skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the waste power from the fusion reaction can be 15,000 GW"

That reminds me on a project I worked on where we were getting the operations of the Hunterston B AGR explained to us and I asked an incredibly stupid question - given the 1,500 MW thermal output of each reactor and ~700 MW electrical output, where does the rest go. The answer is, of course, "to heat the Clyde".

15,000 GW is a lot of waste power!

[Edit - the power figures are per reactor - with each AGR station having two].
AirDB: In memory DataTable() based store for MVC
Twitter outrage at Coca-Cola's Superbowl ad
I definitely found it the reverse. I've been using FB for 8 years and I found it very poignant too but most of the images seemed to be from the last year or two.

I don't know if this correlates with the amount I posted those years or is just the effect of randomly picking a fairly small pool of images and events. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion
Why did they ditch bootstrap?
1.2% of households in the US (463,000 households) had "very low food security" for both adults and children in the household in 2012. That is to say, some children went hungry at some point during the year. (In a far larger number of households, adults were able to shield children successfully while going hungry themselves.)

Missing meals as a child is correlated with poor outcomes later in life.
Ask HN: Best way to store integer array/list per key
What is the best data-store or technique if we were to store millions of integer lists identified by a unique key. The following functions are intended on such lists:

1. Read for a given key
2. Add items to the end of the list against a key
3. Read portions of this list, from-to index
4. Rarely, remove items from the list

The data size is estimated to be roughly 100-million keys, with average of 2-3 thousand integer-list per key.

The key itself is an integer.
how are the dealing with legal issues?
I've read this article a couple of times in the last few years and it never ceases to amaze me. Clearly and in a concise way it lists all the points that people usually miss about JS.
What a bunch of hypocritical Presbyterian nuns. A 3-feet pile of dead bodies is OK on TV for 16-year olds, but people actually undressing before having sex is morally corrupting. I propose capital punishment for every U.S.-ian who was not born from a virgin.
I think ageism is implicit in modern Western culture. The Fields Medal has ageism built right into it: "a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal

However, skimming down the list of Abel Prize winners, those guys are no spring chickens, and do great work in mathematics well into their senior years.
Indian Government Launches National Cloud, MeghRaj
> I also observe what seem to be many consciousnesses

No, you observe a lot of other people that behave similarly to you. If you define consciosuenss as "behaves like me to a certain extent", than yes, there are mutliple consciousnesses. But consciousness is defined as something subjective, so by that definition, there's only one consciousness. Perhaps you're in a dream and imagining everything. Or in a Matrix and other people are just computer programs.
Read up on eve online. They're negotiating massive amounts of physics on the servers. ;)
One can also import csv to R and use sqldf package.
"And it's worth considering that every tweet"

Is taken care of by

"Violation of a registered copyright only carries punishment"

Or if thats a non-starter just reduce all the penalties by 1e6 or perhaps 1e3 for violation of an untagged work.

Retweeting being a copyright violation, but if a REGEX doesn't find a UUID in there, the legal cost would be a micropayment transaction, so probably ignored.

I would have to re-read Berne to determine if this sneaks by on a technicality, or if Berne is simply culturally and technologically obsolete. Its a copyright treaty, not an economic suicide pact... can be worked around.
Jq JSON processor
If being rude and wrong were a sacking offence, hardly anybody would have a job. This police officer should be fired for abusing his authority.
But that's nothing to do with making any case, simply practical consequences. Much like the drug war, DRM and its legal environment are basically self perpetuating now. I don't see.how continuing piracy has any impact at all.
The comment does not support its assertions with examples, reasons, or rationales.
You missed a point. "... based on how many __successful__ complaints we send them."

The consequence of a frivolous lawsuit is a "contempt of court" prosecution. Would it were feasible, would you be in favour of lowering the Pagerank of an attorney based on the number of times he has been found guilty of contempt of court when searching for representation ?
> 1) When will we reach the ability to take a snapshot of an entire organism with a nervous system up to a resolution sufficient to satisfy all expected simulation parameters?

Perhaps never. The major thing Kurzweil is ignoring is that this may actually be impossible.
Looks like they moved to using the SUIT CSS framework - https://github.com/suitcss. Again the framework is being developed by 3 guys working at Twitter.

It may be an extension to the concepts of Bootstrap - but as @mdo has already moved out of Twitter - expecting BS to always be aligned to Twitter would have been more to ask for.

Thus, the concept fork and a new framework.
I have to agree. the service clearly targets people who want to access consumer video torrents, and much of that content is pirated.

they avoid some problems by requiring everyone to pay directly. Megaupload really got into trouble for their affiliate programs, which essentially paid people to upload pirated content. Those programs drove a whole industry in Vietnam.

They clearly keep track of unique torrents across users because they provide the instant download feature. Thus they should be able to respond to DMCA requests quickly. By the same token, they may come under legal pressure to disclose user information about accounts that accessed successfully DMCA'd files.

There are legitimate uses for Bit torrent though, and this service seems like it would benefit the health of ecosystem as a whole. They'll probably seed a lot of data, maybe especially rare data. That would be helpful for things like big scientific datasets that often end up hosted on some .edu FTP site.
Clickable- http://OptKit.com
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> that’s at least 100 million times Google offered to direct users to illegal sources for music just within the last two years

What a terrible article. I'm in the administration of a website that regularly gets takedown notices and in the vast majority of cases they're bogus. Their claim here is pure conjecture and willful misrepresentation.

Not to mention that they use some terribly user-hostile javascript to add on more lines to content copy-pasted from the site.

--

Linked from the comments of that article, a well-written rebuttal:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140113/10303125849/riaas-...
I think the key here is that it isn't Google that decides which music can be pirated -- there are laws that require them to comply with these kind of requests. Such requests do not exist for the example you mention (law companies), and as such, Google is not required to comply with our requests.

In other words: blame lawmakers, not Google.
Do you remember being at school, and being told that coal would run out by 2005, oil would run out by 2010, etc etc?

Didn't happen.

Remember seeing Al Gores film where he said the ice caps would vanish by 2012?
Gloves don't work. The chemicals impregnate the gloves and then the situation's even worse, since they're being pressed against your skin for long periods of time.
> As it stands it's practically advantageous to be broke and have kids. There are a million programs and subsidies and scholarships to milk.

Most of those programs don't make up, even in their domain, for not having moderate income, not to mention that several of them are either time limited (both in consecutive terms and lifetime terms), or require you to be actively seeking improvement in your financial situation, or both.
Hacking Airline Lounges for Free Meals
If the purpose of a search engine is to provide an index of everything that's on the Internet, why do they expect the index to be biased?

I propose that Google should adopt the policy of removing references to people and organizations who attempt to influence the integrity of that index - wouldn't it be funny if there were no results when you googled RIAA?

And yes, I realize this might alter the profitability of their advertising business.
Is this possible? Initially I thought this was an Onion article. If this really is true, that's wonderful news. One small step toward reinstating civil liberties.

Now how about someone deals with cops who illegally force doctors to do enemas and anal cavity searches on people for having strange posture, or do roadside vaginal cavity searches on women with no probable cause, or shoot people's dogs upon erroneously entering their homes, or shoot unarmed suspects standing still with hands in the air?

Also, I find it incredible that the people who swore to serve the citizens and protect the constitution of their country are so quick to completely disrespect the said constitution so often.
The lists are expected to contain around 2-3 thousand integers. The maximum may lie in the range of 10-11 thousand. As the lists are expected to mostly grow, the numbers would increase. But, the older elements can be purged to another storage mechanism as they might not be very heavily accessed.
already postet 1395 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255277
Apropo of absolutely nothing, my advanced C++ final was a basic console CRUD application using ADO. It was a nightmare - fun, and I broke the database (and didn't get points for that) but a nightmare.

I'm so glad C# is a thing now.
Even if it was sponsored by some biased group it provides a lot of information as to what was going on and then you can judge who you believe. Bit like the adversarial court system where both sides put their case. Without the New Yorker article there would not have been someone putting Hayes case as well. Syngenta can now reply and say why it's all rubbish if they are so inclined.
That's an inference you see to be making, because I see no evidence in the story that this machine is being targeted at households too poor to have (or afford) electricity in their homes.

Just for reference, the cheapest semi-automatic washing machine I could find online is Rs.3990 or ~$65 [0] (there are cheaper models available offline, usually).

[0] http://compareindia.in.com/specification/washing-machines/ak...
New Google Chrome feature warns users when browser has been hijacked
I usually have questions regarding specific lines in songs (I'm not american, so I miss a lot of pop culture/slang references), and Rapgenius provides an easy way for me to understand why something was said.

Here's an example, from Nas' It ain't hard to tell:

"I drink Moet with Medusa, give her shotguns in hell"

I know Moet and Medusa, but I didn't know what "giving shotguns" meant. So I go to Rapgenius, click that line and it says: "To “shotgun” is to inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth."

Ah! So he exhaled weed smoke into Medusa's mouth, effectively stoning her. That was smart. Cool.

----

So imagine I'm reading official documentation, say "10 minutes to Pandas"[1]. I come across this line:

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(10, 4))

And I don't know NumPy. The tutorial doesn't explain what np.random.randn is doing, because it's not a NumPy tutorial. Of course I can search for that online, but in a "RapGenius for Code" all I would have to do is click the line.

Nothing revolutionary, but it is a valuable idea and worth a shot. Of course, RapGenius could just launch CodeGenius and get that market instantly.

[1] http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/10min.html
There was substantially more than just mere lying. From TFA:

"Saulet has long history of misconduct, with approximately 120 allegations against him and 21 cases of sustained misconduct (more than any other officer in the department). The sheriff's letter says that Saulet repeatedly was told to improve interactions with the public, and provided with remarkable investments of coaching and counseling. Saulet underwent three performance-improvement plans, two training sessions, and two multi-visit sessions with a social psychologist, coaching sessions with supervisors, and 80 hours of time off without pay. Saulet was demoted from sergeant to deputy for another incident in August"

In that incident "Saulet accosted a family that made a wrong turn into a Metro transit station last December [due to following their GPS]. Saulet reportedly threatened to arrest the parents in the car—including a visibly pregnant woman—and then suggested the couple's 18-month-old daughter would be seized by government authorities"[1].

Its also worth noting that the reporter filed a complaint against a 2nd officer who was also found guilty, but that officer was just given a day off without pay.

So the conclusion seems to be this was a problem officer who had been given many opportunities to improve and this was merely the last straw on the camels back.

[1] http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/08/19/king-co...
Don't be obnoxious.

Facebook has obvious problems as a company—privacy violations, data retention, lock-in, and so on—and as software, especially with regard to the frequency with which it's buggy as hell.

However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. More than one-seventh of the entire human population now uses Facebook every month, which is incredible. And to achieve that in only 10 years—obviously by providing a service that many people feel is worthwhile—is still something that we can admire, regardless of the other issues around Facebook.
Could someone please describe this for those of us that don't have a Facebook account?
Does she plan on inventing one for ironing?
Most of the time it just wastes gas. Well, beyond making the cabin comfortable it just wastes gas.
Sorry I meant to say what size of integer you require, 8,16,32,64bit?
> I'll grant you that maps looks nicer and nicer, but it becomes less and less usable at an alarming speed.

I've found this to be the trend with every Google product. Take a look at what they did to Deja News -- pretty soon Maps won't even exist, either.
Introducing Battleschool – OSX Workstation provisioning with Ansible
If you care about SIMD, you should try Intel SPMD Program Compiler (http://ispc.github.io/). Yes, this is a different language, but the result is also very different from normal C compilers. For example, the next thing an experienced SIMD programmer could do is to unroll loop to process not just 2 doubles (SSE), 4 doubles (AVX), 8 doubles (AVX-512), but full cache line, and then reduce the result to a sum. ISPC on the other hand implements this thing automatically.
> That’s also 100 million times that an artist, songwriter, music label – or anyone else involved in the chain of creating and distributing music – was likely denied the opportunity to earn any royalties, revenues or sales.

The fact that someone downloads something ilegally from the internet DOESN'T mean they'd otherwise pay for it. For how long we'll keep hearing that?
"Sherman is chairman and CEO of RIAA."

Usually the byline goes at the top so the reader can understand upfront the point of view and any biases of the writer.
There is actually a really cool opportunity here. A service like this could put an access fee on certain torrents, collect payment via bit coin and pass the fee on to the content creators.

Technically, it's totally feasible. of course, that only works if the content creators are willing to license the content, and that's difficult for even big players like Netflix.

There's a huge international market for video and bottom disappear prices. case in point: every sketchy DVD store in the third world. there's lots of legitimate money to be made if you were able to sell legally to that market. The real question is: how do you manage the Price differentiation? If a movie costs $10 in the USA and $0.50 in poor, region-excluded country X, how do you keep everyone in the US from buying the $0.50 version?

If put.io solves this problem, it'll become a billion dollar company.
is collusion even anti libertarian?
Does the next decade belong to Go?
Whoa. This is already confusing. Biscuits at KFC?
We'll try again at 200 million hopefully by then it will have stopped.
A Business Is Only As Good As It's Social Media Manager
Excellent article!

I love how they not only disprove a hypothesis that has been at the foundations of thermodynamics for a long time, but they even go about explaining why nobody thought of that before them.
What is also overlooked is that the crew members of the slave ships were also themselves kidnapped via press-ganging. This was one of the social pressures that brought an end to the trade in the UK. More and more young men were being kidnapped from port towns to serve on ships and eventually the residents began to organise protest. Wilberforce acted as agent between the towns to give the protest support, orchestration and communication with London.
Kids and Children Stock Footage – Google Groups
All about Inline-blocks
100 million take down notices. I wonder how many man hours it took to generate those take down notices.

Wasted effort in a bid to protect an outdated business model eg. cd and dvd distribution, massive mark up on digital sales.
If you're powering a washing machine and a TV by pedaling, I'm not sure you'll last a full cycle ;)
It may be unlikely but it does happen. I know someone who drove off the road (60mph single carriageway) at high speed and into a bollard. The bollard went through the air, smashed through a house window and caused the inhabitant to have a heart attack.
10 Years Later, the Hacker Way Still Rules at Facebook
Yes that also caught me out, and while reading I wondered who this was because the tone was somewhat arrogant as well as slightly blaming google for music piracy...
FlooBits: remote pair programming done right.
How about everyone who can't afford a computer but CAN afford to hang out at the local internet cafe all day?

Maybe put.io is really the new youku.com
Check whether your school or department has grants for conference travel. They often do, and it's definitely worth it if someone else is footing the bill.

If it's out of pocket - it really depends on what else you'd need the money for. They do post videos.
Government wants you to broadcast your driving data – eventually
Sorry - my bad.

32-bit for now. I don't anticipate them going to 64-bit so soon.
This reminds me of a SETI idea: looking for infrared signatures that could match the thermal waste output of interstellar ships.

This comes with an interesting model that has far-reaching implications, such as "should we have detected these a long time ago?" Of course the method comes with all the usual Fermi caveats, namely that space is big and the statistical likelihood of the effect happening nearby enough for us to see it.
Nothing RMS said or says is against selling digital products. IIRC, he had himself sold copies of GNU Emacs - obviously, properly obeying GPL license they were under, i.e. providing buyers with four essential freedoms that Free Software is all about.

It's just that works are usually not sold, but only licensed, because giving users rights to do whatever they want with their copies conflicts with current idea that people have exclusive rights to their works (actually, not usually their, but the ones they brought from original creator).

Wonder what difference it would cause if someone to regulate that market and force sellers to use proper wording in their offers, so you won't see calls to "buy a book" (unless you really buy it, huh), but only "license a book" or "buy/get a license for a book." Oh, right, nothing, it's just "buy٭" or "$0.99٭" buttons everywhere.
"distracting us from serious research in AI" - like how? By hiring DeepMind to work on pattern recognition?
dwm with pertag and systray patches, and also I've changed active window border color to red.
The trajectory of most parts of US policing and civil freedom is one-thousand steps backward and one step forward. Thankfully, he had evidence. The phone wasn't stolen and its data wasn't deleted by the officer, later or on the spot as in other cases. Heartwarming nevertheless. A favorite comment on the post:

"This seems a bit harsh. Doesn't everyone deserve a 122nd chance?"
Videogames dealt with piracy and DRM way before music, movies and books, and DRM is very much alive there. The only significant change in DRM usage in videogames is due to the shift to service-oriented games (multiplayer, updates, events, etc).
The time I was almost drawn into a Futurama episode
What? Latex gloves are water proof. Where can I learn more about the chemicals impregnating the gloves?
In other news:

- kids believe in extra cookies at snack time

- dogs believe in steak and not dry kibble in the dog bowl

People (and animals) like things that they perceive to benefit them. How is this even news?
Its a auto curated video of your time on facebook, using your most popular posts/photos etc.
Yes, it's almost the same as Berkeley DB, dependability notwithstanding. There is a place for noSQL, though maybe not as your main datastore.
Shareholder lawsuits are vanishingly rare, though.
IMO that isn't a valid reason to pirate it's just a crazy sense of entitlement. They've made it available to you in a reasonable way but it's still not good enough for you because it's not exactly what you want.
Feel free to start calling it that.
Only suddenly you start memorizing much more.
I'm curious when you say you feed DDG all your data. What does that include?

Also, instead of allowing competitors access to your data, what would you lose by denying everyone access to it?
txt-sushi does this too. It doesn't use SQLite, but processes the files directly, and supports joins.
ReRoll Game (RPG) will have its realistic terrain design drone-sourced
Torrents are always going to be more clumsy for media consumption than Netflix, etc. put.io is trying to bridge that gap, but it won't close it completely.

Real, legitimate streaming services are really good. they adjust quality based on available bandwidth. they have clients for every device you own. They provide all kinds of helpful metadata like cover art, actors, content classification, playlist recommendations, watch lists, etc etc etc etc

Torrents are terrible. half the stuff is malware, the quality is all over the map, languages and subtitles are a crap shoot, you use a ton of band width, you have to manage huge files locally, etc etc etc etc
SVG Cleaner 0.6: even faster and more accurate
How MonitorBacklinks gets 30k visits per month with SEO
In many markets, the available DVDs are either pirated or way too expensive for most people.
Not sure about invented. I guess it could be invented on a local scale, but I saw something similar in South Africa in the early 90's.
The Case of the Missing Magenta
It's a video showing some of your photos from the duration of your time on Facebook set to music.
Great idea, and nicely executed :)

Feature request : would be great to have a /all to get the whole story at once, instead of chapter by chapter.
Would allow to export to Kindle or Pocket in 2 secs.