skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you find this kind of thing interesting I can strongly recommend "The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins which looks at ~40 common ancestors we have, not just the common ancestors of all humanity, but common ancestors with chimps, gorillas, all the way back to the Last Universal Ancestor - the beastie that all life has as an ancestor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancestor%27s_Tale
The first claim in the article about the mortality rate (<= 50%) is sensationalist and deceptive. The mention towards the end, that the mortality rate approaches half in patients with CRE bloodstream infections is more in line with the CDC press release the Wikipedia Article links to http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0305_deadly_bacteria... (I edited the Wikipedia page to reflect this same point.. journalists, crosscheck your sources)
Here's a great clip of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone explaining this point to a group of film students:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2011/09/07/arts/television/1000...
Last I checked, you can't copyright a collection of colours.
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You're also required to have a good faith belief that the content is actually infringing. Not easy to prove you're not, but it's something.

The EFF's "dancing baby" lawsuit is still going; if they win that will set a stronger precedent for forcing copyright owners to first consider fair use.
Anti-semitism isn't always about religion. Sometimes it's just racism.
Another reason to not do business with an American company. DMCA, patent trolls... I will be really afraid if someday I launch a service in the UUSS.
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People of Russia were (and still are, to large extent) victims of brainwashing. Beware of brainwashing, it's effective regardless of country.

And Americans aren't?
> I don't think I can buy the victim-blaming argument.

With respect to the topic of women who cooperate in their own oppression, they aren't victims, and no one is blaming them. Would you blame someone for choosing a lifestyle that didn't suit your personal tastes? No? Then we lose the right to "blame" women for making the choices they do. This is what personal freedom means -- the right to make choices others may disapprove of.

> Is a woman who is born into a culture with female genital mutilation ...

Surely you're aware that's not the topic. Such things aren't volunteered for, but the sorts of behavior we see in the West are often chosen by women who have options and rights.

> ... or forced arranged marriage "cooperating in their own oppression"?

Again, not the topic of discussion. Consider the all-too-common example in which a woman, removed from one abusive relationship, promptly seeks out another. How is that "forced"?

Real liberation will come, not when women are given the rights they deserve, but when they accept them.
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Religion in general and Christianity in particular, thrives and flourishes on the soil of human fears, whether [originally] of unexplainable natural phenomena, of ignorance or of gullibility. Given these premises, like secular empires of old, the Roman Catholic Church, already in the "winter" of its existence, is fated to die.

A small percentage of educated Catholics (through birth) care about the medieval doctrines of old men in the Vatican, and very few live by them.

The media frenzy about the forthcoming elections of a new CEO give the wrong impression that all this is a truly important occasion.
Thankfully you're already on Gittip, I'll happily support what you're doing. I'm working on a similar cause. :)
In which case the banking sector is just another crisis waiting to happen. Smash it down, and we'll see just how big they are.
Absolutely possible, people reverse engineer parts of our chips and I'm pretty sure a well supplied failure analysis lab could do some of the work as well.

It's certainly doable to reverse engineer out a cryptographic key from a chip, but most of the people who could afford to do this wouldn't really need to do so. Secure elements are typically substantially more protected than standard logic. The structures can be designed in a manner to be very difficult to access without damaging them rendering them unreadable.

Such a cryptographic key would likely be scattered in pieces around the chip, delivered through winding busses below enough critical logic connections and power rails so that the chip wouldn't be as vulnerable to a focused ion beam attack or infrared analysis. This makes it difficult to observe without destroying enough of the chip that live examination would not be possible. There are also tricks that would be used to mitigate the risk of differential power attacks etc.

The bigger threats to secure elements are sloppy design with DFT/DFM (Design For Test) features. Most complex chips have at a minimum a mechanism of connecting a large number of the designs flops to what's like a huge shift register. If you knew enough of the design you could try to locate the output of a block which has access to the secure value, scan in a vector that makes it easy to recover the value (e.g. an XOR element you can force to XOR with 0's) and scan it out.

There are also other DFT feature like on-die logic analyzers, micro-breakpoint engines, code signing overrides etc. Virtually all of these features are physically disabled prior to volume manufacturing. If a company was sloppy this could expose things that shouldn't be exposed.

There are other attacks as well though. If you could compromise the signing keys for the microcode delivered to a processor like a modern x86 processor you could change the behavior of instructions. With custom microcode you could catch and override basically any instruction (for example you could change where a LOAD instruction stores data or make ADD do jmp etc). You could definitely use something like that in a malicious manner.
>effectively impossible to crack.

hack into their servers, steal binaries of game server, modify client to work with local server.
One time crowd funding might not be sustainable, but recurring crowd funding may be.
It's a key-value store, so you don't really get locked in. Also, Cassandra is supposed to be pretty close if you ever want to run your own database cloud.
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We, at Veneficus[0], build Web2Docx (http://www.web2docx.com) as an internal side project because we want to generate good looking, Word compliant reports for our clients programmatically. Since these reports contain a wide array of markup, charts and our company branding one of our primary concerns was the compatibility with Word. Our insights are of no value when they can't be seen. Therefore, we have made significant effort to match our output with Word 2010 as close as possible. We are succeeding at doing this.

We are now ready to share this functionality and I'd like to ask the HN community what you think about our project. Do you have any suggestions for improvements? For example, we currently transform from HTML, shall we add conversion from markdown?

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You are describing a bad implementation of a bloom filter [1]. Anyway, people expect "uniq" to be correct in all cases (i.e., to never filter a unique line). A default implementation where it would possible (even with a minuscule chance) that this doesn't happen would be a recipe for disaster. It may be a cool option though ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
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"Good faith belief" sounds totally tangible. m(
pretty fascinating that a seed fund can also make money in very creative ways.
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Silicon Zoo has some awesome pictures of interesting artwork found on microchips.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html
If you want to speak up, don't hesitate to contact LayerVault's support ( support@layervault.com ) and let them know, respectfully, how you feel. You can also tweet your opinions @layervault.

I stress respectfully. Try to be well spoken and sincere.
I was hoping to find some intelligent conversation here about their use of BGP as a per-server load balancer and keepalive.

Anyone else find this interesting? Have you seen this in other compmanies?
It's pretty obvious that these icons are not copies of the originals. They are very similar, but clearly independently produced. It's a bit tenuous to apply copyright law here. Copyright is for the act of copying information, not style.

Trademarks can legally protect a particular style, but trademark law isn't enforced through DMCA requests.
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This all relates to trade dress, not copyright per se.
there's also the question of originality i.e:
Two men are wearing suits. Both suits originate in previous suits. The similarities that they therefore share would be those attributes of the suit that is not encompassed by previous works. So therefore, even though the two suits the two men may be wearing appear virtually identical, they are indeed not and do not share any substantial similarities to one another.

it's trés bothersome when designers behave like this when they're themselves just un/consciously influenced by previous artmovements and designers (florian freundt(2003), matias duarte spring to mind).
As a person born in USSR Russia and currently living in Uzbekistan, I can confirm that college entrance system didn't change much in Uzbekistan:
1. You are allowed to apply to 1 state-sponsored university only. If you don't get in, you're SOL.
2. You need to pass medical examination before you submit your documents. This "Medical Form-86" can be bought for $10.
3. You can buy your way into a university, just like rich kids do for Ivy Leagues in USA.

The best change since then is the fact that the practice of administering oral and written exams by each university is GONE :)

IMHO this was THE MAIN way to deny admission during USSR times. This happened to both of my parents:
a. My mom scored perfect on first 2 exams and scored 1 on the final essay. The university in Russia rejected her appeal. Oh, and did I say she was writing for her high school bulletin and won several state essay competitions?
b. Same story with my Uzbek dad. Scored well on Math and Physics just to fail the final oral exam. Ended up serving in Army in Saint Petersburg for a few years.

Now concerning discrimination in USSR colleges: I have relatives who are Tatars and Uzbeks and I know plenty of Jewish Russians who had no problem getting into universities during USSR times. I also know a few Russians who thought they got perfect scores but ended up getting a ding.
Based on my experience, I'd day everyone was against odds due to corruption and lack of connections.
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At the time Richard Williamson had his excommunication removed, the Vatican did not know he was a Holocaust denier. His ordination was never approved by the Vatican in the first place, rather he was ordained in the heretical organization SSPX, which was why he was excommunicated. The reason Benedict removed these excommunications was to restore peace with the ultra-traditionalists who reject the Second Vatican Council, in much the same way Catholics have been working to restore peace with other Christians who do not accept the Catholic orthodoxy. Such ecumenism is usually viewed as progress, but anti-Catholic critics have continually tried to present this as if Benedict condones Holocaust denial, which is disingenuous, as he has condemned those views and suspended Williamson's episcopal authority until he recants.

The decision not to meet with the singing priest was not entirely "bad business" because by condoning clergy who perform pop-star renditions of the Mass you isolate the many more conventional Catholics who prefer some solemnity in their liturgy, and find such shows disrespectful to a sacred institution. There have been many such abuses since the Novus Ordo Mass began and Benedict had been trying to tighten up on them.

Although the author seems to be suggesting that the Vatican start a bank for the sake of humor, there actually is a Vatican Bank, the Institute for Works of Religion. (Edit: I misread)
Actually, that patent was held by Trolls.
Given postal code, asking for city and state is pretty much useless.

This view is US-centric. Others have pointed out that there are cases even in the US where this may cause confusion.

But for me, the bigger problem is that asking for state is counter-productive. The state and country are the same thing for me. Some sites force users to put something in the state field, whatever country. Other sites explicitly check the country and reject input if there is a state specified for a country that doesn't have them. You never know. Most of the time it fortunately makes no difference. But it's a slight annoyance.
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Yes, and that does not even get into the extremely complex principle of the process technology itself, mixed with the design placement techniques that tend to be very closely tied to the process.

Reverse engineering Digital can be conceivable by looking at blocks, but for analog it can be incredibly difficult.
What's the revenue proposition for a stats site? I guess they could start advertising on the webpages, but that would be a rather desperate move.

(I briefly worked at last.fm; my impression is they haven't done well under CBS, but I could easily be wrong. What do you think has improved since then?)
This is kind of old news. This Ouest-France article from November 5th, 2011 even has two pictures of the 'Viking sunstone'

http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuLocale_-Des-physiciens-p...
HTML5 version ran WAY faster for me (Chromium Linux) but without sound :(
Unlikely. If you're on Origin and ask your bank a chargeback, they'll block your account and hold all your legally bought games hostage.

That would be the same as any cloud service(PSN, Steam, Google Play, App Store…), which is a shame, and should be forbidden by law since the consumer gets zero protection in this case.
When all is said and done, Elon Musk's armchair analysis will turn out to be correct -- lithium-ion batteries can't be allowed to get too hot or too cold.
he's carterac on twitter, and at artsy we use [firstname]@artsy.net for email addresses :)
Access to the webpage was denied

You are not authorized to access the webpage at http://fmn.rrimg.com/fmn065/20130308/0020/original_0oRm_63da.... You may need to sign in.

I guess that's one definition of recursion.
Was about to post the same but for chrome beta on nexus 7.

No sound but way awesome FPS
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My dad had pretty much the same experience. He was not Jewish. He was not Russian (slavic/blond/blue-eyed) either.

Russophilia, xenophobia, cronyism and nepotism were rampant in the former USSR. A "prominent" Muscovite Jew (but otherwise a lousy student) would have been treated better than the most talented Uzbek/Kazakh/Tajik.
Less a hack, more social engineering. It was not an intrusion of cryptography or computer systems, it was an intrusion of people.
I don't find these restrictions limiting at all. I barely ever need more than 1 kB per object. If I need to store more than a few kB, I will put it in S3 and store in DynamoDB just pointer to it.

Why would I store unstructured blobs in DynamoDB anyway if I have much cheaper S3 at disposal.
you can get Archimedes mirror working, only that (if I remember the math) it just has to be very big - so you'd just have to wonder if the ancients would've really gone through the effort of building it without knowing if it would really be that useful in real ship warfare. I'm sure someone tested a prototype with toy papyrus boats or something, but I doubt the large scale equivalent would have been build if it ended up more expensive than an actual warship. We have all sorts of "wonder weapons" prototypes in the military labs, but 90% of them will never end up being used in real warfare. I guess the same was with Archimedes, but it had the added coolness of using Sun's power to buuuuurn you enemies ;)
> so all we can show you is this archived footage.

You mean the tens of thousands of videos that will be posted. Historians will have no shortage of source material.

I'd actually argue that the videos are more valuable as they show first hand how the game was played at the time. Think a recording of a long-forgotten instrument compared to the actual instrument, which is more valuable?
Two problems with the HTML5 version in Chrome:

1) No audio

2) If my mouse cursor moves off the window it loses control of the ship

Flash version has neither of these problems.

No idea why audio is broken. I tried a couple HTML5 audio test pages and it works there.

I'm using Chrome beta 26.0.1410.28 on both Windows 7 and OSX Lion, broken on both.

I didn't notice any other differences.
Also, unrelated, but: hell I hate those round portraits. What is this, everyone suddenly forgot how to square?

Goddamn kids and their trends this days...
IMO, none at all, at least in the city where I live which is not far from Moscow.
Can't let a post like this go by without name-checking a couple of other sites:

Visual 6502 for taking such photos and then emulating, or should I say simulating, the cpu from the images - in JavaScript: http://visual6502.org/

Chipworks for commercial silicon analysis of big modern system on chips (source of some photos of recent apple silicon): http://www.chipworks.com/blog/technologyblog/2013/01/21/the-...
You can't do this and expect them to be competent IT workers.

You couldn't do this 50 years ago and you can't today.
Almost at the same time, CEO of (financially) quite similar company steps down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5342655

Funny enough the press release is released through the same system, only few IDs away from each other, with very similar words used.
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This is the USSR , you don't care about that.
If they don't work fast enough you can "incentivise" them.
They won't do it. It would mean being intelligent.
DynamoDB is very constrained when it comes to features which means 100% compatible alternative can be easily developed on top of other database. So the lock-in is not really a problem.
Same article, same title, same link, 3 hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5342334
This is a wonderful resource. There are a ton of amazing Sharealike 3.0 images out there, and sites that let you search them (like http://www.compfight.com) but this is the only decent platform I've seen for finding CC0 licensed images which is great if you want to use high quality images without having to add attributions to your pages that use them.
I think there's quite a difference between playing and watching. Think of it like trying to understand Shakespeare based on clips from Baz Luhrmann's reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet.
I hope that won't set a precedent on Github and we won't start seeing abusive and/or automated dmca's on repositories all around because "similar images were matched", youtube-style.
Kim Jong-un must got really mad when he realized it wasn't Obama that visited him recently.
- Ok, see you in court.

No proper company will ask those questions, let alone even hint at them. If they do, there will be a dozen employment layers willing to take on your case for free.
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The fun think about patent poker is that the players never reveal their hand, regardless of if they win or lose.

Microsoft ended up giving Barnes & Noble (a bookstore for goodness sake) half-a-billion dollars after going after them for Android/Linux patents, but if you read the press release then they focus on an ongoing royalty payment going in the opposite direction.

Google may have entered negotiation with these 11 patent holding firms and threatened to destroy them with either a giant patent lawsuit or just by bullying them with their massive bank account, team of corporate lawyers, and market control. I would suggest the royalty free licence to these patents for use in VP8 or VP9 would take either that or a very big bag of cash from Google (or some combination of the two).

It's not really to either sides benefit to reveal what happened after they've got the best deal they thought they could though.
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A call center is predominantly a manpower driven company and is categorized in the ITes industry and not in the core IT domain. However, the kind of technical infrastructure that a call center requires is no less than an IT company.
Russia is huge and probably there are places that you comment describes accurately, but it is not so in my experience - most of the jokes about Jews I heard from a guy who is Jew and he don't seem to have any problems with his career.
But then the question arises, is the person consciously aware of his influences or is he/she just building upon cultural memory? I mean were the DM designers at or about the moment where they released or designed their products had conscious exposure or borrowed either consciously or unconsciously using any of the imagery of LV.
There's a lot of unknown unknowns in this whole mess, well to be fair in all affairs of this sort, you'd have to know what the artist and designers were actually thinking when they were going through their creative process, which you nor I cannot do. For all we know, some of these items could be their inspiration.
We also don't know the reading habits or exposure to culture that they may or may not have had as young adults, or even as adults where they may have, for example, forgotten specific elements of exposure, and that's sort of one part.

the other part deals strictly with derivatives (creative meaning, not legal) What I mean is that strictly speaking, the new art movement influenced the "flat ui" movement, a folded newspaper is clearly an influence for the nuon project, dribbble iconry, DM flat ui representation and the LV icon. In much the same way a set of gears are derivative of a set of.. gears, which has been represented in too many ways in art that it's lost the entire concept of originality.

and Originality, due to Barthe's work on the Death of authorship, is quite moot at this point.
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This reminds me of a thing I keep not having the time to design and 3D print, so I'm going to say it here so someone else can make it for me.

Platonic solid Matryoshka "dolls".

Essentially, I would like to have a sphere (admittedly not a Platonic solid) which splits in half to reveal an icosahedron which splits in half to reveal a dodecahedron and so on through octahedron, cube and tetrahedron. Making them fit nicely one inside the other.
What do all the things inside do? Are they like miniature boards with dozens of tiny connections?
I clicked the link and got a full page ad and thought that was the joke.
On my android (which was the only reason for HTML5) the game does not run at all.