skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we're establishing a property-like right to a profit in perpetuity, and if the product in question is found to be harmful the seller is entitled to compensation?

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/dec/18/austra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Morris_v._Uruguay

That's how the "concession" will pay out in practice.

Y is entitled to make a claim for damages

Your example is slightly off. In the TPP, it's not the countries that are parties to the treaty that are suing, but individual businesses.

(There are plenty of treaties that oblige the passing of laws directly, as a means of implementing the treaty; everything from the Montreal convention on air passenger compensation to NAFTA)
I have a pair and they are great. Just remember these aren't miracle products: you'll get multiple miles in the mountains if you're in the same valley, but I only got 500 meters in Urban areas. It really makes you appreciate the cell infrastructure.
Err can we not belittle technicians here as some one at my first Job said its the technicians who still remembers how ohms law goes :-)

A few years ago I had to correct some bridge calculations that the Engineer had done :-)
>Nor is there any reason why in principle they shouldn't //

Philip Morris moved to Switzerland. Switzerland had a trade agreement with Uruguay. Uruguay take public health actions (increase size of warnings on cigarette packets). Now PM tobacco can sue Uruguay for enacting laws that harm a Swiss company. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-feat...)

That seems a reason not to allow this sort of thing.

Or at very least to ensure that certain types of actions of states are allowed regardless of impact on extra-national corporations profits - anything that improves the health of citizens for example.

A limitation of recompense up to the total tax paid by that corporation in the relevant country would be a good clause too.

Imagine is coffee is found to cause bowel cancer and instead of using funds to help your citizens your country pays Starbucks for their lost profits because you issued a notice to your citizens warning them of the detrimental effect; meanwhile Starbucks through clever IPR moves have offshored most of their profits and avoided paying tax in your country ...
I have some sympathy with a 'Why Docker' rant, but recently I've had experiences which has modified my view.

The separation from code and data has made reasoning about my DB upgrades (postgres, mostly) much easier.

The 'Docker is great for dev, not prod' view is also one I used to favour, but it's inevitably true that what begins in dev does not stay in dev.

Finally, the Dockerfile limitations led me to create my own CM tool (ShutIt) so that I could configure my stateless and complex environments into code that could easily be understood and changed by the casual dev.
Source: https://twitter.com/samccone/status/688809217692545026
Even worse, they’re doing analytics without opt-in, or providing a way to use the package without analytics.

This is clearly inacceptable.
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>Tapping a phone was difficult, both technically and legally, and you could safely assume your phone calls and letters were private.

Wait, couldn't you just listen in on someone's line from the telephone box outside their house?
Google News link which bypasses paywall: https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=ne...
Or, just provide anonymized public analytics.
The exceptional mobile app (iOS client) is the platform's killer feature IMO. A lot of folks use their phones as their main computer outside of work these days. I couldn't find an equivalent for SyncThing.

Aside from that what I really like about it is:

- consistent UI across platforms

- unlimited folders

- free

- Web GUI for FreeNAS plugin is excellent

- local downloads on the same network are FAST

- share keys without needing approval

- BitTorrent protocol

- "It just works" (it really does)

I have no experience with SyncThing. But to me, open source is the only thing SyncThing has going for it over BTSync. At least on paper.
Right, no debate there. They're inspired by biological neurons. But it's still a step in the right direction. The facts are we have billions of neurons and there's some form of information processing going on. Perhaps we could continue the trend, and model NN to include other brain cell features like whatever the glyal cells do for example.
The part about making hollow fans using inflation technique was fascinating. That is some serious creativity and engineering.
> In which case a better title

It's almost as if you don't want to actually read the article or something.
There are international courts to handle treaty disputes and breaches. It would doubtless run on for years but eventually result in the NZ government having to pay compensation.
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It seems misleading to call something "bitcoin classic" that would implement a hard fork.

The bitcoin implementation by the "real" bitcoin foundation (ie, asciilifeform's group) at least can claim that it is an implementation of the actual bitcoin protocol:

http://thebitcoin.foundation/
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I first tried to read this as Mistrz i Małgorzata, the Polish edition, then switched to the English one when I got my hands on it. Still, after so many years, one of my favorite books.
What percentage of CS graduates are capable of writing code to any useful extent? 40% seems like an optimistic estimate, from my experience.
Someone once gave the analogy of climbing to the moon. You can report steady progress until you get to the top of the tree/mountain. I think this is applicable here. We'll need a new paradigm, beyond statistical learning, to create AGI
Nitpick of the day: it's au contraire, eau is just water, au is roughly at the. ;)
That means universal background checks before somebody acquires a gun. New "Harvard research confirms a long-ago finding that 40 percent of firearms in the United States are acquired without a background check. That’s crazy."

What's actually crazy is that for existing background checks, the Obama administration has prosecuted less than one-seventh of one percent of felons and fugitives who attempted to buy handguns... and didn't recapture a single fugitive even though they could know exactly where and when they would be (to pick up the gun from the dealer).

That's crazy.

So, how is performing more background checks that won't be acted upon going to change anything for the better?
It's quite easy to use Nigeria in a con story these days without it being questioned.

So she wants us to believe 14 year old in 1910 (early 20th century she said) claiming to be a Nigerian Prince from Nigeria BUT posting the letter from within the US went undetected?

First of all Nigeria did not exist until 1914 and I wonder how this 14 year old "negro" (as they were called then) discovered this country and had the intelligence go execute this.

This anecdote is obviously a figment of the writers imagination and such fable does not deserve to be on the front page.

There are enough challenges with the damage fraudsters using Nigeria's image are causing Nigerian citizenry we do not need to give audience those that parade fables as fact.
One might reasonably wonder whether executing npm outside a sandbox is a good idea under any circumstances.
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And they learn in parallel, google self driving cars and a demo from Nvidia both report new experiences to the cloud which is then 'understood' or parsed I guess and lessons learned are passed down to the other cars.

Lessons could also be passed from AI to AI (e.g. fro Google to Ford) by sending the input [training data] and a output [reasonable response to that data] for the other AI to ponder.
Check out the source on Github. We actually went through the entire TPP and turned the chapters into Markdown text files. It's a bit easier to parse that way than the dozens of PDFs or Medium posts.

https://github.com/fightforthefuture/readthetpp/tree/master/...
Two Y-Axes are harmful
"Bitcoin is breaking up" = Buy like a madman. The blocksize cuts down on the transaction spam making transactions non-free, maybe a few cents each. This is not optimal and certainly needs to fix in the next few years, because it harms microtransactions.

But "breaking up" ? That's just sensationalist bullshit. That's like saying Netflix is on the edge of bankruptcy because it's raging success has temporarily killed HD streaming in Australia & Antarctica. As a community building exercise, this debacle is great for Bitcoin, it really shows no one is in control and consensus to change the rules of the game is very hard to reach.
A literal piece of green slate.

The Reveal in question was IIRC a 6" can downlight -- the kind that replaces the entire can trim.
The different versions of Bitcoin programs, I am confused, will it be possible to send Bitcoins to each address using the different programs or will each program have different Bitcoin addresses and blockchains so they are incompatible?

If I had Electum which uses the Bitcoin Core could I send Bitcoin to someone using Bitcoin Classic or Bitcoin XT?

If not then this causes a lot of problems and confusion.
Depends, my lack of deeper CS knowledge does impact stuff related to game-dev and math.

I took some time off recently to fill in the gaps missing though I wouldn't say it's something CS degree would have fixed. It would be nice to have a degree to show for it though.
Not "override" in the sense of changing local law at the conclusion of the case, but "override" in the sense of a trade tribunal deciding against a given state's laws (on the basis of a prior trade agreement), and the state having to pay damages etc. so that it does not breach the previous trade agreement: https://www.ag.gov.au/tobaccoplainpackaging (ongoing, at least with WTO it seems, but not the original investor-state case. The latter was/is Australia vs. Phillip Morris Asia.)

That is most probably evidence for a rather weaker point, cf. the one you argued against.
"These kind of systems have their own configs, be it elasticsearch.yml or my.cnf. The Dockerfile format is completely fucking useless at this kind of thing."

A solution I like: use Docker and mount the config as a volume or add it to the image in an additional build step. (I.e. have a my-app:2.3.4-base and then when moving to prod, create a new image my-app:2.3.4-prod). The reason why 'Docker in production' is inevitable (as I can see it) is because it makes trivial to iterate on your whole setup, not just your application code. If you work with gcc version X and Java version y, then you change and test with new versions, then you want to version control these changes, and update them in production easily, within your normal development flow.

(By inevitable, I mean that it's going to happen. Images are the new packages.)
Here's a quote from you: "Knowing complicated words and terms before you've mastered the simpler ones is in my opinion a wrong allocation of resources."

Now look at it again only from the point of view of someone who knows just a few common words (but knows these well): "Know### (maybe the past?) ### words and ### before you've (you have? maybe) master## (what's that slavery stuff about?) the simpler ones is in my opinion a wrong ### of ###. (a wrong what?)"
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I'd argue mass shootings themselves are a red herring when considering gun deaths. While horrific, the vast majority of gun homicide deaths are handgun crimes that make the local frontpage at best. The Cure Violence program has demonstrated ~30% reductions in gangland shootings and doesn't even require more gun control, but the debate is totally focused on assault rifles and high capacity magazines.
Docker seems to be everywhere these days.

Mostly I see it in dev environments and not production though.

I'm also waiting for Cal Leeming to post his annual update on Docker. Last years was memorable: http://iops.io/blog/docker-hype/
Between this and the other article regarding the death of ExpressJS-- is IBM is a good contributor to the JS open source community?
> That's not at all how the TPP works.

That's how it will work (it's clearly the intention). There are historic precedents already, when local laws were changed to "conform to international obligations" even though it was pretty clear those changes were crooked and should never have been introduced. The most infamous example is DMCA. More on this kind of corrupted policy laundering see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/ustr-secret-copyright-...

TL;DR: such kind of agreements are a powerful lawmaking tool which bypasses democratic process and creates laws through backdoors.
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Ask HN: How are you combatting computer elbow?
Apart from stretching, resting, and arranging an ergonomic setup (e.g. arms at 90 degrees, etc.), are you employing any coping strategies for computer elbow, or that dull ache in an elbow's tendons from computer overuse? If the pain I've been experiencing over the past year or so gets any worse, which it plausibly will without intervention, I can't imagine spending the rest of my life in any industry that requires sitting in front of a computer for a large chunk of the day.

Any tips?
I had to look it up, since it is so rarely used: Sigquit is often mapped to ctrl-\
https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-day/express
`curl -i http://blip.strongloop.com/loopback` returns content from S3. Are we suggesting then they are using S3 bucket analytics to see how many times a package has been downloaded then?
You are implying an overlap between the people that write good code and the people that finished college, and that is not always so.
I had a friend who worked with a front end engineer, the very first employee of the startup.

One of the things, my friend's coworker said:

"We don't do computer science on the front end. If you want to do computer science, talk to the back end people."

.. To this day, I don't quite understand how a person can think engineering exists independently of science.
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> Debian needs serious help to get the multiple monitors configured and working at full resolution

I must have some pretty reduced needs. I just use one xrandr command to tell all my monitors what position to be in and it works - and I think my wife uses the GUI program in Ubuntu's Unity desktop without any pain.

> Ubuntu actually had a broken apt-get for me on some recent installs, it turned out to be an issue with using the us subdomain repos

Did you submit a bug report about this? Seems like a bad bug for a distro like Ubuntu.

> Spotify

Spotify is not supported for OpenSuse (it's beta at best on Ubuntu -- but runs very nicely). Trying to run propriety software on unsupported platforms seems like a very bad idea. And of course installing a bunch of random things in random places will spanner an OS. Btw if you want to run Spotify on unsupported platforms I think that there is an addon for Clementine that works nicely and the addon gets installed in your home dir so won't break things (haven't used it for years because the Spotify client works fine for me so things may have changed).

EDIT

I was wrong Ubuntu doesn't install Nvidia drivers for you. You need to install them after install and the process looks annoying.
Im on mobile and at work right now. Hence holding off on real reply. I never downvote here unless spam or pure hate. I even upvote opponents when they make good points or state common misconceptions worth visibly debunking. Just for future reference. ;)
Some cancers are the result of damage. I.e. asbestos in your lungs. Children just haven't punched enough time on the clock to have as many of those experiences. By the time you are old your probability of exposure to at least one of those experiences gets pretty high. That's not aging doing the deed, it's living.

Also, some cancers take time to develop, which would make for fewer diagnoses in childhood.
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SF perspective: so did I, until the last few years opened my eyes.
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"They'll get through until China bans it."

China's leaky exchange controls are a strange subject. So much is leaking that investors in China are buying large amounts of property in London, New York, and Miami, but not occupying it, as a way to stash cash. However, the outflows aren't big enough to affect the value of the yuan.

The People's Bank of China (comparable to the Treasury Department plus the Fed) hasn't cracked down as much as they could. There seems to be an internal policy disagreement within China's government over whether the yuan should be an international currency. To be used internationally means allowing convertibility and giving up some control, and facing the possibility that China's domestic economy can be yanked around by world events. But convertibility increases China's external economic power. Back in 2013, there were announcements of convertibility within the next year. In November 2015, the target date was 2020.[1] China's stock market crashed last week, which may prompt tightening up on capital outflows again.

Much of what happens with Bitcoin is driven by these far larger issues.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/china-deve...
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I think they're using DVD and VCR as references to the media and not the machines, I know it's not correct language but have often heard people in the UK say "I have it on VCR" when they mean they have a video cassette tape.

Also they're clearly saying "no" in the context of a seven year old's view of domestic life. Obviously TV stations had recording equipment.
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Edit: Oops, I misread your comment.

Party means any State or separate customs territory for which this Agreement is in force;

https://www.readthetpp.com/ch01.html

Too bad they don't have anchors for significant sections/items, I'd direct link the definition of "Party" given in the treaty. But the text I quoted is on that page there.
This is something that deserves the name "Startup". Someting new, fresh and inovative that can server the common good. Where ideas and new views can be implemented and shared! Worth to look at and Worth the time you spend on the site and with the service! Something with potencial. Great! Thumb up and good luck!
Thank you for this!
Been on unemployment.
Sorry I'm not credible enough for you tptacek. FYI the site is still a work in progress and most of the experts in our coalition are still working on their annotations. That said, you're welcome to add your own annotations if you think my interpretation didn't give fascism a fair shake.
His collections were also the basis for the founding of the British Museum (which later split to also form both the Natural History Museum and British Library), and he took over as president of the Royal Society from Newton. Quite an amazing legacy.
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Depending on the exchange, in the UK, I think the "operator" may have been able to listen in too?

Crossed lines were a thing I think [in movies they were!] - induced signals in a different line that allowed you to hear someone else's call?
Sorry, but the claim that the people (non-"Elites", for some ill-defined set of "Elites") are now free agents and "going from a republic of elites to a direct democracy" doesn't hold up. It's tragic, but the introduction of social media, pervasive exposure to propaganda through smartphones and television, and the gradual improvement of computer algorithms (and deep pockets) designed to outsmart peoples' ability to filter bullshit has done us in.

From TFA:

> YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook let one human broadcast to billions, without permission, without censors, without delay. Social media makes mass organization and resistance possible.

There is plenty of censorship on all of the above media. For an overview, Wikipedia yields:

"YouTube blocking occurs for a variety of reasons including:[2]

Limiting public exposure to content that may ignite social or political unrest;
Preventing criticism of a ruler, government, government officials, religion, or religious leaders;
Violations of national laws, including:
Copyright and intellectual property protection laws;
Violations of hate speech, ethics, or morality-based laws; and
National security legislation.
Preventing access to videos judged to be inappropriate for youth;
Reducing distractions at work or school; and
Reducing the amount of network bandwidth used.

"

> Social and alternative media dominates and disintermediates mass media.

Mass media became social and alternative media. On steroids.

>YouTube killed TV and Twitter ate the news.

TV became YouTube, and the news became Twitter. On steroids.

> [...] the elites have lost control.

The same elites that own Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.?
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CtrlP [1] with its fuzzy search is really a delightful way to move around projects with many files. If you have an extraordinary amount of files you can also add ag [2] in the mix [3] for faster searching/grepping.

[1]: https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim

[2]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18285751/use-ag-in-ctrlp-...
Am I the 9l one who has more of a shoulder (impingement? ) issue than elbow or other joints*? This is specific to notebook use, where the pointing device is fixed relative to the screen.

It helps a bit to stand to the left of the screen, opening the shoulder angle... but I guess I should try an external mouse.
Did you consider using the gTLD zone files (from the respective registries) and the ccTLD zone files found @ http://viewdns.info/data/? A much bigger initial dataset than 25M domains right there?
I'm no longer a beginner in English. But once upon a time I was (and in Polish, French and German too). English is just about a second native language to me now.

One other trick I've found very useful in finding out the meaning of words is to reduce them to something even less than a stem, simply drop all the vowels and pretend all the d,t and v,w and c/s pairs and so on are equal. If you know a word in another language of the same family chances are that you can figure out what a word means. It's surprising how often that method yields results (and some spectacular failures as well!).
This rings very true to me.

It points at another approach to getting the most out of life: change as much as you can. Maybe once everyone in your family had had a few of those magical Christmases it's time to look for something else fun.
Schrolandinger paradox.