skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the above link [1], it's not survivor bias:

"Another way to cut the data is to compare movers and nonmovers across gentrifying and nongentrifying neighborhoods. Interestingly, there is a slightly larger increase in credit score (1.5 points more) associated with residents of the gentrifying neighborhoods who moved to a different neighborhood relative to those who lived in a gentrifying neighborhood but did not move. So it appears that, on average, movers are even slightly more positively affected by gentrification than nonmovers."
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Sorry then I must be wrong. All I remember it from was an IRC conversation on the PPSSPP channel.
I think friend discovery is an abstraction layered on top of the protocol itself. Consider the address books on every personal device. In fact, most of the popular communications protocols/infrastructure of the last century has required its own social abstraction.
This is the internet. If you are going to be offended over the use of words you are going to have a bad time and should log of right now.
I'm a senior in college. I've learned about a host of mathematical concepts that are misunderstood by popular media (N dimensions, linear algebra, linear functions). Wanting to correct these topics, I wrote a blog post[1] about them.

But this blog post blossomed into much more than I was expecting. I was expecting to cover only those specific details, but then I got into nonlinear problems that have no closed form solution and got into what mathematicians do. While I'm still learning and they're an experienced mathematician, I like to think I can understand what everyone else thinks and what mathematicians think.

[1]:http://scottsievert.github.io/blog/2014/07/31/common-mathema...
Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia? Anyway, at least in this case, the tip was sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which, being a private non profit, doesn't seem too closely associated with the NSA/DHS/whatever government organisation you believe maintains these lists.
Consider posting this under the "Show HN" area.
Ask HN: What ISP do you use, and what do you recommend?
Which internet provider do you use? And which would you recommend for speed, reliability, customer service, etc...
Naw, my G+ complaints got downvoted too. I'm guessing HN is rather conflicted on this topic.

It's fun watching posts bounce up an down as pro-G+ and anti-G+ readers roll through.
If you're not interested in actually making an argument rather than disparagingly hand-waving, I suggest you find another forum.
BitTorrent Kad is one of the only huge scale totally decentralized systems in use today.

I wonder if it could stand up to a big Sybil attack though? Most of the black hats that could do it don't because they all watch illegal movies and have no motive to attack that network. I would bet you a donut the RIAA and MPAA have talked about it, but actually doing it could expose them to civil and even criminal penalties since it would technically be computer fraud and abuse.
Yeah. This kind of network also cannot truly be partition tolerant, not if the partition is between the two nodes that are trying to establish a connection!

The article is fairly vague - what is the risk of Sybil attacks exactly? (I looked at the FAQ, but it's sparse on details; only glanced at source.)

Is it some kind of spoofing? Since addresses are supposed to be collision resistant and tied to public keys, it should be possible to discard all messages regarding a peer that don't come from it. Although 40 bits is actually way too small...

Denial of service by pretending to be able to route to a user? Okay, but there should be some way to punish IP addresses that consistently fail to route things they claim to be able to... complicated, but not impossible.

Of course, I've only thought about this for 10 minutes, while the author has studied it for a long time. I'm sure they have more insight about the problems, but without more details I can only speculate.
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My startup's eulogy for a competitor: TrackIf bids farewell to Hukkster
Multicast presently does have some tunable parameters, but so far they all have acceptable defaults and are hidden. I will probably expose them under an advanced tab in the future. So I didn't mean to be totally dismissive... My point was just that every tunable parameter a user has to interact with loses you an exponential number of users.
> I really really have a hard time understanding the google+ hate around here.

Because it's a baffling fucking mess.

I have several different accounts. G+ integration breaks those totally, leaking information to people I didn't want it leaked to; contacting people I didn't want to contact; making my different Google services much harder to use.

And what benefit do I get from it?

This is a real question: What does G+ actually give me?
>Who's to say protest-plans.ppt won't be the next thing on the list? Or justin-bieber.mp3? Or cia-torture-prisons.txt?

Because possession of those files doesn't break federal law, but possession of child pornography does?

And even if those things were added, obviously Google does some sort of rough verification process of the nature of the content being sent if it matches a hash.

Service providers have been sharing image hashes of CP for 6+ years now. It's definitely not just Google.

Your slippery slope makes no sense. This is probably the absolute least invasive thing that Google does. You are aware they show ads based on the actual text content of your emails, right?
Has your quality of life really suffered so much now that you're encouraged to write to a broader audience?
male obviously, the alpha kind. Haven't you ever git-checkedout that big master branch, always git-pushing and git-pulling. Or maybe it has never git-shown it to you.
Also straight: it likes pussy cause git-cat-phile, or is it git-cat-file? HAHAHA, are you git-init?
Gentrification is happenning in Toronto outside of the downtown core, albeit very slowly.

The main effect is you have families cashing out and moving further and further away from the city to put the real estate price differentials to good use (bigger house, or cash in bank). In the current environment, it actually makes zero sense to buy residential property for the sake of renting it out, so the only ones who are long time owners. Over time, they too will cash out and it will be harder to find rentals until the neighbourhood either increases in status to command higher rates (like what happened in Kensington Market or in the Bellwood neighbourhood), or the property prices start falling to a low enough level that it makes sense to buy rental property again.
Also worth investigating is http://apis.io/ , a growing repository for API interface design patterns.
On that topic:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/16/business/la-fi-googl...

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
> Because possession of those files doesn't break federal law

Depends what country you're in.

> Your slippery slope makes no sense.

I agree. There is a very big difference between a pirated Justin Bieber MP3 file and images of children being raped.
Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022831 had 60 points just three weeks ago, I think we have to call this a dupe.
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Fair enough. I just Ctrl-F'd 'bias' and had nothing, guess I could have been more thorough.

That paragraph still fails to specify whether this applies only to homeowners and renters, or whether that still holds when looking just at rentership. We have "original resident renters living in gentrifying neighborhood benefit", and we have "movers overall benefit", but that doesn't necessarily imply "original resident renters who (were forced to) move benefit."
20-25$/hr working as PHP developer.
Started with NodeJs few months ago and charge 30USD/hr

I am form India. Most of my clients are via oDesk.
The UK version - the Internet Watch Foundation - is also a charity but you'd be a foolish UK ISP to ignore what they say.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/
that reeeeaally depends on the area you live in. You'll probably not get the answer you want if you're not more specific.
> Hence, a question like this may not have a unique right answer. If you allow philosophers in, you will definitely not have a unique answer :)

I'm not sure if this is what you're describing, but many nonlinear[1] math problems have no closed form solution[2]. That means you can't use any regular function, all the operators and the infinitely real numbers to describe every solution: you can only use the infinitely real numbers to describe one solution.

I've written a blog post on this topic[3]; that blog post works through all the underlying stuff before getting to these closed form solutions.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nonlinear_partial_diff..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_form_solution

[3]:http://scottsievert.github.io/blog/2014/07/31/common-mathema...
"Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia?"

It's nothing at all. Plenty of innocent people are on those lists having done nothing.

That the pretext is terrorism is irrelevant.
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http://www.hookandloopnyc.com/javascriptnode-js-developer-2/
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Net neutrality is a very confused idea. Once one tries to define a testable law, it becomes a lot less desirable.

Since I started paying attention, the definition has changed from “QoS on the last mile” to “slowing certain protocols” to “blocking competitive services” to “blocking any services” to “not building enough capacity” to “fast lanes that aren’t CDNs” to “throttling any user” to “paying for interconnect”.

In the Wikipedia case above, it’s clearly a violation of NN and it’s clearly good for consumers. It’s a very progressive policy, I support it – and it’s not neutral.

The justification Wikimedia offers here is that they are serving the community and are not exchanging $$ with the ISP. Is this part of the definition now? And if so, do we want to start defining which sites we feel serve the community?
Maybe you may start to talk to you competitor...?
I guess that if they inform their customers that you might be an alternative, this may be a win-win-win deal:
- they wouldn't look like complete ahole
- their customers would know where to go
- you would have more customers, even if you need to setup an easy migration path from fotopedia to you (in less than 10 days) and maybe have some bonus for these customers (upgraded accounts for 1 to 3 months)

You might have a look at what happened when Google discontinued their news service and how their competitor managed to take advantage of this...

But maybe the first thing you should do is: understand why fotopedia customers went to them instead of coming to you?? Is this the business model? The design? The features..?

And would these customers be a good fit for you?
lol, again?
3D printing of metal objects
That doesn´t mean much without the context of where you would not be working remotely from.
But discussion there is closed, and discussion here is active. Doesn't that suggest that this should not be killed, and instead should simply be allowed to run its natural course?
this is a website with a community. if you're going to prioritize some asshole's right to be a bigot over being inclusive then you're welcome to fuck right off.
Pretty cool. You should post this in /r/iwantoutjobs
jaekwon, you've yet to convince many people that your solution does in fact work.
I was going to say, that’s quite low (for me here in Europe), but then I read the ODesk part.
Hm? This is the first time I've posted it here.
ps, you should have an email subscription box. None of the jobs there seem right for me, but I like the concept
This is a site on the internet.

Which doesn't mean that it can't have standards of conduct that make it possible to have civilised discussion.
Isn't what's happening here quite different? They'd be matching against a know list of images.
From what I understand, hashnames aren't supposed to be like domain names. They're supposed to be like IP addresses. Normal people don't need to type or remember IP addresses very often.

So what it needs is a DNS replacement. Something like namecoin might work.
Ruby Operators with their names e.g. Spaceship, Stabby lambda, Shovel
That case was very bad. It gets mentioned a lot. Is that because it happens all the time, but that's the only case that was reported? Or is it because it's very rare, and that's the only case there is to report?

(I doubt very much that Google has only had one employee who accesses user data inappropriately and I really hope they take severe action when they find it. I would really like to know the rates from similar large companies - FB, MS, etc.)
quad-center processor? wonder where that mistake came from.

also: blogspam; original source seems to be http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/29/5947583/new-microsoft-wind...
"I just Ctrl-F'd 'bias' and had nothing, guess I could have been more thorough."

Did you consider maybe reading it?
> You shouldn't consider this to be a break.

I can't see any reasonable definition of "break" for this context for which that is valid; its exactly the same kind of breakage that strong type checking reduces the incidence of in Haskell compared to dynamic languages -- runtime errors resulting from a function call not being able to complete without error for all inputs that the language will allow to be passed to it.

> Taking the head of an empty list is no more a break than dividing something by zero.

I agree; both are clearly examples of things that can cause a program to break.
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> Seattle's not-great public transit

I've visited Seattle, but I live in Lexington, Kentucky, and believe me, it could be a lot worse.
No kidding. Almost hard to believe. It sounds great.
What makes it hard to compete with Microsoft in the consumer PC/office suite space? What makes it hard to compete with Apple or Samsung in the phone/tablet space? What makes it hard to compete with Amazon in the retail space, or Oracle in the DB space? IBM in the IT consulting space? Intel in the desktop CPU space? Google in the search space?

Patent lawsuits.
I'm with you. Although I get around it by streaming from my phone to my computer via bluetooth.
It's always hilarious to see arguments that people fixing up a run down neighborhood is terrible. That improvement is unfair to the people who ran it down or didn't own anything there to begin with.

Let's just have things stay crappy and life will be fair to all.
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I suspect that the "hash" actually is the following info per file: sha1-hash, md5-hash, crc32-hash and file size. If a file matches the file size, hash1 is checked, then hash2 and so on. I will be pretty impressed if you can fake that somehow.

Edit: this is a normal algorithm for files in general, but it appears to be a image-specific algorithm used in this case. (A la imageDNA)
It's not a reliable sign of a good developer at all, although you'd be hard-pressed to realize that if you're hip deep in the culture.
I would still hope that "their email account sent an image" is only sufficient to start an investigation and not end it. Email accounts can be broken into, many people have access to the same computer, etc etc.
Of course you could see it. Written out on paper with a flowchart stencil the way God intended!
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Voice recognition failures and driverless buses
The courts have changed the way they interact with the patent system multiple times since then.
I took some openGL in college, and can understand the most very basic shaders on Shadertoy, but the more advanced stuff that gets posted to Shadertoy is way over my head.

Is there a good set of resources (book, videos, website?) to learn the more advanced stuff? Sitting there and trying to understand the super complex (and even mediumly complex) shaders from scratch is just not doing it for me.
That sort of thing happens a _lot_ with these blogspam articles. (Usually Indian sources, I've noticed. Or maybe it's some sort of bias.) I think the blogspam authors use a thesaurus to replace some words to avoid direct copying.

* "discharge" instead of "release"

* "emphasize a [...] camera" -- not even sure what's the original for 'emphasize'

* "front-confronting camera" instead of "front-facing camera"
* "4.7 inch show" instead of "4.7 inch display"

* "720p backing" instead of "720p resolution"

* "fueled" instead of "powered"

* "quad-center" instead of "quad-core"

* "inward stockpiling" instead of "built-in memory"

etc.
End the writing for free debate by working for yourself
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I have zero confidence in the LEO/domestic intelligence services caring whether protest-plans.ppt break federal law. And I don't want Google to have to implement some completely opaque "rough verification process" to determine whether the government requested trigger is valid in one case but not in another.
Playstation Now unlikely to succeed with current price model
Surprised you got a reply via email. I thought he prefers snail mail.
Playing with Python Magic Methods to make a nicer Regex API
Is this it?

https://ia601004.us.archive.org/32/items/MITAIMemo519/MIT-AI...
The article said the hash was effective across resized versions of the same file. Pick the top 50 most prevalent colors by pixel and create a normalized vector representing the distance of each color's center of mass from the center of the image.
That's a legitimate concern, but the root problem is the existence of secret government watch lists free of oversight and lacking any transparent or available process for being inadvertently put on one.

If we grant that such a list is wise to have, then sure, let's focus as much effort as possible on making sure that we don't put innocent people on those lists. But I'd much rather focus my efforts on not having the lists in the first place.
How far did they get before jamming? If I recall correctly, with borers like this, they lay the concrete tunnel sections behind it as it digs, and the diameter of the finished tunnel is obviously smaller than that of the raw tunnel, which means you can't back it out without demolishing all of the tunnel sections you've already laid. The article doesn't mention any of that, unless I missed it. Were they "lucky" enough that the breakdown came before any concrete was laid?
"gentlemen don't read each other's mail" EOT,
> The syntax is not the issue,

Syntax differences very clearly are a source of difficulty for many people learning new languages, especially when there experience is focussed on a particular syntax style.

> the very sophisticated type system is.

I don't see any evidence that Haskell's type system makes it harder to learn from an absence of programming knowledge. Like its non-Algol syntax, it probably makes it harder for experienced programmers with habits centered around patterns learned in less expressive static type systems or un-/dynamically-typed languages.

If anything, I think the consistency of the type system and the relative lack of ceremony probably makes it easier, in some ways, than C/C++/Java family languages, where there is lots more type ceremony to learn.
I think you are underestimating the value a person places on the time to put these pieces together. If you are a student, $20 is a big premium to pay to order a PI, an SD card and then downlaod some software to the SD card and install it.

I have a couple raspberry PIs I have used for various applications. I decided to put together an arcade emulator as a gift to my son. I know how to make this. But if someone sold a PI arcade emulator with the card installed I would pay $60-70. With a controller, a $100.
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Yes, I need to get out of oDesk.
Also potentially p-hashes or similar for fuzzy matching the images. Works pretty well for at least narrowing the space of what you're looking for.

Given that Google Image has reverse search, you can almost guarantee that they have approximate hashes.
For a photo, you might have to be a bit fuzzier than that, given that things like jpeg recompression can change a lot of that. I assume there are techniques to get around that sort of thing, though, and major software vendors like Google & Microsoft ought to have the sort of people who can solve that problem.
Looking over it, it just seems to be a special case of building nested intervals using the monotonicity and continuity of the sqrt function.
Ask HN: What should I save for offline reading during 5 weeks without Internet?
I'm going to Africa for 5 weeks where I'll have very little access to Internet. What interesting things should I download to my hard drive to read/watch during this period? Thanks

Edit: my areas of interest are the largely the kind of things that get posted about on HN, but I'd like to broaden my horizons and just read interesting things about new topics and get away from tech stuff. Also, I can't go out after dark alone for safety reasons so I'll have 2-3 hours every day where I'll just be in my room.
I'm fairly sure [OpenCV](http://opencv.org) can do that for you.
Heh, I knew someone would come up with the Grothendieck prime example. That's why I said, "the computations don't have to be purely numerical: even a diagram chase in abstract nonsense is a valuable exercise." I think Grothendieck certainly was a master of these and performed them regularly.
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They did! "Make everything a subsite of Google Plus." But it didn't work out so well. Be careful what you wish for.
How is this not just a reflection of the fact that Risk scores include zip code as part of the calculus?

The conclusion could equally well be 'As a distinct factor, neighborhood influences risk score by 1.5 points'
Well, for one thing, no law exists that would criminalize "protest-plans.ppt", and it's unlikely that any law proposed to do that would survive in court. So there's that difference.
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Greenwald's request that Snowden be interviewed "in person" in Germany has no connection to the fact Snowden's Russian visa is expiring, right?
It's always depressing to see casual dismissals based on the just-world fallacy and misrepresentation.
It says that they made it 1000 feet.

In the section describing the rescue, I think they mean it is going to move forward into the rescue shaft.
But it is a lot easier to abuse existing infrastructure, than to build abusive infrastructure from scratch.
What the hell is R?
The fastest growing newish language is one that was unfamiliar to me.

Uhm... I think the author should read up on R... R appeared in 1993, S it's "predecessor" in 1973.
"We believe in Net Neutrality, but it doesn't apply to us." This is bullshit. How many of the big incumbent websites would like to be in the blessed exception category? Facebook is one (http://internet.org/press/introducing-the-internet-dot-org-a...), and they are most certainly a for-profit corporation with many competitors (which are not included in the Zambia deal, of course). If the intention were truly to benefit these parts of the world, and not just to drive more users for the existing big players, why not give free access to local sites, to help drive growth in the local economy? Of course, then there is a risk of them competing with American websites, and they might have a cultural/linguistic advantage. Surely there is a way to provide a basic, inexpensive free tier of Internet service that is content-neutral.
Windows DLC?
I think if you're already doing computations all the time as a matter of course, there's no need to specifically set time aside to do them. But would you agree that it's necessary to know how to do them? Perhaps when working in an unfamiliar area, you take some time to learn how to compute some things in this field?