skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Now that they have been served they can basically get a hearing immediately and get it lifted though (assuming they have any form of response).

This is nothing new. Here is one a porn company got against a file locker service: http://www.xbiz.com/docs/xbiz/news/150302_oron062212.pdf. They eventually parlayed this into an asset freeze in Hong Kong.
http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/docs/Second%20Amended%20Order...
The Great Tranformation by Karl Polanyi, wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Awk_Primer, and just finished Anne of Green Gables
Just read The Martian recently. It was recommended to me as extremely detail-oriented.

It is extremely detail-oriented. :-)

Fun and engrossing if you like super-hard science fiction. (I sure seemed to, although I glossed over a few of the details in the middle.)

I was going to say that Kerbal Space Program fans would probably like it, but actually now I really want to say that NetHack fans would probably like it. (What is the effect of breaking a +6 wand of oxygen scrubbing? What happens if you dip a cursed ring of radiothermal generation into a blessed potion of liquid nitrogen? How much nutrition can you get from a partly eaten food ration?)
Half way through Don Dunstan: Intimacy and Liberty. It's about the things that people didn't explain to their kids when I was growing up in Adelaide. It might provide some relief for those disillusioned by current American politics.

I'm working through Calculus on Manifolds. Partly as mathematical weight training, partly because the aspect of quantum field theory that trips me up is usually the field bit.
True, but that's not really the tone of the post. Accusations of bribery and calling court orders the "violent arm of the state" means he's lost benefit of the doubt.
Ask not how you can avoid recession, ask what you can do for the rest of the country to emerge from recession that they are still suffering from.

Look at that GDP "Growth Rate" and of course you can clearly see as a derivative it's a "Shrink Rate of Growth Rate" and the trend line itself is more meaningful than you would think, especially the greater number of decades you have experienced to correlate with the patterns.

The right-hand y-intercept is fixed by the present day, but the left hand y-intercept would vary related to what year in the past you choose to begin your data series.
Good choice anyway IMHO to use ~1950 on the left since so many in the USA who have economic experiences before that time are no longer with us, or seriously retired from productive service even though passive incomes for some survivors of earlier times are doing quite well for now.

Remember that this is corporate growth, and so many corporations depend so much on growth that anything which stands in the way will be disposed of, if a situation of zero real economic opportunity becomes significant, then growth (or reduced shrinkage as a last resort) will be extracted from the citizens either by passing on the costs directly or through government lobbying.

So look at area under the curve or in this case area over the curve which I believe are two different things.

Sharp or extended spikes below the trend are devastating to both corporations & citizens, but corporate shareholders are compensated by the eventual return of growth above the trend, since costs are passed on, the consumers do not share in the prosperity like they share in the devastation.

Anyway, experience has shown that a negative spike like the one in about 1981 will devastate maybe 10% of consumers at least, and for them there will be no recovery for about 25 years at least.
Later on in the early '80's a different larger portion of consumers are neutralized. The 1990-91 ruin is still largely with "us" if you were one of the unfortunate ~10% there, otherwise you may not even notice, this is by
design.
Early 2000's there is a little downward noise, lots of dotcoms and their dependents, but 2008-09 were the worst thing since the Nixon Recession, a huge new group whose futures's ruined for decades to come.

Since each significant spike destroys a different block of consumers, this is adding up, estimate totalling up to almost a majority of consumers who are not just compromised but ruined by now.

And that's not all, Nixon was so incompetent that the currency had to be sacrificed too and that does not appear on the chart. This was huge.

Surprises are in store if you have not yet felt the wrath from 5 years ago.
There is nothing more for currency to contribute, loss of property values since then has not extracted its toll proportional to negative area so something else will have to give, and it will have to be big.
Not saying that it's right but Amazon, Google and Apple also have admin rights on their devices... (for example: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama... , also http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9213641/Google_throws... )
Meld on Linux. Winmerge on Windows. I cannot find anything I like on OS X - XCode is fat as fuck
...and the reference to rap music.
Many years ago, after six months of failing to get somebody to use firefox and having to de-malware their machine regularly, I gave up and made every blue E shortcut I could find launch firefox.

They later thanked me for the IE upgrade and said how impressed they were at how much less malware their machine had on it.

Or: Providing somebody with what they need but selling it as if it's the thing they think they want can absolutely be deceptive and non-predatory, and the difference is important.

Consider also the way many technical decisions often have to be marketed to non-technical clients.

So to my mind, to care about the difference is sound thinking, not apologism, and I feel like you're emotionally matching 'argument that doesn't condemn a thing I want to see condemned' to 'apologism' rather than thinking it through; I'm guilty of that too on plenty of occasions.

Note that none of the above should be considered to be an opinion on whether Barclays were also predatory (I don't honestly know) or whether their behaviour was morally bankrupt (my answer to this would be longer than the existing comment, inconclusive, and unsatisfying both to right and to read :)
There's also the fact that healthy food kinda sucks: It rots fast and is usually not premade. I'm surprised the market for healthy fast food is too small for Nestle/Kraft etc to bother with.
Just finished "Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail"... and I now know why rail has had such a bastardized upbringing in LA.
The plaintiff (Microsoft) is responsible for serving that summons, not the court (The court just issues it). The court didn't even certify the summons until 6/19, and there's no record of service, so we don't know when Microsoft served No-Ip.

That summons also says they have 21 days to respond, which, even if they were served on 6/19, hasn't elapsed yet.

EDIT: mikeryan's post above mine is even more clear - it looks like as soon as they opened the suit, they petitioned for the TRO without notifying NoIP and the court specifically granted them the right to not notify until after the TRO was served.
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (no relation to author :p) and For Whom the Bell Tools by Ernest Hemingway.

(On a fiction binge)
Just finished Zero to One a few days ago. It's pretty much Peter Thiel's talks summarized into one book. Not really an 'action' book, more of a "here's what a different view of the startup world is like" (not that it's really different from my personal views)

Also, here's a list of books I read and recommend in 2014: http://blog.chewxy.com/books/
> after around 70 000 years if leap seconds continue to be added at the same rate

Apparently it's only 3000 years:

"Leap seconds are not a viable long-term solution because the earth's rotation is not constant: tides and internal friction cause the planet to lose momentum and slow down the rotation, leading to a quadratic difference between earth rotation and atomic time. In the next century we will need a leap second every year, often twice every year; and 2,500 years from now we will need a leap second every month.

On the other hand, if we stop plugging leap seconds into our time scale, noon on the clock will be midnight in the sky some 3,000 years from now"

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1967009
Why is that hard to imagine? If, hypothetically, our economy fell off a Great Depression style cliff, wouldn't that make it harder to pay our debt, expectation of which would force rates up, and be somewhat self-fulfilling?
> In many cases, you can wind up trying to define in the abstract, and hence lock in, roles and relationships that are by definition still not settled.

The example given in the original post sort of proves this point. The OP makes "developing and managing of the software development" and "managing of the tasks" CEO responsibilities. It's not clear how those terms are defined, but it arguably suggests that were the CEO to focus on biz dev instead of coding or if a CTO decides to prioritize one bugfix over another without consulting the CEO, someone is now in breach of a legal agreement.
Did you read that document that you linked to? There are two things about it that you may want to look at:

- First, it says "Within 21 days after service of this summons on you...you must serve on the plaintiff an answer.."

- Second, it is dated 06/19/2014

21 days from 06/19/2014 is July 10, 2014, a date which is still in the future. Do you have any other evidence that they didn't respond? Because the document you linked to is anything but evidence that they didn't respond.
Except all the malware on Android. But who's counting?

https://www.google.com/search?&q=android+malware&ie=UTF-8&oe...
you mean "idiom", not "euphemism".
In any event, the malware will at least not resolve to a no-ip.com address, since apparently nothing is able to consistently resolve to such addresses anymore...
If you are looking for some good SF read I can't recommend "Dune" enough, this thing is a masterpiece.
As far as right now goes, I just started "The girl with the Dragon Tattoo", too early to give an opinion.
I/O Thoughts
Just how many kinds of infinity are there? [video]
Anecdotally: We created a Netflix account when S4 of Arrested Development was released, and have kept it specifically to watch House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, obviating the need to torrent* them.

The other content on Netflix is a bonus but our primary reason for having an account is for the Netflix original shows which we have enjoyed thus far. I imagine there are others in similar positions.

*I am in Australia and am using a DNS service to access Netflix, which is clunky and annoying but workable. Torrenting those shows is the only other realistic option.
Quick, someone write a python script to perform common character substitutions on a list of the most common New Year's resolutions. If this catches on you might have a useful brute forcing dictionary.
thank you! I think I fixed it, does it work now?
I've added it to my list of books to inspire my kids. So if they ever come to me and say, "Dad, what is chemistry good for?" I can just give them The Martian and say, "read this and you'll know"
John Denker (ex Bell Labs) has a good discussion on devices which rely on random distributions:

http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/secure-random.htm

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"My favorite proverb of all is the one that says for every proverb, there is an equal and opposite proverb. In this case, we should note that the proverb about not putting all your eggs in one basket is not necessarily a sound engineering principle. The right answer depends on the margin of error and on the per-basket failure rate. It also greatly depends on the chance of correlated, uncorrelated, and anti-correlated basket failures. Sometimes the best way to get your eggs from point A to point B is to put them all in one basket and take really good care of that basket."

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Currently reading Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley and The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive by Brian Christian. Just finished No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald, My Real Children by Jo Walton, The Martian by Andy Weir, and Toki Pona: The Language of Good by Sonja Lang (the official reference to her conlang, which I had already studied extensively from online references).

Waiting for new chapters in the serial Ra by Sam Hughes. Possibly about to read Engineering a Safer World by Nancy Leveson.
Pretty sure the $15 million referred to a long-term bet, that takes years to get through the burning cash phase and into profitability.

If you hire 20 people for the first year, that's going to cost three million dollars (if you're lucky) for everything all-in, without calculating potentially high customer acquisition costs early on.

Writing the calendar app is the least expensive, least difficult and least time consuming part of building a large scale business around it.

If you wanted to go big, and had three years to do it, you could easily burn through $10 or $15 million trying to get there before generating your first quarterly profit.
I thought it was big in Brazil and India?
Generally, when interest rates pick back up, revenues rise faster.

We're fragile because ( IMO ) we're running the money supply too lean - especially for people who are in the grey market economy.
Calculating limiting reagents as if your life depended on it!
I'm old too. (45) and I have 2 cars in $30K-$40K range.

I would buy the self-driving car (2 of them) because I could read in traffic, or relax while listening to music, or watching a movie.

And if tired, on the way to Vegas from LA, push "autopilot button".

It's safer to let autopilot drive than to try to drive sleepy, trust me.
I will take a look at Innumerancy. A more technical exploration of the same topic sounds right up my alley. Thanks!
This is great: as a hypem addict, I'm excited to play with a desktop app. A few points:

- When is playlist support planned? (I'm pretty sure it's only been out for like two weeks so the delay is understandable.)

- Where can I report bugs?

- Consider allowing horizontal resizing or a marquee effect on table cell hover: track names getting cut off is sort of frustrating.
I'm not sure they did, the order has this statement (emphasis mine);

8. Microsoft’s request for this emergency ex parte relief is not the result of any lack of diligence on Microsoft’s part, but instead based upon the nature of Defendants’ unlawful conduct. Therefore, in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b) and Civil Local Rule 7-5, good cause and the interest of justice require that this Order be Granted without prior notice to Defendants, and accordingly, Microsoft is relieved of the duty to provide Defendants with prior
notice of Microsoft’s motion.

I should note my laymans reading is that Microsoft proved exigent circumstances that negated the need for prior notice.
You're kidding right? I honestly burst out with a laugh when I read this. In what world do you live in where Microsoft seizing control of a single dynamic DNS provider will "prevent malware" (even in the short term)?

It's not like this motion has created some insurmountable wall that malware creators can't possibly work around.
Creating the tools by which anyone might theoretically spawn abuse is not the same as proactively hosting those engaging in the same.

E.g. one might reasonably disrupt a farmer's market known to be selling beef infected with salmonella without banning cows of the same breed across the world.
"Second, it is dated 06/19/2014"

but signed on 6/26.
UberX is getting even cheaper...
There is probably 10% slack right now before you even get to mild inflation. What's concerning to me is geopolitical instability while the economy is teetering on deflation. This state is strongly correlated with big wars.
Show HN: crowdsourced penetration tests via bug bounties
Wrote@gr8stuff!
Any observations?
It is always wise to tread legal waters carefully. Always keep in mind that a lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Ah yes, the old "actual reality" ruse.
This reminds me of a (somewhat) funny situation that happened to me one time. My parents bought some Lotto tickets and wanted to play, so they filled most of the combinations themselves and left two of them for me. I was annoyed by having to do that, so I take the tickets, and ask my dad, "So, you know that every combination is equally likely to win?", and he casually replies something like, "Yeah, sure, I'm not dumb".

So just to get done with it, I pick 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on one combo and 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 on the other. I give it to him, when he throws his hands in the air and angrily says, "What the hell? You just wasted two combinations, these numbers are never going to get drawn!"

It handily illustrates how hard it is to grasp the concept of true randomness and probability, and even if you do get it, sometimes you'll be caught off guard and your psychological biases will kick in.
I'd like to add the performance issue when loading a lot of songs. I have mere 400 favorites and when I want to listen some old song, I have to scroll all the way down, which makes the app almost unbearable to use.
Just finished The Glasshouse by Charles Stross, really great sci-fi

Now reading Neil Young's autobiography
Buy Now buttons appearing on Twitter
I am still looking through these files, but everything that I have read points to insufficient, or zero notice having been given to the defendants prior to this order. For instance, the complaint itself...

http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/docs/Revised_Final%20No-IP%20...

...is dated June 19, 2014.

And from the order itself...

http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/docs/Second%20Amended%20Order...

...we see the following instruction:

"IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b) that the Defendants shall appear before this Court on July 10, 2014, at 3:00 p.m., in LV Courtroom 7D to show cause, if there is any, why this Court should not enter a Preliminary Injunction, pending final ruling on the Complaint against the Defendants, enjoining them from the conduct temporarily restrained by the preceding provisions of this Order."

Of course, July 1 is tomorrow.

In this document, Microsoft seems to be requesting that all of this stuff be sealed until it is ready to disclose the existence of the lawsuit to the defendant, presumably after it has completed its seizure the domains:

http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/docs/Final%20Motion%20to%20Se...

The facts of this seem pretty clear from your link. What I am wondering is if there is any precedence for this, and if this is really considered due process?
LDA Analysis Of My Twitter Feed
Like MaidSafe? Are there other alternatives?
Seriously I've been using ADP for a year and a half and they've fucked it up every time we've added an employee, we also found out at tax time that they'd failed to withhold New York City income tax for our New York employees. Considering proper tax withholdings is the primary reason to use a damn payroll provider in the first place this was insane. I'd have switched to Paychex (we have CA and NY employees which is why we needed a larger provider) but everyone I talked to hate them too.

Ack! Just noticed ZenPayroll is now supporting NY, unfortunately we might be moving all our HR to TriNet or I'd make the switch.
Based on that advice, and if the OP has time, maybe it's best to wait for more M.2 PCIe SSDs to go mainstream (and cheaper) in an ultraportable/laptop chassis.
Russia launching powerful laser system.
The government pays it, ultimately, out of tax revenues derived from GDP.
the court deciding that a company (Microsoft) should act as the police (or in this analogy, a bouncer) is still terribly short-sighted, especially when that company has been historically accused by the DOJ of attempting to form varying monopolies.

a capable government should not be in the habit of contracting valuable state-needed cyber-defense to private companys, as the 'keys to the kingdom', in this case domain records, should not be in the hands of a company that can benefit privately but rather a state-ran agency which employs proper check and balances.
My last 2 months have been on 4 hours of sleep per night.

Yeah it works, but God does it suck. This has occurred out of a need to get work done, so I wonder how many others found themselves conditioned in the same way.
Yes I meant what "Reactive Extensions" does. Should've been clearer that it was a reference to "functional reactive programming" and not a specific library.

edit: "Async Javascript at Netflix" is a great talk on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYN2xt11Ek
I'm incredibly curious what this looks like— does it just display an empty state? "Oops we have no stories for you!" or similar?
A good analogy might be with the clothing industry where larger sizes are more expensive.
I ran through the same script with my dad once, except he answered "Yeah, but you'll have to split the pot with more smartasses like you."
So we can imagine independent temperature controls but not making all the humidity bearing cavities UV-exposed?

The dis-infection problem would be trivially solved (relatively) by adding a very powerful UV light and ensuring it hit all the relevant surfaces. 20 minutes of that and nothing would be left alive.
Do the Monte Carlo people all know about Barash and Shchur's work? They made an RNGSSELIB and PRAND (using NVIDIA cards), but the main contribution is that they incorporated a new way to generate multiple streams not by re-seeding the generator but by skipping ahead, even with Mersenne twisters. It is the only simple way to get parallel streams, and it didn't exist just a few years ago. You still need to be careful in various ways, but this helps a lot. A lot, a lot.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.5866.pdf
I just started When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery[1]. The author is a neurosurgeon and an excellent writer.

The last book I read was Abdel Haleem's translation of the Qur'an[2]. For an ancient religious text, it's rather short. Total reading time was maybe 16 hours over the course of a week. I'm not religious, but it was interesting to get a better idea of what Muslims believe and why. That said, the whole thing reads like a 7th-century version of Time Cube. I came away with the impression that the author was a schizophrenic who knew of parts of the Bible.

The most useful book I've recently read is Steve Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany[3]. It's a more structured version of a lot of the stuff I learned in YC.

My favorite books of the past year are Confessions of a Yakuza[4] and Infidel[5]. The subjects of each book are as different as can be, but their stories are quite captivating. Both survived immense suffering and managed to thrive afterwards. Reading those books reminded me of how lucky I am and how insignificant my problems are.

1. http://www.amazon.com/When-Air-Hits-Your-Brain-ebook/dp/B006...

2. http://www.amazon.com/Quran-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-ebook/dp/...

3. http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank-ebook/...

4. http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Yakuza-Junichi-Saga-ebook/...

5. http://www.amazon.com/Infidel-Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali-ebook/dp/B000N...
Apparently the sheer abuse of power entailed by Microsoft hijacking and disrupting the inbound traffic of a lot of innocent no-ip customers to track the few C&C servers is entirely lost on you.

If something like that is to be done it should be done by a state body, not a private corporation. What gives them the right to spy on innocent peoples traffic?

Did the judges even understand the nature of the power they were granting Microsoft? Couldn't it have been handled differently?
I'm pretty sure virtually none of the spam mails in my spamfilter were sent from a phone. Nor do phones have the bandwidth to carry out DDoS attacks or host phishing sites. Nor do many people do onlinebanking on their phone (though that number is certainly on the rise).

So yes, while malware exists on android, I doubt the total damages caused by it are more than a drop in the bucket when compared to windows malware.