skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After people finally figured out that he was leaving (almost no one knew of that) they offered to take over the complete responsibility, what happens? Suddenly he wants to keep the domain, forcing everyone to pull and update their documentation, packages, artifact IDs, Maven POMs out there, because they can't use it anymore.
And the promised transition of accounts to another provider just won't work for all people who entered an id of "org.scala-tools", because most other providers require that the person publishing an artifact also controls the domain name.

The whole thing is basically maximized for pain and wasted hours of transitioning, migrating and repacking.

Have a look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3495303 for the circumstances how he "told" everyone he was leaving. I visited the Lift IRC channel an hour ago and asked what their stance was on Pollak leaving Lift/Scala. They had no idea and asked for a link. So much for "nobody stepped up for maintenance". Of course nobody can step up if nobody knows.

It is not acceptable that someone who expected that he would transfer the domain to the people maintaining it insulted him, but how can this be communicated to that individual if no body knows who it was. "Somebody insulted me" doesn't help to resolve that matter.
Let me see if I understand you. You'd rather people be unemployed than have the opportunity to work a (by your standards) crappy job? What do you intend to do with all the people who get taxed out of a job?

What about people who work crappy jobs in China but aren't employed by multinationals? Shall we tax them too? That's going to be kind of a hard sell, isn't it? I mean, the Chinese people might have this crazy idea they ought to decide what's allowed to happen in China.
YouTube sponsoring the debate gave them valuable exposure and audience participation which has positive value. Google giving away ad space has neither of these benefits.
No, I mean will. The 21st century isn't over yet.
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>Let's organize society based on simple scientific observations instead of having faith in the superrich masters of the world.

Just out of curiosity... who do you intend should make these "simple scientific observations"?
Wouldn't a more effective boycott be of citation of articles in Elsevier journals?

Rough on those articles, and will leave (some) gaps in your references, but that is Elsevier's actual source of power.
Arithmetic aside, the byte-code is set in stone. It's even interpreted on silicon now on ARM processors with jazella. It's going to be an incredibly difficult effort to ever add unsigned types truly to Java without it effectively becoming a hard fork.
They are not referring to copyright pirates. They mean Somali Pirates.

The Strait of Hormuz it's a pirate-infested zone.

Read more about this, here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/piracy/
I don't know anyone who uses it in US. Must be a SV thing - who knows. Definitely not the trend I'd like to see though if I invested at that peak.
i actually gave up on slashdot because the comment system had a very clunky feel to it, to the extent that it made the site offputting to use. i likewise do not participate on the making light boards, for the same reason, even though in both cases the actual quality of the discussion is excellent. reddit has nailed that aspect.
Actually, they didn't.
nah, reddit was thriving long before the digg implosion
I skip work for a couple of days
I don't think there is a contradiction, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Godel's theories are something I've recently begun trying to wrap my head around.

Godel's completeness theorem proves the equivalence of logical implication and deducibility. Logical implication being the formal definition of what it means for a collection of sentences (axioms) to logically imply another sentence (theorem); deducibility being the method with which a working mathematician would like to use to show logical implication (i.e. any proof you've ever read in a mathematical textbook).

Incompleteness, on the other hand, shows that there are some true sentences that cannot be deduced from any set of axioms (and therefore, by completeness, are not logically implied by any set of axioms).

This is my understanding after having spent a few weeks reading Enderton's "A Mathematical Introduction to Logic." If I am misunderstanding this, I would love input (so please comment). Godel's theorems are something I'm very anxious to wrap my head around.
Unless we compare simulated models with reality via empirical studies? (:

I believe the same issues plague subjects like theoretical physics.

Then again, we do have the preference-utility and utility-maximization core of microeconomic theory, which appears quite well-accepted. Accepted, in spite of it's inability to reconcile with some of the non-rational parts of human behaviour.

Having said that, I'm quite partial to some of the PDE models (i.e. the works of Dr Yang Xiao Kai). And PDE models have at least one corresponding agent-based model simulation.

I think that at some point, a leap of faith based on intuition is taken enmasse. Although this really goes into the philosophy of science...
I am convinced that we actually had the idea first and built the first prototype for this. Sadly, my companies bureaucracy held up the release of the application. I even wrote a blog post about it a while back...

http://spoiledtechie.com/post/2011/09/12/Fucking-Big-Company...
Anecdotal, I have had a few items made in China over the years I've replaced with USA made stuff that was much higher quality: my gas grill (going on 7 years of use, chinese one lasted 2 years) and some bakeware I recently bought.

Some things are better from here, some aren't, but lately most of the items I buy from the US are usually higher quality, albeit often much more expensive.
Indeed it's worth pointing out that solar energy kills far more people than nuclear power does in the west.

Installers fall from roofs quite often...
How is it exactly different from when I'm in on call rotation, phone goes on at night and I have to rush to computer?
Note that the speckled image in the post shows the result when exposed to 10Sv/hr. 1Sv makes you sick, 10Sv is virtually guaranteed to be fatal.
>Apple owes its existence to American education, infrastructure, and a host of other services provided by American taxpayers. Why shouldn't they support the same families that supported them all these years?

You mean, why shouldn't Apple pay even more to support families it's already been supporting all these years? Do you honestly think Apple, as a corporation, has been a net-negative to the taxman?
>There is no shortage of resources when you recognize that the vast wealth of the superrich is unearned and won throug bribery, cronyism, nepotism, monopoly, and oligopoly.

I don't see any evidence this is true as a general rule. In some cases, yes, but not the general case.
Copyright colony! Ain't no passing craze...

It means more SOPAs for the rest of your days...
How about the simplest answer –Students don't always know, regardless of topic, whether or not it's a good fit for them and they change majors?
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I conclusively prooved you are isolating me and pinning me to my past. I laugh because you are an atheist. That's hilarious.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\YANKEE.TXT

id, "what are you waiting for? Is it possible you can answer up,
right off, and tell what anybody on the other side of the earth is
doing, and yet can't tell what a person is doing who isn't three
yards from you? Persons behind me know what I am doing with my
right hand--they will indorse you if you tell correctly." He was
still dumb. "Very well, I'll tell you why you don't speak up and
tell; it is because you don't know. _You_ a magician! Good friends,
this tramp is a mere fraud and liar."

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I looked for a simple sound file format for exporting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_file_format

Apple SND files have a simple header and can do raw uncompressed waveforms at a limit of 8,000 Hz.

If intellectual property must require some intellect and not just zombie mental activity, there is no IP in my uncompressed SND files.

http://www.losethos.com/LTHtml/Adam/Snd/SndFile.html

The SND file can be imported by Microsoft Moviemaker. I make BMP files and make movies.

I used to be a coward. Now, I'll wait to get sued by Apple or Microsoft. I have no worries -- God is just. He'll give me a brilliant idea or something if I get ripped-off.

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You might consider actually reading what he wrote instead of having an emotional reaction.
We have the same system in Brazil. People are watching soap opera at home, then all channels cut to a long string of short (<1 min) presentations for all candidates. Most of them are trashy.

The main problem is that people just turn the TV off for that period, and the candidates battle for the other TV spots.

Maybe targeted online ads could help this. Imagine Google helping select candidates based on your profile, like they do with other advertisement.
All systems fail. Sorry, but if you are remotely interested in engineering, you should have learned that already. After every accident, they will add one more safety net and then claim that "now the reactors really are safe". They assumed Fukushima was safe before the accident, too.
True, but the problem is many, many orders of magnitude larger.

Looking at US numbers only, we would need to figure a way to store 51.69 TWh and supply over an 18 hour period. They are storing 233 MWh and distributing over 5 minutes.

For a pumping station, that works out to 379.4 cubic kilometers of water lifted 50 meters in the air. For comparison, that is 20 times the volume of the Great Salt Lake. About the volume of Lake Erie once inefficiencies are factored in.

I also ran the numbers a while back in a renewable energy class for lead acid batteries. That would require something like the entire lead production of the world for several years, just to handle the US.
Well, so let's be more specific about the alleged attack.

1) At least one target was attacked quite literally. The website of the Polish Parliament was defaced and subsequently taken down by its admins.

[This is the supposed deface image: http://bit.ly/wkygL4. The caption reads "Nothing is impossible! Cheers, gentlemen!"]

2) ACTA is a very new thing to the wider public (even the "trendy" internet public). First, on Jan 20 it made the front page of the biggest newspaper of record, Gazeta Wyborcza. And today ACTA was mentioned in the main TV news program (Wiadomosci on TVP1). The latter almost certainly triggered a wave of searches and attempts to access various sites. In result many website failures (the lawyer's, the Panoptykon Foundation, perhaps even Ministry of Culture) can be attributed to a sudden spike in interest.

[The lawyer mentioned in previous post has stated specifically that he has investigated the nature of the traffic and it doesn't look like a DDoS. Which is kind of credible, since each machine participating in a DoS sends gazillions of requests from the same IP, so it's distinctive from a visitor sending like 5 requests in total.]

3) That said, it's not an outlandish assumption that someone also had their way with the biggest sites of the Polish Government. A DDoS could have contributed to the whole mess.
There have been no life-threatening disasters except all the ones that have occurred. Got it. I'm moving on from this thread. I'm seeing how the logic wind blows in it. :)
I ask myself what I really want to be doing right now, and then do it. That usually means either doodling, writing, cooking, or running. After a little mental break, I'm usually good to go again.
It could be worse, they could've invested in StickyBits...
Well living in NZ my view point is America has burned it bridges already. I don't think its so much the US trying to get free trade agreements as rejecting offers or bundling toxic policies in with them.

I don't think many people would disagree the future of NZ lays with China who are currently creating new free trade agreements (without military servitude or protectionist mantra attached), and NZ is becoming a destination for wealthy and middle class Asians to escape the homeland.

So unless the US buck its ideas up about its foreign policies, and China continues its progression away from totalitarianism its going to loose friends fast.

And by friends I mean there is huge anti-US sentiment in NZ already, its really viewed as the "bad guy" in most respects, totally corrupt, and on the point of collapse.
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>> When the Chinese people have had enough, they'll demand change.

> You mean like the group that threatened suicide? Or the outrage over that Sanlu milk powder?

Like I said, when it gets too much, they'll demand and get change. Its not our problem.

>> In 2003 our President invaded a country that had nothing to do with the war on terror.

> I don't know why you're comparing bad PR to starting a war. You appear to have a very different idea of "pressure" than I do.

My point is we don't have a lot of moral authority anymore. Everyone remembers that we started a war under false pretenses. And that we killed 100s of thousands of Iraqis in the process of bringing them "democracy". Our own jihad for democracy.

It isn't just bad PR. You said we should "pressure" China to force their factories to provide better working conditions. Why should they?

Or were you implying that we should invade China as well? Is that your idea of "pressure"?
I wonder how many of these are even real. It would not be hard to generate a big text file of emails and passwords.
Yeah, I thought about that first. Seemed to be an obvious one. But to really make it worth my time it, I'd have to charge quite a bit more than UPS or other courier services. Then I got to thinking about who would then be likely to hire me to "deliver" valuables from one city/country to another...

Maybe I'm focusing too much on the downside, but think about it... would you really want to take aboard a suitcase packed by a client which you couldn't really look at? Just not worth the risk for me...
When a Tsunami hits a 50 year old nuclear power plant bad things happen. Also, there was a Tsunami. I'm not sure how much it makes sense to lay all the damage caused by the Fukushima reactors at the foot of nuclear power rather than the Tsunami. If a CNG depot had been hit by a Tsunami and exploded, killing people with it how much would we blame natural gas and how much would we blame the Tsunami?

Similarly, Fujinuma dam broke on March 11, 2011 due to the same disaster, resulting in several deaths and lots of additional destruction. Does that get tallied against the hazards of hydroelectric power or against the hazards of enormously powerful earthquakes?
"[...] and when it hits, it takes out many people even wiping out entire communities, if not regions for hundreds of years."

First of all, how many people has nuclear taken out, even including Chernobyl? According to the WHO and the IAEA, Chernobyl was (or rather, will be) responsible for about 9000 deaths. This includes the people killed by acute radiation exposure and the expected number of people killed by premature cancer from sub-acute radiation exposure over a period of 20 years. This comes out to 450 deaths per year.

By comparison, the Bhopal disaster killed approximately 3000 people immediately, and 8000 people in total from gas-related injuries. It's not at all clear to me that nuclear is more dangerous than other "everyday" technologies like chemical plants and oil refineries.

As for the effects of radioactive contamination, well, chemical contamination can be just as long-lived. Just look at your average Superfund site.

There's nothing special about the risks of nuclear energy. We tolerate the exact same risks with many of our current technologies. It's just irrational fear tied to the anti-nuclear weapons movement that's driving the freeze on new nuclear construction.
There have been three major accidents, two of which produced no loss of life whatsoever.

This is an overstatement. A crane at Fukushima fell down killing a few people, and a couple of workers died of heatstroke (due in part to radiation suits).

As for Chernobyl, you forgot to mention that in addition to design flaws, they were performing a scientific experiment well outside the safety parameters at the time of the disaster.
Ask PG: Can you display plus.google.com domains?
Previous title: Ask PG: Can you display some subdomains on urls?

For example: plus.google.com. It is a very different product from google.com and I have the understanding that discerning where you are headed is the point of displaying any urls.

Edited: I stupidly forgot to clarify that this would be most appreciated on mobile. With 3G speeds and most mobile browsers not offering any sort of plugin or user script ability to auto-show the entire url or subdomain, it is a minor inconvenience.

Edit 2: tokenadult pointed out this is already done (wordpress, posterous, etc). So, pg, can google.com be added to the list?
One thing the author doesn't seem to mention is how that video could actually raise revenue. I, as well as many others, had no interest in Australian Tennis, but upon seeing this video have suddenly become both aware and at least a bit interested in it.

How many people would be more likely to watch if they expect something similarly funny to happen?

I can't think of a single reason why someone who had the intention of watching the match would no longer be interested in it because of a two minute clip (loosely related to the match and not containing any "spoilers"). On the other hand I can think of a reason why someone who didn't know about or was debating watching, will now watch.

The clip added value, not simply didn't reduce it.
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The bytecode isn't set in stone at all. Java 7 added InvokeDynamic, to name one bytecode.

Jazelle is basically being phased out in favor of the much-more-generic ThumbEE, which isn't onerously licensed and entirely undocumented and hence has a chance of actually being used. New ARM CPUs "support" Jazelle by effectively ignoring it.

It'd of course take a major-version Java release to add unsigned type bytecodes if they chose to go that route (rather than the current approach, which seems to be providing a dangerous and half-baked set of methods on Integer instead). But it certainly isn't impossible by any means.
It seems like most people agree that "something should be done", but the question remains what can be done? Should there be a day where everyone calls and complains to Congress about copyright issues? Start an Internet Industry Association of America?

I think calling Congress could be effective, but it'd be hard to get the volume required to make a difference, and there is no bill to explicitly support. Likewise, an IIAA might work, but it seems like Google, Facebook, and Twitter would have to be deeply involved to make a difference.

My only remaining thought is to use the tactics of the MPAA and RIAA: hire a lobbyist. The only thing I could think of would be a sort of Kickstarter project. Everyone pledges money, and once a target is reached, a lobbyist is hired to draft a bill on Issue X, and lobby Congress for its passage. There'd have to be a sympathetic member of Congress in order to introduce the bill, and I'm sure a serious amount of money would have to be raised, but this is the only way I can think of that the average joe on the Internet could do anything besides complain on HN. Thoughts?
So why should the US government invest in clean tech over, say conservation? Moreover, why should the US government be making commercial investment decisions at all? The way I see it, the US government should be investing in basic research, then turning that research over to industry for rapid commercialization.

Solyndra was not basic research.
Ireland generally inclines towards actively forgetting those who leave. There's a deep vein of begrudgery for people who found success abroad, like they're too big for their boots, and a kind of shame that keeps people silent for those who didn't. The way Joyce put it, Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow; people who leave usually don't come back.

I don't think remittances were ever a significant source of income. It's not like patterns of emigration seen with other countries, where one or the other parent leaves and sends money back to the family, and eventually returns. If anything, remittances were used to fund further emigration, so that families could join up abroad. Ireland's population still hasn't recovered from the famine of the 1850s.
Email clients have to do this because they use Bayesian filtering to get rid of Spam.

It turns out, if the sender of spam messages can find out which messages got through and which didn't, then they could build up the same bayesian filter on their computer, and figure out exactly what email they can send to not get marked as spam. Bayesian filtering only works if the spammer doesn't know which messages get through and which don't. I believe this is also one of the reasons images are disabled by default in gmail.

I'm not sure how this would work if a spammer targeted their own gmail inbox to discover which messages succeeded, but maybe spam filtering in gmail is only partially collective, so that individual inboxes build up slightly different bayes nets.

Source: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/09/popfile-vs-popfile....
When I feel bored in my work, I take a break or rest for a while then work again. Just like computer, I am rebooting.

To avoid getting lazy, I remind myself that I have lot of things to do and I will never accomplish anything if I am lazy. But then, lazy day sometimes are inevitable specially if you've work to much and you want to recharge yourself.
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