skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, it's very funny to look at some of the reactions here.
For a group of people who seem to also think they would be great at self-study law ;P, most of them are mostly knee-jerk and come out to "i don't think i should be bound by this, so clearly the law says what i think" or "i think this is a bad idea, so clearly, the article is wrong", instead of making arguments based on actual law and precedent, or even something sane.
Would you care to explain.
Parsing HTML with Go using stream processing
The force that should prevent customer-hostile behaviour is brand reputation, and risk of lawsuits. Unfortunately, the unit profit from the sale of a Dell or a Lenovo laptop is at or below zero, while the fixed costs remain incredibly high. So the business changes. The vendor fights for survival, and both QA and long-term thinking have been brought to the chopping block.

The only to win this game, both for producers and consumers, is not to play. Don't let a company that sells shitty PCs install software for you.
The Black Friday Puzzle – Understanding Markov Chains
I'm not sure why the title is referring to Calypso as "experimental." It's the production codebase.
Is there any chance of Java 8 support landing anytime soon?
Automattic has released an open source WordPress.com Mac app
The problem with that model is that there are too many competing companies. As it is, you have to subscribe to half a dozen online publications if you don't want to hit a paywall for every other link posted to HN.

But even if there were a single service to manage those subscriptions, I would lament the monopoly.

Honestly, I think ads are the solution, but only if they drop all the anti-consumer BS associated with them.
Conference posters
Do you not have to 'accept' the TOS prior to using a Blizzard bot? I am not told to accept (or even view) the Business Insider's TOS prior to use.

IANAL, both it's obvious that parties must agree for a contract to be valid. It can not be implied. I can not hang a mortgage contract on my wall in the bank and bypass the need for individual acceptance.
Understanding Positive Reinforcement
Just as an experiment? ISS would have to be much larger to be self-sufficient in food. On earth it would take around 4,000 m^2 of solar power and 900,000 kg of topsoil (one acre-furrow-slice) to feed each of the six crew.
I'm already doing this with Java multicore. Is Java multicore human? No.
Now implement a video chat protocol in Minecraft. How trippy would it be to receive a video chat call from a Minecraft avatar?
Nut Allergies: A Yuppie Invention (2009)
I'm excited about the idea of server-side Swift and this seems to be the most ambitious implementation of it so far, but who is this awful web site targeted to? Developers? With its fading and sliding? Really?

Just give us the information without all the wank, please.
"I don't want it to be illegal, therefore it isn't. That's the way it works."
Google is probably very wary of going more into Oracle territory.

Given Android's adoption at this point, if I were Google's management, I'd adopt another JVM language. Sort of Objective-C -> Swift. Kotlin would probably the safest bet from an "easy adoption" point of view.
We're Brazilians, based on São Paulo.
Here in Brazil we have some refugees (many from Haiti and a few from Syria), but we're more focused on Europe now.
We're bootstrapped by now.
The site seems to be down at the moment, but it's not about the use of hexagons in buildings (as I thought), but about a software design pattern. To quote:

Intent: Allow an application to equally be driven by users, programs, automated test or batch scripts, and to be developed and tested in isolation from its eventual run-time devices and databases.

Alternate description of the pattern plus comments: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HexagonalArchitecture
In case they think it wise to remove that blurb (it's on various product pages):

https://web.archive.org/web/20151123183352/http://www.dell.c...
‘Go’ Is the Game Machines Can’t Beat
Microsoft created the feature so you'd actually have driver support when doing the reset. I'm sure we all love resetting a touch screen only machine to find out it has no touch support for the install.
As far as I can tell, there's two differences. 1) a Promise typically has a "public" API and a "private" API -- the private API has read/write access and the public API has only read access. This way you can return the public API object to consumers of a method/library without worrying about them mutating the promise. 2) Promises tend to be more...composable? Java's "CompletableFuture" API fails on the #1 point I made above, but otherwise has a whole slew of then* methods that aren't on Java's Future. Then again, that might just be because Java's Future is mind-numbingly simplistic.
What you are describing is pre-DMCA copyright. What DCMA added was laws which add sanctions against reverse-engineering closed systems.
My brain is much better and doesn't need computer. But I'm doing Java multicore intelligence.
> It means that every scratch project and every prototype needs to be deleted - or paid for in perpetuity.

The same is true if you host yourself. Storage is neither free nor infinite. Sure you could scale your storage, but that costs, too. Unless you're absolutely strapped for cash, I think this just encourages good hygiene.
Ideally that could be included in the User TOS. Think of it like the Creative Commons model, a lot of standardized information is contained in the string "CC-BY-NC-SA", even though it's been customized for a particular person's use case.

In this instance, you could have TOS-NA-NC, where NA is "No App" and NC is "No Tracking Cookie".
I always found this funny:
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
Instant Run would be awesome on iOS...
I think he/she means, Those who feel the same way would not contribute to the gene pool and hence eventually only those who want to have kids will remain, He/She of course makes the assumption that there is a Genotype or Phenotype to select for in the first place.

ps. edit gender
I think the point is that in this way it can happen without the employee intending it to happen.
The theme directory is a common target for code injection, as it is often set with writeable webserver-user permissions, in order to allow the admin to use the backend theme editor.

Almost all of the compromised accounts I've dealt with over the years were the result of outdated WordPress or plugin installs, where an exploit was used to upload a file to one of the commonly known writeable directories: plugins, uploads, or themes.

Most of those cases could have been prevented if the owner would have kept their installs up to date, which makes these issues so frustrating to deal with.
Errr, your argument does not make logical sense.

The thing you would go after would be the adblockers for facilitating breach of contract.

I don't see how you could ever get to "a language then used to break the contract", nor is this a logical argument. Ie if you are using it to try to demonstrate some kind of absurdity, it doesn't work to do that.

Facilitating breach is also not a thing, the closest thing is known as "tortious interference". Pretty much everywhere, it must be knowing and intentional (In the sense that you know it breaches that contract and are aiming it at breaching that contract). There are a small number of jurisdictions that allow negligence claims, but those jurisdictions are crazy.
Yeah, King trademarked "Candy" and had an app taken down from the App Store http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/21/5332560/what-kings-candy-tr...
Poking around the website it looks like an awesome project. I'm going to give it a try! But, the site needs a marketing person or someone gifted with visuals + words. Also, codehero.org has a redirect loop and most of the pages are access denied.
this would be really useful. I think with a nice UX it could be rather popular.
>>Without a license, there's nothing giving you the right to visit a website, because the copyright law says so.

Is there any case law to back that up? That's a very odd reading of copyright law. Would you make the same claim about listening to a radio, viewing a television broadcast, or reading a poster?
Offtopic: is the experience as good on Windows and Linux as on OSX? I'm planning on selling the MBP (too expensive to keep hardware up-to-date in third-world countries).
is there any evidence that a computer has ever created a new 'idea' ?
Is the bottleneck you battle with every day one of the nation’s 50 worst?
> I think one of the greatest difficulties in completely automated mathematics would be the discovery of mostly those things which are interesting.

I've been investigating this exact issue recently, and you're right.

To me the most promising approach seems to be that of "artificial curiosity", where some traditional AI algorithm is rewarded/biased by an "interestingness measure". These are usually based on subjective information, e.g. how "surprising" an observation is, given what we know.

The key seems to be a balancing act between simplicity and complexity: things which are too simple may be trivial or obvious, and therefore uninteresting; things which are too complex may be unintelligible or arbitrary, and therefore uninteresting. This phenomenon is known in psychology as the "Wundt curve".
How about publishers start spending more on R&D and less on useless law suits. Ditch the whole ad-network/ ad-exchange model and start offering native ads. Ads that are deeply embedded in content. Sure they would have to hire more designers and content writers to come up with these ads more frequently but it might be the right and/or only alteration of business model publishers have to opt for. Partnering up with third party businesses directly and ditching the useless middle man (aka ad exchanges) would be better.
I can't wait for async/await enough myself.
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> Was the Netflix app one of the advertised featured?
http://www.lg.com/ca_en/tvs/lg-58UF8300-uhd-tv - It's not clear from the product landing page what's included with regards to apps. However, Netflix is installed out of the box and there doesn't appear any way to uninstall it. But, it's unusable, as stated, until it's updated. The only way to update it is to agree to the ToS.

You can see on this landing page:
http://www.lg.com/us/experience-tvs/smart-tv/use

That Netflix is clearly part of the standard build (no installation required - Netflix comes with the TV out of the box, no interaction required.

Sounds like this is illegal. So what's my recourse with LG?
Build a replica of someone else's house and let me control their lights!
Ad blocking is not a necessarily a browser-based thing. Even if they were to mandate a blocker-free browser, you could block ads with a firewall, by running your own DNS, or through the HOSTS file.
Yes. There is at least Windows App Studio (http://appstudio.windows.com) that I know of offhand and Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (http://www.microsoft.com/robotics) that I found in 5 seconds of searching.

It's perfectly reasonable to think that if they ever released an Android IDE, either for the mobile OS or for actual androids, it might be called Android Studio.
> Another way of solving this problem comes from the realisation that we only really need to keep track of the dependencies for a promise while the promise is in the pending state, because once a promise is fulfilled we can just execute the function right away!

This is a common gotcha in Javascript implementations, in that you think you want this, but you really don't! Now you never know if your code is synchronous or will run in a subsequent tick. Your call tree will look completely different depending on race conditions...

This comes up in user code as well; any time you write a function that takes a callback, it's probably a good idea to either always run it either in the same call tree or in a new stack, but never mix the two. It's usually easier to just do the latter using process.nextTick.
"Without agriculture there is no California drought." This type of rhetoric really undermines your credibility. It'd be laughable if it wasn't so ugly.

So really 3 is your solution: compensate rights holders and then have the government sell water rights on the open market. I'm open to this idea. Would everyone be buying water on open market? or would you support subsidies for cities, industry, environmental causes, etc?

I really feel like you can make the argument for 3 without demonizing farmers.

P.S. 5th amendment = right to not incriminate yourself. 14th amendment is equal protection and due process. Not sure how they are related.
The WORST part of my family's Disney experience was how the meal plan required my younger son to order from the children's menu. My one son was 11, and the other 9. The way the Disney meal plan works, 9 year-olds and under MUST order from the child menu. We kept dragging our kids back to Epcot to eat at the various nationality specific restaurants. Me, my wife, and older son would get a menu with lots of interesting choices, my younger son got to pick from chicken fingers or one other vaguely ethnic dish. He really hated being discriminated against in this way.

The one server who really understood the problem was at Epcot's Italian restaurant. We ordered various things, including one item from the children's menu, but our waitress just served everything communally, with no mention of what was the "child" item.

Sorry to vent, but you just triggered a painful parenting memory. :)
Can Tech Pros Really Win the Gig Economy?
Next up: Live your whole life through Minecraft.

Wait... is this what VR is going to evolve to?
I don't think so. In order for that to happen, Google would need to support new bytecodes in their JVM (Dalvik? I forget), which would be a backwards-incompatible change. So unfortunately I don't expect to see Java 8 in Android for quite a while.
Give Kotlin a try. I have great experiences with the language on both mobile and server development. Don't miss Java 8 a bit when I do server development in Kotlin.
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Open Computers is very powerful. I once knew a modded Mincecraft server admin who used Open Computers to receive and send text message updates about his base and the state of server when he was away from his computer.
Over the summer I tried taking over a few abandoned Wordpress plugins, some of which had a similar number of installs. Before they would even try to get in touch with the authors they wanted to see my updated code and made sure it was up to current Wordpress standards. Once you have access to the plugin repo you are free to push whatever you want though without review...
You have to remember that any typeface you'd want to use probably consists of several fonts. Usually you have at least regular, bold, italic and bold italic.

So that's already four fonts: 4*7.50 = $30 / year.
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The project you're working on is essentially a library - It's linked to by whatever software another developer might want to use.

I'm certainly not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the AGPL an version of the GPL, with a clause that requires developers to share their code if they host the service, not just if they distribute the code.

Since the AGPL is based on the GPL, rather than LGPL, it would mean that any projects that used your library would count as Derived Works - They'd need to release their whole project if they used your code.

Typically, one might see the AGPL used for services, rather than component libraries.
This has caused some companies, such as Google, to ban using any AGPL code.

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/google_on_open_sourc...
Not sure why these people are getting so much attention lately. So you don't want children. Don't have children then. Who cares?
Do you have any examples of some that act as IDEs or similar? The ones I know of are all created by Microsoft.

Apple Records didn't have a problem with Apple Computer until Apple Computer started selling music.
I got really disappointed when I figured out it was just for managing wordpress-hosted sites and not a new way to manage self-hostd WP installs
Just to add to mkaziz's info, my wife specifically went on the pill in her teens, and was on it through her early through mid twenties specifically to address how painful her periods were.

Its not well known, but some women's periods can be debilitating (several days where you experience intense pain and cramping, where you don't even want to get out of bed).
Wikimedia urges Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain art
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The technology required to send people to Mars is not in itself worthless. The motivator is sending people to Mars.
So is "Word". I would be equally surprised if Google released word processing software called "Android Word".
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Dalvik has been replaced by ART (the Android Run Time) in 5.0 Lollipop. Dalvik was the JIT compiler in 4.4 and below, and with 5.0+, ART is an ahead-of-time compiler.
I imagine they only change the modified activities. I guess they can't do that for games...
Eh, you're already marginalized by the masses (in the US at least) if you don't fit into typical consumer culture. I barely watch TV. I watch sports (on TV) only occasionally, and then only a couple teams. I don't play video games. I do listen to music and go to movies, but generally avoid a lot of the really popular ones because they just don't appeal to me. I don't buy trinkets, nearly everything I own is useful, though I've started collecting some art recently (I like the look, and my home and office feel more comfortable with it around, so that's useful if subjective). I buy enough new clothes that my clothes are in good repair, but I'm hardly fashionable. I can barely relate to many of my peers (professional and otherwise).

I've stopped viewing this as a bad thing, though. I have more time and money than many of them to spend on the things I want to do. And when I complain about not having enough time to do what I want, I can actually list off all the things I'm doing that are filling up my schedule (and they're all productive, at least for personal development if not professional and social goals).

The subset of the internet that I use, and probably many here, is similar. Many of us probably skip Facebook (beyond perhaps casual browsing or maintaining our social network for communication), Buzzfeed and other time sink sites. Though HN can be pretty bad sometimes, hits just the right level of time sink + technical/professional interest.

Again, I don't consider this a bad thing. I have a lot better discussions with people on sites like this or because of the content from sites like this than I do for 99.9999% of what's on Reddit or FB or anything else.
Not just women, overweight men too face discrimination
>there's nothing giving you the right to visit a website

Except for the fact that it is being purposefully made available to the general public.
Proactively thinning selective regions of forests and controlled burns seem to be the route forward to prevent (rather than react to) large-scale fires.

This short video from MinuteEarth, while not going into much detail, does have a lot of good references

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX1xnWPSjKg
As Mike Tyson said "a computer might win a chess match, but he would lose in boxing ring".
> word2vec is using a very weak supervision which is the order in which words appear in a meaningful sentence.

What's supervised about that? Can't this be produced by a large enough corpus?
I completely agree with your statement. I too have very little interest in hooking light bulbs up to Minecraft, or anything but a socket already there. I enjoy my job and find solving programming problems challenging and rewarding.

My own feeling is that there is no better or worse, and feeling bad questioning if we're good enough is ridiculous. If one wants to hack on light bulbs that's great! If they'd rather go for a bike ride, that's great too! There's a quote from Winnie the Pooh that speaks to this equivalency.

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.”
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I doubt it's genetic, since there is a long history of people choosing not to have children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#History
Nothing specific, they do what they do quite well.

I have a generic feeling that the rabbit hole is getting too deep though.

In our case we run large servers with virtualisation software (I think they run on Windows, I never touch this layer). Then we have virtual Linux servers running on them. They have package managers that are also a way to solve this sort of problem. We run Docker instances on those servers. They are Linux again, so have their own package manager. Then we run Python (with virtualenv or Buildout) or Node (with npm), that again have their own package managers that try to provide isolated environments. And of course they run bytecode in the Python or Node...

And that ridiculous stack is used to run some relatively mundane web app that can't even mutate its data directly, and is used to send some set of Javascript and HTML and JSON to the user's browser. Which is where the app actually runs...

I wish we had some Web framework as nice to use as Django but compiling to static binaries that are immediately sort of an equivalent to a 12 factors app, and a kernel that was made for running them directly. Or so.

But this is the internet, right? It literally evolves, just like nature -- we can only build on top of existing layers, not remove a few and start over.
The url's in the lists are (mostly) ad companies though. It just doesn't send the http requests to url's on the list. I could set up a website out of the blue and have it serve ads that would be successfully blocked by any adblock on day one without it knowing about my site specifically
Xamarin Studio, Monkey Studio, Atmel Studio, Aptana Studio, Zend Studio...
If I created a word processor called "Mike's Word Processor" I'm pretty sure I'd be good.
A lot of people care, as described in the article.
If the article seeks to attack the adblocking system itself, then I would press that the most important utility of adblockers is that they block dangerous elements on sites that the user has no history with or knowledge of.

I feel perfectly comfortable browsing HN with my adblocker turned off, but I would want it turned on for 75% of the links I click from here.

Also, the above linked Browse Wrap wikipedia article stresses that precedent for the web site only occurred when the web site prominently and repeatedly displayed or linked to the TOS, especially near sections of the page where the user was actually likely to look (e.g. near the "Checkout" button, rather than buried in the footer).

Additionally they mostly regard actions taken on the web site, such as downloading software or purchasing products. Currently there seems to be very little expectation that the user is bound to a TOS by simply continuing to browse a web site, and I'm curious if there even exists any cases dealing with that.
When working with open source, sometimes it is best to use the tools appropriate to the projects you are working on or people you are working with.

I work in DX/Evangelism at MSFT and a lot of work around containers, etc, at the moment is easier on *nix than it is on Windows (for me). I've got both machines as well as a Windows VM on the Mac if I need something there...
They wouldn't call it that because Android is a Google trademark. "Visual Studio for Android" would be ok.
New architecture for deep reinforcement learning