skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't a monopoly yet. And "that's just not going to happen" is at best an argument from ignorance (I don't how X could happen, ergo X is impossible), and at worst a statement of faith.

If you're going to argue against a slippery slope, you have to say where the discontinuity is and why. Personally, I don't see one. Their used to be a vibrant ISP market. Now most Americans have at most two choices; many have just one. Comcast, the largest, is notoriously terrible along any axis you care to name: pricing, quality of service, reliability, customer service. There is no reason to think they won't get worse if they're allowed to.

I don't think they'll leap to a locked-down web. They don't have to. If they get pricing control, they can just keep squeezing small players and suppressing competition. It doesn't even have to be on purpose; it's just the easy way for them to make money. Even without that control we're seeing a lot of consolidation into large players. With it, we'd see a lot more.
> It seemed if anyone was adapting, their platform, development tools, and languages to match the revolution in hardware, it was MS.

C#'s async/await certainly the most accessible way of doing asynchronous operations in any mainstream language. The same for PLINQ and (simple) parallelism.

Clojure, a language that supposedly has concurrency as a main focus, is awkward and arcane in comparison.
Ask HN: Copyright infringement alert from ISP
I am a TWC customer. They said my network is allegedly used for illegal content download. So far my tenants said no illegal activity. I am asked to do an independent review by AAA CCI ($35 fee) or they will shut down my service again.

I have a few questions.

1) Do you have any experience with dealing ISP alerts like this and ever used the AAA CCI review? It has options such as "I do not wish to challenge" or "Unauthorized use of account" and etc. What's the safest bet? If I did find out my tenant is lying and said "do not wish to challenge" will they used this against me?

2) Any monitor tools to identify possibly bittorrent traffic? The same film content was reported to have been downloaded FIVE times from five different timestamps, so something is really suspicious there.
Further, some records may never be public, depending on local rules. Witness protection, victims of domestic violence, judges, etc.
Nice page. I always like color studies.

BTW: It seems this site is both mobile-first and mobile-last on my monitor... lol.
Copy to the clipboard? Ctrl-Cmd-Space brings up a panel that directly inserts text.
Most libraries that I've used have logged every book that I accessed. It's how they detect (and thereby prevent) damage.
SQL Tabs – Rich SQL Console for Postgresql
Using deep neural networks as programming assistants
Clash of Clans Unlimited Gems Hack v7.200.19[v 0.4] Apk Is Here
I have some concerns that overwriting keys at the highest level is always the correct behavior for "concatenating" JSONb documents. If you want to merge two keys, rather than overwrite one, you'll need to handle that at the application level.
I know a lot of you aren't all that big on piracy - and probably for good reasons. Regardless of that though, I thought this story was important because The Pirate Bay has become the poster child for the internet's resistance to censorship.
Try harder seems like it has been done in this area for some time. Can some creativity get into this process? It gets worse the more we invest. The cartels are ever more monstrous.
An alternate take on this from the title: like any industry, homeland security (for example) is likely to be a tightly knit cluster of people -- you generally network on LinkedIn (and in life) with people in your own industry.

Now at even two degrees away, a single tenuous connection from the author to this cluster would instantly put the bulk of that cluster into the author's "extended network", and lead to the scary visualization shown. This connection could literally be a recruiter connecting to two essentially random people. At higher degrees of separation, the probability of finding such a path increases dramatically, to the point of almost certainty.

In other words, don't use these so-called "extended networks" for any serious analysis, and don't always trust tree visualizations of social networks.
Why Snapchat is the one to watch in 2016
Definitely got NSFW from my experience. Hope someone enjoys a gif.
>Medical bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcies in America.

What's the latest thinking on this?

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/25/2/w74.full
Yes, any pet owner will corroborate that their pets make efforts to communicate with their owners quite regularly.

What amazes me about cats is that they alter their method of communication to better fit humans. Cats don’t meow amongst each other or even with other types of animals; it’s something they do exclusively for our benefit. Not only do they realize that instinctual feline communication isn’t effective with humans, but also that humans are very dominantly vocal creatures and thus, if they are to successfully communicate they must be vocal. Perhaps I am too strongly projecting my human experience on these creatures, but this behavior reminds me of how a human might react if dropped into a society with entirely different modes of communication from his own, and as such suggests some level of cognition.
> You live in fantasy world if you think men's rights activists are an American thing. They are biggest in 3rd world countries, you just don't hear about them.

Strange, then, that the movement seems to revolve around spoilt white men.
No. But it is extreme, and in the modern era in western countries (where these groups seem to be) really, really hard to pull off.

I've been to Catholic monasteries in the US, plenty of women around most of them. Either working in the gift shops, volunteering with tasks needed around the monastery (often, the monks are aging and needing more help these days than in earlier eras). A totally cloistered existence is possible, but you're making a major sacrifice. Without a religious motivation I'm having a hard time imagining anyone making that commitment.
can you say a little more about what these "frequent email reminders" that you receive look like, and how frequent they are? I've just discovered that I was opted in, had no idea I was opted in, and have never received an email saying I was opted in -- I'm genuinely curious what I missed. (Maybe somehow I opted out of the emails without knowing it either...)
Hamburg: Germany's designer city
There's a third really important insight here: "Know thy product area." The author of the article may not have known anything about software, but he definitely knew a lot about call centers, as did the coders who were working with him.
And since marketing is a science of convincing people to buy absolutely arbitrary stuff, it seems to me that what ultimately decides the direction of the next trend is random fluctuations. When you can't win the market by making your phone even thinner, some other - likely random - factor will temporarily attract more customers, at which point the marketing machinery of everyone will focus on it, and again push it into its limits.
"Our research shows that users WANT these features that require us to constantly monitor microphones for certain phrases."

Maybe the OS provider should stop being hostile.
Cow dung patties selling like hot cakes online
Not sure why you think those 3 points aren't complimentary. They seem like great + useful takeaways. No, they aren't new, but they are useful.

Regarding your last point: nothing is a sure thing. Of course survivorship bias is a thing. Of course believing in yourself/ability to figure stuff out isn't a sufficient condition for success. But, maybe it's just a necessary one?
Ok, give us a reading list. And explain what the theory of eulogy is and what social experiments we (Americans) conducted in Japan that has lead to this suicide epidemic.
Human Research Loopholes: Alive and Well
Anyone know how this was made? As I understand it is not so easy to scrape LinkedIn at scale.
Many thanks for your kind words. It's cool to see that even though our religions are (were) very different (mine was Islam), we nonetheless have a very similar view. :)
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Has 19th-Century Roots
No idea how this has anything to do with the HN community, not to mention the poster is brand new.
I'm against Free Basics and am boycotting Facebook, but playing devils advocate...

> They're called "public" libraries; not every library is free. I remember once trying to enter Stanford's library (Green?), and they refused to let me in without a Stanford ID.

Zuckerberg is referring to public libraries, not paid ones. The public library offers a set of books that, while not comprehensive, provide at least some free knowledge. Free Basics is analogous in that it offers some free services. Could Zuckerberg do more? Yes. Could public libraries have more books? Yes.

> In America?!? Hell no. You have emergency room care, and it is NOT free. Medical bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcies in America.

This isn't what he's saying. Some places around the world do offer free basic healthcare. And he's talking conceptually, not concretely. If Zuckerberg ran a healthcare startup and offered free basic healthcare to a region, would they complain that it doesn't offer all possible services? Would they rather have no healthcare than some?
> But to conclude from that that all women should be shunned, and you should never have any more relationships, is a bit extreme.

I think its something that it is very common for people to go through as a phase (and, also, the gender-reversed mirror image is common as this), particularly in young adulthood, and its also a thing that historically very common to have groups advocate as a lifestyle (usually incorporating a very negative image of women as part of its justification) -- but to the extent a gender-reversed form is pushed by powerful groups as a lifestyle advocated to women, it is also, if it incorporates a negative view of one gender, with a negative view of women.
I think the difference for me here was that they took money to create a known solution to a known problem. Theranos, on the other hand, seemed to have claimed to have already had a solution, when in reality they were pursuing an unknown solution to a hazy problem.

(And by "hazy problem" here I basically mean that Theranos is pursuing something that sounds like a problem (medical testing) but is actually a large number of only somewhat related problems. For me, going after a known problem would have been picking one test, or a small number of them and then nailing that before expanding to adjacent problems.)
Why isn't this a feature that consumers can have?

The line I always hear from Microsoft apologists is that "You can turn these features off at any time", but everything I've seen suggests this is only true for Enterprise and Education.
I built a very similar thing in the US. I don't know where these fans or hepa filters are sold, but I buy a standard 20" boxfan at walmart ($16ish USD), and a 3M Filtrete AC filter in 20x20x1" size (also ~$15USD). These come in different ratings, so I buy the "allergen reducer" rating or higher.

Duct tape to the back of the box fan, done.
Yeah, looks like 4chan is really into it.
>It's easy to run Windows 10 without any calling home at all. Just don't use a Microsoft account. Just chose custom configurations during setup.

That's completely wrong and only the willfully ignorant would believe that.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...

http://www.disclose.tv/news/a_terrifying_traffic_analysis_of...

Or from the horses mouth:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/02/microsoft...
> but then found someone who would mail me a check for $40,000, even during a recession, because they were risk-taking business owners themselves.

Perhaps the guy from Provo Utah, instead of being a sucker, really wanted to see something new and better succeed? Just because he paid for something before it was ready doesn't mean he didn't know what he was doing.
The first two minutes of the talk consists of some people speaking for her ("she hates the word 'refugee'" <- Okay then, why can't she tell us that?).

If you want to watch the talk, skip to 3:03.

Some notes from the first minute of the talk:

- She opens her hour keynote with she has nothing to say. Um, what?
- She says, to a room full of hackers at a highly technical conference,
that she knows nothing about IT outside the basic use of her laptop.

This doesn't look promising. I'm all for hearing different perspectives and all, but I'm sure that among all of the "newcomers" there were people with a real interest in technology who could have filled this slot instead. I'll keep watching and post a follow-up comment if it gets any better, but this is my first impression.

I can't say I'm surprised that the CCC team would censor comments on this video, but they can't censor HN.
There was also a story that broke a while ago that text files in text editor would get stored in the cloud by default, even if they were not saved.
Facebook users averaged 3.74 degrees of separation in 2011: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-15844230
You've obviously misunderstood something. You, in what now was obviously an attempt to troll folks, feigned confusion at some of the OP's points, and I was trying to mediate by fleshing those out along what I considered to be standard ideological lines. The only place where I interjected my own opinion was on the beauty standards bit. I'm not a socialist (I've never even read any Marx!), just trying to take a critical view of things.
That was a great article. Funny and inspiring. Like to see that for a change.

Far as lessons learned, I agree with 6stringmerc on targeting anything where tools are overpriced and investing in aggressive, skilled salespeople. These are proven practices. The first can be tricky, though, because it's often other factors that keep that tech there. Resistance to change, preferrence to deal with mature businesses, integration with horrible stuff (eg mainframe stack), and so on. Not always the case but it can kill startups when it is. Healthcare systems are a good example as many HN posts show.
You wouldn't happen to have a Killer Network chipset, would you? There has been a bug in it for a long time (since Windows 8, at least) that causes it to gobble up memory in a particularly frustrating way because the utilization doesn't show up in Task Manager. Installing the latest version of the Killer Networking driver fixes it [1].

You can also prevent the bug by disabling the Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver by changing the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu to "4" (disabling it).

1. http://www.killernetworking.com/support/driver-downloads
Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.
>We have become like the most primitive Palaeolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information.

-Marshall McLuhan
The Lambda Architecture Isn't
This comment was in regard to cruelty on plants that you eat.
You make the guy's point in the article exactly. Since 1000s of novelties like this exist on youtube, why pay/book someone to see it?
Last ditch attempt to appease the masses before their inevitable demise.
Rant: The state run VRDB's are a mess.

HAVA improved the situation, but 50+ separate systems leads to data quality issues. Which then trigger alarms. False positives are "voter fraud". False negatives are "caging" and "purging".

Made worse by the requirement that only eligible (active & inactive) voters appear in each database. Versus a master list of everyone with an eligibility flag, backed by an audit log.

The optimal solution is automatic, universal voter registration, maintained by each jurisdiction and hosted by the feds (perhaps http://eac.gov). Which is exactly what both parties are doing in-house. Then we can put a stop to the recurring food fight every election cycle.

Thanks for listening. My work on this issue has made me grumpy.
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>If your threat model is that the OS provider is hostile, no amount of changing of settings will protect you from their actions...

No, the threat model is that centrally collected data will be pilfered by the government or the company itself. If it's just not collected in the first place the temptation won't be there to abuse it.

It's like saying, "if your threat model is that the government is hostile, there is nothing you can do to prevent them from getting information from you."

There are lines the government won't cross (e.g. US govt torturing your family members in front of you) and there are lines Microsoft won't cross (e.g. secret exfiltration of your files).
(I was just making a point that someone should not be angry at me for opting out because they claim I made their day take longer.)
Mr Methane is mentioned in the article.
Cool! Reminds me of https://github.com/kanaka/miniMAL
The difference is between implementation/engineering, which is what most software companies are doing, and invention/science, which is what Theranos is trying to do. It's OK not to build something before selling it if you know that it's possible to make it, but just haven't done it yet because it would take time/money you don't have. It's not OK if you don't even know if it's possible.
> Without a religious motivation I'm having a hard time imagining anyone making that commitment.

As I understand, even the religious groups (including Catholic cloistered religious, which as you note most orders are not) that take isolation to more extreme levels -- of both genders -- tend to do a lot of work to filter out people whose motivations are not religious, so I don't think that a religious motivation is all that essential to choosing such a lifestyle (the typical non-religious motivations may turn out to usually be insufficient to staying with that choice, though...)
You're right about Zotero wanting to manage the PDFs. With regard to a watch folder, there's ZotFile which works very nicely (but of course something that's fully integrated is always preferable).

http://zotfile.com/
No, because there is a level of cognition which mammals and birds etc. obviously have, and which gnats and mites etc. equally obviously do not. Also because I am not an irritating pedant.

Here's a more detailed breakdown for you: http://www.adaptt.org/killcounter.html
Definitely number 15. DJI Phantom baby!!
http://scrapy.org would almost certainly work.
> If your threat model is that the OS provider is hostile, no amount of changing of settings will protect you from their actions...

I'm not sure what this even means in this context. It's not about protecting against a threat model that may someday manifest, it's actual, specific actions that are known to be occurring currently and that can't be opted out of (let alone opted in to) that are being objected to.

And certainly nothing to do with "cloud based features" of Windows 10.
They programatically disallow that if you try.
Samsung Gear - Virtual Reality is my personal favorite. I love mine. I want more VR in the future.
Due to context switching costs, I'd think the progress made working 30 minutes a day would be nowhere close to what you would achieve if you did it all at once. For me, I think my output would be closer to 2 weeks worth of work than 4.5...
I'm with you.
Although, they do probably have enough sway to get all of China's keys. Perhaps not sway, perhaps just cracking.

Nice of China to create a central repo with everything one could want.
Yeah...while creating a BASIC game may not seem much to professional programmers...it's a world of difference from people who know nothing about software fundamentals, such as how code is just text files. Or the concepts of loops and functions. Or the necessity of telling a program exactly what you need it to do, as opposed to learning someone else's software.
Ok so what is Solus? Yes it's an OS as I can see from the home page but what's the ancestry? Is it too much work to mention 'Linux distro' or 'Linux-based' on the home page (or any other page of the site for that matter)?
Can anyone explain how to differentiate between the multiple instances of the same titles? Is there a difference?
Fan like this:
http://www.lowes.com/pd_625625-1225-HBF2010A-WM_0__

Filter like this:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Filtrete-Advanced-Allergen-Reducti...

They even have a filter embedded with carbon if you're a smoker.
Because that narrative allows for blaming others for personal failings.
Why this New York venture capital firm is investing in Canadian startups
My personal favorite actually isn't on the list. It encompasses quite a bit, but to me it's everything we've accomplished in Machine Learning and Big Data over the past year.

Now, I know this list is supposed to be for specific objects. So, if I had to pick one from the list, it would be #13. Phero BB-8. Gotta love tiny Star Wars Droids.
When it comes to a textual user interface, have you considered Rob Pike's Acme?

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
Hipsters are a phenomenon which I find intriguing, and possibly concerning. The article does propose a credible explanation as an emergent property. Reminds me of the day Alternative officially became a music genre.
The AI Anxiety
EFF has a page on this topic, in case you haven't come across it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/six-strikes-copyright-...

See the section on "What can I do if I receive a notice?", as it covers the arbitration process for dispute resolution.

The upshot is:

1. You have to challenge within 14 days, dropping the $35 fee at that time.
2. You only get six choices of defense.
3. Case is argued in front of an arbitrator (not a judge) and the judgement is legally binding.
4. If you win, you get your $35 back.

The second defense might apply... maybe... but you only get to assert it once.

Assuming, of course, your arbitrator isn't more worried about retaining their clients than about delivering a fair judgement...

Meanwhile, as for monitoring, frankly, no, there's very little you can do. A standalone firewall with basic port blocking enabled for common bittorrent clients would probably cover most uses, but for anyone determined, you need L7 packet inspection to identify BT traffic, and even that only works if encryption isn't being employed.

Lucky for the group involved in CAS, they've managed to foist this technological impossibility onto their end users... convenient for them, not so much for the consumer. :/

Your best bet is, unfortunately, to stop offering broadband to your tenants in this fashion, as it opens you up to these kinds of legal issues.

Edit: Fun Fact: TWC claimed account termination would not be a sixth strike penalty:

http://mashable.com/2013/02/27/isps-six-strikes/#OImwJenOiiq...

Everything else I can find seems to suggest account termination is not supposed to be a consequence of multiple violations... is there additional background, here, that we're missing? You indicate a previous termination of service. What was that about?
oh yes. I think I looked over that one.

My future goals: Get an android to cook me dinner and clean my house.
I certainly have biases, as do you. How is your comment concerning Sweden's rape statistics relevant to the rest of your point?
IANAL, but it's worth noting that libraries have particular usage rights regarding printed materials that they give up entirely when moving to an ebook licensing scheme.

http://www.librarylaw.com/Copyright_and_Libraries.html
> And explain what the theory of eulogy is

...a very good question, given that all the links on google for the phrase "theory of eulogy" lead back to this comment thread.
Don't you know that every single African-American is aware of this story and this is why they all hate white people?

The parent comment is a monument of stupidity.