skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After killing that annoying overlay in the web inspector, I got to read a terrible, shallow article.

As a layman reader, the assumptions made by the author and Athan Theoharis seem pretty big, unless they have something else to back it up.

The arguments seem to go like this:

1. CIA denies having a file on Chomsky

2. Someone find a memo that _mentions_ Chomsky

3. Assumption 1: Therefore the CIA had a file on him

4. Assumption 2: Since the CIA had a file at some point, the denial is a lie, but we'll also take it as truth and conclude that they destroyed the file

5. Assumption 3: Destroying CIA files clearly falls under the Federal Records Act.

I mean, at least give me a little more reason to believe those conclusions. Historically or by policy does it really follow that mentioning Chomsky means he has a file? I find it hard to believe that, like Wikipedia, just mentioning someone (in the 70's at least) creates their file. Have CIA files already been determined to have "historical value", is there a case? Otherwise I just have to trust this guys opinion.
The linked article doesn't include any useful details. For example, was the cloned content open-source? If so, and if the originator's copyright notice was carried forward, the author loses the right to complain.
If not the above, if the cloned content was unprotected and similar to other products designed for the same purpose, the clone can be defended as a form obvious to a practitioner of the art -- this argument goes that it's difficult to avoid similarities, like two simple mousetraps that resemble one another for reasons other than deliberate copying.
But as I said above, the article only complains, without offering any relevant details.
I like paying tax, I use bitcoin for other reasons, who does not like to have schools and hospitals and the other things that come with taxes ?
Well I was talking specifically about the desire part rather than the actual functional/technical part of reproduction.
Surely we have no tech to replace sexual reproduction.
But we do have mental and intellectual capabilities to overcome such urges without any harm to our body.
I was trying to illustrate that while appetite might be something innate it doesn't mean it's a perfect mechanism that we have to give up control to.
Humans might simply have many instincts that are not that beneficial to us. It's easy to make it into a philosophical argument/discussion.

//FOLLOWING IS NOT RELATED TO THE ACTUAL TOPIC, COMPLETELY SEPARATE AND SPECULATIVE

As for the particular case of sex hormones you're right that we don't have a solid solution yet.
But having said that many papers show that anti-androgens might not destroy male fertility even with long term usage.
Actually that research kind of helped introduce the chemical-castration penalty in many countries, cause it's supposed to be reversible in terms of fertility (not to say it's every single effect is reversible.
The evidence is pretty strong, but could be better.
Other solution is simply castrating yourself after you have the number of children that you want to so that you don't care about fertility.
For women I think it would be taking uterus and ovaries out. The thing is with women the life-expectancy might or might not be significant. But not having period would probably be nice.

Personally I don't know. My gut feel on these issues tends to fluctuate. It's actually kind of amazing - when you go and read actual papers and look for proof of this or that it often turns out nobody really knows.
The line between something being good or bad (for health) is so very thin sometimes.
Gosh, I wish I could get an answer on the whole supplement thing.
Perhaps, but rubbing your tracking in their face is still going to give them the creeps.

It would give me the creeps.
Was the airtel-Warid merger good for uganda?
Ah fair enough, pretty pointless now then. Google have done a great job forcing the legitimisation of a very gray market.
This is just a sample of what is possible. There will always be people who use the wrong tool for the job, but that is not a reason to dismiss this.
I appreciate the contradiction
"refuse the site further traffic"
"copy-pasting copyrighted fruit of someone's labour"
I'm a Zappos "VIP" which means I get a few tiny benefits when I shop at the "vip.zappos.com" website. So at least one site does do the "regulars get a bonus" thing.

(It also means I bought too many shoes at some point in my life.)
Hello, we are working on this startup to help people regain control of their freedom of speech. As we near a beta, we would like any feedback that you have. Also feel free to sign up for the mailing list! Thanks for spending the time to check it out.
(HD) The Brain - History Channel Full Documentary
The truth about why Silent Circle silenced their secure email service
Memories in the cloud
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=0yBtLNS8

Paste of text.
> If the Hyperloop works as Musk imagines, then it'll be more like hopping on the subway: go to the station in the middle of town, wait maybe 10min at most, ride, get off in the middle of town.

Well, except that the termini aren't even close to the "middle of town" (at least, not of the cities motivating the plan). There way out on the fringes of the metro region, and unlike CA HSR, none of the costs of improving connecting systems are part of the plan.

The low cost estimate is due in large part because it gets you from the place people aren't to the place people don't want to be. (On either end)

Which is one (of the many) reasons its not a serious alternative to HSR -- even if the technology was ready, what Musk is proposing fails to do the hard part of transportation improvement: connecting the places people are with the places they want to get.
Putting 'The Boot' On The Other Foot
This video is the first of a series of blogs that I will be putting together to walk you through the process and techniques from my book - Putting 'The Boot' on The Other Foot: Successfully Mange Your Self Out of Redundancy.
Show HN: real-time event social feedback platform
Just built an MVP for a real-time event social feedback platform, would love to get some feedback from the community. Does this seem useful to people?
More interesting than deregistering was his views on WinRT. It's looking like Microsoft have pissed off a few folks. Anyone know the backstory around this?
Yes, generic anti-aliasing for 3D graphics isn't as straightforward as modern desktop GPU's make it appear to be.

The multi-sampling approach that desktop hardware uses is basically brute-forcing it, and doesn't work on mobile hardware that uses tile-based deferred rendering. Subpixel rendering only works for contours. Texture filtering requires you to model everything using bitmaps. Solutions that intelligently combine different techniques to get antialiasing without requiring MSAA have to be implemented manually because AFAIK OpenGL does not have any API's to do anything other than full-scene antialiasing using multisampling (GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH is basically useless, if it even exists in OpenGL ES).

Antialiasing is actually a pretty hard topic unless you have lots of fillrate ;-)
Is it just me or does this title seem misleading? It appears (from the article) that WordPress took down an article because of an abusive use of the DMCA and is legally required to do so...

"WordPress is legally required to respond to DMCA notices, but also instructed Hotham how to counterclaim, though one of the requirements was to "consent to local federal court jurisdiction, or if overseas, to an appropriate judicial body"."

And...

"In a statement, WordPress said it recognised that this was an abuse of the DMCA law.

"We think this was a case of abuse of the DMCA and we don't think that taking it down was the right result," said Paul Sieminski, general counsel for WordPress parent company Automattic. "It's censorship using the DMCA.""
I agree with you to some extent, however I think that in many arguments/debates one side can be so clueless and uniformed as to be unworthy of reasoned discussion. This has sadly become the almost default state for many right-wing commentators as they strive for "authenticity" and the analytical, intelligent conservative is left by the wayside.
It's a reason to proclaim that the people deciding on web standards are doing a horrible job.

Scripting should be removed from the web, not made ever more powerful....
If you are a node.js user, these libraries have familiar APIs:

https://github.com/substack/hyperquest

https://github.com/iriscouch/browser-request
A typical sociology study: "People have differing views on a controversial, unscientific topic -- quick, publish!"
You're missing the point. If you are appending items to a sequence, you are better of using a linked list type which is why your argument doesn't hold because you wouldn't be using an array type in the first place. But with "strings are character arrays" you can't choose. In the next step you get a proliferation of competing text types all because the default one wasn't defined as an adt.

Furthermore it isn't god given that the right way to iterate a text is character by character. Word by word or line by line is equally common. It's therefore completely arbitrary whether it's a character sequence, a line sequence or something else.
The US tax system is exorbitant and immoral.
The one on the left is amazing! It reminds me of Zelda.
I think he's playing politics here, along with creating and riding a marketing wave. I think he'll likely do it all himself, especially since he'll discover more efficiencies and realize it's even more profitable than the current level / depth of research suggests - which is already much more efficient than other systems - even if you take into account the $6 billion to $60 billion comparison isn't apples-to-apples, you could still conceivably create 10 routes at $6 each (or shorter routes costing less), and then gaining the time benefit of transport taking 20 to 35 minutes - instead of 2-5 1/2 hours. I only wish I had the millions right now to building a surf board or two to ride this new wave that will be created. I have to focus on my current version of Elon's "PayPal" first. Patience is a virtue - and sometimes infuriating that things move so slowly.. but that is the game of life that everyone is in.
Dear Software Vendors: Your network licensing causes me pain.
I'm not claiming that the cloners were doing anything illegal. I'm just conveying what it's like emotionally to have people deeply copy your work.
How Google displays their own search results (tables or divs) is irrelevant to how their crawler interprets everyone else's pages.
>more and more stores put their coupon codes right in the header while you're browsing

By "in the header" you mean on the search-engine results page; don't you?
Always drives me crazy when friends join startups and talk about their options.
Them: "They gave me 5000 stock options!"
Me: "What's the strike price? How many shares are outstanding?"
Them: "What?"
1. Technically, a copyright violation.

2. Hey, thanks!

:)
Fast queries can hide stale data: “Real time” vs “Interactive” for big data
White people's meritocracy hypocrisy
No, that meme lives. It just refashioned itself. Look carefully at HN + Reddit to see its traces.
Fair enough, I wasn't thinking only options grants, but rather equity as a whole.
Thank you for mentioning that. It gave me the idea of trying Safari's Reader button, which also circumvented the modal div.
I've abandoned purchases as well. When I know I might be missing out on a coupon, I go hunt for it. Most of the time I don't find the coupon I'm looking for, but I do stumble across (coupons for) other products, which might offer a better deal. I end up purchasing those, or not purchasing anything anymore.

Instinctively I agree with the author: when a customer has effectively made a purchase decision, a webshop shouldn't divert him to random pages on the internet, unless there is a mechanism in place that leads to extra sales. Showing a coupon box during one of the final phases of the purchasing process is a way of diverting customers to random pages on the internet.
That's right: it's about the psychology post-purchase. How does the buyer feel? Do they feel good about their experience, or is there a nagging feeling of having missed out on a deal?

This research paper studies those effects:
http://www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu/mike.shor/research/promo/jpb...
You don't notice any improvements... Great! But don't equate your lack of understanding with the fact that plenty of people are extremely productive with vim, and can do quite extraordinary things with it!
"This is a pretty ridiculous complaint" - No offense, but this is a ridiculous complaint. You totally sidestepped the point of the article - what message are you sending to your full price paying customer?

Imagine you're side by side with a guy in two checkout lines and by chance you have the same 6 items. Both of you get rung up and it comes out to $100 on the display. At that point, you reach for your card. The other guy though, reaches over to the cashier and does a wiggly weird handshake. The cashier smiles knowingly, hits a button and boom it says $86. You've got no recourse to complain. The items you picked up were clearly marked and you accepted the total amount. You start to notice how every 5th person does the goofy weird handshake? Feel like shopping there again next time?
This entrepreneur saved her star programmer from deportation
If you do decide to use Haskell for another project come by one of our monthly meetups at the Hacker Dojo: http://www.meetup.com/haskellhackersathackerdojo/. Having more experienced Haskellers around to bounce ideas off of or pair program with can be rather enlightening.
Well (and concisely) put.

He could've easily shut down all of that activity or even experimented with it in a controlled fashion with select affiliates, getting near-immediate feedback and optimizing (or then deciding against it).
This is just abstracting the process of sending a notification to the different backends - which is fairly significant. Apple, for one, requires you to hold open a TCP connection to them, they don't provide a REST-ish sort of interface for sending notifications.

The client-side piece is still a bit messy, but that's not where AWS plays anyway.
I seem to run into that pretty frequently on Firefox 19 at work, but I don't think I ever notice it when I'm running 23 at home.
Planes take off from runways every minute or two.

Vehicle loading and unloading terminals can fan out from the automated system that loads them and unloads them from the actual Tube.
Did you try:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/script-blocker/edk...

How do you compare them?
That's pretty weak - "We knew this was wrong but we did it anyways."
this is a fun way to apply a discount:
http://www.yourinspirationweb.com/en/fun-with-javascript-jqu...
Whether any of those men are genuine is another issue entirely.
Fair enough. I've been in your position any number of times, so I can empathize. Still, in the article you might have mentioned that what happened didn't break formal rules, only trust.
>This guy isn't really a genius, he's just rich.

And a self-promoter. This is how you maintain you image of a super-hero.

The Hyperloop is a cool idea, and I hope its the future. But anyone who believes this can be built, today, for $6BB is out of their mind.
Videos from Coursera's four week course in R
Right now we're mid-game with btc. It appears that the implicit strategy by the authorities is to treat it as a functioning currency. Fine then; that is good for btc's long-term success. It also implies that the tax-man is coming. btc is not going to live as wildcat currency used by the fringe, untaxed and destroying economic supremacy (That is to say, I disagree with the idea that btc will destroy the economic system that some people favor).

Also, the blockchain is 100% public. So if you can tie a btc address to a real person (perhaps via tax returns requiring you to declare your virtual currency addresses), then the entire pseudo-nymousness of btc goes out the door.

Things to think about.
> as far as political repercussions, california is not a two party state any more

The Republicans haven't yet adapted to the people of the State taking away their ability to roadblock budgets from the minority, which is a crutch they'd come to rely on to avoid dealing with the difficulty of trying to build a minimum winning coalition in CA while at the same time toeing the line of the national party.

I'd be surprised though if they haven't started returning to being an effective opposition by the 2014 elections.
They were substantial coupons and they were available to every customer, and posted prominently on the site and even in the cart.

We did not take any losses.
it does have commercial application, which is more than I think the parent expected.
The problem with people is that they tend to have the thought process of "that's how it is today so that's how it will always be."

Like you said, when he mentioned that everyone's nutritional needs were unique, my mind also went immediately to bio-feedback devices that would not only indicate what you needed but also create a meal plan and order the food for you. There's no reason this also couldn't be done with Soylent. But because these things don't exist today people assume that they'll never exist.
Who is assuming that? It's bad enough that it's increased substantially. Even if it increases sub-linearly it will be that much worse. Renouncing US citizenship should be a "big deal", but increasingly the IRS is forcing people into it, that's not the America that anyone should want.
My interpretation of the article is they charge the company for a referral even if a coupon isn't found or used. That's theft. Or did I misread? It's not just looking for coupon codes (which isn't bad) but mischarging. (It's not the customer that's stealing, it's the referral service)
There were others before Dirac, that was my point.
I guess we can agree that we don't need to have this discussion, as I-5 runs the entire route where the pylons would need to be installed.
None of those usecases seem like something I would find useful, and talking with my mouth full doesn't seem convenient, I'm guessing your recognition ratio would go way down.
The pay wall is just an iframe. I just opened up the debugger and removed it.
Go also shares some attributes with Erlang; in particular, its “goroutine” construct makes writing concurrent software much easier than managing threads by hand,

That's a lot of handwaving. The overlap is that both Go and Erlang have lightweight threads. But Erlang uses the (fairly) different actor model, which usages messaging between actors, supervision trees to control and monitor the life cycles of actors, remote actors, etc. Go has lightweight threads and channels to communicate between threads. Go (concurrency) shares very little with Erlang.

It's also funny that they move on to claim that Go has better concurrency support than Java, when in fact, you can use real Erlang-like actor networks in Java by adding one dependency to your Maven file. Akka actors are lightweight concurrent entities, since you can easily create hundreds of thousands or even millions of actors.

That said, it's interesting to see one API for multiple clouds.

[1] http://akka.io/
well, they do give a million free push messages a month to start with which slightly skews it.

"1 Million FREE Push messages/month. $0.001 per additional Push message"[1]

[1] https://go.urbanairship.com/accounts/register/
@patio11 - I'm the OP. It appears the consensus is that I was rude in my reply your comment, and perhaps a bit childish in referencing my certifications. I apologize. I guess I was looking for a black & white answer, and I should have know there isn't one. Again, my apologies.
Now that is scary. So almost 200 million people in this country are technically in a constitutional-free zone...
Perhaps sold for very little money to people who have free power. Soon it will be about power efficiency more than raw hashing power like what happened during the switch form CPU to GPU mining.
Something special is happening in the Toronto-Waterloo area
I was hoping for a software distribution. Looked pretty neat and then saw it was similar to Analytics, etc. where it is hosted. Any chance you guys will be offering a self-hosted version?
Speaking of Gates, it could be interesting if he or other technocrats got behind this.
I tried to figure out how to remove it with jQuery but eventually gave up and connected my twitter account.

#wapolabs_wrapperLoginOptions <- wapolabs? hopefully Bezos fixes this stuff :)
How Much of Your Copy Is Totally Irrelevant? A Case for Web Personalization
> I don't need or want to load all of jQuery unless I'm using more than just DOM selectors and manipulation.

Then why not just use Sizzle, which is jQuery's core selector engine without all the extra fluff? Again, the same question applies.
Yes. Italy: Stefano Quintarelli, MS in Computer Science, he brought internet in Italy in the early 90s, then sold i.NET and founded a few startups. One of the smartest and most brilliant people on the planet.

He now sits in parliament. Unfortunately, he had a bad car accident a few months ago and he's still recovering.
DEF CON: The Documentary is on YouTube
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/...

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/sweets/5606/2
The older important article on Laura Poitras mentioned there (in the full version):

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_det...

One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out individuals who are suspected of no crimes, detains them and questions them at the airport, often for hours, when they return to the U.S. after an international trip, and then copies and even seizes their electronic devices (laptops, cameras, cellphones) and other papers (notebooks, journals, credit card receipts), forever storing their contents in government files. No search warrant is needed for any of this. No oversight exists. And there are no apparent constraints on what the U.S. Government can do with regard to whom it decides to target or why.
Really cool idea - definitely like the idea of using it during a talk / presentation as a way to answer the most popular questions, rather than randomly picking people who are raising their hands.
The Need For A Low Cost iPhone
I was getting annoyed at people saying the cheap iPhone was un-apple so I ranted about why.
I certainly didn't paste it.
I've used Puppet in a network of a few hundred hosts, mixed Linux and FreeBSD, and I can't complain.

However, I also started using ansible shortly after it came out and I much prefer their push model.

One sad note about the fast open source development we all love so much though, I setup ansible when it was still in 0.x, everything worked fine.

Just a couple of weeks ago I had to modify that ansible configuration for the first time since the setup so I pulled a fresh copy. Everything had changed and I couldn't even get it to work. Not even after purging all the installed files of ansible. So now I have some studying to do. :)
Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer released
> Your customers aren't the same as everyone else and you shouldn't expect them to behave the same.

Yes! In our case we found it had no effect on conversions and customer service calls increased from people asking about where to enter the (expired) code they found somewhere on the net.

Our solution was to keep the coupon code box and seed a $1 discount code on one of the coupon sites.

We stumble across these wild A/B claims from time to time and in almost every case we've seen no difference in conversions.
If only people were this determined to run things like Folding@Home....
More sci fi than I'm used to but all very very true and refreshing to hear from a CTO