skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So then it's not really able to define infinite space so much as infinitesimal space. Going from 1 to 0.

On a side note, the Hilbert Curve pattern quite resembles the folds of a brain. Which makes me wonder about the attributes such a pattern would lend our brains:

1) the ability to hold fixed points in space relative to each other while increasing information density between those points, and

2) our ability to stand on the edge of space (reality), and look / measure inward (1 to zero), without seeing infinity looming behind us.
Not at all, it's a giveaway to executives (who get bonuses based on EPS) and long term shareholders. Some firms also borrow money to fund a dividend which is just a literal giveaway.
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There are a number of factors in the way that people manage debt payments that the article seems to question as illogical.

Just take a standard setup of a mortgage where we'll give a generous 7% interest rate, along with a couple of credit cards with a 15% rate and let's put some decent sized balances here for sake of comparison:

$300,000 mortgage @ 7% over 30 years
$10,000 credit card @ 15%
$20,000 credit card @ 15%

This is a random hypothetical with numbers made up out of thin air and without factoring in tax deductions. From a sheer cash flow perspective, say you have $4,000 to apply to your payments and the minimum payments are something like:

$2,500 for the mortgage
$300 for the first credit card
$500 for the second credit card

So you've got a total of $3,300 in payments with an extra $700 to use to accelerate payments that you've got to decide how to allocate between them.

If I apply it to the mortgage, this would be how the payment structure pans out over time (using Debt Repayment calculator)

$300,000 at 7% with payment $2,500
= 208 months or 11.4 years to payoff with $212,241.36 in interest (total paid $512,241.36)

$10,000 at 15% with payment $300
= 44 months or 3.5 years to payoff with $2,983.59 in interest (total paid $12,983.59)

$20,000 at 15% with payment $500
= 57 months or 4.75 years to payoff with $7,802.46 in interest (total paid $27,802.46)

Now, let's look at two strategies to applying the extra $700 cash with the mortgage vs the small debts.

First the mortgage way:

$300,000 at $3,200
= 137 months or 11.4 years to payoff with $184,138.98 in interest (total paid $484,138.98)
$10,000 at $300
= 44 months or 3.5 years to payoff with $2,983.59 in interest (total paid $12,983.59)
$20,000 at $500
= 57 months or 4.75 years to payoff with $7,802.46 in interest (total paid $27,802.46)

Now the smallest debt way:

$10,000 at $1000
= 12 months years to payoff with $1,354.08 in interest (total paid $11,354.08)

But now our formula changes because after 12 months, I now have $1,000 to apply to the next smallest:

$20,000 at $500 for 1 year (total interest $1,642.62, principle paid $4,357.38)
$15,642.62 remaining principle then at $1,500 after one year
= 12 more months to payoff (24 months total) with $2,091.00 in interest (total paid $23,733.62)

And now after 24 months I have $1,500 to apply to the mortgage.

$300,000 at $2,500 for 24 months (total interest $24,489.39, principle paid $35,510.61)
and then at $4,000 after that on the remaining $264489.39
= 86 more months to payoff with $107,086.21 in interest (total paid $442,597)

When you factor in cash flow into a total debt payment allowance you end up with an increase in applied payment if you payoff the small stuff first. The result here is a total net payment of $477,684.70 and no debt after 110 months or 9.16 years vs a total net payment of $524,925.03 and continual debt payments for 11.4 years.

EDIT: I need to go back in and adjust the mortgage way to accelerate payments more when the 2 credit cards are paid off. My bad.
> If you believe that content creators have a right to earn money there are two ways that can happen: 1) directly - you pay directly for the content that you want to consume or 2) indirectly - you see ads or sell your data in some way.

I don't think this is a truism.

Sites in the style of BBC/CNN/Fox/Yahoo/etc. may have a tough time with their online content if they aren't able to support those properties with ads.

IME most content that's actually worth the time it takes to consume (e.g., well-composed articles and essays written by field experts) is not ad-supported. A lot is behind paywalls, and still more is provided on non-ad-supported websites. For example, distributed freely by fee-supported professional organizations or else by the author him/her-self as a tool for self-promotion/brand building. I don't see any reason why high-quality content can't survive on non-ad revenue, given that there are plenty of counter-examples.

And that's just considering the ad-supported sites that are actually content-driven. A lot of online advertisement is not supporting original content creation at all.
So which anti virus and firewall SHOULD I use on windows? I am hardly on Windows anymore, just for the occasional game, but I still want to have some protection.
As noted in my original comment: yes.

However, he's had issues with multiple sites iframing his content against his will, not just Daily Mail. DM just went the extra mile to straight-up rehost the content, which crosses a line that directing a user's browser to mash up content from multiple servers isn't generally considered to cross (and can be controlled by content providers via use of existing cross-domain headers).
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That requires making the builds easy to do, such that Matthew's claim that people cannot easily build things themselves probably is not valid. At least not if that project succeeds.

Anyway, I am happy to see that building from source is becoming easier for users of Debian and presumably Ubuntu by extension.
Yes they can partner with Baidu but at the end of the day, its all about whether the CCP have Uber on a leash. If the CCP can force Walmart to capitulate and accept unions then I'm sure Uber will capitulate as well and change their core values or possibly even control and influence to the CCP via a board member.

I agree that Uber isn't going to lose outright with how they intend to fight in China and I'm actually excited to see how much Uber will change to become CCP acceptable. If Uber wants to win, it will have to sacrifice a lot more than just money.
"the cloud" and "on a server" are the same thing.
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And EPS is one of the big metrics for share prices (the PE ratio uses it for example). It makes sense that if there are less shares they should all be worth more, but EPS is the reason why that is the case.
I use this plugin (also available for Chrome) to redirect to pictures of tea and kittens should I accidental click on a Daily Mail link. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/kitten-block/
I guess that varies with where you live. In Europe the deal is usually e.g. if you buy a house the safety isn't just the house, it's the house AND the future lifetime income of the buyer. If you manage to buy a house in what turned out to be Detroit and its value goes from $1M to $1k, then the bank might take the house but you will also be paying off that $999k for the rest of your life. Not to mention you'll never get any credit again.

Personal bankruptcy will let you off but not easy. You'll make a plan to live att the poverty line for 5-10 years paying everything you earn to the bank, so they can get maybe 1/3 of their losses, and write off the rest. And after this of course you still won't get a loan again so you'll be a renter without credit cards for the rest of your life.
> Didn't you read the article at all? It's only a few paragraphs:

This is an unhelpful comment to make. But if you're going to take that tack, one could plausibly make the same remark in response to your comment. Because farther down, the post talks about the other time the Daily Mail used one of his visualiations:

They didn't just screenshot the map. They didn't just embed the map itself. They iframed my entire site, which is why the FlowingData logo and header appear on their site.

So there were two instances. One in which they copied the code and removed the code snippet, and another in which they just iframe-ed the page. The charitable interpretation of the GP's comment is that they were referring to the latter.
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Yes, but the parent poster isn't wrong; the bulk of the article is about iframe embedding, and it's a clear distinction people should draw in terms of responsibility.

In addition, DM crossed a line that they shouldn't have crossed by re-hosting the content. But conflating iframe embedding and content theft is a bad precedent.
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> Knake said that the Justice Department’s narrowly crafted request shows both that FBI technical experts possess a deep understanding of the way Apple’s security systems work and that they have identified potential vulnerabilities that can provide access to data the company has previously said it can’t get.

I assume the actual request is more technical then, because the overview they gave here explains the things you would want to do if you knew nothing about the encryption and wanted to brute-force. Reduce password attempt timeouts, allow automating the password attempts, and don't melt-down after too many failures.
but that isn't the purpose

Sometimes that is precisely the purpose.
Aassuming this was real, Apple would store the private key in Keychain[1]. Keychain is encrypted with your login password generally, and can have an ACL to only allow iTunes.app as an allowed application without further user prompting.

[1] - https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Securi...
Also, typically debt accounts have minimum payments. One point in favor of the Snowball Method[1] is that it typically increases your working capital at the expense of greater total payments. For people with few assets, this can help insulate them from emergencies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-snowball_method
Could you take this a step further and automatically run the transcripts created through the Watson Personality Insights?
What does the law say about putting a license on use of things like this "Embedding this content into your site without written permission from the author will involve a £100000 fee for it's use. You agree by embedding this content that you abide by these terms."

Is something like this enforceable?
I find it odd he uses the term "quite obviously" twice in his post. If it was so obvious, why bother seeking legal counsel? I think he's doing Ubuntu a disservice with that kind of response. It makes it seems as though they haven't put in an appropriate amount of effort to vet this thing out.

I'm also curious as to why they'd have waited so long to include it if the legal questions were so trivial.
It's not unheard of for the government to request manufacturers or service providers to aid them in obtaining information about third parties under investigation. Let's say a safe manufacturer, they might ask for blue prints, or a gunseller a list of people who bought a particular firearm from them (if they kept such records, disregard background checks).
Nope, IIRC he didn't technically own the domain, it just showed up in his account as owning it (therefore he could have viewed analytics and other information) - but he didn't actually have permission to change the domain.
I might be interested, but I'm not hardware buff enough to build a computer myself. And what kind of software would run on that CPU?
You've made two claims:

a. "[I] care less about market share because market share is not, and never has been, what sustains the FOSS ecosystem"

b. "Sometimes market share does sustain the FOSS ecosystem indirectly"

I disagreed with what you said the first time. The second response is different because you're accepting that sometimes market share does sustain FOSS. You're also saying that sometimes building market share does not improve the sustainability of FOSS: I can accept that as true easily.

If you accept that sometimes it does sustain FOSS, then the questions are what level of "sustaining" you want and what you precisely mean by the FOSS ecosystem

My definition of sustain would be quite simple, I want to see FOSS developing quickly and end-users receiving the benefit of using free software. Notice my definition of "FOSS ecosystem" includes users, and the variety of contributions from supporting FOSS, to working on documentation through to development.

Consequently, market share is important to me because more users means more contributors: both paid and unpaid. Without paid developers there would be no Intel graphics/networking for Linux, no Python, no Firefox or any of RedHat or Ubuntu. The larger your market share the more paid developers you can attract which speeds innovation overall. That is not to negate the work of unpaid developers who have done and do fantastic work in FOSS: if there were no commercial developers there would still be FOSS but it wouldn't be as developed or as mature. The capabilities and speed of innovation within FOSS without full time paid developers would be fundamentally different.

Your last point is that as "sometimes" market-share does not sustain the FOSS ecosystem then it should not be the "primary" goal "for it's own sake". You'd have to write a longer essay as I don't see how that point follows. I'm sure some market share increase for FOSS doesn't increase the number of contributors. But overall I perceive a positive spinning wheel where more market share (e.g users) means more contributors to FOSS both paid and unpaid. In fact, I think we already have fantastic FOSS, if there were 'units of effort' to spend on improving the FOSS ecosystem I would be all-in spending them all on increasing the number of users.
Well, what does one expect - they are the hateful paper for hateful people. In the 30's they ran many pieces about the wonderful Mr Hitler and his brilliant solution to the Jewish problem - and today they trot out the same rhetoric re: Muslims and immigrants.

This is relevant because the kind of person who wants to work for a paper that espouses such views is very unlikely to care about your human, never mind intellectual property, rights.
Um, exactly?
From what I've read, looks like Firefox and Chrome cache forever, IE not. But I might be wrong.
What are you talking about? How is unused imports related to library versioning? And how is focusing on improving build times orthogonal to "building"? The concern with build times is to make building while developing faster [0], how is that related to "releasing"?

Your points are tangential at best, and nonsensical otherwise.

[0]: http://mortoray.com/2015/05/06/fast-build-turnaround-time-is...
> And "just monetize it" feels like a... simplistic approach. Even if the Daily Mail did a normal iframe embed, how would the author monetize, exactly?

Send them an invoice for using his material, with an additional fee for not getting permission in advance.

Then take it to small claims if DM doesn't pay.
It's not the time aspect. It's that being type B is already a liability enough in corporate America. Making myself even further away from the "type A" end of the spectrum would harm my career even more. Sad.
You can have a cheap phone, or one made solely in your country. You can't have both.
I'm shocked at some of the answers in this thread: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/denis-o-brien-...

People think this is some sort of fancy "Ad Block Plus" -- it's not.

Basically the ISPs want Google and Facebook to give them revenue because they "transport" their packets that are ads. This is an affront to net neutrality.

Three will block ads and then charge Google/FB to let them through.
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According to the BI proponents, we have a shortage of jobs. Yet prices are rising and work is simply going undone. That's completely the opposite of what would happen if they were right.

If you want to claim that less employment and lower production is a good thing, go ahead.

Your facts are also wrong; the US has a GINI of 41 (comparable to the UK or the Congo). In contrast, India has only 33.6 (comparable to France, Canada or Sierra Leone). India has absolute poverty which is a totally different problem.
"I mean Facebook loads decently enough and all I'm just surprised the first load isn't condensed into a small, handful of network calls to save on latency."

Actually it is: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/bigpipe-...
As I understand it, we don't have class action in the UK.
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I'm afraid this will suit Chinese authorities just fine. This is not how you want to play this game.
I think that when you clear the cache on recent versions of Chrome it also removes 301 redirects. I'm not sure though.
I recommend FreeCol which developed quite nice over the years: http://www.freecol.org/
Harper Lee has died
Having just doubled my workout routine I'm quite impressed how working out changes the brain and body.
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"Killer content"? I did 5 of the first free sessions and the content was essentially the same each time and the process is probably easier to do on your own once you have learned the 3-4 steps that are repeated. Did I miss something?
Bees are a eusocial organism. While individual bees are dumb/unable to understand their actions, as a whole, bees are remarkably intelligent.

Bees already swarm and kill intruders, but simply lack the understanding of how to bake the wasps. I think a cross breeding program may take care of that issue - but hybridization can bring other problems (see African bees mixing with European).
> the pay per "word" for software development is so much higher.

Just make sure camel case counts as separate words. I made $5 for writing an empty class LazyAbstractEnterpriseAutoScalingStringFactoryProxyImpl
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Buzz Killington.
Selective enforcement of laws in very common in many countries. If they enforce is too harshly then people will protest. For example exceeding the speed limit while driving.
Presumably any "backdoor" is a security hole that can be accessed on any phone. So far, this request asks that Apple remove only the part of one phone's security that 1) destroyes that phone's data after 10 failed tries, and 2) slows the automated entry of passcodes into that phone. So far, this case is specific to one phone and thus not about a general backdoor.

As the case stands, unless Apple can show how compliance weakens security on other phones, I don't see how they can refuse to comply, unless it's technically impossible for them to do. If it is impossible, their refusal in this case may lead to a ruling that requires them to change iOS to comply with such requests in the future. But if they can comply now, only the security on one phone will be diminished. It's strongly in the company's interest to comply.

If Apple does not (cannot) comply, and subsequently they are ordered to change iOS to comply with future requests, would this be a "backdoor"? Yes. I don't see how Apple can add this "feature" to iOS and assure that only authorized legal authorities could activate it in the future.

Is this case about changing iOS to comply with future requests of this kind? Not yet.
This sort of thing happens all the time with images though. It just sounds worse and different because it is a fancy visualization rather than a .jpg or .gif.
Socks.

And potentially incriminating secrets wrapped in metaphorical socks, apparently.

Probably one of those socks should contain a big machine bolt with a bunch of heavy hex-nuts screwed onto it, so that anyone who comes around to sniff at my socks can get a proper beating (along with the regular intrinsic olfactory penalty for sniffing my socks).

But I feel like you're missing something. The government cops aren't always going to be looking for incriminating evidence or actionable intelligence. They might just be using that as a pretext to look for cash or valuables that they can slip into their own pockets. You kept it a secret, after all, so how would you prove that they stole it? That's just one of the ways in which power corrupts.
Sure, but the legal precedent will make this a rubber stamp in future, and will mean that Apple can't reasonably resist such orders from other governments.
Due to the Law of diminishing marginal utility.
Well, that was easy.

Installed the 'home user' version on an X61s from March 2008 so an 8 year old laptop. Listening to an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum mp3 from local storage using the built in mp3 player (all sound buttons recognised). The X61s has an Atheros wifi card and Intel graphics so not too exotic in terms of drivers. 1.5Gb RAM and a 64Gb SSD and quite responsive except on 'noisy' Web sites where scrolling down the page will stutter now and again. I might be evil and switch one of the cores off in the BIOS and pull a RAM stick out and see how it goes.

You boot off the USB, you select language/keyboard and connect to wifi. Then the Adobe Flash installer appears. After that you can log in with your Google account and use the system as a live usb or choose to install to hard drive.

The latter option again asks for the language/keyboard stuff and then asks about single or dual boot. I went for single boot so erase whole drive, then you click next and you get a summary screen.Click 'next' and it is away - your existing data gone and a happy bar in the form of three 'bubbles'. It powers down when the install is finished. Rebooting you get the language/keyboard thing again and then sign into the Google account.

Claiming just under 4 hours on the old 6 cell battery. Fan calm. Top shows cpus bumbling along at around 5% or so playing this track with fairly 'calm' Web sites loaded. Font rendition is nice as might be expected.

I might set up another Google account for specifically testing this thing out on normal workloads. Might also try it on a Samsung NC10 netbook which has trickier kernel driver requirements (Samsung extensions).

I think that the company would benefit from mentioning the ability to run a live session off the USB stick without installing more prominently. They might get more eyeballs that way.
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The readme file is better worded

"You may use this version of <font name> for personal use.
For commercial use, you need to donate via Pay Pal. <author email address>"

Clearly a purchase and not a donation. The font creator would need to declare that on his/her taxes.
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Heuristic Expiration is a case of documenting existing weirdness. Older browsers would have cache expiration policy be a setting the user could control, so you can't really leave off explicit headers with any expectation a default will be respected.
Consumerism and marketing are powerful things. I know all about the problems debt creates, how it can get out of hand. I've read Dave Ramsey's books and listen to his podcasts. I am very well versed in what it takes to be financially successful.

... But it only takes one moment of weakness to see a new car, fall in love with it, be convinced your life will be better with it and the next thing you know you've committed to 48 payments.

I know that paying an exorbitant amount for a smartphone is not a wise financial move. But here I am anxiously awaiting the release of the Galaxy S7 to see how great it is. I'm sure I'll want one. I'm sure I'll tell myself my life will be better if I can take beautiful photos with the camera and it will be worth the cost in that regard. (My current phone's camera sucks)