skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix can't excuse itself for being a mere conduit for evil DRM lobby. No one was forcing them, it's their own choice to be that conduit. And for that, they can be blamed not less than the DRM lobby itself. Since Netflix helps proliferation of DRM in a big way.

Users can vote with their wallets in order to reverse the sick trend of publishers who push DRM everywhere, but it's not as effective as distributors voting with their wallets. And Netflix clearly votes for DRM, not against it.
It's my understanding that taking Melatonin supplements will mess up your bodies natural ability to make it's own Melatonin (as will taking a lot of supplements). You are far better off trying to get your body to produce Melatonin on it's own.
> "Intellectual property" is weasel words made up by those who most benefit from it. There is no such thing.

Yes, there is.

> There are exclusive rights, given by We the People, , and not for any other reason than to advance science and the useful arts.

No, they're given by Congress. The power to give those rights is given to Congress by the people via the Constitution, but Congress is the one giving the exclusive rights. And that limitation applies to the subset of intellectual property which is dependent on the copyright clause in the US, which isn't all of intellectual property.

But, in any case, even where that applies, it illustrates the existence of intellectual property, since an exclusive right with regard to something protected in law is what property is.

Real property is an exclusive right protected in law with respect to land.
Tangible personal property is an exclusive right protected in law with respect to some tangible object not permanently affixed to the land.
Intangible personal property (of which intellectual property is a subset) is an exclusive right protected in law that is not attached to land or to some tangible object.
I like this bug report about pymongo (not the MongoDB core itself):

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532

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Step 1. Use Mongo as WEB SCALE DOCUMENT STORE OF CHOICE LOL

...

Step 7. DISCOVER PYMONGO DOES NOT CHECK RETURN VALUES IN MULTIPLE PLACES. DISCOVER ORIGINAL AUTHOR SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED NEAR COMPUTER
The problem with a lack of FDA regulation is that there is no guarantee on what you are taking. The freshness of the product and the veracity of what's in the pills will always be suspect to me.

If I could trust where I get my melatonin from, I would gladly take it. But I've learned too much about how terrible this industry is.
Congratulations to the team ! Finally hardwork they have done is paying off. Hope you will continue to make awesome fast databases like ever !
I know, it was a joke :)

I've actually had my home raided before... not fun. Fortunately I no longer live in America.
Hmm, they should have handled negations, its not that hard to implement.
How much more deeply does it make you sleep? I have small children; I don't want to be difficult to wake.
The rule of US law, in this case and in every case regarding the Internet, apparently.
A Brave New Transatlantic Partnership
Just to elaborate, this "low grade heat" makes it physically impossible to recover much energy out of it.

If the ambient air is, say, 0C (273K), and the exhaust air is 30C (303K), then the optimal efficiency for recovering energy from the exhaust is less than 10%.

In other words, if your data center uses 1MW of power, then with perfect recovery equipment, you could generate 100kW off the waste heat, reducing your total power consumption to 0.9MW. Not a particularly big win, especially since your recovery equipment is not going to be 100% efficient.
>"Hey, you're doing a great job."

I never understood this advice. Not to sound arrogant, but I know I'm good. What I need from you is enough financial compensation so that my skillset/experience matches up with a competitive salary or I'm going to go elsewhere for that salary. I'm not a child. I don't need reassurance and tricks like "hey lets have casual Thursdays and a pingpong table" are NOT substitutes for the money I deserve.
Tracking bitcoin transactions THROUGH THE TUMBLER was pretty difficult. Any regular bitcoin transaction can be clearly followed on the blockchain.
5,000 - 10,000 i.u.: Vitamin D3 in the morning.

300 - 600 mg: magnesium citrate.

My favorite brand is "30 Minutes of Sunshine" http://www.lifespannutrition.com/lsn/products.asp?itemnumber...
Bio-Tech Vitamin D3 is also very good: http://www.biotechpharmacal.com/
Citation?

The article says:

> A 2010 trial tested a delayed-release melatonin over 6 months and found minimal adverse effects and no tolerance or "addiction"
I haden't any problems with running AuFS on "stable" 2.6.x kernels (on Debian, Arch and Gentoo, and can't see why other general-purpose distros won't work) several years ago. I read, due to not being a part of kernel itself, it has problems with keeping up-to-date with very recent (3.10/3.12) kernels, but that's about it.

Not sure if enterprises wants to run the very bleeding edge software for sustainable mission-critical business-to-consumer yada yada.
In the biomedical sciences (where the original author is speaking from), there is a dichotomy: yes, most researchers don't believe that a single publication is the final word on a topic and that in theory anything could be retracted or modified, but in practice that's how the system works. Publications--both how many you have and where they are--are the prime metric for promotions, tenure, and overall success. Furthermore, when applying for funding your publication record is taken into account, as well as your promotions, tenure, etc. It is currency in the life of an investigator.

Not to mention that research is all about who comes in first; the incentive to validate published work is by and large not there. I recall a Nature article on data reproducibility: only 11% of the TOP, PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS were able to be reproduced[1].

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a...
A quick google gives me a big bunch of options for buying Melatonin in the UK - http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/HealthNotes-Search?search=%... for example.

Doesn't seem to be prescription-only unless I'm misunderstanding.
> with fewer components they can function at temperatures as high as 85F. (Most servers are expected to keel over at 75F.)

I'm no datacentre guy, so can someone clarify if this is a typo? What kind of electronics start failing just above room temperature?

I'd think HDDs would be the most sensitive, but google said failures aren't well correlated to hdd temp (http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf‎)
I used to deal with periodic weeks of insomnia. As a stifle I really could not afford to spend a whole week without sleeping more than 5 hours as I would be basically non functional after a couple days. I began supplementing a single 5mg dose of melatonin and it has almost completely erased my insomnia. I have found that it has improved the quality of my sleep as well. The only side affect I've noticed is increased dreaming while taking it, however I quite enjoy that.
I propose that they go fishing and wait it out till there's some game-changing breakthrough in some underlying technology. I'm not sure which are the right underlying technologies in much the same way as Babbage's critics couldn't identify "integrated circuit" as the missing enabler. Could be advances in materials, nanotechnology, even biotechnology. What I know for sure is that when these breakthroughs do happen, all 20th and 21st robotics "pioneering" work will become obsolete and will not serve future practitioners. Robotics is not like mathematics where you can lay a foundation that'll still be relevant and useful to people 10 or 20 centuries down the line. If Babbage instead of fussing with mechanical cranks and gears had invented the Turing machine his life's work wouldn't have gone to waste.
Cheap razor made after P&G watches Indians shave
How we made the Artsy iPhone App for iOS7
Congrats to MongoDB. But for me they became pretty much irrelevant after PostgreSQL 9.1 added a JSON datatype.
If you read the spec: "The Content Decryption Module (CDM) is a generic term for a part of or add-on to the user agent that provides functionality for one or more Key Systems. Implementations may or may not separate the implementations of CDMs and may or may not treat them as separate from the user agent."

So the CDM isn't necessarily seperate from the browser itself - that's left totally as an implementation decision, and at least one widespread implementation (IE11) is integrating the CDM tightly into the browser. Also, even if the CDM is seperate it can render frames directly to the screen without passing through the browser. In particular, note that:

"Where media rendering is not performed by the UA, for example in the case of a hardware protected media pipeline, then the full set of HTML rendering capabilities, for example CSS Transforms, may not be available. One likely restriction is that video media may be constrained to appear only in rectangular regions with sides parallel to the edges of the window and with normal orientation."

So basically, just like with existing plugins, encrypted content is an opaque rectangle plonked on top of the web page that's not part of the browser's normal rendering pathway.
What is St. Elmo's Fire? I can only find a weather phenomenon.
I don't trust many, but I do trust Nature's Way, Now Foods, and Jarrows. They do proper batching and testing.
> those four are extremely limited in which cases they can hear.

And the ECHR are extremely limited in which cases they can hear. Thus, we agree that just as scotus doesn't mean that you have a bunch of gun-slingin' Texans passing laws to control the lives of portland Oregon hipsters, we don't have frog-eating French controlling the lives of the Roast Beefs.
I wonder to what extent the AGPL license actually facilitates the creation of a commercial business based on the software; large online service customers who would be willing to use even GPL software without paying anybody for it might be more likely to opt to negotiate a commercial license for AGPL code.

If that is the case, though, and their revenue model is based on providing non-AGPL access to MongoDB, doesn't that rather put MongoDB in the position of commercially exploiting the work of developers who contribute their code under the expectation that it will be freely shared under AGPL?
I don't think my body handles Melatonin very well... it definitely helps me sleep great! But the next day I am groggy for nearly half the entire day
I actually made this into a blog post: https://bjelkeman.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/advice-to-y-combi...
I hope you're not a consultant building web apps for non-technical clients, because if that's the case, I can't imagine the scenario in which it would be necessary to 'pitch MongoDB'.
There is no real connection between the two here, this data analysis is just fluff to me. The sample size of the two datasets are differ to a great amount, also the content and structure of lyrics versus a news articles are in no way similar and RG is trying to force a connection that is not there.
We already have something similar covering the planet -- except most of it is green. Some of it is gray though.
You exploit women who are economically vulnerable. All the rationalization in the world won't change that.
You can be against something while believing in the right to do it. You can think it's destructive, and implore people to not do it, but believe it's not your place to use physical force to stop it.

Taking about the right of exchange is a bit more nuanced. I suppose you could make the argument that it's moral to possess a drug as long as you don't use it? Like if you own a machine gun but never load it, you're clearly not hurting anyone.
I think you are misconstruing the author. He supports the right to have an anonymous exchange. That an anonymous exchange makes it possible to hide illegal activities is unfortunate, but unavoidable, in his view. This is similar to the common opinion that encryption software should not be outlawed just because it can also be (and is) used to hide evidence of crimes.

I agree that it's strange to say this isn't up for debate (I don't think there is anything that isn't up for debate and this exact point is being debated all the time). The article seems to be a reiteration of the author's beliefs on the issues of privacy and drugs, to which Silk Road is only tangentially relevant.
I found melatonin to be very effective, especially on mountaineering trips, where I'm not guaranteed a decent sleeping environment but really need to get some sleep when given the opportunity.

My girlfriend however reported nightmares when she started supplementing with it, but it appears to have gotten better.
How Willpower Works: The Science of Decision Fatigue
How easy is it to build nginx modules to accomplish similar preprocessing?
The Bird Mummies of Natron
Why is this still maintained? It even stores its own source under git:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/rcs.git/?h=p

So much for dogfooding...
Completely agreed. Praise from the company is basically worthless to me; I don't need to be told that I'm good, if I'm doing well I'll know it. If you truly value my services then the only meaningful way to show that is through increased salary. Anything less is simply an attempt at manipulation.

Recognition in front of peers is good for other reasons, but its not a replacement for financial reward.
Benadryl is a first generation antihistamine which crosses Blood-brain barrier and makes you sleepy. Its mechanism of action is very different from melatonin and it has much more severe side effects (bad feeling after wake up) than melatonin.
or ratpoison or stumpwm or screen.
If a trifle of a service like Instagram can get sold at 1 billion a legitimate piece of technology infrastructure valued at $1.2 seems reasonable to me.

Edit: corrected Instagram sale price from 2 to 1 billion, thanks Elliott
I dunno. It's a real business with real revenues, and tons of lock in. ORCL is worth $150B. It seems to me anyone who can steal marketshare from them could be worth at least 1% of that amount.
It looks like you are creating wrappers manually, that could be improved. Look into both overloads of [`Promise.promisify`](https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/API.md#...)
Perry the platypus needs nip this on the bud
As for Melatonin Adverse Events, it's my site that's linked to under 'Uses', (http://www.drugcite.com/?q=melatonin) It's important to sort the data by age and gender as the AE's can vary greatly. That data is FDA FAERS data that runs against many other datasets by the way.
Are you doing your startup for the right reasons?
Everything you're downloading has already been stripped of the DRM by someone else. You're not stripping the DRM yourself, and I doubt most torrent users know how. You're just proving their point.
What's the best P2P paypal alternative?

I'm off of paypal for accepting payments but would love a solid alternative to sending money to people internationally (Chase Quickpay is great but you can't do international xfers).
The 2nd Edition of the MongoDB: The Definitive Guide from O'Reilly is one I can recommend (full disclosure: I was a technical reviewer on that edition). http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028031.do

For basics, the Little MongoDB Book (http://openmymind.net/2011/3/28/The-Little-MongoDB-Book/) is a bit dated at this stage, but a good starting point.

Finally, there are free MongoDB courses available at http://education.mongodb.com in various flavors of programming language, as well as an ops/DBA focused course.
Vo Nguyen Giap, renowned Vietnamese general, dies in Hanoi
Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese military commander and national folk hero who organized the army that defeated the French and then the Americans in 30 years of Southeast Asian warfare, is dead. That war ended in 1975 when the last remaining U.S. military forces evacuated Saigon, leaving behind a war-torn and battle-scarred nation, united under Communist rule.
You're not thinking like someone that lives in a cold place :-P

In cold climates, the heat could be distributed to reduce the heating load in other buildings during cold months.

Where I live (Alberta, Canada), it's continuously below freezing for at least 3 months, and often below for 2-3 months either side of that. People would be all over getting free heat from a neighbour, even if it was just a little bit.
I've tried it a few times. I find that I sleep like a rock, but have a dull, throbbing headache in the morning. My wife swears by the stuff...
I get the sense that one of the issues with Silk Road was that the people involved in it didn't really realize how big it would get and how hard the feds would go after it. That's why, at the beginning, there were a lot of rookie/lazy identity leaks that the FBI eventually tracked down.

That is, assuming you don't go for some NSA parallel construction thing. But if that's the case, it will probably become clear after a couple more site busts.

Whoever does this next will know how much of a risk they're at, and will probably take appropriate steps to protect their real identity from day 1.

It sounds like they need to harden the server better too. Not just the code base and platform, but even configuring things such that whatever OS the site is hosted on can only see the outside world through Tor.
Urban centers also offer a much richer after-work culture of independent films, theater, music, and general night life that can't be found in the suburbs.
> with Docker as a standard you will have a fully portable application that behaves exactly the same on one PaaS as it doesn’t on another

I wish this lie would go away. You have plenty of dependencies with a Docker app and it's trivial to either be missing them or have conflicting ones. Go ahead and copy some binaries from one random Linux distro three years ago to one made today and see if they work every time; not every chroot environment is backwards (or forwards) compatible.

While we're talking about "standards", can't we agree that LXC is still the simplest and most portable 'standard' for running Linux containers? Everyone wants a cool branded wrapper with an API, but LXC has the bare metal functionality that you need and costs you less container-specific maintenance.
By the way, I apologise to anyone looking for a decent 404 page from my site. I initially configured that site (with WebFaction) as a static site, and they don't expose a way of providing a custom 404 page for that. I should switch it to Apache so that I can get a 404 page, but I haven't got round to doing that. (More importantly, I haven't designed the 404 page I want, so the other part of the effort would be wasted.)

At least I gave http://relink.chrismorgan.info a proper 404 page. The sentiments displayed on it are the same as what I would put for http://chrismorgan.info, though: you won't get a 404 page on my site unless you broke the link yourself.
Adobe Hacked! Looses Source-code & 2.9M Customers' PW/CC Data
Sourcegraph: Semantic Code Search
At the risk of stating the obvious, Twitter is a directed graph (one-way follow), while Facebook is (mostly) undirected (two-way follow), I have to friend you and you have to agree.

Twitter is more for the digerati, Facebook is more for the masses.

Facebook has more of a mission to capture and monetize all your social/personal info, Twitter is a little more narrowly focused.
It means the same thing in several other countries, including Sweden.
Firefox is already non-free software. The Mozilla branding is the main reason why - those parts are licensed under non-free licenses.
I've taken it and really does help me sleep better. It helps me fall asleep easier if I wake up in the middle of the night. I was taking about 1/3 of a 3mg tablet.

I did stop taking it though because I felt depressed after about 2 weeks of taking it every day.

I will probably take it again periodically if I am traveling.
How to design an app that puts a world of art in your pocket
If you want to version control a single file locally with no fuss (exactly one file,v file for storing changesets), I could still see it being handy.

It seems it has a maintainer that is very inclusive and accepts all portability fixes. Which is nice enough; many newer open source products are more like fireflies.
i keep saying that smart phones will only be relevant when they become open as pcs. this may be the first step. selling phones as a generic machine that can run either windows or android or whatever the user decides to install later on will change everything.

if you think everything is already changed by phones now, you're in for the same surprise ibm clients had at the pc paradigm change.
Benchmarking graph databases... with unexpected results
All the fonts you'll ever need
Very impressive! Not to detract from how impressed I am, but I did manage to trick it once: "It could be better" was postive / very positive.
I'm finally starting to wrap my head around the concepts involved in promises, and was able to find a couple places to use them in my current rewrite of a JS codebase. However, my initial search doesn't show any articles describing why I should pick one of these over the other, particularly if they all implement the Promises/A+ spec.

Would someone be kind enough to give me some idea what the meaningful differences are between Q, when, and bluebird?
NSA and GCHQ target Tor network
Melatonin does work wonders, but you never know how your own body might react to it.

I have many issues with my sleep cycle and quality of sleep. Melatonin is one of the few things that alleviates my problems. However, for me, it's only good for one night. I can take melatonin for one night out of a month, and get a blissful, restful night of sleep. If I take it two nights in a row, evil side-effects start creeping up.

It begins with a headache. If I take melatonin two nights in a row, the next day I will wake up with a headache that's hard to shake. My dreams, while very vivid and pleasant the first night, become more gloomy and depressing the second night. By the third day, my dreams are full-on, vivid, terrifying nightmares. I feel depressed and angry all day, and the headache borders a migraine. After four days of melatonin, I'm a wreck. It no longer puts me to sleep, nor gives me restful sleep. It becomes nothing more than a pill full of nightmares, depression, anger, and a bad migraine.

The first time I started taking melatonin, I had no idea it was causing these side effects. It took a while to pin down, and I just assumed it was related to my ongoing battle with sleep. I do recommend it, just know that you may have adverse reactions to continued use.
Exploring the IoT
> You say this as though there is something immoral about selling drugs.

Absolutely immoral. Drugs like cocaine, meth, heroin, etc, make you into an addict once you start taking them on a regular bases - and that happens quite easily.

The dealers know this full well, but will do it anyways to make a profit. A very small one at that, since most of these guys don't even make more than they could working at McDonalds.

> and in fact many "illegal" drugs (many that were sold on SR) are legal by prescription (cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, etc.)

So a prescribed 5mg Desoxyn (dextro-methamphetamine) pill swallowed once per day for Narcolepsy is no different than the typical 100mg of crystal Meth put and smoked in a pipe to get wired for 24h?

Or a couple of Vicodin or Percs for pain in you back is no different than shooting black tar heroin?

> Drug prohibition is and has always been a combination of racism and corporate profits.

The difference in effects between powder-cocaine insufflated and crack-cocaine smoked is so great that it literally feels like a different drug.

The difference between frequency and types of crimes committed by powder-cocaine users and crack-cocaine users was also so great that laws were enacted to treat the drug differently.

One of many counter-points to the "it must always be a race thing" argument.