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Wow.. I'd never read that before. There's some pretty crazy stuff in that.

I'd note that it seems likely that people may have an open mind about some of the theories espoused without believing the whole thing.

For example, the statement In 1887, Edwin Johnson expressed the opinion that early Christian history was largely invented or corrupted in the 2nd and 3rd centuries has some basis in historic facts: The Nicene Creed wasn't written until 325, and it's influence on what is considered "standard" Christianity cannot be underestimated.

One of the links on Wikipedia[1] makes Kasparov sound more sceptical than saying he is a follower: I do not advocate Fomenko and Nosovsky’s theory. However, as a man with an analytical mind-set who is used to analysing all the information that I receive, I am very sceptical about the constructions and findings of official history. I believe that Fomenko and Nosovsky have rightly pointed out numerous inconsistencies and gaps in the official concept. Instead of pursuing their work by asking questions and dismantling schemes which are often mythological, they have put forward a new theory, which unfortunately is subject to the same problems. Because it is clear that today we still lack the information needed to create another, alternative concept. And that is why the main attacks on Fomenko and Nosovsky’s work are not related to the critical aspects of their work but, rather, to what is put forward today as its positive outlook.’

[1] http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/newchronology.html
For those curious a about this, look up Haskell's `build` and `destroy` functions. Those functions are for church-encoding lists and doing optimizations that way.
What if Google, instead of blocking the stream, just reserved a portion of the revenue generated from that video, for the rights holder, equal to but not greater than the amount needed for traditional over the air licensing?
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Looking at the exherbo package list, it seems that the qt4 package has an optional (or opportunistic) dependency on mysql. And on sqlite. So it ought to be possible to do the equivalent of an `apt-get install --no-install-recommends` to get it without mysql.
> There are artists who "paint" with bacteria and other live organisms. The bacteria may be producing nearly 100% of the final image (the only reason the works are noteworthy), and in many cases, the result may not be entirely anticipated by the artist. That doesn't mean the bacteria owns the copyright.

But the artist has deliberately set the experiment and put the culture in place to produce things.

In order to make it a valid analogy, the photographer should have acted in a way that purposely invited the monkey to take the camera.

This is did not happen; it was entirely an accident, and his creative input is a question of luck, whereby anyone else who carried a camera and had it stolen by a monkey who clicked around and got a selfie has the same level of input.

Really, this is all just because the guy is a professional who expects to get paid for this, but his experience in the matter has had zero influence on the result.

If I went to Southeast Asia, got my camera stolen by a monkey and had published, I did nothing special to merit attribution.

Honestly, if he had wanted to take the credit for the framing and the positioning then at least he could have done something slighly more elaborate on the matter. A selected curation of those pictures, structured as a narrative, well framed, and placed as an exhibition with accompanying material would have sufficient artistic merit. Instead he chooses to bitch about it on the Internet.
...and asserting that images accidentally created by non-human animals belong to the public domain undermines copyright how, exactly? I'm not seeing much of a slippery slope here.
The mustard that we typically eat as a condiment or greens are Sinapis alba, Brassica juncea, and Brassica nigra, which are in the same family as Brassica oleracea, but they aren't the same species.
The mysql dependency is an exherbo packaging quirk. Hardly the fault of the the toolkit.
I have over a decade of writing SQL, thank you very much. I still stand by my assertion and I there's no way I'll be writing procedural SQL for the use cases I deal with on a daily basis.
Actually, I think I've changed my mind after writing this. There can be two and only two states. HTTPS with authentication, and HTTPS without authentication. Authenticated can have the little lock symbol, non-authenticated would just look like regular HTTP does now. Then we just need to make the process of self-signed certificates easier to create and manage.
Automated factories exist but human-less do not (yet). Making a machine that works almost all the time and thus requires occasional human intervention is much easier that making one that can deal with all possible circumstances.
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I don't see what we "lose culturally" by dropping the use of commercial music. There is a plethora of great, liberally-licensed great music out there.
Ah, the good old "there is no PC gaming anymore" argument, when PC gaming is still vibrant. As sehr links above, there are 75 million active Steam users, and Steam is not console-focused. Yet another No True Scotsman argument.

Edit: Numbers from a year ago show that Steam active users (65M) is higher than XBox Live users (48M), and while XBoxes aren't the only console, it's clearly just not true that 'gaming is [only] being done on xboxes these days', no matter how many leaderboards you were on back in the day.

http://www.slashgear.com/steam-users-eclipse-xbox-live-psn-s... (october last year)
Alternatively, could they not just use the system as a response to DMCA requests? Mute out the offending portion when a rights-holder complains and leave (probably) the vast majority of videos generating ad revenue, without large portions of the video being muted pro-actively (and therefore basically unwatchable).
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OK, maybe we're getting somewhere. Let me try to write this `map`, just to see. I'm using Scala, so I can put some types, and have the compiler yell at me if I'm doing something overtly wrong (I need all the help I can get!).

For clarity, let's define a type alias for reducers:

type Reducer[X, A] = (X, A) ⇒ X

Let's define `map` to match the type definition you provided. And with that type definition, I only see one way in which the function can be implemented. So it must be:

def map[X, A, B](f: A ⇒ B): (Reducer[X, B] ⇒ Reducer[X, A]) =
(redB: Reducer[X, B]) ⇒ (x: X, a: A) ⇒ redB(x, f(a))

How can I use this? Let's try the following:

def addup(zero: Int, a: List[Int]) = a.foldLeft(zero)(_ + _)
def parseList(a: List[String]) = a.map(_.toInt)

map(parseList)(addup)(1, List("7", "8"))

This returns 16. OK, parsing the list, and adding up starting from 1. But it doesn't look to me like `map` implements anything like the usual semantic of map. It just converts the data structure, and applies the reducer. What am I missing here?
How is namecoin any different? Its a pay to play system too. Decentralized CA's are nice and all but what happens when a state actor gains more than 50% of the hash power and can then make their own certs at will? DNSChain is also no better than GPG-signing all your assets in the end. You still have to trust that "greg" is the "greg" that has "greg" in DNSChain and no one has compromised "greg"

I would love to see TACK implemented first.

[1]http://tack.io/
Thats correct, you need wrap the primitive types when putting them in an array. Unless you use a C style array, but thats more hassle than it's worth generally.
The precedent to confirm is that those without artistic input in to the creation of a work should not be afforded automatic copyright in that work no matter the extent of their financial or technical input. This seems quite an important precedent to affirm to me.
This is exactly how Weather Underground gets lots of it's data. If you select change station you'll see a listing of stations that are not the official observation points for your area.

Also, some of this data can be collected via the APRS amateur radio system.
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>What you're describing would take not just one person who wanted to destroy all of human society, but quite a few of them.

Woah...I'm not talking about something destroying all of human society, I'm talking about a group of people who would like to harm specific countries economically--of which there are more than a few.

Moving money around like what I'm talking about would result in billions of dollars lost. Worst case scenario a stock market crash followed by a recession, not the end of civilization.
Hey man, fair criticism. We are currently really just a place to "consume" this information – we're not yet providing you with the tools to act on it. We're trying to build our dataset more before we dive deep into answering some of the questions you've raised.

In terms of philosophy, we agree with you in many ways. We want to offer you a service where you can find the group of investors you aspire to be like, and then help you figure out how to get your investments on the track to match them. And we do have some opinions on what that group of investors you "aspire" to be like is... they should be diversified and balanced... and their risk should be appropriate for you and your situation. As we grow we hope to get there. Ping me on twitter (@hal2001) or email (hart@) if you want to talk more.
Amusingly, even though I've never smoked or even bought cigarette, I still have a pretty good idea how big a cigarette carton is because everyone always uses them for comparison.
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Thanks for posting this, just picked one up. I've got the Samsung Chromebook (running crouton), which is great, but I would like to have something x86 as well...
Becoming disillusioned in the programming profession – please help
I have been programming all my professional life. I'm in my early 30s now, got my first programming job at 21, in college (I majored in CS). At first, my professional development seemed easy and natural and now I'm feeling that I'm hitting the limits of what a programmer can do, which saddens me a lot.

In short, after 12 years in the industry, I know all too well what it takes to build a software system. I now know that bringing a project to a reasonable degree of completeness requires crazy amounts of work most of which is not only not sexy, but close to downright menial. Startups' products are worst in this regard as 90% of them are some variation of CRUD web systems, but even if you try to dig deeper, the ratio of intellectual reward to sheer amount of work is terribly low. For example, want to experiment with programming languages? You must plough your way through parsing (a solved problem) and maybe some variety of VM to emit code for before you can even start actual work.

What counts as a personal project on sites like HN tend to focus on solved problems as well. People talk about developing web frameworks (a mostly solved problem) or similar things that would be interesting for a sophomore CS student but not for me right now. Problems similar to what Project Euler is about seem too limited, lacking any chance of impact.

This notion of impact is the key in how I feel. Contrary to what they write in Wired sometimes, it just feels like one programmer can't make any impact any more, that you're always a cog in the machine. In a big project you always work on a very limited subset of functionality, away from the essential parts of the product, just because there's no way one person can pull out the weight of the entire real-world production-grade system. And short of working alone there's no way to get yourself closer to those essential parts.

Please help me. I'm running out of motivation and I need to believe that it can be elsewhere somewhere around.
Eventually. At which point, there may be a move to yet another service.

It has begun already actually, Hitbox is apparently getting a huge influx of new users [1], their site [2] is not responding.

[1] https://twitter.com/hitboxliveHelp/status/497150137933000705

[2] http://www.hitbox.tv/
Hi,

I have found my cofounders at cofounderslab.com . I just contacted them and then we met in person to discuss the idea. You don't need to go to their meetups. You just need to connect.

Good luck to you!
I've used a 6-cup Bialetti Moka Express for the last 6 years, it was the only piece of kitchen equipment we packed into our hand-luggage when we flew over to the states. It extracts a strong, flavourful liquor from most every coffee, although the typical US pre-ground coffee is a bit courser than optimal.

Steam pressure buildup in the reservoir forces sub-boiling water through the grind; not as high-pressure as an espresso machine so crema extraction is non-existent, but delivers a similar taste.
I'm also hoping for an informative answer to this question. Anyone?
Raw mushrooms are pretty common in salads too.
He did more than owning the camera. He set up the camera and let the monkey play with it, hoping to get lucky with a great shot.
Hunting, fetching and carrying from low mass objects. If we can get a stream of cheap things doing this, then we get rivers of stuff.
This is HackerNews. Hacker. News.

I believe we should be focusing on other types of food that are related like pickles and cucumbers.
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Part of the problem is being in a location where you can collect accurate data. The setup is very particular. You basically need an open field to do it properly. I would love to do it, but all of my landed is wooded and is a poor location for weather data collection.

There are actually some arguments about the accuracy of the automated data collected from the airports. Mainly stemming from the fact that airports are usually nowhere near the city in which they're collecting data for. There are also some dubious instrument configurations. For example, the setup at Reagan National, which is the official data for Washington, DC, was changed a couple years ago to where there are now rocks under the temperature station instead of grass. This is lead to some analysis that the official readings may be higher than the actual air temperature.
Young brains are extremely malleable. Our brains grow (and we learn fastest) during infancy and toddler-hood with a second, less impressive, burst during adolescence. So, our children's brains are malleable in the sense that they readily adjust to this new reality while their brains are growing fastest, but since the reality during their most formative years is different from the reality during our formative years, their brains will be wired differently.

One could argue that this happens to a certain extent with every generation, however, and it is not necessarily a new thing. One might also argue that as technology changes faster, the inter-generational gap grows larger. One might also argue that while our adult brains change more slowly than a toddler brain, they do keep changing which might mean the difference is not so large after all. Interesting questions to be sure.
Caltrain runs on diesel, is incredibly slow (much slower than driving), frequently breaks down, and doesn't travel across the bay. It was probably OK for the 70s.
Selective pressure to modify the genome is the goal for altering organism's characteristics not unlike what happens naturally. So it is indirect gene editing. Now if the new organism is still the same species as you started with. I am not sure about that. There must be a test/definition for that. I think man descended from Ape and is homosapien.
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I'd love to hear a bit more about how you handle thick lines and anti-aliasing in WebGL.

Currently my approach is to make the line a little thicker and then apply the anti-aliasing in the frag shader. Similar to GPU Gems "Fast Prefiltered Lines." But it gets tricky with end caps, round joins, etc.
The erroneous flagging seems to still be going on.

https://twitter.com/Totalbiscuit/status/497168915651637249

Crypt of the Necrodancer devs saying the music in their game is getting peoples videos flagged, they have no idea why its on Audiblemagic

From the musician and right owner himself :

https://twitter.com/dannyBstyle

nobody but me has the authority to ask for a takedown of @NecroDancerGame music on twitch. if you're getting takedowns please let me know!

I have not asked for any streams of @NecroDancerGame to be taken down. I don't understand who could have requested they be muted.

thanks for the links to the muted @NecroDancerGame VODs. consulting with my lawyer, I will sort it out and let everyone know ASAP. <3
I think its just reduce, but in general its possible to write many implementations of reduce. It could be applied to lazy sequences, observables (to get a future or a new observable) and many other reducible things
Yeah, I'm expecting WebGL to be realistic for many sites in the next year. Even Microsoft is moving to automatic updates and Apple would be foolish not to release Safari 8 at least on 10.8/10.9 since the WebKit nightly builds run perfectly there.
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Yes, the photographer certainly could file a DMCA takedown, if he hasn't already.

No, action from the rights holder is not required to restore the material. Remember, the rights holder is the person filing the DMCA takedown - at least it should be. For the material to be restored it requires the poster of the material to file a counter notice, not the rights holder.
> So, traveling to the location of the monkeys, bringing photography gear (that would otherwise not be there), putting batteries and a card in the camera, turning the camera on, setting the proper exposure in the camera, and intending to produce photos of monkeys... that amounts to "zero creative input"?

Precisely. It's heartening that you understand this so well. As you have correctly discerned, none of those acts are in the least bit creative. They are essential preparations for creativity, but they are not themselves creative. The creativity comes solely from the creation of the particular image - the act of capturing a chosen scene in a chosen way.

As another example, if the photographer had done those things, then handed his camera to a random passer-by and had them take a photograph, then the copyright in that photograph would belong entirely to the passer-by. This is a matter of settled law which is beyond any doubt, and for exactly the reasons you outlined - the preparative steps are not part of the creative act.
I think the human was hoping for a good shot when he let the Monkey play with it.
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There are other ways:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2112...
Every command executed has a stored in current working directory. So when you right click the relative path to the cwd of the command is used.
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YouTube didn't have much competition when it happened.
Twitch is strong, but not as dominant as YouTube was. There exist alternative services (HitBox, Azubu,...).
I really wish this had happened to Labneh instead of Greek Yogurt. Same basic type of food, a thicker yogurt, but it's a little thicker and drier than Greek yogurt and has a different taste, one I vastly prefer. Add a touch of olive oil and it makes an amazing dip with some Lebanese style pita bread.

Someone take this and run with it, I would like to be able to find Labneh in all grocery stores, next to the Greek yogurt.
It seems to me that the new jobs will require more and more education, which could be a problem for the uneducated. I am optimistic though, because when I look at the past people have always been able to adapt to the new jobs and benefited significantly. Just think of all the poor hunters and gatherers who were put out of work by the advent of farming.
As an aside, what an unsettlingly photogenic animal this is, particularly its piercing eyes and expressive face. At first, I did not actually believe this was a real animal, and thought it was animated or from the planet of the apes .. then I googled the species (crested black macaque).

Though I totally agree with Wikipedia's stance, and am not a supporter of IP in general, it's an amazing picture, and its no wonder the photographer in question is attempting to claim it.
I really wish there weren't two popular projects that were abbreviated to NaCl.

For others, this is a port of the "salt" NaCl crypto library, and has nothing to do with Native Client.

The dangers of JS crypto in the browser are well trodden (anybody who can snoop the connection can probably replace the JS, for example), but the rise of JS-based client apps (through node-webkit et al) make this a bit more meaningful.
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There isn't anything in this project that implies immutabilty was extensively used for shared state in this case. F# is a pragmatic language, you can do what you want.
True. Now I just can't seem to edit the title.
Their main goal is to get these laptops into the hands of children that can't afford them. They are making the script to do this available for free along with a tutorial. A "savvy developer" could pick the laptop up at Best Buy, Amazon, or Walmart for $200 and run this script.

I'm actually doing this to my C270 right now. I've ran it with Crouton up until recently. When I first did it, the Ubuntu side could see the sound card and I could access usb serial ports to program my radios. But after some update to ChromeOS, that stopped working. So having a full dual-boot setup would be really good for me, and this script looks like one of the easiest methods I've seen.

I suppose they could do a program similiar to what OLPC did where you paid the cost of two devices. One would go to you and one would go to a child. I see he suggested a $300 price tag, would is like buying 1.5 C270s, which would be a very similar scheme. I am of course, keeping in mind that they also have to compensate people for their time to do the install. I assume it can't be automated, at least without opening the case and voiding the warranty.
just a reminder, Andreessen is the same person that says Snowden is a traitor.
Aside from the difficulty of actually obtaining a license, and the false positives and generally heavy-handed implementation... the biggest issue is probably that in-game music and even ambient sound is being targeted, making it impossible to actually carry out the purpose of the site (game streaming) for some games.
This.

It's not so much as I'm asking people to become a professional programmer more than a psychology teacher is telling her students to become psychologists or math teachers telling his students to become mathematicians.

Student's should at least be aware of it. Understand it's not MAGIC and doesn't require you to have little friends and knowledge of hacking traffic lights in order to build a useful tool for yourself or others.
> I guess there are way too many kale sippers here as downvotes are piling up!

Maybe people just think you're a jackass.
Many of the examples did not work for me in Firefox (latest-OSX).
I'm still highly skeptical about the motives behind the report. Its obvious to anyone in tech that there is no "new" exploit, else Hold Security would be releasing the vulnerability to software developers. Instead, they just say they have "contacted" (aka sales pitch'd) companies that they have confirmed have been hacked. Now that all the companies that you have proof were hacked have paid you or turned you down, you release a public story in the NYT that comes out during Black Hat and scare other companies into purchasing your "service" of checking to see if they were in the hacked companies.

So basically, Hold Security is charging 120/year for the ability to ask some secret, professional Russian hackers if your site was in fact one of the sites they hacked.
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Spinach is a different species.