skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> tiny details with huge consequences.

This reminds me of tax filling.

> Even lawyers have lawyers.

Do accountants have accountants too?
When I first started programming I used to quote this post. A bit later on I realized I was making excuses for my Not Invented Here Syndrome. Now I favor getting things done, though my NIH Syndrome still peaks out every now and then.
Typical Cold War propaganda stuff.
HTML+DRM is closer to an open web than a locally installed proprietary application + DRM.
Using the right framework for the right reason is a productivity boost.

I agree. The difficulty with this is in the long term. Things change: new opportunities, new technologies, new developers, new functionality. Even if you were 100% certain of your choice on day one, it's difficult to measure the precise point beyond which your framework is no longer the "right" framework. I'm interested in solutions to this problem.
Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/why-dont-we-dance...
How unexpected - I just noticed today that my flagging privileges have been unceremoniously returned. I'm assuming that it's because of this thread but that may not be true. Did you get yours back perchance?
Jacques_chester is correct, but I'll provide an additional warning. If you use the information to buy or sell stocks, and it is confidential and material that is very liky to be a violation of insider trading.

If I were you, I would consider handing back to their investor relations and try to build a new contact. It may work, it may not.
Your comment boils down to, "it's always been like this". Well, sorry but we haven't always been at war with Eurasia, and check-in security has not always been so customer-unfriendly.

Source: I'm old enough to remember better times.
"A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a Web page"...or change logo and upload the new one to the website. Revolutionary!
That was enough to make me hit the back button. Do they really think that is going to leave a good impression on readers and make them want to come back?
Thanks! Currently it's not even alpha, but there's always some work to do.
At our shop we don't use frame works, well at least none that came from anyone else.

The problem with frame works is that if you need to modify them, then you no longer can just update them when everyone else does. You are stuck always making changes to the framework ever after as they new ones come out.

But also you don't often fully know what the code does. If you have code that does something you don't understand then you end up not understanding how it changed later.

With Front End Development things like TwitterBootStrap get you a great looking site very quickly, that is nice. But if you want to tweak things suddenly your version isn't going to be the same as the stock version and you can't have it be cached from some fast CDN, and so your site is slower than it should be.

With BackEnd small changes to the official version of a framework can introduce bugs. Sure this is also true of things like Minor Revs to the language. (A lot of people got burned by moving to PHP 5.4 before WordPress was ready for it, and had only decided to enable auto updates to PHP because WordPress 3.2 required PHP 5.1) (And I'm not fond of PHP or WordPress so don't flame me because this is my example, it was one of many, but one that a great many people experienced so I figured the enormity of the event made it a good example)

The moral of the story is OWN YOUR CODE. The more you rely on other people's code the less you are the master of your own fate.
True, I could even do it here in Berlin for €750. But it's going to be dark and cold soon. And the vitamin d and serotonin will slowly drain from my body. And my productivity and happiness will slowly plummet.

Accordingly, I will go to Bangalore, then further south.
So you made jokes about carrying bombs in the past and it was cool?

I said something specific, not something general.
I agree; it is up to us to decide what constitutes a "clear and present danger." You can always claim anything you want, but you'll have a difficult time convincing me that voicing disapproval of the president constitutes a "clear and present danger."
I choose the most nonsensical answer to throw off their results.
thanks ... I thought it was just me and thought that maybe my genes prohibit understanding what he's trying to say ;)
"off-spec and on their own dime" could also be written "for only the top 2-3 most popular operating systems". If Ubuntu, FirefoxOS, and CyanogenMod are locked out of watching Netflix but iOS and Windows work fine, then that's a significant reason for users to buy the completely proprietary systems.

> That would be far less of a setback for the open web
> than the current state, which bakes the notion of
> restricted access into the open standards.

If widespread restrictions are going to exist anyway, then it's strictly better for the interface to be standardized.
I find the funniest part of all of this DRM browser talk is that the people most in favor of this kind of standardized DRM are pirates. It's fairly easy to see why when you look at the obvious point that any DRM running client side can be cracked. By standardizing it into the browser, you only need to crack a single thing - the browser DRM module - and then you will have free and unrestricted access to all of the DRM content with no additional work.

It's the same way PS2 piracy was so rampant. You only needed to install a simple mod chip into your PS2, and since all of the DRM relied on that, you could now run every game with no additional work. It created something of a golden age for gaming piracy and the PS2 actually remains popular today in certain regions because of it.

So standardizing DRM into the browser is a huge boon for pirates, and a problem waiting to happen for everyone else. The stupidity is sometimes mind-blowing.
TL,DR -- TED talks are just one part of a wider field called "creativity literature", and creativity literature is not really about teaching you to be creative. It is about blowing smoke up your ass about people who lived happily ever after, and thus triggering the same kind of response in you that insight porn does.
Yes, many (most?) accountants that don't specialize in personal accounting and tax filing recognize the value in having someone more knowledgeable than them take care of documents with a large impact on their lives.
> If EME is blocked, then these companies will either start distributing their own customized locked-down applications ("You must install the Netflix Player to watch this movie"), or will work privately with the major proprietary browser platforms (IE, Safari, Android Chrome, ChromeOS) to implement what they demand. Firefox and Chrom{e,ium} will be left out in the cold, and the advancement of the open web will se a significant setback.

First thing, Chrome is a proprietary browser platform. Only Chromium should be in the last sentence. I believe Chrome already ships with EME; I am not sure if that includes Google's DRM plugin for it as well, but if not then that is soon to come as well. Chrome already ships with various other proprietary code (Flash, SwiftShader, a PDF reader, etc.) so this would not be a new thing.

Google and Microsoft have been developing proprietary DRM plugins, with Netflix and Hollywood, for their browsers. EME is just a generic API to those plugins. So your comparison of what will happen with vs. without EME appears flawed: in both cases, only proprietary browsers that include DRM plugins, which are the result of private collaboration with Netflix and Hollywood, will be able to access content. And yes, that would leave out open source browsers like Firefox and Chromium - with or without EME.

I also disagree with the premise underlying

> The basic position of EME opponents appears to be that if we refuse to allow DRM modules in browsers, then the companies pushing DRM will give up and let us watch unrestricted video. This position, in my opinion, is fantastically optimistic.

I agree to the conclusion - that it is highly optimistic to see Hollywood quickly move to unrestricted video. But you are assuming there is no other option. There are in fact several:

1. Watermarking as an alternative to DRM, that achieves similar results.

2. Non-proprietary DRM solutions, either standardized (which EME does nothing for, intentionally) or done in web content (HTML5). Those would not be as secure as proprietary binary blobs (what EME assumes), but could still prevent 99% of casual piracy - and professional piracy isn't stopped even by the blobs.

3. Eventual movement to unrestricted video, perhaps after a period of using 1 and/or 2. We saw this in music, it took a while, but sanity prevailed.
Google explains Quantum Computing in one simple video
Cypherpunks 2.0
Does using the information on the document mean whoever misplaced is going to lose something? Probably not. My point is, the OP's case and your example about the wallet are not the same.

PS: if I were the OP I would try to return or destroy them.
If those aphorisms are diluted and feel-good (implying shallow, superficial, and falsely enthusiastic), that has less to do with the course, and more to do with the person applying it into their life. No teacher, parent, or authority figure can make you more mindful of the little things. Filtered from the article, it may seem diluted, but the point is for the student to look beyond their immediate, tunnel vision.
So what is an example of a feel-good aphorism in this context?
Do people really consider prime numbers the basic building blocks of mathematics? Isn't that supposed to be sets?
Ballroom dancing evolved in a time when it was about meeting the opposite sex and being able to move confidently without having innate talent, extraordinary ability, unusual skill, or time. Steps that couldn't be done by average people were evolved out, and things that looked good without effort were kept and refined.

As a result, ordinary people can look fantastic if they learn the absolute basics. I know, my wife and I are repeatedly asked if we are professional. And no, we're not.

It's great exercise, and you meet some lovely people from a wide range of backgrounds. The side-effects include increased balance, body control, and style.

This sort of dancing is not dead, but it has, to some extent, gone underground.
The thing is, the problem is not powerlessness, but the lack of courage and will. If each and every one of us refused to contribute to evil structures and systems, it would make a huge difference.

The Banality of Systemic Evil is a great read: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality...

And you're right about the indifference. Add ambivalence to lack of courage and will.
Elevated radiation claimed at Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues
AFAIK, Apple is not participating in EME - has that changed?
Why would a terrorist announce he or she has a bomb? To test the reaction? A terrorist most likely tries to deal damage and get as far into transit as possible.

I can only imagine a real terrorist saying that to make the official more lax with their security check. So, I would respond by checking them more properly, but I would not threaten people with an arrest.
The proposed standard is just an interface to be implemented by the browsers. The actual decryption happens in a non-standard, proprietary binary module.
Has no one here tried Lyx? http://www.lyx.org/
This is also helpful - http://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/functional.html
I think a pendulum is swinging in a different direction now as well.

Over the last 20 years or so, it seems like the smartest of us were spending our careers and lives building a better nervous system for the planet in the form of popularizing the internet and building services that connect to it.

Now that we seem to be in a good place with all that, and the pendulum seems to be swinging back to a more...physical place with work in self-driving cars, medicine, space, etc.

I think it's fantastic. The best photo taking app in the world won't drive me to a space port where I can catch a ride to Mars.
Those who are interested in open Web aren't going to use any DRM, and they could just avoid those external applications. Now they have to worry about disabling EME in the browser, and if that's even possible, since it's a "standard". I clearly see EME to be a setback to the open Web. If content companies aren't interested in open Web, let them stay outside it, until they reconsider.
Good and Bad Technical Debt (and how TDD helps)
I believe the United States should have universal health care. That said, this looks like yet another government technology fiasco. My favorite technology disaster story is the Denver International Airport automated baggage handling system that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and never worked. I wish I could have those responsible for building healthcare.gov examine that case study.
Stream Mining essentials
I'm from China and lived in the US for years. I think that Chinese people are way more practical and result driven, and instead Americans tend to follow their hearts more. I agree that there are many different ways to interpret ancient Chinsese philosophy that can lead to totally different conclusions. I disagree that this has anything to do with Chinese government or the increasing amount of Chinese students.
Not sure why you think this but the people most in favor of this kind of DRM are certainly not pirates. Also, I don't understand your PS2 comparison - how exactly did the DRM on PS2 enable piracy? It was a poor implementation of DRM that was bypassed. If they had no DRM it would have been even easier.
Am I reading a different article than everyone else? This article isn't about the pace of innovation or what truly defines creativity, but rather that a dubiously "enlightened" creative class likes to consume books and videos that endorse their way of life.

(Which is not different from any other class of people.)
Would You Pay $75K for a Cadillac Volt?
> If Ubuntu, FirefoxOS, and CyanogenMod are locked out of watching Netflix but iOS and Windows work fine

The status quo is that Linux users are already locked out of Netflix.

The only reason that Cyanogenmod users aren't is because they can run the standard Android apk, which, incidentally, is a separate proprietary blob that Netflix had to write and produce on their own dime.

I'd rather vendors be forced to ship proprietary binaries that they have to produce themselves than for them to offload the work onto open-source browsers (or, worse, be able to pressure open-source browsers to cripple their own functionality in order to preserve DRM).

> If widespread restrictions are going to exist anyway, then it's strictly better for the interface to be standardized.

If widespread restrictions are going to exist, it's better for them to be less convenient for everyone involved (both consumers and distributors), not more.
Despite the cynical nature of that assertion, the basic argument holds true. The Chinese had several thousand years of practice at assimilating (as in Borg-assimilation) of foreign culture, and they did it by standardizing on language and culture.

Even today, if you go China or Taiwan and you start asking about how to say things in Chinese, people start treating you as a candidate for a civilized person, rather than a foreign barbarian.

Having said that, the cynicism obscures a deeper truth. The core teachings of all religions are essentially the same, and for the people who got deep enough to do that, they know that language and culture are "local flavor". They are genuinely trying to help people get in touch with themselves, regardless of age, race, sex, culture, religious affiliations, political philosophy, caste, likes and dislikes, and the wrongs you have done or have been done to you in the past. None of those things are who you are.
From the website: http://www.bloom-lang.net/bud/ BUD is Bloom as a Ruby DSL, and http://www.bloom-lang.net/faq/ FAQ tells more.
And if the standard is implemented, there's no reason to believe the media companies will implement Content Decryption Modules for Ubuntu, FirefoxOS, etc, so what exactly would we gain?
If you want to warm up, start with ACM journal articles. They're still pretty dense but aren't quite as formal.

The problem with many CS papers is they're focused at other experts in the same niche rather than to someone with a general knowledge of CS. ACM (and similar journals, I suspect) articles give similar information but are aimed at a more general audience.
First thing I would have done, NOT F*CKING POST on HN. The person that lost it reads too and so do his friends.

Second, if you wanted to you might used part of it you would have to be very careful and pair it with something totally yours.

Oh, and laws vary from country to country. Ethics are a different thing
T-Mobile Rocks
Great points from Fred Wilson. And accordingly to Pogue's NYT article, they signed up more new subs in the last quarter than the big 3 combined. But, in light of their service map and much more limited travel, curious if it's enough to make you switch? Trying to figure this out myself...
Or commit fiscal suicide. I'm not interested in installing a gaming focused OS on my desktop just to play a single game.
As SteamBoxes are modular much like a regular stationary computer, I should think the GPU would see more upgrades than the rest, making the annual upgrade budget much lower than that of a smartphone...
A kernel of information in a sea of free-market propaganda.
I started using Pharo a year ago and its been a pleasure to work with. Great community.

I really like the Syntax comparison (slides 46-49).
And being able to serialize the debugging context of a running program to a file that can be stored for later
re_find returns tuple of all captures if there are more than one. See parse ini example
> As far as insider trader, I don't suspect a random person who stumbled upon such data lawfully could be found guilty of any crime for using it.

That sounds like terrible advice to me. See this for example: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/100803.asp

> Oftentimes, people accused of the crime claim that they just overheard someone talking. Take for example a neighbor who overhears a conversation between a CEO and her husband regarding confidential corporate information. If the neighbor then goes ahead and makes a trade based on what was overheard, he or she would be violating the law even though the information was just "innocently" overheard: the neighbor becomes an insider with a fiduciary duty and obligation to confidentiality the moment he or she comes to possess the nonpublic material information. Since, however, the CEO and her husband did not try to profit from their insider knowledge, they are not necessarily liable of insider trading. In their carelessness, they may, however, be in breach of their confidentiality.
Sorry to say, but this happens in Scandinavia too. This woman went to jail for ten days for joking about having a bomb in the Copenhagen airport: http://www.180grader.dk/Krimi/kvinde-fik-10-dages-faengsel-f...
India detains anti-piracy ship for carrying munitions without a permit
I think people like to say the prime numbers are the basic building blocks of arithmetic (or numbers), and we say this because of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (which says that every natural number has a unique factorization of primes).
My entire family is on t-mobile and I am glad we are. I wish they would tell samsung to drop their samsung cruft, though.
you can click edit and fix your post.
Very Exciting.

I recently watched a talk by Ed Witten where he said that he thought that quantum physics would be useful for number theory eventually, it's cool to see this borne out in the present day.

Here is the talk (Knots and Quantum Theory) at the moment during the Q&A where he was asked about this.
http://youtu.be/8nA17Id4JyU?t=45m3s
You'd rather maintain a complete homespun project than maintain a fork of an existing one?
Can 15 people sitting in the same room with a single editor effectively collaborate on a single document?
I wonder it comparing the bones side by side can give us any insights into the legitimacy of the claims that the paleo diet crew likes to make?
Superhero Laundry Pickup Startup Experiment
My agenda is this:

I want people to stop using the Myers-Briggs test, because it is not a useful decision-making tool ("bogus" for short). It generates spuriously precise results that garner false confidence, and probably crowds out other, more valid instruments.

Your left- / right-handed analogy is not appropriate. The population is strongly clustered in terms of hand-dominance: most people clearly favour one hand over another. For the kinds of personality traits the MTBI measures, the distribution is roughly bell-shaped: most people cluster towards the middle.

This bell-shape means that a simple binary classification is just about the worst way to do things. Take the I/E axis. Most psychologists will tell you that there is an intro- / extraversion continuum, and only a few people are found at the extremes. A statistician will add that, because of the wide error bands (which we can measure by checking the correlation of the results from, say, the even-numbered with the odd-numbered questions) the MTBI can only reliably identify the extreme types. For the majority of people who are close to the I/E borderline, the results of the test are basically random.

So if my MTBI tells me that I'm an "I", all I really know is that I'm not an extreme "E". That isn't very helpful.

You mentioned having the larger dataset at our disposal. With the larger dataset, we don't need the MTBI. Without it, the MTBI tells us very little. So what good is it?
You've added an example in doctors, actually. If a GP has cancer, he or she will go see an oncologist instead of just going on dimly recalled med school courses. The oncologist will see a sports physician about the shoulder injury from rugby, the sports physician sees an opthamologist about their slight ocular degeneration and so on and so forth.

Law is a sufficiently large field (remember, the problem domain is "all interactions between humans") that it requires specialisation and so, in fact, lawyers must frequently consult with other lawyers. OP may get an answer from a general practice solicitor. Or that lawyer may need to consult another lawyer. Until he or she sees a lawyer it's not clear to us lay folk.

Does this ever annoy you?

You're good with computers, can you make a poster for me?

It annoys me (well, these days I find it funny). Special subjects require specialists.
I believe there is a rather apt quote by someone whose name escapes me right now (C.J.Hoare maybe?). It goes (paraphrasing):
"There are two ways to write software. One is to write code that contains no obvious deficiencies, and the second is to write code that obviously contains no deficiencies. The second way is much harder"

I always took this as an argument for smaller, composable components that value simplicity over complexity, dumb over smart and composable over monolithic. I personally (not quite there yet!) try to write code in this manner. I find that the more straight forward and simple the code, the less need there is for tests because I can hold the whole of the code base in my head.
I agree with what you say overall. That said, I can't resist responding to one point.

Your comment on the flu makes sense from a general argument point, but not from the point of the flu. Influenza is a disease which we cannot really treat well if you get it, and we have not yet made a great vaccine that works every year.

Tamiflu and other treatments for it are simply not that effective.

It is one of the most likely diseases to cause a terrible epidemic killing millions of people.
That patent system is broken. Period. Everyone knows this and yet movement toward change is frustratingly slow... Against the backdrop of an industry that changes faster than any other.