skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>>Prohibition has been shown - repeatedly - not to work

Unfortunately, those promoting the drug enforcement agenda do not care whether it works. In fact, they are probably most familiar with the fact that it doesn't "work" in the sense of healing social ills.

The way it does "work," however, is by giving purpose to large and politically powerful organizations and structures, such as the prison industrial complex.

The fact of the matter is that without a war on drugs, effectively a war against a subset of a nation's own citizens, there would be little justification for large standing police forces in small towns. They need these laws to give them something to do, as solving actual crimes with victims is difficult. So, by some accounts, the war on drugs is "working" just fine.
Heh. Is this actually being used somewhere? I wrote something to piggyback on Google App Engine's IP geolocation a while ago http://blip.runway7.net/
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Man, no wonder Google has a diversity problem. This video was a montage of young millennial hipsters partying. Somewhere in there email was involved.

On topic... Looks a lot like Mailbox. I'd be worried if I was Mailbox.
As a mac user that gets nervous when Apple announces new OS X versions, I'm glad there are linux users out there keeping the principles that make OS X great alive. If OS X ever goes too iOS / iCloud for me to bare, I hope Elementary is waiting for me with the same attention to detail, stability, and ease of use that god me hooked on OS X.
I am not that familiar with the CFR. But it seems the article has been written by someone who is a member (or at leasy associated with it). Is anyone familiar with the CFR from an insider`s perspective? What biases should I expect when reading content from their web site?

http://www.cfr.org/energy-and-environment/rare-earth-element...
The argument being made here, while quite real and a possibility is irrational. But I guess humans are irrational.

This reminds me of a recent decision that was made by a fellow parent. They have 2 young kids. 1 in kindergarten and 1 in daycare. The oldest is a smart young girl. In fact she often gets bored during class because she already knows the material. Because of this she gets in a little trouble for goofing around.

Her parents came to the decision that because she knows the material and is goofing around, they are not going to work with their youngest as much as they did with her. That way he will be ready for kindergarten.

I feel this irrational decision shares the same thought process as deciding to pick cheaper manual labor over advanced technology. But I do understand that we may eventually need some jobs to keep all us busy and active. But lets now slow down our education to do so.
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The crucial information is the lat/long of each photo. If that's not licensed openly (and, as metadata, CC0 or ODbL would be better suited than CC-BY-SA) then it's just a nice collection of photos.
Still a little off: colleges don't make money from football. The football program is generally a separate corporate entity, with its own profit and loss. Our coach makes $7M while the president of the university makes $300,000. If the college owned the football program that might be different.
> people have been trying to duplicated that in digital for decades, and failed.

Because decades ago we simply didn't have the processing power to that kind of DSP.

Today, however, you carry that kind of processing power in your pocket.

It used to be really hard, because (amongst other things) the oversampling required to avoid digital aliasing. This is not really a big deal anymore, today. Also, it so happens to be the kind of calculation that parallelises very nicely.

I can really recommend this video to dispel the myths about what we supposedly can't to today in the digital domain: http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml (the guy also presents the matter really well, I found it very enjoyable to watch, even if I already knew over half the things he explains). To really make his case, he feeds signals to both a digital and an analogue frequency analyser.
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1770ies. Wow. That's still in the so-called 'Ancien Regime', before Napoleon took Switzerland for a few years. Switzerland was a relatively loose confederacy back then, a bunch of city states, small republics and subject territories. Very poor, except maybe for the watchmakers in Neuchatel. Even getting the supplies for such a machine must have been tough back then. All the more impressive.
Wait, did you just infringe a creative element of Tetris?
And soon it'll even have return typing, should that RFC pass.
Are you equally outraged at the banks that have laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves...
Pry changed my life for Rails development. Before it I was still using IRB and attempting to just log things to the terminal constantly to figure out what I could do. Pry has made me 2x as fast (if not more) as a Ruby developer.
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> So her relationships with the five guys who just happen to be senior games journalists is a lie is it?

Yep. The claims are a combination of false and irrelevant. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Not to mention that Depression Quest was getting plenty of coverage long before the alleged relationships.

> The leaked emails of the Game Journo Pros mailing list is just a figment of my imagination is it?

Perhaps you could explain to me why the list has any significance? I don't see any relevance.

> The mass censorship at Reddit, Kotaku, 4Chan, RPS and Polygon didn't happen did it?

Moderators deleting threads that go against the terms of service sounds pretty typical. What makes this any different?

> You're an idiot. He provides specific proof on the very first page that the logs aren't doctored. Neither has she denied a word because, well, she can't.

Let me take a step back here and ask: why does it matter? Even if the logs aren't doctored (which the video doesn't actually demonstrate at all) or taken out of context (ditto) what difference does it make? You seem to be claiming that a messy breakup justifies sending death threats to completely unrelated people. Perhaps you'd like to clarify?

[1] http://kotaku.com/in-recent-days-ive-been-asked-several-time...

[2] http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/a-90-second-guide-to-dete...

[3] http://www.dailydot.com/geek/zoe-quinn-depression-quest-gami...

[4] http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/zoe-quinns-depression...

[5] http://theflounce.com/gamergate-seem-understand-ethics-nearl...

[6] http://atomicovermind.tumblr.com/post/96903894299/greg-costi...
For varying amounts of "open source".
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I expected it to be some random user here who was revealing to be actually pg/Zuck or someone famous.
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Eh, it just returns that for any invalid URL.
So "you can use these images freely, but you have to first acquire them through our API, which you may not use quite freely," or am I missing something? This doesn't seem to make much sense.
Ok, rather than simple inflation they've invented a way to 'pump' the cards, alternating powerful and weak by category. Even better profits! You don't have to be the least bit creative to do that; you just wait for the old cards to get worn out then reprint them in cycles. Great.
When used to describe a cognitive bias that causes highly skilled people to underestimate/under report their competence level, it is absolutely valid to refer to that as the Dunning-Kruger effect - which is exactly what DonHopkins did. Not only was he correct in using that term conversationally, the format of your reply is also unnecessarily abrasive.
Mailbox-style email triaging with Google Now machine learning and auto-organization. It's very powerful, because it pulls out important information in the email and displays them at the inbox level so you can, for example, reply to calendar invites without opening the email.
Is it like Disneyland, where you pay at the gate and then enjoy whatever attractions you like? Or an all-you-can-eat buffet.
I figured the indentation was a lie, but didn't realize you would have to introduce something like begin...end to make it work the way it appears.
To clarify:
* Outgoing license is CC-BY-SA. "Mapillary Photos are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)." from http://www.mapillary.com/legal.html
* OSM has an explicit right to take data under their contributor terms http://www.mapillary.com/osm.html
* The incoming license is per Mapillary ToS because we want to be able to use the photos for 3D/street view/recognition/etc

Also we do give attribution to photographers under every single photo.

(I'm on the Mapillary team)
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>> May I ask what you are missing from Debian as a desktop ?

> When I switched, Debian was in the process of taking 3 years to go from woody to sarge. After that it would be another 5 before etch.

It's true that I remember being unable to properly manage my installed Debians at the time Ubuntu first came out and only fully committed to using Debian on desktop some months before Wheezy actually came out. So I was delighted to see modern packages when upgrading to wheezy.

It does look like I switched at the right time.
And peace even understates it: we're allies and they're our largest trade partner.
A self preventing prophecy, perhaps?
What would be the corresponding SML? I see how the way SML binds ';' would help here, but would it change anything about the last two badly indented matching? And it seems to provide you with the equivalent footgun if you attempt to do multiple side-effect operations in a match branch, which in my experience you want to do more often than you need to separate matches with ';'.
Sigh

Sad but true.
But high-powered analog UHF transmitters themselves starts to be, considering that only major application is analog TV.
I think users of postgresql are usually more experienced, care about features and complete polls than users of mysql who probably don't user foreign-key constraints.
In 7 years on HN this is the first time I've wished I could downvote a comment. I dislike Orban's policies as much as anyone, but subverting the democratic process of another nation just because you don't agree with the results is plain evil. Unless of course crimes against humanity are committed, but so far I see no evidence of that. This voluntarist mindset is diseased and profoundly anti-democratic.
Maybe some people feel this way, but you're assuming far too much. I don't want any country (including mine) to have a monopoly on any resource. At best, it enriches that country to no one else's benefit. At worst, it leaves room for threats to the world economy.

Sure, I trust China less than I trust Denmark (but I also trust Denmark more than the US), but that's not even the point.
Its nice to see that the world is moving towards AI.

Sky-net Incoming :)
It was summed up for me at the time by the joke "Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'can't install Debian'".

Their focus on getting stuff installed and working was a big deal then.
How come I'm not surprised? At all.
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Exactly. I can't see me contributing to this if I can't be sure I'll be able to get all the pictures with all their metadata. There have been enough services built thanks to user contributions that closed their data later on. I think we deserve guarantees that this isn't going to happen.
Well, I'm sure on a site about RDBMSes, you're gonna get some skewed results. In the wild, MySQL sees higher use than PostgreSQL. That said, as an old coworker would say, MySQL is the PHP of RDBMSes. Ubiquitous, gets the job done, and works well mostly. Of course it does horrendous comparisons, conversions, and mutilations of data. Exactly the thing a database should not do.
I like my human driver to share the incentive with me that a crash can have fatal consequences.
Well in these last 20 years I have had two cavities and a crown. It's pretty clear that a) I just didn't take care of my teeth and b) drank a ton of soda and ate too much junk food (though my junk food was mostly pretzels and crackers). I take good care of them now and haven't had that junk since.
I agree with that, yeah (especially the last edit). I think the "national capitalism" approach, where things are privately owned but preferential access is given to important domestic corporations, often ends up mixing together the bad parts of public/private ownership rather than each of their good parts.
Computer users who damage national security could face a life sentence
And the follow up: http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/10/a-followup-to-open-letter-...
In preparation for a potential move back to the US, I've started idly browsing indeed.com for potential jobs.

It's not a dealbreaker, but I have to admit to feeling a tiny bit disappointed when I see Mysql instead of Postgresql.
Drug wars are nothing new. Its almost cyclic - drugs considered harmless, followed by overuse and destroyed lives, followed by harsh campaigns suppressing their use, followed by laws and 'wars'. When a generation gets appalled at the inconsistencies in prosecution of what are now 'victimless' crimes, rinse and repeat.

In the 1700's and 1800's these cycles were repeated; today we're where we are. But now there are really effective drugs that are both less corrosive to general health, and simultaneously shockingly addictive and dysfunctional. We've upped the ante by 100X.

So where do we go from here? Suggestions? And 'repeat the cycle' is not going to really solve anything.
Could you elaborate? To me it's not particularly obvious why a particular battle should change the religious landscape of a continent for a century to come.
I'll be interested to see what impact this has on the overall CS department at Oxford. CS in the UK is growing, but still has a much lower profile than in the States. In Stanford, CS is a well-known (!), popular major whereas here in Oxford, the 2013-14 CS class consists of just 69 people. [1]

I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.

[1]:http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ugadmissions/how_to_apply/
For those who are curious, this is called "eu-central-1" (Ireland is "eu-west-1").
SR also sold identity theft kits, hacking tools and such.

(I agree with "hncomplete"'s point, minus the "sociopath" remark)
Because they are fiddly, hard to manufacture and expensive, while solid state voltage or digitally controlled filters and oscillators are cheaper and more reliable.
Often when one of these ingenuously conceived & impeccably crafted devices is unearthed [1], one wonders about not only the provenance, the period and the relative brilliance of such contraptions but also the initial impetus for the actual making of the device.

One cannot help themselves from wondering

* what prevailing mores - and pressures - led to the devising
of such relatively complex gadgets.
* what the availability of skilled labor was in those times
* how expensive or cheap such (bonded ?) labor was
* how freely or sparsely knowledge was shared in those times
* how guilds & ancestral orders controlled the dissemination
of such knowledge & trade-craft, often limiting it to very few
trusted members outside the immediate family or clan, after
decades of indentured internship and servitude.
* what other existential pressures the inventor faced in the
making of the contraption Eg. Sedition laws, Canon law etc.

I tend to think that most of the inventors of these devices made them under some form of extreme duress or state sanction - not very unlike say the much-debated working conditions that prevailed during the construction of the Pyramids [2].

I am somehow inclined to believe that they did not enjoy the same
somewhat lofty treatment bestowed on painters, architects and sculptors.

This is semi-informed speculation.

I'd love to read more on the topic from scholarly sources.

[1] The Antikythera Mechanism

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpLcnAIpVRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eUibFQKJqI

[2] Who Built the Pyramids?

http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-ht...

Edit: formatting
3D.CITY
Documentation produced that way is actually consistent with the statement you first quoted. I think what is happening here is that the researchers, being properly careful, verified what the software does, rather than trust to descriptions by others.

If there had been a formal specification, I imagine they would have both analyzed the specification for vulnerabilities, and checked the code for correct implementation.
The ability to spin up and sync a follower db, for eventual cut over... man I'd kill for that in MySQL.
> because clients can fallback to blockchain.info if there is a fork detected

Unfortunately bc.i's implementation/instance is not immune to bugs, forking, lying or collusion. I don't know why you would expect it to be.
I generally only archive the previous year's worth of email at the end of the next year. So I always have between 12 and 24 months of email in my inbox. But otherwise, much the same.
I have a Dell XPS 13 developer edition that came preinstalled with Ubuntu. It's almost as good as a Mac; it's light, it has good battery life, a nice 1920x1080 screen. Things lacking compared to MacBook air: no Thunderbolt (though does the Air have it?), the trackpad isn't made of glass and doesn't feel as good as a Macbook one, but it's reasonably close (and buttonless).

All in all, it's an acceptable Mac alternative for me.
> here's the value of non rational thought and states of mind. This is plain in art, but generally derided everyone else because of the relationship to antirational arguments, insanity and other persona non grata. There's the always nebulous concept of personal, indescribable spiritual experience. There's an unavoidable wrestling with philosophical ideas about reality from Des Cartes' solipsism, to Socrates' Parable of the Cave even The Matrix.

I am currently reading a book called "Privacy in Context" by Helen Nissenbaum. A portion of the book was pointed out to me,if I may quote.

>> .."for even when we are uncertain whether or not we are being watched, we must act as if we are. When this happens, when we have internalized the gaze of the watchers and see ourselves through their eyes, we are acting according to their principles and not ones that are truly our own (Bentham 1995; Foucault 1995). But pan-optic effects might be even more insidious than this, leading to a diminishment in our capacity to formulate principles, plans, and desires with which we truly identify. According to this framing of the relationship between privacy and autonomy, it is not conceptual but causal for privacy is claimed to be an important aspect of an environment in which autonomy is likely to flourish, and its absence likely to undermine it."
That's great news! As a german based SaaS company, we get many requests from customers asking where the data is stored. Even hair dressers (one of our main customer segment) are very conscious about where their data is stored.
I'm looking forward to migrate.
I do something similar with JavaScript and code functions in a REPL and then move the code into my actual file as soon as I get it working. Usually I do this with Google Dev tools console.
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Welp, now I have a slight interest in making poppy water. I didn't know quinine had those effects either.
Interestingly, trying most *nix commands in place of "whoami" returns a page that says "Unknown.", like with seemingly any invalid URL.

However, trying https://news.ycombinator.com/ps returns a completely blank page. Implying it may be a valid URL for some reason.
Only a minuscule fraction of people who work with/in AI are doing general artificial intelligence. The rest is really more about making sense of the vast and growing amounts of data our world produces. The non-human intelligences that benefit from this are corporations, not artificial minds. It's actually sad that AGI research is still a fringe idea.
Well, a big benefit of Canonical selling it's own hardware is that they could use the price of the hardware to pay for OS work.
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Anyone got an invite to spare? Would be great to get one! (my email is valanto@gmail.com)
This is only an issue to people on the left hand side of this: http://xkcd.com/538/
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Maybe Oxford is a little slower to adopt 'fad' majors. Computer science was invented in 1965 at Carnegie Mellon. Only 50 years have passed - Oxford is just noticing this modern field and may come to accept it as a lasting discipline in another 50?
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This. A thousand times this.

I found LastPass essential for a team I was leading last year but it was so hard to get everyone to use it because it was so clunky.
But the evidence and accusations are founded on nothing more than thin air until they are proven in a court of law. If we presume guilt until innocence - why even bother with a criminal justice system? Should we just revert to stoning people on the presumption of guilt?

While, yes, folks are free to assume guilt of others, it's an abominable thing to do, as all it does is play straight into the hands of those who would control criminal justice through their media mouthpieces.

It makes you no better than a lynch mob.
Maybe I overlooked, but I can't seem to find any information regarding how many Availability Zones it has.

Edit: thanks for the replies, it seems that the '/pt/' localized version of the page hadn't been updated yet. I was able to find the informatin on '/en/'.
"In fact... Artic's Puckman printed circuit board contains an error common to Midway's Pac-Man game."

Oh man this brings back memories. The story as I always heard it goes like this: the PCB layout guy at Midway deliberately routed the R/G/B video signal lines in a certain way so that they spelled out his initials on the board: RBG.

Midway used the PCB layout guy as a witness in the Artic trial and asked him "why did you lay the lines out in this order?" and the guy responded that those were his initials. Just a little signature of his design.

Artic was asked the same question and couldn't come up with a valid answer. The judge ruled for Midway shortly after that.
This is a survey asking "what's your favorite?"

"favorite" != "popular"

I don't think the editorializing in the title is an accurate summary of the survey's results.
I couldn't parse that. Does he mean privacy is necessary for autonomy, including the ability to NOT see yourself 'from outside' as psychotropic drug experiences permit?
I have a young daughter and have come to the same conclusion; not to teach her too much before she starts school. My own parents, being teachers themselves, taught me as much as they could before I attended school. I remember being bored senseless in classes and, whilst doing great in tests, started to harbour a deep resentment against education from a young age. "Like, why is everyone forcing me to do this 100 times?! I get it already!" Gradually realising that the other kids hate your for being too smart didn't help.

I don't think you can call this irrational, it's just accepting of human behaviour.