skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's a shame the report is so partisan

Is it partisan? There's not much mention of Republicans and Democrats in the report. OK it happened under the Bush presidency but could potentially have happened otherwise.
I do not believe that it was done on purpose, I think it's in some way a reflection of general morals and ideas of dealing with terrorism floating around in the US society at that time, shortly after 9/11.

Imagine you are the director of such a show that is about some hero that prevents terrorism. What would you make that hero do to prevent a second 9/11 to capture the audience.

Edit: What I can imagine is that 24 inspired some US officials.
https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/9585
This guy, Ben Edelman, focuses a lot of his work on online advertising issues. The question here is that his campaign against the Chinese restaurant, although technically correct (they did charge higher prices than advertised online) is wildly disproportionate.
I guess at that age (preschool, first grade), math doesn't have to be math to be math. It can be jumping up and down and counting as article says. I can be counting stairs going up and down, building a tower out of sliced cucumbers during lunch. I feel an intuition about quantities and being familiar with numbers is a good foundation. At least that is what I am trying with my 3 year old.
You mean, like Google? Of course, they remove the results that are DMCA-d, but in the mean time, 10 new links appear.
Does anyone have any good technical info on the hardware/software architecture for TPB? When I watched "TPB: AFK" it looked lean, just a handful of 1u servers and only one of them public facing/entry point.
The main argument here is, they already know which you click on. They use referral links. So that's not a sensible reason to prohibit the "ping" attribute.

Given two solutions with equal potential for abuse, why not pick the technically superior solution?
"The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing"

We knew - we knew - that detainees were being tortured. We didn't know how many; nor for how long; nor the exact methods; but we did know that it was happening.
Yep, they generally only do so for short terms in special cases. It's not good for the league to own a team.
Perhaps it's 'keeping the window propped up' (over to where it was moved long ago). The long history isn't exclusive to the idea that these shows and movies are a form of propaganda, or desensitization.
First, I would like to comment on the fact that given the current state of surveillance, I think a re-evaluation of oversight processes needs to be done. If the CIA isn't properly reporting to the White House, the NSC, and is avoiding oversight by congress, then who the fuck is managing these things? On that same note, what kind of NSC would allow that kind of movement? One that really knows whats going on and approves but doesn't want to be seen as complicit is my guess. Otherwise, the director, or more precisely, the AD, would be the main guy "in the know", but what kind of skeletons does he have and who knows them? What is the real power structure here beyond the official chain of command?

How rogue does the Company have to get before someone reigns it in? And with the current state of surveillance, how could any congressmember practically seek to do it? Between the Agency and the Company, they have dirt on them all.

My second comment is on torture itself. I'm guessing the main scapegoat is going to be the contractors pulled in post 9/11. Class 11: My Story Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class, is a must read for anyone interested in this factor. That being said though, as I have posited about the GOT in more general terms, I have doubts about the actual intentions of these kinds of programs in the first place.

I'll forget the pragmatic and philosophical discussion about torture effectiveness for information extraction for a moment, and just come out and say it.

This is how you create terrorists... on purpose.

Need a war? You need someone to fight. Don't have someone? Create them.

There's also the side ancillary benefit of the possibility of turning some of the radicals into doubles, who then can be used for all kinds of fun stuff. The leader of ISIS spent much time in camp Bucca. The guy responsible for the Benghazi attack also spent time in one of these kinds of facilities. Is this really the goal? Looking for good people to turn so they can be manipulated from afar (and then probably killed so they don't talk).

Really and truly, I don't think we can have this discussion properly without bringing JFK into this picture. I've spent a long time trying to understand these big picture things, and my conclusion is not one that you want to hear. Namely, that there was a slow, silent coup against the American government that was fully completed at JFKs assassination. Also, please don't forget that it was the JFK incident that led the Agency to develop the anti conspiracy plan to make the phrase "conspiracy theory" anathema to public debate and discourse.
And that's why you'd want one of them to be a woman, otherwise, unicorns' race will go extinct.
I read a lot on my phone and I don't have great eyesight. If I cannot zoom the website I'm looking at, I often cannot read it.
Composing a message that can be understood by aliens is difficult
Relevant link:

"We record the judges’ two daily food breaks, which result in segmenting the deliberations of the day into three distinct “decision sessions.” We find that the percentage of favorable rulings drops gradually from ≈65% to nearly zero within each decision session and returns abruptly to ≈65% after a break"

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889
Unfortunately it does not make much sense.

Prefixes are more like an simple hack.

The idea of package has both advantages and disadvantages:

Advantages:

* packages prefix can be omitted if the symbol is accessible

* package is an actual data structure. This allows me to do calculations with it: for example I can find all symbols in a package or I can find all packages.

Disadvantage:

* more complicated

* conflicts possible when I want to use symbols from some other package in a package
1and1 Nameservers Down Due to DDOS Attack
... you can just architecture it to be SOA or with tons of microservices.

I think Node.js is hype right now and you'll be betting on a technology that may or may not have a good market share.

RoR is better and have tons of documentations and blogs.

Node.js right now just got forked. Javascript isn't a particular pretty language compare to Python or Ruby. Loosely type and dynamic makes it kinda bad.

I have yet to see any body mastered Javascript as a language and Javascript 6 or ECMA or whatever is coming out. So there is even more stuff to learn. The dev pools for javascript for backend is sparse and their language mastery, from my experiences, for javascript is very low. With that in mind hey you didn't learn prototype OOP yet but guess what we're going to add more to the language and hope that those dev catch up to all of the changes?

yeah... That's a con to be at least. And also Ruby while they're changing with every version it's small iteration, most of the stuff is mostly in place.

Javascript is missing a few construct to build large code base, namely module which they will have a standard soon, and going to add promise construct cause node.js callback hell is bleh. So the language wasn't multi purpose in mind so it's playing catchup.

You can argue that you can do anything with a turing complete language. Sure you can, but how easy it is should be a factor.

Erlang got primitives for spawning process and such. It makes it damn easy.

Javascript got little construct for building large code base. THere are tons of libraries to fix this but still.

I think Node.js ss better as a middleware technology and even then Go would be a better choice with better toolings.
The for profit part is only because it's not allowed to be financed by legal means. I'm sure that sharing was free for non-commercial purposes, there would be not-for-profit organizations that would run websites and only gather enough money (via ads, subscriptions, etc) to cover their operational expenses.
Looks great!

Search could still be vastly improved by adding some sort of "activity" rating that factors in last update with number of recent downloads and sort search results by most active. That way we can make use of well-supported and/or actively maintained modules rather than dead ones.
I've always figured that one is just an oversight. Implementing the behavior you want is an extra feature requiring extra code. The current behavior is the ordinary one, that you see in nearly every web page out there.
Unlikely, Twitch would have to do something pretty significant to harm other teams in an anti-competitive manner. Even then, I'm not sure anyone can do anything.
What about shops where programmers use different IDEs? Even if they go by the principle that forbids them to customize anything, you still have different keyboard shortcuts to deal with. I dread the thought that you might prefer to impose One True IDE on everyone in the team just for this reason...
I think the intuition behind max-pooling is that it says "something is in this local region", without overly specifically saying where it is. Intuitively, a human may detects an edge or intense bright light, but not care so much about precisely where it is in the field of vision. After many successive layers of max-pooling, however (if the pools are not over-lapping), even somewhat course information about locality is lost.

I believe Hinton objects to this gross loss of spatial information for two reasons:
1) Humans don't lose so much spatial information, and Hinton would like his models to ultimately capture a neurologically plausible computation.
2) It may not be necessary for object detection (Imagenet), but it would likely be important for more sophisticated tasks.
Most schools do it at the high school and maybe jr. high level but I have never heard of this happening at the elementary level. We had separate math "groups" in elementary school but this was still within the same classroom and the more advanced group simply learned more about the concepts we were covering.

(Born, raised, and educated in California)
That sort of thing seems to happen when the folks writing the job posting attempt to take the actual requirements from the hiring manager and rewrite them to some standard format. A manager might want "someone who knows C++ for Windows" and "someone who is intermediate in experience". The HR person will look up "intermediate" and see "minimum 5 years" and then glue it onto the technology.

Has anyone ever had a favorable experience working with a hiring company or recruiter that is especially particular about how many years of experience a candidate has in some technology? Exactly how much a programmers knows isn't directly dependent on how long the programmer has been working with the tool. There is such a thing as "1 year of experience 5 times".
Clearly they were looking for this guy:
http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Got_Time_0x3f_
This is such a brilliant example of how attention to detail and treating every customer as your most valuable customer is crucial. Such a simple situation to show:
1. you never know which customer is the one that will tweet/publish their experience (good or bad). Offering to pay the $12 immediately would have solved this and caused no negative PR
2. you have to make sure your entire business and it's assets are up to date, all the time. It might be a rookie mistake to have a website that the proprietor can't update ... but I feel they plain forgot to make the change. If your website isn't integral to the way you run your business and considered in every decision you make, close down your website.
ExoClickπ[1] was one of the ad networks (if not the only one) used by The Pirate Bay to monetize.

[1]
https://www.exoclick.com
It removes the 300ms delay while the browser waits for a double-tap (to make sure you really meant to click on that link and not zoom in), which is supposed to be a huge UX improvement.
Soyuz rendezvous and docking explained [video]
I'm looking for work in Portland, Oregon.

The recruiters seem to be catching my drift in a rather oblique way, in that just since yesterday, they've been sending me inquiries about jobs in Portland, Maine.
Thanks a lot!
By non-obvious, I meant things that I can't easily find on the internet by myself.
Why have a max width of 960px?

"The grid is a 12-column fluid grid with a max width of 960px"
This looks great. I love the simplicity of it and how classnames are handled and just the overall lightweight feeling. Sidetone: I had to go to the github page to see browser support, maybe you can add it to the website. Thanks
"Gamechanger"=same shit, new wrapping

"rockstar" or "ninja"=naive or gullible

"hybrid"=1 to do work of previous >1

These are the people I would not work for even if they paid me <i>enough</i>; considering they're using silly buzzwords to attract warm bodies(not = talent) assures me their "competitive wage" puts the starting salary right on par with 'fry cook'.
It's hundreds of requests like this that create bloated UI frameworks!
Which is a failure in RMS, not in CL packages or the notion of namespaces.
They've also proposed a China-Russia-US Railway that have an under water channel between Russian and Alaska. That would be the longest under channel if it were to be built.
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Exactly. People are just good at rationalizing their behaviour. I don't judge anybody who uses such sites, but what really pisses me off are the guys who like to shout some self-aggrandizing bullshit about fighting for freedom etc. Theres a basic lack of empathy.
Jack Ma explains why China’s education system fails to produce innovators
How do you know they didn't read the whole post? In other words, how do you know that you're not being downvoted for refusing to acknowledge the world of difference between black ops as practiced before and after 9/11 (or more precicely, before and after Vice President Dick Cheney said "it's time to take off the gloves")?

That's what we're talking about here: the actual meaning of "gloves off". And no, this was categorically NOT something that started on Clinton's watch. It's started on Bush's watch, specifically at the direction of Cheney and his legal counsel David Addington, using legal justifications drafted by John Yoo.

Bush, not Clinton, got it?

And just so you're clear, this is not a defense of Democrats. After all, nobody has done more to forestall this report than the Democrat Barack Obama. In many ways, he's the worst offender here as it was his administration that elected to protect the people involved instead of punishing them, which serves to normalize something that absolutely should not be normalized. After all, the deepest institutional damage is done not by those who abuse their authority, but by those who allow the abusers to get away with it (see the systematic sexual abuse of children and the problems the Catholic Church caused itself by concealing it for another case in point).

I should add that the Obama Administration's conduct would be slightly less galling if it weren't part of a pattern, but the fact that James Clapper suffered no consequence for lying to Congress about the NSA's constitutional violations means that this is bigger than the CIA. If you get to the root of it, it's really about the goddamn nightmare of a lawless and amoral security state given big budgets and free reign stemming from the insane over-reaction to 9/11 that has since been enshrined in the Patriot Act.

That's the real heart of darkness here. Well, that and the cowering bedwetting chickenshits who don't support the whole "land of the free home of the brave" thing, and would rather hand the country to people like Cheney, Addington, Yoo, etc. and not think twice about the damage they're doing.

And those people? The fear driven chickenshits? Overwhelmingly Republican. It's the FOX News demographic, essentially. (FOX News, not coincidentally, has been a big supporter of torture. Like Cheney, they consider it evidence of "toughness", not idiocy.)
I think the reason for the misconception is that Paul Graham actually said that it was the default policy.

"The only way we can tell if a newly created title is accurate is to read the article, and we're not about to read every article submitted to HN. The only option is to revert to the original title, which is at least what the author intended." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466)

After that, it seemed like people kind of gave up the fight and just started leaving the original title more often.

(I don't mean to argue with you here. I gladly accept that it is not the way that post seemed to indicate. I'm just trying to identify the source of the disconnect.)
Coincidentally that's what I do (to some extent). I use the following offline resources:

* Wikipedia (smartphone, PC): Aard Dict[1]

* Translation apps (smartphone)

* OpenStreetMap (smartphone): OsmAnd[2]

[1]: http://aarddict.org
[2]: http://osmand.net
It'll be back... at least I hope so
We don't have any current examples, no, but Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro's book _Life Beyond Earth_[1], though published in 1980, gives a variety of provocative suggestions about what life other than earthlife might look like, and how we could detect it.

[1] https://cmdev.com/isbn/0688036422
"I don't understand why we should hold back progress"...

I don't think we should hold back progress. I'm not arguing for legislated compulsory DRM or shutting down the Internet.

I'm just saying I don't have a lot of love or sympathy for people who build businesses on the appropriation of peoples' hard work against their will. I feel the same way about jerks who take OSS software closed without authorization or credit, or who scrape peoples' blog posts and use them for their own click bait sites without even linking to the original author. TPB is in that sort of category.

"Additionally, you should ask artists who's screwing them"...

I have, and trust me... nobody has any love for record labels except maybe some of the indies.

The trouble is that the new model -- the promised land -- is not appearing. There is no new model. The new model is you give your work away for free and starve.

Like I've said, we've gone from a system where there was some opportunity -- albeit in a shitty model with shitty record labels -- to a system with no opportunity outside touring and merchandise sales.

You can squeeze by on that, but you can't build a career on it. Great art requires years of dedication. That means making it a sustainable career, a vocation. Squeezing out a few tunes in between your two day jobs just won't lead to great art.

It also means you're basically a consultant -- a glorified service sector employee. Why is it that programmers are allowed to build equity in startups, but artists are forbidden from building equity in a portfolio of copyrighted works? It's the only vehicle for equity building they ever had. Without some opportunity to build on your work in a non-linear fashion, you are just a wage slave forever.

I guess we're going to reward all those artists and musicians who enriched our lives by making them eat dog food when they're old...?

Sonny Bono always gets bashed for saying copyright should be "forever and a day." I still don't agree with him-- I think that position is too extreme. But I understand where he's coming from now. He understands economics and business.

To build an industry that can pay actual wages, benefits, and invest in new things, you need to build capital. You need some way of building a portfolio of enduring value that can produce recurrent revenue over a long period of time to fund new things and to support the vast overhead that a real profession demands.

Nobody should understand this more than the HN crowd, which is why I have such an uncharitable interpretation of the down votes I always get for pointing these things out.
As far as I can tell, synergies between your products has been 100% OK since the dawn of time, even if one or both of your products has monopoly status. The anti-trust cases come when you start locking out competitors.
>Psychiatric analysis based on voice

The benefits of this when implemented correctly nonwithstanding, there's a major problem in that any implementation is highly likely to be quite flawed. See the proliferation of "health-tracking" apps that are basically quackery. With psychiatric analysis --- where the signals to track are much weakly defined than heart rate, blood pressure, etc. --- it is far too likely that apps will consistently make poor diagnoses, to the detriment of the user.
Not a lot of complex chemistry to choose from, but organic chemistry.
I hadn't heard of this brand, looks interesting. Thanks for the heads up!

Are there any other OVH brands out there aside from this, Kimsufi, SoYouStart and Hubic?
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Oh hey, and look at the 18" long cracks in the plywood you can see in that picture.

But at least they used 1" carriage bolts to hold it all together.
Why do sites feel the need to hijack and speed up the scroll. DON'T DO IT!
Show HN: Codea Scratchpad
I started using Skeleton nearly 3 years ago and there are still bits of it lingering in my base shared scss files in one form or another.

Thanks for your hard work.
Completely off-topic, but does the signature bug anyone else?

> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
> Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.

"Skype is a closed-source, proprietary infrastructure, and that's bad. Therefore you should avoid it. Please consider using AT&T's closed-source, proprietary infrastructure instead."
I would second this. I just thought my 5 year old cousin grids and locations on a grid simply because I wanted him to play battleship.

Next up: difference in distance between one battleship to another; difference in distance across two axis; difference in x and y being called slope.

Then the possibilities are endless.
Why not just use I2P? Though it is not so fast, but for many things acceptable.
That's very true. In Europe, Sweden is in our minds like one of the two or three countries where everything seems to be "good". Economics are good, people are nice, unemployment seems low and somehow those countries act as "The goods and respectables guys from the north". That's a very common feeling in EU.
Hmm, why would Twitch want to own multiple eSports teams? How does that advance Twitch's goals?
Really a nice, educational idea.

Just bought it and stumbled over a minor thing: UTF8 support for the artists name would be great (e.g. Albrecht Durer -> Albrecht Dürer).
"Under the LOT Agreement, every company that participates grants a portfolio-wide license to the other participants, but the license becomes effective ONLY when the participant transfers one or more patents to an entity other than another LOT Network participant, and ONLY for the patent(s) actually transferred."

Doesn't this mean that if every company were to join the network that we would just end up back at square one with tons of money being pumped into this organization?
// Google Tracking-B-Gone

// version 2.2.1

// Release Date: 2014-02-28

// http://userscripts.org/scripts/upload/47300

of course userscripts.org is gone now(why?), but you can find this script on other places.
I can certainly see his point of view. I feel it falls on the Worse is Better side of decision making when he says they make the language definition easier.

While packages may not be a great solution they do at least make the the concept of namespacing explicit and a first class citizen of the language.
this plus magic leap could be pretty awesome for AR/VR