skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I'm not a native English speaker, I had to google what "Jamming" was about and found this article in Wikipedia where actually explains the difference between Jamming and Interference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming
It's all relative, isn't it? Let's be honest, there are people who consider r/ainbow to be more objectionable than r/creepshots. It's sad but true.
Maybe worth reminding in connection with the article: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ - how many bits of identifying information your browser leaks from its configuration itself. Even on a fresh profile with none of the privacy-leaking stuff like cookies or cache.
The Patience
The Focus
Nice interactive graphic showing the breakdown by country
http://www.nature.com/news/lands-of-promise-7.6955?article=1...
How The Difference Engine Worked
The most impressive part of this page to me is that way you animated the hot coffee mug.
That would be true IF after the model T came out there was no evidence that the rest of the population was interested in buying cars. But instead it turned out that everyone wanted a car.

For MS, or Google, or anyone to really play in the space, they need to get ahead of Apple, not catch up.
Nice job with Countly, looks really good.

This has nothing to do with countly per se, but I think the notion of building products with tools & services that have zero acquisition/billing cost is becoming passe. There are so many tools and options available and the growth of the freemium business model around the software space ensures a growing ecosystem that's becoming more and more specialized around those tools & services. I believe we're rapidly approaching an inflection point where use of zero-cost tools & services is nearly expected.

Congrats to the team on the choices made in building the product, though. That's where the real value is in the equation.
Apple was hit with this because they _were_ in effect defaming Samsung by being extremely aggressive about making statements about how they had a slam dunk case that Samsung were ripping them off, well beyond just saying they were "confident" or similar vague phrase that parties often throw around.

If they'd left the talking to their lawyers in the court room, this would indeedhave been a strange ruling. But the judge has in effect made an attempt at providing Samsung restitution of sorts for the false claims Apple were repeatedly making in the press.
It looks to me like the lowest hanging fruit in terms of reducing the program's run time is in the PPM output code.

https://github.com/sol-prog/async_tutorial/blob/master/ppm.c...

Three calls to ostream::write() for each and every pixel. oof.
AOL Might Just Have Invented Email’s Next UI Paradigm
Other instructions in the same thread are executed (when they can be, e.g. all data's available). Or in another hyperthread on the same core.
I don't like the design of Unity, but I put up with it for a simple reason - it's been working stable without crashes here from the start. As long as they keep that I'm fine and hope they improve the rest over time.
You're almost certainly not the "only one." But, most of us don't bother because it doesn't provide any additional security (and might mislead you into thinking you can make your network less secure).

See "Why Non-broadcast Networks are not a Security Feature" at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726942.aspx#EDA...
The characterization of Reddit as "trying to speak out of both sides of its mouth" is misplaced. There is nothing inconsistent about affirming someone's right to say something while acknowledging that the content of said speech is deplorable. In the US (and Reddit is US company), we have a long and extolled history of this exact behavior. Was the ACLU being inconsistent when they defended the rights of Nazis to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois [1]?

Others here have rightly pointed out that Reddit is not government, and that they aren't obliged to allow all legal speech. However, in an age of increasing acceptance of voluntary censorship (walled gardens, etc) Reddit has chosen to take the principled position of allowing its users to self moderate its content, only intervening in cases of illegality.

If one thinks that creepshots-style content shouldn't be allowed (and there are certainly compelling arguments for this case), one should petition the government to classify it as illegal, not wrongly criticize Reddit for taking the consistent position that they have.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union#...
Both Megaupload and The Pirate Bay have recently announced plans to use redundant datacenters in a multi-country approach to eliminate downtime.

Why would a person host their entire company from one location, like AWS US-East?
That was an attraction for me as well. I used to read the NYT each day, but it was easier (and less paper) when I switched to the Economist. Now after reading it, I'm just an Economist fanboy because of the content.
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lUyUKtD...
This isn't that hard to do. You just need a dish, a suitable power source and point it at the satellite. Because of the, in general, wide area that a satellite is looking down on the transmitter can be anywhere in quite a wide area (even when you are talking about the relatively narrow uplink antenna).

Given that these satellites are geostationary they can be seen from a very wide area on the ground. Back in 2003 Telstar-12 was jammed from a station in Cuba apparently run by Iran (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH22Ak03.html) to block transmissions to the Americas and Europe.
This is similar to what CoinLab is doing. Gamers run the the CoinLab mining client in exchange for in-game currency.
Both of the "moral high ground" actions the author suggests Reddit make are in fact punishments, presumably for the crime of allowing "despicable filth" to be "peddled" on their site. Reddit doing neither is actually quite rational. Although the author obviously does not find this morally satisfying, I am firmly on Reddit's side here. I really appreciate how hands-off they are.

I find this Adrian Chen figure, however, to be of bad character. I don't particularly like Mr Brutsch, but I like moral-hysteria witch hunts even less. Talk about misusing your privileged position in the media to play judge, jury and executioner to some misguided schmuck. Hope he gets signed up to a few dozen more of those mailing lists.
Screw tops also allow oxygen to flow through, in fact, it can even be 'controlled'[1].
This way the caps on some younger wines allow more oxygen to flow through than the older 'lay-down' ones etc.

Overall, a screw-cap is a way better option, one of the biggest wine vendors in France (Chateau Bonnet from the famous André Lurton) switched to caps some years ago after extensive research and also prefers them above traditional cork for all wines. Furthermore see [2], they list the following advantages:

- No cork taint

- No more sporadic oxidation

- Screwcaps avoid flavour modification, including scalping

- Both red and white wines can age under screwcap

- A reliable long-term seal

- Cellaring

- Recycling

[1] http://www.mutineermagazine.com/blog/2008/05/screw-this-cap-...

[2] http://www.screwcapinitiative.com/normal.asp?navID=24&pa...
One is Lindsay Lohan and one is your wife.
Turn-by-turn directions was an Android innovation?

Because I could swear that I've got a Windows Mobile 5.0 smart phone in the office that has Tom Tom software running on it that has been about since before the iPhone or Android existed.

As for your criticisms as to how the iPhone works in the real world, the iPhone's industry leading customer satisfaction ratings (and by a comfortable margin) suggests that you might be overstating the case just a smidge.
Cool! There are a lot of times I'm building a quick and dirty site and this will be really helpful
But then any random passerby could harvest phone numbers easily. And because of the nature of a) cell phones and b) wireless networks, there isn't really a good correlation from wifi-availability to geographic location to actual phone location. You might know all of your neighbours' phone numbers, but not which goes with whom, nor which ones are on your floor, or even in your building. And just imagine someone phoning them all to try to find out who's playing music at night.
Both valid points. It's sad that someone like Bassons is at a disadvantage.

You're right doping doesn't level the playing field. However, for better or worse it's part of the playing field. Of course, nothing about pro sports is ever fair. Money matters even taking drugs out of the equation. It buys you better bikes, trainers, doctors, training facilities, etc.

As far as some people responding better to drugs, well sports are pretty heavily defined by our bodies. Responding well to drugs is analogous to responding well to training, it's an asset for an athlete to have in today's world.
The appeal reduces it to a month, and they just have to have a link on the homepage saying "Apple / Samsung ruling" which I'm guessing isn't going to be that visible.

Minor inconvenience in the great scheme of things.
A Second Chance for Sprint and Dan Hesse
>Why is it axiomatic that the protection of freedom of speech is always a good thing?

Why are you making that assumption? Nothing was said about the goodness of it. The fact was simply stated that reddit considers it important, so they uphold it. You don't have to agree with reddit, nobody is saying everyone has to uphold free speech everywhere.
That's a pretty dramatic overstatement in the context of this discussion. There's no "reasonable expectation" of privacy in the sense of preventing people from seeing you and monitoring your publicly visible travels. That word "reasonable" is important. You do have a reasonable expectation that there won't be peephole cameras in dressing rooms and hidden mirrors on the floor everywhere you turn.

And safety is also a bit odd to bring up here. There certainly is a reasonable expectation of safety in public in the legal sense. In what situation is there ever a lack of the expectation of safety to such a degree that it could be used as a defense by someone harming you?
Is there really that much money in databases as a service ? Setting up mongo for me is a one step process

yum install mongod-server && service start mongod
We cannot be held liable for abuses we committed, because we didn't spend the effort to think before we acted.

That about wraps it up...
Flipping Apps: Secondary Mobile App Market Taking Off
You say that, but after reading half of this HN discussion, after being a Redditor for many years, after consulting two dictionaries, and after googling "doxx", I still have absolutely no idea what that "precise definition" is. In fact, I have no idea what the word is supposed to mean at all, other than from context.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...

It's quite a brilliant thing. The problem is mods are really abusing it here on HN (you should hallban seasoned trolls. Not someone that trolls once or twice in a year, or worse, someone who isn't even trolling but just said something stupid or out-of-place).
It's the Wikia play on becoming the QA for specific things.

Quora couldn't grow because they wanted to become THE site, SO is smart enough to pander to niches.
Since MongoHQ is profitable, empirically, yes.
"It's just a joke" is a defense of everything. It's a reflection on the human condition - it's how intelligent people cope with the horrors of humanity.

Or do you think we should still be mourning six million Jews? Slavery? Cancer? AIDS? Terrorism?

We're all going to die some day. We're all going to go through some horrible shit before we die. At least some of us can laugh about it.

I'd never been to /r/creepshots, and I'm not blaming anyone with regards to /r/jailbait - I don't know what blame there is to place.
Users are required to hand over encryption keys in several countries, including the UK. Worse, encryption keys are likely to find their way to Google ("check out this great $POPULAR_ARTIST song: www.mega.com/mykey"), so proving that Mega hosts lots of infringing content will be really easy. Finally, Mega can easily detect such files just by looking at the access patterns (10MB plus lots of hits from all over the world? Likely pirated MP3.)

Of course, all of this assumes that they get the crypto right in the first place.
> I think this only happens if the user manually switches to Latin-1 encoding.

That's correct. If you send your HTML document with a charset of UTF-8 (In the Content-Type header) then IE will submit forms using UTF-8 even if the user doesn't input any UTF-8 characters. Unless the user changes the encoding, but I have yet to hear a compelling reason why an ordinary user would do that under ordinary circumstances.

> The snowman hack serves to prevent the corruption from spreading.

It's clever, but the framework could also just reject POST and GET requests which contain invalid UTF-8 characters. (I'm flabbergasted that Ruby doesn't do this[1].) Otherwise a malicious user could try to inject non-UTF-8 characters into your database by sending crafted requests which nevertheless contain the "utf8=✓". And speaking from experience, you do not want to have to deal with encoding problems in your database.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3222013/what-is-the-snowm...
I downloaded it and looked at Estonia's flag. It's all wrong. I don't personally care, it looks close enough, but some people might take issue with this.

The ratio is 3:2, but the correct ratio is 11:7. The colors are wrong, both the gradients and flat versions. The correct RGB colors are well defined. [1]

[1] Colors and ratio are defined on this page http://valitsus.ee/et/riigikantselei/riigi-ja-omavalitsuste-...
If you're shipping hardware, why would it need to run well under Xen?
If you go to a flea market, and the lady at the stall gives the person after you a 20% lower price because you looked rich (inelastic) and they looked poor (elastic), would you be angry about that?

Amazon is doing the same thing but with numbers.
Being an atheist or smoking weed is your own personal choice, stalking women so you can take suggestive pictures of them so that a community of fellow stalkers can oogle is a violation of another person's integrity. If you are suggesting that kind of behavior is equivalent to what is going on in r/atheism or r/trees, you might want to reexamine your views on stalking and sexism against women.
No problems here with lenovo t500.
You seem to describe satellite uplink jamming: perturbing the link going from the content provider to the satellite. I would expect this uplink would be redundant and encrypted in some way. Maybe even using optical communication for it, which would enable having a very narrow uplink receiver.

Thinking about it, jamming the downlink in a large area to get the same effect seems to be much harder than jamming the uplink.
I agree. In some ways social ads are a step back from that, but only because you establish contact with your customers much before they have needs that you can satisfy. So the time to first sale is a lot longer.

But I think, on the flip side, the relationships you develop with them are a lot stronger and a lot more powerful. The problem is, it's very hard to back that up empirically because it's a lot more complicated than just measuring CTR.
So would this be AES written in JS, or an extension?
It's a shame that the author didn't take the oportunity to mak e the answers more readable. I read about one third of the article but found it to confusing and difficult to read :(
These corks will be really expensive: over a Euro each.

I'm surprised that with top-quality corks being so valuable, there isn't an incentive to recycle the material. I also wonder if there is a collector's market for vintage corks.
Lindsay Lohan isn't a person? She doesn't deserve any respect for her privacy or her feelings? Publishing pictures of her crotch is totally cool because she's (in)famous, but publishing pictures of some random woman fully clothed standing in line at the grocery store is horrible and abusive? I fail to see any logical way that anyone can be against one and not the other.
Usability Testing: the secret sauce of startups
>Mega can easily detect such files just by looking at the access patterns (10MB plus lots of hits from all over the world? Likely pirated MP3.)

How is that pattern any different from a musician legitimately distributing an mp3?
Learned something new today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomizat...
Ok - I cannot reply to your child post @aviraldg
but I really want to know what utf-8 construct turned your text upside down.
> It reminds me of Soviets erasing people from history.

Because taking down a video of a dancing baby is comparable to a reign of terror that spawned "one million is a statistic"? Please, this kind of hyperbole just cheapens the tragedy.
This is good. My question is, has PPC become too prohibitive for the average small business?

Any alternate networks out there? (I know of one, but haven't given it a shot)
The FCC has a policy whereby they absolutely refuse to approve content before it airs, even if networks explicitly ask. This is not a legal requirement, since the FCC levies fines for content that does not meet "community standards", it is deference to the fundamental principles of free speech whereby they would have a de facto pre-approval board.

Both this post and the Gawker post bizarrely talk about free speech as though it is an excuse for bad behavior. Free speech is considered a social good in its own right. Furthermore, in the writings of the authors of the US Constitution, and in numerous Supreme Court decisions, they do not only talk about government being prohibited from silencing people, they talk about policies that are implicitly dangerous by virtue of cooling the public debate.

Defending the principles of free speech is a difficult challenge when it comes to defending unpleasant and despicable groups. I don't find it credible or reasonable to claim that Reddit protected violentacres because it made them money, when it so clearly tarnishes their brand, and makes it more difficult for people to forward links, or otherwise talk about why they enjoy the site.

The economics may be counter intuitive (much in the same way that Lance Armstrong hurts the Nike brand now as much as he may have ever benefited it), but Reddit is more responsive to the criticism of despised groups because of its commercial interests. Take a nonprofit, community access television channel like Manhattan Neighborhood Network—I swear that I saw a show on that channel that had to be entirely about some creeper who was filming women walking by his apartment window on the way to work.

This post, and others, are based on the presumption that caring about the principles of free speech, and that recognizing that often ugly but lively debate is important to a dynamic society, is the same as wanting to see depraved and perverse content. Do they think the ACLU secretly sympathetic to neo-nazi causes, too?

I find it especially troubling when it comes from journalists make the same presumption, and then clarify that they are implicitly more trustworthy (even if they've ever knocked on the door to someone's home with a camera crew) than someone misbehaving on a public site, or that that is even relevant, as though there are different classes of people when it comes to how much of a voice you are allowed.
Or just upload it to a non-Google service seen as Google are happy to bend over and let the music industry/hollywood do whatever they want.
Absolutely! I commend you for sharing your work, big or small, and I hope people can benefit from this.
Price fixing requires multiple sellers to collude to set prices. Who is the seller besides Amazon in this case?
Doesn't it also make it more difficult for neighbors to check for channel conflicts?
Not sure why you got downvoted. There's a lot of evidence for what you say. The book Living Low Carb by Jonny Bowden provides a ton of citations and information to support exactly this mindset. In fact, it's what I believe as well. Since I was just diagnosed with diabetes, I've eliminated from my diet:

all grains

potatoes

all bread

pasta

table sugar

most processed foods

sodas and other sugar laden beverages

I now eat meat, fish/seafood, dairy, fresh fruit, and fresh vegetables, with a focus on making sure that the carbs I do get are mostly low glycemic load carbs, and that the sugar I get is part of something (fruit,milk) that requires digestion for the sugar to hit my bloodstream.

Living Low Carb makes a strong case that the "fear fat" campaign is, indeed, utter bullshit. And given how damaging sugar is to your body (excess blood sugar contributes to so many maladies it's ridiculous) I'll take my chances going low carb / high fat & protein.
> "Reddit is expressing the moral preference that it’s okay to harass women and photograph them in compromising positions"

Oh come on, that's bull. This is the exact same line of reasoning as "if you're not with us you're against us" - not being against something does not indicate that one is for something, or even condoning of something.

Reddit's position against doxxing means Reddit is against doxxing - any further extrapolations are your own. Reddit's stance on doxxing may result in women being harassed and photographed in compromising situations, but that in no way means that, quote, "Reddit is expressing the moral preference that it’s okay to harass women and photograph them in compromising positions".

That is a patent falsehood, and I find your entire post deeply offensive. This is the same exact argument right-wing politicians have used in the past to take us to war.

By your logic, the burger you had for lunch last week expresses your moral preference for factory farming practices and the grave environment impact of meat consumption. Guilt by association much?
I don't get what your concept of "be held responsible" means:

If the local KKK chapter -- a completely legal entity and one that enjoys the protection of free speech -- holds happy hour at my bar, I can either let them stay or kick them out. Let's say I let them stay, as long as they pay for their beers and not cause any ruckus. Understandably, the non-KKK part of my clientele may feel uncomfortable.

If the rest of the community decides to boycott my bar, are you saying that they, not I, am at a fault in regards to principles of freedom? The financial consequences of a boycott that my bar incurred is what I would consider, "being held responsible."
I know I responded to you elsewhere in another thread, but you said something here that wasn't said there, so I want to speak to just that:

> I don't agree in the slightest with the CreepShots subreddit and what it stands for but blatantly offensive subreddits might be doing a service as lightning rods for censorship advocates.

This issue isn't about censorship, even though there are always those folks calling for censorship when stories like these break. The highly offensive subreddit communities that perpetuate racism and sexism are not helping anyone, but are instead creating a space that encourages continued racism and sexism, esp. physical actions like stalking that are directly harmful to people. These subreddits do not create a stronger community or provide some kind of example of how Reddit can or should be. That the Reddit staff continues to condone those subreddits while profiting off of that user traffic is the worst kind of behavior the owners of a site can take.
This is simply unfair, should the language maintainers be held accountable for user behaviour?
A more interesting and fairer topic is whether PHPs count() is considerably slower than python's len()
Also, this is something where governments also need to step up and educate.

No, no, a million times NO. At least in the US, the government already "educates" people about nutrition, and most of what they're pimping is horrible, horrible advice. I don't want some agency stealing my money, and then using it to teach me shit that's ultimately killing me.