skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm saying is that the percentage of criminals who are actually punished has very little practical effect. It doesn't affect deterrence because the other prospective criminals never know about it either way. It won't make any particular criminal's victims whole either way (if anything it makes it worse by reducing their ability to pay restitution). It doesn't reduce recidivism.

It's not that we shouldn't try to do it. It's that failure is mostly irrelevant.
>> One could easily argue that the people showing an unreasonable entitlement are the ones who think they should get to use the park in the tiny sliver of time where someone else has paid the city to reserve it for an organized game.

Your argument seems to be based on the idea that people with money intrinsically have more right to something than those who do not. I understand this is the prominent view in the US but there are other ways to do it(there's a big gap between communism and ultra-capitalism). Look to the scandinavian countries for instance where they place a far great emphasis on wealth redistribution and community support through better schooling and healthcare.
You can still get warrants. And they, still, are not a guarantee of obtaining evidence.
Our rights are not enumerated.
>As far as I know, people don't think in Python or C. I would say that a programming language is like math.

Are you saying people don't think in math? They definitely do
Everything you put on your computer should be assumed to be public the moment you connect to the internet. With air gap jump technology starting to become proven, you should assume that all digital content is public. To think otherwise is hubris and stupidity all wrapped up with a tiny little bow. Every company and government agency has been compromised to one degree or another, and targeted attacks are 100% effective given even slight competence on the part of the hacker. I've been around since before the modem, I've seen everyone hacked.

Regardless, it doesn't matter. It's simply ignorant to bitch about this, when the NSA literally intercepts all of this and exploits or introduces exploits into the software you use. This is fact. Apple at it's worst will present you an advertisement, big fucking whoop. Seriously, what is the risk? Annoyance? The NSA can wrap you around a pole and make it appear you were snorting 12kilos of coke a day. I am quite literally baffled by the sentiment on HN when I see people up in arms over convenience like this trumped up as if it were in violation of your rights. They added a 'learn more' link and explain what is going on. Yet the same people simply ignore the actual threat, repeatedly. Cowards.

Keep fighting them windmills. Because the real enemy fights back.
We've moved geek culture from our darkened rooms into the mainstream, games as a medium have greater exposure that ever before. We're reaping vast benefits from this, not a day passes now that I don't find a new game worthy of my attention (and dollars). But this wider audience comes with price, no longer can games and gamers get a free pass on what broader society considers distasteful. This won't restrict the gaming experience, if anything those that enjoy the seedier side of gaming will get enjoyment through the disgust of broader society, Hatred for example seems to be targeting this cohort.

Maybe I live in a happy little feminist echo chamber but the general mood appears to me to accepting and even espousing this cultural change. This upheaval seems to reflect many of the important cultural shifts we have experience more generally in society. A loud minority fight the change, often through intimidation, while the mainstream more or less accepts the change (please correct me if I am wrong I am not a big student of history!). They will continue to grumble and disrupt for some time but they will tire.

As Katherine Cross said in Polygon a few months ago. They're not coming for your games.
Enjoyed the read! I'm feeling kind of dumb asking this, but what exactly is Threadable? Is it a standalone email service or a plugin for Gmail? Is it supposed to replace a project management tool like Asana/Basecamp/Trello/etc. or is it a supplement that integrates with them?
RainbowSafari – Customize the appearance of your users browser
I find it flaky. It loves to constantly suspend Calendar and make miss appointments.
Not to mention that the SOUND matters too, depending on the fingering. E.g. A high D played on the (plain) 2nd string sounds different than the same pitch played on the wound 3rd string which sounds different than the wound 4th string played up above the 12th fret, etc.
Chrome actually has a built in Task Manager which can be super useful for this sort of thing.

For example, it allows one to see CPU & Mem usage per tab. It also has the ability to kill problematic tabs, extensions and background processes with ease.

Chrome's Task Manager can be found under Menu Icon -> (More) Tools.

In fact, this feature was being used often enough, that I ended up assigning it a shortcut. (for me: command-shift-1)
+1 for friendly AI (even with its narrowness)
Do you have some initial customers?
I feel compelled to point out that almost all of those numbers are completely incorrect overestimates.
Can you put him in touch with Dustin Curtis?

Dustin Curtis: "Can anyone put me in touch with the founder of Twitpic?(I'll pay to backup all of the photos, and even host them. Ridiculous situation.)"

hi@dustincurtis.com
It's still the only way to get write access to the clipboard, unfortunately.
Since it's observable with a telescope, the existence of the object is not the secret, but the information it provides access to, and the motives for using this stategic platform, remain speculative. There's nothing else like it that we know of, that any branch of the military, or that any paramilitary defense organization will admit to, and yes, that is being used as a form of propaganda.

Science and the military do intersect for some interesting infotainment though, even if the implicit misanthropy of it all is somewhat off-putting.
Boko Haram agrees to release abducted girls
Lots of people like to include things in a larger work without crediting the sources for their designs. If a given design was under an MIT license, it would still have to be attributed somewhere since the copyright still resides with the original designer/copyright-holder. The license states: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software." So, it should be in there somewhere. Including when you utilize MIT-licensed images and deliver a greater work including them to a client.

I think you're thinking more of public domain, which has no copyright attached and can be used however you'd like.
Granted, I'm a bassist, and I appreciate that guitar is its own beast. Bassists also debate the merits of tabs versus notation. I used to be adamant that everybody should learn to read, but have softened my views, especially in light of what you say, that reading tends to discourage beginners.

Instead, my more moderate view is that at the very least, new players should be informed of what the most common notation systems are like, and what they are used for. We can argue all day, but it's often someone else who decides how they want to notate something. Different genres have their own preferences, and there are even regional variations. I played with a bandleader who had moved up from the South, and had to re-write her book because nobody in this region can read Nashville number charts.

I play in a jazz band, and the guitarist and I would both be helpless if we couldn't read standard notation -- dots and chord symbols. But I would add that it's a musical genre where the music is pretty forgiving of the player deciding their own fingerings on the fly.
Yes and he won't reply to me either.
the SPAM percentage does seem overly optimistic...
Played one time. I liked the experience so far, but I got the "undefined error" ending and that was a complete disappointment.

I don't care about alternative endings if the first playthrough wasn't worth it. Give me one good ending, one good playthrough, and then I'll consider playing again to get to the alternative branches ...
Paul Graham is a very smart dude, and I love his essays a lot, but the way you talk about him "Recall what Paul Graham wrote:" sounds like you are quoting the bible. Believe it our not, Paul Graham is not always right, and it is entirely possible to be too intense.
I didn't misunderstand, you mis-stated. I'm not sure if it's from a single month either, as this source says it was 95 inches for the season. http://www.stephenhudson.net/TromsoClimateReports/Tromso_Sno...
There are hundreds of TBs of data.
To just see the content on the page, paste this into the console:

$('body').append('<style>.lesson,.post{visibility:visible;}</style>');

(I enjoyed reading the content, but found it infuriating to skim.)
No, they aren't saying 'we need fewer people like you'

Suppose a conference has 50 speaking slots, 40 of which last year went to white men and 10 of which went to women and "people of color". This year, the organizers are working hard to increase "diversity". For a fixed number of speaking slots, the only way to do this is to decrease the number of white men, since white men—no matter their beliefs, background, hobbies, interests, etc.—don't count as "diverse". Thus, while the organizers' intent is probably not to tell white men that "we need fewer people like you", that message is an inevitable result of efforts to increase "diversity". (Of course, the organizers could also expand the number of speaking slots, but this only works for so long; eventually you'll hit a ceiling, at which point the game again becomes zero-sum.)

I know it's difficult to reconcile these results with the warm & fuzzy feelings you've been taught to associate with "diversity", but it's a mathematical fact: in most of the fields where it's applied, increasing "diversity" means decreasing the number of white men.
Err, if they're on S3, isn't data transfer to EC2 free? [1] If I'm reading the pricing chart right, why would it cost Twitpic anything for someone else to spin up some EC2 instances and clone their data thataway?

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Well, everyone's downvoting me, but I swear I never noticed this until Yosemite.

Either way, the weird thing is that if you go to the Window menu and hit Task Manager... you can monitor extension CPU usage, etc.

I never had a problem until recently, and yet now I'm seeing red in the Activity Manager due to Chrome. It's bizarre.
This is a great article that highlights some things people have been thinking about for a while (starting with Isaac Asimov), but haven't been much of an immediate concern until now: namely the nature of artificial intelligence and our relationship with it.

We could consider the emergence of a friendship like this a milestone, a bit like when chess AI got good enough to beat a typical club player, but wasn't quite ready to beat Kasparov. We're probably only a few years away (OK, maybe 10+, but it's not 50+) from the Kasparov point, where an AI like Siri can beat the turing test for any living human.

There are all sorts of questions like whether, to be considered alive and imbued with the inalienable rights that should come with sentience, is self-awareness necessary, or is the anthropomorphic perception of nearby humans more important? Should an AI have similar rights by proxy as a pet dog?

One especially important question is what does it mean for an AI to die? If Siri developed a fault, and fixing that fault would cause a change in personality so that it was no longer recognisable to Gus as his BFF, should that act be called "roboticide"? Such questions are particularly relevant when AI/ML systems (deep recurrent nets, for example) are so complex that we don't really understand them fully, so we have no way to surgically correct specific faults; all we can do is revert to an earlier state and re-train. That may be loss of life, for certain definitions of "life".

As an occasional game developer, I tend to think about these issues in other contexts too, such as our relationship with virtual characters in games. It's already very easy to get highly immersed in single-player virtual worlds, like any of the Elder Scrolls games. Most would not be fooled into thinking that an NPC is "alive", but it's certainly possible to develop emotional reactions to certain characters that we perhaps like because they say nice things about us, or dislike because we find then annoying, etc.

There are two kinds of character interaction a person can have in a game: NPCs and human avatars. As we start to build virtual worlds (partly spurred by the Oculus Rift and partly just because of the Internet), this could affect not only our relationship with NPCs, but with other humans too. I don't know whether this will a net positive or negative thing, but we're certainly going to learn a lot about human psychology as we head towards the point where, in VR, nobody knows you're a human.
I have no insight on this situation in particular but Kelly has always been kind and helpful to me in my experience. He's a sharp dude and I wish him the best with whatever comes next.
Man, I just read that entire essay, and it is terrible. I actually love Paul Graham a little less after reading it. It is as though he had literally never heard of the concept of scarcity and simply thought all wealth was just a form of converted effort. A child's understanding of economy.
I use fig with volume from my mac under vmware without any problem
> I have to imagine that $150 blows the SS10 away massively

No doubt. Remember that the base model of a SS10 had a 0.033 GHz CPU. A raspberry pi would run circles around it.

That's not even counting a modern GPU. A SPARCstation would usually be equipped with a dumb framebuffer like a CG3 card.

Computers these days are _FAST_
I admit I could be misinterpreting a lot here. The author isn't being very straight forward about his opinions, but there is absolutely a negative light being cast on the gaming community, maybe because of exactly what you say, that it is a powerful medium.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at least you could say that this entire creation is a response to the "gamergate" scandal that has been going on?

My take from this is that it is calling out mind controlled gamer zombies for attacking and persecuting women and minorities. This is precisely what is frustrating for me because my view is that video games are harmless and even stimulating for us, and that they are just a reflection of our inner instincts, not people manipulating us. The gaming industry is just giving us what we want. Here's the relevant part of the author's "On Topicalality" writing:

"We may not believe in the uncle who works for Nintendo anymore, but he is certainly still at work."

...[Edit:[I suppose I did misinterpret this as him attacking Nintendo, he's just using it as a line from the gamer community that they have secret ties into a hierarchy? He also mentions Nintendo Power, which I grew up with, and I suppose he is blaming these secrets and hierarchy for shutting out and attacking groups of people who aren't in the know. Nintendo touched my heart growing up and I'm glad to have been able to bond with other Nintendo gamers throughout my life. I never dealt with issues of people using this uncle line and I'm just a bit offended by the author's claim that the Nintendo/industry/capitalism is corrupted with people trying to control me. They have delivered much higher quality content than many other areas of industry]]...

"Women and minority voices are under attack. The finer details of this organized harassment campaign are, by this point, both fatiguing and immensely abhorrent. I will not bother to recount them here. Suffice it to say: the contingent of players taking up the flag of "gamers" are, in many ways, the realization of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that constitute the "enemy" of this game."

And here are the links from the "Gamers Being Over" section, one of which does strongly focus on violence (not that that is the main issue even I was talking about, the main issue is feminism's argument about the negative aspects of games and the response from the gaming community):

http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/09/on-gamers-and-identity....

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_t...
If spam filtering has become so effective (which seems true), why do people keep sending so much of it?
Doesn't it have a default shortcut? I think "Shift + Esc" opens it.
Did this jump out to anyone else?

2. After the data has been downloaded and parsed, an automated system checks each one of them against the Facebook internal databases to see if any of the email addresses and hashed passwords match valid login information on Facebook. We hash each password using our _internal password hashing algorithm_ and the unique salt for that person. Since Facebook stores passwords securely as hashes, we can't simply compare a password directly to the database. We need to hash it first and compare the hashes.

This seems to imply Facebook is rolling their own cryptography...

Its also very self-serving of them to recommend Facebook Login without even mentioning OpenID. Facebook Login in no way improves the security of your Facebook account, in fact I'd argue its likely to do the opposite due to phishing etc. It seems pretty transparent they're pushing an agenda in the guise of security advise, here.
I'll second this even though I only checked out the site once a bit back. I'm still quite the newb at this stuff but it got a great response on the EDM production subreddit.
The N64 cut down on a lot of expensive parts. Versus a typical-spec SGI Indy, the cheapest SGI, thousands of dollars were shaved off. Nintendo/SGI might have still lost money, but if an SGI workstation was a sedan, the N64 was a hot rod. All engine, no frills.

CPU - Indy: R4400SC, 16 kb L1, 1MB L2

CPU - N64: R4300i derivative embedded chip, 32 kB L1, no L2, half bus width

RAM - Indy: 16, 32, or 64 MB of RAM, plus dedicated framebuffer

RAM - N64: 4 MB of RAM (this was potentially half the cost of the system!)

Graphics - Indy: "Newport" graphics -- 1280x1024, 8 or 24 bit color, full, dedicated framebuffer

Graphics - N64: 320x240, 8, 16, or 24 bit color. typically dedicated 1/4 of system RAM to framebuffer

Storage - Indy: SCSI hard drive + SCSI magneto-optical removable

Storage - N64: not a damn thing

I/O - Indy: ethernet, ISDN, high speed serial

I/O - N64: nothing
This is one of the key reasons we built Inbox, which is a new platform for building apps on top of the massive email system.

https://www.inboxapp.com/

The folks from Threadable are working on great stuff too, and a good example of how you can build a new experience leveraging an existing system.
They may just not want to disclose what they're using.
By VA you mean something like TaskRabbit?
I'm solving the most obvious issues that docker was meant to solve. I'm currently working alone in a company that's starting up and yesterday I needed to spin up a server and create a rest api service to integrate with a telco's system. They asked me how long it would take me to do that and I said an hour. I just spun up a digital ocean instance, cloned my api git project, built from the docker file (it's incredibly fast on ssd), and in about 30 minutes I was running a nginx->uwsgi->flask with python3.4, bcrypt, and a few other packages.

Now all this can be done with a simple bash script too but then that affects my main server environment. In this case when I want to stop the service or change something I simply edit my docker image.

My dev environment is a windows laptop and I use vagrant to spin up a server with nginx configured and docker installed. And I use docker to get my environment running for working on my apps. It's pretty awesome.

Vagrant and docker are one of the best things that has happened for me as a developer.
Thats a difficult question I'm not qualified to answer, and in hindsight that statistic was confusing. The real issue with the tiny amount of exit nodes in operation is a fundamental weakness in Tor; if an attacker can run a large enough percentage of Tor nodes (not necessarily just exit nodes), they can use traffic confirmation attacks to deanonymize users.
(1) When comparing competitive startups (And this will depend on the kind of startup) I like to do a Google search (with quotes) and rank order them by search results.

(2) Again, when comparing competitive startups I like to look at how many LinkedIn followers each one has (It's much more common to buy Twitter and FB tweets/likes).
Just kidding. Even if Apple doesn't say "onboard memory," that doesn't mean the computer does not have onboard memory.

http://blog.macminicolo.net/post/100240431773/a-look-at-the-...
Eerily prescient, isn't it?
Personally, I started out using Emacs because I wasn't a big fan of the "modal" style of vi (insert/command mode). Later on, I started pair programming in shared GNU Screen sessions, in which we ran vim; a pile of "how did you make that change so quickly" questions later, and I ended up switching to vim for the speed of basic text editing tasks, which save more time than I lose by not having as many high-level mode-specific commands.

However, I still use Emacs for LaTeX documents via AUCTeX, because I find it far more powerful for basic editing, with commands to insert directives, environments, \item, etc.
This hacker news account is on bugmenot with 20 successes
You can rent a truck at Home Depot for $20 that will haul a couch.
Do it, then return.
To me, the biggest argument is that they lost this fight with PGP almost two decades ago when it was determined that they could not constitutionally suppress its export.

There were a lot of questions in that talk along the lines of "How is this going to work?" which Comey admitted he had no good answers to.
If you're referring to the POODLE SSLv3 bug, it doesn't break authentication/key exchange or MAC, but instead, confidentiality of the symmetric encryption.

In other words (assuming an attacker can modify a sufficient amount of SSL traffic in transit), they could decrypt the python source code, but they can't insert new data without triggering a MAC validation failure on the client.

https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf
Here's my layman hypothesis:

Time has a wave-like nature, not the particles. Since space and time are related through the Lorentz transformations, you could substitute a wave-like property of time and make the time dependent wave equation into a space dependent equation. The results would be the same, but it's a different interpretation. This is why you cannot measure a particles momentum and position at the same moment - they do not both exist at the same moment and depend on the current phase of the wave.
This is glorious, and I absolutely loved your writing. I had a good laugh (no, not just a chuckle, but a strong, hearty one!), and can't wait for the next update.

Cheers for an awesome project and a great sense of humor. :)
Proton mail secure email
Ask HN: Hypothetically, would you take your salary in Bitcoin?
I'm not proposing a product or service to do this, just curious whether HN folk are sensitive to BTC's volatility as a medium-term store of value.
That's pretty much the definition of pop music, or at least good pop music.
this perhaps?
http://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1
In what browser is Flash still required? I've been doing:

to_clipboard = (text) ->
textarea = document.getElementById "copy-workaround"
textarea.value = text
textarea.select()
document.execCommand "copy", false, null

In chrome for years.
Wow. My laziness/inertia is costing me real dollars.
Not to steal your show, but my friend did something very similar - https://hackaday.io/project/2933-Retro-GSM. Fully functional and with a very classy look :).

Good luck with your project! Things like this are extremely rewarding.
In an imprecise and subjective manner.
Yes, there are religious people who are intelligent.

Which fact may be in favor the original posters point...