skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When the FBI applied to seize the Megaupload site in 2012, it said the company had failed to delete pirated content and cited the earlier search warrant against the continued existence of 36 of the same 39 files.

1. It's been 3 years, I'm sure the warrant in reference did not impel MU to keep those files after the case against NinjaVideo was done and over with. This probably goes all the way back to "how" MU stored files... 1 copy for 1000s of uploads (as long as the hash/finger-print matches). And each of those videos was uploaded over and over, and MU kept them around / did not block transfers. And are now trying to make it seem like they had no choice but to keep sharing those videos FOREVER, letting everyone and anyone upload them, and letting everyone and anyone download them. I'm sure MU/KimDotCom has the original order to preserve the evidence in the NinjaVideo case, why not share it with us and let the media see the details of what was asked of them?

2. Are those the ONLY files referenced in the indictment against MU? Probably not... All the FBI has to do is prove at least one of the files listed in the warrant is valid and was brought in good faith, and then show the judge/jury the other 97% of MU traffic revolved around sharing pirated content.

That article and KimDotCom's story seems to leave a lot out.
This is from RT, which is directly funded by the Russian government.
Linear approach works better for a beginner where a definitive path of progress is laid down. Your site will be useful to people who can pick and choose which beginners can't, owing to their lack of familiarity with the jargon and the ecosystem.
Looking at these makes me want to write code again. Clean, elegant code. Weird.
Kramer.com vs. Kramer.com
Digital Natives - Generative 3D Printing
Get ready for your New Year's Eve Party
In the US, aren't those who run tor exit nodes already liable for the activity of those they host? I don't see how this is much different -- different network in a different country, maybe, but conceptually similar/identical.
Naming your startup right
You can convert any Textmate/ST2 theme to Vim using this tool: http://coloration.sickill.net/

I've used it myself, it works great.
I'm curious about all of this too. I submitted the article because I want to see what others think about the new information. The 1 copy for 1000s of uploads may have some interesting implications.
fMRI: Modern day phrenology
That's one of the worst excuses for a bloated page I've ever heard. Luckily bit-torrent site operators don't share that view.
Social data analytics startup Likely secures 1.6m funding
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That's more about coroutines than first class functions, and it is RAII, using a wrapper methodd for the actor/dtor instead of defining a class.
Tomorrow (and base16, its next incarnation) are awesome. But there's one thing I like about Pastie more: the way it highlights literal strings (and heredocs and herestrings)...

look at this image: http://steverandytantra.com/gridfs/4fff15cc1c1cc6a0cb00000c-...
Coffee is not a good excuse for a slow application start-up time.

Should it be fixed? Ideally yes. But in the real world, it depends.

Is the user billed hourly (and therefore do they want you to fix it)? What's the business context? Will it help other users? (Are there other users?) What is the app doing in those 8 minutes and how would reducing it affect (positively or negatively) the user experience after startup?

Yes, getting a faster start time is ideal, but assuming limited resources you need to figure out what the biggest user experience problems are and fix those first.

If you application takes 8 minutes to load, the biggest user problem may well exist AFTER the application has loaded. Fix that first.
FWIW, I'd personally be happier (at least for an app that was sufficiently stable that I didn't find myself having to start it many times a day) with an eight minute load time than a thirty second load time: the former makes it quite clear to me that I shouldn't sit around waiting for it (which means I will definitely do something else, and come back sufficiently later that it will be over) while the latter will almost certainly see me sitting there staring at the app, frustrated, waiting out the thirty seconds.
Perhaps it doesn't make economic sense. I wouldn't be surprised if demand for rare earth had risen much more quickly than demand for thorium and uranium in the last decade or so.
Working Nights and Weekends: Social Media, It's a Trap
Pakistan suspends mobile networks over fears of attacks
This is a little bit OT, but how was your math before you started the exercises? How long did you tske to complete them? And finally how is it now?

Thanks
Ask HN: Anyone need (free) mobile UX design?
I'm an experienced graphic designer and currently freelancing. I'm now moving my focus to mobile UX/UI design. While I'm slowly working on my own app, I'd like to get other projects for the portfolio, too.

If you need a design for a mobile app - whether you only have an idea, want a redesign or a mobile version created - email me (essi@luxup.net) and describe your project or idea and we go from there. I love working from user research to concepting to final designs, but am of course flexible. Here's my portfolio: http://be.net/essisalonen

And even if you don't need design help, I'd really like to hear about what kind of design services you've seen lacking from the market, or what you think could be interesting to you in the future.
This will blow your mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect
I wrote a similar library for some mobile web apps I'm working on.

https://github.com/kikinteractive/clickable

It has support for:

* "fast" clicking

* managing downstate in CSS (like :active)

* using the native disabled property

* sticky downstates
Willful ignorance of science is a bipartisan value
I was gonna make a similar comment. All the themes I see are geared to be anti comment because of the lack of distinction in colors.

Right now I use the Tomorrow Night theme which seems to be okay but I would prefer to have a good light color scheme (the longest I ever used one was Espresso Soda theme).
> Facebook has a much deeper level of expertise of telling a real user from a fake user.

If they do then they are busy looking the other way. Facebook is riddled with them (this is why you can buy thousands of Likes for very cheap).
Google.com.pk gets hacked
This lead me to an interesting Google search around engine efficiency. I always knew that engines are imperfect engine transfer devices, but I didn't realize how much is lost.

Seems like in most scenarios you're getting at best 40% energy efficiency in gasoline engines and somewhere between 17% to 40% in steam engines.

Even at 17% efficiency using the sun to generate steam power seems to hold lots of potential. The trick will be to get it working at scale and able to produce a similar level of energy with the same or lower cost as existing technologies. May be a while yet, but it's an exciting time to teach your kids science as this is the kind of stuff that they'll probably see in mass later in life.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_efficiency
Matter to whom? Facebook is the party stealing money in this scenario...
Yeah, for that you'll be fine, but take Rhino for example - Rhino offers, through LiveConnect, the ability to create JavaScript objects, at runtime, that satisfy Java interfaces. Which is cool, and useful for a lot of stuff. But the version of Rhino you can use on Dalvik has all of the bytecode generation disabled (obviously) and as a consequence, it can't emit the necessary bytecode to create the interface-fulfilling Java wrapper to make the JS object do what you want. It's generally bogus.

Also it's really hard to express how much slower Dalvik is than HotSpot in the general case, too. It seems faster with the Android 4.2 version (by about 30%, in my highly unofficial testing) but it's still pretty agonizingly slow.
Except that, your opinion can't be substantiated.

How did advertising substantially discourage people from engaging with television? There were times when a major portion of the country was all watching I Love Lucy at the same time.

I just don't see how you can logically defend that opinion.
That's not this is talking about, Facebook's dabble into retargeting is well known (http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/13/facebook-exchange-results/). The article is talking about an AdSense competitor.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f...
You're going to have a hard time convincing people to use their $500 phone as a hardware handle. I guess it means carrying only a phone instead of a phone and a pocketknife, but most people who need a multitool are just going to carry a SWA or Leatherman.
Pretty file input field in Bootstrap
What are you trying to run? Even EC2 micro instances are not all that cheap, if you just want a VPS to tinker with.
No, the counter-argument to "If you've got nothing to hide" is that there are lots of perfectly legal things that you don't want other people to know. Maybe you're gay and you don't want your parents to know. Maybe you don't want your abusive ex-husband to know where you live. The more people that know a secret, the harder it is to keep.

Remember, the government doesn't know anything, people working for the government know things, and the more people that know a secret, the harder it is to keep.
I believe Tor exit nodes are considered internet service providers and thus are granted safe harbor under the DMCA and CDA Section 230.
"Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón
I've seen app load times this bad before (longer, actually, in the 15-20 min. range), on a VB6 fat client app that hit a central network db server.

This was actually indended to be an improvement. The app was meant to replace an existing point of sale system in a national chain of stores, but because the app was purchased by executives which no real understanding of what they were getting (and who browbeat anyone who tried to raise warning flags as being protective of their own fiefdoms) it had some architectural/programming warts which made it doomed to fail.

For example, all clients were to use a central database, located at company HQ, typically over 128kbps links. The legacy system used servers in each store, with sales and inventory data being passed up incrementally, so the slow links weren't an issue. And the code base was terrible - littered with select * over tables with hundreds of columns just to fetch a couple fields. Because development had been so haphazard on the app, nobody wanted to remove fields from the db, just in case they were used someplace. And these selects happend all the time, like when you'd click a UI item and it'd fetch the relevant data on demand to populate stuff. There were tons of other issues, too - like being unable to handle most transactions without the network and db being available, integrity issues, etc. It was a mess.

So, once it became clear that the app was gonna fall over entirely on deployment to more than about 10 clients, panic mode set in. After some guessing, the developers decided to cache data on startup. Hence the slow as fuck startup times as each client performed thousands of selects of hundreds of fields to get enough data to run. It actually helped, somewhat, though all of the other issues were enough to utterly doom the app and get the executive (CFO, I think) who bought it shown the door. A major US consulting firm came in and replaced it, costing craploads but actually delivering something usable.
Reminds me of a great article on taxis in general I read last year:

http://daily.sightline.org/2011/08/05/freeing-taxis/

"What if the Northwest’s cities legally capped the number of pizza delivery cars? What if, despite growing urban population and disposable incomes, our Pizza Delivery Oversight Boards had scarcely issued new delivery licenses since 1975?"

I started talking about this with one of my Canadian friends and his response was basically that limiting the number of cabs was clearly a good thing and that it helped taxi drivers make a living. The argument that it was a bad thing for anyone trying to get into the taxi business didn't really sway him.

My general impression is that while Americans are more willing to stand aside when a market is clearly failing, Canadians are more willing to intervene when a market is clearly working.
It almost certainly is. You can consider it from a logical perspective without even going into brain science.

When a computer looks at a scene it sees in terms of learned rules or operations on high dimensional elements of a vector space intended to cluster pixels.

Scenes have semantics. When we see a scene we see not just things regardless of color or orientation but That thing BY a thing ON TOP of that other thing. We use not just co-occurence patterns of blobs of pixels but context. No doubt context rules can be brute forced by looking at statistics of large amount of images. But it can be more readily learned by a system with a good language model and rules expressed in terms of it.

Language is more important than vision for making sense of the world.

You can also look at it in terms of the brain. That the parts related to sensory integration and processing are also key to language. And that those sections activate as a coprocessor not a single processor.

There is a part of the brain called the Temporal lobe. The Temporal lobe processes audio, speech and semantics. A section of that, intersecting the parietal lobe (linked to visuospatial integration, symbols, math ability), is the Superior temporal sulcus. It is identified as key in theory of mind, processing motion, social cues, faces as well as integrating audio and visual information. What's interesting is that it shows task related activation. It doesn't do all these things alone but activates differently in conjunction with what networks are currently active.

Recently a paper also made a strong argument that the STS is a part of brain that interprets stimuli specifically, regardless of modality (sound, visual) obviously key to recognizing objects.

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/47/16629.abstract

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporoparietal_junction

http://www.indiana.edu/~panlab/papers/SraJtw_inverse.pdf
Comments on the blog post give the theoretical basis: correcting for incorrect assumptions of independence.
Yeah? Well the FBI owns the casino. Good luck with that.
It would be nice to know a bit more about what is happening in those 8 minutes... is the app doing actual work like recreating state from a transaction journal, or is it just being incredibly cpu wasteful for no real purpose?

If the latter, my professional pride would compel me to improve the startup time regardless of whether it would translate directly into dollars.

The good news is in situations like that (codebases that are just woefully unoptimized to start with) you can often get drastic speed increases with fairly simple changes, if you are clever enough. A bit of on-demand loading here, some basic loop reordering there, etc and now your 8 minute startup is 1 minute or less.

Of course, if the developers were any good with such optimizations the app would never have reached its current state to begin with.
We are all Kim Dotcom now.
The same happened to me, but the "join now" link was gone, suggesting it worked.
Evernote adds binding arbitration to terms of service
> often that's the least important resource that your program is managing

I think you're right but wrong here : it may be the least important in a technical sense, but the sheer amount of developer productivity lost in manual memory management is very expensive (for both the mental resources of the programmer and the firm), and this makes automated memory management a key positive.

Honestly, my eyes glazed over to avoid traumatic memories of C++ and Windows DOM internals as I read the article. I have a LIFE since I moved to Java.
> All the FBI has to do is prove at least one of the files listed in the warrant is valid and was brought in good faith...

Maybe, maybe not. If this is allowed to stand, it encourages a strategy of "throw everything against the wall and see what sticks." I'm pretty sure there have been cases where a warrant was thrown out because of bad-faith information, even if some of the reasons for the warrant were good.

This is certainly, at the least, a nice PR moment for Mega.
No, it's not a good excuse. If you outlined three ways to improve performance and nobody budged, fine, but that doesn't make it acceptable and if I were the application architect I'd be embarrassed - and the others who declined to look into your proposal should be as well.

The answer to the question is: it depends on if you consider yourself an amateur or a professional.
Doing that just messes up my default font.
And am not sure what the default font is to get it back.

Ah should have been better if via Package control
That's not what he means. A solar energy harvester with 0.1% efficiency might still be worth it if the costs are low, it doesn't matter that you "wasted" the other 99.9% since it's unlimited.
Sigh, the canonical reference on 3D graphics "in software" has been the Foley and Van Dam tome "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C" [1], followed closely by "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" [2] by Newman and Sproul. Followed closely by the Graphics Gems series, and then Watt's eponymous "3D Computer Graphics" [3] and "Real Time Rendering" [4] by Moller and Haines.

All wonderful texts and can tell you everything you want to know about doing 3D graphics in software. They won't help at all (generally) for GPU based graphics sadly.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Interactive-Computer-Graphi...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-3rd-Alan-Watt/dp/020...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Rendering-Third-Tomas-Akenin...
My understanding is that Uber is using only licensed drivers. But they're using drivers who are licensed for limousines rather than taxicabs.

There are some pretty antiquated laws surrounding taxicabs in most larger cities, and the degree of regulatory capture in the industry is pretty staggering.

What's surprising is how blatant the protectionism is in this case.
This is exactly how large scale solar thermal power stations work.

The most common ones use thousands of mirrors around a central tower. The sun bounces off the mirrors and focuses at the top of the tower where there is a tank of water. The water is heated, boils, turns to steam, which turns a steam turbine.

Look up BrightSource Ivanpah
Absolutely, and the "access to unauthorized computer" part of his prospective sentence will be relatively minor. Still, the fact remains that a non-violent criminal (and he is a criminal) is being more harshly punished than many murderers and child rapists. That, in and of itself, is an injustice.
That's a red herring. The facts of the case remain as stated.
Ask HN: Job at Facebook or Google, which would you take?
Let's say you were offered a job at both Google and Facebook as a software engineer. Both same pay, same incentives etc. Which would you take and why?
Right, so that's the privacy part. It seems to me like that ought to be addressable- there's already plenty of people who become privy to private information for this or that reason, and it is very rare it becomes a problem.

Unless the system is significantly improved, yes, it probably entails some increased risk to your personal secrets. But to immediately shut down any suggestions of increasing government application of tech on those grounds seems short-sighted and selfish. There are positive outcomes, too! I'm not saying "forget about privacy, it doesn't matter", but rather "shouldn't we try to work a compromise?". Find a balance, where any increase in risk to personal privacy is counterbalanced by a respectable improvement in the capabilities of government to operate effectively. If we are stoic and immovable on the issue, we just impair our own government when we limit them to 20th century technology.
Play Framework 2.1 Scala with Slick made easy (With example)
The big win seems to be from eliminating much of the heat dissipation that would otherwise normally occur if, e.g., you tried to use sunlight to boil water when nanoparticles aren't involved.
I think the concepts are intertwined, if you are going to scratch your own itch and then release it for the rest of the world to scratch theirs.

"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." — Larry Wall
[TFA quoting some scientist:] "it was based on the belief that some humans are genetically inferior"

I thought some members of a species being genetically inferior to others was the principal tenet of evolution. Are humans somehow exempt from this?
From a technical perspective, this is bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

But this is a UX question. I could see there being unintuitive nonlinearities with how a user responds to load times. Coffee, too, can be very important to user experience. I'll allow it :)
Ask HN: Which payment gateways and merchant accounts are you using?
Calling all experts in mobile payments domain.

I am looking to setup a mobile payments processor startup in US and India. The idea is something like Square to give you little more clear picture. I think credit card processing fees is a tricky thing to figure out. Google checkout is expensive.

Comparatively to India fees for gateways and merchant accounts are cheaper in US.

Out of all the crowd, Dwolla seems to be cheaper. Besides dwolla it's hard to get 2.75% fee and save something for yourself. Samurai seems to be cheaper if used only as a payment processor.

Few links containing fee info -
https://samurai.feefighters.com/pricing

http://paysignet.com/keyfeatures.asp#PriceingSh

http://www.ccavenue.com/pricing.jsp

https://www.dwolla.com/fees

I need your help in figuring this out.

Much Thanks.
It sounds stupid, but I have one that I'm very accustomed to to write my C, another for Golang and then one that looks much better for editting XML(-like) documents.
Does the CEO of a new tech startup need to know code?
Or in Finland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Finland
Are there any journalists that understand radio isotopes? "OMG a half-life of 14 billion years" as if thats a bad thing. An extremely long half-life means it's not very radio active, thus not a big problem. Just wait until they hear how long the half-life of a proton is, 6.6×10^33 years! I'd be much more concerned with the swimming pools of sulfuric acid and chemical by products than the radioactivity.
And "neck beard", for some reason I don't grasp.
Is there a (good) reason for it to take 8 minutes? If not, I'd be seriously concerned about what else is broken/wrong/unoptimized when a user expects it to be reliable.
If those three files are going to be enough to extradite him and assassinate his company, YouTube better be calling in some favors posthaste.

https://www.google.com/search?q=complete+movie&tbm=vid
I love it! Please use it and add a ton of packges.

Because i'm too lazy :)
The Central Park Five 2012 is a very nice Documentary movie. In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/the-central-park-five-201...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/the-central-park-five-201...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/the-central-park-five-201...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/11/the-central-park-five-201...
"Windows 8 requires at least 8 GB of RAM"

You can't be serious, you are of course joking, and if you aren't then you are insane, and you reference an opinion piece as your source for that? Wow.
... "In Germany", where they don't have safe harbor laws, so it has no effect on the United States.