skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weren't Twitter's employees being threatened by ISIS? If my employees were being threatened by a transnational terrorist group, I wouldn't hesitate at providing firehose-style data to a gov't agency, especially considering these are public tweets that we're talking about here.
There is no problem with using free software like jquery. Free software does not mean and has never meant "GPL only".
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The hype on lithium is extraordinary. Everybody in my industry is out looking for it, hoping to develop a project, put together some half-baked feasibility study on, and sell it to one of the bigger miners. (Who probably will buy it).

Battery tech is only now becoming the bigger end-user of lithium (ceramics and glass have been the biggest consumers to date), and although the growth is quite rapid the ability for the current market to supply is not difficult.

A project in Argentina is just ramping up and the facilities nameplate throughput will be able to increase global supply 20-30% itself.

Its not so much Tesla shaking it up, but the hype around it.
What might this mean for open source platforms that target non-standard Java back-ends? Take scalajs[1] for example. It reimplements Java API's but not for the direct purpose of interoperability with standard Java. I believe this will be the case for Scala native as well.

In both those cases, it allows code to be written that targets both, so I would think interoperability would be a strong argument. But is that not the case for Android as well?

In this case the reimplementation is in Scala, but it could be argued that the "structure, sequence and organisation" definition of copying could apply.

If there is any chance this could be ruled as infringing copyright, then Oracle would have a powerful platform lock-in, and every line of code targeting their API's would contribute further to that.

[1] https://github.com/scala-js/scala-js/blob/master/DEVELOPING....
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What's the alternative? Google taking social backgrounds of certain areas into account when calculating routes? That sounds like a recipe for a discrimination scandal and public outcry - I can already see the headlines: "Don't want to be murdered? Google Maps with SafeNav now tells you which areas to avoid!"
But then again the software in those machines will be written by humans and will most likely have bugs - which might influence the outcome of the operation. So the questions is whether you trust more the surgeon or the engineers of that machine.
I think a way to state this that you can't semantically object to is:

We live in a society in which those who control large corporations argue that it is virtuous to relocate significant portions of the business to locations which are cheaper due to more lax or nonexistent laws protecting workers and/or the environment, and thus consumers back in the US receive the same quality of product but at a lower price thanks to the location-based saving.

This opens up a counterargument that it should just as equally be virtuous to purchase medication from places where the retail price is cheaper due to more lax or nonexistent laws protecting intellectual property claims in pharmaceuticals, by which process consumers back in the US receive the same quality of product but at a lower price thanks to the location-based saving.

After all, protection of workers, protection of the environment and protection of intellectual property are all sliding-scale values; if it's fair for one person to do arbitrage on one of these in order to make money, why shouldn't it be fair for another person to do arbitrage on another?
tl;dr +generated a lot more CMOV's. While conditional moves are a cheap way to get performance on poorly branch predicted programs, speculatively inserting them is _NOT_ a good idea for general performance as it may hurt performance (because of serializing conditional path) and should only be considered with Profiling information.
I could not understand what I was supposed to search while looking at this on mobile, it seems the text below the search is missing.

Anyway: neat! Good idea and works quite well.

But it does look like the matching text is wrong sometimes, i.e. third example here

https://subasub.com/?lang=hu&query=%20juh%C3%A1sz

The HU sentence is 'Beszéltünk a juhásszal' the corresponding IT sentence is 'Abbiamo parlato con il pastore' but it gets a much longer one.

Similarly, example 9 here https://subasub.com/?lang=hu&query=puszi

has "Adj egy puszit!" ("give a little kiss") on one side, which should match "Dammi un bacio!" but on the other side it matches the previous sentence ("…Vieni qui!" is "…- Gyere ide!").

Maybe a "report error" could be added although I fear it would be hard to support.
> You do realize that they are serving a cause much greater than you or I, and certainly Twitter, for that matter?

I really want to believe that. I think it would be a better world if I could believe that. But we've seen pretty conclusively that the goals of intelligence agencies don't always line up with the best interests of the citizens they purportedly serve.

So there's a line that has to be walked. How can we give them enough power to defend us, but not enough power to hurt us? We can't; we can only make trade-offs and hope they're the right ones.

This would be so much easier if the people tasked to defend us could be trusted. But they've shown, conclusively, that they can't.
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Microsoft is not a monolith. Microsoft is people and teams.
Is this the same article that appeared in the Communications of the ACM? Not behind paywall, that's a plus. (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2699417&CFID=612805967&CFT...)
This is clearly traceable to TIGER, the US Census data that most map providers use as the bedrock of their map data in the rural US, yet was never meant for automotive navigation.

TIGER classes pretty much any rural "road" uniformly - class A41, if you're interested. That might be a paved two-lane road, it might be a forest track. Just as often, it's a drainage ditch or a non-existent path or other such nonsense. It's wholly unreliable.

You can see this in OpenStreetMap easily. Navigate to the backwoods and look at the road types. It's predominantly highway=residential, the road type that A41 was mapped to in the TIGER import. highway=residential is usually meant for city streets and suburban residential roads. Not this.

So: help! I've genuinely spent weeks on this but it's a massive job. Paved road? Reclassify it as highway=tertiary (wider with centreline) or highway=unclassified (narrower, no centreline). Gravel or dirt graded road? highway=unclassified, surface=gravel (or =dirt). Rough, not recommended for most cars? highway=track. Genuinely a paved residential road? Keep the highway tag as it is, but delete the tiger:reviewed=no tag. Nothing there at all? Just delete it.

(My particular interest in this is bicycle routing. Bike routing usually prefers the smallest paved roads in the grid. It breaks if those "paved roads" are impassable desert tracks in reality. I take a very conservative view for my site, http://cycle.travel/map, precisely because I'm anxious about situations such as that described in the Ars article.)
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I spent several weeks exploring this very area--Jarbidge, NV--last summer in my old Land Rover. It's no joke. There are many Forest Service "roads" that are completely impassible, even by a very capable 4WD vehicle such as the one I drive. I spent over a year planning routes before I took my trip. I had plotted out a route from Jarbdige to Silver City, ID that's completely on dirt and--incidentally--probably crossed some of the same roads this couple took. I was traveling with other trucks and we ended up driving through ankle-deep mud and thick tamarisk trees before giving up. What looks like a passable route on USGS topos and Google Earth doesn't always pan out.

You can see some photos from the trip here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/albums/721576543876...

I also did a detailed write-up with photos:

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/146545-The-Owy...
No, but it's also not a homoiconic language, and it supports syntactic macros just fine. Homoiconicity might make procedural macros convenient, but it's far from a requirement. And then pattern-template macros are just as convenient in a more "syntactically rich" language as they are in a homoiconic one.

See also: camlp4/camlp5.

And then there's the idea of pattern-match rewriting systems. iirc, GHC has something like that to rewrite certain expressions as optimizations, like:

(map f) . (map g) => map (f . g)

In a pure language, the two expressions are equivalent, but the latter is more efficient because it traverses the list only once rather than twice.

The Cat programming language had a similar sort of "macro" system, but its web site seems to have disappeared. Shame, it was a really neat little concatenative language.

Homoiconicity is certainly neat, but it's not about macros at all. It's about having a Lisp-style `read` function. That's it.

Also, Dylan's syntax wasn't based on M-expressions per se, at least not in the "classical" LISP 1.5 sense of the term. It was just an Algolesque syntax rather than a façade layered above S-expressions. If you can claim that Dylan was based on M-expressions, then you could just as truthfully claim that Lua, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. are based on M-expressions. I won't say that it's strictly false, but I don't think that's quite how most people familiar with M-expressions think of them.
And why is that scary?
My navigation application supports rotating the map with double touch. You can put it whatever-you-want-up. This is probably rather common in other applications. You might then be a bit confused if you have to look a conventional north-up map...
Lots of governments operate very benign VC firms. E.g. to promote regional development etc. I don't see what you see as scary about that part.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096185 for previous discussion
The units have GPS in them. The number of possible streets near them is pretty small, so an autocomplete or similar might work really well.

Or just a dropdown.
Netflix was never in the business you thought it was in
As with all laws and governance, granting religious freedoms as opposed to freedoms of every ideology strikes a balance. Religion presents a widespread, structured set of beliefs. The structured part makes it easy to enforce a law of religious freedom, because there is a vast body of source and interpretative work to use. The widespread part means that you are making a concession to a significant part of the population.

There's nothing arbitrary about the choice - it is precisely because religion is both structured and widespread that makes it a good candidate for such a law. Another example of a widespread belief that tends to get exemptions from many laws is freedom of speech(e.g. exemptions from defamation, copyright).
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Awesome idea! Though there could be an option to search by a movie
There is no point using java, when Oracle can sue you anytime for any reason. Time to get away from Java, if oracle wins.
I have a Logitech k480 for my TV and Nexus 9. Works nicely with termux, Emacs and similar software.
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These are symbiotic. The research and development pays off because somebody else is willing to ruthlessly buy the new, cheaper/better option instead of the safe traditional choice. Mainframes gave way to minicomputers which gave way to microcomputers which gave way to laptops and now to mobiles.
The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine by Scott Aaronson [pdf]
There's a good reason every major vendor killed off Java applets in the browser. This is probably the worst idea since Windows 95 on the Apple Watch.
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In the interim the power of the enemy against itself
See also "Yes, the Economy Is Rigged, Contrary to What Some Economists Try to Tell You" [0]

[0]http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/yes-the-economy-is-rigg...
What if this one characteristic is the hidden secret to success?
Since it has functions for encryption, it might be subject to US export restrictions.
Not always. And the employer has quite a bit more say in what is to be performed.
As visualized in their org chart: http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/
Or, perhaps even more well known to Canadians, Zambonis use hot water to resurface rinks.
I suppose Clojure devs needn't learn ClojureScript anymore. ;)
> You might get it if you buy it yourself, and bribe the prison staff to allow you to have it.

> Sorry: this is not based on any real experience or references, just the overall assessment of how India stands currently.

Jeez, you didn't have time to search but had time to fantasize like a Hollywood script writer hashing out more 3rd world stereotypes? Perhaps we should look at the treatment and hepatitis morbidity rate in our prison system and wonder whether your stereotype may more accurately fit our own prisons rather than Indian ones.

Here:
[1] http://www.delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/lib_centraljail/Cent...

[2] http://www.legalservicesindia.com/articles/pri.htm

[3] http://defensewiki.ibj.org/index.php/Right_to_Medical_Care_i...

Delhi Prisons have set up an Integrated Counseling and Testing Centre (ICTC) on 10.06.08 in Central Jail Hospital for detecting HIV positive inmates. Targeted intervention for HIV detection in inmates like injecting drug abusers / sexually promiscuous, inmates suffering from STD and inmates suffering from multiple / opportunistic infections. Total number of such inmates, tested for HIV positive test at ICTC from January,2010 to October'2010 were 1399, out of which 27 were tested HIV positive .Further 2254 inmates were tested for HBsAG and out of which 66 were found to be +ve for Hepatitis B.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_diseases_within_Ame...

While the majority of HCV infections occur outside of prison, the disease is still widespread within the prison system as a result of drug injection.[15] According to one Rhode Island prison study, HCV infection was found in 23.1% of the male prison population.[16] HCV prevention proved to be more challenging than HIV prevention because inmates partake in high-risk behaviors such as “front loading” and sharing spoons to prepare drugs like cocaine.[4] The prevalence of these diseases within prisons is a concern because they pose a potential public health risk.

[5] https://represent.us/action/private-prisons-1/
One thought over the last years MS has seen the light, but they haven't. Maybe someone will sue them over their Ubuntu on Windows, it's not about interoperability either.
Everyone needs to read more science fiction.
> Show me how to thwart this.

Nobody is forcing you to drive.
thanks for the feedback! it does sound like -- between the lack of usage and available APIs -- that this is not a great project to start. shelving it for now.
This is a ridiculous claim. The government doesn't have the resources to monitor the entirety of the Internet.
I am really surprised Japanese is not an option.

This is awesome by the way.
When people preach doom and hellfire over copyrightable APIs they often bring up web requests.

If that's a poor example then ok. My question asking for _good_ examples stands firm. As obviously don't have one to say!
Why do you people upvote articles where we have to pay to read them ?
you're finding it incoherent, because your reasoning (though interesting) is fundamentally untrue.

The only reason Google went with creating its own implementation was that ARM, Samsung, etc would not have worked with the licensing of Sun Java. This is fairly well documented and actually came out during document discovery. Today Android has so much market dominance that it can basically whip everyone into submission.

What I'm essentially saying is that at this point, it has already become much harder for something like a Wine for OSX to be created. Because developers will have to prove "fair use" in court... which is a huge huge intimidation stick.
If Google and Android are finding it hard to prove fair-use defense - how easy it going to be for the rest of us.

Thought experiment - what would be Wine's fair-use defense ?
The investors and the courts may have very different notions of the fair market value. If it's much less than the investors expect, expect no more cures. Consider that the whole point of the government taking it is the idea that the fair market price is too high.

Also, there are many, many ways the government can take things without just compensation. For example, civil asset forfeiture. They could get the patent declared invalid. Laws and regulations are very complex, there are a lot of levers the government can pull.
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Can be installed just fine in Russia.
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Say you know you have a good surgeon, and you know there are certain cases computers WILL kill you. Aren't the numbers not enough?
Rethinking Chatbots
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Hello All,

We have launched an android app. This is a chatbot (as everyone calls it). But for us, it is a different way to search required information in the web.

Please install it and let us know what you think.

Look forward.

Team OneApp
I haven't found their brief to the Supreme Court, but if they raise the same arguments that the raised in their earlier amicus brief to CAFC [1] where they urged CAFC to take the appeal from the district court, their objection is not to the outcome of the case (Google not infringing) but rather to how the district court got there.

Briefly, they believe that the district court went too far in declaring that APIs are not subject to copyright in general. Instead, they believe that APIs are subject to copyright under existing statutes and precedent, but that there are various doctrines (fair use, merger, and others) that can allow copying for interoperability.

[1] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/MSFT-O...
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If you take out porn videos and duplicate js libraries the text traffic is probably not that great!
i was also wondering the reason for the same!
After witnessing many of these discussions, it's just FUD. Just because Emacs is older doesn't mean that IntelliJ or Eclipse aren't likely to follow you until retirement. Java hit critical mass a long time ago and both IDEs have mass adoption and are also OSS, as you mentioned.

The POV presented in that comment is basically a sales pitch. It's too standardized and common not to be (it pops up in most of these threads).
Ooh, where?

I think the Montague Street Bridge and the Durham railway bridge claim so many trucks because they're just high enough (3m and 3.56m respectively) to trick inexperienced high vehicle drivers.

The 2m one would be obvious you can't make it through.
This is yet another perverse collision of care and market regulation. Other examples abound. Why do we accept this? Do we even dare think of alternatives?

What if western governments stop enforcing drug development intellectual rights? Not going to happen before hell freezes over, but let's have a short thought experiment.

Quality health care for all would probably blossom thanks to more access to affordable drugs than ever. Drug development would probably slow down significantly without compensating measures. But would that be so bad? Medical research is increasingly a game of diminishing returns... Many but the rarest disease puzzles have been solved already. And the huge profit margins show the current drug development system has proven inefficient handling these rare corner cases. Think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexion_Pharmaceuticals . With more patents starting to expire, the existing drug development model will only get more inefficient...

Aren't there more efficient ways to incentivise drug research?

Crazy idea... Bootstrap an open source drug with maecenate and/or public funding, or market an existing generic with a sympathetic history. Make it super easy for people to donate something extra on top of the drug price. Think a tip at the pharmacy, directly to the researcher's drug development budget. Their drug cured them or their loved ones! Put a picture of the research team on the packaging. Show people these researchers are heroes.
A lot of countries especially if small deal with common values better than the US. Most US prisons are dealt with on the state level, with national players taking over states because frankly they can bring a lot more resources to bear. If prisons were dealt with on a national rather than local level it might be easier to get proper reform in.
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The doctor won't listen to you, because you're a disgusting fat fuck looking for excuses. Almost everybody suffers from constant hunger when they try to keep weight off, if doctors wanted to listen, they would have acknowledged it long time ago.
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It's okay if there are workarounds for the paywall. From the HN FAQ:

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> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
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>As a matter of economics, the value of something doesn't (or shouldn't) depend on how easy it is to get financing for that thing.

When interest on mortgages shrinks the house prices will become inflated. In fact it's smarter to buy a house durng a time of high interest at 400k and later refinance with a lower interest rate than to buy the same house for 800k at a low interest rate without posibility of even cheaper refinancing.
Well, it's evidently cheaper for them to get it from a public resource than actually, you know, developing it from their own labs.

So nice for them to be able to pick and choose the successful research while not having to absorb all the other, less interesting research funded with public money.
It should be noted that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's ruling in this case does not set precedent for future copyright cases. For more details, see this comment from an earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377318
Why does everyone pretend that iPhones are a luxury? They are not. It's merely 800€. Even the drug in india still costs twice as much.
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How funny that you mention that, given that the Internet, the very backbone upon so much of the economy moves around, started and developmed mostly as... a military project. Supported by universities and public research.
I seem to recall that back when Android was new, Google was pitching a web based RAD tool to develop simple apps.
This was a big revelation for me. It's just "nested percentages" in mathematical clothing.

How to connect simple concepts (I think almost everybody would understand linear interpolation, even in [a, 1-a] form) and get polynomials.
Violent crime numbers being factored into pathfinding. Just like we do with videogames like StarCraft. That simple.
> that simple observation seems to be quite a challenge for you.

> people like you

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I read Middle Aged as in medieval, and saw lots of alchemist scribing lisp on parchments.