skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're assuming their methods of detecting copyvios are effective. I very much doubt they are, or they would have send out far more than 650k first warnings. It's ludicrous to assume only about 1 to 2% of the ~52 million French internet users pirate stuff.

Having a bad detection rate will automatically result in a low rate of recidivism, simply because you're not likely to catch the same guy twice (unless you watch him more closely). We have pretty much no idea how many of the initial offenders have halted their behavior.

Having a bad detection rate also makes it very easy to "go underground", ie. purposely avoid detection. E.g. using Rapidshare instead of Bittorrent (or the other way around, I have no idea) hardly seems very underground to me.

But yeah: Installing an infrastructure to monitor your citizens internet use and sending out letters from the government, culminating in killing access to one of the primary infrastructures of the modern world is bound to be a pretty damn good deterrent. I'm sure they'll try to make plentiful use of it in the years to come. Maybe inciting dissent (aka "public unrest", "rioting and looting") will soon come with an internet ban.
That's nice. Now hopefully they will maintain it.
I assume you mean the Glass–Steagall Act.

I keep seeing this idea of 'asking for more equality' and I have no idea what that means. Equality of what? pay? opportunity?

Forced redistribution of money to equalize incomes would be an unmitigated disaster so I can only hope that isn't their actual demand.

Anyway, the protesters and their supporters need to refine their message a bit.
Flavrbox - a food revolution coming to your door
Flavrbox is a food revolution and will be launching in Autumn this year with an annual 10% discount on every single purchase through the site for people signing up before the launch.

Surprise surprise :)
Todos podemos bajar de peso, siempre y cuando ...
42 Votes and I have no idea what this is all about. Can somebody please give us a summary for the "uneducated" ;)
Or password protected and encrypted. My Droid X2 won't let you mount the partitions until the password is entered.
"Fun with Figures" Review - Discover how to do mental math in your head
>Absolutely! But people need to vote at every single level from city council to the Presidency, not just once every 4 years for whoever your favorite news stations tells you to.

On the one hand I absolutely agree with you, but on the other hand, corporations vote with their dollars every single day.
can someone do a TL:DR on this please?
The strange case of comments on digital text
.NET, like most enterprises, afaik.
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What? Pretty sure they don't support Obama :-/

And the ones that still do aren't disillusioned enough yet.
Microsoft Board Gives Underpaid Ballmer a 2% Raise
Another GREAT Spencer creative creation,
Your proud Grandad Moore
I emailed AppSumo after getting that email, and Noah Kagan (the ceo) responded saying that this was an email they had put together months ago, and it was just incredibly poor timing that the email went out this morning.
I didn't mean to imply that Chrome's custom Flash is better. I have no idea if it is since I run Firefox (typically) and Chromium (rarely). Like I said, I use the 64bit Flash player from the sevenmachines ppa (Ubuntu 11.04).

https://launchpad.net/~sevenmachines/+archive/flash
I would say that enduring a few days of Steve Jobs tributes on HN is small price to pay for the massive contribution that Steve made to this community, albeit indirectly.

Steve is, in many ways, the prototype for taking an idea from the garage to boundless success. Many HN readers aspire to live a life like Steve's, so it's no wonder they are affected by his passing.

Not everyone likes Steve or Apple, but you have to respect their ability to convert "fringe" thinking into mainstream success. Those of us who remember first-hand the direction that personal technology was going in the 80's are somewhat helpless to show our appreciation for Steve doing much of the "dirty work" to right the ship for the benefit of "the rest of us". If we want to lay our virtual flowers at his grave in the form of dupe posts, I would only ask for a little patience from those who find it annoying. It's just really, really important to some of us – as hard as it might be to empathize.
Looks kind of interesting - what is it?
Panic's Steve Jobs Tribute
I'm sure his bank account isn't sad.
This is the device most likely going to be used:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20055431-1.html
Graphene magnetologic gates could replace silicon transistor logic
Seems like using Cloudant's BigCouch fork, with its built-in Lucene indexing, might be a better choice for this.
They knew this was open. They even took it out of their robots.txt :)

https://www.americanexpress.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /us/admin/
Disallow: /us/heroes/
Allow:
Creating a Simple Paint App with HTML5 Canvas and Javascript
"We are getting kicked out of our homes."

..and why is that? I want to see how many of these people protesting actually got kicked out of their homes and why.

"We are forced to choose between groceries and rent."

Do you have a cell phone? Do you have cable? Where do you live?

"We are denied quality medical care."

Interesting how this is somehow wall street's problems. Can I blame them for tax increases too?

"We are suffering from environmental pollution."

lol?

"We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we are working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything."

If you can't find a job..you need to ask yourself why. I lost my job a little over a year ago and then started my own company. Since then, I've had tons of recruiters and other companies emailing me because they want me to work for them. There are still plenty of jobs out there. You just need to bust your ass to get them. Most people aren't willing to put in the work.

I saw the start of this entitlement mentality with music and software piracy. Many people from this generation feel it's their "right" to be able to download these things for free. Now they are entitled to a home, a college education, and a job.

They want equality, but the problem isn't we aren't all equal. I work 12 hours a day. As a result, I have more money in the bank than someone that works part-time. Why should I be limited or penalized for this?

"So far, it's pick-your-own cause, with grievances ranging from bank bail-outs to animal testing, and yet what most of the mainstream media seems to have missed is the fact that the occupation itself is its own demand"

This is why I find the entire "occupation" to be a joke. Every left-wing asshole with a grievance against big business is out there protesting.
The court ruled that this is OK because your phone is considered a "container", given that, I believe the same rules for saying "Go ahead and search my trunk, but I don't have a key" applies -- assuming the cop doesn't just pry it open in some physical way.

The threat being that you'll get detained and held.

I think that is always the implied threat, that it is just easier to let someone of authority overstep their bounds so as to avoid personal inconvenience and discomfort as opposed to taking a stand and forcing the legality of the issue.

Then if you are illegally detained, that's ANOTHER issue you are welcome to pursue if you enjoy court and lawyers, but we typically don't. The (expected?) result of that is one side keeps pushing harder and harder until we eventually start pushing back.

These seem like standard social mechanics much like what corporations tend to do left unwatched or govt laws. They keep tightening or growing their area of influence until someone or something pushes back.

Our society is just a giant physics simulation of forces interacting on each other, like little (or big) spheres of gravity.

I'd love to see a visualization of the social world around us, would be interesting... you could see the formation of under ground movements becoming more mainstream as those individual forces combined into bigger forces temporarily to combat larger forces, then once the equilibrium was rebalanced, the larger force would disband and go back to micro-influencing the environment around it.

wow... I got derailed there :)
Do you have traction ? - traction forgives a lot of faults.
That looks really cool, but for pure geekieness factor, you should be able to turn off the date/time display at the top, so that you have to scan it with a QR code reader to get the time.
How are you generating the QR codes? Are you using the Google Charts API or something else?
World's 10 Messiest Food Festivals
>Why? Whatever the criticisms, they seem to have a highly effective strategy.

If by effective, you mean "which doesn't work at all". After two years and millions spent, they are about to sue 60 people, over the whole country. People have simply moved from P2P between individuals to paying shady services for streaming.

I don't see how this qualifies as a success.
Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
The hardest thing with the united states is we've built a system that is complex and there is no one person who screwed everything up.

Example:

People have high student loans
because college is expensive
because more people want to go
and can get loans from the government
so colleges can charge higher prices
Invisibility Cloak Uses Mirages to Make Objects Vanish
It wasn't. The "tea party" was kicked off inadvertently by Rick Santelli on CNBC, of all places. He never intended it, but it was his words that got the ball rolling.
I'm not sure exactly why this is here or which part(s) AndrewDucker's title is meant to apply to. Note that this log is just the IRC back-channel of a meeting that was primarily a phone conference, so a lot of the context is lost and only a few of the participants' views are represented. It looks like the real minutes from this meeting have not been put up on the wiki yet (they usually get cleaned up first to make them readable and to remove information that participants don't want on the public/indexed web). I'll contact Stormy about that in case she just forgot to paste them.

If you want to see the real discussion minutes of the previous meeting, check out https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Meetings/2011_Aug

And if you want to see the Extended Support Release proposal the group is currently working on (which was the product of the same September 2011 meeting as this IRC log, it's here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:...

To get involved in the discussion, join the mailing list or the meetings, or see the threads on the public mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise

(disclosure: I'm a Mozilla employee, though I'm not directly involved in the Enterprise User Group.)
These rulings are all from district or magistrate judges, which means forum shopping is still a viable strategy for plaintiffs.

Until EFF can quote these sort of rulings on the appeals court level, not much will change. However, if the trolls keep dropping suits, these will never make it to the appeals court. All part of the strategy, perhaps.
Spot on. And in 2007, the subprime housing crisis was "contained". Totally unreasonable to suspect that debt default contagion actually happens. Carry on, nothing to see here.
May your soul continue to create beautiful things in heaven.

You have done a great deal for humanity, and for that we are very grateful for your time on earth. You represented the best of human intellect and human drive for perfection. We are inherently imperfect as humans, but you have proven, with fantastic flair and awe, that humans can attain perfection. Perfection is no longer a concept, it is embodied in the iPad, the iPhone, the MAC OSX, the iPod, the MAC Book Pro, and all the ingenious, useful, monumental products you have introduced to our world.

We stand proud as humans because of you and the few other men and women who have stood strong and lead with courage and change our world for the better. For Ever!

My condolences to your family, your fans, your friends, and your colleagues.
The situation here is getting more and more anachronistic each day, they are this close to make me seriously angry. The country is run by a mass of greedy, corrupt, paranoid, elderly individuals with chronic sexual disorders who completely lost touch with reality. And the italian equivalent of 'joe the plumber' isn't that much of a good person either. I can trust no one anymore.

I don't really know how to deal with all this. Maybe we should outsource our parliament. We should really hire people from other countries to do the job. Don't worry, the pay is really good, the weather is fine, and you'll always have good food for lunch. Sit in our parliament, you make the laws that helps us grow as a decent developed country while making sure that the justice system works well, and we'll follow them.
Thanks for the idea. Will look into that. As for creating the QR codes, its done with Google charts... So far, so good.
Typing this up in real time ...

I called American Express Australia to report the defect & I was transferred through to the American call centre.

The CSR to whom I spoke transferred me through to a different department, after I explained that I didn't have an account. She did ask whether "I received an email" which I assume was some sort of inquiry as to whether I had been phished.

I then spoke to an online services rep., who after asking for my card number, listened to my report. She then put me on hold.

(The call had taken 10 minutes by this time).

After a few more minutes on hold, the CSR came back on the line, asked me to repeat the information, and confirmed for the umpteenth time that I don't have an American Express card. I explained that it wasn't my find, but that it had been published online & so was by now _very_ public.

(15 minutes by this time, most of that on hold listening to advertising for American Express, including some ironic praise for their website).

CSR comes back on the line. She's spoken to her 'technical team' who assure me that there's nothing insecure going on because it's all over HTTPS. So I politely walked her through the process - visit the page, add ?debug to the URL, click the admin link & behold: lots of should-be-secure stuff.

At this point she thanks me profusely, & asks that I hold while she speaks to her supervisor. Back to the American Express ads ...

(20 minutes at this point).

The CSR came back on the line, thanked me again, & said that her supervisor had taken a screenshot of the issue & escalated it. Job done.

So, yeah, I can totally understand the frustration experienced by the guy who discovered the vulnerability. But it certainly wasn't impossible for me to report the issue, & I'm in Australia.
The article quotes protesters chanting "Banks got bailed out - we got sold out".

The odd thing is the labor unions are participating in this. But the unions themselves were beneficiaries of bailouts (see GM's bankruptcy).

I can't help feeling that at least some of these protesters are really only in it for handouts.
The bit the title is referring to is when there are people on one side saying "But surely you can just write to the standards!" and people on the other saying "That's not how Enterprises work!"

I found the communication between the various people fascinating, and figured that so might some others.

And I'd love to link to the actual meeting minutes, but despite it saying that the minutes would be up to date by the 12th of September, they aren't there yet:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Meetings/2011_Sep#Meetin...
I'm not the author, just thought the idea was pretty nice.
In my view, Scala is good for projects where using Java is too complicated and you can use better abstractions.

I would argue that Scala helps to keep your code base smaller and easier to manipulate (due to extra type safety).
In any language, a big codebase needs coding standards and the project develops it's own "culture". You have the same multiple approaches problem in Java: how do you search for items in a collection?
Hehe, "stable"
Sad, sad day.
Thanks - I was reading the article thinking "what I'd really want was CouchDB with built in Lucene indexing and searching" - and there it is! :-)
Stephen Wolfram's Tribute to Steve Jobs
Yeah, I think in the finished version, you would always start automatically at a unique URL, and the app would auto-save.

I agree that full keyboard control would be nice. At the very least, you should be able to tab through fields.

Also, not every user understood the distinction between users and expense items, so you're right about that.

Marking items only for certain people: Hadn't planned to do it in the first version because I didn't know what the interaction would look like, but I like your solution. Also, without this feature, everything works as one page (no need to have a separate page for settling debts).
google + "Amex security response team" = eirp@aexp.com

also

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/l2uzj/0day_full_disc...
Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
This is dangerous! Someone has left the debug=true in the config somewhere. Anything could be possible on the site, not just the script injection in the url and the debug page, but a lot of other stuff as well. When the debug flag is true on our sites, we have a link which will authenticate us as an admin without any credentials for example!
I think this is a dangerous road to go down. Even though I feel that Safety on the roads is paramount and that there are way too many people that talk or text while on their phones, I think this becomes an invasion of privacy unless the police officer has reasonable cause to go through your phone (i.e. saw you on your phone or texting). Also, cell phones are only a drop in the bucket. I've seen and had my passengers take pictures of people in their cars putting on make up or even reading! It's insane what all is out there. So what's next, cops will check women's purses for makeup usage? Books in the car for freshly turned pages?

I know i'm being dramatic here, but the point is, there has to be a line somewhere. I do want the roads to be safer and I want drivers to be less distracted (texting while driving is actually more dangerous than driving drunk according to a study http://www.cnbc.com/id/31545004/Texting_And_Driving_Worse_Th...), but I also don't want some random police officer rifling through my private text messages, e-mails and voicemails for the purposes of seeing if I should get another ticket.

Additionally, I often make short trips for lunch (.1 miles or less). If a police officer does go through my phone, how is he to know I didn't send that text just as I got in my car before I left Wendy's to return to the office? He doesn't, no one does. That's the problem with this and why I feel it is too much of an invasion.
Does going to the url https://www.americanexpress.com/us/admin/ constitute "computer hacking"? It's not protected in any way, shape or form.

I believe that the level of hacking/cracking required is irrelevant to most laws around the world; if you're not meant to be there, you're guilty of an offence.

I'm sure lawyers could argue intent all day long, but whether or not a logic screen appears is irrelevant.
Some people have muses that subtly guide them their entire life. Other people have furious muses that seize them by the scruff of the neck and demand their full attention until a work is completed through spasmodic effort.

Steve Jobs seemed to have been possessed by the second type of muse, but one that never let go but just kept driving him. Even if some of use used few Apple products, Steve had a vision and always kept demonstrating that more was possible, that things could be better than they had been.

He'll be missed.
The first time I used an Apple computer was...
I'm guessing the black bar on top of the HN menu is for Steve Jobs. Apple is the most incredible comeback story of my lifetime. Under Jobs, Apple's stock went from $10 to $400. His dedication to the user experience and unwavering commitment to quality are his traits I most admire and desire to emulate. Some would say that he didn't get to enjoy his success after conquering the business world, but I believe he enjoyed every moment of the pursuit. RIP Mr. Jobs.
I'm not sure if it was the same way in the 60's and 70's, but every protest I saw in Chicago since 2003 always attracted a fair share of professional protestors. Your "Free Tibet"ers, environmentalists, and various others always seemed to show up for Iraq War protests and immigration protests. It's easy to ignore protesters when they are obviously doing it as lifestyle choice rather than out of honest indignation.
Org looks for solutions to problems; offers a prize
A/B Testing: Mathematically Determining The Significance of Differences
Yes, "just use standards!!" has been an ongoing refrain from a few people whenever anyone talks about not supporting all browsers. Fortunately, I know the decision-makers within the Mozilla project are well aware of the reasons and reality that not every web app is fully standards-based and cross-browser compatible.

[My apologies for the tone; I have now deleted that bit of my comment.]
Monads offer a level of abstraction over non-functional parts (anything that might have side effects) of a functional program. In functional programming, the idea is that every time you put something into a function, you should get the same result (i.e. every time you put a 5 into a doubling function, you get a 10). A byproduct of that simple idea, is the possibility of extreme complexity, and thus the reason for an extra level of abstraction. It's easier for many to reason about this potential complex behavior at a higher level.

This article talks about some of the options of adding an additional level of abstraction on top of the monad. The idea is that some people find it difficult to reason about monads, because they have so many specific applications (read 10 monad articles and you'll get 10 different definitions for what they are).

TLDR: It's an abstraction of an abstraction that might help you reason better about complex things.
Then there is more behind as we think. Actually we can be pretty sure someone on the web team will have pointed out that this is not good and insecure.

After seeing this i kind of get the idea why this url is in the wild.