skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes; it's called the DMCA's anti-copyright circumvention.

You seem to be saying such laws and lobbying is only there to prevent people from being able to upload pirated DVDs, but the obvious problem there is such actions -are already illegal-. Their incentive may be to prevent piracy, but their actions are very clearly to prevent -anyone- from ripping their legally purchased media. They will not -prosecute- an individual who never uploaded something, no, but they have -no- problem with making it illegal and going after anyone who would produce the tools to allow it to happen.

Their actions, and the rationales they use to justify it, are the problem, not their incentives. I am in complete -agreement- with their incentives; file sharing is certainly a threat to their business model, and they either need to change business model or try and stamp it out. But in trying to stamp it out they are effectively also trying to stamp out things that I should be able to do (and legally may be both allowed to do, and not allowed to do; I'm legally allowed to rip my content, but not legally allowed to circumvent DRM to do it).

But we're digressing. My point was, and still is, simply that there is no analogy being made by the article, nor Sunde; the analogy (or whatever you want to call it; it's just semantics) is being made by the copyright industry.

Agreed, in mocking it they're straining it a bit, but the point is that they're mocking a terrible argument that the copyright industry has made to make their case in both courts of law and courts of public opinion. Same as the "You Wouldn't Download A Car!" meme was made to mock their "You Wouldn't Steal A Car!" ad campaign.
>I couldn't prove it completely but based on the compensation rates of a few I knew

anecdata...
swi-prolog has a very-nice web IDE:

http://swish.swi-prolog.org/example/clpfd_sudoku.pl
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We can show with a few assumptions that the police thought that the prior probability of the leaves being marijuana (before the field test) is at least 41%.

A = leaves in trash are marijuana
B = field test result is positive

First use Bayes' to get P(A|B) = P(B|A)P(A) / [P(A)P(B|A)+P(-A)P(B|-A)]

Assume the false positive rate, P(B|-A) = 0.7. Assume the true positive rate, P(B|A) = 1.

The result is P(A) = 0.7P(A|B)/(1-0.3P(A|B))

Assume to get a warrant the police need P(A|B)>0.5. This puts P(A)=0.41. However, probable cause is more strict. Assume we need P(A|B)>0.90. This puts P(A)=0.86.

So if you go to a garden store and you drink tea, the police are 86% sure there are illegal substances in your home.
If you're using virtualbox anyway, why not use whonix or a livecd of tails?
The point he was making was right. It's not randomly enforced at all, it's enforced only when it pleases the government.
I think you should take this to @thegrugq on Twitter. He's like Judge Wapner for stuff like this. He'll know what to do.
Wait, are you saying that China hasn't experienced terrorism? That's definitely untrue. Terrorist attacks by Uyghur separatist groups is not an infrequent occurence. There was a highly publicized attack in Kunming in 2014.
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I've also seen a lot of rich kids from college turn into poverty-stricken losers; character and work ethic have a lot to do with how well a student does regardless of their family's resources.
It's nice that while you don't think a Washington Post article on this subject belongs here, you believe your opinion on the subject does belong here.
Microsoft may have your disk encryption key
I've been hearing this argument since I was heavily into Common Lisp in the early 2000s. Personally I like lisps so I hope Clojurescript does establish a viable niche.

But it's not the case that number of users is irrelevant. If I commit to Clojurescript (or Haskell, or any other niche language), I'm cutting my prospective job market down by 95%+. This means fewer companies I can work with, fewer places I can live, and fewer gigs available overall. Some might consider the tradeoff worth it but I don't.
I'm starting to wonder if Oracle got them to go JCK. Would be a technically crappy development that serves little actual purpose. Or maybe something's cooking and we don't know yet.
It's not about what can be done, it's about where the ragged edges are, and where the core is. If you put any squiggle in the top of す it will make no sense. But you can do nearly anything you want with the bottom half and it will make sense (like an English 'j'). It's not that the stroke order is sacrosanct - there are indeed a lot of ways to write an 'a' in English. But some of those ways will not be well-read by others. Those regional differences can be really confusing. Ask a french person to write the numbers 1 and 7, and then an American. They are nearly exclusively legible precisely because of their orthographic rules. And yet 'people somehow manage to read'.

The hard and fast rules are prescriptive, but once you start writing, you realize that some of that prescription ends up as description. There really are detectable orthographic differences in how stroke order affects (generally, of course) how people write.
The menu key's functionality is also usually available through Shift-F10 as well, so swapping a more useful key into its location doesn't lose you anything.
Yes, one also needs to be capable of making intelligent decisions for the future, majoring in Theater is not one of them (just an example).
STEM is misnomer. Ever met an unemployed or underemployed biologist, ultrasound tech, environmental engineer, or statistician?

The real sweet spot is PI - physics and informatics. These roles are unique in that they can be explosively productive and create more jobs than were there at the start. PI, or "STEM" is more than a buzzword.
> "We can't afford it" as a rhetorical device in public policy cannot possibly die a slow or painful enough death.

That's what politics is. If you can't understand the concept of a political reality, then your views will forever remain the domain of the idealist, talked about, in the same tenor that one yaks about science fiction premises, but never implemented. Sure, Star Trek has a cool economy. How many Senators watched TNG?

Political realities are stronger than actual realities. It takes real people to change things, these people are beholden to other people and not your whims.
Ian Murdock Threatening Suicide, Maybe Hacked, Maybe Victim of Police Brutality
Dalvik was replaced by ART in Lollipop
Yes, using Rollup you can make a smaller build. (See other comment where I linked to an example.)

d3-axis depends on d3-selection and d3-transition, so it’ll be one of the last modules to be released, I expect. That said most of the functionality is in a sense already available in the scale’s ticks and tickFormat method.
Are class methods a type of closure?
The Long Way Round: The Story of the California Clipper
AVG is not a security vendor - they are a malware company disguised as a security vendor. They're just like all the other browser highjacking bullshit companies like Perion. Look at AVG's logo and how similar it is to Windows'...the whole thing is designed to confuse people.
Whink review: Full-featured, easy to use writing app hits all the right notes
Thanks for putting this together. This looks like a fantastic tool, and really well-documented. I noticed from a quick perusal of the docs that Luminus still requires a handler function to map URLs to a named page asset (about-page, home-page, etc.) using defroutes -- requiring too, of course, definitions for each of those pages. Could you explain in a few words why that is? Is it a Node requirement? Isn't that a lot of complexity to have to deal with? If so, how do people manage it?

I'm just curious because my only exposure to the HTTP layer so far has been via Apache. Apache is... for lack of a better word, a bro. It's up for just about anything. It seems like the default mode of Apache is to do whatever the HTML recommends. Apache is happy to serve an arbitrary "/about.html" URL, provided it exists, and asynchronously execute any server-side scripts to which it injects a dependency. I don't know if this strictly requires the use of jQuery, but it certainly seems easier to do it that way. Is it even possible to serve a cljs app this way? In light of the fact that jQuery is not compatible with the Google Closure compiler?
>So who is getting them? Banks with their Mortgages? Schools? Government? Restaurants?

Banks and landlords, mostly. Local governments would love to get in on it all, but Prop 13 restricts their ability to raise real-estate taxes.
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Yup. That's where I am right now. My current project could turn into a successful, and eventually relatively hands-off, business if I had about $50K more in the bank than I do right now. So I'm working on it on the side while I put that together, but it's slow.
Which qemu are you cloning? When we taught 6.828 over IAP term we ported the patches to qemu 1.7.0 and put them up at https://github.com/geofft/qemu. I see the repo has a 2.3.0 and 2.4.0 branch now too. I last built 1.7.0 on Debian 6 (squeeze); newer Debian and Ubuntu should work fine. (Make sure you have libsdl1.2-dev installed)
Please This is a false dichotomy and typically parroted by upper middle class indians who had enough resources to pay for graduate school in USA. The system could use tweaks and points to grade applications but you are presentin a very naive a class based view of the situation.

You might feel that you could convince immigration hardliners by this argument but in reality most are motivated by ideology rather than rationality. At the same time you will alienate other indians.

With lotteries, 7+ year racist country based quotas and 12 Million undocumented immigrants it's a system which long due for a comprehensive reform don't waste time defending it.
H1Bs should have to be paid at least 20% more than the local market average for qualified workers. If people with their qualifications are truly THAT scarce, then businesses should have to pony up more than the going rate given their specializations.
This seemed to be a good commentary on that article you referred to:

http://community.the-hospitalist.org/2008/01/11/bureaucracy-...

The article itself:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/opinion/30gawande.html?_r=...
IIRC, Oracle's claim was that Google's use of the API wasn't fair use because they didn't implement all of it; they weren't trying to build a compatible product. So importing enough of Java to be fully compatible might be a result of the lawsuit, yeah.
Salutary neglect is as old as the colonies, boy.
Vernor Vinges "the ungoverned" puts a clever twist on this idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ungoverned
Where is it that you were taught to take a part of a quote, turn it into a strawman, and knock that down? My quote said effects range from a percentile (low effect) to 50x. That means it has minimal effect over CPU's on some with 50x on others. Try to stick with what I said, eh?

Also, some algorithms can do over 100x. The good ones are just more likely to get less than that so i left it off. I've seen 10-50x in all kinds of papers, though. And those were academics rather than FPGA pro's.
Codecademy/Duolingo for Music.
It's generally considered bad practice to link a conservative think-tank when trying to explain why someone who has been hamstrung by conservatives isn't making money.

In the first two quarters of 2015 they lost $2.8 billion. In the first two quarters of 2015, they had to fund $13 billion in pensions. Pensions are 100% the issue.
Very interesting: reading this on my phone, the header image moves with a parallax effect when the phone is tilted.
Netezza (acquired by IBM) has been doing this for many years.
Would love to see a design surface like Webflow for D3. Then you would get high-fidelity 'create' mode while retaining fine control of SVG programmability.
A great resource in that I suspect much of this data was otherwise buried deep in some other database...but is also an example of how essential filtering/ranking algorithms are for search, at least for general user friendliness.

For example, doing a search for Apple, and even limiting it to California, brings up a ton of junk that needs to be filtered out visually by the user:

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca?action=search_com...

And you have to have some knowledge of corporate conventions to get at what you think you want. Here's the entry for Facebook, Inc., registered in Menlo Park:

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C2711108

However, it's just a "branch". What you really want is Facebook, Inc. as incorporated in Delaware:

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/3835815

The listing of subsidiaries is nice...I don't know how complete it is, but it contains the companies I expect (Parse, Oculus, Whatsapp...no Instagram though?)

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/3835815/statement...
I'd have to disagree, I live in New England in a second or third tier city and know many families making $250k/y who are comfortable sure but its not Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

As others have pointed out, there's not much margin there if you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, i.e. owning a home, paying your bills, saving for retirement for two and saving for college for 2.5.

I'd agree with others sentiment here, the median income being 53k/y is the real problem. There is no excess capital to redistribute from the top of the 95% to the bottom. It just doesn't exist anymore.
I think he's probably not as big a jerk as he makes himself sound like.
Did a Single Hacker, not Anonymous, cripple Turkey's Internet?
I'm not sure if there's any relevant point of fact we disagree on now.

The only point I'd make is that the copyright industry hasn't claimed "every copy is a lost sale", they've claimed that some copies are lost sales. Often, the question is whether the "main purpose" of a technology is for illegal purposes, and if the answer was yes, it wouldn't be allowed, even if there were legitimate uses.

Regardless, "the analogy breaks down here, therefore the analogy isn't valid anywhere" is not a valid argument. To the extent the parody is doing that, it's wrong.
It pays off it you pick a major that trains you in a valuable skill, this is where the problem lies- far too many people are picking dumb majors, that's more the crux of the problem you illustrate: making bad decisions during a critical time of life (ex: majoring in Drama).
Just look at Pharma (subset of medical)... if there is a more disreputable industry, I'm sure it's only a fraction of the size.
> With a home loan...

Is your LTV ratio greater than 1? I suspect you might be not including the market value of your home against your loan.
Netezza, a data warehouse appliance which was built on PostgreSQL, uses FPGAs as the first step to process data as it is read from disk.
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Parent post used privilege without truly understanding or defining it. I'm merely stating an opinion. If you'd like to talk silencing, which is a false and misleading interpretation of my comment, let's talk down votes. The down votes on my post are actual attempts to silence my opinion, and you don't seem as vociferously defensive.
Which companies, if any, in the anti-virus business would you not consider as "snake oil vendors"?

I'm genuinely curious, I haven't had to deal with Windows systems for so long, I'm not well acquainted with AVG and their competitors.
> If they had tried and been rejected, it might begin to be fair to compare them to the distinguished researchers you mention.

I might have been misunderstood. I am not defending Theranos or claiming they deserve any accolade or even sympathy. I am just pointing out that the romantic view that "science triumphs" is not, historically, supported by evidence on time scales shorter than a few decades. As most people's careers -- scientists included -- are on that time scale, it is a bad idea to assume that "science triumph" for any specific person or company.

> How do you know this is true?

I've been following these issues for a while. To borrow Gary Taub's analogy - the guides ("eat this much or that much, mostly carbs, low fat, moderate protein") are similar to an advice about how to make a nightclub popular: "get more people in". Yes, if you manage to do that consistently and with sustainable effort, then everything will be fine - yet the compliance rates are ridiculously low (as your link points out). But now we have the people, rather than doctors, to blame for non-compliant behavior, so the ADA and medical institution is not to blame.

However, there are studies (no time to look for refs right now, sorry), showing that people on low-carb, high-fat, medium protein (i.e. "keto" style) have a much, much higher compliance rate, and much better outcomes (in term of controlling blood sugar and reversing type 2) -- yet the recommended ADA (IIRC, can't find it right now) is 60% carb, 30% protein, 10% fat. That's high fat, mind you - not high protein.
Funny thing, though, it's always the side that shares your values that's being realistic.

GP claims equal access to education is impossible, like FTL travel or perpetual motion. The political reality is that it's just something not enough people care enough about. Public opinion is a great deal more malleable than physics. We could care, and then it would stop being impossible. So it is not impossible at all.
Hi Stephen, thanks for the insight.

Looking now, Intel's guide says that Skylake reduces the cross page load penalty from 100 cycles to 5 cycles. I tried with and without crossing page boundaries, although this wasn't my intent. In one version I reloaded loaded 16KB of floats, and in the other I reloaded the same 4 floats. I saw minimal difference between these two on both Haswell and Skylake. But since the penalty is increased latency, it's possible that the "load and throw away the result" doesn't illustrate this issue.
This book is so different from what I normally read that I would have never considered picking it up, but it seems to have only glowing reviews. Thanks for the suggestion!
This would put hedge fund managers under the working class, btw. Which I think actually makes sense.They rent out their labor for others' capital.
While I understand your general point, I find it highly doubtful that 75% of _Postgres_ users are on Windows. I strongly suspect that they are in the minority by a wide margin.
"For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years."
-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/modern-art-was-cia-...

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/cold-war-modernists/97802311623...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w...

https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/reviews/000423.23joff...
Twitter Hires New VP of Diversity and Inclusion from Apple
> The XSS is not fixed.

The reported issue "AVG: "Web TuneUP" extension multiple critical vulnerabilities" is fixed. The issue submitter, investigator, and closer is the same person, Tavis Ormandy.

As reported by Ormandy: "This isssue appears to be resolved in version 4.2.5.169 of the chrome extension, which looks like it's about to be made available for update on the webstore..." and then, a few days later: "I believe this issue is resolved now, but inline installations are disabled while the CWS team investigate possible policy violations.".

> It sounds to me like the following happened...

It's clear to me that that's not how it went down. From the bug report:

"This isssue appears to be resolved in version 4.2.5.169 of the chrome extension, which looks like it's about to be made available for update on the webstore..." (Emphasis mine)

How could Ormandy investigate and report on a new version of the software before it was uploaded to the Webstore, if AVG never sent it to him to evaluate, and he had to download it from the Web store to investigate it?

Pause for a moment and think about that. It's an important question.

After you've achieved enlightenment, remember that Tavis Ormandy is not some hack. Go do a bit of research on him and who he works for.
I like the categorization but I think the more common names for those classes are self-employed, employee and business owner.
I was hoping this would be a link to code committed by AI. More of those, please?
From reading core.asyncs documentation, it sounds like this should do the trick:

(go
(try
(let [ops [asyncOpA asyncOpB asyncOpC]]
(core.async/take (count ops) (apply core.async/merge ops)))
(catch js/Error e
...)))

Where asyncOp* uses go-catching.
I don't think it is that bad. They got decent jobs.
w/r/t #3 - I just did the same thing with Semantic UI and our 2.0 release. Took a year off after working at The New Republic, but kept a desk there to work on open source while receiving a modicum of donations from the community. Was a hard year but the quality of work that the freedom provided was worth it.

Perhaps you should consider a donate button in the docs for the time-being while you're going down this path with the project.
San Francisco incomes statistics are undoubtedly skewed by stock option cash-outs that are one time (or at least relatively rare) events. So if you have a 250k/yr salary you might not be in the top 5% for any given year, but I bet you're in the top 5% for, say, any given 5 year period.
Yes I am! Nothing serious though, mostly explorations of some tech stacks and tools that I don't have the courage to try out in the evening after work. But in the end I may boot up something non-trivial to wrap all up, if a find an interesting idea.
To anyone who found this link interesting, I highly recommend picking up "The Signature of All Things" by Elizabeth Gilbert (yes the author who wrote Eat, Pray, Love). The Signature of All Things is historical fiction novel about a botanist who is fascinated by moss and her research leads her to discover evolution independently of Darwin.
Google just revealed what its next version of Google Glass will look like
I'm a bit astonished that it doesn't seem to be pointed out in these comments (and even a bit more astonished that it's not mentioned in the OP) that there are a great many people whose income tax returns will say $250k+, but they are paying taxes on a small business and may not be realizing anywhere near that much gross income personally.
Search for any bank, and try to find something useful with all the branch results which are less than corporate.
The only advantage I can think of to putting the JVM in a browser is if you intend to run java code. (God, I hope not). It's not like they're lighting the world on fire with their performance running dynamic languages. (I mean, it's fine, but it's nothing special)

Besides, we already saw what java-in-the-browser looks like, and it was a huge failure.