skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> at least in the US the fact remains that if you're genuinely innocent you can have your day in court

Innocent of what? With a complex and convoluted legal structure, we are all criminals. You are guilty of something. And guess what? Even if you're not guilty of 99 of the 100 counts they bring against you, you're guilty of that one. Hello jail time!

> do we have someone more sympathetic than a guy who looted his own companies and a serial killer to serve as an example of this kind of thing being done to genuinely innocent victims

That's the government's take on things. They can describe you that same way tomorrow and you can scream "I'm innocent!" all you want ... everyone will still think you're a piece of garbage who deserves it.

> In most other countries if the government hates you that much you'll have much worse to worry about.

It is truly a sad day when "other countries" becomes the standard. When the United States of America was born, it was the sole country that elected its leaders and had a constitution that was written specifically to restrict government. Even now, that constitution is in the minority, even though it is the oldest constitution in use to date. Our standard shouldn't be "better than the rest" but rather "better than before".

What I want is an America that is better than it ever was, without regard to anything else.
>While I am not a lawyer either, my reading is that you have quoted from a section of the document pertaining to a claimed violation (in the Conclusions of Law) that are with regard to § 2 of the Sherman act (monopoly maintenace), whereas aresant's question is with respect to product tying, which is a § 1 violation, which was merely remanded – and, eventually, dropped.

OK sure. And "remand" means the trial judge made mistakes and has to try again, not that they did everything right. When they do substantially everything right it will say "affirmed" and then that part of the case is over (or gets appealed to a higher court instead of going back down). And as you already pointed out, the case being settled/dropped probably had a lot more to do with politics and the incoming Bush administration than anything to do with the court system or the law or whether the original district judge was right or wrong.
You should send this to the Buffalo Bill's new analytics department. Maybe a Hacker could get hired to an NFL team.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000121582/article/bill-...
> You're seeing a difference between Control and Variation in an A/A test is because a very small number of visitors have been tested.

Well, we don't actually know how many samples the OP has, do we?
Yeah, it was a stupid question in that I should have read the paper ;-) Laziness on my part, sorry.

Right, their idea is to basically leverage some protocols that allow unblocked entities forward information from the client to the facilitator (which is assumed to be directly blocked always). That seems to make sense.

It seems to be that the flash proxy must be able to connect to the client directly (the client is not behind NAT), which seems like a pretty big assumption... though that might be fine in the real world use cases that they are targeting.
I always wanted to like behance, but they never hired engineers, only designers, and I could never get the site to work consistently.
> Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional

Came here to say this. "Eye candy" != easy to use.
In cases like this I have always wondered if you could ask the judge/jury if they would also shut down Dell, Microsoft, Apple etc. as the wares from these companies are also used?
On the client mostly jQueryUI, qq-upload and some little jQuery plugins. On the server my usual PHP setup (Smarty, phpThumb) and the awesome instagraph library for the filters (https://github.com/webarto/instagraph)
You asked for a study. I gave you one. I guess that any study worth its time has criticisms and some that don't. Evolution is also criticized. I'm not comparing or equating them, just reminding you a criticism doesn't mean something is not right. Now I did read that wiki section and it is pretty short for such a "controversial" study.

First let me just say that my opinion is that I don't think there is anyone on this earth who knows for sure exactly what red meat does to humans and whether it is good or bad. I choose to believe the study for now.

Now I can start rationalizing why, and reputing Denise's reputings. Unfortunately I don't have time for this. I wish I could spend all my time talking about red meat (I don't) but I can't.

As a side note/joke - Denise is 25. I'm 25. I don't recommend anyone take any health advice from 25 year olds :)
instagraph library (https://github.com/webarto/instagraph)
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Regardless of marketshare, low switching costs encourages competition.

What we don't want is high marketshare and high switching costs which reduce the incentive of a company to continue to innovate.
Gmail doesn't cause cancer.
The Excel function looks ridiculous, but it probably didn't take more than 10 minutes to make, tops. Nested conditionals are easy.

At any rate, what would you recommend most to accomplish the task? I'm learning Python and know R a bit, so I was just wondering how I was going to about combing through the data.
North Korea has the ability to cause a lot of problems for a lot of allies and the United States itself. For example, it's rumored that billions of dollars in extremely high-quality fake US currency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar) have been leaking out of North Korea.

That's why you care about what's going on inside that country and not, say, Burkina Faso.
I'll assume these figures apply to only established daily patterns.

I find exercising lonely, painful, boring, and stupidity inducing - although I completely believe others obtain opposite results. If I had a choice for myself between exercising for 20 minutes, then dying, or dying immediately, I'd choose the latter.

The non-exercising part of my life is spent pleasantly or sleeping, so I see a net gain of 27 minutes ((60 minutes life extension - 20 minutes exercising) * 2/3(awake factor)) for the first 20 minutes/day of exercising, but a net 7 minute loss for the next 40 minutes ((30 minutes life extension - 40 minutes exercising) * 2/3(awake factor)).

Am I using these numbers correctly?
I really like the look of your site. Did you make it yourself from Bootstrap, or is it a template?
The app screening and approval process has problems, sure, but they're dwarfed by the upside. Users think nothing of downloading and installing a new app on their iThing, and when they don't want they app, they delete it and it's gone for real. Contrast this to the Windows desktop that formed a lot of people's learning experiences, where a new app can fuck things up tremendously and where it's gratuitously hard to make sure that something is gone for real.

That trust that users have in the app ecosystem is, from Apple's point of view, a tremendously valuable asset, and so they are taking logical steps to preserve it. If they lose it, people stop buying apps, the virtuous circle goes to pot, and Apple is in deep trouble. Sure, being assholes about the app approval process has costs, and it's really annoying from the developer side - but from Apple's point of view, the cost of not being hardasses about the approval process, is absolutely ruinous.
Civil defense, yes. Criminal, no.
As founder of Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc, Select College Consulting Program, Medical Learning Company, etc., one would assume he was some combination of visionary, manager and (very occasionally) programmer. You assume he will be something similar at Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you're just back at square one — or perhaps a little ahead, given the good will involved. Of course, you've lost a little time, too.
Except that Amazon and Facebook both have the means and market to make a dent. The only real difference is that Adsense is a much more mature platform -- but then again, so was Overture.
Does anyone know how to remove turntrust as a CA in Mac OS X? Or better, disable them? If I go to their website I can click on the little lock which shows they are valid.

I look in the keychain, and I see three listings for TURKTRUST and it looks like the only option is to delete them. I can't set the cert to alert or warn, which is what I would prefer rather than just fully revoke them at this time.
Hello fax: the friendliest full fax alternative Ive seen so far
Approach Google, this idea is potentially worth billions
I archive everything re: the "inbox zero" lifestyle (http://inboxzero.com/) and when i click see my results it is just a blank page.

I would be really interested if you could pull from my archives! :-)
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Note: this is not my web site/company. I've been looking for fax alternatives for a client. Efax.com's web site wouldn't even load to let me pay for a trial (!) and other options just weren't as easy to use or didn't provide a full feature set.
"Vigil must delete itself."

[The Hobbesian rebuttal]

1. We give up all other rights in order to protect our code from immorality - among these are any right to a solution to the halting problem.

2. As socially contracted sovereign, Vigil is exists only to enforce morality upon our code.

3. Nothing can have a nature contrary to what is necessary for it's existence.

4. Deleting itself would be contrary to the social contract which is necessary for its existence. Hence, it is absurd.

RAA: Vigil cannot delete itself.
This is not the HTML5 you're looking for, or at least, not all the HTML5 you're looking for.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ is missing various things you expect in HTML5 (e.g., web storage, web sockets, etc.). These items are in the WHATWG living standard: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

For differences, see http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...?
Honestly, I think you're barking up the wrong tree here. Even his strongest critics generally concede that he's a brilliant man who has contributed significantly to technology.

Please understand, I'm not a Kurzweil fan boy. I do think a lot of his conclusions are inevitable in the long term - say 100 years out - but I'd guess it's 50/50 whether or not his timelines are too optimistic to benefit any of us here personally.

What I'm reacting strongly to here is the knee-jerk dismissal of his credentials and accomplishments by some on HN due to their incredulity towards his later ideas. It doesn't encourage an informed debate, and quite frankly smacks of a religious or political argument - which admittedly many of his supporters are just as guilty of.
Just wondering how you render the final image?
Well, given that we had CCDs and photocopiers, which bit of the flat-bed scanner is that impressive?
If we're going to be pedantic here, lets at least attribute the continued success of Disney's vintage films to their appropriate source: Disney's relentless marketing.
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Some useless weekend projects are worth big money!

There was a company called bubbleshare built around this feature a few years back. It was acquired by a company called Kaboose for ~$2 mil, and then Kaboose was acquired a few years later by Disney. (http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/bubbleshare)
From the New Yorker article:

Even more disappointing is the fact that Kurzweil never bothers to do what any scientist, especially one trained in computer science, would immediately want to do, which is to build a computer model that instantiated his theory, and then compare the predictions of the model with real human behavior.

This is quite damning, if true, and reconciles the apparent discrepancy in this discussion between "Kurzweil, brilliant inventor" and "Kurzweil, futurist hack." Is it possible that Kurzweil, at some point, stopped being an implementer of ideas and became a pure pontificater?
"If you anticipate technology improving or prices for energy coming down, you wouldn't invest in today's technology."

Why not? The amount of profit he makes is already basically fixed up front, and more generally the amount of profit these investments generate will probably only decrease as the technology improves.
My fault for being lazy and using it as a shorthand for "all countries between longitudes 120W and 30E", give or take a few degrees. No offence intended, I just don't live there!
I hope he'll use some of those resources to upload existing intelligences such as, oh, me. Of course, then I might end up in Google Drive or maybe a low-rated app in the Google app store....
Facebook tests VoIP, adds voicemail-like service
The wall design reminded me of Orkut scraps :-)
That sounds like the dictionary definition of the gambler's fallacy. If anything, the odds of an interception likely increase after a previous interception as it would be a sign of a defensive advantage over the QB. If only there was somewhere we could get the data to figure out for sure...
Reminds me a lot of the MySpace redesign video a few months back.
Actually, and first of all I believe -want, feel- as a part of mother earth -Gaia- ..
And 'west' refers a vision in my mind. Not a geographical place.

Let me explain my offended part:
I'm managing some servers on AWS Ireland zone,
I have big list firewall rules, not copied and pasted somewhere else,
I started all open, and slowly most of China, Taiwan, Korea, Russia ... being blocked -at least SMTP, SMPTS ports- .

I'm sure there're some Turkish people may be involved cyber crime,
But most of computer related people I know of is a hard worker, dependable, honest...
This is the point of mine being offended..I don't mind not being included in a political society.
And sorry for being offended ..:)
PLUR.. Peace Love Unity Respect
isn't negative absolute temperature an oxymoron?
> while users of the gambling software would always be disobeying that jurisdiction's laws

(1) Only if they are gambling with the gambling software. They could be using it for non-illegal gaming purposes (such as free online poker where no money is involved), for research, for education, etc. Gambling is illegal in this hypothetical jurisdiction, not software that allows one to gamble.

(2) Just as the Veyron can be produced in one jurisdiction and used elsewhere, gambling software can be produced in one jurisdiction and sold to people who then use it elsewhere. From the article, this is, indeed, what the software author claims to have done.

In other words, software that can be used for behavior that is illegal in one jurisdiction can quite possibly be used for legal purposes in that same jurisdiction (1) or for the same purpose in a jurisdiction where such behavior is legal (2).

Saying that you can't gamble in a place where gambling is illegal doesn't advance the discussion because nobody has yet disagreed with that explicitly or tacitly, as far as I can tell.
Good riddance though. I wish other ISPs would follow suit.

People do NOT like advertisements, the popularity of AdBlock shows that pretty clearly.
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No worries. And I like the site, by the way.
With complete respect and admiration for your efforts, I don't feel like signing up because it looks atrocious. I know the project may be low budget, but even if it's free, you still need to sell it to your target market.
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Exactly. I do like the visual updates but I think the focus wasn't on making it a better experience.
No, you're not alone, that's why I try to put my eggs in several baskets, some of them being my own.
He didn't invest in a solar cell manufacturer, he bought a couple of solar energy plants - mostly fixed cost, variable revenue.

If energy prices come down, he will lose money.
Looks amazing! Nice work.

I'd recommend changing "Take a random photo" to "Use a random photo". The take action for photo is generally understood to be different to the one you are using it for.
Indeed. Chrome has baked-in public key pinning for their services.

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
Really nice domain name too! So many sites have .it, .io, etc domain names where the TLD doesn't mean anything at all and it's glaringly obvious it's just cause they couldn't get the .com. In this case it works very nicely.
Have to admire how thorough the designer was. Redesigning even the "events" pages? That's some level of detail there.

And this redesign will probably work across tablets and phones too, as everything is "big" and "tablety".

But I would not want my Facebook profile to turn into a Metro UI-esque photo collage lacking detail or order.
>> "To send a contact a recorded voice message, tap the "+" button next to the box where you write a message and hit "Record," holding down the button as you are talking. When you are done, release the button and the message will automatically send. If you want to cancel the message while you are recording, slide your finger off the button instead."

How could anyone have thought this was a good way to implement this?? Why not just popup an alert to review or send the recording when they lift their finger? It might be an extra step but I'm sure it's one most users would appreciate.
I just want to know what that contribution was exactly.
The article says, No.

"Furthermore, the driver can't switch between the various graphics chip and memory speeds with many current cards and often causes the graphics hardware to run at the slowest operating speed..."
In no universe does a competent lawyer consider a plea bargain as a win, especially if that is not what his client wants.

A win is a win is a win. Criminal defense lawyers are some of the most competitive, antagonistic people on the planet. If there is any possibility of winning your case, or even not losing, they will fight for it. If their client wants to fight the charges, the lawyer will fight them.
Less than $100 a month on food? Is this even possible (I'm not from the US) without serious malnutrition?
He meant other rich people should pay their fair share, of course.
What's it gonna cost you to apply? Maybe an hour to prepare the CV + cover letter. Take it from there and if you really want the job solve all the problems of Cracking The Coding Interview.
Existential risk around AI? Really?

I don't think it unreasonable to brace for the case where some Skynet wannabe launches all nukes not because of a carefully considered decision motivated by hatred for humanity, but simply because it shat the bed.
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It looks good but it doesn't seem like it would be as useful as the actual Facebook design. It also remind me of the new MySpace design.

https://new.myspace.com/play [Video]
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Negative temperature is a quantum effect than can be tricky to produce experimentally.

There's nothing mysterious about negative temperature from the thermodynamical point of view, but there are no classical systems that exhibit this property.
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"nice" to look at, absolutely terrible to scan. I don't know where to begin and the 'noise levels' on every element is pretty much the same, making me feel very lost. Imagine a layman using this.
It kind of looks a little like the new myspace..
Pretty from an artistic point of view, but the Win 8 design influences are clearly visible. The only place I've seen the Metro look really good and functional is on Windows Phone. The ascetic doesn't work on the desktop. It kind of works on tablet (Surface) but the massive UX problems with Win8 prevent a clear analysis of the style in that form factor.
There's not a lot of help out there for people who are willing to put the time and effort into protocol reversing but don't know where to start!

EA put out a fitness video game with a wireless heart rate monitor that showed up as a normal HID device via its USB dongle. On sale it was like $40, making it a very inexpensive way to log heart rate wirelessly. But no-one had reversed the protocol, and I couldn't find any online resources to teach me how to do it myself.

I'm pretty sure I threw it out, and the product is discontinued now, but I would encourage you to at least put training materials together, if not a full workshop.
That's just multiplying through by -1 the typical nerd wet dream about the Singularity.

Well said. What is it that AI is supposed to do that's so scary, anyway?
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Imagine this design with poorly filtered instagram pictures and fishy facebook application ads all over the place, instead of brilliantly lighted professional photographs of beautiful women.

It's a great work of art from a design perspective, but quite unfeasible to turn into the real thing.
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Positioning is, again, an untenable idea, as you're enshrining the search results of a decade ago as what a search engine should return, while requiring anything else (whether that's search verticals, which is what you seem to be objecting to, or newer approaches like synthesized results) to be literally marginalized.

In other words, you would be requiring Google to remain static, while the rest of the market can explore the search result presentation space. That might help competitors, but it's bad for users.

You're also special-casing google, when, as noted in Jon Leibowitz's speech today: "Tellingly, Google's search engine rivals engaged in many of the same product design choices that Google did, suggesting this process can benefit consumers." Considering that today's result is because there was no evidence that consumers are being harmed here, would you be OK with your hypothetical labeling and positioning rules being applied to all search engines? Then we just need to decide what defines a search engine...