skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Performing on private property without the permission of the property owner is not a "right", and is subject to many restrictions, most, if not all, have nothing to do with SXSW.

Try going to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York and pulling off that stunt there - you'll get more than just an earful from management.

SXSW is a big event. Whether or not it makes sense for startups has a lot to do with the people who attend and how you plan to get their attention, more than whether the conference organizers care to cater to the less well-funded.
My understanding is that paleo opposes eating beans. Impurifies our precious bodily fluids, or something.
Spotify ditches the 5-play limit for free accounts
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Aaron's name was released in all the court materials— those of his accusers should be too.
Publishers are merely exploiting the highly school-like nature of university education in the US. When I was in university, over in Europe, a long time ago, on the first day of lectures the professors would wheel in a cart of textbooks, saying these are suitable texts, go and pick the one that suits you best.

But in the US, students demand that their education is like high school, with a set text and all, and if the exercises in "Physics for Biologists", 9th edition are on a different page from "Physics for Biologists", 8th edition they complain. This is the root cause of the continuous revisions to undergraduate texts.
Nick has re-released Chart.js under an MIT license. https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js#license
This isn't "talking about sex". It's making comments with obvious innuendo that is not really funny. The net effect of this is to make many people feel unsafe and unwelcome.

I respect that many people have the ability to ignore this "noise", but we shouldn't have to.
> Of course there's a way to give the item value - pass it to someone who is willing to pay for it with dollars.

The previous posts said there would be no possible way to transfer the item into dollars. By definition, that makes the value equal to zero dollars. There is no transaction that can possibly made to demonstrate the fair market value being any greater. Of course the IRS will find some loophole to fabricate some value above zero, but that doesn't change the real market value.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/reif-letter-swartz-docume...

There's the official version. Text appears to be the same. I don't know why people use the Pastebin copy (I've seen this a few other times with documents related to the Swartz case).
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I would suggest not using HuffPo for "science" and "health" advice.
Perl allows you to change the definition of false to make it true
Why Android Updates are so Slow
Basically the guys from MongoDB are rebuilding databases as they existed in the 1980s with the motto "we will do better than relational databases!" or "Sybase, Oracle, prepare to die!".

It's not clear which problem MongoDB is trying to solve or if it is an improvement over existing technology (this is my personal opinion).
New evidence may prove Wright Brothers not the first to fly
Small mention in the repo: https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js#license

Looks like it's (now?) under an MIT license.
Does this work for unix domain sockets as well? I'm not familiar enough with unix domain sockets.

Also, would something similar be possible using uwsgi/nginx for example?
Startup Story: Charlie Kindel on Leaving MSFT, Rolling Out MileLogr
"hopefully one day nutrition science will be on that level"

No other field of hard science is, anyone who offers an alternative is probably selling you snake oil.
Git does not equal Github. SourceTree allows you to use most of the features of Git (the program). The official Github client lets you use some of the features of Git (the program) but is mostly an interface for Github (the website).

By their own admission, the Github client does away with the majority of Git features. If you want to find out what you're missing: http://git-scm.com/book
Agreed.

And while this is largely self evident to most people here, if you're looking for a deeper theoretical underpinning as to why this is the case, feel free to use this:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-stora...

... it seems we have occasion to repost this about once a week these days.

And since we're sharing anecdotes, let me tell you what we just did yesterday:

We sent out an email to every customer we have that is both 500+ days in arrears with billing and 200+ days idle with usage, and asked them, please, for the love of god, get in touch with us and let us know whether to close their account or input an up to date credit card or whatever.

We feel so strongly about our duty to safeguard data for our customers that even if they haven't paid a dime for 500+ days, and by many measures have clearly abandoned their account, we still keep them fully live, just in case.

The OP shows us what happens when your business model is a clownshow (freemium, ad supported, whatever) and our mailing yesterday shows what happens when you charge real money for real service.
A few sentences that I think may change my life (2012)
I get the same - may be because of this https://twitter.com/_nnnick/status/314049798502248448 :)
It was already under MIT license: https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/commit/26962ce2b6ffa2e1f0...
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The worst offenders are the professors who write their own textbooks (even though there are dozens of better ones already available) and then use them in their courses, making money off each student. Maybe there should be conflict of interest rules in universities.

The heroes in this game are the instructors who are creating open-source textbooks.
The article is all about the difference between the innovation being created by low level employees and the stupid decisions by top level management who want to shut it all down. The author is among the former and even says he doesn't like ads, so I think your proposition that he is a Microsoft shill working in an elaborate anti-Google marketing campaign is misguided.

There's not much excuse for not reading things and then complaining about them.
The Cuckoo's Egg. It's Clifford Stoll's story of chasing a hacker who broke through LBL during the late 80's.
Building a Design Museum exhibit with Ruby, Rack and Faye
That was a pretty fast turnaround.
Announcing Sift Science: fight fraud with large-scale machine learning
This completely ignores changes in lifestyle, elimination of physical education at school and other factors. My wife teaches at a school with about a 40% homeless population. Health issues including obesity are just as common at this school as the rest of the district. 100% of the children receive breakfast and lunch at the school and all are welcome to come back for dinner which a large percentage take advantage of. The school hasn't had PE in at least five years, and many of the kids will tell you flat out that when they are at home they sit around and watch tv.
Undergrad or post-doc?

If post-doc, humorously, in this day and age, this would likely mean the university owns it, rather than the employer.

Undergrad, a number of universities have started having students sign agreements giving them rights, but most don't.
"Agreed, it just smacked of elitism to say that it's not possible to read a textbook without interpretation or instruction."

The persons who mention that in order to impress others tend to not be the ones who learn the most.

"That sort of doctrinaire thinking is just bad policy."

Is it impossible? No. Is it likely considering the context? No.
It's back online! Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5401828
I've having the same issue. Has the OP been removed?
Another way to attack a similar set of problems is through the new bundling and minification settings in .Net 4.5[1]. It doesn't address everything, for example you need to know and account for the dependencies yourself. However, my early experiences with using it have been very positive.

[1]http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2011/11/27/new-bundli...
Hooray! It would appear so. An hour ago, Nick was apologising for removing the project, as there was apparently an ownership conflict with his employer.
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It should be noted that ES6 implements default parameters, so they are coming to javascript soon: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:parameter_def...
Speaking as an IP lawyer, this has been enforced many times.
I'm no lawyer, but this look like wire fraud. Plus there's a trend of "he did it on a computer so burn him at the stake" in federal prosecution lately.
I think it's pretty clear to anyone who's used it. It allows for rapid, low overhead changes to your data model in the very early stages of building something new. Of course, the further along you get those changes are no longer low overhead, but at the start of the new project it's very easy to get up and running.
Note: If the employer actually has a claim to it, destroying it would be a very bad idea.
I don't intend to be rude or anything, but how can you misunderstand your employer asking you to remove the library? They either did or they didn't?
I've been to SXSW five times now.. twice as a visitor, three times as a local, and this year without a badge.

It is an absolute blast and a great time, but the OP is right on two points:

- Don't worry about FOMO. There is always something else going on, some better, some worse.. Don't worry about it and enjoy where you are and who you're with. The fastest way to piss off people is to ignore them and stare at your phone.

- Always begin with a plan. Make a list of people you want to meet and reach out to them in advance, check out the schedules and see if there are unofficial events you want to attend, and work really hard to get a hotel downtown.

But the other thing is always be willing to adjust.. don't schedule everything down to the minute. If you're in an interesting conversation, continue with it. If you meet someone you want to chat with and they're leaving, ask to walk them to the next location, etc.
Funny... No latter than yesterday I used something very similar to Lisp macros to add function profiling to Clojure functions. Took very few lines of code, like you'd expect from a Lisp.

Parenthesis serves the purpose of homoiconicity and it looks like Clojure is homoiconic... sexp / lambda expressions / HoF / macros / etc.

You know: "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

Regarding people like you, the "haters gonna hate" type of people, here's what Rich Hickey has to say:

"Life is too short to spend time on such people. Plenty of Lisp experts have recognized Clojure as a Lisp. I don’t expect everyone to prefer Clojure over their favorite Lisp. If it wasn’t different in some ways, there’d be little reason for it to exist."

I'd add that you're commenting on a board created by a real Lisp hacker who created its own Lisp and, if I'm not mistaken, who's now recommending Clojure has the Lisp dialect to learn for Lisp newcomers.
That isn't/wasn't the case at either of my undergrad or graduate institutions – in fact, at my graduate program, the official policy on student work is that it is ours and if a team project, we all had non-exclusive rights to the work.

Just a small anecdotal datapoint.
See: lactose tolerance

GP specifically mentioned that and dismissed it with a seemingly reasonable argument; care to respond to that? Besides, most humans are not lactose tolerant as adults. Has there been any research concerning a putative phytic acid tolerance? If so, have we identified a particular set of relevant genes? Have we studied the incidence of these genes in various populations?

I sort of assume that humans can handle most compounds they eat on a regular basis, but it seems that many compounds are harmful when consumed in excessive amounts.
Supreme Court issues major copyright ruling on foreign sales
Congrats on the launch. Good name too.

I jimmied up my own personal financial system called the No Budget Budget: https://leanpub.com/nobudgetbudget (it's the only system that I've been able to stick to because its not really budgeting).

What's Pocketloot's secret sauce?
Looks like they're using CORS. The Access-Control-* response headers control that.
They are not fast, they are "normal speed" now. They were slow before. That was one of the problems which made me question the competency of the Mongo team.

Best feature for me too anyway.
How To Negotiate The Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death
>Like any big corporation, SxSW has come to embody the very people and industry they once aimed to disrupt. They’ve made spontaneity illegal (literally) and lost that sense of passion and experimentation.

Holy wow, overreact much? Sorry that your stunt didn't go over well, but this hyperbole is really unnecessary. True, South By has become more corporate, but it's still an epicenter of entrepreneurship, startups, networking, and discovery.
Although it might be distasteful to explorers, isn't a company with a single focus probably in a better mentality to do better in that area?
So what's the story?
> ... a number of universities have started having students sign agreements giving them rights, but most don't.

Most universities, or most students?
Botnets dont really infect their victims. A botnet is just a network of compromised computers (Bots).

The malware that forces your computer to participate in the botnet can be delivered by any avenue imaginable. Drive-By Downloads, crapware, embedded into pirated software, etc. Not sure how chameleon specifically did it.
Who's worse in this situation, the men having a private conversation, or the woman who was eavesdropping and decided to make this into her personal witch-hunt? Posting their pictures online was far worse than what they said. The fact that she sees herself as "Joan of Arc" just shows how self-righteous she is. I would be very concerned if I were working with her.
Yeah exactly. Anyone screenshot the apology?
All the analytics in the world won't save you if your GM is Colangelo.
From an atomicity perspective, yes. From a performance perspective, no; other concurrent operations affecting anything else on the whole database wait on your write.
Great product that solves a little but important problem the right way and hassle-free!

Plus, I really like the Series T Financing idea (see footer link).
It used to be rather slow for me, too. It got a lot faster with their 1.5 release, and (of course) ever since I did 'git gc' it also got a lot faster.
"How difficult would it be to switch out Datomic for PostgreSQL?"

Seen that Datomic can be backed by many different types of storage, including SQL DBs, this sounds like a very weird question... I mean: if you want SQL, just use SQL as the backing store for Datomic.

The benefits of Datomic are too huge to go to the old crappy way of designing DBs...
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Thank you for clearing that up. I was wondering what the apology was for as well.
> I love to re-examine common knowledge we all take for granted as much as anyone, but there are good, scientific reasons people say "eat lots of whole grains"

Most of the studies you would find are observational studies made comparing processed grains vs whole grains. It seems obvious between those two choices the option with more vitamins/minerals is going to be healthier.
Agreed with lilsunnybee, but these claims make it incredibly hard to take the rest seriously. The author is an unreliable narrator.
Thanks for pointing that out. We'll make sure its FIXED ASAP.
Crunchyroll[1] is the big name in streaming nowadays, and they simulcast a substantial portion of each season. Funimation licenses for retail, simulcast and library streaming, and I believe they do their streaming via Hulu. Anime on Demand is a newer player, and Neon Alley is a PS3-exclusive (for now) service run by Viz that airs dubs on a schedule like a TV station. Some of the older players (Sentai Filmworks does a lot of this) will split a license with Crunchyroll, so one has retail and the other streaming. I'd say that the English-language market has generally switched to streaming, and that DVDs and BDs are almost an afterthought now.

Edit: Almost forgot, a bunch of the Japanese studios just announced their own English-subbed streaming service named Daisuki[2], but it won't launch until April. Will be interesting to see what impact that has on the foreign companies.

[1]: http://www.crunchyroll.com/

[2]: http://www.daisuki.net/en/
Probably what somebody said about Reader, when all the Google services were listed.
By common I mean it's something that your average General practitioner doctor will encounter. Pregnant and Nursing mothers are often told to take supplements with good reason. Also of note absorption issues are just as important as diet which is one of the reason B12 shots for example are used to treat deficiency.

With that said, taking a daily multivitamin is often overkill taking it weekly is often just as useful. It's just that they are cheap enough that trying to figure out the ideal dose is generally a waste of time.
How did the first Erlang compiler get written?
"What I learned from my first startup"
Congrats from the Balanced team! You guys are doing great work.
Introducing SourceTree for Windows
I had a professor that created his own textbook that he taught out of. His lectures were him writing the textbook on the whiteboard. This was a good 1.5 hour nap every tuesday/thursday.
Bullshit Wait-listed Apps
If Aaron's crime revolved around breaking a use agreement by downloading in bulk, and trespassing by stashing a laptop making those bulk downloads in a known-unlocked-utility shed, what "network vulnerabilities" would even have been be germane to the case and thus included in MIT's filings?

Not only am I curious about what the vulnerabilities are (in general), I'm more curious as to why they were ever sent.

Is it just email where network engineers mused about known-vulnerabilities while discussing 'how Swartz got on the network'? Or was MIT making additional accusations against Aaron, that they would prefer to let plunge down the memory hole to avoid being seen as having been party to the prosecution trying to 'throw the book' at Swartz?
Actually, at least 2 justices specifically do not determine congress's intent, because they do not believe it matters.

If you look, you'll see they often specifically refuse to join in footnotes/etc that cite congressional intent or history.
But the phone is good (i'm iPhone owner), and the rest of the projects looks promising.
Probably you were just unlucky to have mailed very patriotic people, there are a lot of people that see value in war.

It could also be that you mailed people that want to keep their heads stuck into the ground and deny that gross things happen in this world.

Anyway, I must admit that a scenery like that is not really inspiring, although I do not belong to the 2 groups of people I just described.

Are you sure that you are allowed to use these images?

Good luck further, exploring the world in all it's facets
Honestly, I am struggling with your comments.

Since the false negative question was answered, why are you focusing on it? The false positive question is far more interesting as it will impact individuals, rather than the buyers of the service who will work to understand the false negatives and the risk implications.

To me, the false positives will be the same as someone having their identity stolen and not being able to get credit. This has wide reaching implications for those individuals. Its likely not an issue for them as a company, but I hope they are thinking about the implications so they are not harming individuals.

[added] I assume everyone knows what false positives, false negatives are, the point of my original comment was to redefine the thread since the false negative problem is addressed in the TC article.
Platter.
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I'm the OP and I work at Sift Science. Let me know if you have questions!
Mediafire seems to be hitting the tubes, though. They used to be one of the best no-nonsense upload service (reliable, instant download, very rare CAPTCHAs, multiple concurrent downloads, no timeouts), but they've gotten much more aggressive about deleting files and putting in quite intrusive advertising-based CAPTCHAs - which broke bulk downloading tools like jDownloader, as I learned when I went to download a few hundred albums uploaded from Comiket 83 (I wanted to listen to them but also use them for a side-project on Touhou music statistics I've been working on).
Offline messaging is a problem in the sense that you would expect to be able to hold a reliable conversation with someone who is intermittently available rather than getting errors about the other person being unavailable, or messages being lost in the aether. If the person is actually offline, you should be able to rely on the other server to actually deliver the message when they get back. I don't think XMPP has very good systems for ensuring reliable message receipt at the protocol level. There are, I understand, draft standards (XEP-0198, XEP-0013) that would improve things but nothing implements it (at least consistently).

File transfer: Clients I've used are Adium, Pidgin and Google Talk. What normally happens with file transfers is that either the person at the other end doesn't know I've tried to send a file, or if they do know, they click accept and the file never transfers, or if the file does transfer, my client somehow doesn't realise and the file transfer stays active forever. Usually there'll be a double-NAT in the way. The only time it does mostly work is GTalk to GTalk.

Multi user chat: Is very confusing to set up, and while it is possible to get it working, in practise I've found nobody can figure out how to use it. It's sort of like the complexity of email multiplied by the complexity of IRC. This is unlike other chat protocols/clients where it's just a matter of inviting someone to your conversation.

This isn't even getting into the other issues with the protocol, such as voice/video/sip/o-o-b stuff, the general efficiency of the protocol and it's applicability to mobile users (It's not great). I have set up corporate XMPP servers (ejabberd/openfire) before and am very aware of the difficulties of trying to get things to all work together. In the end people just end up opting for something [awful] like Microsoft Lync instead.
I don't think it is wrong for a professor to recommend his book for his course. But it is definitely wrong for him to force his students to use them. We had a lot of profs in college who had written books and recommended them. But if you attended the classes you really didn't require the textbooks in the first place.
Depends solely on the focus. If the focus is 'push limits of human knowledge', then Google is going to be fine. If the focus is 'Increase marketshare in industries [X] by [Y%]', then it is too short-sighted and sooner or later, will catch up.