skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally browse with Javascript, cookies, and plug-ins off (except for a few whitelisted sites). From what I understand of the technology (it loads some javascripts initially), I think that would dodge it.
Road to hell is paved with good intentions, etc etc.

I'm not going to make any moral judgments about their team since I don't know any of them. Even if they are on the up and up and mean the best, IMO the technology they are employing is illegitimate at best - it violates user expectations when using the internet, and IMO makes the industry more dangerous for the rest of us by giving legislators and luddites more ammunition. I am absolutely against supercookies.

I'm not sure why it's relevant that they're tracking users anonymously - the user gets to decide at the end of the day who they share their information with. To make this decision for them is presumptuous, to force them to comply despite their implied non-consent is the height of arrogance.
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No, but I think you can put forward that if the transfer speed is reduced in direct response to your usage, that the "unlimited" portion of the advertising clearly no-longer applies.
This could be risky for Stanford. What happens when all the online students ace the class (demonstrating the curve was very easy), or get consistently better grades than the students enrolled at Stanford?
> "So which is it? Physical embodiment = not abstract."

No, the point is that there effectively is no "physical embodiment" requirement. Adding magic words like "computing device" or "system and method" to a patent application has no real effect, because ALL software is run on a "computing device" or a "system". This does nothing to narrow the scope of a patent, or to tie it to any distinct physical implementation. The ONLY distinct entity in such a patent is the algorithm.

This will become immediately clear to you if you read any number of software or business method patents. You seem to have created your own alternate reality here, where software patents are necessarily like mechanical patents. They are not.

> "I was talking about interference machines that use the wave properties of light to do computation without the use of digital logic."

Fine, whatever. Any patent that covers your thingamajig in its physical manifestation will have to be a proper mechanical patent, complete with design drawings. As a separate matter, the computation performed by the machine can be expressed algorithmically, and that algorithm is what could be covered by a software patent, completely apart from whatever machine implements it. That patent can then be asserted against any other use of that algorithm regardless of the physical system that uses it.

> "The software patent does not somehow magically fence off an area of abstract thought. What it fences off is a particularly convenient and valuable area of concrete machinery."

No, again, that would be a mechanical patent. Have you really not ever read a software patent? Go look one up; maybe start with one of the patents on LZW, or maybe amazon's 1-click patent.
It would cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, minimum. Probably more, if they're not already in your neighborhood with it.
There are dozens of companies that'll run you private fiber - you just have to foot the whole bill. L3 and Cox both do it in my area, for example. This isn't a residential cable/ftth deployment, but it sure is a provider running private fiber. It's also orders of magnitude more than residential FIOS.
That kind of blew my mind too. Three years in prison for "transmitting porn", prosecuted in a state in which he didn't even reside? WTF.

Here's some more detail from the US Appellate Court:
https://www2.bc.edu/~herbeck/cyberlaw.thomas.html
This reminds me of CS229, of which there's an online version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E

It's considerable more focused in scope, presenting the mathematics behind some of the more popular algorithms extensively used in machine learning, which is a subset of artificial intelligence. The course starts off pretty slow, but quickly gains speed and momentum. By the end, you should be fairly comfortable with clustering and classification/regression, among other topics. The lecture notes are also fantastic.
Title is misleading. I routinely 'dodge' this - all it takes is disabling caching. If you understand how caching works, it's trivial to conclude that it's possible to use etags for tracking. It's the same with the CSS-based browser history attack - if your browser is storing data, and it's possible for a server to tell you're storing it, it can be used to track you.
Pune, not Mumbai. But I described Pune to her as "a satellite city of Mumbai".
Will you be offering a service in English too, or only Polish?
When you need "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" levels of nontechnical legitimacy?

(I too wonder what technical marvels it can perform which justify the cost).
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I would change personal assistant to agency. People in these type of situations tend to not deal as well with being assigned a person. A single person in an agency is fine as the office and desk lends to creditability and doesn't give the "another person invading my space" problem.
I think the most interesting thing about this video is that MTV didn't use to be crap.
I have an Anthem Blue Cross (California) family plan. It has a high deductible (7500), and is attached to an HSA. Most normal routine preventative maintenance is covered. My premium is $200/month. I treat this plan as 'major medical' and sock away as much money as possible into the HSA, which I use for EVERYTHING I CAN.

As an interesting side note. I was talking to my doctor, who happens to have the same health insurance as me. He said that I am better off using my HSA in most cases. For example, his practice charges $130 for a routine visit if I pay directly from the HSA. If I charge it to my insurance, its more like $1300. Why? 1, because dealing with insurance, by his own admission, is a PITA, and 2, he will ALWAYS charge the maximum that will be covered by insurance... its how business is done. But for cash (HSA) payments, the administrative overhead is so low and the risk factors for nonpayment (insurance denies the claim, etc) are so low and the A/P cycle is so short, he would rather get paid $130 NOW (on my way out) than get $1300 90 days net IF insurance approves the claim. He said a lot of doctors and dentists do it this way and I should ALWAYS ask 'whats the cash price' because some have tiered rates like he does. Most people don't care that its cheaper to pay cash because for most people, their primary concern is out of pocket expense. Most people would rather charge their insurance $1300 so long as they don't have to pay anything than to pay $130 and not 'overpay' (albeit opaquely)
According to this post[1], that is not the case:

A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.

[1]http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-a...
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Aside from the lack of a dedicated GPU, anyways (the Wii's CPU is apparently just over 700MHz).
Improving basic research. The pricing of chemicals and supplies can vary 10x with most researchers not having the time to find reasonable providers.

Beyond the practical aspects of the problem is watching people work so hard to raise funds for research knowing that it is 'wasted' in a single purchase.
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I'll leave discussion about valid of KM's activity aside, what is it about the "I know X, genuinely great people and really want to do good stuff" formula (with no substantive arguments) that seems to make to the top of these hn debates? (I'm sure the KM people love puppy dogs, etc).
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Nope. At least one claim was rejected.

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The appeals court ruled against Myriad in another part of the case, however. The court said that Myriad’s patent claims on the process of analyzing whether a patient’s genes had mutations that raised the risk of cancer was not patentable because it involved only “patent-ineligible abstract mental steps.”
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The result that the gene is patentable but that the test is not patentable is intriguing.

From the standpoint of genetic research, I may not care whether I have the gene itself, but I do care whether I can test for the gene and its mutations. For example, if my methodology needs to isolate the gene in order to test for it (e.g. exome sequencing), then the "isolation patent" prevents me from using this methodology but allows me to find another methodology that does not require isolation (e.g. whole-genome sequencing).

Daniel MacArthur will probably have a compelling blog post shortly: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/geneticfuture/
OK, maybe metabolism can be a mitigating factor. Some people (fidgety people?) might have a really high metabolism. Perhaps you can have a few outliers who burn excess calories like some kind of rodent; but I doubt there's outliers with with a python-like metabolism who can spend weeks living off the deer they just swallowed. There's a base-line for what a warm-blooded human burns at rest (or at a desk), and not everyone with that slow calorie burn rate is severely overweight.
Could anyone explain to me why the HN community seems to have a particular interest in AI compared to other more "academic" areas? I have seen quite some amount of AI resources here, but at the same time for most startups discussed here they aren't particularly related to AI. Just curious.
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KISSmetrics specializes in funnel analytics, not helping advertisers. I'm surprised by the number of people making that assumption.

I have a SaaS app and I use KISSmetrics to learn what sorts of things engage visitors and customers the most. It's helped me make critical decisions that benefit both me and my customers (by improving multi-step processes).
Typical Anglocentric American. Why don't you get some culture and learn Polish, huh? :)
From memory a 0 at the front of a phone number is a stand in for the + prefixed country code. So for example Australian numbers such as 0412 345 678 are actually +61 412 345 678. Same goes for international numbers.
Ironically, they would never be caught if only they assigned different blobs to the same user on different properties, like KS_cookie XOR hash(property_name).
I think it comes off as weak. I don't want suggestions if they are really orders.
No, that extra 10% doesn't mean shit against a brute force attack. As others have stated, use PBKDF2 or bcrypt.
I would think it would always be better to have more free-form input options for things such as names, addresses, phone numbers and such, and only force them into a certain form when you actually need it in that form. For sending packages and billing information.
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I miss Visual Studio's find/replace dialogue and window management whenever I'm in other text editors.

Notepad2 is my favorite light-weight text editor on any platform, although Text Mate served this role admirably.
One possible explanation is in the syllabus:

AI has emerged as one of the most impactful disciplines in science and technology. Google, for example, is massively run on AI.
I found MTV's coverage of "piracy" (which of course didn't exist back then) to be particularly enlightening. They clearly showed websites where people could listen to their favorite band's songs, and yet there was no mention of theft or the poor artists who won't get paid. Instead, they, and the artists they interviewed, cast it as a great way for fans to gain exposure to their music and interact with them. Dave Matthews comparing it to how "bootleg tapes spread the word about us" was particularly telling.
This is a sad, sad commentary on the current state of government affairs. This is the kind of stuff that makes me think groups like Anonymous are more for the people than our own government
And what happens the next time?

And the time after that?

Will AirBNB be legally/financially responsible every time some guest trashes a host's place? Shouldn't the guest be responsible? Does the former line of thinking scale?

I find the whole issue a bit of comic opera because I remember the first time I learned of AirBnB's business model I realized this kind of thing could and would happen. And now it has. Shocking! Not.
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For the record, the following Reps have cosponsored this bill:

Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] - 7/15/2011

Rep Chabot, Steve [OH-1] - 7/11/2011

Rep Coble, Howard [NC-6] - 7/11/2011

Rep Critz, Mark S. [PA-12] - 7/11/2011

Rep Deutch, Theodore E. [FL-19] - 7/11/2011

Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] - 7/12/2011

Rep Flores, Bill [TX-17] - 7/6/2011

Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4] - 7/6/2011

Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2] - 7/11/2011

Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] - 7/11/2011

Rep Gowdy, Trey [SC-4] - 7/11/2011

Rep Jackson Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 7/19/2011

Rep LaTourette, Steven C. [OH-14] - 7/12/2011

Rep Lummis, Cynthia M. [WY] - 7/12/2011

Rep Lungren, Daniel E. [CA-3] - 7/11/2011

Rep Marino, Tom [PA-10] - 7/12/2011

Rep Pierluisi, Pedro R. [PR] - 7/25/2011

Rep Quigley, Mike [IL-5] - 7/12/2011

Rep Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [MD-2] - 6/15/2011

Rep Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29] - 7/15/2011

Rep Shuler, Heath [NC-11] - 7/11/2011

Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 7/25/2011

Rep Upton, Fred [MI-6] - 7/12/2011

Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [FL-20] - 5/25/2011
This kind of gene patent is not relevant for drug companies who are trying to make therapeutic proteins.

1. if the whole concept of a "gene patent" (as described in this article) were shut down then drug companies will still be fine, since DNA is not the drug, the protein is the drug.

2. On the other hand, if all 25k human genes were patented by many different parties as diagnostic markers (as described in this article), then it wouldn't hurt drug companies either, since that's not where the money really is. And if something turned out to be important for a drug treatment, then at least there is a patent which can be purchased.

3. Actually, if all human genes (and their proteins) were patented to prevent any use by any other parties, then that would be a good thing, because if it turns out that one of them is really useful to treat a disease, then a drug company would be more likely to pursue that as a drug candidate because they could license the patent and protect themselves from generics for a few years to pay off all the R&D costs.

4. if there is a protein or chemical of some sort which is already in the public domain for your intended use and can't be patented - then there is no way to protect your huge investment. This is the worst case scenario for drug companies. Or, if suddenly there was no way to get a patent for a drug based on a naturally occurring chemical of human protein, then that would be bad for business, too.

Also, this whole gene patent thing becomes a little absurd since it now costs only $4000 to sequence the entire human genome. According to this article, Myriad is charging $3000 to sequence 2 different genes (or maybe just to check for a couple common SNPs in those genes?). So, the problem is, what happens when you get your whole genome sequenced? Does the company who does the sequencing need to withhold the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes from their product that they return to you? What about all the other "thousands" of gene patents? Maybe when you get your genome sequenced then the company which does it just can't interpret the patented parts of the genome? Well, from this article it look like the interpretation of the gene sequence is unpatentable since it is an "abstract mental step." So, maybe everything is fine and all these patents can exist and we can go ahead and get our genomes sequenced without any fear of getting sued by a Myriad of companies.
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Could someone describe what sort of prerequisite knowledge is required for following along a course like this?
This is a possibility, but if it does happen, I don't think it would reflect anything other than very determined people took the class that very possibly could have officially enrolled if they applied.
You mean, people who take unfair^ advantage of freemium services?

^ according to jscheel's assessment of fair trade
Apple has a company here in the States and in Luxemborg. US employees are employed by the US corporation.
I still get a laugh at Hulu's 1996 index.htm page:

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Sure, the word 'cyberspace' is used everywhere these days, but I don't think it carries the same meaning it did back then. Virtual reality was "becoming" a thing of the present in 1995, and whenever the word cyberspace was used, it seemed to mean "sure, you're stuck in 2d now, but just wait a few more years and you'll be totally immersed in a 3d cyberspace." I guess I'm a little nostalgic about the old "cyberspace" :)
Yeah, I had the bit about email in mind when saying "disagree strongly with others".
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The syllabus says "A solid understanding of probability and linear algebra will be required." -- I imagine programming experience and knowledge of basic algorithms and data structures would be helpful as well.
Doesn't this run counter to the referenced theory? A selfishly amoral casino would want card counters to bankrupt their competition, no?
I knew there would be those who negged that comment. Get a life people, get a life.
this is also a very introductory course. i think it's great for whetting the appetite for further research into particular areas, but it definitely glosses over a lot of the mathematical foundations that a course like CS 229 (mentioned elsewhere) thoroughly explores. as such, i'm not sure if there's much a top grade in this course would even signify beyond some amount of commitment and interest in artificial intelligence.
I remember being in junior high school and first hearing about "the information superhighway" and I was both confused and intrigued. I think it was a few years before I connected "information superhighway" and "internet" as being the same thing.
Absolutely. You can easily choose not to participate.

If, on the other hand, you choose to deny access to your data while continuing to use the Web services in question, you would be at fault (using grandparent's definition of fair trade).
I think that in practice, you don't need to be psychic. I think the judge will ask "would a reasonable person know this behavior, in this context, would be likely to cause offense?". The reason for it being dependent on the other persons feelings is that you can't just say "sure, I know she's a prude, but most women wouldn't take offense to that".

Like I said, the law tries to be reasonable. Will a judge or jury say "Your behavior was that of a reasonable person, and there's no way you could have known that asking her out would cause a flashback to (whatever), but it's her feelings that matter, not yours"?
Very cool. I'll be taking the intro AI course at my school this semester, so it will be fun to compare. Definitely excited to hear what Thrun and Norvig have to say. I met a colleague of Thrun's in Tokyo earlier this summer. By far the most interesting conversation of the entire trip.
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I took a version of this class (also taught by Norvig and Thrun) last year, and I definitely found it very enjoyable. I ended up taking it after CS 229 (which covers the mathematical underpinnings of machine learning with some rigor), so I unfortunately couldn't evaluate how good of an introductory course to AI it would be (having covered a lot of the concepts prior), but even still it was a class I enjoyed. Of particular interest was hearing the instructors draw parallels to their work (particularly with Google and the DARPA challenge), which made a lot of the theoretical concepts much more tangible and helped me recognize their practical applications.

you can also see a prior version of the class here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs221/
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One of the applications of Proofnet is a decentralized web-of-trust where you can send out a scammer alert by giving someone a trust rating of 0 and broadcast that message with very high proof-of-work. See some more info on those efforts here:

https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=31198.0
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How often does someone get sent to prison for 2 years because they bid at an auction more than they could afford to pay at the moment they made the bid? Is it very common to prosecute this in a criminal trial, or is this completely unheard of?
I would LOVE to work with this guy, but only if he was actually competent and had his shit together. It has nothing to do with directness or tone, it has everything to do with being managed by someone who is actually good at managing people and knows their stuff. I've worked for terrible managers and no amount of softness or politeness has made my job any better.
And so the usual defense of Google begins in the Hacker News comments. Let it begin.
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What happens when you login using both browsers? Now, Hulu.com can attribute both Km UID's to your account. Magic.