skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the "good reason" that it is the number one downloaded paper is "the rich get richer" phenomena[1][2] and that it is a paper that is related to online/internet legal scholarship. It is certainly a great paper but most downloaded paper is not a sign that it is the pinnacle of legal scholarship. A recent article about the most cited legal papers of all time had this to say:

"With the proliferation of services available for faculty to share their
scholarship online, “download” or “view” counts have also become a domi-
nant marker of “impact,” particular ly download counts from subject
and institutional repositories. (Some full-text research databases and
other com- mercial services have begun to refl ect usage statistics in
their products. This type of metric differs significantly from citation
metrics: it is really a measurement of the “popularity” or visi bility
of the article, noting whether an abstract was viewed or visited and
whether a link was clicked rather than whether the paper was actually
read, thought well of, and used.
...
The top downloaded paper of all time on SSRN as of the writing of this
Article appears on none of Shapiro’s lists. 81 Furthermore, only one
paper on Shapiro’s all-time top 100 list in Table I or recent-articles
list in Table II appears in SSRN’s top 100 downloaded papers ( Property,
Intellectual Property, and Free Riding by Mark A. Lemley). Of the top
100 downloaded law authors in SSRN, only 15 are on any of Shapiro’s
lists. Looking at the au- thors listed in the recent-articles lis t in
Table II, the author’s most downloaded paper of all time appears in this
list only approximately half the time. It is clear that while arguably a
metric in and of itself, being a top downloaded paper in SSRN does not
equate with being a top-cited paper of all time. One could argue that an
artic le’s presence in newer cited-reference services might potentially
provide a new metric, but as with other metrics, it is subject to the
volatility of the source content."[3]

[1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/netwo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network

[3] http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/110/8/Shapiro_a...
I guess they didn't get much traction with "opa language" and now they advertise it as "opa framework for js".

It is odd that they still don't have any SQL database support.
>Besides, animals kill to eat, not to sell.

I don't understand. Ultimately it ends up in someone's stomach and provides sustenance. How is it any different?
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> Correct me if I'm wrong, but to theoretically record every single phone conversation in America would require unbelievable amounts of data storage, would it not?

GSM voice codec is 9600bps = 1200 Bytes/s

x60 sec, x20 min per day, x365 days per year = about 500MB per person per year.

times however many people there are in the US, that's not a whole lot of storage and definitely a mere fraction of the NSA's data-centres.
As a person coming from a former Soviet republic - it reminds me of times 30 years ago, where the usual conversation with any official would look like this :

"no"

"why?"

"because the government says so"

No trial, no hearing, someone somewhere in secret made the decision and you had nothing to say in that matter. Or if you tried, you would be charged with interfering with government business, or "national security" and jailed for a random amount of time.

Really that different to what the US government is doing right now?
My NAACL 2013 list...
"because the extra piece p1 gets can never be a disadvantage (you can prove this more carefully)"

Please do so, as I do not see that this is trivially true. I see two tricky cases:

- your opponent must play on the board where p1 is placed, and that board would have room iff p1 weren't present => Addition of p1 gives him a 'move anywhere' move.

- you must play on the board where p1 is placed, and that board would have room iff p1 weren't present. The normal argument 'move anywhere and assume that that 'anywhere' is where your first move went, and you just played p1' does not help here, as changing the first move may change where your opponent's first move could have gone.

Except from an exhaustive search, I do not see how to prove that you can prevent either case.
It's a neat idea, but you'd still need to trust rsync.net. If you start with the assumption that you cannot ever trust them, then you can use them(if needed) as a 3rd party storage site for encrypted files.
I will change to feedheap.com beacause of very GReader like interface.
Soon though(thinking of PRISM), they'll be able to say you landed yourself on a No-Fly list because of a joke you cracked in an email you sent to your friend ten years ago that they only just mined now. (And a joke that their algo/analyst didn't understand)

And then they still won't let you appeal it. I wasn't aware though that No-Fly extended to boats, that makes it criminal. The only way to get off the continent then is to go to Canada or Mexico (or another SA country) and hop on a non-US associated airline. That is criminal.
I found this fascinating, if the BBC really are complying then they go even further down my list of viable news sources...leaving them right above the Daily Mail in fact.
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There's a common refrain below the fold on tech websites that people who use Apple products, or even like them, have been brain washed by a mass marketing campaign and that's the only reason why. 'Sheeple', 'iSheep' etc are often thrown about. Mac fanboys don't get a reprieve on that, but in general there's a theme that Apple only does well because of marketing.
Engineer to wife: "I'm in charge of software"
Wife: "Please don't tell our friends"
If (as has happened several times before) bitcoin doubled in value against GBP, would you be happy to continue paying the equivalent of double for a pint?
The word un-American does not apply to a nation of cowards.
>The privatized 'public' space makes an inevitable move.

An anarchist collective wrote something you may find interesting on this subject, "The Internet as New Enclosure
Digitized Capitalism, the Attention Economy, and the Surveillance State"[1] although I doubt the author(s) would agree that any enclosure of public space is "inevitable" as you put it.

[1] http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/enclosure.php
Are there better ways to retain network integrity that don't use ip address logging/monitoring ?
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The Smart City of the future will bring big data to a new level
"Someone keeps stealing my letters" http://www.lunchtimers.com/
2. They are not even remotely the same operation. ++ appends to a list, + sums two numbers. You wouldn't expect an Integer in, say Java, to have an append method, would you?
> Considering the cure for cancer is basically fresh vegetables, fruits, and fungi...

I've met vegetarians with cancer. I'm pretty certain it's not that simple.
If monday protests were pacific and the police showed they didn't touched anyone, why seek revenge then? That makes absolutely no sense, just shows how it was a portion of idiots being manipulated by extremists.
Agreed. While speaker-independent speech recognition has ever-so-slowly progressed to the point where it only mostly sucks it's probably good enough to log a general transcript. Combine that with the temptation to store compressed audio at 1KB/sec and 1.5GB/year would likely easily cover fully documenting every conversation you have without "somebody listening in." This assumes 2000 minutes/month, way more than I use, but I need to average in females... Divide that by two if you simply log per-conversation instead of per-phone and we're at 0.75GB/year/person.

I think we can safely assume that you have privacy only when speaking in-person, and that's if you're not under some sort of investigation. Otherwise, find a windy place outdoors (near a large body of water for dramatic effect) and mumble through your conversation even if you're just a Hipster preparing for next weekend's party.
so why not give us copies of all your data. then we can trust you too.

makes sense to me.
> Paper is more of a toy than a useful tool but it's not all their fault. Some will spin this more charitably with something along the lines of 'limitations foster creativity' or something like that.

I have a distinctly opposite experience to you regarding Paper. It was the first app that actually made me start picking up my iPad and using it to get my thoughts down.

Part of it is the lack of tools and choices — it's not that they foster creativity, it's that they reduce friction. Paper ships with a few tools that feel very nice, and a few colours that are very well-chosen. Stuff looks great and you don't have to make many decisions, you just focus on getting the idea in your head on the screen with as few obstacles as possible. I believe that's the goal of the app and I think they achieved it.

I have many pro drawing tools on the iPad (such as Procreate, which is awesome) but using these is as much an exercise in learning and configuring the tool as it is in generating the content. Sometimes this is useful — when you want to do a piece of final artwork that you have already designed.

But Paper to me feels much more like your image of an artist's studio. A disorganised explosion of content where you don't care where it goes so long as it goes out of your head. You don't care about the tools because someone else has made all the right choices. You only care about getting the lines onto paper.

I'd prefer it if Paper removed the organisational "sketch books" from the app and simply had it present me a blank piece of paper each time I opened the app. That's all I'm usually looking for when I go to the app. I don't even care if my work is saved because that's irrelevant to working through an idea. These aren't limitations, and I think it's wrong to see them as such.
As discussed in a previous HN thread, the courts might still see this as a notice that a warrant has been served, despite it being "said through not saying."

Has rsync.net had the opportunity to see these arguments play out?
No, I don't think I did. Critiques of feminism is _rarely_ held inherently sexist, in my experience, unless the people doing the critiquing start with open hostility.
They probably get taxed as income at the point they're converted into Sterling. (I'm not an accountant or lawyer.)

Does anyone think Bitcoin might gain greater adoption if more accountants and lawyers knew how to advise their clients?
Oh no definitely not, I mean the bigger SSD. You could probably get away with 256 if you didn't want to pay more. But yeah SSD over spinning disk - no contest.
Prepare to be extradited!
They can't even get on a boat to cross the Atlantic.

Does anybody know if other countries reference the U.S. no-fly list? Could one of these plaintiffs drive to Canada and travel abroad that way?
It's definitely a chicken-and-egg problem. All I meant by my comment is that I can't see FPGAs taking off if people are stuck connecting together IP or using Verilog/VHDL. It's just too low level.
Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account
Do not ask for your users's email passwords. It's phishing, pure and simple.
Apple anti-trust eBook trial courtroom illustrations
So firefox supporting a new codec is a good thing but chrome supporting a new codec is a bad thing?
>Also, this is a ridiculous justification for meat eating, since lions cannot reason about morality.

I'm unclear what level of moral justification is needed. I want to survive. There are weaker animals for me to eat. My gut can process their meat. My teeth can rip their flesh.

I guess I haven't transcended nature and evolution the way vegetarians have.
When I briefly worked at last.fm I experimented with giving movie recommendations based on music you liked. I didn't have a license to use the movie data on a public project, but it seemed fun and effective when we tried it among ourselves.

The article's anecdotal examples notwithstanding, you can do some very good recommendations just with sheer volume of data - much as Google won the search engine wars by ignoring page metadata and just using the text. I'd be interested to see actual evidence as to whether these "deeper" recommendations are actually more effective.
they WERE left before PT and Lula get into power..
after that PT and Lula is much more like center..
not quite left, not quite right..

For America and UK they may look left, but thats because they just have rightists.. and maintain the other moviments choked and without any voice..
That seems a shame , upgradeability has always let me have a relatively high performance system without breaking the bank.

I don't necessarily want a top end CPU, but I like a decent GPU and a lot of memory.

Not to mention the environmental factors.
Sounds great, and I'm hoping other databases that use LevelDB can benefit from this work too.
Your definition of "conspiracy theory" is way too low. Many sites block Tor, it is not even remotely out of the possibility that they could have blocked Tor exit nodes, or will in the future. I run a Tor exit node on a static IP address, I have firsthand experience with this.
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Is it possible for someone on the no fly list to join the lawsuit? I know two US citizens who are on the list.
This sounds more like someone boosting their personal numbers than company policy.
I've been working on this solution and am currently in a closed beta. Will be opening up this/next week over time. http://hivereader.com I meet all your requirements but the cross platform. Once the web API's are locked (aka near the 1st) I am going to start cranking on the mobile app ASAP as well as a public facing api. I also have social but you don't need to use it. (no really, it's barely there).
It's an API-compatible drop in replacement for LevelDB, so anyone else who currently uses LevelDB should be able to switch fairly easily.
"If you believe the security of the realm is at risk
you don't hold a security enquiry, you call in the Special Branch.
Government security enquiries are only used for killing press stories."

- Yes Prime Minister S01E08

More americans need to watch Yes Minister. It will disabuse you of naive notions like inquiries serving purposes other than finding its subjects innocent and generally hiding the truth.

There are lots of other apposite quotes but I can't seem to find any just now.
We've kept the API is compatible with LevelDB. You just need to change the imports and link against libhyperleveldb.
1. I would not say that HXT is important to the Haskell ecosystem. Lens, yes. Arrows, maybe. The lens library has a lot of infix operators, but they were carefully designed in a structured way. Once you understand the naming patterns you're good to go, and you will be able to figure out the operators you need by construction according to the convention.
A lowest common denominator in spying wouldn't be such a bad thing, I would think, provided a sensible choice of countries.

Though I was thinking more along the lines of making the internet less reliant on American-housed or -owned infrastructure.
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I wouldn't think of buying a 512 GB SSD for a workstation, let alone a Macbook Air. That's not future proofing, it's a waste of money.

It's also not about "storage". It's quite simple to get "storage" with external HDDs, as noted in the OP. What we're talking about here is paying for premium onboard flash storage, which is unnecessary, particularly on an MBA.
This is the first I'm hearing that "soylent" is "an open-source food movement". I thought is was one guy that tried some stuff and now is starting to build a start-up around it. It also seems weird that what is labeled as the flagship “distro” of this so-called open-source movement is not actually open-source. So now I'm confused. Is this just a wording issue I'm confused about? Are we using "open-source" for everything now?
Russ Allbery's "Charity review"
Newsblur has gotten much faster in the last month or so and there was a major iOS app release. It's now actually pretty snappy.
You may be right. However, "foreign entity" does not strictly mean "non-US person" and this is highly intentional. A foreign entity does not have to be a person. It can be a bank, a corporation, a nation, an foreign based activist group.

You view it as discriminatory and it may very well be; I purport that its purpose is to encompass literally everything that is not a U.S. person, thereby allowing them nearly unlimited use of all programs that are allegedly not used against U.S. persons. The discrimination aspect is import, but I think the definition aspect that extends the reach of their scope to nigh-unlimited, is also an important way to view that particular word choice.
More than 3k feeds... wow! I get swamped keeping up with < 100 feeds, as nothing predicts (well enough|at all) which articles I want to read, so I have to skim them all.
Don't we have evidence why the number of requests is "surprisingly small"?

All this time we assumed that the requests would refer to individuals who were under suspicion. But the Verizon order tells us differently. Here we've got one, giant request for "every call that passes through Verizon".

It's a huge amount of spying being done, all carried on the back of one (or a handful) of blanket requests.
It seems that conciousness is just eventual function of any adaptive system that's complex and poweful enough.

Research mentiones that organisms as diverse as birds, mammals and mollusks advanced enough show some consciuosness. Mollusks are so different from us that they have evolved their own eyes from scratch, completely different from ours apart from functional elements.
I really don't understand Soylent. Do people really hate eating so much? Eating is one of the greatest joys of human existence. I understand that people have other things to do, but are you really so busy you can't sit down to enjoy a good meal?
I don't know why you're downvoted for asking a question, but what I meant is this: The person I replied to said the admin of XKCD could do a "small" update to his post about tic tac toe. I remarked that this is not a small update, and used checkers and chess as an analogy. Chess is much more complex and harder to learn than checkers, and as you remarked, chess is indeed harder to write an effective AI for. Just like the difference between tic tac toe and ultimate tic tac toe ;)

Edit: I meant chess is harder to write an AI for of course, not checkers. Fixed.
Yeah, but in that time(90's) it was manipulated by the mass media..
now its a real democratic movement from the people..

And now with the media astonished because they cant control anybody anymore
We Americans should be doing the same.
It's interesting to sit back and realize that the libertarians were right all along. On security theater and the bailout economy.
I've now been able to reach the page to read is myself. How is this propaganda? What's the other side to exposing activists to observation by oppressive regimes?
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Canada has it's own version of the no fly list which includes data from the US no fly list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#No_fly_lists_in_oth...
What next?! Access to our wireless networks?
You either get a free and open Internet where a company like Facebook is free to open and close its doors as it pleases, or you get a regulated and governed Internet where you're granted access with an ID that ties all of your activity back to you.

I for one am immensely proud to be part of the civilization that created the free and open Internet, and will fight tooth and nail to keep such an option available to people.
Perhaps. But I think we'll never know unless they can be fit within a mainstream software workflow at a reasonable price.
Except that with the new Mac Pro, you'll still have all the cables that would previously have come out of expansion cards, but they'll be coming from a whole bunch of external boxes with their own cables, power adapters, etc.

Then there's the question of storage; previously local hard disks could be installed entirely internally, with no external cables, whereas now they all have to be external. Thankfully it should be possible to bus-power those if you don't care about daisy-chaining them.
Strange that such a budget website would accept bitcoins.
To be fair to friendly_chap, I don't think there's anything wrong with saying

"So if I dare to repeat a possibly threatening sentence said by a Jewish person I am instantly antisemitic?"

or

"So if I dare to repeat a possibly threatening sentence said by a Christian person I am instantly anti-Christian?"
even worse latency/bandwidth payoffs:

1) a hundred car locomotive

2) a cargo ship

3) more fun, if you simply need loads of data at a particular place in the universe at a particular time, and that place and time happens to align with the movement of the Earth, you can just load up a warehouse with the data and just wait. It's a special case that just happens to turn out to be highly optimal.

(it's similar to the theoretical time machine which is just a comfortable chair in a quiet room, it's guaranteed to take you into the future)
It's interesting that a lot of these seem to be hosted solutions. I'm surprised people aren't switching to self-hosted webapps or standalone desktop applications. Why aren't people more worried about these services shutting down, even with memories of Reader painfully current?

I can sit back and watch people panic with smug superiority, since I never used Google Reader. I'm currently catching all of the blogosphere's latest and greatest in Mozilla Thunderbird.

Reading the comments, there are a few people who have seen the light, and are switching to (or building) desktop apps or self-hosted web apps.
congrats. I remember seeing this about a year ago, not sure what they were thinking, clearly they had a vision. Great website too, couldn't ask for a more potent product marketing hook.
Probably whatever AWS did 4 years ago.
I suspect it means "We don't have a guy listening to your line in real time."
Huh? In the Soviet Union one had to be registered as residing in a particular city. You could be stopped and asked for your papers, and if you were in a different city from the one you were down as living in there would certainly be questions.
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Thanks! Working perfectly now, thanks for the fix!
I think interconnectedness is necessary but not sufficient. For conciousness you also need interaction with environment.
I'm not assuming. I just don't know any viable theories of how it isn't a brain process, and how one determines that not-a-brain process is or isn't present in all the variations in humans, brain injury cases, birth defects, etc.
One thing that you will hear repeated often (including in this comment) is that you can still enjoy eating a good meal. But not many people eat a good meal for every meal. There are many many things that people enjoy doing but do not want to do 3 times a day, every day. So if a glass of Soylent (or one of the other commercial products available today) in the morning helps me resist the office doughnuts, that is a positive. That is not to say that I can't end my day with a nice meal out with my family.
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Animation shows flow of attendees during a conference
If one government were to come knocking, could they order you to lie to other arms of your own business, so that they continue to update the canary because they don't know that a warrant was served?

Perhaps that's impractical, but I'm thinking about what would be needed to 'beat' the warrant canary system.