skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
shrug It's been the law of the land for what, 80 years?

If you want every body and their brother to invest with minimal restrictions: you register the security and create all of the disclosures. If you don't want to go through the effort of creating prospectus and accurately describing the risk, and requiring lots of sign-off from the investor? You limit yourself to the wealthy.

Those things the equity investor, day-trader, and optioneer may invest in are all registered securities with all information required by law filed and up-to-date.

I'm not arguing that poor people are irrational (that's a straw-man, and nothing in the laws have ever stated that poor people are irrational), and I find it offensive that you jump to this sort of polarizing attack rather than making a more substantive argument, as if to paint me as a person who thinks all poor people are dumb.

Now, we ask ourselves, how did this come to be the law of the land? Because people were regularly not disclosing all aspects of their investments to investors, and people, both rational and irrational, were regularly losing money they wouldn't have invested had they been given complete information as was known to the promoter of that investment.

However, many investors (quite rightly) balked at the idea that they could only invest in full-registered securities, so some test was created - it happened to be a means test. What would you replace with as a test for securities that do not require complete and accurate disclosure (which is what pretty much every early stage investment is)?

We've seen what that looks like: more disclosure. [0]

[0] http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/what-the-proposed-c...
I think that cases involving public figures is more complicated than many people think.

Most of us would probably agree that paparazzi publishing pictures of celebrities naked in their back yard with telephoto lenses is not okay. Publishing pictures of Rob Ford smoking crack? That seems more than reasonable. Publishing pictures of Rob Ford smoking crack, naked in his backyard? I don't think that Rob Ford's attire changes the situation (does it really matter if he's wearing a t-shirt, a business suit, or his birthday suit? Either way, he's smoking crack), but how do you encode that in the law? I am not convinced there is a good way, even if we just say "lets hash it out on a case to case basis in courtrooms, then you have to consider SLAPP concerns.
That's not a joke, if I want to get rid of a piece of old furniture on the footpath I'll always put a $5 sign on it.
Activision Is Preventing A Game From Coming To Linux
It's a matter of I don't want to carry the card around with me, and I'm lazy - I'll do all the signup for the convenience of delivery, but just lower prices? - not worth my time - at the counter I can usually whine and convince them to use their "default" loyalty card, and get the lower prices with no "tracking".
For me, the information asymmetry is what's upsetting. Everyone's location data being free and public seems, well, ok to me. But no exceptions for any reason.
Amazon now has it's own delivery fleet. UPS and FedEx are F'ed?
Dents in the wrong place can let in air and spoil the food inside.
What are you talking about? I use IDE everyday and I'm not questioning the importance of IDEs, i'm questioning the fan base :)

All I'm saying is that the whole "it's worth paying extra", "it's so much better and productive", "it has so many features"... is just bs... IMHO. Use right tool for the job and be open minded, that's all. If I have to switch to go lang tomorrow, should I start complain, whine and wait for IDEA for go or just do whatever I have to do?

And you cannot compare vim vs. emacs anology with this one, since hey both are free and open source, however IDEA is just a good commercial product, but not a silver bullet, that's all.
Really cool! Which VoIP SDK library did you use in the app?
If this was a random you-tube comment it would not be "news":

Random guy posts unoriginal comment on intractable problem

Just reads like a article from The Onion.
If there was a market for grandmothers, they would trade them.
Fraud assumes false disclosure, accurate disclosure assumes complete disclosure, but neither cover intentional omission.
How I used Meshfire to help raise $1.32 million in 30 days
Of course they'll be buying in six months, after spending six months telling everyone that it's a bad investment and a bubble.
>qualified high school students

You're going to have to expand on that. If by "qualified high school student" you mean someone who has built at least one impressive and non-trivial project that real people are using and brings as much as if not more to the table than a college intern from a top school, then maybe (but it will be an uphill battle, especially at a larger company). Otherwise, I suspect they'd be out of luck.
It's entirely possible to take a photo, delete it, and for it to still exist in a retrievable form. And if I want to take pictures of myself naked for my own information and entertainment on my own devices, that should be my prerogative.

Someone having their email account compromised is not acting foolishly - they are not acting. The hacker is. They're a victim, and by that point have very little they can do about it. Acting foolishly is not the same as inviting crime or violent acts; the victims should not take any blame for that - although they may seek advice to prevent or mitigate similar attacks in the future.
Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics - Wired Science
Healthy habits reduce dementia risk
How about girls and young women in places where there's no sex education, and no access to contraception or abortion? Is that her fault, too?

Maybe people being stuck in shitty situations is a consequence of things beyond their control more often than your willingness to apportion blame is willing to admit.
It's based on Linphone for iOS.
The Web Needs Containment
I stopped at the question and wasn't really interested in where answering it would take me.
Gabe Newell Learned Computers At Microsoft, Beer At Harvard
> "So the Arab states were propped up by the Americans and the British following the 1st World War"

Actually, The United States had little to nothing to do with propping them up after the First World War[1] and the Middle East became temporary colonies of the British and French. The actual agreements behind that started not long after the outbreak of the war and was a joint British/French/Russian operation. They came up with the decisions about how to carve up the former Ottoman Empire (much of that was done prior to the US entering the war). Syria itself became a French Colony.

The US was a minor player (comparatively speaking) in influencing the outlook of post war Eastern/Western Europe and the Middle East. It would have probably been to the long term advantage of the victorious European Powers to actually listen to the initial suggestions of President Wilson[2] and The United States about terms for peace with Germany. If they had, we would have most likely prevented a Second World War, as Wilson recommended against harsh punishment and restitution towards Germany.

If interested in knowing more, I'd recommend reading the writings of T.E. Lawrence and/or watching Lawrence of Arabia. There's a number of other good sources as well, but those are a starting point.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioning_of_the_Ottoman_Emp...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_wilson#Treaty_fight.2C_...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points
Psychedelics are more effective at acquiring useful knowledge about reality and consciousness than horse-back riding.
Actually--telling people you don't want to be in a photograph is a start, but I have a feeling in our current narcisstic culture, people won't take that option. A note
to dudes--stop taking pictures of your junk. A note to
chicks--stop taking pictures of your food, and please stop
tilting that jug head in every photograph; actually wiki
American Indians and unselfaware!
Most developers never read the standard in the first place. I don't see how is this important though. We did not have a standard till 1998, yet somehow managed to use C++. Same as with C, which had been used very successfully standard-less for almost two decades.
The argument I imagine is that if you value something you produce or own as worthless, so will everyone else.

It's one of the reasons why I think game creators and music creators shouldn't be afraid to take a stand on pricing. What is your time and work worth?
who doesn't look at the data range, min, max, mode???
Sounds similar to Nix/NixOS http://nixos.org/
Or, another way to look at it is that an authenticated report of clear evidence of Ford smoking crack is "okay", but repeated broadcasts of private photos of him smoking crack is simply torture pornography.

I don't know. Like you said, it's not simple.

But the fact that it's not simple gives lie to the idea that persecution of revenge porn sites somehow impinges on the civic function of "journalism".
Libel isn't (generally) criminal; it would be up to the people involved to take such a suit, and most probably wouldn't have the means to do so.
While that may be true - this article is addressing the sentiment of privacy in general; "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" -- and it uses a very personal anecdotal perspective on this matter: ones Diary.

He, as I quoted, notes that this information in the super-super private diary was not only provided to him for perusal over cider, but that it was nothing that was of interest to him.

This is a ridiculous statement, to me, on several levels. To illustrate, please provide me the email address of the friend with the super-super private diary; I would like to ask anonymously over the internet to be afforded the same luxury of reading this material. Do you think my request would be agreed to? No, this guy had a personal relationship with this diary author, however intimate/or not, but it was a personal relationship none-the-less.

The idea here is that there is private information that one should have private from anyone - but will choose to share it with those in their intimate circles. This is not the same as saying "Why is anything that is factual secret" and thus who cares if it gets read by some anonymous entity that may or may not have any vested interest in knowing my secrets.
This is consistent with what I see about supposed corporate secrets, and source code. What's on paper matters less than the people behind it, their interest and motivation, and how creating the "secrets" changed them.
...and can I seriously not search the contents of documents from SkyDrive?
They're not "charging" you to use different services. They're taking their $8/day WiFi access charge, and reducing it by 75% if all you need it for is to send iMessages.

What you just said makes it seem like you think Southwest is charging people $2 on top of their $8 fee to use WiFi, which they are most certainly not doing.
Surely this is to stop somebody from simply using a bot to scrape all of the website content and republishing it on a new ad-supported website?
For reference: GNU Guix is a version of Nix[1] with some additional features like a Guile API. While I'm sure it makes sense in the greater context of a GNU system where everything is happy and Guile-powered, I personally do not really see a reason to use Guix over normal Nix which seems to have a greater mind share and user base.

If you like this approach to package management, you might want to consider trying NixOS[2], which is a distro that uses Nix as its primary package manager. NixOS has a disproportionately high uptake in the Haskell community, so it has a very good selection of Haskell packages--if you're playing around with or actively using Haskell, that could be another bonus for NixOS.

Personally, I think the idea is very cool. I will probably at least try using NixOS for my next laptop--I generally switch distros every time I get a new computer.

[1]: http://nixos.org/nix/
[2]: http://nixos.org/
So, if it isn't journalism (and I agree that the claim is tenuous), isn't it still free speech? Journalism isn't the only form of speech that falls under first amendment protections.

Moreover, between laws against theft, and laws against copyright violation, I'm unsure how this isn't a solved problem, or why "revenge porn" sites are deserving of special legislation.
That is very optimistic of you. Personally I think it was more likely that it was simply a typing error, as he has acknowledged. That's fine, we all make them. I had some difficulty parsing what he was trying to say, which is the only reason I brought it up.

The rest of your argument is very far fetched. One person's difficulty formulating a sentence could not be less related to biologists' collective capabilities in tailoring viruses.
For example, we have a student who has created an extensive event management system (with an awesome looking ui) backed by a python backend, with features like email notifications and google cal import. It also has a nice rest api backend and ties into an authentication api for wordpress that he wrote.
Well, The Ancients did know a lot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_(Stargate)
It is only meaningless to others until they choose to abuse it and use it to put you at a disadvantage. That is when this argument fails.

Yes my code is probably useless to others and so are my super-super secret diaries. However, it is only a matter of time that a smart con-man will connect the dots to ruin my life - my relationships, steal my identity etc.

"Going through my stuff... if they become upset, its their problem, not mine!". Right, until I realize that going through that stuff actually made them happy instead because of how they could use it to profit themselves.
Putting illegally obtained images on a website and operating an extortion racket to get them taken down is _not_ journalism.
> a step away from declarative project descriptions

Exactly why I like it. The delusion that build scripts are 100% declarative is one of those things that makes me hate tools like Ant etc. with a passion.

Parts of build scripts can be declarative, but the ability to break out and put imperative logic in some section where you need it is crucial. And the nice thing about Groovy (which Gradle is based on) is that you can usually do it in a very declarative way (eg: files*.delete() rather than looping, etc.)
Yeah, well, it also fucks over an intelligent but average-income Joe from being allowed to invest in deals that have as high of a return.

For instance, I know right now that I'd like to invest a chunk of cash into several VR companies. I can't, though, because I'm not accredited. I have to wait for their IPOs, which will happen way after everyone already finds out how much it's all worth.
That's exactly how I felt about FB vs email, so maybe this really is another step in the direction of "trivializing communication"

It probably has unforeseen collateral damage though, much like FB.
Works wonders with largish appliances like washers or refrigerators. Free? Must be broken. $10? Must still work.
What an absurd way of earning money..
Thanks for this, super helpful. Let's hope they add things back in like Apple.
That's actually a serious concern. There are lots of spammy sites that rip gamefaqs content and throw up really terrible advertising.

That said those disclaimers offer no more power than a faq without a disclaimer.
$.50 at Grocery Outlet in El Cerrito.
Also does collaboration through skydive I think.
Also forgot to add that he has also has taken college level classes like CS 046A and 046B at San Jose State University and completed the AP Computer Science test with a 5. I dont want to make this sound like a CV but I just wanted to expand a bit further on what I meant with "qualified student".
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yes, but this can be solved by them legalising it in turn.

The revolution has to start somewhere.
Like the other guy said, I am against fraud. If there is no fraud (intentional deception), a Ponzi scheme should be legal, but 99.9% of times, a Ponzi scheme involves fraud.

When you engage in trade with someone, you are implicitly or explicitly authorizing them to come after you with the force of the law if you have intentionally deceived them.

Note that the government isn't, anyway, necessarily capable of policing Ponzi schemes, because it's not omniscient. Madoff was regulated by the SEC, which gave some of his investors false confidence.
Uh snapchat certainly shows you if someone viewed your snap. It also shows you what 3 people anyone snapchats with the most (best friends are publicly viewable), a public score system which can be used to track usage, as well as showing you everyone who views your timeline photos.
Mawry: I'm 12 Years Old And I'm A Bad B*tch
This was also blocked at work:

>http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2013/12/amazonfresh_has_lau...

But the main site (http://www.sfweekly.com/) and the blog site (http://blogs.sfweekly.com/) aren't blocked. I'm going to guess my work filter is just screwy.
Only if the companies shares allow it (and, if applicable, the company itself approves it.)
Having cybersex on Skype is a thing, but you people just don't say Skype is used for cybersex.
This article is ridiculous. They have a theory and a model that says, for example, that 6 chunks of rock hit Europa. Of course we don't know that they did! This is unfalsifiable twaddle.
Thank you ! This interview is really very good. I wish that more people, in positions of influence and power, become as humble and clear in their reasoning, as this man is.
Casting an action as "speech" doesn't give you a free pass; fraud is also speech, as is libel. The rights enumerated in the Constitution conflict with each other; they were self-evidently incoherent when they were ratified, and the expectation has always been that those conflicts would need to be adjudicated by the Judiciary.

What is true is that speech and expression must receive enormous deference, and what is also generally believed to be true is that the content and ideas animating speech can't be the basis for allowing or denying it.
MLB Hall of Fame Voting Trajectories
There's a fairly well-established distinction between public figures and others with respect to certain other areas of law (e.g. libel). The Internet admittedly blurs some of these distinctions.
Not exactly an RTS veteran, however Tommy Refenes (programmer from Team Meat) weighed in on his thoughts about it.

http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/62476523677/my-time-with...
There was a picture and personal details. It is not as simple as puritan values giving people leverage over one another, this family was left questioning how safe they were in their own home.
Additionally, they are all rolling out DPI ad-serving platforms that sniff your traffic (and I'm sure also sell it to any .gov with a dime) -- AT&T being the current worst offender by charging a $30 a month penalty if you try to opt out of it. (See www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Offers-70-1-Gbps-in-Austin-With-a-Big-Catch-126969)
How is this concept different from the concept of "deterministic builds"?

To break that down, first: Can you get a determinisitc build from using a functional package manager?

Second, is a functional package manager a better way to get deterministic builds than whatever else is used (and what that is, I have no clue)?
I think you're right. I probably channeled him inadvertently.

I've collected lots of links to articles and man pages and so on about the issue, because I have been planning to write a coherent article about urandom vs. random.

And I'm pretty sure I remember what posting you mean.

Unfortunately, writing this article gets postponed again and again, just as finishing and sending in the second set of your crypto challenges... maybe before Christmas I'm going to find a few hours to do that.
This is a very simple and very pathological example that's easily ferreted out with a few more summary statistics (median, min, max) but it's a good illustration of the blind application of statistics. Short of visualization, non-parametric statistics really help with such things. Correlation is a fragile, linear measure, and things that are obviously correlated by inspection can easily appear mathematically uncorrelated -- points on a unit circle, for example. Likewise, the mean of any skewed distribution tells you very little, but that's the statistic that's always cited. Quantiles, medians, and non-parametric measures of correlation such as rank correlation are simple and often overlooked. They do a good job screening for pathological data sets like Anscombe's quartet and real world ones.

It's also worth mentioning "dumbbell" data sets. Two clusters of data, each of which have a independent, meaningful correlation in them, can easily leverage a linear regression into a meaningless line passing through the two clusters. That's a pretty common issue with high dimensional data (obviously you can see it in a 2D scatter plot), and it's not easily caught short of looking at regression diagnostic statistics.
Oddly enough, I just wanted to take a look at the site, living in Germany.

downforeveryoneorjustme shows it's online.

Also checked on my NY based vps via Lynx and the site loads. So it must be region locked.
That completely misses the point. Are those well-off assholes you talk about actually contributing something to society (like art, science, leadership, labor, money, anything at all)? If so, then good for them, they are contributing members of society; if not, they're parasites. Context (for example, poverty) isn't relevant, what matters are an individual's achievements and contributions (plenty of poor people have achieved great things in life, as well as plenty of rich people).
If they can do that then competition will appear and will offer it for less...
Nothing stop them from offering the current plan for 5x the price, except potential competition.
What is the average rate of return for LPs in VC funds?
The rich don't have income but capital, so first have a look how much tax is paid over that.
The smart rich don't have taxable capital either, they lease everything in the areas that put a tax burden on capital and leave their capital in places where no such burden is.
Sam is a smart guy, so I really don't want to come off
as sounding like a jerk here, but this grossly
underestimates the technical feasibility of creating
such a virus.

Nature already created viruses like this [1]. Although the mortality rate was "only" 30% but no biotech was required. Also, people are seriously studying what would happen if H5N1 was released into the wild [2]

That being said, "Don't Panic (tm)". The likelihood of any of these scenarios is extremely extremely low and people have been thinking about and preparing for them for decades.

As for what is much more likely to happen with naturally occurring viruses like the H7N9, natural variants of the H5N1, etc... see my comment from a few days ago [3].

Disclaimer: I'm the first author of [1] and a collaborator of the two first authors of [2].

[1] http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130717/srep00810/full/srep00...
[2] http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/252
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6839147
Can anyone please give a simple example or link of a use case of containers need?

I use KVM/Qemu VMs at home and work(dev box), I have a dozen always running VMs. However, I started to read more and more about LXC containers, and still cannot grasp their importance... for example, I manage a few VPSs too, each has it's own purpose (web server, database), how could LXC help me?

Thank you in advance.
I've been told it's $25K/yr ongoing.
Look again. This gas is present in the atmosphere at 0.2 parts per trillion. Its effect is insignificant compared to CO2 or CH4.