skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However, we in Europe care little about what the mpaa says and German judges tend to be independent from the US government as well.

They don't need to win over the German government. If the US Congress passes a law to the effect of "No US bank can do business with a bank that does business in Antigua" even European banks will stay clear.

I'm American and I would love to see a major country stand up to the US when it comes to this crazy patent and copyright stuff. But there are a lot of financial levers, and export-driven countries like Germany, Japan, and China are particularly vulnerable.
Farmers in New Zealand have the advantage of clear transparent markets. In the US and EU markets are severely distorted due to subsidies and related regulations.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/new-zealand-farm...
Calgary company turns Google Earth into a 3D map for commercial real estate
Even if they lose that part they won't be signed up to H.265 licence unless they choose to so the FRAND status matters too so can potentially charge excessively. Also if the weak FRAND interpretations stand many other patent holders may stay outside the collective license to get as much as they can.
The MBA is a profit center. To see what it costs for poor kids, just look at the undergrad scholarship policy. Odds are, they will get a free ride if they have great grades.
Mixpanel, Userfox, Customer.io, Intercom.io, Help Scout, Desk.com, Olark, and UserVoice are all tools that come to mind. It comes down to preference a bit. The engagement features in Mixpanel are probably my favorite for setting up drip email campaigns and it's a really great analytics tool to start with. I'm of the opinion that great customer service begins with understanding the customer and how they're using your product.

For books, I've heard really good things about "Delivering Happiness." I'm a fan of Seth Godin as well, but he writes more about marketing. I think the ideas translate fairly well though.
Yeah it was released in November I think, so definitely after Windows 8 was released with IE10. Don't know what's taking them so long with releasing the final version for Windows 7 though.
Remember that the little "You hung out with..." thing is not shared with anyone but the people in the Hangout. So although you're using Google+, nobody else needs to know. (Nor will they know unless you explicitly share something with them.)

Also, this was not a Google press release, this was just some random guy doing some data analysis. I doubt he has any idea that you use Google+ except that you publicly posted about it here.
Looks like the future of file sharing. Just waiting for the day when all the browsers would start supporting it.
I quite regret joining for a CS degree. I am on my second year (I should have been in 3rd, but I chose to take an year of academic break). What CS teaches you, you cannot implement in real world without doing stuff you would be doing without joining the degree.

Best way is to stay passionate about CS and join a degree for some other studies, like business or law, hence bringing out your full potential.

I am, for sure, going to regret taking my CS degree.
Wheres the MSN Live/Skype/Xbox network?
almost twice the cost of google.com/nexus price.
This is why college won't get any cheaper: there will be more value in having a qualified person evaluate not only the test, but all your schoolwork. You can game a test, but it's harder to game a few years of school.
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In large groups, revolutionaries -- like the founding fathers:

>He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

>He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance

>He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures

>For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

>For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
Also dramatically less advertising (though even today Paris doesn't have that much.)
Are Facebook posts even indexed? I don't recall ever seeing one. I just tried a few searches and can't find anything.

Is there even such a thing as a 'personal Facebook post that's public'? As you can tell I'm not a regular user...
USSC or Anonymous?

;)
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How many calories does it take to bring a calorie to the ISS?
it's really nice most of the results are good ideas, some already exists, some are pretty bad
In terms of effectiveness, compared to other Anonymous campaigns, I feel pretty safe in saying the visibility of this campaign is going to be very high.
Facebook's robots.txt looks pretty restrictive:

http://facebook.com/robots.txt

Their sitemap doesn't even load for me.

(I don't use Facebook so I don't know how much this covers, but it's an interesting read compared to http://plus.google.com/robots.txt.)
No it isn't, I can think of heaps of counter examples where the assumption of guilt is a good way to act...
If you stop pitying yourself and stop giving a fuck, you can start a startup and excel in your field.

If you don't start a startup, you haven't deserved it. Sounds a bit harsh, but in these times, everybody can start a startup and only 75% of them fail. 25% success rate t become a millionaire, not worth it?
Is there any measurement of social networks that doesn't count people viewing a web page on the social network as a user?
Makes sense, actually. If the county sheriff abused his authority to commit murder, the coroner would know about it.
Forking food in more ways than one....interesting..
Do attack ads ever work, even if the facts are accurate?

(All I can think of are Microsoft's attack ads against Google, or Apple's "Redmond, Start your Photocopiers" ad. Wouldn't that money be better-invested in improving the product?)
And Rotterdam...
As in, here is my pizza recipe, you can have it or you can "fork it" and modify it?

forkitrecipes.com isn't taken ... yet.
There's a difference between a type like Object and a polymorphic type. This is easy to see with generics in a Java-like pseudocode:

public foo(Object o) { ... }

is very different from

public foo<A>(A o) { ... }

In Haskell, you always use the second style of function--there is no sub-typing, so there is no real equivalent to the Object type in Java.

We can imagine something similar for read. If we didn't know anything about the type, it would look something like this:

public Object read(String s) { ... }

instead, it's actually something like this:

public A read<A>(String s) { ... }

So whenever you use read, you would be specifying the type it returns. I imagine it would look something like this:

read<Integer>("10") + read<Integer>("11")

This is exactly how read works in Haskell. The important difference, however, is that the type system can infer what type read is supposed to be. So the above code snippet would look like this:

read "10" + read "11"

If you made the types explicity, it would look like this:

(read "10" :: Integer) + (read "11" :: Integer)

So you always know what type read has when you use it. But what is the type of read itself? The Javaish version looked something like A read<A>(String str). The important part is the generic A: it's a polymorphic type variable. In Haskell, the type is similarly polymorphic: String -> a.

Of course, the type isn't quite this general: you can only read things that you have a parser for. In the Java-like language, it would probably look roughly like:

public A read<A extends Read>(String str) { ... }

In Haskell, we do not have any concept of "extending" a type: there is no sub-typing of any sort. Instead, we have typeclasses which serve the same role, so the type ultimately looks like this: read :: Read a => String -> a.

Hopefully this clarifies how you know what type read has. Really, it's no different from any other class like Show. There is a very clear parallel between show and read:

read :: Read a => String -> a
show :: Show a => a -> String

Being able to take advantage of this sort of symmetry in the language is extremely useful. My favorite example is with numeric literals, which are polymorphic:

1 :: Num n => n

In my previous Java pseudocode, this would look something like:

1<A>

and would be used like:

1<Integer> + 1<Integer>
2<Double> * 3<Double>

Of course, this is hideous, which is why type inference is so important.
Yes, because what are the saved lives of hundreds of millions in the Third World in comparison with vague, unverifiable prophecies of "unmitigated disasters". If nothing else, be happy that the Green Revolution has effectively prevented further warfare between India and Pakistan, both nuclear armed countries.
Nokia Falls In Love With Windows Phone: Killing Its Own Baby “Symbian”
LinkedIn, but for Cooking

Definitely niche, but not bad. It might be cool to have a system like that for connecting young, promising Chefs with more established ones. I don't know too much about cooking, but I bet it's hard for Chefs to convey their expertise and experience with a traditional resume.
this is exciting. Only Chrome24 supports it, but sooner all browsers will.
Never seemed to make any sense to me. How can money be responsible for its use?
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Here is the blog post to the "report":
http://globalwebindex.net/thinking/social-platforms-gwi-8-up...

According to the article:
“Active Usage” (defined as “Used or contributed to in the past month”).

Now according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail):
As of June 2012, it (Gmail) is the most widely used web-based email provider with over 425 million active users worldwide.

Do you really believe that 80% of Gmail users are "active" Google+ users?
I have been refusing to recommend my otherwise perfect-fit girlfriend for a position at my company for precisely this reason. You never know what might happen; and while I love her, I know it's best to keep professional and personal lives apart. You don't shit where you eat. It might sound cliché, but there's truth to it.
It's been a couple of hours since the hack. How does a major gov website not have a plan to act on this quicker? I wonder if they even have an alert letting them know something happened.
The value proposition is weak if the consumer wants to know how this works before commuting. It skews data.
Mine doesn't. Bravia EX series.
"The mind is an incredibly powerful yet fallible pattern matching engine. It can find anything, from any input, it seems. Just the same way you can make a face or a zoo animal from a pattern of water vapor in the sky, you're making a failure out of a pattern of events in the past. In both cases, it's illusion."

I don't often recommend Tony Robbins, but one lesson from his work that is stuck with me is exactly that.

The way he puts it: "Our brain is amazingly good at answering questions. Any question you ask yourself, and your brain will come up with an answer. So if you ask yourself 'why am I such a failure?', you'll get an answer. On the flipside, ask yourself 'Why am I such a success?', you'll also get an answer. The trick is asking yourself the right questions". (This is heavily paraphrased, as I'm doing it entirely from my memory of a tape from 10 years ago).

This is also why I think the best self-help tool is the famous saying: "Fake it til' you make it". Pretending you're the kind of person you want to be is a great way to trick your brain into getting the patterns and habits such a person would have, and the fact that you essentially realize you're "fooling yourself" actually doesn't matter that much.
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I am a web developer and I personally use this one.

http://www.sony.co.in/product/vpcyb25ag

I got it for ~$450. It's a little slow but it gets the job done. It's extremely portable. My friends are jealous because I pick it up like it costs nothing. It's relatively lightweight. It came with Windows 7 Starter Edition preinstalled. I cleaned it up and installed Archlinux on it. Now it's my goto machine for hacking on stuff.
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I think there are only two ways to deal with regret: (1) accept that you can't change the past, and (2) make sure that you learned something from your mistake(s).

Not learning from your mistakes at all and continuing to suffer from them is enough to depress anyone. So if you haven't yet learned what to take away from your experience that will help you in the future, concentrate on that.

Also, early 30's is NOT too late to start over, in almost any field. You just have to find something that you're passionate about, and yes, you do have a lot of catching up to do. There are a number of success stories out there that start that late in life. Read about them. In some cases, experience gained from early failures even make for bigger successes down the road.
Rightsholder, n: a person who owns the rights to other people's work.

A similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbaland_plagiarism_controver...
Probably yes, but there is no excuse for incompetence on the part of the ISPs when they ship routers to the customers.
Samsung announces Galaxy Xcover 2 with Android 4.1
You're in your early thirties? Then your just getting started my friend. Most people (including me) didn't get my act together and start doing good stuff until I was in my thirties.

Personally, I got going late because my parents taught me very little in my childhood. They were poor and dumb. I'm not saying that to be mean or disrespectful, and I do love them, but they did not have their act together, so to speak.

So, take all this worry and negativity and use this energy (because that's all it is, energy) and channel it into work you want to do. Keep on iterating, trying new things, being curious.

BTW, this may sound weird, but there is something you do better than anyone else in the world. I firmly believe everyone over 30 does. Whatever that skill or ability is for you, see if you can leverage it. Now is the time to mine your strengths and exploit your uniqueness.

Okay, joyful work is ahead of you my friend. Get off HN and get busy.
I'm pretty sure I've seen "GitHub for Recipes" pop up on HN before. Can't recall it's name at the moment, but it was definitely discussed here fairly recently.
Nine Free and Easy Ways to Look Your Best in a Video Interview or Chat
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Fastest regular expression that does not match any string
The finest demonstration of that is the turd, sorry film Pearl Harbour....
Integrating Opus and/or VP9 into WebM removes one of the selling points they used to promote the format. WebM wasn't supposed to be a generic container format holding different codecs. It was specifically tied to Vorbis/VP8 to ensure everyone advertising WebM support would be able to play the files.

If they decide to add these additional codecs then there will be some players that can play some WebM files but not others. If that was the direction they wanted to head then they could have just stuck with Matroska for the container format.
Given the circumstances, I know no individual who would have done otherwise.
There are some amusing combinations there. Quora, but for programming: sounds like StackOverflow :). Netflix but for news: rent news broadcasts months after they were aired; sounds like a perfect plan!
Petition the Whitehouse: Restrict the entry of GFW builders into U.S.
Another article released a week ago claims this was 420 sq feet...
I wonder if it's entirely safe to use that link. They are probably trying to make some kind smokescreen and feed the feds with your IP addresses.
> All actually good startup ideas are bad ideas when they are started.

Hmmm. I've just created a website for an event happening next year, that around 16 million people in the UK will probably take part in. http://www.euroelection.co.uk/
Fixing the Marmalade repo
I was going to say the same thing; there are no more horse-drawn carriages on the city's bridges and the dresses have changed a lot, but the buildings and general surroundings, and night scenes are very identical today.
In the US, they are. People have been sentenced to 200+ years in jail.
In this case he didn't have an evaluatory position, so why is its HRs business?
It just doesn't matter how many stats they release. The stat just doesn't "feel" true. I have never read a report from anyone who has signed into Google Plus, who has reported anyone but Google employees or their friends using the service.

The only thing bragging about statistics from the service does is make people trust Google less. It does not further engender confidence in Google Plus.

I agree with those that point out that Google Plus is counting "active" users in fallacious method. Common sense of millions of users has to square with the stats companies are releasing. Facebook's? They make sense. Google's? They just don't.
Dummiest StackOverflow question evah
I think everyone has thoughts like these, more or less.

What worked for me: meditation. Right now I'm listening to series of training sessions by a guy in redwood city - here are the recordings for the first three weeks.

http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/3825.html

http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/3844.html

http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/3857.html

This might not be your thing, but if come across something like this that is a good fit for you, it can be great. Best is something that you physically do from time to time, not just read/think about.
A great argument for not telling anybody.
I regret over tiny things, words said, actions taken in seemingly insignificant situations, sometimes years ago!

It's hard but mantras have been my solution. I just literally shake myself out of it. I can't avoid the feeling, I can't dodge the actual regret, but I can instantly shake it off and go on with my life.

I don't think it's optimal, but it's the best I can do. Try to stay positive.
http://decrazifier.appspot.com. You can check out the source here: http://github.com/jbrukh/decrazifier. :)
Probabilistic algorithm to unscramble CrazyBlindDate avatars.
The app is written in Go. You can check out the source here: http://github.com/jbrukh/decrazifier.
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> This could be a little bit invalid because of things like Hangouts... I bet I'm considered an "active" Google+ user because I have participated in a Hangout.

Sorry to break it to you like this, but you are an active user of G+. You are actively using a major feature of the product, namely Hangouts. You may not be using it in the way that Google intended it (business vs. personal use), but you are indeed using it.

> I'm actually kind of annoyed every time I have to log onto Google+ to do something because I know they are about to add me to some press release statistic. There's something "evil" about that in my opinion.

Really? So you don't like it when companies release statements about the number of active users on their site? I think you would be hard pressed to find a publicly traded company that doesn't report their number of active users--in press releases, too, no less.

I think what you're trying to say is that you feel that Google+ Hangouts are not a true part of Google+? Because this feature does not specifically need to belong to Google+? (Correct me if I have misjudged your opinion.) Well, sure, it doesn't have to, but Google wants it there, and it makes sense from a social perspective.

You may be using a subset of Google+ features, but that still makes you a user--just like if you only used Skype or Facebook for the video chat feature, you would still be a user.
Yes, that is how it is meant. Thank you for the clarification, I am not a native English speaker.
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I'd love to see some statistics relating to time spent on the site, or number of page views. I suspect that G+ would be orders of magnitudes lower than Facebook
Github, But for Knowledge

Wikipedia?

Between this and the Video Game Name Generator [1], I think I could work forever on random junk. ; )

[1] http://videogamena.me/
I believe it's more about habits than pedantry. The "new world" has tons of duplicate city names. Aside from those already quoted, there are also Vancouver, BC and Vancouver, Washington cities that are only separated by 300 miles, and the famous and ubiquitous Springfield.
In Germany and France, it seems that when two cities share the same name, the name of the nearest river is often used for disambiguation (e.g. Romilly-sur-Seine/Romilly-sur-Andelle, Frankfurt am Main/Frankfurt an der Oder). Americans seem to prefer state names, and it seems they interpolated this habit on the international level.
'Serval Mesh' mesh networking project launches on Android
Encounter... So-so. Usage... Almost never. Don't care to
But would have they been in this case?
I assume "right-wing" is a synonym for Red Team, and "left-wing" a synonym for Blue Team.

But your point is a good one: both teams support some appalling legal and military policies against their own citizens.
The site contains links to 9 encrypted files, one for each of the current Supreme Court Justices.

The files are intended to be concatenated into a single file named: Warhead-US-DOJ-LEA-2013.aes256

(US-DOJ-LEA = United States - Department of Justice - Law Enforcement Agency)

aes256 is apparently the encryption scheme used to encrypt the files.

File names (and sizes): 1115 MB total

Scalia.Warhead1 (150 MB)
Kennedy.Warhead1 (108 MB)
Thomas.Warhead1 (150 MB)
Ginsburg.Warhead1 (150 MB)
Breyer.Warhead1 (150 MB)
Roberts.Warhead1 (23 MB)
Alito.Warhead1 (150 MB)
Sotomayor.Warhead1 (101 MB)
Kagan.Warhead1 (133 MB)

Relevant quotes pertaining to the file contents:

The contents are various and we won't ruin the speculation by revealing them. Suffice it to say, everyone has secrets, and some things are not meant to be public. At a regular interval commencing today, we will choose one media outlet and supply them with heavily redacted partial contents of the file.

Should we be forced to reveal the trigger-key to this warhead, we understand that there will be collateral damage.

It is our hope that this warhead need never be detonated.

Summary: the file contains "various secret contents", the file has one encryption key to reveal all data, they intend to release previews of the data, they may not release the encryption key (although chances of this seem unlikely).

The encrypted data is almost certainly larger than the unencrypted data, my guess is the unencrypted data is closer to 600MB to 900MB (In the ballpark of the size of a standard 700MB data CD).

Initially I thought the 9 files may contain data about each of the SC Justices, or perhaps information intended for each of them. However, I think their names on files were simply chosen for effect.
Kim Dotcom wants to encrypt half of the internet