skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I am sorry to have misunderstood the fact that a BSD license swears away any rights of control. In practice it turns out to be nearly indistinguishable from Public Domain, so what's the point? Let's just call it Public Domain and quit pussyfooting around.

Why the outpouring of hostility and contempt? I'm sure I sounded 'arrogant' - perhaps I was not too pleased with the tone of voice of many of the commenters here either.

Yes, I am perfectly aware of the difference between copyright and patent. What I was not aware of is that the copyright notice required by BSD is useful only in asserting the right of the copyright owner to swear away virtually all of the protections normally granted by a copyright notice. It is a legally castrated copyright.

"then he basically forbids other people from using the efficient algorithm" Did I ever say that I was trying to place any restrictions on the use of Metaphone3.java as is or however you might want to privately re-implement it? I donated the my work in the open refine project and it is there for all to see. I had a notion that by allowing the source code to be made available I was doing something good that would make Open Source advocates happy!

I'm glad you find my work useful enough to make a fuss about. Metaphone 3 is the product of my work alone - all the research and resulting 'rules' and logic were developed by myself from primary source data. Metaphone, Double Metaphone, and Metaphone 3 are not derivative works.

Again, my apologies if I misunderstood your "right" to do whatever you want with my work without restriction. Your method of asserting your rights, however, has certainly done nothing to make me feel welcome in your "community".
"a critical piece will be solving the first mile problem by making sure that we lower the cost and the effort required of all of us when it comes to transitioning into new payments and monetary systems."

This. Right now the costs to start a fintech company that actually does something disruptive is tremendously high and the regulatory hurdles don't stop. Luckily there are a few startups paving the way but it's still not enough.
I'm not paying $50-150, and futzing with some idiosyncratic offering of a small company, just to maintain magstripe-compatibility when magstripes are rapidly on the way out. Carrying a couple fallback magstripe cards for the last days of magstripes isn't a big hassle.

Carrying tons of magstripe cards when there were no other options – 5-10 years ago – is the only problem these seem to solve.
Ask HN: What
They outrightly express resistance to laws-as-is

Here, I found another arrogant law-defying übermensch-wannabe for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
Here is the status page - note that it uses Rackspace DNS, though:

https://status.rackspace.com/
I'm familiar with utility functions, although I think they don't accurately reflect people's values; I think people's values more closely resemble a poset. But even assuming a cardinal utility function, we run into the problem that money isn't all that widely fungible. I cannot buy friends, family, love, legal or social reform, etc., all of which must weigh heavily in many people's utility functions.
> Taking care of an ailing parent is in no way connected to maximizing one's returns on anything (except maybe fulfilling a sense of what you "ought" to do).

Unless that act teaches your own children how to treat you later in life.
>Is this PR, self-delusion intended to make the (powerful) speaker not feel bad, selective blindness or just mind-boggling ignorance?

Maybe it is none of the above? The fact that you have such a deep ideological belief that you can't even acknowledge the possibility that there are other options says more about you than the statement you are quoting says about the person saying it.
It can be difficult to tell. If the traffic is coming from a botnet, only identifying the Command And Control operators will tell you anything.
Principles of Distributed Computing
I've heard that the various GSM / UMTS / etc encryption and authentication schemes are not at all secure (like WEP bad). So if mobile baseband time relies on that, it's not particularly secure. It may be less convenient to MITM though, it's hard for non-law-enforcement to get a Stingray, and getting GnuRadio working for this would be far from plug-and-play.
"Case sensitive" means that it matters whether you keep characters matching the same case. So, let's imagine a hypothetical service:

# This should work for any such service:
Service.set_password('MyPassword')
Service.verify('MyPassword')

Logging in with the mixed-case password (which should, of course, work) does not tell us anything about whether it's case sensitive. However, if alternate-case verisons of your passwords work, your service has case insensitive password:

# These fail if a case-sensitive service
Service.verify('mypassword')
Service.verify('MYPASSWORD')

If we can give it either too many or too few characters, then they are likely truncating your password before storing/testing it:

# They drop characters if these work:
Service.verify('My')
Service.verify('MyVoice')

Edit: And, in case they are trying to be nice and allow you to log in with your phone, they might do something lame like store your password as the numbers-you-would-type, rather than the actual characters, in which case this might work:

# I hope not: 'mypassword' phone pad digits
Service.verify(6972779673)
# Even worse, if they might store only the first digits:
Service.verify(6972)

Apologies if I've made any typos, but I hope that clarifies how one might verify that passwords are treated as case sensitive or not.
1) Show the worst food at Restaurants
2) Show Healthy food from home

Profit?

Talk about manipulating the facts to get the end result. Why would I drink diet soda at home but always order regular at a restaurant? because that's the only way to get the "oh wow" factor for the photos.
"If sexist statements are simply a matter of opinion than there probably really aren't any at all by some measure or the other...."

In subjective matters, the interpretation of written statements in this case, there is room for shades of grey. So yes, even if you are convinced something is how you see it, does not mean everyone will agree. Let me put it like this, if a female makes a negative statement about a group, and points out that this group is overwhelmingly male, does the gender automatically become the focus, or is it merely an observation about a group, and it is the group which is being placed under scrutiny? If I say I work with a group of geeky men that are clever, is the gender really the most important part of that statement to you?

"I believe scientists (aka people who have taken the time to study and learn) should do science." Did I say anything different to that?

"Not anyone with a diverse opinion. There is plenty of room for guidance at the funding and application levels."

Application level is after the horse has bolted. To use an obvious example, you can't prove that we know how to build an atomic bomb and then not expect negative consequences, regardless of how interesting the science was the scientists involved still needed to take responsibility for their part in it (which at least some of them did). Funding level is part of the corrupting influence I mentioned before.

Science exists to serve us, it's how we explore the systems of the world we live in, but not all science serves us, and until we recognise that and ethically guide our research we're setting ourselves up for huge catastrophes.
We don't know. There are some people [1] [2] trying to guess it.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2q23mm/the_ke...
[2]: https://titanpad.com/SzytivYwys
For all you liberals out there who want to go after Bush, don't forget that Obama has been killing people indiscriminately with drone strikes. Something tells me you'll be less likely to go after him, indicating the real source of your outrage.

The CIA report was written solely by Democrats with an ax to grind, and sought no information from an opposing side.

Go back and watch any 9/11 news video (as it happened) and put yourself in the shoes of those who struggled to find direction during that time. I personally don't think torture is a good decision, but those in power did it out of precaution to identify possible future acts.

When the next terrorist attack occurs, please think about the bullshit you wrote here.
> as long as it is more efficient as a protocol and API

It is :)
I upvoted you. But Cheney is still rotten despite being honest. He doesn't deny that many in Gitmo are innocent (or not known to be guilty), yet still declares them terrorists. In that way he worked against your kids.
I did some marketing consulting for the "inventor" of citikitty (was on Shark Tank as you probably know). I just sent her the link to the article telling her she needs to invent some kind of consumable to her kit to get future residual income. I was half serious half kidding.
>That era saw a turning point, as various important factions in USA society withdrew their support from the project of advancing the role of women in society.

Like who?
By the way, I might add that I am deeply appreciative of the people here who have reviewed this situation with a friendly and understanding response to my attitude.
It isn't just defending the parties. It is defending the corporations who effectively control the parties. In short the media is an important part of the power structure of the US.

Why I read The "American Conservative," "Mother Jones," and "The Nation" more than I read The New York Times.
It varies from state to state. In California, where the testing is taking place, it happens to be 25. In Texas, it's 30.
I really hope no one took my question as a prompt to attack them. That wasn't my intention. I was, and am, genuinely curious about their capacity.
What upsets me about go generate is that it is orthogonal to the language, yet it comes baked in. It unnecessarily increases the footprint of the language, while essentially killing any alternative approaches. Feature creep comes one feature at a time, I guess.

[ps. yet thank you big time for being able to program in golang]
That doesn't mean you have to return from the ground. Have the large reusable craft swing by Mars without slowing down, dropping off a small daughter ship/lander, and continuing back to Earth.
Interesting, thanks for the links!

I've done your typical ANN 101 training in the past so have a good mental model for back-propagation. Modelling the actual nonlinear dynamics of "realistic" neural networks seems like an obvious path of research but I know how daunting it is. It seems like every tiny bit we can push forward our tools for understanding complex non-linear systems should pay large dividends across so many different computational fields (fluid dynamics, QFT, economics, ..., everything?)

I'll have to read Izhikevich's paper, seems like a unique line of research.
This is great. Congratulations to just taking the leap and getting it done and proven.

How are you thinking about scaling it? How to understand every websites issues and provide a live Customer Service?
It's a small, simple thing, but I still don't see what value it adds to just using a script.
In a worse situation is Michael Collins who flew in Apollo 11 but only remained in orbit around the moon, never landed and whose name is not known nearly as well as Neil and Buzz.
Why not use xxHash?
https://code.google.com/p/xxhash/

Docs say it hits over 13GB/sec on a Core i5 3340M @2.7GHs.

Or if this is an older design decision, why not use MurmurHash, which is also pretty fast and has been around for a while.
Until this actually happens for DigitalOcean, if you want to mess around with FreeBSD right away, you should just check out the Atlantic.net $.99 a month Go Plan.
There is an objective basis to morality without God, proposed by Immanuel Kant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
In every day life, average (non-programmer, non-scientist, non-mathematician) humans do many complicated things naturally. Walking, or driving a car, or ordering food at a restaurant are immensely complicated activities. Huge portions of the human population are not explicitly trained in symbol manipulation or algorithmic thought, and yet they perform those activities with fairly standard education. If you were to ask most of those people to write instructions (at the level that it would be executable by a von-Neumann machine) for performing those activities, you wouldn't get satisfactory results, because humans don't naturally break high-level processes down into their constituent components; only those humans that are explicitly trained to view common processes in terms of their constituent components can do so. This process of breaking processes down into components is a fundamental aspect of programming; it only becomes easy with significant training, which makes it unnatural.
I find strange that the HE's decided not to lie on the tests.

Given that it was a game, and they knew they were being tested, I would have thought that "appearing generous and well-disposed to the testers and other participants" (even if they were not like that in real life) would benefit their self-interest more than "winning fictional money" (and risking looking like a self-centered person). The first benefit is small but takes place in the real world, the other one is bigger but fictional.

I must be missing something. It seems to me that in order to maximize your benefit in such games the obvious and selfish thing to do is appearing infinitely generous.
I know it is a semantics argument, but there's a difference between "X ends up acting in alignment with self interest" and "X's actions are motivated/guided by self interest".
I don't think there's any circle you can draw around federal buildings that wouldn't include residential buildings also.

If you declared all federal buildings to be part of the district (and everything else Maryland) it would get messy fast:

+ What about commercial buildings that the feds lease? (There are many of these.)

+ What about federal buildings which are leased to commercial organizations? (Not sure if there are any, but it wouldn't surprise me.)

+ Would federal DC have its own first responders specifically to service federal buildings?

+ Would DC pay Maryland taxes for road maintenance between its "islands" of office space?

Etc.
Because SSL does the job of securing data between the server and the client just fine.

There are a ton of interesting problems in the email world, including all the server to server communications. JMAP is lightning focused on solving ONE of those problems - the communication between end-user devices and their mail server - and doing it well.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of people raised their hands in joy and suddenly clicked to upvote. I fear something incredible has happened.

Better and more robust email protocols, based on unencumbered open tech? Yes please. What else is there to say? :)
Its expected that you'll run JMAP over HTTPS which takes care of the wire encryption. For end-to-end encryption, there's a heap of problems that still aren't solved (key distribution, need for content analysis). There's no reason JMAP couldn't be extended in the future to support these via additional properties, attached encrypted payloads, etc but mandating it from the outset would quickly see the whole protocol dead before it began.
Utterly pointless article.
so the "Big Four" have ~4.8 trillion in assets and a small business loan portfolio of ~91 billion, 1.9% of their combined assets. Small and medium sized banks (those with assets under $10 billion) have ~3.9 trillion in assets and a small business loan portfolio of approximately 413 billion or 10.6% of total assets.

The first take away is when you deposit money in a smaller bank chances are a much larger portion of your money will be reinvested back into the community in the form of small business loans.

A second, quite interesting, if more speculative takeaway, is what if the Big Four were broken up? What is their 4.8 trillion in assets were controlled by a much larger number of smaller banks? The answer is that the pool of assets available for small business lending would vastly expand. And yes, small businesses are credit starved, particularly so since the 2008 Financial Crisis. Another great benefit of breaking up the largest banks would be reducing the influence of the financial system on our political system which is particularly prone to regulatory capture.
It's much more clearly the fault of the 622 Socialist voters than the Nader voters. Had they voted for Gore instead of David McReynolds then Gore would be in office, and unlike Nader's voter mix, it's more clear that McReynolds's voters would have been Gore voters, not Bush ones.

Following your logic, Jesse Ventura would never have been governor of Minnesota as people did not know that he was a dominant candidate on voting day but was polling in third place.

Why were the 773,713 Ventura voters wrong to vote as they did? Was it because Humphrey wasn't evil enough?
Indeed. And thank the core canonical-Tcl developers (past and present) for the inspiring C implementation, and for antirez having the good sense to realize what he was looking at and model his work on it.
JMAP is a rather misleading name.

"J" is misleading because it's not JSON that distinguishes JMAP from IMAP, but rather the use of HTTP, along with recently added HTTP features such as push. JSON is just the message packing scheme. HTTP is what does all the heavy lifting.

"M" is misleading because this protocol is designed for a lot more than mail. It also handles contacts and calendars, and I wouldn't be surprised if Fastmail made their file storage service accessible through JMAP as well.

What's even worse is that once you come up with a protocol that covers everything that Fastmail does, everyone and their dog will try to add more services to the protocol. Instant messaging? Got it. Collaborative editing a la Google Drive? No problem. And before you know it, the protocol is bloated as hell and you've basically reinvented HTTP.

Please don't try to do everything. Do one thing, do it well, and put a strict limit to the scope of the project for the time being. A few more minutes of battery life on a phone is not worth polluting the world with yet another example of massive scope creep. IMAP+SMTP using a stateless protocol would be cool, but anything more and I'm not sure.
On the other hand, "boring" ideas stick around longer. Who's going to react negatively to a bingo card creator? Who doesn't need to be reminded of appointments? These are not sexy, world-changing, paradigm shifting ideas but they can be stable money makers.
“I want something superhuman”
That's the entire point. Anyone attributing an action to "them" inherently wrong in doing so.

"Because Anonymous has no leadership, no action can be attributed to the membership as a whole. Parmy Olson and others have criticized media coverage that presents the group as well-organized or homogeneous." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29)
In what now seems like a previous life, I once had a job sorting produce by hand (mostly picking out stick/stems, and animal parts) from a conveyor belt zipping in front of me. Even back then CV machines existed for at least some produce, but the plant I was working at had not yet updated.

This kind of work required a dozen or more people standing along the (much slower) conveyor belt, each trying to grab what the previous worker missed. Even at minimum wage, that sort of labor isn't cheap. This is truly amazing technology.
Thanks April.

We've got a solid process for managing chats for a diverse group of websites.

- We go through a detailed on boarding process to get the info we need. We study the ins and outs of your site, and also ask questions as needed before starting the chat service.

- If we don't know the answer to a question, we are honest with the visitor (visitors appreciate transparency rather than halfway answers). We then offer to connect them with someone on your team via email to get an answer asap.

As simple as this sounds, the attention and transparency goes a long way based on what we're seeing.

As far as scaling, we've got numbers around what it takes to manage a customer at various website traffic levels (prices are based on website visitors), so I've got an idea of how we'll scale for customers vs chat team.
API for Christmas
How do all these wonderful family benefits explain that Tokyo has the lowest fertility rate in Japan [1]?

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[1] http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japans-fert...
Tokyo has the lowest fertility rate in Japan by far, hovering just above 1.0.
> Can you imagine if states were doing extraordinary rendition and torture?

The decline of state versus federal power has been punctuated by events that arose because the states did far worse. There's slavery and the civil war, of course, but more recently state governments were throwing black Americans in jail or executing them with no evidence, turning a blind eye to lynchings and hangings and other atrocities. And every time the states proved that they could not be trusted, the Supreme Court gave the federal government a little more power over them.

Eisenhower sending federal troops (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/101...) into Arkansas to forcibly integrate a school would've been decried as a reprehensible infringement of state sovereignty if it wasn't so throughly justified.
* Solve at least one problem ordinary people actually have.

e.g. Bitcoin conspicuously fails at this. There is nothing the typical consumer can do with it that they can't already do with credit cards or PayPal, and those offer chargebacks and rollbacks in case of problems. Even remittances turn out to cost more in practice.

What can you do that existing centralised systems don't already do? And remember that Shit Happens, and rollback is considered an essential function by the trepidatious.
Mars Direct
> but those in power did it out of precaution to identify possible future acts.

That simply doesn't matter. Torture is illegal in all circumstances, reprehensible, and completely ineffective. There's no justification, period.

The "collateral damage" of drone strikes, and all of our quasi-war military actions, concerns me greatly, but the fact that drones are involves is immaterial. We've been killing civilians and combatants outside of declared war and emergency situations for a long time now. Maybe that all needs to be looked at again with the result being possible indictments. If so it would go back before Obama and Bush, to at least every post-WWII president.
> I cannot buy friends, family, love, legal or social reform, etc., all of which must weigh heavily in many people's utility functions.

The concept is that while you can't do so directly, the degree to which you value these things can in principle be quantified monetarily by the monetary value of the things you can buy with money that you are willing to forego in order to attain the things that cannot be bought with money, allowing money to be used as a tool to quantify utility even for things which it can't buy directly.
> they are not selling you a machine, they are inexpensively buying your ability to choose

Very well put. Edit: And since most people are paralyzed by the sunk cost fallacy this works even better than plain cost analysis would predict, especially if they are deceived about the presence of DRM.
First thing I thought: It's one better than IMAP and meant to replace it. I++ == J. JMAP.
This is a really cool idea. I'd like it even more if I could add "remotes" for different providers. DNSimple, Route53, etc. and push my changes to each one. I suppose the service would need to support a number of providers that themselves support APIs.