skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you can't really have it both ways.

Both Twitter and Facebook were trumpeting their dedication to freedom of speech and liberty during Arab Spring.

If they had just said, "Look we have all these shareholders we have to appease with money, and right now this is the best way to make more money" I would have no problem with that.

Don't pretend to be anti-censorship and then turn around and censor things.
They don't give your information, directly or indirectly, to advertisers. Using aggregated information for ad targeting isn't "selling" information to third parties, no matter how hard you try to loosely redefine the semantics of the word.

I'd ask how you think they are giving data to foreign governments, but I have a feeling you'll try to redefine "mandatory court subpoenas for individuals" as the same.
Roberts' willingness to provide airtime, even if by proxy, for opposing viewpoints is exemplary. It's rare to see the strong, compelling cases for various viewpoints presented in the same program, even when considering otherwise intelligent programming like we see on NPR and various opinionated podcasts.

It really strengthens all arguments since more of the discussion is reason-based. When programming ignores the good arguments from other perspectives, the programming is not much better than sophistry, in my opinion.
After trying the last puzzle for a while, I think I've concluded it's a torus - is that right?
The obvious question then is how you classify a pirate bay clone that has no ads. No profits.
Incidently, the most common cancer for males in China is lung cancer (21%), followed by stomach cancer (19%). For females, stomach cancer is (12%).

Cancer kills about 7500 each day in China.

And according to WHO, China the hardest hit by global surge in cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3643656/

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1422475/china-hardest...

http://www.wpro.who.int/china/mediacentre/releases/2015/2015...
There's a full English translation here [1] with details on Ibsens likely sources of inspiration, if you want to read it. It feels a lot longer when you're 9-10 years old...

But here's a summary of the end:

He is released from prison at the end of the Napoleonic wars, and comes home to find his wife and child died while he was in prison, and were buried in a paupers grave.

Years later he comes across a ship in distress and it is the captain of the British ship that caught him, with his family. He threatens revenge, but on picking up the child changes his mind and saves all of them.

[1] http://www.oftebro.com/Terje_Vigen_english.pdf
It's worth warning that volumes are buggy, particularly on AWS. This one in particular is worth keeping in mind: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/29324.
What I think in the beginning was a stack of cardboard with holes in it. I remember talking with old programmers in my first job who started out programming with switches, who by that point in the early 80's were using terminals to write batch programs with one compile-run cycle per day (they usually worked on multiple apps at a time this way). You won't catch me lamenting progress.
Wow. And when she wrote to him and he partially acknowledged violence and ignored the sexual abuse?
Edit: There is also the note from the court psychologist.
I'm not sure which framerates were used on SMS games, but I remember a bunch of Dreamcast games (that I used to play on an old CRT from the early 90s) had you choose between 50Hz and 60Hz when starting, so clearly CRT TVs were capable of using signals higher than 29.97Hz.
One of the things that was abhorrent to learn was that the 13th Amendment in the US, which bans slavery, explicitly allows slavery or forced labor of criminals.

We are still a country that explicitly allows slavery. Sadly, very rarely do I encounter people who understand (or seem to care) that this is the case.
Detailed age map shows how Milky Way came together
First, PLEASE read the ruling. It’s disheartening how many are discussing it without reading first.

Second, the court made a ruling about the application of a law in a specific set of cases:

A company takes a link which they know points to illegal material, and publish it, for the intention of making profit.

Third, this is Civil Law. NOT Common Law. Precedence means nothing.

So, if that was actually true, due to (3), Google could have been sued thousands of times before, or Movie4k.to or so on – but they haven’t.

Even kino.to could only be sued because they paid the uploaders of illegal movies money – not because they linked to them.

Second, this specific case here doesn’t even apply to almost every other website.

The argument is "because they published it and claimed exclusivity to make money, they had to know it was illegal".

Which means if you have user generated content, standard C&D or DMCA stuff applies, and only if you violate that, it can be infringing.
GB of RAM is fine until your database is one terabyte.

Also, RDBMS do constraint enforcement for you and that's absolutely critical when you work with any sufficiently big database (I work on a 100GB DB with a team of 6 people, changing here and there and I can't tell you how crucial the constraints are to maintain the data quality in face of bugs, misjudgment, etc.). And no, it's not for lack of testing. When you work on millions of super complex records, you always miss some corner cases (unless you're NASA and have a huge budget to test thoroughly)
Too much ambiguity in the law creates the opportunity for arbitrary enforcement.
My adventures with pylint
Psy's "Gangnam Style" video has been viewed 2.6 billion times (it broke the YouTube counter). Mind that this is YouTube rather than Facebook, though much of the video's sharing was through Facebook. So the capacity to reach some billions of people is possible and has been attained.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style

I'm noting this as an example of a widely-shared piece of content that I'm aware of. I'm also having trouble turning up widely-shared content Facebook-specific stats.

"An Anatomy of Large Facebook Share Cascades" mentions a case of 600,000 re-shares. That's a substantial fraction of total Facebook users.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/the-ana...

A listing of ten-most-popular Facebook posts of 2014 gives values into the 3 million range.

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2014/12/22/facebook-most-shared...

What I've looked at is the distribution of posts on specific topics of intellectual interest, as compared with nonintellectual discussions. Total community size matters, though it's not a total determinant. Smaller communities with good discussion characteristics (say, Reddit) come close to matching Facebook on actual discussion, and very small communities such as Metafilter actually have very high ratios of relevant discussion, though these may omit specific domain or topic experts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...

On a similar basis, if you want to find any one particular subset of people, you're in general going to find that in a larger rather than smaller network. Of course, if you know which specific group you're trying to target, then there may be other networks of specific interest. In the case you make, of seeking out family, friends, or shared interests, in general, Facebook is that network, and the attempts of other networks to challenge Facebook on the basis of social graph has typically failed. Challengers who have succeeded have generally done so on other bases -- intrest graph (Reddit), specific subset networks (e.g., Slack), or 1:1 communications (Snapchat).

Of material I've posted for which I have available stats, I'm aware of reach on the order of thousands to tens of thousands of unique readers, and no, not on Facebook (I don't make use of the platform). That's pretty good, though I find that where there are very specific people I'm interested in corresponding with, reaching out to them specifically (usually through email) is the most effective means.
I honestly am not sure, it was quite some time ago. I recall being quite unhappy with something about how it handled a sync conflict but I'm not sure of the specifics.
Loverberry the best Music site is back
Loverberry.com The best site for Music, lyric and music video is back and now ranking high in google search result The site which was created by a young guy Omorodion Cyril has now become a site where others earn a living by posting lyric to it and the admin of the site are very friendly and the site pay very high So you can even promote your Music or music video on the site as its a music site and get Millions of user clicking on your music or music video.
How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Testing Ground
If this discussion is about the use of the word "should", then it has been a waste of time.
And so we get a 3rd way to interpolate strings in 3.6.
Russian hacker release 1998 Blizzards Warcraft Adventures
Pragmatics ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics
Pragmatics
Yes, but there’s a legal difference, and courts in Germany have to take Verhältnismäßigkeit into account.

You can’t sue the parents of a kid selling lemonade in their frontyard, even though it’d technically be a violation of the Lebensmittelverordnung.

Just like a small webblog which does not even qualify as Nebeneinkunft, and which is not taxable, would also be not relevant for such a case, unless you published it knowing it was illegal to make that money.
Best i can tell, at least 3 complete version of Windows hiding behind a single UI.

What do you mean? Having both 32-/64-bit versions of things? Or separate versions of DLLs for compatibility mode(s)? Something else?
If she was truely cold she could have asked to keep him hanging on - reciprocating the cruel behaviour to a dependent.
Every time I read things like this, I am fucking awed by the skill of the authors. I consider myself fairly technical but this stuff is next level. Deconcstructing a game is one thing, but writing and teaching about it is a whole different ballgame. Very impressive.
Yup, that proves it. Case closed.
> they have a banner ad that gives then a thousandth of a penny

Forget about thepiratebay. It's children pocket money.

Remember the time of RapidShare/Megaupload? They were paying something like $5 per thousand downloads.

Let's imagine a popular DDL/streaming site sending one video. The next week it's been downloaded 100k times. That's $500 easy money for one upload.

Multiply that amount of money by the amount of movies, of tv show episodes, of video games (whose 20GB are split in 20 separate files).

That was the hell of a business model.

Now, let's think about the modern streaming sites. It doesn't monetize that way anymore. Instead it's putting aggressive ads on every fucking page + misleading widgets opening ad popups + affiliation with streaming services + useless redirection so visitor are forced to open more pages.

Illegal download/streaming are a very lucrative business and that's why there are so many of it. Noone is talking pennies there.
Sure, and if the quorum consists of 6 members, and you managed to undermind 3 of them by making sure they're fed the same custom shadow content, you'll have a split.
It's tricky to do.

C/C++ isn't quite as bad as, say, the Wikimedia markup language, but C/C++ syntax and semantics does not divide up into neat layers, making it harder to write transpilers and other kind of metaprogramming systems.
The "you are all dehydrated and need to drink 37 glasses of water a day" myth really needs to die...

I'll let Dr Carroll rant for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbHp7cu2Ubk
Torrent sites merely hosting an ID that describes a file? You say that as if they are publishing UPC codes. The problem with that description is that clicking the ID launches an application that connects to other peers and proceeds to download the file in question in violation of copyright law. That's the entire point. The equivalent would be a site that contains an ID for illegal drugs, and when you click the link it connects to a pharmaceutical 3D printer that instantly constructs the drug from raw materials in violation of narcotics law.
My high school was an interesting experience. It was a poor area and they expected few of the students to go to further education - but rather than use that as an excuse to treat the students like losers, the school tried to include some of the spread of college and vocational-school classes. I ended up taking lessons on archery, welding, video editing, and Latin, among other things.
It is indeed awful, albeit functionally superior to pgAdmin III.
IANAL, but it seems they are saying that the financial gain shows mens rea.
In my experience is like economists like to use weird words (at least in spanish) for example instead of using the word "promedio" (average), when there are only two numbers they call it "semi suma" (that would be the sum of multiple numbers divided by 2).
I must have missed the parts of the API docs that describe sentiment analysis and geofencing queries.
Male suicide: It's time to face the stark truth about a growing crisis
The description of emacs never fails to make me smile: "emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish"
But the last one is the most interesting to finally be able to trust the results. It's the same problem as faced in distributed systems, but in, say, NoSQL databases I haven't heard anyone consider the possibility of 4 of 6 members of a quorum to be undermined, and how to detect that.
People in developed countries consistently overestimate immigration levels
Nope.

Added in edit: I'm not going to answer any other questions or suggestions - I'd love to see the working behind the answers. Why should it be a Torus? Why should it be a Klein Bottle? Why should it be what you claim? Show me your working!

FWIW, as and when I get the chance I will upvote every guess that shows its working.
See also the Monster Boy project.
I somewhat agree with you here. In fact, as soon as the article starting drifting into lists, I stopped reading and scanned the rest.
...high school is wondrously efficient at making interesting things dull..."

Ain't that the truth. I learned that not because I recognized it my day to day as a student, but because I had one or two teachers in high school that were absolutely exceptional (I was lucky, some kids encounter none) and the droning background noise of the rest of education became very stark in comparison.

It's impossible to teach hundreds of students a year and make everything fantastical the whole time (not to mention that some kids will never give one f*ck about US History or whatever their natural predilections dictate) but man oh man does the current Common Core driven, test-everything, no-rote-learning-except-test-all-rote-learning way of looking at education just crush students.

And you don't have to ask a student - most teachers today will bemoan the degree to which their hands are tied to properly educate and, more importantly, make learning fun, by bureaucracies run by educational theorists who have never spent a day in a classroom.
Toulmin's model (data, warrant,backung,claim,rebuttal) reminds us that arguments are generally expressed with qualifiers and rebuttals rather than asserted as absolutes. This lets the reader know how to take the reasoning, how far it is meant to be applied,
The UK, for one. The HMRC has wide powers to assess tax if unilaterally if they suspect that the company is operating in the UK, and you are unwilling or unable to prove that it isn't.

In terms of taxing it, they would try to recover taxes from the entity itself first, but if the entity itself is non-responsive, they would go after its assets and directors and cash flows in or moving through the UK (and for now also the EU).

Since the issue here is specifically companies that are foreign entities operating out of the UK, there will be generally be something they can go after - if there isn't, then the company couldn't realistically be considered to be operating out of the UK for tax purposes anyway.

It's absolutely possible for UK owners to operate a foreign entity in ways that HMRC will agree does not imply taxes are due in the UK (been there, done that), but the point is that you need to be careful, because a few wrong moves and you may worst case have two jurisdictions both expecting you to pay taxes of the same money.
Some parts of economics are more like a social science. Other commenters have already pointed out that there is limited ability to perform traditional hypothesis-testing experiments.

Other parts of economics are more like philosophy. Which models and metaphors describe economies and economic decisions best? Is cash like blood? Are there invisible hands? Are interest rates levers or throttles? To what degree do groups think the way individuals do?

These sorts of things don't lend themselves to Greek letters, operators, functions, and so on.
It's not just metaphorical slavery, it's literal. The Thirteenth Amendment allows for the enslavement of prisoners.

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Seeing a Mother's Alzheimer's as a Time of Healing and Magic
Didn't say they were nefarious—just that their software hogs resources at times when it has no business doing so (i.e., when I'm not reading from or writing to my Dropbox folder).
That was entirely tongue-in-cheek. I wouldn't ever expect you to do that! It was an exaggerated example.
Purely functional doesn't mean immutable by default - it means immutable, period.

A function called with the same arguments will always have the same result.
Bufferbloat
I hear you on the education thing. Intuitively, the "two tables with same structure" approach is redundant, but it's helpful to have the math/logic to unambiguously define what "redundant" is.

Having 2 tuple types with 3 values seems harmless. This explodes quickly when done with many columns or many tables. Having some kind of foreign key to act as a "discriminator" scales much better to constrain the number of value types (# of tables x # of columns) that must exist.

But I only say this because of having to deal with a legacy DB at work that violates the Hell out of this :-)

... which brings us full circle to the tragedy of a lack of education.
Just use a disposable email address like 10 minute mail, that's what they're for.
Cf. Paul Graham's “The Age of the Essay” (2004) http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html

Graham's essay is and describes a fifth category of essay. Graham calls this approach “meandering”; it might also be called “exploratory”.
Whizz kid, 17, to take on Silicon Valley with GPS wristband for hospitals
Mother Teresa’s Sainthood Is a Fraud, Just Like She Was
I like your link, but I couldn't find that particular statistic within it. Could you clarify?

Most of the studies I've seen reach the opposite conclusion, that parental lifetime income highly predicts the income of their children. For example, a child of parents in the 90th percentile has an expected income of over $100K, while a child of parents in the 10th percentile has an expected income of less than $40K.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/america-... (which comes from http://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/economic_...)

Income isn't wealth, but I'd be surprised if the correlation isn't strong. What percentage of individuals in the US of 90th percent household wealth came from families in the top half versus bottom half growing up? I don't know off hand, but if I had to bet blindly on outcomes I'd strongly favor betting on the individual who started out better off.
Stories about fake food seem to be everywhere at the moment. China is the source of the most stomach-churning ones ("gutter oil" being my personal favourite - don't Google it if you're planning to eat any time soon).

But there are plenty from the USA and Europe too. Fake olive oil and truffle oil, mislabelled meat and seafood, the horse meat scandal in the UK.

If we can't rely on governments to protect us, I'm beginning to think there's a start-up opportunity for home food testing kits. Is such a thing technically possible? I guess for meat/seafood being misrepresented as a different species a DNA test would be required. But presumably there are chemical tests that can check for contaminants?
Yes : http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/A36025_1...
Let's say you built a distributed social network where you can add plugins to communicate via different protocols... And one of them happen to know how to interact with Facebooks APIs or website, so that you would not need to care whether your contacts are facebook users or non facebook users.

The same way we have IM clients that can talk multiple protocols.

Facebook almost certainly would try to shut it down if it got any kind of traction, because the set of people you could interact with on this new platform would be a strict superset of Facebook users. It'd be bound to have clunky usability issues (e.g. group communication would be hard to get right with groups split across platforms), but it'd enable users to start extracting themselves from Facebook more and more if/when more of their friends decide to try it out.

I'd love to see someone try. I won't try myself for two reasons: I don't use Facebook enough to know what features would be necessary, and secondly it's likely to be a game of cat and mouse with Facebook both technically and legally.
>google has no idea what it indexes.

In the same way a drug dealer has no idea what's in his stash; they know exactly the sort of thing in there, roughly how much of it is there but not the very specific details.
> "I, of course, aware of the many hours I have idled away doing nothing, demur."

Tip #1: don't use garden path sentences.
I like your points, but I'm not sure of the Idris on half a page. How much tacit knowledge does that rely on? We do need to focus on the fundamentals of education, the spectrum of logics with quantifiers, lambda calculus, and natural deduction style presentations of language semantics (not sure what to actually call this?).
Silicon Valley’s adoration of the delinquent entrepreneur
The CIA is a monolith, whereas the non-CIA players are named, person by person.

Surely there is someone within the CIA who is making these decisions. Is there a policy not to name individuals within certain governmental organizations?
This is pretty good, the folks in the security space could proabably use this for analysis. Any intention to inform organizations such as the center for security policy?
That's a pretty vile interpretation of the story.
What about set-car! set-cdr! vector-set! string-set!
> If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride. And it will encourage you to do another task.

It bothers me when people present anecdata like this. I don't have a problem with people feeling this way. But it's a huge leap of logic to say that this phenomenon is generalizable, especially since there absolutely are counterexamples. I, for one, have never felt this way after making my bed.
This also reminds that Hynix had to be bailed out in 2001 and in 2003, US and EU imposed high tariffs as a a consequence. I wonder what would happen if Hynix actually failed and had to be bought by Micron.
Przybylski's Star
RadPad Rent Checks Bouncing – Beginning of the End?
Going a bit further, Chris Langan's CTMU characterised the universe itself as a sort of back-propagation algorithm with a global utility function.