skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I read it correctly, the server can fail but because the data is stored via iSCSI, it will not actually be lost (unless it is the appliance itself that fails)
What are you guys sending as "supporting evidence"?
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No wonder it is being served by a 'server'! :)
Misread it as Bogpig. Anyone else?
"We" are not "building" the economy in the sense that factory workers build a car. It is more like evolution. You start with some little molecules floating the ocean, you let the simulation run, and eventually you get a complex equilibrium that includes ants, giraffes, and those parasites that mind-control mice into getting eaten by cats.

You start with self-sufficient peasant farmers that don't want barbarians to take their stuff, you let the simulation run, you eventually get towns, feudalism, enough surplus food to feed a few scientists, the industrial revolution, world wars, the military-industrial complex, the internet, high frequency trading. There is not someone designing this progression. It is a system of particles that in each time step apply an update rule.

If we want to stop it, we need to figure out what force we can apply to the system to make it settle into a different equilibrium. That's not even the hard part, since the system is not very stable, and can collapse into new equilibria very quickly, just like natural ecosystems can when you introduce new species. What's hard is understanding the dynamics of the system well enough that you can steer it into a state that you want, and make it stay there. Otherwise it is like introducing kudzu for erosion control. Well, it sure controlled erosion!

I am not a fatalist or a nihilist. I don't believe that there is some universal predetermined order (I think giraffes are arbitrary) and I think that when we can understand a small corner of the system, targeted intervention can work. But it is not a question of finding the right "evil person" to beat up, or finding the right political dogma. It is a question of studying the system with the same intellectual modesty as an ecologist, and finding a few levers that we can responsibly use - and, yes, gathering enough force in one place that we can protect the levers from people that would rather they be set in different positions.
Perhaps I should turn off wifi. Facepalm. Yes, it happens on Giffgaff too.
Why do you think that US auto workers, making a living wage producing luxury automobiles, have anything to do with near-slave labor?

If Apple has stowed away $70 billion, don't you think they could afford to pay higher wages, benefits for those mangled by RSI (back to back 12 shifts, not counting unpaid overtime) or machinery, and generally not treat people like dirt? I think they can afford to.
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Denmark's safety net is one thing, some whacko communist universal subsidy is another. Said safety net doesn't decrease disparity significantly, while giving some universal coverage for basic needs. As long as it's not a bigger burden to the economy than the alternative, I'd have nothing against something like this. I also believe the safety nets here in the UK are about right, in general terms. The government is still too big though.

Denmark's income inequality has increased during the last decades together with their living standard.

http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_...

Notice the language there. "The situation has worsened" because the rich are now richer, even though the living standards have improved dramatically in all income ranges, somehow "the situation has worsened" because now the gap is 6 to 1, instead of 5 to 1 as it was in the 80s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_disparity
It's not just O2 in the UK. This happens all over the place. See this talk done in 2010: http://mulliner.org/security/httpheaderprivacy.php

It mentions: Orange (UK), Rogers (Canada), H3G (Italy), Vodafone/BILDmobil (Germany), Pelephone (Israel), and on and on...
I've built a simple Twilio script that shows how easy it is to exploit this here: http://edlea.net/

Vistors on an O2 phone will receive an SMS on their first visit. An MD5 hash of their MSISDN is kept in memory to prevent multiple SMS being sent.
Three (UK) don't do it, and it's worth also noting that @O2 has been in overdrive about trying to contain the twitter outrage. Good to see a large corp paying attention for once.
And last I checked, they have no plans of (for 12.04, which is an LTS and therefore will be supported for 5 years) removing the traditional menu - the HUD is simply "use it if you want to".
Microsoft bought Skype because they had an excess of European profits and, instead of taking the US tax hit by bringing that money local, they spent it in Europe, by buying Skype.
Have you examined all the Three headers to ensure that they are not sending a hashed version of the phone number?
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As the tweet pointed out, this has been possible for years. You can also send emails from whoever you want.
This is not the fault of any one network; it's a fact of life when it comes to SMS. You can have all kinds of fun, whether it's messages that appear to be from you, your friend, or 11 characters of your choice, an SMS that will only display without being stored, or even a voicemail notification.

There's a nice guide to the format here:

http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/
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There's little incentive in filling out a form that disappears into the ether. Given that Google's other web-based support tools are mostly useless and unanswered (Gmail support for example), this is not much an incentive to waste time filling out another form and likely getting no reply whatsoever.
Looks similar to scm breeze : https://github.com/ndbroadbent/scm_breeze

But scm breeze (which I use every days) seems much more powerful.
Everybody can talk, but few people can be successful salesmen. Anyone could learn to play a musical instrument, but few people are actually doing it and even fewer people are good at it.

Related to scribes, even if mostly everyone knows how to read or write, that doesn't mean that book authors are obsolete. Writing novels and technical books is an endeavor that requires much more than simply being capable to read and write.

So I don't really get why this analogy is being made. Well, actually I do. It's for the same reason why recruiters are doing keyword matching on resumes.
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> [EDIT: plus, Microsoft trounced Apple once. That means they could do it again.]

Those were different companies. It was Sculley's Apple (with a lot of an immature Jobs thrown in) and Bill's Microsoft helped by a seriously shortsighted IBM. Plus, Microsoft really didn't eat Apple's lunch until Windows 3, which also ate IBM's lunch for dessert.

I don't think Microsoft is capable of betting the company on some disruptive innovation like they were with Windows 3. They are too big and there is too much infighting between the various divisions.
You can still set up ways to verify e-mail senders (e.g. DKIM). Can't imagine how you'd verify an SMS.
You can also send emails from whoever you want.

Precisely - relying on someone's email address, phone number, name or physical address is not a reliable authentication measure.
What is this "average"? Obviously, it is a statistical measure. But what does it mean in terms of people?

In those terms, "the average" is just a narrative of what the average person would be like. Which seems to be breaking down.

Sure - you can make a list of specific things that every person needs or desires, as there is a lot of commonality between people. Aside from that commonality, we do different things, which are specific to persons or groups. You cannot really speak of a mathematical average there, as those are qualitative differences not quantitative differences (and the groups also overlap...).

How do you "escape the average"? How is it to be "average"? How will you and other people escaping, affect that average? Will the average catch up with you?

I think the term is losing meaning, more than anything else, due to the specialization inherent in our technological society, and due to non-geographical clustering of people made possible by faster means of communication.
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Ok, bad wording, what I meant is that this is a typical photo taken during an overcast day where you don't expose for the sky: low contrast (you can see it from the buildings and flat shadows in the original photo) and blown up sky.

So may guess is that the original one was taken on an overcast day but the sky was not blown up enough to make the buildings pop up more so it was removed in post processing. Nothing much creative or new here.

The photos are too small to make a good evaluation, but to me it seems that the second photo was not even taken on a overcast day (shadows on the building are more harsh).

These are just speculations and it may as well be that also the first photo was taken on a sunny day and the photgrapher simply lowered the contrast in post processing (the judgement describes only the manipilations "In summary").

Anyway, this doesn't change a single thing in my opinion. I would go as far as to say that white sky is not only a common technique, but it's also iconic in this case (i.e. it was notthat much of a creative idea to express something unique).

The judgement is full of notes taken about the several differences between the photos, among which composition itself is the most prominent, yet the sky becomes so important??

Really, I believe the whole thing is much simpler that all what is written in the judgement: a) the two parties involved already had problems in the past (see point 2) and b) the judge was biased by the fact that the second photo was done in a similar way on purpose (Point 10 "He clearly knew about the claimant's work when the second image was produced because the whole point of the exercise was to produce a non-infringing image given the complaint about the first image the defendants had used")
I disagree. SMS spoofing is a serious problem but not such a gigantic privacy issue as sending my phone number to every website I visit.

If it were merely some string that uniquely identifies me across different domains no matter how many times I reset my browse, it'd already be a privacy disaster. But making it my actual phone number? That's... just.. horrible.
I was going to make the same comment.

I've known plenty of really sharp, talented developers that have zero interest in ever even looking at a P&L sheet.

When you've immersed yourself in a certain sub-culture (say startups), it's sometimes easy to forget that not everyone out there shares that model of thinking.
There are some similar cool open hardware projects sponsored by TI. They have better specs, although their prices are quite a bit higher. I don't know if it is because they do lower volumes, the chips cost more, or price just wasn't as much a concern when they were designed.

The beagleboard-xm has an A8, 4 usb ports, and 512 ram for $150, the related beaglebone has arduino like pins and an A8 for $80, and the pandaboard has an A9, 1gb ram, and wifi for $180.
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I work for Google and I eat a bagel every morning at the Google cafeteria. WTF are you talking about?

The perks have been getting BETTER in the last few years.
The headers I can see (from my iPhone on three) are very minimal and don't include anything that look like they could be a hashed phone number.
haha, I see that sort of. It was originally Gigpop, but thought Bopgig to be cooler.
Is programming that elite though? wages seemed to have hardly changed in the U.K. in the last 10 years (accounting for inflation). Also programming pays a similar amount to other jobs requiring a degree and is certainly a lot less than jobs like accountancy, finance, law and medical doctors.

For example, average programmer salary in 2004 was about £31k and in £38k http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/programmer.do and if you calculate £31k in today's money you get £38,440 [http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/His...]
None of the ones listed on the lew.io website seemed to include a phone number hash, but I only glanced at it quickly.
Mongo most definitely has negative connotations in British English, though not as much as Mong afaik
How does that differ from, say, Haskell's QuickCheck [1] and its ten thousand counterparts in other languages?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickcheck
Here's a proof-of-concept to get the user's location too: http://mbrit.com/o2numberandlocation.aspx.

(Albeit they need to give permission to access the HTML5 location APIs.)
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Agreed. But they do not care at all. That is my complaint.
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I know. But that does not mean the networks should not try to stop it.
1. Your reductive analysis of my comment inculpates you, not me. "Whatever, kill the RIAA" is not what I said at all.

2. I was reply to someone who was talking about intellectual property as a concept. Thus, I was engaging in discussion with him, not with the thread in a more general sense.
Anything a capitalistic company does is self-serving. I'm using, and liking, the "don't be evil" thing because it makes my search results better rather than worse.
The ICO does have a limited budget and powers though, so responding promptly to all complaints might not be possible.
Thanks for that tip. You're right: the limited feature set is one of the best features of HN. As is the site's super-permissive policy.

Alas, many if not most of the popular submissions returned by the "?points=" URL parameter are of an ephemeral nature (e.g., posts about SOPA and PIPA that no one will care about in a couple of years), as opposed to submissions of lasting relevance for the HN community (e.g., essays like "Worse is Better" -- http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html -- or "The Story of Mel" -- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html -- both of which will be of interest to the HN community for a long, long time).

I'm not sure it's possible to separate the truly timeless submissions from the ephemeral ones without relying on the judgment of the community.
its interesting to see the rise of these clones. I remember reading recently about a Pinterest clone as well as, the AirBnB clone which raised almost the exact same money off VC's.
It was a good joke and there were some nice comments. If you want to relive the comment thread again and again, the web is full of places where the joke would still be fresh.

HN would be just a little bit better without these "lets do the comment party again" threads.
Or a GPG signed email.
>b. You were right that Hollywood has a reputation for stealing a script if they like it. What isn't true is that Hollywood actually steals scripts.

But this is what matters when it comes to the way people will try to sell their scripts. If hollywood has a rep (true or not) for stealing scripts then people will be wary.

>Follow that down the rabbit hole and you'll see the problem with your hasty generalization.

Which? I said they have a rep for stealing scripts. They clearly do. The majority of what they make these days is also sequels and remakes, which calls into question if they have any creativity and adding to the perseption that anything original they make is likely stolen.

As for the articles, I literally did a search for "hollywood steal scripts" or some such and dumped in the first five. Clearly theft is happening at least somewhat and clearly they have a rep for it (deserved or not).
What's wrong with this? This is a browser feature which requires permission from the user. Am I missing something?
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It seems that they are just scraping the data from iTunes. With quick glance they seem to show just that same data which is visible in there. For sure there's some kind of private HTTP API which the clients use to query the data. In addition, appfigures uses your iTunes Connect credentials to get to your private data.
Sure. But if we're ignoring the case where the appliance doesn't fail it's no better than a drobo.
but their lives are absolutely meaningless and empty

There is nothing "the economy" can do to change that, though. Feeling meaningful and full is a state of mind. And that goes more in the realm of religion and spirituality (and psychology) than materialism. It cannot be changed by any government intervention.

Some people have confused those things to the point of extremity. To take an extreme example on the other side, buddhist monks feel fine about themselves without being "productive" and hardly having any possessions.

Also, "useless" is very cruel thing to say regarding people. Who decides who is "useful" and "useless"? Can't we just as well say "everyone is useful" to make people feel better?
But people don't know this. So they trust SMSs. Most banks will state "We will never email you", so people know not to trust emails from 'their bank'. However some banks use SMSs for authentication.

SMSs have much higher trust factor. After all, we have spam filters on email, but not on SMS.
I am in the process of doing this now, also my contract expires this month with them and I will be moving to another provider - do we know it if only affects 02?
Technically the organisation in breach would receive a penalty, not a fine. I realise that's a bit pedantic but there is a difference (fines can usually only be made and enforced by the courts).

The ICO can also prosecute the company and officers in the criminal courts under some situations, including: "unlawfully obtaining, disclosing, or procuring the disclosure of personal data;" (I don't know whether this would count as unlawful disclosure or not).
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Why would a phone need a GPU comparable to that of a device that's supposed to work connected to a desktop monitor?
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I think human language sucks at giving commands. Yes human language is very expressive but its very easy to misunderstand each other. With code its always your fault if it dosn't do what you want, you exprest it wrongly. With human language you the error can be on both ends.
I think it's even worse...

I've done a lot of "desktop" aka "client/server" programming... 5 years ago everyone declared that DEAD.

Now, we're going back... it's just now there's a few more devices to support, with tinier screens + touch.
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"Copyright does not protect an idea, but the expression of an idea. The original photo is an original work and the second was clearly produced with the intent to evoke the same expression."

But isn't that essentially the problem? How many portraits are done in the style of the Mona Lisa, or landscapes in the style of a well known impressionist, or photographs of Yosemite in the style of Ansel Adams? Hell, an arts education, purely by teaching form, style and composition based on prior works is essentially a study in how to violate copyright if this ruling stands.

To me the more important question with artwork has not been copying the style of a work, that is basically how most art in the world is created. It's counterfit works that are the problem. The two images in this case cannot possibly be considered in this manner.

This is an absurd ruling that essentially means that all works must be unique in form, composition and style, and must not be inspired or based on any prievious works of any sort. That's an absurdly high bar that essentially stops the creation of most art.
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