skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...?

I wasn't literally saying that the said secret courts were matching a quota of one per year. It was an intentionally extreme example to highlight the concept of proportionality.

And seriously, you chide me for playing funny buggers with numbers, then characterise a list of 11 things as 'many, many'? Not to mention that you're implying that the rest of the items are frequently encountered - how many people actually run into no-fly list problems, or have been corralled into a free speech zone?

Finally, I couldn't give a fuck about the Americanness of the victims. I'm not American myself. I think it's a stain on the general American character that so often in discussion about human rights, that whether or not a victim is a US citizen is a salient issue. Why is it less of a moral crime for an unaccountable court to decide to kill a foreigner they don't like? Why is it less of a crime for a tourist to be put on a no-fly list or have their speech curtailed?

You completely misread me if you think I'm of the opinion that the US doesn't have problems. It has serious problems, and a double-helping of them. It also has a lot of awesome aspects. Authoritarianism is on the rise, but the US as it currently stands is not a police state. There is so much hyperbole in US political discourse; everything is polarised and taken to extremes. Someone is a democrat|republican? Now we know everything there is to know about that individual, and they clearly support everything that one party (of only two) does!

The comment I'm arguing against is a typical sky-is-falling polarised position, and doesn't have the shades of gray that the real world does. In police states, people have their movement limited, are afraid to speak out against the government (hardly the case in the US) for fear of prison or similar, and are even afraid of talking to their neighbours due to widespread citizen informant networks. The US is a long way from that - but again, you don't have to be a police state in order to have problems.
> and held Detroit at once point

Too late to give it back? :)
Freelancer.com holding payment for more than 1 month
It has been a month now and FL is holding my money for the reason that my employer is not verified. They would allow my employer pay me and then let me move money to my bank account and then after 3 days reversed it saying security reasons.
I contacted CEO Matt Barrie like 4 times in past 11 days on email and twitter , but no reply. FL support has been playing me all along for 1 month now.
My employer submitted all verification documents and even DL.
I would say Matt barrie is lying when he says DL is applicable.
Can i get some help? Just stuck in this disgusting, f*ing situation.
There are perfectly good SSH clients for ios [1].

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/serverauditor-ssh-shell-cons...
No one said that robbers should be punished less harshly if they have an addiction.
Good!

Even better, publish your articles 'for free'
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Why not just use ssh?
Here's the best look yet at what Google-backed Magic Leap is building
And even better SSH / MOSH clients for Android [1]

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonelli.ju...
FWIW, googling for your example paper has a link to a scanned PDF of part 1 as first result: http://fi.ort.edu.uy/innovaportal/file/20124/1/22-landin_cor... Part 2 is at http://www.vex.net/~trebla/tmp/p158-landin.pdf Both are quite legible.

Google Scholar is also great for finding PDFs of papers.
While there is some truth in what you are saying, i.e. it is much easier to convince people with beautiful hardware device, that is by far not the main reason for Solu to build its own hardware.
The thing is that user experience is not just software thing, you interact with computers using hardware and software. Software only solution would not allow us to build something that would fit our vision.
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Solu.
That is because Amsterdam has vastly better bike infrastructure.

"Cyclists rule in Amsterdam and great pains have been taken to accommodate them: the city is equipped with an elaborate network of cycle-paths and lanes, so safe and comfortable that even toddlers and elderly people use bikes as the easiest mode of transport."

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bicy...
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There's a cheaper solution for foundational papers. Go to your library and use interlibrary loan.

Some libraries also have copying services. I've been trying track down a paper for the Tanimoto similarity. Quoting Wikipedia, "many sources[3] cite an unavailable IBM Technical Report[4] as the seminal reference", where [4] is: Tanimoto, T. (17 Nov 1957). "An Elementary Mathematical theory of Classification and Prediction". Internal IBM Technical Report 1957 (8?).

Worldcat says that 10 page report is on a few library shelves. One of them provides scanning services, for about 50 cents per page, and $7 minimum. I should get it in the mail soon.

If the same fees were to apply to your ACM articles, it would cost about $10(!).

That cost difference makes me mad.
> is an acceptable excuse

No, it's not. Going with your flawed example: having an addiction to heroin should be a socially acceptable problem, or at least one that doesn't land an addict in prison in and of itself. Helping those amongst us who are addicted helps to prevent desperate crimes.
According to the FAQ, the voices used on that demo page aren't currently publicly available: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/demofaq.html#voic... (Also, the FAQ seems to imply that you'll have to pay to use them commercially when they are.)
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Good work but frankly this would be useful if it was:

(1) Terminal based

(2) Supported other types of HTTP requests

(3) Supported request body

(4) Allowed editing request headers

(5) Wasn't so easily exploitable to be used as a proxy or a DDoS relay (server-side bummer):

http://requestdiff.com/proxy?url1=https://www.amazon.com&url...
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As an example, when the UK government tried to demonize the cost to the National Health Service of smoking related diseases (£450Million), the tobacco industry rightly pointed out that tax revenue was around the £12Billion.

Taxing drugs would more than pay for any social programme needed to support users. At the moment, general taxation is used to incarcerate users which could be better used elsewhere.
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There's also /r/scholar[1], which does the same thing, and so far working really very well (for me as a physicist out of academia at the moment)

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/scholar
You've got it totally wrong. I didn't say anything like this.

In your example, you can turn to the government (or someone else) for help with your taxes. There is no stigma (or law) that makes it difficult for you. That's not the case for a drug addict. It's a lot harder to get help.

I also didn't say that addicts should not be held accountable for their actions. Of course they should.

(...unless you're tring to evade tax...)
I really wanted to read this but I just can't. It's impossible for me to read anything while constantly being bombarded with all sorts of animated artwork and pointless flicker on the sides.

I recently cancelled my Economist subscription because they insist on playing unstoppable video adverts right in the middle of the article text so maybe it's just me being hypersensitive to this sort of thing (And yes I refuse to use ad-blockers).

They say it's a sign of intelligence if you are able to focus and ignore distractions. I noticed that some devs even work with the radio on. I don't. I also need to close a door behind me when I work.

So even though I am able to create some pretty interesting pieces of artificial intelligence (albeit with moderate productivity), my natural cognitive abilities seem rather limited.

My special needs seem to be incompatible even with business models that do include a paid component. I find that a bit disconcerting.
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You are correct - I was mostly speaking for effect. But the absolutism is still a problem. For example, if you get into a car accident and are taken to an emergency department in a state where your life is in jeopardy but you are unable to provide consent - should the medical staff have the moral right to do x-rays, which greatly aid their diagnoses?
The on screen slide to unlock button. Works perfectly on my Z3c and I'm hoping to not lose such a nice feature if I upgrade to a Z5c but it sounds like I might :(

https://vid.me/Ns12
>I think it's an alternative to just saying "no". Some people are assertive and can simply refuse a request. Personally, I find assertiveness very cognitively taxing

And this is where too little sleep helps: it makes you aggressive and lowers your barrier to verbally whack someone over the head. I know my superiors treat me more carefully since I am constantly sleep-deprived due to kids.
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I'd love to see "popcorn time for scientific publications". Hint, hint.
The only "online piracy" I see here is when Elsevier demands US$30 from you to get a copy of a paper written by scientists paid for by your tax dollars, who paid Elsevier page fees to publish it. Elsevier and similar companies are the thieves here, and they have a hell of a lot of nerve to be accusing scientists of "stealing" and "piracy" for working to create the very knowledge Elsevier shamelessly exploits. (Even Elsevier's very name is a theft: they are attempting to free-ride on the goodwill of the Elzevir family of Renaissance publishers, who have no connection with them.)

Do they have the law on their side? Yeah. So did the Pope when he sentenced Galileo to life in prison for promoting heliocentrism. That doesn't mean they're in the right; that means the law is in the wrong.
And the things is (at least where i leave) that Uni pays the fees for the access. The money for the fees come from the govern (and EU). The same govern that also finances the research.
Basically the govern pays twice (if not more) the same thing.
In France, there is a proposal, backed by an overwhelming majority of scientists, to mandate free and open access to scientific research results.

See: https://www.republique-numerique.fr/consultations/projet-de-...

Hopefully this could end up in the Law next year.
It's a known issue and being worked on. Thanks for contributing!
If you can project it into an eye, why wouldn't you be able to project it into a camera?
This is very cool! Looking forward to it being open source (also, things from Barcelona rocks ;) )

For people wanting to have a CLI tool instead, John Graham-Cumming's httpdiff might be worth looking at. https://github.com/jgrahamc/httpdiff
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Solu OS allows applications to share some of the data thus applications become much less siloed comparing to the other mobile platforms. Our vision is actually very similar to what you are describing - applications need to collaborate on the data and we are actively looking into options to promote this approach to application developers.
Actually this is closer still to the output. Requires colordiff:

diff -u <(curl -sS -D - -L https://httpbin.org/get) <(curl -sS -D - -L https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1) | colordiff
The analysis of the problem is good, but I am not convinced about the solution.

There has never been a central hub for scientific papers, but that has never been a problem. Why should it be a problem for software? We have technologies for making software citable with a DOI, so we could aim for the same network-of-references approach to discoverability that has worked reasonably well for journal articles.

As for impact metrics, they have done more harm than good for papers, so I don't see why should run to make the same mistake for software. Moreover, we could do much better. Given that we are slowly moving towards provenance tracking and workflow management for replicability, we could use that same provenance information for measuring software use in a way that is verifiable and hard to game. I have outlined such an approach in a recent paper (http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5773.3, see the Conclusions), which should be combined with transitive credit (http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jor...). Such a metric would measure how much a piece of software has contributed to published computational results.
Hopefully the next person after you won't have to search as hard for it, though...
"At 74, he’s been an inventor-in-residence at Intellectual Ventures, a technology research and patent firm, for about a decade."

He works for IV which is a notorious patent troll and the article reads like native advertising / submarine PR for IV i.e. IV paid for the article. Does this guy actually invent things (that he strives to make real) or does he just waste his time submitting new patents for IV to use for its exhortion schemes?
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An F UX. Can't read.
VERY good analogy, the law could be wrong :D
http://www.mappamathics.com/#!about-us/c202h

They charge a fee for the primes. "We use our own secret algorithm to generate large numbers, which are then confirmed as prime numbers through a standard implementation of the Miller-Rabin test, which we put through 40 iterations"
You are probably right.
But perhaps this will change in the future for some kind of services.
It has a battery backup which should be able to power everything except the display.
And they have a link to a certain indispensable service, which uses university proxies to download scientific papers.
Here we have Ashlee Vance, who three weeks ago we saw making fun of programming-contest finalists for their haircuts and physiques (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10283567), doing a PR exercise for Intellectual Ventures, the world's premier patent troll, whose business is to figure out what inventions would be the most important for the world's neediest people, obtain patents on them so that those people are legally forbidden to make those inventions happen, and then never bring those inventions to market themselves — putting themselves in a cozy spot to extract rent from any actual innovators who do create the inventions they've imagined.

The fact that this dude who goes around dreaming up ideas that never get implemented (fortunately, in the case of Star Wars) now outshines Edison in patent count is a key indicator of how badly screwed up the US patent system has gotten.

Is it a coincidence that a journalist who hates hackers and publicly ridicules them is doing submarine PR for a patent troll built to take control of hacking away from hackers?

(On rereading my comment, I'm forced to add: but at least he knows how to write sentences that are shorter than a paragraph...)
Mmm.

As a poor person growing up in Britain I hold the same viewpoint.

The whole argument around piracy and copyright seems to revolve around this idea of being 'too cheap' or 'not wanting to support'.

When 10GBP for some music or 100+GBP for some software package (Office, for example) is 50% or more of your monthly pay, or you have no income at all, none of those factors come in to the decision. It's the only realistic way. Would I download a car? Sure, if I could.

Thankfully nowadays with the proliferation of OSS it's much easier. And personally I've been lucky enough that now I can afford such things. But to an 18 year old me, mumblings about 'lost profits' are just rich world problems.
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Exactly. Many of the medicine that we label illegal, is from the nature, like cannabis. For that purpose also, we should regulate them, so that people would have better and more controlled access, and not have to figure out healing themselves and caught addicted because they have no legal way to get help.

Reality is there are many people who do not trust the medical companies and their "medicine", and are looking for alternative, natural remedies. Misuse is also a big problem, because when there is no legal source, there is no way to assure what you are getting is good, aside from experimenting and finding people who know their shit on this subject, and it can be difficult to look beyond the stigma of society.

This is very much a problem in countries where cannabis is illegal. People buy too much, use too much, because they have no idea or control when they are going to access more. Been through that process. Nobody is denying cannabis is not addictive, it is, very.

But putting it in the hands of people who know what it does, how it does and in what amounts you should use it, this will help people who have no idea to control their medicinal use better.

Of course there is recreational use, abusive use, but this is also partly because we have no real discussion going on in the public about this. Why? Because it's illegal to discuss even, and can immediately label you as a "drug user".

Same goes for different medicine from the nature also, mushrooms, ayahuasca, iboga and so on. If these were understood, studied and regulated, we would have real medicine to heal people with, not just things created by humans which are produced just to keep people addicted and hooked on the bill of medical cost.

Many medical companies know exactly this, and this why I feel many laws are kept in place to prevent natural use, it's just to protect the immoral practice of selling sickness to people.

Just make everything legal already, and have people who have experience working with these medicines act as healers in the process. This is already happening also, but it is not discussed on a public level, as it is illegal and can cause stigma and fear, but I hope more and more people will do it so we can have a real alternative to the current system again in place.
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Java's bytecode verifier intrigued me at lot, back at university when we played around with it.

I thought the verifier had been removed last time I checked, but it looks I misremembered that.
Apologies in advance, but when I saw this link, I expected to find an article with a non-nondescript phrase ("Blue Iguana" or some such) that would tip people off to meet in an unlisted IRC room or some such.

I realize not everyone is on top of internet culture and slang, but reading "#icanhazpdf" is a "secret codeword" makes me wonder if the whole piece is tongue-in-cheek ("I am shocked, absolutely shocked to find gambling in here!") or if the author really has discovered the internet for the first time.

Just bemused.
It is possible to fingerprint a TLS stack using its behaviour that a sysadmin can't change. People knew it was openssl.
I really dig the Riak test. One of the best comparison of LWW and CRDT. Also very good conclusion, tl; dr: If you don't use idempotent writes, you are going to have bad time.
Do inkjet printers do this?
"Lately, I've been working on a project to automate lots of stuff on a continent wide scale... My programs sometimes fail, sometimes they work well but I need to supervise them. They are not even 6 months old."

Thinking about this, it feels like the author is adding bandage on a leg, after breaking it. If you need to supervise your programs so you can't even leave the computer, feels like your time would be better spent on writing your software so it CAN (and will) fail but can recover by itself.
> There's a cheaper solution for foundational papers. Go to your library and use interlibrary loan.

Not sure that's really an option when not in the US.
That's HelpNet four you. It's not the first time they did this.
Just hit Reader Mode on your iOS/Mac device in Safari.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/26/iphone-101-how-to-use-rea...

I think Microsoft's browser has it so it should work on Windows too.

http://m.winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-81-tip-better-re...
Anyone knows if there has been any movement wrt an official Whatsapp server api?

The reason I'm asking this that I work with communication/payment solutions for developing countries. Whatsapp usage is quite high in our user base but as long as there is no official api I figure I can wait.

(As for why not Telegram: I like Telegram, I just got one of my extended family groups over there yesterday, the problem is that unlike Whatsapp it doesn't work on things like s40 and s60 phones which means it isn't an option everywhere.)
Its even worse in London where cyclists undertake stopped traffic at speed - and never stop to think that pedestrains might be crossing.

And thats not counting the fixed wheel bikers who jump traffic lights putting them selves out of sync with the traffic light patterns and on a collision course for pedestrians.

And thats not counting the fixie riders that ride at 20mph plus though pedestrians at peak rush hour.
Really nice (although the news is a month or so old), shortcut: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary (Flickr)
The problem I found with using RaspberryPi as a server for anything, is that it kills SD cards within a few months. And I've tried with some super expensive Ultra/Extreme cards as well, they all die in 3-4 months of running a web server off it.
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I'd like to have a bookmarklet that lets me compare the states of the DOM trees of a website taken at two different times.
In this context, that statement is wrong. Cycle paths mostly keep cyclists safe from cars. They don't do much for pedestrians.

Worse, it seems that in recently years the city of Amsterdam is set on creating cycle paths in just about all streets but can't be bothered to engineer them properly. So the whole thing becomes a bigger and bigger mess.
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For 802.11ac - we really wanted to have it on board but there are technical issues with antenna design especially with the compact case Solu has. As a small startup company we just could not afford the time and money needed to solve this. For that reason it is limited to 802.11ac for now and 802.11ac is on out roadmap for the future.
Our early prototype devices allow about 2 hours of active work on battery but we are also actively looking into improving the battery without compromising on the size or weight of the device.

Disclaimer: I work for Solu.