skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference"

Great book, and the PDF is available on the author's website: http://computervisionmodels.com/
That's pretty much what "been more thorough" meant there, yes.
Let's Fix It
Net neutrality is a catch-all phrase at this point but it always was just a business dispute between telcos/cable and the tech/internet industries who are both jockeying to accrue the cost savings to themselves. It's just cloaked in language that pretends that this is an issue in the public's interest.
It's 4000+ individuals not 300
Depends entirely on what kind of hacking you want to do. If you want to pull out parts that are portable Common Lisp and use those, you're free to do so. If you want to hack the code so the whole thing compiles on SBCL, you're free to do that too. Similar situation to free-software apps whose developer targets OSX: no legal barrier to using the code on Linux, but may take some work.
"These days" - this is nothing new. I'm genuinely confused by the number of people who think that any form of online communication is secure. I understand the outrage about government snooping. But this is a company checking its users do not break the law on the company's service and it is not in any way new.

And having seen what idiot politicians would want I'm glad that services are doing this instead.
JavaScript Frameworks and Resources
Cognitive dissonance is a similar concept that is not new.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

As quoted from that article:

"Cognitive dissonance is also useful to explain and manage post-purchase concerns. If a consumer feels that an alternate purchase would have been better, it is likely he/she will not buy the product again. To counter this, marketers have to convince buyers constantly that the product satisfies their need and thereby helps reduce their cognitive dissonance, ensuring repurchase of the same brand in the future."

Sounds like the writer is referring to cognitive dissonance.

Leon Festinger published his work on cognitive dissonance in 1959 making his discovery 11 years before Lipowski's publication in 1970 (as referenced by the article). Festinger in my mind is the godfather of this theory. Anyone agree?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Festinger
Who said OP is a programmer?
It's easy to dismiss a one-in-a-million, or even a one-in-a-trillion event, as being unimportant when it happens to somebody else, especially when that person isn't directly known. But one's thinking can change very, very quickly when one is directly affected by such an improbable event, be it in positive or negative way.

The impact may seem irrelevant or minor to you, but to those affected it could very well be far more significant.
> The language of disability is often defined by majorities. One ADD person with four non-ADD people may be viewed as "rude" for interrupting before sentences are complete, whereas one non-ADD person among four ADD people may be unable to keep up with five concurrent and tangential conversations where completed sentences are entirely optional.

Thank you for making that comparison. I still struggle to hold back from finishing others' sentences, even though it seems like I finish them "correctly" more often than not.

I'm also reminded of how how middle eastern peace talks are complicated, in part, by the major differences in conversational styles. One side expects to be interrupted, while the other finds it incredibly rude.
He's talking about the number of movies that are made, not sales of film. Among Hollywood movies and TV shows with a reasonable budget, I wouldn't be surprised if 20% or more use film (as a very wild guess).
I wholeheartedly see your point, but I believe the well-intentioned objective is to gain perspective from like-minded individuals who can empathize. Much like a support group. Depressed alcoholics share a common bond not only around depression, but the specific problems associated with alcohol. Founders often find themselves lonely with their problems and want to connect with others with similar experiences.
You would think that Putin will stand down over a strong applied force (for example, economic sanctions).

No he won't. But. I expect it is possible for Putin to be torn apart by conflicting vectors of several forces - USA and Europe; oligarchs and business; and Russian people finally enter the play since it's them who wage the war in Ukraine. The tidal shocks may do what a single force won't.
Thanks for you insights. Those are some pretty interesting numbers. I might really get on with this when I have some free time.

About the pricing model, I've been thinking that I would just provide a single plan with unlimited lists, to keep things simple. Now with the signup-less trial I think providing any kind of freemium model would be overcomplicating things. What do you think?

I'm glad you like it and that it works well for you. Note that the mobile support was just a quick work around, mainly just for reading the lists. Ideally I would implement gesture based actions, and hide the icons to free up space. Something like Clear, which is very nice, and is actually the one I use on my phone (just for the grocery list).

About your concerns: a) what additional features specifically? b) That's really up to you, although my objective is to make something that you do want to pay for. c) Hopefully not ;)
i really liked fuckitdb better lol
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The latter interpretation, if I understand it correctly, is that Google engineers randomly poke at people's emails and in this case just happened to get lucky. Even stipulating thousands of Google engineers doing that, that doesn't sound statistically plausible; the base rate of child pornography among Google Mail users is extremely low.
At my address I can have Comcast (what I use), or CenturyLink DSL.

Oh, for the days when you chose an ISP, rather than submitted to one.
GNU Dr. Geo, be a geometer F.A.Q
Racket v6.1 released. Undefined values from uninitialized variables eliminated
Not a decade, FOUR decades. But it isn't a US patent...
http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_à_puce
Longreads archive.
Gambler's fallacy trips up goalies
But that's natural. The innovator in retail is now Amazon. Wal-Mart was innovative when Sam hisownself ran it, and a little past that. The trope is that Sam had a daily report ( presumably on green fanfold paper ) on his desk every day. Very much a tech leader in the pre-Internet network sense.

I lived in a town that had no Wal-Mart and then it did. Before, you had to drive to downtown or a retail area across town and the stores closed basically at dark.

If you went to Penney's, it had hardwood floors, the clerk sent your transaction up a pneumatic tube to the cashier and got your change out of the same pneumatic tube. Banks still use these at drive in lanes.

Only the precursor to Wal-Mart - Gibsons - was open past 6:00ish ( I don't remember the exact figure ). You had to conform to the store's schedule. Mom would send orders with Dad to fill on lunch, back before we had two cars ( this was late '60s, early '70s ).

People invoke competition, but competition really only works out when the new guy has twice to ten times the impact that the incumbent has. Something has to cover switching costs.
If you know statistics and do it correctly, you can reduce the chance of a false positive.
Seconded. In fact, I'm going to schedule time this week to do nothing but be in a park, sans eBooks, games, or the like.
We don't need the courts to make it illegal. You can damage political adversaries in court of public opinion by leaking other damaging information. protest-plans.ppt could just be a way to identify political threats in order to flag and search other traffic records. we know that the intelligence agencies spy on politicians. A dirty picture or chat affair leaked to the press destroys a user before they even get into an office of power. or detects and removes someone in position to be a whistleblower.
The neighbourhood I live in in my city was once crappy, got gentrified when living in the gay district got popular, and thanks to the power of inflation, is now just a nice, modest, middle class neighbourhood again.
Not that I have much faith in the idea that something being extraordinarily expensive prevents the government from pursuing a particular course, but what you say would cover most cases.

But let's say instead of classified documents, we're talking about al-qaeda-training-manual.pdf. One can easily imagine such a document violating federal laws.

Say there are various documents the government catches during a raid, on say Bin Laden's compound for example. Say the government would like Google to look around and see who has trafficked in these documents. They don't have to tell Google what the documents are, exactly, just provide hashes/file sizes/ etc.

Why wouldn't this happen?
Agree 100% on the meetings sentence. I do the same passive listening while doodling thing. Works quite well.
Really? Detection of known instances of child pornography is the reason we need end-to-end encryption? As an advocate for end-to-end security, I find this disquieting, in the "I think you're doing more harm than good with that argument" sense.
Please Give Edward Snowden His Medal of Freedom Already
>my areas of interest are the largely the kind of things that get posted about on HN

seems to imply that. Either way, it could be an advice for OP to learn a language. What's wrong with that?
Why I Joined the Static Blog Movement
Do you have any good reading to learn about avoiding those pitfalls with node?
Could you provide any arguments, instead of just bashing Wikipedia?
If some of the accesses were by people or systems within Mozilla, can you please address why a month went by before the problem was noticed?

If there was enough need to justify putting forth the effort required to export a sanitized version of these data for developers to use, then why didn't these users notice that something was wrong much sooner? And if they did notice, why weren't the appropriate parties within Mozilla notified sooner?

Could you please provide more specific details about these IP addresses that couldn't be accounted for, too? Perhaps a list of them, for instance? At least then affected users will be able to make their own call regarding their level of risk due to this incident.
The only reason it was greyed out was that people got upset and downvoted it.

And while my comment now has -4 it had previously +4 so evidently not everybody agrees with your community standards.
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: EFTPOS, Linux device drivers, mainly C, some C++ with PowerPC, Intel and ARM chips.

Resume: Electronic engineering background, wrote AS2805 library for EFTPOS terminals, wrote drivers for a mobile phone base station, medical equipment and an air traffic control system.

Email: mrlbp@bigpond.com
It's entitlement all the way down. People who live somewhere feel entitled to stay there indefinitely because they were there "first". People who don't live there feel entitled to buy their way in because that's how supply and demand work.
> Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia?

"Terrorism" was just how they learned they could get away with it. Having established that, it's now any damn thing they want.
This reads like an attempt to counter data saying that gentrification reduces churn from the pre-gentrified population with anecdotes about dog feces and dominos.
It's most certainly a subset of other static site generators, but it's also not a static site generator. It's a blog generator that just happens to support exporting the blog to static HTML/CSS.
Flappy Bird is back, and now you can play with friends
First off, anecdote != data.

But I'll bite.

> The newcomers with dogs would chuck their dog's droppings over the fence and onto the ballpark.

This seems more like douchebaggery than entitlement. If I had to hazard a guess, douchebaggery isn't limited to gentrifiers.

> Seems like the newcomers didn't like the bodega feel when they were out walking their dogs.

Seems like a function of (middle-to-upper-class) western life and its disappearing third places. But perhaps playing dominoes in the park is illegal?
I see the same misplaced rage against foreign buyers of real estate (or the perception of foreign buyers inflating real estate prices). There is a whole lot of blame to go around.
Vision-Correcting Displays [video]
I'm not claiming a slippery slope. They already are scanning all emails, we know this for certain.

And as for "What if they're mistaken?" There's a fair amount of fallout from simply being accused of a crime. Between arrest, jail-time waiting for arraignment, bail, legal fees, news coverage which will forever attach your name to whatever it was...etc. The question squarely is "What if they're wrong?"
Popcorn Time repository is now self-hosted
Animal liberation by Peter Singer.
The UK equivalent would probably be the NSPCC. If Google had a tip of an individual person distributing these images they would not contact the IWF. That would be for a website that was distributing these images.
So many logical fallacies in a single post. Well done sir.

If you substitute 'newcomers' with 'foreigners', and 'Latino' with 'white', your post reads as exactly the same xenophobic screed I've heard over and over for years.
The internet, including forums like HN, encourage tiny little "soundbites" of reading. How many internet stories do you read that are more than five minutes of reading? If you're like me, very few.

But "deep" reading, thinking about one subject or story for a long time--hours or even days--is very rare on the internet.

This has been talked about before on HN, and the effects are much debated. Here's one take on it. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1273705...

In any case, I would encourage you to take this chance exercise your deep-reading muscles. Read a long book. Read a hard book. Read a book outside of the genres you normally read. The goal is to read something very different than the internet, and something different than you're used to.

I'd suggest looking at a list of "great books" and picking out some that seem appealing to you, and picking out a few more that you have heard of but don't seem like your cup of tea. You'll grow in different ways with each type. Here's a list with a lot of variety: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6.Best_Books_of_the_20th...

(I don't know where you're going to be, but if it's Uganda, you might want to pick up "The Last King of Scotland", which I enjoyed reading during my stay in Kampala.)
Wait...Did you just argue that gathering in a park (a public gathering place) and playing a board game can be illegal? Where do you live that has laws like that?
It took a long time to search and then gave me a completely blank page. Looking at the source it seems the results are there, but they're totally unrelated to what I searched for (besides being porn, of course).
I'd be interested in this too.

Used to have a lot of trouble with my RPi getting corrupted (fixed with a new power supply). And rather than spend any time trying to make everything read-only in software I figured I'd just use the "lock" switch on the sd card. That was when I discovered that the lock didn't actually do anything.
I don't know. Maybe it would. And, my comfort level with that happening depends a whole lot on the circumstances.
"That improvement is unfair to the people who ran it down"

Assumption 1: The residents are the people who ran down the neighborhood.

Assumption 2: Gentrification improves the neighborhood.

My previous comment addresses the first assumption. Feel free to disagree.

If a neighborhood is just real estate, assumption two is valid. If a neighborhood is a community of people, and gentrification moves a lot of the people, you have not improved the neighborhood, you displaced it.

Once we question these assumptions, perhaps we can address the root problems.
Great question, and one that I asked just before going to Mozambique for 10 weeks a few years back. I'd just bought a kindle, which were not available outside the USA back then, and asked a few interesting folks I was chatting to at Foo. Here are my resulting first few kindle purchases:
The Match King
Heros Die (I bought the rest of them)
The city and the city
Every patient tells a story
Blindsight
Born to Run
Hot, Flat & Crowded
The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
The Hunger Games (!)

And on it went - asking for recommendations was a fantastic thing to do. I'd asked for fiction as I was going there to work and would be too exhausted at first to do much else.

So I do encourage everyone to give some names of books. And yes - do take a good camera, do take binoculars - Leica if you can afford them, and embrace the experience.

A few years later I went to Antarctica on a boat for 30 days offline. By then I had hundreds of books on kindle, and several devices to read them. This is basically a solved problem now. I did take Wikipedia in offline state, which was useful.

In decades previous when traveling I cared about weight and price per word and focused on "good" books - books that you know you should read but which need a bit of effort. When you are off the grid and in countries where there are few English books then it was a great way to read great books.
But now the Internet is everywhere. It might be flaky, and it might be painful to access, but you'll be able to find access to buy and download books relatively easily.

Three recommendations, aside from the above which I enjoyed a lot.

Bill Aulet: Disciplined Entrepreneurship, covers the topic very well and generously references everything else.

The Circle by Dave Eggers paints a picture that's creepily familiar already.

League of Denial will have you shake your head gently and sadly at NFL and other contact sports.
This site needs some kind of meta-moderation system, or some other way to moderate the moderation.

What you describe seems to be happening more and more often these days, and I think it's harmful. Comments will receive many upvotes, and then suddenly start getting many downvotes. Or it'll happen the other way around.

When that kind of fluctuation is happening, I think the only appropriate thing to do, especially when downvotes or downvoted comments are involved, is to show the comment normally, instead of obscuring it with harder to read grey text. Clearly there's some agreement, and there's some disagreement, so the only sane thing to do is to show the comment so readers can make their own analyses of it.
Read books you always wanted but wouldn't get around to with all the distractions available at home. Be it classics, political theory, maybe something light and scientific? Generally, whatever doesn't require additional materials.

Here are some titles of that kind I enjoyed.

Anabasis by Xenophon

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Antifragile by Nassim Taleb

Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

The Son also Rises by Gregory Clark
As someone else already mentioned, this is not entirely false. You will lose your issues which is a huge reason why big projects don't move to Github. You lose your wikis. You don't run backup of your issues every day, do you? In fact, how many of you do that?

I bet the number is almost zero. Source code is one thing, but the history of discussion? That worth something.

Also, sometimes some repos just don't exist on your computer anymore or out of sync because you done work on multiple computers. Or if your computer is stolen.
"Bush derangement syndrome?" At some point during the Bush years the New York Times seems to have been hit with said syndrome and devolved into nothing more than another partisan rag.

Bush is mentioned three times in the article. Guess how many times Obama is mentioned? Not once. The most powerful and influential person in this issue, Not Mentioned Once.

So what if Bush implemented these policies. So what if by some miracle they were able to prosecute and convict him. We'd still have the status quo.

Articles like the one above are the very reason I hold "The Paper of Record" in almost as low esteem as outlets such as Fox News.
Alternatively you could put feathers from endangered birds inside peoples cars. Mere possession of such feathers is a felony.

There are plenty of ways to screw with people.
I think it's time for you to get out of Javaland and try a functional language. Maybe give Clojure a shot if you want to stick with a JVM language. I think you'll find that the frameworks and patterns aren't even necessary.
The QoS issue wasn't that bittorrent was blocked, but that ISPs were heavily deprioritizing bittorrent and potentially other unwanted traffic through packet inspection. It is and was very much something opposed by net neutrality advocates.
It's a shame that he had to go through so much effort to lose weight when a simple low carbohydrate, moderate protein, high fat diet would have been sufficient. (I am fairly confident this is not the way he ate since he mentioned fruits in the article.)
Allowing certain organizations to bypass data caps or data rates and not others is an incredible opportunity for corruption.

It's like the "licenses Raj" days all over again. Nehru might have had good intentions, but it just created a massively corruption system of extortion.
I misunderstood what you meant then. My mistake.
It's nit-picky to the point of ridiculousness. Take the first example, even the title "Objects with __toString are not strings." is already WTF worthy. Of course objects with a __toString method are not strings! It means they can be converted to strings when unambiguously used as strings. Which is exactly what happens! The whole entry is stupid. The author even complains that PHP will issue an error if __toString doesn't return a string! I mean really.

Most other entries involve doing something bizarre with obviously undefined consequences and then marveling that PHP does it different than they expect. Or failing to understand PHP's basic rules and then again, on edge cases, marveling at weirdness of the perfectly logical result.

The "PHP protected and an assault" entry just fails to comprehend how access modifiers actually work with the classes.

There are real PHP WTF's but honestly they were all discovered 10 years ago. Probably 50% of all entries on the site are people misunderstanding how references work over and over and over.
Reddit's Favorite Scientist Just Got Banned for Cheating the Site
Yeah, I wonder why the camera didn't catch the comet's tail.

There's a possibility all the volatile components have already been burned off by the solar wind (which is what causes the tail). That would make this either a very old, or very small comet. Or one that wasn't that icy to begin with.
Yes:

http://www.w3.org/TR/webmidi/

http://badassjs.com/post/40190128792/midi-js-a-soundfont-bas...