skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize that, but the parent comment I was replying to was suggesting that the access would be removed from everyone that had the same file, sharing or not. At least that's how I read it. I could be wrong.

However, as stated, the DMCA isn't currently meant to take down the file and keep it down forever. It's meant to kill links one at at time.

Bigger organizations want it to take a file down and keep it down forever, which is what's being kicked around now as being a possible reinterpretation of the DMCA, which is crazy.
>how far are we from compiling python

I frankly find CoffeeScript nicer than Python. There are advantages and disadvantages, obviously, but whenever I'm writing Python, it makes me long for CoffeeScript.
We don't need a patent system in order for openness to beat closedness in the software world. Linux and lots of other open source projects are winning their markets without relying on patents at all.

No one forces you to choose a patent over keeping your invention secret. Trade secrets still exist everywhere. And that's OK.

You say it's a problem that companies are a decade ahead of academia in some CS areas. Given that companies can choose what to make public and what to keep secret, what's the alternative? It's the ability to have some exclusive time in the market that incentivizes the companies to do that research in the first place. I'd rather have them ahead by 10 years because of trade secrets than getting 20 years of exclusivity through a patent.
Try Avid, those folks are scary fast on the keyboard.
It sounds like this is starting down the path of "not trusting cloud servers in particular ways". At the end of that path lies Tahoe LAFS, which tries to do online file storage while avoiding trusting the servers at all.

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

(One of the properties of Tahoe is managing the keys to decrypt data completely outside of the servers, so that the servers never have any knowledge of what they're storing.)
>[...]creepy stalker[...]

Which are attributes usually assigned to human beings, no? Or do you enjoy being trailed by officers/staff when you shop because of the color of your skin, or do you not have to face nor think about such things when you shop or in other interactions in your life? Because I don't particularly enjoy that either, and I'm doing what I can to address it among other issues assuming that if others could leverage information that is already out there about me, maybe, just maybe I won't have to be treated as subhuman by some on initial interactions, or at least while I patronize a store on occasion. What are you doing to address the problems you have surrounding the use of technology in such ways beyond vocalizing your displeasure? Do you still use social networking, webmail, play apps via smartphone, purchase via credit cards online/offline, etc…? If so, your behaviors are telling others otherwise.

I'm just stating that's the direction things are going in now, and for anyone to avoid such realities means that they shall continue to be suspended in a state of cognitive dissonance. Hardly just my "scheme", I'm just a piece in the puzzle that was already being built before I was even born.
I'm getting there. Check back in a few weeks!
Points of Internet
You don't need an accelerator. As far as I can tell from the data, it's unclear whether there is any net gain to being in an accelerator at all.
Coffeescript seems to be more like Perl, where parenthesis are often optional, and meaning is implied by the context a lot of the time.

I like Perl, but I tended to be fairly pedantic with parenthesis and things when writing it. I prefer explicit over implicit. (Though sometimes implicit can save you a ton of time).
He was in the back of caged van at that point. No walking away.
Interesting, yes I agree, as much should be exposed as possible to interface with any creative fallbacks people come up with for their system.
How To Sell – An infographic for the sales process
I'm interested in the security of WebRTC. Is it end to end? Can it be easily MITMed? What are its main flaws from a security design point of view?
What I'd love to see is a version of this tool, which lets you interact with binaries, in Python:

http://duschkumpane.org/index.php/mmbbq

It's not what is posted here, just what I thought it was going to be.
If you walk in the street you might get hit by a car. I don't condone a driver hitting you, but reality is what it is.

Cops have to constantly deal with the worst elements of society doing the worst things imaginable. It'd be great if they didn't get hardened, but the reality is they often do. Expecting cops to be polite and kind to the drug addicted guy beating his wife because she isn't turning enough tricks to support his habit is probably an unreasonable expectation. Until we've fixed society, cops aren't going to change.
You just can't take the same margins on a Jetta as a GT3
Turn servers can also send data over TCP (e.g. https://code.google.com/p/rfc5766-turn-server/ does). The browser also needs to support this option as well; Chrome seems to with a ";transport=tcp" at the send of the turn server configuration url.
>> But there's also the fact that American cities are war zones.

That's an opinion claiming to be a fact.
IMHO, the answer is: let the language evolve to it's newer versions.

And if you need this newer versions today, this is what I think of a good approach:

Traceur is a JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler
I have a hard time seeing someone who has actually spent some time with Clojurescript making that statement.
Ahhh, very cool! If you want to sell about 10 times more though, make it capable of exporting to iMovie...
Well at first glance I assumed that it couldn't be run correctly because of the dependency on "big.txt". But digging a little deeper it turns out you can download that file (which happens to be the Project Gutenburg text of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) from Norvig's website [1], so I suppose it is useful after all. But not exactly user-friendly.

[1] http://norvig.com/ipython/big.txt
The URLs are different:

7233730 : https://medium.com/p/9f53ef6a1c10/ [0]

7496137 : https://medium.com/human-parts/9f53ef6a1c10 [1]

HN's dup detector is crude and simplistic. Suggestions over the years to help fix it have been ignored, and efforts to help cross-link items have been lauded by some, and vilified by others who somehow seem to see the repetition as a feature. I guess that since it's documented (many times over, again, discussions repeated ad nauseam) it's definitely a feature rather than a bug.

Largely, I've given up. Let the discussions repeat the same points over and over - most don't care, others don't even notice. An engineer at heart, I find it almost physically painful to see such inefficiencies and loss of opportunity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233730

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496137
I feel this description is Linus backtracking, where the original target of the "git" label was in fact Andrew Tridgell, who was at the center of the Linux/bitkeeper reverse engineering drama [0].

[0] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tri...
Well sure but compare that workflow with almost any other package manager. NuGet, for instance:

install-package jQuery --version 2.0

We haven't had major problems with DT, but I see that over time this is crying out for a fix
I'm not talking about the violence and solitary confinement, I'm talking about the use of physical force and subsequent arrest.
I'm looking for a full-stack job like Mike Ross has at Pearson Spector
I haven't got a PhD but I can (at least) learn and think on that level. I am looking to learn by doing rather than go to an university and spend the next four years studying books.

What should I look for when searching for this not so standard job? Obviously the person(s) I'll be working with are much more important than the job or company itself.

I can write PHP, Python, js(by choice) and HTML/CSS. I want to learn the ins and outs of bizdev, as well as an ability to test, validate and deploy ideas very fast + grow a product from 0 to +/- 100k users.

I know this sounds much like all the things you do when running a startup, but I don't want to go trough all the obvious mistakes the first time.
Yes, this kind of gave it away: "recalls Camenzind, who at 75 is still designing chips"

Unfortunately, there are probably other examples of the recently deceased.
As I write this,the market cap for all crytocurrencies is $7.22bn. $5.6bn of that is Bitcoin, $900m is Ripple, $340m is Litecoin, and the remaining ~$400m is the remaining 205 currencies with enough of a presence to be traded on exchanges. A lot of money, for sure, but it's really a drop in the bucket compared to Bitcoin, (Ripple), and Litecoin. If you look at daily volume, get rid of Ripple and add Dogecoin.
To an extent it is a Devil you know/Devil you don't thing. The moment one of the JS-first people get bitten by the CoffeeScript compiler (having to indent/dedent something, move a comma, suddenly your code is working ... I think everybody runs into the sort of issues the author described) they are going to go back to JS. JS is such a high-level language already, and the browser vendors and SSJS projects seem focused on advancing it. I just don't see much room in the future for languages like CS.
While I think WebRTC is so fantastic it's nearly magical, I find it incredible how people using/creating it overlook networks' topologies problems that SIP and other VoIP folks already had to deal with (and went crazy doing so) a whole decade ago. NAT issues, STUN, all that is long known and yet I've never seen a fully working solution for peer-to-peer communication that won't be stopped by the simplest firewalls. Does anyone know any other "fix" for these kind of scenario as described in the post?
What are you saying, that the judges should allow this patent?

The solution is to make laws that forbid software patents. And if the old patents can be abolished, the better.
Sometimes, yes. Other times, such as when a robbery is in progress, or when an accident has just occurred and you've arrived on the scene, polite and kind aren't very important.

Fair and law-abiding become much more important in these situations. Once the danger has passed, kind and polite can be important again.
Even better what if the copyright holder is lazy and keeps copies of the ebooks a dropbox folder. I would not be shocked to find this happening. How would dropbox distinguish between the two?
Now that's ironic.
Problem is, the advice to minimize interaction with the police, while sensible for the individual, exacerbates exactly the problem you are describing: that the police live in a bubble which distorts their perceptions.
Fully agreed - that is what the true meaning of "a person skilled in the art" should be with regards to software patents sufficient disclosure requirements and to demonstrate that the patent is not only fiction or a minor adaptation of prior art.

At that point of course it will also be much easier to limit all those overly broad claims.
"Data Scientist" = statistician who knows how to use computers.
Some of the security is explained in an overview at Google IO.
Here is a video: http://youtu.be/p2HzZkd2A40?t=22m18s
What is missing is the partnership that they have with Dean Kamen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen to place his water purification technology http://www.dekaresearch.com/water.shtml in places that have no access to drinkable water. Dean points out that no organization has the worldwide logistical footprint of Coca-Cola.
I didn't mean "the value we think they should be deriving." I meant that people can be mistaken (or mislead) about how much they value something even in the short term. If someone thinks they are buying a reliable car and gets a lemon, I think it's more correct to say "they didn't get the value they expected" then "their revealed preferences show they really wanted the lemon".
That statement has nothing to do with personal experience, and everything to do with unmistakable trends in software development. If JavaScript were a frozen language I would agree with you, but the momentum behind JS is a tsunami.
I meant it nothing more than a joke.
Our internet
I'm more interested in the case of people whose beliefs don't affect their actions in a professional capacity, as opposed to people whose beliefs never affect their actions. I agree people who have strong beliefs but are able to set them aside to some extent in part of their life are rare. They do exist, though.

As a case in point, from my personal interactions with Brendan, I can assure you that he is not the sort of person who will tell you all about his thoughts on gay marriage within an hour of meeting him. In fact, I don't know what those thoughts are (short of trying to guess based on the donation thing), and I've known him for years. Mitchell Baker has known him for even longer, and worked with him more closely, but see the next to last paragraph of https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2014/03/26/building-a-global...
I agree the other issue with someone like me using CoffeeScript is that first I'd want to really understand Javascript otherwise I'd never be able to trust that I could fix any bugs I ran across, it's another layer of abstraction I essentially don't need.
> It's hard to find anything about what the license was with http://freemap.co.il/ down.

The Wayback Machine has some old versions, this being the earliest, from April 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060409000239/http://www.freema...
Actually, I don't start with the premise that static typing is bad. I actually prefer static typing and if I was designing a language from the ground up it would probably be statically typed. In my day job I work largely in C# and JavaScript and much prefer C# (though it could be better). Unfortunately, we have an dynamically typed foundation (in JavaScript) to work from which makes it very difficult. None the less, dynamically typed prototype based languages can be powerful and have their advantages.

I actually really like Haskell though I have never had the chance to do a project in it. I appreciate the strong type inference and its flexibility in static typing. I occasionally find myself frustrated my C#'s limitations around complex typing. Like that there is nothing close to existential types and you can't create more complex generic type constraints.

Scala seems cool in what little I have read about it. I really respect Martin Odersky who designed it. I'd like to learn more about it, until I do I can't speak much to it.
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Other comments suggest that this can be implemented with existing tools, which I take as a virtue of the proposal.

In any case, John von Neumann proved a long time ago that any nonzero sum game with n players can be modeled as a zero sum game with n+1 players, where the n+1 player represents the global state. TUA is simply an implementation of this proof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game#Extensions

I tried to explain inhibition in another comment in this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496858

I give an an analogy in the proposal of the popularity of a celebrity couple being a nonlinear relationship to the popularity of each celebrity individually. I think our intuitive understanding of our social relationships is nonlinear in this way generally, and I think Strangecoin can model those nonlinear relationships well.

So, for instance, I'm imagining a family, spouses, close friends, and so on entering into extended coupling transactions, so that as a community their prosperity rises and falls together. I might also enter into such transactions with certain business with whom I want to couple my activities, and these coupling transactions might serve in lieu of direct billing or payment. A coupling relationship with a business is effectively a contract, but with traditional currency you need the whole legal framework of contracts to support the transaction, and with Strangecoin the transaction is built directly into the currency, and the interface looks almost exactly like a point-of-sale cash transaction.

And I can enter into less serious relationships of varying degrees with other parties. The effect is a way of managing not just financial transactions, but also reputation, investment, and other dynamics social constraints on the economy via the currency itself. Money is memory (http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr218.pdf), but our existing currencies only represent some aspects of our economic activity, and therefore put limits on the memory stored in the economy. A nonlinear coin like Strangecoin can embed that social knowledge in the currency itself, providing a more robust memory framework on which we can conduct our economic transactions.

I only hint at this in the proposal, but I suspect a system like this is required to resolve the twisted legal artifice the corporate veil, because it quantifies explicitly the role individuals have in collective economic activity, and thereby gives a method for explicitly holding persons proportionally responsible (in both credit and blame) for their contributions to that activity.

But I think that's a much more radical proposal than the one I've offered for Strangecoin, and I should probably only be defending that here. =)
Science Summary of The Week
>> are prone to violent overreaction.

That's not true of every country though, it's certainly not the case in the UK. Here the police do act as your friends, they make a lot of effort to talk to the general public, both on the beat and at events. Certainly every encounter I've had with the police has been positive, even when I've been in the wrong (speeding or whatever). Police can be your friend, they can be accountable and they certainly don't need to be prone to violent outbursts.
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Only certain parts of certain cities[0]. It's almost entirely a result of the War On Drugs. In areas where drugs and gangs are a problem, the homicide rate is very high. In wealthy/safe parts of town, violent crime is not dramatically higher than the rest of the developed world.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_violent_crime_map_...
Mozilla is messy
depends, how much gas does it cost to drive a car daily for 5 years ?
My mistake, I see that now [1]. It seems both sides need to specify that which isn't a problem. Also seems FF is on board [2][3].

1 - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/turn-server-project-...
2 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=891551
3 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906968
Yeah, I gawked when I saw the Mazda comment too. A bunch of Mazda's in those years, especially the 90's were rebadged Fords. Compare the Mazda Navajo to Ford Explorer Sport's of the same vintage [1]

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Navajo
Fructose is fructose, there's no "natural fructose" however it's one thing to eat it pure, another one in a fruit

That I can buy. What I'm more skeptical of is that there's a distinction between "manufactured" and "natural" fructose once both have been concentrated and are used as additives to sweeten other products. Eating a pear is one thing, but I'm less sure that a "naturally sweetened" product which has been sweetened with concentrated pear juice or a similar fruit-based sugar extract is really more healthy than the same product that has been sweetened with more conventional "manufactured" sugars. I don't doubt that eating an actual fruit is almost certainly better than either one.
Since plenty of people here seem to have experience with this sort of thing ... I'm currently in a place where I can at least see 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 for me and 1 and 7 for others as well. Would it be wise to stay there or are those signs rather a sign that I should be looking somewhere else?
> But in today's world, clearly one would imagine the vast majority, if not all software would have been invented as is, without the incentives that patent protection provides.

It could be that in our society (USA), people would be so willing to invent software without patents because the patent system itself has created an environment by which people can be successful from being so open. The intention of the patent system worked.

A lot of societies are very closed with regards to sharing information.
Farewell to gluten free
That being said, for the reasons I spelled out
I think the current crop of options are really lacking.

then

Lol, I can't address every single one one

You cant have it both ways.
Some context/questions surrounding Snowden redactions
"Would this be a cryptocurrency with a money base that expands/disappears as the 'fait value' rate goes up and down?"

I've actually been toying with that idea.
This was announced shortly after BMW provided price information (about $40k) on their i3 all electric cars (plus the version with a range extender) - both of them available today and not in 2016/17.
Need investor for Kickborn
Has anyone else started investigating Google's cloud offerings as a result of the price drops? We found a few really nice features in their cloud products that will help us out a lot compared to what we have on AWS, and I'm wondering how many others are exploring this.
Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That
Dropbox grants yet another deadline extension to 1Password to fix vulnerability
Parallel Programming from lock free to wait free
Sorry you feel I am wasting your time. I am actually working up to the point of what I think would be better. The purpose of writing about the inadequacies of the existing tools is to provide a justification for creating an alternative.

I also want to gauge interest in creating another alternative to see whether it would be worth my time and effort.
Shameless plug: my company develops Deviare[1]: "code interception for dummies". It allows to intercept a Windows application from any COM capable programming language.

We have interesting code samples such as capturing video intercepting DirectX[2] and hooking into SQL Server to abort unsecure (e.g. injection attacks) queries[3].

1. http://www.nektra.com/products/deviare-api-hook-windows/devi...

2. http://blog.nektra.com/main/2013/07/23/instrumenting-direct3...

3. http://blog.nektra.com/main/2013/06/26/sql-server-intercepti...
11 Creative Interpretations Of The Golden Ratio
I think that's the whole point of firewalls, to control incoming and outgoing connections. So peer-to-peer sometimes is simply impossible. TURN actually is just a proxy as far as I know so it's not p2p.

That's why BitTorrent asks to open specific ports in your router, because otherwise you simply can't do p2p.
I see where you're coming from. Perhaps I should have said "seemingly nonsensical" (I'm sure the bystanders think they're being helpful). The point doesn't change in the slightest.

Correct response: "You've done good, but it's time to let the EMTs take things from here."

Incorrect response: "Move to the other side of the street. [Arrest for hesitation.]"
Readers might be interested in Simon Berry and his work using Coca Cola to distribute oral rehydration salts. Diarrhea is a major killer in some parts of the worl and simple cheap ORS save many lives, if we can distribute them.

http://m.irinnews.org/Report/94996/GLOBAL-Follow-the-fizz-sa...

Simon Berry had this idea over 30 years ago.

http://www.colalife.org/

Coca cola faces heavy criticism in some countries for giving away toxic waste byproducts to local farmers as fertilizer - thus getting rid of waste on the cheap and causing even more environmental destruction.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3096893.stm

$76m per year is an insultingly small amount for a company that does so much environmental harm and who make so much money. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad they do it and i wish more companies did the same. But how many hours does it take Coca Cola to make $76m in profit?
Interesting, never thought of that.