skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst I don't condone it, that's precisely what is going to keep occurring until markets are totally unlocked. Piracy and torrent trackers will continue to be effective until this sort of thing is freed up.

Rights holders might not be happy about it, but then again people like myself, who don't pirate, aren't very happy about having to pay for multiple services just to watch content that we would be able to view if we lived in another country. Frankly, it pisses off a lot of people that nationality has anything to do with what we watch or have the opportunity to purchase.

Why should being a U.S. citizen be more advantageous for viewing streaming content than being an Australian? This sort of thing pisses off people. It's often funny listening to those from the U.S. who say "So what? It's the law, just deal with it", when if they found they had the same treatment would probably complain just as loudly.
Or that most people don't want to be...
> I haven't tried Elm or Cycle in production but think our code would be much easier to work with if it were

This is yet one more article that makes me want to try Elm. It has been mentioned more and more often here, but I don't know if its actual usage has grown as much.
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favicon.ico is a Windows icon, but icons specified in <link rel=icon> don't have to be.
Where "should" they be?
OpenPGP Message Format (2007)
In my opinion the most powerful and useful thing a computer does isn't flappy birds or finding massive primes, but allowing people to communicate more easily. Everything the computer does on top of letting people tell things to other people half way across at world at the speed of light (or close enough) is just icing on the cake.
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Sorry about that. It's working for me now. I'll add some monitoring to check its status.
Not exactly, you may want to actually read the source you linked :)

The company existed before O2 and M/M were independent designs.
Before we get too voluntary here, let's remember that wind power was developed through heavy subsidies from many governments over the years.
If you are an Australian, only at extortionate prices. We pay at least three times as much as Americans, and I can assure you whilst the Australian exchange rate doesn't have the purchasing dollar that the U.S. dollar does, we are only about 1.43 Australian dollars to every 1 US dollar.

At one point we were actually at about 1.2 US dollars for every 1 Australian dollar (during the GFC) and we were still charged 2-3 times the amount it cost in the U.S.! And even then the exchange rate was blamed - at which point every single Australian realized we were being utterly screwed.

Now a majority of Australians are bypassing geoblocks, and will continue to do so.
California pays America's bills.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...
I can't see the problem if their customers are also 5-10 years behind where they should be..
How yogic of her.
This sentence in pretty staggering: "... people who had nothing to do with the design and execution of the study but use another group’s data for their own ends ... or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited." As in, science.
It sounds like you'd want to lock to a specific version of the java buildpack, before 94276a, which dokku supports, according to the docs provided in the GP comment:

> You may also wish to use a specific version of a buildpack, which is also simple

# using v87 of the nodejs buildpack
# replace APP with the name of your application
dokku config:set APP BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs#v87

http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/deployment/buildpacks/
This is enlightening. I'm always surprised how discussions around diversity in SV focus on a few demographics. Glad to see a thoughtful exploration past the status quo.
And nobody is blaming Netflix for the situation. But sadly for Netflix, their customers bypass the geoblocks, or they cancel their subscription with no judgement of Netflix and then pirate their content. Which has nothing to do with Netflix either :-)

This means that Netflix had really better up their game in getting global licensing deals for their content.
Need advice on cover letter as an independent contractor
Currently I'm working as a contractor, but I got that position by applying to a full time job (they can't help me with relocation). Then I thought it would be nice trying to apply to some other companies as an independent contractor. But I don't know how to write good cover letter and introduce myself as a contractor. Please critique my letter and give some advice(s).

Dear [company-name],

I came across your Python Developer job advertised on your website and I found it very interesting! I would like to discuss how I can help.

In particular, as an independent contractor I can offer [company-name]:

- very experienced Python developer. My last project was [project-details]

- expertise in multiple python frameworks, such as Django and Pylons.

- strong Linux skills, including postgresql, mysql, nginx, apache administration

Please find my CV attached for your consideration.

I look forward to discussing your project requirements in more detail soon.

Yours faithfully,
[name]
I would strongly recommend that Hola be avoided at all costs. Hola sell off your bandwidth for all sorts of nefarious purposes:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2928340/ultra-popular-hola-vp...
I clicked a few "moods" on the side, and it kept saying "We're having trouble playing this song".
Doesn't seem much worse than where I am now.

California has been recommending people to limit use of water for more than a year, and water is arguably a more basic necessity than electricity.
Similar: http://www.madeon.fr/adventuremachine/?
Madeon's Adventure Machine
Awesome! Here's one I made:

http://sampulator.com/Aband_nthecar/saturday-night-chillin
It's more of an optimisation problem. You want inventors to invent a lot of things, so you give them patents. But if you give them too long a patent, they will just invent a few things, then sit on the IP.

Nowadays, there should really be ~5 year hardware patents, and ~1 year software patents, which mostly reflects the time-to-market after invention.
The difficulty of a foolproof solution isn't a great argument against a solution. That is, many cases, I'd rather have a webhook with the "only attempt once" strategy than an API I have to poll. "Pretty reliable" is often good enough. I think OP's question is valid.
It's possible to release a mod under GPL when the original license is just MIT.
So basically, as an Australian, the only real one to use is Apple TV who hold pretty much every TV series even slightly worthwhile watching.
To be fair, Microsoft is also giving away a full featured IDE now.
That's informative, thanks. At least I have something to look into, and a quick search indicates that source maps are not even necessary in this approach!
XCode is not free. It costs 1 Mac. Given the price difference between the cheapest mac and the cheapest alternatives the cost of XCode something > $0

Posted from a mac
Interesting. This kind of stuff makes me want to dive into the details of these kinds of choices, as I regularly wonder why languages designed are a certain way.
Unfortunate naming for a Python library. It conflicts with a python standard library module: https://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html

EDIT: Misread this. My mistake.
Such is almost invariably the case with most CSS frameworks until you work with a designer that seeks differentiation. That's the point where everything generally falls apart, for better and for worse, depending on who's responsible for reconciling it.

Fortunately, this seems more easily amenable to that scenario than the typical framework due to its smaller footprint.
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This seems fine. Being straightforward is good -- hiring managers don't want to spend hours on each application.
It's pbd, not pdb.
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I'm in Seattle, and $125k (which you mentioned elsewhere) is definitely on the thrifty end of the spectrum these days around here, and I'd expect that to be really low for SV. You might be able to pull it off if your company is extremely cool or if you're offering crazy equity (which a profitable, conservatively managed company most certainly is not doing), but even up here, the big boys are easily hitting $300k total comp for senior developers. I can't imagine expectations are any lower in SV.

Obviously, this just underscores your point, but I wanted to give you some datapoints since you seemed surprised that someone might not take the $125k offer. It's a seller's market.
Not totally sure what this is, but I enjoyed playing with it.
"However, many of us who have actually conducted clinical
research, managed clinical studies and data collection and
analysis, and curated data sets have concerns about the
details."

The rest of us have some concerns too, Doctor. http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
To be fair, that's not actually software they're writing, it's a guarantee of future employment for a bunch of consultants. Don't be fooled just because they call it "software".
This is a huge throwback for me. At the age of 12 I was a big member of the Electro Freeks group, and I even helped curate a mix of theirs. I can't wait to start using the site again -- it was super important to me before they redesigned the site and eliminated groups. I think one of the cofounders is even on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hsiung do you have anything to say?
All the MRI scans of my brain I've gotten ("structural" scans taken as part of fMRI studies) have been sufficient to get a pretty decent volume rendering of my head. Some of them cut off about half way through the jaw, but that's another issue entirely.
I have some issues with Schiit's accounting.

First, that much DC is simply unacceptable, even when removing power from an amp. Amps don't just lose power because they're deliberately turned off. Sometimes people trip over a cord. Sometimes, a circuit breaker trips. Sometimes, the power goes out. Sometimes, batteries die. None of this circumstances should endanger downstream equipment.

Second, the fix is extremely simple. As Schiit admitted, it took less than a day to develop and ship boards without this issue. There is only one reason why a company would sell a device with this problem: incompetence. If they'd cop to screwing up, I'd respect them. Instead, they dissemble and equivocate.

Third, so what if their own experiment didn't manage to destroy a pair of expensive headphones? "I can't reproduce this failure." doesn't mean, "This failure can never happen." The headphones only survived because they were designed with extremely robust safety factors. Even then, it's quite likely that Schiit's amp damaged the headphones. 1-2V of DC is way out of spec and has –in some cases– damaged and destroyed equipment. There is video of Schiit's amp distorting headphone drivers. That's crazy. No equipment should be doing that.

Fourth, "other audiophile gear also does it" is not a valid excuse. As NwAvGuy has shown, Sturgeon's law[1] applies to this stuff. Just because there's lots of terrible gear out there, that doesn't mean it's OK to produce more terrible gear.

After reading Schiit's accounting, I'm certain they lack the engineering knowledge to build safe, effective audio equipment. I think their intentions are good, but there's simply no excusing such a glaring oversight. In my book, Schiit is an anti-brand.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Ustream is the first place I worked, exciting to see this news
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I've recommended Signal (then TextSecure) to a number of non-technically savvy friends as a trustworthy app that takes security seriously. Moxie is somewhat unique in this respect, among the sea of proprietary apps put out by larger shops. Upon seeing these "X is on Signal" messages, I had a number of people contacting me with concerns. At least the outward appearance is that Signal is somehow leaking contact data to their servers. Presumably it is also alerting people to the fact that "Joe" is a Signal user, despite no communication with that user having taken place.

I realize that phone numbers are probably hashed before being sent, with only local contact data being displayed, but it has people concerned nonetheless. It starts to err more towards convenience, ease of use, and network building above security.
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Exactly. The horse parent is beating has been dead for years now.

It's been fixed and they've sold thousands of devices since then.
I'm not convinced it was a net plus even 100 years ago. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
Show HN: The Codex – a graph database project for the digital humanities
In 2015 I quit my full-time job as an ASP.NET developer to build what I think of as an "atlas of history" for the Italian Renaissance. It is a semantic-web style database build in Neo4j, .NET MVC, and KnockoutJS, and is an attempt to build a map of historical events and personalities for the digital humanities.

http://the-codex.net

I am currently the sole developer, product designer, and researcher on the project -- but I am looking for collaborators who would be willing to help me take this further.

As an "atlas of history" is a broad concept I decided to give the project clarity by focusing primary source documents from the Italian Renaissance. The two main sources at present are the 'Florentine Diary' of Luca Landucci and the letters of Michelangelo. I have entered about 40 years worth of entries from Landucci's diary and a good portion of Michelangelo's early letters from his Roman period. In the process I have added hundreds of historical personalities, places, artworks, etc., in order to give the user real data to work with. I have also built various screens with data visualisation tools to mine the historical events. And of course I have built an extensive back-end for managing the data and relationships.

Is anyone interested in helping me out? I'd love input from anyone with an interest in art history and graphic design, or data visualisation tool, Neo4j, or anyone who wants to help me research and enter data.

Feel free to email me any time at: iian.d.neill@gmail.com

In the meantime, why not check out the Control Panel on Leonardo da Vinci's dataset. Clicking any links in the text will load the datasets for those entities; or you can search for them by name. Why not try adding Michelangelo's dataset to the mix? You can then switch between the three data-vis modes at the bottom, fiddle with the date filters, etc.

http://the-codex.net/Time/ControlPanel

Many thanks,
Iian
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Now, if Spain can only apply the same righteousness to their own politicians that they do to their former colonies...

Here's probably the first arrest that should happen:

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21613309-jordi-pujols-c...

But there is a long list of possibilities.
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I also recorded a screenshare presentation of how The Codex works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0ESfLBuHo
You can export anonymised files from Osirix very easily. You can also just anonymise the fields you want to easily. I'm yet to see a dicom viewer as good as Osirix - it's simple to use and has every feature I've ever wanted. How the paid viewers get it so wrong is beyond me.
in living the life we normally live, we are living a life that isn’t natural. And in order to be properly human, we’ve got to be properly animal.

I wonder why he wants to act like non-human animals. It seems perverse to call that natural. You'd think he'd get more out of trying to live as a Paleolithic human. It would certainly be more natural. And he'd certainly be more successful at it.
If you want to be able to rent things, use Amazon Instant Video instead. Personally between a Prime subscription and the odd rental of new titles I don't feel like I'm missing much after cancelling my Netflix subscription, although I'll probably renew when they release a new season of one of their originals.
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This is really awesome. The UI and UX are pretty much perfect.

Some suggestions for future features:

- Easier way of doing layering

- Easy way to swap out the instruments would also be cool.

- An open source, self-hostable version would also be nice.
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This aquisition is not a great exit for UStream, that was valued at $150M in 2010, but an exit none the less. I doubt the founders or employees would see as much of the $130M as they would have hoped, due to a massive $62M VC investment being in place... but still likely a much better outcome then if the company would have had to slowly wind down. (The investment structure of UStream is a bit complicated, but this article summarizes well why the amount is likely very close to this number https://gigaom.com/2011/12/09/ustream-softbank-funding-colla...).

In 2011 the company rebooted itself to a B2B direction - see
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-once-red-hot-startup-had.... This direction has only been a modest success. For a bootstrapped company it would have been completely fine to go on like that indefinitely, but for a VC investment heavy one, this - or any other - sale must have been in the making since the hopes of an IPO have clearly disappeared.

One thing the article doesn't mention is that this aquisition makes a lot of sense for IBM. They get access to a lot of businesses who host their internal video streaming on UStream, like Facebook (company update videos all running on it). Also the main UStream engineering office is in Budapest, Hungary, where there is a large IBM office as well, so that will make integration smoother.

UStream employees who joined to disrupt the startup consumer video space a couple years back - welcome to IBM. I hope you've gotten some handsome payouts or golden handcuffs - and congratulations.
From that perspective it seems equally absurd that a person wouldn't automatically own the copyright on a photo of themselves, and yet they don't - the photographer does. It seems plausible that the person who creates the physical record owns the copyright, regardless of the subject. (I don't disagree with you. Just a counterpoint.)
The research scans use 3D T1 (and sometimes T2) scans for mapping the functional data onto a brain region. They have to put the low res functional scans onto something that has some degree of resolution. Functional scans are acquired with temporal resolution in mind - the change in signal after activation is something like 6 seconds, and to accurately sample this you want a whole brain acquisition in much less time that that. We typically acquire whole brain scans in something like 3 seconds. New techniques such as multiband imaging are acquiring whole brain scans in 600-700ms or so. This is pretty fast.
Clinical scans do use 3D techniques but tend to go for 2D scans (which are a slice, then a gap of 10-30% usually of slice thickness) then a slice.
2D scans are faster, have much better in plane resolution (lower through plane as slices are fatter and have gaps between them). Clinical scans are also one hell of a lot better for identifying things as numerous image weighting a are obtained. MR tech here.
There is concern among some front-line researchers that the system will be taken over by what some researchers have characterized as “research parasites.”

So we should consider Francis Collins & James Watson "research parasites"?

Without their own analysis of other researcher's data the double helix would not have been discovered.

You cannot control information/data just because you gathered it. Pick up your marbles because you do not like what your pears concluded?

Science is based on reproducibility and peer review.

Peer review without full access to data is a fallacy.
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Not sure though layoffs may come after IBM acquisitions.
thank you. library of instruments is in the works
Okay, I'll bite - why OCaml specifically? Aren't there other FP languages that cross compile to iOS, is there any advantage to using an ML?
I really don't like the implications of this. I hate corruption, but what is the next step? Going to prison in Saudi Arabia for being an open atheist in Denmark?
That's the common spin of the moment.

What they aren't saying is why Flint switched its supply: the Detroit system drastically raised its fees to Flint (the switch saved $19 million over the first 8 years alone), and Flint was broke as it is. The city council vote to switch was 7-1, with 6 Democrats voting "yes".

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2013/03/flint_city...

Many articles try to imply that the lead came from the new water supplier; in fact, it leached from lead pipes the existing system used as its water mains.

Yes, despite all these years of knowing the dangers of lead, neither Flint nor Detroit made any attempt to clear lead from their water delivery systems, and EPA rules allowed testing to be based on long periods of letting taps run to clear as many contaminants as possible first.

And switching back to Detroit water doesn't solve the lead problem in the mains, although it may be less acute.
Find a study and sign up.

Look for research groups in your local institutions and send an email to a couple grad students asking about studies they or their colleagues are running in the near future. A researcher may give you the scan if you ask nicely and say it's for personal interest, plus you'll be compensated for your time /and/ simultaneously help with the advancement science :)
That's an opinion, I suppose.

When downmods serve to censor my content, they become my business. I don't know where you pulled 'upvote' from, though; I'm not sure there is much value in knowing them.

Edit: Someone is getting a feed of something...or they are just furiously refreshing this thread. hehe
Someone further down the thread linked a piece about x-rays, but in general I'd suspect that an MRI or other visual produced by medical scanning technology would not be copyrightable in the first place; copyright does require a certain amount of creative effort in the production of the copyrighted work. The important case here, if you want to look up the history, is Feist v. Rural Telephone, which dealt with the (non-)copyrightability of a list of telephone numbers.
Heh -3 points.

Must be missing something...

Downmodders can't figure out how to reply in text?
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Sounds great! I just had doubts, because most of job ads require full-time developers, but I'm sending my offer as a contractor.
It resembles http://www.newearthcalendar.com/ a bit.
What you're describing already kind of exists with Overtone (Clojure): http://overtone.github.io/
https://youtu.be/IOiZatlZtGU?t=22s
What an interesting group that banded together...

> Check Point Software Technologies, Inc., LinkedIn Corporation, Mozilla Corporation, Netflix, Inc., Pinterest, Inc., Roku, Inc. and Twitter, Inc. (Amici) are technology and Internet companies.

I understand why the media ones are together (MPEG, etc.) but I don't understand Checkpoint (LinkedIn as I remembered by writing this purchased Lynda.com, so it cares a lot about serving video). Can anyone explain?
Because I really like OCaml, its very easy to talk to C code with it. Hmm, for me OCaml provides

1) Type safety

2) Native code speed

3) No C style memory issues, its a garbage collected language

4) You can compile OCaml code as a C library, then call it from C. OCaml in general has great C/Objective-C/C++ interoperability.

5) Predictable performance, no head scratchers.

6) Functional programming if I want to do that.