skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, if you want to get rid of all of those annoying EU cookie warnings, there is a filter list compatible with uBlock Origin and AdBlock here:

https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list
This is why we have courts, to answer these sorts of questions on a case by case basis.
The articles author, Johnjo Mcfadden and his collaborator, Jim Al Khalili, are proposing a new scientific discipline, Quantum Biology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_theories_of_quantu...

Here is McFaddens and Khalili's 1999 paper A quantum mechanical model of adaptive behaviour
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Johnjoe_Mcfadden/publica...

It is an interesting new field and much more scholarly than the OP article allows.

They have a book which goes in depth and Jim has an excellent BBC tv show presenting the key ideas.

Here are Khalili's Royal Institution lecture, the book and tv show, which cover the same material in depth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwgQVZju1ZM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Edge-Coming-Quantum-Biology/dp/...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v85cj

The IAS 2012 workshop on Quantum Biology has a number of presentations:

http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/quantumbiology/report....

Here is Jim's 2012 presentation on the role of Quantum tunneling in Adaptive Genetic mutation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iujZr42Aho4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iujZr42Aho4
I would've been much more inclined to take this seriously had the testimonials not all been from John McAfee. After all he's been in the news for in the past few years, I'd treat a promotion by him as more harmful than helpful.
If that were the case, it should have a bright red LED 'eye' somewhere :)

It's about just as common as the chromed tentacles, and often co-occurs (2001, Terminator, Matrix, probably more).
But the vegan menu sucks. ... If a "vegan-friendly condom" is to condoms what the vegan menu is to the regular menu, ...

If indeed. I think I can understand why you are reasoning this way, but in the end it is just nothing more than a pretty wild (and incorrect) overgeneralization? I don't like most vegan food, tastewise, but that doesn't influence me in choosing vegan/animal-friendly alternatives over other products which are not food related.
I wish people behind copyright law would figure that out too, but alas...
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I contributed to this # this year - I only recently started using an ad-blocker.

People / companies need to get paid for their content - and that's perfectly fine - it's when the ads get out of control that infuriates me and drove me to install an ad blocker - looking at gizmodo.com and wired.com - full screen video ads (greyed out content with centered video) are infuriating. Keep the ads on the side of the page or at the top or bottom. If it's interesting, I'll probably click on it - case in point - daringfireball.net - he generally has ads for stuff I actually want to use or need - I'll sit there sometimes refreshing the page to load a new ad just to see what else is in the stack.
Oh, I see your point. about the ads (just turned off uBlock), makes me sad to see that :( It used to be much cleaner than that. I'd be interested to know how much control he has over those.
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Does there have to be a motivation? I'll update the article.

Ok, done. And it wasn't all the cases, just a couple that I missed.

Thanks for the hint!
> Your creations - your journal, your twitter feed, your facebook notes and photo blog - these belong to you in a sensical way, and determining who has access to them might be a reasonable right you possess (though I'm unaware of any legal system that enforces that right).

That would be "Copyright".
> What was worse was that there was no objective way to measure progress so I didn't even know if it was doing anything.

I agree that not being able to measure progress is horribly demotivating. But I find the opposite, that exercise is one of the few areas in my life where I can objectively measure progress. For example:

Body weight
Resting heart rate
5k run time
Longest distance run without stopping
Max weight / number of repetitions / duration for strength exercises

These are all objective measurements which can be tracked over long periods of time and directly correlate with the amount and quality of training that one does. I have found that this is the best long-term way to motivate myself.
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> Why should you have 'the right to be forgotten'?

Why should anyone have any rights? Rights are granted by sovereign nations to their citizens. Sometimes (and this is a good example, the US "right to bear arms" is another good one) different nations give their citizens different rights. When these rights are given by democratically elected governments, it's fair to assess that the people collectively decided they wanted said rights and enacted them.
Don't forget about ROI: Radio Over Internet!
Even with the rules the author speaks of the entire law is still one big, stinking gray area:

- Should single owner corporations be treated as corporations or persons? A singer with his own company in his own name might want an article about him removed.
- Should a low level government employee be able to have a forum rant about his handling of a case removed? What if the mishandling of a case wasn't the employees fault?
- Can a corporation get (pay/threaten) another person to remove an article if that person is mentioned in the article?
- What level of politician should be unable to have a link removed? Member of a political party? City counsilman in some small town?
- Does the article about a politician have to be about politics? What about a personal/non-work related link about a politician?
- Famoust pianists shouldn't be able to have a review removed, but what constitutes a 'review'?
- What about people who don't want to be in the public eye - it's not always their choice?
- So EU's laws should apply everywhere - what about Iran's? Why are they different?

This just scratches the surface.
Ask HN: Best remote worker video chat solution?
I would like to have a constant connection with my remote co-workers. The problem is that many of them are in somewhat noisy envoirments (including me), so keeping a constantly open audio/video connection is not possible.

I would simply like som kind of group video chat with a push-to-talk possibility. My testing so far has concluded that neither Skype nor Google Hangouts support this.

What do the rest of you use?
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Exactly. It is similar to "what is 'fair use' of copyrighted material?"
I don't understand the problem. What would be wrong with a country punishing Google for breaking the law in that country?
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That's nice, but I'd be more happy if I could block people who come up with these brilliant ideas from living off my taxes...
I thought the character Peter Gregory is based on Peter Thiel.
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Got some alerts from a couple services that rely on S3 this morning. Perhaps this is related, but everything is back up for now.
Does the person who assaulted the other person in your scenario have a right for any record of it to be removed from the internet?
Such questions are messy and fuzzy, which means that technical people often get terribly hung up about them. The important thing to remember is that those questions aren't new. Laws about libel and slander, about insults, about a person's right to their image, and much more have existed for a long time. When there are disputes, court cases happen. As a result, our understanding of what is accepted and what isn't gets refined over time. It goes so far that as society changes, the interpretation of laws changes along with it.

In the end, these things mostly work, and that's good enough. Most importantly, most people feel that it is better than refusing to have such rules just because they may be fuzzy.
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They actually benchmark the Python interpreter. They show that only on Haswell the gain from using the goto label is low. For me, that's not an argument to never use goto label, especially not to remove it from the Python implementation which certainly should run on many other CPUs than Haswell.

Edit: therefore I don't agree with your "unless I know a fair bit about the target platforms, the naive approach is better." I'd agree however with "it the speed (or the battery use) actually doesn't matter, the naive approach is better." Sure.
Line coverage isn't as important as most people think
Consuming fewer calories than you burn is the only way to lose weight.

You can adjust either side of the equation by consuming fewer calories, or by burning more calories.

It is much more effective to restrict caloric intake than to try and burn off a lot of extra calories - it takes a great amount of effort to burn a lot of calories

For example, running 3 miles in a half an hour will only burn around 400 calories, thats a lot more effort than just not eating one double cheeseburger a day.

Food choice (or WHAT you eat) only affects your hunger level, it does not contribute in any meaningful way to how you lose weight, other than helping you feel more/less full for longer/shorter (and thus enabling you to consume fewer calories by consuming less calorically dense food)
BBC's Radio 4 did a feature to celebrate her 85th birthday back in April this year:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pkmyg
you can say he/they have moral responsibility. but laws are what they are, and that is truly the only real responsibility for all of us. just that you feel strongly about something and feel that it is the right way doesn't make it any more enforceable.

please note that I +- agree with you. anon3_ 2 had a slightly ignorant comment, maybe not intended, but I understand his view too (albeit I don't agree that much). the thing is, if he is really rich, he for sure wants to live in calm, secure and stable society where he isn't threatened daily just because he worked hard and now he is well off. For that, there needs to be broad(er) prosperity. Poor hungry people won't stay quiet for long. On the other hand, let's face it - people are lazy. not all of course, but many. Create easy conditions, and very few will do their best for society (aka work). Create too hard conditions, and many will break without ever reaching their potential.

I think state should be there to give a helping hand to those who work hard to make better life for themselves, but NOT make the better life for themselves. How? Now that's a question nobody has really good answer for :) I would bet on proper public schooling with high wages and great inspiring teachers. Add a non-abusable health care system (statement ridiculous in real world on its own), and society will flourish. All US would need is divert maybe half of cash for waging useless wars around the globe... ah wait
Practically, the right to be forgotten will only diminish the ease of access to information, but won't remove them altogether.

For example, a landlord can quickly Google a potential tenant. But I don't think he would try to go to a dark web black market, where he would have to pay in bitcoin some shady people, just to dig something in its past.

It is probably sufficient to "protect" people in most of their everyday interactions.
Yes, for software developers in Germany with a permanent contract and higher education it is really quite easy.

I recently acquired a blue card kind of accidentally, after landing a permanent contract with a company as an iOS dev. The HR person took me into the foreigners office to apply for a sponsored work visa (where I would be tied to a specific company) and we walked out with a blue card tied to my profession instead, on the spot. Blue cards are really amazing - you have free movement inside the entire Schengen region, can work for anyone, you get unemployment benefits and it's a relatively short period before you can get permanent residency (with a language requirement - B1 in 21 months).
Surely no conflict of interest...

"... according to the report, put together by Adobe and PageFair, a Dublin-based start-up that helps companies and advertisers recoup some of this lost revenue."
Not if you have a stalker who is willing to pay money to find dirt on you, anyway.
Completely unrelated to the article: your post made me wonder whether "to google", as a verb, was accepted by any dictionaries and if it'd be capitalized or not. According to Merriam-Webster it's indeed accepted as a verb and is not capitalized (though they say it often is)[1]

I was just curious and wanted to share :)

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/google
Because the malicious server that's publishing revealing photos of women isn't in Saudi Arabia, it just happens to be connected to Saudi Arabia.
People who owns or works at a global company should be treated as everyone else with no special treatment or consideration. If you break the law outside the boundaries of a countrey, there are rules defined in treaties on how to proceed. France could for example issue a international arrest warrant and demand extradition of the site operator, in the same way that US is doing to the owner of MegaUpload. Alternative, they could do as many other nations and ignore the people who operate a website they find illegal, but then block the offending website like nations has done with the pirate bay.

The question is then, what do you do with people who puts up drive-by malware on websites. Is that something for a international arrest warrant, even if you normally deal with illegal websites by blocking? Is operating such site different from operating some other kind of illegal website? Should we just give computer criminals a free pass from arrest warrants in order to avoid putting global companies under the combined law of every country in the world?

Personally I find that this to be such a complex issues that it would be better if there was new treaties that addressed which kind of crimes should be enforced globally, and in what ways.
I was amazed, when I found out about a Polish filmmaker, Julian Antonisz, who has been building his own equipment to create short films. He invented or re-invented a technique called non-camera.

> The idea of the technique was to paint or scratch the images directly onto the movie tape instead of using a camcorder. Usually one second of movie uses 24 frames. For example, his debut film Phobia 1967, lasts 11 minutes. 660 seconds times 24 frames gives us 15,840 images that had to be painted.
This article makes an important point: ad-blocking is not just a means to remove annoying (and often disgusting) advertisements; it's also to prevent data being collected about you without any consent or oversight.
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Depends on whether that person's state gave them that right or not.

How is that related to the argument that some rights are indeed elevated versus different rights?
It's really 'The Right to Pretend to Be Forgotten.'

Google isn't the only search engine or gateway to the web. Every year there are more avenues.

If the EU were serious they'd force newspapers to edit and republish back issues - but they're not.
And they should be, in this case. Why should their request be propagated globally when they're (+ the EU, I guess) the only ones clamoring for it?

But really the only thing standing between you and an uncensored search is a trip to bing(|duckduckgo|yahoo|etc).com, rather than google.com.
I wonder if the audience for ad-blocking software is also not that "valuable" to begin with (from an advertiser's perspective). These are more sophisticated people that don't fall for blinking warnings, fake browser UI and who don't tend to install stuff without meaning to.
But these rights almost always have a philosophical justification – they aren't just things that we want, they're bigger than that.
Would be, if copyright were implemented that way. But it's not - you signed over the right to control the stuff you put on Facebook as soon as you wrote it.
Yes, it's true. Most Smalltalk dialects use a special IDE. This is because the biggest advantage of using Smalltalk for development is the "live" programming environment where you can examine any object in the executing program (thanks to Smalltalk's astonishing reflection capabilities) and you can alter the running code and watch the results in real time. This is not possible with conventional, file-based tools such as Emacs or Eclipse.

Smalltalk development is a fundamentally different paradigm from the conventional, file-based development process. It does require you to adapt to a new way of doing things, but this confers fantastic benefits. The combination of super-simple and elegant syntax with a powerful IDE makes developers much more productive than programming in Java or C++ [1]. Having a simple syntax minimizes the cognitive load on the programmer, making it very easy to master the programming tool. When you master your tools, you work at maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

However, if you really must use your file-based tools, there is a command-line Smalltalk called Gnu Smalltalk. IMO, however, giving up on live programming is too great a sacrifice just for this obsession with file-based editors and tools.

[1] https://smalltalkrenaissance.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/smallt...
It's Peter Thiel, not Paul Graham.

The constant attacks on traditional education, the floating island at the end of season 1 (Seasteading Institute). It's very obvious who they were parodying.
That doesn't really answer the question, does it
you could (depending on the app) write and submit an app without ever running it on a device. Obviously not recommended though
Someone already opened an issue:
https://github.com/eijah/demonsaw/issues/2
I'm not sure how successful it is in that regard. Just browser fingerprinting is enough to track most people; cookies and third party connections are not essential.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fingerprinting
Seeing how a lot of browser/flash/java drivebys seem to come from ads, I also consider them good security practice these days. See for example the recent firefox exploit.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit...

We need a better system than ads.
Understanding programming languages definitely helped my understanding of Math. Smarter people than myself can do this the other way around, but I always needed to understand the why before it could start to stick. I didn't really understand programming languages until I could dig into the source code and the standard libraries to see how and why everything was done. The problem with modern math teaching is that is starts with fully baked axioms and it doesn't walk you through the process of discovery before it was all cleaned up into a neat terse explanation. One exception is a great book from the 40s called a Mathameticians Delight. It was recommended to my by my Yale professor and I highly recommend it.
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I agree with the other commenters here - it can be a bit 'fuzzy', which is disagreeable to people who like definite answers. Case by case is probably a good way of tackling it. The cases, however, do need to be held in reference to the law, and those laws need to be appropriate for the scope and scale of our communication technology.

If we are arguing that someone needs to be 'remarkable' then I'd be interested in what people think counts as remarkable. You may be remarkable in a certain community, job or geography, but not in others.
It has to be true. I saw it in a cheezy B movie, surely it wasn't special effects?

Or maybe it was just a roll, not a barrel roll. I can't remember, it's been 35+ years and I don't want to see the movie again. Anyway, we were expected to believe that the Concorde is maneuverable enough to evade both a SAM and missiles from a fighter. My "suspension of disbelief" unfortunately didn't kick in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concorde_..._Airport_%2779

Hmmm ... reading the Wiki entry makes me think about wanting to see that movie again. So many bad disaster films were made in the '70s.
> The numbers come as tech companies, publishers and advertisers grow anxious that their efforts to reach users through increasingly sophisticated online advertisements are having little effect.

Herein lies their problem. Had they stick to simple ads, people wouldn't rush to block them.

Per a HN comment I saved in my quotes file, "Any sufficiently advanced business model is indistinguishable from a scam."
-- dsirijus, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227941

> “What’s causing grave concern for broadcasters and advertisers is video advertising, which is some of their most valuable content, is starting to be blocked,”

Video advertising is a whole new class of shitting on your users, and they're surprised people are blocking it?

It's as if those people lived on another planet. I wonder how many executives and ad-network people use ad blockers personally. I find it hard to believe they can't see the manure they're dumping on the Internet.
Ask HN: What are your networking strategies?
I am wondering how one can make it into the "inner circle" of business people when coming from sort of nowhere?

How do you meet influencers and befriend them?
Do you use online (linked in etc.) or offline means of connecting to other people?
Are you member of business / country / service clubs such like Rotary, IACWorldwide, Aspen etc.
Any hints?
In Western European societies: YES! Something like a public register of sex offenders is UNTHINKABLE in Germany. You get a sentence for your assault, but public shaming is not part of the punishment. That's not inherently worse or better then the American approach, it's just what most people here consider right and just. We consider people who break the law as human beings and citizens, and we strive to make them functioning members of the society.
I find that dependency managers used by those "new" languages make setting up a project for local development a lot easier than the alternative of manually hunting down and compiling a bunch of 3rd party libraries (sometimes specific versions too) with optional configuration flags.
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How to pitch your business to investors
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10031953
That’s an interesting idea.

Just claim copyright on your name and then DMCA the fuck out of all these sites, including Google.

You get the same effect as the right to be forgotten (probably even more disruptive, as this solution also works for companies) but Google has to apply it internationally.

And, the worst thing, many companies actually use DMCA to ban bad reviews already.
I hadn't followed the original proposal closely, so I can't give a complete list. One feature I know about, that was implementable but very expensive, was the ability to specify multiple ways that a type could match a concept. For instance, a Sortable concept could mean the type has an operator<, or could be passed to the function compare(). I'm sure there was a way to handle cases where a type had both. But then, if you had a type with a method, say lessThan(), you could somehow specify that was an acceptable operator<, and then use anything that relied on the Sortable concept. As far as I know, that isn't in "concepts light."
Unrelated to the content, but it's very difficult to read the article with those "st" ligatures everywhere. It gives a distinct "I just read an introductory typography book" impression.

Edit: apparently only visible in Gecko. Wonder if it's intentional.
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Ha! I immediately thought of the 500 miles bug.
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