skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
| The same law that says that anyone using a fake
| middle name on Facebook is committing a federal
| felony.

Federal prosecutors tried to get this interpretation through the courts with that mother that drove her daughter's 'rival' to suicide via MySpace. It didn't work. The judge threw it out, rightly stating that interpreting breach of ToS as a Federal crime effectively allows companies to set the bar for what is a Federal crime (e.g. "You must always access this website while standing on one leg or else we revoke your permission to use it! Now you're a 'hacker' with a felony conviction. Have a nice day.").
Your mistake was that you were arguing against my point as if my statement included a universal qualifier. Somehow in these discussions, the nuances and implied ambiguities of language go out the window and every statement is taken to the absolute extreme.

You were arguing against a universal statement that I never intended to make, and now people are arguing against you as if you were denying that white men are generally assumed to be competent compared to other groups.

These discussions could go a lot more smoothly if we would all just cut each other a little slack and assume good faith.
>How is Valve going to deal with the "always losing money" proposition?

I would guess, not well. The minute that they start losing money and are forced to seek investment/debt/rescue, is the minute that their current org-structure dies.
While I use Jekyllfor my own blog, im thinking of switching to cactus. How good of a decision would that be?
Oh really? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8QEOBgLBQU#t=15m10s

This works fine for me. The javascript reads it I suppose.
Facebook has so many pages, Y Google no rank them highly?
Is google intentionally lowering the rank of facebook pages? You search for something like "iphone" and you don't get any pages about the iphone on facebook. You get sites like mashable, engadget, etc, but no facebook pages? Facebook is one of the top sites, so why wouldn't it have a high ranking on practically every query? Is Google intentionally lowering the rank of Facebook (and twitter's tweet pages for that matter) because they're big competition on the web for Google?
I'm not much of a designer myself (although I am working on it, heh) so my personal site is run using Logr, a static site generator written in Python (uses Flask) with Bootstrap on the front-end. I'm hosting it on EC2 and its served by Apache.

I wrote an article about how to set it all up.

http://tangents.co/b/Get-Your-Flask-Apps-Up-And-Running-Fast...
I chuckled. It is, in fact, quite easy to imagine that American bureaucrats (as a collective) are that stupid. I'm not discounting the other possibility, though.
Dedicated server at ServerBeach. Linux. Apache. "Baked" pages (the /w/ ones, at least). Baked with what? Something I wrote called "publog". Written in? C++. It's just a bunch of flat files (both input and output).

No tags, no database. Just static data.
Probably there is some heuristics at work, which gives the intuition that a too good split is somehow dangerous. (Similar to how people who are afraid of the dark try to avoid both caves and cellars. )
they could have used a population list to figure out that a voip server for a library that can handle as many voip lines as 50% of the residents of the town.
| air rifle fires [...] at a muzzle velocity of
| 100 meters per second

| The GE Genesis Series I locomotive [...] travels at
| around 45 meters per second

| If you bounce a single BB off the front of the
| locomotive [...] you slow it down by about a foot
| per day

Why is everything in meters per second, then we jump to using feet all of the sudden? Isn't this just asking for conversion errors? :P
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That housing rental one is huge. Most people forget about that one. It has the potential to seriously effect your quality of life.
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Science is not an agglomeration of random observations and facts - it should not get more complicated as more is discovered - if the theories and tools like maths we have do not explain the theories then we are doing something wrong with the fundamental tools (maths stats)

I accept there is more and more unknown or unexplained - but that is not to say the theories we have are not explained with the same set of "unreasonably effective" tools
The problem with this is that it can take a significant amount of the candidate's time. Scheduling a project (here's a spec, you have 3 days) is a major inconvenience for a lot of candidates.
Wonder if Microsoft will snap them up... or sue them.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/02/microsoft-patent-wearable...
Was he? He was never tried, and neither a court nor a jury made a finding either way. The evidence that is publicly available doesn't back up some of the charges against him and at best is ambiguous as to whether his actions would result in even a 3 months prison sentence, if anything, if he had had the chance to have his case heard in court. Especially given that with his earlier work with PACER it's quite likely that his goal with JSTOR was to gain access to and release documents which, legally, should have been in the public domain.

Besides which, whether or not he violated the law is only partially relevant as the morality of the law is also at issue. How would you feel if your only option was to plead guilty to a law you felt was unjust?
This is bullshit. Establishing intent is not "targeting" someone. Of all the things to get upset about in this case, this has got to be the least worthy. It is the wrongest of wrong trees to be barking up.

He was caught doing 'A'. He had previously written a manifesto that describes it as a moral imperative[1] to do 'A then B'. The prosecution believed that this established his intent[2] to do 'B'.

This is not an unreasonable conclusion. You don't have to respect or agree with any part of the prosecution to understand this. You don't have to believe that it was his actual intent to understand that it's not out of line to draw that conclusion from those facts.

Please, if you care about this case, don't waste energy on linkbait and bent truth.

[1] http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamju...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law) (I link to this because some people seem to be unaware that intent has a legal meaning.)
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WebOS is alive and it’s coming to a television near you
| We were surprised to find out that the webbing
| was portrayed accurately.

They are forgetting that in the movie the strands of web were not all connected together. They had Spiderman at their center, holding on to them. It would seem that his body and/or his grip on the web strands would be the weakest link in trying to resist the force of a train.
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Thanks! Nice job at sowing seeds of doubt when faced with with clearly damning evidence of incompetence. You clearly have a brilliant future in government procurement.

Next task: make the case standardizing on Ferrari 599s for all government vehicles. All of you arguments will hold in that cases as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_599_GTB_Fiorano
That's an interesting piece of news. I could not understand why Guiness World Records aren't able to verify the age of this supposedly decagenarian?

Do they really rely only on a piece of paper to confirm age? I believe not. It shouldn't be hard to estimate the age of anyone accurately given the available options and technology? And isn't it true that in some parts of the world even today birth certificates are not in widespread use?
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Why Handbrake saves DVD video as .m4v but not .mp4 file? What are the differences between MP4 and M4V and how to play M4V video files easily? This HandBrake guide page will give you all satisfying answers.
Off-topic comment but it seems like some kind of trend to intentionally use double negatives in comments. I understand that sometimes using the double negative could be an important distinction, e.g. "not uncommon" does not necessarily mean common, but in this case I think one has to go out of the way to say "not infrequently." Maybe it's just me but I had to re-read that sentence to be sure I understood what was said.
This presupposes that one can own information in the first place.
India's Amazon clone Flipkart offering free music on it's 1st birthday
It should be pointed out that unless the case went to the Supreme Court, a different circuit could yet come to a different conclusion, so better to fix it nationwide through Congress than risk some other court siding with prosecutors (and that defendant having to argue it to a different circuit's appellate court even if the court comes to the same conclusion).

Also:

>interpreting breach of ToS as a Federal crime effectively allows companies to set the bar for what is a Federal crime

Reminds me of something Larry Lessig said during his speech last Tuesday: The alternative interpretation is that it's a violation when someone violates code-based restrictions, right? So you're still allowing companies to set the bar for what is a Federal crime, they just have to do it in code instead of in contract. Write some nominal piece of code whose stated purpose is to prevent the thing you want to prohibit, even if it's facile and trivially bypassed, and now bypassing it is apparently back to being a federal crime again. Is this really something we want to allow? Shouldn't the law require prosecutors to prove there was some actual harm before we go throwing people in federal prison?
This makes me sick to my stomach. The worst part is that there's nothing we (the taxpayers whose hard earned money went to to pay for these things) can do about it, nor is there much we can do to prevent it from happening in the future. I really really hate to admit it, but that's the truth.
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>>It is because the people have a different preferred set point. If you serve them typical American desert, they will actually react in disgust because it is overpowering.

As a Indian I realize how true this is. People from my workplace generally bring chocolates when they come back from the US work assignment. I find it strange that chocolates are so cheap and easily accessible in the US.

I find that as an over dose of sugar. I mean one chocolate down and I don't feel like I need sugar for the next 2 days. That is how much I feel full and yet I see kids in US munching them all the time.

Its just how you are seasoning your body to it.
Good God.

At some point Toady will add an economy module.

I... shudder at the thought of the processing required for that.

Each site will have its own produce, production rates and ability to transmit goods, (the current build is already deciding on how much transport succeeds based on banditry and so on).

Man. It just painful to consider how much processing is going to be required ><.
MIT 2015 Brass Rat unveiled.
True, but assuming in this future humans have developed brain enhancements, the issue of storage space and computing power becomes less relevant. Though I suppose the whole idea of brain enhancements would render the author's point null anyways...
Apple's marketing department can sell ice to an Eskimo.

Microsoft's marketing department cannot sell water to a man who's dying of thirst.

Although -- whoever at Microsoft decided to ship a free Surface Pro to a popular online artist had the right idea. That review probably sold enough Surface Pros to pay his salary for the year.
This is pretty great, but I'm dismayed that it's even needed because someone somewhere started the trend of triggering audio without the user's interaction.

"CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE A WINNER!"

Congratulations, you're a jackass. You do NOT interrupt Black Sabbath.
Node + Express
Well research papers that were funded by people's money - sure why not?
Well, if this was his first job, perhaps it wasn't his company.
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Our idea is to change from JSON on loading to Redshift, continuously. http://www.hapyrus.com/pages/flydata-for-redshift
http://caniuse.com/ is a wonderful resource for checking exactly which browsers support new and exciting features, and whether they need a prefix.
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A TOML parser implemented using literate CoffeeScript
Is the governments recent announcement that they would make all tax-funded research papers free to access a big enough silver lining for people to forget about Ortiz and Heymann?
> I can't imagine USA government officials are this stupid for free.

Hooo boy.
I'm bored. Let's Godwin this.

Dear Anne Frank, why do you only write about the situation of Jewish folk? Why don't you write about the Germans, many of whom didn't have a posh lifestyle, who had terrible working conditions while building tanks, and were occasionally shot back at by the French? It's really scary being shot at! Sometimes you get hit and bleed and die and everything! You should make sure to be inclusive when you write. Think of all those dead Germans. Don't they deserve to be included in your diary?
> Microsoft would go to any lengths to protect and improve morale.

Like in "The beatings will continue until morale improves"?
>You are in the industry for the money aren't you?

Not really. In case you are interested, I am in the industry by accident.

>I thought you guys pumped misery out of the ground day in, day out?

No, we pump oil. And gas. By and large, these things are used to create a whole lot of happiness.
I have no inside knowledge and I speak only as a research student working on search engines, but my guess would be that Facebook and Twitter don't allow their pages to be crawled[1]. If I recall MS had to strike a deal with both of them so that Bing could use them in their results. Another "problem" is that the notion of document relevance varies from a "standard" web page to a social network[2], and mixing them up on the same result page could be confusing.

[1]: a good social search would need realtime access to the API of those websites, which is why you still see "some" content like FB profiles in Google's results.

[2]: what I mean is that you have additional parameters to take into account: incoming/outcoming edges, "status" of the author, additional metrics of popularity, redundancy of content... Social search is an entire research topic of its own.
Also if you launch the more instance in a cluster, the faster to load. Our survey: http://www.slideshare.net/Hapyrus/scalability-of-amazon-reds...
We tried much more files (5MB each) to load, but it takes longer time in total.. We're trying to get appropriate size and file numbers.
Hold your javascript console ransom
You mean, Apple will go on all day about 'how cool and stylish' their new iSomething looks.

But yea, Microsoft's marketing department can use a little help.
I don't understand what you mean. How would you verify the age of a person outside of official documents?
If you discovered a new species of ape, and wanted to put it in a zoo, what would you feed it? Would you try random things, or would you try to emulate what it ate in the wild? This is what paleo is attempting to do for humans. Agriculture is just a drop in the bucket compared to how long we've been eating an ancestral diet. Modern paleo folk don't fear agriculture. They just want to get back to a system of small, local, organic, sustainable farms, and away from GMO crops and factory farming. More Joe Salatin's Polyface farms, less Monsanto/ADM.

Sure you can sustain yourself on grains, but why would you do that when you can thrive on paleo? Hunter-gatheres were stronger and 4 inches taller than the farmers that followed. Keep in mind that modern wheat is nothing like our grandparents' wheat. Modern wheat is a dwarf variety 42-chromosome plant that cannot grow without human intervention. Ancient emmer wheat had 28 chromosomes and much less gluten than modern wheat. Cultures that traditionally ate lots of carbs also lived near the equator in warm climates and were way more active than us in the Western world. Potatoes are fine. Just eat them with plenty of fat/butter to blunt the resulting blood sugar spike, but it's traditionally eaten that way anyway. Dairy is a gray area. If you're of Eastern European descent and still produce the lactase enzyme to handle dairy, then you're fine. There's no cut and dry rules saying what is paleo and what isn't since it's impossible to perfectly emulate our ancestral diet. Modern fruits have been bread to contain much more fructose for example. This is why I believe Steve Jobs' pancreas problems were due to his fruitarian diet, but I'm getting way off topic now.
Genuine question - why in Geneva and why would you need a patent examiner for smth like that? US trolls?
Chromebook Pixel is Good for Innovation, Bad for Buyers
My thoughts exactly. I will defiantly consider it formy "Top 10 blogs about 3 thing you need to know (Best)" blog :)
Also the awesome NEOSsat!

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/neossat/
I don't understand the problem with Twitter ads.

A simple script gets rid of all Twitter website junk quietly and automatically. No Promoted tweets, no "You may want to follow" nags, no "Now trending" junk. Nothing, but a stream of tweets from those I follow.

I realize that making people pay to use the service is likely to attract a different user base, but the lack of ads doesn't really move a needle a bit.
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AirPlay for everyone? Zapstreak outs Android SDK with more in store
Great - justify incompetence with lazy reasoning. Why bother figuring out what each library needs just assume they are all as big as the largest public library.

I though I was cynical but if this it truly "the nature of government purchasing" I am clearly not nearly cynical enough.

Q: Wouldn't the internet service provider be willing to throw in a router for free? I got one with my $20/month service. I bet these libraries are paying a bit more than me.
I totally agree with you. It should be simple. Especially for those who want to view your location.
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Well, hackinthebochs never said that the assumption of competence was strong enough to prompt a job offer, you introduced that as a silly hyperbolic statement, so ridiculously grand in its claim - that 'an assumption of competence' can only be shown if it results in an instant job offer - that it appeared you were building a strawman with which to attack the idea that anyone had any kind of bias in favour of white males.

An assumption of competence doesn't imply that it will be allowed to stand untested in a high stakes scenario such as offering a job. However it will far too often stand untested in smaller scenarios, and it is exactly this assumption behind statements like "did you have your boyfriend help you with that assignment?" addressed to female students and not males, "you must be the graphic designer!" etc etc.
That's interesting that Chrome's caching is so broken, I wasn't aware it actually existed at all because I use the real internet that is not next door the googleplex and every time I hit the back button I enjoy a 1 - 5 second break waiting for the page to be completely reloaded.
Infographic from their blog: https://s3.amazonaws.com/simplecharters/jpeg.jpeg
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I don't see prices anywhere, but I'm assuming this is one of those "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" type things.
This is related to biomimicry (using nature as the inspiration for design). If you're interested in learning more, I helped start a local group: http://bayareabiomimicry.org/

- Ryan
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Google Worried About Samsung's Android Dominance
What we have is one study that say that when faced with imposter syndrome, correlations show that women tend to have extra low impulsivity and a need for stability and order in their life. Men on other hand when facing imposter syndrome had extra high impulsivity with a low need for order and stability.

I don't see how either type of reaction can be consider good, bad, worse or better. Both has potential strong negative consequences. Too high impulsivity can lead to anything from death, bankruptcy, failure, or in rare occasions: success. Too low impulsivity can lead to an downward spiral, inaction, disadvantages, failure, or in rare occasions: success.
I imagine you could do a rough verification via medical means. From what I understand there isn't a perfect method to determine the age of a person other than looking at the wear on teeth and bones, but that might be enough to expose a fraud.
To This Day - the most inspiring poem about bullying
wow, calc() is sweet enough to drop a LESS dependency in a lot of cases.
All of them except Opera (though webkit needs the -webkit- prefix on calc())
To me, it's about how my personality meshes with that of the team; How my approach to problems correlates with their expectations. Does that make sense?
Hmm a quick search showed that one cannot easily determine age using genetics [1]. Although the article is from 2004 it would be really interesting to know what the options are in 2013.

Answers 24andme?

[1] http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask8
A FELONY CONVICTION and three months in jail.

If you take the law and legal status seriously, you don't just accept being disenfranchised lying down.

nb. disenfranchised both literally and figuratively in this case.
I can't speak with any statistic but in the few years I've lived in the Bay Area, the number of Mac users is insanely dominating. Its quite rare to see a PC in my own experience
slava@rethinkdb.com would be great!
The app is great.

It seems to take the approach of a post-processing frame shift rather than real-time stabilisation. In other words it lets the phone capture and compress using hardware, but keeps the sensor data separately and shifts the x,y of the video to stabilise. Unlike Final Cut etc. that has to analyse each frame, Luma has the raw data as the video was being shot. So the battery hit would come on export when the video has to be re-rendered I'm guessing.

I think this is the method because the Luma video appears more zoomed in than the original, i.e. they leave some space around so the video is always visible. This means that the Luma output will be lower res than the original hardware captured video I'm guessing.

Still, if it avoids walking around with your phone in a steadicam rig then it's a huge win. I have a steadicam smoothee but the ridicule from friends and family mean I don't use it, the slightly lower res output with Luma is the price my family will pay for their insensitive mockery!
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We applied for developer kits. I think they're still on track to ship April/May.