skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a erlang expert but the use of the case statement is not considered a bad practice? or was the if clause instead? and it seems to me that all is kind of glued inside some sort of a try/catch defensive programming style that the really zen of erlang is completely against.

Personally I don't see the need of use every tool in the same way, there is nothing wrong with the erlang syntax.
I realized this as well the first time I logged in the account of the bot I develop and maintain: it's quite creepy.

I'm open to changes but I absolutely need a system with a desktop client and an API or something to interface it with hubot. So Signal, as the author suggested, is not a valid alternative for me.
>But that doesn't explain why the ingroup and outgroup follow along a nation's borders.

They follow across MANY borders, including a nation's. They follow family borders, neighborhood borders, city borders, county borders, state borders, nation borders and even wider cultural borders (e.g. US, UK and Australia closer to each other than to Peru or Brazil, and vice versa).
I saw and reported some plagiarised content at Sitepoint. After what I assume was a fact-checking and research period, they got in touch and told me they were taking down the plagiarised material and banning that submitter. Not only that, but they put in place a peer review system for submitted content. That's how you handle this sort of thing, you take ownership of the problem.
Too bad there is not a single picture depicting the product in that wikipedia page.
It's essential not because there is more scrutiny, but because it's wrong to allow it to continue.

It's essential for both reasons. As you correctly point out, it's important to end abuses simply by virtue of the fact that they are abusive and illegal; but it is also important to end practices which bring the justice system into disrepute, since the very functioning of the justice system relies upon the trust which society places upon it.

This is a case where both the facts and the public perception thereof are important.
Nice. I like it. Maybe it can be combined with something like clmtracker for face detection.
Since fiber optics work just dandy, clearly getting your source to switch on and off at the requisite rate is not the trick. But if you're not shining down a fiber optic cable, you have the problem that intensity decreases as the square(?) of distance from the emitter; and that your multipath problems become a lot more pronounced.
The parent is referring to the typical attitude that's normally on display here about piracy of music, books, movies, etc. It usually ranges from the dismissive to claims that it actually benefits artists to the occasional bit of "fuck the artists" truth. (That's more or less verbatim from one thread I saw.)

You'll also hear a lot of libertarian and/or fluffy pseudo-socialist arguments for abolishing IP law when this stuff comes up. Information wants to be free, man!

But when it pertains to a programmer, a developer, an academic, etc., I do often see a very different attitude on display. You can see it in this thread. One of the top replies right now is about how the OP probably has an actionable DMCA claim. I thought the DMCA was Satan...? I guess that's only if certain kinds of people use it.

I think it boils down to a kind of classism or cultural/vocational tribalism. Programmers and academics are members of our class/tribe, and their works are worthy of protection and compensation. But writers, actors, producers, musicians, etc. are not and they can go busk on street corners. I don't think most people realize they're doing this, but they are. They've just never stopped to reflect on it or to unpack this nonsense.

There are exceptions, but dig up any thread around here on Popcorn Time or The Pirate Bay and you will see what I mean. Variants of "IP law should not exist" or "fuck the artists" is 9:1 the dominant opinion, with people putting forward a different view often getting down voted to the lightest shades of grey.

I say this as someone who used to believe this stuff until I reflected on it and thought about the implications and learned a bit more about how the world actually works. Abolishing copyright will only benefit the big content aggregators and vertically integrated delivery/streaming services, who will now be able to monetize everything in any way they want without paying anyone for it. Artists will starve. Most will leave the profession. Music usually comes up in these threads but musicians won't be the most fucked -- at least musicians can tour. The most fucked profession will be writing. When was the last time you attended a paid recital of a novel by its author?
"Terrorism" is actually dangerous to adults, but despite that, most laws passed to to "prevent terrorism" represent appeals to emotional fallacy. (Not least of which because of its rarity compared to many other day-to-day risks.)

In this case, first of all, the parents had the choice to not share their kids' private information with a third-party service to begin with, as alistairSH pointed out in another comment. Evaluate risk and reward before sharing any information.

Second, no amount of "certification" will prevent data breaches from happening. Software, like most things, cannot be made 100% safe; the thought that it can would have a chilling effect on all software development. There's a reason the majority of software licenses include prominent disclaimers of warranty, either disclaiming it entirely or limiting it to no more than the price of the software; only the largest software development companies could afford to risk operating otherwise.

Attempts to do that kind of thing led to regulations like COPPA, which in practice almost completely prevents children under 13 from using many online services without lying about their age. See the various instances of kids having their gmail or similar Google accounts deleted, as one of numerous examples.

Third, people operating under a "think of the children" mentality do not typically allow any kind of tradeoff or middle ground. If any possible measure can be taken, it must be, no matter the cost, risk/reward, or efficacy, you heartless children-hating monster. Naturally, such people are perfectly capable of designing sensible software requirements.
Thanks, that explains.
If magically the urge to get laid left me, I'd be in bed laying all day everyday looking up at the ceiling.
...then wireless networking really will cause cancer.
(Almost) all work is copyrighted from the moment of creation, but registration still has advantages if you want to litigate.
I buy things online all the time that are not physically shipped to my address
I agree it's an odd wording. Giving the author the benefit of the doubt, however, I might interpret it to mean that it's essential for continued public trust in law enforcement that rights violations are dealt due process, particularly when they are national spectacles.
Udemy is one of those sites that surprise me. No offense, but it looks and feels like a shitty wordpress themed site, with a crappy backend system tied to it. I've never bought anything from it just because of this intangible 'ick' factor. It seems my gut feeling was right on the money.
Ok I can't math the thing, but at least it has some sense.
In the poles there's a lot of carbon dioxide ice (a lot). If you can warm it it will sublime and will thick the atmosphere and with that it will capture more heat (and hopefully it will be enough to have a little of liquid water).

But yeah it's a little crazy, unethical and irresponsible. But cheap. We've done worse things in this planet before.
"The biggest obstacle to restoring freedoms for Singaporeans is that our government doesn’t shoot protesters and that it does hold elections. That’s just enough to persuade the West to praise us and they in turn can take advantage of our convenient off shore, low tax regime. It would definitely be easier to protest against full blown tyranny."

Singapore is an example. In their case, by claiming they are a pluralistic democracy, allies and investors can repeat the claim, smoothing the process of doing business with an essentially corrupt and authoritarian regime.

See http://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/ and http://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-jeyaretnam-disneyland-d...

"Singapore is becoming increasingly isolated as it falls behind and becomes more North Korea than South Korea."

"Despite attempts by the EU and the US to combat money laundering and bribery, Singapore seems to accept any pariah’s money. Singapore has been one of the prime business partners of the Burmese junta and been at the forefront of attempts to stop tougher sanctions being imposed on the regime."
Do you understand why people in other companies count for "less" than people in one's company? To the extend that they want their startup to succeed over the other's in the market? Or why people in one's family count to them for more than people in other people's families?

Similar thing.

The same reason we take care of our own, but we don't go out of our way to help a stranger in need.

It's not that we consider them "less human" or that they actually count for "less" in abstract, but people do have (a) limited resources (so can't help everyone) (b) limited horizon of acquaintences and direct experiences (so can't know everyone) (c) preferences and alliances (so can't care for everyone).
PostgreSQL was only tested as a single node.

So it's meaningless even bringing it up.
The pre-9/11 CIA/FBI power play detailed in your comment was portrayed to some degree in the 1998 movie "The Siege" by Denzel Washington. Any chance you've seen it before?
Ah...Microsoft and Xenix. Those were responsible for the most annoying meeting I have ever been forced to attend.

When AT&T and Sun were doing their joint Unix stuff with SysVR4, they had a deal with Microsoft to add 286 Xenix compatibility. Microsoft contracted with Interactive Systems Corporation (ISC) in Santa Monica, CA, to do the work (which made sense, because as part of ISC's contract to do the 386 port of SysVR3 for AT&T, ISC had done a 286 Unix binary compatibility system).

I worked at ISC at the time, and the 286 Xenix compatibility was done by Darryl Richman and myself. At one point Microsoft told us that there was a serious issue that had to be decided, and it was too important to handle over the phone or email. They wanted both Darryl and I to fly to Redmond. This annoyed me, because I strongly avoid flying [1]. (During the flight, though, I did see something interesting. Over Northern California I saw a black aircraft very rapidly ascending. As far as I could tell, we were at around the right latitude for Beale AFB, which was a major starting point for SR-71 and U-2 spy missions, so one of those could have been what I saw).

So we finally get to the meeting, and they bring up the massive issue that could only be dealt with in person. There were one or two differences in signal behavior between Xenix and SysVR4 that could not be taken care of in our user mode code. They would need to add an option to the kernel to switch to Xenix behavior for programs running under our Xenix emulator. That was no problem--they knew how to do that.

What they did not know, and needed this urgent face to face meeting to discuss, was whether the interface to that option should be an ioctl or a new system call.

WTF!?

We told them to go with an ioctl (if I recall correctly), they said that would be fine, and the meeting was over.

If that wasn't annoying enough, when the project was done Microsoft said they were very happy with the results and they expressed this by sending Darryl a bunch of free Microsoft software.

They sent me nothing.

Now if Darryl had been the project lead or principle engineer or something like that on the project, that would have been fine. But we were equal...and I actually was the more experienced in that area because the 286 Xenix emulation was based on the 286 Unix emulation which had been done by Carl Hensler and me.

[1] I believe everyone is allowed, and should have, one stubbornly irrational fear, and I picked for mine flying on aircraft that I am not piloting.
So basically, somebody could use telegram metadata to see when I came online...on telegram? And they could also make a best guess at who I'm talking to?
You don't even have to go to the CLI client for this, the 'target' status is visible on the top of every conversation. Pretty much any chat client I could think of has a feature like this.

Seriously, how is this even on the front page? It seems that people lately are coming up with excuses to call out any app/software/company based on privacy concerns, just so they get some attention.
They should also be bonded so that their employers are not carrying the risk for torts they commit, and their immunity needs to be reduced.

That way the thuggish ones will price themselves out of the business.
Actually jpg is not very resilient, there is artforms doing single-bit changes to jpg-files to end up with very strange images.
just a note: the next version (CitusDB 5.0) will be Open Source: https://twitter.com/frsyuki/status/667031289506062336

video: "Keynote by Umur Cubukcu of Citus Data at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015" : https://youtu.be/_nun2S6EdWo?t=513

---

CitusDB 5.0 Pre-Beta Signup

"CitusDB 5.0 transforms PostgreSQL into a horizontally scalable, distributed database. It enables you to perform both real-time inserts/updates and multi-core, parallel analytics, in a way that is transparent to the application. It will:

- Allow you to deploy CitusDB as a standard PostgreSQL extension

- Be compatible with the latest version of PostgreSQL, v9.5

- Have an open source community edition
"

http://info.citusdata.com/CitusDB-5-Pre-Beta.html
I absolutely agree. However, I also agree with the more general only-half-tongue-in-cheek line that "Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point."
> The transparency report I'd love to see, which I doubt will ever be released, is the number of stings which end up being LEOs on both sides, in which e.g. one handler is hoping to sting a weapons dealer and the other is hoping to sting a weapons buyer.

That would be a great Pink Panther sketch/scene :)
If only the next line wasn't: "Laboratory tests have shown theoretical speeds of up to 224Gbps".

Which is still not 100X from all wi-fi (more like 10x), but it indeed is 100x faster than the wifi speeds most see in practice.
I'm just saying what is the status quo, at least in my country. But I assume it is the same in the US. If you have a car, you need to register a license plate. If you live somewhere, you have to announce your residency to the administration of your city.

I am not advocating anything.
Which other chat clients reveal if they are the foreground app right now or not? I haven't come across any as far as I remember (I don't use that many though). How many of those reveal it to everybody, without any confirmation?

(And even if it were general default behavior doesn't mean it isn't pretty crappy from a privacy point of view)
maybe a deep violet right at the edge of the visible spectrum? all you would see is a faint glow
Open letter to the leaders of the free world, before Paris Climate Change Summit
To our world leaders,

I write this to you while our planet stands at the precipice of unprecedented catastrophe. For every moment we take an in-breath of our environment's atmosphere, we exhale countless amounts of toxins into the same space. The upcoming Climate Summit is of grave and paramount importance - not since the 1930s and 40s has the world been tasked with such a cumbersome and ominous mission.

We are choking ourselves to death, and spilling acid into our drinking water. And we must stop this, else there will be no fate for us other than extinction.

I ask of you all to set aside what diplomatic and political issues you may have with one another. I ask of you all to approach the problem of climate change objectively, rationally, and with the knowledge that it affects every human who is, and will be, alive for the remaining course of humanity.

Failure to reach a consensus, and a failure to follow through on that consensus, spells an almost certain doom for us all.

The future of our species rests on your shoulders, and I ask of you all as a member of this species to please attempt the saving we so desperately need.

Sincerely,

A concerned citizen
Why we stopped vendoring our npm dependencies
I've been a student at the University of Waterloo for 8 years now, and I can honestly say that I don't know a single person that actually uses Kik. Maybe it's big somewhere else, but certainly not here, where the product was created and holds its offices.
Well, at least Telegram is open source. So this is something that is easily fixed.
You can rely on the BBC to give you the right time and roughly what the weather was like yesterday. Otherwise forget it.
> My grammer was just horrid. My spelling was great though.

I'd say it was the opposite ;)
CMU Binary Bomb Meets Symbolic Execution and Radare
I agree about ebooks, but I'd argue that they have a whole virtue of their own: Nothing beats the speed at what you can skim them, to quickly narrow down on the parts you're interested in, thus being exponentially more efficient than watching hours of video just to find out that it wasn't what you needed (yea, well, except physical books of course, which even ebooks can't beat.)
How long before instructors file a class action?

What will it cost Udemy if instructors start to register copyright and Udemy become liable for statutory damages?
I believe a question was asked not to upset you but to make things clear.

I'm not exactly sure why you want your comments to sound like you're a complete lunatic.
I suppose if I were a bully, the kids on the buddy bench would be the first ones I'd beat up.
I've seen both WhatsApp and Viber do that. Might be a buggy client though, but nevertheless.

I find it amusing that we are raising 'privacy concerns' now for pretty much anything. How does sharing whether you are keeping your phone in your pocket or in your hands (and telegram active) affect your privacy? Its meaningless data.
looks similar to what we are doing at https://devarist.com - good luck with your project!
This Salon article has a bit more context: http://www.salon.com/2014/09/24/challenging_mississippis_dep...

> As for having an attorney, yes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that defendants have a right to one but the debate about just when the right-to-counsel “attaches” continues to evolve. While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2008 case, Rothgery v Gillespie, that the accused are entitled to an attorney at every “critical stage” of the process, it did not clearly define what constituted a “critical stage.”

> Most places have interpreted this to mean at the initial bail hearing. But not Mississippi.

It doesn't seem to be entirely a case of a renegade judge ignoring a well-settled Constitutional right.
Saying that only “military, healthcare, or critical infrastructure applications” should bother using ECC RAM is akin to claiming that only banks should use HTTPS.
Is there any more information on this that is more accessible to someone who is just a web-dev?
same can be said about Whatsapp which was founded and has offices in Mountain View, CA and I lived there for a while and never saw a single person using it. It's way more popular in other parts of the world:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/321460/whatsapp-penetrati...
The United States has gamified prosecution so that those with the most prosecutions can get elected as governors.

So of course elected prosecutors will rabidly go after any easy case that comes their way, justice be damned.

Law of unintended consequences at work again.
There was a really good HN thread about this a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483747
This was very bad writing.
I'm 21. I've been teaching myself programming for about three years (outside of school). With a few notable exceptions, good old books have been the best learning materials.
Why do we put vitamin C on the label? Why sugar content? Why not carbon atoms? Why anything? The FDA (supposedly) requires labels for things that are considered important by health professionals and consumers. If enough people want to know about GMOs, then it's important. Not labeling GMOs or any other ingredients or by-products that might be seen as "gross" to the consumer, is only about protecting the food manufacturers.

I think it's a BS argument anyway because the average consumer, given two bags of apples that look identical, is going to buy the one that is cheaper. And if for some reason the public decided to never touch GMOs, then so be it. Food manufacturers can make their products in a way that consumers want to buy them. That's a free market. Not being shady and hiding information.
AMP makes sure that the main content loads first, fully. Currently, ads slow down pages because their assets “compete” with the page’s primary assets. This is an important improvement.
Same here. I will migrate to Signal and try to convince my network to do the same the second there is a good cross-platform desktop app and all clients have full functionality.
This patch makes it easier to scale inbound TCP requests across multiple cores on your CPU. This helps with both denial-of-service protection, as well as scaling up if you're doing a lot of raw packet processing (e.g. a Layer 4 load balancer).
I can empathize with you. You don't need to go on the attack/defense, you need to move and regroup your forces.

I don't see how you stand to benefit from writing a negative article.

The problem is no one knows who you are. The first thing we hear is you attacking Udemy from a defensive posture.

If you're going to present yourself to the world, I think the best way to do so is to show them who you really are. Tell your story.

So how about we take this off the front page, then make a new post about how great your tutorials are, what value they bring... and starting immediately, they can stripe/paypal you and buy them from your website for the best experience.

You can put up a paypal button now and email the videos by hand. Since you made a flask SAAS tutorial - you will probably be able to have a full video site up in a week or two.
This medium post is great! It touches on a lot of points and thoughts that I feel all founders go through at various stages in startup life.
The attack scenario is described in the article (I'd love to see data on if it actually is viable or not, but reports about similar attacks in the past make me suspect it is).
It'd be nicer if you pointed out what's wrong with that particular opinion rather than to attack the person.
I think the lesson here is making sure the content is produced by a legitimate, authentic and expert source rather than just anyone who can upload something - especially when paying money for it.

There are plenty of sites like lynda.com, pluralsight.com, udacity.com, coursera.com, edx.org and others that either produce directly or verify the source. Lots of colleges also put their class videos online now, itunes U is great for that.
For those that missed the sarcasm, Telegram is not open source: https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-open-source-everything
No you are not irrational at all. Keep an eye on him and better if you tip him off to the authorities so he lands on some watch list. Not shaking hands with females is a sign that he's become DEEPLY fundamental and it only would take him just a few steps up the Islamic ladder to reach the Jihadi level and starts viewing the world into two dominions; Land of Islam "دار الاسلام "and Land of Infidel "دار الكفر"
The client apps are, which might be enough
Nor do they know where each GPS receiver is located, contrary to popular belief.
A Scientist Trying to Reverse Extinctions [video]
The terrorist in the data
Did he sell the data? How can prosecutors accuse him of personal gain if he did not gain anything personally? What a kangaroo court.
Not to mention Facebook is crawling with copyright violations that it makes money off of.