skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I moved into my current apartment a year ago, I made a conscious decision not to get cable. I've heard people say cable is the path of least resistance to ending boredom and in my experience that's true. Eliminating that path has caused me do other things to end my boredom such as reading a book, exercising, or working on a side project. I don't think it's a coincidence that this past year has been one of the most productive ones of my life.

I still have a TV and a Roku by the way, so I'm not totally disconnected. I still watch movies and shows I'm interested in. By not having cable though, I avoid the time sink of channel surfing and that's been huge for me.
Why? torrentz.eu is more generic and works better on fuzzy searches. And I don't care that you parsed wikipedia.

I've tried searching for some anime and it's not pretty, suggest offers you some transliterated or authentic japan which is confusing.
Convenience and (the perception) of safety, both from law and malware. Paying a reasonable amount for a movie that is easy to find and watch is a no-brainer for me. Of course, my time to income ratio is low.
The Beer Game is like the Kobayashi Maru test - the rules are set up so you can't succeed, and the failure is supposed to teach you a lesson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
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>And you can't have perfect heuristics

1. All my computers have finite memory
2. You could in theory make heuristics with false positives but without false negatives.
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In which case the zero day isn't a real excuse.
If you aren't checking for specific exploit code signatures then if a particular exploit is an unknown zero day or not doesn't matter.

Perhaps it's time to switch back to Harvard architecture. Programs and data are separate - you can't change program codeand you can't execute data.
I totally respect you (and other members of the Deaf community) and what you have achieved. I know this is a sensitive topic and wouldn't dare to discuss it anywhere other than HN. I have two question/comments and would definitely would like to hear your feedback on them:

1. You (and some others) seem to equate any attempt to "fix" the situation as an affirmation that your condition is an inferiority and therefore reject such attempts (e.g. I know many people in the Deaf community reject cochlear implants due to this reason and out of fear that they would be rejected by the community). Yet, they don't have to be so opposed to the other. A famous example is Oscar Pistorius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius) who have qualified for the Olympics in 400m. He is using artificial legs but I don't he views himself as an invalid.

2. Coming back to the desire of some Deaf parents to have a non-hearing child: If you think that Deafness is somewhat a cultural artifact then there's nothing wrong with this (I want my son to be fluent in my native language in addition to English), yet ethically this idea seems wrong (e.g. I could only find an old example online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/09/genetics.medic...), here's a discussion on the subject (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_wanting_a_deaf_baby_if_you_are_...).
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Magnet links are just a shortcut for getting the .torrent file, everything else still applies.
Sounds like he made the biggest mistake by caving the first time around. If he'd stood his ground at first, maybe pointed out if there was any potential for confusion (a key point in trademark law), it was the other way around, as he was the one with an established user base and a 10-year history.
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This is clearly an approved leak from the administration. The number of sources and specifics make it very easy to catch whoever leaked this information. If this wasn't approved, the leaker is going to be sitting next to bradly manning within a week, and there is no moral cause to leak this information, so it is safe to assume this was an approved leak.

The real question, is why did the administration leak the story, and why now? Is it politically motivated because Obama wants to seem tough on Iran in an election year? Is it to trick the Iranians into thinking the program is over? Maybe versions 2, 3, and 4 are already in place, and it will be demoralizing to Iran's program if they keep getting setback.
You went around parading on a few posts on HN with this.
Because this site (movies.io) will inevitably get shut down within the week.
Sounds like some dirty business. Hope someone helps.
We're not good at niches (japanese movies, etc.), yet! But we're working on better international support: Japanese, German, Italian, French movies have often confusing results, we'll display alternative titles and offer torrent search in multiple results.

Torrentz.eu works better for everything else, obviously :)
It can screw the public if the creator cannot be found.

An example: a relative is making a website about their home village. They found a photo in the library of the village taken in 1921. We have no idea who took it. If it was someone aged 20, who lived to be 80 (entirely possible) it would still be copyrighted. Or someone aged 60 might have taken it 5 years before their death.

There are lots of copyrighted works that are "locked away" and of unknown copyright status.
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Put up something to accept donations, I'd be happy to kick back a few bucks to the cause.
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Your analogy is paired because both piracy and meth are illegal in the USA. However, the pairing lacks equivalence in my view because crystal meth is clearly (and by nature, not by law) harmful to the user, while piracy is not.

A better analogy might be a website that helps others circumvent the Great Firewall of China. It is illegal in one particular country, but circumvention does not harm individuals (only the society, one could argue). "We don't circumvent the wall, we don't run a proxy, we don't belong to tor: that's how not interested in circumventing the wall we are."
>few

Well, at least you're funny.
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I know for a fact that the average bad guy does this. Google "fud crypter", they are programs that take malware and makes it Fully UnDetectable by encrypting it, similar to how upx does it. Even skiddies use them.
I can see why you would think that. However, if there were APIs to license all that content on an invidual basis instead of linking to torrents, we'd do it instead. Can't really argue beyond that, you're right to some extent.
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I've got a bunch of code in a branch to allow register roots: https://github.com/pcwalton/llvm/tree/noteroots-ir

It just automatically roots live values that are pointers in a nonzero addrspace. Still doesn't support copying GC, and only works in the fast instruction selector at the moment, but it goes a long way toward making GC performant in LLVM.
productivity is in the eye of the beholder. maybe I should sell my computer and watch more tv...
If you just run the randomizer and get the first unique 100 or 200 and cull for NSFW, the effect would be the same without the peril.
Go if possible, C++ otherwise.
Actually, we have our own watchlists, but they seem to be inferior in features to what you can find on whatcd/ptpc. We'll keep working on that. Thanks for the tip!
I agree...or Sanger has another agenda by leaking this. But either way, this is more purposeful than just trying to break a story.
True, the saving of engraving on the production line is probably enough to offset the cost of posting a single item.

Interestingly there was recently an analysis of why Apple offer free engraving. It's to reduce the number of used products (iPods especially) on the market.

Since the product is ubiquitous, built to last and doesn't change much - the used market would be a significant drain on sales.
Love the concept! Great work! :)
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This is a good coversation.
So the Disclaimer, my company Conductrics.com allows you to use algos similar to bandits as well as AB/MVT.

AB can be thought of as more of a form of epoch- greedy - you play uniform random then play greedy. One advantage of e-greedy is that if your environment is not stationary - you are still sampling from the arms - its sort of an insurance premium.
To address the differences in reward signals based on the environment, there is the option to model the environment with features - since it maybe that Fridays require a different selection than Sundays - not sure why you would a priori assume that the relative values, or even just the arm rankings are independent of environmental variables.

One other point- if you just want a super quick hack to pick winners (or at least pick from te set of higher performing arms) you can just optimistically seed your estimates for each arm - then just pick greedy. Not claiming it is optimal or anything but it requires almost no coding overhead. Of course you need the problem to be stationary.

Regardless of which algo approach you use, I do think it is useful to at least think in terms of bandits or reimforcemt learning when tackling these problems.
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Probably something he's felt at some point or another.
For web and mobile products, the act of building or prototyping is where you do most of the learning. I believe that you can't come up with great ideas in a vacuum. You build some mocks, you write some code, and you discover a bunch of things that you could improve on.

Please tell me this sort of thinking isn't typical of Google's product organization.

You do learn as you execute, but this just moves you towards a local maximum - a local maximum that might not be that exciting, if you've badly misunderstood the people you're building for.

You do the most learning prior to starting, when you listen to the people you plan to build for and get to know them intimately - their problems, aspirations, values, and ethics.

Getting to really know the worldview of your targets is how you come up with the direction that leads toward the global maximum, and it's all done before you write a line of code.
Ubuntu and OpenSuSE have both obsoleted OpenOffice: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenOffice.org#Update_to_Latest_Versi...
It's really not worth continuing the argument. But I'll just point out that again you're arguing about features in isolation (e.g. "safety" instead of the value of what you want to keep safe or dangers from things other than filesystem failure). It's easy to justify one filesytem as better than another. Our disconnect is that I'm talking about whether or not that filesystem is so much better as to justify the effort spent to develop it.

To make the point again: without btrfs (or really "the last 30 years of filesystem research") we'd all be OK. Likewise if V8 or LuaJIT had to do mark & sweep, or if everyone had to write in a language with manual storage allocation, things would look mostly the same.

Without video compression probably two thirds of the market for semiconductor devices and half the internet would simply evaporate (I pulled those numbers out of you-know-where, but I frankly doubt they're all that wrong). That tells me something about the relative value of these three applications of software engineering talent.
Just because its possible to get a thing for free doesn't mean no-one will pay for it. Just look at bottled water.
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The Art of War is a work that I often hear recommended, but I seldom see endorsements for specific translations. Can anyone who is familiar with the work remark on which translations are considered best? Bonus points for versions available as free ebooks, although I'm not averse to visiting my local library either.
tl;dr - I went to college, stopped watching "cable/satellite" TV and I haven't missed it one bit. Though I did keep my televison so I can watch good shows/movies and play games.

Before I left college I was one of those people who watched TV for hours a day, and porbably more than 4-5 hours/day. When I moved into my dorm room I remember being incredibly glad that cable was included in my housing fees because I wouldn't be able to live without it. Basically, what I realized is that the shows and movies I really wanted to watch never came on TV, so I ended up downloading them in HD, sans commercials, and I never missed normal TV one bit.

I'm at home for the summer right now, two years after quitting TV, and I'm trying to get my mom and brother to give it up too. Now I just think TV is damn annoying, mostly because of the commercials.

Side-note: I will be living with some hardcore sports fans next year and it seems to be near impossible to get decent sports coverage without Satellite or Cable.
Any ideas why you get more sponsorship from gaming companies? Seems like this would be really useful for mobile devices.

Also, has anyone tried to pre-jit then load an image on iOS?
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It does link to IMDB, which offers such purchasing links.
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> "maybe a dashboard isn't the best way to spend your time."

The point of the dashboard is that when you have one, you have actual accessible data from which you can plausibly determine what is the best use of your time.

e.g. If you can see that conversions are already coming in faster than the database is scaling then you know that you need to solve the scaling problem before you worry about A/B testing. Or vice-versa. You don't need to guess (as much).
My take on btilly's problem was that the difference between the convergence rates is not constant but rather known to be bounded away from zero by some unknown constant. That is, there is some value epsilon such that the difference in conversion rate is on every round at least epsilon. However, at some rounds it could be more than epsilon, and it doesn't necessarily vary according to any fixed distribution. I think this is therefore roughly equivalent to the non stochastic setting additionally assuming the best arm has large (relative) reward.

I agree though that if the difference in conversion rate were stochastic that could potentially make the problem much easier.
Awesome. Aping the accreditation, credit and degree system of brick and mortar academe doesn't make sense for the latest generation of educators - udacity, Coursera, Khan Academy, et al. Proctored exams to verify that the student knows the material are the way to go.

For final exams that cover an entire course, a test independently designed by a third party, using input from employers, entreprenuers and academics, might be a great supplement. Where you took the course would be irrelevant, so long as you could pass the test. It would allow for easy comparison of students in different programs.

Testing is a vital step in providing a credential at least as valuable as a college degree.
what's so awful about it?
Excellent! I know I have caught myself thinking about this way too much. It often stops the flow of getting good ideas out the door. I have rewrote projects 2 or 3 times because I have learned something new and just had to apply it because that was the most effective way to do it.
What is it? Seriously, what is it? If you can't describe what it is in 1 sentence, and not a long sentence, then you've lost your audience. Too many words and too many things to click. On my iPhone, I tried to read it, got bored cos I didn't get it, I scrolled then I scrolled then I decided to stick with it and ask what it is. Education, art, utility or something else?
Fuck those pricks - what do they want from you? You don't infringe anything - that names are not that similiar.

Find a lawyer who will defend you for a part of the money if you win.

Turn it around. They obviously are acting to drag your service (company?) down.
Ugh, this is crushing.

Here's to hoping that someone like Grellas can find time to comment and tell you how to beat these guys.

If that result isn't possible, than I ask you to keep your head up, move on, and keep building.

Do your part to (soberly and safely) reduce the reputation of the founders and VC's behind this.
Contact EFF.org and see if they have any pointers. Also, check with the Cyberlaw Clinics organized by the Berkman Center - they might be able to help: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/teaching/cyberlawclinic
Somewhat unrelated, but I ask the legal experts here.

If someone sues you for some bogus claim, is it possible to submit a written plain english rebuttal and have the court throw it out before it gets too serious? I mean if I sue some company for something absurd and demand $10 million dollars, are they forced to actually entertain my lawsuit or can it be dismissed readily without a lawyer?
Thanks for the comments in response to this everyone. To the parent comment, I think you'd change your tune if you met John. He's as legit as they come.

[Disclaimer, I'm one of the founders of Distilled - the company John works for. Brand issues very much acknowledged btw - we are thinking hard about it - trust me!]
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Breaking silly rules if it makes things better is part of the hacker ethic.
Me to, I'd donate. I hope someone helps you, I'd hate to see this shit happen to a fellow hacker.
Microsofts actions will have consequences, pointing out the consequences of their actions makes perfect sense.
He mentions Lightbank is the vc, is it fair to judge them for this behavior? As an entrepreneur it does really put me off.
Here is the book: http://www.amazon.com/Information-Dashboard-Design-Effective...

Do you have any additional suggested reading material? Thanks much.
That was too wordy.
In which case the zero day isn't a real excuse.

0-day exploits aren't the problem. You're focusing on just one type of malware behavior.

Even if all of our software today was free of exploits, it wouldn't do anything to stop the bad guys from building trojan horses, and using that to bootstrap into broader pwning.
why does it request access to your location?
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Also it appears that WhosHere launched in July 2008, so 2 years before your product appeared? Or is that incorrect? Regardless you should fight these dudes as I'm sure they would not relent to you in kind.
The adage "An attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client" has some relevance, but in the information society self represeration can have major advantages. The best way to be a Pro Se is to hire outside counsel to advise you, but to do all the dirty litigation work yourself. If this company has hired an outside attorney to litigate, this person could make that a very, very expensive proposition for them. I think this company's board would grow very concerned at legal expenses exceeding $100k with no hope of recovering from the defendant. My advise is hire counsel to advise you, educate yourself of self representation and court procedures, and rake these fuckers over the coals.