skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're confused by my original statement.

No, not confused in the slightest.

> By "came up with the exact same language by chance", I mean "came up with the exact same language without reference to idea generator," i.e. your copy of the text was independently created.

Did you actually read my post? My "Birthday song" example shows that a randomly generated sequence of notes still constitutes a copyright violation.

> Under U.S. law, there must be actual copying in order to infringe upon copyright.

Yes, but you're confused about the meaning of "actual copying". Any method that substantially reproduces the original constitutes actual copying.

> That doesn't mean you can get around the Happy Birthday copyright[2] by simply randomly generating six note sequences until you get the one you want.

That is absolutely false, and I am shocked that you would post this nonsense in a public forum. The result is the only issue -- if it's a copy of a protected work, no one asks how the copy was generated.

> On the other hand, let's say you somehow never heard the Happy Birthday song and somehow just came up with them on their own. That's fine -- no copying, no infringement.

Also false, as much case law demonstrates. The difference in the case of simultaneous invention is the severity of the punishment, not the judgment that it's a violation.

Your reference to substantial similarity isn't relevant to what we're talking about. Substantial similarity addresses the issue of how alike two works are, not how a work was copied. Two works that are sufficiently different are judged not to be in conflict with respect to copyright issues. The method of copying is not a factor.

> There's actually a good argument that the song is no longer copyrighted.

Yes, and IMHO it shouldn't be copyrighted. It's a classic example of a perversion in copyright law.
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"...as secure as traditional payment cards".

Are they referring to mag stripe or EMV by saying "traditional" payment cards?
They forgot to mention this beauty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Square_Nebula
Thanks @robbiemitchell for appreciating my work. I put many hours and a lot of effort to make this project happen, and as a student, need a way to support myself so I can continue to grow it. So @untog, it is a little offensive when you just ask contributors to give out their work for free.
As of 2014, the allowable tax deduction for business reimbursements for personal vehicle usage is $.56 per mile, which is supposed to cover gas and wear and tear on your personal vehicle.

Finland: according to Numbeo [1] fuel runs around 1.66 Euro per liter. In the U.S. it's $.96 per liter (or .73 Euro).

I'm guessing there's probably some kind of auto tax in Finland which appears to be fairly expensive. I've heard it's ~20% of the current cost of the car per year, but I can't figure out the tax code from looking on-line. In the U.S. it's complicated, but in places that have a personal property tax, it's usually pretty low. I think the tax on my car is something like $250/year.

Wear and tear can cost a lot as well. I live in a pretty weather prone part of the U.S., but I'm guessing it's nothing like the typical Finnish winter.

1 - http://www.numbeo.com/gas-prices/
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Since when European countries did not accept credit or debit cards?
Django and Rails – another year another comparison
Having moved from Canada to the US, let me note that NFC isn't anywhere close to ubiquitous here (SF Bay Area) yet.

Many banks still issue magstripe-only cards here.

I think the banks here are aiming for a 2016 cut-over.
Very Nice! Did you enter this into the data challenge?

https://github.com/blog/1864-third-annual-github-data-challe...
It is surprisingly difficult to get small and cheap enough solar cells (with high enough voltage) in small/medium volume. And then there's the hassles of rechargeable batteries (safety, shipping).
And of course, what if you lose your item indoors or in a bag or something?
My Whole Foods has had NFC for at least a couple of years, but they just installed new card readers too (the new ones also have NFC).
Just because he espoused capitalism does not mean he was not aware of its weaknesses or did not wish for ways to moderate its excesses.

He spoke about it quite often in Wealth of Nations, and took his concerns much farther in "Moral Sentiments" - which was about the role of morality in moderating this selfishness.
Percentage Fees charged for AmEx in Europe are 100-300% higher for small mom&pop stores, than for Visa/MC. Talked to my local bakery about it recently. They would be charged 5.5% of the bill if the customer used AmEx, but 2% if the customer used Visa.
Show HN: Streaming GitHub Events on a Google Map, in 500 lines of JS
Fair enough. If there were rests of different lengths between the notes, I might have included them. But as you say, the generation model still works, and as computers become more powerful, such perversities will become more common. :)

I look forward to future algorithms that will, on demand, create random but coherent music that closely resembles Mozart, or Beethoven (the string-quartet Beethoven, not the other one :) ) or another composer of the user's choosing. I know some pilot projects like this have been done, but they're not accessible yet.
Yep, let's see how it does :).
with vendor bugs publishing after a timer runs out is a good idea. an alternative is full disclosure, which is where you publish right away. another idea is to keep the bug to yourself and use it as part of a product or service or learning experience, another option is to trade the bug with others, or sell it, or just do nothing.

whole range of options, researchers usually find what they prefer and how they prefer to do it organically and opinions (broadly) tend to shift the longer you have been in the field.
Probably not harder to get, but less popular for sure. They aren't accepted some places that Visa/MC is.
Re #1, you are mostly correct that only philanthropic organizations will accept grants that are explicitly high-risk. But the way it works in practice is that most investigators write a NIH grant with conservative aims, then use the money however they want, including projects they see as high-risk, high-reward.

Re #2, from our previous conversations I know that you and I would both like to see increased funding for aging research. Still, you must agree that there are many ways to treat heart disease, cancer, etc, without addressing the aging connection. To give a simplistic example: the heart is a pump, and you can fix it either by identifying and preventing age-related damage, or simply by repairing or replacing the heart itself, e.g. with an artificial heart.
No, the author does not completely fail to understand the quote. He's casting doubt on the reduction of co-operation to self-interest suggested by Smith—or rather by a simplistic interpretation of Smith—because (the claim goes) there is evidence that studying economics makes people less co-operative. The quote is apropos and there's nothing embarrassing about it.

What's embarrassing are instant middlebrow dismissals of entire research programs because of ideological and tribal identification.

I'm not defending the article's claims and have no idea if they're right, but HN threads can be and need to be better than this.
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I hear you, and my understanding is that this largely depends on the discipline.

In fields like medicine and psychology, the flourishing of classical methods in the 30s and 40s and 50s did lead to a sort of dogmatism about p-values and a disdain for the old "inverse probability" (what we now call Bayesian methods) of the 18th and 19th centuries. These fields seem to be still recovering from this. My impression is that that's where you often find self-styled Bayesian rebels with the faith of the converted.

In areas like radar or image processing or communications or information theory or ad placement or AI in general, I think the field has long had a more nuanced understanding of the underlying decision-theoretic concerns. When you have to win World War II and there is a cost to falsely identifying a Nazi aircraft as Allied, and a cost to falsely identifying an Allied aircraft as Nazi, you develop a notion of an ROC curve pretty quickly. Ditto when you want to talk to a Voyager probe and you're not sure if it just sent a 0 or a 1.

In my view, the Bayesian vs. frequentist "debate" has little to say to these fields. Although for a contrary view, see what Jaynes writes about Shannon in "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science" in the last chapter ("Introduction to communication theory").
Primarily it instilled that love of math, where previously there had been anxiety and ennui. This was sufficient to get me actually complete the work -- and do some extra work for fun -- which was more than enough to get through the math in my university coursework. I didn't get into more advanced maths in university, and for the fields that I've ended up in (and here I need to omit some otherwise too-revealing biographical details), I'm undoubtedly sub-par at mathematics. When it comes to calculation, I'm still definitely slower and more mistake-prone than my colleagues. I attribute this to avoiding mathematics for my first two decades; if math is a language, then I learned it at an age when having a thick accent is unavoidable. I make up for these deficiencies by being much more stubborn than my colleagues -- just hammering away at problems until they're done -- and also having an excellent intuitive grasp of certain domains, which I can then implement via coding rather than formulae. (I learned to code when I was very young, so that's something which I'm much more natively fluent at). After I've solved a problem via intuition and code, I usually try to prove (or at least investigate) it with proper math, to reassure myself that the solution is efficient and correct. That's far slower and more painstaking, but I eventually get there (and nine times out of ten, my intuition was correct). That's probably the wrong way to do things, but it works. I wouldn't be able to have a job where the math necessarily came first, however!
Nailed it! ;-)
I think, You should join Freelancing sites like freelancer.com You can also try fiverr.com,

Alternatively, You can try to write your experience for others like DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean will pay you $100 for per approved article. You can try DigitalOcean here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write

And if you are not interested in writing for others or writing as a freelancer, Why don't you start your own Ruby on Rails tutorial blog. A blog can make you more than $500/month by using Google Adsense or Affiliate Marketing. As a blogger, I believe that, Blogging is the best ideas to make money online and the possibilities are endless. But here, In blogging at first you will have to spend around $50.

Now choice is yours.....
I really wish there was a good javascript implementation of cushioned treemaps (www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/ctm.pdf). The only implementation I've found so far is buried in a firefox plugin that gives a cushioned treemap of reddit comments(https://github.com/titusjan/plottit/blob/master/src%2Fchrome...), but I'd love to have one thats in a general purpose charting library.

There is a 'cargo cult' implementation in jit (https://github.com/philogb/jit/blob/master/Source%2FVisualiz...) - where they just fake some gradients to make pretend cusions, but its definitely not a true cushioned treemap, and adds nothing to the visual interpretation of the hierarchical structure of the data.

I guess I'll probably have to brush up on my JS skills and start blending things together.
"The purpose of this machine is to store backups and media, primarily video"

o_O
ugh, i was really hoping to see some data, not opinions
Try to use Disqus for a while, you can transfer your Wordpress comments to Disqus and use WordPress as your blogging platform.
This university's library doesn't have a single paper book
When people get confused their brains tend to lock up and all their attention gets absorbed trying to figure out what's happening. Any ambiguous statement works. It's especially effective if it's the first thing you say. Now not only do they have to evaluate what you said, but who you are, what your intent is, etc. It's a much higher cognitive burden.

It's a trick that hypnotists use frequently. I think that's what is going on here.

Also interesting is that people will typically draw a conclusion about what you meant, and then become strangely certain that must reflect reality. Despite their confusion just a second ago, they're remarkably confident they've interpreted things accurately and won't even realize that alternate interpretations might exist. It's bizarre and a lot of fun to spot this constantly happening in the wild.
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I'm currently a computer science PhD student (in Canada). I love my job (and the freedom and flexibility it gives me), and my funding is good enough that I have a comfortable living situation, but I (and most of my colleagues) could double our salaries by leaving school and getting a good job in industry. Even if I get an increasingly-rare tenure-track position when I'm done, I will never make up the wage gap with my friends from undergrad who went out and got more traditional jobs.

I love teaching, and I hate fighting with the computer (especially for dull line-of-business CRUD apps), so I don't particularly want an industry job, but the fact that I'm spending most of a decade (counting Master's) in grad school working well below the market wage for someone of my skillset still rankles. The fact that I'm going to spend 3/4 of my PhD taking no courses, but paying $12,000 a year in tuition grates too, as it's essentially a quarter of my salary clawed back for "job training", which in my case is a (very supportive) mentor and a desk in a windowless room - I may as well be a miner in a company town paying the company for pickaxes and head lamps (on the other hand, I also get all the same tax breaks I did in undergrad, so at least I'm not paying income tax).

When I describe my job to friends and family, I describe it as a sort of apprentice professor, because that's much closer to the truth than some sort of super-student. I'd rather be paid like an apprentice professor too, rather than a ramen-eating subsistence wage, as the original poster suggests.
As a tutor, I've found that certain styles of explanations click more intuitively with some students than with others.

Do you have a mechanism to explain this?
no. go away, spammer.
Popping a shell on the Oculus developer portal
creator of the document here, thanks for the reminder. I am going to clean it up asap.
CSP and Transducers in JavaScript
Sliders don't work for me on Safari 7.0.6 & FF 31, Mac OS X 10.9.4
Me too, but I think we'll have to keep waiting. I was one of these people who "thought I had the balls" to use piezo using this chip: http://www.linear.com/solutions/1506
Not only did this not sustain enough current, but taking up more space (doubling the size of my board) also hurt it to the point of it being too clunky (e.g. See linqet http://m.connectedly.com/linquet-review-smart-tracking-devic...)

Believe it or not, BTLE isn't a holy grail for power, batteries are still a better bet when it comes to long life. One method that might work is inductive charging, which is what the pebblebee dragon does (http://www.pebblebee.com/products/bluetooth-dragon). Also notice how big the pebblebee is too- but that's because it has many other sensors.

But yeah, there are several devices in this business, and they are all trying to do a variety of things, and energy harvesting just isn't cutting it at the moment.

I really don't think it's a matter of balls ;P
A no-effort recommendation service on AWS
I rarely use NFC payments for any purchases. If Apple gets into the payment space, I probably will.

The reason they get credit is that people actually use the solutions they provide.
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Embedding Scheme for a game mission scripting DSL
That sucks; my experience in Canada is that the student/employee duality is usually spun to help us - hence, we're university employees in terms of labour protections, but as far as student loan repayment and income tax goes, we're 12-month a year full time students, and most of our income is non-taxable scholarships.
These arguments are not arguments in favour of social login, they are arguments in favour of third party authentication.

OAuth as an authentication method is stupid. Use Persona (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/). Third party auth done right.
The guy walks around with a video camera permanently on recording his life?
I'm no friend of coal and would prefer nuclear to it. I prefer solar to both.

I can't go on at length responding to you - too much time on this thread and only so many hours in life^H^H^H^Hthe day. However, I think you really know the issues but are approaching it from a slightly contrarian tack.

I think it's very fair to say reactors operate on the edge of disaster. But I say that in the same sense that motorcycles operate on the edge of disaster (for the rider). It's the controlled fission of a super critical amount of enriched uranium.

Even if there is a hypothetically perfect reactor, imperfect people with build it, run it, make decisions about it, and design/implement the risk control protocols around it. Just look at a few of the almost infinite examples of human factors mistakes in complex systems: Colgan 3407, Air France 447, Chernobyl, Challenger... I would even be kinder to Fukushim Daiichi because 1) the risk at the site was not as well known at the time of construction 2) there were backup power sources beyond the diesel generators that failed 3) most damage was not preventable after the wave hit whether help was requested or not.

People are the weak link and we're pretty much intrinsic to the process.
I've seen a few papers directed at this exact question, but they've all come to the opposite conclusion. To be fair, these are Economics papers so some level of bias may be in effect, but I believe that at least one of the linked papers goes on to conclude that this is not the case based on experimental trials which showed that while Economics freshmen kept more than people in the Dictator game, seniors in Economics were in line with seniors of other majors and that both gave away more than their freshmen counterparts. I'll see if I can access more of the linked papers later, but it seems like he cites a lot of papers but only actually mentions their conclusions when they agree with his point.
looks like you can find it on http://booksprice.com for about $50
Great project. Would be nice to show/tell us more about it before making us click "Explore". Most people won't give you the courtesy of that first click, and you deserve it!
Ha!
This was the norm at my corp over 10 years ago. Heh.
Hopefully we have a broader debate about these things as a country. While many of the overtly racist laws have been gone since the 60's, racist local policies continue. We should take the chance to look past racism and see the classism evident in Tuscaloosa. Rich people shouldn't segregate themselves from the poor people in their communities any more than white people should segregate themselves from black people. We're all better off when we help each other.
That's often what I see. An estimate roadmap is presented, management expresses that it wants it sooner, the roadmap is "shuffled" and "optimized", it is approved, yet reality still sets in during development :-)
I think tile will come out with an android client seeing how an android engineer is on their careers page.
As a U.S. citizen, I have been extremely confused about why there has been no global response to Ukraine, especially from Europe. You seem to be implying that the EU does not care about Ukraine at all and is only responding to the crisis there to the extent the US is pushing for it (i.e., not very much).

Why not? Surely Europe doesn't want to set a precedent that Russia can foment and fund an "opposition", claim the existence of such an opposition means that the territory it is in should be annexed, and then annex it. I would have expected that Germany of all countries would recognize these tactics for exactly what they are: almost a direct replay of Hitler's pre-WWII tactics. It should be all the more galling because the proximal cause was that Ukraine was too "pro-EU". Yet the EU doesn't lift a finger. AFAICT, Obama doesn't do much because he is more concerned about ISIS, and sees Ukraine as a European problem.
Interesting video with some historical background about the kilogram and that sphere http://youtu.be/ZMByI4s-D-Y
I have a similar capacity solution running at home, though I have far more (fewer disks per) vdevs. I've been running it for a few years now, so some things aren't as optimized as they could be, but it still works well for my uses...

# zpool list
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
lanayru 73.3T 53.7T 19.6T 73% 1.00x ONLINE -

# zpool status
pool: lanayru
state: ONLINE
status: The pool is formatted using a legacy on-disk format. The pool can
still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Upgrade the pool using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done, the
pool will no longer be accessible on software that does not support
feature flags.
scan: scrub repaired 1.58M in 201h47m with 0 errors on Fri Feb 21 13:37:24 2014
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errors: No known data errors

If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to try to answer.
Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends
I really enjoyed Psycho-Pass. A smart an entertaining series. Other than the obvious picks (cowboy beboy et al), any other recommendations for "mature" anime?