skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every patent lawsuit involves lawyers whose specialty is removal. Similar to lawyers who specialize in juror selection, there is a specialty that specifically involves manipulating civil procedure rules to have cases removed to the friendliest venue. The only way to actively avoid that is to not only entirely avoid any connection to the venue you don't want (which includes things like using shipping providers that may pass through the venue and turn off iMessage for people visiting the venue, but to also only infringe on patents where the patent holder does no business in the Eastern District, which is not possible
For the most part. Cognitive dissonance is the stress that results in believing P and Q are true at the same time, along with a few other scenarios such actions contradictory to one's beliefs or being confronted with evidence that is contrary to one of your beliefs (belief disconfirmation paradigm). We then engage dissonance reduction to arbitrate the difference and lessen the stress. One of the easiest methods of which is ignoring or rejecting the conflicting evidence or ignoring the voices that are--literally--causing you mental pain.

Socially, belief disconfirmation is arguably the most problematic because it turns rational discourse into something very, very ugly. Instead of persuading people, evidence and debate can further entrench a given belief instead. When certain issues became almost identity and lifestyle statements (climate change denial, the anti-vax movement, GMO hysteria, etc.), contrary evidence is perceived as a personal attack instead of a weighing of scientific evidence to determine fact. Unfortunately, overcoming this isn't easy. And it's made that much harder when people are able to retreat into their preferred echo chambers rather than be forced to directly confront the dissonance.
Deere / Timberjack was beaten out by Ponsse.[1] Four wheels, two caterpillar tracks, and an articulated chassis. Probably lower ground pressure than the six-legged machine, because the heavy loads are on wide tracks.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daCCTuaiY0Q
Clinton is easily one of the most pro-war (meaning an aggressive and militaristic foreign policy) candidates since the end of Vietnam. Many sources on that but I'll link just two.[1][2] Her focus is primarily on Russia, as she openly stated during one of the Democratic debates (given a choice between Iran, Russia, and North Korea, she picked them as "the greatest threat"). The entire Syria thing is largely a proxy war with Russia.[3] She was the main voice that argued against the Pentagon and convinced Obama to get involved in Libya. Whether you want to call it neoconservativism, neoliberalism, neocolonialism, or just liberal internationalism, she is the leading champion for U.S. invasions and war across the world these days.[4][5]

[1] http://www.cato.org/blog/2016-presidential-candidate-interve...

[2] http://johnpilger.com/articles/silencing-america-as-it-prepa...

[3] http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-mil...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons...

[5] http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/clintons-haw...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11800950
Strictly speaking, fossil fuels are carbon removed from the air, just a long time ago.
Would it be hyperbolic to say vendors like Blue Coat have blood on their hands?

Yeah it's just a tool and yeah your workplace or school might need one to "keep the children safe", and yeah they're not responsible for what their customers do with their products. But when they knowingly sell[1] to repressive governments where bad things happen to dissenters, what does that make them? And please spare us the "terrorist" and "criminal" barf, we've heard it in the West.

Any Blue Coat care to comment?

1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/blue-coat-acknowledges...
Cached, as the original seems to be unable to handle HN traffic.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Y_lcTf...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11801438.
I think .. I believe the point of the featured article was the example:

(given the voter is mainly interested in profit, then) IF a voter thinks that the proposal will yield profits and increase the net worth of DAO: vote yes

but only if their interests align that way. if they don't, obviously their decision will be based on other factors.

the point being, it should be straightforward and obvious to vote yes or no, depending on whether the result of a majority-vote yes or no, would align with your particular interests yes or no.

while that statement seems almost tautological, it's a very desirable requirement for voting systems. I'm not 100% sure on the terminology (it's been a while since I studied it) but it might be called "monotonicity" or something.

the point of the article was that in some cases it would be advantageous to do something different instead of voting yes or no along with your particular interests. in this case that it would be better to split than to vote no, in many cases. that demonstrates the (mathematical/logical) assumption of monotonicity (if it was called that) is violated.

but you only need one example to demonstrate that. so it doesn't quite matter that this is not everybody's incentive, as long as it's a reasonable incentive that people may choose.

I admit the added bit about "increasing the net worth of DAO" raised my eyebrows as well. I just assumed many profit-interests would align with the net worth of DAO, and that it'd be healthy for the system or something (I don't know).
MedStar hack shows risks that come with electronic health records
> Meanwhile there is some belief in chemtrails amongst a few of the younger people I know going on FB group posts I see them share.

Reminds me of a thing I learned here on HN recently. The US was in fact intentionally spraying germs on unsuspecting civilians in San Francisco, among other places, as a part of research related to biological warfare. Turns out there's some grain of truth even in the chemtrails crackpottery.
Even worse. She thinks that she can win.
Oh, I'm not suggesting it would be easy. The logistics alone make it near impossible, as the hotels and airlines would need to be comped. I was speaking specifically about whether or not it would even be feasible to move it based solely on having a location that has the infrastructure to support it.
"Their reasons ranged from not trusting the software to worrying that using it would draw government attention. And this in California."

Yes, surprising that they are not skeptical enough of secure messaging on a rooted, owned platform that contains at least two full-blown computers (SIM card and baseband) that they have no control over or access to.

Your carrier/manufacturer owns you. Depending on the SoC/platform, they may have DMA access to your application processor.

The only question is, how much do they own you, and using which vector. There is no escaping this until we can manage an open baseband and SIM platform.
Regret’ journalists’ kidnap
I think there's a reasonable confusion here - people always talk about "static type checking" when what they really mean is a superset that might be more clearly referred to as "static checking" or maybe even "static analysis". It's true that type systems often improve static analysis capabilities, but I don't see why some useful analyses (like catching SyntaxError and probably NameError) couldn't be done for a language like Python. After all, the editors have basically already implemented it.
Is there another language agnostic option?

I suppose it would be interesting if you could use something like the llvm to target a DB's core features, but through your language of choice.

I haven't seen anything like that, if it exists. SQL is that standard API today, and ORMs provide the language specific implementation (though sometimes in ways that make it inobvious what the generated SQL will look like).
Yep; as described in the "Improving Noise" article, the gridding is greatly reduced if you use the "smootherstep" function which has a continuous second derivative in addition to first.
The Starter’s Guide to Mobile CRO
This article is not about disagreeing with Russia or about NATO, it's about people working for Russian special services harassing a Finnish journalist.
I'm not going to be able to warm up to AMD until they get their OpenGL drivers' performance up to par with NVIDIA. It's such a big deal breaker for me, as someone who actively uses OpenGL for both applications and development.
It's not just about what you post. That's only a tiny variable. It's also about what you have liked, the activities you've done in apps and other sites with data-sharing agreements, and what you click on. Demographics, interest, and personal characteristic targeting is far better on Facebook than anything you can buy on Google Display. I'm a buyer of both, and the difference is staggering.
Word to the wise: avoid anything "magic" when writing code.
It's not the most high-quality syntax highlighting, but it provides decent highlighting with minimal setup and works well with user generated content where the programming language isn't known.

It's not going to revolutionise syntax highlighting, but I think it has plenty use cases.
Tor is just too slow to be the default, and asking thousands of people to treat it as the default will only make it worse.
Descent of the machines: Volvo's robot mining trucks get rolling
I can see it now: Syntax error.
HN doesn't allow posts like this as ordinary submissions, but you can post to the monthly "Who wants to be hired thread" that is posted on the first weekday of each month by the account named 'whoishiring'.

A COBOL programmer probably has some interesting stories to tell, too, so you would be welcome to write a blog post and submit it here.
It looks like it highlights random keywords like wchar_t.

Hardly for "any programming language".
hey Wow so I stumbled into a Natoist troll army barracks here right I guess. No mention anywhere of the right of the population of Crimea to self determination. They held a vote right ?
The incredible miracle in poor country development
One thing that worries me with Sci-Hub is that even though they put all of their PDFs on the torrent, it's too much to mirror by one individual. It would be nice if they implemented some scoring system that would help others mirror the most popular papers or if they worked like thepiratebay - just associating names to magnet links. It would be much easier to help work around the single point of failure then. Right now those huge torrents have as few as 4 seeders.
Germany is ridiculously far behind. It's partly because of federalism, but mostly because of the fear of the state and desire for extreme levels of privacy.
Here in Sweden, everything is digitalized and it makes life easy. I think of this externality of managing your taxes and stuff like that as "societal tax". Time is money, and countries like Germany and the US have ridiculously high levels of "societal tax" - you have to think so much to make simple decisions. Can i fix this problem with the govt in an afternoon, should I save this receipt for my tax declaration, to things like do I trust the taxi will turn up on time, will the train arrive on time?
It always amazes me how techies swing from an extreme open borders position to an extreme xenophobia position the second the debate is about the city they live in.
NASA 1958 Mars Expedition plan
Designing interaction for creative pros, part 4
Except those were all non-democratic puppet governments the Soviet Union had installed after WWII. Or maybe you believe communism is a form of democracy?
I think for 2.2k (look at the minified code), it's quite nice. I liked it.
I think you missed the point of the article or maybe some context. There is a theory out there that Russia employs paid internet trolls to push Russian propaganda on message boards and discussion forums like Reddit.
How the fuck did they get that and why is Symantec still included in common roots?

Thats literally the one thing you aren't allowed to do as a CA.
If this is a real effect, I wonder how many calories a persona can eat and still get the fasting effect. I have a non-24 hour circadian rhythm (although some thing still seem synchronized to light), which causes all sorts of negative effects, and I have found that eating < about 1500 kcal in a day reliably causes a significant improvement in my functioning two days later. Normally eating between 1500 and 2000 kcal most days does not cause this improvement. I am curious if what I am seeing is the same effects as would be caused by this much lowerer calorie diet or if there are tiers of fasting with different effects.

Also interesting is that I have had some severe digestive issues for years; antibiotics helped for a month or two and eating about 3000 kcal over five days has been just as helpful for a couple of weeks now and seems likely to be at least as effective as the antibiotics. However, one or two days of calorie restriction does not have that effect on me. If this fasting result holds for MS, the effect of fasting on gut bacteria could potentially be part of how it works.
I started out with Codecademy and gave up lots of times (over about 6 months) before I decided to commit to learning full time.

My plan was to lock myself in a room for 3 months and teach myself Python, I ended up doing an in person course in Javascript (one of the rare free ones). Learning with peers and some support made the whole thing a lot less gruelling. Before that I would get stuck on very simple things for hours and hours not knowing what to google to find the way out of it.

I wrote about this in article a little while ago if you're interested in the full process I went through. Note (I didn't choose the title for this) - http://www.gadgette.com/2016/02/19/how-i-learnt-to-code-in-a...
> Failing that it is possible Trump might do it as a sign of pragmaticism. He's the only one who could sell it to his supporters, the same might be true of Obama for his people.

Donald Trump would literally hang Snowden:

“I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?” Trump said, Politico reported.
Popuplar apps such as Dropbox and Spotify use it: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=378566
I'm waiting for Polaris 10 benchmarks.
Is this all that different from Hive's analytic functions? I don't think I can put a WHERE filter right in the OVER clause though.

SELECT a, COUNT(b) OVER (PARTITION BY c) FROM T;

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageMan...
No mate. It just change. Life always changes. You should visit Jurassic cliffs in England to get the right impression. Cool down. There was life before humans. There will be life after them.
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My impression, though I'm not sure, is that Kotlin simply won't allow you to do a double "??". Scala etc. will technically allow Option[Option[Something]], but in practice you would almost never want to use it, and can easily avoid it with flatMap.
even Lars Ulrich regrets the side he took in 1999 "I wish that I was more...you know, I felt kind of ambushed by the whole thing because I didn't really know enough about what we were getting ourselves into when we jumped. [...] We didn't know enough about the kind of grassroots thing, and what had been going on the last couple of months in the country as this whole new phenomenon was going on. We were just so stuck in our controlling ways of wanting to control everything that had to do with Metallica. So we were caught off guard and we had a little bit of a rougher landing on that one than on other times than when we just blindly leaped. But you know, I'm still proud of the fact that we did leap...and I took a lot of hits and it was difficult."
The thing is that he should be rewarded for the public service, not punished.
Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp [video]
Kids install pirated office instead of selling limonade
For many things building it yourself doesn't take that much longer than doing an integration with a SaaS product. Usually I need 1 or 2 features that are a small piece of a much larger product.
You can travel on the subway and busses as much as you want for about $110 per month.

Remarkably, the subway had even more ridership in the late 1920's and late 1940's, exceeding 2 billion rides per year.
Ah, yes, it's your comment that I was referring to.
10bn? Royal heist. I like the appetites of those behind this hoax. Why not to spend 10 bn to terraforming Mars, huh? At least no one will visit with inspection.
While there are certainly conditions in which these bacteria might thrive, their inbuilt inefficiency -- secreting large quantities of energy-rich alcohol -- suggests that, in their current form, they'd be relatively easy to outcompete. They don't seem to have any particular advantage in an environment where their unique characteristics are not beneficial -- and very few environments would seem to fit that bill.
The GOP criticizes Obama like he's the anti-christ for literally everything. They've opposed their own bills that they sponsored just because Obama later made public remarks about them being good bills.

If you're referring to stuff like the "red line" fiasco in Syria, Hersh explains that too. See: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
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I hope Obama does something to resolve both the Snowden situation and get Chelsea Manning out of prison before he leaves office. I can't see what the downside is to him of doing the right thing at this point.
Donald Trump says a lot of things on which he doesn't follow through.
Yeah, than do not overfish.
It doesn't matter. Just choose tabs or spaces per project and be consistent.

If you join a project already using tabs / spaces and you wanna switch, don't bother doing that.
"I think there has to be a consequence for what he has done.""

I agree with Holder on this. Snowden should get a ticker tape parade, the Congressional Medal of Freedom, and the Nobel Peace Prize.
Why does the past matter to people making trips now (or in the future)?
Walking tanks were a Cold War era DoD thing. Something about forests in Europe. Or maybe the Soviets demo'ed one and now we had to close the walking tank gap.
Well, French dumped toxic waste in the Indian Ocean waters close to Somali borders. Killed all marine life there. They are your generation, my friend, and mine too. And we are failure already, so why just not keep calm and carry on.
I'm sure that's reassuring to those who he's promised to kill.. It wasn't a one-off comment though, he reiterated his Snowden beliefs a few months ago:

“When you just asked the question about Snowden, I will tell you right from the beginning, I said he was a spy and we should get him back,” Trump said. “And if Russia respected our country, they would have sent him back immediately, but he was a spy. It didn't take me a long time to figure that one out.”

Trump thinks he's a Russian spy who should be hanged for treason.
It is all a lot simpler: power, money and sphere of influence. No one is going to give up power and money in a poor country. That's why Mr. Putin and Company build tons of bullshit about external enemies, preventing folks from blaming the government for existing economical and social problems.

Disclaimer: I'm from a country that is in Eastern Europe and borders with Russia. It also has very close relations with it. Russia affects internal politics and mass media. 80% are brain-washed.
The one thing I've not seen mentioned yet in the Sci-Hub discussions is that the national level academic ISPs seem to have put a very effective domain and IP address block on SciHub. I've tested this both from UK and Scandinavian university networks I have access to, and none of the SciHub domains nor the direct IPs are accessible.

Can anyone in the US or rest of Europe with university access test this?

It's certainly ironic when you need an ssh tunnel from your university to your home to be able to read academic papers at work.

Edit: I have not tried eduroam, just uni ethernets. All Norwegian universities have the block both on DNS and on IPs. Imperial College only has the block on DNS, not on the IP.
I think a lot of people are in this camp right now. I think when they release of Vive-optimized drivers and related tests, then we'll see the real results.
Kazakhstan is doing this already.
1M computers infected by a botnet hijacking HTTPS
Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
If it works for you, the question is for how many years can you do it without falling back (increasing your carb intake)?

I seriously believe that I wouldn't be able to live a happy life on a low-carb diet (let's say 30-60 years), but leaving a few unhealthy ingredients out to keep my glucose and cholesterol levels in check is not a problem (as long as I'm not hungry)
I maybe didn't word my comment very well. What I meant is that STM is meant to be used in cases where the problem you're solving is most easily expressed in a concurrent way. It's main use case is concurrency, as opposed to parallelism.

For example, a web server is naturally concurrent. You definitely can implement a web server in a single-threaded manner, but you'll end up just faking concurrency anyway. So there are times where you'll want to use concurrency because the problem you're solving is naturally concurrent. In these cases, having an STM is valuable, because it makes it hard to get state changes wrong in a concurrent environment. It is not necessarily a way to make your program faster.
Same, this sounds the first upgrade that's worth the money since I bought a GTX 670 slightly used for ~$250 a couple years.
I think this is a trial balloon and Holder is acting as a stalking horse for the Obama administration. They're setting up to pardon him if the public approves.
My university (in USA) has not blocked SciHub domains.
I'd say it's beautiful for some situations, but not for syntax hightlighting
Sometimes you have to be careful not to get JFK'ed.
What do you mean by 'learning to code'? Do you mean the general ability to write software? Or do you mean the 'rigour' like complexity and data structures and algorithms? I can do the former but I gave up on being good enough at the latter to get past the typical interview and thats where I think the 'value' in being able to code lies for most people (ie, being able to get a good paying job with it)
It is unbelievable how (self)censored the mainstream media/politics discussion is. Keith Alexander lied to the congress on record, whistleblowers before Snowden were jailed for blowing the whistle and there was absolutely no chance he could reveal/fix any illegal wrongdoing by the government via the official whistleblowers channels. He did not run away and ruin his sweet life for the lulz, there was clearly no other way. Why is this argument not immediately raised every time some clown uses the "he broke the law, he has to face the music" argument?
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Engineering grad student here:

1. Learned to code some C# in an attempt to distribute some of my simulations to other computers. Had a great time and managed to get something good enough up and running.

2. Tried to pick up Haskell because I liked some of the ideas, and had a few projects I was interested in trying to do in a functional language. Had a bad time and quit after ~2 weeks. The environment and tools were garbage. I thought the old by-engineers-for-engineers software I used to build research models was user-unfriendly, but I guess that was just because I had never tried to work with the software programmers build for each other.