skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you can’t watch something legally until it comes out on Netflix or whatever service you use, you have only two justifiable options: either wait, or don’t watch it."

Or, alternatively, if you're going to anyway what's the problem again?

Mass media is meant to be a convenient, efficient market. When it isn't the moral failing is not on the part of consumers.
I definitely don't like child pornography, I think it should be stamped out as much as possible. However:

> Are you seriously defending child pornography right now?

Please don't do that. There's rarely hard and fast boundaries between what is X and what isn't X (e.g. what about someone who looks like a child, but is a perfectly normal adult in all other respects), so one must be able to discuss issues without it escalating into every party involved proposing tougher and harder punishments for more and more borderline cases. http://lesswrong.com/lw/ls/when_none_dare_urge_restraint/

> Pedophilia is a paraphilia. The desire grows as it is fed.

[Citation needed.]
Haha, yes, I've read that and noticed.

Wonder if we'll ever have internet connectivity checked like we used to have nuclear weapon inspections.
Appears to be fighting between the rebels and govt troops on the main road near the airport in Damascus

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/29/us-syria-crisis-id...
Well, the original statement was that inequality hurts growth. It said nothing regarding command economies or otherwise.
NAME
sex - have sex

SYNOPSIS
sex [ options ] ... [ username ] ...

DESCRIPTION
sex allows the invoker to have sex with the user(s) speci-
fied in the command line. If no users are specified, they
are taken from the LOVERS environment variable. Options to
make things more interesting are as follows:

-F nasal sex with plants

Wut?
I can fully endorse his view that poker teaches one to properly "visualize" uncertainty. And that's the hard problem I have seen in other aspects of dealing/communicating decisions to people. We seem hardwired for some reason not to be able to understand uncertainty, prior probability distributions, and the related concept of risk which get muddled with value judgments.

Finding a way to make it graphically apparent makes a big difference for some reason.

I really like the Q&A format of the talk.
How to steal a strangers phone: Ask if you can borrow his phone, let him/her hesitate a bit, hesitate a bit yourself, suggest you have them hold your wallet. Hand over cheap wallet filled with rocks. RUN!
Try restarting the government
Agreed. I do this, but I don't try to pretend that it's for some noble purpose. It's because I want to watch whatever and I'm not really interested in the arbitrary restrictions against that. I also happen to understand what's wrong with that. The attempt to paint this as some sort of moral crusade against Big Media is narcissism.
So given that attitude, how do you deal with the problem of exit node operators possibly performing illegal activities themselves? Should running an exit node give you blanket protection from any kind of investigation due to traffic coming out of your network?
Well, that's a start, but any subsequent math would involve numbers not directly entered by the user, so it's not sufficient by itself.
If TOR was used for sharing illegal files, would you stop supporting it? Seems like you would be against most technology with that mind set.
Hasty generalization, or Unrepresentative Sample.
This would not be a valid invoice in Sweden. Here, there needs to be a reference number, VAT registration number, information about interest rate if late payment, location of the board if the selling company is a limited company, and probably a few more things. I think the same applies for most EU countries. Can US invoices be this simple?
Prismatic launches a full redesign and shares their awesome design process
As some who is Jewish from the former Soviet Union, and who was denied even to take an entrance exam to a Moscow college, I am saddened to see that American educational admission process looks more and more "Soviet" nowadays. Kids are denied opportunities because of their ethnic or social background, in a supposedly free and fair country!

But this is just a tip of the iceberg. The American groupthink of political correctness, lowest common denominator, and political posturing toward various political/ethnic/religious/sexual orientation groups is rotting this country inside out.

Worse things are yet to come.

/rant over
You can't be serious. There's no civilized country where ISPs are even allowed to look at their users traffic. Observing traffic for suspicious behavior would also be completely over their head from a technical perspective. The only instance where ISPs are taking action by themselves is when network abuse occurs (as in DoS attacks).
All source code of RLink is available. The Java part is LGPL, and the Mathematica part is not, but is located at /SystemFiles/Links/RLink/RLink.m
If they were going to rebuild it from the ground up anyway, would it really have killed them to just use Webkit?
Apple Acquired "Lightning" Trademark from Harley-Davidson
After my retina 15", I have a hard time reading old dpi stuff. Pixel hinting is far superior to sub-pixel hinting.

Moving past 96/72dpi needs to happen faster. High resolution is only a good thing for reading. If you have eye strain you need bigger text, not a less high display.
I, like most programmers, am comfortably in the top 5% and cannot even imaging being able to own a home like you describe at my income level. There is a good chance those people are part of the 1% themselves. It actually doesn't take that much money to get there. Though it has been sold as a domain of people making tens of thousands of dollars per hour, so I can see why some may not even realize where they stand.
Ubunutu on my new Thinkpad x131e can't change the brightness of the LCD and it runs the battery dry in two hours. Windows 8 can run for 7 hours with bthe brightness at 70%.

The track point sensitivity is too low and I have it at the highest sensitivity. (You need to turn the sensitivity in the settings to the lowest value to get the highest sensitivity!)

Don't get me started on lack of uefi boot support. Grub recognizes Windows 8 but refuses to boot it. I've had to install an msata ssd and put the Windows bootloader on that and install grub and a boot partition on the hdd to get useful dual booting.

Linux is far from a cakewalk on my machine.
I just checked the frequency using the xfce4-cpufreq-plugin package, and it looks like the CPU is scaled down to 800 MHz when on battery (the model I selected has a Core i5-3427U CPU @ 1.80 GHz).

It hasn't gotten hot or noisy so far. The most demanding thing I regularly do on this laptop is watch HD video though, so it's not under that much strain. But there are definitely no issues with coding or web browsing.
Ahh memories. I recal wondering the wasteland in FO3, and coming across a radio distress. Locating its source, a long dead family, feeling...sadness.

In skyrim challenging an NPC to a drinking game, passing out and waking in another city having desecrated a temple, a quest opening from this.

In skyrim again, finding an abandoned lighthouse, a mystery as to what happened to the occupants, sadness again upon finding their fate.

In morrowind a quest for the thieves guild, steal an elderscroll, for what reason? That quest was great, well written, engaging. Nothing cookie cutter there.

And of course FO1/2 or Arcanum have great moments like this, and all the games mentioned have their failures, boring and quests, dungeons of limited scope. But the modern Bethsesda games have depth, they may be deeply flawed, grand experiments perhaps doomed by their scale, but dismissing them as shallow seems a mistake.
WebRTC Demo Day
I needed 3 googles to understand the etymology. But seriously, why is ask being nounified where other verbs are not. I think it has something to do with the culture, but I cannot place my finger on it.
Lol. Break the Internet?!?
time travel?
> Native Swedish and Danish speaker here.

Interesting; are you able to switch between them without the Swedish bleeding into the Danish or vice versa?
Why Peer Review is a Critical Step in Software Development
The data is fairly close to realtime, with caveats. The time series chart widget is a little dodgy, though, so it's sometimes difficult to see things on the margin. We're working on putting something better in place.
As we all know in the US, having a cell network does not equal data network. Any one holding an iPhone in NYC three years ago knows the pain of having an entire city trying to get on the Internet. This idea that 3 billion people people are going to buy $25 tablets and just hop online is egnoring so many glaring logistical problems. The first being bandwidth in third world countries.
Indeed. I realize this likely predates OS X entirely, but... you're right: casual audience and.. TMO's Mac focus. But yep, as many here have pointed out, it's certainly not limited to the Mac.
I think I have seen insurance against speeding tickets being sold. I haven't heard about that company for a while though.
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Open-Source Cancer
Risk I/O's Mike Krisher weighs the benefits of open sourcing vulnerabilities in our latest blog post.
Way to make politicians even less sympathetic towards Tor. It's now a "hackers' tool" as well as a "kiddy fiddlers' tool"

BTW plenty of IRC-based botnets already do something similar, though usually without proper encryption.
These comments are so over-the-top that I can only imagine that he is controlling the accounts that tweeted them.
A Short Fuse For Fusion As Ignition Misses Deadline
But does it provide multitouch comparable to OS X in execution and function? If so, I'd switch tomorrow.
hey, this is nice! but my impression is it looks "heavy". maybe it's the combination of thick lines/shadows, dark colors and a bit slow responsiveness. on the upside, the "heaviness" makes it look "more serious".
If this were a low end laptop destined to be used by everyone I could understand. But this is a high end computer meant to be used by developers and it's just a hair under the price of Retina Mac Book Pros and right up with the price of a Mac Book Air. The offering isn't quite as competitive as I would have hoped and for that cost there are a multitude of other options available that are better.
Seems like biased towards some bands, while omitting some arguably greater or at least equally important bands of the same era. Not that there's anything wrong with Yes or Jethro Tull being mentioned, but if they are, seems like Genesis and King Crimson should be mentioned as well.

$ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep Genesis

$ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep "King Crimson"

$ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep Yes

02/20	Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974

04/18	Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981

10/25	Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944

$ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep "Jethro Tull"

08/10	Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
Neat.

CHARGE REAL MONEY FOR THE VALUE YOU'RE PROVIDING.

PLEASE!
It's probably out of order on purpose. I'm betting this was some of the test data that the developers used, and they just left it in when they finished.
This comment confuses me.
I never once took a stand for or against TOR.

All I said was:
1) it would be useful to have independent verification of this and similar claims
2) The reason is that if people were fooled into supporting a child pornographer then they'd be less likely to donate to worthy causes in the future.

I don't see how that's in anyway a debatable point:)

Tor did not once come up in my reply.
You really seem to be reaching for something to argue about here. Calm down:)
Ask HN:Did the parties machine-learned to get votes and evolved to be the same?
First sorry my English. I am foreigner and I have the impression (as south-american/european) that the 2 political parties in America offer very little difference in their proposals (kind of harmful for a democracy). But this may not be a natural result when you have only 2 groups competing for the votes? They will optimize their proposals to limit harm and try to avoid any real change because this would likely offer an advantage to the other side?
"websites are immune from legal responsibility for content submitted by others."

I'm guessing he doesn't read the news.
I wonder why you lost or never had any faith in static analysis. On Apple's platforms it's becoming a really big "thing". Also John Carmack talked about the benefits of static code analysis at QuakeCon 2012.

Also a good read: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysi...
I want to run an agile project
Direct link to the Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1061646928/vlc-for-the-n...
A friend's ex-girlfriend was plastered on a site like this some years ago by another ex's friends. She was underage in the photos and it wouldn't surprise me if middle and high schoolers use a service like this as much if not more than those over 18 in order to shame their classmates and former flings. The publicity this is already receiving makes it more at-risk for such an audience, and so I hope that ends up being the downfall.
Dell Precision M4500. 2 years old. Trackpad scrolling: did not work. Wireless: not working out of the box. SD card slot: not working. Camera: not working out of the box. The list goes on. For me that was the last straw, after using Linux as my main OS since -96 I am now mainly a Windows user. I am too old to spend hours investigating the state of kernel patches to get basic hardware working.

I love Linux but the state of hardware support has reached a steady state in my opinion. Things break, others start working, then they break again.
Publicity stunt by Microsoft?
they would have to be active rfid tags. i've been using some active tags from http://goo.gl/DkZkB for vehicle home/away detection for the past 5 years. they aren't quarter sized, but they're in the glove box out of sight. they work well.

i'm also using a network of hacked seagate dockstars w/ bluetooth usb dongles hidden around the house to detect which part of the house our cellphones are in.

i'm already plotting what i can use these stickers for :)
Does ZoneEdit still transmit your password in plain text. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2064531
I used VLC since I was a kid to watch my "backed-up" videos in the days where codecs were rampant and confusing. Now that I have some income, it feels good to give back. Here's to the next generation of VLC!
1) It's 2012 and we still need third party software to watch videos? I understand VLC does other stuff, but the reason most people use and install it is just to watch videos;

2) This seems like an awful lot of money, not to mention the precedent it sets, just to craft an interface for what is, ultimately, a transient 'design language'. Metro is ugly and a UX nightmare. It will be replaced with something completely new come the next Windows release, with inevitably mediocre backwards compatibility.
"How can such a great man speak like this to one who loves him?"

There's your problem. You are supposing the existence of a feeling where it was probably another, probably opposite, feeling.

All your rant is based on a probably false premise.
Marketing campaigns make people "want very badly" what they can't have. Yet they can, and they don't even have to pay for it.

At some level, the copyright issue is just a question of "wants" vs "needs" of humans. When does "wanting something badly enough" become "needing" it? Are we addicted to content -- are Big Media the dealers leeching off our habit?
Route 53 is not really expensive, if you have just a few important domain I would use a service with a 100% up record. DNS is just too important.
#newTwitter
Thank you for the heads up. I didn't know that the Browser Bundle also took care of fingerprinting.
I'm not sure I see the point in arguing that piracy is or isn't justifiable. It's happening and it seems to be increasing. The sad fact is that it's easier to pirate than it is to pay. I pay for cable, HBO, Showtime, etc. but exclusively use a Mac Mini and torrent everything. Do I feel that what I'm doing is justifiable, no. Is it easier for me, yes.
SetInterval(): the sneaky basterd child of JavaScript
This is entirely dependent on the video hardware. Some laptops video cards can support two external displays while the internal display is active and others cannot.

While the Intel HD 4000 supports 3 displays, according to the docs, it only supports them when used with series 7 chipsets and the specs on this ultrabook say it uses the QS67 which is a series 6 chipset.

So I would bet that the answer is NO.

EDIT: REFERENCE LINKS
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intelhdgraphics4000_25...

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/performance-...
Original essay:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/28/why-are-cab...
Don't care how good the browser is, Microsoft has caused me so much pain over the last decade and a half with their products I am simply unwilling to trust them ever again. I tolerate their products because I have to, but whenever I have the chance to slit the throat of their technologies in the workplace, I do so without remorse.

Do I sound angry? No, I'm not angry. I've just been burned too many times by Windows, Office, IE, and Exchange to be stupid enough to ever trust them again. The line about "this time we're better" is such a broken record.
A few things have caught my attention in your post.

Your biggest problem was that the configuration of your services was not sized/tuned properly for the hardware resources you've got. As a result of this your servers have become unresponsive and instead of fixing the problem, you've had to wait 30+ minutes until the servers recovered.

In your case you should have limited Solr's JVM memory size to the amount of RAM that your server can actually allocate to it (check your heap settings and possibly the PermGen space allocation).

If all services are sized properly, under no circumstance should your server become completely unresponsive, only the overloaded services would be affected. This would allow you or your System Administrator to login and fix the root-cause, instead of having to wait 30+ minutes for the server to recover or be rebooted. In the end it will allow you to react and interact with the systems.

The basic principle is that your production servers should never swap (that's why setting vm.swappines=0 sysctl is very important). The moment your services start swapping your performance will suffer so much that your server will not be able to handle any of the requests and they will keep piling up until a total meltdown.

In your case OOM killing the java process actually saved you by allowing you to login to the server. I wouldn't consider setting the OOM reaction to "panic" a good approach - if there is a similar problem and you reboot the server, you will have no idea what caused the memory usage to grow in the first place.
New Film Festival Software May Lead to Better Film Festivals
> As a client I like to know if a method is purely functional or if it's going to have side-effects because I care to know if the operation is going to be re-entrant or not.

But your implementation doesn't convey this information. This simply isn't a guarantee you're going to obtain with Ruby; you have to inspect the code. A class method can do pretty much anything it likes; it could rewrite Object#method_missing if it wanted to. It can certainly store state, as I demonstrated. What's worse, it's global state, because every client is accessing a shared instance via a global constant.

As for refactoring, search and replace isn't difficult (although it is error-prone); the important point is that it's introducing unnecessary change. All that's changing is the internal implementation of your spam checker, and yet that change propagates to every single place your spam checker is used, all because of the way you implemented it originally. This doesn't seem like a good trade-off to me, given that we're not even obtaining a functional guarantee in return.
yeah i thought this was about foursquare shuttin' her down and then i see they have 150 employees. does anyone even use foursquare anymore?
If you're concerned about the audience, wouldn't you be more worried about an 8 year old with direct access to a credit card?
Still less than half the size of the main text.

If I had it on a donation bucket with "Cancer research" and then below it I had "Bucket cost $5, stickers for bucket cost $2. That's $7. 60% of the $10 average donation will go directly to Cancer Research." in much smaller font - do you think people wouldn't feel misled that I'm getting 40% of the profit?
It's a common noun in fundraising too:

http://www.thefundraisingauthority.com/fundraising-basics/fu...

It has specificity -- it's not just any question, it's particularly about asking for a contribution from a donor. So the usage in the title is on target.
I recently ditched my cable company but not because I felt they were forcing me into piracy. I agree with this article, though I do still occasionally pirate television. Mostly I use Netflix on my XBox, which I pay for, but Canadian Netflix is pretty lame. I agree pirating is morally questionable, though I don't feel bad the slightest bit when I do it.
DAE hate their font choice? I guess the previous font stack of sans-serif/verdana fonts looked better.
By not watching the shows at all HBO (or other companies) cannot aggregate consumer demand for their show. If you are interested in watching a show and find it inconvenient then blatant pirating can actually help a cable company quantify the demand for the time and mediums of distribution. (yes those companies track aggregate pirating stats)
Some interesting background reading on this from the Village Voice, back in May:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-05-16/news/hacker-is-anyone...

The report implies that some of the IAU content may have been through a Facebook social engineering hack...a hacker gains access to one person's account and then chats that person's friends, claiming to have lost her phone and needing a friend to read her back Facebook's password confirmation code, which has been sent to the friend's phone.

The confirmation code, of course, is for the friend's account...who know finds him/herself locked out of their FB and linked social accounts.
I'm not sure about moral failure but I agree that this is a hole in Marco's argument.
I'm getting sick and tired of these "and if enough people do X, it will REALLY send a message" exhortations.

People are lazy. The only way to really get them riled up is if they fear for their future. Otherwise the whole "if enough people do it" argument is moot.

Want to make a difference? Hit people where it hurts. The legality and morality of how you do so is up to you, and is entirely dependent upon circumstance.

Actually, here's an "if enough people do it" argument that actually works: If enough people pirate shows because they can't find them via legitimate sources in the way they want, they'll expose a market opportunity. Now get off your goddam high horse.
As I said, understandable confusion, and MS has done a very poor job of making a distinction between the two. I suspect that in two to four years there will be no distinction.

I used the Surface for a few days and was quite happy with it, but don't find that I need a table full time. My iPad toting teens adored it and have been complaining because their school requires the use of an iPad.

I'm waiting for the Pro, which will be slightly less processor than I want, but I expect it will completely replace my laptop while still giving me tablet abilities. Regular Windows 8 isn't targeted so much at tablets as it is at touchscreen devices. Which covers tablet, laptops, and that weird huge canvas form factor and others.