skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Criticism was raised quite loudly when the court rewarded damages and justified it in the court document as "punishment". Damages is not allowed to be used as such, which was raised by the lawyers (if I remember right) when they appealed to the supreme court.

It was also sad that the bribed policeman who did the investigation was not only given a free pass, but the police chief said "it shown that the policeman work in the case was appreciated".
Its an idea that's been around for a long time... back in the 90's some scientist from Stanford was trying to come up to paint that converted sunlight to electricity... If they just started with every roof built from this point forward... they might have something...
Google have a node close to you. Try traceroute.
I'd almost actually argue that we need to put better weight on certificates and audited courses for people who aren't necessarily chasing a degree program, but who are taking advantage of the numerous and cost effective educational opportunities available through the community college systems in the U.S.

A resume with a huge number of course hours for somebody basically didacting their way through their interest areas doesn't get anywhere near the weight of somebody with a degree that's composed of many fewer study hours, but the degree holding person will likely get the hiring advantage.
A slight nitpick that I mention only because I just learned this recently. The marble on the other end wouldn't come out instantaneously. Time it would take after starting to push the new marble in for the marble on the other side to start coming out is determined by speed of the pressure wave that would propogate through the marbles. You can see a really cool demonstration of this principle here: http://a.gifb.in/092011/1317143770_slinky_dropped_in_slowmot...
In Costco's case do they actually own factories that produce that brand or is it white-labelled?
In terms of supermarket chains I understood it to be whitelabelled - i.e. that primarily they have their own-brand goods manufactured at a factory that already produces the goods sold under other brands. So, for example Tesco have a "wheat biscuit" product physically identical to Weetabix and indeed it's made in the same factory. Do Supermarkets really run their own factories for many/most/all goods sold under their brand?

I worked in the past at a supplier that labelled goods on the same packing line for different grocery retailers (QC and the label being the only differentiators).
Wikipedia has no ads though. Big difference.
Nystatin is used for babies diaper rash, not athletes foot. It's a different organism - the stuff for athletes foot doesn't work as well.

There's also terbinafine which works better than the 3 you listead (but more expensive).
This time around, the issues are more subtle. Effective solutions will be privacy enhancing technologies adopted by individuals in a free market, rather than politics and movements, which are too blunt of an instrument. I believe, the ANC welcomed white activists and we should be careful not to alienate like-thinking people of any sort. On the false-positive side, youth can sometimes be callow and too easily persuaded to jump on the wrong bandwagon.(lovemenot aged 49.5)
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OTOH, if its just public social media data, its naive to think that this wouldn't have happened. If Coke can access social media in realtime through a service such as topsy, why not big brother?
Your comments reek of pessimism and resignation. How can you hope to educate anyone with that attitude?
Total information awareness is the first truly strategic capability since the development of nuclear weapons 70 years ago. Now it's an arms race. I'm appalled by mass surveillance, and with my limited knowledge of game theory, at this point I don't see any way we can put the shit back in the horse.
There was a hot air balloon expedition that went over the summit of Everest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mp9gp
Well the field just becomes a large marker at that point and you use the boundaries as easy reference points. This is what the real future of AR and CV combined are.
That is unbelievably terrible. You would lose points for a mathematically sound justification?!?!

For example, when solving quadratic equations, I often used trial substitutions and the fact quadratic equations have at most two solutions to justify answers, instead of using quadratic formula. Why wouldn't this get the full mark? (I would actually argue this is a better procedure if you are looking for integer-only solutions, for example.)
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This is ridiculous!

Whenever some revelation about the NSA makes the news again, it sounds like something out of Mission Impossible or Batman. I'm beginning to think they just hired action movie writers to design their programs.
Yes thank you, I was reminded by the 4th sentence of the article. If you continue reading all the way to the 5th sentence, you'll discover that deal has not yet been finalized.
i only use JTV to nerd out in the trek streaming channels and make fun of rikers lack of beard in chat during season 1 TNG
I think the question they asked was "how much does it cost to host all this video?"

Then for their post, they answered the question they wished they were asked, like a politician does in an interview.
Not a bot, even if it is a bot.

What kind of metaphysics is in "hypermedia"? What is after the hypermedia? "Meta-hypermedia"?

How does one specialize in that?
I tend to agree with the sentiment, but some of this guys examples are horrible.

"It keeps asking me which app I want to use to open stuff. And when I click ‘just once’, it keeps asking me forever."

Oh really? When you tell it to open something with an app 'just once' it only opens it with that app once? The audacity!
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No real loss
$50M... that's 10M in spending cash, 40M in investments, and with a moderate rate of return I'm making $2.5-5M a year for the rest of my life...
I've done a few verified certs. There's a question of causality. I only get on the verified track after I'm relatively confident I'll finish the course. Those are the same courses I would have gotten an honor code in if verified wasn't available.
That could be. I'm just not convinced any 'free market solution' will survive government 'intervention'.
> It was a huge disappointment when I heard about the price at launch. It could not compete on price with the Nexus line.

Sigh. The nexus line is sold AT COST. If you expected a retail phone to compete against a phone that is not trying to make any money you will always be disappointed.
sounds like a nightmare...
On my machine I have, well had, one. What is going on here? Is adding a trusted CA cert (with the key) really a good idea?
It has already caused people to do work they otherwise wouldn't have had to. And what are the odds that the trademark holder will give up without litigation?

But I agree that this isn't specific to the US.
Ideally police should just enforce the laws on the books and have no government influence of their actions, aside from the changing of laws.
And since we know that SnapChat doesn't actually delete the photos people send with it, it's probably safe to say that the NSA now also has the largest boob and dick recognition system in the world.
The value of HBS is the imprimatur not the courses.

Harvard's model is clever because they create perceived value for customers through an affiliated brand without tarnishing the brand itself.
One approach I've heard is to create more "engineering technology" degrees with a focus on practical, industry engineering. These would lack the coverage of theory of traditional degrees but would be cheaper and better suited for engineering in the real world. The purpose of traditional engineering degrees would be to prepare future professors and researchers to advance fundamental theory.
The graph is visually misleading because putting the top 5% on it (and then including a blank bar even on top of that) makes changes in all the other lines look smaller. The top three quintiles are all upward sloping prior to 2000, and since then the top 5% line is flat too, which is attributable to the recession(s) following the dotcom bust, 9/11 and the housing crisis.

And be careful with the debt numbers. The thing you really want there is net worth anyway. Otherwise you get silly outcomes like people buying homes causing "debt" to increase dramatically even though assets increase by an equivalent amount at the same time.
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I don't think Skynet is going to be our problem, it's going to be Spynet, when the two to four large chunks of aligned intelligence forces (US, China, Russia, larger Europe depending on how it goes) gradually merge and it really becomes us (human citizens) vs them (lizard overlords).
So what's the URL now? Is it thepiratebay.org, or thepiratebay.se? It jumped around so much that it's hard to keep track.
The stated reason for this are two failed bombings. How would this facial recognition tech have stopped those two failed bombings?
1. Wouldn't know, I don't use the default mail client. Also, my right thumb is near the top of the phone in the way I tend to hold it, and I type with the 3 non-pinky fingers on my left hand. This makes me a bit odd.

2. Same. In TextSecure, hit options, add contact info, and it adds to contacts. You can pick an existing contact or add a new one by hitting the big + sign.

3. Opening something with an app "just once" vs opening it with that app "always" and he complains that it doesn't save the preference. Clearly he read the words, but didn't understand. "Just once" means use that app just once. "always" means use that app always.

4 & 5. No. Apps in the background may appear to be running, but they can be simply suspended. You do not have to care about what is running in the background, the task scheduler takes care of it. Let it predict what you'll load, things will be fast, and your battery life won't suffer nearly as much as he seems to think. Most of the battery drain will be the screen and the radios anyway. This simply isn't something you have to care about, or should have to care about.

That said, if you want to care about it and tweak it, go ahead. There are apps for that, and things like AutoKiller which changes the task scheduler's behavior to make it work better for you.

6. TextSecure. I agree that the default messaging app is poor.

7. Agreed, though I've never had this issue. May be another instance of #3.

8. Agreed, I use AnySoft keyboard. Unlike other OSes, you can change the keyboard.

Android in its default config is OK. Far from perfect, but unlike iOS it's much easier to make it perfect.
Wonder no more:

http://www.businessinsider.com/portugal-drug-policy-decrimin...
you could simulate forms with JS and images. You dont even need to submit, once a user fills the form exfiltrate it through a JS image load, such as this http://www.lanmaster53.com/2011/05/stealth-cookie-stealing-n...
Countdown until these are treated like pressure cookers...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_glasses
You are correct.

For those not familiar with Haskell,

unlines . map reverse . lines

is the same thing as (python)

lambda data : [line[::-1] for line in data]

whereas

unlines . reverse. lines

is the same as

lambda data : [line for line in data][::-1]
My French teacher in the eighties told us the best way to learn French is in bed with a native speaker.
FYI, your URLs seem to be encoded incorrectly (perhaps missing a decodeURIComponent somewhere, or incorrectly calling encodeURIComponent). Are you sure Amazon pays when it's in that format?
I don't think the submitter editorialized; I think he/she didn't even read the article -- or else deliberately mischaracterized it -- but more likely the former, I'd guess.
If they offer online classes I feel like it will reduce the prestige of HBS. Let other MBA programs offer them, one of Harvard's best attributes is its exclusivity.
Almost completely agreed with your post, some of these points don't make a lot of sense. As for 6, all you have to do is simply tap the notification or in the later android versions click 'read' under the notification after you've read the message through the notification.

And for 8, I personally have no issues with the default keyboard whatsoever.
I love Python and I love interfaces, so this appeals to me.
I created the doron FU scale, which like the richter scale is not linear:

-2: you must file bankruptcy
-1: you may be able to repay your debt
0: you're living paycheck to paycheck
1: you can live for a year without working
2: you can live for the rest of your life without working maintaining the same lifestyle you have now
3: your kids (if any) can live their whole life without having to work
4: you can afford any luxury such as jets and yachts
5: you are in the same league with Gates, Buffet, Ellison, etc.

A few notes:
You can find where you are on the scale using a decimal fraction between the integers.

Just because level 3 says your kids can live without working does not mean you should strive to achieve that. It is simply a measure of wealth, not a desired outcome for obvious reasons.

Just because level 4 affords you jets does not mean everyone should aspire to buy a jet. Again it is mentioned as a reference of what you could attain at that level.

In America in my view, amassing $5 million gets you to level 2. The figure could be argued and it fully depends on your style and standard of living. So for you it might be significantly less or perhaps much more. This figure assumes a monthly spend of $20K and a paid off house (paid out of the $5m)
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What has ads to do with costs?

The question here is what the running costs of TPB is. My point is that those should mirror quite nicely the running costs of Wikipedia, since neither has "headcount cost" attached to each visitor. Both are mostly just serving static text on a website, and neither are paying royalty or click-throughs to third-parties based on visitor count.

In revenue, Wikipedia has donations and TPB has ads. Asking which revenue is bigger is very different from calculating costs. TPB might earn more revenue, but to figure that out one has to calculate the competitive price of advertise space for infamous websites. My guess is that the competitive price is quite low, sine few companies are willing to send untraceable money in order to advertise on a website that many companies and governments consider criminal.

So for revenue, I would look into what botnet spam and hijacked webservers brings in per eyeball. Multiply that with the visitor count of TPB, minus the running cost, and you should get a rather realistic number for the sites total income.
Author could combine both worlds with pyobjc. Might be interesting to add that as a comparison.
D'Oh! How could I miss that that's totally the same, right down to the draconian fines, prison sentences, and SWAT raids.
$2M. I could live off that for the rest of my life if I invested wisely and lived frugally, and I'm pretty good at both. I'd live on a sailboat and work on software that there's absolutely no money in, like DragonflyBSD, Wayland, Enlightenment, Haiku, etc. It would be relaxing and fulfilling to be an artist instead of a capitalist.
Yah, the 'just once' thing is poorly articulated. First I don't want to be asked. I want a default and the option to change it if I care. Second it asks a lot. All file types, different actions. Reminds me of old windows. Basically if I put on my pdm hat, this is a bad user assistance dialog. The options it presents bug me instead of smoothing my experience.
$25m.
They don't - they measure by ratio. 1 cup originally meant just that - whatever cup you had lying around. in an era in the late 19C when few had access to expensive scales, the idea of one level cup became a simple antidote to "butter the size of an egg" recipies. Fannie Farmer's book in 1896 popularised standard ratio measures - see an episode of QI for this and related jokes :-)
$5 million. I'm a simple man with simple pleasures. ;)
> The N.S.A. achieved a technical breakthrough in 2010 when analysts first matched images collected separately in two databases — one in a huge N.S.A. database code-named Pinwale, and another in the government’s main terrorist watch list database, known as Tide — according to N.S.A. documents.

Sounds like this is the answer.

One of the difficult aspects of investigating terrorist networks through signals intelligence would be deciphering the network itself (which is why NSA would have been interested in phone metadata).

If you had a known list of terrorist suspects (TIDE) and could match those to legally-intercepted video feeds or pictures (which is what I'm assuming PINWALE is for) then you could identify the user IDs being chatted with and then use PRISM and other approved signals interception methods to decipher "who's who in the zoo".

With a better selectivity of who the targets would be then you could use targeted access operations to both get better fidelity on actual plots (instead of dumb keywords searches, actually assign analysts to get a "deep dive" into any of the plot(s) under discussion). This would also enable you to avoid wasting time and resources on people who are not a threat by filtering out "where the terrorists are not".

The ideal end result: Disrupting a bombing plot before it happens. Both the 2009 and 2010 bombings were disrupted only by luck, so "clearly" the NSA didn't have the tools they needed, which is why I warn you guys that the argument "oh but they didn't catch Tsarnaev" doesn't end the way you think it does. :P

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I know you all like to claim that counter-terrorism is just rhetoric used to justify more sinister motives, but I've found it striking how almost every time a leak is presented the evidence shows a bunch of NSA analysts trumpeting... counter-terrorism.

This case is no different: "another 2011 N.S.A. document reported that a facial recognition system was queried with a photograph of Osama bin Laden.", "A 2011 PowerPoint showed one example when Tundra Freeze, the N.S.A.’s main in-house facial recognition program, was asked to identify photos matching the image of a bearded young man with dark hair.", "One N.S.A. PowerPoint presentation from 2011, for example, displays several photographs of an unidentified man — sometimes bearded, other times clean-shaven — in different settings, along with more than two dozen data points about him. These include whether he was on the Transportation Security Administration no-fly list, his passport and visa status, known associates or suspected terrorist ties, and comments made about him by informants to American intelligence agencies."

There's certainly an argument to be made about whether such investigative abilities are safe for democracy, but what we've consistently not seen is a bunch of people trying to subvert democracy, not even according to the very documents NSA and their managers thought would be safest from ever being publically disclosed.
Well, the Moto X and the Nexus 5 are now indeed the same price.

Motorola did have several major glitches with the Moto X launch: price too high, quality control issues at the assembly plant, mediocre camera software, customization limited to AT&T contracts.

By the time they'd fixed those problems, they'd missed the boat. I bought my Moto X a few weeks ago and it's the best phone I've ever seen, but all the buzz has moved elsewhere.

I hope for their sake that Motorola get the launch of the forthcoming X+1 right, because they make a very strong line of phones and I'd love to see them succeed.
> * But they have a high parasitic capacitance because the outside conductor has a large surface area.
> So if capacitance is causing too much propagation delay, you can use twisted pair.*

The capacitance is not really "parasitic", it is the circuit element representation of the electric field which is propagating. The dynamic electric field gives rise to a magnetic field, which is the inductive element in the expression 1/sqrt(LC) that you listed.

Twisted pair is no different: There is a capacitive element and inductive element per unit length. As it turns out, the capacitance varies as the log of the distance between the wires, so you can twist the wires and not change the capacitance very much. There used to be lots of "twinax", which kept the two wires at a fixed distance, but the separation plastic was mostly a PITA. (The pics I can find on google don't show the old flat plastic twinax that folks used to use. You can still find that stuff hanging off old television antennas.)
So they should do what the army does, and spend billions to produce tanks that end up somewhere in the desert because the army doesn't want them, and it may cause some job loss?
Check out the latest YouTube video of Cloudian Explorer v1.8 Amazon S3 Client. 
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Wealth of Nations is old, all the way back from 1776, but many of its simple points on the nature of capitalism still ring true today. It predates the math-ification of economics, so it remains reasonably accessible to the lay-man (if I can read it, you definitely can)
> The person who wrote it is Stuart Cheshire, who invented Bonjour. I think he knows what he's talking about.

Appeal to authority. Having experience and being mistaken are not mutually exclusive.

> For example: say you need to send a message from Earth to Mars, currently it is 0.794 AU away. This means it takes light 6.603 minutes to travel this distance.

Now you're talking about the physical limit. That's something else. If you want to talk about physical limits then you have the same thing for bandwidth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_limit

But the physical limit is not what causes a 56k modem to have a 100ms latency. And just as you can run more cables to mitigate the Shannon limit, you can move the endpoints closer together to mitigate the latency of the speed of light. Obviously moving planets closer together to reduce latency is not very practical, but neither is running fiber optic cables to Mars to allow more bandwidth than you can get out of radio.
Nope, I pushed the release this morning once I realised that someone had actually noticed the post during the five minutes it was live at 1am.
I don't need a lot of money to do as I please.
F U money in my mind means "could live comfortably and never have to worry about money again." Depending on age, I estimate $10m (I like to travel)
It's not visually misleading at all. The point is that the wealthy have taken a vastly disproportionate share of income growth. The vast majority of the income growth in the top quintile is in the top 5%. The majority of growth in the top 5% is in the top 1%. The majority of the growth in the top 1% is in the top 0.1%.

Edit: Also, if we're going to look at changes in net worth, that will also support my argument. Increases in net worth compound over time, which is why fortunes tend to grow. I.E., the entire thesis of Thomas Picketty's book.
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Yep. $2 million sounds right. I might consider semi-retirement on less, but it would depend on the details. $2 million should be enough that I don't need to worry too much about the details.
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If this is a gimmick to highlight the incompetency of the USPTO it's a clever one. Not only has ineptitude been used to secure trademark of one of the oldest known symbols in common use but that legal status is being being put to work threatening companies into halting sales and opening their books. The corporate inconvenience and money flushing could theoretically escalate and result in at least a tiny bit more scrutiny of how trademarks are issued.

More than likely it's a very enterprising young man interested in getting into the same game as the patent trolls though using a different sort of legal monopoly.
Pics of their offices from Steve Jobs to Tolstoy