skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody uses those crazy filenames with leading and trailing space, escape codes, and newline characters because it means trouble with the shell. So the problem kind of takes care of itself.

What about people who want to create trouble?
And let's not forget that traffic court isn't an episode of Law and Order. Walking in and dramatically demanding dash cam video over a couple-hundred dollar ticket is going to put a very annoyed look on the judge's face. For a simple traffic violation such as speeding, you'll never get to the point of "oh, but if you sync the timestamps between the two videos..." It's a rabbit hole that the judge just won't bother with.

If you're ever in this situation just hire a damn lawyer and listen to their advice.

As a hopefully humorous aside, this joke is as applicable to the way "nerds" view the legal system as it is to the way they view cryptography (though obviously in a more metaphorical sense): http://xkcd.com/538/
Leading dashes in filenames are not a problem caused by the shell but a problem caused by the way most binaries interpret argv.
> Taking H.264 to zero price is a net public good and a prerequisite for getting RF licensing of part or all of H.264 for all desktop systems (since rents there, as opposed to on mobile devices, are running low).

More realistically, this just lets them have an escape valve for the one area that was likely to rock the boat, while not impacting their revenue at all (likely increasing it in fact).

It's a standard cartel move, which they already used by charging TV networks, and pay TV on the web, but carving out exceptions for video porn ("any paid video under 12 minutes") and the web. How exactly this gets sold as "non-discriminatory" I don't know, but then I don't understand how moving a file across a network can trigger payments for patents on the encoder used to produce it either.

It's a tricky subject, but I don't think allowing monopolies to price discriminate can be described as a "net public good" in the same that say, not allowing monopolies could be.

I understand the compromise, I'd prefer it if Mozilla fully understood it too.

edit: I just realised that by "a prerequisite for getting RF licensing of part or all of H.264" you're probably referring to the ongoing effort (started before H.264 was even begun) to get H.264 Baseline under proper RF terms, rather than "getting the blob for free" which is how I first took it. It would certainly be nice, but it seems to have failed repeatedly over the years.
I have done a lot with users of all sorts. I see a lot of spaces and hyphens inside files, but I have never seen either a leading hyphen or an embedded newline.

Are there cases where these would be desired in GUI environments? Why and what is the use case?
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I didn't submit this link but I'm from this agency. Fair enough if you think it is, but we thought you might be interested in the tech at the bottom and the way we hacked some toy shock lighters to produce this!
And at the same time demotivating, if considering that they have founded their first start-up in earlier years.
Is it a SuperPower building?
The reason evidence gathered in illegal searches is inadmissible in court is so there's no incentive for cops to perform illegal searches to 'get the bad guys'.

If the law said "the video has been lost" meant instant acquittal, the video technology would become radically more reliable.
Can we stop with 'the name sucks' meta discussion and focus on the topic? I for one would love to see this work out. It'd be goddamntime someone clever did something about it and I could not imagine two better parties starting this.
I think Bitcoin has been designed by a single person. The source code alone of version 0.1.0 was not very complex, see my post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6561079 And most of the crytographic choices are logical and could have been taken by a person reasonably well-educated in computer security and cryptography who pays attention to details. This is my opinion as a pentester / IT security researcher / developer with experience in cryptography.

"This article suggests that Bitcoin was made difficult or impossible to fork by-design, which implies that the creator doesn't want to allow anyone to seize control of Bitcoin."

Well, source code is easy to change and fork. But because this would create a fork in the block chain, you would end up with a different Bitcoin network that does not recognize transactions of the original Bitcoin network.

"Who would go through all that trouble to create it?"

Version 0.1.0 is only 13k lines of code.

"What can they gain from Bitcoin's existence?"

Someone wanted to experiment with his ideas about a revolutionary peer-to-peer currency/payment network, and maybe hoped to inspire others with his creation? Some people enjoy experimenting with cool ideas just for the heck of it. What was Linus Torvalds thinking he would gain from writing the first version of Linux? Anyway, the success of Bitcoin so far is probably beyond what Satoshi envisioned as probable (although he may have seen it as possible).
>It's a hard problem with a limited market and limited options for monitization.

I disagree; I think there is enormous potential in this market; having a set of concise and insightful information that shows you are making progress with a particular goal is something a large number of people would be interested in.
I came to the comment page to say that it's pages like that that make me grateful for the internet.

Then I read the comments - actually, it's pages like this that make me grateful for the internet.
I'm not sure I'm ready to abandon a custom monitoring environment consisting of a shell environment, screen, ssh certs, lugubrious quantities of /proc/, and a fair bit of gnuplot. Seems to me thats all you need? Why commit to a Ruby install for an operator console?
why not make rulesystems modular?
In Netherland it was like that when I was young, but in the '90s, shaven heads became very popular with no right-wing association whatsoever.
No way should a .gif be exported to a .jpg
The one "English" class that I did not loathe in high school was a journalism class. It was about learning how to communicate with other people clearly and effectively and without the piles and piles of bullshit that regular literature classes trafficked in.
Actually, assuming that MPEG-LA allows this Cisco scheme to happen then any corporation who's at the MPEG-LA yearly cap could offer this same scheme for free (and no cost to themselves) too e.g. possibly Google, Microsoft, Apple.
The Big Picture by the Boston Globe is similar.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
Technically, isn't the professor the one being paid by him?
I love that the law in question has a specific exemption for satellite radio devices. Maybe instead of someone like the EFF getting involved, Google should just get with Sirius and ask to borrow their lobbying team/firm for a few hours.
I don't know. I got married during my 30s, so I have no need for dating. But at the same time, I'm way more confident and I'm sure I wouldn't suck as badly at it as I did during my 20s.
So how come Bitcoin is so fundamentally opposed to the concept of state and regulations then? Doesn't make any sense. Where's the catch?
Will we have to pay for Google+ Custom URLs?
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@mlchild (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6645904) wrote:

> The power and precision of the right word at the right moment can be intoxicating.

@arethuza (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6645940) replied:

> Not only intoxicating but immensely powerful - we live in an age where politics is dominated by form rather than content, "spin" and being "on message" are more important that policies.

Both of them are indeed right. Except it has always been like that, and not necessarily a new phenomena as we sometimes think. Here's a quick excerpt to an interesting essay in imperial villain making....

By the end of the 90s, the hardliners calling for regime change in the east found that they had a powerful ally in government. This new president was not prepared to wait to be attacked: he was a new sort of conservative, aggressive in foreign policy, bitterly anti-French, and intent on turning his country into the unrivalled global power. It was best, he believed, simply to remove any hostile Muslim regime that presumed to resist the west.

There was no doubt who would be the first to be targeted: a Muslim dictator whose family had usurped power in a military coup. According to British sources, this chief of state was an "intolerant bigot", a "furious fanatic" with a "rooted and inveterate hatred of Europeans", who had "perpetually on his tongue the projects of jihad". He was also deemed to be "oppressive and unjust ... [a] sanguinary tyrant, [and a] perfidious negotiator".

It was, in short, time to take out Tipu Sultan of Mysore. The president of the board of control, Henry Dundas, the minister who oversaw the East India Company, had just the man for the job. Richard Wellesley was sent out to India in 1798 as governor general with specific instructions to effect regime change in Mysore and replace Tipu with a western-backed puppet. First, however, Wellesley and Dundas had to justify to the British public a policy whose outcome had long been decided in private.

Read the rest here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/may/24/foreignpolic...
Since some people would prefer not to lie, the fact that they didn't have to removes the "AND they were lying" clause from the hypothesis and thereby raises the chances that they're involved. It's not an assumption that they replied truthfully, but a removal of the requirement that they lied when asked.
No it's not - it's a fun side-project using tech we discuss regularly here on HN with interesting links too.

Climb down from your horse :)
Whoa, cool!

The gif integration would be what appears to separate this from little libs like Motio[0].

_Question for HN_: is there a reliable cross-browser way to use the sprited background-image approach with responsive elements?

I'm thinking specifically about responsive images, where you want to fill a certain amount of space.

Because of IE's lagging support for various background-... css properties, my impression was that unless you can say goodbye to IE8 it's not an option (maybe not even for non-sprited bgimage, but actually I think there's a DX transform that can stand in for css background 'cover').

But in fact I don't believe I've ever actually seen a demo of a responsive, animated, sprited background-image! I might have just missed it. I've just been preloading images and animating the src property.

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[0] http://darsa.in/motio/
And the reason Pascal is pretty much directly derived from Algol is that Wirth was on the Algol committee, and kept trying to get it simplified and tightened up. He then eventually went on to do Euler and Pascal (and of course later Modula and Oberon) to implement the ideas he'd had for Algol.

This is quite interesting: Pascal and its Successors - Niklaus Wirth
http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/niklauswirth.php
Setting up an email server, which at least comes close to the gmail's quality is definitely not to be qualified as "easy" process.
Going through this several times, I can assure you spending good several days and nights to investigate, choose, configure, debug, and enable useful features like greylisting.

Then again, you have to worry about redudancy. How would you feel missing an important email, due to your VPS/Dedicated server being currently ddos'ed or unreachable for other reasons.

In addition, do not forget about backing up.

So, that again is in no way "easy 1 hour" task, especially for those who are doing it first time.
As funny as it is, this type of titles are not only seen on Medium.
As for the torture thing :

http://strasbourgobservers.com/2010/07/06/389/

Given this article, I think it's safe to say that people get tortured to varying degrees by the German police on a weekly basis at least. Like the US, in the vast majority of cases the police do this for very good reasons.

As for a basic introduction to German wiretapping law:

https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/germany/ii-surv...

Also you act surprised ? Why ? These laws are the "roughly" same across the EU. Generally a certain degree of violence, even what might be considered torture (but not outright "real" torture. Violence against an arrested person, ie. hitting them or so, even things like denying food/drink when it's not life threatening) is allowed in the EU to protect the institutions (parliament, government, ...) (but only for "existential" threats that threaten the institution itself, not just, say, the building), and to protect the lives of others.
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Hrm, opening the CSS I find ^M chars at the end of every line. Why the windows linebreaks?
That sounds like a very dull programming class...
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The hyperbole of your blog post really annoys me. The urge to generate traffic lessens the quality of the overall discussion here on hn and within the larger programming community.

As an author with every post and submission you make a conscious decision about what is important to you. Do you want to enlighten your readers or do you want to gain notoriety at the expense of your audience?

Ask yourself, do you want to be the Daily Mail or Le Monde?
If we started thinking like that we'd have to delete half the links on here.
Shouldn't display be a feature of the locale?
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Surprisingly accurate at first. See also https://twitter.com/FalseMedium and, even funnier, https://twitter.com/Vice_Is_Hip
Unless you have some kind of crazy zen meditation technique, getting an email alert on Google Glass is 100% certain to distract you from whatever you are doing. Your eyes will automatically focus on it for a short period of time, your brain will then spend time processing it. That's how we are wired. And you can get notifications at any time.. perhaps while you're doing something that requires extra care.

People here are doing what they do best: rationalize a situation until it somehow makes sense that they should be allowed to do what they want to do, regardless.

When I started reading this thread I thought I would not engage in a discuss where people cannot accept a distraction is a distraction is a distraction. Apparently, I'm weak in that regard.
What proof would satisfy you? It seems like you're asking for something impossible to provide.
If there was one concrete point relevant to Satoshi Nakamoto's identity, especially that it is absolutely _not_ a single person, it's what he has never done...

Not that nobody else has found him out (definitely possible/plausible, and some people claim to have successfully used web tracking bugs to get an IP).

Satoshi Nakamoto:

1. never publicly claimed any credit for the idea of bitcoin... think about it, he doesn't claim he invented the idea, he just put it forward and kind of said, what if... ?

2. never spent or moved his massive holdings of BTC which are easy to identify because they are some of the oldest blocks in the blockchain

3. never exercised his power to shape bitcoin, especially after the end of 2011 - aside from code contributions and that doesn't count since everyone involved can think about it and decide to accept it or not - each code contribution is a potential fork so don't underestimate the care taken on the official bitcoin client

4. never slipped up and revealed his identity or even his _timezone_ !

That's a preponderance of evidence to me. I'll understand if you're not convinced but this is the kind of PR management that a single person just can't pull off!

What can they gain from Bitcoin's existence? Only all the economic benefits from a _viable_ digital currency. All previous attempts at digital currency are weak in comparison. And currency market manipulation is by far the most profitable game, like that even needed to be said.

Who would go through all that trouble? In a world where a US Agency (NSA) has successfully tapped almost the entire internet, maybe it's time to accept that this kind of advanced planning is within reach.

It helps to point out some common misconceptions about Bitcoin. Bitcoin does not guarantee anonymity, despite the p2p elements of the protocol - far from it. Bitcoin is much more flexible than you think, for example the "1" prefix on all addresses currently. Bitcoin does not have to succeed or last forever, the idea has been planted and isn't going away.

All markets are a mix of manipulation and organic behavior. Factor that into your plans and Bitcoin makes a lot more sense.

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A good assembler-language programmer these days starts with the output of a compiler. And then proceeds to beat the pants off said compiler by optimizing specific portions.

Not least because no language includes sufficient semantic information for the compiler to be able to safely optimize all the parts that the programmer can.

It's still mostly true - just not worth the effort for anything but smaller fragments.
Watching someone explain something in a video is like watching grass grow to me, but less outdoorsy. Drives me crazy...

They seem really popular though, so I guess if it's a good business, good for him.
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Funny and sadomasochistic, whats not to love? Maybe you should pretend a heart attack or something like that so you can scare the shocker back
that's brilliant. i've studied the maths behind all this years ago, and only now do i find an intuitive explanation of all this.
many thanks.
Even if we leave the tech aside, this is a good example of PR hacking, which I think is pretty relevant to a lot of people here. Congratulations to you and your team for spotting an opportunity and exploiting it.

edit : typo
The problem, of course, is that the president probably knows about the reason these programs came to be. What if there's a good reason ?

I mean you can be cynical or you can be realist. The cynical explanation would probably be that the president/congress don't really control a few organisations like the NSA.

The realist reason would be that the NSA can point to a couple dozen cases where their surveillance saved thousands of lives, American or otherwise. That they have very, very convincing arguments that these policies are worth it.

Also I am a bit fatalist about privacy expectations. Have you seen how "working class" people live in Hong Kong and how much privacy they effectively have ?

That's the future for the vast majority of humans on this planet, unless growth stops. If growth does stop, death and famine is the future for the majority of humans.

Enjoy it while it lasts, or collect enough money that you can realistically enjoy privacy and space until you die. For the next generation, it's a lost cause.

Government intrusion of privacy is (should be) the least of anyone's worries.
If anything you're being sexist by classifying this as a gender issue rather then a societal issue. Many of the things you listed effect both men and women. Sexual harassment and advances go both ways, for one. And if you speak up as a man you're considered an 'asshole'. No different then a 'bitch'. It's just childish terminology that really shouldn't be tolerated in the workplace to begin with. Women are equal now. Nobody sees hiring a woman as 'affirmative action' they are seen as somebody who will be an asset to the company. Somebody who can earn money. From what I've read recently their pay across the board is the same or better then their male counterparts, but don't quote me on this. You talk like this is the 50s, and it makes me wonder where you live that is so far in the past? In other parts of the world I will admit, being a man still carries a lot of advantages - not so much in the US.
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Off course this only goes for governments that operate a welfare system
Ah yes now it seems obvious, thanks.
I don't like the analogy because it's not a laughing matter. Nevertheless there is no choice of script language in browser either.
the details pages are all blank for me in FF: http://www.shinglecentral.com/opportunity/HwMGk8B2KgmCppn85
'Empowering People Awards' for simple technology innovations
There's no reason why server-side javascript cannot generate static HTML.
I am sure it is a cultural difference - but not wrt abortion but marriage.

"In 2011 , 72 percent of all births to black women, 66 percent to American Indian or Alaskan native women, and 53 percent to Hispanic women occurred outside of marriage, compared with 29 percent for white women, and 17 percent for Asian or Pacific Islander women."

http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=births-to-unmarried-w...

In the US - 83% of abortions are done by unmarried women (http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2506899.html). So it seems that marriage plays a large role here.
I'm a dev up shitcreek with no paddle and also blame management ("here take a couple more projects. And support a couple more", while trying to rewrite a piece of sh*t that's already months behind).

It's almost always the go-to excuse though, I just don't know if it's the truth anymore. Of course we'd blame management. Depressing.
What's interesting with these declarations (and I'm surprised they don't even get a mention in the media) is that they specifically say that these rights cannot be denied based on "national or social origin". So it's basically illegal for the US to invade the privacy of foreign citizens according to the terms of those covenants. The US Constitution is probably in direct violation of it as far as I can tell since it specifically only applies to Americans.
Ha in 2013, you don't run JavaScript in your web browser and you're not using Lynx. People are getting soft.
With mean corrected observations as rows of a data matrix X, the sample covariance matrix is given by X'X not XX'.

Also

(X'X)g = lg

(XX')Xg = lXg

So with n>>p and n large, you may be able to fit X'X (p^2 entries) but not XX' (n^2 entries) in memory (and get the same eigenvalues and related eigenvectors).
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That's precisely what LinkedIn is for.
I have 4GB and yeah, my hdd is non-SSD. But it wasn't this bad back when I was working with snow leopard. Unfortunately Apple forces you to get their new OS to use the new Xcode and that has screwed my performance.

I've disabled a bunch of things, Spotlight indexing, dashboard, their notification stuff, etc and also moved swap to a new partition, its helped, but still not as snappy as when it was new.

At the moment, I'm weighing my choices .. do I upgrade RAM,SSD or do I get a new one - but then I have to buy apple's expensive ram and cant easily change the SSD in the future.
Games are pretty new, I'd cut them slack on that one. Also, I've been a gamer all my life, and many games are bad, and are getting worse in terms of "artistic expression" as the production values go up and up. I'm sure we can look up a few indie games on Steam, and point to the great visuals, but a lot of those games are just boring. The game developer must always sacrifice whatever message, or aesthetic, or meaning they hope to convey for improved gameplay - the game must be fun. There's just not much art in games for that reason, the same way there isn't much art in web apps. If you want to point at the visuals, or music, we can do that obviously.

Anyway, this one seems like a recent game that proves me wrong:
http://www.stanleyparable.com/

Games like Half Life 2 and Call of Duty try to mimic films in
a very theme-park ride way, something many gamers have pointed out. The gaming community hasn't exactly figured this one out yet, so I'll let college humanities departments get a pass on this one.

Films are pretty new too, and academia has more or less embraced it.