skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, we listened and we have been spending some times with the company lawyers. Next week we will come out with updated user terms. Basically what we meant with the first and last refusal is that we should have the right to make a commercial offer to a writer of a good script for their movie rights, but since anyone really always has this right it doesnt add much to keep it in the user terms, especially since it can be confusing and unclear (for example Kindle worlds put in their user terms that they have the right to buy any story created in Kindle worlds for 10 000 USD. We were really not after anything like that).
Brgs,
Chris
(Founder, CEO at Plotagon)
I'm thinking of going back to Thunderbird and using that for the client (while keeping the Gmail account as the server). Much saner experience. I agree the new compose is all kinds of wrong.
You are bound by their whims, however. I feel for you-- it's unfortunate to have something you put your heart and soul into shut down without notice.

This is why I would hesitate before developing a facebook or iOS app. Being subject to the whims of some tech bureaucrat's interpretation is a little too discomforting.
Well, it's a complicated answer, I think.

Generally, it's not an additional risk over how screwed you generally are. If you're taking precautions against existing attacks, then yeah.

Question is, can it be fixed? The WebRTC SDP's for getting a peer-to-peer connection, so the general case seems to need to share IP addresses..

But that's not really needed, if you're normally behind a NAT, you're going to be behind a NAT this time, and don't need to share your real IPs -- just STUN/ICE data. If you're not behind a NAT, they already have your IP address.
Hrm, I just see a black box: http://i.imgur.com/ZDJzT62.png (Chrome 30, OS X).
This article actually gets the law right, as it stands today. I'm not sure if it's super relevant information, but it's correct. The 5th amendment says: "No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..." Witness is a legal term of art, which refers to someone who gives oral testimony recounting their own experiences. Handing over a key or touching a button is not testamentary and therefore not protected.
I agree with everyone who is tired of the "Voyager has left the solar system" PR game, but I'll point out that the latest announcement is data confirming last year's Aug. 25, 2012 exit date, not a new exit. That is, they have new data showing that the previous departure was "real".
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Wikipedia down?
The discussion you're probably looking for is at http://www.quora.com/Netflix/Whats-it-like-to-work-at-Netfli...
Fortune 500 consulting, average projects tend to be 3 development sites with offshore component, having around 30 to 100 developers on project.

Typical enterprise stuff.
Working time directive is one that you can opt-out of https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours/weekly-maxim...
(I think you are reading into my comment something I did not write. I do not know what you think my "idea of a conference" would be.)

I have tried to have technical conversations at parties and in bars with people I know to be interested in and knowledgeable in the topic. It's basically impossible.

Firstly, the loud music and other conversation makes it very hard to hear what they're saying, and the things said therefore tend to be simplified into what can be said simply in short words.

Secondly, they are often drunk and/or more interested in talking about beer or something than the topic they presumably are at the conference to advance. This is, of course, understandable; they're not expecting to have anything whatsoever to do with the conference topic at the party, since nobody else is, either.

Thirdly, there are no whiteboards to use as discussion aids. It's also quite dark, and it's often cramped so you can't easily show somebody something by moving around. Basically, bars and party rooms are not exactly conducive to productive discussions. (In the past there would also be no internet and, further back, no computers, but that has thankfully become a non-issue these days.)
Yeah, my server is a bit overloaded. Working on that now.
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New research: an advance in plastics that might make phones unbreakable
Why has the new system less write lock? Is it sharded?
While I understand the hesitation to become a plumber, why would working as an electrician be so unpleasant?
Here's some common sense: if you're the CEO of a startup, you should be focused on your own company. Period.

This might come off as overly harsh, but it's absolutely true: taking 45-plus minutes out of your day to engage in an "argumentative" call with "the brother of a friend" who has a "world-changing idea" is a waste of time. As is blogging about it.

Your job as CEO is not to advise other entrepreneurs or to preach the startup gospel; it's to steer your own ship.
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Microsoft criticizes how Google scans your mail to provide you with targeted ads, yet they are promoting the following service which is arguably similar:

> Sift makes it easier than ever to find the products you're already interested in. It uses existing shopping content in your Outlook.com account to discover your favorite stores and products, then creates a personalized shopping experience.
Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks. Finally someone made this. Well everything is good. But your screenshots are not coming pretty "in resolution". But i guess it doesn't matters much.
What do you suggest? Should they have launched a probe to discover what features to expect at the edge of the solar system? I know you're entitled to 100% accurate info, dammit, but perhaps a refresher on how the scientific method works would be helpful.
... thanks for the heads up. I was actually starting to like SkyDrive after I got a free winphone and started using the MS ecosystem.

Now, knowing that MS is prone to shutting down the whole account for perceived infractions? I have family photos that aren't backed up anywhere else there. That's not cool.

Honestly, even if this policy was reserved for kiddy-porn and crack-dealers, the "boom your stuff is gone no review no discussion" approach to it means the possibility of a false-positive is scary.
Why? Person embeds image in the doc or html file http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iarq5sjWDWc/TWRxt8nPegI/AAAAAAAAA_... and then when the document is opened, Word (or LibreOffice in this case) tries to pull down the image to display it. Nothing fancy.
I've never clicked on an add.

check-mate statistics.
First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature
So close...

drink($tequila) or die("Vomiting...");
"After the data are transmitted to JPL and processed by the science teams, Voyager data are made publicly available."

Where can I find Voyager data?
Whitespace:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

Here are some cool answers:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18330/what-is-the-hardest...

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/programming-languages-melt-y...
A little bit of propaganda combined with a whole lot of blind ignorance and decades of brainwashing can make anyone look like the devil. I believe that for some Americans, the notion that Putin might just not be all about "selling weapons to dictators" makes them have involuntary convulsive reactions.
> Yep:
Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit[1]

I think you missed the fairly huge disclaimer hidden away at the bottom of the page:

> iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2+, iPad Mini and iPod Touch 5th gen support is limited to jailbroken devices only (iOS 5 and 6).

The chances of a target device being jailbroken are not particularly large. This should, of course, serve as a reminder that if you are running a jailbroken device you should probably have a passcode a little more complex than four digits!
Wasn't the original House of Cards rather successful, thus reducing the possibility that the US remake would be terrible?
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Whoever succeeds Ballmer is going to have to take a long hard look at their strategic marketing team. Seriously, MS has ADD or something.
All of their service partners (unroll.me/context.io etc) replying with comments announcing their new support for Outlook looks like quite the bit of pre-planned marketing work.
At what point does regulation kick in? Is it the same thing as the fuzzy "I don't know how to define it but I know it when I see it"?

Why isn't Comcast regulated like a utility? It definitely ought to be if we regulate Facebook.
In this comment, pipy wrote:

>> I sincerely don't understand what you're talking about.

>>What "counter argument" I refuse to touch, in your opinion?

pipy "sincerely" lie -- in his previous comment he was aware of the subject (and avoided it in another dishonest way):

>> Your so called counter-argument, the one that you repeatingly kept asking a reply for is not a counter-argument at all. It is illogical of you to think of it as such.

Here is what pipy refused to touch 6++ times (from "Some trivial points"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6328506

(The other example I selected is pipy's refusal to acknowledge that the main humanitarian problem in Syria is certainly the Syrian army.)

I'll just quote my answer to his previous comment:

As I've written five++ times, it is not only my motivation -- it is the Obama administration's motivation.

So your long argument why you don't need to quote and answer [what I wrote] goes also for the main US motivation... THE thing to argue against, you refuse to touch!

Which makes your well written text funny, in all its dishonesty. (That you call trivial game theory "illogical" makes it even better.)

[And let me note -- shameless liars on the Internet that want to identify me makes me want to call the police.]
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If you can do all that, you don't need a super-simple beginner's guide to programming that this is trying to be. They're trying to reduce barriers.
Cool let me know how it goes! By fill rate, I mean how often an ad is served given the number of requests. I.e. if one the students uses my app and goes to the screen with an ad on, it'll send a request to the iAd network for an advertisement. Due to my specific demographic it probably won't always have an ad for me, and thus maybe only 1% of all requests will actually feature an advertisement.

As such, it might be better for me personally to pursue ads from local companies where the students have a much larger impact.

Of course, your app will probably fair better due to more people and a larger demographic!
Ah, it's a reddit thing. Thanks.

Sounds like they are fun and well-loved. :/
> Now, knowing that MS is prone to shutting down the whole account for perceived infractions?

IIRC, Google is just as prone to doing this too.
I had the same problem. Shifted to Thunderbird. Works like a charm. :)
In fact, yes.
It can be fixed for general cases (like advertisers or drive-by-exploits): make WebRTC click-to-play.

This also fixes the issue where any random site can use WebRTC to make your computer distribute peer to peer content of its choice (like bittorrent).
It seems to be working fine.
Nice. Are you doing this the same way they did The Netherlands?

I know I threw out the suggestions when I saw the Netherlands map that this could easily be done with PLUTO. Thanks for the great work. I can see my Apartment building was built in 1910.
"24" News.
Here's some theory (very non-mainstream, I would assume) and discussion along lines similar to what you wrote:

http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.fi/
Wouldn't it make the most sense then from a security and privacy perspective to require a fingerprint AND a "pin" or password from one's personal memory [stored in their head]?

Why not just do that?
>one performance issue that impacted us was MongoDB’s database-level write lock.

People give MSSQL shit for having row-level locks (if you don't use their MVCC option), yet how is it that Mongo runs with a database-wide option and people don't immediately laugh and walk away? Is the hype so powerful that people just shrug about a huge mutex?
Does having Lyme disease make one an insufferable pretentiously pompous ass?
Is technology wiping out companies? The data shows that companies on the S&P 500 are averaging shorter lives, but nothing is shown to suggest it's technology at fault. One could propose it's modern management practices, or global competition, or some particular demographic effect having to do with the startup rate of new companies.
We've found that good indicators include: a large distance between billing and shipping addresses, a large distance between estimated IP location and billing address, large order size, using a free email like gmail/yahoo/hotmail (that's the smallest of the factors, but virtually all of our fraud orders use them). Even combining these and others with a threshold, it's still hard to reliably detect without too many false positives.
Spanish, German, Italian are other "phonetic" languages (if that means that they are pronounced the way they are written), I think the difference is that kids learn to read/write a couple of years earlier.
Reminder to self, triple-check your CDN is actually caching the things that matter!
Can we stop with the "X down?" posts? They don't provide anything useful to anyone.
Err if you put all your eggs in one basket then you're just being an idiot.

Get a domain, forward it to service X and Y, back it up regularly, sorted.

This applies to ALL services be they free or paid.

Saying that I've had the same hotmail/msn/live/outlook account since 1997 without a problem.
There[1] is a presentation about the work culture at Netflix, however it's now four years old. It's an interesting read nonetheless.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664?from_sear...
This is done with two different datasets, PLUTO and the building footprint dataset on https://nycopendata.socrata.com/.
In a big-endian glass.
That's the uncommon sense. The startup common sense is that the blog is on the domain 42floors.com and that people may link to the blog post. Nough said.
CSS that tries to be a declarative approach to describing behavior. This is wrong in my opinion like HTML tags for styling were wrong. I think this is wrong because behavior is so incredibly complex that you end up defining rules for everything - and in the end, using a imperative language is much simpler.

I know it's different, but the argument here http://dealloc.me/2011/06/24/d3-is-not-a-graphing-library.ht... applies in a similar way.
This technique is coming into prominence but genomic is still a very young science with the cost of sequencing only recently coming down enough to have it become regular practice. What we have now are essentially a shortlist of known mutations that are seen across many cancers, a huge list of closely associated mutations in the same pathway or impinging pathways that are sometimes seen in conjunction with other mutations, sometimes not and then a ton of noise from which researchers are trying to pick out possible correlation. The vast majority of mutations are not cancer causing, so picking out the ones that are is difficult. That being said, frequently broad characterization can be done. This person has an effected PI3Kinase, or MAP pathway. We only have drugs for a few of the major mutations so once the cancer mutates to avoid drugging, patients are often out of luck.

To answer your second question, cancer is generally accepted as a genetic disease ie mutations, copy number alterations, insertion and deletion of genetic information, however, recent research has shown that epigenetic processes (that is what your cells are doing with your genes such as alternative splicing or DNA methylation) are also an important factor and these can be effected by environmental factors such as diet, exercise, even mood.
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Diddums. Most of it goes over SMTP in plain text anyway.

If you want secure communications, you don't use email or you use something you control.
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If you're using Linux, just install avahi-daemon and you should be able to connect to coder.local without having to find the device's IP address.

mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour is an easy way to get up and running in a headless setup, but the Coder download is just a minimally modified Raspbian distribution, so you can also ssh in and tweak it to do whatever you like.
I've always loved http://robohash.org/, which solves a similar problem.
Pretend Putin wasn't the author. Do you disagree with any of this?
This is exactly what i was looking for!
That's more like it :)
Fraud "facts" like that applied in a blanket fashion would frequently flag international customers, 3 of the 5 rules listed apply to me.
Isn't building footprint included in the PLUTO corpus? Does nycopendata provide better building outlines?
More registers in ARMv8 should give some performance.
Using SparkJava this is what it looks like:

get(new JsonTransformer("/companies/:id") {
@Override
public Company handle(Request request, Response response) {
return SomeDatabase.get(request.params(":id"));
}

});

public class Company {
List<Person> employees;
}

public class Employee {
String name;
int age;
Employee manager;
}
> Apparently, if you give most technical conference attendees the option (and venue, drinks, transport, etc), they will opt for going drinking in environments not suited for conversation.

And your conclusion from this is that conference organizers should give people less of what they want?

Perhaps you are as serious and focused as you are advocating here, but I think you might find that a lot of people want a bit more than just sitting in an auditorium "talking usefully about the actual conference topic" to make the trip fun. If a conference devolves into pure binge drinking and partying, then yes, I can understand your concern. But some amount of partying is a legitimate draw for people and it fills seats. That's just the way it goes.
There are many new sorts of trials coming online that are closer to the model he's proposing here. (Which, BTW, is more like A/B testing than like a classical RCT.) See esp. adaptive trials, point-of-care trials, and global cumulative trails. Some of these new models are really being run by real clinical researchers.
The problems people encounter with SQL performance generally (or at least also) are on the read side where query optimization can become a pretty hard problem. Basically, the short answer is people are using SQL and noSQL very differently (as one would expect).

cue: someone telling me SQL query optimization is easy and people are just idiots.
MySQL has a few engines that still have a database level lock ( MyISAM, MEMORY ) and those generally preform better for unbalanced loads ( i.e very read heavy or very write heavy )
This is only true for Browser applets - granted that's the worst security hole. Coding in and running Java applications is fine on 10.6, but you have to stick to Java 6
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I feel like the OP's project is more aptly named than the EPub editor of the same name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(magic)
While I totaly agree, this is in no way specific to PHP.

Ruby on Rails has such ugliness too, a view helper called "escape_once": http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TagHel...

What's crazy is that I can't even find an "escape" helper. Ho it's called html_escape. Ho and there is a html_escape_once too!

Python Django too: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/utils/#django.util...
"That’s nonsense. There are serious performance gains by going 64-bit. Addressing more than 4 GB of memory is not the only advantage."

The performance gains are only there assuming that the operations at 64-bit require the same number (or less) of clocks as the same operations would in 32-bit and also that the app uses data in such a way that it is operating on data that is naturally 64-bit wide.

In actual real-world use jumping up to 64-bit and keeping everything else the same doesn't really buy you much of anything for most apps. In the move to x64, everything else didn't stay the same, the number of registers was increased, a newer version of SSE was introduced, etc. So x86->x64 did see a pretty good speed-up.

It looks like some of this is also true with the A7 (more registers, etc), so there will probably be a similar speed advantage, but the core statement as made is slightly off base, IMO.

In any case, no code running on iOS will take advantage of these new 64-bit features until developers are able to create 64-bit builds of their software, though I don't fault Apple for releasing the hardware first since either way there's a chicken and egg issue and the sooner phones start moving to 64-bit the better, even if the on-board memory they have isn't quite near the 4GB level.
"Desoldered and replaced easily"? Clearly, you've never actually desoldered anything. :) It's a tricky process which requires a good deal of special-purpose equipment and training, and even with that, there's a nontrivial chance that you'll damage the part, the board, or both in the process. It's not something you'd ever want to do on end-user equipment.
You're right, there's something else called MapPLUTO: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml that seems to include building footprints. My bet is they're from the same source.
I think Voyager may be approaching the Phantom Zone.
It improves the security of my phone in the real world cases that I'm likely to encounter. Like friends, coworkers, family members, and significant others. It's trivial for them to observe my pin, but lifting a print and creating a fake finger ala Mythbusters or compelling me by force is beyond their resources.

So it's a trade off, giving up security against a determined threat for a gain in security against casual threats.
Something that is not said often enough: congratulations on launching! Even if it was years behind schedule
I have said the exact same quote for the iPhone. And have heard it about the Raspberry Pi. Probably someone somewhere in the early 80s have said it about the IBM-PC. Geek toys have the power to change the world when the brain behind them leverages them to new and amazing things.
I worked on a project where we used Mongo to collect analytics and while it worked, there were always problems. We had a problem with our shard key so one shard received more data which crashed it, overloaded the other two shards and crashed the whole system. A second issue we had was trying to read from Mongo while we were storing data which caused a lot of lock contention. The question I have is, knowing what you know now, would you have still gone with Mongo?
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You're not working 100 hour weeks consistently over the year. I'd be surprised if the yearly average is over 75 (in IB; I'd be surprised if it were over 60 in trading). Moreover, you don't take the job for the first-year salary. You take it for the potential of making $500k+ before 30 (if you stick it out), or going the MBA route and getting a cushy $200k 9-6 at some F500 afterward.
Yeah, I'm using my person domain with Outlook.com since Google started charging for Apps.
It's working quite well, good enough for a single user at least... My only hang up had been lack of imap, but now we're all good!
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Thanks! I'm more of the "launch early and iterate" philosophy, but unfortunately with games you need to be much more polished than a web/SaaS app.
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It comes down to this: if you are serious about your business, build redundancy throughout ALL layers, not just technology but also personnel. You gave the example of CTO, but I would go one step further: there should always be someone who can act as interim CEO if something happens to you.