skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The possibility of lasting mental and emotional trauma is very real when using any of the seratonin analogues. The same possibilities exist without their use as well.

But I think you are mistaken about chromosomal damage.
How many folk should be on my email list before I send first mail?
Ask HN: Freelance web developers, what do your contracts typically look like?
When you agree to make a website for a new client do you hash out the details then agree to exactly what you are going to make? Do you let them modify things along the way? And do you support the website after it has been developed?

Any and all answers are welcome thanks!
I have an Acer C720 myself but put ElementaryOS on instead of Ubuntu - runs like a dream and looks great to boot.

A good thing about the C720 is that the SSD is upgradeable fairly simply[0], though it's easy enough to stick an SD card in as a stopgap.

I picked up a refurb (not that you'd know to look at it, feels brand new) for £130. Wouldn't get an 8.5hr lightweight laptop for anything close to that elsewhere.

[0] http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/acer-chro...
Depends on how fast they are ejected from each other. The pieces will (more or less) have an "escape velocity". If they are faster than this velocity they will drift ever further apart. Slower, and they will slowly fall back towards each other.

My understanding is that it's unlikely that they would ever recombine into a solid object since the gravity between them is so weak.
To be a tad cynical, in the US, "diverse" is often a synonym for non-white.
I don't mean to be that guy, I'm genuinely curious. Is this pretty much the same thing as http://processingjs.org/ ?
This is cool, works just as expected. I added in a designer news feed also so you can do both.
Can't David Slater issue a DMCA take down request which Wikipedia would have to comply with?

In order for it to be put up again, wouldn't that require some action from the rights holder, which in this case is an animal and can't do any action?
Demos: http://p5js.org/learn/#demos

Getting Started Guide: http://p5js.org/get-started/

Transition Code: https://github.com/lmccart/p5.js/wiki/Processing-transition
So there's some common ground between map, filter, flatmap, etc and these transducers allow you to compose those common-ground representations? I mean, you can define `map` as a callable chain of `(key-by #(true)) -> (map-apply fn) -> (filter-trues)` and `filter` as `(key-by predicate) -> (map-apply identity) -> (filter-trues)` where key-by, map-apply and filter-trues are some low-level primitives? Is that correct?
The monkey does not own the copyright, just as my intervalometer does not own the copyright to my time lapse photos, and a carefully constructed rube goldberg machine triggered by an ant (and later pressing the shutter release button) doesn't make the ant the copyright holder.

Wikimedia's own argument states that "the photographer would have had to make substantial contributions to the final image." In creating the circumstances for the monkey to hit the shutter release button, the photographer did in fact make the most substantial contributions to the final image.

In another light, do we give camera operators the ultimate/highest credit for the work of a studio-produced motion picture? No - they are credited, but the director is the one who created the circumstances under which the camera operator's actions capture the essential product of a whole team's work, guided by the director.
>Envisioning a new era of international attention for Kalmykia, Ilyumzhinov then built a Chess City on Elista’s outskirts, including a glass-domed palace intended as a venue for matches and tournaments that he had almost solitary power to organize.

it is almost impossible to explain to non-Russians that they are dealing with. The best way to start is "12 chairs" :)
Not quite. Basically, the virus has to be able to pass itself along before killing you. So, if there's a symptom-free infectious period of time, and the virus transmits easily enough, then you have a problem. Lethality has nothing to do with it as long as the virus can find a new host before using up the old one.
Looks cool, not sure if it's working 100%. It prompts me to 'Type post number to open' but when I do, It just gives me the same prompt until I type 0 to exit.
Hey guys I'm one of the founders at Openfolio. Curious what y'all think of the concept.
Except that the monkey has no concept of creative licensing, payments, royalties, etc. In this case the monkey is really just a remote shutter release made out of meat.

I could see the argument if the monkey were a 9 year-old child, the child might not fully grasp these concepts today, but you could anticipate a point where the child would understand. Much like child actor laws protecting their earnings.

I could see the wikipedia logic if there was some expectation that copyright would eventually matter to the monkey.

Forget that the monkey is an organic being... If the camera were shot up in the air in a rocket and had a pressure switch to take a series of photos at 5,000 feet (or maybe more directly at some random altitude or point in travel), who would "own" the photos? The rocket? Or the person who put the events together to capture those images in that manner.
Working in the vehicle routing industry, this is something that I has passed through my mind on more than one occasion. I'm quite pleased to see it implemented - I definitely did not have the means.

In my mind, this sort of product is a great stepping stone towards the reduction in personal cars - it's starting to bring the cost of travelling down by sharing, hopefully by enough to make it accessible to less well-off people. I certainly couldn't afford a taxi to work every day.
If this sort of service really takes off, it will hopefully also reduce the number of cars on the road, reducing congestion.

The obvious next step for this sort of service is to use self-driving cars, reducing the cost even further as there are no drivers to pay.

It is obviously an idea whose time has come, and I'm glad!
batmansbelt, it seems you are hellbanned, that means nobody can see your posts unless they are logged in and have "showdead" turned on.
Indeed, "pourover": because "drip" requires a euphimism!

"drip" is often a negative word: liquid is falling from something, and it is not wanted. Careful not to drip on the carpet! You're dripping with sweat! Oil is dripping out of your engine's rear main seal ...

Also, "drip" is used as slang epithet in some English-speaking parts of the world. A drip is a person without a strong character: a lamer, downer, etc.

I'm glad we don't have to call it "drip" coffee any more; though "pourover" is uncomfortably close to "pushover", which is one of the synonyms that aforementioned slang use of "drip". :)
So then would all art created by animals automatically go into some sort of unpublishable void?

If the issue is making money, perhaps they can come to some arrangement with the monkey for offering signed prints?
Or SPARC, which is patent and license free, open, and has a decade of shipping in real hardware to back it up.
These types of services just don't get thrown together in a couple of days in reaction to a competitor, they require a lot of work and engineering to implement properly.

I'm sure both Uber and Lyft were aware of this feature being designed by their each and are trying to get their respective features out the door.

Ever notice how AWS and Google release price decreases within the same days? Same thing. They have been told it is upcoming and are doing the same thing. I've seen it personally.
IT Lead Generation/Appointment Setting Company
Powerful entities can extract more value from a piece of land than weak entities. That means powerful entities will outbid weak entities, and in the long run all land will belong to powerful entities. There will be no land for you to farm or forage.

Labor isn't the only thing needed for survival. You also need things like living space, air and water. If these resources can be more profitably used by someone else, they will outbid you.
Thanks for clarifying, I was talking from the end users' perspective.

You have an interesting point, but I contend that real start-ups with real users/revenue also get acquired/shutdown often enough that that's not really going to be a distinguishing factor.
Well, the most obvious value to me is that you can create algorithms that defer their action- So instead of having a function that operates on a collection, you can have a function that will operate on a collection at a future date, even if the collection does not yet exist. (that's what the clojure reducer library does)

(And if you say "deferring an action is just another term for 'functions'" then that's exactly the point, lifting more algorithmic logic into composable functions)
Wow. At first I thought it was just a video, but its more like an "interactive intro". I remember being introduced to Processing years ago in CMU's Intro to Programming class, glad to see that it's still being used and developed.
I think the issue at hand is that (from what I've read) the photographer set the camera down without intending for the monkey to pick it up and start snapping.

I don't think anybody would be arguing about the copyright had the photographer given the monkey the camera.
Thank you Microsoft, nine months on
Woohoo! Tied a world record!
Arch linux has a decent tutorial: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_S...

As for a simple example.. At a previous job, I did dkms support for a driver. Grab https://www.myricom.com/pub/Myri10GE/myri10ge-linux.1.5.3.p5... & look at dkms.conf and read linux/README.dkms

For more complex examples, look at zfs-on-linux. I know that is also how nvidia packages their hybrid binary blob drivers.
Diverse from the tech world in general by having black and female attendees. The tech world is overwhelmingly male and pretty darn white.
To imprison versus to jail is a distinction in US English; apologies for my English...

Corporations per se do not have the ability to imprison people, they petition the government to do so. Corporations may sue people in the courts, but if the suit does not result in a criminal conviction (as opposed to a civil one), it does not result in imprisonment.
I meant diversity across all the CoderDojo events that I've seen. This one happened to be primarily African American, but in aggregate, the breadth of kids that show up to learn to code is really amazing compared to what we see in colleges and the profession in general.
>>Dressing in a suit is a signal that you thought about and planned ahead for the meeting.

I don't see how that equates to respecting someone's time though. It can mean you respect them, as a person, but respecting their time is a different thing, in my opinion, because, again, it is not related to their time, but yours (in the form of spending your time to get ready and look good, etc.).
Definitely. I use one of those USB sticks in my car radio so it doesn't stick out. It is tiny.

I was searched going in and out but you could easily stick one up your bum like a drug mule!
> Has anyone ever seriously believed this?

Hickey, Datomic?
>The idea of automating creativity is ludicrous.

No it isn't. Not anymore ludicrous than automating anything else, just far more complex in its implementation. It's not impossible.

>the universe we live in is infinitely vast and full of endless paths to explore.

Yes, but human beings are not infinite, nor is their capacity for creative thought. We're bound by finite time, space, perception, culture and neurology. Therefore, I believe human creativity is a process which can be modeled, replicated and mass produced just as human labor can. There's nothing special or magic about it, it's just a nut we haven't cracked yet. But then, there was a time when the concept of a machine doing math was unthinkable as well, and a machine doing cryptography, and a machine playing Jeopardy, etc.

Consider how formulaic much of modern popular culture is. Do you really think it's impossible for an AI, with access to the entire web and, theoretically, working neural models, to churn out an acceptable dime store novel or movie or video game? We're not talking about genius, here, we're talking about commerce. People will buy it. And if people will buy it coming from a machine, there's no longer any reason to pay humans to generate it.

It doesn't even really have to be better than what humans would produce - just acceptable.
The US Copyright Compendium states that “authorship”, which is a prerequisite for copyright, requires a human author. In previous cases copyright in natural patterns such as wood patterns has been rejected. If the purported author is a non-human animal, then there can’t be copyright (in the US).

http://www.copyrightcompendium.com/#202.02(b)

The Compendium reflects the rulings of the Copyright Office and a court might see things differently. Or the Copyright Office might agree that this photograph was not authored by the human. If they don’t agree, then at the very least you can’t register the copyright and get statutory damages. (Unless you sue the Copyright Office to force them to register.)
They do the same in the UK but you can quite happily run anonymous accounts and be knee deep in anarchy and they wouldn't know.
See: https://github.com/lmccart/p5.js#how-is-this-different-than-...
One extra thing (one could call it a weakness) with the local+location scheme is that you will need to have a way to distinguish the "repeated" hour after daylight savings time sets the clock backward one hour from the hour before it.
I do the quick stir just to wet all the grounds. If I don't then the grounds on the wall remain little dry.
But in this case the monkey was also the director. If David Slater had been intending or worked towards what ended up happening in some way I'd be a lot more sympathetic to his copyright claims, but as it is he didn't have any agency in creation of the photograph except in owning the camera and failing to secure it.
Googling I find the requirements for copyright:

"the work must have been developed independently by its author, and there must have been some creativity involved in the creation"

This case is certainly debatable on those points.
70 days until The Evil Within releases
That's amazing! Let me know if I can help in any way.
Thanks. You've posted my favourite comment on the subject so far.
Well, if you all are into old games vs PC other than just Tetris, there's always Acquire which was originally a 3M board game from the 1960's. That was when I played it as a young teenager in the Academic Games Club at our interesting high school.

It's a financial game, but better and faster than Monopoly,
the highest performer (best investor/player) still wins, but
at least everybody makes money, hell everybody starts with
capital. Each the same amount of capital, how often do you see that :-)

Growth stocks are involved, with bonuses (which can almost be regarded as follow-on rounds adding to exits, until game-end liquidation) rather than dividends. Quite easy to learn

In the '70's, it appeared for the Apple and the Commodore PET. There was also a slightly more modern DOS version which was from Avalon-Hill, the successor to 3M for their games:

http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire.zip

There is also another version from Bill Humphrey, the 1966 playing rules are in a DOC file within this ZIP (tailored to his PC version):

http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquire2.zip

Each player also is issued an information card you will need
for proper financial planning:

http://www.webnoir.com/bob/sid/acquirecard.htm

The numbers on top in the blue header are the size of the hotel chain.
The upper number (low $) in each cell is the share price for the named chains in the left-hand cell.
The middle number (high $) in each cell is the bonus amount for majority holder of the named chains upon exit/liquidation.
The bottom number (not-as-high $) in each cell is the bonus amount for second-majority holder of the named chains upon exit/liquidation.

Here's an alternate:

http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/44033/acquire-3m-version-c...

and another:

https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Six-Info-Cards-+-Lg-Ca...

and another:

https://megacquire.com/zencart/images/Enlarged-Info-Card-B.j...

While I was looking for my original 3M hard copy edition to bring to my local makerspace for the young board gamers I did find a better user vs PC version from G.C.Crawshay, also DOS but have confirmed it will play in WinXP or Win7 if you have a 32-bit PC:

http://www.george.crawshay.com/cgi/products.pl?game=Acquire

Naturally it will play from a bootable DOS floppy as well.
Some are surprised when you can fire up any old surplus PC having a floppy drive and it works ideally without having to have a working HDD in the system. No mouse either. USB floppy drives work too.

EDIT: I believe the floppy will also play on a 64-bit PC
http://www.hulu.com/watch/429491
Lyft, Uber and Sidecar launch real carpooling apps to discourage car ownership
Honest question. When I read a sentence like this: "the guys at Lyft got to talking with the guys at Rover and they decided to work together instead."

Does "guys" imply the teams are all male? Is that relevant, or just reflect the casual sexism of the Valley? Or is "guys" a truly universal term and this just reflects an excessively lazy/casual writing style for a supposed news outlet?
Yes, but isn't that because the edge of public domain is very far back? Some random character from the early 1900s that no one today recognizes is not going to be all that useful. Move that edge to be just 20 years back, and it picks up a lot of things that are still well known.

20 years is not nearly as long as it sounds. Harry Potter, for instance, is already 17 years old. I bet a lot of advertisers 3 years from now would jump on the chance to use Harry Potter characters.
RISC-V started off from a modified MIPS ISA, but we frankly ran out of opcode space. We needed 64b, IEEE floating point, and a ton of opcode space to explore new accelerator and vector ISA extensions.

Even the smallest changes to MIPS to clean up things like branch delay slots means it's a new ISA anyways, so you get zero benefit keeping it "mostly MIPS". You can read a bit more about this in the "history" section in the back of the user-level ISA manual.
I totally disagree; I absolutely loved the elementary school science fair approach. You could actually engage with the teams behind every interesting project, and skip past all the usual 2-3 minute bland, boring on-stage pitches from bleary-eyed and brain-drained builders.
Great example of the power of selective breeding.
Disrespect in Education
Though the article mentions it, I can't believe the headline left out broccoli, which is the form of this species that I eat the most of.
> In creating the circumstances for the monkey to hit the shutter release button, the photographer did in fact make the most substantial contributions to the final image.

That argument works just as well for camera rental companies. Because that's all he did in the end - lend the camera to a different kind of ape.
Well, 'drip' includes automatic coffee makers, so this distinguishes pouring by hand.
I've found that people in industry are often unaware of recent discoveries in academia (even if they themselves were once academics). Unfortunately most of the top journals of interest to datascientists are locked behind a paywall, but sometimes Google Scholar is able to find a free copy scraped from some academic's personal site (the "All N versions" link is usually helpful unless the paper was published in an ACM or IEEE journal - those guys seem to hunt down carelessly posted papers on people's private sites).
Alan Perlis Epigram #2.
Which is another good reason for in person communication- you can see if your coworker is intensely focusing and give them space. Pinging them on IM is distracting and interrupts them regardless of what they are doing. Pinging an entire team on the "team chat" is even worse.
Seems like the original author is only commenting on Reddit. It's surprising that this was posted to /r/Anarchism instead of a bigger subreddit like /r/tech or /r/politics. That makes me think that the original leaker was already involved in the /r/Anarchism community in some way.

Interesting comments from the author on the Reddit thread:

"""

Not just replying to you, but directed at everyone that'll say I should've leaked it to some organization and that it's 'irresponsible' to dump the raw data on everyone or something:

I'm unconvinced that news stories about government's surveillance capabilities are actually effective in fighting those systems of control. Listening to stories all day about how we're all being hacked and spied on just feels disempowering. When everyone can participate it's more empowering, more fun, and far more effective. Gamma deliberately avoided storing identifying information about their customers, the customers I've managed to identify so far are from looking at the metadata in the documents they sent finfisher support staff and other mistakes they made. The more eyes looking at it, they more we'll find. I want the researchers at citizen lab and elsewhere who have been researching finfisher attacks to use this data in whatever way it'll help them. I want whoever wants to try their hand at forensics to be able to look through it and find what they can about Gamma's customers. I want programmers, hackers, and reverse engineers to have access so they can analyze the software and take it apart. In enabling people with diverse talents to actively participate in the research, we can hopefully develop a better understanding of the tools, organizations, and methods of operation involved in these attacks so that those targeted can actually defend themselves, not just read headlines about how powerful the organizations targeting them are. I want everyone having access to the data, not just the headlines! Seed the torrent!

"""

"""What rechelon said about the EFF. They're reformist lawyers that do some good work, but are terrified of anything too radical or illegal. There's no way they'd touch this, they aren't wikileaks. In the unlikely event that I ended up on trial for this, EFF probably wouldn't even help with the legal defense. They help with some hacking related cases like weev's or DeCSS, because those cases were on the edge of the law and legal precedent was being set. The EFF does not defend computer hackers if it's not setting legal precedent and aligning with their reformist goals.

"""

It'll be very interesting to see how this aspect plays out. I expect "anarchist hacker" headlines before long.
Actually, I think it's a very good analogy.

Here's another. If I leave my laptop running Visual Studio out and a monkey bangs on the keyboard to make a program (by accident, just as with this photo), I don't own the copyright to that program.
Hadoop at a Crossroads?
It's not necessarily the best/only way, but it adds a sense of fun and informality that a larger corporation wouldn't want/need to have in order to attract employees.
> Your browser doesn't support all of the features required for this demo. Please consider using the latest version of Chrome.

I guess "today's web" is not an Open web, and has a single-point-of-failure hard-dependency on Google (at multiple levels).
> just a remote shutter release made out of meat.

> Forget that the monkey is an organic being...

That's not a very endearing way to make your point. If enough people care about the rights of non-human sentient beings, we can envisage (more, better) laws being made protecting their rights. Think of the good the licensing money from this picture could do in e.g. conserving the habitat of that monkey.

For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_personhood
there is an elastic beanstalk example in the docs http://circlehost:8080/docs/docker#elastic-beanstalk
I grabbed myself a http://bruer.co. They're not perfect devices, but for the price, they're an easy way to get into it. The nicer variants are all $200US+ (and then, for me, international shipping :().