skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty
Learn You a Haskell
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin
It depends a bit how you define things. The Copenhagen interpretation has a collapsing wave function doing so in a way where we can't observe it collapse and the pilot wave theory has pilot waves all over the place that have no effect other than guiding the particle in question then effectively disappearing when not needed. If either the collapses or pilot waves were real things I would kind of expect them to be observable in some way, but in both interpretations they are not observable, which leads me to suspect they are not real things and will go the way of the "luminiferous aether".
privately owned but publicly acting!
Did you like The Atlantis Gene? I've almost pulled the trigger at Amazon a couple times but the reviews seem hit or miss and my reading list is already so long.
Presumably because they have a free basic service if you use one of their subdomains. While other companies I'm not aware of might offer the same I've yet to stumble across them.
>But I don't think reading many books in parallel is a good strategy...

I think if you got a system, it works - for example, I usually read one non-fiction and one fiction book at a time, possibly with a book of short stories. As long as I don't neglect any of the books for so long that I forget what they're about, and when the switches between books are in logical locations like at the end of a chapter and not in the middle of the text, it works out for me [1].
For that e-readers are good - they let you easily switch between books.

[1] It has failed exactly once, when I didn't open a book for a few months and had to re-start from the beginning
I'm not trying to argue about the intricacies, I'm pointing out that your original example was terribly flawed.

Assuming drivers actually consider their effect on congestion, they are willingly accepting the congestion of those coming after just as much as they accept the congestion they cause. (Most probably don't consider it but that's beside the point) Most importantly, the drivers are choosing to use the road every day even after seeing the final congestion every day. That's not a marginal decision. They are choosing to accept the final congestion.

But even if you insist on a marginal explanation with actors incapable of anticipating future cars, the average driver is intentionally accepting and causing 500 with past cars, and unwittingly accepting and causing 500 with future cars. Versus your characterization of them only intentionally having 10 delay.

Framing it as a new car 'paying a pittance more' is nonsense. The twentieth car either doesn't travel or attempts to pay 200 to travel. Comparing 190 to 200 is meaningless, because they never had the chance to travel at 190.
The planes don't show which restrooms are free, just that one or more are. I've been on a few flights where there are several people waiting, and no one is sure which are occupied since you can't see around corners or into other aisles.
Winmerge for 2-way and kdiff3 for 3-way although I'm trialing meld now there's an official windows installer.
Study provides first direct evidence of plants in the Neanderthal diet.
I was affected. Even though I used NoIP's free service simply to get to my home network, I still can't get in.

Thanks Microsoft.
so true, I would not trust that domain at all.
Wouldn't a similar line of reasoning be "It seems that computers running Microsoft Windows are a hotspot of botnet activity. Year after year, a vast majority of computers used in botnets are running Windows; they are clearly not doing enough to prevent abuse by their users. Lets give control of the Windows code base to Linus"
"48 Laws of Power" and "No More Mr Nice Guy".

Laws of Power: Not for everyone but the book is damn useful if you're ambitious and can translate examples and vague concepts into your own situations in life.

No More Mr Nice Guy: Not very far into it but it's almost cathartic if it applies to you and I feel like its a huge step in social/emotional development for me.
I did not see the questionnaire. I use Sites for some simple Web sites, and my current blog is on Blogspot. There's a lot of potential to combine Sites, Blogger, and Plus to create a short-form/long-form continuum. I hope Google makes a good try at this.
Why not look at Gregory Cooper et. al.'s FrTime? Its the first FRP system I'm aware of for Scheme, and its quite well used in Racket. It is also a predecessor of Flapjax.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/frtime/
[2010] but always nice to revisit
I love it! Are there any plans for including the hypem time machine feature?
Very interesting move by Yahoo. I didn't even realize they had a streaming service.

Hopefully this venture succeeds. The more different content distributors there are, the more good content we're going to see. (+ down with the cable monopolies...)
Language can help the elderly cope with the challenges of aging
> Doom is about “maneuverability as defense”
> ...
> There’s nothing quite like it today.

There's one game i'm aware of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painkiller_(video_game)

By default it also moves fairly slowly, but the player is strongly encouraged and almost forced to use bunny-hopping to gain extreme agility and speed. Most youtube LPs showcase this quite well. "Asylum" and "Snowy Bridge" are imo the highpoint levels to watch for this.
Yep, the non-ASCII chars have ASCII equivalents.

They aren't finalized yet, as the whole "architecture connection/configuration" part of the language has barely been begun.

In fact, the non-ASCII chars are a recent experiment, but so far I like it a lot. Now that even shells and vi know about Unicode/UTF8, maybe it's time to take advantage of the rich typography we have.

I am typing those characters using a keyboard map I created in Ukelele.app (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...).

The left arrows are mapped to Alt-[ and Alt-{ , the right arrows to Alt-] and Alt-}.
The entire season of HoC was on torrents within hours of going live on netflix for each season, I'm guessing the same was true for OitNB but I wasn't/am not interested in that show so don't know for sure.
Coats of arms of French regions and towns, on a Cassini-styled render of OSM
If you've ever used Paychex or ADP then it's easy to know why ZenPayroll is killing it.
I would like to point out that all of your examples are of expanding industries, not industries that underwent large societal, cultural, and legal transformations into entirely different industries. Society, culture, and laws are made for expanding industries, they have to be evolved and rewritten for industries of change.

So I am going to have to disagree, 25 years would have to be the most optimistic kind of prediction, assuming that all players are willing and pro-active, rather than passive and resistive (both in society and legally speaking).
New Owncloud 7.0 ready to test at terminal.com
> However there are some downsides.. specifically it can be a little lonely at times if there is no-one else at home.

I imagine so. But note that this isn't really a problem with remote work per se; it's a problem with working in a way that is different from what the vast majority of people do.

Once upon a time (before the Industrial Revolution) most people worked at home. The kind of loneliness you describe was rare, because home and its environs were where the people were.

Maybe there is a societal "hump" we need to get over. If more people worked remotely, then working remotely would become a more pleasant thing.
So if some number of people use cars for illegal activities should we shut down the gas stations that they use to fuel them?
We're all reading these articles because we're excited about the future. In that context, the issues you've raised don't seem to be that big. Cost for the bill of materials will drop with mass production, and many of the major parts are already cheap.

After seeing personal computing and mobile computing revolutions unfold during my lifetime, I'm pretty sure the technical obstacles to making a reliable and cheap oven that Myhrvold describes are surmountable. Electric cars, jet planes and search engines deal with much harder engineering challenges.
Interesting that the claim they didn't get any notice, this is what Microsoft has to say in their complaint.

>...United States, including those located in the state of Nevada and the city of Las Vegas. Defendant
has a contractual obligation to take reasonable and prompt steps to investigate and respond to reports
of Internet or computer abuse, and the company has also made representations to the public that it
has an “abuse team” to police and take action against such malicious activity. Yet Defèndant has
failed to take sufficient action to stop, prevent, or effectively control this malicious conduct in
breach of its contractual obligations and best practices of the industry, causing further harm to
Nevada and Las Vegas residents.
associativity of ?: in PHP

TIL that PHP is even scarier than I thought.
That responsibility is not absolute, and could be interpreted differently in the frameworks of ethicality, legality, economics, and liberty.

Ethically, I think you're correct that it's their responsibility to do what they can.

Legally, the court in this situation thought it was somehow Microsoft's responsibility to fix it.

Economically, I'd say being held liable to what users do on your platform will hurt innovation and competition.

In terms of liberty, botnets and spam don't seem like they compare to an attack on someone's business, their users, and their freedom to operate independently.

I guess you can choose which perspective makes the most sense to you, personally.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make Microsoft financially liable for damages caused by their continued [criminal?] negligence?

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/after-seven-months-and-no-microsoft-pat...

[2] http://www.microsoftproductreviews.com/microsoft-news/intern...
I beg to differ. A better oven means tastier food at home, which pays dividends every single day of your life.
The Ghost of NFC Future
Every single day of your life that you use the oven, as opposed to eating something fresh or cooked stove-top. And strictly, just for those things cooked in the oven that the oven-improvement improves.
So why not blame the "obnoxious people" in this case, too? It's like the patent system abusers (which perhaps not by coincidence, Microsoft is one, too) excuse: "don't hate the player, hate the game". Yeah, right. Nobody held a gun to their head to do this. It was a premeditated action by Microsoft.
People are inherently good
He appears to choose to let the decision as to whether they 'knowingly facilitate an illegal service' be taken by law enforcement rather than by Cloudflare.

So I don't see anything disingenuous whether you disagree or not.
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Search world cup player's stats.
The Pitchforks Are Coming for us plutocrats
The Serious Sam games fit the DooM tradition, as well.
And this complexity doesn't end there because, in order to deal with these heavy employee taxes, it's not uncommon for IT companies to ask employees to open their own one-man companies to avoid these taxes. Now having a B2B relation, the company is free from these taxes and mandatory benefits, and the employee now deals with it declaring himself as the only employee and paying himself minimum wage on paper, receiving the rest of his salary as company's profit. Or the scheme they call flex, which is to pay a great deal of the salary as extras (even up to 80%) because these do not get taxed. The employee, in turn, needs to declare expenditures to his contractor in order to receive this extra share.

The real meaning of "being smart enough with your accounting" seems to me mostly finding these loopholes in the tax structure to avoid leaking money to the government.
That's quite a stretched analogy. A fully updated Windows XP computer will still be vulnerable to malware and botnets.

That is because Windows, OS X, Android and Linux allow their users to install third party programs without whitelisting them. There is nothing stopping users from installing malware. OS X and Linux have less malware because they're not as popular as Windows and Android.

That's opposite to iOS, Windows Phone/RT, XBox and Playstation which are pretty much free from malware because everything has to go through an app store.
Apptimize (YC S13) is hiring a PR Manager
Just to throw it out there (I don't have the answers here), but "We made a private dark pool, tiny relative to the size of the overall market, and it was illiquid without HFT" isn't really the same thing as "the stock market would be illiquid without HFT".
Just by looking at the Wikipedia entry, it appears that Kuhn's book is more philosophical than the carefully researched history of science. How do you see it?
Finished 'House of Leaves' 2 months ago (Danielewski), a fantasy/terror thing, and he is in the same league with Lovecraft. The postmodern apparatus is more nice than silly.
"Your concern is essentially that market participants will somehow do a complete 180, for no stated reason."

If market participants demand a higher interest rate, I wouldn't call that a "complete 180".

Regardless, change is the only constant, as they say. Markets move. Behavior changes in response to the environment. If we really are supposed to be a risk-free place to loan money, then I would think we'd be a little more resilient to rising interest rates, which happen fairly often historically.
Independent of the ethics of this particular case, I don't think your argument makes sense: The filing was a necessary, while not sufficient, condition for this restraining order, so you can't deny responsibility by denying agency.
His article takes aim at these high-end ovens as well, and makes several proposals to make them even better.
There's also numerous open source examples. (See Cube/Cube 2)
You believe in terms of liberty that botnets who compromise machines in order to steal data, spam and many other nefarious activities doesn't compare to one business being temporarily affected ?

That is a strange perspective I have to say.
the biggest 'leap' I made between knowing a few chords, and a few riffs, and actually learning enough to pick up a guitar at a party without embarrassing myself occurred when I started learning full-length songs.

I am in the middle of that journey myself. I bought a guitar a little over ten years ago, got some starter pointers from a passing acquaintance, then spent ten years picking up the guitar every few months, pounding out some open chords reading tabs, and not progressing at all. Bought various software to help (guitar pro, rocksmith) which is good software, but doesn't correct bad habits.

Finally I got tired of just being shit and went to a teacher. Almost every lesson he's correcting a bad habit or providing insight into what I personally am doing incorrectly, and the practice I'm am given each fortnight relates to improving those specific weaknesses. Rocksmith is a hell of a lot of fun, but it's also quite sloppy in what it expects and you can get away with horrible habits (despite this, it's a very impressive bit of software). Guitar Pro is good for isolating the track you want to play in a popular song and repeating things to get the timing right. But for me, personally, it's a meatspace teacher that is making the difference. A teacher isn't cheap - one lesson is roughly the same as the software above - but I can see which of my skills are progressing and by how much.

The journey is interesting. I'm smart, but have no penchant for applying elbow grease. I'm used to picking things up quickly... and the skills in playing a musical instrument well can't be gained in a short time - you have to put in the hours. It's also interesting that the more I learn about the instrument, the further away the target of 'doesn't suck' seems to get :)
As another completely legitimate user what strikes me the most with this is how they did their best to basically pull off a sneak attack. I mean really? Microsoft just couldn't be bothered to give any forewarning to the millions of customers who's services they were directly interfering with?

Tack on the dubious reasoning and the alleged failure to even contact NOIP at all before having this court order issued and this puts Microsoft in a really bad light. I'm not mad at NOIP about malware (frankly- I don't give a single shit), but I'm absolutely mad at Microsoft for pulling this bullshit and interfering with services I paid for completely out of nowhere.
It is worth noting that they could easily continue events before Serenity. Or have an alternate timeline where the events of Serenity never occur.
Ask HN: What could have happened after the recruiter received my email?
An Apple recruiter sent me an email asking if I'm open for some positions. Of course I answered yes. Then he asked me to have a call in the following week. I replied with a time, waiting for him to confirm.
Then nothing happens. I followed up with another email after a few days. Still no response.
I mean, even a reject letter is OK. This just seems strange.
Have you experienced this before? I am really curious about the story here.
I'm not making the case it won't be available as torrents, I just think there's no compelling reason to torrent it if you have a Netflix account, and in fact you might even get an account to support that kind of entertainment. There are no ads, it's available online in the entire season for easy streaming. Outside the US yeah, torrents will happen for sure.
This sounds like the same argument would apply to selling bullet proof jackets to people who also own guns.
The idea that the buy side is less sophisticated than the sell side (or the new breed of participant the HFTs) is plain false. Their whole value proposition (how they justify that 2 & 20 they charge) is that they are sophisticated players in the market that can deal with these complexities. For instance, I've written HFT software for a buy side firm.

To put this into prospective, there are single buy side firms that are bigger than the entire HFT market making industry.
Coincidentally my copy of MC at Home just arrived today. I had made a few dishes from recipes available on his site and was blown away. It has definitely rekindled my interest in cooking.
And why should we read Yudkowski instead, rather than other physicists on this matter, as far as I know he's not in a position of authority in this area.
The argument seemed to be no-ip wouldn't stop people who were reported for malware/abuse. If other DDNS providers are less complicit with malware/abuse then it should be harder for them to continually operate. Sure, it won't stop it. But if the most friendly DDNS host is gone, it seems like a marginal victory for everyone else.
What I don't understand is the legal basis of Microsoft, a private entity, simply being handed over the property (the domain names) of another private entity. I understand that this is something that was ordered by a court, but under what legal theory was the order issued?

I'm not a lawyer, but I think I've got at least a basic idea of the circumstances under which the government can take someone's property. This doesn't seem to coincide with any of those potential circumstances, especially when the seizure transfers the property to another non-governmental entity.

What's more, where's the due process? No-IP seems to be saying that they didn't even know about the court case until being served with the order. Did they really not have the opportunity to contest this?

EDIT: To summarize some of the documents people have linked to and analyzed below, it looks like Microsoft was granted a temporary restraining order under "Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b)", which allows for such orders to be granted without providing notice as long as certain requirements are met.

Microsoft was required to post a $200,000.00 bond, which is supposed to pay for any damages incurred by No-IP, and No-IP will be granted the ability to contest the order in court on July 10, and maybe earlier. However, it is clear that No-IP knew nothing about even the lawsuit until they lost control of their domains, as this was specifically ordered by the court.

Also, there is no answer as to whether transferring control over domain names from a defendant to a plaintiff is something that courts should be empowered to do as part of a temporary restraining order. I hope a lawyer with some knowledge in this area can chime in to answer that question.
You might just as well say it is the IANA's fault for issuing the IP addresses the malware authors used, or Ford's fault for building the getaway car used in a bank robbery.
* Computer Organization and Architecture [1]

* Algorithms [2]

* The 50th Law [3]

* Applied Predictive Modeling [4]

When I get a breather from school...

* Cibola Burn [5]

1: http://amzn.com/013293633X ; 2: http://amzn.com/032157351X ; 3: http://amzn.com/006177460X ; 4: http://amzn.com/1461468485 ; 5: http://amzn.com/031621762X
Düsseldorf airport has an automatic Robot-Valet.
DynDNS and afraid, which as far as I know are the next two most popular services like this, both have free options.

EDIT: Looks like DynDNS recently got rid of their free offering. I wonder if that was related to this?
The Trapper Keeper is back
I still don't see the relationship between deleting a blog post that you have authored and burning a library full of other people's works down.
> FRP streams go beyond promises by allowing many returned values. This is pretty nice, and shows how FRP is at least as powerful as Promises.

The fact that you can only return a single value from a promise is a feature, not a limitation. In synchronous code, you can only return once from a function. In asynchronous promise code, you can only fulfill the promise once. There's a parallel.

If you want to "allow many returned values" you can just use a callback. You hardly need a "stream" for that.
There is no reason for the government to default when B=D. (If you disagree, please take a deep breath and think through the mechanics of exactly how the US federal government could be forced into default.)

In reality, B=D is likely to balance itself out again. This becomes apparent once you think through where the interest payments go.

If they are reinvested in government bonds, nothing happens. If they are reinvested in other financial assets, the general interest rate decreases, which will also pull down the interest rate on government bonds (reducing B). And if the interest payments end up with people who spend them on goods, well, that grows the economy, which increases D.
I've been a hypem fan for 7 years. Take it from me, it's the BEST.

My company's UX even riffs off of theirs (with an unrelated focus)
Also, does this count as steampunk?
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If you count the federal reserve as a market participant.
Is requiring legal due process such a bad thing?
'Reading Rainbow' revival is the most popular Kickstarter project ever
You can see it that way.

Others will see it as Microsoft proactively removing bots and spam.
Everything about DS9 is different because it is on the far frontier outskirts of the Federation (technically outside,) where there is regular interaction with non-Federation peoples. The station was owned by the planet Bajor, which was a candidate to the federation, not a member. Bajor is not a rich, self-sufficient planet, it was devastated by war and occupation prior to the start of the series.
I guess you haven't been reading comments and articles on Slashdot, Groklaw and even HN over the years. Such wild accusations against MS are the norm.

If you want a good chuckle, read this "article" and comments.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-dr...