skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a distinction between "perfect" and "imperfect" can easily be made, in this case.

Computers are great at executing algorithms, and never learning from their experiences. Humans are great at learning from their experiences, but pretty hit-or-miss when it comes to following algorithms. It is probably exactly that learn-ability that trips us humans up: we can learn new and beneficial things, but the flip side is that we can learn the wrong things. Clearly, we need both of these traits (predictability, learn-ability), and should probably delegate the tasks according to each others strengths.

Of course, there is nothing fundamentally different between computers and humans (modulo some philosophical assumptions); in principle, we could implement very complex artificial neural networks, to the point that computers being deterministic might be as much of a useless distinction as considering sociological phenomena as deterministic - fine in a deterministic universe, but a pretty useless perspective for all practical purposes given the immense set of variables. We then gain learn-ability, or AI, but we also lose predictability. So we would probably still delegate the task of compiling programs to a very deterministic program over an incredibly advanced AI that, while sometimes having some good and creative insights when it comes to generating output code, sometimes also learns the wrong stuff and gives us just flat-out wrong output.
I'm subscribed to Ruby's news feed[0], which includes security alerts. I also track Ruby's security page[1] for changes using Follow That Page[2]. Rails has a Google group[3] dedicated to security issues to which I've subscribed. I also have IFTTT send me text messages when I receive an email from one of those sources.

[0]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss

[1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/security/

[2]: https://www.followthatpage.com/

[3]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rubyonrails-security
>costs for running it were minimal

What makes you say that?
I am an Ada developer, but I think it is objective to say that anyone who opposes a language because there fingers will have extra work probably doesn't belong in this field. If you consider the development process as a whole—research, planning, development, verification, etc.—those extra keystrokes add an exceptionally marginal amount of time to the development process, but reduce time so much more by making the code more intuitive to read. Don't let me lead you to believe that Ada's words make it intuitive; that would be disingenuous, but the syntax has been formed since its inception to be readable by developers and non-developers alike. This is an important distinction with something like Java, neverminding that you don't have to explicitly instantiate generics in Java. One of the key objectives of Ada is code that is especially intuitive to non-developers. There's a lot going on in the language. I hope this helps.
Yes, yes it definitely is. While professional engineering certification might be a monopolistic moneymaking scheme, it also verifies that an engineer has some idea that he knows what the hell he's doing in a way that graduating from a university can't. Standardized tests have a real and valuable purpose. I'm more comfortable knowing that an engineer graduating from Western State has an independent source to test his knowledge against. Accreditation alone can't do this.
I believe IFTTT has a way to notify Android devices - I googled quickly and found this: https://ifttt.com/android_notifications.

Otherwise you can still keep the idea (basically: RSS to push) to find another solution on the same principle.
One possible stab towards a response is to observe that the cost for most popular sites is dominated by headcount costs, and TPB didn't have a large headcount.
CONTRACTS...

even you don't have contract...THREATEN TO SUE THE SHIT OUT OF THEM. Emails are proof. Tell them your uncle graduated from Harvard Law.

always take 50% deposit before you start.

i've been consulting for over 4 years. sometimes you need to take out the hammer. Never be the victim, fight until you get your money back.

If all else fails blog about what happened with proof. Use their real names. SEO the shit out of that blog post.
A few months ago, there was a time where a measurable percentage (like 25-50%) of the stories on the first news page were btc-related. The topics weren't that interesting (stuff like directly linking to peculiar transactions on the blockchain with no critique etc).

The feed returned to normal quite abruptly so I'd assume that there was some censorship around bitcoin-related topics (and I think I've read comments in the past that indicate this to be the case). If this was censorship by HN, then yes, I think it brings a lot to the table. It prevents small groups of fanatics from ruining the site for everyone by promoting their niche interest to excessive levels (which results in lower quality comments anyways).
I have a Vaio Flip and I have really fallen in love with it, and now that the start is back for Windows 8 I like it even better. I agree Apple is falling behind.
And we yelled at Amazon and Apple for inflated ebook prices. Heh.
You can watch the movie, it surely will provide you some more context. http://watch.tpbafk.tv/

To reply to your answer: no, they just provide a distribution tool. Yes, it is very much used to bypass copyright, but they just provide a tool.

In TPB AKF brokep says "file sharing is here to stay, if you (majors) could just stop fighting us, we could sit together and try to find a way to give money to the artists". And he did, indeed, with flattr.
Not bankruptcy, but "skuldsanering", which resembles "debt relief order" in English.

It is a system for heavily indebted people to free themselves of their debt after living on a minimum for five years. It also includes damages due to crimes. [1] It is pretty rare however (5357 in 2013)[2].

There are two requirements: The person has to be indebted enough to not be able to pay off the debt in the foreseeable future, and the procedure has to be reasonable with regards to the personal and economical circumstances of the person.[3] This includes the age of the debt, why they came up and if the person has worked to pay them off.

[1] https://lagen.nu/dom/rh/1996:33
[2] http://www.kronofogden.se/20136.html
[3] https://lagen.nu/2006:548
[4] http://www.kronofogden.se/Vemkanfaskuldsanering.html
IFTTT on Android has notifications built-in. You can just skip the Boxcar step.
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Too bad he didn't made to the EU Parliament.

That makes two out of the three in jail, which is very saddening. I wonder what will happen to Frederik: I doubt they will just let him be. They are beating three to scare millions.
protip: I've found IEEE Xplore becomes much more reasonable when you hide a Sparc IPX in the ceiling at MIT.
EDIT: I did go with CloudFlare: works great, and my site is loading faster. Seems worth $20/month.
Amazing. Thanks, I didn't know of him specifically but I do remember seeing his book somewhere.
Should I charge more?
Yeah, the wording kind of sucked there. It's better stated as, "Dynamic language users prefer to handle type errors at runtime or through testing instead of at compile time."
I've got a couple at Gandi too, and I was pleased at how easy it was to set up. I used the free first year (included with a domain name purchase) but then went looking for the cheapest I could find. https://cheapsslsecurity.com/ sold me a simple domain validated cert for $19.96/5 years. That's the lowest I've seen but it looks like they raised their prices slightly since then.
I'm using Debian 7 and XFCE. It's pretty much the same regarding UI latency. And everything works on my T400 out of the box. Never been happier.

I've just migrated from Windows 7 (today after clinging on for about 3 years) and it's refreshingly good.
I would certainly hope that he wouldn't conclude that. That level of certainty/hyperbole/condescension is either the Dunning-Kruger effect in action (AKA the "overconfident CS undergrad effect" on tech forums) or the mark of someone who would much rather embrace an exciting falsehood than spend a lifetime seeking messy and often unattainable truths (AKA why we can't have nice things).
Might be worth bringing up that fact that a significant portion of kids who do go to college don't go to learn, they go because it is the next step in life, often the first step where they are away from their parents. This is a societal problem with goal setting and inspiring the next generation to be motivated by something other than the nebulous idea of 'success' (read: money for most people).

Also worth recalling that the Oxford riots of 1355 started because the local townspeople were pissed off with the Seminary students for chasing women (among other things). Some things never change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

It would be interesting to have a version of SPIN [0] using this. This [1] looks really fresh. And I love the idea of creating new languages out of a subset. Almost all teams create an ad hoc language subset, formalizing it can be really powerful.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_(operating_system)

[1] http://www.spark-2014.org/about/
Are you disagreeing with my assessment or just riffing on how much better your class was doing?

I wouldn't want to speak real confidently about things that happened 20 years ago, especially my 10 year old assessments of the mental states of other 10 year olds.
Glad you liked it!

When you ride the bus you get a nice lecture in english and swedish by the busdriver that functions like an adverticement pillar for the company. The bus goes to/from the airport and passes by the university so I guess they know what customers they have :-)
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haha, quite — most times I've ever heard someone ask this, my first thought's been just that!
I downloaded the VM today and spent a fair while trying to diagnose a CheckIP error. It turns out, after going on the IRC channel that none of the projects on the VM are up to date and hence the VM can't be used to help the project. Hence the error.
If I see the website update to mention justin.tv I'll certainly fire it up. But it seems a shame that there is nothing I can do to help with their project as a whole; I couldn't even see any way to donate - I guess I should just donate to archive.org.
"Plain Text Offenders" blog shamed them even earlier, in May 2011:

http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/5098971221/jetblue-com-wh...
The poster boy that has been held up by techies for years was Trent Reznor, who went independent in 2007. He's since signed with Columbia Records for An Omen and Hesitation Marks. The next NIN album will be with Interscope.

The labels provide him value, as they do for many artists.

http://www.spin.com/articles/trent-reznor-david-byrne-major-...
> I disagree strongly with exception versus error codes. It sounds reasonable until you look at what real programmers (the kind that isn't perfect) will do and how it affects production code.

I prefer option types or checked exceptions, but mentioned return codes because Go is making them popular again.

The most recent GnuTLS bug comes from an ignored return code:

http://blog.bro.org/2014/03/dissecting-gnutls-bug.html
You mean watching movies for free is illegal ?

Here are some considerations:
- It is legal to watch movies for free on TV, as long as you accept to be brainwashed by advertising.
- It is legal to lend your DVD to your friend and it's legal for him to give it to his friend and his friend and so on.
- It is legal to bring 90 friends to your house and watch the movie together. Each of them can then borrow the DVD and invite 90 of their friends...
- Movies drop in value considerably after being watched once. It's a very poor investment.

Since obviously demand for free material exists, it means that:
- there are no alternative legal channels with such diversity and simplicity of use or they have DRM or other restrictions (proprietary formats), which means that you actually rent, not buy.

- the prices demanded are too high, especially for movies which you stop halfway through because they suck (a vast majority)

As a developer, I do not agree with using commercial software for free and so I never download anything and always buy my software.

thepiratebay is the largest distributed backup of cinematography and music in the world. What happens to all these movies if something happens to the Internet (lots of things can make Internet unusable or disconnect parts of the world from it) ?
What if the global economy collapses, WW3 starts and Internet companies as well as movie studios go belly up ?
Where would all these creations be ? Who would have the copies if there were no torrent sites like piratebay ?
But it would be possible to re-create thepiratebay and republish all those movies and music from their hard-drives back to the Internet.
Not necessarily. Liam Neeson was the star of the 1993 film "Schindler's List." It won 7 Academy awards in 1994, including best picture.
make the difference between electricity and a signal. a signal is information, electrons are just particle which flows through a wire.

if you slowly push a train, at the other end it's still going at the exact same speed at the exact same time (well in theory, it still depends on a certain fraction of the speed of light).
> the handle broke off

This happened to mine as well, I was a bit disappointed, expect OXO to be better quality. They'd probably replace it if I asked but I feel like it's my fault since I dropped it, even though a plastic cup should survive a fall on the kitchen floor.
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At best it's free promotion. The thing is, piracy right now is rampant, but it doesn't seem to have a measurable effect on profits. As in, they aren't dropping.

Edit: Here's a concrete example of "At best": http://anton.nordenfur.se/paulo-coelho-destroys-piracy-myths...

In 1999, when I was first published in Russia (with a print- run of 3,000), the country was suffering a severe paper shortage. By chance, I discovered a ‘pirate’ edition of The Alchemist and posted it on my web page.
A year later, when the crisis was resolved, I sold 10,000 copies of the print edition. By 2002, I had sold a million copies in Russia, and I have now sold 12 million
You would put the pot directly on the scale, surely. No need for an intermediate container.
Actually much, much less than that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity#Numerical_exampl... Even for a large current in a small wire, you only get average speeds of about 1cm every 40 seconds. Luckily, that isn't the speed at which signals move.

Imagine that each of us is holding one end of a 10 foot metal pole. I transfer a message to you by pushing on the bar. You don't need to wait for my end to reach you before you can tell that it has moved, because you can feel the entire rod moving.

In the same way, the receiver of a signal doesn't need to wait for the electrons to move all the way, because pushing on some of the electrons makes the entire mass of electrons move.
Wasn't me but I wonder about this: "Neither self-signed nor CA-signed certificates are securely authenticated...".

I'm no expert on CAs but saying their certs are not securely authenticated is worrying. Seems to defeat their purpose, no? Maybe expand on that point if you can as I don't understand how it can be true.
And I thought the IEEE's most irritating feature was shoveling life insurance scams (& other snailmail spam) at its members every month.
This needs to be removed. This messes up my history.
Right. It is questionable why self-signed certificates trigger scary warnings in browsers when totally unencrypted connections do not.

I think the whole UI aspect of web transport security needs re-thinking.
Comments are voted down by other users, not site admins. You don't get this privilege until you have shown yourself to be a good member of the community. This is the one of the key mechanisms that elevates discussions here.

Most stories die because they get flagged by users. Duplicates, things that are boring, plagiarized, etc. Interesting links almost always get submitted multiple times, so it isn't a huge loss to the site if one of them dies unfairly.

Stories can get demoted of the front page by triggering "flame war" like behavior. This is fine IMO because it keeps otherwise reasonable people from feeding the trolls, while the trolls are likely to keep trolling each other (and burning karma) out of public view. The moderator does review at least some of these and fixes the demotion if necessary.

Stories can be manually demoted if deemed "not interesting" by the site admins. This could be problematic, but from what I've seen it is used rarely and reasonably.

There is a proposed thing called "pending comments" which I'm not a huge fan of. I think the tools we have today are good enough and that it unnecessarily burdens the new user experience. IMO people who post low quality comments already get punished by the community at a sufficient level that they either improve or leave. Note that this is theoretical since we haven't seen what this feature looks like in practice.

I do wish there was some more concrete guidance on how the moderation tools were meant to be used (flagging stories specifically) but in those cases you just use the tools cautiously until you have a better understanding of community norms.

Note that I have no affiliation with Hacker News or YCombinator and this solely represents my personal opinions.
I have been to a few Friends meetings and have never encounter this. It would strike me as really really odd.

Trying to figure out how we can mash a joke out of Quaker Oats [0] and a Skinner Box [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Oats_Company#Logo_and_Qu...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_instruction
Tablets should not aim to kill laptops. Tablets, and a new generation of LoB apps and collaboration tools, should aim to kill cubicles. Laptops will just be collateral damage once you rip out the cubicles and spend more time face to face with your co-workers.
Interesting especially the way the use the pantograph to do the charging well away from the passengers.
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This doesn't surprise me. The whole academic publishing side of things is a royal pile of shit. Glad someone is calling them up on it.

Recently I snagged a copy of "The Art of Electronics" for reference. This has a retail whack of about £40 here in the UK even with Amazon's smackdown and second hand value on top of it. Decided screw that and bagged a copy on eBay. What turned up was an affordable edition destined for Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India with a big warning not to sell outside those areas stamped on it.

I paid £5 including delivery.

Going back to when I did my EE degree, I paid out £340 on textbooks in one semester.

Ugh it's pitiful and pisses me right off.
My girlfriend is the only other person who understands what the software I am writing is supposed to do.

She doesn't program at all.
I see your definition of troll is someone who doesn't agree with you.
with piketty's book it seems inequality is now a bandwagon discussion. the inequality in the 99% is somehow a good inequality.
IMO this did not deserve downvotes, any more than the original article deserved flags. You might disagree with eli's response, but I think it contributed to the conversation.
IEEE also actively lobbies against any kind of patent reform.
The SP3 has the form factor and touchscreen of a tablet when you want it, reportedly doing a more convincing impersonation of a decent tablet than other touchscreen laptops.

The Macbook Air or my cheap four year old Samsung almostultrabook, on the other hand, are far more competent than tablets at most things, but no good at actually being a tablet on the rare occasions that touchscreens are useful or the laptop form factor gets in the way.
Bjarne says in his book that he wanted to make C++ implementable with just nothing more complicated than a linear search.

Things didn't quite work out that way, but it's a good principle for language designers to live by.

If you don't know how to implement the languages you use, then either you or the language is at fault, IMO.
I'm a former Googler/Software Engineer who has stepped into a CTO role at a small startup. I'm learning how to deal with people which is a significantly harder problem than dealing with computers :). Specifically, I'm responsible for prioritizing features vs. infrastructure work and conveying the importance of things like testing and code quality to non-technical leadership. I would love to chat with someone in an engineering leadership role that has managed to convince leadership that non-user-facing work is very vital to the company.

advait.shinde at gmail _ com
I wrote so many tests in university that were poor reflections of what was taught in the course that I couldn't ever fault someone for optimizing. There's not enough time in the world to study every word that was said in every course in detail. Students have to try to pick out the important stuff and focus on that.
Yes it already improved a lot. I don't really have insides in the financial aspects of advertising and don't know what would be possible with mobile ads alone. Unlike other startups, the big disadvantage news companies have is, that they need a comparably huge staff and spend a lot on licensing just to get a basic product.

But, what makes me angry is that newspapers are probably the industry with the longest experience in how to mix content and advertising into a single product people want. Yet, they ignored the internet for a decade until the money flow from print started to run dry and mobile users started – completely unexpected – to read the products, the news companies considered worthless themselves.

Of course it's not all their own fault. But they could have been better prepared.
A few Defcons ago, Jason Scott gave an excellent talk about this failure mode[1]. Basically, companies host user-generated content for free. Then years later, they destroy it with little or even no notice. Sturgeon's law applies; most of the deleted content is crap. But a lot of it matters to the people who made it. More importantly, a small fraction of it is stuff that future historians would kill for. Collectively, companies that engage in this behavior are burning historical evidence.

1. Archive Team: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ZTmuX3cog
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but Android is winning.
I dunno. I kind of like trying to judge it visually and waiting for the ump's call.

I can also imagine MLB having similar concerns as the NFL when, for instance, they insisted on removing the line as the ball is being spotted. That is, if they are showing the strike zone and the ump's call seems inconsistent, then it wouldn't be a "good look" for the sport.
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I would be more enthusiastic about a "trustworthy" and "hardened" distribution with "container isolation" if it were BSD based with jails (among other things).

A simpler system, with fewer moving parts, and contributions (perhaps) from cperciva ?
By that standard, one can never condemn any existing state of the world.

I am actually willing to compromise in that nominal imaginary property isn't the worst idea (especially as applied to the commercial realm), but only after its industries accept its limitations and stop attacking anything that prevents them from having iron-clad absolute control (attacking justice by extorting IP addresses, attacking end-user computing via DRM, attacking communications and privacy through six strikes, attacking self-determination by forcing their laws onto other countries, attacking the distributed Internet through streaming).

Until that happens, they are a malevolent pest that must be starved, as any money sent their way just supports destroying the future.
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