skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FPGA has potential for simulation too from what I know, but I honestly don't know enough about them to comment intelligently about them. I expect most people will use them via an intermediate abstraction layer, as from what I know they can be tough to program for.
Aereo loses to broadcasters in Supreme Court fight for its life
This passage is just beautiful:

"Modern cell phones are not just another technological
convenience. With all they contain and all they may
reveal, they hold for many Americans “the privacies of
life,” Boyd, supra, at 630. The fact that technology now
allows an individual to carry such information in his hand
does not make the information any less worthy of the
protection for which the Founders fought. Our answer to
the question of what police must do before searching a cell
phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple—
get a warrant."
the definition of "public" in public performance is not about who the broadcast goes out to, but about the relationship between the broadcaster and the broadcastee.

If I invite 100 people to my house to see a movie, it's not a public performance (supposedly) because they are coming as members of my social circle. If I instead showed at a movie theatre and charged for it, and the same 100 people showed up, then it would be a public performance because those 100 people came as members of the public.

Here Aereo broadcast to customers as members of the public. Because Aereo owned the equipment, they were the ones doing the broadcasting (in the oral arguments one of the judges commented on how if instead they sold the equipment and just provided hosting, the position would be much more defensible).

But, like what many others have said, the intent of the law is really what matters, and the definitions of public performance are much more about intent than about technical implementations.
I assume this is your product: http://start.fruji.com/pricing.html

One immediate thought: Your prices are ridicuously too low. By like a magnitude. Of like 10 times. $25/year? Heck, $25/month would be too cheap. Increase your prices, and your problem is solved because you'll have fewer accounts to get all the data you need.
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What I said wasn't harsh, it just wasn't apparently enough genuflection and awe to appease the people that happened to be interested enough to check the comments on this link. I care about as much as I did yesterday, which is not nothing. You and everyone else who demands more will just have to deal with it.
I'm sure that will happen in the near future
The formatting is pretty important for understanding this document. Even <pre> is just semantics and doesn't gurantee anything about presentation. Browsers just default to something monospace.
Actually "they all" didn't agree. The right flank of the court (Scalia, Thomas & Alito) dissented.
"innovative" !== "technologically innovative"
I always wondered if it was a viable to send letters pretending to be lawyers. Seems like it is on the cusp of legality. Maybe quite different in the US?
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From the DevBootCamp web site:

"We offer a $500 scholarship if you're female, a veteran of the U.S. Military, or from an ethnic minority group underrepresented in the software engineering field (African American, Chicano/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander)."

Isn't charging someone more because of their race or sex is illegal? That's what a "scholarship" for only certain groups
amounts to.
It's either Infiniband or some other high speed interconnect. It's not exclusively Infiniband, for instance the Chinese developed their own, but it's usually something similar.
All the judges were against it. The three who dissented just didn't agree on the reason.
Romans gave world Civil law, Americans gave world IP law. Sad.
I tried to OCR the letter.

The hex, I couldn't get.

http://hastebin.com/raw/ogehefofez
I think you are very much wrong!

I started using vim only recently, and when I was running through vimtutor, I was telling myself how I'd never be able to remember or understand what is w, W, B, E, {, dib, ci(, ma{{{yy`a"bddp (maybe there's a better one than this) or :%s/a/b/g.

After only a month or so of usage, I've come to use commands and sequences like this by heart. And when I read useful tips or watch screencasts, I'm just remembered how I've barely even scratched the surface of productivity with vim.

That's why I don't fear I won't be able to remember more and more new, complex commands. I think it will all come naturally, like the first ones I learned. The same should happen not only with me, but with you or anyone else who is dreadful of remembering increasingly complex workflows of commands with vim.
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I maintain that having a multiple of identical components in a system that perform the same duty is horizontal scaling. There are many reasons to scale horizontally, and I'd say increasing capacity is exactly what Aero would be interested in, not to mention fault tolerance. My career is based on building distributed fault tolerant systems, which is potentially why I think I understand their approach differently than you do.

But yes, horizontally scaling systems comes at a cost, sometimes they are more inefficient, sometimes they cost more, but in the long run if it helps you meet the goals of the business it shouldn't be illegal.
It's the letter of a law written in the 1970s, when streaming technology like this didn't exist. No-one had even conceived of the idea that you would group hundreds of antennas together and stream them across a wide area network to users.

The spirit of the law as passed was to stop cable companies capturing and rebroadcasting over-the-air TV signals without compensation. So it shouldn't be too surprising that the Supreme Court made the judgement they did.

It's quite simple: when this law was created, was Aereo's use case considered? If the answer is 'no', then you can expect the law to be refined to cover it at a later date. Odd legal loopholes don't get to stand just because they've been around for a while.
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I think you are confusing "left and right" with "mainstream Democratic and Republican politicians". These categories don't really overlap all that much.
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Aereo ruled illegal by Supreme Court; must pay copyright fees
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In a lot of cases here in the States, pay day lenders also do title pawn which is where the person hands over their car title as collateral for a small loan.

The lender then repossesses the car if the debtor doesn't pay.
You probably don't need to sell the equipment with the idea that it will be installed in homes? Why not to keep person's equipment in data centers?
That's not quite true, most random web services send out the welcome email from the same page that just hashed your password so during email creation they still have the plaintext copy around even though it dies after the request ends.
do you still have them? I'm sure there's some journos would like to have a would with you.
Doesn't change the fact that other conservative justices (Scalia, Thomas, and so on) voted against it and liberal justices voted for it. So Roberts could be said to be the most liberal of the bunch. The Aereo vote is pretty much the same as Obamacare vote, except Kennedy who is both anti-Obamacare and anti-Aereo.
(It sucks you got downvoted for asking an earnest question.)
And two about the comments (mine and yours).
Wanting the cops to do the same consideration of their other options is the regulatory and legal issue rdtsc was talking about. You want the cops to do that, you have to impose penalties that will actually be enforced on the cops, and the penalties have to be harsh.
I can't say for arguments, but optimizing for a changing array.length in-loop must be difficult if not impossible.

for(var i=0;i<a.length;i++) if(check(a[i])) a.push('foo');
iframe? How 90s!

<object type="application/brainfuck" data="http://www.over-yonder.net/~gollingj/oldpage/text/limericks.txt" id="text-file"/>
You actually have to use it though. TokenAware is one of many policies most of which can be layered on top of one another. Just depends on how they had the driver configured.
Chrome on iOS doesn't even use V8.
I was about to come in with some dumb answer about expected value, but I actually think this is a neat idea.

I often worry (not a lot) about letting my family down being unprepared should there be some real bad disaster, and so I would be interested in a couple of packages like below:

* Holiday first aid and disaster kit and training
My son recently cut his chin open in Greece and I realised I knew nothing about stitches, keeping them dry, had not got steri strips or bandages. Most people would pay decent cash for a holiday specific package (going to this country? You need these injections, got children of three years old - have a selection of these sterile what nots)
Throw in a private YouTube showing how to use them and I would pay up (of course too late now but that's the market to go for :-) maybe insurance companies sell my data?)

* the civilisation collapses at home package - I don't have enough tinned goods and stuff to last. Not do I have enough water or first aid. Sell me big box to go in the garage that lasts three months (which is what I think you are doing) and I might be interested.

* sell me some sensible prep - like where to meet if the local oil refinery catches fire and we cannot get to our house, evacuation kits that are stored at some place sensible. Seems a bit odd

I like the idea of being prepared - and would pay for a book to tell me how, and a weekend to do it. Being prepared on holiday is a much more realistic market and I think worth investigating - but as for zombie apocalypse - nice selling point, but I think it's going to be a loss leader to establish credibility
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I wonder if Aereo would be legal if they dropped the DVR portion of the service. It seems like that is the issue here.

If it's really just me renting an antenna it seems like that is still legal.
> To me, it seems like the Court is hung up on how similar the end result is to the cable providers', even though the means are different.

More specifically, the Court is hung up on how Aereo uses technology to circumvent the intent of the law. The ruling is basically saying, "Don't bother trying to follow the law as it's written if you threaten the status quo".
interesting work paras. my team at teamgum is doing A/b. will ask them to see if this can help.

also would like to connect with you next time when i am in delhi
A great decision, IMO, and the only sane decision for e.g. traffic stops (a place where cell phone searches should never have been considered legal). It probably won't alter things appreciably for somebody who is being arrested, though. I can't imagine that warrant will be hard to get if the police have enough on you to put you in cuffs.
Is this a network only for Russian organizations to communicate with each other or regular users too?
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I'm constantly amazed by the way the supreme court carves a razor sharp line through the issues. They always seem to examine these complex issues with the clarity they deserve. That's their job, but these are some fantastic and intelligent individuals, and are the only people in government, especially the justice system, that I have complete confidence in.

I truly wish I could have more confidence in other parts of government, especially lower court judges, and the police.
> It's certainly possible that I was imagining things but I strongly suspect they were poking and prodding to gauge my level of "reactivity" to various political statements.

I'm happy to clear this up.

You were imagining things.
in the fraternity of lawyers and judges, IP rules

I believe that's the key insight. "Intellectual property" is good (in the sense of generating lots of work) for the legal profession. Judges tend to rule towards things that benefit the legal profession(s), and against things that don't benefit those profession(s).

However, you're wrong in point of fact. Copyright is an English law thing, a statute law, not a common law. Look up "Statute of Queen Anne". It's from 1710. Patents seem to be a British or Venetian thing. The USA almost didn't have a patent or copyright system, Thomas Jefferson was quite against them. For a long time, the USA allowed immigration on the basis of possessing some skill or patented idea - the USA was an "IP Outlaw". Not too surprisingly, this coincides with the USA's period of industrialization.

"Intellectual Property", the idea that one can own ideas, is just a bad idea, from an economic standpoint.
Creating an FAQ for these companies would be useful.

Something to arm the devs who work at these places with something when they go to management who's reaction is "yeah I know it's bad.. but... like, we have important shit to do."
Sure, but my point goes to whether proposing sewer traps (or something similar) instead is an appropriate way of restraining the police.
The EGit/JGit teams also shipped an update for Luna

What's new:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JGit/New_and_Noteworthy/3.4
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/New_and_Noteworthy/3.4

Find the new release here:
http://eclipse.org/jgit/download/
http://eclipse.org/egit/download/

JGit is also available via Maven Central:
http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.eclipse.jgit%...
Our healthcare provider is storing passwords in plain text. When I went in for my health screening, they had everyone's forms printed out, with our passwords written on sticky notes attached to the front. Hundreds of people's health data, wide open for the taking. I was beyond pissed. Then I found out that they don't use ssl on their service, and the passsword can be retrieved at the click of a button. Ended up speaking with a C-level about it. Her response was that they are perfectly within HIPAA compliance, and that she would have to talk to their CTO about any other problems with their data security. Looking at the HIPAA, I have to say, it's not very clear on the need for hashing passwords. Still, I reminded her of the massive liability they are opening themselves to. She promised to get back in touch with me, but I haven't heard anything since (imagine that).
So we end up spending billions/trillions of dollars reducing consumption of nonrenewable resources and developing cleaner technology. What a waste.
I don't really care much about Aereo. Today's a very good day.
Thanks I really appreciate your incite. I may have other engineers with Node experience pick up the bulk of it so learning curve wouldn't be as big an issue. But I guess what you're trying to tell me is that I'm jumping the gun on Nodejs as Django/Rails replacement by a few years here..

I think my biggest fear is the size and fragmentation of the ecosystem. Every library out there seems to be a beta that could easily turn to abandonware in 6 mos. Is that a fair assessment?
Sarcasm aside, you're right. Facebook is now big enough that they can buy your info from other services. I suppose I would just recommend using a throw away email with facebook (one that won't match other services) and making sure you log out when you're done. I mean, if you check facebook semi-regularly there really isn't a need to get email notifications, but if you really want them, you can always forward them from your throwaway. I think that should be enough, right?
> Facebook only knows what you tell it.

Firstly, that's incorrect. Facebook also knows what other people tell it and what it is able to correlate from other data sources. To be fair to them, they've handled the issue with group photo tagging fairly well, but only after there was uproar about it.

They are in the business of collecting and monetising your data. That's fundamentally not in your interests and it's incredibly difficult to stop them from doing it, especially outside the EU. That is why a lot of people hate them.
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Their approach was not to create a distributed fault tolerant system (but boy am I glad I'm talking to someone with such expertise with them) - it might have been a neat side effect of what they did, but it wasn't the reason for doing it.

They said themselves that the reason each user has an antenna is because it was what allowed them to legally operate. Their hardware setup was entirely based around a loophole in existing law. Ironically, it's awful horizontal scaling, too - if a single antenna breaks there is no backup, the user assigned to it loses their TV signal.
While it's true their changes made the key space smaller and, even with a good KDF, 8 chars was never long enough to begin with, the reduction is negligible. Assume 36 char (alphanumeric, case insensitive) passwords:

Originally:

36^8 + 36^7 + 36^6 + 36^5 + 36^4 + 36^3 + 36^2 + 36
2,901,713,047,668 possible passwords
~41.4 bits

After:

(36^8 - 26^2 * (8*7)/2) + (36^7 - 26^2 * (7*6)/2) + (36^6 - 26^2 * (6*5)/2)
2,901,650,810,624 possible passwords
still ~41.4 bits

Only 62,237,044 possibilities eliminated. Length is the most important factor, so this was probably a good decision if most of their users were using <= 6 char passwords, or not using numbers at all. And frankly, the financial sector should be using HSMs anyway, making weak KDFs irrelevant.
Barry Diller, a major backer of Aereo, is 72.
Importing all my plugins right now. Excited to try out dark theme, but last I checked it didn't quite look right on Win unless you modified your os chrome...

edit:nope, still doesnt look good. i guess the problem is with swt delegating as much as poss to the os, but still :(
"Exploiting a loophole in the law" - does that phrase really mean anything? Aereo did their system in a way that very carefully conformed to the law. The bizarre system that resulted is a reflection of the contorted, illogical, false-to-fact nature of copyright law, more than "exploiting a loophole".

The Supreme Court ruled wrong in this case.
And by the whole world you mean Western Europe and a few other countries. US is very liberal compared to many other places (like my own country).
Wow. It was 9-0 (Alito concurring). It's also not a narrowly-written opinion:

> Even less sophisticated phones like Wurie’s, which have already faded in popularity since Wurie was arrested in 2007, have been around for less than 15 years. Both phones are based on technology nearly inconceivable just a few decades ago, when Chimel and Robinson were decided.

Slip. Op. at 9.

It's not every day that a conservative Chief Justice writes an opinion predicated on a changing world diminishing the scope of earlier decisions.
I found your extra byte!

s/confered/conferred/
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Yet the old Opera was (and is) much faster than chrome/firefox. User confusion is valid if those are the users you are after. For the "what is Internet?" crowd there's Chrome already, and I think there's enough space for something else.
To be perfectly frank...

They don't even need that much at the rate most warrants are sworn out.
9-0. Nice.
"includes 61 million lines of code" sounds scary, even if it's much more than an IDE these days.
Warrentless cellphone searches are reasonable if only it falls within a specific exception to Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. See Kentucky vs King.

I looked up Kentucky vs King on wiki. TL;DR warrantless searches conducted in police-created exigent circumstances [0] do not violate the Fourth Amendment so long as the police did not create the exigency by violating or threatening to violate the Fourth Amendment.

So, does that mean if police knocked on my door suspecting I might delete sensitive data on my phone before they get to it, are they still allowed to do warrantless search of my cell phone?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exigent_circumstance_in_United_...

EDIT: DO not start fucking downvoting just for the heck of it. May be I didn't understand it well, does that mean I can't ask a question here?
The dissenting opinion is based on a theory that Aero did not make a choice in what they were rebroadcasting. I disagree as they carefully selected the geographic region for their antennas based on their belief in the market demand for (copyrighted) shows in that region. They also carefully adjusted their equipment to be tied to the specific frequencies of broadcasters. They knew and promoted precisely what content viewers would watch.
For minor offenses, probably hard to get a warrant to search your phone. At least is another road block.
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Translation is an admirable goal, but so is preseervation. Not necessarily the "preservation" that implies that the languages will remain in day-to-day use forever; rather the "preservation" that implies that a complete (or nearly complete) grammatical description of the language, along with a relatively comprehensive vocabulary, will be recorded. That has more than historical interest, since the varieties of language and linguistic structures can tell us an awful lot about how language itself works in humans. It's sort of like doing astronomy/cosmology now (or at least recording the observations we can make now) will tell us very different things than we could possibly find out after the cosmic microwave background has become undetectable and galaxies outside of our gravitationally-bound local cluster have receded beyond the visibility threshold (where space between us and them is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light). Before Hixkaryana was described, it was thought that OVS was "impossible". Amharic "made no sense" until Greenberg noticed something going on with adpositions (mostly prepositions, but a few incipient postpositions) that indicated that it was only partway through the process of settling into SOV from the ancestral VSO. That, in turn, indicates that there is something to the idea of markedness hierarchies, which, in turn, might be giving us an insight into something more fundamental about the way we're wired up.
The penalties will have to be sufficient that the EV of breaking the rules is negative, but harshness should only be one tool in achieving that. It is more important that the penalties be inforced, and harshness can actually undermine that.
That also does not mean that SCOTUS is "wrong". A law can be "wrong" (subjective), and the SCOTUS will still have to uphold it if it is constitutional.
Very exciting news. It will be interesting to see which direction Kaplan takes Dev Bootcamp. The article seems to indicate that the high placement percentage may have been a driving motivation. Congrats to Dev Bootcamp.
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Great work Gordon!
I think the amazing thing here is that the top 18 teams solved as many problems as Stanford, CMU, and UC Berkeley combined, and those schools are currently 3 of the top 4 ranked CS undergraduate programs in the US.
The results there (original link) are final for some time now.
T-1 only applies until the end of the competition.
Those concepts seem to be expressed just fine. The only difference is that you used multiple words instead of a single word. (I'm a native Tamil speaker.)
It's not so much as quality of the UI but rather what the service actually is. I can black-box Aereo and it looks pretty much like a rebroadcaster. Aereo isn't renting me an antennae, not in the way AWS rents me a server.