skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reposting one of the comments from the blog here for a bit more exposure. I think this gives a good alternative viewpoint on the case:

"I worked literally side by side with Serge while at Goldman Sachs, so I have substantial perspective on this. Let's be clear -- Goldman Sachs did not pursue him, the relevant district attorney of NY did. Goldman's job is not to prosecute, it is to provide the facts of the case to the judicial system, which decides whether to go after him or not. We can argue about whether the punishment was excessive but let's stop blaming a firm that is a private company which has no ability to prosecute. And I can tell you that what Serge did was incredibly against the terms of his employment agreement. The open source aspect is overblown, obviously if it were freely available and not substantially different he would have no need to upload it days before he left. The fact of the industry is people steal code all the time, he just happened to be one of the unfortunate programmers to be caught and made an example of. But it certainly doesn't mean he's a victim here. When a company is paying you 500k+ a year to write code on its time, the understanding is that they have the say as to what happens to it, not you. You can't just say, I don't think this is that materially different so I'm going to send it to myself before I work for a competitor."
I don't see anything wrong with asking Microsoft to contribute. At this stage in Windows Phone's lifetime, it's probably a win-win situation.

Developer covers some or all the development costs (to minimize the risk of porting to a platform with significantly less users than iOS and Android)

Microsoft gets another app in their store - and seeing as they contributed, they can probably also mandate a higher standard. They also get 30% of every purchase.

The developer probably shouldn't have worded it like that though - keep the financial stuff behind the scenes.
Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw
It's also complicated because you either need to disable a lot of extensions/plugins or ensure that they don't leak across the normal internet.
The problems will be solved through education and giving people a second chance. I mean a real second chance.
US Justice has turned into a self promotion race through populism by exagerating charges and sentenses. Trials and jailing has turned into a business. Education loans has led to restore slavery.

US once considered the example of liberty, free speach and enterpreneurship is now subject to the consequences of extremas in all fields. Thanks to lobbying and subversion of regulating institutions.

Russia has crumbled under the weight of it's central administrative policy, US starts to crumble under the pressure of people's greediness and disabling of regulating structures as well as loss of sense of morale.
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One weird trick to harvest karma on HN. Mods hate him!

There was actually a good thread on how these messages work the other day.
I've seen this said a few times and I still don't understand it. Why would liking Ruby/Node affect the choice? It's a pre-processor. You don't write in Ruby/Node anywhere unless you're extending them.
I do not believe it does, though the default homepage will alert you if you are using an outdated version of the browser bundle.
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In the unlikely event that you were given a USB License Dongle, then dongle must be in the computer in order to use the SDK. No configuration of the dongle is needed.

http://openbiometrics.org/doxygen/latest/installation.html

Anyone read enough to know when that occurs?
Failure to include a winky face in tweet results in collapse of game studio - now that's a story.
It's not like there is a conspiracy against Penrose, there is just a prevailing feeling (which I for one subscribe to) that: "computation via quantum mechanical processes is irrelevant to explaining how brains produce thought, contrary to the ongoing speculations of many theorists. First, quantum effects do not have the temporal properties required for neural information processing. Second, there are substantial physical obstacles to any organic instantiation of quantum computation. Third, there is no psychological evidence that such mental phenomena as consciousness and mathematical thinking require explanation via quantum theory. We conclude that understanding brain function is unlikely to require quantum computation or similar mechanisms."

(http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~pthagard/Articles/quantum.pdf)
They do live in a controlled environment. And this is a reference hospital for infection control. I know a nurse who was once one in charge of infection control in the child’s ward — actually, a smaller hospital of its own in the main hospital grounds; the whole thing is huge — and she was quite competent, as are most of the medical staff there. They usually go to conferences in the US and Europe and all that.
I will be awarding life points to the first person who hacks one of these today!
Today is a Fibonacci day: 5th day of 8th month of 13th year of 21st century
Today is a Fibonacci day: 5th day of 8th month of 13th year of 21st century!

If you are 34 years old with four kids (twin 1 yo, 2yo, 3yo and another baby comming) then congrats!!! You're the Fibonacci master!

I don't claim credit for this. A friend at work noticed it, just thought about sharing this wonderful curiosity.
Cultured Beef financed by a.o. Sergey Brin
Cultured Beef is created by painlessly harvesting muscle cells from a living cow. Scientists then feed and nurture the cells so they multiply to create muscle tissue, which is the main component of the meat we eat. It is biologically exactly the same as the meat tissue that comes from a cow.
Well, at one point you're going to hit the limit of humans.

When aerodynamics, bike mechanics and weight, cycling techniques and strength and other biological factors have all been optimized - there's only so much a human body can do.

And the optimizations that can be done, will not necessarily be improved linearly each year - I'd certainly expect this curve to flatten out.
You're unfair. The other option would be to offer no support for free plans and only have support for those who pays.
It's widely covered here in Latvian local media - the general message is that there are grounds to charge (and likely convict) him with a bunch of crimes locally; but -

1) local prosecution claims that there aren't any grounds to prosecute on ~half of claims that USA wants to charge;

2) defense lawyers claim and popular sentiment (including politicians) believe that USA doesn't have a just/fair court system for computer related crimes;

3) there is a strong position for local jurisdiction in crimes in "cyberspace" - if some action is legal locally, then people shouldn't care if it's illegal in USA; if some crime carries max penalty of 5 years, as is here for computer fraud; then extraditing him for charges of the USA requested 67 years - essentially life sentence - is unacceptable.
I agree. They use a pretty bad (i.e. unreasonable) definition of luxury car market.

I live in Manhattan (so maybe Tesla is not big here), but in the last year I've only seen 2 Teslas on the road. By comparison, I see about 5-10 Audi A8's a day.
That sounds like a useful LAN trick, not a stupid one. I can't think of a situation recently where I've needed it but I'm sure it'll crop up some point.
I disagree. RSS readers have a significant long tail expense per user. I worked at Bloglines. Pretty much every one of those free users have extra little RSS feeds that nobody else subscribes to that you have to crawl, handle invalid rss/xml for, update and keep unread status on. At scale, that is the most expensive part of operating an RSS reader, and it's not worth it.
ESR 17.0.7 dated 25 June 2013. How exploiting an old bug on an old version became a "0 day" is beyond me
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<<Google on the orher can do whatever they want
The funny thing is: That was Apple, about 3 years ago.
> I think stopping pornography depicting minors is one of the least controversial laws to possibly enforce.

While it might be uncontroversial, some people would still prefer if the state used effective and evidence-based methods to prevent child abuse, rather than using ineffective, costly, and what ever method that get most media attention.

For example, mandating that schools has trained counsels at staff is a prime example in identifying and preventing child abuse. Having a trained expert which kids, parents and teachers can go to is important line of defense. New teachers should also receive basic training when studying at the university, so they can detect psychological, emotional, social, and physical signs of abuse.

Current studied methods in creating effective prevention program also includes group-based sexual abuse prevention education for children (http://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs/...). Sadly, the efforts in creating more effective prevention efforts is sadly somewhat low priority (see linked document).

It should also be noted, that in that whole document, more strict Internet regulation is not mentioned at all as effective prevention method. Feel free to speculate widely why the researchers did not mention it.
Where did you see MEAN? You're the only one to mention it anywhere.
I think your HN title would suggest otherwise.

I also think there are development enhancements you could make to your application to work around these problems. Maybe you won't get any response from Google until you have 2M users? What are you going to do about it? There have been some excellent suggestions in the comments for working around this (longer waits before retries, premium level retries etc). Do these first, increase user base, then contact Google when it's less easy for them to ignore you.
I think you are right about the motives of the FBI, and the reasoning of the copyright cartel. However, there is a relevant difference.

The copyright "maximalists" seem to think everyone should be able to accurately detect piracy, effortlessly - but in fact it is unreasonable to expect service operators to know the names of the latest Hollywood movies, or to have any way of knowing what files are authorized by the copyright holders, for which recipients, and which are not authorized.

In contrast, there are, I assume, signs of CP which would alert any reasonable person - it requires neither special knowledge nor knowledge of other parties' business relations.
This is exactly the nightmare scenario we were fearing - and lo and behold, it has already happened: using mass spying data of the NSA to launch fishing expeditions against Americans, and find them guilty of crimes.

You could say "yeah but that data can't be used in Court!". But they can very trivially skirt around that. They don't have to use that data. They just need to use some of that data to show a judge "probable cause" - and BAM: now they have a warrant to legally get access to anyone's data, and that data they can use.

But in practice such process by the authorities makes the "limit" of a warrant essentially useless. The warrant just becomes an extra beaurocratic step that they have to take, but doesn't represent a limit on who they can investigate and how anymore.
This atmosphere of apathy is a major cause of said present climate. LE isn't meeting much material resistance, even now. There's lots of media coverage, but nobody does anything. Insisting that nothing can be done is worse than saying nothing, because it inspires the attitude of inaction that has brought us to this state.

I think mtgx has got the right idea. Challenging the government in the courts, even if ultimately unsuccessful, sends a much more powerful message than the censures that have, time and time again, caused no change. Surely there are some lawyers browsing this site who can evaluate mtgx's idea.
Your right: Top Gear is quite literally is a joke. They make absurd claims about cars all the time in the interest of humor, because at the end of the day, they are a comedy show that occasionally talks about cars.

Tesla should have realized their car was going to be the butt of some joke: it's what the show does. If Tesla can't handle being made fun of, then they shouldn't have given Top Gear a car to test.
There are many good reasons to sue him... but, in theory, in the US you can't send someone to jail for a simple breach of contract or violation of corporate policies about OS, or even breach of an NDA or non-compete (neither of which he had).
Before Queen Anne's statute of 1710, but after the printing press had been introduced into England in the mid 1500's, printers in the country were licensed by the Crown. So restrictions on copying have existed literally for as long as it has been feasible to copy on a mass scale.
It is the case, on Linux and MacOS. I don't see the point of this software.
Who saved The Old Reader?
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Practically everyone in Sweden takes a year off before starting university. To get motivation back, to travel, to work a bit and so forth.

Usually you don't really know what you want to do in life (or even what to study if you choose to go to university) when you are done with high school. Taking a year to experience new things and enjoying yourself is great excuses to take a gap year.

I took a gap year, got my drivers license, worked, went to Munich for three months to study German. Great time and gave time to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Or at least partly figuring out what I wanted to do.
For those interested in more info on this, this type of capacitors is a supercapacitor (the name is used only once in the article in a caption).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor
> If quantum mechanics plays a role in the function of the brain we will need a quantum computer to do the job.

Not at all. A classical computer can accurately simulate a quantum computer, albeit slowly.
Honestly don't get why people can't just use CSS for something like this.

Talk about over-engineering
The thing is, Germany doesn't just manufacture things, they design them as well. It seems unlikely to me that they would adopt a stance on IP that ran counter to their own interests. Honestly, it's hard for me to read TorrentFreak articles, because they always seem to come from the assumed standpoint that normal people want IP to go away and that only oppressive corporations with outdated and unfair business models want to keep it. This is far from the truth.
Implementing "Prism Break"
"Education loans has led to restore[sic] slavery" is one of the most hyperbolic comments I have read on HN. I don't agree that giving students credit secured by future income is equivalent to forcibly converting a free human into the property of another.
+1 to your performance advice - my x86 images (both through 'emulator' and Genymotion) are actually faster than a real phone.

For performance testing I recommend using a Galaxy Ace (actually using - install some apps, fill it up with data) and testing your app on it. If it's fast on that it'll be fast on just about anything!
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Posner has not called for an end to IP, mind you. He's called for reducing patent terms and narrowing the scope of patentability.
Raspberry Pi and Arduino to get cellular access with SIM card add-on
...and it was Microsoft about... never. I remember people complaining a about Microsoft around MS-DOS 3.1.
Samsung's previous lead CPU architect head up new Bitcoin mining company.
The crucial moment was :

the 0th microsecond of the first millisecond of the first second of the second minute of the third hour of the ...
They did take down a email provider which was known as "safe" to use by activist and political refugees. By now, they will have to live with the knowledge that anything they wrote is the property of the FBI, and could be leaked at any time. It can be used by the foreign office of the USA as a barging chip, to trade spy information or get prisoners released in exchange for the information. Anyone who used TorMail or freedom hosting as part of an political dissidents campaign will now have to put their life in the FBI/USA hands.
Yes, it was essentially the first mover to execute well in a new class of phone. Someone else will likely eventually come along and disrupt the smart phone as we know it now and will have the same advantage. In terms of the smartphone as we know it now though, it is going to be very hard for anyone to come out with anything so radically different that they can get away without a 3rd party ecosystem and grow and install base big enough to challenge iOS/ Android.
I am already doing that, because of that only I am able to survive 2000 users. I want to expand and publicize my app and give users an excellent experience.
Wiretap tips forwarded by the SOD usually come from foreign governments, U.S. intelligence agencies or court-authorized domestic phone recordings. Because warrantless eavesdropping on Americans is illegal, tips from intelligence agencies are generally not forwarded to the SOD until a caller's citizenship can be verified, according to one senior law enforcement official and one former U.S. military intelligence analyst.

Sounds like a pretty big limitation to me.
From a generalised european education point of view, I agree with the general sentiment of his comment. It's an hyperbola, but not by that much...
Depending on the rate: Batteries could actually be bombs, where gasoline has to mix with air first. No oxidizer needed with batteries - just drive a nail through one, or smash it up as in an accident, and boom!
To add to what rayiner writes...

This mentions a "brevetto", or patent, being issued by the Republic of Venice in 1474:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevetto

The English version mentions that too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent

Also, from this book:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Q6XKA8/?tag=dedasys-20

Talking about one of the first practical guides/manuals on how to do double-entry accounting.

"Pacioli was given a ten-year copyright on the initial publication and in 1508 he petitioned the Venetian Senate for a twenty-year copyright on any reprint of the original 1494 edition, which he was granted. This made him one of the first writers to be granted literary copyright."

Highly interesting read, by the way, despite a dull sounding subject.
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This is a toilet of a story! In order to effect the "hack" you'd need to be close enough to flush it by hand! Yikes, my toilet at home is susceptible to attack by the same method.

I think if you have an hacker in your bathroom, you have bigger problems.

Flip side: will this spurn a new army of "sanitary hackers" who break into unhygienic bathrooms and flush toilets that the owners have neglected to attend to? Brown-hat hackers?!
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Seriously? I accept money using Paypal though 8 percent fee (4% receiving, and 4% conversion) really sucks. Also, it has mandatory daily auto-transfer to your bank which also sucks for things as refunds ETC.

But you can definitely accept money using premium/business acounts. Premium account requires only your PAN.
What sticks in my craw is Falkvinge's continually disingenuous use of the word "monopoly." Owning and asserting a copyright does not make you a monopolist any more than owning a beach house on the Oregon coast makes you one. All property rights are monopolies. That does not mean owners of property rights are monopolists. Concretely: nobody is preventing someone from producing the next summer blockbuster and distributing it for free on BitTorrent, just as nobody is preventing you from building a beach house on the Oregon coast and letting anyone stay over.

I think there is zero potential for significantly eroding copyright rights, and a bunch of young people who don't produce anything themselves certainly won't be the impetus for change. At the most basic level, copyright strikes a cord with people: if I make something, I should own it and be able to control it. Young people are willing to play fast and loose with those property rights, as they always have (cutting through people's yards, etc) but that doesn't signal the impending downfall of property rights as a system.
After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as "parallel construction."

Jesus fucking Christ. They were lying to prosecutors to get charges pressed against people.
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Probably Digg seen as their reader missed the boat a bit
This is truly great. Maybe Latvia will be able to offer asylum to the next kid charged for downloading with intent to share.
You're incredible guys. Why wouldn't you reach out to him first? Guy spend two years f with you and now he also have to screen your blog for your email too.
Actually my second sentence was not connected to the first. I was curious if there are any PaaS providers using Docker as the underlying infrastructure. And I also would like to setup openstack-docker and play around with it (not inside a PaaS or VPS of course). I did see your tutorials though, definitely another great way to test out Docker quickly.
The operative word being "generally". Political limitations are worthless. If they have the capability, they will abuse it. We already know they don't care about the constitution and that they have secret interpretations of laws.