skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to realize that net neutrality is only beneficial when there is poor competition amongst service providers. It's the oligopoly power of a handful of service providers which would make harmful preferential treatment sustainable. In a competitive market, the price for data will be driven toward the marginal cost, which is independent of the contents of the data. So net neutrality wouldn't be useful. (And, in fact, net neutrality has the disadvantage of possibly prohibiting companies from charging different prices for different latencies/reliability, which might be economically very sensible in a competitive market.)

Therefore, it doesn't make sense to view net neutrality as some sort of axiomatic principle. If market realities necessitate net neutrality rules, it can be perfectly reasonable for there to be carved-out exceptions, e.g. for charity.
The flip side is that all this automation makes stuff cheaper, and a better lifestyle is available for less money.
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R offers a breadth and depth in statistical computing beyond what is available in commercial closed source products. Yet R remains, primarily, a programming language for the highly skilled statistician, and out of the reach of many. --- The R Journal Vol. ½, December 2009

As stated, R is the best tool and is the lingua franca of statistics. But many people, especially my students found difficulties to use R.

I wish to make an interactive R Learning Platform, called CloudStat School.

The best way to learn R programming is doing while learning.

In CloudStat School, you will see a console box at your top left hand side, while the lesson notes at your top right. Bottom is the output box. Anything you “Run” in console box will be shown as a result in the output box.

So, while learning the notes, you can “run” the R examples immediately without open another windows, software or tabs. You can do it in a page.

I did make a simple working prototype (MVP):

Lesson 1: Overview of R Language & CloudStat School

http://cloudst.at/index.php?do=/kaichew/blog/lesson-1-overview-of-r-language-cloudstat-school/

The prototype is simply integrating R Web that hosted in Pôle Bioinformatique Lyonnais in iframe.

If many of you think that this idea great, I would start making a better version.

This is my current simple idea, hope to get some feedback from you.

Thanks a lot.
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Why not fix the problem with 2 languages?

Let me explain. You would have:

1. a language for your actual code - the real code of your application (imagine an application programmed in Python or C++)

2. a language to concisely describe what the code does - the code for your "tests" (imagine the tests written in a simplified Haskell or some dialect of mathematical language)

There would be different constrains for the two languages, as language (2) would not have to be efficient or portable or any other requirements you can imagine, it should just be very concise, to allow to describe in a couples of lines what 100 or 1000 lines of language (1) code do.

And it would be very different from just writing very granular tests: the program could be run in "debug" mode, with the language (2) tests or executable-descriptions of a function running after every function call (very slow but still working), and in a "real" mode in the client computer or when profiling and optimizing for speed. You could still have regular test and language (2) could be much simpler than something like Haskell because it would not need have fast execution and it will only be written in short snippets that could be proven correct by "pen & paper" or "mind running".

[minor edit for spelling and paragraphs]
On the upside, as populations become wealthier and more educated the fertility rate drops. We're a (scarily) long way from things stabilising, though.
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Interesting and useful if your are using the command line version of git.

However since starting to use Magit (git mode for Emacs) I never feel the need to drop to the console in order to interact with my git repo because Magit has such a brilliant interface. I encourage people to try out!
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Makes sense.

Yes, dead-man switches and whatnot always come up with cases like this - that's not really part of this ruling. This case includes: a) they have record of the defendant stating the information exists on the machine, which she stated she owns, and b) they have (a very good) reason to believe the drive can be decrypted.

All of this strikes me more as a search warrant than anything, in the same way that they can break locked doors if they have a warrant to search a location. That it's a cryptographic lock really has no bearing on the matter - if the documents were printed and put in a locked closet, they could be confiscated and searched. Why is this different?
While waiting for an upload, I had a look.

This tag is inserted in the head:

<script src="http://1.2.3.4/bmi-int-js/bmi.js language="javascript">

This is inserted at the end:

<script language="javascript"><!--
bmi_SafeAddOnload(bmi_load,"bmi_orig_img",0);//-->

</script>

The external JS is here: http://pastebin.com/rv3k4meX

Analysis please. At an initial glance it seems to just be about the image compression.
It was only a few centuries ago that we paid this exclusive, elite upper class in society called scribes to write and transcribe things for us, because we weren't literate enough to do it ourselves. The parallels are pretty surprising today: we're paying an exclusive, elite class called programmers to write in the languages understood by computers. Software is eating the world, jobs are being displaced, and the demand for technical talent is as high as its ever been.
YMMV, but after I was contacted about breaking the 250g limit a second time (was not disconnected since it was >1yr between overages) I played dumb* and told them that I had recently bought "a server off craigslist" and that maybe it was related to old software leftover on that. Ever since, if I have an overage I receive an email suggesting I download their security tools because I may have a bot operating on one of my machines.

I have no idea if this is simply coincidence or if they in fact have a flag for "less knowledgable users"/"malware affected users". Could just be luck on my part, but I would say give that technique a try if you find yourself in that situation.

*This part was entertaining. After countless times trying to provide customer service reps with complete details and explain things only to be met with confusion on their end, it was fun to use my knowledge to intentionally sound like I had no idea how computers/internet worked.
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Following the judgement, this painting is also infringing on the idea, composition and so on: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/03/article-0-0D74781D...

Or maybe not, because there's also a car in this one, so maybe it doesn't hit the similarness threshold...
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The javascript changes all image URL's to lower quality versions from O2's servers, it also provides a helpful little function which lets you use a hotkey (Alt+D I believe) to download all the images in full quality. The javascript comes from the domain //1.2.3.4/bmi-int-js/bmi.js (Not a real domain, only works behind O2's proxy)
Welcome to Peak Capitalism. This is the peak of our current socio-economic system, and I'm fairly certain that everyone in the White House is now well-aware and convinced of what's likely going to happen over the course of the next 10 years. I hope they're preparing for it right now.

I believe the coming collapse of the capitalistic-democractic system is imminent, and America needs to very seriously start planning for a conversion to Socialism/Marxism because the current system is not going to work for very long.
Seconded. iPhone 4 and O2-UK
We have several patents issued. Unfortunately, as I explain how law shapes the business landscape" one cannot simply choose not to patent their work; others can patent it, or patent "around" it. So we have been forced to play this game -- and we win the games we are forced to play.

There are several fields though, where the innovations necessary to make a great product are scattered around many different companies. Unfortunately the apparatus today makes it difficult to really get the initial consensus to collect the licenses to test the market.
That would lead to even greater wealth inequality, one of the most destabilizing factors in a society.
I do argue that this is neither theft nor transcription, but transformation or inspiration.

Xerox did, by the way, try to commercialize their technology. They just misfired massively. The Xerox Star bombed, because execution matters -- a main point.
I have a hunch that it's probably a breach of data protection law in the UK too.
At the beginning I implemented it in git itself, in C, but decided that writing it as a plugin as opposed to as a builtin is better as it is the least intrusive method (read: least amount of work).
How about searching for new economic models. Are 200 year old models really relevant anymore?
Ridiculous.

The solution to average people becoming less relevant in the economy (which I don't dispute, btw) can of course never be to make everyone above average as that is by definition impossible.

It's a feel good message for average folk that papers over the truth, which is that average folk that used to make a decent living doing average work will become poor. All of them, eventually. How poor exactly? Well, you could do worse than to look at Chinese factory workers for an indication of where things will end.

Of course it's more complicated than that: if the average man has become as poor as a Chinese factory worker, he will no longer be able to afford expensive gadgets and value added services, so it'll be in the interest of at least some sectors of the economy (think Apple and Google) to keep the impoverishment of the middle class down to a minimum. On the other hand there are other sectors of the economy (think McDonalds and Walmart) that will do just fine even if everyone is poor, so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

But, like I said, this article is ridiculous. Giving everyone a PhD won't solve a thing.
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«Well, we may discuss about the "closely as possible without infringing".»

Did you read the judgement yet? There's no point discussing anything without knowing the facts of the case.

«Seems quite obvious that if find yourself in that photo spot, and a red bus passes by, you immediately think to make it pop out with such a post processing trick.»

If that's all it had been, the judgement makes it clear that the result would not have been infringing.
Unlikely, that would skirt way too close to trusts and they don't see themselves as being in the business of content creation.
> a machine replaced the humans and prevented a new hire

I think it's more the case that a machine made your small business more efficient and more likely to still be in existence a year from now. Was there really any benefit to have someone sitting at a desk performing a dull, repetitive task?
Post high school education is overrated. In fact the American school system won't really prepare you to face the reality.

Yes it seems like the need for these "average" jobs are decreasing but in the end it will all balance itself out and there will be new areas that would need to be filled.
Very nice!

The only complaint I have is that I kept on associating the position of my mouse with a particular circle or segment. Then sometimes nothing would behave like I expected, and I would then spend a significant amount of time trying to figure out which circle to associate with which segment. It didn't seem to me that this is really part of the 'gameplay', it felt more like trying to figure out which keys to use for a new game... but then for every level.

It's hard to say without actually trying it, but I think having the internal segments 'follow' their respective circles would have been much more intuitive for me.
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Yep, same here. iPhone/O2 (UK) - my number's there!
I would sodding hope it's illegal in the UK to! Altho as IANAL I can't think of which law exactly would cover it. Anyone know? I'm envious, you Germans have great privacy laws.
I think that copyright, with a shorter term, is a very reasonable model for pharmaceuticals given the current FDA process, but it is not complete. The FDA still frowns upon off label use -- but the challenges in medical regulation are for another, longer discussion.

I do think that patents allow for a brief period, post product release, of allowing one to recoup the costs of initial investment. But if I were to rearrange the terms, I would suggest that the patent expire 3 years post-initial commercial release, or 15 years after filing -- whichever is shorter.

Generally, I think that we should force more creativity out of our thieves. I think the patent system should revert to something much closer to copyright.

In the meantime, groups of companies could support defensive patent pools, or the patent pledge.
You should be able to bypass the proxy that inserts the HTTP headers with the following APN on O2:

apn: mobile.o2.co.uk
username: bypass
password: password

Worked in 2008 when I tried it (http://www.edandersen.com/2008/07/13/iphone-o2-fix-the-image...) as they used to screw with images on the App Store. I don't have access to O2 anymore, can someone try this and see if it still works?

Edit: It still includes your phone number, thanks msmithstubbs.
I am no historian and no expert on Swiss government. And if I got these facts wrong I apologize. My source may be bad (honestly I don't remember where I picked it up) but I am not trying to deceive anyone.

But I believe that what I said if it doesn't hold true today it did so 50 years ago, before Swiss got voting rights to women.

And yes I forgot to mention that within Switzerland things are done very differently from place to place.

On the other hand, these signs of "progress" may be the first signs of decay of Swiss democracy. Please don't get offended I am just debating and viewing the world from an unpopular perspective. As usual only time will tell where the Swiss will go.

For one I hope that Switzerland endures for another thousand years.

Thank you for your input.
git add -p Is also a nice alternative. Sadly, it doesn't allow you to revert an add files like darcs does.
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From the oracle (Wikipedia),
Data must not be disclosed to other parties without the consent of the individual whom it is about, unless there is legislation or other overriding legitimate reason to share the information (for example, the prevention or detection of crime). It is an offence for Other Parties to obtain this personal data without authorisation.

It is in fact illegal for the website to obtain this information... Lew, you're going down... Only joking.
> Have you ever been to a conference for geeks/hackers/programmers? Most of the laptops you'll see are Macs. Go to Python, Ruby, Rails, Mongo, MySQL, Node.js and whatever conferences -- hey, even in Java conferences

Hell, go to Google I/O, half the machines there seem to be macs.
I think that should be the flip side but aside from 2009-2010 (the bulk of the recession), inflation has remained constant over the last ten years. Inflation adjusted wages have continued to decline to record numbers. The jobs that are returning in the current recovery have been primarily low paying ones (clearly IT is exempt from this).

What has been going up is corporate profits. Apple's latest figures are mind boggling. A billion dollars in profit a WEEK. Someone up higher in the comments wrote that we are at peak-capitalism and headed towards Marxism/Socialism. While I doubt that's going to happen (Wall St too strong, progressive politicians too weak) I think America needs to go that way.

As Elizabeth Warren said 'There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own'. I feel that corporations (they are people right) and "The 1%" need to pay as much or more of their income in taxes to repay society for their success. This money should be used to address the problems in this article. The US needs to make higher education and retraining free/affordable, make health care free, and provide better social safety nets. With these things in place, Americans will be able to start getting competitive again.
You can't claim it's a very bad judgement because you didn't read it. I know you didn't read it because you said "overcast sky". Had you read the judgement it repeatedly discusses the blank/white sky. It's an important element of the final judgement. The sky may very well have been vibrant blue in the original, unedited photograph. It is not an overcast sky and had you read the judgement you'd know this.

You're welcome to agree or disagree with the judgement, I really don't care. All I ask of people is that they actually read the damned thing before forming an opinion on it.
I think it's also a matter of what kind of world we want.

For example: Do you choose to use software instead of employing a person because you prefer the software, or would you prefer to hire a person but choose software because it is cheaper (which helps the company survive) and kind-of can do the same job?

If it's the first, there's a good reason to be scared. If it's the second, then market forces might eventually balance out and make hiring people an attractive choice again.

Ideally, tools such as computers will go back to being tools, "human helpers" and not "human replacements".

I do not like to think about an automated, antisocial world in which less and less humans are needed because machines have taken over. Isn't that self-defeating anyway? When did we start putting our tools above ourselves?
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Well, having one colored item and the rest grey is a fairly common way of making one item stand out in a photo.[1] When you break it down, it's not that creative a photo. They both take a black & white of an area with many iconic buildings, then make a London bus pop out of the background by letting it keep its color.

Item #71 tends to point to this particular case as being deliberate copying, but it's not exactly impossible to get a case like that from independent works when only so many elements were identified as being the same in both. It seems like the crux of the matter is not whether it was edited or not, but whether it was copied with the other photo as a reference or not.

[1] Google doesn't quite understand that as a query, but you can still find many examples of this technique scattered among many irrelevant results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22black+and+white%22+photos...
In the case of a "everything is automated, only a small portion of people are needed to produce essentials and even advance" society, would we just be better off with a system that relied on the altruism of the few to make the lives of everyone better and everyone else could just exist?

That sort of society has a slew of issues that could be better explored in futurist science fiction (things such as psychologic issues for the non-producers, the sustainability of altruism, etc.). But it is a consideration that I have thought about.

Capitalism isn't going to be subverted that quickly, though. The system will right itself and any revolution of that caliber will be long and hard fought. The world superpower will be a capitalist system in 2050 and probably 2100.
Just tried it. The phone number header is still being included.
A lot of mobile network operators wash this information about or have it hashed into some other form (which means it can still be used as a unique identifier)

Some popular headers to check

X-UP-CALLING-LINE-I

X_NOKIA_MSISDN

X_H3G_MSISDN

MSISDN

X_MSISDN

X_NETWORK_INFO

X-WAP-MSISDN

X-UP-SUBNO
I'm using Vodafone and I'm seeing an "X-VF-ACR" header in my headers that contains a very long base64-encoded string.

Anyone any idea what it is?

(Edit: Looks like a big bunch of binary)
I don't think there's any existing programming language that does what OP wants.

But Prolog is far from the last word on the subject. For one, it is basically untyped. There are dependently-typed programming languages that can express non-trivial properties via types, which the compiler can check (see ezyang's example).

See also:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2829347/a-question-about-...
Isn't this information used as an extra security layer when using your mobile phone for payments or bank transactions?
Here in The Netherlands when I want to use my mobile phone to log in to my bank account and do transactions, I first need to confirm my phone number and a special code. I can imagine that then they need the phone number in the header to verify it is my phone.

And how is this information different then an IP adress that they also have with each request?
>Well, the lumping together of WoW and Farmville is pretty bizarre and makes me think you have no idea what these games are actually like. Reminds me of Tipper Gore.

The reward schedules, which is what he's talking about, are exactly the same.
Uhm, no it's not, that's such an obviously wrong interpretation and use of the concept as commonly used amongst economists and policy makers that I don't think it's reasonable to expect a 'real' counterargument to you claim.

Re: "For instance, consider fashion and the law -- two creative industries which have no such protection and within which imitation is a measure of your success.", I have no idea what you're talking about. Gucci and Prada are some of the most prolific enforcers of their IP rights. Counterfeit designer clothing is a huge problem and an area where IP rights enforcement is stronger than in e.g. the music industry.

Your point of imitation in the law creative industry I don't understand to counter on its content. How do people infringe on others' IP rights in the legal industry? How does one in that industry imitate others, or achieve success when one is imitated?
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I suspect any legal case would hinge on whether your mobile phone number counted as personal data or not. Again, IANAL, but the Data Protection Act is not specific on what counts as personal data and instead leaves it up to case law and I think the data registrar(?) to clarify.