skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Holding

The St. Paul Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance was struck down both because it was overbroad, proscribing both "fighting words" and protected speech, and because the regulation was "content-based," proscribing only activities which conveyed messages concerning particular topics. Judgment of the Supreme Court of Minnesota reversed.

Well yeah. "protected speech" and "[specific] content-based" are good reasons to strike it down. Only defining certain things as offensive enough is just asking to become obsolete and have people toe the line. But note that "fighting words" are specifically not protected, not that it particularly applies to the OP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplinsky_v._New_Hampshire

Meanwhile, we have successful cases for harassment. Are you arguing that verbal harassment is constitutionally protected?
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I had a group dinner with Albert-László Barabási a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to ask him to what extent modern social network services like Twitter and Facebook were employing network science under the covers. He was pretty skeptical that they were doing anything that interesting.

Which is certainly bourn out by this article.

My gut feeling is that of all of them, LinkedIn is doing the most interesting things, perhaps because it has the biggest stake in actually understanding the relationships between graph-distant members. With their more ad-oriented models, Facebook and Twitter have much lower fruit available to them in the form of mining user product sentiment and likely ad demographic.
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this article doesn't even mention email!
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It turned out the guy who brought the dates was their pimp
Self medicated anything is generally bad. That definitely goes for psychedelics.
I think a patent should automatically expire if you have no direct product revenue from it
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I ended up switching to Wuala for better privacy, and a unique setup for getting more space at no extra cost. Specifics in my blog post: http://a1.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-i-switched-from-dropbox-t...
>>Would it unlock the door if I captured packets sent by the phone, then replayed them later? (Would that be difficult to do? I've never done it.)

The short answer is no. The long answer depends on how many packets you capture. See also: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ssl/draft02... (Section D.3)

We've gone to great lengths to ensure any additions are pareto-secure.
Essentially, yes. For mining. Transactions don't require you to have the full block chain, you just have to "know" your current balance's info so you can make modifications to it.
This is how it is implemented now. However, it is not needed. The dev's have already said this can and will change when it needs too.

Pluss, even now it is only the mining rig's that need the full list. If you just want a wallet to send and receve bitcoin you don't need the whole thing.... Correct me if I am worng. Also, you can use an on-line wallet service to hold your coins and then you don't need anything.
Intel does have a pretty good performing SOC with the CE4100 based on the atom cores, they just can't get the power under control for the handheld market. I think they're still losing against arm with the new process, though it surely closes the gap. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4029/the-boxee-box-review/3
You don't have to be tin hat to worry that if "some" Dropbox admins have access to your files, then your files are at risk of being hacked just like what happened with Sony and their PSN. If a company has your stuff, and someone there has the key to your stuff, you'd better be sure it's as important to them as it is to you. Since that is rarely the case, I prefer not to give anyone else the key.
The standard for security mitigation in architecture is now ... proof of exploit? Seriously?

This issue is very real. Anyone who has ever done significant 3D work is aware that these drivers crash machines regularly when exercised with edge cases. Those crashes are all kernel exploits waiting to happen.
Technologies have a tendency to escape their niches. Namecoin is jailbreak out of Bitcoin technology's niches.
I worked at Ford for a year. They have a serious commitment to putting cool tech in the car and in the vehicle owning experience.

I'll admit, I don't know if anyone else is doing something similar though.
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They can dedupe without needing to decrypt. Tarsnap does this. The issue is with features like being able to reset your password, downloading and sharing files via the web interface, etc.
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Anything that makes it easier for people to buy their own health insurance is a good thing. There's something about employers buying products for employees that makes those products tend towards crappiness (cf. enterprise software).
Just find a way to abstract all the nonsense. I'd be happy to help you to get test locks ( I have contacts at schlage and Assa Abloy). I don't want to bother you by email w/o permission, however.
Every time I read or hear more about the internals of Valve, I want to be their employee more and more.
Its not a bubble, but being a hot word, and with our horrid economy, many random walks of life and unemployed folks have started 1-2 person "shops" of Social Media consulting. Kudos to them if they add some value, the vast majority trend similar in low performance (just personal experience, nothing more).
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We've only just come out of stealth mode after nearly two years of quiet work. We'll be posting some more stuff in the coming days...
you should drop them.
It's not about speed, but space efficiency, msgpack is significantly smaller. That's useful for a mostly in memory database. As far as speed that's negligible.
Hi,

If you're interested in reading a paper about the execution model, Jeffrey Hsu's 2004 "The DragonFlyBSD Operating System" (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/presentations/dragonflybsd.asiab...) describes the LWKT and port abstractions.

The DragonFly network stack is a pretty interesting subsystem to understand the SMP model through; it uses a form of connection-oriented parallelism rather than fine-grained locks. The same approach was taken by Solaris in their FireEngine system (they call it 'vertical partitioning'). References that would be interesting to look at to understand how the netstack works, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies
in Modern Operating Systems", along with the second part of the earlier paper. FreeBSD chose to build a fine-grain-locked netstack in a style the paper above called 'Message Parallelism'.

The DragonFly kernel memory allocator is another interesting subsystem to look at SMP design through. The kernel allocator (kmalloc) is a slab allocator, like most other kernel allocators. The DragonFly slab allocator differs from Bonwick's classic by using fixed size and fixed alignment slabs, so the traditional reverse-mapping hash table is not required; the slab headers are always at the slab ... head. The SMP strategy was not to put a per-CPU cache in front of each zone, however. The slab allocator itself was duplicated across each CPU (each slab for a given size is CPU-private). Remote frees were handled via passive IPIs (as described in the first paper). The only lock in the allocator is at the bottom, to allocate kernel address space and frames for slabs. Other systems (think Solaris, say) build per-CPU caches of objects in front of the allocator and lock the slab layer.

The pattern you might see is that DFly chose to replicate resources across each CPU in an SMP system where reasonable...

Throughout the rest of the kernel, Dfly uses a curious lock called a 'token'. A token lock is automatically released when a thread holding it stalls and is reacquired when it
becomes runnable; think of a token as a having the semantics of the older *BSD MPLOCK, but there can be more than one token, where there was one MPLOCK. Token locks can't deadlock (as sleep-and-hold is not possible; they do introduce a new class of error, though, where a lock "holder" slept, meaning earlier assumptions don't hold). They probably won't work as well as conventional mutexes when the token chains get larger than a few elements. Most importantly, they allowed the MPLOCK to be broken up very quickly, mostly over the 2.8 and 2.10 release cycles.
Don't know that there is too much other there to read about tokens; there might be something in the XNU kernel notes about 'funnels' (which have similar semantics).

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One question: What is meaning?

Making life longer? Making life better? Creating options? Creating experiences?

I think everyone here can agree on the basic idea that some things have meaning and some do not. Reaching consensus on what specifically has meaning, though, is impossible.

Finally, is it that far fetched to posit that technologies developed and refined to predict consumer desires or the financial markets can be repositioned to predict weather, disease (both on a world-wide level and a cellular level). That these predictions can be used to improve the quality of people's lives, the availability of food, and otherwise? These techniques are the byproduct of the current bubble, and targeting them at the physical world, scaling them up (planetary) or down (molecular) will be the focus of the next century.

Finally, in relation to my earlier point, 42... Discuss.
lets leave the ponzi dreams over on your smf
If you are trying to be part of the HN community and add value, why can't you state your reasons for disagreement?
Get email reminders when your Last.fm scrobbled artists have new releases.
This works if you need to give friends or family access, but what about taking it one step further by using a finger print scan + security PIN? Trying to fiddle with your phone from your pocket and opening an app or sending a text message can be just as cumbersome as looking for your keys.
Ask HN: How's my pre-launch copy?
I've put up our pre-launch page at http://www.snapplans.com. I'm wondering if the copy is clear. In short, we're building a community that facilitates people getting together that share common interests and making it easy for them to connect from anywhere (by emphasizing mobile). As a value-add to the users, we're negotiating deals for them at local establishments. Does the essence of the value-prop come across in the limited amount of copy space? Any suggestions as to how to increase our conversions would be much appreciated.
Bottle + MongoDB + Google App Engine works for me.
Javascript, IE, and Skype are all very vulnerable to all sorts of security and privacy problems, yet people still leave them on all the time.

I'd like to see some exploits first.
I just subscribed to Tech Review, haven't received my first issue yet but I have been reading the site a lot. Seems to feature a lot more interesting tech news and information then most sites/magazines including Wired.
my heart stopped when I read the first 4 words, then the 5th word pulled me back to reality.
I'd love to hear more about your NFC experience - feel free to drop me a line at cameron@lockitron.com.
Banks have spreadsheet level account information - debits, credits, categories and labels. Not a very broad set of information to parse. Most banks offered several common formats for this data and it was readily available online - albeit with some caveats. Health insurance on the other hand is nothing like that.

For example - Showing a BCBS logo is hardly representative of the 39 separate companies which are part of the BCBS Association. Good luck trying to wrangle connecting to each of these companies and then trying to decipher the individual plan-level benefits of thousands of customized plans at each specific insurer. Employer's routinely customize benefits for their employee offered plans. These benefits are detailed in your benefit booklet or member guide which you probably get by mail and maybe have access to in a PDF online. Parsing and then reporting on that info is a tall order and that's if you can even get access to it.

This is in addition to the legal hoops that you'll have to jump through to even explore the ramifications of transferring PHI(Personal Health Information) from insurers and storing it elsewhere. Once explored you have to get permission to acquire this information - another difficult hurdle if its even possible.

TLDR - They're in for a long climb up a very steep hill.
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gmail, physics books.
It's the best place that a scientist or an engineer can be in
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Are you arguing that verbal harassment is constitutionally protected?

No, but hot-or-not with a little bit of racial innuendo doesn't sound like harassment to me. It just sounds offensive.

The comment I was replying to took the position that it "makes sense" to arrest American citizens for "disorderly conduct" simply because they engaged in offensive hate speech.
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So essentially there is going to be a big change to make BitCoin work better in a while. That sounds like IPv6, new web versions, and OS/browser upgrade head fuck.
Perhaps the thing to do is declare victory and stop changing the API. If the jQuery core didn't change for a few years, would anyone really mind?

(Performance and compatibility improvements are always welcome, though.)
I imagine they probably could have, but even looking at it from a strictly utilitarian point of view, both me and her are now American citizens producing a fair amount of value by plying our trade. I suppose you could debate whether or not skilled workers like ourselves were truly needed, but I think being able to find employment is a good enough proxy for being a productive member of society, so I would say the American people as a whole are 'better' than they would have been without us - although clearly this hinges on the actual criteria you choose.
"He just summed up the last 3 yrs of my life" said a friend and fellow entrepreneur. So true, so true.

Every CEO was new to the job at some point. So was every founder. What he's saying is no mystery to any of us entrepreneurs. He just happened to have his entry picked up on HN ;-)

(Not to diminish what he wrote, of course - cheers to his honesty!)
PhD is not from the science realm.

The PhD was originally about theology, law and medicine. It was co-opted by scientists less than two centuries ago.
I said it shorter in tweets (@cromwellian), but the Microsoft IE9 guy didn't get it, hence the rant. It turns out, many people do not understand the timing issues as you might think. The Microsoft guy seems to think you can string together serial audio using Javascript's setInterval() despite non-determinism sources from Garbage Collection, browser style recalculation/layout, and other event-loop events interfering.
I really love watching how people's tone change after posting a negative comment here and getting a personal response from Gary himself. The is exactly what Gary talks about doing in his books - glad to see it's effective when put into action.
Suggestion: Allow contributors to automatically donate their earnings to a charity. Much easier for minor contributors than collecting their individual payout and donating it themselves, probably more efficient for the charity as well (since you can pool it from everyone into a single donation), and brings back some of the "doing it for a good cause instead of for money" thing.
"just go out and do something" is the hardest when you are truly depressed. Even when you do, any sense of "awesomeness" fade so so fast.
Finally facebook has a counterpart, which is a lot more better since Google is now fully dedicated to innovate Google as a Social Networking Titan, this might have been a disaster for facebook.
phone jammer http://www.espow.com/wholesale-security-surveillance-jammer....
I love the concept of different monetezation strategies for different types of players. That's a game-changer (pun!). Love to watch how it's executed.
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Lawyers are the same way. They either charge normal rates or work pro-bono. They almost never work for a reduced rate.
Well -

* Qi and Loom are pretty nifty and IMO radical projects.

* Hot-patchable servers are trivially doable.

* There are some really trippy things over on Lambda the Ultimate done in Lisp (Schemes to be precise).

I don't try to canvass projects and figure out which ones are done in Lisp for net arguments.
rhizome's correct. It will take more than a weekend with any tech platform to get to the point that you know enough to deploy an app in a week.

That said, with those rather sketchy specs, and no specification of what you already know, Django's on the short list, thanks to its rather nice and integrated admin interface.

For the MVP, if you're serious about the weekend timeframe, I'd suggest considering just sticking with Django's default SQL DB integration and where you see fit, slam some JSON blobs into the database and call it a day. I do mean "considering", it could go either way, but on that timeframe the extra several hours it could take to get something else running starts becoming significant percentages.

If you're willing to loosen up on the time frame a lot of other stuff becomes viable, but in terms of slamming it out now it's going to be difficult to beat Django... tie it, perhaps, but not beat it.

You should probably help us out by telling us what you already know at least a little, in terms of languages at the very least.
Not a lot of copy here to comment on. Feels like you're phishing for users...
The big perhaps too obvious criticism of the OA is that it's making a broad generalization and is overlooking all the actual innovation and Big Ideas going on. I for one am also sickened or at least unexcited by all the unimaginative and incremental and "me too" startups and products out there. But rather than just complaining about it, I'm doing something about it. Innovation starts with you. If you want the world to be a certain way it's up to you to help make it that way. Start small, think big, act today but aim for the future.
In addition to what they talked about in the article, open source is also contributing.

Most businesses will only need to hire coding mechanics (less pay, less education) because the engineering is given out for free (the free open source apps). Those same developers that are giving out all of their free work may potentially be putting themselves out of a job.
This article really hit home, it describes the situation today quite accurately. I live in a large town in which 90% of the kids at my high school go on to college after graduation, anything besides college is looked down upon.

Our county also runs a smaller technical high school specifically for this stuff, but unfortunately it isn't a very nice school, as there is a lot of violence.

I, personally, would not take an occupation involving this kind of work, being as I have a future somewhere in Computer Science, but I definitely value these skills, and hope to learn a lot of them in the future. Maybe one summer I'll work odd jobs, or fix up my house.
What is the use of Url shortners?
I want to understand the significance of Url shortning websites and short url besides their use in micro-blogging sites and advertising/campaigning.
No, not at all, I'm just trying to get the copy right. I actually cut the copy in half on the advice that too much copy on a pre-launch page can be counter-productive. Perhaps I should add more back to it.
My partner dropped his work to work full time on bitcoin project back in February. I think he was one of the first, who have bitcoins as main income source.

Currently bitcoin related projects are an unexplored land of possibilities :)
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Trademark law is like that
Well, I signed up for an invite. I like your "referral for reward" marketing strategy. Maybe include a "more" link to give info to people who want to find out what you're doing?
Is one actually better than the other? I know very little about these things but it seems like ARM relies on a higher volume of simpler instructions at a faster clock rate vs x86 which uses fewer, larger, more complex instructions which take longer to execute. Don't you eventually get to a point where the only way to increase performance is to use more complex instructions?

I mean at some point Intel will be able to deliver x86 CPUs in ultra low power form factors. At the same time ARM CPUs will become increasingly powerful. Is it clear to those that understand these things that one architecture is going to be inherently better?
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According to court documents, she is asking for a jury trial and damages and restitution of at least $5 million. But attorney Eric Benink, who represents Keller, said the money is a secondary issue.

Well then, she and her attorney should have no trouble giving any award to a worthwhile charity at the conclusion of the case. Perhaps the judge could make that part of the conditions of the award. You get your quarters back from CEC, anything else goes to the 501(c) of your choosing.

That would probably neatly solve this problem as well:

http://www.adaabuse.com/
You could do this today with the Schlage system. It allows you to create a number of codes, and supports codes that work only during specified periods of time so a particular guest's keycode would only work for the duration of their stay.
No, it is not a change in the protocol. It will be a seamless migration for normal clients to not keep the entire blockchain. This was planned for from day 1.
Depression is at the end of the day not a single illness. It's like cancer in that. Just like there are all kinds of cancer and what worked for yours might not work for others, so it is with depression. Behavioral activation might have been effective for you and you might have been able to snap out of it, most cases of depression don't have that luxory.
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That's what I thought, minimal interest on HN. 8 points? Only unhealthy people care, and they clearly have no arguments or they would make them, since it is easy to do here on this forum.

EDIT: Nice rebuttal: down vote. You are part of the HN plague.
1. Allow companies to scan content and verify it is safe.

2. Allow companies/people to "brand" links (I guess this is advertising, to an extent).
Yes but this is a highly credible complaint.

The FTC regulatory model depends on market participants to tip them off when companies are breaking consumer law, so this could be the first step in an eventual action against DropBox.
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I think that's a good idea. Thank you.
I should note that this is a discussion of engineering managers: I'm pretty sure that if you're the manager of a field that doesn't traditionally involve critical thinking, relatively little of this would apply.
It seems you've been commenting without trying to understand what "frozen" means. I'm not surprised, go on
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That's a really good idea. I'm going to talk to my team about whether they're comfortable revealing details at this stage.. Thanks for the thoughts.
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