skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But of course, "both sides" is a fallacy to most real issues that have many more sides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

Is always a good read when talking about issues like this.
Well, there is the MPAA, which seems to do what you're talking about, except rather than coming up with an all encompassing solution, they sue you. Because nothing says customer service like a lawsuit.
Yes, they've found a bright line that's in a bad place and stick to it because it makes the patent bar a lot of money. I don't think it's the best place to be and I have thought quite a bit about a 'triviality' test where if you can tell someone skilled in the art what to make without telling them how and they could still make it, your "invention" is too trivial to be worth protecting.

But I'm certainly open to the notion that we're moving too fast for patents to be worthwhile in some fields...
Yes! Any modern Fedora (my laptop operating system) or Ubuntu install lets you choose LUKS at install time and sets it up completely from the GUI. If you're stuck with windows, take a look at true crypt.

You never know when something like a stolen laptop could come back to haunt you. Unless, like me, you're a victim of serious business identity fraud.
A lot of speech in the U.S. that is allowed under our first amendment would be considered criminal in much of the rest of the world.
Don't worry. 3 More months and i'll be launching the next biggest movie site. P2P Streaming, MP4, Apps, everything you can imagine... Fast/Sexy and no ads.
Offer free copies yourself. Degrade the quality, embed advertising and maintain a solid back catalog.
That's right, The Four Color Theorem was the first such proof.

Mathematicians weren't so much "upset" as "not sure what to make of it". Technically, the "proof" wasn't really a proof at all, because it relied on the operation of a computer program, and the compiler / OS / hardware stack upon which the program operated had not been rigorously verified.

Even if it HAD been verified, there's still the question of whether transistors always work in the way we believe....

Of course, over the years, the Four Color Theorem has been checked 100s of times, with many different software / hardware stacks. But to a purist, this still only counts as "strong evidence" rather than "proof".
Hey,

I've actually built something similar to this myself, I plan on writing an article in the future with something along these lines.

Yours look pretty polished though, good job!
Forget the Netherlands doctors. Flew him on a plane as soon as possible to German:

Visit this site: immune-therapy.net

There's even more news about this on HN: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140219142556.ht...
If they really wanted to solve the problem, they should create/fund a service to promote the "truth" like a Politifact (assuming they do a good job - I don't actually know). Then you can fund it with:

- taxes on all political advertising, and/or

- penalties on the group(s) responsible for lies

...and use the revenue to offset the lies' impact by advertising the actual truth?

You'd have to somehow prevent bankruptcy protection for those groups else you could just start a new group for each "lie campaign" which spends all its' money and then goes bankrupt whenever penalized...

Of course "them really wanting to solve the problem" is the first bar to get over vs "wanting another stick to beat their opponents with". :-p
>Who wants to go to court, hire lawyers, stress and time to defend themselves against an accusation, even when you are overwhelmingly correct?

It's not about who wants to, it is about who can. The wealthy can easily buy their freedom of speech one way or another.

Laws like this are dangerous, not because they make the rich man spend his money, but because they imprison the poor man who has none.
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I'd love an invite: mkelley82@gmail.com -- Thanks!
Already done!

https://github.com/gollector/gollector
Not these guys, but doing realtime viz of signals.

We've switched over to a minimalist canvas renderer--if you don't need interactivity or styling, and instead just "draw me as much as you can as fast as you can, damnit.", we hope it's the way to go.
> do yourself a service and switch either to RDX or to tape. Storing basic HDD on shelves is a recipe for data loss.

What makes RDX (basically, an HDD encapsulated in a rubber cartridge) more reliable than e.g. an off-the-shelf rubber-USB-enclosed HDD? It's not like cartridge makers are making hard drives themselves - they source them from the same manufacturers as everyone else.

All the complaints about HDDs for backup/archive apply to RDX, as far as I can tell. And at $100-$150/TB (and I can't even find cartridges bigger than 1.5TB for sale anywhere), it seems to combine with the worst price as well.
For what its worth, I can duplicate on Chrome 33.0.1750.117

The tooltip movement becomes laggy as soon as I move into the top left quadrant. No noticeable difference between any of the other three quadrants.
Of course not.

Do you think we want admins sullying our glorious code?

:P
>the exponential rise in the price/performance of computing power looks like it is not going to stall out any time in the next 10-15 years.

research is good, yet it isn't enough for progress. You need driving force like market competition. With AMD out of the game (hopefully temporarily) Intel, with Ivy Bridge, went of to sell smaller chips (instead of doubling the number of cores on the same area chip) for the same money and with Haswell they decided that they can sell it much longer before introducing new generation (Broadwell). We need AMD back, or much faster ARMs, or whatever to start breathing into Intel's neck again ...
Boxit's storage-and-delivery service helps condo dwellers declutter
Hey, thanks for the feedback!

I'm planning on adding more to the article in the near future, this was just a start. I plan on it being a resource with almost everything in, so people can bookmark it for future use.

I really haven't seen lxml choking on pages, are you sure you have the latest libxml2 installed? lxml always seems to work for me. If you know of a URL where it doesn't, I'd love to see it.
>1Fox News, in Florida, in court, proved that they were in fact entertainment, NOT news //

That's hilarious. Presumably then in USA it's fine to label something as "fat free" when in fact you can prove in court it's NOT "fat free"?

Surely it doesn't matter if it's entertainment or news, in this case, if they labelled it as news then it needs to meet the expected level of truthiness.
That saying applies to beer and wine as well. (Only that for cheese, you farm the bacteria on animal products.)
Redlining for the 21st Century
No, it's not scary.
Thanks, good to know regarding the proxy. There was a couple of other little things that just didn't work the way I wanted though (I honestly don't remember them now).

I've built private libraries on top of requests now that allow me to do everything in such a trivial amount of time, so I prefer this approach with more control.

I think if I was going to write a long running spider, I'd probably look into scrapy again beforehand.
The biggest problem would be having a truly neutral arbiter, especially when it comes to politics. Would you want your most hated political opponent deciding what's 'truth' or 'lie'? Don't get me wrong, I really hate the crap they pull, I'm just not convinced that anyone could be trusted to run it, because it would be such a clear target for subversion by interested parties.
>“We don’t host anything, and none of the developers makes any money. There are no ads, no premium accounts, and no subscription fees or anything like that. It’s an experiment to learn and share.”

Famous last words. The Pirate Bay has made the same defense, but companies and law enforcement generally don't seem to care.

I would be shocked if they aren't sued or even prosecuted within the next year or 2. Not that that's a good thing, just that being this open and carefree about it will probably come to bite them in the ass later.
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Come live in Australia, where we have a lot of money and content from overseas is a pain to get legally.

Personally, I just stick to local content instead. Much easier.
Recent cancer research has shown that cancer is more or less an immuno problem. Regarding this, new treatments are available utilizing high doses of vitamin C given intravenously. The results look really promising. You might want to suggest this as a possibility of alternate treatment if chemo treatments don't seem to be working.
I'm mostly in the same boat. The last time this happened to me was when I wanted to (re)watch Star Wars but didn't have the DVDs at hand. It's impossible to pay for and watch the damn thing online/on-demand/pay-per-view/you-name-it.
Thanks for the mechanize link, I'll add a note about it.

Mechanize is awfully slow though, if you need to crawl quickly it's not asynchronous. I wouldn't want to use it for general crawling. I guess you could patch the stdlib with gevent, and try and get something working that way.
Just use dinosaurs...

Algorithm or technique? The press release is quite vague (I did not check through the links). Are we talking laser, infrared, visible spectrum, or fruity pebbles algos? What if a pure black object is occluding known stars? What if there is some ice on the same black object? Is the algo meant to be run directly on a satellite (Hubble, Kepler, etc.) or from a terrestrial observatory?

Break it into knowns, then unknowns.

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#BBCtrending: How the MH370 website ended up on eBay
This is the best population visualization I've ever seen. It's striking that spikes turned out to be so superior to heatmaps. It's possible to intuit the whole dataset at a glance, whereas heatmaps force you to constantly worry about the meaning of every color in relation to every other color.

It's obvious in retrospect why spikes are superior: precision. Spikes represent the underlying data much more accurately than colors, especially between datapoints.
Interesting that they are using kernel version 2.6.32-35. Is it common to run such an older kernel version on servers?
I found these the other day and I wonder how these have largely slipped under the radar. Of particular interest is hxpipe and hxunpipe which makes "scraping" tasks absurdly easy, by converting html to a form easily manipulatable by sed, grep and other fun unix utilities.

update:
tracking the score of this post on the front page using this:

curl -s https://news.ycombinator.com/news | hxnormalize | hxpipe | grep -C 20 "TheZenPsycho" | grep points
-9\n points
What a fascinating story. It's like the difference between startup life and working for IBM or someplace.
sooo still inequality rising? or did wsj guy just skip over that one?
I very much enjoy using NProgress.js (http://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/). Very similar to this library, but with the added benefit of a random increment function that allows you to show progress without knowing the specific position.
Each turn, one 2 tile is added, and other tiles may be combined. So you can derive the move count by adding together the numbers on all the visible tiles and dividing by 2.
Tomnod releases high res images to help find missing Malaysian Airlines Plane
The advantage to it being offline (locally installed) is that someone cannot simply shut down the website to block everyone. It is essentially just another BitTorrent client with a really nice interface.
> Be gone with the archaic contracts and let people get the content when they want it in a way that makes sense for everyone.

Or as Carl Carlson said recently on The Simpsons: "All we want is brand new, big-budget entertainment in our homes for nothing. Why doesn't Hollywood get that?"
http://www.marco.org/2012/02/25/right-vs-pragmatic

That is all.
Keep the tablet aside and use your hand :)
Do you think that's why Amazon gave in to publishers' moronic demands to disable text-to-speech on Kindle?
I always see this and want to say this: if you are a high schooler, do not ask for permission to apply, just apply.
You don't need to install json on 1.9.3, it's already in the stdlib http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/json/rdoc/index.html
I believe the transponder code can be changed to a special value to indicate a hijack condition. Perhaps they install a sort of "silent alarm" control to do this?
In central ish Auckland, and the fastest I can get is 5Mb. No fibre available. Tried their "unlimited" and it's throttled to hell. Worthless. For about $100 I now have throttled but capped. But on the bright side, fibre may be available in 2019 according to our joke of a minister, Amy, when she emailed me.
Exactly. Chomsky also pointed this out well many times, that anyone with an agenda for, say, "7 out of 10" on a scale (like, "should we go to war, & if so, how?", can simply present "both sides" as a 5 & 9, so viewers, most of whom would have chosen "3" would think they were very much outliers to the social norm, & picked something between between 5 & 9. They can frame an issue in such a way that looks like they are considering "all points", so that the viewers must identify within that limited range or feel very alone.
Part of the scout_realtime team here...swap is important. Displaying it the future is possible.

In fact, fire up the console on the project homepage and type "metrics.memory". We're capturing it, just not displaying it yet on the screen.
I realize this is an open source project, but I would steer far clear of contributing any code to it. This app is no different than Napster. From a civil perspective, its creators will be found liable for contributory infringement. But that's just the beginning. They will also likely soon experience a paramilitary style Kim Dotcom-esque raid on their homes and offices, where they will be arrested and face decades in prison.

I am not sure what the point of releasing this app and making it accessible in the US is. The FBI serves at the pleasure of large US corporations, and on their request will turn these guys into cannon fodder.
>forcing companies or people to shut up so as to not say something they might not consider to be a lie, but that may later be qualified as one //

Lies and untruths/falsehoods are different. A lie is something you know to be false but claim to be true in order to deceive. You can be factually incorrect without lying.

Such errors can still cause defamation of course but they lack the mens rea of lying.
They can shut down the trackers..
Agreed. Incorporating took me all of 15 minutes online. Focus on what is REALLY important - getting your first 3 paying clients.
Interesting post, but I would recommend not missing out on the birthing classes.
Yeah - we thought about this, but decided to get started in Ruby since it's the fastest way for us to ship. Go is definitely interesting.
Mt. Gox wins brief US bankruptcy protection
This is true, and I would fully support this law if politicians would be fully charged with under the law after every campaign speech....

This still seems like a non-solution to me. It seems like if we accept that governments are by nature corrupt, then the question is how to have a theory and structure of government that appropriately cabins that corruption.
I use these guys. If you're OK with French they are awesome... But otherwise you may find some basic stuff rage inducing. Good boxes for a good price though, I'm happy.
True, and I love AMD and wish they were still competing effectively. No doubt if they were, the recent (relative) stagnation in chip price depreciation would not have been so pronounced.

But it's important to remember how innovations such as these change the landscape for competition. As a large pseudo-monopoly, Intel can be complacent, but not indefinitely. While the barrier to entry is very high in chip fab, and maybe insurmountable by anyone assuming current chip designs, there are a lot of very well capitalized electronics corporations in the world. If they believe a new manufacturing process will be required for the next generation in chips and Intel's margins are too high, they may well seize upon the opportunity to go after it.

This type of research it exactly what is needed to help sew the seeds for those next generation processor technologies that will help shake up the competitive landscape and dislodge the stodgier players who sit on high margins and care more for next quarter rather than the next decade.
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I've been to this place before with my first project. As non-technical founders our solution was to outsource. Fast forward 2 years, I run a business helping startups outsource their projects, by matching them with dev teams from my curated portfolio.

To do that, we work with the founders on:

1. Properly determining the scope and technical requirements, so things can be predictable
2. Understanding their needs and creating an ideal team profile. Things get complicated later on, if you don't focus on both hard skills AND the soft side - cultural fit, communicational patterns. Also, by looking for a team that already has experience in your industry focus and project type, you can get more than you bargained for.
3. Selecting the most fitted profile. We do this by further distilling the teams, by interviewing them.
4. Providing support on configuring and helping with the relationship management.

Shamelessly, we do this for free. If you need any help, just give me a shout! :)
A stream is not identical in functionality to a DVD.

Aside from that, this is a difficult to prove assertion. I'm not sure there's actually been a paid legitimate service that's actually better than the free pirate one overall, when you take out the morality equation.

Netflix, rdio, etc. do seem to be doing quite well at proving that people are still willing to pay for a good service with legitimate content, though. Imagine if they were actually as good as the alternative.
Netflix has a poor selection, poor quality, poor playback controls, poor filtering (audio/video, like audio normalization or brightness controls), terrible subtitles and subtitle support (half the shows seem to have ALL CAPS subtitles for some crap reason). Oh, and if you travel, the site's UI starts flipping into multiple languages and subtitle selection gets worse.

And, there's no apparent way to force Netflix into HD. It's usually pretty good about it, but I'd prefer to just wait a few minutes first and know I'm set. Netflix can be convenient, but searching on a torrent site, click magnet, click OK, click stream is also fairly easy and eliminates the above mentioned problems.
Ah thanks - I haven't seen this yet my laptop. We'll keep an eye on it.
"... This approach will discover new asteroids and improve our model of the solar system. It also opens opportunities for interesting algorithmic challenges, and the chance for a normal person to discover an asteroid.

"As a programmer, I’m particularly interested in how we’ll improve algorithms to spot asteroids. I am sure that there are conventional ML techniques and even simpler image processing approaches that are not being sufficiently exploited." [1]

That's Ian Webster talking about Asterank [2], which might be relevant background here since this NASA project is in partnership with Planetary Resources, which acquired Asterank.

1. http://www.ianww.com/blog/2013/11/26/asterank-discover-revie...

2. http://www.asterank.com/discover
Cost is not value.

The pirate's service will be more valuable to me when he offers more that I value than the legal provider does. How much either charges for the service has no bearing on that. Now, the legal provider may actually offer something more valuable, but some people will still choose to pirate because the cost is free. But that is clearly not always the case, since people still often pay for content. Otherwise, Steam wouldn't be a business. That's what Gabe is getting at.

I could pirate games for free, but it's a pain compared to Steam, and I value my time. Since the service provided by Steam is superior to pirating the software, and because paying on Steam is less hassle than attempting to pirate a thing, I use Steam. (There are other reasons, but from pure rational self-interest or whatever, that's how it works for me.)

So legal providers that offer more than pirates do will still face issues of piracy, however legal providers that offer an inferior service to even pirates might expect that their product will have near-100% piracy rates, and they will be forced out of business.
More specifically:

North Korea is an executive dictatorship. Iran, to the extent they are a dictatorship, is a judicial one. One could argue that ancient Athens was a legislative dictatorship. Iran has more in common with classical Greece than they do with North Korea though. And you can see the influence (albeit filtered through Islamic commentaries) of Plato's Republic on the form of government.
A good overview article.

Another aspect of EC deployment that is sorely lacking is smartcards/tokens implementing it; PGPcard and YubiKey NEO only implement RSA/DSA. As far as I can tell, there's no commercially available hardware token, and standard software to use it (GPG?) if there was one.
1Fox News, in Florida, in court, proved that they were in fact entertainment, NOT news, so they could feel free to broadcast outright lies, factual untruths.

This is a misrepresentation. The specific legal process is to assume everything the Plaintiff says is true and then determine whether it was illegal. If it's not illegal, there is no point wasting the court's time determining if the Plaintiff's allegations are correct.
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One more argument for a heavyweight core: Vagrant is perfect for delivering a configured environment to designers and less-experienced developers. But once you start tacking on plugin installation to an already burdensome process (download VirtualBox, download Vagrant, launch Terminal, find the directory, run vagrant up), you lose the 'vagrant up'-and-done quality.

As it stands, your options for plugin installation are:

1) Instruct your users to 'vagrant plugin install XXX' in your README. Hope that they get the right versions.

2) Use "bindler," a now-deprecated plugin manager for Vagrant. That's:'vagrant plugin install bindler', then 'vagrant bindler setup', and finally a 'vagrant plugin install' to auto-install the packages you specify in a JSON file.

Neither very attractive options.

If Vagrant could get support for a plugin manager in core, then I'm all for plugins. I have dreams of 'vagrant up' reading plugin requirements from your Vagrantfile and automatically installing them into that environment only. (@mitchellh? ;) But for now the monolithic core model seems to be working quite well.

--

Anyway, so much fun stuff in this release! Particularly psyched about box versioning and the rsync shared folders—two features I've hackily implemented myself in shell scripts on top of Vagrant 1.3 for work.
Site seems to be responding with 503 here is the cache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oL0JfmR...
There have been paid piracy services like AllOfMP3 that were very popular. Also people are willing to pay for access when pirating in regards to seed boxes, VPN's etc.

So I wouldn't say there is no user cost for piracy. For me, occasions I have been tempted to pirate something it is more about convenience or lack of access.
2.6.32 is one of the longterm maintenance releases; it's still supported and new security patches are backported. If you rent a freshly imaged RHEL/CentOS server today, that's the kernel you'll be getting. Pretty much all the software packages those distro's come with are older, longterm/stable releases, never bleeding edge.
I did, with 23000 points.
Google has also donated cycles to at least one scientist working on the protein folding problem; he's a friend of mine, and also happens to be a fan of the Rubik's cube.