skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a culture that believes prosecuting to the "fullest-extent of the law" is the right thing to do, regardless of the actual human circumstances.
Don't the rights of the writer depend on the similarity of the cover to the original? If the the alterations are sufficiently substantial, the author of the previous version shouldn't have rights over the new version.
It is actually interesting to see a patent troll suing patent troll.
I was thinking building something like this for myself as well - more in the context of Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends (yeah, I know..); i.e. simple system where I can note what (might be) important and relevant for a given person.

Good luck - I would use something like this if it was already available.
> Is a label engineered to align the left, never any kind of useful thing, or movement nor school of thought.

Say what?

Milton Friedman, Neoliberalism and It's Prospects, 1951

http://0055d26.netsolhost.com/friedman/pdfs/other_commentary...
I can imagine his family and friends were tired of him leaping forward to take advantage of the technique at every opportunity...

- YOU'RE CHOKING??? -- No, coughing...

- YOU'RE CHOKING??? -- NO, Heimlich, I'm holding my breath... I have the hiccups....

- YOU'RE CHOKING??? -- FUCKING HEIMLICH! I'M TRYING TO TAKE A DUMP!!
I guess last Tomb Raider is a fair comparison? Witcher and just released Doom also seem impressive.
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Yup. Problem with Venus is just that the ground is too far down.
I hardly cry (and make no attemps not to cry) but I have to concede that "Up" is very well written and its very hard to avoid getting emotional in certain parts.

So, I guess the guy in this post has many triggers and I only have some, say - thinking of Up - old age and loneliness, lifelong fidelity...
I don't know, probably not, unless it somehow managed to cool unusually slowly after it formed. But it seems like every planetary body has some extreme differentiation from the others, so maybe?
People enthralled by mysticism will find a dozen explanations for everything that contradicts their beliefs.
It isn't business as usual, this is the most unproductive congress in modern history, it's not hype, it's reality. Anecdotes about oh some things got through don't change the reality that many things that should and used to no longer can without absurd posturing battles and attempted and real shutdowns of the government.
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Those Google commercials made me cry too. I also felt manipulated each time they were on.
> Just being dominated by another female

That is not even close to being an objective analysis.
The author wrote what she knew. Better to stop short of some relevant instances than to make sweeping generalizations that you can't defend (especially if they turn out to be wrong.) So yes, by all means let's worry about the problems that we understand, rather than swinging in the dark at ones we've never seen or studied.

On another note, have some faith in Silicon Valley. The enormous wealth of the area ties back to massive federal spending, and surely they still remember how to grab some money while it's being passed around.
Research on the subject says this is more dangerous for the cops then the calmer approaches.

The irony is cops do this to protect themselves, and statistically speaking it has the exact opposite effect.
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Sometimes, yes. I'm not going to try to play any kind of numbers game here, but I personally think more of the "first signs" have (historically) come from experiments where the experimenter goes "Hm, that's weird." Not some sort of thing where a random stranger comes in off the street and says "Now, here's something weird that happened to me...".
If the alterations are substantial, then it's a derivative work. If it's in any way derivative, the author has complete authority over the new work. It is outside the domain of compulsory licenses at this point.
If you are trying to get your resume through the filter:

1. Keywords and keyword density are most of it (for humans or machines). Neither are not good at synonyms -- use the keywords you see in the job-description.

2. Write a very specific cover-letter that matches your qualifications to the job description explicitly. If you cannot write this letter (because you are not a good match), apply to a different job (keywords matter here too).

3. Get someone to proofread for readability and correctness -- a lot of people screen out for stupid mistakes.
I had already read the comment about the breasts and had to watch the video a second time to see them. They were pretty un-noticeable to me.
> Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background

Since when does this mean that he knows nothing of culture? I feel like he's making a lot of generalizations: Europe is a giant continent with over 50 countries, most of which contain white people. How can he claim that Zuckerberg is "interfering with our local culture" of ALL of Europe? Seems fishy.

Still, Facebook's privacy policy, as well as its usage, are quite annoying, and comprise the reason that I don't use the service. It's extremely easy to avoid: simply tell people that you know that you don't have a Facebook, and they communicate with you via SMS, calls, etc.
I'd be curious to see what C it produced if you fed it hand-written assembly.
From what I've read the 'Swift Hack' was actually just a failure to reconfigure the server configuration from it's factory settings at the Bangladesh bank. Not necessarily a hack of the Swift Software, right?

Edit: Source - Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine (yes I still get this shipped to my apartment haha)
As long as it is for personal use I at least don't feel the need for redundant power or network.

I also ran a sandstorm instance locally for a few months and it was boring in a good way.
s/solves/attempts to address/

so does the CPI and every other inflation measure using 'hedonic adjustment' ... new BMW comes out, new price, you look at it and estimate how much is price change and how much is quality change, bigger car with air bags, voice activated GPS, self-steering and whatnot...imperfect but necessary.
..and surprisingly they all have severe hair issues. go figure.
It almost looks like DNSSEC is patented here... :P
Neural style transfer on game images
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Many people use 'seaqual' if that is what you mean.. I don't think it is rare.
Here you go http://imgur.com/a/gCj8R
It makes it harder to feel much pity when things go 'wrong' for them, then.
So strange -- I don't cry really at all, but I find I have the same emotional reaction to such large scale or "epic" visually arresting things. Amazing how often you find out something you thought only you went through was shared by others.
I edited my top level comment in which I wrote that the GP was condescending and opinionated - but I don't agree that the tone was without basis:

> stranger, you are going to need to defend your down-vote.

> Watch the video, see the cartoon milk squirting breasts. Click on the creator links. Look at their tumblrs. Look at their aesthetic. Discuss the issue. Sorry if the content that they put in their video makes you uncomfortable, but it is on-topic for this post and I'm pointing out that it is there

The entire bulk of GP's edits are in imperative form, and give a very strong impression of exactly that: condescending moralizing - I could be wrong, but given how rare repeated imperatives in English are, I would like to know why you think otherwise.
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I hope financial growth is not the only thing that drives your career, because if it is you won't really get nourishment out if it. And a happy career is a good career.

That said, if you are really considering a management role -- not because it pays better, but mainly because the job excites you and you love the challenge to keep both your engineers and your boss happy -- Michael Lopp's blog [0] and book "Managing Humans" [1] are certainly some things which you want to read.

I personally also love Meri Williams' blog, which also contains all her talks on managing geeks. In my personal opinion both are the kind of people you would like to have to run your team(s), and their insights on how to properly manage people are invaluable.

[0] http://randsinrepose.com/

[1] http://www.managinghumans.com/

[2] http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk/
We need finer reverse engineering that mapping in IMO.
> No, you cannot tell what caste a person is by the way they talk.

That is your belief and experience. I was trying to point out that some people from India feel that the opposite is true.

I have no knowledge of the caste system other than what people have told me from their own experience of being Indian.
Yep, just like in the US.
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More likely, this ideal is something that lots of people believe is a universal thing rather than an ideal of what college should be about, and when they learn in the real world that its not what lots of people approach college as, they construct a fantasy that there was a time in the past when the ideal they've internalized was true, and the present just represents a fall from that ideal.

Similar cultural complaints and conflicts between academic and non-academic communities go back to the establishment of the first universities. (And the idea that "Today these kids...have too much free time on their hands" and that this is the source of all kinds of problems goes back into antiquity, and probably is documented nearly as far back as we have records at all.)
Tell HN: The Economist is still blocking Lynx, 2 months after contacting support
I've been a subscriber to The Economist for many years. I usually read it on the app, although it's nice to have the paper edition too. Both feel quite clean.

Almost 2 months ago, I read of someone complaining about lynx being blocked:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11379473

I checked, and found the same. So I logged a support request. I was a given a case reference (EDGQ999577X), but AFAIK nothing has been done to resolve the issue.

I've followed up by email 4 times since filing the original request on 30th March. Each time, I've received either:

A) No response, OR

B) A generic response like 'We can confirm that we have passed this on to the relevant team for further investigation. We will contact you as soon as this information has been received.'

In my last email I asked for contact details for their complaints department, but that also went unanswered.

If you work for The Economist in some relevant capacity it would be great if you could chime in here.
Awesome! Thanks guys!
I am constantly surprised at both the vehemence and the triviality of the ire that people direct at the Clintons. There is literally nothing that people will not attack them with.
The quality of medicine is a specifically refuted area of much economic research. Robert Gordon discusses this at length in The Rise and Fall of American Growth, it's one of the strongest arguments in the book.

He's noted that life expectancy improved 2x more from 1900 to 1950 as from 1950 to 2000.

The whole matter of hedonic adjustment is another hairball. It omits a few elements.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Quality of life is most enhanced by fundamental aspects: food, shelter, clothing, and safety. You cannot build the pyramid from the top.

Quality can be measured various ways. Product lifetime, utility, repair requirements, etc. There's been shifts in multiple directions, some better, some worse.

Fungibility. Products aren't infinitely miscable collections of features. Smartphones offer connectivity but the user pays the piper in surveillance and privacy loss.
Iirc, most of the H2SO4 haze falls below the habitable altitude, however there are clouds of it at that height. Biggest challenge would be the lack of water. You'd have to extract hydrogen from the acid to make water.
> The Federal Transit Administration found that public transit systems have a backlog of $86 billion in critical maintenance nationwide.

I wonder how that backlog is allocated: e.g., how BART's backlog compares to NYC, Boston, and DC.

DC and BART are about the same age (1972 vs. 1976), but DC has 68% more riders[1] and an operating budget that's almost double[2]. (So, yes, WMATA also spends more per rider.)

Everyone's hurting for investment in general.

[1] Weekday Daily Ridership from Wikipedia: 423,120 (BART) vs. 712,843 (WMATA).
[2] FY16 Annual Operating Budgets: $900k (BART) vs. $1.8B (WMATA)
Pretty sure you could send two officers to the door.

Knock.

Depending on the response from the inhabitant, either take them into custody or call for backup.
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You should try watching the Thai life insurance commercials
It's not the only way to use git effectively, but it's definitely the canonical one. I think a Chesterton's fence rule should apply to git: if you're doing something different from LKML, you should be able to clearly explain exactly why. No linking to some blog post you found, either, unless it's by Junio Hamano (and you still have to explain, you can't just link).
Does Poe's law apply here?
They certainly don't have a process where you can just "add to cart" on their website and hand them a couple thousand dollars. I'm not sure what extra checks they do through their sales team; maybe they're just trying to make sure that large businesses aren't buying up single-dev "Named" licenses and installing it across their organization, or maybe they're trying to verify that buyers are known security researchers, or something.
I'm glad this feature is in, but it's only useful for my PRs.

For example, there was a recent PR where the owner was modeling the UI for a feature with stubbed calls, while I was setting up the backend.

Once my work was done, he wrapped up the rest, and I was no longer needed.

We used notifications to informally say "you're still needed for this!" vs it being part of my daily hit list.
The worst part is Oculus sold customers on something more open than they delivered. Now if you buy from their store your purchases are locked to their headset, and if you ever buy anything else in the future.

Oculus/Palmer said they didn't care if you modded their games to work on third party headsets, just they weren't going to provide support themselves; instead they went out and broke it intentionally.

>If customers buy a game from us, I don't care if they mod it to run on whatever they want. As I have said a million times (and counter to the current circlejerk), our goal is not to profit by locking people to only our hardware - if it was, why in the world would we be supporting GearVR and talking with other headset makers? The software we create through Oculus Studios (using a mix of internal and external developers) are exclusive to the Oculus platform, not the Rift itself. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3vl7qe/palmer_lucke...

>As I already said in my first reply, I don't care if people mod their games as long as they are buying them. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3vl7qe/palmer_lucke...

>Glad there are some sane people out there. [said to someone saying it was only an issue of support] https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4etddh/this_is_a_hack...
I'm gonna be hated for this, but I do believe her post demonstrates how terrific things could be done with more woman in CS.

She has mixed our analytical culture with femininity, creating a truly remarkable piece.

I may be wrong, but I don't see a straight white male exposing in this same manner.
This definitely fits the definition of a patent troll.
We actually seriously considered using a WISP (wireless Internet service provider). Cruzio offers "Business Broadband"[1], with "50 Mbps typical download and upload speeds" and the sales representative suggested we use that, instead.

At the time (early 2015, I think?) Cruzio had just finished installing a wireless presence on/near the old Wrigley Gum building (now a business park). They visited our site, to see whether we had line-of-sight to their antenna, and Cruzio engineers concluded they couldn't guarantee service, due to some trees.

So, it fell through, for us, but working with Cruzio staff has always seemed like a positive experience.

I'm not sure what other WISPs exist, but that's our story.

[1] http://cruzio.com/services/broadband/business/
Cyrille, you have all my support.
So Google Adwords/Adsense. That would have saved a whole article.
Once again Europe shows the way
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>"We censor a lot of things, why not censor Facebook?"

That seems like a really odd sentiment for the founder of The Pirate Bay. I was hoping he'd have a more creative solution than censorship given the history of his site.
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Well, spaghetti sort runs in linear time: O(n) time is spent setting up the device, and O(n) reading out the result. The actual sorting step is O(1) !!!

Unfortunately, it's limited to sorting numbers, and uses O(n) additional space (to be precise, it uses O(n) additional volume).
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Are you trying to pass this atheist passive-aggressiveness off as wit? If so, you should have come up with something more original than this trite phrase.
> The patent system was designed to foster innovation

Hilarious joke man!
Powerful PRs, one-click installation enhanced deployment options to fastlane
Ask HN: Your favorite social media management system?
Which one do you use, love and hate?

And why exactly?
Eh. Not exactly an honest thing to do, but I'd wager less harm has come from that lie than would come from people not being aware of how easily incorrect information propagates and gains credibility on the Internet. The ends are good, despite questionable (and unintentional means).
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I enjoy using NoScript but I found I could not recommend it to non-techie friends, as it requires a lot of manual input to not break webpages. Is Privacy Badger more user friendly?
You're arguing against a strawman, develop some reading comprehension before you insult people.
At risk of spoilers, I don't think that's a pun. It's just an abbreviation.
> b) belief in God is not determined by rational reasoning.

There are no rational arguments for a belief in God, so this is the answer. All belief in any gods is irrational by nature.
I use lynx too but I've come to expect a lot of sites just won't work with it anymore. Its annoying.
Might be wortwhile to see if lynx will support some variety of textual rendering of JS...
Yes, the law on the subject is mostly nonsense. That said, I've thought a lot on the subject and this is what I think the law should have been -

For 'unauthorized access' to a computer system you (should) need to knowingly access a protected system in a way not permitted by the rights granted to you by the computer system, or by deliberate deception of either the computer systems or people.

So for 'knowing' we have to actually know (via banners, etc.) that we're somewhere we shouldn't be. For 'protected' it has to be actually protected (none of this "I found unprotected files lying around with no password" nonsense). The last two clauses cover privilege escalation attacks and social engineering. So it should matter if you're operating the system normally or if you accidentally just click/type something wrong and found your way in vs. you were deliberately hacking / social engineering your way in.

I'd also add a safe harbor for anyone who in good faith reported the issue to the site operators, police, or government regulatory bodies to prevent reprisal like this ugly case.

Sadly, I don't get to write these laws.
Well, parody, while derivative, certainly is not subject to the control of the original author (remember the Luke Skyywalker case).

I think the courts should have a very liberal definition of what is transformative -- the permissions culture has gone way way too far (this infects both civil and criminal law in the USA and Europe).
I don't think to have a cultural blindspot: I just didn't notice the breast squirting animation. I saw the banana thing and I think indeed that the beginning of this video and other photos on their website have a sexsual background but I think you took your interpretation too far, expecially with the domination thing. But of course different people can see different things and only the creators of the video know which meaning they wanted the video to have.
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It's in the sankey diagram.
uBlock Origin (rule in Peter Lowe’s Ad server list) does, as does Steven Black's hosts file[1] (probably due to pulling from Peter Lowe's list).

I use the latter for network-level blocking (dnsmasq on a DD-WRT router; forced DNS redirection), and it works surprisingly well - even the ads on my Xbox One dashboard are blocked.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Why is the word "troll" involved in the first place?
And we still can't ride a bicycle all the way to SF from the east bay (well, without going via San Jose at least)
Yeah, "Up" is really in a league of its own on the "tearjerker" scale -- not that it ever does it gratuitously, mind. It's just that it imitates life very well in that it can sometimes be very sad and also uplifting(!) at the same time.
It's shown in the data
> How do they know how this person is going to react (or anyone else in the house)?

This is always true. By that logic, we should SWAT every warrant, every traffic stop, every parade. There should always be a threat assessment.

This would imply it's all #2 ("publicity"). Which means police forces and public defenders are using the threat of extreme violence as... a PR move? Against American citizens who are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?
The Pixel C is a tablet with an optional keyboard available, so if it was (as it clearly seems) planned to be a ChromeOS device, it was a third form factor from the existing Chromebooks and Chromeboxes.

But making a decision not to expand ChromeOS devices to include "Chromeslates" is not the same thing as killing Chromebooks.
You make a bold assumption that "it doesn't affect you" (surely you'd agree this is up for debate no?), then the very next sentence describe political views that can be attributed directly to religious beliefs you're claiming have no affect on anyone.

All ideas should be up for criticism. It is the very nature of religion somehow being off limits for debate that allows bad ideas to go unchallenged and spread.
I don't know, I post primarily girls hockey stuff, but myself am interested in so much more. This probably varies per user, but my behavior on google properties probably is much more telling.
There has been a lot of discussion (and critique, and confusion) about using "unsafe" in the comments of HN threads concerning Rust. One should remember that using "unsafe" is NOT inherently a bad thing – Rust builds on a model that allows doing tricks with unsafe code and then wrapping all the magic behind safe interfaces, abstracting the unsafeness away.

However, it's true that there is still no consensus what exactly is allowed with unsafe and what's not. A parallel to this would be a confusion whether pointers of different types are allowed to alias in C – it's undefined behaviour, despite being counterintuitive to many.

But there's an ongoing effort to define and formalize the Rust memory model, which would provide an end to this debate. Recently, there has been also discussion that it should be not only defined, but also more intuitive than C's one, for instance. Undefined behaviour shouldn't be allowed to take you by surprise too easily.