skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the moment...

Agree with your middle point however there are other laws in which he could have been stopped under which relate directly to the crime. Terrorism laws were picked selectively because they can hold suspects longer. This is the problem - everything looks like a target when a gun is handed to powerful people. This power was no accident either.

The courts are inconsistent in general. There is no law of the land any more -- it's down to the prosecutor's opinion unless it is trial by Jury. Consider the post-riot sentencing system that appeared to process suspects overnight without a fair trial. Many people were issued criminal charges and a prison term for civil issues that would have usually resulted in a fine or community service.
That's a good tip!
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I knew this would come up, that's why I wrote

> [...] in certain disciplines [...]

which is also exactly the use case the article refers to: for example chemistry papers.
I noticed the following about myself the other day.

When I should be doing something productive, but can't be bothered, HN is a "compromise" for me. Basically 90% of the time is wasted, but at the same time I do learn a fair bit in the other 10% of the time. I can kid myself I am doing something productive, (when 90% of the time it isn't).
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OT: I suddenly wish for a GreaseMonkey script which would replace all instances of the word “terrorist” with “viking”. I feel this would make the world a better place, somehow.
"Miranda was carrying classified files relating to UK intelligence gathering out of the country."

He was carrying them on a flight between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro, and was detained while in transit at Heathrow. Your comment that he was taking files "out of the country", while barely technically correct, is highly misleading. He didn't steal them in the UK and try to smuggle them out of the country; the files already existed outside the UK. In fact, they were stolen from an NSA site in the US by Edward Snowden.
It's so pretty!
I said VM concept is useful, after all it is how all modern operating systems are implemented, by making use of virtual resource management.

Other than that, I stand by my point that modern software has lots of bloat of useless layers.
What an evil sentiment.
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Linking to infringing content is probably illegal in the US (2006)
Summary: There have been 3 court cases in the US where sites were forced to take down links leading to infringing material on external sites. The sites were found guilty of ‘contributory infringement’ for simply linking.
Well, Apple already charges for MacOS, so I don’t see how this is any different.
"Mandela was leader of the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe which he co-founded. "he coordinated a sabotage campaign against military and government targets, and made plans for a possible guerrilla war if sabotage failed to end apartheid". If that's not terrorism (systematic use of violence as a means of coercion for political purposes) what is? The morality of this is another discussion.
Yet not at all uncommon.
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the old school version of this conspiracy is the AV software makers were the ones funding the virus creators.
I concur. RIPA was not about terror, especially when it was passed. It's a generally applicable law that's been mis-used in the name of 'security' and 'safety', in the same way that stop and search from PACE is.
Since when has the UK started to classify files of other intelligent services?

Beyond being a bit bureaucratic to classify files of other nations, but what does it mean if Sweden classify files created and kept the Norway government. Can it be used to jail Norwegian citizens if they travel to or from Sweden?
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This baby monitor app is just what I'm looking for. I hope the developer opens up an API to it too. It'd be great to tie in a couple of web cams I already have.
One of LifeSize's internal video streams you could use for testing their video conferencing product was a fishtank, it was pretty cool. Couldn't feed the fish though.
Hello Carson, Pierpaolo from Dropbox here.

we are considering open sourcing the segmenter tool (3rd). As you can imagine it's very much tailored for our pipeline and as the internal tool built in ffmpeg matures, we think our solution will become of marginal value. I keep debating myself if/when to bite the bullet and try out the ffmpeg one.

The first tool is quite similar to the one that mau posted (https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart). Given that we forked quite some time back, I'd suggest to start from that one since it has probably bug fixes on top of our version.
A little framework with a big splash
nice work! Check out hoot.ch. A similarly minimalist music discovery web-app.
Here is coffeescript example:

hello = ->
alert "Hello, world!"
hello()

Why complicate things?
"You just have to dev with Mono in mind from the start."

You say that like it's the most trivial thing in the world. Most people attempting Mono have been loyal Windows-based .NET developers for years. Mono only has value for them if they can port their legacy apps from Windows and .NET to Mono.
No, but there was a prolonged dirty war by the security services against the republicans, including collusion with murderers and terrorists on the 'loyalist' side.
"I'm not at all certain the fish are real either."

This is 2014. Assuming a decent level of development skills, it is not like this is so amazing that it just has to be faked. Hooking up webcams to the internet and hooking up a few web buttons to some real equipment via an Arduino is so easy I can't help but think it's actually easier to set this up for real than convincingly fake it in front of an Internet audience!

Seriously, folks, turn the cynicism knob down a bit. And I'm a cynic myself.
I like it.
But Allowing HTML files is not good
http://drp.io/files/5304baa46b183.html
Actually they do that. Don't forget that GCHQ steal a lot of stuff as well and then retrospectively classify it as well.
These Black Hats make their living off of companies and people with poorly implemented information security. Brian Krebs makes his living exposing Black Hats who themselves have poor information security. There is some delicious irony in the Black Hats' retaliation against Krebs.
In a conference room at Sun in the 1980's, I saw a touch screen control panel on the speaker's podium for raising and lowering the lights, projector screen, controlling the projector, etc. It has a small solenoid with a rubber mallet at the tip which would go "thunk" against the back of the glass to provide haptic feedback for the virtual buttons. Pretty low tech, cheap, simple but effective.
You do not need to be by his side. Math requires a lot of personal, intimate, lonely thinking.

Many problems can be formulated in just a few words. You apparently have some mathematical culture yourself, so just give him a handful interesting problems, at the edge of his intellectual reach, and let him wonder for some time.

When he was a child, Gauss discovered by himself the formula for the sum of integers from 1 to n, because his teacher asked him about it for n=100.
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Fascism always seems just when you disagree with the point of view being silenced. That's why it's so pernicious.
It is murderously hard to find a real, no-nonsense competence. Usually all you got are narcissistic types like patio11 and talking heads.

I studying good old CS books and AIMs or watching some online courses this way.
> A false positive in the interviewing process (hiring a dud) is much more likely than a false negative (turning off a great candidate).

I see statements like this thrown around a lot. Do you have precision/recall/F-measure numbers to back this up?
I tuned out when they started dating the emergence of a group of animals by working backwards based on a guess of how long they would have needed to achieve a certain level of genetic diversity.
That's interesting as conjecture, and I'll take it as such.
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Time "wasted" relaxing a little with your concious in idle, is often not wasted time. Though climate and other local conditions permitting, I might suggest a short stroll in the fresh air as a better alternative.
According to your link, you only need a $200K income to qualify, which you could reasonably expect in the midst of a real engineer crunch.
This is a Google translation of a paper published by a Polish medical journal (in Polish, with an English abstract). Despite being an automated translation, it excellently conveys the scientific value of the original text.

The journal in question scores 7 points on a list of journals published by Polish Ministry in Science. For comparison, "Nature" is worth 50 points. Those points subsequently translate to the authors' evaluation factors, affect their chances of obtaining grants, etc.
I heard a rumor back in the day that the Chernobyl virus [1] (Also Win.CIH, I think) was released by Microsoft within pirated versions of Windows. At the time I was in high school and just believed it, because Microsoft was the big, evil corporation at the time. Now of course I'm more skeptical, though I still wouldn't be surprised.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)
Nice, but is this any different from other image hosting sites?
1. Go to a mall bathroom. Put on face makeup that disguises the shape of your face and its features.

2. Buy disposable cell phone in cash.

3. Go to a public place outside your normal orbit, clone your MAC and connect to the wifi.

4. Set up a Gmail account and blogger.com account.

5. Go back to mall bathroom and change into normal appearance. Do all steps each time you post information, using different malls.

Any information that can be dug up will be useless. Beware of cameras in the mall bathroom.
I think there's two problems nobody seems to be addressing about space elevators.

1) A vehicle starting at the earths surface has the moment of earths rotation. As it climbs the cable it would need to be accelerated to a suitable orbital momentum. If you don't do this, then it'll "tug" on the cable counter its rotation.

Edit: To clarify why that is a problem. The climber would be accelerated by the tension of the cable, but as that happens, the cable would be bent at the point of the climber, which might be problematic. Also the counterweight that provides the tension would be decelerated, so the whole cable would "tilt". That is all, as long as the climber climbs. When it stops climbing (or is jettisoned), both counterweight and climber would now start a pendulum motion (at different frequencies). That's probably also not good.

2) To reach geostationary orbit at a speed of say 100km/h would take 2 weeks. Traveling 500km/h it would still take 3 days. Unless you jettison the climber at the top, only one climber could be on the cable at any one time, and that would put a lot of strain on recovering the initial cost of building the elevator by putting an upper bound on how often you can send a climber up to anything between every 6 days to a month. I don't think anybody would engage in a project that cost trillions of dollars to get built, and then can only send 12 missions per year into orbit.

Edit: People are pointing out that a second cable would solve this issue. I think it might be challenging to keep the two cables from tangling up across a tens of thousands of kilometers.
It doesn't have very SQLish syntax, but there are various JSON ports of XPath and XQuery from the XML world.
MacOS is not a firmware or bios. And the 10.9 update is free of charge as well. Firmware updates have always been free.

Also we are talking about servers here and not a desktop OS.

So what's different? Everything, we are not even talking about the same thing.
All this really means is that, if you have an HP server that you let the service contract on lapse, you're going to ditch that hardware sooner.

Whether or not you buy another HP server is an interesting question. Dunno; this is kind of a dick move on HP's part, and not a great sign.
> We've reached a point in time when we can start actually faking history.

It has always been possible to fake history, inadvertently or intentionally. There was a narrow stretch of time when photography became widespread which made it a bit harder to fake history, but photographs were being faked and staged long before we had computers to do digital editing of them. And before we had photographs, it was possible to fake manuscripts, etc.
From http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm

> This collection includes 441 Hello World programs in many more-or-less well known programming languages, plus 64 human languages.
This makes a lot of sense.

Your physical body is your "user interface" with the world, so if your body is weak and sickly, it's hard to project force and confidence into your interactions with other people.

I'm not talking about being a bully, of course. I'm talking about standing up and being confident being assisted by the deep, body-centered knowledge that you are able to effectively 'handle' yourself and your physical environment.
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The fraud detection aspect is truly intriguing. The motivation for the fraud could well be seeing other people's fraudulent papers and comparing yourself to their impossible data, and making the change in a desperate move for acceptance.

Academia as a whole has many diseases, but the emergence of the scientific academic world as a unified hive mind, which thanks to antics like this gets increasingly out of touch with reality, is seriously detrimental to progress.
Baking a Hello World Cake (2013)
In both cases it is software which is specific to hardware sold by the same entity which made the software. There is no way anyone else except the company’s customers could benefit from the software, and the software is necessary for the hardware to operate correctly, but the company sees fit to charge extra for the software anyway.

Of course, no analogy is perfect, but those are the commonalities I see.
If you read the actual court judgement (which I would recommend everyone to do, normally very interesting and shows the depth to which these things are considered) you will see:

Mr Oliver Robbins, Deputy National Security Adviser for Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office,
indicates in his first witness statement (paragraph 6) that the encrypted data contained in the external hard drive taken from the claimant contains approximately 58,000
highly classified UK intelligence documents. Many are classified SECRET or TOP SECRET. Mr Robbins states that release or compromise of such data would be likely
to cause very great damage to security interests and possible loss of life.
The one table leg being longer can be easily be attributed the lens distortion.

One would expect that, being in a room, a fisheye lens has been used in the original picture. But that would have led to a barrel distortion. Instead, a zoom lens was used. This has an interesting side effect: Putin, sitting at the border of the photo, then appears larger.
imgur filled a needed gap at the time and helped millions of Reddit users. I think drp.io would need a similar circumstance.
If you're a coder that had to generate CSV files to be opened in Excel, you don't necessarily associate those two things as a good match :)
I think that if there were laws against framing[1] and hotlinking then Google would be the biggest offender.

[1] http://webdesign.about.com/od/legal/a/aa030507.htm
The point of "seeing parallels" is that it seems to be moving in that direction with no stopping barrier in sight.

Neither UK nor USA nor Europe are currently oppressive dictatorships. However, dissent is already punished without much appeal or protection available to those punished. Laura Poitras, Jacob Appelbaum as first who come into mind in this mind context.

Powerful anti-terrorist measures are appropriate against guy with bomb in backpack planning to kill thousands people tomorrow. They are not appropriate against occupy members essentially guilty of sitting on a side walk.

Similarly, strong anti hacking measures are appropriate for those who just store millions. They are not appropriate against journalists who humiliated powerful companies.

Twisting non-infractions of political opponents into "terrorist acts" is what is happening here. That is essentially little suppression apparatus being build and used, just not being powerful enough yet.

The more of it is build, the harder it is to stop next growth.
"First they came for the homophobes..."
Does he provide the helicopter?

(You probably are talking about a meta helicopter, but it sounds like you should take the company helicopter for a ride to think about it. I like the idea.)
Love FTL. I can't remember the last time I loved a video game this much.
Cameron apologied on behalf of Conservative party [1], not personally.

The "Hang Nelson Mandela" material was created by a group, which Cameron was not involved with, within the Federation of Conservative Students.

Disclosure: I'm not a Conservative supporter. I dislike what Cameron is currently doing and loathe Thatcher.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-we-wer...

[2] http://www.newstatesman.com/media-mole/2013/12/twitter-fact-...
Not sure how this is less of a waste of time than making a Wikipedia edit which will almost certainly get immediately reverted.
Even startups need time to recharge
So basically a less complete version of https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world
Same with python …
As pointed out below, there was much less fuss about it, even after the Brighton hotel bombing, and much less restriction of civil liberties in mainland UK. (Civil liberties restrictions and human righs violations in Northern Ireland, on the other hand ...)

It's also worth pointing out that the US not only ignored IRA terrorism but in places actually supported it: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/12/glenn-greenwald-slams-...
Regarding the second point, building two cables in parallel would certainly not double the project price. (It could however pose additional safety challenge).
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A current warranty is enough for access. On top of that, lots of their business is probably from people that want the support contract anyway. I imagine that covers at least a slight majority of their customers.
The full text of the judgement is at [1]. An interesting read.

Apart from the political and human-rights implications, what I find most interesting is how the police knew what Miranda was actually carrying. Paragraph 11 of the judgement quotes a police document (written before Minranda was stopped) justifying his detention:

"We strongly assess that MIRANDA is carrying items
which will assist in GREENWALD releasing more of the NSA
and GCHQ material we judge to be in GREENWALD’s
possession. Open source research details the relationship
between POITRAS, GREENWALD and SNOWDEN which
corroborates our assessment as to the likelihood that
GREENWALD has access to the protectively marked material
SNOWDEN possesses. Our main objectives against David
MIRANDA are to understand the nature of any material he is
carrying, mitigate the risks to national security that this material
poses..."

Which reads like supposition to me. Based on open source research? Please.

Later, in paragraph 13:

"The claimant’s hand luggage was examined, and items retained which as I
have said included encrypted storage devices. Mr Oliver Robbins, Deputy National
Security Adviser for Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office,
indicates in his first witness statement (paragraph 6) that the encrypted data contained
in the external hard drive taken from the claimant contains approximately 58,000
highly classified UK intelligence documents."

Which is a very definite statement. Either it's based on guesswork, in which case the best that could be said is that it is merely an opinion, or else they broke the encryption (TrueCrypt?). I can't find anything in the facts section of the judgement to indicate that Miranda disclosed what he was carrying, or surrendered passwords.

[1] http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgment... [PDF]
It's even worse - in serbian slang, "drpio" means "he stole [something]" :)
I've seen reports that up to 70% of workers are in jobs that could eventually be automated. This is a pretty scary statistic when you think about it, which is why I'm also a huge proponent of the idea of a basic income guarantee. With numbers like that, pretty much every job is going to be overcome by competition for the position, no matter how intricate it is, as long as we have this notion that everyone HAS to work in order to earn the right to live—even if there's no work available.

But if you're looking for jobs where your likelihood of being outsourced is negligible, look for the ones that are hardest for machines to do. These, by the way, aren't necessarily those at the top of the knowledge spectrum. Doctors as a profession, for example, will eventually fall to machine learning systems like Watson, and medical school will become more a technician's school than anything else. Nurses, however, perform a wide variety of functions that are difficult to automate safely, nor can they be offshored. Its difficult to outsource sticking a needle in someone.

Last thing: I'd argue with the idea that web development is commoditized. At the lower end of the spectrum, sure—tons of wordpress themes out there, its easy to offshore something like that, basic development provided by good software. But higher up the food chain, where you're at the end of the market where you actually DO stuff like write original javascript, or develop some new server platform, or whatever it is on that end of the spectrum—those jobs aren't going anywhere for awhile.
So fast, so simple. I like it!
Usually, there is no notice required from either side except in the case of mass layoffs (two weeks are expected out of politeness, but aren't legally required). That can be changed by a contract, but that usually doesn't happen for anyone but high-level executives.
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fixed :) I am only allowing images for now. thanks!
Russian contemporary novelist Victor Pelevin explored a similar theme in his "Generation P" book (1999). The idea was that there were no "real" politicians, because all of them were fabricated digital images to sell more ads. Quite an entertaining read.

On goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9667484-generation / http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337672.Homo_Zapiens (translated version)
>> She says strength doesn't matter, but try being around a bodybuilder without feeling at least a bit intimidated.

A very large muscled man will really distort a social setting. Men will offer to buy him drinks. Women want to touch him. It commands immediate respect from everyone around. It's very strange.
If the author had put less effort into being cute, and more effort into just saying what he had to say, the article might be worthwhile.

As it is, I have other things to do with my time than train myself to filter out his particular and peculiar attempts at lightening the mood. Repeated references to Jell-O and reminding us that Tesla didn't help us make it to Mars are just plain tedious. Distraction with no point served.
IMHO even the one with Gheddafi could be a fake, the light is not the same on the subjects..
The c example uses puts(). I was a little surprised as this is not the typical version I have seen.
Google doesn't seem to know about "Hartree’s law" outside of this article...