skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Look, if you want to get a Getty image today, you can find
it without a watermark very simply," he says. "The way you
do that is you go to one of our customer sites and you
right-click. Or you go to Google Image search or
Bing Image Search and you get it there. And that's
what's happening… Our content was everywhere already."

When Getty Images gets in the news in Holland it is usually for sending angry letters, demanding up to a 20.000Euro fine for using an image no greater than 150px by 150px on a non-commercial site, no notice. [1].

"And that's what's happening". Yes, and what happens next is that Getty Images places the misleading "royalty free" on their sites and that using an image found on Google Images on a personal blog gets you a letter from one of their lawyer companies. First few years those letters were sent, not over snail mail, not in the Dutch language, but addressed to postmaster@example.com with references to Irish laws that don't apply here, yet with a deadline to pay up.

With claims of on average a few hundred Euro's vs damages of max. 20-30 Euros, many suspected that Getty profited heavily from having their pictures "everywhere already", preferably not with the original license intact, adding to the profitable confusion.

"Free to use" I don't believe in with this company. It wouldn't surprise me if heavy use of non-watermarked image embedding will lead to more spurious copyright infringement claims [2].

Disclaimer: I received such a letter a few years back when a client provided a thumbnailed image of a pizza they had right-click-saved somewhere. The letter claimed damages for using a full-resolution image with all the publishing rights totaling 750Euro.

[1] English source: http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2008/05/watching-getty-i...

[2] About Pic-Scout, their image crawler, not respecting robots.txt and being very difficult to block, search "picscout robots.txt"
Spotify acquires The Echo Nest to build a better music discovery engine
Did you ever think of skill exchange?

I am interest in your current role "Marketer". Recently I just launch my startup product(peoplelamp.com). Now I am headache on how to promote it on US market especially I am living in Asia(Taiwan). Take a look at my site and see if my skills fulfill your expectation. I build this site myself. If you are interesting we can discuss further.

Not sure if my response violate the posting rules of HN. If it did, I will remove it immediately.
The volatility has been high enough that people are used to losing/gaining that much in a day.
looks like it's back, at least for browsing repositories
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This is a really irresponsible article. Imagine what this guy is going to have to live with for the rest of his life.
The true value of this mentality isn't possible while in the current structure of our capitalistic systems.
By making something that's used by vast numbers of people to channel huge amounts of money.

Journalists need to be able to go after stories like this because otherwise our society will be much worse. They have editors. They have review boards. We're not talking about 4chan or reddit lynch mobs here.
Cognitive dissonance actually refers to the excessive mental stress and discomfort suffered by holding two opposing ideas in one's mind at the same time. Since these people don't seem to be particularly discomforted by this, the term 'hypocrisy' might apply better.
Homes you can drive by. Hardly that big of a deal.
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I'm wondering how many of the commenters that are equating holding BTC with a death sentence by violent criminals would consider themselves pro-BTC.
> Don't forget that it is not easy to remove confounding with smoking, drinking, low physical activity etc. as, incidentally, those who eat most meat happen to also score worse with those factors.

And those who aim to be healthy will probably try to be at least moderate w.r.t their meat intake because they have heard that meat is unhealthy, which further "proves" that meat is unhealthy, while in reality it might be because of other habits that they might have, like exercising.

Things like paleo might make things a little less one-sided.
On the bright side: if keeping his anonymity was Satoshi's main reason for not touching his BTC fortune, now he and his family will finally be able to use all that money and take benefit from it - well deservedly.
And many of them have protection. For instance ExxonMobil has security for its executives. They need it: one of their execs was kidnapped for ransom and stuffed alive in a box.
Breakthroughs happen in obscurity
Since my last submission of Learn Ruby was well received, I created a version for Javascript.
Is there a phrase for when someone takes the "Moral High Ground" where there is none to take?
Do they all have specifics like razl_pl says, and do they all get deleted?
The health care situation in your country matters a lot too. Plenty of people are depressed and too poor to afford treatment.
If Nakamoto ever sells his Bitcoin fortune, he would likely have to do so at a legitimate Bitcoin bank or exchange, which would not only give away his identity but alert everyone from the IRS to the FBI of his movements.

I think they just did that.

Amazing that he actually used his real name. This tells me that he didn't realize how far it would go when he started it.
How hasn't anyone guessed that the math wiz named Satoshi Nakamoto is indeed Satoshi Nakamoto of Bitcoin?

Also, being that he's so secretive, why on earth would he use his real name?
What happens if the connection is lost during the conversion? Do you really want to force the client to send it again and redo the conversion? Is the document time sensitive enough that it's better to repeat the process?

If not, then I'd say that it does make sense to create a new resource: the document. You create it by POSTing the original, and the server returns a 201 Created, with a Location header pointing to its new URL. The client can then GET it to download the converted version. The document resource should have a TTL so that it can be pruned from cache.

I don't think REST fits all use cases, and RPC does make sense when your needs don't fit the advantages of following REST, but I don't think that's the case here.
Something I've learned over the years is that there are a tremendous number of highly different personal philosophies that call themselves "conservative" or "libertarian" that share only the loosest similarities, but the people who self-identify these ways also seem to comfortably self-group and display similar behavior and thought patterns. This is regardless of the textbook definitions of what these philosophies should, in the normative sense, be.

For example, if you ask somebody of any of these various personal philosophies, regardless of what the textbook definition is, to self identify, they'll say "conservative" or "libertarian" and often they'll self-identify as both...and their Facebook feeds will be clogged with endless anti-Obama anti-Government pro-gun patriotic religious posts sprinkled with quotes from the Constitution and reposts from Libertarian Girl, Fox, the NRA their favorite ultra-conservative or libertarian congressperson and then their occupation will be listed as "Department of..." or "<insert Fed Contractor>".

So folks definitely self-group and self-select and self-identify with these labels even if by some strict definition it doesn't make any sense.

And I guess that's what my point is, I run into people like this who've fundamentally constructed an anti-government world view that simply doesn't make any sense internally or externally...and here, in this area, it's shockingly common among civil servants and federal contractors and I find this pattern curious.
I don't follow the multiples of Bitcoin articles that show up on HN daily, but both the Newsweek and this article caught my attention, and I was not clear on the founder vs. CEO separation.

Considering both of these are on the first page right now, I think it's easy for some of us to get our wires crossed, and am glad this clarification was made.
That's the problem with a decentralized count ;)
I feel sorry for this guy. The reign of hell newsweek is about to put on him is not going to be fun. Especially since this guy is pretty ecentric and doesnt like being in the public eye.

My hopes are no one tries to rob this guy or kidnap his family to get to his supposed 400m.
Except his actual net worth is probably a fraction of what his theoretical net worth is. It's assumed for instance that he still has access to all those bitcoins, but something could have happened to that wallet. There's also the difficulty of actually converting those coins into something the average business will accept. It's like suggesting that handing someone a billion dollars in un-vested bonds suddenly makes them a billionaire, but in reality there not really any richer currently than they were before, although in some theoretical future they might be (assuming they hang onto the bonds till they vest and can cash them in).
Nakamoto doesn't live in Quito, Ecuador.
Um... I don't know about the U.S., but I've done some work involving classified information in Sweden, and it's not like you get access to a special hotline or anything. If you are in immediate danger you still call the regular emergency number like everyone else.

Besides, not everyone works with Top Secret information, that's the entire purpose of having different classifications. Even Restricted information is still classified.
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No reference to what exchange she worked for. Oh journalism...
If I understand your comment, you believe you are ok with sounds posting that list of sensitive private information, but only if he "put the work in" to find it. I guess thats the only reason you don't post all of that information publically yourself. Your information is clearly interesting to the public, look a member of the public specifically asked for it.

How about if I compensate you, is that a reasonable substitute? How much would you charge in exchange for publishing every item on that list?

I suspect you will find that there is some information that you'd rather not divulge on the open internet, where there is no shortage of crazies. Some of that info would be useful for identity fraud as well.
I hope nothing negative happens to the subject of this piece.

I hope something thoroughly educational happens to the author of this piece.

Cheesy and ill-considered.
Unfortunately, no. Obligatory reading:

http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
I absolutely agree. If we had a basic income, at least, I can imagine it working. But now there is just too many people working on creating artificial scarcity to keep most of the population in fear.
No. Those laws only make it illegal to release information, or insufficiently protect it, in a legal relationship of trust and guardianship (and to gather such information by pretending to be party to such a relationship). No such relationship exists here, and unless a SSN (or equivalent protected identifier) was released, it's merely ethically questionable, not illegal.
That xkcd is good for a chuckle, but the problem is real.

I dare you to try talking to a stranger on the subway regarding a topic requiring any kind of methodical or critical thought. You're going to get a lot of glassy eyed vacant stares, even controlling for the fact that they don't know you.
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Meanwhile Bill Gates, who is worth 200X more than SN, continues to waltz around in public.
Here's a great ELI5 summary by reddit user "underachiever" on the reddit discussion page linked to by p4bl0. Can't vouch for its accuracy, but it at least makes a bit of sense to me:

Basically you run a co-process that invalidates cache lines by evicting them out of the cache. While each process has their own virtual memory they all share physical memory and physical memory is mapped to the cache in a lossy fashion (because there is less cache than physical memory).
So if you guess that a particular temp variable is on cache line X you can evict it. Now if the algorithm chooses to use that variable based on a bit of the key then you can measure it (the overall operation). So now you know that a particular bit(s) of the key are probably that value.
The trick is to refine the attack so your evictions are meaningful (e.g. you evict the right data and at the right time).

Where this attack fails practicality:

* It requires the victim to be signing a lot and on demand. That is the attacker basically forces you to sign things

* The attacker needs to run an unprivileged task on your machine

Where it gets weird ...

* The attack can be placed in a completely different VM so long as it runs on the same host processor

* The attack is unprivileged

* The only way to prevent the attack is to lock down all other cores and processes while this operation is happening
I'm surprised nobody else has brought this up. It's almost too good. I didn't notice my first time.
I doubt that he's in much trouble with his 400m
I recommend getting a dedicated server from Hivelocity. You can find deals on webhostingtalk forums. I have a quad core latest gen xeon with 16gb of ram and raided SSD (128gb and 480gb drives) for $180/month. If you don't need elasticity then its a much better option. You can get new servers in matter of hours too.
This (local) article covers it a bit better than the Washington Post:

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/bo...

First Meta isn't actually a Bitcoin exchange, but they accept Bitcoin as a payment method.
You can't inspect the path either, only the domain, and even that's only if the browser is using SNI.
No it isn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing

Until the 20th century, publishing houses and printers in many countries used additional space between sentences. There were exceptions to this traditional spacing method—some printers used spacing between sentences that was no wider than word spacing.[6] This was French spacing—a term synonymous with single-space sentence spacing until the late 20th century.[7] With the introduction of the typewriter in the late 19th century, typists used two spaces between sentences to mimic the style used by traditional typesetters.[8] While wide sentence spacing was phased out in the printing industry in the mid-twentieth century, the practice continued on typewriters[9] and later on computers.[10] Perhaps because of this, many modern sources now incorrectly[5] claim that wide spacing was created for the typewriter.[11]

Many experts now say that additional space is not required or desirable between sentences.[12] Typesetting programs such as TeX[13] can modify kerning values to adjust spaces following terminal punctuation, so there is less need to increase spacing manually between sentences[9] (provided that there is some cue to distinguish the end of a sentence from the end of an abbreviated word). From around 1950, single sentence spacing became standard in books, magazines and newspapers,[14] though the recommendation of using 1.5 spaces persisted at least to 1996.[15] Regardless, many still believe that double spacing is correct. The debate continues,[5] notably on the World Wide Web—as many people use search engines to try to find what is correct.[16] Many people prefer double sentence spacing for informal use because that was how they were taught to type.[17] There is a debate on which convention is more readable, but the few recent direct studies conducted since 2002 have produced inconclusive results.[18]

Much modern literature on typography says that double spacing is not desirable,[19] but other sources indicate that it could be used on a typewriter or with a monospaced font.[20] The majority of style guides opt for a single space after terminal punctuation for final and published work, with a few permitting double spacing in draft manuscripts and for specific circumstances based on personal preference.[21] Grammar and design guides, including Web design guides, provide similar guidance.[22]

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-many-...
> I would like mountains of data to tell me if I am really happy in my life

Is happiness really found in measurable things? How am I supposed to measure how happy it makes me when my son grins ear to ear when I get home from work?

Happiness, as far as I'm concerned, is found in contentment, love and purpose. I don't see a way to measure any of these things. And I certainly don't need a website to tell me if I have them.
What if he doesn't have a $400m fortune? What if it never existed or he's destroyed the private keys?

There's no proof here he has "money".
Can't navigate back button on the "Docs" page.
Bill Gates doesn't have virtually 100% of his fortune actually stored in his house, does he?
The Ukraine crisis through the whimsy of international law
I have been trying to add unit tests to my app, but almost all the tutorials you find are useless. They show you how to test 1 + 1, or how to test the framework I am using. The parts of the code I am almost certain will work. None of them show you how to actually test anything useful.
Gmail Notifr allows one to set a larger check interval than 'real-time'. As the author of the app, I set my accounts to check every 120 min (work) and 240 min (personal).
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> This has a tinge of pettiness to it

I don't think it's petty at all to link to publicly available information, when others have requested that information. Google-fu differs between individuals.

I do find it particularly petty that someone would go to great lengths to expose the private details of the life of a man who just wants to be left in peace.
Even HTTPS can leak your PRIVATE browsing
BREIN: We Killed 200+ Pirate Bay Proxies in 2013
This might be good... maybe these ads will be annoying enough to make people pay for products. Right now ads are out of the way enough to be completely ignored and apple and/or advertisers may be realizing they aren't worth much.
Finally a critical article, with some researched background information and not just opinion spin.

Edit: I am just fed up with media that I get on this matter. Everybody just pushes their own political interests.
> you also need to subtract the PR damage this kind of behavior gives them

Which, right now, is essentially zero. It would be good if we could figure out a way to vastly increase that damage, but I don't see how to do it while staying legal.
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I'm tired of seeing these articles. Yes, suicide is a sad story. No, the company wasn't a Bitcoin exchange. Would it make headlines over and over if the story read "CEO of a company that accepts Bitcoins as a payment method found dead"?
Rhetoric aside, I've met almost no libertarians of the anarchist persuasive in D.C., the kind who reject the existence of government. There are a lot of small government conservatives, though, but I think they object more to the 60% of the budget that is comprised of transfer payments and aid to states than the 5-10% of the budget is comprised of federal payroll. More generally, compartmentalization isn't hypocrisy. Everyone has the programs that they like and the ones they don't. People deeply opposed to defense spending or the drug war still justify working for e.g. the EPA.
+1 for this. Definitely the author is a great story teller. Really got sucked into the narrative..
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What happens when a 35 year old guy retakes the SAT
Release notes & benchmarks:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
It should be the same URL as the old one. Just not the same content type.

The user /u/john of version 1 is the same user /u/john of version 2. You don't want to break all links just because the client upgraded. Just reply with the appropriate format for the version the client is asking for.
Yes poorly written or tautological tests are useless . But I think we already knew that.

I primarily use unit tests as a way to clarify my own thinking about a function. It helps to step through the process of what the function should return given what parameters it is given. Why is that psychological crutch useless? Is your argument that we all should work the same way? Can't we do whatever works?
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Those things are all possible--but unlikely, in my experience. I've worked for the government and for government contractors. I did not ever come across even one single self-proclaimed conservative or libertarian individual who fell into any of the "maybe" hypotheses you describe. To a person there is one word to describe them: hypocrite. They did exactly what the parent wrote: railed against government while earning a decent (in some cases extremely nice) living that is 100% the result of government activity.
Bosch And Hillcrest Make Wearable Head-Mounted All-In-One Sensor System
Thank you. THANK YOU! Something that has always pissed me off is when business leaders say things along the lines of "We're not about making money. That may be a side effect of what we do. But our real mission is to help people do XYZ." Then they see other companies trying to do XYZ and try to put them out of business.

We're always taught that competition brings out the best, and sometimes that's true. Sometimes you get parties in the same space improving in ways to one-up each other and put out a superior product. But sometimes you get Susan G. Komen trying to trademark the pink ribbon.
>>> The Satoshi they found sounds like a plausible Satoshi but is it really him?
Do you think stupid wannabe-thugs think that much?
This might be good... maybe these ads will be annoying enough to make people choose free software instead.
I would be worried if I was the reporter. If anything happens to Satoshi, I suspect there are a moderate to high number of people who will make this reporter's life miserable as retribution. I'm thinking of all the bs that Krebs has to put up with.

Seriously irresponsible reporting. Not brave, not necessary, not helpful, not interesting, just stupid.
Just because someone plays by the rules of the system doesn't mean he/she doesn't have the right to criticize it.
sometimes more abstraction makes for simpler code, it's just that there's now simple presentation code for the frontend and also simple code for persistence.

avoiding a new layer of abstraction because it can just about be done in vanilla rails isn't a solution, it's just throwing more lines of code at the problem.

recently i've found that everything i do at the frontend intermixed with the controller, models and helpers could be made simpler with two way databinding.

it's also simpler, if someone want's to see if it looks right you can plug in some fixtures and tweaking css can be done independantly instead of needing to write something in ruby to affect how something in html looks.

maybe for a project with a large codebase is to use lighter frameworks such as backbone rather than having to do full rewrites in emberjs or angularjs. and let the code rewrite itself, ie. just clean up the portions of code that were only there for presentation.
I'm a little conflicted about this. The Echo Nest is amazing and does the kinds of things with music analysis that I can only dream of doing, so I wish them every success in the world.

But up until now they've been a fantastic independent force, not attaching themselves to any single music provider. You could use their APIs with Rdio, GrooveShark, whatever you felt like. I'm concerned that will no longer be the case.