skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and on a related note: Today morning I skimmed the preface to Computational Science and Engineering by Gilbert Strang, and he also states, that (at least some) math should be thought alongside applications and algorithms, which, since these used to be intense topics, have been traditionally separated by academic curricula.

AI class was a perfect example of that interleaved approach, I think.
What's funny is that even people who never used AOL or Yahoo! (the early version :) still do the same thing, which I think says more about the cognitive load of browsers, domain names, bookmarks, etc, than it does about Google. Google makes all that load just disappear.
Using multiple kinds of parentheses in Lisp considered silly
I have to say I really enjoyed Herzog Zwei on the Genesis - did anyone ever make a new version of it?
Can you please go fuck yourself instead of demanding that people disprove your unsubstantiated bullshit points?
No but it could be reshaped to looked as destroyed
In order to rip a DVD, you have to break the CSS encryption, which is illegal under the DMCA. Hollywood (the industry) has fought hard against allowing exceptions to the DMCA for fair use of any kind, and they terrorized the hackers who reverse-engineered CSS in the first place.

Hollywood has also fought to force other countries to outlaw fair use. Here's an example:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/us-in-2005-l...

So yes, it is quite clear that Hollywood considers ripping a DVD to be criminal activity.
Normal endocrine systems peak at around 3 AM and are at their lowest at around 3 PM. If you happen to wake up at 5 AM vs 8 AM, you will feel more energetic.

This is because, historically, our main predators were nocturnal, while we hunted almost exclusively in the two twilights (we have substantially better twilight vision than virtually any animal). So when the wolves came at 3 AM we'd be at our most energetic and when it's relatively safe (3 PM in daylight year round), we'd be taking a ciesta.

If your body is off hormonally, grogginess throughout the day is a primary sign. When my body was substantially off from ages 18-24, I actually became completely nocturnal, just because 12-5 AM were the only times I felt anywhere near energetic.
" Formerly colleagues from the same department, now competitors with very similar education startups"

(Without taking sides, and somewhat tangentially) if true, we consumers are in for a good time. Competition,especially with such formidable people leading rival companies, is awesome.
Ubuntu Unleashed 2012 Edition: Covering 11.10 and 12.04
In the meantime Lamar Smith is pushing a bill so ISP's track and log everything you do online for 18 months, and then to give the data away without a warrant.

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/08/05/protecting-children-bill-...
It's not really pedantry, though. You said that everyone does or will own an iPhone- that's demonstrably not true.
This seems like a good example of SEO-driven linkbait.

It's not quite spam -- the story is interesting, if not exactly breaking news -- but I'm pretty sure the main goal is to get inbound links to feefighters.com
people pick on Microsoft when they do the same thing Google does, just because they suck at it. This goes for scores of things. Lesson: don't suck at what you're trying to do, then you'll be treated specially.

www.google.com/search?&tbm=isch&q=google+chrome+malware+page
This seems like an unusual reaction. I thought a lot of these sites made fun of legal requests or takedown attempts, and when one went down, another would take its place. I wonder what's got them cowering this time?
No, you could not.
Afaik Ubuntu releases don't correlate that much with Debian releases.

CentOS on the other hand is always binary compatible and basically just a re-branding of RHEL without the commercial support.

So, apart from the commercial side CentOS and RHEL are pretty much exactly the same.

I don't beliebe this is true for Debian and Ubuntu.

As far as i know, it's like that: Fedora is the bleeding-edge Desktop RedHat version that gets the latest stuff. At some time it's forked, fixed and baked into a RHEL release. When this is released it's taken by the community, recompiled/branded (with the exact same sources) and released as CentOS.
>suing Google has a severely steep climb up a very tall mountain. Google hires the best lawyers and they fight like bulldogs. Polite bulldogs. But they don't just roll over, and Google's track record is very, very impressive.

Can't we at least pretend that what happens in court is a matter of Justice and Right or Wrong? I'm personally happy that Oracle isn't winning this case, since I wish more people will have the right to implement their own Java in their products. It just pains me that you have to be a mega-corporation with the strongest legal department in the world, in order to do this.
I want to learn Lisp; any books or site to learn from?
I want to learn LISP any books or site to learn from?
Total. Perspective. Vortex.
This is a victory -- if you can call a victory taking something back to where it was all along.

Along those lines, I noted this in the article:

In a footnote, Scalia added that, “Whatever new methods of investigation may be devised, our tsk, at a minimum, is to decide whether the action in question would have constituted a ‘search’ within the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Where, as here, the government obtains information by physically intruding on a constitutionally protected area, such a search has undoubtedly occurred.”

If that broader interpretation would hold, that would be awesome news. But by putting it in a footnote, as I understand it, it's more of a dream than anything else. Great philosophy, though. Here's hoping it plays out that way.

The problem -- and the reason it won't, probably -- is that this kind of interpretation needs to be put into a constitutional amendment. If you rely on judicial interpretation, between the legislature and the courts, they'll make a muddled mess out of it.
> Another more cynic explanation would be that you are trying to spread some poor-me-I'm-from-an-ex-communist-country-I'm-so-poor propaganda, hopefully that isn't so.

I hope I'm not :) Anyway, maybe I was wrong in my multiplication by a certain factor, but you have to keep in mind that my brother (and his co-workers) only make these kind of trips every 2 weeks or so, so assuming he makes an average of 2 and half such trips per month it's around ~800 euro per month. Which is actually a pretty good salary around these parts, only that most likely most of this money is paid in some manner as to avoid taxes (there was a post from some Hungarian guy a couple of weeks ago explaining why that's the only viable solution for a small to medium company around these parts of Europe).

And regarding the "disappearance" of job opportunities for Western workers... well, something has got to give, you cannot have a free market for goods without a free market for labor. Meaning you cannot have Ikea stores in those "poor" East-European countries with no import charges attached to its merchandise without giving said East-European workers the chance to improve their lives in Ikea's host country' or Nokia's, or BMW's. Otherwise it's just old, plain economic colonialism, and that's bad.
That's two decades ago. The soviets are history. They are gone. Now most US troops left Germany. The rest which are here are needed to keep the US empire (central command for europe, central command for africa, hospitals, logistics, ...). Even then Germany paid a lot of money for defense, we even paid the US for defense. Germany was heavily armed and was on the front line of the cold war conflict with huge military presences and installations.

The fall of the Berlin wall is now over twenty years ago. Germany has consequently reduced its military. The US has expanded it extensively in the last decade (two wars, etc.).

The number of US military installations is now mostly of FORMER installations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_inst...
Stupid: not for researching the case on the internet, but for blabbing about it.

Many jurors, including myself, will look something up themselves on a multi-day trial, that's common. The point is to see whether or not a defendant is a habitual offender or someone who can deservedly be given the benefit of a doubt.
This is a great idea. I, too, often end up coding if I'm not tired when my wife is going to bed, but it often ends up being a marathon until 1:30 or 2 in the morning. Restraining myself to 2 hours a day, but doing it every day, seems like a good discipline.
The internet, peer reviewed.
One of the things the article doesn't point out (but the linked case law does) that I was curious enough about to look into:

The "beeper" was essentially a short-ranged RF transponder used as a tracking device. The officers were actively following the suspect, and using it as an aid to tailing the suspect's car. The suspect lost the tail, and the cops used the beeper to find where he went.

This is contrasted with a GPS device, which was placed, tracked for a month, and then retreived, and the data of the month's movements used to convict the drug dealer.
Yes. http://carbongames.com/airmech/help.html
Interesting blog where they write about their experience in porting it to NaCl.
PIPA Roll Call - 10,000 tweets sent to senators for PIPA (so far)
Linux for migrants
Correct. Plus their was the bad experience of not doing enough during the last crisis.
Warrantless everything. It's the future of America.

Why they feel the need to do an end-run around judicial overview I have no idea, because you rarely see a judge ever say "no" to law enforcement.
It is possible that the OP is not capable of doing that and thus needs to hire someone to do it for him.
Does this ruling cover tracking via cell phone as well? According to the Wikipedia article on mobile phone tracking, "The U.S. Justice Department has argued that current laws allow them to track suspects without having probable cause to suspect a law is being violated."

This case only seems to cover devices the suspect doesn't already willingly carry.
Who cares, as long as the story is interesting, and well written? I actually learned something that I wanted to know for a long time, but never bothered to look up.
I'm curious what the next step is going to be, maybe try to use "onstar" gps data without a warrant, because the way this is worded, it maybe seems the action of placing the tracking device that is the violation, not using an existing one, and they can still do it for "segments" (ie. tracking you for just one leg of a journey and removing it afterwards is legal without a warrant?)

Next we have to fight for our bodies not to be searched without a warrant as Rand Paul is currently experiencing personally: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3500715
A google for "firefox facebook blocker" returned:

http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/
..And if it's that much of a hot topic for you, you don't sign up. Or use fake info. Who's going to know, as long as your name isn't Clark Kent with a picture of Superman?

Also, singling out Facebook for what every advertiser cookie has done since the mid 90's seems a bit silly.
It's an interesting blog post that happens to be on a company's blog -- how is that any different than the thousands of other blog posts on HN from company blogs?
Best Android Apps for Small Businesses
Inbound links are the indirect goal of every blogger. I found the article to be very informative about the details of a business segment I wasn't familiar with. What makes this article different than others?
Unions don't always choose what is best for everyone. My aunt and uncle were working at a unionized automotive parts factory here in Canada and the factory needed to reduce payroll due to lost sales. They gave the union a choice of either cutting everyone's hours (and thus wages) by 10% or of laying off 10% of the workforce. When put to a vote, the choice was to lay off the 10%. This happens because when each union member votes, they know if they are in the 10% or not as layoffs are based on seniority. It wasn't some CEO taking a shortcut, it was the individual co-workers looking out for their own (perceived) best interests.

(I don't remember what the actual percentage was, but it was in the 10-20 range.)
FileSonic cuts file-sharing after Megaupload case
The actual website is here: http://www.udacity.com/

For those interested, looks like they're offering two classes (CS101: Building a Search Engine and CS373: Programming a Robotic Car) starting in February and hiring actively, as well (http://www.udacity.com/jobs).
Tying you PPC Strategy to your Physical Location
To me, this supreme court decision stands as precedent against the ISP's forced tracking. If recording your vehicle moves constitutes a search, then recording your online moves surely constitutes a search.

The only difference is that the supreme court ruling mentions officers having to enter a constitutionally protected area(your car) to install the searching device. With ISP data recording they would have to make no such intrusion, as it would be built in. It would be as though every car came with GPS monitoring and all the feds had to to was ask for it from your car's manufacturer.
ea is making the same thing.
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Yes, I'm aware of this. But I don't think lumping fair use in with people downloading torrents makes a lot of sense. Hollywood want complete control over all access and distribution of their content, while the Pirate Party want copyright abolished. As usual the reasonable position will lie somewhere between these extremes.
http://landoflisp.com/
First: not all surgeons start at 5; it varies somewhat with the specialty. The more "hard-core" specialties tend to start earlier in the morning because the cases can run longer (12-16 hour surgeries, while not typical, are not unheard of either).

Second, they don't start operating at 5. They actually couldn't--the non-M.D. staff (nurses and techs) work on "normal" shifts, so there's only a minimal overnight crew (present to handle emergencies that cannot wait until morning) at that time. Surgeries actually start around 7:30-8:00 typically, but the team needs to round on the patients under their care and discuss what's slated for the day before they go into the OR. Since that takes a couple hours, they start at 5.
I just wished people who have obviously no expertise whatsoever in law yet consider themselves to have enough of it to publish about it because they've read a few Wikipedia articles and a judgement here or there would stop said publishing already. With nonsensical statements asking 'if fansubs would be derivative enough to warrant fair use protection' it's a dead giveaway that the author has no clue whatsoever about copyright law, or law in general for that matter.

If a lawyer started posting here on HN or on a programming forum elsewhere claiming that obviously programming language X is better than Y because X has pointers and Y doesn't we'd laugh him/her out of the room too. Why do we think it's acceptable to do the equivalent to other fields?
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I can't see the rating that posts other than mine have. In any case, in this discussion, many of your comments (though not in this specific exchange with me) are grayed out (meaning non-positive rating).

What you haven't addressed is your inability to consistently apply your claims about non-IP-reliant methods of art production. Here's what happened:

You post (the one right before my first reply), showing indifference to the prospect of it being impossible to make a monetary profit from production of intellctual works.

Paraphrasing your comment, you say,: Real artists don't work for profit, so it's actually a good thing if production of movies, books, etc cannot earn a monetary profit due to people not respecting IP claims.

Then, I come back, and ask if you are so indifferent to the unprofitability of production of something else people want being rendered unprofitable due to widespread refusal to recognize rights therein, using the example of lumberjacking.

Due to your apparent inability to follow chains of logic beyond a certain depth, you felt it was sufficient to cite one superficial difference betweeen lumberjacking and creation of intellectual works, and considered it "case closed" and duh why can't this idiot see that they're different.

What you don't understand (almost certainly due to an unwillingness to) is that this difference, while true, does not invalidate the analogy I was drawing, because they are not different in the relevant aspects. What aspects?

1) In both cases, there would be a bad incentive effect on the valuable activity: the lumberjacking and intellectual works that need a profit incentive to produce, won't be.

2) In both cases, you can find some circuitous, inefficient way to reproduce the profitability that would otherwise come from simply recognizing rights therein.

In response to both of these similarities, and due to your inability to consistently apply the principles you advocate, you simply fall back on, "art can be copied, cutting a tree down can't". And that's true. But it means precisely nothing in terms of the above similarities.

Quite frankly, it's frustrating when you keep falling back on your standard line that they're different (in a narrow way), completely obvlivious to how it contradicts what you just said ("who cares if socially-beneficial activity X can't turn a profit [except by circuitous routes]?"). I expect better from people I debate with, especially on HN.
Perhaps include a brief explanation as to what each feature does or is for so trips to google aren't as necessary?
Senator Rand Paul is currently being detained by the TSA
I agree that paganel's comparison seems a bit exaggerated but note that there are non-wage labor costs here in Germany. Wikipedia reports 22 percent. A common rule of thumb is 30 percent, IIRC.

This means the total wage of the truck driver here would be about €511.30 for 4 days of work.
Do you have a better expiation for how often multiple studio's put out near identical movies at the same time?
Kill your startup while looking smart: failing by half measures
Vocal SOPA opponent Senator Rand Paul detained by TSA.
I think, unfortunately, it wouldn't be considered a search as the data recording would probably be considered voluntary.
> Do you remember in the beginning, when this case was new, and a self-described "expert" in the media was pushing the idea that Oracle would win billions and billions in damages?

coughFlorian Muellercough
Research without Motion: Old guys replaced by new old guy
A tale of new censors
PHP.net manual pages all gone? Am I missing something?
> One of the first principle that I hold is that the products of an individuals labor should belong to the individual and she should have control over it, regardless if it is a wooden spoon or a work of art.

In common law countries like the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, this has not historically been a principle of our societies, and has never been a part of our legal systems. Copyright is a purely statutory concept that does not relate to any moral law. That's one reason why, in the US, we have fair use exceptions for criticism, education, news reporting, and research.

Strangely, although civil law countries often declare a moral right of the individual to control the fruits of their labor, the law stomps all over that moral right with many exceptions to copyright:
http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/UrhG.htm#I6
And that's exactly what some of us do. But there's no way you're getting all of your facebook friends to do the same. Facebook can build a profile on you based on your friend's tracking data. Whether it'll be accurate or not is mostly a technical question - whoever looks at it will assume it's accurate. There are a lot of nefarious uses for this information and there's no useful way to opt out right now, short of not having created a facebook account. Hence the whole "mass surveillance" bit.
My understanding is that every GPL except LGPL infects your code. If you distribute code "linked" to GPL'd code (where AGPL defines distribute as being accessed), you must make your code available. It does get confusing when your PDF library is proprietary and not yours, which is why companies tend to frown on using AGPL'd code.
Well I cannot seem to view any of the pages, I know they had been looking to role out a new design, but why take down all the docs?
Unglue.it Could Save Public Libraries
As long as Twitter (and Facebook even more so) don't allow Google to actually index them fully, I don't think that a service like the one outlined here would work very well.

And even once these services open up more: At what point would you set the threshold for inclusion of $social_network in the list? I certainly would not want a list of various social network batches under every search result.

Only list the ones the user is active in? Sure. But how do you determine "active"? Networks in which the user posts a lot? In which he reads a lot of other users content (how would Google find out about that?)?

The integration as it is currently made for G+ basically only works because Google has all that G+ profile data and for it to work as well with other networks, I'd say, Google needs specialized access to it.

Or to be more cynical: So twitter wants to have their accounts integrated into the search results of a search engine? Easy: Just create a search engine too and have all of Google's user switch over.
Chris Christie Defends Romney, Calls Gingrich A Disgrace On Meet The Press.
AT&T and Google Voice had a dispute over this a few years ago because AT&T must terminate all calls and GV was blocking calls to the freeconferencecall.com numbers.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/att-accused-...
There is a link at the bottom for browser market share or learn more for most of these features.
The government told the justices during oral arguments that that GPS devices have become a common tool in crime fighting, saying it is employed “thousands” of times annually.

Wow. So I guess that number is supposed to shrink to zero now? That transition could prove to be very interesting...
This would have been better if it was a senator that actually voted for the TSA

But it will hopefully still get some days of mainstream news attention.

What's strange is I thought I read Congress voted themselves a loophole so they can avoid TSA gropes/scans and get a special pass through airports. Or maybe he's just waiving that right.
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What sort of twisty-turvy world have we found ourselves in?

A right-leaning Supreme court upholds tennants of the 4th Amendment - the go-to civil liberties ammendment - at the same time a Democratic administration seeks to weaken said ammendment.

When Democrats are attacking our civil liberties and Republicans (looking at you, Lamar Smith) are removing our economic freedoms, it's time to take the crackpots seriously when they say we're not living in a republic anymore.
Anyone else having issues signing up to the classes?
Jail time and having your cars seized and sold.
Pretty fascinating...the OP describes the regulation as "outdated"...but are there rural companies that depend on it? Or is it truly outdated and due for a change?
Wouldn't a full-body scan be more revealing than a pat-down? I guess i understand where he's coming from, but I thought most people went the other way (opting-out of the full-body scan in favor of a pat-down).