skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UPDATE: I just read ABC's final reply brief [1], where they argue that Fortnightly and Teleprompter don't apply because of 17 USC 111(c), drafted by Congress just after those cases.

17 USC 111 says cable companies can retransmit, but only for a fee.

I see three reasonable interpretations of this result:

1. Aereo can retransmit, just has to pay licensing fees.
2. 17 USC 111 does not apply at all to Aereo, because Aereo is not a cable company, therefore the old precedents stand, and Aereo can retransmit without any fees.
3. Congressional action set the precise requirements for anyone to retransmit (ie, you must be a cable operator), and thus Aereo is flat out prohibited from rebroadcasting at all.

All of these seem prima facie reasonable, there's lots of room for judicial interpretation. I think there's a strong case to be made for 2, since Congress only took two years to respond to rulings before. Congress has demonstrated competence here, it can patch its out of date laws without requiring the Supreme Court to start radically reinterpreting "cable operator" to mean "any internet company." The Supreme Court therefore should just interpret as strictly as possible, doing as little work for policymakers as necessary. That means 17 USC 111 doesn't apply to Aereo at all, and we're left with valid Supreme Court precedents to control the case. If Congress doesn't like it, they can explicitly clarify 17 USC 111 at any time.

[1] http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supr...
The author never mentions artistic merit, presumably because it's a result of his premise. If you can't cheat at art, it's because there's nothing to cheat for, so there's no such thing as artistic merit.
I heard icann charges-- something like $6.50 a domain. Icann seems to have more money than they can spend. Maybe
they should lower the price they demand for each domain?
I understand they need to regulate this industry, but they
appear to be making a bit to much money? I never blamed
Godaddy for gouging customers. I knew icann demanded their
cut before any profit to godaddy. (I'm no fan of Godaddy, but forced to use them because they seem cheaper--if you
know how to cancel their money making tatics, like constantly changing renewals to 2 years at full price. And
his stupid commercials. If you do get his .99 cent domains,
I think you are allowed two. If you use a different ip
address sometimes you can get more.)
Neat examples, but Phaser is pretty choppy in FF 27/OS X and my mac is recent.
A failure to accept the mere possibility of institutional corruption in free market enterprises was the defining failure of the Greenspan era. Regulators working through the '90s and the '00s could not have turned a blinder eye to the deleterious effects of their own capture on account of having no more blind eyes to turn. This was due, in large part, to the efforts of academic economists who laid the intellectual groundwork for deregulation of the financial industry.

Many members of the economic profession have yet to emerge from the fog of idiocy, corruption, and denial that let to / resulted from the faith misplaced in their malarky - much of which boiled down to the "wisdom" of Ayn Rand, thinly veiled.

The sum of Randian-in-Chief Greenspan's concessions to reality can be found here. Needless to say, it's a pretty brief read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel.h...

For a more extended piece of outrage - which really centers on the corruption of university economics departments - see "Inside Job", which won a (richly deserved) Oscar and which can be downloaded here:

http://vimeo.com/57527797

You can also watch the final 20 minutes (which is the most searing part, as well the section that focuses on the domain of academic economists) here:

http://vimeo.com/20170617

And you can read a bit more about the film here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)

I have nothing to do with the making or selling of this film, by the way. I just think it's one of the sharpest accounts to emerge from the Fiasco of '08.
It's been a while since I've read anything about this. Are new applications still being accepted, or are these simply approvals of applications that were submitted some time ago, through a process that is now closed?
Somewhat off-topic, but I notice they are using xorm as their golang ORM. Anyone have experience with this? I use gorm, and I wonder how xorm compares.
I think you're right. I've worked and been close friends with both people like her, and with people who have had a rough ride at work like Julie Horvath - and although we'll probably never know what really happened in the end - I have a lot of trouble believing Ms. Werner's side of the story after a write up like this.

She seems to vaguely admit fucking up, but that any sort of passionate founder eventually leaves to work on something new and exciting anyways, or that "even when their company was at the height of success [...] they try their hands at something different". I think that's total bs, and that it's certainly not necessary to plug the name of your charity 3 times in this post, because this whole situation has nothing to do with your charity.
Good point, raw increase in human knowledge is probably not a good explanation. But it is almost a quarter of a century since 1990, the rate at which new knowledge is obtained is constantly increasing, the Internet made access to this knowledge easier than ever before, people have - I guess - more time available to spend on such topics, the Internet enabled discussions in a way not possible before, ... Therefore a better explanation is probably easier access to knowledge than raw increase in knowledge.
I'm sure they have all the best intentions for sharing the wisdom they learn here.

But right now OpenSSL is a VERY VERY messy and dangerous library.

The OpenBSD devs need to get a working implementation, that catches up on 15 years of refactoring and clarity in (optimistically) 2 months -- or risk the bulk of the world's sensitive information leaking yet again (perhaps even sooner, depending on what is discovered!)

It seems that with the kind of things they're finding, there are a lot lesser understood vulnerabilities in the code.

With the kind of standardization they're working on, a Windows port will be a LOT easier and a LOT simpler after they're finished. Best let them make haste, tear out everything that's leaky, unclear, or dangerous -- and with that will come a lot of simplification and fixes for the entire implementation.

Once it's clean, focus on a Ports. The code is too bloated to even consider ports right now. Quite frankly you might even be safer using Microsoft's SSL/TLS and other crypto implementation for the time being... (Only time will tell!)
I think you switched lower/higher around (the GP was talking about people _without_ religious observance.)
boundaries

people need them

they also help prevent really bad situations being created (quite possibly unintentionally) when there exist power differentials
mā ma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, mā ma mà mǎ

That's a legitimate sentence, and there's only the slightest intonation difference between the different words.

This to me is why Mandarin is hard. Not the writing, not the history of the language and not the 'construction of words'.

It's the extremely subtle differences in tonality which makes it madness for a westerner (Swedish born here) to try and comprehend, and even worse to try and speak.
Very true, my man. So I have no illusions whatsoever that I'm getting there faster. I'm getting there with less stress than if I calculated, though. And since I'm proactive about letting people pass (I guarantee you'll never get stuck behind me because I'm matching the guy in front of me and have space for you to merge in front), I'm fairly confident I'm not holding anyone back.
out of curiosity -- by sides are you referring to {github, tom, tom's wife, julie, or ???}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

Though this point has pretty much been raised, English is hard too - it doesn't follow it's own rules and borrows from so many languages.

The arguments in this article (excepting the ones about the writing system) can be applied to so many languages.

For bonus points, why isn't "gauge" pronounced the same as "gouge"?
just want to second uml distilled. if you need to use uml you should read it - it's very slim and very practical. http://martinfowler.com/books/uml.html

also, uml with a tool like enterprise architect (which is basically a set of gui interfaces onto a database, where you construct a design in the database using the views, and are forced to be consistent) is very different from sketching a few diagrams.

it's not for me, but with a good tool you can see the attraction in certain scenarios.
When my mother went to Catholic schools in the US in the late 1940s and 1950s, every teacher was a member of a religious order.

When I went to Catholic schools from the late 1970s to the 1980s, about half the teachers were in religious orders, half lay people.

My cousin goes to Catholic schools right now. None of his teachers thus far have been religious, all have been lay people.

Such a shift in the past half century, along with other trends, is bound to affect religious devotion.

The Internet probably has an effect. I think the effect it has is one of degree. Years ago, people seemed to be divided into fundamentalists, and those who might doubt, say, that Joshua made the sun stand still in order to prevent sundown so that the Israelis could defeat the Amorites, or that the pope as Vicar of Christ speaks infallibly on matters of faith, and so forth. On say Reddit's /r/atheism there are so many secular people, that doubting people become complete atheists as opposed to moderate or liberal Christians. Those who doubt stop believing things completely, whereas in the old days they may have stuck around and been part of a church's liberal/moderate wing.

There also seems to be a counter-trend where those who stay in the church become even more fundamentalist. Michael Harrington wrote about this in "The Politics at God's Funeral". It creates a cyclical effect - as the moderates leave, the fundamentalists make the churches more and more fundamental and fanatic, driving out the moderates still left, which gives the fundamentalists even more power and the church drives out those moderates still left and so on.
having worked with some curators at similarly large (though not necessarily quite as well known) galleries, I'm pretty sure they use the

>"does someone call it art? Then it's art"

definition and have a poor opinion of anyone that attempts to be any stricter than that.

This comes from a painful history of curators dismissing lots of "modern" art in the 1960's, and thus missing out on lots of extremely lucrative investment opportunities.
Honestly, Amazon has a lot to offer even beyond "No Tax". And I say this as a Canadian who has had to pay taxes and duties on amazon orders since day 1.

People may gripe about it for a bit... but amazon is still the best way to shop, and also has the best selection and prices.
The irony is that github's original structure was meant to remove boundaries.
What's intuitive to you could also be called confirmation bias. And I don't believe this article really proves it at all.
Future.rb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7625435
Any idea why people would want their tld removed from that? e.g. nsw.gov.au
Marx was wrong. Provably wrong. His ideas were put to the test across various cultures and geographies (Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Angola, etc.). Failed. Failed. Failed. Failed. Failed. And the response to this is that they didn't go far enough. There were still capitalists somewhere. It would've worked if the whole world (echoed here by Piketty's world wide tax) was communist.

Perhaps Marx was right in his assessment, but maybe there is no prescription. That is never brought up. Perhaps you're condemned to have a standard of living better than most royals enjoyed a century ago (CAT scans, Internet, Jet Travel - capital, capital, capital) and the price is ennui and jealousy of someone with 2000x more paper wealth. Maybe there is no alternative, or all the alternatives are just a lot worse.

In the meantime, I will continue to think that any tax on accumulated capital is evil and label it as Marx 2.0.
Comparing Low-Power Wireless Technologies (2011)
Although "Art as communication" has some truth that some kind of communication must happen, it seems to miss something, as there's lots of communication that isn't art.
Jump in a Beijing taxi and show the taxi driver the pinyin for the address you wish to go to instead of the Chinese characters. Report back on how well it works out for you.
Landing Page From HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Is Better Than Many Real Landing Pages
Can you show an example of what you are describing? It doesn't sound interesting for the tasks I have in mind, so it must be the case that you are dealing with very complex tasks.
The problem with Chinese characters is that they are idiosyncratic. For example, I orally tell you "mao mi": how do you write it? If you've never seen it before, your chances of figuring this out is very sad.

You claim that 90% of Chinese writing are phonographs. Perhaps this is true to the most technical sense, but to most students this is useless. Try taking that 90% claim into a Chinese language test at university. The teacher will laugh at you as you arrogantly think you can decipher the phonetics of characters just because you know the "radicals". There is absolutely no reliable system for translating radicals to character phonetics, because it's all just so messy and hit and miss.
You don't think that renewable costs per watt plummeting towards coal/nat.gas. price is a significant part of the decision making? Politics get overridden by price at some point. You've failed to acknowledge that maybe a book on renewables from 5 years ago, focusing primarily on the technical side, might have some problems when so much has changed since that time.

My assertions aren't unsubstantiated, I linked to the them in my initial response.

I don't really care why I'm being downvoted.
I wonder if the difference is really about the competitive advantage per se. The 10% difference is about the same as the difference in price with tax. It sounds like people are actually spending about the same amount, but now part of that budget is going to tax rather than actually being spent on goods.
That's how I personally use HN too, which is why I didn't make the paper itself the primary link. Good point about it almost always being referenced in the thread.

> NPR also interviewed Downey so 'value added'

Fair, but I'm doubtful many people here listen to the audio.
We drove all the way to ushuaia, and this is out adventure
> We're in the golden age of critical thinking

Source/citation/justification? Seems just as easy to make the opposing argument, that mass media technologies are being perfected to the point where it'll soon be possible to use highly optimized Skinner boxes for disseminating propaganda, something like Zynga plus Fox News. The victims would be voluntarily opting in to their own brainwashing.
Relevant bit (footnote 8 on pg. 4):

HHS told us that HHS pays $146.64 per month per user for e-mail; that this
charge covers connect ivity, storage, and other e-mail services; and that this
charge is independent of the number of e-mails that are sent or received. HHS
also told us that the Office of the Secretary pays $10.44 per month per
telephone line, that this charge covers all featu res associated with the
lines and the phones, and that this charge is independent of the number of
phone calls made per month. Each phone call, whether local or long distance,
is charged at a unit cost of $0.014 per minute.

I wonder what the breakdown of the costs is. That number seems way steep.
> If you only could

I, and many people I know are doing it. Of course, like anything worth doing, it takes hard work and dedication, but it certainly can be done.
The issue with function composition in javascript, for me, is that it's difficult to reason that the functions you are composing in fact do have all their types "lining up".

I think there was some outfit "loop/recur" that was doing heavily composition-style javascript. They often write the types for function in comments in haskell notation above the actual function definitions.
Art is just communication. We tend to hold art that is evocative, transformative, and emotional in a higher regard and more "true art" because such forms of communication are often more challenging, requiring of more skill, and have a greater potential to be life altering.
Hi.

I hire for a global tech organization, and I'd just like to give you a little bit of insight:

1. Don't use middleware unless you have to. Your salary will be lower, and you won't get to work on 'as' amazing things. This includes Xamarin, PhoneGap, Trigger and all the things in between

2. Pick one first. iOS or Android. Don't dual-learn. It'll take you longer. Get a decent foundation on one first, and pick the one that makes more sense to you from a language point of view. (hint: Objective-C is weirder than it looks, Java is insanity)

3. I've hired people who had less than 1 year experience with mobile development who have subsequently turned into extremely senior developers. It's totally possible buddy.

4. Reading is (mostly) useless to form a foundation. Pick a project, work on it, scrap it, begin again with newfound knowledge and keep doing that until you feel comfortable with the concept of creating mobile apps.

Hope that helps ;)
This.

I just drafted a stock purchase agreement for my business partner and I on our new startup and one of the basic boilerplate additions to the stock purchase / vesting agreement is a spousal agreement to the terms of the purchase.

The communal property law only relates during a divorce were the shares are split up between the couple by the courts. Any decently written stock purchase agreement has a first right of refusal for the company to purchase back those shares in the event of an involuntary transfer.
The more fascinating question is why the widespread availability of knowledge and information hasn't done a better job of overcoming provincial superstitions.
transpilers might be able to assist taking a tail-recursive definition and unrolling it to a more low-level construct in the resulting JS.
or, for a slightly more cynical take:

JAH is honest, and github's board decided Tom can't stay. Unfortunately, admitting that exposes them to massive legal liability (starting with the unaddressed allegation from JAH that she was penalized at work because she wouldn't fuck a coworker, and moving on to the options she was forced to give up when she left. Plus penalties. And a hostile work environment.) So this is an excuse from the board and/or ceo to get Tom + wife the hell away from github without admitting guilt.

I don't know what to believe, though I'm naturally a cynic.
Hey, that's not fair.

Experts can use them for disastrous consequences as well. This is C++ we're talking about here!
I don't see this as ironic but rather as just showing some consequences of the structure.
> Source/citation/justification?

Case in point.
ssh user@rsync.net md5 your/file

... let's not paint us all with the same broad brush ...
As far as I know, there's no runtime type checking of Ada, but there is runtime value checking to ensure values are within the specified ranges/adhere to the specified predicates (a very cool feature; you can specify that a type is always even, and encountering an odd value will cause an exception).
Only ICANN really had the choice, and the UN declared the US government can't sponsor them anymore (and of course the UN is not replacing the funds)

So ...
So, how long until I can register yo.no.soy/marinero ?
Design Rules
We have a fundamental difference of ethical concerns here.

I'll be on board with your view once we reach post-scarcity, but right now humans still need to eat, and high quality production still requires money to produce.

Every hour that a quality musician can afford not to work is an hour they can be working on refining their craft. It has already been shown that touring pays less than minimum wage (yes, including those fucking t-shirts) for all but the top acts, so the purchase of music is one of the few ways to stay afloat.

The truth is, if we support the musicians that make the music which we want to hear more, then we will get more of that music.

I'm an ardent supporter of Lessig et. al, but the proposed alternative revenue models aren't working.
It set off a spam filter.
It's like a job application filter. Start working for a .int company, only pay 10% income tax (but still get all benefits everyone else gets, sometimes more).
I remember reading a piece about how Catholic church is trying to ban people from using condom and thought it was pretty ridiculous that they were against safety. A fellow Android developer was catholic and started a long rant about how condoms promote infidelity and adultery -_- and he literally sat in front of the screen for hours writing a huge rebuttal to what I have said.

Another time I advised him against purchasing mutual funds because as a Economics/Finance major, we learned that mutual funds have many lot of questionable hidden costs and their market performance aren't the most sound vehicle for investing one's salary but he basically told me that he trusts the sales person because he is also Catholic. He was newly wed, living with his parents, had a baby on the way, and made the same salary as me which wasn't much. I didn't feel bad though.

What I got from this is that even with the face of evidence and hard facts, some people are just that attached to religion, an old artifact for a time when science and logic were persecuted and laughed at, it was just shocking to see it continue so rigidly.
That doesn't seem like all that useful a definition. My kids claim their messy room is art because it makes me "feel mad" that they don't clean it up.

There's very few things that won't make you feel something if you choose to look at them. By that I mean we ignore all kinds of stuff in our day to day lives but pull out any one thing, a spoon, a rock, a front door, a crumpled can, a beer, decide to pay attention to it and you'll feel something.

I don't have a better definition, all I'm saying is I could make an exhibit taking the next 50 things I see and just displaying them. Some would call that art. I'm sure they'll be a big debate about how collections are art, the act of creating an exhibition is art, etc. That's not really the point I'm trying to make. Rather it's that if I can pick up literally ANYTHING and display it and it magically becomes art that's not a really useful definition, at least to me.
I like Nate Silver's book, "The Signal and the Noise." If you read it, you shouldn't focus on the scenarios he describes specifically. You should try to take his mindset, walk away from the book, and try to decode the signal from the noise everywhere.

It's a helpful book, perhaps maybe even more so than your typical self-help book. I would have liked for such a book to have existed when I was a teenager.
I don't think so; but there may be disciplines that find benefit from it.

However, there is one element that I still use and find very useful--time sequence diagrams. Like tracking web requests and responses and communications with back ends, for example.

And often used, but not really exclusive to UML are state diagrams. Certain problems are elucidated nicely that way.

There may be some enterprise, governmental, or aerospace environments that benefit from it or are required to use them.
> Just like "Plays for Sure(TM)," also from MS, worked until it didn't.

Are you referring to unintended technical defects or DRM?
I'm critical of atheism, because it is itself a religious belief and those that believe and evangelize it refuse to recognize it as a religion in and of itself.

I live in the U.S. where the country was built by those that wanted freedom of religion.
I am seeing it as not dead--is it possible the post was deleted then resubmitted?