skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[can't directly reply to nickff..hm, thread too deep?]

In the dream libertarian world of Free Market, every agent has perfect knowledge for every decision they make, courts never make mistakes, transgressors are always held liable, and pot is legal.

I'm assuming they'd probably have to sell themselves into sexual bondage to pay for the lawyer costs, but nickff does outline some interesting options!

1) a number of neighbors who are affected ... and every single one of them has time to go through a two decade lawsuit that they'll likely lose.

2) Okay, they can take out some legal financing. If they're sure to win. Because property owners in this magical world always win when a third party dumps polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons into their well. I'd like to see a world where someone can get legal financing for what will end up being a $500m (in costs) lawsuit with a payout of maybe $50m (for the litigant, minus lawyer fees.. well, shit). The deeper pocket always wins. Except in Libertarian Land, where the government (which enforces the decision of the courts) doesn't have a monopoly on violence. So I guess it's actually who owns the most Abrams tanks that wins.

3) The small property owner may find a lawyer willing to do 10 years of discovery, 5 years of trials, and 20 years of appeals pro bono. #goodluckwiththat

4) There are some notable pro se litigants! Edward Lawson was the defender in 1983 Kolender v. Lawson and won (cannot be arrested merely for refusing to present identification. Pretty sure that one doesn't hold water anymore though). Robert Kearns fought Ford and Chrysler pro se over windshield wipers. On the other hand, while "it happens more than you'd think," it wins "a lot less than you'd think." I guess in Everything's Fair universe, where not having domain knowledge of 150 years of legal precedent is not a factor, it might win a little bit more often.

>no corporation wishes to gain a reputation that it is unwilling to clean up its own mess

Hahahahaha. Nah, that never happens. Nope. Buddy (and I know I'm not you're buddy), don't drive through coal country. Or eastern TN. Have a nice swim in the Gowanus Canal, and have a sip of sludge from Newtown Creek. Lie down for a little while in this little autobody shop in Queens - you'll only get 300rems a year. Corporations get the reputation that they won't clean up their mess all the time. And you know what happens?

They fucking rebrand.

Strong property rights Free Market randroids live in a perpetual bubble of warped 'insight', where litigation always ends in justice and juries are never tampered with and everything is always discovered in discovery because nobody ever holds things back.
Here it is in Google Maps:

https://goo.gl/maps/be2Mm
Skills and work ethic are learned behaviors. You're technically correct that those things can help you rise above, but you're missing the point that environment is the key factor.
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I said for "good and ill". If you can't see the problems in Office then you aren't looking very hard.
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Specialization may be key. Detroit certainly has a long history of it. Before motor manafacturing, the area was one of the largest hubs in the fur trade.

But I still think, eventually, that the Detroit renaissance will be brought on by a broader set of influences (a combination of artists, startups, and tech manufacturing moving in and redefining the city).
I've been reading TR since they split off from Ars, and never had to register to view content. I think that perhaps something may be amiss with your browser.
Also, Michigan is one of those states where you can drive literally anything, even experimental, on the road (no state car inspection).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unite...
I find it astonishing that none of the drives that died finished in a state where their data was accessible. Some of these drives even intentionally self-brick themselves at end-of-life:

According to Intel, this end-of-life behavior generally
matches what's supposed to happen. The write errors
suggest the 335 Series had entered read-only mode. When
the power is cycled in this state, a sort of self-destruct
mechanism is triggered, rendering the drive unresponsive.

So you enter a read-only mode, and then on power cycle you self-destruct, making the intact data inaccessible? In what circumstance is that possibly the right choice?

Intel says attempting writes in the read-only state could
cause problems, so the fact that Anvil kept trying to push
data onto the drive may have been a factor.

Oh, I see. Maybe it's to prevent the unwanted writes from damaging the drive. Wait, what? The attempted writes can damage a drive that is in read-only mode?
Price is irrelevant in the case of theft. I consider purchasing stolen goods to be immoral.
Code quality falls off dramatically after 4-5 hours. Unit tests are the last line of defense in crunch mode, but even TDD doesn't prevent the bug onslaught if people are tired.
Just thinking of different use case here, this would make great alternate for home inverter (India) for me if the size is like small fridge. Please note currently i use small UPS for home computer and battery fan to cope up with 3 to 4 times a day power cut and it work fine. But once month if get 10 to 12 times power cut then there is no time for UPS to catch up. I will wait for it to make to developing countries. I hope the safety requirements are similar to current UPS/Inverter batteries
Hmm I don't think he invented the polar notion. It is a standard representation of complex number to me and I have certainly used it back in school (I studied EE). This notion actually simplifies multiplication significantly.
Ask HN: Had an increase of 60k likes on my fan page and most of them are fake
Hi Guys,

Couldn't find any helpful documentation on FB and have tried contacting their support team but, without answer.

As of the 1st of June, I had 1500 organic likes on my Fan Page. Getting a few likes every day. As of the last few weeks, that number has climbed to 65k. From the looks of it, the people are from India, Indonesia etc... (my page is very localised to my city).

I want to remove these extra likes and don't know how. Does anybody know what this is about?
so is this just cypress dumping lots of units or is this something they are selling with a margin? someone asked a similar question on hack-a-day earlier today because the PSoC 5 was something like $80.
i was not at all enlightened by this article and took most of the points as basic common sense everyone should have (but unfortunately everyone does not). the fact that the author had to come to these conclusions 'over time' means he's susceptible to being just another damn fool in the first place.
Looks like a cool project... but I hope the plan to open source their library to export Scikit-Learn classifiers to PMML! This would be a great way for them to give back to the open source community.
The problem is that while there are a great many deserving people who wouldn't abuse the system, there are also plenty who would.

Worse is that if you overhear one person on the bus (like I did when I was in college) talking about having another child so she could get a larger welfare check, it has a way of getting to you. It's an anecdote so it doesn't really count from a scientific perspective. But emotionally, that's HUGE.

When I use my brain I realize that it would be far more effective to cut the military budget by 10% than the welfare budget by 10% in terms of reducing taxes. But somehow I still feel some kind of moral outrage about the person who considered a welfare payment her divine right for existing rather than a temporary thing that well-intentioned people created for the sake of trying to help lift less fortunate folks out of poverty.

Emotionally I feel less bad about the military because at least something's getting done as a result. People have jobs (even if they're not the most efficient) and technology is advanced (even at a cost greater than a private company might capable of) and actual tangible things happen. In some ways that's easier to justify, even if that justification is completely wrong given the graft and corruption that's rampant in the military-industrial complex.

It also is very upsetting from a felt-justice perspective. Here I am working hard end paying my taxes so that (in a very, very small way $ or % wise) I'm empowering someone else to just sit around and get paid to do nothing but pop out babies and raise them poorly.

Thinking critically I realize that I have no actual idea what my opinion of acceptable false positives and false negatives is, or how the system actually performs irrespective of my judgement. But as human beings we're wired to reject "unjust" gains for others even at our own expense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game

"Well, there's a popular notion in the US that the process should be as difficult and unfriendly as possible - that people seeking public assistance are not just lazy, but living well. The 'welfare queen' [1] still haunts the system 40 years later."

It's hard to not feel as though it might still be happening in a measurable way when you can read articles like this: http://www.salon.com/2010/03/16/hipsters_food_stamps_pinched...

Again, I realize that it's ENTIRELY possible that the subjects of this article are the exception rather than the rule. But it's hard to use your brain rather than react to your emotions when this kind of thing gets written up.

Ultimately the problem is that not everyone can think critically all the time about everything and then react appropriately.
I read the claims on their home page as referring to the use case where someone starts using it immediately. (The benefit that they mention on the home page from open source is third-party auditability; the home page doesn't even mention the ability to create your own instance!)

The developers might well be thinking along the lines that you describe, but I don't think that a visitor to the site is likely to understand the threats that way.

Edit: Looking at https://subrosa.io/security I think it's even more clear that they're making these claims for their own hosted instance of their software -- and that's what people here are most skeptical of.
There's a psychology book that researches this phenomena. I forgot the title but it starts out by saying people in general can be grouped into three categories. Givers, exchangers and takers. Givers tend to care about people, takers tend to care about themselves and exchangers try to be fair.

I don't know all the quantitative and qualitative parameters used for the study but they found out that in general the types of people who were least successful (in companies and other structured organizations) were the givers. The surprising result was that the most successful people were also givers while takers and exchangers generally hovered in the center. You'd have to read it to know more.

Unlikely you'll ever read the book but I just recalled the name, it's called Give and Take for anyone interested.
I really don't like when people say "but everyone has problems, you know. Now go back to programming and I'll do my thing".
There are differences and the article and others point out the specific problems of our business.
I don't see how your second paragraph supports your first. Your second paragraph is just a bunch of quotes from various people who had mixed feelings about iOS 7. That doesn't say anything definitive about iOS 7, much less the company itself.
Support answered my ticket within a few minutes. Basically my account is credited the delta, and my account will automatically renew at the new rate when the current period ends.

Basically, I don't lose any money.
Me too, it seems that the billing will reflect the chance immediately.
I'm a 32-year old who has recorded some LP videos and who, not recording anymore, still watches other 30-some playing Minecraft on YouTube… :) I don't particularly jive with PewDiePie and the like but I watch others like Etho (ethoslab), BdoubleO (bdoubleo100) and a slew of others… :) It's fun!

As a developer-designer, I've had a few ideas around potential services around this stuff that I wish I had the time and resources to execute because I can totally see this market exploding right now… :)
[Sorry that this is all quite off topic for a conversation about surface.]

So imagine you have 4 authors: person A writes a document, and person B makes one set of changes, while person C makes a different set of changes, with person D working off of C’s version. Now person A wants to accept some but not all of C’s changes, and some but not all of B’s changes, and person D wants to “rebase” his document to add the changes that A approved from B and C, but not the changes that A did not approve...

How do you handle it? You’re saying MS word now has a solution for this that avoids conflicts? I guess I’m not enough of a power user to know about it.

Okay, now imagine that you want to both want to open and type on the same document at the same time, real-time-collaboration style. You’re saying Word has a solution for this one too?
> Just add a dummy parameter to all 2-parameter query to fail that condition.

This (along all your other circumventions) seems to me to only side-step the "spirit" of the invention -- to my mind any implementation using the techniques you suggest works more or less precisely as the patent describes.

If this is defeating I want no part of this charade.
You can use github or you can run a private gitorious install (assume here function parity.) Most people will choose github because that's where the people are.

Subrosa's value proposition is more as a meeting place then as a "secure" chat software.
Do you have anything to support those numbers? Honestly curious.
Asian Male here, can't deny the truth. Interesting recommendation. What is it that makes Vancouver so great (for an asian dude)?
> Cap'n Proto's solution to this was just to build unions into the language, something Protobufs should have done a long time ago.

Unions? Like the ones RPC has had since time immemorial [1]? Funny how everything old is new again.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...
You forget, this guy is western, and must be guilty of anything he could prevent.

By that standard, of course, Gandhi would also be worse than Hitler, as he could have prevented massacres during the partition that killed much more people than Hitler ever did. In fact, he is accused of directly instigating several massacres, a hell of a lot "more guilty" than Churchill would be even if this were true. If this is true, Churchill refused to get people out of a big mess they got themselves into (which, granted, does sound like something he might do).

https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/ProblemWithPacifism.HTM
This is reminding very much of the debate around the Efficient Market Hypothesis, as to whether traders can be systematically good vs. just repeatedly lucky. There is a lot of lit on this issue.
I prefer Yogscast over this guy.
It varies by feature, but due to IE's long release cycle, it's generally about a year behind Firefox and Chrome on most things.

That's not entirely fair.

In terms of ticking boxes for new features, yes, IE certainly trails Firefox and Chrome by a few months, sometimes even a year or two.

On the other hand, when IE does claim to implement something, generally that implementation is fast, robust and stable. That certainly can't be said for Chrome or Firefox. Some obvious examples are the awful font rendering in Chrome (only just being fixed at the moment), lack of H.264 support for <video> elements in Firefox (still not fixed, just avoided on Windows with a workaround), and performance problems rendering SVGs that really undermine things like animations and using lots of SVG icons on a page in both browsers, just to pick three widely used recent features that all major browsers now claim to support.

While basic sites work, some things just aren't possible to do in IE yet.

That's very loaded terminology. Almost all real sites work just fine in any recent version of IE. The few that don't are mostly things like web design blogs and demos that push the bleeding edge because they want to.

Often these sites use features that aren't standardised yet and maybe still need browser prefixes to access the feature at all. These are exactly the kind of features that Chrome and Firefox tend to half-implement and then regress or change the spec several times over the next year or two before finally dropping the prefix. I doubt any professional web developer would actually use that kind of feature on a production site today unless they had very unusual requirements to meet. The example site you gave is another example of this.
As an Australian who spent a year living in the same building Orwell did in London (Down and out in Paris and London), having read his 1984 and Animal Farm in my youth, and since having spent years living on the Burmese/Chinese border (as he lived in Burma during the English colonial period), and also struggling with writing what equates to an essentially political history (of that area, no less) I would like to TLDR this guy for the others.

Orwell was an individual, a talent, but above all an observer. He spent his time distilling injustice through a lens of analytical thought and regurgitating it as the written word in precisely the format most sought after as the entertainment of the era. In this form, he was a populist and he states as much in this famous summary of his motivations, prepared five years before his death at 47.

Perhaps the modern equivalent of his character would be living and traveling in relative poverty whilst independently producing media with political messages, and possibly distributing them freely online. Assange is undeniably politically motivated, moved around a lot living in Africa and other interesting locales before his 2010 run-in with the authorities, and could in this sense be considered a fair example of a modern day Orwell. (If only he could make it across town to East London, he too could see Orwell's old abode... I see the Wikileaks Party in Australia is organizing a care package for him in the Ecuadorian consulate. Anyone care to donate a UAV? :)

Finally, some parallels. First, between our learning of programming languages and Orwell's statements here on language in general: The problem of language is subtler and would take too long to discuss. I will only say that of late years I have tried to write less picturesquely and more exactly. In any case I find that by the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Second, that of the notion that 'every program is buggy': I have not written a novel for seven years, but I hope to write another fairly soon. It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

Finally, on open source and distributed systems as social change: I see that it is invariably where I lacked a POLITICAL purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.
How to monitor the full range of CPU performance events
ww520 above asserts: A claim is just a list of "AND" conditions, i.e. all the conditions must be met for the claim to be asserted. To defeat a patent claim, it's a matter of adding enough variance in your code to defeat ONE of the conditions.

One of you is right. Which one?
Honest question, why can't you split the document and work on individual chapters?
Oops, thanks. The correct link should be: http://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndK...
s/will/may

Rereading it again. He basically foreshadowed Amazon warehouse workers. Though he may fall short on the leap from Amazon to the rest of the working class.
You're right, it was my mix up with the other youtube wsj article which is behind paywall. Consequence of opening multiple articles at once.
Do you make more money driving for lyft? Why did you quit being a scientist to essentially become a cab driver?
I stopped a $10 million dollar robbery
Put the date as the part of the text?
They're using him as a PR sheep. Of course they didn't require an NDA.
See also: Lake Manitou, the largest lake on a lake island in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manitou
Didn't know this...I'm not in the US.
What do you mean, 'disappear'? I'm pretty sure taxes charged on income doesn't just flow into government and then suddenly vanish without a trace.

> The 24-year-old Mr. Kjellberg, who created PewDiePie five years ago, has parlayed his persona into a brand name that pulls in the equivalent of $4 million in ad sales a year, most of it pure profit.

And I'm pretty sure the title isn't misleading - it's $4 million after YouTube's cut, which seems to check out, having cross-correlated other sources.
It seems to me that Christensen's theories have always been post-facto hooey. Indeed, the ultimate irony is that he has ridden a wave of success essentially by being credited with "explaining" Apple's success when he not only didn't, but can't even explain it post-facto, and — as the article points out — was hilariously and embarrassingly wrong about the iPhone. What this article points out is that he was wrong even about the very cases (hard drives and steam shovels) on which he built his theory, having cherry picked data and defined his terms to suit his conclusions like a champion.

There are definite insights in his books. I've seen the issues he discusses at play first hand. But for every incumbent disrupted by a feisty startup, there are plenty who are absorbed by incumbents, or have a short spectacular success followed by a flameout, while the incumbents trudge on at their own pace.
But Google doesn't. And that's the problem. Now Google knows the patents, and can work around them, to the point where Microsoft can assert nothing against Android.
More importantly, one of the party is trusted to come up with the key alone. The other party just has to accept that it's a good key with no other proof then that it was encrypted with their public key. The description is really weak on details.

They keep repeating they've been audited but not naming the auditors.
The LinkedIn number I got from their Wikipedia page. Just divide the net income of $26 million by their 5k employees.

Article from last year about Reddit's struggle for profitability:

http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-is-trying-to-become-pr...

Article on RapGenius's own struggle:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/rap-genius-enterprise/
> CYA = see ya/cover you're ass

Cringe.
Had written about this a while ago: http://frontiernxt.com/hybrid-entertainment-free-roam-networ...

Kjellberg maybe the biggest personality, but there is a significant group of people who make a decent living out of doing this.

I do strongly believe that this will become a major genre in reality television/entertainment. And I am not taking into account the other universe called DOTA here.
MS14-031: Vulnerability in TCP Protocol Could Allow Denial of Service