skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it depends on whether you want prescriptive or descriptive morality, or some middle ground (perhaps a combination of utilitarian ethics, and descriptions of what seems to work).
Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
Abbigliamento e moda donna economici online – Noradress
AForge library includes a method to detect edges so that is essentially just an one liner. Please look up for CannyEdgeDetector
Too many citizens think their favorite party is better for the country than the other party. They'll never actually be objective in who they vote for.
Unless it's part of your legal strategy, it's probably not advisable to discuss your strategy publicly, before or during legal proceedings.
Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet
> There's a lot of smugness here, sure. And SF has no monopoly. In Manhattan, I've met plenty of people that think they're at the center of the universe and the peak of civilization. Some that grew up there and never left and don't understand why anybody should see what else there is.

When I lived in London I feel like a I regularly ran into New Yorkers who would roll their eyes at the mere mention of an American city that wasn't New York. Certainly SF has the lock on tech douchebags but NYC is unrivaled in civic arrogance.
> He’s not suing us because we’ve harmed Smule in any material way.

If they can't establish damages, and there was no breach of contract, it doesn't seem like they would have a case.
Wow. This is a well written piece and really sets the facts straight. Go Shred! As for the comment that there are zero innocent parties: huh? Doesn't seem like that reader read the facts.
The Go calling convention passes everything, in both directions, on the stack. Most platform-native ("C") calling conventions put as many things in registers as possible, and reuse one of the registers for the return value when possible. However, this is just a convention from one function to the next, and they can share the same stack; the caller of a C standard library function merely needs to know what to put on the stack and what to put in registers (and which registers to save). And in fact, the C calling convention is more efficient than Go's from the caller's point of view (fewer things have to go on the stack, some registers are promised not to be clobbered), so calling a C library function with the native calling convention is, on all reasonable platforms, a fine idea performance-wise.

There is the problem of the stack itself. The C model envisions a large, contiguous stack, possibly with some kernel magic to grow the stack as you approach the end (by handling page faults). Go previously used "segmented stacks", essentially a linked list of heap-allocated buffers used as stack, where functions knew how to allocate and deallocate segments when necessary. C doesn't know how to do that, so a C call previously would have to allocate plenty of memory just in case the function wanted to use a bunch of stack space.

Go no longer uses segmented stacks, so that's essentially not a concern. Go still does reallocate stacks, but does so by copying the entire stack, and the stack is basically never freed. So there might be a one-time performance penalty on the first C call (unless the compiler is smart enough to tell when a Goroutine might possibly call into C, and pre-allocate that space), or the first C call after most of the existing stack was used in Go code, but not after that.

tl;dr: The C calling convention is strictly faster than the Go one (but more complicated), and in Go 1.3+ the existing stack is fine to use, so there shouldn't be performance concerns.

(Unless, of course, you think the C library itself is slow. But that's a very different problem.)
SageMathCloud's poor user retention rate
Steve Jobs talk on Apple product line, marketing, (think different) 1997
If anyone wants to know what actually chapter 11 bankruptcy is then this podcast from NPR Planet money team has lots of information. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/05/437628996/episo...
30 SPARC instructions. I wonder if it'd be smaller in x86, which is denser.
Well, you still get the satisfaction of creating a deeply ingrained cultural phenomenon.
That doesn't make any sense. If the university was genuinely concerned that the posters really were mad bombers, they are obligated to have police arrest them, evacuate the campus, and search for the bomb they believe exists. If the university did not genuinely believe the posters were mad bombers, then throwing them out of an event for being college students telling dumb jokes to each other is a huge and unjust overreaction: they should do nothing, or at worst quietly contact them and ask them to cut it out. Splitting the difference and merely throwing them out of the event is pointless and matches neither option.

Of course, all this is irrelevant because the two weren't thrown out because the University was concerned about a bomb threat. This all happened because some random anonymous person complained to MLH that the postings made them feel "unsafe," and instead of telling that person to go pound sand, MLH and HTN cooperated to enforce exactly the same foolish zero-tolerance policies they were joking about.
Thanks for your response. We've received similar feedback, and the consensus now is possibly having an initial flat diagnostic fee (lets say $15), and then have fixed fees depending on the issue.

Having a flat monthly fee with unlimited support would be a difficult business model unless we were hiring the techs on staff.
Yev from Backblaze ->
Yea, it was hard not say..."we're working on it".
I read that in Micky Mouse's voice.
Sorry that this is sarcastic. I've always found it to be a problematic claim that without copyright, patents and other 17th/18th century "intellectual property" constructs we would not be motivated to create art, new technology, etc. All engineers, artists I have met only become informed of these contracts well after creating or innovating new art and technology. The only people taking advantage of these systems are at the end of any perceptual innovation (lawyers, lawyer driven predatory corporations, large corporations)
On the other hand there's now the option to pursue them in court for recovery of all the royalties already paid, since they didn't have the right to claim them in the first place. I think we'll be seeing a lot of that in the near future.
For me the problem seems to affect both WiFi and LTE (on Verizon).

What's crazy is that my clock seems to be getting worse. It's gone from 5s off to now ~20s off since I've upgraded.
FBI recovers classified emails on email server
Is there anything out that let you have "pluggable" dictionaries? I have a client-server communication that often sends 90% of the same words. I'd like to build to build this dictionary on the server and ship it down to the clients.

I prototyped something myself and SHDC for the browser was the closet I could find.
Everyday DSP for Programmers: Signal Variance
Didn't mean to imply anything about your particular situation. Just a meta-point. Litigants rarely think they're in the wrong--they view the situation through the lens of their personal narratives of what happened.
Corel Universal Keygen 2015 Free Serial Key for All Products
It isn't "de facto" legal if the owner decides to pursue it or not.

The problem is the lack of knowledge of rights associated with intellectual property.

Many people make their bulletin board flyers by searching a related term on Google Images and pasting it into their document, without any thought to the licensing or knowledge that they might need a license. Despite that they are not likely to face legal consequences, it doesn't erase the copyright holders' rights to their image -- even if the image is very popular and many people unwittingly infringe on the copyright every day.

TW's claim was invalid here because they did not own the full rights to "Happy Birthday to You", not because of the popularity of the song.
I've never heard of KidPix before but KiddoPaint seems like a web based less colourful TuxPaint - always loved the sound effects, the kids liked them too.
Using Google Books, you can quickly find works much older than the 1922 citation in this case, and which contain "Happy Birthday to you" in its modern form. Here, for example, is one from 1911:

> https://books.google.com/books?id=TfoaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63&dq=%2...

"Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday, Dear John,
Happy birthday to you."

It even says that it's sung to the "Good Morning" tune.
The melody is the melody from "Good Morning to You" which dates to 1893.
It's even more impressive since they only claim the lyrics - the melody came from an earlier song called "Good Morning". And since there were two sisters and only four unique words in the song that's basically two words per sister.
Ask HN: Machine learning options for binary image classification
I have collected a set of several thousand photos from social media, all taken in the same area, some of which contain an image of a particular building. I'd like to use a classifier to determine whether or not an image contains the building - a simple yes/no label.

This seems like a job for machine learning, and I'm happy to manually train a model with up to a few hundred items, but I don't know where I should start. I have some experience with text classification (e.g. TF-IDF, Levenshtein distance) but nothing in computer vision.

I'm happy to explore paid services for this, or to dive into something like scikit-learn if it's appropriate. I would like to avoid Mechanical Turk if possible because I want to push my knowledge as well as solve a problem.
More info: http://uspto.io
Well, unless they decide to retroactively extend copyright and bring works that were once open back under copyright...

See also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2611311
Https://www.SecretValet.com-Encrypted Time Capsule Online Delivery Service
one of my favorites is Community's cold open - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwQsSLeVlmg
I should be able to easily contact the web host and say, "Heads up, your server is doing some bad stuff." This works because hosts don't want to be in business with scum. They take care of it. Because it's the right thing to do, or because they would rather not be involved in a lawsuit, on the wrong side of a PR nightmare. Pretty basic, Internet 101. If I email abuse@cloudflare.com nobody gives a shit. It's irresponsible.
A lawsuit should be a last resort.

I'm not advocating a more or less anonymous Internet by criticizing CloudFlare.

PS: I enjoyed your comment and upvoted it.
Devils advocate, the only reason for that last part is because patent and copyright are only useful at the point where enough money is flowing around that lawyers are involved. Artists definitely care if someone steals their work, but you don't usually hear about that happening because copyright exists. You know all the hubub about certain comedians stealing jokes from other comedians? That's a realm with no copyright/patent equivalent.
> without taxes modern society cannot function at all

This is a great example of an argument from ignorance. We can't conceive of a high-functioning society without taxes, therefore, let it be known that one cannot exist.
The French won WWI, yo. It was a Pyrrhic victory, but it was a victory. That's partly why they lost WWII; they were resting on their laurels.
That's possible. My hope was that you could get authorial style by just including it inline as metadata rather than needing to hardwire it into the architecture (eg take 5 hidden nodes and have them specify an ID for the author so the RNN can't possibly forget). It would have been so convenient and made char-rnn much more useful, but I guess it's turning out to be too convenient to be true.
You are describing your "gut feeling", but allegedly micro-lending has been proven to work in theory and practice by actual economists.

On the other hand I am criticizing you for doing "armchair economics" without giving the references to support my previous statement :)
Several rookie mistakes in here by the Shred team. First of all if you are gong to start a company while working for someone else, get an explicit agreement in writing before starting that venture. Second, there should have been an agreement/contract in place for doing the additional work which was requested by Smule. The claims of theft could still be made by Smule but Shred's story loses credibility for me because these basic business practices weren't followed. Who is to say that the lines weren't blurred when it comes to leveraging the assets of the former company? And if a laptop is obviously the property of Smule then nobody can force you to keep it.

I feel much empathy for the Shred team but the story has a bunch of challenges buried within.
In that case, the remedy would presumably be an injunction, to prevent damages in the future.
Most people want to do things that they believe are worth doing for their own sake. Only those who gain property for the sake of gaining more property benefit from the current system, and they are given all the power because relations of ownership take precedence over all other concerns in the ideal conception of this system. So the ideology must claim that the system is for the benefit of all because the accumulation of profit/property is the motive of all, and that no one does anything useful for its own sake. To fail to do so invites questioning the primacy of property in determining the organization of society.
Am I the only one who thought for a moment this might be about Bruce Evans' C compiler (bcc)? I believe Linux used bcc in the early days. I know they used the assembler (as86) and I think they still do. Could be wrong.
The real holding (the dispositive part) is this: "Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the Happy Birthday lyrics, Defendants, as Summy Co.'s purported successors-in-interest, do not own a valid copyright in the Happy Birthday lyrics".

And to be somewhat pedantic (an occupational hazard of being a lawyer), the judge didn't hold that the copyright was invalid per se, only that Warner can't prove that they own the copyright. I doubt anyone else would be able to prove in 2015 that they own the copyright to Happy Birthday, but the possibility is open.
As Industry Leaders Falter, Formlabs and Other Startups Push 3D Printers
The final product would not exist with either part missing.
See also, discussion of the CloudFlare blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10215560
Preemadonna Turns Your Smartphone into a Nail Salon
Just want to point out that I personally don't think Babel/ES6/ES2015 is ready for production yet. I just wrote a small library with it and ran into several hiccups with continuous integration, which was fixed by specifying a specific node and npm version of which both were I think just the default linux packages. If I ran into problems scratching the surface I can only imagine what headaches a deeper usage could cause. I realize this is a bit off topic, and would be interested to hear from someone whose done it, but I wouldn't want anyone to jump in head first and hit the bottom of the pool..
Writing Good C++14 by Default [pdf]
Data comes from USPTO raw data dumps. http://uspto.io/#about
Well, I do believe that a work can become so important that it shouldn't be copyrighted anymore. The most notable example is Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which is a national artifact more important than anything in the Smithsonian. It should be freely distributable to everyone in America who wants to watch it, instead it is under enforced copyright. Perhaps the government should purchase the copyright using eminent domain in cases like this.
No, you're successful enough to make some money, not necessarily a huge amount.
'The problem with smart people'
The pencil sputters individual squares when you click and drag the mouse. It should draw a continuous line instead.
Many students need to take flights at least once a year if they study out of state/country or if they have some kind of internship program (my school made us alternative between school and work every 4 months, for instance). Even the smallest of the SFF cases (that support discrete GPUs) cannot be practically packed into a luggage for flights.

I know this because I own a SilverStone FTZ01 [1] and have tried to take it with me on a flight back home in May, but ended up giving up on it because it was simply too difficult to adequately protect in a luggage without going over weight limits.

A much smaller chassis with just a discrete GPU + power supply probably won't have this problem, and as a result, for my use case at least, it would be a much more practical option.

[1] http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=533
Now comes the argument about derivative vs transformative works.

This is not as black and white as you guys are making it out to be.
Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? (2013)
Joe can afford a car, gas, maintenance, but somehow can't afford a toll. Undeterred, he resorts to murder instead of riding a bike or riding the bus/train.

It's not a very plausible scenario.
I am biased, but http://joshowens.me and http://meteorpodcast.com. There is also https://crater.io
Eventualbuddha/decaffeinate
So on virtualized hardware, namely AWS, I'm sure the benchmarks won't be so magnificent. Needing a dedicated nic per core is a big deal unless you're at a pretty large scale.
It's gotten to a minute and 2 s now.
Woah I haven't ever considered the possibility of applying eminent domain to copyright brb mind blown.

That seems... incredibly reasonable and helpful.

(no sarcasm)
Anecdotal but whenever I see a lot of diversity in a stack it usually means there are a lot of different preferences on the development team, or that the stack was developed over a longer period of time with many members (and their preferences) coming and going. While yea, any SE should be able to pick up and run with any language, it is quite possible their team no longer has the same experience in Clojure or alternatively has way more experience in their current front runner (Python, Ruby, whatever). If that's the case I think it's quite reasonable (at least from a business stand point) to use alternate tools.
Where do you get "under 50%"?

If you're looking at https://www.zidisha.org/statistics, you might be confused by

Principal repaid: $607,262 (44.9% of amount disbursed)

This is for all loans made within the last year, many of which are very recent. You should add the line

Principal held by borrowers repaying on time: $581,565 (43.0% of amount disbursed)

to get 87.9% either repaid or in good standing.
They would just start using dishwasher detergent.
Where did you get this from? I hope that's not a conclusion from the benchmark doing single server load testing.
What I have been told I need to do to be a successful developer
I think it would also be hard to say that France lost the Second World War. The French government signed an armistice, but France was also part of the victorious Allies (with French units being involved in both the liberation of France and the invasion of Germany).
By European standards, France is a truly old country; its population today (66M people) is barely three times what it was in 1700 (21M). By contrast, England went from 5M people to 53M today, or about ten times the size.
And let's not forget the adorable Futurama version, "What Day is Today?"
Astronomers have detected the shock waves produced by a high-speed hot Jupiter
Not dedicated NIC per core, but multi-queue NIC having its queues serviced by dedicated cores.
Ask HN: Where is a good place to find IT contract or indie jobs?
HN has jobs section, but it is not for short-term contract jobs. Looks like craigslist has some such kind of job posts, is that a serious place to look for short-term contract jobs for indie devs? Anywhere else?
New Jersey Transit runs Bombardier two-level cars, very similar to the ones used by Caltrain.[1] PATH runs subway-type equipment through the Hudson Tubes.

Admittedly, Caltrain's power is dated. All those EMD F40PH units are a 1975 base design, built around 1985. It's a widely used, boring, reliable locomotive.

There's a plan to electrify Caltrain (25KV, 60Hz AC), but it has to mesh with both the high speed rail scheme and the Transbay Terminal scheme, which complicates it enormously. (There's heavy poltical pressure in SF from real estate interests to have the train station close to "downtown", or rather where "downtown" used to be. The Transbay Terminal is being built with the platform spaces for a rail station underneath, but without the tunnels to connect it to the tracks at 4th St. All that is in fill, below sea level, in an earthquake zone.)

Meanwhile construction has started on California's high speed rail system. Unfortunately, it only runs from Bakersfield to Palmdale, which is useless.

[1] http://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=Tra...
I've been using Cinnamon as my desktop in Fedora for a long time now works fine 'out of the box'.

Like a lot of people here I Fedup my system only thing I've noticed recently is yum->DNF change I'm too lazy to learn the new package manager and it keeps giving me a message that yum is depreciated I'm sure at some point I'll have to switch.
Yeah, maybe I've just drunk too much of the Ray Kurzweil, "the singularity is nigh" koolaid. I think you're right that perspective is important.

And I totally agree: food is weird. One of my favorite little mind-expanding (for most people) topics of conversation is how so many ingredients we consider to be iconic of certain cuisines came from the new world. For example, before ~1500 there were no tomatoes in Italian food, no chili peppers in Thai/Indian food, no Belgian/Swiss chocolate, no potatoes in Ireland, etc.
Transformative works is a bandaid because we have no better solution to apportion how much value each party brings to the table.
Only if they sold something they knew they did not own. Then there is a debate re fraud. But such arguments only work where they attempted to sell an actual license. If they simply agreed not to sue, forbearance rather than license, those contracts may well remain valid.
E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead
> Find me an unintended trivial SQL injection or cross-site scripting vulnerability in Rust.

Well, if there's no web support in rust, that's going to be kind of hard. There's no SQL injection "in C" either. For that matter, there aren't any buffer overflows in the C language.

Now, if you meant "in some rando web forum written in rust", I think you'll need to wait a bit. Let's wait until there's a forum with more than a dozen users, then I'll tell you how the developers fucked up.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibovitz_v._Paramount_Picture...
Ideas aren't property and can't be stolen or owned. Only implementations of ideas via copyright and patents are (and maybe should) be protected.
Mixed reviews from actual farmers:

http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=564750&...
http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=574159&...
http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=544745&...
Uber debuts UberCommute in Chengdu, its 'number one city'
Sure, but it is obvious, right? You aren't going to give them no tip because the deal was free after you bought the coupon?
> A default decision (ie you don't show up) by a US court will be enforced in Canada, Europe or most anywhere else.

Russia and China will be more than happy to take your IP :)
Webtesting.io: JSON API Automated Testing with Response Times Reporting
Meteor doesn't have migrations built in, but there is a package for it. https://atmospherejs.com/percolate/migrations
Any chance you can add one of those "Fork me on github" banners? Not even having the github url a hyperlink is a bit annoying.
Is that new in M? I haven't seen that on Lollipop (5.1)
Thanks. Looks like it's due to a bug in the Hacker News link parser. I'll be more mindful of that in the future.