skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then why did you say "RIP free speech"? Convicts generally either lose most of their rights, or have them severely restricted.

She is a convict. The only reason she was not in jail (where she would have had no access to Facebook or Twitter or other social media) was because they had a shortage of space so were letting her stay out until space opened up.

There is no free speech issue here.
just to clarify they do not owe me any money for wages that were promised. i had asked them for a sum to cover unpaid overtime and what they paid me was less but i took it to be a compromise.
Agreed, I don't think Twitter has much right to be upset.
OK, if the court can determine whether a consumer has a degree of responsibility, surely a consumer can determine if she's participating in a "copyright infringement"? If you search the Web for "watch big buck bunny online free" and download/watch one of the found files, can you tell when you infringe copyright and when not?
I love your idea and love candy more than you can imagine; however I found the service quite expensive and since I live in a big city I can find most Japanese candy in Chinatown (yes, there are some Japanese shops in London's Chinatown). I did assume the shipping pushed up the cost and it turns out to be correct. If I didn't live in a big city though, the cost probably wouldn't be an issue. Best of luck.
i pulled the trigger on pinboard, and couldn't be happier with it and the chrome plugins. nice, simple, works!
Just to be clear, commercial copyright infringement (i.e. for profit) is criminal, personal copyright infringement (i.e. you download it and watch it) is civil.
If the monetary compensation actually proportional (i.e. not just a slap on the wrist), then I would be completely satisfied.
I don't know much about copyright but infringing on something that is not yet in existence and being punished for it in retrospect seems just plain wrong to me. Is that even possible?

What should hinder him from getting the trademark himself? He apparently had the domain long before you had the intention to trademark something so he it would seem legitimate to award it to him.
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Thanks for your comment. I am yet to actually play GRID, but yes, DiRT 3 is a pretty sweet game, although the tech behind it is comparable to something from 10 years ago covered in lazy post-processing it is both beautiful and fun, in fact even more impressive knowing how lacking the tech is.
They sure look the same to me. When I type in a name of a movie to see if there is a DVD on amazon yet, often Google, YouTube's owner, offers to show me the version someone has uploaded to their servers. Then, Google/YouTube makes revenue from showing me ads if I or anyone chooses to go to that page.

It's absurd to claim YouTube is not about unlicensed content. The vast majority of their streamed content was unlicensed for the first few years they were up. To deny this is to deny history. It took them a long time to catch hold for video blogging, a lot of which had to wait on people having cameras included with their laptops before it took off. But even now, the unlicensed content is as strong as ever, they just have more licensed content on top of it.
Right, it's just really interesting that they are accessible in this way.
Which if you look at the sorting visualization links at the bottom, is actually a really effective way of showing when things are very out of order, or close to in order.
What version is this, and what OS?
Been using it for three years now. great for browsing through forums and such. Its getting there.
You should be targeting tech startup's kitchen staff with this. Imagine if the people who stock Google or Facebook's food pantries bought a bunch of subscriptions. You could also target campus stores at universities with a large Asian population.
We are way down the rabbit hole here: from outlawing the sale of jeans labeled "Levi's" produced by some Chinese company without an arrangement with Levi's, to evil classist laws against wearing Levi's unless you're part of the upper crust (wut?) and now all the way down to saying that the point is to let the police abuse people.

No, seriously, this part REALLY IS about selling goods with misleading labels... Levi's are not especially expensive, you can buy them easily at the thrift store, and none of this has anything to do with letting the police abuse people.
It's kind of funny how specific people's technology experience is becoming. He considers separate processes unworkable, but it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Most code I've ever written was web server code with the only serious runtime changing state in the DB anyway, so the the processes wouldn't ever talk to each other anyway, just to the DB. Then he claims this is a whole new set of problems and technology, but it sounds very similar to whenever I work on a SOA setup. There your technology sometimes supports transaction context across web service calls or it doesn't. So when it does, your web service calls during your transaction can be rolled back when you rollback, and when it doesn't you need specific calls out for roll back purposes or you need to buffer until the end or break things up into reversible parts. Doesn't sound that different from his concerns about calling out of the process into the system and having to buffer if the system doesn't have a transaction context.
Can anyone give clear info on what NinjaVideo was, I did some research and I can't seem to tell for sure if they were actually hosting these videos or just linking to them? It sounds like maybe they were linking to them on the NinjaVideo site but also posting copyrighted content elsewhere and then linking to it? I'm just trying to understand what they were doing to have it get to this level of punishment and attention from the government. If they really were just linking to copyrighted content and nothing else then it would seem we are already living under SOPA
Of course not. It's probably not even the #1 priority for more than a handful of projects. But I think the relevant question to pretty much everyone is: "do investments in code quality pay off?"

Just because Vim, Mutt, and Procmail are successful doesn't mean their lack of investment in CQ hasn't hurt them.
I'm sure some people back then believed in IP as a fundamental right, just as some do today. But the authors of the Constitution manifestly went out of their way to distinguish between physical and intellectual property, and to constrain IP protection in ways that physical property protection is not. I haven't read Locke so I can't speak to that. However:

> we have many of them referring to it as a right

It is a right (re-read the text: "... to secure ... the exclusive Right to...") but it's not a fundamental right. Not all rights are created equal. There are fundamental rights (sometimes called "recognized" rights) which are the inalienable rights to which men are endowed by their Creator (to use the terminology of the Declaration). These exist independent of any law. Then there are other "granted" rights, which exist because a law has been passed. For example, the right to vote is a granted right in the U.S., not a fundamental right. Granted rights can be taken away by changing the law. Recognized rights can't. At least that's the theory.
> In practice, site owners are very responsive to DMCA demands from "big content" and pretty much ignore them from everyone else.

That isn't even FUD, it's an outright lie. Please take your unfounded allegations and conspiracy theories elsewhere.

(I work with/know personally several people/small organisations who are content producers, whose work has been widely ripped off, but who have been quite successful at limiting their unwanted exposure on the big name content sharing sites because of DMCA takedown notices and similar provisions elsewhere in the world.)
The Installation

John Carmack says, Visual C++ developers should try PVS-Studio – painless demo download. Yes, the demo download is indeed painless and clicking through makes the program just install. Well, not exactly – first you have to close all instances of Visual Studio you have running, but then it's a simple click-through. And then you get the reduced functionality.
"that was amazing" yields 41%...
Just goes to point out the true weakness of the current internet. The DNS, one central authority, and a million rabid politicians worldwide. This so called victory is shortlived. The DNS will give in -- guaranteed.
Would it reduce your shipping costs if you shipped all candy to your US subscribers to one person in the US, who would then mail out the individual packages? Just a thought.
I saw you're Finnish - salmiakki products would be popular with Scandinavian expats... (Norwegian here, living in the UK - Amazon delivers some salty licorice / ammonium chloride candy, but their selection is very limited and mostly to Dutch brands I'm not used to)
Wikileaks appears to be the best option out there at the moment. But while it's a good resource to mine for data, it is pretty useless to the average person who may want some easily discovered facts.

If you're really serious about that wiki though, and would like some help, shoot me an email, you can find it in my profile.
The TB research community must know the state of the art, but I'm having a hard time finding it; I found some pubmed links supporting the use of sulfonamides, but nothing really since the 1940s. Not a lot of info about why these dropped off the map.
Great article. This is probably a question for the statisticians: Would repeatedly sampling from a uniform distribution mean that on average the next card chosen will come from the middle of the remaining pack (as repeatedly sampling from a uniform distribution gives a normal distribution), or does the decreasing sample size somehow cancel that effect out? Then at the same time the algorithm is moving cards from the end towards the middle. Intuitively it feels like the shuffle ought to be biased towards selecting the middle-end of the pack first, but wikipedia indicates it's unbiased. Any help with getting further intuition?
Attempting to alienate the President from an official press release from the White House is pushing a bit too far on a technicality. His administration is responsible for the ideas expressed in that release, whether his name is on it or not.
This is a pretty common way to use arrays, at least in game programming on earlier versions of Android where you couldn't garbage collect during a frame due to the delays. You'd often have big pre-allocated arrays with a marker for how much is currently used. That or object pools when you needed someone more than arrays.
Actually I tried this.

I sent Amazon one pack of candy and then shipped it through them to see how it would work and what it would cost. Had no trouble with the service itself, but it adds a slight cost for me since I have to ship to Amazon and then pay for shipping again.

I sold a pack of candy there for $9.90. After Amazon's fees I got $5.60. Someone bought it from Amazon.com instead of me dispatching it through the API, which would have cost more. The cost for me to buy that candy was $2.05 and shipping it to Amazon cost $4.20.

Of course in reality I would ship much larger amounts, but then there would be new fees too since I would need to clear customs and pay import taxes.

Also it seems we have to attach some kind of label with a bar code to each individual candy because they don't have a normal UPC code so that the Amazon system can deal with it. Biggest killers for me from using this is having to clear customs and that they won't send you the money for your sales unless you have a US bank account.
Ah, very good. Yes the term XDR-TB makes more sense in the absence of knowing if every potential antimicrobial therapy has been exhausted. Always found it interesting that the last line therapy is lobectomy or pneumonectomy. TB is a terrible disease for which we will hopefully always stay a few steps ahead.
Have you considered the possibility of starting distribution branches? For example, might you save on shipping if you shipped via a single shipment to a central location (country) where your primary subscription base is. From there, mailing them from the central hub to the clients. For example, if you set up a US branch and then sent them via UPS or FEDEX to the customers. Obviously the shelf life of the candy is figures into this process, but if its mostly hard candy I imagine it probably has a couple months of shelf life. Maybe you could offer a 4 or 6 month subscription plan at a lower rate.
I'm not downvoting. Selling "counterfeit" clothes, handbags, electronics, etc. is a huge business.

Why not just sell under the name of the actual company producing the item? I don't put any stock in Levi's as such, so I would be happy enough to buy Lucky Dragon 888 jeans if I were in the market for Chinese stuff.

I don't consider it onerous or awful to require Lucky Dragon 888 to put its own brand on things. What if you start a website which offers a product or subscription service and someone else begins taking people's money while representing that they are you? Doesn't that strike you as a little scummy?
Dependent on the strain and its resistance profile. Staph aureus might be treated fine with some penicillins; or, it might have acquired methicillin resistance. Same staph aureus though, otherwise.

On the other hand, yes, pseudomonas infection is quite different from staph infection. But that's not what GP is referring to.
> But Guantánamo is still in business

What could Obama have done about that? He tried within a week of taking office to shut it down, but was blocked by Congress, the States, and various foreign governments.
Then I would become the importer and would need to pay for customs clearance of my bulk package too. I would need to start cooperating with the manufacturers to get them to help me with the necessary paperwork.

At the scale I am in, I doubt anyone wants to talk with me since I'm only buying $1000 worth of their product (I cycle through different candy so don't buy that much from single manufacturers) as it is. Also not all of my subscribers are in the US, I have many in Canada, Germany and all over the place.
Obama Administration Responds to We the People Petitions on SOPA
This is also pretty bad ass:

http://gigaom.com/broadband/wi-fi-its-the-other-cell-network...

Many wi-fi nodes (via Ruckus Wireless) backhauling over wimax.
> It's not a perfect statement, but real politics is about compromise.

We can't win by repeatedly compromising between the status quo and the extremist positions adopted by the MAFIAA. The best we can do is lose more slowly. To win, we need to take the offensive legislatively as well as technologically. I tweeted 25 proposals for this yesterday; here are a couple:

• Instead of fighting to keep DMCA's safe-harbor provisions, let's work to expand them. For example, make filing a false notice costly for the filer: provide a civil cause of action to the speaker whose speech is squelched, with statutory damages of, say, US$3000.

• Legalize noncommercial copyright infringement completely, as long as proper credit is given. The current copyright law was written over the course of 200 years with the idea that it was regulating the commercial activities of publishing companies, and it's far, far too complex to expect ordinary people to understand, particularly in relation to their hobbies. But over the last 30 or 40 years, it's accidentally come to apply every time you SMS your friends or celebrate a birthday in a restaurant. Laws should codify and enforce social norms, not contradict them. This proposal would bring copyright law in line with current social norms among the YouTube set.

• The NET Act redefined "commercial gain" to include the expectation of receiving copyrighted works. Repeal that, because otherwise it criminalizes BitTorrent. (It was actually enacted in order to criminalize David LaMacchia's open-access FTP site, which was a sort of mid-1990s version of MediaFire or DropBox.)

• Require all software developed under government contracts to be released as open source unless it's classified. Taking taxpayer money and investing it in the creation of privately-owned capital goods, such as valuable software copyrights, is straight-up corruption, bordering on embezzlement. If the taxpayers paid for it, they should have the right to use it, as long as that use doesn't interfere with the use it was built for.

• Eliminate FCC device approval for license-free bands like ISM 2.4GHz; prosecute only if illegal emissions occur. This would open up an immense space for hobbyist experimentation in new means of communication, and additionally make it a lot easier to get Wi-Fi cards working on Linux, since right now manufacturers claim the FCC forbids them from providing source to their radio firmware.
Where do you place WebEngage-survey In line of world class products e.g. Surveytool, KissInsights and SurveyMonkey?
The distinction between music and noise is mathematical form
Do you have any more options to reduce shipping costs? If its your largest expense, you can do more profit with less customers.
Yes, given that the song was written in 1893 and has been published with the current melody and lyrics since 1912 it's amazing to think it is still really under copyright, especially given that there is not a single other thing in the world from 1893 or 1912 whose copyright hasn't long since expired.
I don't know about that.

The "most transparent Administration in history" becomes the same administration that prosecutes more whistleblower cases than every other administration combined?

That's a lot more than a "broken promise" - especially when it goes had in hand with a flagrant violation of the Oath of Office ("Do you Solemnly swear to protect and defend the Constitution?") which is 100% counter to lobbying for then authorizing indefinite detention of Americans without trial.

The point is that this Administration harbors something deeply cancerous. Bad in the most absolute sense of the word. Maybe the tumor won't metastasize until Obama is out of office, kind of like the way that Clinton's repeal of Glass-Stegall didn't deliver a financial implosion until the end of Bush's second term. But make no mistake - within a decade, we're going to see something truly monstrous emerge from his baffling disdain for core civil liberties.

Nothing in his campaign suggested that this was coming, nor can anyone say "this is just a different viewpoint on civil liberties, and it just has to be accepted." Yes, it's different - in the same way that the Pope's tolerance of those who sexually abuse children is different from most people's. But that does not make it even remotely acceptable.

Remember the whole "Constitutional Scholar" thing? That was held up as part of a promise to reverse the damage done under Bush. That's like promising to mend a broken leg, then putting a bullet in both kneecaps. Anybody who tries to spin this by saying "Sure, he has not followed up on all of his campaign promises" is...well, there's no civil way of putting it.

Seriously, think about what you're defending here. Just take a minute and THINK about it.
This is such a distorted viewpoint. You're complaining that you can't watch a high quality stream of a television show, without ads no less, on the day it comes out. I think there are worst things in life.

Just as much as it's not the government's job to protect an antiquated model, it's also not your job to take the model into your own hands as you see fit. You didn't create that content and have no right to deem how it is distributed.

If studios want to cling to an antiquated model and lose, that's their choice to make. Hopefully other content providers will wake up and continue delivering content in the way consumers want it, where we all win. But people who pirate are making that decision for them, which is total crap.
"Where's the beef?" said there's no joke here :/
I assume this uses some sort of trained Bayesian thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Negative...

Apparently, DNSSEC would not be able to distinguish between malicious redirection and US DNS blocking. If it treated them both the same way it might be regarded as circumventing the DNS block which would, naturally, be illegal.
What kind of marketing are you doing to increase subscribers? Do you send out press releases to bloggers, magazines and news sites?
To be frank, I also expected to mainly get downvotes from my spur of the moment response.

But the gist of what I was trying to convey is:

It's 2011. The web is inherently tied with javascript.

(The "progressive enhancement" thing in respect to lack of javascript doesn't hold after Ajax and the so-called "Web 2.0", ie since 2005).

Turning js off AND using a left-field browser, is probably pushing it too far, and you don't really get to complain about broken functionality after that.
If you're willfully disobeying a court order the judge can hold you in contempt and you'll serve jail time that way.
Bootstrap 2.0 demo
my bad, here's the url http://bootstrap.io/Demo/
Perhaps values themselves can be bullshit. The word sounds more like cursing than terminology, so when someone says that something is bullshit, it is not clear if the meaning is "something is a lie" or "something is incorrect" or something else.
Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA skeptics
my bad, here's the url http://bootstrap.io/Demo/
Sysfuck: bridging the gap between "Turing complete" and "actually useful".
The end of Bionic Hippo (the final story of my first startup)
Well, flexible enough so that it can refactored to something else later != framework-level abstractions.

It could just be as simple: just don't make an untangleable mess out of it.
Steam is a great example. For years the big publishers had been whining that piracy was destroying PC gaming. Then Steam came out[1] with reasonable priced games, awesome sales and no hassle updates and it is a huge success. There are countless of people who formerly pirated games that now buy a lot of games through Steam.

[1] Ok, I didn't go quite like that.
No one can downvote stories. You can flag it, but I'm not sure if that's the correct procedure for a bad title. I think the OP can change the title, maybe.
The key here is that you aren't sampling the same uniform distribution each time. You shrink the sample space by one each time you remove a card and append it to the end.
> People differ in level of intelligence, and this is a fact.

Define intelligence.
Any links to other stories of travelers supporting themselves through entrepreneurial means?
Doesn't the thought of your product being governed by "Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law" worry you at all?
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Separate processes is completely unworkable for the kind of work armin has in mind. Web servers are very specific - there is very little data shared between processes, because web is mostly stateless and the entire state can be encoded in SQL database (typically). However anything that requires some complex interprocess communication is essentially unworkable. You need to serialize and deserialize your data into wire-level protocols, which is often prohibitively expensive, even when you can get it to work.
While this sounds like a good idea on the surface, it won't work.

Pretty much all cellular communications nowadays uses CDMA of one flavor or another. An important property of CDMA is that any signal that I send to the tower actually causes more noise for the other users in the network. This id called being interference limited. For this reason, there is a ton of effort going into power control, so that reach user sends just enough power to reach the tower but not more. Your cell phone COULD boost it's transmit power to reach the tower, but it would ruin everyone else's connection.