skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What right do you have to coerce me into acknowledging the stuff is yours?

Or more precisely, how exactly is that combination of precedent, social contract, practical utility and legal and actual force that allows you to claim the right to limit my use of your stuff different from the basis for government agencies claiming the right to impose other limits?
Many people still have assumptions of the pre-Internet age: things aren't ordered online, they are purchased in local stores. The stores have sales which are significant: buying on-sale can be 20-50% cheaper than buying off-sale. And the information on sales comes from advertising sections shipped with the local newspaper, or by big SALE signs in the store.
> A job is a free exchange between two parties.

That's a statement born out of extreme privilege. For substantial proportions of people, there is very little freedom involved: You take what is on offer, or you lose your house or don't eat. One side has an extreme amount of extra leverage, and some of them takes according advantage.

People died fighting for the 8 hour working day because without regulation employers simply did not give a shit if they were working people into an early grave. We have May Day labour demonstrations in large part of the world in part as a result of what is now the AFL-CIO wanting to commemorate the Chicago Haymarket massacre, and restart what was already then, in 1880's, a multiple decades long fight for human working hours.

In other instances, people burned to death because of employers that thought it ok to lock the factory doors to prevent workers from taking unauthorised breaks.

Is that an indication of a free exchange?

For a free exchange, both sides need to have reasonably equal power.
Would be awesome to see Thai available too..
>Trivially. By asserting that without intellectual property protection those drugs wouldn't have been invented

That isn't trivial. It's stupid. It's a completely non-disprovable argument.

Plenty of innovations are created where creators voluntarily yields their rights and plenty of others are probably not created because the creator of it (under employment) isn't hugely keen on creating yet more property for his or her employer to exploit.
Erdogan has been cleaning house arresting and harassing journalists, judges, generals, and businessmen for years now.
Ray Tomlinson's email is flawed, but never bettered
I think it is a deeper, subconscious psychological trick. "It's a special offer and it is limited time, I should get it while I can." Like, appeal to opportunists, or something? Of course, you're completely right and we rational people just override this and do not fall for such cheap tricks.
I agree with you that it is possible (even easy) to make a watertight electronic voting system. However, it is not easy to make an electronic voting system that anyone can look at and verify. Only a small proportion of people have the skills to do that.
>> Such a country wouldn't get admission to the WTO

> As opposed to what we do when we invade and bomb/drone
other countries?

I don't think the parent supports the action, but merely stating the likely outcome, realpolitik and all. S/he is answering gp's question: "What is stopping some other countries (even micro-nations) from instituting a policy that forfeits all patents on medication"

The answer, in short, is leverage: smaller countries can be pressured into not even considering it - because of the consequences. India can do this because it is better able to withstand the hypothetical political pressure.
But politicians have massive other incentives: supporting their ideology, religious beliefs, power structures, etc.

Between someone motivated purely by profit, and a politician, I trust the profit-driven person far more. Their intentions are completely clear unlike a politician's.
Er, France surrendered in mid-1940, and they surrendered because they were not able to mount a defence to Blitzkreig, had lost a large proportion of allied forces to the overrun (including the BEF at Dunkirk) and decided to surrender Paris and survive rather than risk it being obliterated in urban warfare. Given what happened to Stalingrad that doesn't look like a bad choice.

In some ways WW2 was the last of the wars of colonisation to be attempted. Assert racial superiority, a need for land, define the "natives" already occupying it as subhuman, invade and kill them, extract resources and colonise. This time in Russia since Africa was already taken and the Americas already liberated.
"Here in India it is legal "

That's a rather spectacular claim to make, and indeed, the very first sentence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_India says " All forms of cannabis are currently illegal in India, with some limited allowances made for some traditional preparations." So either you are wrong or the Wikipedia article is, along with all its references, history etc. I'm not a betting man but if I were, I know where I'd put my money...
WWI did cause a boom in some technologies. Automotive and aircraft technology, certainly.
It seems to me that many of the objections in comments so far assume that people are efficient and rational consumers.

Economics often assumes that. Politics sometimes assumes that.

It's nearly always an incorrect assumption.
In this case the death penalty is to ensure silence.

Locking him up would mean keeping an enemy of the state alive, an enemy with powerful friends and a very large bag of dirty laundry.

This isn't justice (this is Iran were talking about after all it's judicial system is a joke) this is spring cleaning, the sanctions have been lifted so he isn't needed anymore.
> I think everyone's voting record should be made public! How would this be a bad thing?

You boss don't like Democrats. After elections he fires everybody who voted them. Especially bad (and probable) when you work in government institutions and you want to vote opposition.
I find 43 minutes of outage in one month for a well paid service a bit much
Have you written about how you found the process? The good and bad things, etc. With UWP being so new and untested it is hard to find much information on porting an already established codebase to the platform. How is performance, etc?
Nonsense, disregarding the pink elephant in the room (reproducibility in academia) once a method has shown potential it is often spun off into some sort startup (often SBR recipients). If they keep gaining clout, a bigger pharmaceutical will buy them out. New medicines are developed 10% by a university and 90% by industry.
West side. Balearic islands.
Ask HN: Computer Science university courses in the UK
I'm currently looking for universities to study Computer Science in the UK.

I was wondering, has anyone here got any advice on good courses/places to go? I tend to prefer more practical programming to theory, though quite frankly both interest me.
The entire page is editable for me in Chrome and Safari
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Do you trust the alternatives?
That's a good point, more relevant to the US than RoW, but still a good point. The main issue is that you run into a chicken/egg problem: to lower the cost the government needs to develop alternative drugs, but won't have the money to do so unless you lower the cost.
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This nicely demonstrates the main design blunder of the Universal Windows Platform: introducing an incompatible dialect of C++ (called C++/CX, formerly known as C++/CLI, formerly known as Managed C++).

I really wonder why Microsoft had to invent their own, incompatible C++ dialect when projects like emscripten can cross-compile perfectly standard C++ to Javascript, which is a much more exotic compile target than the .NET runtime.
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You're missing a stupid CSS trick; apparently everything should be flat flat flat nowadays, even if that means throwing UX out of the window. The sample text is editable, even though it looks as if it's not.
This may well have been a mistake, but it is being addressed now, though probably not aggressively enough. Also, depending on how Google integrates OpenJDK into Android, we may soon have Java (real Java, that is) on the world's leading mobile platform.
Especially when being used to Python this would be a very welcome addition
How an insect travels 14,000 km
They seem to be a significant target for DDOS attacks, which seem to have been quite frequent.

That uptime measure is for the application server, which I suspect does not include GitHub Pages which is hosted separately on static content servers.

Lastly, 99.9% uptime over a month means 43 minutes of downtime. To me, that sounds like quite a lot.
I think you're missing the point on both the money and the patent laws in India. According to the article
"Successive governments have taken a view that patents should be granted only for major innovations, not updates to existing compounds — allowing domestic manufacturers to make generic versions of drugs at vastly lower cost." - which basically means you get a patent for real innovation, not minor cosmetic changes to keep your cash flow going.

The second - "Pharmaceutical firms say India’s disregard for patents will stifle innovation or make drugs commercially unfeasible — Gilead paid $11 billion to buy the developer of Sovaldi in 2012."

Note that it didn't cost $11B to research the drug but what it cost to buy the company. It is disingenuous to claim that their R&D cost is that high.
Agreed - it would not defend against this presumed watering-hole attack. However, neither would have AV: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d1ac55a4e610380f0ab239fcc...

Nevertheless, I still believe Common Sense to be a better alternative to bloated, vulnerable anti-virus programs.
How is that any more secure than just providing a download?
The author is missing the point of the Tor Browser.
They don't try to make fingerprinting impossible. They want to make the outcome uniform across all users.
See "Strategies for Defense: Randomization versus Uniformity" in their design docs [1].

And (as other said) uniformity is increased when using an anonymous/privacy enhancing operating system like Tails or WHONIX underneath.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#finge...
how absurd.. I should start a start up for a intragalactic mission to apha centauri
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I'm not noticing any performance difference, porting isn't much of a hassle.

I ported some layers of my DDD-webapplication ( huge codebase) to UWP to support Windows RT. So i could re-use my Api Client Connector.

The biggest problem i ran into was with reflection. So i split up one of my nuget package to a UWP-supported DLL and an "extension" dll. Which contained the non UWP/PCL supported methods / functions.

The UWP is used in my Api Connector and the extension dll is widely included into my "web application" + other apps ( import, export, wpf client, website, webapi ...).

The other thing ( not really a problem) was that i dropped support for SilverLight since one of the Nuget DLL's i use, didn't support that. And i don't use SilverLight in the current situation, so the choice was easily made.

Also, PCL requires async methods, so i had to change my Http Calls to support Async and use a different method to call the HTTP ( which really didn't take a long time). But i used a dirty trick to support Async ( eg. an extention method that extends uses my IApiInterface, to convert it to Async :) -- I needed it fast and didn't noticed any downsides till now.

PS. UWP supported dll is called Portable Class Library ( PCL) if you want to look it up.
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I enabled "email on incomplete checkout" that in a shop I own, and the response was very mixed. Some people were seriously offended, that we sent out a very friendly worded reminder email, that they left something in their basket (and had gone part of the way through checkout).

YMMV.
When it comes to supporting science they have only two choices, to fund it or not to fund it. So distortions would only come from them not funding something. The other stuff, I don't know how it applies to science funding. In case of not funding, I think there is enough spectrum of thought between liberals and conservatives to cover funding most causes if possible.
Yes but if you run a compromised App in VM A and have your sensitive data in VM B then they have to break out of the VM A and then break into VM B. It's no longer worth the effort. There are often easier ways like phising.
I've been using Duolingo everyday for 2 months now (to learn Spanish). Some thoughts: It's entertaining. You don't need much motivation to "play" everyday. Whenever I want to procrastinate, I feel it's a better option than reading the news and so on... However, it's too simple (which is why it is addictive). By itself, it's not enough to learn a foreign language. It's a good complement, and a great way to get started though.
Performance. An emscripten-like project could probably never generate IL that's as fast as the output of hand-ported C++.

Or, at least, that must've been a sane opinion to hold back when managed c++ was first invented.
Might be unrelated to the topic but I don't understand how you came up with the summation "India is creating a drug resistant bacteria because antibiotics are overused" from that nytimes article. The same article also mentions that the overuse of antibiotics in US factory farms has also lead to outbreaks of drug-resistant diseases in recent years. Yes it mentions that there's been a clampdown from 2000 to 2010, but I am skeptical of accepting this fact without numbers. Can I go ahead and say that US will be responsible for creating drug resistant bacteria?

You may not know this, but one of the major outbreaks of drug-resistant superbugs is because of Indian drug manufacturers exploiting lax environmental laws to dump anti-bacterial refuse into village waterways. A large number of these manufacturers are contracted by US big pharma because it is much cheaper to produce (even patent-protected) drugs in India. If you're interested, here's the bad medicine report on it https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.sumofus.org/images/BAD_MEDICINE_....

My point is no one country or entity can be blamed for the rise of superbugs. The problem is systemic and it needs us to step out of our reductionist paradigm to solve it.
Of course this is implemented in a paper voting system, if done right. When there are elections over here (in Germany), I can sit in the room all day and observe that the ballot box is empty at the beginning, every voter only votes once, and that votes are counted correctly at the end.

When I did that last year, I also wrote down the totals and compared these to the published results for my electoral district.
Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income
Confusingly, C++/CX is actually not for the .NET runtime, so it's not a successor to C++/CLI.

Instead C++/CX targets the traditional COM platform which goes back decades and was kind of resurrected as the foundation of WinRT (and whatever it's called in Windows 10 -- UWP I guess? I have trouble following these rebrandings).

As far as I've understood, the point of C++/CX is somewhat similar to Objective-C. You can still write raw COM code in plain C or C++ (just like you can use the Obj-C runtime from plain C if you really want to)... But C++/CX is there to make it more palatable.
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Cloud Technology – why move critical workloads and data closer to users?
Very interesting, and I'm looking into integrating it to http://WritingOutliner.com (or as a separate Word addin) :)
People wer exporting them from Canada, but big pharma lobbied for bans (http://news.healingwell.com/index.php?p=news1&id=526618). Anywhere close to US mainland, especially Mexico, I am afraid, will meet with the same fate.

Cuba's a different story as they just tell US lawmakers to fuck off.
> which is an altogether more effective way of developing new medicines anyway

I would like to believe that, but have you got any data to back this point? How many new medicines are developed by public research?
Like http://proselint.com/write/ ? ... which is also editable
Don’t forget about documentation
If there's a way to use Frege with Apache Spark that would be super useful
Temps, Consultants, and the Rise of the Precarious Economy
> > The main Bitcoin forum on Reddit is censored heavy handed. No criticism allowed, mentions of alternative software or forums get deleted right away.

> This is simply not true.

So anyone trying to discuss alternative software won't have their posts deleted?

> The only rule on the /r/bitcoin Reddit is not to promote these network fork attempts.

In other words, heavy handed censorship. Thanks for clarifying.
Not sure why anyone with a compromised machine would rather have the risk of a lingering backdoor just to save 1-2 hours clean formatting and reinstalling
Keep in mind this is at its core just a static site generator, there's nothing stopping you from pushing the generated site to S3, or even just a random server, and hosting it there instead if you don't like Github's uptime.
> The issue is that with medicine, it cost vast amounts of money to develop and test a medicine.

If that is the real issue, then subsidize the costs of clinical research, instead of accepting that everyone pays the price of drugs 10 times what they should cost.
No, it only requires finding one current employee willing to take a bribe, or perhaps be blackmailed.
How is that different to a meeting? I'm not an agile practitioner, so apologies if I've missed something important.
This would be true if they knew how it was compromised, they've been silent on that issue so far.

The current version could be being compromised this minute for all we know.
> I tend to prefer more practical programming to theory

And yet you're asking about a Computer Science. Why? You should be looking for a Software Engineering course instead.
Just reading Borrowed Time (a few years back) left me with strong feelings of a painful and dark epoch, I can't even imagine how harrowing it must have been to live through it and come through to the other side. Godspeed and long live to him.
A lot of these populations of undereducated are in areas that culturally oppose outside influences. See: cults, extremely rural Appalachia, pockets of immigrant groups opposing assimilation violently in European urban areas. Education = indoctrination to them and a loss of their cultural values. How do you teach people that may need it most when they don't want it?

This is not the case by and large but it puts a ceiling on the efforts to educate away problems with the Idiocracy trends of the world.
> I find the concept of intellectual property and patents ridiculous.

I think what's more ridiculous is that the patent system was not made, in the first place, to lock competition out of the market. It was supposed to be a starting point to create licenses for other companies to produce the same item, by providing royalty fees to the original patent owner.

But the system has quickly become a way to create rents and lock competitors out of the market. Short of fixing patents by making them shorter and all, we should find a way to market licenses at reasonable costs so that alternatives exist even during patent protection.
Not 90%. 58%. According to JAMA.

https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185198

When the public funds drug research it also doesn't "magically" discover that its drugs are really effective when they aren't:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/06/1...
In some cases, yes. You've to realize that each country in the WTO picks which battles to fight and which one's to let go.

For example, when Novartis lost the case, in Indian supreme courts, to ban the production of Gleevec (a Cancer drug) by Indian generic makers, they could've taken the arbitration to the WTO. However, this would mean terrible PR for both Novartis and US. Instead, PhRMA (a trade group for big pharma) and Novartis decided to let this one lie.

However, the US did recently challenge India's decision to force LCR (local content requirement) in it's push to use more solar energy in the country. USA, which is one of the biggest exporters of solar panels to India, successfully fought this decision.

I feel, in the end, the WTO is like any other court where two big conglomerates go head-to-head. Each one does not want to piss off the other to a great extent. And settlements are preferred over outright fights.
I don't know if anyone cares, but at ~9:15 there is a PDP-7 shown. To the right Max Mathews is shown sitting in front of a display with I assume MUSIC IV on it. This would make that PDP-7 part of the Graphic II terminal made by Bill Ninke. It is this PDP-7 that Unix is later written for/on.

So I believe this specific PDP-7 (serial number 34? It was the only one shipped to Bell Labs with a display before 1969.) is what would later become the "Unix genesis machine". Unfortunately, I also think this is the only footage of it, at least online. Anyone care to correct me? Please.
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You also don't need to use C++/CX in order to write UWP applications, there are several other bindings available [0]. There even exists a non-Microsoft made binding [1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime#Programming_in...

[1] http://moderncpp.com/about/
Tech companies, new and old, clamor to entice cloud computing experts
Talking of conspiracies and traitors...

The author of this book was approached by George W Bush's grandfather and some other very rich men, to be the leader of the U.S. after their fascist coup overthrew the current president. He said no, and blew the whistle, a government committe investigated and found the claims plausible and then nothing happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

(edit: I see I'm a bit late with this info as it's been linked twice already, still fascinating stuff, and very plausible given the country was certainly exploiting other countries militarily, and still exploiting its own minorities at home with little moral compunction, so it's not exactly a big step).
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C++/CX is a convenience syntax for creating and working with types in the windows runtime. In all of the talks given by Herb Suttor, a MS employee and active member of the C++ standards committee, he says to use it at ABI boundaries and use standard C++ everywhere else.

If that's not good enough for you there is also Mondern C++ by Kenny Kerr which is a C++1x projection of the windows runtime.
I participate in a subreddit focused on one particular modded mincraft launcher and set of modpacks (r/ftb, for the Feed The Beast launcher). Posts about modded minecraft in general are welcomed; /r/ftb is the largest modded minecraft subreddit, and there's a lot of overlap in terms of contents, users, mod authors, etc.

Similarly, I've never seen anyone upset about people discussing non-Javascript languages in /r/javascript; there's specific subreddits for some popular variants and libraries (like /r/coffeescript and /r/react), but nobody cares. The rules do say posts should be at least indirectly related to javascript, but a post talking about a better language would be seen as easily related enough.

/r/bitcoins rules do not follow the norms for Reddit communities, as far as I've seen.
I am a urban person that could see underwater, and until now I wasn't aware that it was something that could be learned, I just love diving in pools, and could not afford any equipment, so I got used to diving with eyes open, even in stupid high chlorine pools, and I don't need to mechanically close my nostrils either.
Curiously (but perhaps only to me) all things are comparable - able to be compared.

If you mean similar, may I commend the word similar? ;-)
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