skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The explained what they meant by that. Non-human seems like a poor term though, perhaps "non-photo" would be closer to what they mean?
EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal
I don't think you can quantify how dangerous people think it is. Certainly I don't believe you know how dangerous I think it is.

My points are simply that: you cannot derive a conclusion about the danger of fallout from the large number of nuclear tests that have occured, since the majority of those tests were underground and many of those that weren't were of relatively modest yield; and that the real danger of fallout was significant enough to bring arch foes to the negotiating table during the height of the Cold War. I'm sure their respective nuclear scientists were well aware of the real dangers.
Awesome description how you made the video! Must have taken a long time, but the video is awesome!
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Tahoe-LAFS-on-s3 from Least Authority Enterprises
https://leastauthority.com

Bonus: one user, 'sickness', showed how to replicate your encrypted data across Dropbox, gdrive, etc. http://www.sickness.it/crazycloudexperiment.txt
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Reminder since it's a pair of SSDs and most people will probably look into using this for their DB store: If you use current generation controllers/software & SSDs, you're going to have a bad time if you turn on RAID and don't know exactly what you're doing.

TRIM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM ) isn't supported with RAID on SSD today on hardware controllers and most distributions of linux don't support TRIM on RAID out of the box if you're doing software RAID, so you're going to see performance plummet like a rock after you do one pass of writes on the disk. In many RAID configurations, you're going to zero-write the entire disk when formatting it, so performance is going to suck from the get-go. For this reason, even if you have a tiny database and don't expect to write 1TB worth of data, your performance might still suck. Personally, I haven't tried linux software md TRIM in production, the patch is pretty recent, so you're on your own here (if possible, scaling out horizontally may be a solution to consider for redundancy, I have no idea what Amazon using for SSDs, but recent Sandforce generations fail all the time, so plan for that).

If you don't know to look for this issue, you're going to be scratching your head when your RAID10 SSD configuration write throughput is worse than a single 7200rpm drive. On the other hand, IOPS on SSDs are AMAZING for databases/datastores. Amazon may have solved this for you already behind their visualization instance, and they might be running their own software striping behind whatever raid you're doing, so be sure to test it out fully first.
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Nokia losses at $1.72 billion
Select2: jQuery based replacement for select boxes
IMHO there is no correlation between high pay and competence, particularly at the top end of the scale.
Check out noexcuselist.com for a lot of resources
I have never understood Chrome users.

Chrome is easily the worst browser on the market, short of IE <= 7. It is slow and grossly unstable. Across multiple computers and OSes, across the past few years, this has been my consistent experience with Chrome, so it's not just my current install.

I would rather use IE 8 than Chrome. As a web dev, I loathe my time testing in Chrome. When a bug report comes in, more times than not, the answer to "which browser?" is "Chrome" because V8 is buggy as hell. And the developer tools are simply worthless because they inject markup into the freaking DOM.
Seems to be the star of the show :) http://blog.sprawsm.com/post/27547701265/sheep-in-fluidui
Do your students have textbooks?

Regarding worksheets/quizzes/etc., you usually either write your own, or else --- to get you started --- borrow from other teachers in your school who are teaching the same subject.
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The full title is "Nokia Loses $1.72 Billion as Smartphones Slump".

Smartphones are not slumping, Nokia phones are.
Look ... guys ... this is NOT TECH, unless you classify hooking up a sewage pipe at the RV Park as tech too.

This is just another example of fighting through a gross kludgey mess to do something relatively trivial that we already knew how to do, much more robustly and performantly, in other systems.

Any time you see an article titled "X in HTML5" you know you are about to ride the short bus. I recommend learning some computer science.

See also Alan Kay's comments about the Web vs the Internet, recently linked on HN...
I have 396 tabs in FF right now. That would be impossible to handle for Chromium on my laptop. It starts heavily sweating at 25. Does Chrom(e|ium) do lazy loading of tabs these days? That'd be the main point that makes Firefox much more usable for many tabs to me.
Will do ShowHN when I'm allowed to (getting "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.")

Re: OpenPGP vs PKCS1: historical reasons (have a well-tested code for PKCS1). If at some point it becomes clear that OpenPGP is much better, adding it won't be a big issue.
On the contrary, I think that Microsoft know exactly what they doing. Their users don't.

I'm using some popular cloud storage services(Dropbox, Google Drive) for some of my stuff, but only of public and non-critical-business stuff I need to share.

Everything else backup-worthy goes to client-side-encrypted service(CrashPlan).
It's amazing how much of that stuff isn't really the CPU's fault, though. For example, buying a solid-state drive and moving all my projects over to it has done things that are almost magical to my build times.

(Granted, my C++ days are behind me so particularly CPU-intensive builds just don't really happen to me anymore.)
Not only nearly every man but a large minority of women too (perhaps soon to be a majority).

I keep waiting for a porn-in-the-workplace case to come up where someone brings up the fact that we are approaching gender parity in porn consumption, and watch courts start to grapple with that.....
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Agreed - thanks!
I agree: I don't give money to Greenpeace because they're a marketing organisation that raises cash to do more marketing.

But: there is a school of thought that without broad community support, all the hard work won't add up to much.

They might be partly right, I pay more for "green power" than my neighbours do for "glowing-in-the-dark power", and don't own a car despite how much easier it'd make my life. I guess someone's marketing worked on me...
> The assumption that people face discrimination because of race is ham fisted and wrong. People face discrimination in the U.S. largely because of their CULTURE.

Ah of course, if only people acted more white they wouldn't have all these problems! /s

Improving ones class status or conforming to mainstream, white ideas about acceptable culture do not in any way stop or erase racism. Systemic and institutional racism affects all people of color. That some have different experiences or are affected differently is to be expected given how racism intersects with class and gender.

> As a white American who grew up in a trailer park in a mostly black area of the rural south, I happen to have a knowledge that most white Americans I encounter don't SEEM to have

You definitely may have a different experience compared to other white people, but you aren't black and don't live that experience, this factoid isn't relevant. By definition you cannot claim to know black experience first hand because you are not black.

> And that is that the vast majority of discrimination against black americans is selectively directed against the "Abandoned", mainly in a passive, rather than active way.

I don't dispute that the most marginalized people are the most affected by racism, classism, etc. However, that doesn't mean that racism doesn't affect people of color who have class privileges.

BlackGirlsCode is a program directly targeted at the people you call "Abandoned" (get way to establish other-ness by not calling them people and implying that at some point these people were cared for by the mainstream). The whole reason why this program exists in the first place is to help people who have been hit the hardest by racism, classism, and gender discrimination.
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> I guess you are right, we are not planning on profiting from this at first.

When are you planning to have a business model then? It appears the users are* the product again, as usual.

It looks nice though.

*) or will be.
Find a semi recent advanced textbook (preferably one that is used in at least one of the better schools) and use google scholar from there (both papers cited in the text and those citing it).

The formal bibliometric tools such as scopus, reuter-thompson etc are hugely misleading to say the least with the ever growing avalanche of publications over the last decade (increasing number of people are being paid bonuses for each publication in an "international" venue). See this character who according to reuter-thompson is a "rising star" of computer science [1] and also happens to be a collaborator of El-Naschie [2].

[1] http://sciencewatch.com/inter/aut/2008/08-apr/08aprHe/

[2] http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=42...
Interesting. Do you happen to know if using LVM instead of mdadm is susceptible to the same issues?
The parents point was that it is not confused with 'stealing' though. Whilst, as you and I both noted it in fact means stealing (well robbing).

Copyright infringement is just that, or 'unlawful copying' if you're afraid of longer words.
Versioning ActiveRecord on Sinatra, not Rails?
It's not a version control system for Dropbox -- but you could also use LayerVault (http://layervault.com/) to keep a nice backup of your files incase Dropbox does fail.
This made me go check the terms and conditions for DropBox, and they're much better. The closest they come is saying you may not "publish or share materials that are unlawfully pornographic or indecent, or that advocate bigotry, religious, racial or ethnic hatred". That's a whole lot different to Microsoft's banning of any kind of porn, lawful or otherwise, even when it's not published or shared.
Thanks for that follow up - we do understand the annoyance of FF users - we will put that right ASAP.

Thanks,
Ian
Trust is the number one barrier to sharing
It probably means "flesh tones that our CV algorithms would flag as illicit" -- that is, they are probably prohibiting you from storing images that would create false positives.
And for all we know he had a picture of his newborn. Aren't you promoting the same hearsay?

you said:
I'm suprised how easily people swallow someone else's hearsay and then spray vomit it out as the truth.

and then you said:
Having followed a bunch of these types of stories on some other sites (webhostingtalk), 9 out of 10 times the "victim" is holding back so much details from the actual story that they might as well be lying.

You're contradicting yourself. You're stating hearsay (you had no direct contact with the issue of 9/10 lying people, you only heard it from webhostingtalk) and then purporting it to be true.

Regardless of whether the original author is telling the truth, it doesn't matter because that's not the point of the article. The point is that you may lose more than you know simply by being deemed a violator in the eyes of Microsoft, so it's buyer beware.

Relating to your comment: People are innocent until proven guilty in the US. If Microsoft found something that they deemed a code of conduct violation, then they can bring it up with the police or they can at least bring it up with the account owner. Maybe it was SkyDrive uploading more than he expected?
So only "a sample flagged for review" of my files will get poured over by Microsoft employees?

Still "stay the hell away from Microsoft" in my book.
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Most of the differences on basal metabolic rate can be explained by the difference in diet.

With keto diets you lose weight faster the more you eat.
Thanks appreciated.
I assumed they meant, like, bare-breasted elfs. And presumably you can have a photo of a stallion with certain parts visible but can't have a similar painting of a centaur....

Either way it becomes very difficult to draw lines.
Nikola Tesla would have loved being alive with today's camera technology.
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Paid support may tie your hands too. Nokia used Red Hat Enterprise Linux and found a bug in its network stack. Patching it themselves would have invalidated their RHEL support contract. Instead, they had to listen customer complains for another 6 months before official RHEL patch arrived.
I actually wrote the article with this in mind. Lots of people dont know how multiplayer actually works. The demo is 'in html5' because people can try it now in their browser. Also because thats where the sites target market is.
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I find (especially on my phone) that sites often have no idea what does and doesn't work in recent versions of Firefox. Sadly, it is worth spoofing your user agent to check whether or not they are right.
To be honest, I think these clauses are broadly worded so they can suspend anyone's account and come up with a justification after the fact.

Note the prohibition of advocating pornography and expressing hatred.
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I can eat 3500kcal of pork and eggs every day without gaining weight. In fact, I'm much leaner and I have more energy than when I used to eat less.

The reason: I avoid sugars and all kinds of flour.
It was linked to elsewhere in this thread. I'm just citing it to answer this one misconception.
Clean design, simple. Like it! and as some have said some kind of tagging and filtering would be nice... not all my friends have good taste
Good luck! If you find you still have issues with bottoming out after awhile, you can look into getting rubber washers to cushion the landing of the keys at the bottom of their travel.

See this for an example:
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/cherry-mx-rubber-swit...
Who knows what scientists might be able to develop that would have other uses if they could focus on doing it openly and safely.

We shouldn't kid ourselves that chemists aren't working on this stuff at the moment but they're having to focus on stopping detection as well as pure performance and have to conceal what they do (not the greatest way to advance science).

But surely the toughest thing is the atheletes. How can you really get informed consent for stuff which is going to be that far out on the bleeding edge, particularly from someone who, let's put this kindly, has a far greater focus on their physical than their mental development?
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the link returns this :
"Error establishing a database connection"
I use it exactly as a master for my PSDs for a year or so and I've been really happy with it, even when the file is open on another machine or two while I'm editing it on a a third. If there's a potential to flatten the file upon save, I'd create a second directory for those files and keep them separate from the PSDs. If you really don't trust accidents not to happen, maybe create read-only or password-protected masters in addition to those editable PSDs. They've also got the backup/versioning service you can pay for.
Does anyone know how close prosumer/off the shelf technology can get to reproducing this?

I've seen 1000fps on prosumer cameras, before, but are we close to 5,000 even on sub-$1000 cameras?
It's not an article, just a blurb:

(CBS/CNN) - Microsoft is in danger of reporting its first quarterly loss in the last 20 years.

The world's largest software company will absorb a $6.2 billion dollar charge stemming from an online advertising service it bought in 2007. Analysts estimate Microsoft earned about $5.3 billion dollars in the quarter that ended in June, so that charge would send the company into the red.
Is it displaying as grey text on a brown background for everyone else? That's nigh-on unreadable

edit: maybe not grey but some colour which doesn't contrast with brown at all
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Sure, for technical users that might be a nice value add. In fairness though, a regular person shouldn't have to care--Firefox should just work, stay responsive, etc.
Let me add something:

Vitamin-D (extremely important for your bones) is also a form of cholesterol.
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The whole volume is SSD.
How do Dropbox and Google Drive handle this?

I would never trust my personal files with anyone that does this type of detection/manual review.
I'm starting to suspect that the people who keep recommending TrueCrypt for day-to-day usage on Dropbox fall into the camp of "Do as I say, not as I do." Because if they are actually using TC the way they suggest, they might as well use FTP.

First, I created a small 64 MB TrueCrypt partition. I then mounted the partition in TC. I noticed immediately that the tc file has an exclusive lock, so any changes in your TC partition will never be synced until the partition is unmounted! If your use case is to mount your partition immediately upon login, work for the day, and then shutdown, Dropbox will never have an opportunity to sync your partition.

My next test was to mount the TC partition simultaneously (Desktop and Laptop). Then I run into conflicts, as another posted mentioned. Because of the exclusive file lock, if you mount simultaneously on two machines, you will start getting duplicate -conflict files when unmounting either of the partitions, since the other is still locked. It's not immediately clear from examination which TC partition is actually the most recent one. And may Gods have mercy on you if at any time you edit both partitions before they sync.

Even if you're willing to live with these annoyances, there is now the trade-off of which partition size to create. Too large of a partition and syncing can take a long time, even if you make minimal file changes (because of chaining, there is not a 1 bit -> 1 bit change in TC partitions). Too small of a partition, and you'll have to keep resizing it or creating new ones. What a hassle.

The only use case which seems to work well for me, is for minimally modified files, like for annual tax returns. Here, a TrueCrypt container makes sense and works quite well because the partition is basically read-only and unlikely to be simultaneously or even regularly mounted.

So for those people who keep suggesting TrueCrypt, I'm curious, do you actually use it, and if so, how? The suggestions for file-level encryption (encfs) appear to be much more sane.
You could also use dropbox,where the dropbox folder is only writen to by a script that encrypts the data. I have a dropbox folder where I put the files I want to store, then every night, I have a script that automaticly encrypts the files that were added/changed and puts that in an a dropbox.enc folder that gets synced with the server.

If someone were to make this into an actual product, it sould be relatively simple to make the encryption happen as soon as a file changes and avoid the latency.
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Picture this, while regulars can't go down the 9s barrier in 100mts dash, in the powerlympics they would easily break that record year after year, all the records will fall like a house of cards bringing more enthusiasm, more money and more advertisement. What's not to like?

Soon ancient olympics will be forgotten.
Short explanation: Paper covered with carbon nanotubes is conductive. This conductivity changes when cancer marker cells are present. The cancer markers cells are drawn in by their antibodies, which are pre-mixed with the carbon nanotubes.
Thanks dlopez,

We are thinking of adding search, tagging, and "add to my channel" features before we go live.
Thanks for this. This is a great story but one of the type that is prone to being overhyped by writers whose angle is "man bites dog." As another commenter pointed out, the test is still very preliminary:

http://www.pancan.org/section_research/strategic_research_pr...

Whether or not the test is a smashing success is not the only point of inspiration. I think the field of medicine is extremely prone to disruption by clever, process-focused laymen, whether they are 15 or 30-years of age. The field of medicine is filled with brilliant people, but it's also held back by institutional tradition and authority, i.e. "that's just the way things are done."

Frequent readers of HN are probably familiar with Atul Gawande's article on the checklist, in which hospitals who mandated that surgeons and nurses follow a simple list of steps (literally, as simple as "wash your hands") were able to reduce the rate of needless post-surgical infections to zero.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...

I believe Merck's first big drug came from reading a research paper that had apparently been overlooked. In a book I've been reading about how companies develop drugs, a veteran of the industry wrote about how a potential multi-billion dollar drug was almost shelved because the company's analysts had forgotten to remove dummy data from their test-analysis routines...and that this kind of thing happens all the time, apparently.

And of course, most people are pretty familiar with the calcified information-systems of their doctors' offices. Those things remain in place because that's how they've been done in the past, by many other brilliant people, so why re-examine them?*

(to be fair, medical information systems are also hindered by medical privacy laws governing the copying/distribution of patient data)

Edit: Just after I posted this, I came across this NYT article about a boy who went to the hospital after cutting his arm diving for a basketball and died from infection-related complications. The upshot:

> In a statement, the hospital said that emergency physicians and nurses would be “immediately notified of certain lab results suggestive of serious infection, such as elevated band counts.” Rory Staunton’s bands, or a type of white blood cell, were nearly five times as high as a normal level.

> The hospital has developed a new checklist to ensure that a doctor and nurse have conducted “a final review of all critical lab results and patient vital signs” before a patient leaves, Lisa Greiner, a spokeswoman, said in the statement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/nyregion/after-rory-staunt...
Google's driverless car project has been around for more than 7 years and there's still no immediate plan for commercialization. I'd consider that research (at the very least it's applied AI research).
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Ask HN: Lots of stylus for iPad
I see a lot of stylus designed and marketed for iPad particularly in kickstarted. There are around 30 submissions out of which 50% are funded and also there are other big players already in market. Does this signify the real need for a note taking device? Or entertainment & note taking should be mixed proportionally.
Good stuff Dan, makes me want to try it out next time.
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Well USA are signatories to Berne Convent (http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?treaty_id=15) which includes moral rights in Article 6bis.

FWIW TRIPs includes an element of moral rights in Art.s 13/14 but specifically disclaims the inclusion of every right in Berne Art.6.

It would be interesting to know why the US dont want to allow people the right to be named as author of their own work? (and if they led the exclusion in TRIPs).