skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the arguments of either side in this debate.

The RIAA/MPAA claim that demoting copyright-infringing search results in Google will reduce piracy. This assumes that there's some large group of people using Google (or Bing, or Blekko, etc) to find pirated media. I don't see how that is plausible, given that the actual search results for pirated media are almost entirely scams and malware.

The EFF is concerned that demoting sites which generate many DMCA notices will muffle free speech. A hypothetical situation is:

1. A site hosts user-uploaded video, and refuses to comply with takedown notices.

2. User Alice uploads an expose of government misconduct, and user Bob uploads a few hundred pirated movies.

3. Google receives DMCA notices to remove links to the pirated movies from their index.

4. Alice's expose is now ranked lower in search results.

While this situation is theoretically possible, it seems unlikely. All of the major hosting sites I know of (for video, audio, text, blobs) respond to DMCA notices themselves, and therefore aren't targets for search-engine takedowns.

(conflict of interest disclaimer: I work for Google, though not on this project)

> Takedown requests are nothing more than accusations of
> copyright infringement. No court or other umpire confirms
> that the accusations are valid (although copyright owners
> can be liable for bad-faith accusations).

Isn't this incorrect? Under the DMCA, recipients of a takedown notice can file a counter-notice stating that the material is not infringing. From there, further actions involve the court system.
In the UK we've got http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/ which is about as effective as people are saying the White House petitions site is.
But we've also got the great http://www.38degrees.org.uk/ which has been effective on a few campaigns now.
Discovering something completely new still is a big deal - do a search for "new species" and then any recent year and you'll find numerous articles (usually written around December) about all the weird and wonderful creatures discovered that year.

But this was a lacewing with an unusual colouration and thousands of new insect species are discovered every year. If biologists and museums got all worked up and dropped everything they were doing over each one, they'd never have the time or money to do anything else.
Which video-hosting services do you think will be demoted? Every major one (YouTube, Vimeo, LiveLeak, etc) comply with the DMCA, so they're unlikely to have links removed from Google's search results.
Show HN: Mountain Growl - Growl plugin for Mountain Lions Notification Center
Great point. "Or fail" should be removed from the line.
Oh give me a fucking break. Read the journal article. It describes how the original picture was found on Flickr.

http://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/1/articles/3220/3220-G-3-layo...
Yes, I've dug myself into holes with this before. Usually with "factories" and such.
Why would YouTube be the largest target of takedown requests?

1) YouTube acts on DMCA notices, so there's no need to separately file notices against their search results

2) YouTube has given every major content provider access to internal systems to flag content and have it disabled immediately without human intervention

3) A proper DMCA notice creates some liability (penalty of perjury and all), where pressing a button in YouTube's content flagging system creates none, so the internal system is both practically and legally preferable to sending DMCA notices
False. This is all based on the assumption that income is directly proportional to the footprint of a dwelling
From SOPA To Cybersecurity: All About Trying To Control The Internet
What features do they fail on typically? Have you tried Xvim? It's far from perfect(still alpha) but it's got a lot going for it. It turns out Vim has a lot of features and it takes a while to get to a polished state.
Wow--I didn't even consider that. Now I completely agree with the point.

Language is lost on me sometimes.
Stratfor emails reveal nationwide surveillance system operated by the government
This bastard is THE patent troll. If he's not a patent troll then I don't know who is.
OpenSuse also ships with systemd per default. Other distributions like Arch or Debian support systemd as well.

http://www.bootchart.org/ is also quite interesting to understand the boot process better and profile it.
I don't get this.

I'm a physician, and every insurance company to which I submit claims already has a web service in place to check eligibility...at no charge. Already.

There aren't many interface differences between insurance companies: you typically enter two identifiers, usually either an id number or last name, and birth date. You get full eligibility info immediately.

There's nothing difficult about it. We almost never call insurance companies to get eligibility info - web querying is already in place, and has been for a while.

What problem, at 5 cents for each API CALL (c'mon, really?) is this solving? Why would I want to pay to pass my patient's protected health information through yet another layer (and store? see my comment below about this company's offer of a data "sample") of potential privacy loss?
Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors
Let me get this right, for less technical folks. Are you proposing that and developer would be able to create pieces of App.net and your system would basically integrate the two?
On the other hand, the reverse is true as well.

Most software engineers, smart or not, do not have the skill or experience to even analyze the intent of highly-optimized implementations. The complexity is obvious but the interactions being manipulated are not unless software system optimization is a domain of expertise. It would be like asking me to analyze GUI design.

I have seen many examples of smart engineers being "damn confident" that code was over-engineered and possibly even suboptimal only to make the code simpler, sometimes even faster, and broken. I design high-performance software systems and am the optimization guy. There have been many cases where a smart engineer decides that I am actually "some asshole showing off how clever ey was" and then "fixes" my work. Which then has to be redone when the purpose of the original implementation rematerializes.

The engineers in these cases are not idiots, they simply don't understand the nature of the optimization or why it is happening in a particular place. There are many cases of premature optimization but that is not always the case just because it looks like it. If there are people around that actually understand optimization then at least ask one of them about the code in question, particularly if they wrote it.
I was wondering the same thing. If there is some sort of conspiracy to keep the TSA alive no matter what, what would be the point. What's the end-game here?

Perhaps the government has some sort of investment in Pepsi Co. and that's why you're not allowed to liquids on the plane anymore.
Just as you shouldn't limit yourself to being a "Python programmer" or a "Java programmer", limiting yourself to liberalism or conservativism is a bad idea. You may prefer more liberal or conservative projects, or companies, but that doesn't mean you won't face safety-vs-speed[1] tradeoffs on a regular basis.

[1] safety meaning certainty of correctness, and speed meaning speed of development (as opposed to execution)
I suggested that link because it discusses what may work for the parent to get what he needs right now, instead of speculating a 'kindle version might be coming soon.'

The formats may have evolved, but I don't see a mobi or an epub version today. If you have a link, kindly post it.
What are the interesting startups in Norway?
When I'm allowed to pick the question, I invariably pick "Which is it?", and the answer is a series of random words.

Now you know, identity thieves.
My son and I both thought it looked like a spider on its wings. Maybe it's a trick to make predators think it already got caught.
Also not urban in any meaningful way :-)
Also, how many insurance companies do you currently accept?
but will it also deliver tacos?!
I've got a similar question from a slightly different position. What would happen if the government dissolved the TSA? There would still be airport screening, it would just go back to the airlines or individual airports. And some would be better, some worse, than the TSA. And there would still be regulations on what the individual screening groups must do (so we would still probably have the body scanners, enhanced pat downs, etc). And all that would be absolutely necessary, since the reason the TSA (and enhanced security) was put in was to keep the public confidence up so that they would continue to fly. Because not enough people flying, airlines go under, and we would really be in trouble with limited travel options. Most point-to-point routes would be eliminated, and you would have to get to your destination airport, rent a car, and drive another several hours to get to where your are going.
UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars
Then check out Evil for Emacs and ViEmu for Visual Studio.

ViEmu even supports something like nnoremap in its .viemurc.

Case in point: My first introduction to Vim was through ViEmu.
The first animated gif delivers unprecedented comical value.
How well does Arch run on the MacBook Air? Looks like a great setup, would be interested in more info about it too.
The huge amount of tree cover in New Hampshire historically speaking is also a pretty recent event. 100+ years ago NH was mostly farmland with little to no tree cover.
The political motivation for keeping the TSA intact is that if you abolish the TSA and there's a terror attack or high-profile crime involving an airplane or airport, your political opponents can say "Sen. So-And-So put us at risk by being soft on terrorism."

(Please keep in mind the truth of such a claim has little bearing on the political calculus, and that we can't count on an arbitrary politician to correctly calibrate the likelihood of an airborne terrorist attack post 9/11.)
DuckDuckGo uses Bing for its search backend, so it's had this behavior for a while now. To find a general-purpose search engine that doesn't comply with the DMCA, you'll have to use Yandex, Baidu, or other foreign-hosted services.
Thats brilliant. A big opportunity to introduce call centre agents to Monty Python quotes!
> This assumes that there's some large group of people using Google (or Bing, or Blekko, etc) to find pirated media.

Ahem: "intitle:"index.of"(mpg(avi)wmv) (words you're looking for) -html -htm -php -asp -jsp

Would this be affected by the new policy? I don't know. I was shown this by a modern young-un--didn't know it myself.
gwern: I find his story of dogged persistence an inspiration.
I prefer guidelines for choosing bad names because they are much fewer than guidelines for good names.

* Make the name offensive in some language.

* Make the name difficult to pronounce.

* Make the name difficult to spell.

* Make the name non unique or confusingly similar to another name.

As long as you DON'T FOLLOW these guidelines you'll be ok.
Exactly. It's too easy to break Zawinsky's first commandment (Thou shalt not break working code) with changes like this. Sure, if the code is getting in the way of a change, then go ahead and change it. But I don't think that's what the questioner is asking. It seems like he or she has noticed this "ugly" code and wants to change it out of a misplaced sense of conscientiousness.

EDIT: I just remembered that something like this happened to me when I was an intern at my first position doing "real" software development. I'd noticed a particular piece of gnarly code and asked my team lead for permission to refactor. He, in turn, told me that for a rarely used code path like the one I was proposing to refactor, the costs of QA and deployment would greatly outweigh any savings my changes would generate for the company. His concluding words were, "Sometimes it's easier to let sleeping dogs lie," and I think that's something that applies to this situation as well.
Where there are shadows there is light.
Interesting take. I'd like to know what a "proper" use of eval would be, being on either side of the programming "political spectrum." Except, for cases where the user is trusted enough to execute code directly in the system (such as systems that generate other systems), I don't see and have not seen a single good use of eval(). I've seen tons of horrible uses for it though.
Yeah, many terminal emulators (like Terminal.app) are configured to run login shells.
A recent article made the case against disregarding domain names: while Square used to be SQUAREUP.COM, and Facebook used to be GETDROPBOX.COM, neither is today; both have acquired the bare domain name corresponding to their name and use them exclusively.

The issue here is then, once you make the decision to be "getFOO.COM", the better you do, the more expensive FOO.COM becomes. There is no guarantee the price for the "real" domain name will ever be reasonable. It may instead become intractably expensive.

If you're committed to "getFOO.COM" forever, the strategy works just fine. But when I see people talk about how Facebook used to be "thefacebook.com", I get itchy. How much would you have charged for "facebook.com" 4 years ago?
Many times, improvements come from just iterating over the text and rewriting parts of it. Native speakers will need less iterations, and very few people can write really well the first time round.
You know, I don't usually do this, but in this case I'll make an exception.

> The biggest problem with math is the language.

Citation needed.

> Math with a sane notation would be significantly
> easier to learn.

Citation needed.

> Doing the mechanics is secondary

Citation needed.

OK, so I speak from a different perspective from yours, because I have a PhD in math. I also do a lot of outreach, enrichment, and enhancement, dealing with reasonably bright (but very rarely genius level) kids, and in my direct personal experience I have found that

(a) the notation is not a problem, and that

(b) doing the mechanics opens the door to internalising the structures and enables the understanding of the ideas.

In my experience, trying to grasp the ideas and concepts without working on what seem to be tedious, mechanical and apparently unnecessary processes results in a flailing about, an inability to anchor those concepts in experience or intuition. It's the mechanics and the processes that let you internalise the patterns and start to build your own structures, into which the ideas and concepts can then be fitted, making a coherent structure.

So forgive me if I regard your pronouncements with a degree of suspicion and scepticism.
Funny. I was at more or less that point about two years ago. My desire for more of that lead down a slippery slope that ended in Emacs. And for some reason I am now coming full circle and realize that I don't actually require a lot of these plugins any more.

I'm still trying to figure out why I feel that way.
Without commenting on any of the other aspects of this,

The petition couldn't get 25 THOUSAND signatures, although I think it was up for at least a month (I tried to sign at one point before the Wired article but it was also down)

In a country of 300 MILLION.

Do you really think this was some sort of conspiracy to silence the masses? Do you really think this was going anywhere?

Go to Change.org & or the White House site again and start a new one if you want. And actually SIGN it this time.
This is the efficiency post that I kept coming back to when starting to use the command line more:
http://shebang.brandonmintern.com/tips-for-remote-unix-work-...

I'm seeing a lot of people respond about using similar setups with different tools. It doesn't really matter whether you use awesome/xmonad/ratpoison or something else, but I can tell that the people who built the tools I use think about computers the same way I do (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way). I'm striving for this:
http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358020 <- A few comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369172 <- More comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4367967

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369287

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369993

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369205

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4370011
A recent example of a terrible product name is Fit Sliq Jeans by H&M. Fit sounds very similar to "fitta", the Swedish word for cunt and Sliq sounds like "slicka", i.e. (to) lick. You would think that in a global company such as H&M, which has its roots in Sweden, there would be at least one person who would notice the error.

http://adland.tv/content/unfortunate-name-or-genious-marketi...
Strictly speaking, this redirects its stdin to EtherPad.

If you pipe something into it, the first command's stdout will become this script's stdin.
5. hire a copywriter
"movements of the hand were to be conserved as much as possible."

Citation needed. I seriously doubt writing speed was the limiting factor for any mathematician (and that by at least an order of magnitude, but that is guessing). For some, paper might have been expensive, but even then, I doubt it forced them to write succinctly.

Your method probably is a good one for being doing passive maths and probably will be of help for doing real math, too. Even the memorization of such things as multiplication tables helps there. For example, it may help you spot that all numbers in some sequence are prime, divisible by 17, or whatever, and that, in turn, can lead to a proof (I remember reading about a famous mathematician numerically approximating some integral, immediately seeing "hey, but that looks like X" (with X being something like log(27) or the sine of the square root of three or so), and from there, getting the inspiration to algebraically solve a class of problems, but cannot find a link for that)
Your condescension is unwarranted and inappropriate.

You stated that unemployment is driven by demand. You also stated that there's no evidence unemployment is driven by a mismatch between the pattern of demanded skills vs. the pattern of present skills.

I am not arguing with you about these claims. I am just going on what you say to me. The combination of those claims LOGICALLY ENTAILS that unemployment, being driven by weak demand in every sector, and NOT just by weak demand for certain skills in specific sectors, MUST be driven by weak demand for labor overall, across sectors; in other words, every single sector does not need any more labor of any kind.

This is what you actually said. If you didn't mean it, then you should have said something else.

What I said... which is true... is that this is an extreme claim, and eminently testable. And you still haven't provided any test of it. Although you seem to expect me to believe it. So rather than linking to Krugman again... why don't you provide evidence for the extreme claims you are making?

By the way... I am a regular reader of Krugman's because I like a lot of what he says, so if you cannot be "clear enough" and cannot defend your extreme claims to a Krugman fan, then the problem isn't that you are being discriminated against on the basis of ideology. It is that you are making bold claims which have certain entailments, you are refusing to recognize these entailments and you are refusing to provide evidence to support the claims at the same time as you refuse to withdraw them.
I'd love brightswipe.com please :) tekknolagi@gmail.com

EDIT: I can show you some uses I have for the domains at the moment... they're products! Just getting a designer. BrightSwipe would be a brilliant name.
> Facebook used to be GETDROPBOX.COM

Perhaps you mean "thefacebook.com?"
Many many. I just discussed this with our office manger - checking eligibility is not a problem for us (nor would it be for most practices in my opinion) using web services already in place....and especially not free vs a dollar per 20 queries.

I'm not actually a fan of insurance companies, but please explain why I would want to pay for the hassle of dealing with Yet Another third-party and at the same time expose my patient's protected health info to Yet Another layer of risk?
I love vim and I've used it for many years, but for programming I've found the "code understanding" features of an IDE to be as valuable as the dexterity that vim allows in terms of input and navigation. I do not simply mean syntax checking--a baseline in my opinion, but more of things like inheritance hierarchy navigation, refactoring of code (e.g. renaming all instances of a particular local variable, a particular function, etc etc, without the risk of a simple text substitution), mark occurrences (showing all of the reads and/or writes of a particular the variable under the cursor in all views), and so on. It is even better if your IDE can run parts of the compiler on the fly (an instructor once told me that eclipse does this with java. However, I'm not sure if it's feasible for something like C++ due to the complexity of the language). And then you have all of the other features of the IDE at your fingertips too (e.g. an integrated debugger or profiler).

A few years ago I searched high and low for something satisfactory that combines the text editing/navigation of vim with the extremely useful features of an IDE. The closest thing I could find for C++ was Netbeans combined with the jVi plugin. The VIM functionality provided by such a setup is not too barebones, and the IDE fills in the gaps where other VIM plugins may have been used. There may be something better now, but I've grown accustomed to this setup and it takes a substantial amount of time and effort to reroll.

There is also Eclipse CDT and the "eclim" plugin for it (which actually uses an existing vim process. Since this means that all of the other vim functionality and vim plugins work in tandem with the IDE, this is the ideal setup), but I recall that there was much lacking with both Eclipse CDT and "eclim" itself (I do not recall exactly what, but, again, this was a few years ago). Things may be different now and I encourage anyone looking for something similar to take a peek at both Netbeans with the jVi plugin and Eclipse CDT with the eclim plugin.
Facebook used thefacebook.com to begin with, because its original name when founded was Thefacebook. This was changed a year later to Facebook when it purchased facebook.com.
Knuth actually had some similar things to say about mathematical notation. Coming from programming and making my way into math, I can vouch for the fact that mathematical notation can be at times annoyingly inconsistent and vague. That being said, I don't think it would really help anybody learn fundamental concepts any better.
This is nonsense. You could eat your corn in rows because adding butter to a row is a hell of a lot easier than buttering a spiral.
How is it simpler than Date.today+30.days?
Yeah it's a little complicated historically. We used to have a nice "old growth" forest, with big oak trees etc. Nothing like the amount of cover we have now, but a lot. Then the British took basically all of the nice oaks for ships, and farming and so on cleared a lot of the rest. ~100 years ago people started feeling nostalgic about all the trees (plus farming in the area plummeted when soldiers from the Civil War returned with stories of real topsoil! and land you didn't have to remove rocks from every spring!) and a reforestation effort started. Unfortunately there is also an infestation of bugs that eat the tips off of trees so now we're stuck with tons of crappy pines with a few oaks and maples finally showing up.
Really?? I find that astonishing. Do you have a citation?
Price discrimination is an aspect of free markets.

When the government outlaws price discrimination, it is interfering with the freedom of the market.
very clever