skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the Conseil d'État just released its decision a few minutes ago: Google have to pay. See http://www.conseil-etat.fr/fr/communiques-de-presse/sanction... (in French).
I bought some Jalapeños from BFL after my January order was not shipped until August, in the Black Friday sale.

The sale was advertised as "units in stock, ready for immediate delivery"

When they came (something like a full month later) they were approximately double the spec of the devices I thought I had ordered, but still for the same price. Thanks, I guess?

I can't say if they're shipping any faster now, but if the trend of decreasing wait times has continued, I'd expect that by now, they'll be competition for Amazon's rumored new "ship before you order" practices.

Honestly for the new customers, if their ASIC parts were actually delivered in less than two weeks, I would have to say you're not getting the full BFL experience anymore, and you should probably ask for a refund.

I will probably not order from them again.
Stock Options vs RSUs
All site templates are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, he didn't include BlackTie.co credit
I disagree. Unless you can know for absolute certainty that there is no cleanup required, it is not a good idea to simply crash and leave resources in an inconsistent state.

Otherwise, you need a way for the cleanup code to dispose of the resources and leave the system in a consistent state before crashing.

Ok, its obviously good practice to develop your software in a way that a random outage doesn't leave anything in an inconsistent state, but a lot of software fails to do this. At the very least, you may end up with something like when a server crashes and cannot restart because the port is still considered in use by the OS.
You can't send really small amount of Bitcoin, there is a cutoff to stop you "spamming" the network unless you also send a fee.

Also the mission statement of Bitcoin and Dogecoin are different.

Bitcoin is looking to replace world currency transactions by a secure peer-to-peer distributed network resistant to external attack through utilization of blah blah blah snooze.

Dogecoin is going to the moon.
OVH is probably the biggest, but it's unfair to say they are the best: they are a low-cost hosting company and provide a minimal support, unless you pay the price.

Moreover, OVH sometimes take quite stupid commercial decisions without notice. For instance, two months ago, they decided to put on hold any dedicated server command without notice... during more than 5 weeks.

Why did they do that? Because OVH's CEO became angry at customers ordering upgraded servers instead of renewing the leasing of their older ones.

As of Free, they bully and racket network peers which need to send traffic over their network as much as they can. (See how slow is youtube over the Free network, for instance...)
I would love a site like this for all laws in (almost) all countries.
*Cyberia.
I'm not bitter that when bitcoin was ~ $1/btc I almost bought 1,000 btc ... no not bitter at all

:|
They're still configuring the software that generates the music, aren't they? If a musician chooses a chord progression (for example) and then hands it off to an algorithm (maybe one they designed), isn't that enough to count as composition? In all of these cases, there is a lot of human thought and choice involved, it just doesn't happen to look like it does when someone plays an acoustic instrument or writes a score.

Edit: I should say, I do think that a lot of electronic music should be considered craft rather than art. But not all of it.
So by condemning particular kinds of slavery, you mean to say in those cases it is sensible to pressure another society to change that aspect, despite wide-reaching socioeconomic consequences and the consequential "badness" caused by this disruption. Right? That is, this is where you'd consider drawing the line?

And, going back to the previous paragraph, this is fundamentally because these kinds of slavery are cross-generational, that is they persist not just for a group of people but also for their (biological) descendants. This tends to create particularly powerful economic barriers for those discriminated against, so powerful in fact that they persist long after their legal basis has been abolished. Huh! Interesting!

So that seems like a sensible argument why discriminating against traits that are inherited -- particularly biologically (e.g. color of skin) but also socially (e.g. religion, ethnicity) -- is especially destructive.

Setting aside whether or not or to what degree homosexuality may actually fit in that category, another difference is that homosexuality is not primarily about economic discrimination. I think it's reasonable to say it works on a more fundamental level than economic racial or even gender discrimination -- it's not "you're not getting that job because you're black/a woman", it's essentially "you may not be -- or at least not openly be -- what you are".

(I hasten to add that particularly in societies where this more fundamental level of equality is reached, there is also discussion about economic discrimination.)
We use the version in the master branch at CodeGuard to transfer many terabytes into and out of S3 daily. While I hesitate to call it "production-ready", as that means different things to different people, we do use it in production with no issues. If you want to try it without having to install go, there are statically linked binaries for OSX and Linux Amd/64 linked on the github page that should run on any distro without having to install any dependencies. If you have any issues or questions, feel free to contact me at the email in my HN profile. I hope it works for your use case! :)
Consider it done sir :)
Someone could successfully argue that such would be an unreasonable burden, unless they are a millionaire.
According to the article it's not about the money, it's about the publicly displayed apology that google is uncomfortable with.
Cheer up, some of us actually had bit-fortunes and lost them at Satoshidice :)
Opt-In Email Lists vs Purchased Email Lists
I think that was rather a joke. A good one, though.
So lets refine this to forced female circumcision. You just changed the playing field there, I see what you did! Are you saying that it's OK in any culture to have it forced upon you against your consent?
Interestingly, Justice O'Connor filed an opinion concurring in judgement in Lawrence where she would have only struck down laws that singled out same-sex conduct, allowing laws to remain on the books if they included opposite-sex conduct too.
I'm stealing the term bureaucratic terrorism. Thank you.
It'd be interesting to hear this done with other (midi) voices: drums, violins, whistles, birds, dolphins, a full orchestra. You should be able to take an arbitrary sound-track, and recreate it by mixing a bunch of samples of ... just about anything.
which is possible
For the privacy part they should conform at minimum to European and French privacy law. French privacy Law offers some protection and the CNIL seems to enforce the law.
Pointing out the problems with the proposition just illustrates the author's point about the semantic gulf. It's relatively easy for a human to not only see the problem but to point it out snarkily. But short of singularity we may not see a computer doing so in the near future.

Abandoning meta-snark despite it's pleasures, what is interesting is the way in which the semi-absurd example implied a relevant example which I now realize was why I wasn't bothered by the semi absurdity. I didn't really take the words literally.

What was evoked seems to have been the idea of how unlikely it would be that a computer could read the pseudo code and determine that it found the most frequent words on a page without being given the answer ahead of time.
This is so dead on it hurts.

Hordes of companies swarming in, eager to hire 'top' engineers who continually fight with yesterdayshotness.js (as seen on HN!) and who spend their whole lives at the office fixing problems few people ultimately have while burning loads of VC cash.

I used to beat myself up that I wasn't in SF. Recently, I realized I am incredibly lucky for not being there; and that includes the massive burnout I had 3 years ago. The typical SV startup abuses people for little pay.
The Switchboard: Top tech companies hire first lobbyist on NSA issues
Outside of Mt Gox prices haven't really changed since yesterday. The only difference is that Mt Gox's $100 premium is gone now.
Sending signals via electrons through wires is fundamentally different then sending photons through fibers.

To visualize electrical signals, imagine a tube completely full of balls. When you push a new ball into one end, a different ball comes out the other. The effect of adding the ball is seen very quickly (i.e. a change in the field), but the speed the ball moves through the tube (i.e. how fast electrons move through the conductor) is quite different.
> So lets refine this to forced female circumcision.

Is "if you don't get this done, then you will have to marry below your class" forced? If so then no changing of the playing field. If not, then let me pose a different question:

There's an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea called the Sambia. The Sambia have as part of their coming of age ceremony for males a required element where they must become men by, well, consuming manliness (and giving tribal elders oral sex). Is this a violation of human rights even if one cannot show harm? I mean we might look at it and say it is not freely consented sexual conduct with a minor....
But Dogecoin is doing well.
"it will always be a result of human effort and ultimately an expression of human intent"

Like babies? (Well, most of the time.)
> lots of them have basic CRUD apps

What's hilarious is they love to throw CS interview questions at you. There should be some sort of term for it; delusions of grander[sic] engineering?

Let me make it obvious: technologists don't want to write CRUD apps.
This robot will utterly destroy you at air hockey
In 1939 SU "invated the Poland" is a complete nazi nonsense. SU has invateded its own territory, siezed earlier by the fascist Poland, after the polish government ceased to exist. So, it is hard to tell what you are talking about at all. Returning your territories from criminals is a right thing to do, especially in order to save the territory and people from the Gernam Nazi criminals. Stalin did the only right thing.

> killed 20,000 of its politicians, lawyers, doctors, scientists, artists, clergy, etc,

I do not know what you are talking about. It seems to be the nazi nonsense, similar to your first sentence.
Yes, there is two things you can count on as purest evil, and that us murder, and anything Russian. Good point.
"Doge" is a pathetic Internet meme where people late to the game re-packaged the age-old concept of animal pictures superimposed with intentionally grammatically incorrect captions as found in LOLCATZ and call it a new meme.
At least he was good enough to point out the poor rulers of the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, who are probably rolling in their graves.
Is there anyplace I can go to get the summary of advice from the Sage Old Veteran Bitcoin Graybeards?
I got what you meant to say don't worry. It's only that I find it revolting that we are so sheltered from the wars we wage.
Is this the technical way of shutting your doors to stop the run on the bank?
The real damage of chemophobia
Or the East India Company if you want to go even further back.
The BFL gear is cute and all, but there's a simple fact with selling Bitcoin mining hardware that is probably never going to be overcome. Why would you sell something you could make profit on if you kept it for yourself? This is pretty much the reason why we have ASICminer, KNCminer and Bitfury all either running or building mammoth sized facilities of their own.

I particularly liked this juxtaposition on their store — http://i.imgur.com/uZVKRBX.png
$10 000 still seems a bit low for a truly serious vulnerability. Could Google start a vulnerability bidding war and simply make it too expensive to acquire them?
I thought it was a very well-written, engaging, and complete overview of the state of "general" AI. There is a lot of field to cover. I don't really see anything that you could cut here.
IBM explores sale of semiconductor business
The right thing that Apple did was build an manufacturer customized version of Unix (i.e. OSX) because Mac OS7, 8 and 9 had fallen behind the competition. Apple could very well succeed by forking/building on Android
It is true that the US does not guarantee maternity / paternity leave, however many companies do have it, and some are very generous. It's a great incentive to get good people on board.

While I agree that a minimum is a good idea (though not sure how it would be legislated in practice) I also appreciate that the lack of labor regulation in the US results in a labor force and companies that are more responsive to change than in Europe and other places that are heavily regulated.

As for protected classes, it seems that sexual preference is kind of covered under Title VII, but it's flimsy (this is at the Federal level):
http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/otherprotections.cfm
You are a customer or where is that info coming from ?
(I don't normally let myself get tricked into 'discussions' like this, but this particular instance is... how shall I put it... as perplexing as it is disgusting).

If you're a troll, you're certainly putting a lot of effort into it, and bravo to you.

But if you're not, then you're basically someone who is not only defending the violent persecution of people of a certain sexual persuasion with an abstract hand-wavy 'collective good' argument, but also defending slavery in the face of facts like the slave woman in West Africa just a few years ago who give birth to a child after she was raped by her owner, took care of it as well as her situation let her, only to come back one day to her hut with the baby laying dead before it, died of the intense heat, because her owner wouldn't let her take the baby into the field because she'd work harder without it.[x]

If you honestly can read this article without getting a chill down your spine after the first two paragraphs, and are in an intellectually honest way (again, if you're trolling, well done) going to try to defend slavery, or even the Russian form of non-hetero discrimination, I can offer you no answer but the advise to seek mental health help asap, because you need it.

[x] http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania....
I think with that he was trying to show how computers have a hard time finding out what a webpage subject is. Humans have it easy, just read the title of the page or the title of the article.

"In fact, the least commonly occurring words on a page are frequently more interesting: words like myxomatosis or hermeneutics. To be more precise, what you really want to know is what uncommon words appear on this page more commonly than they do on other pages. The uncommon words are more likely to tell you what the page is about."
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true enough. that would be an even worse feeling
> They already gave away Windows 8.1 as a free upgrade

It wasn't free--it took a couple of hours of my time!
If I recall correctly, prices have dropped around $30 on coinbase in about 24 hours.
Or that one: http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?6555-bandwidth-VPS-pCI...

Where they basically looked at their customers and said "look, you are one of our 30% top customers in bandwidth usage, you'll have to pay from now on." Even though they (Or the company I used) were using their top of the line servers which are exactly offered for bandwidth intensive services like the ones mentioned in their forum post. So it's not really a solid company if you want to work with them long term or build a business on top of their service.

The company I'm referring to is now running their own network on their own hardware in a carrier neutral facility.
Haskell Luminary Simon Peyton Jones to be Knighted
Earlier when I used to see people mentioning BackBlaze and not CrashPlan I used to be pissed in a way,but after I used its (BB's) native app for a month (on trial) I could see the difference.
Are there really people who are turned off by dropbox prices?

I would take notice if someone made a dropbox with a valuable additional feature, or a dropbox that worked better (recognizing that already dropbox works very smoothly).

But price seems like a nonstarter.
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And Russian reaction was correct right? Ignore boundaries of sovereign state (Georgia), annex its' territories outside of conflict zone (Gori, Georgia) and all in order to "defend their friends".

Are you aware that Russia perfectly timed it's Kavkaz 2008 military training near the border of Georgian Region of South Osetia? Just several days earlier before conflict heated up.

And what Russia does when conflict begins? Forwards it's Kavkaz 2008 troops towards Georgia as soon as conflict begins. What a coincidence...

BTW, name South Ossetia was created (yes created) by USSR which aimed to take control over Caucasus, and Georgia was kind of too unified by that time, that was against Russian plans.
If you're like me and did not previously know about SHRDLU, then I highly recommend watching this demonstration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4RvYJYOzI
The Firing Squad Problem
Why does Apple continue killing apps which violate terms of service or defraud the app review process? Dunno...
Google Earth has historic aerial imagery of Warsaw for 1935 and December 1945. This helps to adds some sense of scale to the images of the destruction taken on the ground and enables direct comparison to the current city layout.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/02/spotlight-on-hist...
My grandpa once told me there are two things you can't really trust anyone to hold for you: #1) your lady #2) your money.

I laughed it off at first, but over the years, it's repeatedly proven true. These exchanges are a weak point.
> So by condemning particular kinds of slavery, you mean to say in those cases it is sensible to pressure another society to change that aspect, despite wide-reaching socioeconomic consequences and the consequential "badness" caused by this disruption. Right? That is, this is where you'd consider drawing the line?

I have trouble imagining such cases which are not effectively intergroup disputes. There seems to be a fundamental difference between enslaving one's own people and enslaving "the other." if there is even a significant portion of one's own people, then protections for slaves become political.

If it is fully of another group, then you have an inter-group dispute and that's properly settled between groups.

> I think it's reasonable to say it works on a more fundamental level than economic racial or even gender discrimination -- it's not "you're not getting that job because you're black/a woman", it's essentially "you may not be -- or at least not openly be -- what you are".

Now you have a problem, which is that identity is complicated and socially constrained. As Michel Foucault pointed out, up until relatively modern times, sexuality wasn't really a point of identity. That leads to the problem of who gets to decide what these constructs of identity are?

It seems to me the more fundamental issue is that a concept of heterosexual identity is dependent on an opposition to a concept of homosexual identity and so cultures may accept both as valid identities or simply eschew the whole concept of identification with sexuality completely. It's tempting to look at the latter as homophobic but I am not sure it is more homophobic than the former, for if people identifying as homosexual are insisted to be perpetually a small minority, then they are necessarily "othered" by the distinction.
Please do not abuse words like nazi and do not promote Russian propaganda here, do you argue with a mass murder that was confirmed to be done by Russians ? Or is it also some 'nazi' propaganda ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
I think a more appropriate question is, why would you ship on time when all of your previous customers' viability depends on your delaying new shipments as long as possible?
Ok, time to find another exchange. Considering http://www.coinnext.com and https://localbitcoins.com Other suggestions?
Spotlight on historical imagery: Warsaw in 1935, 1945 and today
That's just a state monad, the thread and what I assumed and may have assumed incorrectly you were talking about, was around overloading math operations to work on dimensionalized quantities like feet and seconds and the like. You can dimensionalize time as well—take a look at the time or thyme Haskell packages for some fascinating examples.

Doing computation in the context of the current time is absolutely monadic. If you're handling time abstractly, it's the state monad. If you're handling it for real then you need some kind of monad protecting communication with NTP/your local CPU clock. That's IO in Haskell.
Why? How about lack of faith in BTC long-term price stability but existence of faith in people buying mining hardware?

Depending on your evaluations on those things, it'd make sense to sell none of the miners you manufacture, or all of them, or some of them to hedge your bets.

Also, short-term liquidity. You need to pay for manufacturing in hard currency, and you may want to hold on to your own BTC or have other reasons for not wanting to pay for manufacturing with USD converted from BTC.
With the exception of T in sports, unless they compete in their "old" gender. Men and women's bodies are different due to chemical reasons, not just looks. Transgender operations only change the looks, not the chemical reality underneath.

So the outcome of that is obvious : either disallow people to choose gender in sports, or live with the knowledge that all female records will be broken by (ex-)men in no time whatsoever.
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I think the iPad is most efficient as a 1 way device. Great for reading and viewing, but not good for responding. Hence the airplane use call. Laptops have gotten convenient enough (and strong enough batteries) to compete though.
'Special Excess': The Secret Broadband... Networks
I'd use Dropbox as write-once-read-occasionally personal junk archival storage, but they don't offer anything in that area.

This service does, and for an astonishingly great price. 10TiB for 10€, and they even promised something about internal 3x storage redundancy. I'm unzipping my wallet right after I run basic checks with free account.
Banks (in the US) don't loan out deposits; deposits are the cheapest source of reserves used for settlement, but the actual loans themselves are created ex nihilo [1].

This is kind of the central point of why we no longer experience bank runs in the broader economy, and why Bitcoin will always be vulnerable to them.

[1] http://www.standardandpoors.com/spf/upload/Ratings_US/Repeat...
Big Data Balancing Act: Flexibility, Power, Accessibility
Big Pharma presses US to quash cheap drug production in India
Userstats.com – The World's first Social Proof tool for web businesses
Again, that noise is entirely an artifact of purity and syntactic choices, not the types.

I'm not sure exactly what you're arguing for here, but I can explain a use case of NEL—when you consume it you don't have to check the for emptiness. That means that you can eliminate an entire branch of code, either locally or in exception catching, or an entire failure mode.

Frequently people just throw those checks in and then assume, trusting their own eye or documentation to minimize the emptiness checking, but without expressing that into the type the compiler won't be able to help you not repeat that check. It's optimal to check it exactly once and people are liable to check it either 0 or many times.
Every personal user I know doesn't upgrade to the next tier because of the price.
Taliban TV
Do more popular people shy away from controversial Facebook discussions?