skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of how I listen to music.

If I meet a track that I really like, I don't just listen to it. I put it on the decks, try to mix it with something else and listen how it interacts with it. I put it on the grid, sample loops, hits and small sounds. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, here's a video of Four Tet doing something similar to Jackson's Thriller:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUDsVxBtVIg

Sometimes I analyze it's structure, laying empty loops in mute tracks alongside it. Sometimes I try to recreate synths that are used. Sometimes I go to whosampled.com and try to recreate the sampling process.

I'm sure writers do the same with literature they read, too.
I always love these videos. The crew is so ecstatic and happy with their feat (well deserved), and everyone is hugging each other. If only I'd gotten the same response from my team when I deploy some software with success, eh? ;)

I guess what I'm saying is I'm a bit jealous of the team effort and environment.
Have you watched this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-97qqUHwzGM

It's a good introduction to the things systemd brings to the table and why it's worthwhile.
Yep - simplicity is compelling to the user and it makes an app easy to market - kind of a win/win situation
Because what I really need in my life is high energy radiation beamed directly at an object I generally keep a few cm from my reproductive organs.
Awesome. If the $20,000 quote on electricity costs is accurate, hopefully this will last them another five years or so.
One of the features is "All the space you need. Start with 1,000 GB and get more space as your team grows. If you run out, tell us and we'll increase it for free."

I wonder if that means one could sign up for 5 accounts and pay $75/month for unlimited space for personal use. (You could just use one account and never sync the other four.)
You go to this page[0], where they give you three options ranging from $3.75 to $8.75 each week. But they're running a sale right now, you can get the first 4 weeks for 99 cents.

[0]http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp5558.htm...
Google Maps find alien 'spaceship' on Moon
tl;dr:
* Dude brings a camera to a movie theater, which is illegal and tbh a dumb move
* Exaggerated response from some legal body excessively funded / lobbied by the movie industry
Yes it's definitely one we are looking at - would make a lot of sense I think
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Like abhorrence, I don't think this is totally ridiculous. Compare the rules for seizing a domain name from squatters. If I manage to register mcdonalds.com, currently McDonald's, the gigantic fast food company, can just take it. Is that terrible?

Now, if I've been selling a product under the name "iPhone" for 13 years and I have to change the name because someone else in another country managed to release a competing product of the same name and become more famous than me... that's pretty harsh. Off the top of my head, two obvious approaches come to mind --

1. A "use it or lose it" regime, where the Brazilian guy with the iPhone trademark keeps it as long as he's actually doing business under it (it could well be that you can't maintain a trademark without using it anyway; I don't know much about trademark law).

2. The Brazilian iPhone guy should have been absurdly over-vigilant about potentially infringing marks, just like we all complain about major companies doing. He needed to keep Apple's iPhone out of Brazil entirely (or force them to change its name in the Brazilian market).

Also, following your link, two things jump out at me:

- Though the trademark was first requested in 2000, and it says the companies have been fighting over it for 6 years, it also says the Brazilian "iphone" went on sale last year. That looks a little more like bad faith.

- It looks like the judge didn't take the trademark away -- he said they'd have to share (not great, but not as bad as suddenly losing the name of your product).
Yes we have been putting this together - is a really good idea to see if anyone cares about online features..
and DARPA. Military contracted research, which includes stuff like "1000 molecules" (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b756b30...) should obviously not be open access, because if they were accountable it would be a disaster.

/sarcasm
Most of the attacks such as HTTPS MitM are not ISP misconfigurations ;)

Indeed, they list the DNS censorship separately:

> We also found exit relays which were unintentionally interfering with network traffic because they were subject to DNS censorship.
[ANN] Codesake::Dawn v1.0.0 released
to be fair, NIH is huge.
As an non-US citizen/resident this is pretty fasinating insight to the US justice system! One thing comes to mind though. If I'm to travel to US and enter US soil, am I covered by the Bill of Rights? Ofc I haven't had any problems while visiting US but just curious how these things pan out for non-citizen/resident.
Still an outside view is usually quite objective and can pinpoint issues that weren't easily apparent at all to someone inside the project.
I suppose they have a awful lot of images. Google would not be happy.
While Linux copyright owners generally allow the (small) breach of GPL that is shipping GPL-incompatible modules (whereas it would be entirely fine if they were installed separately) and the driver copyright owners also explicitly allow redistribution, ZFS's copyright owners have made no such allowance.

It would at least breach ZFS's license to ship it.
So useful, thanks! Plus another item on the list of ideas I should have had. ;)
Google Again Show They Are Behind In The Link Buying Game
I'm not one for blowing horns on people usually but it seems that this is an instance that simply needs to be shared...

The website www.gamesfreak.net has continued to buy links and spam their way to vast sums of money but there was never really any proof that it was them pushing for these links to be added into their site but now it seems that they are at it again...

Dear webmaster,

I'm Joep from Gamesfreak.net, a free online gaming website specialized in car and racing games. We are interested in either buying or exchanging links with your website with the goal to both benefit.

We are looking for relevant websites to propose a partnership and URL REMOVED fits this idea perfectly.

I can offer you 40 USD for a partnerlink in your Visit our other properties section to Gamesfreak.net, is this possible?

Please let me know if you're interested in my proposal or any kind of other collaboration!

How are sites like these guys that have almost 400k links from all walks of the worst, low quality sites still ranking in the age of Penguin and a push to clean up the web manually by Google?

I know that they have been reported on a spam report before but they bypass that and retain their rankings?

Kind of makes you think that Google can't keep the pace don't you think?
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Well, there is one upside of A/B testing: it does not distinguish between users, so you can statically serve the same webpages to everyone, and you need not track anyone.
> scanners often cannot connect because of misconfiguration/incompatibility or lack of a routable IPv6 host address

Isn't this likely to keep you out of your own system too, at some point (accessing from unusual location without IPv6)?
Accusing someone of being a communist is hardly impartial.
> if two competing companies do their marketing in an optimal way, it will leave the customer in the same state as if no marketing effort ever occured

Marketing covers more than this. It isn't just how the pie is divided up, it is also about increasing the size of the pie.

In fact, if it increases the number of potential consumers, marketing can be rational and profitable even if it reduces the market share of the marketing company (50% of 10 consumers is less profitable than 40% of 100 consumers). There is a real rising-tide-raises-all-ships effect, especially in discretionary goods (eg, jewelry, many electronics, financial services, the list goes on).
The only way stacks evolve is if we start a dialog on how unnecessarily verbose they are, you don't just write that verbose code/configuration, you will have to read it some time in the future, your IDE might not be able to help you out then.
I came across AGG very recently. Yes, several parts of the code are designed and implemented very well. Unfortunate that Maxim died.
I'm one of the authors. We believe that the Russian relays are actually controlled by the same person/group. More details are in Section 4.2 of the paper.
woops, sorry I was sleeping!
Not sure why this is news - they've had this for months. I signed up for the business plan the instant it was available several months ago.
Eh, seems just as likely you'd lose your keys if you lose your config. At least, I keep both in ~/.ssh
Apparently "This website requires javascript to function properly" so it doesn't even presents the text. Bad programming since without styles, the whole text is actually HTML (and not dynamically constructed by JavaScript).
That's what jumped out to me as well -- I have a huge concern for the potential ill effects to the human body. Plugging in a device is not a huge hardship and is vastly over-shadowed by the potential health risks.
I guess it is inevtiable for Dropbox to keep offering 5Gb for free accounts for much longer. (Are they even doing that?)
So some Christian FBI agents hated him because he was not Christian but atheist?
So what's next - how do users of Tor protect themselves from these malicious exit relays?
It's easy enough to ground this in game theory to make the analogy more explicit.

Say there's a street with two houses. In the event of a crime, people in the houses can volunteer information to the police. They don't know ahead of time whether their information is pertinent to the investigation or self-incriminating. Crime goes down by half if one house regularly snitches, and crime is eliminated if both do.

The expected cost of self-incrimination when volunteering information (with all probabilities worked out) is 3. The cost of unchecked crime in the neighbourhood is 4, applied to each house. The payoffs, then:

- If neither house snitches, payoffs are -4/-4.

- If one house snitches, payoffs are -2/-5 (against the snitch)

- If both houses snitch, payoffs are -3/-3.

This is classic prisoner's dilemma. I thought the general idea was clear enough in my initial post, but at this point the analogy I was making should be impossible to miss.

I don't disagree with your third paragraph. A lawyer will decrease your personal expected negative payoff without compromising the societal benefit of coming forward.
That would surely explain why "photoshop" and "adobe123" are so high.

Article is garbage: sample is clearly biased.
Faking Sick for a Living
It's also the patent that put Commodore out of business.
The universe doesn't care what you believe
Publishing gh-pages with Travis-CI
Great read, thanks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7090344
Free accounts are 2GB, however you can do a couple of tasks to get more.
Work permit for Romanians: Not anymore since 01.01.2014. Since Romania joined the EU in 2007, its citizens had to wait till this year to be allowed to freely work everywhere in the EU.

This led to a lot of polemic and propaganda here in Germany, especially from the right-wing.
The Bill of Rights ostensibly covers anyone under US jurisdiction, even a non-US citizen.

(The Bill of Rights is a specific set of rights enumerated to _limit_ the government, it is _not_ an enumeration of rights granted to a person. The Declaration of Independence and US Constitution are powers extended from the people to the government at the people's pleasure.)

Having said that, I said "ostensibly." I mean that US Code and jurisprudence are convoluted. Immigrants or tourists are especially at risk: deportation, or worse, a one way ticket to Guatanamo. This is absolutely in violation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but the US Government is currently trying to lie and deny and bluff its way around those founding documents.

In my opinion, the attack on immigrants/tourists/foreigners (hi, NSA) is an attempt to gain prima facie precedents that will then be extended to regular citizens. Case in point: wiretaps, drones, and US citizens held indefinitely without a trial. I am a US Citizen but I defend your rights because it's only a matter of time before it will come back to me.
You can split 2. into several pieces which will allow you to recover if you lose something. Imagine you have a SSH key, an authenticator token and a printed physical QR code and you can restore either of that if you have both of the rest.
You luddites are why we're never getting supermutants.
What is your core competency? A self-hosted wordpress does take time to maintain, security updates and what not.

If I were to host a company blog (With no particular privacy concerns) I would probably use something like WPEngine.com. The cost per month is relatively small and if your company saves just an hour or two per month on maintenance, it is probably worth it.

Tumblr/wp.com is of course an alternative but it depends if you feel that they provide enough customizability for your needs.

Wordpress.com, for example, does not allow Google Analytics last I checked, and that was a big no no for me.

Edit: You can use Jekyll, octopress and so forth like others have suggested. BUT who are going to be writing/using the blog? Less technical users may not find those easy to use. The upside of both WP and tumblr is that they are easy to use for the average user.
Ontologies for e-government
Me too, and everybody should watch that talk, the hackery build up is quite something.
With few tricks I went to 18GB.
Technology and people change. What was considered dangerous in the past is today made possible with advanced technologies. When the risks are made negligible by reliability and advances such devices will be used.
>But when you compare it to Java and C#, C++11, the language (based on language specification word/page count), is smaller than Java

I watched the presentation where Herb Sutter said that, and I think that claim is disingenuous, because the Java Language Specification is much wordier than the C++ spec.

For example, the section on integer literals in the JLS is 1.5 times longer (measured by word count) than the same section in the latest C++ draft. Is it because Java's literals are more complex than C++? No, it's because of things like explicitly listing the minumum and maximum numeric values of int and long literals (in each of decimal, hex, octal and binary)

In general, I think that the terseness of the C++ spec is not a good measure of the relative simplicity of C++.
What would you do with the information? I think the OpenBSD foundation is transparent enough with their "Activities" page (http://openbsdfoundation.org/activities.html). What level of details would you like in a finacial statement from the OpenBSD project?

Keeping it pretty broad seems like the right solution. Given all the unsolicited "advice" they got just regarding their power bill, posting every expenditure would result in extreme amount of nitpicking of even the smallest items (perhaps especially the small expenses).

To be honest, I doubt that most of those who "Require complete transparency!" would even donate if a complet finacial statement was made. Most would probably find some small detail that they don't like an use that as an excuse for not donating. If you're concerned that money won't be spend on the project, I don't see how any promises about transparency would change your mind.
>An actual spy would have quietly disappeared with the damaging intel, and no-one in America would ever have known anything about it.

And chances are one probably did. It's one of the risks of amassing that much private information in a single place. You become a juicy target.
Well, this would have been great to have before making me convert my personal account, i.e. with my non-work email address, to an account managed by my employer.
Maybe. Although it was mostly an example, I guess quite a few users do the search themselves, possibly for the same pictures over and over again.

Some accounts also use exactly the same pictures; I guess that recognizing those cases without resorting to a third party solution would be possible too.
Anand,

What will be great to do if at all possible is to identity common patterns across key sectors. Here are some patterns I have seen:

Lack of marketing/growth -Everpix, Sonar...

Lack of domain expertise - Vitoto...

No coders/programmers in founding teams- standout jobs

Product management / too many product features - intellibank...

No customer validation/didn't get out of the building / product/market fit - groupspaces, hello parking...

Perhaps these patterns could be broken into consumer Internet / SAAS.

Of course some of these patterns are inter-related & drive each other (e.g. No Domain expertise >> lack of customer validation >> Poor product management/wrong features >> No growth)
Huge collection of NetBeans resources
As a South American (Brazilian, biggest catholic nation by numbers), it's the easiest thing for me to believe. Outside intellectual/academic/art circles, stating you are an atheist = stating you are a satanist, almost.
Yeah, there's a giant table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_for_worker...

After a country joins the EU, its citizens gain full freedom of movement after 7 years maximum. Countries can impose a 2-year transitional period, followed by a 3-year extension, and another 2-year extension, with escalating requirements for what claims need to be made to justify an extension.

For example here in Denmark there was only a 2-year transitional period, so Romanians and Bulgarians are free to work here without a permit since 1/1/2009. But a few EU countries, such as Germany and the UK, exercised an extraordinary right to delay implementation for a full 7 years, by asserting "serious labor-market disruption". Italy was in between, applying the 2+3 but not the full 2+3+2 transitional period, so Romanians/Bulgarians may work there without a permit since 1/1/2012. Since 1/1/2014 all transitional periods for Romania and Bulgaria have expired (a transitional period for Croatia is still in effect in some countries).

However I was imprecise on the terminology: Romania and Bulgaria are actually not in Schengen yet, so EU states may impose border checks. What they are part of is the free-movement-of-labor zone, which is not quite identical to Schengen.
Federal bankers criticizing bitcoins
موقع مديرية التربية والتعليم بمحافظة القاهرة
Bitcoin :-)
Speculators begin to cash bitcoin.
At the end of they day, that is the only way the Universe can be fair. To be fair is not to care.
> As long as human beings are able to produce anything of value, jobs won't go away, and why would that ever stop being the case?

That's not a proof. That is the "surely" argument https://medium.com/science-and-technology/83dacb1fe14c

It's possible that this is the case, but I'm very sceptical of it. It produces some absurd results eventually: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/can-economic-gro...

Another trusim from economics: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop"
It will sound banal, but Bitcoins I bought year-and-something ago.
Users report PlayStation 4 error corrupting save files
An IOS game I made 1 year back.. :)
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/royal-cribbage-lite/id591048...
Well, maybe it is time to admit that "the market" and its players are not a homogenous mass and as Colin Crouch (of Post-Democracy fame) puts it (paraphrasing):

there is the market and acting outside of it and mostly by different rules there are the multinational big enterprises/corporations.

Why should NOT different tax rules apply them?

Is this an idea easily translated into laws? Probably not. Doable for sure.

Btw, please do not "combine" those Mega-Corps with small companies... they are not the same and will not be in the future; it only helps to drive certain unrealistic fears benefiting those lobbying and looking FOR the loop holes around the world.
This makes me thankful for digital culture/internet in general. If it were today, that lecture would be available, very likely free for everyone on youtube. Instead, it's lost forever.
https://www.dropbox.com/help/200/en
>	even if smart people tell you something, you often need to fail it first to really get it.

That was really emphasized for me after my first startup failed. After we pulled the plug, all the advice I had procured in the previous months suddenly made sense.

I think that when you hear advice, it might make sense but you don't really understand it. It is analogous to reading a textbook and thinking you've got it covered until you actually reproduce what you learned. That's when the real learning happens. You just need to buck up and get your hands dirty.
OpenBSD has more expenses than just an electricity bill.
A side point, the desktop was cleverer about that: it was supposed to be a temporary working space somewhat outside the filesystem, rather than its root.

Files from a volume still knew where which folder they were supposed to go in on that volume - if you dragged them to the desktop to work with, the "Put Away" menu command would put them back there (sadly lost in OS X). If you ejected a disk that had working files on the desktop they'd vanish, of course.
You know, I'd post a comment on there but I always get that really useless "Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Text entered was wrong. Try again."-shit.

Doesn't really paint a good picture of perl if something that simple already fails…
No, what you really need is an understanding of wireless power transmission and non-ionizing radiation.

Hint: There's a reason this requires METAMATERIALS to work over any reasonable distance.
Not much has changed since the last thread. Improvely (https://www.improvely.com) is still in the 5-digit monthly RR range and growing, and I do no outbound marketing other than some PPC ads that don't need much active management. Everything that can be automated has been automated (onboarding, lifecycle mails, dunning mails for billing issues, etc), leaving me free to spend all my time on support and improving the product.

Two things that fit the "passive" mentality that have been picking up steam recently:

1) I offer an affiliate program with a revenue share commission (upfront bonus plus 10% of the referred customer's payments for a year). A couple of my best customers have become my best affiliates, recommending the product on industry blogs they write for regularly. It doesn't get better than having excited customers marketing your product for you. In the early days the affiliate program wasn't doing much at all, now it's a meaningful contributor to subscriber growth.

2) I've been running Improvely long enough now (just over a year) that some of the clients are growing their businesses significantly. I've got quite a few marketing agencies on board, and they're picking up new clients and adding them to their accounts. As their business grows, and their usage grows, they upgrade to plans with higher usage limits. Same customer base, higher revenue per customer. In the beginning, a new customer was worth $30ish per month. Today that's over $70/m per customer on average.