skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may seem strange, but in Europe there are places where a similar "juridical" system was used too, which is, in Sicily. It was common for Mafia bosses and other respected older people to act as third party in order to judge disputes between people.
One problem with this model is that self-employed software developers are much, much more expensive than full-time developers; 2x-3x more by default, but often even higher. Think of an FTE as a "bulk purchase discount" for dev/hours.
a. Ask for a root password before spinning up the machine.

b. Ask for a public key before spinning up the machine.
At the very least, it's poor reporting. I'll start with "Sedan regeringsskiftet för snart åtta år sedan har anslagen till polisen blivit allt större" -- "Since the change of government nearly 8 years ago, the number of crime reports has gotten even higher."

This is followed shortly by "”Sverige hamnar ofta på en mycket hög nivå vid internationella jämförelser”, skriver exempelvis BRÅ" -- "'Sweden often ends up at a very high level in international comparisons', writes for example the Brottsförebyggande rådet (National Crime Prevention Council)."

That quote is easy to find. It's in a 1999 report at http://www.bra.se/download/18.cba82f7130f475a2f1800021441/13... , on page 5. Thus, the BRÅ statement from 15 years ago has nothing to do with the change of government 8 years ago. Yet the article implies they are coupled. Good journalism would give better context to the quote.

The 1999 BRÅ report then continues to explain why the international comparisons aren't so easy to make. For one, the Swedish report to Interpol includes traffic crimes, which most other countries don't. Finland submits two reports, one with and one without traffic crimes. The difference in crime rates between the two is quite remarkable, going from 8,000 to 14,000 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, bringing it to par with Sweden.

The journalism is all the worse because the overview then reviews the actual court cases, saying "Istället utgör merparten av det polisen kallar ”uppklarade brott” sådana gärningar där den dömde fastnat i polisens egna kontroller – fortkörare, cyklister utan lampa och fordonsägare med trasiga blinkers." -- "Instead [of dealing with serious crimes], the larger part of what the police call 'solved crimes' deal with conduct where the offenders were caught by the police's own checks - speeders, cyclists without lights, and vehicle owners with bad blinkers"

But as I just pointed out, the BRÅ talks about how the list of crimes that Sweden reports to Interpol includes traffic crimes, and the comparison to Finland strongly suggests that over 40% of those crimes are traffic crimes, so of course there will be a large number of car and bike crimes on the list.
I'm too lazy to look up a primary source for this, but it seems that the newspaper article was published as a legal obligation: http://www.nextinpact.com/news/87482-existe-t-il-droit-a-oub... "La CNIL espagnole avait rejeté la réclamation contre le journal puisque les informations avaient été publiées en raison de contrainte légale.", meaning, "The Spanish equivalent of the CNIL http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNIL had rejected the claim against the newspaper as the data had been published due to legal constraint [sic]".
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Seems like it's just two guys driving around in LA. Partying with scantily clad women, etc. No different from any other hip hop video, and DEFINITELY safe for work.
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The biggest issue I have here is one of fundamental honesty and equality in the legal system. By creating a system where someone with enough money and lawyers can make their past problems disappear, you only serve to make the legal playing field more unequal than it already is. Additionally, it starts creating much bigger questions as to where the line should be drawn. Should legal search services like LexisNexis also be bound by decisions like this? Should case records only be available to those that can afford to go to the courthouse on alternate Tuesdays between the hours of 9 and 10? In the end, this case only harms the law. The big still have access to the same data they always did, the small people are shut out again.
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I don't understand how it's possible to program to a true REST service given his final bullet point and one of his comments:

> A REST API should be entered with no prior knowledge beyond the initial URI (bookmark) and set of standardized media types that are appropriate for the intended audience (i.e., expected to be understood by any client that might use the API). From that point on, all application state transitions must be driven by client selection of server-provided choices that are present in the received representations or implied by the user’s manipulation of those representations. The transitions may be determined (or limited by) the client’s knowledge of media types and resource communication mechanisms, both of which may be improved on-the-fly (e.g., code-on-demand). [Failure here implies that out-of-band information is driving interaction instead of hypertext.]

> When I say hypertext, I mean the simultaneous presentation of information and controls such that the information becomes the affordance through which the user (or automaton) obtains choices and selects actions. [...] Hypertext does not need to be HTML on a browser. Machines can follow links when they understand the data format and relationship types.

If you're only supposed to start with an initial URI and there is no out-of-band communication, how is an automaton supposed to know what links to follow to reach the desired information? A person can do this by reading, reasoning about what they read, then following the appropriate link. Writing an automaton that can reason about anything that can fall under the initial URI seems equivalent to writing some kind of artificial intelligence.
That's exactly it (and it's a message we've been hearing over and over for the past decade at least -- "worry about being productive, if it's slow, Moore's law will fix it for you in a few years").

The thing is, in some cases, all the productivity ends up costing a lot more. For small shops it will not be evident, but for bigger ones trying to scale, it'll be a major area of improvement (to use less cycles).

And that's OK... comes down to using the right tool for the right job, matching the skills of your developers with the challenge, how fast you want things delivered, etc, etc, etc.

I think the major issue people see is that when all of that slow programs are looked from a 10,000 feet view as a single thing, it looks like a damn waste of resources. Thus comments like "computing (as a whole) in the last X years has been terrible", etc. We can delve into programmer culture, lack of skills, people not caring about wasting resources, etc, etc, etc.

I think the solution is better tooling. Let the programmer be productive, deliver things fast, etc, but build something more intelligent that will strip it down to only the necessary bits and deploy.
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In the U.S., this would be like someone creating a Craigslist screen scraper and calling it Craigsmail. Craiglist might have something to say about that.
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That's a bad idea - doing that shows intent to circumvent an intended block.

See the last notable case "Craigslist v. 3Taps": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#No...
How many of those are voluntary, active users, though?

I see them more as "victims" of it, who are subjected to it without giving much consent at all. Somebody loads a blog article or some other web page that uses Disqus for accepting and showing comments, and without necessarily wanting to use it the page's visitors have become "users" of Disqus.
If you think that the language and misogyny used in this video is safe for work - despite the very obvious irony/parody - then it's no wonder you missed the point.
Yes there is no official API , basically the tool scrap HTML website content, I don't know if that is legal or illegal according to EU laws.
but its like scrapping Google search result, and I remember that it was illegal in the US law.

I think leboncoin.fr has the right to ask him to stop the service. but they also have to offer an API to the developers who seek to tweak the service .
I've been trying to think of products for the mortgage or real estate industries for a while. Do you happen to have any ideas you'd like to share? Or advice on finding ideas?
Also, TLB misses. Also the reason why mmap(2) doesn't always beat read(2).
It's similar (though a bit stretched) to count site visitors as google analytics users. Or, less stretched, users who click on ads as a Google Adsense/words users. It doesn't subtract from their success though.
All sorts of assets have been stored in version control systems for decades now. That includes designs, images, documents, specifications, and so forth.
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Wrap around screens have been speculated about for a long time, how is putting buttons on it non obvious?
Very interesting idea - the technology behind this sounds pretty neat! After skimming through the website, I'm still not 100% clear on what all this can do though. It looks like a way to keep a central list of everything you watch from different sources. I use my Chromecast for Netflix a lot - does this support that? Or is it more for tracking watching downloaded movies / tv / anime?
Clone the repository and start a webapp locally to tweak CSS and do other designery things.
And can we look forward to court sanctioned erasing unwanted people from the photos on Google search if a few years down the road we decide it really isn't so great to have a photo showing us next to someone we don't like anymore.

http://iliketowastemytime.com/2012/06/22/soviet-censorship-o...

This whole thing seems kinda crazy to me, but we will see how it works out.
I think you have to be a little careful here, because while the distinction between military action and police action is a good one, the classification of valid responses to terrorism doesn't necessarily follow. Some effective responses to terrorism have been, essentially, police work. And, obviously, some very ineffective responsive responses to terrorism have been military.
One of the things I've always wanted is autovectorisation by the CPU - imagine if there was a REP ADDSB/W/D/Q instruction (and naturally, repeated variants of the other ALU operations.) It could make use of the full memory bandwidth of any processor by reading and summing entire cache lines the fastest way the current microarchitecture can, and it'd also be future-proof in that future models may make this faster if they e.g. introduce a wider memory bus. Before the various versions of SSE there was MMX, and now AVX, so the fastest way to do something like sum bytes in memory changes with each processor model; but with autovectorisation in hardware, programs wouldn't need to be recompiled to take advantage of things like wider buses.

Of course, the reason why "string ALU instructions" haven't been present may just be because most programs wouldn't need them and only some would receive a huge performance boost, but then again, the same could be said for the AES extensions and various other special-purpose instructions like CRC32...
Errata: thin should be think
This is a network programmers view. System, Network programmers concern themselves about systems and topologies. For an application programmer, both needs to be abstracted and only the business logic is important. Money is in the top of the pyramid now - hence the proliferation of APIs.
Personal bankruptcy laws aren't exactly unique to Sweden.

I also think you misunderstand what aruggirello meant.
> I'm ashamed to be french

No need to, it's just plain old cheap lawyer tactics, it's been around since the beginning of time:

Scare people (i.e. by making them feel they're in danger) and they will do what you want.
(Law seems complicated to non-lawyers, so lawyers make use of that, basically by communicating "I'm the specialist and you don't know anything about this domain, so do as I say")

In the case of this story, all I'd suggest the owner of the app, to steer clear of legal issues, is:

a) don't use their name,

b) don't use their logo (or other very distinct parts of their Corporate Identity)

c) re-launch your app (using proxies)

EDIT: On second thought - they don't deserve your exclusive traffic/promotion/value you add. If you keep your app alive, you should multiply your sources (add as many similar sites as possible).
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Yes, leap frogging has always been the silver lining to playing catch up. Regardless of any technical arguments for or against copper, hanging dollars from wooden poles has never been a good idea in impoverished war torn countries.

I do not know much about the anxiety in SA. What competitive advantages do people fear from the northern neighbors?
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> Could anyone work out the exact rate.

The true effective interest rate varies with time so the answer to your question would be a set of equations.

Professor Stefan Yard at Lund University in Sweden has made a calculation with a 10-year JAK loan, and compares it to borrowing money in a normal bank for 5 years and then saving money in the same bank for 5 years without interest (this is how a 10 year JAK loan work)

The effective interest rate of the JAK loan is then 6.5% which is higher than the normal bank.

Source: Use e.g Google translate to read http://www.jordensvanner.se/2012/gar-det-att-driva-bank-utan...
Timestamp 1400000000000 is today at 16:53:20 UTC
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Since demoscene is mostly happening in Europe, and hardly existent in America and the far east, I can see why they wanted to give it a different name. They don't even know what demoscene is.
Maltese Falcon is docked just mile from my house. Its sails look very heavy and unstable.
Google only caches for a limited period of time, and also observes robots.txt . So adding a NOARCHIVE directive to the url would get google to flush its cache of the page.
Isn't this really mis-titled? "Computers" don't win anything. The software is what cant "win" right now. Even though Im sure there is a lot of effort by various companies, academia and individuals into AI, is there really much development being put into beating a go grand master?
+1 for having a usable demo to play with off the bat.

I tried to publish a simple page from the demo. But I did have problems:

I created a callout, and then created a page. I then tried to add the callout to the page. And save as published. But I was hit with a message: need to commit first? I didn't get that.

I then saved as a draft, and then hit commit. Not sure what was happening.

I then tried to view the page, but got a 'No content' message.

I then added something to the main content of the page. And saved. No change.

I then commited again. But still had the 'no content' message.

I then tried the commit and approve, which seemed to finally publish the page.

Confusion lies in the commit part, or in the publishing process, order of process. Some buttons looked deactivated, but actually you can click on them, like the 'Commit and approve' button. I was a little perplexed.

The demo then reset itself before I could test a form!

All feels slow to me. But then again most online CMSs feel a little like that to me.

It was also quite difficult dumping widgets into areas. A little practice got there, but it wasn't the easiest of things for me to do.
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Device testing, or VM testing? Genymotion is not a real device. For a start, IIRC it uses an x86 processor in the emulation.
How do you figure? They seem phonetically similar because both Somali and Arabic are Afro-Asiatic languages. We already use khayr in daily speech, and incorporated Arabic words are almost always equal to the original Arabic word.
Like this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Samsung_Youm_C...
Not to mention the unfortunate implication that chopping a baby in half with a sword was a credible threat from Wise King Solomon.
I'm willing to wager GP just forgot to type the critical "not" in his comment...
For those wondering: 16:53:20 (UTC) is 8:53:20 (PST, UTC-8).
It will do what you describe, but since you are handling large files you should know that Syncthing currently doesn't do dedupe, so if you rename or move a file, or have multiple copies of it, it will sync the whole file again. Changes within a file that don't move are handled efficiently.
It may be obvious, but the thinking is, surely, that if they don't patent it someone else will.
Mobile carriers, at least here in the US, are extremely limited with backhaul. They can support high burst speeds, but they can't handle high traffic loads. That's one of the reasons why the data caps are so low on mobile (e.g., 5GBs) vs broadband (e.g., 500GBs). Otherwise, yes, a lot of people would ditch their cable/DSL and just use a mobile datacard/modem.
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Hey, why the downvote? It wasn't just a witty remark, i was serious. I find it rather fascinating that in the case of pets, both parties mutually form a method of communication. And this method isn't exactly part of either species' natural language. Humans train pets to respond to certain gestures/words and the pet adopts certain behaviors which have the sole purpose of communicating a need or intention or request to the owner. I think it says something abuot the intelligence of BOTH species
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Why are all the French so ashamed to be French all the time?

I've seen Frenchmen ashamed to be French when a Le Pen won something somewhere. I've seen Frenchmen ashamed to be French when an anti piracy group pirates a logo. I've seen Frenchmen ashamed to be French when some president felt the need to compensate for something by blowing up a nuclear bomb in the pacific.

Somehow, anecdotally, being ashamed to be born somewhere is a particularly French phenomenon. Why?

France has all the above things, but also a great healthcare system, nice people, a somewhat functional democracy, and many other great things.

There's 60 million Frenchmen. Are you going to be ashamed every time one of them does something wrong? Do you expect them to be ashamed every time you do something wrong?

Instead of shame, maybe it would be more constructive to organize and do something about it. The ivory tower of the French political elite is notorious, but not unsurmountable.
Not just Jews. Friday the 13th comes to mind...
What are good stock video/image sites?
Looking for shutter stock alternative to buy good & cheap stock videos and images.
I wonder how one defines a person of public interest in the internet age. Obviously Britney Spears qualifies but fame seems to be a sliding scale more than an absolute now.
I've seen this question asked before and Markus was kind of coy about answering.

I had a feeling there was some sort of spammy element to it. Maybe something involving link stuffing or comment spamming.

Whatever it is, he doesn't seem too keen on revealing it.
I sincerely think it's a good thing for the courts to look out for individuals's rights, but they are overestimating the power of the law.

By your logic, it's a good thing for the courts to look out for individuals' rights not to be murdered in their homes, but they are overestimating the power of the law by making murdering people in their homes a crime.

You're mistaking the internet (a human construct) for the laws of physics (gravity, your point about the right to fly).
I suspect that you know a lot more people with a million dollar net worth and just don't realize it.

A million dollar net worth is often externally indistinguishable from "suburban family just barely making ends meet". In fact, invisible millionaires are less likely to have a flashy new car in a huge McMansion garage than the "barely making it" crowd is, IME.
I was familiar with his story from playing the "railroad tycoon" series of games as a kid. I suspect many startup / HN / MBA types were inspired by playing those games and therefore had some exposure to Brunel's story.
I only have two: Brighthouse (basically TimeWarner) or AT&T Uverse. In the US, most broadband companies are issued local monopolies or duopolies on service, so there's little or no competition.
The freighter Emma Maersk has an 80 MW (109,000 HP) powerplant. The engine and specs themselves are impressive. You could stand inside an engine cylinder:

I visited Lars Maersk when she/he (I never know what to do with male-named ships) came back from sea trials. That was my second thought(1) when entering the engineroom. The cylinders were open for inspection and I suddenly realized "that piston is actually big enough for me to stand on."

1)First thought was how clean it was :-)
No, single characters can be represented by a string of multiple bytes. And you can construct an invalid string of bytes that would cause a Unicode error. The problem comes from what to you in these applications when you come across a Unicode error. Such as, if the user tries to open a file where the filename contains a string of bytes that would be invalid Unicode. Refuse to open the file?
They have to? I don't think so...
It was more about the TOS than the lawyer letter. People from all around the world get to be ashamed by their lawyers.
Then they'll gain it right back?
A lot of websites use similar rules in their TOS. I think those terms are deliberately broad so they can cover a lot of use cases if necessary.
Dont forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_theft
Also, on top of being cumulative and using different periods, the chart just directly visually lies.

The pixel height difference between the 78.2 and 148.8 bars is ~110px for 70.6B$. But between 148.8 and 210 it's 198px for 61.2B.

So the pixel difference increases despite the money difference decreasing. I have no idea how this can be justified. It makes the right side of the chart look more steep than the rest instead of less (except the left-most part).
If you are asking whether anyone working is working on a truly distributed social network, then the short answer is that a number of projects are trying but no-one has been very successful so far.

It does seem like this is a matter of time, though. We managed to build the entire Internet as a system of systems that work together remarkably effectively despite no one authority having universal control of everything.

The main thing keeping sites like Facebook safe today is the critical mass of customers they have, and the fact that current sentiments (and the occasional multi-million dollar marketing effort) encourage newcomers to put their data "in the cloud" in return for not paying any money to store it and not having to worry about the technical details. There are certainly technically viable alternatives.
He did a piece of artwork for the front cover for Triptykon's album Melana Chasmata that came out this year. Not sure when the artwork was done though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melana_Chasmata
The other element of his encryption comment: the problem is that end-point security is so weak that encryption often isn't effective. That may mean key "exfiltration" (theft), or simply having cleartext access to content.

Schneier addressed this in his recent Stanford lecture on the NSA and Internet security. Long, > 1 hour, but very much worth viewing.
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Yup, it's a very interesting page. I learnt about logic mazes there, after learning (and playing) Theseus and the minotaur. Just didn't want to add links to avoid sounding spammy (not implying that you do!)
And before China you had Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.