skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're saying that since Comcast is governed by some laws that benefit it, we have to now create new laws that hurt it to offset the benefits?
Iran, China and India – The top 3 users of Sci-Hub
One particularly famous example: "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" earned $940M at the worldwide box office, yet Warner Brothers reported the film at a $167M loss on paper.

Link with an itemized, Hollywood Accounting-style breakdown:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100708/02510310122.shtml
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>You assume a constant price for gasoline, which is a bold assumption, given that the oil markets are currently gyrating wildly, and have been for some time - we're likely to see prices at the pump go up by orders of magnitude over a relatively short timescale, which will provide a big push towards EV adoption, and will drive people away from older vehicles which guzzle gas.

If anything the move towards electric car adoption will make gasoline less expensive. Oil isn't running out anytime soon. We already have the distribution and refinement infrastructure. Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries will want to sell the oil they have before the market disappears.

Maybe in 100 years when gas cars go extinct, gasoline would be expensive. But for the time being, it's not going to massively jump in price.
Hapijs and ionic framework
It's just BS.
> Obviously they can do what they want

Not in the most of the civilized world, no.

That someone agrees to something doesn't mean it does them any good. And while everyone is (or should be) free to accept bad deals, other people should be banned from proposing at least the most harmful ones. Hence the laws and regulations regarding employment, salaries and so on.

Well, this is from a European perspective, where there actually are such laws.
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When the cloud work as desired, life is grand.

But when it doesn't, debugging might actually be simpler with less black boxes between you and the metal.
Pretty slick, but you aren't getting my email address! You don't offer anything that necessitates me receiving an email message, and you'll probably just send me garbage, so I'll just come back to your site when I'm ready to do something with you.
They are protected from competition by being given a monopoly in providing cable to various areas in the country.

This has nothing to do with your personal entertainment, and everything to do with monopoly over regional infrastructure.
If someone has managed to bork the code with a harmless looking refactor, an NPE is what you want. The code is no longer working as designed and needs to be fixed.
It may seem like a minor nitpick, but the title should be "How Cheap Can Electric Cars Get?".

It's a bit like equating "Digital Camera" with "DSLR", and ignoring camera phones as a source of disruption.
Gene therapy reverses sight loss and is long-lasting
Can anyone help me get iTunes completely out of my life? I use the iPod Shuffle to listen to podcasts while running, but would really prefer if I didn't need to use iTunes (or a computer connection at all) to update my feeds. Right now the only option I've really seen is a cheap, small unlocked android phone that I just use in wifi mode.
My brother is creating new chocolate confections with Watson's ingredient pairing. :-D It's called Chocolat Monarque and it's in Montreal.
This seems like a really simply hack - I would be surprised if Jim Sterling was the first person to figure it out.

Unfortunately, I suspect the likely end result of this is going to be more takedowns and arbitrary channel deletions.
I had a slightly different goal than you, but I still wanted a responsive site. My main goal was to have the site load as fast as possible. There are many ways to accomplish that, but there are trade offs you have to consider.

The short answer to this is choose the current stable version of bootstrap css framework and use the responsive grid if your developing the templates or html yourself.

If you are using something like wordpress, find a theme that is responsive or use the _S there and customize it.

If you want to learn some new things like SASS, then you might want to have a look at bourbon.io I am going this route. There are some add on libraries, but things are in a state of flux right now. They are moving to a new version, so the supporting libraries may not work with the latest master branch. You will have to pick the stable version and go through the git commits to see which versions of the supporting libraries work with the stable version.

Its a bit of work, but its easier to customize things with SASS and the css is responsive and very tiny in size.
From your argument I take that you are very suspicious of quantum mechanics as well?
I was lucky enough to see The Man Who Knew Infinity this past weekend at the San Francisco International Film Festival. And I'd just like to say that it is a truly beautiful film, and I encourage everyone to go see it.

After the showing, there was a panel discussion with the director, composer, producer, two actors (Stephen Fry!), and three consulting mathematicians who helped the production. One of the topics that came up was the recent (finally!) interest in Hollywood for making movies about technical people. Since the dawn of cinema, we've made movies about artists, writers, and poets. But it is only recently that we've started making movies about scientists (Stephen Hawking) and mathematicians (Alan Turing).

In my opinion, this movie puts both The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game to shame. It is much more moving and beautiful than both, and it doesn't fall into the either the trap of overly simplifying the math, nor of overly dramatizing his life. If you have any interest in math, science, or computer science (much of which is underpinned by his work in number theory), I highly encourage you to go see this film.
If what you're saying is correct then it could be seen as a sort of framework, though for marketing reasons that wouldn't sound as attractive I suppose? I have no experience in this field, though I would love to get into it someday.
Auto internal combustion engines aren't that expensive to make. A base Ford engine cost about $100 to make in the 1980s. Today's cars have more cost in the electronics than in the powertrain.

The Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car, originally cost about $1500. But Tata discovered that the versions with more features sold better. It also flunked even basic crash tests.
Is this kind of an experiment? If so, what is your objective?

Edit: So it is an experiment
Stability is relative and a matter of perspective - it's not technically possible to engineer something that has a stable value because the value of everything is constantly in flux.
You are on the Watson team, right?
From the fine article we're discussing:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has weighed in on the suspect's plight, telling the circuit court in a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) that "compelled decryption is inherently testimonial because it compels a suspect to use the contents of their mind to translate unintelligible evidence into a form that can be used against them. The Fifth Amendment provides an absolute privilege against such self-incriminating compelled decryption."
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good public library in London?

I've often found myself wanting to read a reference book prior to purchase (technical books are extremely expensive to buy).

Do any of the universities offer subscriptions to members of the public?
The guess is slightly more compelling when considered together with the testimony of the sister that she viewed images of abuse on the computer.

Like, the line of questioning could be, did you find any images on the computer, did you find any evidence of techniques used to obscure information on the computer, could the images that so and so observed be stored using those techniques. It isn't confirmation that the images are there, but it is more than guessing out of thin air that there might be images there.
I Was Wrong About the Limits of Solar, PV Is Becoming Dirt Cheap
This means that forgetting one's passphrase could be a life-ending mistake.
How Coinbase Builds Secure Infrastructure to Store Bitcoin in the Cloud
I don't really care if people use tabs or spaces as long as the codebase is consistent, but aligning things in the middle of a line is my pet peeve. It's fiddly to maintain, it ruins source control because it requires you to edit many lines when you change one, and worst of all, it makes it impossible to use a proportional typeface.
You forgot the JS popup to warn about leaving the page.
A fan fiction would generally be a hobbyist film, created without the expectation of profit or even income, financed out-of-pocket.

Basically, all of the things Axanar is not. It's a quality low-budget production, but it's definitely not a fan film.
Yeah, we've decided to live with the internal ELB scaling risks for the moment as well. We had the exact same situation where a deployment without gradual connection draining (even if we kept an instance in service in every AZ) would cause the ELBs to scale and drop all of our connections every time once we were at a certain scale. Definitely caused us a fair amount of confusion as it would happen minutes after the deploy when everything seemed to be calmed down again.
This says nothing about eligibility. It only suggests that such teams—which are allowed to apply—are unlikely to be selected.

In this case, the normal selection process has been changed by throwing the decision to Hacker News. And the people have spoken!
Very glad that it is possible to get back some of our tax money we spend on public research!
sure am
Off the cuff thought: the overall universe is infinite and not expanding, and it's only the visible universe that's expanding into that infinite space.

Now try to wrap your mind around this: someone that's one light year to the left is going to see a slightly different visible universe, also expanding, into the same infinite space. But if we look in their direction, we see the edge of our visible universe expanding into the void, but from their point of view looking in the same direction our edge is one light year short of their edge. So what's our edge expanding into?
Math includes the idea of orders of infinity. There are infinite prime numbers, there are more positive integers, even more integers (positive and negative), even more rational numbers (A/B), and even more numbers (rational + irrational {e, Pi} etc)...
"The real solution is to simply spend vastly less money accepting that pain now is better"

Said someone who's probably not going to feel much of that pain. The problem with a lot of these "cut spending" mantras is that they usually want to do it in a way that hurts those on the bottom of society most, which is extremely appalling. And many of those "cut spending" people actually want to increase military spending.
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A transaction would have to be worth thousands of dollars to be worth the effort of setting up a successful double spend attack. For the vast majority of use cases this concern doesn't enter into the picture at all, and an immediate 0-conf transaction is fine.
Very glad I can't read this article because it's behind a paywall just like publicly funded research!
Not much different from any other way of planting evidence. It happens.
When you are laying charges, evidence comes first, then the charge. To collect the evidence you conduct interviews and subpoena documents. This is part of the evidence gathering phase that establishes whether the government has a case, preceding laying charges.
This is great, thank you.
Join any college program, convert to student visa in Canada. While on student visa, primarily focus on finding job (studies are secondary). Once you find job and get work authorization, drop out of college and start working. Go for your option 2.

Anyway, for the long term, try to get any 4-year degree in IT/CS while working (online, remote, part-time). The degree will help you in the future to overcome bureaucracy. You might benefit from being in Canada if you want to migrate to US.
Thanks for sharing this. I read the Don't make me think usability book a few years back. I like how you show specific use cases.

I am probably not going to be able to do all 125 on my site. What are the top 5 out of the 125 that you would recommend?
I agree your point. larger cars have great advantage in a crash due to crumple zones. And even though some compact cars has great crash test result, it doesn't mean they're safe enough to survive a highway crash since most if not all crash tests are done under 50mph.

BTW, just a reminder that pickup trucks are body-on-frame structure which is design for more towing capacity. Unibody structure on most modern cars and SUV's are safer in general. If you check this list http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/TSP-List you'll see pickup is worse than even compact cars in crash test.
Economics: The new astrology
Procedure and integrity. Which are in play in almost every aspect of law enforcement anyway.

The thing to be concerned about here is the ever more complicated legal theories being tested against really old laws.
In the US, the collapse has been held off by maintaining a vast trade deficit and inflating asset bubbles. Government borrowing isn't the problem in the US, it's national borrowing. According to traditional trade theory, developed economies should be consistently running trade surpluses. Thanks, Reagan.

Allowing the dollar to weaken, and digging out the entrenched interests in US health care would fix everything. It's just that a weak dollar and lower health care spend is a problem for the rich, and the petty bourgeoisie have thus far mindlessly supported them. (Because racists.)

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-tra...
It should be quite clear that in this particular instance, Valve has decided that Bitcoin has utility as a transfer of value. You're questioning whether or not Bitcoin has utility as a store of value / unit of account. It appears that to Valve it does not, but there is also a chicken/egg issue with bootstrapping a new currency given that Bitcoin doesn't have sufficient adoption yet to complete a full lifecycle in terms of usage. That is - Valve has no use in holding bitcoins because they can't use them to pay their bills. This may change at some point.
Total government debt was dropping over that time period.
I think with advent of tools like this developers more and more will be thinking of ways to make it hard to have someone scrape their website into data structures. I wonder if we are going to see the same thing that happened to minimized js happening to html more and more. I know there are sites that dynamically change css class names and ids. But I think soon we will also see div hierarchies to dynamically change form without presentationally looking different to the end user.
Your use of the word "very" is a giveaway that you're being snarky.

I am definitely suspicious of scientists who act as the truth authority, and cast aspersions on lay people who don't understand their proofs. That attitude is antithetical to the spirit of science, which encourages skepticism and the democratization of thought.
I couldn't get past a phone screen with them because they wanted 10 different ways to tell what your current shell is ( from the command line ) and I could only think of 5.

Personally, I prefer to code up an algorithm, even if it isn't perfect, and then do instrumented testing; for me the fun part is tweaking and optimizing.
Apple Employee commits suicide in a conference room
I'm not saying that we have to, I'm saying that I think it would be a good idea.

We live in a business first world. I want to live in a business, maybe? world.
You can have a partial overlap at 40MPH or 70MPH, the second is much more difficult to survive.
A MEETING IS DROPPED MYSTERIOUSLY onto our calendars, and at the designated time we shuffle warily into a conference room. The last time this happened, we were given forms that asked us to rate various values on a scale of 1 to 5: our desire to lead a team; the importance of work-life balance. I gave both things a 4 and was told I didn’t want it enough.

Clearly, the only acceptable answers to this question (if indeed one wants that team leader position) are the numbers 5 and 1.

And if you don't implicitly understand this, then this definitely isn't the right industry for you.
I'm not going to argue for the continued existence of patents or intellectual property.

In the case of cancer research, you sold your time to your employer for a fixed amount of money (maybe you had equity, but it doesn't sound like it). That was the end of the transaction for you. The investor took a risk and was rewarded for it, all within the current system, which is not a free society.

When you spend money on a consumer good, you're going to choose the product that works best for you, given your budget. For the same money, you will not choose a product you deem to be inferior. Thus, you reward the maker of that product with your dollars because they solve the problem better than the maker of the inferior product.

As for "appropriation of productivity," if you're alluding to the workers vs capitalists struggle from Marx, then I can't help you. I will simply point out that nobody in a free society is compelled to work for another. Thus, all salaries / wages / employment agreements are entered into voluntarily. There is no appropriation: each voluntary employee knows the terms of employment and agrees to them.
what happens when you put in an email address?
They have a warrant for the contents of his drives.
"Compromised" how? "Leaky abstraction"? What is the abstraction and can you please provide specific examples of the leak?

It worked between Mac and Windows on very complicated apps. It bridged Linux and Windows for tweaky MVC stacks a decade ago (then they wisely sharpened their focus.) It got the job done pumping data through hardcore game engines. The network stack is proven robust. You're talking about it like it's some stupid ORM wrapper or wonky Widget UI library. It is not.
> His example merely demonstrated that if consciousness is a function of reality (and for the sake of his example he more or less explicitly makes the assumption that there is an observer independent reality) it can be either optimized on how closely it matches said reality OR how much that function helps survival.

Right, I got that. My point is that in order to define what it is to "match reality," you have to already have a theory of mind and consciousness.

Think of what he says just after that:
> For example, an organism tuned to fitness might see small and large quantities of some resource as, say, red, to indicate low fitness, whereas they might see intermediate quantities as green, to indicate high fitness. Its perceptions will be tuned to fitness, but not to truth. It won’t see any distinction between small and large—it only sees red—even though such a distinction exists in reality.

This already has so much baggage to unpack that it's ludicrous. An organism which "sees" red or green already has consciousness--it's converting nerve stimuli into symbols which it interprets. An unconscious being wouldn't see a color, it would simply react. But let's say you do already have "consciousness." In that case, why is it necessarily going to be more complex to map the stimuli to "red" or "green" within consciousness, instead of prior to consciousness? For all we know, it'd be simpler to do the mapping within consciousness (put another way: to map the stimuli "consciously," or to be "conscious" of the mapping). To know which is more complex, we'd have to have a clear idea of what consciousness is, and how it works at a biological level.

(I don't think the metaphors I'm using here are accurate descriptions of how the mind works, incidentally. They're not much more than "just-so" stories. My point is that you have to have some kind of idea of what consciousness is before you can say things about a "function" which can "match said reality.")
Improving Content ID for creators
Here in Finland all libraries seem to have a small shelf of weeded books free to take (or sometimes about 1-3€ each) next to the exit. I honestly thought it would be the same everywhere else.
>I disagree that math is that great. A mathematical model is a formal description of some sort, but a mental model is just a different kind of ontological descriptor; both are merely machines to process inputs and produce some sort of output.

That doesn't say much though.

A cheap numeric calculator (not turing complete, the plain type) and a high end PC are both "merely machines to process inputs and produce some sort of output".

It's the precise kind of machines that each is and the exact kind of processing that it can do that's important -- not just their general similarities.

>You might argue that it's better to be able to observe and tweak the mathematical model than to use one built on purely human semantics, but, mathematical models, by virtue of their simplicity, are generally poor at dealing with complexity

Yes, but they're very good at dealing with very precise formulations. It's not necessary when doing an analysis of field X to deal with the whole of X's extend and complexity at all times. A very specific answer to a small non-complex part of X can be very worthy itself.

(The same way Newton's theory is very good to determine the angle of cannon shots with even if it's a bad model for anything really complex speed and mass wise -- only in this case, the "less complex" theory gives more precise answers for its subdomain, whereas with Newton vs Einstein it's the inverse).
IMO, reducing military spending by 2% total GDP is the safest way to cut right now.
Fantastic stuff! I cannot wait to read this. This has single handily become my Thursday obsession for the last few weeks.
No I was genuinely wondering what is the basis for that statement (I have heard it before), or if it was just sentiment. I'll add Stephen Pinker's book to my reading list.

Yes it's an old debate whether the US should have gotten involved in all these conflicts, but back to your original point:

That the US national debt has increased dramatically in peace time.

My point is that it is not peace time, and that a substantial part of that debt stems from the US's military industrial complex. It is after all not nothing that (famous tv saying) "the US spends more on defense than the next 26 countries combined" or something like that.
I've had something similar happen with my girlfriend and it can be a tough balance. She has just recently taken an interest in working out more and teaching her how to push herself more has been just as important as actually teaching her how to do specific lifts.
Can a rational argument be made, that addresses the emotions involved, for repealing laws that criminalize the existence or transfer of information?

The best argument I can come up with is that digital security simply isn't understood well enough for us to have solid evidence trails.

It's far too simple for an attacker (not necessarily law enforcement, a frustrated savvy neighbour is enough) to target someone and the consequences are so dire.

The War on Drugs criminalized the possession and transfer of physical objects, in the process providing convenient mechanisms by which to persecute undesirable individuals.

Laws against the transfer of information seem to provide the same loophole, but in a digital space. To me, that's far more worrisome.
I posted this two/three days ago and it didn't get any traction, glad it's gotten more today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11567365