skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ideal law would of course let consenting people do what they want, while people who do it for other reasons should not be allowed to. And of course there are already laws against traficking just like there are laws agains shooting people. The problem is that such a law is both difficult to draft and enforce.

So assume we are left with a choice of two laws: completely legal or completely illegal.

This law will thus have one of two drawbacks: It will allow forcing people to sell sex without consent or it will make it illegal for consenting adults to do so. There is no more or less freedoms here, it's just different freedoms for different groups.
What will they think of next?

If only there was some way to take advantage of all those hardware capabilities on the phone without the hassle of hooking up an Arduino. If only there was some sort of way to write 'programs' that take advantage of that hardware. But 'programs' sounds boring, we'll call them 'applications'. Wait, no...that has too many letters. I know! We'll call them 'apps'! You're gonna love 'em, they're the next big thing.
When he started about measuring attractiveness. And then the ignoring their message.
I see a lot of people here dismissing this as a non-problem because it wouldn't be of apocalyptic proportions. I don't think anybody with two brain cells to rub together would say losing antibiotics would be an extinction event, that's not the point. The point is that infections will likely become the number one killer, it already is number two[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...
I'd actually use a lot of these logos for the types of companies that they're for, even just as-is. The drawn look lends a lot of authenticity and fun.

That said, the concepts themselves are straight up usually good. I'd say he has a 60-70% decent rate here. Not horrible!
Hmm, what part of C# or CLI is closed? They are open standards - you are free to create your own compiler and environment.
What are you referring to with ISO country codes? There were 2-char and 3-char options from the beginning, and AFAIK the 2-char option is still the widely-used one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
It doesn't appear to. Everything I've seen focuses on pictures audio and videos
I don't really understand how that works. After all I don't think a normal Internet can hijack BGP, they need to be able to announce routes. So if an ISP announces low-cost routes, you know who did it -- unless the ISP's security was breached quite severely.

So, can't you just asked the ISPs who announced those fake routes if they were hacked, and if not, demand an explanation? (And if no explanation comes forth, stop peering with them)
Duvamis
I think someone mentioned here that they would actually send you 3 BTC if you transferred in one, to lure you in. Then when you send more, they make off with it.

(This was probably at a time where 1 BTC wasn't worth all that much, and gullible people might have thought "it could just work")
Try running obscure file formats, like chiptune. Winamp reliably supports all of these with a very low barrier to entry.
Not in the context of a length limited conference paper. An implementation adds details for memory allocation and use of data structures &c. This is a distraction in the exposition of an algorithm. It's useful if authors make a well commented implementation available, but the actual paper should contain an abstract definition of the algorithm.
... Oh it's a joke.

I actually know a few programmers, who are also pick up artists, that do something similar but less complex.. they write scripts that spam msg to girls on dating site and just shot gun approach.

I think I've found my next project...
It's not that simple, an ISP that has multiple peering partners doesn't just accept traffic for its own IPs, but also for those of its peering partners (and their peering partners, recursively).
The mission of Duvamis is to build an internet communication platform – Astral Media Duvamis, which is unique in its philosophy and is intended to provide a new media for sharing, creative activities and intellectual satisfaction to free and creative users worldwide, without social, regional, individual or group barriers and restrictions.

Astral Media Duvamis is the first anonymous social network for free communication and exchange of different opinions, interests and ideas.

Duvamis protects the privacy and anonymity of its users, giving them the opportunity to express who they really are.

The name derives from the ancient Greek word “dunamis“ (Δύναμις), which means „internal strength, power, ability“.
I'm from the Czech Republic so I'll tell you how would that work here.

Each year you have to submit a tax return - a paper where you admit how much money you earned in the last year. If you are an employee and you have just one source of income, it's usually done by that employer.

If you would have another income (there is also some treshold) you have to do it yourself and add this income to your salary and pay taxes. It's not that complicated.
I'll take dlna over a single corp solution like appletv any day of the week.
same here, the robot was the trigger. But i guess one point is to prove that everything is theorically possible.
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First the surge in Tor nodes, now this? I bet the Feds did this.
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They deleted it. See a screenshot here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17317042/ruby%20on%20rai...

Strange that they delete these questions, IMO
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That's nicely cynical, but seems to overlook that this is a nice way to interface a cell phone with a hardware project.
Chromecast has this feature, you can cast a tab or the entire screen in the beta option. I can stream a movie this way over wireless G, I imagine with a good N router there's a difference.
no criticism intended, just to help a good project, here are some fixes to the english: in this version; or take a voice; register [no from] here; to also share; tap the Prefs; Do the same; dropbox [no so] to avoid; keep your data as safe; data are safe; we have no access to anything other than; no idea [no on] how.
Yep, I'm trying will-try-to-do approach. It gives me some order and discipline and I could keep a record for myself. And I'd like to think that someone else would be interested in my plans and steps and potentially benefit from them.
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how generous of them
Taken to its extreme (which it has been): (1) "normal cops" need specialists to enforce rules the average beat cop doesn't understand. (2) "normal laws" are vague, imprecise and take years of debate to clarify, so we have "ministers/secretaries/directors" empowered to nimbly and precisely interpret the broad laws.

The specialists in the cops become their own sub-department. The ministers need a 'place'. Lo, why not put them together, and while we're at it, note this is very much a national 'common' problem, so lets have them all work at the federal level.

Not saying I agree that it's the way it should be, but the reduction is inevitable.

(For the record, they I think it should be is the FDA is needed, but its powers and practices need better alignment to its intended mission)
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This article is talking as if all bacteria would suddenly become resistant to everything. I doubt it would be so sudden are more of a gradual decline.
Isn't this true of data in general. Not just specific to music. It's unfortunate that Amazon dropped some mp3s but that is more of an exception than the norm right ? If we are talking about data integrity, there are several ways in which this can be mitigated. I think it's worthwhile to have all your music stored in a location that is accessible from anywhere and from any player
I was watching this through the year, wondering if the decline was due to people moving over to web wallets. Clearly not. I bet this is a good indication of price. The more there is online, the more natural interest there is. I think over time it will start meaning less and less as people do INDEED move over to other wallets.
I wish there was a way to tell, preferably sooner than later, whether thinking hard or building fast is better than the other. How would you know if you're doing the right thing?
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Why does it redirect to twitter when i search 'test'?

edit: nevermind, they don't check for script injection.
Anyone care to explain to me why just having X wallets and tranfering ammounts from these wallets to X new ones isn't going to work? Just let some addresses get marked as spam then move to new addresses?
It's a beautiful instrument for what it is, but absolutely not as much diversity or complexity as a piano. You can hear the entire music is at almost a single volume, more like a pump organ. The reverb you hear is from the room. I think it's an interesting and new way to hear Marais (which for me was the most successful of the pieces) but it's a period piece, the same way the harpsichord never made much past the 18th century.

note: Actually interesting to read the Youtube comments on this.
good partners are not modular components that can be easily replaced, you'll discover this when you find one.
Pretty sure this is an isolated example. Also dutch here, I'm not allowed to make anything that is a direct competitor; but that's it.
I completely believe it. First of all, Stallman isn't known for hiding his opinions, or masking his version of the truth.

But beyond that, Stallman has often failed or refused to use technologies that the rest of us take for granted. Years ago, I spoke with him about a proposed bill in the US Congress that would have affected intellectual property laws. (I can't remember the specifics.) At some point, Stallman, who had strongly encouraged people to contact their representatives to oppose the bill, told me that he hadn't actually read it. I told him that it was on the Web, to which he responded, "I don't surf the Web."

Now, I can understand being against certain browsers, servers, and operating systems. But to flat-out refuse to read things on the Web struck me as counterproductive. I don't know if he has changed his attitude toward the Web in the years since, but assume that when he says he doesn't use a certain technology, he means it.
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DLNA is widely despised for the same reasons that all DRM-crippled products are always despised.

I question how despised DLNA really is, as I believe you might be letting your personal prejudices get in the way.

Non-techies (and plenty of techies, including myself) just don't care as long as a given solution works, and the DLNA solution is pretty hard to beat:

Plug in your TV, connect it to the network, and click on a video on your laptop to watch.

Out of interest, what kind of open source solution do you envisage when you say that "DLNA will die an instant and painful death the moment a truly open solution is adopted"?

Would it involve hardware, or something installed on the TV, or something else entirely?

All Apple products are, similarly, not supported.

FYI, my iPhone and iPad work just fine with it.
YEP :P
Update: the compilation error was actually due to some missing includes.
https://github.com/kentonv/capnproto/pull/47

Switching compilers on the C++ side doesn't seem to make a significant difference in performance.
This is so relatively unimportant compared to the issue of antibiotics becoming useless that it made me laugh. It needs a healthy dose of perspective.
Yeah we definitely looked at some Complify code and the blog post was helpful also.
It's only a joke until it's real.
Agreed. Since I started using Lua as the scripting language for my (console) mail client I've had a lot of fun with it.
>"And for years it has been understood to be possible in theory, but never seen in practice. "

The statement that follows is even worse. It's just outright wrong.
Do you happen to have a source for this (genuinely interested) :)
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State of affairs on itunes. How about not using iTunes for video?
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NO attention to detail at all. "Works with both Windows, Linux and Mac". LOL
Oh, not this again. I am not against other languages, people, races, or whatever.

It just makes A LOT of logical sense to use one goddamn language online.
It's not the offline world, it's been created from scratch, and English is already used in most (all?) programming languages, as well as most of the websites people actually use (although they do use region/country level translation).

Why screw that up?

It's a bit like if the US let Texas and California use Spanish as the official language, and the other states used English.
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Not yet. OP's technology may change this.
The problem is that this doesn't quite look like natural growth. Maybe it is, but it's pretty quick, constant, and unnatural looking. People don't generally behave that way.
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No I was thinking of csmatt's suggestion, to automatically translate the math in the paper to something more accessible to programmers.
Sadly, any compliant player for HD-Content will do the same. I'd be surprised if you're more successful with netflix, but I can't test since I'm not a netflix customer. There's enough people reporting problems with netflix and not HDCP compliant setups though.

Open source players are fine, but there's still the problem of finding a streaming service that supports open-source players or even just HD content without DRM. Now, you can go and torrent all your videos you'd like to watch but some of use prefer the ease of use and the legality of using an existing streaming service.
I wish I could afford one!
The market is really killing them for their current earnings report, and for the statistically insignificant fires. The market doesn't appear to be correct. Tesla has a long way to go, but they seem to be doing it very right.
Speaking of warrant canaries, has anybody open sourced one to produce something similar with PGP and news?

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
I eat at least a dozen per week, and plan to continue. This is non-sense. The "seems to make sense" part especially. You can take any thread from human biology and spin to extremes using inductive reasoning. Fortunately the body has myriad checks and balances.

I submit to you "free radicals". Oh-my-god-theyre-awful-help. Enter anti-oxidants, oh-my-god-theyre-great-yay. Let's supplement them right? Ouch, turns out, those dietary anti-oxidants were the bees knees, but supplementation to extremes might be a bad idea, and we might need some free radicals to prevent cancerous cell growth.

My moral here is, natural whole foods, mostly, will keep you pretty near balance. Eat your berries, whole grains, eggs, and proteins because the one thing we know is bad for us is a lack of balance.
> It just makes A LOT of logical sense to use one goddamn language online

I don't think you'd be saying that if the one goddamn language was something you didn't speak.
It's really the wrong approach. Supervised learning is the way to go. For example a paper by Kumar et al.[1] shows how to build an "attractive woman" classifier that is 83% accurate.

[1] http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~neeraj/publications/base/pap...
Cant argue with that!
An individual reporting business income is pretty straightforward, and not at all uncommon. Certainly not enough to try to dodge taxes for or alienate 99% of your user base with some silly nerd currency.

Go to the website for your country's equivalent of the IRS and read up on it. For anybody in the US, it's just a matter of answering "yes" to a question in TurboTax.
So the important thing is not to educate people on the solutions. The important thing is apparently to scare people. If they want to find solutions then they have to find them on their own by reading "numerous articles, books, papers and reports published over several decades". Is it a coincidence that scaring people sells books and offering solutions only helps to fix the problem? I wonder what the motives of people who write books like this truly is?

What a load of nonsense. I find it hard to believe you are serious.
Only if something else does not supplant it. Right now it's like investing in 1980's baseball cards, sure there not making more but nothing guarantees anyone want's them in 10 years.
Ha! Cool.

I suppose I should in fairness observe this was actually a long time ago. Since then emacs has switched to XFT; I haven't tried it since then, because well, as I mentioned most languages don't work very well with it either. But perhaps I will try it in a Go buffer here.

(A few minutes later.) Hey, this isn't so bad. I'm not sure everybody would appreciate me sticking with it since it makes it hard to tell when you've got a "long line", but it's certainly radically better than I remember from the last time I tried this.

For those who may want to play at home, I use the Droid series of fonts for my programming and I just eval-region'ed this:

(custom-set-faces
'(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "#ffffff"
:foreground "#141312" :inverse-video nil :box nil
:strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil
:slant normal :weight normal :height 105
:width normal :family "Droid Sans")))))

YMMV may vary, of course. Especially if you're not using a white background. :)

Go's attempt to auto-align struct name and types isn't working so well, though. (Fortunately, gofmt takes care of it so I still can't be wrong.)

Further follow-up: You don't realize how much you're subconsciously using the "shape" of the code to guide you until you change it and suddenly feel lost, like I'm in a fresh code base I've never seen before, despite the fact I'm actually in something I've more-or-less written from scratch over the past six weeks, which is just about the maximum level of familiarity you can have with a piece of code.
Another clickbait title. All the article describes is a JSP with a backdoor, and maybe some worm-like features.

I think all the "X is a Brand New Malware!" type articles, especially those from vendors with skin in the game, are just propaganda. "Yes, you Linux people need to run Symantec, too!" I suppose that's true for Windows malware, but it's a lot more out in the open for Linux malware.
Both of these is just signing in with an account from some different site. We want to provide that option, but we want our own option as well for users who don't want to use social media to login
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>> What do we know (from actual examples of things that really happen) when it comes to the potential for a government to be accountable to its citizens?

Well, we know from the history of the human race that people have pretty much always been ruled by some evil scumbags. Today is no exception. The scumbags come and go, but rule remains.

As for accountability.. I'm not sure even revolutions really count. How many times has been some insane, evil dictator been forcefully de-throned, only to get replaced by someone just as shitty, or even worse?

How accountable was Stalin to "his" citizens? -Hitler? Mao? Pol Pot? .. and so on. History is full of monsters and genocides, and even if some dictator gets killed in a revolution after he's tortured people for, say, 20 - 70 years, so fucking what? Is that "accountability"?

>> In the actual world that we live in, do we have democracies that function pretty darn well? Yes (all of Scandinavia, Iceland, Switzerland).

You have to realize that there's corruption and secret dealings behind the scenes everywhere. In every country. I'm Finnish myself, and Finland is no exception. The corruption here is not as blatant as in Mexico or whatever, but it's there.

>> would you rather be born in the U.S. or in a country in Scandinavia? In which country do you believe you would find yourself most empowered viz. society and its governance?

I'm not empowered by "governance" - I'm enslaved by it, just like everyone else on earth.
It could very well be money laundering.

Send a legit bitcoin and they send you back 3 stolen bitcoins from one of the mt.gox hacks.
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Might want to go off the grid, live off the land.
http://readwrite.com/2013/11/05/ibm-tries-to-put-twitter-in-...
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Thanks for open sourcing this. It looks like a useful web application.
Yes, I did read it and what I disagreed about is CHAR being semantically correct. Is is not. The explanation was provided for the benefit of other readers than myself and the parent poster.
Then your grandparents were unusually wealthy. My grandparents certainly didn't.
I heard a similar story about Listerine. A canny marketing manager boosted sales by realising everyone used the cap to measure doses. He made the cap bigger.
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We are becoming police states. Everyone OK with that?
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> I think people need to rid themselves of this romantic notion that the government serves "the people" and cops in particular are supposed to protect the innocent. Both of them are ridiculously childish beliefs.

They may not be true in the current system, but the problem is with the system, not with those beliefs. The government should serve the people, and the cops should protect the innocent. That they don't, is a sign of corruption in the government and the police force. It needs to be fixed.
I do not see how either VARCHAR or CHAR would provide more or less information since both are variable size strings. One is space padded and one is not.

If you care about semantics you should create a domain based on VARCHAR.
Maybe it's you incorrectly assuming whatever TFA says is true. Or that most of their customers would hold the same viewpoint as you.
>> But the right to life is an entirely different beast than the right to property. It seems obvious to me that private property (the "right" to sole use of property) exists merely by decree of laws and without it, it simply doesn't exist

Do you need a law to tell you you're allowed to defend yourself if someone attacks you? .. Do you not have that "right" by virtue of being a human being?

Are you only allowed to defend your property if there's a government that says you have property rights?

>> in a scenario where a bank was attempting to evict me from my home and I had nowhere else to go, I would defend my claim to said property

Presumably, you'd have voluntarily signed a contract with the bank, and voluntary assumed the risks involved in it, yes? If your contract with the bank says they get your home if you can't pay back your loan, then it's no longer your property after the clause has been triggered.

If you did forcefully defend "your claim to said property" even when it's no longer your property, that would be a job for some kind of "dispute resolution organization".
You're right. We don't need the Arduino, we can simply use our phone directly to control that RC car, open doors with passcodes and read the temperature of things.

Oh wait, a smartphone's hardware is closed, you get what you get (in terms of sensors and control) and thats it.

Hmm. It would be nice if we could extend the smartphone's hardware capabilities...
The pre-recorded videos on a robot clinched it, but the first thing that struck me as weird was the pointless "in Ubuntu" when talking about the Python script at the start.
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True but in my house I have had better luck with my apple tv than I have had streaming DLNA. Way too choppy.