skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The judgement on the case would probably not be much different, considering that the Prenda lawyers have also lost various other cases without naming any ISPs as defendants.

This order discusses a motion by Comcast and AT&T for attorney fees, which the judge deems appropriate because (a) Prenda unnecessarily elongated the process by naming the ISPs as co-defendants without any valid claim, and (b) as a reprimand for Prenda'a “willingness to lie to the Court” and “disregard […] of justice”.

The damages are tabulated as follows:

Anthony Smith (main defendant)
187.2h á $200.00/h – $409.00/h → $72,367.00
AT&T
158.7h á $110.00/h – $295.00/h → $38,987.83 + $870.29
215.0h á $250.00/h – $555.00/h → $80,524.50 + $864.92
total $119,637.05
Comcast
132.0h á $212.50/h – $531.00/h → $57,144.23 + $806.98
36.9h á $300.00/h → $11,070.00
total $69,021.26

TOTAL JUDGEMENT: $261,025.11

So yes, Prenda would have to pay a lot less attorney fees hadn't they got the ISPs involved, and possibly even none at all, considering that the motion for fees was brought forward by the ISPs.

You can read the judgement yourself at https://ia600705.us.archive.org/3/items/gov.uscourts.ilsd.58...
This announcement makes me want to play more KSP ...
DO? YOU? SPEAK? ENGLISH?
i really like the concept of vagrant and have been using it for all my development for a couple of months, sadly even with using NFS(on OSX) its quite slow when working with larger frameworks.

So i might be going back to local servers and just put DB server and services inside a VM.
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I believe The Economist gives you 3 articles for free per week, so it's not paywalled for everyone.
excellent reply swatkat. Thanks for the info
Not so new as you may have thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londinium

It's just way bigger than its ancient self, so you are less likely to find archeological sites.
Why don't they go to research institutes? Aren't there institutions specifically devoted to research? Like CERN?
I didn't run into any barriers getting a vasectomy... my urologist asked "are you sure?" and I Said yes; and that was good enough for him.
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And I am very thankful that the undergrounds in the cities where I spent most of my time were built much later: Tunnelling techniques evolved quickly during the late 18th and early 19th century, allowing for much more ‘comfortable’ tunnel diameters – there is a reason the London Underground is called the tube, it’s difficult to stand in most of its trains.
No, India's problem is real, actual, no-clean-water, no-antibiotics, no-electricity poverty, in most of the rural areas.
The problem is not so much that countries like India do not have honest, competent politicians, but rather how to tell them apart.

Fighting corruption needs transparency and a system that prevents corruption rather than punishing it.
Vagrant makes the nfs setup very easy to do. The performance difference is day and night when you have disk access. Even things like 'git status' is significantly faster. If you install the vb guest plugin it will make things even easier [1]. Issue I've run into is that I any get it working on a colleagues Mavericks host - there's all sorts broken on there though....

https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest
Just guessing: A lot of people confuse Danish and Dutch https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Danish+and+Dutch , so they start searching for one of them and realize the mistake and then continue searching for the other. Then Google add this to the hidden list of automatic synonyms, probably automatically.
London is actually pre-roman, maybe pre-celtic, tbh.
The X and X-2 remasters are coming out on the Vita too, FWIW.
When I looked at Chef, I decided that it was too much overhead, Chef Solo and its brethren didn't really fix the issue. I found Sprinkle to do what I needed, although the documentation can be confusing.

https://github.com/sprinkle-tool/sprinkle
I agree IT unions aren't very necessary. We have it easy; we're well paid, we're fairly flexible, and if one employer sucks, we can easily can a better job elsewhere.

But plenty of industries don't have that advantage. Many workers are very dependent on a single employer. This is especially the case with workers that have highly specific training and experience that doesn't translate well to other jobs. If they're exploited or otherwise unhappy, they can't simply quit and get a similar job elsewhere, whereas the employer can afford to lose a single employee and train a new one, which makes the employer-employee relationship an unequal one. There, unions can provide a lot of value to keep employers honest.
I wish I had the gut to scream at the people who were commenting on the pull request and the reverted action page. But they are scary. Anyhow, I don't think Ben should continue contributing. There is going to be some distrust between Joyent and Ben. Though I am surprised they haven't taken his privilege away yet.
There are lots of secret MOD tunnels as well. Some of them run out of London across the country with rail tracks to nuclear bunkers that were to be used when nuclear war broke out. To put the scale of it in perspective, one if the tunnels runs to a bunker in Wales south of Aberystwyth.
Making things like that public helps terrorists to hide their communication in ways that cannot be decrypted or broken into. That is clearly a threat to all civilians. Giving journalists access to documents and not publishing details is a good balance IMO. The government is still held accountable, it's just not held directly accountable by you. That's the way a democracy works.
Yeah, it's fine for USB cables. The difficult bit would be if you're planning on cabling an entire office building from one low voltage DC source, like the solar panels the article mentions.

If you want 60 watts at 20 v is 3A, and if you want to supply a hundred ports with that you're going to need copper cables the size of your finger.
The problem with this is that some sites still only support max 20 characters.
> in very old cities ... running into an interesting archaeological site

Why are archaeological sites are so far underground? Are ancient cities actually getting higher in altitude as old ruins get covered up?

Why Pompeii was buried is clear. I am more curious about continuously occupied cities like Rome. How did the ruins get underground there?

The best answer I could find was this:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/813/how-come-archae...

It says that abandoned ancient cities have in fact risen in altitude over the centuries becoming "mounds". But it also says that Rome's famous ruins are at surface level, but doesn't explain ruins that have been found deep underground. So I'm left wondering if Rome and cities like it have gotten a lot higher or not.
> This is not undefined behavior, it's one of the first things you learn about C after encountering the pre/postfix operators IF you pay attention to the details, which, with C, you should know to do.

What exactly is not undefined behavior? The post describes a statement where a variable is modified multiple times between sequence points. What does the standard say about this?

N1256, 6.5 says

Between the previous and next sequence point an object
shall have its stored value modified at most once by the
valuation of an expression.

J.2 Undefined behavior

The behavior is undefined in the following circumstances:
[..]
* Between two sequence points, an object is modified more
than once, or is modified and the prior value is read
other than to determine the value to be stored (6.5).

What's with the know-it-all voice?
Well that didn't take long, did it.
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The true power of English is that you can say it's the de facto lingua franca and everyone gets it : the language seamlessly adapts. Some languages care about purity, e.g. French, whereas English gleefully absorbs new words.
And the Best part its not Tesla. In September, it was the Tesla Model S and in October, it was the Nissan Leaf.
In Russian, a simple phrase like "Another bright student has solved the problem" (другая способная студентка решила задачу for female) carries a point to a gender in EVERY word. All the things around one like doors, tables, computers, etc. also possess a gender. Trying to convert Russian phrases to a gender-neutral is almost never possible.
Well, this case is a little more disappointing than you might think. Prenda's in so much trouble because they falsely represented to the court that they had an unrelated, copyright-holding client, when in fact they held the copyright (and kept all the money) themselves. No one is challenging the model of "own the copyright to a porn movie, and then sue people who download it" (although it has also been suggested that Prenda was the source of torrents for its movies, which would complicate its claims).
Ben Noordhuis (https://github.com/bnoordhuis) is the #3 contributor to Node.js making 1,315 commits since 2010. Now he is openly called an asshole by a Joyent employee not over introducing critical bugs, but rejecting doc change that has no impact on how people use Nodejs whatsoever.
I agree - it's still perfectly possible to design clear, attractive (and perfectly functional) websites with just HTML and CSS (and maybe a little bit of Javascript). The page weight of even simple-looking sites (like a blog post on medium.com) is surprising large (admittedly, probably not due to Javascript but due to web fonts).

I personally really like the use of web fonts. Using a service like Fontsquirrel, and limiting the number of font weights you use (regular, medium, italic etc), you can optimise the font file size to be smaller than what Google serves up through their font service.

I'd say to the original poster: if you really want to experience whether Javascript is slowing down the internet, try browsing popular sites with Javascript disabled (use an add-on like noscript on Firefox). You can judge for yourself how much faster browsing the web feels. See how many sites break, and then, when you enable Javascript, ask yourself if those same sites could work perfectly fine without Javascript or with minimal Javascript.

If you try running a browser session with Javascript disabled, not only do many sites break (as expected), but plenty of sites serving plain text articles simply won't display their content either[1]. HTML is designed for plain text content, why do we want to wrap it up in Javascript? The rise of Javascript frameworks like meteor is exacerbating this trend. Some developers are using these frameworks for outputting everything to the web whether it's a list of links or a plain text blog page. Do we really want to go down this path?

Some sites load fast whether Javascript is enabled or not, but for me, the question of whether Javascript is slowing down sites is closely bound up with the question of whether Javascript is needed for everything on the site in the first place.

[1] As an aside, try viewing the Official Android blog from Google with Javascript disabled and you get a blank page. When enabled you get a blog site that could easily be rendered in plain HTML and CSS. http://officialandroid.blogspot.co.uk/
Since PS4 and XBONE are sold for profit (even small), can it be good for ps4 to be jailbraked since more people would buy it (for the ~free games) ?
Do you have a source for that last example? Seems like it would be a bit difficult to keep a tunnel of that scale secret.
"You now have the ability to run unassigned/assigned code and pirated games on your PS4, but do NOT go online, if you do go online, your console will be immediately banned."

Well that's interesting. Does this mean Sony has a way to immediately detect jailbroken consoles?
SSL without CA hack
# Intro
To safe money and still have some security one can use following hack to use SSL without CA possibly hacked by NSA or others publicly paid but endorsing private interests.

# How to
## 1) Generate self-signed ssl certificate
For that you can use openssl or some other tool. Check duck duck go or start page or evil google.

## 2) buy special domain name
Use domain name in following format:
ssl-subj-key-id-$SSL_SUBJ_KEY_ID.com,
where $SSL_SUBJ_KEY_ID should be one of the ssl certificates parameters called Subject key ID or SKI, which according to RFC3280 [1] is essentially sha1 hash of public-key of your cert.
It is necessary to divide hash using '-' into two strings to shorten the domain name.
### Example
ssl-subj-key-id-a3b8cd018b99d899323-32659ac89d98bb8988d.com

## 3) Inform your users
Unfortunately not only the domain name is crazy long you also have to educate every non geek user how to check that the certificate is ok.
They have to be instructed to go to the details of obtained certificate and find the SKI in the cert and then painfully check the hash with the domain name they got from you.
However if the source of the domain name is not vunerable to man in the middle then this method on the other hand increase little bit the security since this forces everyone to check the authenticity first time they visit the site.

## Or later just buy signature of CA
and increase security even more.

## References
[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt

# BTW https://gnunet.org is gonna be BIG!
# Happy hacking !
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So in the stats, Red is bad, yellow is good, on a row-by-row basis?

But something should be done about the scaling of the #s on the stats page. It seems that each row is a factor based on the row below. But : Look at the lines 1715f0128906 -> fca7904c77ce, where an intentional slowdown was inserted, and then reverted. The Red looks far worse than the Yellow that follows (say, +3782% -> -97.42%), whereas (I assume) that they are equivalent, but opposite. Perhaps the differences could be (t[n+1] - t[n])/t[0], so that the numbers sum up?
Oh. Yes, I guess I can understand this case then.
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Would using this improve the connection for Skype/Hangout video calls?
In Indonesia very few people buy a game. Egypt is similar.
Profit isn't the right word. Third parties are just estimating that the sum of the parts cost less than the retail price.
They aren't profit-making AFAIK. At least, not the bare console packages.
Is It Snowing Yet?
Isn't that just going to increase their confusion?
If someone doesn't like being called an asshole, they should not act like one.

While the documentation pull request may have been trivial, it was also risk-free. Ben Noordhuis chose to reject a risk free pull request because he doesn't like gender neutral language (instead of ignoring it and let someone else handle it).
I remember when it first showed up on my machines, nothing at all would happen if I clicked on it. I only found out what this icon belonged to by successively quitting apps. It's the single most useless icon in my menu bar, it feels almost malicious. This prompted me to finally try and go back to Firefox...
If political correctness is involved, people often jump to conclusions burning the "offender" at the stake before hearing them. We have not learned from The Enlightenment.

What's crazy is that this particular Joyent employee is a VP of Engineering at Joyent. A person in such a position should have a better feel for PR, in my opinion. By claiming that Ben would be fired at Joyent and by publicly calling him an asshole without even hearing his position, he might've just have his own firing signed.

Unless, Joyent is the new Inquisition in this matter.
That will probably seem more relevant when someone tries to translate the libuv docs to Russian, or when somebody complains that a Russian sentence should use gender neutral pronouns in some software docs. I don't really think it is relevant right now.
Have you read Ben's reply?

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...
To add a little perspective I live in rural England in a small thatched house that appears on a map dated 1420.

That's 30 years before Christopher Columbus was born — and Richard III; 100 years before Queen Elizabeth I was born.

It was built before chimneys were invented: one was fitted at some point, probably at the same time the upstairs floor was put in (you can't have an upstairs without a chimney). The refurbishment date is scratched into the plaster work: Feb 1722.
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IT probably connects and informs Sony that it is looking for updates for a console running in developer/unsigned mode. And sony knows that it shouldn't be running in that mode.

Not strange at all.
That happened quite recently in London for the new CrossRail track: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23609994. Not that I agree that the city is too old, or that this is a major problem; from the sounds of it, the CrossRail planners were well aware they'd run into interesting archeological finds, so allotted resources to deal with it.
The PS4 is pretty darn close: cost of parts and assembly is $381 and it's being sold for $400.

http://allthingsd.com/20131119/teardown-shows-sonys-playstat...
This seems to be a hoax[1]

[1] http://wololo.net/2013/12/01/is-this-ps4-hack-real-fake-ps4-...
The correct terminology is "signed/unsigned" code.
This has been proven to be fake btw.
Story about Bitcoin being a good thing on Hacker News. Cue negativity:

Comment negative about scams, silly stories and QR codes being bad - check

Deeply cynical comment - "They were probably donating for their own gain" - check

Skeptical comment that this isn't true - check

You're a cynical, negative bunch of pissants these days, HN.
Infrastructure work in Jerusalem supposedly often runs into such problems too.
Assuming that the store sells it for no profit.
I find it relevant. For a non-native English speaker (Ben, the "offender"), Him or Them seems not as relevant as to the people trying to burn him at stake for the offence.

What this comment about Russian is saying is that these things are very delicate to get right. In some languages even more than in others
Rename "master/slave" terminology to "client/server" (2008)
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That's pretty much confirmation that it is sold at a loss. $381 includes parts + assembly. What about packaging, transport costs, retailer margin, marketing and so on? Those missing costs don't fit into the $18 gap, I assure you!
Writing gender neutral texts is much easier in English than in my native language. So please, don't hide your dislike for gender neutral language behind a pseudo-concern for non-native speakers. I find that quite patronising.
This is complete nonsense. It's perfectly easy to stand up in the underground train cars.
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It's not really a a secret if he knows about it.
100% agreed.

Yes, it's a harsh statement, but sometimes they're necessary.

True OCD is a horrible, debilitating condition.

This is from Cracked.com, but it's actually a very accurate description of what living with OCD's like.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-no-one-tells-you-about-...

(Note: I don't suffer from the condition myself, but I know people who do.)
I have read the original comment before the shit hit the fan, which clearly shows his attitude:
"Sorry, not interested in trivial changes like that."
Your lik is nothing but personal crisis PR, written after the shit hit the fan.
This video is phenomenal for anyone interested in console hacking: http://vimeo.com/18278625. Skip to 35:00 for the most exciting part - where fail0verflow reveals the PS3's fundamental security flaw.
BubbleCoin
You can influence direction of products without official title. It's much easier to do that as an engineer.

(now it depends on what you want, official title or the feeling of influencing product decisions)
Sony gets rebate on millions of parts, dont worry. You dont know what they really pay. And even Sony mentioned they are veru close to selling at cost.
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You use many assumptions too: take all of your questions and take the negative, you can't show them either. I am a practicing scientist, I work in alternative energy and develop semiconductors. I am not a climatologist, and it is not likely you are either. Expert-level knowledge matters, unless you've yet to master anything.

The climate is a very complex system. Small perturbations can have unexpected results, see the butterfly effect. We do not know the whole picture, but neither do you. Caution and conservation would suggest we want things to remain the same, such as CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Producing carbon dioxide by thermal combustion is old technology. Ultimately fossil fuels are solar energy, the overall solar-to-electricity efficiency for fossil fuels is very low, <<1%. We can make PV with >40% using evidence-based principles developed using the scientific method. Scientific methods and principles are used in climate research. Cherry picking is not what I do when it comes to the scientific majority. If they are wrong and they later determine this, great, it is science. If they are right, great, it is science. If you ignore the scientific conclusion, you are not practicing science unless you are a researcher working to show why other experts are mistaken.

Experts have concluded that anthropogenic CO2 is a real and potentially serious problem. I have to trust them because my time is better spent developing potential solutions rather than rehashing their work. We advance by building off the shoulders of our predecessors.

The costs of being wrong about anthropogenic climate change and doing something are negligible especially if we make progress while doing so, but the costs of being right and doing nothing are potentially dangerous if we destabilize systems which require predictability such as agriculture.
Interesting perspective. Is there any analysis written about Goldin's era? I studied AI and robotics in late 90s / early 00s and Rodney Brooks' Behavior-based robotics and NASA's approach were in vogue and were given as examples how to do things (and I believed them too). There is some parallels to MVP thinking in tech community.

What I find interesting is that compared to Brooks it was actually Sebastian Thrun that managed to lead teams to build something remarkable (self-driving cars). IMO, his approach was never based on any single philosophical idea or AI technique, but instead his teams build robotic systems that combined many approaches, and the target was always to build something that worked in a real-world situations, like his museum robot.
It's relevant because the majority of open source developers do not have English as a first language.
How tall are you? I'm 5'11", or 1.80 m, and I have no trouble at all standing in trains on the London underground.
Most of the early ones were "cut and cover" and quite big, rather than bored. And there is little difference in the sizes of the tunnelled ones.
Yeah, but they're probably not a ridiculous amount higher. Thus the "close".
now what does that banning actually mean? will it ban the serial number and render the hardware garbage? Oh I hope they do, filthy console peasants;)