skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the wrong person to be discussing this. Not every Deaf people think the same things as implied above.

My principles in life is pretty simple. Respect one another and I will love my child regardless s/he is deaf or hearing.

The same question, as you're indicating above about deaf vs hearing babies, is akin to someone asking me what I hope for: Boy or Girl? I say I would love a daughter but no matter which gender that pops out, I will have my undying love ready if not already.

Live and let live is what I try to do for myself and others, including yourself.

Perhaps someone can answer and engage themselves into the questions you've asked. My life principles are too simple to engage myself into this.
I wrote: To explicitly target civilians is serious because it breaks the laws of war

Got the answer: "kill many innocent civilians"

Sigh, it is illegal to target. In a war, civilians will die. My point was that some sides do try to avoid civilan casualities. You didn't argue against my point, you made a spin.

Then, someone isn't morally right by being weaker, so different strength have nothing to do with it.

The nuclear bombs over Japan was 1: a long time ago, 2: a complex choice (e.g. military production in cities, different standards in WWII, the target selection process, etc, etc). You condemn without discussing that.

And so on.

I am sorry, but I must say that you write simplified propaganda. Please increase quality, I want a better HN. :-(
Targeted acts of terrorism are different than indiscriminate attacks, and a coordinated series of attacks is different than an isolated incident. If the group of potentially affected people is very small, or the number of attacks very large, then the probabilities are drastically increased and a larger response is justified.
FYI, personal attacks (a.k.a. ad-hominem arguments) are discouraged here. Here are the guidelines, for your convenience. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your objections could be worded in a way that is not a personal attack and could be just as informative, or more so.
You can't even pay for this if you live in Europe.

There's a reason Pirate Bay originated from Sweden...
I agree with jsprinkles for the most part. There is a great deal of legal advice packed in there. The OP needs a lawyer.

But on the other hand, I have to agree with nirvana about one thing. A certain amount of work must necessarily fall on the OP to find the right lawyer for the case. As nirvana says, there will be plenty of lawyers who aren't really interested and just say "roll over," while there will be others who would want to aggressively pursue the case. I'm not saying the former type is wrong and the latter right. But it's worth considering that different lawyers will have fundamentally different attitudes about the case and different styles. The OP should be cognizant of that when picking a lawyer.
I'm London now and can see it fine again.
1. If you click his name, you will see edw519 is a long-time respected member of the HN community, who generally posts insightful comments, submits excellent articles, and writes riveting blog posts. This is no throwaway shill for the MPAA.

2. Do you believe no one in the world besides "massive copyright holders, attempting to exploit every red penny out of your brainwashed masses" dislikes piracy? That's a very simplistic and naive view. I hope you find these discussions illuminating.
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That is cool. (period)
Indeed, I guess I'll postpone that flight to NY.

No intentions to profit from this, except for the experience, the friends (and enemies) we make, and the excitement.
Quite the opposite - hence, 'quiet room'.
Secrets to Silicon Valley's Productivity
Thanks, now I understood what the gp wrote. :-) I have too little experience with conspiracy theories.
Anonymous Press Release - We Did Not Attack Facebook
Something tells me you don't have 400,000 users: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wnmlive.com
What a screwed up system. Seemingly there should a vetting process where the court system determines a claim at least has merits before the defendant has to waste his/her resources fighting it.

As it stands it is way too easy to use as a weapon to sue people into submission. Although I think this is already well known.
Cool site. Can I suggest adding Twitter/Facebook links to make sharing easier?

From a UI perspective - I'd reverse the slider so that it goes from highest rating to lowest and most recent to oldest. Most people will likely want the highest, most recent films.
I found a missing "possibly" and a spot where I clarified that something was my perception, but to be honest nearly every perspective I give is qualified with a "may" or a "it appears" or some other similar language.

Nowhere did I give a single bit of legal advice. I merely illuminated a variety of ways that he could do some research that might show that he has more of a case than the lawyers he originally talked to concluded, towards the goal of getting a lawyer interested in the case.

----

Edit to add: The opposition continues to dishonestly claim that I am giving legal advice. I have not. I have merely suggested avenues of the law that could be researched and then discussed with a lawyer.

There is zero risk in someone reading the law and then talking it over with a lawyer. There is zero liability in me suggesting someone get a lawyer and offering suggestions for how they might get one.

I find it astounding that this comment has been down voted by %75 because persistently dishonest people have continued to claim that I'm "giving legal advice" when I am not, and have convinced people to punish me for trying to help this guy.

I mean, I actually went to the USPTO and pulled up the relevant mark and read the examiners comments!

Yet on HN, lying about me and attacking me carries 3 times the weight, apparently.

That's a shame.
FYI, what I wrote is not an ad hominem argument, and "ad-hominem argument" is not an a.k.a. for "personal attack" (neither of which my comment is, for what it's worth).
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Looks interesting, I've signed up, but it would be nice to have ANY way of getting in touch with you! I haven't found your contact info anywhere...
Getting Used to the Magic Trackpad
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there and I guess the author had to find out the hard way. He'll have to consider that this might be a lost cause, but remember that you have the knowledge that they did this to you and can share it with everyone else, people will be less likely to buy the VC-funded app if this bit of information was out in the open :)

edit: clarity
Looks like in USA you have to have at least LLC setup even if you doing something for fun only. In worst scenario give away or "give away" it to offshore company and "sue me" to these pricks.
> My advise is hire counsel to advise you, educate yourself of self representation and court procedures, and rake these fuckers over the coals.

This is terrible advice. Unless you're a duly licensed attorney in OP's jurisdiction, don't offer legal advice. You're practicing law without a license, which is a crime. Moreover, were OP to rely on that advice to his detriment, you may find yourself named as a defendant in a civil suit.
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Experiment and Optimization are different topics and scoring one by the criteria of the other will lead to mistaken conclusions.

Your simulation is a fiction. It only informs you of the behavior of the code you wrote. To connect statistical significance to reality requires honoring criteria you have not met.

Applying frequentest evaluation concepts to Bayesian and Markov learning methods will lead to mistaken conclusions because they follow from a different set of axioms. They both lead to numbers, but these numbers are not interchangeable and you must remember their qualifications when applying them to predicting reality.

In more frequentest terms, multi-arm bandit is searching for minimum total regret via a random walk, not rapid convergence to a significance predicate. It can do this in the face of changing conditions and weaker assumptions concerning control than frequentest significance requires, which is why such methods are now the norm in machine learning.

There are huge opportunities that you will not see with your current perspective. If you do not learn them, your competitors will.

I do not know of a particular reference for multi-arm bandit algorithms in specific, but they are a specialized case of Markov model learning described with vocabulary that predates a more modern broad and uniform understanding of these topics.

David Barber's recent book is very good.

If you want a broad understanding of common mistakes due to unstated metaphysical assumptions concerning statistics, experiment and action, read Judea Pearl's 2nd edition.
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This is a great book and I'd recommend it to anybody.

Despite the militaristic title, it's not about aggression or destroying your enemies. Throughout the book, open warfare is always depicted as the most costly and least desirable option. Adding an enemy's strength to yours, with zero destruction, is regarded as the ultimate form of victory.
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It is actually just a difference of naming. Gauges in statsd operate the same as kv data in statsite. Originally, both projects referred to them as kv, this seems to be a more recent change in statsd.
CloudFlare now has over 60k+ Sites with IPV6 Access
Definition for the lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat
"Only yesterday the practical things of today were decried as impractical, and the theories which will be practical tomorrow will always be branded as valueless games by the practical men of today."
-William Feller.
Setting the tomatometer to above 0% and the years to 1915-2012 with the filter set to just Gay & Lesbian movies only returns 21 movies. Netflix has 256 Gay & Lesbian movies available for instant streaming, many of which (among the ones I quickly checked) are reviewed on Rotton Tomatoes.

Is there a technical reason for this or is this a bug?
Somehow I suspect that the transporter and warp drive won't fall that easily, but I admit you never know :)

The tech level in Captain America was all over the place, which is deserving of a rant in itself, but suffice to say it was the most annoying part of that movie to me.
> nearly every perspective I give is qualified with a "may" or a "it appears" or some other similar language.

That's called weasel wording.

> Nowhere did I give a single bit of legal advice.

Uh, your entire comment is how to respond to this legal threat, which is legal advice. The only advice anyone on Hacker News should ever give to someone in legal trouble is "consult an attorney", not how to consult an attorney, research to do ahead of time, bupkis.
Barak Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API
People will eventually become cynical, and stop contributing after they realize there are two sides to each story. I find often that the sob stories you read on the internet exaggerate the tragedy of the situation.
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Unfortunately, I think most mobile devices still forbid JIT (aside from integrated javascript implementations). The technical limitation was removed in iOS 5.0, but I believe whether Apple will accept apps using JIT is still an open question.
Where I learned this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3818994
How bloggers manipulate you & why I no longer trust blogs with price tags
You probably just pulled the wrong lever on his logarithmic-regret-optimised multi-armed bandit. ;)
They didn't have that option with the iPod. USB 1.1 is too slow for syncing a 5 GB disk.

At the time, the USB 2.0 spec had just been finished (and not yet been ratified) -- it was even more futuristic than Thunderbolt is today. It was still a year and a half before any Mac had built-in USB 2.0, and no other computers could handle it, either: neither Windows XP nor Linux 2.4.19 had been released yet. Not that it would have done any good, because you needed iTunes 2.0 (a Mac-only app) to make any use of the first-gen iPod.

I wouldn't say they "gave up" on Firewire. I'd say they used the only feasible mechanism they had available, until something better came along, and requirements changed.

With recent iPhones, you don't need to ever plug it into a computer, so there's no real departure from "it just works". Wifi ("n") is almost as fast as USB2, and syncing can seem even faster if you do it asynchronously (no cable required). Their answer to "can I plug the iPhone into my computer?" may well be "you don't need to -- and it just finished syncing while you were asking".
>const correctness

I love that C++ programmers still believe in the false gods of the const keyword.

Zen: reflect upon the meaning of a const volatile pointer.

-> exits stage right
A first look at provisioning with Puppet(on a Vagrant box)
I am not a lawyer - so don't take this as legal advice. But if I read your post correctly, you said you were never properly served. Since it sounds like you have access to all the court documents, if you search through them some where in the documents you will probably find a place where the plaintiffs swear under penalty of perjury, that you were served with notice. If you were truly never served (make sure to check with a lawyer to see what constitutes service) and they claimed you were - you may have grounds for a counter suit. Check into Small Claims Court as well - you can sue for up to $10,000 and abuse of process is a valid claim there. Forms are available online, your opponent can't bring a lawyer and there is only one appeal allowed.

But if you do nothing and if they choose to press this, they will go to court to ask the judge to put liens on any assets they can and to garnish your wages.

In any event contact a lawyer to see if I am correct about this.
Downloading movies from torrents is legal in Canada (covered by a copyright levy on data storage media), for example.
Was thinking of this article earlier this week: http://lwn.net/Articles/498289/ (which I'm presuming is some MRAM thing)
I liked the part where you insult and slander those of us that appreciate typing and also call out (just one of many) reasons why can be a "good thing".
The $15 upgrade is only for people who buy a new Win 7 PC between now and the end of the year. If you already have a PC, it will be more like $100 for the Professional edition.

Don't get me wrong, I'm trying Win 8 right now and I like certain aspects of it. I don't think it breaks anything important, either. But when I'm in desktop mode, the experience doesn't feel all that different from Win 7. Ribbon in Windows Explorer? I don't care. One-click wipe? I don't think I ever messed up a Win 7 install. Other changes are rather distracting (oversized window titles and excessive color saturation in various UI elements) but I could get used to it. But the bottom line is that it doesn't feel like it's worth $100, especially since I'm not in the business of making Metro apps.
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can become

led = (pushbutton == 0) ? 12 : 24;

or

led = (pushbutton * 12) + 12;

or

led = 12 * (pushbutton + 1);

"""

It might be worth pointing out that the latter two don't actually have the same result as the if/else.
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I too am perplexed by the negative reactions you've received.

I've often been known to comment on legal matters on HN, but I always steer clear of giving legal advice. (At least I hope I've never slipped up and done so.) And, as you well know, that's the proper course for anyone, regardless of whether they're a lawyer or not.

So just to echo and build on jsprinkles' various comments: It's OK to discuss the law in a general sense. I.e. you can talk about how things work, without giving an opinion as to the case at hand. But it's irresponsible and generally illegal to advise an individual on how s/he should proceed.

Example of a comment that's OK: "Trademark disputes often depend in part on the likelihood of consumers being confused by the respective marks."

Example of a comment that's not OK: "Trademark disputes often depend in part on the likelihood of consumers being confused by the respective marks. Since the OP's mark isn't going to confuse anyone, the plaintiff will probably lose."
I'd put some dollars to bomb these crooks back into obscurity they deserve.
People don't buy bottled water for the bottles, otherwise they'd throw away the water, and keep the bottles. Instead they keep/use the water and throw away the bottles. The water is what they pay money for, you can get that for free at home.
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The Dial-up modem sound is something that an entire generation will grow up today having never heard. In fact, there's probably a fair few HN'ers who've never heard it.

These sounds are normally lost forever, like the sound of a valve radio as it's valves warm up, or the sound of a vinyl record playing before or after the song.

I'd like to ask HN'ers out there, what was your favourite sound of old that's no longer common?
Thanks for the clarification on "ad hominem" versus personal attacks. Now I understand that it's only ad hominem if the basis of the argument relies on the personal attack.

All that aside, your comment above, reproduced here, is clearly a personal attack:

> Not only are you surprisingly easily manipulated, apparently, don't you have better things to hack on?
I feel like the author is too hard on TwitterCounter. Granted I'm not a paying customer, but their pay wall seems like it's in a reasonable spot to me. Am I in the minority on this one?
IE 10 to enable Do Not Track by default
I do not apologize for responding on the topic and attempting to help this guy. I brought up a lot of possible avenues that could be useful for him building a case.

You have merely engaged in ad hominem and quite successfully derailed the discussion. Thanks for the down vote brigade, by the way.

I must conclude that actually trying to help people on HN is not tolerated if the person attempting to help has offended someone who feels comfortable in the level of dishonesty you are.
Better trailers yes. Like maybe youtube search for movie_title + ' trailer' and embed the top result...
Multics already implemented "single-level storage" in the 1960s. Effectively, the disk was all swap space for a huge RAM disk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics#Novel_ideas
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Markets continued lower this week as levels we were eyeing as potential support provided no safety for longs, showing us once again why we refer to the levels as potential During a pullback like we are experiencing, technical analysis provides valuable clues to where battles for control are likely to take place. Our job is not to buy at these perceived levels, but to observe and then let the market prove itself to us if we are looking for buy points.
I would say it's clearly ethical, even required, to share knowledge and information with other people. That's pretty much the highest impulse a human has, right up there with "protect your offspring".

As Rick Falkvinge is so eloquent in saying, this is our culture, and permitting monopolies on it is just disastrously bad policy.

Copyright is a subsidy to distributors, not artists. And the distributors know it. There's no need to protect the business model of content distributors in a world that has the Internet.
I cannot speak to partial deafness, but I used to work in an anechoic chamber. It is indeed soul-suckingly disturbing after short periods of time. Even a totally "silent" environment has tremendous amounts of reverb and low-level reflected noise: you just filter it out automatically. In an anechoic chamber, this noise is gone, and your filter goes haywire. It starts filtering things that aren't there. You start hearing your own blood vessels in your eardrum, yes, but you also perceive a kind of disturbing anti-noise. It's very hard to describe.

Top it off with the fact that usually such rooms are entirely sealed off and that you're standing or sitting on a big mesh trampoline floating in the center of the room, and it all comes to one seriously creepy experience after about ten minutes.
I don't like it that much.

Yes, it's deadly simple, but what I actually like on sites like PirateBay or demonoid is the discussion below the torrent. Yes, it is sometimes idiotic and distracting, but if it's bad quality/a different movie/contains a virus, someone will mention that.

With your website, I have no clue at all what I am downloading. What is the format? How is the quality? Is it nuked? Is it DVDrip/camrip/webrip/...?

I don't know any of that from your site. I see just a link and filesize. Who knows what the file actually is. I personally find the quality more important than the number of seeders/leechers.
The chart that explains media’s addiction to print
My reasoning of that is that it's a two year "traineeship" (widely used term in the Netherlands, seems less so abroad), which is more of a dive into the company, with extra coaching and mentoring at two different positions within the company. Most interview questions were of the sort "how do you work in teams" and "where do you see yourself in 5 years" - much harder to answer than technical questions :)
Comparing 5 days with the time Apple would need to change its production orders is like comparing bandwidth with latency.
> scolded for discretely talking to other teams.

discreetly
https://twitter.com/#!/ug apparently one of their servers has just been hacked (the one holding 4chan.)
OT, but for god's sake -- he's the President of the United States. How many times can you misspell his name in one article?
That might not be a terrible idea. It might help weed out some truly frivolous lawsuits.

But consider this: To be fair to plaintiffs, the bar for "not frivolous" would have to be fairly low. I suspect that a fair pre-vetting system would only weed out a tiny fraction of lawsuits. Probably, even most lawsuits that end with a successful motion to dismiss would make it past the type of preliminary review by the court that you're proposing.

So it's a good idea, but I think something more would be needed to help protect the little gal/guy from legal bullying. (BTW, I'm not saying this particular case is an instance of legal bullying. We only have one party's perspective.)