skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears that NZ and Malaysia negotiated exceptions that will delay the new laws, so there will be no new public domain material for many years, but old material will not be affected. It also appears that Canada failed to negotiate such an exception, so public domain material from the past 20 years would revert.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/10/canada-caves-on-copyright...

http://beehive.govt.nz/sites/all/files/TPP-Q&A-Oct-2015.pdf
My mistake, thanks. It looked and smelled and quacked like new content but did seem vaguely familiar.
Yes, it was recorded with a potato.
Former Boeing engineer builds a better way to run simulations
This doesn't make much sense to me. Bridges, roads, sewers, pipes, etc are still around because the problems they solve haven't changed, and in the thousands of years we've been building bridges, we're only seeing the ones that survived, and completely missing the ones that crumbled. It seems like survivorship bias.

Software is evolving because we have new problems to solve. I'd point out that Unix is 50+ years old and still going strong and used daily by millions of people.

I don't get where the assumption that these are timeless structures comes from - the New York City Subway system is falling apart and in need of continual maintenance. Roads constantly fall apart and need to be re-surfaced - it's not like we use incredibly elegant long term materials, we use blacktop because it's cheap now. Bridges and tunnels are being maintained all the time.
Indeed. What comes to mind are farmers who depend on highly tweaked crops to survive, but who are forbidden (or prevented by design) from even saving seeds. Let alone trying to improve the strain.
Why is it concerning? They don't make any strong conclusions and say Although the extraordinary high serum concentrations reached should compensate for this, physiological characteristics of the individual may have led to THCA-A not being incorporated into hair to a measurable extent. in the section titled Limitations of the study.
There's an outside company that was working on this: Neon Labs (https://www.neon-lab.com/).

Their insight is that not only are there images that are "high-quality", but also images that are positive. Positive images get more clicks, over just a decent image. I wonder if that information is encoded in the RNN in some way.

(This is where I'd normally rant about RNNs and other ML techniques hiding this information from their creators by locking it up inside the black box, but I'll save that for another day.)
I agree that it's a useful tool, but I disagree that it's unbiased.

It is biased by the people or algorithms behind the speech-to-text conversion.

For example, if you search for "Yawk" you'll see one match, to a park ranger kidding someone from "New Yawk". This transcription was done by a human, which you can tell from how the text does "yeahhh", and how later text is elided or reworded for clarity. That is, around 0:40 the speaker says ".. unusual rock outcroppings. I mean they still attract people.." but the text says ".. unusual rock outcroppings that still attract people". Therefore, I think the transcriptionist used "Yawk" to highlight that the ranger was making a joke about differences in dialect.

That said, this bias may be low.

I did not know that about coup de grâce. Thanks!
LastPass Alternatives List
While there's bound to be other (more efficient) solutions, blockers could start filtering by the content returned. This sort of behavior leads to an arms race, with ad blockers ultimately losing (cost to detect >> cost to circumvent).
They stated that the negative training set was constructed by randomly sampling frames from the video.

If someone wants to game the thumbnails, then they will just manually select the thumbnail to use; and there are to many legitimate use cases for this ability for Youtube to remove it.
> The Jade Helm scare-o-tron rollout was completely botched and scrapped as far as I can tell.

Can you explain what you mean? As far as I can tell Jade Helm was a fairly routine military training exercise, which was latched onto by a group of conspiracy nuts. What’s a “scare-o-tron rollout”?
This is a shameless plug, but Heap doesn't monetize data you send us. We don't share it with third parties, or do anything with data between different accounts.

I wish there were some sort of public list of companies that operate this way, it's a bummer that the default assumption (which is very reasonable) is that companies are using your data for additional revenue via other sources.
The article doesn't mention WHOIS but there's this paragraph that seems like something WHOIS-like would apply to ccTLDs at the least:

>The TPP has just ridden roughshod over that entire debate (at least for country-code top-level domains such as .us, .au and .jp), by cementing in place rules (QQ.C.12) that countries must provide “online public access to a reliable and accurate database of contact information concerning domain-name registrants.”
Right. So maybe the key distinction is that breakthrough patents tend to promote innovation, but follow-on patents tend to inhibit innovation.
Thank you.

Quick clarification: when you say "public domain material from the past 20 years would revert" is that only work that originated in Canada, or for everything?
That's a cool algorithm - and while it does reduce the risk of a hack succeeding I think it still could be considered a 'backdoor'. It's just a backdoor that requires to people to work together to open, harder to compromise yes - but I'd argue still not really secure.

If you have a government entity routinely breaking into companies and taking over access to things (targeting sysadmins) then the scheme doesn't work very well. I think most of the argument behind encryption falls on this idea that it either is secure (no backdoors) or it isn't. You have a spectrum of insecure things you can do that are arguably better than nothing, but they're not secure.
+1

My team is moving to Vancouver in 2 weeks for the reasons you've listed. So pumped for cheap roundtrips to the Bay.
Since Haskell is non-strict, how it handles diverging expressions is part of the semantics. If the expression never needs to be evaluated, it doesn't matter if it diverges or not.

I can't think of how to translate that to the examples of the paper, but there are functions where this distinction is useful. For example, it makes sense that getting the head of a list does not care whether the tail diverges or not:

head [] = Nothing
head (x:_) = Just x

> head (10:undefined)
Just 10

However, if we add a redundant-seeming case, this behavior changes:

head [] = Nothing
head [x] = Just x
head (x:_) = Just x

> head (1:undefined)
*Exception: Prelude.undefined

This example is a bit contrived, but I think it illustrates how the distinction can matter. I can't think of a self-contained example of where this is obviously useful, but it does come up in practical Haskell all the time, sometimes without people realizing it. (I remember somebody mentioning that making Haskell strict caused a whole bunch of code and common idioms to stop working correctly.)
I'm not sure I understand your comment, but it is certainly true that some citizens are more active than others (a lot more active sometimes).

I'm not going to comment on whether that makes them a 'busy-body' or on the validity of their issues though.
The fact that Donald Trump is being seriously considered for president should tell you that the nation state is dead.

It doesn't tell me that at all.
Google/ngx_brotli
The main use I intended for this is to make it ridiculously easy to make useful developer tools - CLIs come really natural to devs, and so I tried to make something a ton of people could build off of to make a ton of cool tools.

An example of a project I want to get to using it is a database CLI app - it can save your credentials, lets you connect to and query the db, give auto-completed suggestions, etc. This is now really easy to do in Javascript, and you just couldn't do that before very easily.

On your question, yeah - there is something Norton Commander-ish - it's a library called blessed, by Christopher Jeffrey, who's pretty boss at CLI apps:

https://github.com/chjj/blessed
I expect that they will be acting in concert.
Manage+account
I'm currently learning rust and it's an interesting experience dealing with libraries where I can't judge which parts of libraries are typical rust and which parts are just design decisions by the library developer.

Since Rust is so new, perhaps there is no real difference, but the piston example shows some ideas that I'm not sure I like but I also don't know if that is just how things are done in the Rust world.

let window: PistonWindow =
WindowSettings::new("Hello Piston!", [640, 480])
.exit_on_esc(true).build().unwrap();
for e in window {
e.draw_2d(|c, g| {
clear([1.0; 4], g);
rectangle([1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0], // red
[0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 100.0],
c.transform, g);
});
}

That's iterating on a window which seems an odd choice.
The functions clear and rectangle seem to me to be things that should be in traits rather than functions that require a parameter to say what the target of the drawing function is.
Please also consider officially supporting BT Sync.

I'm really not keen on Dropbox syncing as there is no need for a copy to exist on the cloud
The+Mozilla+Manifesto
D'oh! You're right, my tired brain screwed up. Fixed.
You can already get lovingly handcrafted luxury goods if you want them. They're expensive, and they're not going to get cheaper.

If I need a new wallet I can buy a cheap one which was mass-produced in a factory for ten bucks, or I can buy a nice one which was also mass-produced in a factory for two hundred bucks, but if I want one that was lovingly hand-crafted by an artisan over a period of a week and a half I've gotta pay a week and a half's skilled wages, and there aren't that many people with the money and the desire to surround themselves with pointless proof-of-work.
A drone flies in fake Mars
There's no such dialect as "proper English". There are some standardised prestige dialects.
Until TTIP and TiSA.
How will those non-rich people buy consumer goods if they have no money?

Our current economic system does not work in an age of increasing automation. The gains in wealth are being further concentrated in the hands of a few.

There is an answer to this dilemma -in the form of a guaranteed living income for all - but we seem to be rapidly moving in the opposite direction.
I see two ways how wages can grow: More wealth is generated (per time) or income is redistributed to the working population.

I don't see how any of these follow from the observations noted in the article.
AWS and EU Safe Harbor
> That same scenario with data that could use virtual memory would be a non-issue

Untrue I'm afraid - the case I'm basing this example off of could (and did) happen in virtual address space as well.

> since you could mash the available fragmented phsyical ram together into whatever size blocks were needed using the MMU.

Okay, so your physical memory is no longer fragmented. Unfortunately, your virtual address space still is. If I need to allocate a 3MB contiguous chunk of virtual address space (I do), I'm still SOL.

All the MMU gains you in this respect is a "free" memcpy - twiddle some MMU bits instead of copying data around from one buffer to another. It won't fix up any of your pointers.
Pyrex sold in the U.S. today is tempered glass, not borosilcate. I only skimmed the article but I didn't see that mentioned.
Startups are the hot new spot for election photo ops
Such as TPP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10363500
Wow, somebody on HN is taking Heinlein very seriously :) .

OP - really good words! Tempted to print the whole passage and hang in the office :) .
response to zero-rated:

> Quick clarification: when you say "public domain material from the past 20 years would revert" is that only work that originated in Canada, or for everything?

Ian Fleming has been used as an example, so probably everything. Nothing is certain until the Canadian text is public.
I've definitely had posts removed >_< c'est la vie.
I just created a list this morning to help my family figure out an alternative to LastPass.

Here it is:
http://afaqurk.github.io/lastpass-alternatives/
Opt out [instructions](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/verizon-uidh-supercookie-tra...).
Equity exchanges run the matching engines for a ton of symbols on one core. For example, Arca load balances 3000+ US equities across four cores -- island does it across a 24 core machine, but the outgoing message queue is shared across all 24 cores, so any increase in message rates from one core slows down the outgoing traffic from all matching engines.
Why do lower-class children adopted into higher-class families behave more like lower-class children than higher-class children?

This seems to only a "paradox" if you believe in some kind of all-nurture no-nature blank-slate theory of human nature.
WOOT WOOT!
Government officials report issues as well!
Previous innovations have essentially automated human (or animal) muscle power. A tractor is vastly more powerful than a horse.

AI (or whatever you want to call it), is coming - perhaps not as fast as its proponents would like, but I think we can agree it will happen.

This is the first technology that automates the power of the human mind.

The range of jobs that can't be done by a machine is going to get increasingly narrow
Haha, shameless plug by mParticle CEO. Good luck with that!
Humans as Superorganisms
smartphones have proven to be the number one technology bridging the digital divide in the US. If you call into the City of Detroit it will also be publicly documented in the same system: SeeClickFix.
This article is silly.

Adoptive children are not compared to their 'classmates' who stay institutionalized, instead other children who won a genetic lottery, both literally and financially.

I'm an adoptive parent and have bio-children. The challenges my adoptive son has to overcome are enormous -- language, nurture, early-stage nutrition, family integration..But I bet he's doing far better on most developmental scales than his compatriots at the orphanage we adopted him from, a place that was so limited in experiences his four year old friends didn't know words like 'cone' or 'arrow'.
Especially the biggest cheater of them all...
There's no need for a supercomputer. :) Trajectory calculations of that sort are relatively routine, even including the use of ion propulsion, and can be run on a desktop in a reasonable amount of time. (Not to say you can't come up with trajectory calculations that wouldn't benefit from a big cluster, though.)

Also, the computer in the movie was Pleiades at NASA Ames.
Huh? AutoDesk has so many competitors who are thriving. Every product it offers has a serious competing product (SolidWorks for AuotCad, Lightwave for Maya, etc). Just because it used a proprietary format doesn't mean its a monopoly. And subscriptions? They are ending perpetual licenses by next year - they are well behind Adobe here.
Indeed; the comparison of software engineering with architecture (or other classes of engineering), notably when taking into account history, are always misled.

For example, the assumption that old bridges still solve modern problems. Compare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4eM0qoUhaE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_Romano_%28M%C3%A9rida%2...

On the close to 2000 years old Merida's bridge, only peatons are allowed nowadays. If you tried to run a traffic of hundreds of 30tn trucks per hour on it, it would soon fall into pieces. Also, you have to take into account the maintainance that has been added to it during the ages (for example, the banks have grown closer and the extremum piles are now under ground).
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The app that Detroit was built on, SeeClickFix, came years before the NYC app and has the added benefit of displaying all other existing open issues. Detroit and SeeClickFix also support the Federal Open Data Standard, Open311 which is groundbreaking in itself.
Corporate lawsuits against governments at the World Bank (ISDS) can offer data on the balance of power between states and corporations. See this Aussie explainer video, in the style of the Daily Show: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-mlGRPmkU

More at http://www.isdscorporateattacks.org & https://icsid.worldbank.org

Water: Azurix v. Argentina
Investor win (awarded $165 million plus interest)

Ban of toxic fuel additive: Ethyl v. Canada
Case settled (investor received $13 million, ban reversed)

Toxic waste: Metalclad v. Mexico
Investor win (awarded $16.2 million)

Too-big-to-fail: Saluka v. Czech Republic
Investor win (awarded $236 million)
you can do that through the app! Thoughts on how we could encourage residents to do that?
>The staggering sums invested in biosciences haven’t yielded breakthroughs comparable to antibiotics in the 1930s and 1940s. The human genome was sequenced more than a decade ago. Yet as Mr. Mandel notes, there is still no approved gene therapy for sale.

Hmmm... http://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declinin...
Kickstarter to map criminal networks
Take a look at the underlying Glium (OpenGL) library. It makes some very specific decisions in order to make OpenGL programming far more efficient.
Admittedly the sample is extremely small, but your example doesn't match what they discuss. The claim "X does not cause Y (under any circumstances)" takes a lot more samples to be convincing than "X is not a reliable indicator of Y because it has false-positives", where a few examples of such false-positives already support their existence very well.
You would have to read all the way to the end:

"Today, Pyrex is manufactured by World Kitchen, which licensed the brand from Corning beginning in 1998, thus giving future generations the chance to grow up with Pyrex, too."

This omits that current "Pyrex" is, as you say, not borosilicate.

According to wiki:

"World Kitchen justified this change by stating that [tempered] soda-lime glass was cheaper to produce, is the most common form of glass used in bakeware in the US, and that it also had higher mechanical strength than borosilicate—making it more resistant to breakage when dropped, which it believed to be the most common cause of breakage in glass bakeware."
Learn to stop using shiny new things and love MySQL
Volvo, Google and Mercedes to Accept Responsibility in Self-Driving Car Collisions
> Weren't there also thousands of tariffs removed?

In one example, tariff reduction on some types of auto parts will move North American manufacturing jobs to Chinese factories who will be allowed to supply TPP member Japan, for export to North America.

> You never have to use somebody else's copyright work.

Some works are culturally significant, e.g. documentaries and historical fiction.
What am I looking at? "All systems operational"
"redistributed" is another word for "stolen by"
Twitter Planning Layoffs: Report
This reads as a bit of a love letter to Corning Glass. If you're ever in upstate NY, the Corning Glass museum (in Corning, naturally) is perfectly worth visiting. They have ancient glass from Egypt, and a copy of the huge 200-inch glass mirror that they made for Palomar Observatory, among other trinkets.
A public outcry and protest could slow it down, http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-vote-calendar-october-2...

Timeline diagram: http://i.imgur.com/k6Je0Dz.png
IIRC you only need to affirm that you believed it to be in good faith. Companies using automated takedown software regularly issue takedown requests for their own websites, google.com, etc.
Heh, before seeing the (nytimes.com) and clicking through to RTFA, I half expected this to be an over-the-top, hyperbole filled article about NSA surveillance or draconian copyright law.
In a world where all the hard mental jobs are automated by AI, sales reps will still be employed.

It may be that AI will soon write movies and build secure web applications and design cars better than humans. But those sales guys will still be valuable.

Damn them.
Specifically, they switched to a Corning-designed soda lime glass that has much better shatter resistance, but less thermal shock resistance.

However, I don't care what Pyrex consumer products say, either back when it was ran directly by Corning, or when they spun World Kitchen off, putting a fridge cold borosilicate or soda lime Pyrex product into an oven risks blowing it up, as does taking an oven hot dish and putting it on anything other than a wire cooling rack or a pot holder.

Just don't do it.

Fridge cold into the microwave, however, is fine, as there is no instant thermal shock there.

That said, I have Pyrex older than I am that is borosilicate, stuff that's a bit newer, and then stuff I've bought that is the new soda lime. People act as if the soda lime glass is shit, and it's not: it is the same high quality Pyrex products we've always enjoyed.

As a warning: do not buy Anchor Hocking's knock off for any sort of heated cooking. I don't care what they say, their shit will happily blow up; I know two people who this has happened to, and the Internet is full of bad reviews over this. Anchor Hocking glass products are fine for kitchen storage, however, just never cook with them.
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On a tangent, here's a youtube clip of cleaning and re-coating an 8 metre mirror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkV8RRRu7gE
Single-character variable names really do not help this introductory example.
What I learned from rewriting 3 sites in one week
Amazon wants to know how employees are feeling–every single day
Colin, given that you don't want to live in the Bay Area, how do you envision yourself being a part of the YC community?

Well, you see, there's this thing called the "Internet" which allows people to communicate over large distances...

Could you arrange to go down to YC periodically and hold "office hours" to begin relationships with founders that are doing interesting things in your areas of expertise?

That's something I'd absolutely be happy to do.

Could these relationships lead to you becoming a technical advisor for some of them?

If someone's interested in my advice, sure.

Could you angel invest in some of them? Could you attend YC investor day?

I don't think the amount I would be able to invest would be very meaningful. Also, I'm guessing the tax issues involved with cross-border angel investing would be painful. (Just a guess, but I find that assuming that tax issues are painful is a good default position.)
Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion
Hey hey - another Canadian here. :)

Just sent you a LinkedIn add; I'm working on a product designed to accelerate tech transfer and generally would like to support scientific research in any way I can. Can we connect?
You’re Not Stupid. You’re Slow
Why I’ve Stopped Doing Interviews for Yale
When you look for stuff which correlates with the outcome of a child growing up, almost nothing correlates except parenting quality. For example, single parenting and divorced parents correlate with lower outcomes [1]. Parental class or wealth do not correlate except in regards to how people of different classes or wealth situations raise children differently, or have more discretionary time available to spend on their children.

This paradox flies in the face of the conventional interpretation of the data. This really calls for follow-up studies which look more carefully for causes -- for example, as vessenes points out, children who are available for adoption may have, on average, challenges that differ from the norm.

[1] I am not judging. Instead, consider that a single programmer will generally, but not always, be less effective than a pair of programmers.
Seeing this run through an equivalent of the deep dream visualizer could be really interesting -- what _are_ people looking for in thumbnails? I'm having difficulty imagining what features would even be relevant in such a situation.
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The nation state is dead unless Donald Trump manages to pull off a victory.