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You're assuming that legitimate sites that help independent artists won't receive many copyright takedown requests. It's difficult for sites to control what their users upload and they typically rely on the DMCA. If this system is abused, new legitimate sites that respect DMCA can still be buried.

This does level the playing field for Youtube. They've been facing issues with videos that have been filtered for content falling under fair use and over-aggressive labels making mistaken takedowns. A new user-contributed video startup will now have to develop the same filtering and protections, or they risk being buried by Google through this system.
Different parts of the government have different capabilities. For example, the CIA may have more resources than the post office. And perhaps even more highly trained employees.

But many conspiracy theories are just silly...

JERRY: Just give me some idea of what you think it could be.

GEORGE: I don't know if you're ready for it.

JERRY: Please.

GEORGE: I believe that I am about to become the target of a systematic process of intimidation and manipulation, the likes of which you have never -

JERRY: Hold it, hold it! You're right, I'm not ready for this.
"This American Life" is not a news program. But you already knew that.
The biggest problem with math is the language. If it were a programming language, we would call it crufty and obscurantist.

The language and notation really needs to be rebooted and cleaned up. Math with a sane notation would be significantly easier to learn.

The other -- and closely related -- problem is with how math is taught. It is taught procedure-first, not language-first and concept-first. It is impossible to understand math without being able to read the notation and translate it into relevant concepts. Doing the mechanics is secondary (and often done by computers these days).
So he really didn't understand neural networks?
The term was coined by Bart Smaalders in his article “Performance Anti-Patterns”, ACM Queue, Vol. 4, No. 1, February 2006.
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But they aren't harmful to the innovation process, rather they provide an incentive to innovate for as long as you can.

No, they merely reduce the incentive to innovate.

Taxes don't harm you while you innovate (which is a good thing - don't get me wrong), they harm you when you try to reap the proceeds of innovation.
Sounds a bit like patent trolls for search results in many ways.

Also if I want to buy some fruit and search for Apple, well can see how that works. The internet is open to all and more people eat apples than will ever own a iApple device. Not best example given it uses apples, but is easy to use as an example when you compare searching for apple over a pear. With that you can see how rightsholders factored into search results can play out. Currently search's bias to towards a geek bias and thats fine for us geek. Though it does put of non geeks who might want to buy and apple and not have the search engine kung-fu to see past the rightsholder layers they will encounter and as such shape there mindset. Think I'll like this to milking sheep and whilst this wont effect me or you, it will effect many and they wont even know it, bah.
I know that if a third party service wants to tie to Facebook, I immediately say "No thanks".

Same here. I tend to assume that any company so coupled to Facebook probably has the same concern about user privacy as Facebook, i.e. none.
From the GeekWire article:

"You know, I was at a conference recently where someone said, “Well, do you feel good about what you’re doing?” I turned to this person who is an entrepreneur at a prominent social networking website, and I said, “OK, fine. You’re about people sending little messages to each other and having fun on a social network. How big is your malaria project?” …is Zynga doing God’s work? Is Facebook doing God’s work?"

Nothing quite as rich as sanctimonious shit from a rich scatologist
I agree 100% with this. Math will be a lot easier to learn with better tools.
I wouldn't say that. I've always seen it like a physicist dropping a negative: he understands and when he sees the result he immediately knows what he did wrong but a little careless thought at the time led to a silly mistake.
The photographer wasn't without recognition. He is now a published co-author in a scientific journal. That's something.
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This is only relevant for suburban (or village) style settlements.

For example, most of ex-USSR cities are built in huge 5-, 9- or 15-floor apartment blocks with lots of trees around them.

In this case, trees tell you nothing: there might be few trees because the part of the city is newly-built; there are no trees in historic inner city but it's usually the best and most expensive place. If there's a plenty of trees, it still tells you nothing.
I'll be really excited if this works for _truly top-notch_ restaurants. It would be awesome to avoid the lines and eat the same quality food in the comfort of my own home. Would make for an awesome dinner-party...
It depends.

Are you touching the code because you need to fix a bug in it? If so, then yes.

If you need to maintain this piece of code then you might as well fix it to the best of your ability and knowledge, but please be careful.

Are you touching the code because you came across it, and you don't like how it looks? If so, then no.

It's a shame that unreadable code exists, but you can't save the world. My mom used to tell me "Don't sit in someone else's pile of shit." Meaning, if someone else made a mess, and if you're the last person to touch it, you're going to look like the one who did it. There are bigger fish to fry in any software project than shitty-code-that-hasn't-been-touched-in-a-while-that-works.
_delirium: I highly recommend you read this short biography of Scottish scientist James Croll, who developed the modern theory of Ice Ages -- with little formal education, he decided to become a scientist while working as a janitor at the age of 38: http://www.guildtownandwolfhill.org.uk/assets/files/pdf/Jame...

Edit: submitted the link as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4370924 because Croll's story can be very inspirational for the many entrepreneurs on HN who're coping with the challenges of building a business from scratch.
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Yeah, he should have at least put the photographer's name in there somewhere.
This is a terrific idea and nicely executed. Anything that abstracts away from video discovery on Youtube is a good thing.

I like to watch this sort of talk in the bath and I have to work pretty hard to avoid the 4min lightning talks, the blurry mumblers regurgitating a blogpost from their bedroom and the 2009 v0.1 talks. Every time I have to change video there's a strong chance of the laptop going in the tub.
I agree this is probably what's happening but I'm worried this might change in the future. Right now I think all that happens is that the link is removed from the search results but if the site itself is also penalized, I'm afraid content owners can now see the value of sending both a DMCA and copyright takedown notice simultaneously.
"The Picture Show" is not a news program either.
And the amount of heed the administration pays to those petitions is still none.

I've actually signed a previous TSA petition, and gotten a letter from the white house brushing it off (available here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/abolish-tsa-and-us...). Same with the legalization of marijuana petition I signed, and the support same-sex marriage one I signed (later they changed their position on this one), and the... I forget now which other ones I signed, but they have all gotten eventual responses from the white house that are basically polite brush-offs.
I don't read tutorials written by people with bad English. Life's too short, and too many better alternatives already exist.
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One nitpick is that he never answers his own question about how this doesn't violate conservation of angular momentum. The simple answer is that the angular momentum is zero before and after the cat flips over and is thus conserved. There is no conservation of angular orientation principle.

Practice question: imagine you're floating in space and facing away from the earth. How would you turn around to face it?
What level of network connections do most datacenters have?
Like what they said about Kevin Mitnick: that he could “whistle into a telephone and launch a nuclear missile from Norad.”
James Croll – Joiner. Janitor. Genius?
I still disagree. I think you are arguing for the inclusion of, at the least, grep, cut, head and tail in cat.

I do not claim that is a bad idea (conceptually, pipes do not require multiple processes, and those tools could be dynamically linked in) but why stop at those tools? Some people would argue that sed and awk also should be in, others would mention perl, etc.

I also do not see why it would be faster to use an external gzip tool through a pipe. If it is, the writer of the 'tool with built-in unzip' could always, in secret, start an external unzip process to do the work.
It's pretty presumptuous to call someone a dick when you know none of the details of the situation. It's entirely possible that he asked the guy if he wanted to name it and he turned it down.
I agree, but also find it hilarious that this title is on the front page.
Sounds like a load of coblers to me, I prefer to buy it from KFC and then add extra butter and lick it off then eat down the main shaft and and then the ends and typewritter style the rest. Given that it would indicate I like to outsource, male prostitute and like safe methodical approach's. Guess I should go back to being a contract programmer!
There is an alternative theory. Google isn't being strongarmed but they also aren't trying to improve search results. Instead they're trying to build moats around products like Youtube. By appeasing the content owners, the favor might be returned with, for example, exclusive content just for Youtube.

Note: I'm not saying this is the case.
if you're not in the academia rat race, "published co-author in a scientific journal" is useless.
That requires the first byte sent be compatible with whatever format is ultimately used. As an example for ps, the first byte in JSON should be a { while for plain text it should be space. (We get a little lucky since a space would also be acceptable for JSON, but I doubt there is a universal first byte.) And an initial space isn't accept for a programs like find or grep in either text or null separation mode.

I don't want to belittle what you've done, but the point remains. This can't be done robustly without an additional system call. What you have is tantalizingly close. Even a call as simple as telling the sender that the receiver has called read() would complete your solution.
The last time this question was asked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1984568
Chicken Head Tracking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPlkFPowCc
In Europe at least, a good way to tell is to look at which material the roofs are covered with. Noticed that while flying from over Switzerland to over Silesia. The percentage of red clay rooftop tiles (which also stand out among green trees) decreases as you move east, until everything starts looking very drab and gray.
Ask HN: what software do people use for project management?
What are your experiences with teambox, basecamp, flow, wunderkit in a startup environment?
Why does the author obsess about nude photos? The security hole exposes any photos. This does a disservice to the public (I must not have anything to worry about, I don't have any nude photos on there), and generally makes the author seem like a really creepy guy.
Actually, as noted in comments above, it's Bill Gates paying for the malaria research.
Of course, because when I'm trying to argue on HN comments I always do comprehensive statistical analysis.

I cited three articles, found in a couple of seconds, not the entire corpus of Marco's on-record statements regarding Apple.
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Physicists often take shortcuts based on physical intuition, e.g. symmetry arguments.

I remember having trouble understanding equilibrium charge distributions when studying E&M -- laws such as "at electrostatic equilibrium, all charge is on the surface of the conductor" -- the questions of whether such a static equilibrium exists, is unique, or is a place you'll always end up from an arbitrary initial configuration weren't really addressed. (The best I could come up with is that any movement of charge will eventually die out due to friction, but this was more of a vague intuition than a satisfying explanation.)

Anyway, I guess if you have the physics gene, you just have a strong intuition that tells you the answers to questions like these. I didn't have it.

Physics is better for people who like to trust their intuition. Math is more programming-like in that the people who do well tend to be hard-nosed about details and corner cases.
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The article clearly claims the White House removed it BEFORE its expiration time. On the other hand, the White House page looks like a boilerplate 404 with no mentions of start and end times.
Go back and look at Newton's and Leibniz's notation. Math notation, proof structure, and simplicity are continually getting cleaned up. The thing is, math is HARD.
Looks like the author (?) is female (Katie Notopoulos), but reading further all I can say is that the whole article/post comes across as just... incredibly casual is the only way I can describe it. For instance, the 4chan ref:

>For a long time, I’ve seen threads on 4chan of images of girls’ “hacked Photobucket” images, but I typically ignored them, having little interest in photos of possibly underage nude girls.
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Huh. I had completely skipped the byline. In either case, the tone of the article says more about the author than the facts.
This security loop hole has been there for years, they haven't fixed it since I last toyed with it a long time ago.
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I'm pretty sure I've heard this site described as an "online activism honeypot".
> Going out on a limb, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that where people fall in the emacs/vi debate is correlated with how they eat corn. I wouldn't predict a very strong correlation, but I'd expect that emacs is likely to appeal to people who would like algebra, and vi to people who like analysis.

I would guess exactly the opposite way. Vi defines a sort of a composable language for editing text. Commands are combined of atoms giving a verb describing an action, number of times to repeat and movement over a range to apply the action on. It all becomes a semi-algebraic system of text editing.
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It doesn't have any impact on your predilection for algebra or analysis, it just makes you a heathen heretic who doesn't understand the greatness of corn on the cob. Unless you have dental issues, or are 6, the corn is to be eaten on the cob.
I agree that math formula are hard to memorize because the language is terrible. It's from an age when things were handwritten and movements of the hand were to be conserved as much as possible.

I used to have a bit of trouble with math but I found out , somewhat counter-intuitively, that the key, at least for me, is rote memorization of formula. When I was having trouble I always tried to understand how to derive rules from proof but this was impractical when trying to do higher mathematics as the level of abstraction got to be too much. I found it just easier to simply memorize algebraic formula, derivatives, integrals, properties of infinite series, etc with flash cards or repetitive exercises and then apply them as if they were simply given. Maybe I'll never be a great mathematician, but all I really want is to be able to read CS papers and understand analogue electronics.
Can you share, which of Arthur Schopenhauer's stratagems have you used in your reply? (http://coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/)

From the last paragraph I got you're OK with having an unregulated surveillance system in the US which records information about you and makes god-knows-what conclusions from your movements, behaviour etc. And that's absolutely fine, you are entitled to your opinion.

But you have taken much efforts trying to ridicule OP's use of words "digital", "encrypted, "instantaneously", "undisclosed" etc. How is this discussion tactics called?
So this petition won't get boilerplate "We heard you, thanks for your feedback, don't you know we are so awesome for responding to you? Please vote for us and we'd consider reading your next petitions while continuing to do absolutely what we want!" response from some White House intern? This is a major setback for the cause of freedom. We all know how much impact other petitions made, if only this one could have the same resounding success!

Seriously, if this petition didn't get 25K signatures in an hour, White House has absolutely no reason to be so afraid as to try and hide it. There's no revolution brewing. And calling your representative and letting him know you'd base your next vote on this issue is more effective (provided that enough people actually do it) than any of the internet petitions anyway.
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New Hampshire has the 6th highest rate of millionaires per capita, and 9th highest income per person overall. We often top CQ's "Most livable states" list (which looks at schools, job growth etc.) We also have the highest percentage of tree cover in the nation. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/08/06/new.hampshire.le...
How woukd Google make any money by buying an insurance policy that has the employee's family as beneficiary? They can't save more on taxes than they pay on premiums.
From the article: "The White House unexpectedly cut short the time period for the petition."

This is distinct, by the way, from a separate outage for maintenance: "The site ALSO went down for 'maintenance' following a Wired article that sought support for the campaign." (Emphasis added.)
Of course how you eat corn predicts nothing (except how you eat corn of course :D). Most people are neither analysts nor algebraists. I'm a trained mathematician and analyst, but I eat corn like algebraist. Now what :D.
Yahoo is on the defensive here. There are two ways it can go:

1. Attack. Keep probing for new markets via acquisitions and new product development. Try to catch up to competitors by increasing investment in core competencies.

2. Retreat. Quit some markets by folding or selling business units. Focus resources selectively on core competencies. Return excess capital and sale proceeds to investors via dividends.

I think the dividend warning is a signal that Mayer is planning on option #1. This is actually good news; most companies' stock value is much greater than their sale price. If Yahoo chose option #2, its decline would likely become irreversible as morale and reputation suffered due to the cuts, and investors would suffer enormous losses. With option #1, Yahoo has a decent chance of recapturing its former greatness, or at least stabilizing its position.

The holding pattern Yahoo's been in since the early 2000's is the reason for its decline; it's time for them to either raise or fold.
This isn't exactly what you've requested, but it's still a very good basic electronics guide -

Make: Electronics
http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Pla...

Part of the book is breaking things to see how they work which is much cooler than thinking of things as a black box.
The corn-on-the-cob interview would also tell the interviewee a lot about the company. Let's look at two variables:

* Good fresh sweet corn vs. stale starchy corn

* Butter and salt vs. no butter and salt (I'm combining "butter and salt" as a single variable for simplicity - and I mean butter and salt already on the corn, not available on the side.)

Here are my completely speculative, subjective interpretations of the four possible combinations - and so you know my prejudice up front, I'm a fresh sweet corn with no butter and salt guy:

1) Stale starchy corn, no butter or salt: Your company doesn't care about quality, and doesn't even know that it doesn't care.

2) Stale starchy corn with butter and salt: Your company produces poor quality products but tries to cover it up with a slick-looking user interface.

3) Fresh sweet corn with butter and salt: Your company doesn't know quality when it sees it. It probably has a strict coding standard that dates back many years, and no one dares question whether these are good coding practices or not.

4) Fresh sweet corn, no butter or salt: Yes! Can I work here? :-)

Now that I think about it, serving fresh sweet corn with butter and salt on the side would also give the company some interesting information:

1) Interviewee immediately butters and salts the corn before tasting it: You are set in your ways - you know that corn is a starchy vegetable that needs butter and salt to be palatable, just as you know that the one language you've always coded in is the best for every situation.

2) Interviewee tastes corn first, then butters and salts it (or just doesn't eat it) if stale and starchy, or eats it plain if sweet and fresh: You know that things which appear identical are not always the same. You investigate before coding and adapt to the situation.

(No offense intended to anyone who genuinely likes butter and salt on fresh sweet corn!)
There is recent work along these lines for birds specifically, e.g., [1]. It's not anywhere near human accuracy and I think it's only a couple hundred species but it does kind of work.

[1] http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~farrell/birdlets/iccv11-camer...
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Well, right, and then dedicated an entire episode to a retraction and apology, which is to say that even that show clearly takes verification seriously.