skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a kidnapping case in germany where the police was absolutely certain that the suspect was the right one and that the only way to save the kidnapping victim (a bankers eleven year old son) was to torture the suspect. The suspect then admitted the kidnapping, but the victim had been killed shortly after the actual kidnapping.

One of the fundamentals of the german law systems was broken, by a well-meaning person for practically no gain. The kidnapper later sued the police for the torture and won.

Now germany doesn't have a fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine so the conviction for the kidnapping later was based partially on the information gained in that one interrogation, but what if the kidnapper would walk free because of such a breach of law?

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entf%C3%BChrung_von_Jakob_von_M... (sorry, german only)
The TOS is a contract. If the poster has "defamed" someone within the meaning of the contract, then DO is within their right to terminate. Moreover, the TOS also gives DO a lot of discretion to make their own determination of what constitutes defamation.

It is not vigilantism because DO is not threatening to throw the poster in jail over an allegedly illegal act. They are simply enforcing their contractual rights.

You could argue that this is a breach of contract, and that the poster must be shown in court to have defamed someone before the contract is terminated, but note that the section of the TOS that DO cites also says that the poster cannot "harass or embarrass" someone. That's pretty vague and gives DO a lot of leeway to argue that the poster breached the TOS. It's a pretty crappy TOS to be sure, but I wouldn't bet money on the poster winning a court case here.
The link is broken. :(
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You're 100% entitled to do what you want with your own property but please consider the view that domain names are important and finite resources and should be put to good use :)
If my parents are average, most people buying Android phones are excited about the future, eager to learn and sample apps on a regular basis.

On the other hand, my father never installed any apps or really experimented with his iPhone at all. It was just the most expensive contract phone at the shop.

It's stupid to assume either are complete summations of user behaviour. Smartphones are smart even if the users are dumb.
Didn't apprentices' families have to pay pretty dearly to get their "food and lodging"? Also, weren't they pretty much indentured servants to their "Masters"?

Viewing history through rose tinted glasses aside, this seems like a great way to expand your knowledge. It would be great if something like this could be expanded further; institutionalized as part of the software development craft.
I initially thought that this essay is taking on the advocacy of torture by liberals as in progressives. But then I did a quick read and found that the author uses liberal as in freely. I will be going through this in detail.

I think you may also like the essay {PDF warning} http://www.cgu.edu/pdffiles/sbos/costanzo_effects_of_interro....
Unfortunately, it took me 12 hours to find out the site was back up because the outage page had been cached for me. I had to realize I had to do a hard-refresh of the page.
Given his sensationalist writing style, I'm not at all surprised to see that it was a Gawker piece he questioned Travis Collins about. Gawker is Yellow Journalism[1] and as such deserves no response.

The larger issue makes for interesting discussion, however. I believe he's right that the complain ought to have been directed at the author initially, rather than at the hosting provider. I doubt it would have accomplished anything to complain to this individual, but it is nonetheless the correct procedure.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
>This wasn't a nifty little storage room full of rare old materials, it was pile of boxes in a basement with a leaky pipe.

The two are not mutually exclusive. It appears that it was both.
With the irony being that the only ever country to use nuclear weapons is enforcing something on the only ever country to receive those weapons, in the name of nuclear weapon control.
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Smacktive.com lets you meet new, like-minded people doing activities you have in common based on deep rooted likes and interests. Seems like eharmony without the dating component. Thoughts? Have you registered? Doesnt work on mobile yet but the web version is cool.
–All things being equal, the simpler explanation tends to be the true–

There exist a big culture and history of land theft in the Americas by the white upper class from the 16th century until present time. Now there exist no evidence of extra-terrestrials.

So I personally belief the post's explanation over yours.
Which trademark do you mean?
The blogger does claim inventory was incomplete, so some of the documents may not have or should not have been designated for destruction. She also claims that some materials were salvageable and that there were inconsistencies with the assessment of the mold's danger.

The procedure moved along a bit too efficiently to really satisfy the basis of either side of the story.
I was simply proposing the obvious step of not allowing explicitly hostile forces into a group. If the hostile forces then choose to disguise themselves, so be it. But to let them in knowing they are hostile seems stupid.

I grant you that closing mere participation by having pre-screening is probably an unworkable and too costly a step; costly in more ways than one.

I still feel we ought not let them chair the committe, though. I mean, the NSA heading a committee working on publicly available crypto? It’s an oxymoron and a contradiction in terms. It’s the fox guarding the hen house.
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No DPI scaling, but it's OK for me. I always loved small fonts in term windows anyway :)
6 hours is a minimum for quite a heavy use; I myself found that mine easily does 8-9 hours when programming (Flash is a terrible battery and CPU hog).
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It's easy to construct Jack Bauer scenarios in fiction, but they are exceedingly unlikely to come up in real life. Real life is a multithreaded narrative - there's never just ONE lead to follow and you can never be that certain the lead you're looking at is the right one.

What made torture "work" in 24 is that Jack Bauer can't trust anybody else and never has more than one lead to follow at a time. Even though he talks to dozens of people who know parts of the big conspiracy, these people all magically disappear but only do so moments after they tell him one key bit of info that will lead him to the next clue. Sometimes they disappear by escaping custody, sometimes they disappear by being killed by the bad guys (or a traitor among the good guys), and sometimes they kill themselves. Through repetition of this pattern, we come to expect that each person who becomes the focus of Jack's attention will have some key bit of info he just has to get out of them. And he has to get that info from them now because he if he doesn't he'll never see them again.

Real life doesn't work that way.

In real life you have dozens, hundreds, or thousands of possible leads at any given time. Because the bad guys aren't supernaturally good at their job, you can go back and ask followup questions. You can check one guy's testimony against the next guy's. And some of the people you think seem like pretty good leads don't know anything useful. Torturing those people will generate false leads which lead you to torture more people who generate more false leads until your entire organization is in the business of serially torturing innocent people until they tell you whatever you seem to want to hear rather than the business of finding out the actual truth.

Each person you torture into generating false leads makes it more likely people will die because it ties up your organizational resources. It also is likely to generate massive blowback - some of the people you torture become or inspire new enemies, whereas people you are nice to might become friends and voluntarily help the investigation.
I've watched the first four seasons of Fringe and I don't think the protagonists ever tortured anyone.
The rise of in-app purchase seems like quite a threat to Apple's ecosystem. If the app is free and cross-platform, and you can buy the in-game currency on whatever device, Android or iOS, where'd the lock-in go?

And since pretty much the whole top-grossing list is free with in-app-purchase, that is definitely where most of this money is.
I own this laptop, had it for almost a year. I love it except after a while I noticed random hard freezes, basically the display freezes in place and the system doesn't respond. I would have to hold down the power button to force an unexpected reboot (in the words of Moss). It would happen after a day, or a week of use.

Turns out it's a problem with the kernel in 12.04 and the Intel 4400 chipset. The only solid fix is to simply update to a non-LTS release. Since updating to 13.04 I've been okay. I shouldn't have to wait much longer for 14.04 so I should have an LTS release soon with the updated kernel.

The only other problem I've had is some updates deleting my firmware for the wireless, I've had to re-download it. But I did not have this problem when upgrading Ubuntu.

Despite these issues, otherwise it's been a very solid laptop.
It's reflective of a culture of cynicism. The hero cannot win without compromising his/her own morality and so must chose to sacrifice it to defeat the antagonist. The is perceived to be more "modern" and "realistic" way of story-telling. See Man of Steel as one of the prime examples of a cynical culture destroying one of our most optimistic characters.
> If you take a group X, a certain percentage Y hang out in newsgroups and blog. He himself was part of that Y for Forth.
Why would the percentage Y be significantly different for any given language?

There are lots of reasons I can imagine: people trying out newer languages have more reason to talk publicly about what they're doing, since they usually have a vested interest in the growth of that language. Organizations with tight rules on secrecy are often risk-averse in general and less likely to try out new languages. So new languages wind up with users that are more open, and they appear even more active. (I don't know if this is true -- it's just a guess. But your assertion that the percentages would likely be uniform across languages feels unlikely to me.)

I'm not sure the argument is that the percentage who hang out in newsgroups and blog is different, anyway, but rather that looking at newsgroup activity and blogs specifically selects out many of the actual experts. This has absolutely been my experience, and one of the most damaging assumptions I see is that surveying blogs and twitter feeds is enough to get a complete understanding of how people use a piece of software and what they think of it.
I know this isn't very useful for you, but it works for me.

And the answer is "No."
I think the standard for friendly hardware should be open firmware support (Coreboot), rather than what’s preinstalled on HDD.
"24" premiered in November 2001, and capitalized on the anti-terrorist sentiment in America after the September 11, 2011 attacks. The groundwork for Bush's "torture programs" were laid in late 2002, and came to public attention in June 2004, when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke.

The interpretation that better reconciles the timeline is that both the show and the torture program are attempts to capitalize on the same public sentiment that led to this song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesy_of_the_Red,_White_and_... (select lyrics: "Cause we'll put a boot in your ass; It's the American way"), peaking at #1 on Billboard's list of Hot Country Songs.
Many desktop environments can do scaling well enough, in my experience. Not sure about Unity, the Ubuntu default.

Edit: for non-retina screens (i.e. it's fine on my 14" 1920x1080 laptop.) For retina (not this laptop), it might not be ideal yet. I took a screenshot (XFCE4) with very high DPI, and you can see some GUI elements don't scale:
http://i.imgur.com/2GpqyND.png
Oh that's a great idea!!! It would be nice to find someone to go running with that matches my schedule.
Finite for very large values of finite. I have 0 trouble coming up with a good domain name for any of my projects that is not yet taken.
How hard would it be to use a PostgreSQL backend with sneakers?
This is how I see it too. If Google or the guy had a problem and contacted the blog, and then Digital Ocean, then it would seem fair for Digital Ocean to maybe step in depending on rules and whatnot, but to pseudo-personally step in and ask that the person's name be made anonymous feels like nepotism at work.
Applying to an accelerator? We predicted 2014 deadlines YC, AngelPad, etc.
I compared this to a Macbook Pro 13", which is the closest comparable hardware. It came out better in features and cost ($300 cheaper then a Macbook Pro with similar SSD and memory), and was thinner and lighter.

I wanted the Macbook Pro, but I didn't see the $300 difference in the Pro.
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This

The mold talk sounds like a petty excuse. Like we live in a world with no protection masks.

This is mold, not Fukushima debris
Oh no not that meme again.

The reason why machinists who know only a little about machining demand you must level a lathe bed or it won't work, insist on that old wives tale, is because a simple "cheap" way to prove the lathe bed isn't twisted is to simply plop a precision level on various parts of the lathe bed and various directions... If the lathe bed is level everywhere, it must be a flat plane (well, plus or minus curvature of the earth over 100 foot monsters, obviously)

Obviously machine tools don't have to be level; otherwise you'd never see them on ships, deep sea platforms, mobile "back of truck" repair trucks, things like that. They have other, somewhat more laborious or expensive ways to determine and shim flatness.

If you made the flimsiest imaginable 3-d printer, then sag might be relevant... however you're talking about beasts of a machine that can drop 10-100 rotating HP and not twist or distort... anything less than 45 degrees isn't going to matter.

Now one problem I have personally seen is some CNC gear has what boils down to a conveyor belt that streams out metal chips. So if you mounted it 10 degrees tilted, you might have chips not fall on the conveyor belt. This is usually a simple adjustment to various guards / guides / baffles. Its not a very serious concern.

As a cross industry comparison, learned helplessness is a common feature in IT/CS land, where your average luser is extremely proud to not know anything about his computer that he uses 8 hours per day, and no one expects him to know anything either. However in machine world its somewhat unusual to have IT-like levels of learned helplessness, so the average machinist dude can quite easily handle shimming a lathe or adjusting tilts and such.
It's a little early to be making a slippery slope argument. This is about employees of an organization that has actively worked to subvert similar related processes.
The US Air Force is starting a research program to produce 3D-printed rocket engines to “launch critical assets into Earth orbit.” : http://weirdgrants.com/#g19
How much interns are payed in your country?
I am waiting for the concept-lite feature support but I don't know why Clang people don't even mention it. Am I missing something?
its 30%, devs know it and agree to it. Doesnt make much sense to compare the money paid out to the hype affected stock price.
Those of us in the UK, who bizarrely are prevented from reading bbc.com content, might like to try this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Or wait for it to turn-up at archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140106175751/http://www.bbc.co...
Can everyone please just stop using google analytics

Webserver logs give you all the information you should want about how users look at your page, and don't violate your users' privacy by notifying a third-party advertising company about their browsing habits.
It isn't, and doesn't claim to be, an experiment on the economic consequences. But it absolutely is an experiment on human psychology, which as far as I can tell is all it claims to be.
::sigh:: so painful to read.
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The previous articles are about 'Scandal', '24' and 'Homeland' which are torture-filled entertainment. Quite a (linkbait-ish) leap to focus vaguely and exclusively on Fringe.
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Two assholes?

Really? Ok, lets think about it, one of them tells his opinion about certain topic on a chat system which has very small community. Once he notices something fishy going on there, he mutes the other person.

The other one has different thoughts about the same topic and tries to get contradicting opinion. Than writes a blog about it in a manner that shows how bad and unfair that opinion is, even though that is really arguable topic.

And yet we end up with having to assholes. Quite a careless use of words I would say.
Hasn't the PC world moved on to USB3, ignoring Thunderbolt? And even Apple has dropped Firewire at this point.
I think you are referring (at least partially) to something called the Dunning-Kruger effect[1], where people who know less about something tend to express more certainty about what they know (and thus tend to get more attention as well) than people who actually know more about it

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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Right... Perhaps it's becoming obvious that weed and good software development don't go together, OR perhaps this is spam for the above mentioned website.
how does it do with video playback?
I follow 2000+ people and really nothing seem to work the best. I have tried two ways to read.

Hootsuite
Created 4-5 seperate columns per list according to the priority of the list, e.g real friends come first.

Flipboard.
On flipboard I have only connected my twitter account and manage views by list. Although I can read everything, I believe FB is surfacing the important content on top
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One difference: you can't legally develop for iOS with non-Apple hardware. Which is IMHO an extortion, but there you have it.
I thought basic income sounded like naive left thinking the first time I heard about it, but you should know it actually has a rich tradition in conservative/libertarian thinking as well, including well-respected (and definitely anti-socialist) economists like Friedman and Hayek. Here is one discussion from a definitely non-left-winger site: http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/26/scrap-the-welfare-stat...
Schools are very much into Service Level Agreements, implementation consulting, and support contracts. Open source can be seen as an additional warranty (Did we go out of business? Are we not delivering the service you desired, but you love the product? Hire anyone to take over hosting, support or development you'd like with no restrictions).
This is not the case in states where a mortgage is simply a lien on the property. You receive a warranty deed, which includes a title search, and you own the property (fee simple in legal parlance). If you have a mortgage on the property, the mortgage company has a lien that can be foreclosed.

In title theory states, when you mortgage the property, the mortgagee holds title until the mortgage is paid off.
I think Rambo was more violent.
> If the laptop is turned off (or sleeping) and the battery is charging, there's no way for you to tell whether the batter is full or not based on the color of the LED. It stays white.

This isn't entirely true. While the color of the charger LED doesn't change, the LED at the middle of the bottom/front edge (below the trackpad) goes from orange to white when charged.

My biggest gripe with this (very nice, portable) laptop is that the wireless card is a bit flaky with 802.11n under (x)Ubuntu 13.04 - 13.10. I find that in some rooms of my (relatively small) flat I can't connect without disabling 11n (sudo modprobe iwlwifi 11n_disable=1). I get a very high "Tx excessive retries" value in iwconfig otherwise and the network connection is unusable.

It's not a failing of the laptop, but rather the bundled Intel wireless card and the drivers that ship with Linux 3.11.0-15. My Lenovo T430s has the same issue (it has a Centrino Advanced-N 6205).

I've seen numerous bug reports and kernel patches but haven't had much success in resolving the issue.
The first week or two of weight loss is indeed mostly water, but I weight 40 pounds less than when I started avoiding carbs. It works for me.
> I have no interest in fighting with my hosting provider in addition to everything else

This is really the issue here. The hosting provider should err on the side of its customers as opposed to random third parties. There are a lot of edge cases on what can or should be legally hosted. The hosting provider may have the legal right to take down controversial content, but it's an absolutely cowardly thing to do. The free speech-friendly approach would be to side with its customers UNTIL the third party has obtained a court order that the content be taken down, rather than insist that their own customers get a court order insisting that the content stay up.
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I didn't know this was up until somebody told me to ctrl-reload. Nice one with the 10yr cached soft-500 page. :P

Now that our brittle forum is back, let's get back to work nitpicking the Android UIs that aren't quite beautiful enough! This is not enough drop shadows!
"20.000 years from now, Chernobyl finally safe." Is there an estimate for Fukushima?