skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Infowars. Right. Also:

(b) Limitations on Information Retrieval-

(1) OWNERSHIP OF DATA- Any data in an event data recorder required
under part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, regardless of
when the passenger motor vehicle in which it is installed was
manufactured, is the property of the owner, or in the case of a leased
vehicle, the lessee of the passenger motor vehicle in which the data
recorder is installed.

(2) PRIVACY- Data recorded or transmitted by such a data recorder may
not be retrieved by a person other than the owner or lessee of the
motor vehicle in which the recorder is installed unless--

(A) a court authorizes retrieval of the information in furtherance of
a legal proceeding;

(B) the owner or lessee consents to the retrieval of the information
for any purpose, including the purpose of diagnosing, servicing, or
repairing the motor vehicle;

(C) the information is retrieved pursuant to an investigation or
inspection authorized under section 1131(a) or 30166 of title 49,
United States Code, and the personally identifiable information of the
owner, lessee, or driver of the vehicle and the vehicle identification
number is not disclosed in connection with the retrieved information;
or

(D) the information is retrieved for the purpose of determining the
need for, or facilitating, emergency medical response in response to a
motor vehicle crash.

You're wondering, "section 1131(a) or 30166 of title 49"? That's the NTSB. Highway safety investigations.

For perspective: had this standard not been pushed federally, the private sector could probably do far worse; your (mandated, and reasonably so!) car insurance influences all sorts of standards on the vehicles we drive.
Airbag computers already log the acceleromter/brake pedal data they used to make the decision to fire.

This was introduced to protect the makers - there were lots of fears/claims that airbags had gone off and caused crashes. The car makers wanted to prove that you were braking hard or had hit some thing when they fired.

I suspect 'a reasonable time' means that the system needs an internal battery/static memory so that the data is available later after the engine is turned off or if the car battery is disconnected in the accident.
Looks promising, particularly for the Todo-list type webapps which I suspect could be implemented to run entirely on the client. Are there any apps in particular that you'd recommend I look at to see what your platform can do?

I think a full solution will allow people to implement server-side functionality as well. Perhaps that's in your plans? Also, I think the ability to sell access to apps would help attract developers to your platform.
Since it was standardized by ITU, it's still used in newer telecom protocols, and it's pervasively used throughout higher level cryptography-related protocols/standards, CAdES is one of the more recent ones and gaining acceptance in the EU. Seems like we have to live with it for a while...
And include a picture of a cat.
AT&T vs. Berkeley never went to court, it was dropped once Solaris/SysV took off and it was clear BSD wasn't a threat to commercial Unix anymore.
Actually they make it difficult to watch it _legally_. Lets not pretend that most people don't get it from a much more convenient source:

(example pulled from google):

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7153447/Game_of_Thrones_-_Sea...
HBO Go on the iPad doesn't let you stream to your TV via the VGA cable, so they forced me to do this this weekend: http://i.imgur.com/Og3MH.jpg
I've been running it as a Parallels VM for months now. It's available via the Parallels Convenience Store for free.
I agree. I wrote this last sentence thinking about the last point of Pud's initial post: "Get acquired".
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I was in the audience at the NY AWS summit ... quite a loud applause when they give their per hour cost number. I was also impressed. However, I found it a bit surprising that that it took 2 hours to acquire the VMs, and 1 hour to do the actual work.
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(Bioinformatician here). Although I think bench work is the most obvious route and the most likely way these problems will be solved, there are in principle some computational ways they could be addressed.

If we had good computational models of how perturbations would affect transcription networks, for example, we could predict these "side pathways" that so often occur in humans but not in mice.

But you're right, the reality is complex, and you have do deal not only with transcription, but translation, post-translational modification, non-coding RNAs, the list goes on... And most current models of this type don't delve into 3D simulation. Some people are working on whole-cell modeling but that's in its infancy.

Ultimately I believe the breakthroughs will come fastest if we can "close the feedback loop" by automating a lot of bench biology, and then have computers both generate and test hypotheses.
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Why is that them screwing their customers? They sell licenses. Customers agree to use only what they're paying for. This language gives them the right to check and see how many licenses the customers use just to make sure everything's square. Seems fair to me.

The only clause I see worth objecting to is the bit that forbids publishing benchmarks or reviews. That part's BS, but I imagine that it's BS that they would drop rather than lose a sale.
Event data recorders are already in almost all new cars. They record what was going on just before and just after something causes the airbags to trigger, and in the event of any sort of severe crash, the accident investigators will download the data from the box. The privacy implications are mild.

This repost of a repost of a repost of a reposted blog article is useless and needs downmodding.
Exactly. Recently I asked a friend to check out a site I just uploaded, he sent me some nice compliments. Later I realized that on IE (which he uses) the layout was all off.

I need to find some meaner friends.
Our experiences are nearly mirror images. I cancelled cable TV years ago. When Game of Thrones came out last year, I naively thought "No big deal. I'll just pay HBO for streaming." I was shocked to discover that there's no way for me to upend my wallet into HBO's coffers without funneling it through Comcast and buying multiple tiers of garbage that I care nothing about.

I waited a year and bought the blu ray version, but I still can't understand why HBO wouldn't prefer to get their money earlier rather than later.
Bump ... I've had personal experience where I needed a few 100 VMs for a short experiment. A quick message to Amazon got the job done. Took less than a day to get approval.
What I don't understand is why anyone would expect to follow their friends via RSS (twitter/facebook)? That stream is much much too fast for what RSS is meant to achieve ... semantically speaking.

I view RSS as a great way to follow important-ish things like people's personal blogs and tech blogs and so on. Large pieces of content, everything bigger than, say, 400 words should be in RSS.

Whereas twitter and facebook are for conversation. It's where people post silly things that nobody really cares about. Using those streams to get actual news? Yeah, doesn't quite work ... following just 1031 people on twitter means there are 5 new posts every time I refresh.

That is not an environment where I'd expect to discover big chunks of info. And it's also not something I would want mixed up with the slow moving big content stuff.
They don't even have to track you illegally anymore, just have one build in by default.
Section 31406 of this bill says that "Secretary shall revise part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, to require, beginning with model year 2015, that new passenger motor vehicles sold in the United States be equipped with an event data recorder".

Here is CFR part 563 of title 49: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid...

and you'll notice that all of the "data elements" captured are regarding velocity/acceleration, air bags and seat belts. There is nothing about the actual driver/occupants (except maybe how many occupants and in what seats) or location (gps tracking).

In fact there is a specific note in this CFR:

These data can help provide a better understanding of
the circumstances in which crashes and injuries occur.
NOTE: EDR data are recorded by your vehicle only if a
non-trivial crash situation occurs; no data are recorded
by the EDR under normal driving conditions and no
personal data (e.g., name, gender, age, and crash
location) are recorded. However, other parties, such as
law enforcement, could combine the EDR data with the
type of personally identifying data routinely acquired
during a crash investigation.

Here are further limitations as outlined in Section of 31406 of the linked bill: [EDIT: removed as `tptacek` already linked to this, see above]

So, is there anything in here to get in a big fuss over? Maybe, but I don't see it.

Should we still keep a rational eye on it and make sure it stays this way? Absolutely.

On a related note, did anybody else cringe a bit when they noticed the original article came from infowars.com?
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Can anybody find the part of the text of the legislation that requires transmission?

Skimming the table of contents and looking through SEC. 31406. VEHICLE EVENT DATA RECORDERS I couldn't find it. I could only find requirements to record data, not transmit it.
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Jurors are going to see a list of companies that license java, almost every name out there.
And then Google emails and communications how they need a license, can't do without Java, maybe shouldn't get it now, or whatever. Either way it was a boneheaded move to invest billions (?) on Android without a relatively cheap Java license.
Possibly one of the worst quotes ever.

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/the-data-trust-blog/2009...
"whomever hires me"

should be

"whoever hires me"
Gotcha, thanks for the correction! I've removed my post. Could you clarify if or= still exists? I was reading the change log for 1.3.1 and I think I may have interpreted this line incorrectly "Conditional assignment of previously undefined variables a or= b is now considered a syntax error.". Thanks!
Prioritisation of information is a hard problem to solve.

And that's why I think Facebook is doing so well - it takes this problem and uses social means to solve it. You probably need the information most of your friends needed. And if you "like" some of what your friend post a lot, you will probably like what he posts next.

That's why RSS is dead and Facebook is thriving. People don't want linear flow of all possible information, especially today with too much information. You need to take the important stuff out - that's why newspapers have frontpages, that's what google news is doing, that's what slashdot/digg/reddit/hacker news is doing. Facebook do it socially.
Is the media image on 34 from android or ios? I only ask because it looks like quicktime.

This is interesting (funny). I guess learning powerpoint in school is useful if you're entering law.

Edit: I love the file cabinet visual analogy they're using. I would assume that it helps non-technical people understand the idea of packages/namepsaces. Those images should be default when teaching those ideas
Most of that is attributable to a drop in sales & marketing expenses from 69% of turnover in 2010 to 60% for 2011 and 2012. If we scale their 2011 and 2012 S&M expenses up to 69% their net margin for the three years becomes {-21%, -14%, -16%} instead of its present {-21%, -6%, -9%}. The rest is largely cutting R&D. (The 2% blip for FYE 2012 is attributable to other expenses, which "consists primarily of the changes in the fair value of our preferred stock warrants, interest expense on our outstanding debt and interest income on our cash balances" - IPO-related.)

Given that they expect "operating expenses to increase over the next several years as we hire additional personnel, particularly in sales and marketing," I don't know if that is sustainable and thus indicative of any strategic brilliance.
In legal terms transmitted can just mean downloaded after an accident.

One computer company famously had an OS that met a US top security classification which required that all user events were logged. There was no way of reading these logs - but the security standard only required that there were logs, it didn't say anything about extracting them!
I always try to avoid being cynical, but in this case, It's hard to argue otherwise:

Page title <title>: Instagram Fakes Spreading Malware on Android Devices

Post title <h1>: Fake Instagram apps are spreading malware on Android devices

In the page title, "fakes" is ambiguous. Is it a noun or a verb? The page title shows up in search results and RSS feeds, thus the ambiguity is present in a place where the verb interpretation would raise more eyebrows.
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I was there as well. Pretty cool stuff!
I work on computational approaches to using known, wet-bench validated interactions along with high-throughput cancer data, and agree that much more high-throughput data is needed, more so than small-scale approaches. Quantitative measurements of interactions rates in vitro are no more trustworthy than computational methods on high-throughput data, because you never know what other cofactors may be affecting the interaction, or what compartmentalization or localization you missed in your model system that's different in a real system.

I see the only scientifically defensible way forward is to do large, data-rich networks like Eric Schadt does them. Individual wet-bench work is good to use as prior data, but it's just a hint at a part of a large, complex system, and overly reductive approaches are going to completely miss the big picture.
Honda Civic 2015 EULA:

23.1.23.44 (Page 198 of 301) "Your use of this vehicle grants us your irrevocable and permanent consent to download, transmit, or otherwise obtain the information contained in the onboard data recorder, and to share that data with third parties, including but not limited to law enforcement (without a court order), and marketing companies."
HP has (and has had) various operating systems certified on ProLiant servers over the years, including Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), VMware, Canonical Ubuntu, Citrix, NetWare/OES, and probably a few other software giblets.

HP have also had supported hardware emulators that have been running yet other operating systems atop one of these operating systems on ProLiant, as well.
>Frequently updated feeds drowned out the others.

You should give a try to http://www.newsblur.com/
It comes with an intelligence trainer that will present the new entries based on your ratings of previous entries.

It also have very simple keyboard shortcuts to view the entry on the original site without leaving the window at all.
I'm interested in preserving civil liberties, but it's tough when there's so much misinformation out there.

I have to fact check everything, and frequently find these alarmist articles to have nothing behind them. If the powers-that-be are conspiring against us, a big part of their methodology must be blowing all this smoke in our faces so that whenever we see a "big brother" or conspiracy story we immediately assume it's false.

I'd like more facts in articles like this, e.g. the specific wording in the proposed law that requires transmission, not just recording, of data.
If you're a really good developer it is true you might not get a whole lot of value from watching a playback. If you're a really good developer, though, it is difficult to take the time and effort to teach all of your less experienced team members about what you have learned while writing the code and to become better programmers. These playbacks offer a relatively efficient way of letting good developers teach once and have many developers learn.

If you're not a really good developer the question is how do you become one? It is possible to learn the hard way by doing (like you suggested), but it is painful. A playback is not just watching the code as it was developed but it is listening to the developer explain why they are doing things. My hypothesis is this will make it easier for people to become better.
As an aside that I'm probably going to get down voted for...

I've always seen store returns as an ethical issue. If at the time of purchase I have full information about the product, I see it as unethical to change my mind a few days latter simply because of buyers remorse. One of the examples given in the article mentions the author returned a playstation after playing it for a few days. I don't see how this is a reasonable return, and it cost the store money all because the buyer was fickle.

The main story from the article is a bit different, as the user bought the case expecting X and got Y. I have no problem with returns of this nature. A reasonably informed consumer would not expect there to be two products from the same company, with the same name just only sold at different locations.

I'd probably call up AMEX and cancel the charge.
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It's not really Best Buy's fault if a company makes two different products with the same name.
That last line

return Mustache.render(template, data)

Isn't exactly equivalent to the non-promise one, since now `Mustache.render` is async, is it?
Due to the current state of emergency in the war with Eurasia /Eastasia the government project to implement 1984 is a couple of years behind schedule
I couldn't agree more, as both a fan of HBO's content and a curious observer of its evolving business model.

For awhile there, it seemed as if HBO was making great strides in decoupling itself from the traditional cable model. HBO GO is a great app, and its launch represented an intriguing challenge to the status quo of the analog and digital content ecosystems.

We should keep in mind, however, that HBO is owned by Time Warner -- a company with plenty of vested interests in the status quo, not to mention a number of other cable and broadcast channels (CNN, Cartoon Network, CW, etc.) whose existence as discrete networks would be (in its view) threatened by overly disruptive maneuvers by one of its subsidiaries.

Furthermore, HBO's bread is buttered by the big cable providers. It makes the majority of its revenue from licensing fees to the likes of Comcast, Time Warner Cable (not presently owned by Time Warner, fwiw), AT&T, and the others.

Ultimately, I get the impression that HBO -- were it an independent business entity -- would be acting more aggressively to move away from the status quo. It seems to realize that it's aboard a slowly sinking ship. Unfortunately, it happens to be an officer of that ship's crew.
Basically that just comes back to not wanting to face reality. One can go complain about lame people are that can't wait 3 weeks for the official release on iTunes, complain how lame it is that someone demands the content on their terms, etc.

Reality is still that HBO is simply taking away the incentive to purchase the product. Right or wrong, that's the end result. So do they want to continue complaining, or actually try to make more sales? (And I'm sure HBO is aware of the tradeoffs, and feels like protecting their current model is more important than a few more digital sales. That might be a correct assessment, for now.)
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I, actually agree with the author. I am based in a city where entrepreneurship is not the common thing. My friends from that city told me many a times that I'd fail.

Its painful. You need support on some days. And surrounding yourself with people who provide positive energy is such a great thing.

Your friends perhaps see the potential of your work and not its current state? :-)
We installed and used it for a week or two. It's terrible. Not cutting edge at all. Maybe good for enterprise. Slow UX.
Insurance lobby - how to find any reason not to pay
You were writing an article about it and didn't get it right on the first time - maybe that's the reason more people don't use it.
All Toyotas in North America have had them since the 2010 model year.
Sounds like a reason not to buy a 2015 Honda.

Note that Honda (and most other manufacturers) were inevitably going to put event data recorders in cars anyways. They are too cheap and they make too much sense not to have.

So without the federal rules, what you'd have is market full of cars with event data recorders and no rules regarding data ownership or requirements to disclose (this bill requires full disclosure about the devices and their purpose).

But BGR doesn't want to tell you that, because their purpose here isn't to inform, it's to generate rageviews.
Isn't this the gist of what Yehuda is charging 25k for?

Is he offering a better / more complete package... or what?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16969509

Coming soon to a country near you.
Unfortunately, for non-computational peers and reviewers, "high-throughput" is often a synonym for "fishing expedition". This perception is gradually changing, though.

Furthermore high-throughput assays are more expensive so people often cut corners on sample size.
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Between "Breaking Bad", "Mad Men", "The Killing", "Walking Dead" and "Hell on Wheels" -- if I could JUST buy AMC for cable, I probably would.

I used to love HBO, but they've been stagnant lately (in my opinion.) "Luck" is already cancelled. Though I had high hopes for it being the harbinger of HBO's return, I think the last great show they produced was "Carnivale".

Thanks for bringing up iTunes, as I've been having a hard time catching up on AMC shows I missed, and didn't know they had the inventory anywhere.
On chrome, if there is a post with a bunch of comments at the bottom of the screen, I click on it and the post appears in the lightbox, but the comments get cut off (I can't scroll down).

Just FYI. Looks great, by the way!
in my experience, most ppl even friends won't give much of a damn about your site, and will just casually play around with it and say 'that's nice'.

however, a stranger that needs your site will give you a bunch of gems.
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Cut the disingenuous crap. The next 3 sentences state that beyond that, they are now, without warning, requiring paying subscribers to upgrade equipment to handle the HDMI encryption. The first sentence was merely contextualization. Further, the context of that sentence (via the link) was how difficult it is to legally pay HBO for the thing they are supposedly selling.
it's called a web browser.
They also don't allow the use of gmail, yahoo, hotmail, earthlink, msn, and aol email accounts when you sign up. Odd.
I have privacy concerns like everyone else. But fatal traffic accidents are a tragedy, more often than not caused by irresponsible people. In Canada, 34% of motor vehicle deaths are associated with alcohol use. In Australia, 40% are associated with driving too fast.

Driving is a privilege, not a right. It's also a responsibility which more than a few-bad-apples don't take seriously. If you don't like it, don't drive.
Maybe it was a boneheaded move to use Java, the programming language, in the first place.

If they used C/C++ they wouldn't have had any problems and considering how awesome Qt is, you can clearly make the development experience enjoyable. Then they could have introduced Google Go in the mix and/or Javascript, to appeal to the younger generation.

Ironically, they could have used the ECMA parts of .NET and get away with it.
>without Space-X, NASA would never have had a reference to work off of.

And where would Space-X be without the Saturn V...