skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know exactly how a search engine works, so your explanation is irrelevant.

I also know that Google is a system operated by humans who are responsible for its effects. If you operate a machine and it harms people, you are responsible. The fact that the harm was done by an automatic process does not change this.
Fokker 100 emergency landing in Africa: pilot tweets "still alive boss"
Thanks for the hard work. It's a great contribution to the community.

One thing, could be my eyes, but is the box on the top of the cab a little off centre? Am I going mad?

http://fontawesome.io/icon/taxi/
You know, I've long avoided the Pirate Bay for movies and other copyrighted media, and I pay monthly for month Netflix and Amazon Prime.

However, if Netflix is going to push shit like this and PMP in our faces, then I think I'm going to have to take a look at this Popcorn Time app. Particularly with PMP, it's getting to the point where it's hard for "media-compliant" Linux users to run our open source OS and legally access media at the same time.
New site launching soon with curated reading lists from experts
Which experts and in which subjects would you like to see?
Unfortunately, there was a fair amount of misreporting over the weekend in response to Johnathan Nightingale's blog post here: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/05/09/new-tab-e...

The point of the post is that Mozilla is going ahead with experiments like Directory Tiles, but that no money will change hands during testing and development of those experiments. The commitment is that Mozilla will only move forward with seeking revenue if the experiments actually demonstrate added value for users, and that any revenue is collected in a way consistent with the Manifesto.
This is the Spanish government ordering Google to censor information.

That is the very definition of censorship.
> you can own the file, but not he intellectual property it represents.

So I'm allowed to distribute files I own freely, as long as I take the file extension off of it? Or the metadata?

I agree, the long string of the presence or absence of electric charge that make up A New Hope is not the concept of a "A New Hope". Too bad nobody else sees it that way, because when you put that number through a math function named (and patented) h.264, and you draw the outputs of one stream to a pixel grid on a fixed update cycle and you output the other stream as a sine wave of PCM values, you get "A New Hope", the visual and audible experience.
Not exactly correct.

Rules composed into cascdes or manual decisions trees are not as powerful as ml.

But rules can be converted into features, which you use as primitives in an ml model.

In fact, one pattern for feature engineering is to build a good rules-based system. You then can treat that as features of a degenerate model, with weights of plus or minus infinity. By training, you can induce better weights.

Edit: in a sense, rules and training method are almost orthogonal concerns.
I have been working on a little python cli project electrophysiology. I will write a paper about it but it is such a simple and small project that many journals may not want to publish it, however it could be really useful for other experimentalists. I personally don't care too much about giving credit, but I want people to be able to clearly communicate what tools they used to do their science and citing github repos or tags is not really done at the moment. Kudos to all involved for getting this to work!
Do they have an ETA on these upgrades? Seems I can't find it in these reports.
Why You're Afraid Of The World To Your Left
You don't blame a gun for someone getting shot. You shouldn't blame Google for indexing information and displaying it when queried.
So....?

Just because the internet would work differently it needs to be absolutely abolished? Consider the following:

If the funds ISPs get from service providers begins to completely overshadow the monthly fees from consumers, you may end up with really interesting incentives: namely, it may be in an ISPs best interest to provide as many people with as cheap as internet as possible. Doing so would mean more people using Netflix, which means Netflix paying them more. We could end up in a situation where the services providers do all the paying, and internet becomes free for consumers, since every additional free consumer is cheap for ISPs, and every additional byte delivered by Netflix to the consumer is a huge win for them. I'm not saying this WILL happen, but I think its silly to assume that everything in the world will fall apart with this model, just because its different.
"Show HN: HackerNews reimplementation in one line of x86 ASM"

This one cracked me up.

I've noticed a welcome relief from JS posts lately, not to mention politics. The new moderation system is working well from my perspective.
Hey guys!

Rich from Kickflip here. We've been working really hard on this for a long time and are super happy to get to announce it today.

Kickflip is some really cool tech - we've lowered the cost of mobile video broadcasting by orders of magnitude, and we've opened it up to everybody!

If you've got any questions or feedback, let me know and I'll be happy to answer them.

Thanks very much!
Excellent catch! Want to open an issue?
Only if we pretend that the HN and 4chan audiences are disjoint. I'm afraid whats happening here is more inbreeding than many are comfortable to admit.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011656

(no, Descartes did not say this)
I agree that it's ok to give users a discount for giving up privacy. The problem, in this case, is how hard to tell: what level of privacy you're giving up, how they'll deliver the ads and that there's "private" option. Google does not have to meet the same standard as they do not have a "private" version (except google apps).

If AT&T presented this as $179 + $50 for normal, or $150 + $0 "with special offers" (think kindle model), I think people would be much less worried.
Well, really just 2. One's an alias.
good on you haha

my family invests stocks as well and we lost ~40000 in 2008, those were not good times.
So were about to see Iceweasel fork a bit more from base firefox and add a button to render the "encrypted" content to file?

10/10 media industry, you guys are just the absolute best about sticking your fingers in your ears and singing lalala while substituting reality with your own where electrical charge isn't replicable.
techmeme
> So I'm allowed to distribute files I own freely, as long as I take the file extension off of it?

Who said you are allowed to distribute them freely? You are not. Same way you aren't allowed making photo copies of books and distributing them freely (except fair use cases). Making personal copies is fine (it's fair use). It's not relevant to the discussion above really.
In theory it does. Unfortunately, I've never been able to get it to work because the way in which it obtains a hardware ID to tie playback to doesn't work on the Linux distro I use and I can't feasibly debug or fix it. Assuming it were actually secure as stated, the Mozilla solution would have the same problem - if you can modify how it obtains the hardware ID, you can bypass the DRM in ways that content providers wouldn't accept.

(The really stupid thing is, I was trying to watch online streaming video that was available to the whole of the UK, with access controlled through IP geolocation. There was no need to tie decryption to a particular device ID in the first place. EME seems to be taking exactly the same approach though with support from Mozilla.)
I am opposed to the idea that because something is a machine process, the people who operate that machine should not be held responsible for any harm it does.
Founder and CEO of Birdi on his inspiration behind the life saving device.
Wistfully perusing the stark Y-Combinator homepage, clicking every link.
As a sysadmin, I hated java way more than python :-)

At least, with java, no one even attempts to use distro package tools to manage libraries, packages and dependencies. Can you see a sysadmin using a syslog replacement implemented in java, requiring java8, along with a webserver only running on java5?

With python, some tools (those big enough to be packaged) are no problem. Some random tool from pip -- not so much -- now you have to patch that python binary, those python dependencies etc... and not just track security.your-distro.org.

It is certainly possible to deploy your system in a similar way you deploy your apps (take on 100% of the burden of maintaining the whole thing) -- but normally you want the "system" to be a stable foundation on which to erect your rickety duct-taped mono-jvm-python-ruby app-stack with the help of puppet/chef/cfengine/salt/ansible... you don't want pip/hackage/gem/npm to manage your system. You might trust it to manage a single application.
That's actually a double 720-flip, not a kickflip: https://kickflip.io/
>The issue of Net Neutrality is consistently misrepresented.

This is not only not true, but the problem is typically understated.

I'm paying for the bandwidth to my house. I pay extra to get a higher bandwidth capacity, in fact.

Under absolutely no circumstances is it OK for my ISP to throttle YouTube or Netflix or any other site just because it's popular.

They are double-dipping, it's that simple. I've already paid them for a pipe (allegedly) of a certain size. If I want to watch YouTube, then give me the bits at the rate that fit in the pipe I paid for.

If I want to watch SomeOtherVideoStreamingSite, then I want it to stream to the limits of the pipe I'm paying for, whether or not SomeOtherVideoStreamingSite has coughed up extortion money.

In markets where there are one or two ISPs available, if all available ISPs are engaging in this extortion, then my experience is degraded any time my ISP hasn't extracted its shakedown money from the site I want to visit. And that is abuse of a monopoly position, plain and simple.
In other words: except where they have any market share at all.
>just using an application and some form of cloud sync

Setups like this usually suck. These workflows are hard to maintain, especially by not so tech-clever photographers.

>what's the benefit of editing in the browser

You mean from a user perspective? Then "no installation", freedom choosing platform, collaborative editing, etc.
If we talk in a greater perspective... Web version of software for RAW processing can be easily integrated into any web service: Google+, Dropbox...
> the ability for users who need it to pay a premium for fast or reliable service, a la first class mail

So in that analogy, did the postal service also begin to mishandle regular mail that was being sent to certain specific apartments and office suites, in order to force people to buy first-class?
I don't really get how it works. The page doesn't explain any technology behind it. I may need more information.
It doesn't look like anyone in this thread is denying anything. Most of the comments here are about how amazingly accurate every single one of these is.
Defamation is a well established cause for legally compelling people to change the way they represent others.
People are killing people over sneakers, how can we change this?
Yeah I know. Only goes to prove that this particular satire has way more truth to it than appears at first glance.
This discussion sums up one of the great challenges for browser vendors -- satisfying users with wildly different hardware.
ah yeah, the (alias) appears on the next line on Chrome. Great work on the new release!
Top Economist Poll on Net Neutrality
FDA clears prescription video game for rehabilitation therapy
No - you don't blame the gun. You blame the operator. That is exactly what is happening in this case.
>The Bible has been changed for many generations. Edited and editorialized countless times.

I know. I just find it odd that a Bible is more likely to get changed than a rap song.. I don't imagine someone would edit Tupac pieces to make them more fit to "our times".

>You are not a Christian but you think that book is holy.
>Explain yourself.

Well, I may not be Christian, but it's the book of Christians, so it is Holy. I think that way about the Torah and Quran.
This looks cool. Manual mocking has always been, if not a pain, a major annoyance.

On a side note, I got a good chuckle from the "Bobby Tables" XKCD reference[1] in the Jest tutorial[2].

[1]: http://xkcd.com/327/
[2]: http://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/tutorial.html
Shame on Vinod Khosla
Indeed. And Europe wonders why they have trouble innovating.
Just tried http://dev.tag.is/rawson.js/ and it doesn't work (it just says "Reading file", the green bar is full, but nothing's happening).

The OP site is quite slow but does work: it produces a JPEG in the end (using Canon 6D original CR2 files).

"LightRoom in the browser" would be the greatest thing ever.
Check out Elasticsearch as a search index. It does a pretty good job of full text searches, and it's free. I use it for a lot of my projects, and I think it's one of the better ones out there. Let me know if I can help! Good luck!
Possibly, but they've already managed to get the W3C and several of the other big browser vendors to agree to meet those requirements, which gives them some pretty strong leverage.
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"python client source code" link is dead: https://github.com/kickflip/kickflip-docs#api
Interesting. However, in main(), the variable `y` can no longer be referenced, since it would fail the borrow checker. Doesn't that effectively mean that it is immutable, as it won't be referenced any longer?
Every business tries to maximize profits and minimize costs. Google has certainly done their fair share of exploiting people (e.g. knowingly selling ads for scams, stealing content from Yelp, etc.) for profit, so it's hard to feel bad for them now that they are getting squeezed.
My girlfriend is a triathlete. She'll love the crap out of this. I'm just a runner, so it's not really my cup of tea. I'll get her to sign up tonight and try and submit some feedback.
It's almost like some people use both sites...
> Taken to the extreme, that statement is the same as saying 'If your students aren't ever going to print "Hello World!", why ever use that string? They should be finding something more relevant to their eventual goal.' That is, as stated, extreme, but you can extrapolate my point from that.

I don't think I can extrapolate your point. It all boils down to what the student wants: quick results or to actually learn OpenGL?

All I'm saying is that if you want to learn OpenGL, there's little point in spending time on de facto deprecated functionality.
I think you may still be missing the main point, which is that network access providers already have a tight hold on your business. For a given geographic area, you usually only have access to either phone lines or cable, with some exceptions, which usually are higher cost and lower quality.

While you may be able to obtain DSL service from multiple "providers", they're almost always using the same resources. Kind of in the same way that there are many mobile providers, but they all rely on the major networks.

Companies like Stripe on the other hand, are equivalent to the front end of that system. Nearly anybody can provide the same service that Stripe does. Which makes it a competition to see who can provide the best service vs price (or whatever choices you're basing your decision on).

If you only have access to the internet through your cable lines or phone lines, having the entities that control those finite resources legally able to charge more for different types of content over their lines or content from different locations, etc. is a pretty huge deal.

Even when you use some "local ISP", if the company that controls the end point at which your phone lines are connected to the internet decides to start filtering, rate limiting, etc. the data you're receiving, there's not much you can do about it.

Heck, even wireless internet providers are working with finite resources. You can't just decide one day that you want to start a business doing wireless networking over large distances without getting the FCC involved. It's to the point that you could basically consider wireless networks with enough broadcast strength to cover a city to have virtual hard lines. They essentially own those frequencies, so they may as well be considered the same type of finite resource.
How about if after getting a million dollar check, you just pretend that it represents 100 10k monthly payments with a 0% chance of cancellation. Does that sound more stable/predictable?
Can we define strong? What does well funded mean? How do achievements of students in public schools vs private schools in all the out performing nations compare? How do they compare between nations? And to the US? Were the students normalized before we compare per capita spending vs achievement by state? How? What factors were not considered? Without answering these and many other questions, most of this data is useless and pretty much exemplifies the pitfalls of aggregate statistics.
BTW, is there a description of how this works written up anywhere? I tried to reverse-engineer it and got lost in lambdas. (I did manage to translate it into Scheme and verify empirically that it works!)
> I know exactly how a search engine works, so your explanation is irrelevant.

No, you don't.

> Google spiders the web and creates profiles about people

It does not create profiles of people. It creates indexes of words.

When you look at those words, YOU conclude that it's a profile of a person.

CLEARLY, if Google is designed to operate on profiles of people, then it should handle that data carefully, etc.

But CLEARLY if Google is designed to operate on indexes of words, then it's nowhere near as clear what should happen if you happen to search for the name of a person.

You're now demanding that Google LEARN the difference between words and the names of people, and that it behave differently for the two.

So, yes, EvanKelly asked an insightful question:

Are you opposed to the idea of indexes of words in general?

To which you must honestly answer YES. Because you apparently do not believe that it can be considered JUST an index of words. You want this extra layer of understanding.

The telephone company is not responsible for you getting death threats. The post office is not responsible for stopping you from getting a pipe bomb. Making information like this available on the web IS THE PROBLEM.

Indexing words should be innocent.

It's like you want to sue the owners of a building because a bullet ricocheted off of it and killed your dog. Go after the jerk with the gun, okay?
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I concur, but location is a massive factor in who looks like a millionaire and who doesn't. A single million in Cupertino gets you a house that's about 1500 square feet with a tiny yard, while just an hour south of Cupertino a million could get you a 4000 square feet house with several acres.

Usually visible millionaires are probably a lot richer though or just really bad at saving. The question is who's going to do well in the long run, and that's most likely the one that's always saving.
True. I was mostly responding to the tone of the original comment. By all means encourage powerful sites to deprecate support for poor implementations as a way of encouraging progress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

Trust-busting and anti-collusion laws aren't "anti-capitalist", even though you could argue backroom deals are just the free market at work. The same goes for regulation of a natural monopoly.
Curious - What are you using to transpile your ES6? Traceur?
Then why not promote competition and choice, via antitrust enforcement and franchising/last-mile-infrastructure reforms?

Federal "net neutrality" regulations freeze into national law a particular formula for access, based on an idealized model that's never quite existed before. (To the extent the net has often been 'neutral', it's not because the FCC demanded it, but customers and businesses. And the legions of de facto exceptions have been practical, and evolving quickly, not waiting for telecom-lawyer mandarins in DC to design us a better internet.)

Even if new utility-style regulation prevents certain abuses, it equally prevents valuable experiments from incumbents or new entrants. The history of regulated utilities – electric, water, classic phones – is one of stagnation, and plenty of subtle abuses from those incumbents whose margins get effectively written into law.
Schneier is describing the probable outcome, one way or another. Mass indiscriminate surveillance is going to end because future systems will be designed to treat monitoring as an attack.

Only trivial information will live in the clear. Transparency will come because secret courts and their secret warrants will only acquire cyphertext. Even metadata will become obscured in a fog of junk and misdirection.
That's a surprising story from a user named "linux_devil"!

Maybe it's time to try switching back?
> How I built an automatic Raspberry Pi garage door on top of JavaScript

I thought this was hilarious. Until I realized it's a real thing. http://itsbrent.net/2013/03/hacking-my-garage-with-a-raspber...

I'm done with the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereolithography

It's literally fused to the surface as it's drawn up from the vat (imagine the apparatus shown in the Wikipedia diagram but upside-down with the laser below the resin vat)
i stumbled upon Kale Davis Hacker Newsletter some time ago
Why does it need to add your address book?
Besides using FFmpeg, are any novel optimizations/compression being offered?
>Why can't ad providers work around the blocks in adblock? //

It's not really a work around but some sites do block your [full] access and say to turn off your adblocker if you want access to the [additional] content.

That said I don't think it makes much difference to the matter at hand.
Yeah, I'm well aware of that. I just find that altering a religious book in any way feels kind of funny.

If I don't agree with it, I'll just do my thing but I mean, why would I change it for others too. We'd have as many religious books as there are people that way.

But then again, maybe God opensourced his word saying "Thou shalt fork me on GitHub".
You go after the primary source of the information.

Not the mechanically computed index of primary sources.
Any plans to support AMD or just commonjs?
This is the misinformation mentioned. Small sites won't pay until they reach the size of YouTube/Netflix.
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Quitbit lighter – a smart lighter and app to track your smoking
So accurate. Such parody. Wow.
While exarch's comment is inflammatory, Dr. Rice was involved in asserting the legality of torture during her tenure in the executive branch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice#Role_in_author...
You might want to look at http://www.venusjs.org/ to get some ideas for supporting multiple testing frameworks. It uses an annotation approach kind of how you include files for tests. The automatic mocking is pretty awesome though.
Caesars and the $450 Million 'And'
This is terrible news from end to end.

To solve it, we need to tackle the root problem and not blame the browsers: those who want to infect our open web with DRM.

Cancel your Netflix subscription. Let them know why. Same with Hulu. Same with amazon video. same with anyone who tells you to that your open web is less important than their unwillingness to embrace the new, digital frontier.

Don't give money to the asshats who push this crap. Simple as that.

This is only the beginning if you let them in. What will you accept next? Drm infected Images? HTML infected source which can only be decoded on windows? This is not the end. The line must be drawn and it must be drawn now.