skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by: "If f(x)=mx+b, f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y)+b". Shouldn't that be f(x)+f(y)-b?
http://availableworks.net
I always do a sort of mental double-take when I see comments like this. If you have zero confidence in law enforcement caring about the law, then what does any of this matter? What's to discuss? The government is going to do whatever it wants, and there are no policy implications to Google's detection of child pornography. There's nowhere to go from that rhetorical position, so why even bother picking specific things in opposing comments to respond to?
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”.

Effective net neutrality regulation has to address all of those things. If it seems like the goalposts have shifted, it's because ISPs have kept pushing the boundaries of what they can get away with in their quest to gouge their customers and extort Internet companies.

A neutral ISP only has to provide two things at minimum:

1. Guaranteed minimum throughput at peak times, with customer-controlled QoS determining which packets get dropped, and no discrimination on source, destination, protocol, or content that cannot be disabled by the user for free.

2. Sufficient upstream bandwidth, to those third-party services and networks customers are paying to use, to satisfy all minimum guaranteed demands under #1.
I would say poignant. Not so much useful.
True, but for VOIP that is guaranteed to be terribly slow.
Well, I don't know anything about C#, but I assume that Microsoft has some kind of official framework you can use.

Otherwise I would suggest you go with Rails. It's not necessarily the be-all-end-all of frameworks, but it's de-facto standard and has a very good ecosystem to use and learn from.
Just because it's Wikimedia doing it, doesn't mean that all of the sudden I'm all for it. I believe it's still discriminatory against small organization/websites and against net neutrality principles.
Your comments continue to demonstrate that you have absolutely no idea what I believe about any of the issues you've brought up. You might just as productively berate me for my unflagging support of Javascript cryptography.

Do you see how weird these comments sound? I wasn't a part of this thread. You just brought me up, out of the blue, and attached to me positions and affiliations to me that bear no resemblance to reality.

I'm not irritated with you. I'm worried for you. I hope you're OK.
I think it breaks pretty cleanly on whether the content provider is for-profit or not-for-profit. Not for profits organized as public charities (e.g. Wikipedia) could arguably be granted some treatment that is not available to for-profit entities such as Facebook and Google. This is consistent with their treatment in the tax code, etc.

Gmail and Facebook very clearly allow people to communicate but their reason for existence is not that but to deliver advertising, a commercial objective.
Cheaply? You seriously think that 1200 EUR per user is cheap?
This is absolutely non NetNeutral.

There are billions of websites out there and each one of them is some kind of information. Giving wikipedia free access but charging others may seem to be innocent. But I believe on the contrary, it is opening one door that should not be used.

There are thousands (millions?) of wikipedia articles and all have some kind of linked citation. How will you draw the line? Wikipedia is open information but these citations are not?

In my country we have operator giving twitter and facebook free access. And I always thought that was another nail on net neutralities coffin. Wikipedia is nailing one more too.
Make up your own mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484
Sorry for the question that might be a bit off-topic. Will we ever have support for sound fonts in a browser? E.g. piano sound fonts? With at least rudimentary support for MIDI (e.g. noteOn, noteOff)?
Maybe we can make an exception for non-profit organizations that don't pay the ISPs or get paid?

Although since the NFL is a non-profit, maybe not...
This is why we need end-to-end encrypted communications to become mainstream. Why the hell are our service providers becoming Internet police these days? We didn't join Gmail or Facebook to "protect us from the bad guys", nor to have them turn people in for whatever arbitrary "serious crime" they decide they should support. It could be "child abuse" today, and "terrorism" (with whatever vague definition accompanying it) tomorrow.

It's bad enough that the US government and Courts now think they have access to anyone's information in the world, if they use American services. But US service providers acting like they work for the government makes it even worse.

Just stay out of our private communications. How hard can that be, really?
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero :

Facebook Zero is an initiative undertaken by social networking service company Facebook in collaboration with mobile phone-based Internet providers, whereby the providers waive data (bandwidth) charges (also known as zero-rate) for accessing Facebook on phones via a stripped-down text-only version of its mobile website, located at 0.facebook.com or zero.facebook.com

It is hard to say if Wikimedia will stay credible regarding their net neutrality effort without disabling WP0. The no-money-paid and no-exclusive-deals approach sounds reasonable at least.
What about the word "insane"? Is it okay to use that? Also, what's the rule on using "paranoid" in a non-clinical context? Can I use "schizophrenic" and "narcissistic" and "borderline" colloquially, or is that also offensive?

I just want to make sure I'm following the rules and not offending anybody.
Previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8112816
Kids and parents turn to coding to boost college, career prospects
SF and the damaging effects of literary status envy
As a community, a lot of us want to keep the site to higher standards than other websites. Straight from the guidelines:

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""

With respect to the "autistic" comment, the "autistic" could have similarly been dropped and the point made much stronger. Instead most people are going to ignore any points that could have been made±—the comment is already greyed out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
+1 If it becomes the norm in these countries for wikipedia articles to not have citations, it becomes that much easier for those in power to control/manipulate information.
Likewise, this is a messy grey area. It looks like Wikipedia is trying pretty hard to avoid the slippery slope of cable packaged internet here, but they're still playing by the ISPs' non-neutral internet rules. That alone really isn't a good sign.
Bears, beats... Battlestar Galactica?
https://github.com/bgribble/mfp could also be another similar option.
Show HN: Patch Management for Ubuntu
Yes that is the document I uploaded to IA, linked to it in my first comment.
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Two Months Off, Part 1
Yes, the US government is full of respectable agencies like the CIA, who obviously would never do something like spy on the team investigating their likely criminal actions, and attempt to dynamically reclassify materials so as to stall out the investigation team.

How could a citizen possibly think that government agencies aren't infallibly interested in the citizen's good and question secret block lists?
shaftoe, as a thought experiment consider why the neighborhood is run down. Did the people run down the neighborhood because that's what they like? How was the economic situation for these people? How were the schools, the hospitals, the law enforcement? Was there housing discrimination? How were their politicians? What was the funding like compared to other neighborhoods?

In other words, how was the neighborhood before it was crappy and how did it become so?
Available Works – A Social Marketplace For Contemporary Art [video]
Whoa, funny. I read half of this conversation last night, and the second half today, and mistakenly thought you were still looking for that document having forgotten what I read last night. I will leave my embarrassingly ridiculous comment above for posterity.
I wonder why a community metadata-base was possible for music (http://musicbrainz.org/), but not TV/movies?
I'm a photographer [...] When they pushed everything into G+ it enraged me.

Similar here, I stopped uploading.
WW3 2 B?
> Asperger's and full-blown autism are very different things. This is like comparing a common cold with a life-threatening case of pneumonia.

They're really not.

> I worked with autistic people for six years. In the best cases, they weren't able to care for themselves, but they had few enough behavioral problems that they could go on brief 'outings' in the community with staff never more than a few feet away. In the worst cases, they were violent, engaging in serious self-harm, as well as attacking others. I had to take assault response training and use it on a regular basis.

I have lived in a number of 'mental healthcare' institutions in the Netherlands for a few years. One of them was (supposedly) specialized in 'autism spectrum disorders'. My experiences do not match what you are describing at all. I'd argue that almost half of the people living there would have been able to care for themselves, had it been necessary - and these were mostly people under 18, so that's a lot. The (rare) case of violence or self-harm derived from other mental issues that weren't in any way related to autism, and frequently a result of their living in the facility.

> They spent little or no time with their families, had no friends, and usually hated the other clients in their group home. It was not a good life, despite the best efforts of the staff.

This doesn't surprise me. By far the biggest harm to these people is done by the staff, who appear to be completely oblivious to how people actually think, and try to fit them into a 'treatment' programme. I have seen multiple people break down completely as a result of their living in said facility, who would not otherwise have significant problems - hell, I've been one of them.

Not having friends doesn't surprise me either. The facility that I've lived in - and, from what I've heard, other facilities as well - essentially put you into social isolation. It's near impossible to maintain social contacts with anybody outside the facility, and staff appears to be so blind for what's actually going on that you have no trustable person to talk to either. Little contact with family doesn't surprise me either; the reason people ended up in those facilities was usually because their parents were unable to understand them. Of course you're not going to have a healthy relationship with them.

Here's a blog post I wrote a while ago, that gives you the perspective of a 'client': http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2014/04/07/depression/

For a bit more context, not elaborated on in that blog post; for over a year after I left that particular facility, I've been unable to experience any emotions other than anger and sadness.

These kind of facilities destroy people. They're more often the cause of problems, than they are a solution.

> tl;dr: yes, in my experience, beating autism is highly desirable.

You need to understand that some people simply think or behave differently. As long as it gets them through life in a sufficiently happy manner, there's nothing to "beat" or "fix".
Areas of interest? Free or paid?

Edit: book suggestion: "African Fractals", by Ron Eglash, http://www.amazon.com/African-Fractals-Modern-Computing-Indi...

"..traditional African settlements tend to use fractal structures-circles of circles of circular dwellings, rectangular walls enclosing ever-smaller rectangles, and streets in which broad avenues branch down to tiny footpaths with striking geometric repetition. These indigenous fractals are not limited to architecture; their recursive patterns echo throughout many disparate African designs and knowledge systems."
Transmission of classified documents to unauthorized persons does in fact break federal law.

Why wouldn't that also be included, then?
Duck Marines: a cross-platform FOSS remake of ChuChu Rocket
Pretty cool. I wonder how their usage pattern effects this. I would suspect they have lots of connections doing very little, but that have to be able to wake up and act. This is in contrast to an HTTP app where the connections are largely active.
Create several wikipedia books on topics that interest you..

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&book...
They can't use the same technique, or any technique with similar privacy tradeoffs, to look for tax fraud.

The scheme they use here only works with documents known to authorities, whose possession is criminalized. The technique (searches for collisions in a corpus of robust hashes) can't generate new information for authorities about documents they haven't seen. And there is no case in which a person could possess those documents where the government wouldn't have a reasonable interest in knowing that; in other words, there's no valid privacy interest intrinsic in possessing one of the specific documents they're looking for.

None of those conditions exists for tax fraud, or for that matter terrorism.

The slippery slope you're invoking doesn't really exist.
Yes. Robust hashing wouldn't flag a parent's personal pictures of their young kids at bathtime. We aren't discussing nudity detection algorithms.
Yes, it's a misprint.
This is nonsense.

It's perfectly consistent to think that law enforcement is willing to cheat when they can get away with it, but that other domestic forces are capable of holding them accountable for that.

Further, it strawmans the position: they do think that law enforcement cares about the law, just not so much as catching lawbreakers who aren't part of the political or policing class, and is willing to cheat the law in order to "fulfill the deeper mission", or some ascribed view like that.

A natural reply to thinking that law enforcement will cheat if it can is to think that other large, entrenched players must force law-enforcement to disclose its actions for review before lending their power to law enforcement goals - which is exactly the stance in insisting that Google not respond to hashed lists, and instead demand to see the files that they're supposed to be blocking.

It increases the number of players necessary to cheat successfully, and hence removes some of the incentive of law enforcement to cheat.
His slippery slope does make sense. Your argument seems to suggest you would think it's okay for the police to show up at your door everyday and go though your files looking for child porn as long as they promise not to care about anything else like that weed you've got or those taxes you didn't file perfectly.

I'm assuming you wouldn't be happy with that .

Google shouldn't be looking in my email in the first place period for anything . The end. I'll give them permission to automate scanning to place ads but that's it. Anything past that is out full stop
This article conveniently sashays around the real effects of gentrification due to the "entitlement" mentality of the more recent newcomers.

For example, I heard of a neighborhood ballpark that was used for decades by Latino children to play ball. The newcomers with dogs would chuck their dog's droppings over the fence and onto the ballpark.

Latinos who used to play dominos outside at another park. Until they were continually harassed by cops to stop gathering in a public area to play dominos. Seems like the newcomers didn't like the bodega feel when they were out walking their dogs.

See also: "Inside the Barista Class"

http://www.theawl.com/2014/03/the-service-economy-trap-insid...
African leaders agree steps to fight runaway Ebola outbreak
I recommend not bringing anything. Avoid the digital world as much as possible. Dedicate your attention to the analog world around you instead.
I'm searching for a job in Boston. I am a rising college senior studying sound engineering and production
Running the BigQuery myself:

SELECT repository_language,
SUM(IF(PARSE_UTC_USEC(repository_created_at) >= PARSE_UTC_USEC('2014-01-01 00:00:00') AND PARSE_UTC_USEC(repository_created_at) < PARSE_UTC_USEC('2014-08-30 00:00:00'), 1, 0)) / SUM(IF(PARSE_UTC_USEC(repository_created_at) >= PARSE_UTC_USEC('2013-01-01 00:00:00') AND PARSE_UTC_USEC(repository_created_at) < PARSE_UTC_USEC('2013-08-30 00:00:00'), 1, 0)) * 100 as perc_increase
FROM [githubarchive:github.timeline]
WHERE repository_fork == "false"
AND type == "CreateEvent"
GROUP BY repository_language
HAVING SUM(IF(PARSE_UTC_USEC(repository_created_at) >= PARSE_UTC_USEC('2014-01-01 00:00:00') AND PARSE_UTC_USEC(repository_created_at) < PARSE_UTC_USEC('2014-08-30 00:00:00'), 1, 0)) > 1000
ORDER BY perc_increase DESC'

Gives me similar results to the OP.
موسوعة القبائل الإفريقية: قبيلة الفلاته
I think these rules have it covered:
"No exchange of payment."
"Wikipedia Zero cannot be sold as part of a bundle"

If the NFL wants to provide free football games to all cable subscribers, I think we should let them.
I was Dr.Demirbas's student. So pleased to see his article on HN front page. Such a great memory in his class and seminar. Back in days, he held a course called distributed system seminar. In one semester, we read and discussed 28 distributed system related papers. This gave me a whole new level sense of this interesting field. Thanks Murat.
How are these matters relevant to the opinion that improving neighborhoods is a good thing?
Semiotics as Art: Kosuth
Quite simply; people on an individual basis can still think "meh, I don't feel like doing it". On the other hand you have people who enjoy doing such work - yes, they exist - and they are likely to either go "well I'm not getting paid for it", or they are getting paid for it but are assigned to doing it elsewhere.

The general perception of "work" in a society greatly influences how productive people are. I can't even count the amount of times I've been told that I "don't do work" because I don't have a job with an employer, even though my working week is significantly longer than a regular one. Until that perception changes, people will keep being stuck with treating work this way.
... And how is it helped by a £2 beer now costing £5, and a burger costing £20? Thats the problem with hipsters - they buy the property out from under some residents, then make it impossible for those that remain to afford anything. They are like locusts. Eventually (as we see in London) they even price themselves out of an area, then move onto the next to destroy. E.g. from Stoke Newington to Dalston. What about the people there already, who can't afford to shop at Wholefood Market?
If you are the sort of person able and willing to screw with someone's life like that, you will have no qualms using your stolen credit cards to buy child porn images to use in this way.

I remember a episode of some legal drama where our hero the judge had his laptop "hacked" and child poem images installed on it. (Luckily it was make believe so he was able to "delete" them before the other judges arrived with the tipoff but that's not the point)

I think we shall soon enter a legal landscape where mere possession of digital products does not imply legal possession. It's going to be an interesting world.
I have heard good things about this book : http://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Shaders-Theory-Practice-Editi...
I go out drinking Thursday through Saturday, I barely make it to work on Fridays,
lol, no I meant another static site generator? isn't there enough of them?
I read a little through the README.md I don't see much that hexo.io or wintersmith.io can't do.

Can you state what you meant to change in regard of the existing generators?
There's no such thing as a "pedo-sensor". This is a hash-based search against a corpus of known images, where the hash function was designed explicitly (a) to survive image transformations and (b) to prevent unauthorized parties from predicting the hash of a given image.

Either of those two goals could fail and it would still be implausible that an attacker could trigger a false positive without using an image derived from actual known child pornography.
The pinnacle example of this imho is the 202 year old Parisien Au Richelieu Boulangerie (bakery) that closed it's doors recently in Paris due to rent increases because of it's proximity to the ever popular Louvre Museum.

Even Paris is becoming too Parisienne for Paris!

http://eater.com/archives/2013/01/02/the-oldest-bakery-in-pa...
It's cool. I changed it on the post. Thanks
My experience from interviewing other devs begs to differ. But why have a discussion when you can just ad homiem people?

In my experience this shows that people actually care about the tech they work with. Which is a good sign.
I'm actually guessing not. It's probably something similar algorithm-wise to what Shazam does. Probably not a crypto-hash, but more likely a hashing of robust features (in a relative as opposed to absolute location form) detected from the image to give a "fingerprint." Such features would be robust to scaling and most compression artifact issues. EDIT: Here's a good example: http://laplacian.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/how-shazam-works/
Per http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/28/technology/mobile/mobile-app... as of February of this year (2014), Americans used smartphone and tablet apps more than PCs to access the Internet.
More likely http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Krupp, from there (disputed) to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(howitzer), and from there to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha
You may consider downloading various talks from USI. Those are really insightful and interesting.
https://m.youtube.com/user/usievents
Ed! You was lucky to 'ave ed! In my day all we 'ad was a magnetized needle and a very steady hand!
ever notice how so many movies and tv shows all defaulted to the atari vcs pacman sounds whenever any game or 'computer' scene was involved? i wonder if there was some copyright issue that allowed everyone to use that bunch, regardless of the scene.
I think he means spoofing the message was sent by a particular person, but not actually spoofing the content. The content has to be real to trip the hash-search.
Your comment would be stronger without the first sentence, but glass houses, stones, &c. Since the rest of it was a good-faith response to my question:

I'm not sure I understand how it's consistent to believe that law enforcement (to be precise: "LEOs and domestic intelligence") are inclined to ignore the law entirely, and believe that there's accountability. If there was accountability, they could not easily incline towards ignoring the law, because doing that would have consequences. Belief in the former condition seems to equate to disbelief of the latter.

I don't think I responded to a straw man argument. I think you rehabilitated a broken argument and then supposed that I was responding to that better argument instead of the one that was actually posed.
Flappy Bird is back – but only for Amazon Fire TV owners
I really wish there was a way to go back and download the first 5 pages of Reddit for any given day, including an offline cache of every comment thread, image, video, web page, etc. Then you could go back and get 10 weeks worth of front-pages to keep you entertained.

Otherwise, just take a couple of good books.
Read some fiction instead.
Go to a book store.
The idea that mathematics as a whole is intuitive (as opposed to specific facets of its machinations) is as pervasive as it is misleading.
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