skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It warms my heart to see a thriving groupthink osmotically reproduce and grow.
My main difficulties in using wget are in organizing output location (things like -nH, --cut-dirs, -P), choosing between -nc / -c / default (rename), error / retry policy (-T / -t), logging (-a vs -o), etc.

This tool doesn't really solve any of my actual problems. YMMV. It's less a cURL replacement than a web API invocation tool.
The fact that the government funded the research behind ARPANET (the precursor of the modern internet) doesn't imply that it wouldn't have happened without government funding. For example, the early commercial dial-up service providers like AOL or MCI Mail could have evolved into a global network even if there were no ARPANET. Unix systems were exchanging e-mail and net news across the world independently of ARPANET for many years. So were IBM mainframes at universities, via BITNET. The communications infrastructure that the ARPANET used -- leased long-distance phone lines -- was available to anybody who had the money to lease them. There were commercially developed network protocols (e.g., SNA from IBM or DECNET from DEC) and their associated networking hardware that could have been used as alternatives to TCP/IP and IMPs. And the operating systems that ran on the ARPANET hosts were commercially developed (TOPS-20 from DEC, Unix from AT&T, etc.).
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I guess you didn't read the whole article? It talked about studies that found no problems.
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Read the section subtitled 'What Happened To The Kids?' - It covers this.

No large scale studies, says Sam, "have ever found significant evidence that these children had higher rates of any disease, or even higher rates of mutations. ... In the vast majority of cases, genetic fallout didn't settle onto the succeeding generation."
You are getting downmodded for not bothering to actually read the article.
>This stuff is pretty basic to understand.

Well then help me...

>Your view is childish and pedantic.

Ad hominem, not helpful.

>No, I think there are qualitative social implications that we all recognize

Emphasis mine. Like what? Black people are poor, so they get a pass? Is that what you mean? Jesus, just say it.

>But I do think having groups as you suggested is a good idea but I think the naming of them should pay attention to social realities.

What are your version of social realities? You say this shit with a wink and a nod...You know blacks are poor, asians are good with numbers, jews are good with money, whites are oppressors, and gays speak with a lisp. Are these the "social realities" you speak of?

For the love of god, stop being so vague and just say what you mean. For instance, the following is my exact feeling on this matter.

There are only two non-bigoted positions to have on this issue. One, it's OK for people to segregate private groups by race, gender, etc... Or, two, its not OK at all. Any position in between can only be justified by relying on stereo types.
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Also see this article (it has some screens and images so a little easier to skim through)
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/07/17/apple_wins_por...

Every time I hear Apple and patent in the same sentence, Gargamel kills a baby smurf.

This one is just ridiculous and clearly does not have any kind of an inventive step. Also, from filing the application, it only took 4 months to being awarded. FOUR MONTHS?! March 5, 2012 was the filing date... The USPTO couldn't load up Apple's legal-Bazooka fast enough if they tried.. To be honest, you would naive to think that this wasn't pushed through anyway. It will almost surely be used immediately to defend Apple's initiative it shows by coming up with such "worthy" patents.

Edit: (As pointed out below, the March 2012 date is a continuation.. not the initial filing date. My mistake.)
Could you manage post backups using git in a local folder? I'm adding it to your issues :)

edit: finally I wouldn't like to break your minimalistic idea down
Now we can look forward to 419 scams in text-speak :/
Since when does UDP not work over a WAN/the internet?
No, donating money to an organization like Wikileaks is not the same as illegally releasing classified information.
> I don't understand ...

Start with your assumption that drawing on something you saw to make something better of your own is inherently wrong. Many people just don't share this assumption of yours. In fact, if many people did, Hacker News and ycombinator would be a very empty and lonely place - just look at all the startups: 99% are "some existing idea where we have made a small and novel tweak that makes it better" - PG even openly encourages startups to pitch their ideas that way (we've made X for Y). The top link right now is gist.io and the entire page explaining it is about how similar it is to a bunch of other services but they've made it slightly better for one special case. And the comments there are all favorable, nobody is shaming them for ripping off somebody else.
This is a surprise?

The idea that eating food that contains cholesterol magically increases the cholesterol levels in your blood never made any real sense, and has been debunked repeatedly.

(What does increase blood cholesterol? Fructose, mostly. If you're trying to control your cholesterol the maple syrup on your pancakes and - especially - that big glass of orange juice are killer. The eggs, by contrast, are good for you.)
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This is great news. Enyo is a great framework for building apps on mobile and desktop. I created a Google Reader app using Enyo 2.0 and it is currently available on the Chrome Web Store. You can check it out here:

http://sanchezapps.com/touchfeeds
Thank you for a well thought out and articulated post. I agree 100% and don't see the value either, and I know it's not extremely popular around here with the vocal majority who comment on such articles.

Up-voted.
I don't believe that place exists on the Internet. There are lots of books/papers/talks on why that is but they boil down to 'problem' people spend more time creating problems on the Internet because it makes them feel better about themselves. 'helpful and polite' people spend more time actually getting things done because that makes them feel better about themselves. So combination creates a disproportionate share of 'problem' people in forums and other online communities.

Create an invitation only version of Stack Overflow perhaps and require 100% full transparency on participants (real names, job, and affiliations). Experience with those sorts of communities show that folks will be helpful and polite (generally) but the community will not be vibrant or large.
> This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/969,819, filed Jan. 4, 2008 now U.S. Pat. No. 8,130,205, entitled "Portable Electronic Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Displaying Electronic Lists and Documents," which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Nos. 60/947,386, "Portable Electronic Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Displaying Electronic Documents and Lists," filed Jun. 29, 2007; 60/937,993, "Portable Multifunction Device," filed Jun. 29, 2007; 60/879,469, "Portable Multifunction Device," filed Jan. 8, 2007; and 60/879,253, "Portable Multifunction Device," filed Jan. 7, 2007. All of these applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.

It actually dates back to Jan. 7, 2007. This latest "continuation" was what was just filed March 5, 2012.
I suggest submitting that as a front-page link.
There's enough prior art to demolish this easily. It won't even remotely hold up under legal scrutiny if it's ever used by Apple in a lawsuit. I think this is a complete non-issue.
I am really weary of this. Apple, I accept you've had some innovative ideas but being a leader in the patent process and IP ownership is not something that many look upon favorably. Don't forget it wasn't too many years ago that Microsoft "invested" in you and really kept you afloat.

My Mac 128K has a frowny face most of the time these days and not because of geriatric ailments.
What exactly did you expect them to do about it? For a client-side tool to establish a plain FTP connection, it needs to possess authentication credentials.
My understanding is that patents are pretty much awarded without any kind of real validation step and it's up to future litigation to decide what's valid and what isn't.
Yeah, I don't know how they have stats for India, I didn't dig into the sources.
You can use the customers phone as the dongle, generate the one time code at the bank end and send it out-of-band as a text message.

You could even have an app that takes the users location from their smartphone and does a loose check on geographic location of the IP being used. The bank end gets the GPS+IMEI or whatever, produces the one-time code and texts it to the user. The user then enters the one-time code and their password on the login screen - perhaps it's used locally to encrypt the password (to combat MITM) before sending over the https connection.

For those without smartphones then charge for a dongle or have a phone based system that you can telephone (enter your postcode and get back the one-time code).

?
Maybe we come from different backgrounds. Using open source code that's been subject to lots of eyes and lots of use, e.g. a framework like Django, reduces the surface area, to me, because of the shared best-interest of fixing security problems. The key is staying up-to-date.

Not that you shouldn't understand the potential vectors against your site, or shouldn't read how to use these tools correctly, but a widely tested and used tool or framework, just like a widely researched crytpo algorithm, is better than one with no other eyes on it.
Would it be possible to get a torrent with the text only part?
I did though. From the article:

“By the early 1950's, Yamaguchi and his wife Hisako felt strong enough to try [to have children], and the early 50s, they had two girls, Naoko and Toshiko. Both were born without birth defects, though when they reached their teenage years, they said they got sick more often than some of their friends. Both are still alive. The Yamaguchis' young son, Kasutoshi, lived to be 58 and died of cancer.”

Sure, the Japanese had expected the effects to be worse, but still, this doesn't sound like a glowing recommendation to me to have kids after having been exposed to mad amounts of radiation.

From the Atomic Bomb Museum:

“A Nagasaki survey of 98 pregnant women exposed at a distance of 2.0 km from ground zero and 113 pregnant women exposed at 4.0 and 5.0 km from ground zero, showed a high percentage of neonatal and infantile deaths for those exposed within a 2.0 km range, as well as signs of acute radiation illness such as loss of hair, bleeding tendency, and inner mouth lesions. Mental retardation was noted in 25% of newborn survivors.

Besides high mortality rates, retarded growth and development was also indicated. Most notable in those exposed within 1.0–5.0 km of ground zero were retarded stature, underweight, and smaller head circumference, a condition called microcephaly, one of the most pathetic aftereffects of the atomic bombings, especially when accompanied by mental retardation.

Genetic surveys have not yielded positive evidence of genetic hazards due to atomic bomb radiation. Even so, possible A-bomb-induced effects such as spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, congenital malformations, and more, require continued study.”

http://atomicbombmuseum.org/3_health.shtml

Or this one, 24 years after the Chernobyl disaster (no bombing, but high radiation nonetheless):

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/24/us-defect-chernoby...
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"We've patented the hell out of it"

- Steve Jobs Jan 2007
Interesting, I did not bother to see the exact RGB values but copying the color box and pasting it near China's map seemed same / similar to the naked eye. I am on Win 7 and I thought there's nothing built-in for that except for the legendary mspaint :)

I just checked in paint and I'm surprised they have a color picker built-in!! MSPaint has finally evolved in Win 7 and I am learning that just now :) (I knew this version has zoom and a couple of other nicer options but OMG I had no idea that even the color picker is included)
There's a lot less that can go wrong when you're trying to contain an explosion by distance, then when you're trying to contain it with dirt in the way.
Definitely talked too fast! You're right, it definitely works. It's a little bit shadier on WAN but the main reason for the pre-aggregation is that the fire+forget behavior is much harder to scale as a service and would wastefully cost a lot of WAN bandwidth.

Once you have a pre-aggregation and only periodic updates... UDP does not make sense anymore.

HTTP also good for browser clients which could make sense.
This isn't going to turn into something that interfaces with a repo. I wish ifttt had a github channel, that would be perfect for this sort of thing.
Do you support aggregating the data and showing graphs for percentiles? So I'd like to send you latency stats and then get a graph for latency at the 99th percentile (or 90th percentile) or whatever.
The patent is peppered with this phrase:

portable multifunction device, comprising: a touch screen display

Which I don't get. One part of the document talks about disappearing scrollbars, which have been around for ages. This patent apparently only applies if the disappearing scrollbar appears on a "portable multifunction device, comprising: a touch screen display", which just doesn't make sense to me. In the same way patent are also awarded for "some thing that previously existed" but with 2 fingers instead of 1! Or "some thing that previously existed" but inside of a web browser! IANAL and obvious this stuff is awarded, but I don't get it.
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The patently apple link has links to some of the other patents awarded today.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/07/apple-wi...

These are the ones I'm randomly speculating that look most likely to be seen in future court cases:

8,225,121 Forced idle of a data processing system

8,225,079 Accelerating system boot using a set of control data recorded by operating system during a first OS boot

8,225,061 Method and apparatus for protected content data processing
Doesn't like everything Palm did in the 90s prior art the shit out of this?
I agree with this.
Loved first season.
However, part of watching a great series (Any series, or production, or stage show, or whatever) is that you must believe the myth that they are feeding you... 'Suspend disbelief' in order to become totally absorbed in the plot.

Breaking Bad doesn't do this to me consistently. For me, Walt often acts in ways that aren't consistent with his character, forcing me to drop out of my belief int the plot and see it as a production rather than something that I am 'living'. Walt isn't the only one that has this affect on me.. The whole show causes me to see, every so often, that all it is is a show rather than a piece of art, like many of the other great series of recent times

Having said that, I still enjoy it and have watched to the end of the last season, even if I don't consistently 'buy' it
Yep for timers (latency). And we have the data for counters and gauges as well.

You can even configure client-side which percentile you want, by default 10th / 90th
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That's more or less what they did when they were selling Ubuntu laptops before. It seems that despite the warning, enough people unwittingly bought one to cause headaches for Dell. I imagine their margins are thin enough that even a few returns will get a manager frowning.
You can really picture Apple lawyers like evil wizards from Lord of The Rings all laughing heartily about this before launching a new swath of attacks on their enemies... I mean competitors?
Bell Labs had a monopoly, as part of Bell Telephone, which was (AFAIK) granted exclusive right to provide telephone service. Microsoft does not. AFAIK, Xerox never has had a monopoly.

Having a large amount of marketshare != a monopoly.

Lots of people insist on using the term for both things. I don't know why. But even if you are one of those people, surely you will see there there is a fundamental difference between those two things.

For the sake of this discussion, it would be necessary to differentiate between them.
I thought the article about Kevin (http://www.businessinsider.com/digg-kevin-rose-untold-histor...) that's being criticized is one of the best post-mortems of what happened at digg. I find it almost Kafka-esque to see the insiders pop up to remind us all that they can't be criticized if you're not in their club. And if you criticize them you can't be in the club.
I take it you've never seen or used a Palm device before.

Long story short: NO.
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HTF is this stuff:
- Not obvious (list, detail)
- Not been done before (yes, before 2007)

Please someone explain
The nuke was pretty low energy and it didn't go off in the ionosphere, so no.
They all sound kind of high. Although such a power is terrible, it must be pretty exhilarating.
I actually wasn't aware of disappearing scrollbars before iOS.

Care to provide an example of prior art ?
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That's fine. Then how about "wants to become a graphite replacement" or something in the headline?

we already are a replacement for statsd + graphite

Excuse me? As it stands your frontend apparently can't even plot two lines in the same chart.
You see that kind of patents all the time; Common technology, used every day by thousands of people but on the internet, or but on a cellphone. Suddenly the most mundane thing is a patent worthy invention.
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people, read the patent text. it's for the vertical scroll bar. not the whole smartphone interface as the cnn article is making the reader believe.
> People had a choice: either put up with an (admittedly) bad interface or write their own version in C.

That's totally false. libwww-perl was created 17 years ago and predates curl by a few years. There's nothing new about capable scripting languages and Unix.
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I think the claim that Bell Labs could not have existed without being part of a monopoly is unscientific at best. Sample size 1.

My understanding of economics would beg to differ with that conclusion, but I don't think we'll get anywhere arguing economics. However, here is something that seems faulty in the text you quoted.

The expectation that, say, Google or Apple could behave like Bell Labs—that such companies could invest heavily in basic or applied research and then sprinkle the results freely around California—seems misplaced, if not naive

I think Google has, indeed, been investing in applied research and sprinkling the results freely around. Off the top of my head, without thinking, there is Go (the language), and the fact that they employ Guido van Rossum. And their developers can (at least sometimes) use 10% of their time on whatever (including open source) - so if 1% of developers' time is actually spent on open source, Google is investing 1% of its payroll money (i.e., hugely) in "sprinking technology around."

I bet I could come up with a bunch more stuff they do "for free," if I thought about it more.

And I bet Google has plenty of money to throw around - a certain amount of research is just "pocket change" to them. I suspect that's pretty much the way things worked at Bell Labs, at least in terms of "free technology" that was being dispersed.

Of course, you can increase the level of innovative research through patents (and also kill it, if you do it wrong).
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Portland doesn't have the luxury of decommissioned railways, so uses some different methods that I think accomplish the same thing. Many of the side streets around here have been converted to "neighborhood greenways" (they used to be called "bike boulevards" but I agree that that didn't really suggest shared use). All you do is make it inconvenient for cars to drive at high speeds by installing mild speed bumps, turn-only intersections, etc, and remove as many stop signs in the greenway direction as you can. Doing this turns these roads effectively into local-access-only routes for cars and there's very little traffic. My bike "path" to and from work is about 8 miles of 35'-wide, paved road. It's very safe too, since you're not in the "door zone" of parked cars in a bike lane and also not so separated from traffic that you are a surprise at intersections like some new bike lanes that are located on the other side of parked cars. Not to mention the low cost.
Wow, that's got to be one of the most blatant strawmen arguments I've seen recently. You aren't even trying to hide it.

Article is about getting pregnant, and you post info about people who are already pregnant. Well obviously they are different. What I don't understand is why you think they are the same. (I guess that's why you didn't hide it? You don't even realize there is a difference?)

> this doesn't sound like a glowing recommendation

And you prefer to ignore the studies that found no problems? Because some girls "thought they got sick more often"?
Its a non-issue for you if you happen to have a million dollars laying around for legal fees and a year or two to dick around in court invalidating it.
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Note that a great deal of those tests were underground - the Limited Test Ban Treaty banned all atmospheric tests and was signed in 1963. This was primarily because of the risk posed by fallout.

Needless to say, wartime use of nuclear weapons would not be underground.
I'm really glad I didn't act on these same impulses when I was that age. It's really hard to keep going sometimes, but when you do, I think you'll look back and be very grateful that you never made that mistake. A lot of things seem or appear insurmountable, especially when you're younger, but I promise things work themselves out in some way or another. You just never know what the next day will bring. Even if you don't really think you will ever commit suicide (or even if you do), instead of wasting time thinking about it, do something that will get you out of your routine, even if it sounds stupid or boring. Many times something as simple as this has helped me shake feelings of hopelessness etc...
"I was expecting more of a Intelligence based response where the CIA would hunt him down and kill him, instead of wasting trillions dollars."

You have to realize, while the money is wasted from the perspective of tax payers, it's a profit from the perspective of, say, weapons manufacturers (just taking those as an example).

Sure, they "wasted" money, that wasn't theirs, on things that enhanced their control. The time and resources of common people actually do get wasted, but other than that, the whole thing was and continues to be a success. Just don't lump a whole nation, the citizens and the policy makers, together. That can only lead to confusion. War is a racket, so is the war on terror - and if these fundamentalists didn't conveniently exist, others would have to be created.
On my E520, I was getting about 2 to 2.5 hours under similar conditions (I have the 6 cell battery, however) in Debian; under Windows I get 4-5 hours.
> the judge also refused to stop Apple from saying
> Samsung did copy them, saying Apple was entitled to
> its opinion

While I would lean on the side of agreeing here, I find this part odd due to how strict U.K. libel laws are...
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