skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1:00 PM -- fraud system links her account to another banned account

1:00 PM -- her account is closed

2:00 PM -- she asks Amazon why her account is closed

3:00 PM -- Amazon makes the statement you claim is libelous

The loss occurred before the statement, so you cannot claim the statement caused that loss. The alleged libel did not result in the damages you're claiming.

Libel would be if Amazon falsely accused her of fraud in public, then her employer terminating her employment as a result of that statement. That is a harm resulting from the statement.
lol, so using the term c!rclejerk automatically makes my comment "dead"? Sheesh.
That makes a bit of sense if they included the cost, but the whole idea doesn't. Why would I pay an extra $80 on a $250 device, just to get 100 MB's of data per month? If I was really looking for 100% Internet connectivity wherever I am, and I'd need a 3G/4G chip inside, I'd probably want a 5 GB data plan to go with it.
Is there a pubsub channel I can listen in on?
Does anyone understand the title of Nature article?

"Italy puts seismology in the dock" ?

is it meant to be "in the dark" ?
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Of course you can do that. But in the context we are discussing - that of Mosh - does it still provide any benefit over regular ssh/tcp?
I have a crazy idea, how about a touch LCD phone that is:

1) actually small enough to fit in my pocket

2) Not PoS 3 years out-of-date hardware designed so that the phone company can offer a "free" smartphone.

The smaller screen would probably greatly improve battery life.
Should be

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draquila_%E2%80%93_L%27Italia_c...
Yes, I bought it and learned it. At that time (1999) I was preparing an interview where questions about this kind of knowledge were expected. I was already an experienced developer, the presentation of the DP was new for me and the promises were exciting. But in fact, I had already encountered most of the patterns in projects that were not great examples of good coding (IMHO).

Outside this interview (I succeeded), knowing DP has never helped me to be a better developer.

The patterns in the GoF are often encountered in libraries written in object oriented languages that do not use much templates or parallelism. There were many in Java library. I think I have not found any of them in the C++ standard library.

Now, I see singleton used everywhere because people are too lazy to design correctly program startup. When tasking is involved, incorrect use of singleton causes very nasty bugs (a crash every month).

For me, singleton is a dangerous pattern (almost as bad as global variables, sometime worse), the others patterns just happen to be the best way to do some common things. Identifying them is never a problem, having a name for them is useful.

The main proof of GoF failure is that we have never seen all the new books with new DPs. I still wait for a new list of common and language agnostic design patterns. Until that, DP remain for me a good example of failure.

C has exceeded all its expectations, what is the point of your comparison ?
Predicting an earthquake is predicting when a bent wooden ruler will snap. Sometimes it creaks before it snaps. Sometimes it creaks, and doesn't snap. Sometimes it just snaps.

The way to prevent deaths from earthquakes is to ensure buildings can survive them. Modern buildings collapsed in the quake. I wonder if they were built to standard, or if a few corners were cut?
It means to put on trial.
Agreed, RSS is for actual information consumption while Twitter is for '@seeing and #beingseen #selfpromotion please RT! #lame @rss_will_always_be_better_for_objective_content'.
Boot Linux, disable automount, make a raw copy using dd, upload somewhere?
Except for that one bank that managed to not be able to run it's nightly batches for nearly a month earlier this year. (RBS I think?)
"In the dock" means "on trial". http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/in+the+dock.htm...
"in the dock" is an idiom meaning to be put on trial.
Definition of DOCK
: the place in a criminal court where a prisoner stands or sits during trial
— in the dock
: on trial

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dock

Commonly used in British/Commonwealth English, and Nature is based in London. I don't think I've ever heard it used in American English.
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Not all of Italy, only the South. That's why the biggest party in the north is a secessionist party. A lot of cool stuff comes out of the North, like Arduino.
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Great video showing Hacking Health in action at MaRS in Toronto. See hackinghealth.ca for more details.. it was an amazing event.

Video link: http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=788977&playlistId=1.1004614&binId=1.811527
You have apparently useless genes in your genetic code as well.

These regex's are generated with genetic programming techniques, so they are not guaranteed to be an optimal solution, just a good (by the metric of working) one.
The dock is where the person on trial sits. I.e put seismology on trial.
Content > Presentation
This is way more complex than it might appear. Italian speakers can watch this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rROgB5QMgHs&feature=playe...
It shows a telephone conversation between the chief of "Protezione Civile" (responsible to react and intervene in case of catastrophes) Guido Bertolaso and a politician in the region where the earthquake happened, Daniela Stati.

Bertolaso first tells Stati that they did badly by saying the media that they didn't expect more earthquakes (as they did the day before, after a small shake that did no damage). Bertolaso added that he would fix this error with the media and send the most important scientists he knows to "quiet down" the population, upset by the previous message and by the continuous shakes. The accusation is that scientists didn't actually report what they knew, but they went in front of the media to "quiet" down the population.

Unfortunately, the day after the big earthquake happened and 309 people died.
Seeing that the SAM3X has on-board Ethernet, but the Due doesn't have a port, I hope someone either builds a clone that does, or builds a simple (compared to current Ethernet shields) shield that adds the port.

This should really help lower the entry cost of using Ethernet in DIY devices, which I think is cool.
How does using an ARM CPU go with the fact that Arduino is open source hardware (while Cortex M3 isn't) ?
One data point: I work on the Kindle and have a pretty good understanding of how the device works. I'm not aware of how to wipe the device remotely. It's possible to revoke licenses for DRM content, but I have no idea how to remove all books. I can't explain how to reproduce what the blog describes happened.

If this person did in fact purchase DRM content and Amazon revoked it, then at a minimum the person should get a refund. There are ways that happens automatically (because it's the right thing for the customer -- Amazon doesn't want to take sides in the bigger debate). Since I don't see the refund mentioned I think there is more going on than "your account is connected to a flagged account."

Edit: SeanDav@ Deleting Amazon Account != wiping content from the device. They're different. It sounds like the person's account was deleted, but it shouldn't impact what's on the device save the revoked DRM licenses.

Edit 2: randartie@ I'm not blaming the victim, but refunds happen automatically if the customer originally paid for the content. There's a whole bunch of safeguards we have in place to protect customers and their content; this kind of sensational FUD continues to annoy me.
Remember the Jeff Bezos article that was up last week - those who are right most of the time are those who constantly update.

Having an open and living document this way is the only way to constantly update. Unlike our system where no politician is going to admit wrong.
I'm afraid I do not knwo this. But they have set up an irc channel #redisconf at freenode. You might ask it there
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This is crazy, but I'll note that it isn't a peculiarly Italian form of crazy. People rush to find scapegoats after every disaster. In the future, consider being as skeptical of those accusations as you were when people accused folks you identify with, like scientists.
Some can be, but I'm far from knowing everything in this domain. I'll post more articles as I learn.
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Spoiler: It's not really amazing.
Thanks for the great feedback! A couple of the things you suggested were in the works, however, I set a time limit for how long I would allow myself to work on this and I simply ran out of time. Next iteration though!
It almost feels like MS is setting itself up to be able to throw their whole OEM ecosystem out the door. MS is seeing their market shrink, so they may decide to stop sharing it with other people like they have in the past. They are starting by getting their toes in the water with Surface, Azure and direct-licensed upgrades to Windows.

If so, that would be the boldest thing I've seen from Balmer (which is why I'm very hesitant to actually believe it).
It's an idiom, often used to express "putting on trial".
I have owned a Kindle since GEN 1. I have always added my own DRM free books. I would say %80 of my library is DRM free. I rarely turn the WIFI on. There are several pieces of software than can convert files into Kindle readable formats.
There was a great quote, I clicked left, and it went to the previous quote, then right, and it went to a new quote with the one I liked gone.

Maybe a grooveshark or youtube-like playlist would work.
You call this "very different"? http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-...

One is a little bit higher speced, but other than that the only real difference is the CPU architecture, which is really nothing that any consumer should have to think about.
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Why is this being upvoted? It is a collection of generic PR statements with no new or insightful information.
Why the hell, nobody put a wiki on a map?
As an italian I can confirm this, there are many people speculating on this sad events.
You can find many articles on the net about how many initiatives to send money often make those money "disappear".
When the money actually arrives, the people how need to rebuild often rebuild using cheap material and take the money for them.
Some of the cities hitted by quackes many years ago never really recovered and maybe after 20 years a lot of people might be living still in containers.
This is bullshit, let me tell you. Corruption is everywhere in Italy: North AND South. Public sector AND Private sector. I am Italian, from the North, I lived in Milan for years and I am married with a woman from Rome: I know what I'm saying...
You mentioned gaming sites, games and 3d modelling as weak choices...what do you think would have made better avenues, given the tech at the time?
Take an OLPC with you to help you with the filing. It had those in 2008 (or even earlier). Google "Pixel Qi"
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Lesson learned: Don't be an Italian scientist.
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I can't find words strong enough to say how stupid this is. As wisty said, the good way is to build quake-proof buildings. Of course, that means fighting the Mafia which controls construction work in this part of the country, which takes more guts than judging 6 scientists.
The dot doesn't matter to gmail. It matters to other services. Way back when I first learned about this feature, I registered for some website using first.last@gmail.com.

Unfortunately, when I later had to verify my account through email (as opposed to clicking a verification link) the website did not recognize firstlast@gmail.com (my sender address) as the account owner.
Surely current*time is the wrong thing to look at when comparing batteries across different devices? It doesn't tell you anything without also knowing the voltages. I'd bet that the CB has a similar sized or larger battery in a more appropriate unit (e.g. watt-hours).
This is theft. Yet if someone were to get caught shoplifting, they'd face jailtime.
The Ethernet PHY is actually rather expensive, around $20. That's why the cheap dev boards don't have it.
As others have mentioned, you need 7 bits per number (on average) if you store the numbers as deltas in sorted form. So 7M bits out of 8388608 bits yields 1.32MB of working set.

One could implement a simple block allocator, where each block contains a sequential list of deltas.

The trick to fast insertion is to place new blocks at addresses interpolated between 0 and 10^8. If there is a collision, merge blocks. If the input distribution is off, physically reallocate colliding blocks left or right into free space.

So inserting the numbers 10, 20, 1000, 2000, 1M, 2M would give you a heap looking like:

[head->[10,10]->[980]->[1000]->[998000]->[1000000]->tail]

As more numbers are inserted, blocks combine until you end up with one contiguous block.
This is like regretting having enjoyed jogging when you could have been a competitive runner. Or growing up near the beach and learning to surf but never becoming a professional surfer.

Enjoying technology is not the same as starting a business. And when you start seriously considering starting a business, you'll quickly realize that you're rarely the first to think of something. Especially in the tech sector where only real idiots believe it's a simple as internet + idea = business.
Whether or not the seismologists gave some kind of reassurance or not, it seems ridiculous to try them for manslaughter.

Perhaps professional incompetence or the like, but it's not as though the town would have done anything different had they said without any provable foundation "a major earthquake is imminent". Seismology is in such infancy that holding people responsible for acts of nature, which state of the art are highly unpredictable, is on the surface, ludicrous. What's next, the meteorologist on trial for getting the forecast wrong about heavy rains which cause floods and damage, etc?

It's reminiscent of the tratment of Galileo.
I agree. for instance: if you hate your users and want to make them suffer, that would be a good situation to use this.
I don't think it's a stretch to say Bill Gates's viewpoint on Windows 8 is somewhat biased.
With a CSV. You can do as many as you want via the API.
When my cousin Kenny told me about how he was starting Paypal, I was fresh off the boat from high school in Nigeria and had barely begun using the internet, so this sounded very magical. And it truly was, because it really felt futuristic when college friends would pay each other back by giving cash online. When I proudly told them my cousin was at Paypal, it impressed the non-geeks just as much as the geeks because it was so easy for everyone to sense the impact of this technology.
I'm reminded of how much I hate DVD menus.
Computerized referendum? I'm not aware that it was any more computerized than anything else. Perhaps I'm not clear on what you mean. At any rate, this was a standard paper ballot deal.

Edit: I am an Icelander and cast my vote in this last Saturday.
Agreed. It's a no win situation.

Where I live now, the local sports talk radio hosts always blast the weather guys when they forecast doom and gloom with an incoming snow storm, regardless of how much snow we get. Maybe it's just the "we're tough" Scandinavian culture, but they really make a mockery of the forecasts as always being overblown and sensationalist before anything happens.
The result wouldn't have been same according to testimony from the article: some people that would've fled due to the tremors stayed due to the reassurances.
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Would be useful to have as a second screen. Dual touch maybe? eink for phone functions (60% of the time in my case) and lcd for when you need the fullcolor display (GPS mode, movie mode, web browsing)?
I went to go use a Windows 8 PC at Best Buy the other day and was shocked.

In screenshots everything looks clean, crisp, and modern - then comes the task of using it. I don't understand who at MSFT thought it was necessary to preface every action by a splash screen and inordinately long loading times. Also, am I missing something? Does everything you do have to be full screen? Is having multiple windows open and multi-tasking a thing of the past?

I know I'm coming from a place of ignorance - having only used it for about five minutes. I'm sure I don't quite understand how to use the OS yet. However, I design software for a living. If I'm not able to immediately figure out how to use everything and why this is a better approach than what they've done before, or what their competitors are doing, then how is the mass populace?

I hate to come on here to be so negative, but the usability of Windows 8 is simply abysmal.
After clicking on play i get "Server not found: rtmpt://ec2-50-112-34-102.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:80/live", anyone else get this problem? I am wondering if it's the stream or the firewall at work.
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It LOOKS nice but it's just an eye-candy. It is not a good thing to implement into an actual website. I really do not see a purpose for it.
Sounds like a blast. Should I ever move out to the west coast, I'll have to check into Clever seriously
You might also consider a STM32F4DISCOVERY board:

http://www.st.com/internet/evalboard/product/252419.jsp

This is also a ARM Cortex board but it's $15 and in stock everywhere. (I think it's more powerful and has more features than the Due, but I haven't checked in detail. At $15, though, it can't be beat. And there are less powerful boards in the series that are even cheaper!)
Works in Firefox 16.0.1 but is really slow. Doesn't really do a whole lot in Chrome 24.0.1297.0.
For me, the pros outweigh the cons.

Several thousand times over.
I am confused. Paypal charges the fee per transaction. running mass pay 1000 times with 1 transaction is the same price as running it 4 times with 250 transactions. Paypal lets you run as many total transactions as you want. The max batch size is 250.
"On the stand" would be the equivalent US idiom.
Ahhh, sorry! It's not as intuitively as I wish it was. I've been struggling with how to keep the design simple and still allow the proper back/forward functionality. I think I know what you're getting at with the grooveshark/youtube playlist. Do you mean how you see the thumbnails along the bottom and nothing ever disappears but rather shifts left and right? I'll definitely look into making it like that if I can.
Yeah, Webkit support is disappointing. As mentioned in the article that is mostly because of a bug that prevents many effects from being rendered when used in an HTML document. Opening SVG files in a new window will render those effects correctly. But because no user will ever do that those effects are effectively broken.
Fahrenheit 451 would have been better.
Stallman becomes more relevant everyday.
I wonder how some of the aspects of this works around FERPA (e.g. giving developers access to data)
Yes. The questions themselves are generic throwaway questions too.
A random idea but perhaps she logged in with her account onto a public computer that had been used by someone for fraud? I don't know, she should use EU law against Amazon - it should apply as they're operating in the EU.
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Webkit does support SVG filters but there is a bug which prevents displaying the filters when embedded in HTML.
Icelander here. The headline is completely false: "Icelanders approve their crowdsourced Constitution."

We Icelanders voted in a NON-BINDING referendum, where the first question was "yes / no, I want / do not want the proposals from the public constitutional congress to be used as the basis for a parliamentary referendum for a new constitution". It is then explicitly stated on the voting card that the proposals may change in the process of being worked into a parliamentary referendum for a new constitution - which then again must be approved not once but twice by two separately elected parliaments (i.e. voted through in parliament, parliament dissolved, voted in again, and the referendum approved again there).

Headline is FALSE and misleading.

— edit: that said, I support the establishment of a new constitution, and I like a lot of things in the proposals. There are also some things I do not like. The proposals need work to become fit to be a constitution, that's for sure.
People are not going to ask that question, because calling it Windows suggests that it is compatible with earlier versions of Windows.

Maybe calling it "Windows for Tablets" or some such would work, but that name is a bit cumbersome. Other variants that I can think of sound too negative.
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Sort of. It implements a lowest-common-denominator vector stack on top of either VML for old-IE, or SVG for everything else. This means many vector operations available in SVG but not in VML are either not available in Raphael, or are implemented in a way that doesn't take advantage of native capabilities. We experienced an issue, for instance, with trying to animate a zoom effect on a path. This is doable in SVG with transform properties in a very performant way, but Raphael implemented it by recomputing all the path coordinates at each zoom level for each animation frame, which was too slow to be usable. On top of this, the other major browser environment that doesn't support SVG is pre-Honeycomb Android, which doesn't support VML either, so Raphael only gets you so far in terms of being cross-browser.
Yeah, and just have a way to make favourites and rank (1/10). You could also have stackoverflow-like sub comments (that can be hidden.)

Also, is there a way of displaying how many highlights a quote has received, and from whom/when?
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I think it's neat. It says "concept" and "experimental" (on the Github readme) so I don't think it's being sold as usable navigation. Always a pleasure to see technology demos like this for CSS.

EDIT: Grammar.
Ture. I'll probably wait a few months and buy it from Amazon...
The problem is calling the negative story "reality". It would have been better to just call them positive/negative and avoid attributing all these startup's success to bad things.
I'm not sure Atmel AVR microcontrollers (used in the rest of the Arduino line) are open source hardware either. Sure, they are fully documented from the user's perspective, but Atmel doesn't give away source (Verilog/VHDL/etc.) for the core.

(I'll give you that ARM is more patent-encumbered.)
Clever helps schools stay FERPA compliant. Our tech gives them fine-grained control over what data they share & where it goes. And all of the data sharing happens in a secure way (vs. the "email an Excel file" status quo).