On the other hand, keeping a record of how long each person brushes their teeth on average, seems like an invasion of privacy (and pointless when it comes to anti-terrorism).

Taking photos of an already well-photographed public landmark seems to fall in the latter category.
Ive been hands on with squink, it's running locally on a bbb at the moment.
hey -- I just loaded the page and I'm guessing 1/2 of the docs on the front page where copyrighted and uploaded w/o perms. I could be wrong.

In either case, you probably want to get very acquainted w/ the dmca and register an agent [1]; hopefully you know all about this but it's worth running requirements to stay w/in the dmca past a lawyer

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101028/15533611640/damn-...
I was chatting with a UberX driver yesterday in NYC and apparently his insurance is $7K a year (it's a Toyota Camry too, nothing super fancy).

That works out to ~$27 a day if you drive the car 5 days a week, every week of the year. Not a massive amount, but significant in the numbers we're talking about.
Agreed to a point. The "middle of the map" theory only applies if you assume economic activity is relatively evenly spaced (which it mostly is). Unfortunately this representation won't tell us much about where economic activity really is.

There are better ways to represent the information presented. A 3D map would put economic activity somewhere in the middle of the earth, but you would eliminate the "starting center" bias.
There is such thing as being over-qualified for many jobs. Just because you have the degree doesn't mean you are skilled enough to warrant the type of pay someone with a PhD would demand.

Social skills or management skills could be lacking, past work experience could be lacking, the person might not be good at finding the jobs which are obviously out there because programming skills are very desirable right now.

When applying for a job sometimes you have to sell yourself and make the company know that you can provide value and won't slack off after being hired. This isn't always easy, just a degree doesn't mean jack shit.

The education system is partially to blame. Spending almost 20 years at a desk being "taught" (pushed through) doesn't seem like the most effective way to prepare someone for life. People need experience and variety. Social skills, organization, self-motivation, and loyalty are all skills that are extremely important but are hard to learn in the current educational environment, at least in my experience.
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+1

I've been doing this since October & loving every minute. I still work full-time (remotely) as I don't have savings, but just being in new places has really changed my outlook & actually made me more excited/focused on the work I'm doing.

I freelanced for a bit via sites like We Work Remotely, then I found a full-time, remote role. I earn a SFBA market wage too, which actually means I am saving more being in countries with a much lower cost-of-living, than Sydney (where I was from) or SFBA itself.
There is a disconnect between voting and policy that will need to be addressed before you are able to call it a democracy again.
I'm asserting that the evidence exists and that I have seen it. Before I saw it, I never for an instant doubted that it was happening.

To further clarify, because some others (not you) seem confused, just because terrorists are in fact using photos and videos to plan attacks, doesn't mean that we have to start reporting everyone we see holding a camera in public. Its entirely possible for profiling photographers to be a bad idea even if every single terrorist had a camera.
Streisand effect in 3..2..1..

https://github.com/censormirror/bpjmleak
So you want the FBI to risk establishing cognitive biases instead of going out and finding the truth?
I did Stanford's online ML course (taught by Andrew Ng, quoted in the article), and heartily recommend it. I found it to be a nice balance of theory and practice - it's also not a bad way to learn Octave (the GNU equivalent of matlab) if one wants to do that.
http://online.stanford.edu/course/machine-learning

(I don't know if there's a way to just access the materials and videos though, rather than signing up for the course.)
I would argue that we are not qualified to make that assumption but the FBI agents in question are.

There could have easily been a small fact or incident in the past with the author of the article that raised a red-flag for the agents. There could be a policy that says ALL tips must be followed up on and contacted.

I'm all for exposing and preventing abuses of power by law enforcement, but I see no evidence of that happening in this situation.
Try this page. It has a lot of various color palettes that can maybe give you some inspiration. http://www.colourlovers.com/
Another interesting article by Nick Szabo is here: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/02/irreducible-complex..., where he discusses proof-of-work (2006) and what he saw as the problem with it.

Actually, a compelling theory is that Nick Szabo (possibly in collaboration with others) is Satoshi Nakamoto: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamo....
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/ is a superb blog dealing with these issues.
>Eric Cantor proved that you can't buy an election with money.

Muffy is a dog. Muffy cannot bark. Therefore, no dogs can bark.

Textbook logical fallacy.

Of course, politicians can and do buy elections. Today's process practically guarantees this will occur.

>to the extent that any good ideas are removed from the public realm with this scheme, we all lose.

There are other ways to ensure that good ideas come to the fore. And, as the ability to raise funds is not solely based on the quality of one's ideas, there is no feasible way that the democratic process can benefit from unrestrained campaign financing and rulings like Citizens United.
The problem of wealth distribution is certainly not solved, because the system you are describing, in which wealth is taken from someone, involves coersion. It requires violence to enforce. It requires consolidation of power. The system proposed here, however simple, is describing voluntary wealth redistribution. No one is forced into the system, but the rules of the system are set to level the playing field.

I think this is a good start, and we will likely see many more implementations of this basic idea. One genius aspect of software-based currency is that it allows the possibility of the establishment of laws without a police force. The currency is its own police force. Anyone who doesn't like the rules can choose to use another cryptocurrency with different rules. This is consensus-based law, and it is a movement in the right direction.
Its not SQLite being slower, its a question of machine resources. When you use a Database cluster spanning across machines you are just throwing more resources at it, there no 'magic' per se going on in other tools. There is also likely better indexing which enables efficient querying.

Since the whole database is in one file though 140TB may be the filesize limit, searching through a index of 140TB data will still be a lot slower. That is the case even with client-server models or even with Hadoop.

Most people claiming to have a big data problem, actually don't have one. Its just bad understanding of SQL, coupled with NoSQL fashion which powers people to opt out of SQL. One more problem with SQL is, its a career path in itself. There is whole industry built around it, data base design, administration etc etc. And people who find this as high barrier to entry, take the easy way out and choose NoSQL based tools hoping it will act as a panacea- Only to re implement SQL badly at some point in their stack. But SQL has other advantages, it teaches you think about efficient representation of data. Which in turn leads to an overall better design of everything that connects it.

For most of your everyday so called 'Big data' problems, SQLite will work like charm. This covers most of the shops that claim to be doing big data work.

For the real big data problems, well then SQLite wasn't designed for it anyway.
Very few folks in the industry want to hire a PhD because they are a) expensive b) often know-it-alls with little practical experience churning out boilerplate code which is the majority of positions.

Now, you can hate on my comment without realizing that I respect the work and knowledge represented by such an achievement, but this is just real-talk from 15 years in the trenches. I have no college degree and am probably more marketable simply due to my wide experience in various industries and projects. That is sad but true and maybe indicative of the funked up system we inhabit.
I've got to agree with you. I have a PhD from an British university, and recently moved back to the US. I haven't scored an industry job yet, rather I'm working as a postdoc in SoCal. But anyway, I've been trying very hard to engage with industry by attending programming meetups and demonstrating my skills to people who could be involved in hiring. Most of what I've talked to people about has gone over well. Sure it is a different path to go from a PhD to industry than to go in from undergraduate, but you will have developed thinking skills during it that will be valuable to any company. As far as showing that you are up to snuff on "best practices", a good set of github projects will go a long way if you have developed the right connections.

I have met a lot of PhDs in computational fields with mediocre coding skills, but if you are in the position of being up with the times it's just a matter of marketing yourself properly. Not easy, but as I like to say, if you can code well your not in danger of starving anytime soon in this day and age.
That's assuming a level of complexity this doesn't appear to be shooting for. Sure, you probably couldn't build an RPi or BBB with this guy, but it seems that they're targeting a lower end shop trying to spin a few iterations of a low-cost IoT device before sending it out to a fab house. The level of complexity needed for that hardware isn't huge.
Hey there,

I'm one of the two creators of Project Jefferson. We'll do a full run down of the tech we used to do this some time this week, but I'm 100% willing to chat about anything to do with the project.

We started working on this just a couple weeks ago and are super excited to ship it tonight. If anything breaks or looks wonky, please drop me a line. :)

Cheers,
Sean
I see that you also heard that episode of This American Life.
Plus, simple like-ability is a huge factor. At least in organizations where the people you would be working with or directly for are involved in the selection process.

"Do I want to spend all day with this person?" is a completely valid question when interviewing the person who will be at the desk next to yours all day, every day.

That isn't to say that people with PhD's are any more or less likely than anyone else :D just that there are numerous non-education related factors that can factor heavily in hiring decisions.
Well, someone could scrape all these PDF links and index them in a search engine, then Scribd could suck it. Or will Google do it automatically?
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Actually, I don't quite understand their method. At the end of the day, it is not a gigantic shared memory, as in Hogwild! paper conveniently describes. You need to synchronize slave's model with master model, in model parallelism case, you need to send responses to another machine for further processes. This sounds extremely complicated actually to implement in modern HPC environment (assuming MPI as the main implementation technique).

Sorry if this sounds a bit defensive than it is meant to be. I just think that there are much more to the implementation than the simple Hogwild! approach (probably some clever pipelining to cover the communication / computation cost as the Hogwild! approach relaxed consistency of the model).

It seems that this year's ImageNet classification competition result will be more interesting than what I expected.
This looks great, but I hope you have a solid system in place to deal with the huge number of DMCA requests you'll get. Free PDF hosting services (free file hosting services) end up being a target of pirates, but not just that, of automated systems that index things specific to pirated text in order to get clicks.

If you don't get way ahead of these kinds of users, you'll end up with an untenable drain on your resources that will make it easier to shut down than to sustain.
One challenge with the PhD->CS Industry sidestep is that PhD candidates are extremely picky about the kind of jobs they're willing to accept, and many companies are suspicious of the value/cost ratio of a fresh PhD.

If you're a graduating PhD headed into academia, you will be the boss of your group, with almost nothing above you in the org chart telling you what to do. So it is natural for a PhD headed into industry to start from a place of expecting the same---from their perspective.

But from the perspective of industry, the PhD's value isn't judged the same way. They've just spent six years doing research, not shipping code. Their management experience is managing students and classrooms, not employees.

So this mismatch results in a perception of "I'm being undervalued!" from the perspective of the PhD and "He's overvaluing himself" from the perspective of the company.

If the student and company don't have high social IQ to navigate this situation, I can see how it would result in no offers being made.

Source: I've made hiring decisions about PhDs when I worked in industry, and now I'm a graduating PhD student going back into industry, so I can see it from both sides.
imo the worst part is that imgur doesn't even permit direct linking in many cases: they will 3xx-force redirect direct links to their ad filled pages
Could we please stop hating on Scribd? In addition to being rude, it's also mistaken: I've found PDFs on Scribd that simply aren't available anywhere else, because the original links on other sites became broken. This is somewhat common for academic papers, for example. Yes, I had to upload a PDF in order to download the PDF from Scribd, but that's a fair trade; I chose to upload an academic paper that perhaps might be useful to someone else.
This is a duplicate of this earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8031546
Advice from someone who has thought about the problem but doesn't necessarily have any clue what he's talking about:

First, spend some time Googling "color and emotions" and "color and behavior". Think about how you want the customer to react to the brand.

Next, I would consider A/B testing it. :-) I'm guessing that's not a good option in your case, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.
Here is the censored plaintext list: http://pastebin.com/NgZRSJ54

And here is a zip of the neocities site, including the censored lists: http://pomf.se/dbhmba.zip