skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$1.4 million seems small in comparison to the billions[1] that Microsoft was fined by the EU for bundling certain software with Windows.

Acacia did something that would be considered illegal and exploitative in almost every jurisdiction, whereas bundling a browser straddles a legal gray area. Apple does it OS X and iOS, Google does it on Android & Chromebooks, and nearly every Linux distro does it. On iOS, you can't even use a browser engine other than Safari's WebKit. And none of these companies have gotten into trouble.

It just seems unfair to me that when a company does something slightly unfairly competitive (like Microsoft) they get hit with huge fines, but when a company like Acacia does something that's outright evil and illegal, the fines are a joke.

I do think Microsoft should be paying even bigger fines for patent-trolling Android manufacturers with false patent claims. And a judicial decision or executive act ordering Apple to allow users to install their own software on iOS, and removing the ban on interpreters/browser engines/etc on the App Store would be appropriate.

[1] $794 million in 2003, $449 million in 2006, $1.44 billion in 2008, and $765 million (€561 mil)in 2013 -- a total of over $3.4 billion, all for bundling standard software with Windows that all other OSes also bundle. And this money paid in fines to the European Court goes back into the EU budget. (TBH, this smells strangely as a revenue-generating move by the Commission.) See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v_Commission
Not if I was on the jury.
"Some thought the game was harder with AI, others found it easier – but no one found it equally challenging."

So maybe it's just random? As in maybe some players randomly got an easier level in their first play than the second, and vice versa. I've played Don't Starve a little and each new game is very different.

Other points the article makes are more interesting, for example about players rating the AI version as more. It would be nice to see some confidence intervals, but I couldn't find the original research.
THe article notes ~$5K to sequence a genome, it sounds like we are pretty close to ~$1K genome sequence[0] going into production. This is a great thing.

The privacy concerns surrounding this topic are very real and very complicated. It took me a long time to make up my own mind, however, I am convinved this is a great step forward. Having access to the sourcecode of 8 Billion github repos, if you had the technology to process the data, would make you quite good at fixing bugs so to speak.

The value of a genome will be quite high in the future, and if we allow the data sets to be public this will cut out many IP issues. Anonymizing the data is fundamental, as is an open process and total transparency around collection, storage and the resulting sequence. All this data needs to be public and free.

The value of rare genomic anomolies will be evident in the near future, and having public data is a way to combat unethical testing or information siloing.

[0]http://www.nature.com/news/is-the-1-000-genome-for-real-1.14...
Funnily enough, that seems to be a common reason to suppress discussion of many issues of rights and fairness, whether its been about same-sex marriage or sufferage.

And people get called jerks in those discussions, too.
Getting a guy fired for privately telling a "dongle" joke to his male co-worker while at a conference for example. And then costing the woman who snitched on them and told the internet her own job. (true story)

This kind of BS over the top reactions, among other things.
The "base load" argument for nuclear isn't really convincing any more now that Iceland and Costa Rica are already using 100% renewable energy sources and several other countries are approaching it rapidly.
This is a good question.

One way to get a NOBUS vulnerability that allows GCHQ to recommend a curve (and thus see it deployed on systems they care about) and break that same curve is for the vulnerability to be mitigated with an additional parameter check. For instance, maybe a particular weak curve is safe to use if you exclude a small subset of points. GCHQ's implementations do the additional check, but nobody else does that (why would it ever occur to them to check? would they even know what to check for?).

Dual_EC is, of course, the gold standard of NOBUS backdoors: it's literally a strongly-encrypted backdoor!
I was far less impressed when I read in the first paragraph that the fly was anesthetized and stuck to a microscope slide... :-)
> Maybe you haven't noticed, but at some point, a meaner nastier criminal justice system does little or no additional good at the expense of harming innocent people.

Agree, and I think a similar approach should be followed regarding civil penalties for not riding your bike with a helmet. $5 fine – okay, I'll take it. $100? That's a quarter or half of what my bike costs.
$310 seems high for a paralegal, even at a big firm.
there is no Nobel prize in economics.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/there-no-nobel-prize-economi...
Where did I say they were prison rapists?? Or violent of any kind by the way?!? They just talked, that's all. But if you thought the place I described was so vile that you already labeled the men you imagined as 'prison rapists', then the exercize worked and I see you woldn't attend this conference anymore, though nobody even touched a finger on you. You just felt very unconfortable at the suggestions of sex by intimidating, yet so far harmless people.

P.S. I'm male.
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>Especially if there is a social convention for how it is to work.

So, like lynching blacks back in the day?

Or beating your kids?

"Social convention" or not who said violence is justified in a non-violent setting?
Yes, this number does seem small compared to some other completely unrelated number.
Sure, it doesn't have to be large scale. But you brought it up as a replacement for base load nuclear, which small-scale pumped storage isn't going to do.
Huh? I'm talking about my past and current work experiences, working as someone who gets viewed by appearances first, skills second.
My personal interests at the moment are handstands and improving flexibility.
Yeah, I believe HN probably uses large number of downvoted comments and downvotes in general to also identify flamewar fodder, and these topics spawn a lot of those. I do believe this article deserves to stay at the top longer, and mods should do something about it.
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln..."
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I think she is mixing two categories of comments:

One category of comments are sexual in nature and any respectful person would take a strong stance against these. Everybody understands they are just a few bad people.

The other category of comments come from not-knowing a person in advance. In such case, people generalize and assume things. Calling such conversations sexist is basically taking political-correctness to the extreme. It will make conversations with women-in-tech difficult.

What is lacking is, women-in-tech, like the OP here, not acknowledging the facts before proposing their solutions. Tech industry is male-dominated because more men than women built the industry. Why it was the way is beyond us. We cannot wrong current generation for how the world was before they were born. This is the nature of the world/industry and nobody is at fault.

Instead of calling tech industry sexist and turning everything political-correctness debate, women-in-tech need to give it enough time and teach tech to more women so that things will become gender balanced.
How does she prove her gender isn't a factor? She does good fucking work and never, EVER, brings her gender into it because it's not relevant. That's how gender equality gets solved, dammit.

Gender equality would be solved if more women were doing good work while being silent about gender inequality? I … don't buy it.

Gender equality gets solved by making gender inequality unacceptable. Men are the primary imposers of inequality; it's our responsibility to fix it.
> I remember when they sued every maker of "todo list" software.

Hmm, I must have missed that one. Link?
I don't see how their conclusion follows.

The way I see it:

- They gave people two randomly generated maps
- They told the people that the second map was AI generated
- There were differences between the maps (because, well, random)
- People noticed these ("no one found it equally challenging")
- People attributed the differences to the AI, because that's what they were told

This would be a valid conclusion to make if the players had been told that the AI did something specific and there were consistent claims that said specific thing happened. This, on the other hand, is just a study of how randomness works.
"Estonian Human Genes Research Act governs the activities of the biobanking project: It establishes anonymity in clinical research, enables donors to decide which studies they want to participate in, and gives donors full control over who has access to their data. By default, a donor’s doctor is the only other person who can look at his or her genetic information through the portal"

In Estonia, if you meant relative to this article, the DNA is anonymous and it is implied unusable in court. If you are referring to the recent article about invalidity of DNA evidence in court cases, IIRC it was procedural but I couldn't find much more on it, and I too would be interested.
Before people complain, "What does this have to do with Hacker News?", read the fourth paragraph:

> Its executives admit that Playboy has been overtaken by the changes it pioneered. “That battle has been fought and won,” said Scott Flanders, the company’s chief executive. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture.”

Or, consider the alternative headline that the Times uses on the homepage:

> Playboy to Drop Nudity as Internet Fills Demand
This is another thing that lands on these threads, like clockwork: one time, a woman freaked out over an overheard joke, complained publicly on Twitter, ended up getting someone fired, and was then fired herself. "And you are lynching the negroes."

That this has nothing whatsoever to do with the comment thread we're on about someone's daughter being called a prostitute at DEFCON is unimportant; what's important is to deploy as many countermeasures as possible to prevent sincere conversation about harassment.
Agreed. Nothing in the article indicates that the results were due to a placebo effect and not due to randomness.
It's well established from census data that SF has a surplus of single men, not women. More political incorrectness: women in SF should "woman up" and initiate the approach. Why must they play the passive role? Also, guys naturally are less likely to approach a woman who's out of their league.
Lots of music and house parties. Life is pretty social up there.
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How many flies were gibbed before they got it to work?
Off-topic: Where in "Star Wars: Clone Wars" is that quote said? I seem to remember Durge boasting something similar, but the only direct references DDG et al. report are from fan-fiction [0], [1], and your comment itself.

(Fanfics not reviewed for Work Safety, caveat lector.)

[0] https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11066605/8/Star-Wars-The-Mandal...

[1] https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9886787/6/Coruscant-School-for-...
Bringing up Iceland as an example is a little disingenuous since the whole island is a volcano so they can use geothermal cheaply.

Costa Rica uses its large amount of rainfall and dams to use generate hydro power, and this article discusses a drought they had in the last year that meant they had to fire up the old fossil fuel plants: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/30/truth-b...

So I'd still consider having some base load capacity available fairly important.
The same as with any other identity politics, really. It makes it really hard to get shit done policy wise, because when you view everything through the lense of identity politics, every disagreement becomes an attack on you personally even if it is just an honest difference of opinion. While some things should be polarizing, probably, identity politics tends to make things needlessly polarizing sometimes, I've found. It is a useful tool definitely, but when it's the only way you approach policy and political action, it often makes you feel really good and validated even while you're failing to achieve a lot of your goals.

Going into it any further than this is going to require more specific examples, which I'm not willing to do since it will derail the hell out of this thread. Sorry.
I don't see your citations speaking to rudeness. Moreover, even if they did it is not generally the place of the courts to dictate what is and is not rude. I very much agree that this kind of photography is not illegal. In no way does that mean it is not rude.

C.f. I can hurl a long stream of insults at you. Rude? Unquestionably. Legal? Also unquestionably. On those grounds you could rightly complain, choose not to associate with me, choose to avoid places I might go, tell others you find me to be a rude person. You could not enlist the government to fine or imprison me. What was being discussed here, before you brought legality into the picture, was actions like those on the former list.
Or, you know, people genuiunly believing that just because stress or harm was caused to your <loved one >, it still doesn't justify violence.

I'm not sure by what logic the "if I was there to witness my <loved one > being harassed I've have beaten them up" is supposed to be beyond critique...
I +1'd your comment, but I think the algorithm hasn't worked in this instance.

The fact there would be a flamewar about someones experiences at a tech event says more about the culture of tech than that article about michelin star reviewers that is on the frontpage at the moment.

edit: But I did like that michelin-focused article :D
We can estimate better but it's often not worth it.

It makes sense when there is a large cost to not meeting a deadline. Or when it's difficult to change scope.
It's a nice article, but isn't this something every parent realizes after their first kid? 'Aaaah' sounds come first, then maybe an 'oh' and then the lips come in to make 'mamama' or 'bababab' and then it takes a longer time for complex words involving the tongue or non-aspirated sounds to come in (like 'teh' or 'keh').
It's like you read the Wikipedia article on "tu quoque" and decided to use it as a playbook to run on this thread.
Got a question: for fun I did this over about 400 to 500 photos. I partially did it also to stress test it. But the HTML file is empty. Did I do something wrong? The rest of the folders are there.

Here is the output if someone is interested to brainstorm about this problem. I edited the output a bit to make it slightly more readable.

<begin output>

Scanning directories.

Populating nav.

Reading files...........................

................................

................................

............................................

<some_conversion_errors_b/c_of_corrupted_file_ommited>

..............................................................

..............................................................

..............................................................

..............................................................

..............................................................

.........................

Building

HTML..........................................................

..............................................................

..............................................................

..............................................................

..............................................................

..............................................................

..............................................................

................................................/Users/my_user

_name/Downloads/Expose-master/expose.sh: line 139:

/usr/bin/sed: Argument list too long

Starting encode

fotos0001

fotos0002

fotos0003

...

<huge_error_of_same_corrupted_image_omitted>

...

fotos0489

fotos0490

fotos0491

</end output>

Anyways, I checked the image which was indeed corrupted, so ImageMagick was right on the money on that one. I still don't get it though why there's no HTML in the HTML file.
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Just FYI, as someone who was arrested by the FBI for computer hacking and at the time had ~20 GB of illegally downloaded MP3s and SNES ROMs: They didn't even bother investigating it. They even returned my laptop to me mostly unmolested. (I assume they left an implant and quickly ditched it after recovering the stuff I wanted and backing it up online.)

It's probably in the government's best interest to keep you alive, even if you've torrented.

(Of course, I don't pirate stuff anymore. I doubt I'll ever feel like I'm off their radar ever again. Not worth the risk.)
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Hey,

The manpages for lua(4) and luactl(8) may be of help.

lua(4) is the device driver which allows you manage Lua states in the kernel through an ioctl interface. With luactl(8) you can create and destroy states, load and execute scripts, and require modules.

Example:

1. Load lua(4) driver
modload lua
2. Create a Lua state in the kernel
luactl create s0
3. Load and execute a script named hello.lua
luactl load s0 ./hello.lua
4. dmesg

A Lua state is created empty. In order to load the standard libs (base, string, table, ...) into that state you'd need to do a luaL_openlibs(). Even though the libs are compiled into lua(4), you can't easily load them with luactl. [1] is a patch that adds a 'openlibs' command to luactl. After you apply it and recompile luactl, you can do that:

luactl openlibs s0

Btw, we've ported Lua test suite to the NetBSD kernel in this year's GSoC. Part of the work was on porting parts of the standard libraries which were not available in kernel Lua (e.g., os, io, math). Take a look at [2].

Let me know if you need any help. My email address is my HN username at gmail.com

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[1] https://github.com/gmesalazar/kerneltest/blob/master/kernel/...
[2] https://github.com/gmesalazar/kerneltest/
Readers: look at this train wreck of a thread and notice how effective the tactic was.

Notice how little the subthread has to do not only with the original story --- it's disconnection to the story is bad enough --- but to the actual comment it responds to, which doesn't even mention violence.

Like I said: I'm sincerely suspect this is in an actual playbook of MRA trolling techniques.
What's their business model?
Yeah I agree. I would be annoyed too if people kept saying those things to me.
Edit: cultural reorganizes -> cultural reorganizations
What is wrong with assuming she was not technical? Doesn't tech industry has more technical men than women?
OP specifically asked for examples though.
Each attorney billes their rate. So ona conference call with 5 attorneys you might get billed 3k an hour. M

Junior and mid level associates (400-650 an hour) do most of the heavy lifting. Partners are more supervisory, but will be do a lot for depositions, hearings, negotiations and trials.

Even a relatively small case against Acacia costs like 1.5-2 mil.
Japan is also weird in that they tend to tear down houses every 30 years and rebuild rather than resell them and renovate them keeping them up for hundreds of years like many other places in the world.
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> One of those was the variance in each estimate, which is just the Std Dev squared. The numbers were big. No one could stop talking about how big the numbers were. No one knew what a variance was, nor appreciated that it was just the number in the previous column, multiplied by itself.

Just out of curiosity, were any of them interested in learning the answers to these mysteries?
Oh, I'm not saying it's working. I mean: this comment thread is a full-on unproductive flamewar, but I think the immune system on HN should probably let this particular fever burn itself out.
Things women have actually said to me a tech events after I said hello:
"I have a boyfriend."
"Sorry, I'm waiting for someone."
"My husband will be here in a minute."
-says nothing, pulls out her phone and pretends she didn't hear me-
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Sea level rise will swallow Miami, New Orleans: study
And then in Finnish it's äiti.
Looks really interesting.

How do you price transcripts? I see you've got a price per API call, but what if the video is 10 minutes long?

Also, I presume you can do audio only transcripts too? Just as a .mp3 rather than a .mp4?
Perkins Loan program used by 1,000 area college students lapses
Hi. I think your code snippet:

@ (block cd)
@ (bind v @(get-string (open-command `cd @path && git remote -v`)))
@ (next :string `@v`)
@ (skip)
vps@a(fetch)
@ (bind url @(trim-str a))
@ (end)

probably just wants to be something like perhaps this:

@(next `!cd @path && git remote -v`)
vps@\t@url (fetch)

Match directly into the output of the git command with @(next ...), and extract the url directly: it is delimited by tab from the remote name (which we can use literally or represent using @\t) and by a space from the (fetch) or (push) keyword. Thus we can eliminate the trim-str extra step and variable.

Also if v holds a string, `@v` simplifies to v!

Another thing is that if we are just marching through data to produce output, and don't actually need to collect anything to analyze, we can convert this structure:

@(collect)
...match...
@(end)
@(output)
@ (repeat)
...spew...
@ (end)
@(end)

into:

@(repeat)
...match...
@ (output)
...spew...
@ (end)
@(end)

It's not just shorter, but efficient too if the data is large (it doesn't hang on to collected data as it marches through it).

Cheers ...
I am in Australia, and we say 'Mum' not 'Mom'. Does anyone know why?

I have always found Mom weird.
IP over Firewire and IP over Thunderbolt both explicitly use native DMA to accelerate it. USB only gained DMA in 3.0, and most devices that would greatly benefit from it, don't.