skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blaming U2, or shifting a sizable chunk of the blame to U2, seems like Apple apologist talk.

It just doesn't sound like Bono and The Edge (does he capitalize the "The"?) to sit around and discuss the nuance of forced installs vs a free download. I doubt they would be so insecure in their place in pop history to "force" one group of specific technology users to download their album.

My personal theory is that Tim Cook wanted to have something that was "his" in keeping the iPhone as part of the cultural zeitgeist and not just another really good smart phone. Steve had his pursuit of the Beatles , Tim has his "gift" of U2.
Chinese printnet! XD

EDIT:

Stupid comment... Brother Industries is actually a Japanese company. Learn something new every day.
This looks fantastic for an idea I've been kicking around: Using BitTorrent as a way for clients to upload multi-gigabyte files to a website without using FTP.

The idea is to leverage BitTorrent's robustness in the face of random disconnections and reconnections as well as the easy-to-use throttling options that most clients expose.

The server would run a special BitTorrent client that never seeds, to prevent malicious users from using the server as a gateway to redistribute content.

So, rather than the traditional cloud of people seeding and leeching, the only participants would be one client seeding, and the server leeching. Once the transfer completes, the user could disconnect and the torrent would cease to exist.
If ISIS Is Not Islamic, Then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic
The earlier thread on this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8318652, was (appropriately) flagged by users. But it did have a judicious top comment.
What a coincidence. This was posted just as I was at the weekly "journal club" on human behavior genetics at the University of Minnesota with two researchers who used to be associated with Washington University in St. Louis (the source of the press release kindly submitted here). Genetic research on schizophrenia has been going on for a long time, and one of the WUSTL researchers I know locally[1] has been conducting that research since the year I was born. Experienced researchers on schizophrenia have always suspected that the finding announced in the press release headline is the correct description of reality, but it has taken a long time to do enough careful genetic research to be sure of multiple genotypes that all lead to the same clinical set of phenotypes that can be described as schizophrenia in current diagnostic categorization.

As other comments suggest, research along this line may eventually lead to more effective interventions for treating or even preventing schizophrenia. We already know (links below) that schizophrenia does have a very strong component of genetic risk, yet every once in a while identical (monozygotic) twins brought up in the same household are discordant for schizophrenia, so plainly some "environmental" risks matter too. It will be good to continue the research program on this devastating illness.

AFTER EDIT: Irving Gottesman is looking forward to reading the journal article by his former colleagues at WUSTL. Of course a preliminary finding like this will have to be replicated in other data sets to become part of established scientific knowledge. Then the hard work of matching treatments to patient genome patterns will begin.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4661802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663622

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069518
Good call! Macbook Pros are excellent and OS X is a fantastic OS.
Another excerpt was posted on Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-how-to-create-inn...
I wonder if there is a long-term strategy behind it, and this is a first step towards getting consumers to accept content being pushed onto their devices. Ads, basically. By giving away a new album, they get consumers to think of pushed content as something good, as free stuff.

Perhaps next time it will be only half of the album. Or the tracks will only play 5 times before they're removed again.
This is very very impressive. Stable dynamic gates over even moderately bumpy terrain are Hard. Jumping is also hard and the last company to get a solid electrically powered robot to jump for bought by Google. The tricky thing though is heat. If they aren't doing active cooling then the robot will only have a few minutes of runtime. In contrast to some other commentors I think if they wanted this guy to move smoothly they could do so with this hardware, instead however they are aiming for speed.
My sister is into the next thing beyond homeschooling: unschooling. You are just exposing a stereotype (as she does). My father is into gardening. I am not. Why on earth is it bad to find something you like and stick with it (being obsessed for months?!?... why not let them be into sth they like for years!). Who do you think you are to decide for s/w else based on your guts feeling? IT/Software isn't bad. But people have been believing strange things any time in history and influenced others (with deep, sincere and honest conviction).

I hope your kids just turn out to be fine with it. You are betting on them that they are just like you.

I hope that the ones that get badly affected by your good intension can forgive you (for your strong believes)
All of this is exactly what I was meaning to say with my initial comment.

Current models are fuzzy, but in the absence of better information they are the best we can do, and they are useful.
No, you are not buying what they are offering. They are offering a ticket on certain conditions, which include not doing this. If you do not accept those conditions then you are not allowed to buy the ticket.
I just checked this because it seemed odd to me, and on my phone, I can go to My Library -> Songs -> 3 dot menu next to the song -> Delete.

With the web interface you can mass delete as well.

Edit: I also don't recall getting any free pop stuff, maybe it's related to having the

"Keep me up to date with news and offers from Google Play Music All Access"

option unchecked in my settings?
there you go
https://github.com/fogleman/Craft

clean re implementation
How is this different from twemproxy[1]?

EDIT: Looks like instead of using distinct ports to delineate separate clusters like twemproxy, it uses key prefix routing. It also supports "replicated pools", and a few other fancy/neat things. Interesting!

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
This article is not technically accurate.

Most importantly, the distinction between virtual-memory stacks and copying stacks is incorrect: if the process uses more stack space than it has physical RAM, it is going to (try to) swap, whether virtual or copying.
Apple should have realized how personal music choices are for a lot of people. Shockingly aggressive move on their part.

On the upside I got another episode of 'U Talkin' U2 to Me?'
They didn't actually say they didn't monitor Tor tho. :/

That is why I'm kinda amused by the positive posts.

They said they don't monitor people's browsers and http connections. TOR wouldn't look like that at all to them. Its a lie of omission. They clearly monitor Torrents, etc.
That's close to what is really hard about D3, but not quite it. The hard part is that after you construct a D3 expression there's no guidance on how best to call it again with different data (e.g. new data that will trigger the enter, update, exit portions of the expression).

The other tricky part is that the D3 expression itself is almost never enough to yield a usable visualization - and yet tutorials spend a lot of time is spent building that expression as if it was. The real complexity of D3 is dominated by everything other than that core D3 expression: the helper functions, designing for dynamic data, and so forth.

You see this a lot, when a teacher breezes through the hard stuff and then spends a huge amount of time on what is obvious. It would be like taking a general relativity class and the teacher spends 5 minutes on the theory and the balance of class on how to take derivatives of continuous functions.
Sure, I'll bite.

Many people who homeschool do so for religious reasons. The (comparative) isolation from their peers, combined with the tighter control they have over their children's experiences, makes it possible for them to "force" their children to believe in their religion.

Many don't object to this because of the religion itself; it's the fact that the parents are "abusing" their power to keep their kids from making their own choices.

Also, this isn't really a stereotype, but phrases like "eating the fruits of their labor" sound almost Amish. They homeschool, too.
Eh. If you leave hydrogen alone for long enough, it will turn into tramadol.
Narcotics will serve as catalysts for the symptoms. If they're present, they'll manifest themselves organically, regardless.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~ Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Jonathan Swift, or some other person who said things good.

Whoever said it, they said it before the dawn of the internet. What was once a figurative embellishment is now the literal truth. This story was almost everywhere on social media before any of the high level people at Comcast had the chance to put their shoes on and show up at work on Monday morning to comment on it.
airlines will cancel your ticket if you don't get on the plane for the first leg
Comcast is really that terrible. And yes, that is why things like http://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate exist.
I like this quote from Gruber:

"It’s almost impossible to overstate just how big a deal Minecraft is for my son and his friends." [1]

My son is 8, and he and his friends are CONSUMED by the game. I wonder how Microsoft is going to leverage this fact for reaching new users...

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/07/25/minecraft
Science Fiction Prepares World for Future Technology
Man, remember back when the web had stuff that was just... you know...fun?

Not monetized, not ad-driven, not commercialized, not social--just people dicking around and having a good time?
https://imgur.com/a/SMb74
Sort of.

Its important to note that there is a difference between what they restrict in the way of internet traffic, and what they sponsor in terms of allowing access to specific content over the internet.

The services that you log into via your Comcast account (I use HBO Go, HGTV, NBC Live Extra...) are provided by an agreement between the content provider and the carrier. They aren't stopping you from using HBO Go on a Roku with their internet service, and your friend with FiOS can hook his Roku up and watch shows at your house over your Xfinity connection.
Yes you are right. The website is meant as a landing page for an event. But yeah, I should make the game mode more obvious and straight forward to get to.
It'll show up in your Purchases list in the iTunes Store though. You can download it from there. At least I'm pretty sure that's how I got it. IIRC clicking the "Purchased" button actually took you there.
The Windows, Mac and Linux are the same version.
Which OS Is Best for Your Project–CentOS, Ubuntu or Debian?
Definitely not this. HBO has written an app specifically for the Roku. As far as I can tell, Comcast is the only provider who disallows access to the Roku version of the app.

I can use the HBO Android app with Comcast just fine and push to a Chromecast, but not the Roku.

It's a ridiculous situation, Comcast is intentionally blocking Roku while HBO is embracing it.
I'll have to read the article to really understand what the authors have found out, but judging from the summary the advance is dividing the huge number of genes linked to schizophrenia into 8 groups of genes that associate or interact more closely than with other related genes.

In many ways, this isn't surprising. It's been evident that many genes have been linked to psychiatric disorders, but no "smoking guns" are evident, usually a gene accounts for <2% of the variance, and dozens or hundreds of genes have some influence.

So it's logical that it takes a cluster of many genes contributing something to have enough effect to be clinically apparent. How genes interact is an enormously complicated matter, and perhaps an even bigger question is the role of gene-environment interaction.

One thing to track is with the multitude of genes shown to be clustering, an important element is how "tight" the clustering is. I anticipate we'll find out as it's investigated further that overlap among clusters is significant, that is, "blends" or mixed/intermediate types are probably common. Certainly in the real world there are seldom pure cases of any condition, the boundaries tend to be fuzzy.

Not that the article implies at all that the new work gives "answers", but with any luck, it will lead to new insights, shed light on the astonishingly complex processes, and clues to making progress. Just expect the path will have many more twist and turns on the way there.
Did Mathjax just become obsolete?
"Comcast doesn’t monitor our customer’s browser software, web surfing or online history."
That would imply that they don't even have a log of what requests are passing through their system. I find that extremely hard to believe.
The DSM is hokey for sure. In fact, Thomas Insel, the director of the NIMH (one of the groups providing funding for this study) railed against it last year. The NIMH will not be funding studies based on DSM conditions. Rather:

> That is why NIMH will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories. Going forward, we will be supporting research projects that look across current categories – or sub-divide current categories – to begin to develop a better system. What does this mean for applicants? Clinical trials might study all patients in a mood clinic rather than those meeting strict major depressive disorder criteria. Studies of biomarkers for “depression” might begin by looking across many disorders with anhedonia or emotional appraisal bias or psychomotor retardation to understand the circuitry underlying these symptoms. What does this mean for patients? We are committed to new and better treatments, but we feel this will only happen by developing a more precise diagnostic system. The best reason to develop RDoC is to seek better outcomes.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

I wonder if the results seen here are a result of this change in strategy?
Yes that's what I'm saying, "unless humans want it to" still qualifies as natural. Humans are natural and a part of nature and so anything they create is as well.

If a beehive or beaver dam is considered natural then so is the empire state building, all three were created by animals native to this planet.
Agreed. "Organic" is pretty widely abused, too - want to drink some crude oil? It's organic...
Christie officials gave millions in public funds to VC firm
anyone know who shot the ad/video for Android One?
Eh?

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-June/02...

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/six-steps-nsa-attack-tor/

Yes they can tell if you use TOR. TOR is like a VPN, it can be detected but it doesn't tell the ISP what you are doing while you use it.
anyone know who shot the ad/video for this?
Not bad, but MathJax is also pretty fast:

https://trinket.io/latex/788599bf30
Please edit or delete this comment. It's stretching the page.
Silicon Valley Has Taken on Too Much Risk, Gurley Says
They get paid $0.10 for each "page view" (and a "page view" is an estimate of how many 8.5"x11" paper pages would have been required to show the content) and they still can't be fucked to keep the archive online. Incredible.
I normally would take a cynical approach and agree that gaming reddit is that easy.

But when my fairly conservative parents hate a company enough to desire government regulation against them... That company truly must be that horrible.
How much money will notch make from the Mojang sale (funny)
My mistake to point out, it is the best selling PC game of all time.
Thanks for the tip! It appears you have to remove them song by song. I was trying to do it per artist/album. Song by song is a huge pain in the ass. Especially when they've added literally dozens of albums to my library for free.
In Quasar[1] -- a library that adds true fibers (just like Go's goroutines) to the JVM -- we've decided to go with copying stacks as well (this is the current, and original, implementation). Of course, Java doesn't have pointers into the stack, so there's no need to fix any pointers when copying, and the implementation can be in pure Java.

[1]: https://github.com/puniverse/quasar
Tramadol recently became more regulated as a controlled substance and now requires patients to jump through more hoops (pain management visits, drug tests, etc.) to obtain. Source: Family member on Tramadol and http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20140818/NEWS08/140...
Well, in that case, you probably bought this onto yourself.
What mistakes did the developer of Destiny make?
Or Malaysian for that matter.

No but seriously, I think most people will understand the function of the word dead in "dead simple".
It's sad to read that he would abandon something that gets traction. It doesn't really make sense.

For indie game developers, this story is kinda sad, that's all. To see a lone dev exiting through the back door like that, it is kinda discouraging.
This may be kind of a dumb question, but does Go use the stdlib C stack or are they talking about their own stack?

I'm assuming that Go has a standard / vanilla / kernel aware C-style stack living somewhere right? Then the stack they are referring to is part of their run time environment...which is actually allocated on the heap somewhere.

This is all so meta. :)
I think nothing short of a meteor impact could affect sales. But Apple seems to be taking some risks here with its image. It's real easy to seem uncool if you're bungling a marketing campaign and imposing a dad album on everyone, in a way they find intrusive.

And it's a bad idea to seem uncool right before you launch a very expensive line of fashion accessories. All it took was one photo of showering Scoble to forever make Google glasses radioactive.
Still, there is something nice about a chemical appearing in nature. Gives evidence that it doesn't do batshit crazy things to life.
Apple releases one-click tool to delete the U2 album you didn't want
> decide that the ID should be genericized so it can be anything

You say that, but you probably don't actually do it. If it truly could "be anything" then you would not be able to do anything to it. This is the nature of polymorphism.

So instead, your algorithm constrains the polymorphism based on what you need. If you make use of the properties {small, bit-shiftable, sized, bounded, copy-safe} then you must prove (exactly and only) that whatever the generic variable gets instantiated to satisfies {small, bit-shiftable, sized, bounded, copy-safe}.

Indeed, this is part of how such a system prevents bugs---it forces you to express exactly how much information about the types involved is needed. You can thus reflect better on the kinds of contracts/laws things must uphold and are prevented from accidentally making use of a property of your concrete type which you do not demarcate.

In a truly expressive language you might write

foo : forall id n .
(Bits id, Size id = n, n <= 1024)
=> id -> {Copy id} id

to indicate all of those properties needed (bounded being subsumed by constraining the size)

Today, you can get promises very similar to the above by using a language like Cryptol[0].

[0] https://galois.com/project/cryptol/
I love that he took the time to explain his (deep) perspective to you and all you've got is "you've used TL;DR inappropriately." That's at least a ten minute comment for a fast typist with proofreading, and I could soak a half hour into a comment of that length pretty easily with edits.

The least you could do is acknowledge his point.
Example with “The Rise And Fall Of The Dreamcast” (multiple pages): http://justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamas...

Original: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132517/the_rise_and_fa...

Awesome tool!
What's being used for the connecting dots in the background? Is there a library somewhere I can use?
I think its stupid they did that, but then I do remember widespread use of "Tromol" in Moscow. People would take it in high doses and veg out for days at a time.
Definitely. I just re-read my post and it's obvious I let my thoughts wander way too much for a TL;DR.
So, no organisation took samples of these trees/seeds to cultivate and study elsewhere and wondered why they weren't getting the same results!?
What does this decision, vetted by dozens of executives I imagine and definitely by Cook himself say about our Cloud-ified technological lives?

Its just crazy to me that they can just throw music into your collection without even asking for permission. There's something really arrogant about Apple right now. I'm not sure what other word could possibly describe this.

What boggles my mind even more is that U2, for all its popularity, is a poorly aging nostalgia act. Heck, I'm an old Gen-X'er and I barely remember their heyday with the Joshua Tree. Tweens and Millenials probably only see them as a band their parents listened to. There's really something off-putting about this. If it was Kanye or something, I could see the appeal, as he's popular now and has a wide-range of fans, but U2? We've long outgrown stale classic rockers and music popularity is very much not this monolithic structure anymore. If anyone should know this, you'd think the guys who run iTunes would.
I recommend Dune2000, it has a similar feel to Dune2 and a much more modern interface.
Exactly, cyanobacteria are also natural as is tobacco. One can synthesize many natural products in purer and safer forms.
I guarantee they aren't thinking about the semiconductors in the LEDs, either. They love it because its a system with logical rules that they can experiment on and learn. It's the learning process itself that's the important part, not what specifically they are learning about.
Opt out. Just opt out, every single time.

I've flown every month this year, sometimes multiple times. I opt out every single time.

More irritating is the randomness of metal detectors vs. scanners. It's the luck of the draw.
On the plus side, I get a lot of hits from people looking for porn who instead get news. :)

[Edit -- Comment above, now deleted, suggested that using "nude" in the title will result in fewer hits because of Web filters.]
Since when was it proven that the leaks were due to iCloud vulnerabilities? There were a lot of allegations, sure, but no hard evidence. If someone guesses your GMail password and leaks your mail - was it a GMail leak?
Great quote!
Cyanide occurs naturally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide#In_nature
Canon printer hacked to run Doom video game
> If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.

This is the part of the post that bothers me, especially in the context of 0x10c which seemed to follow that exact track. Its his life obviously, I just wonder what awesome stuff won't be made because Minecraft made him wealthy enough that he didn't need to worry about being productive anymore.
Not quite yet, but we're working on it. There are some significant features that KaTeX doesn't yet support, but we're working to add them in the near future.

In the meantime, you could use our TeX React component to use KaTeX when possible, and fall back to MathJax only when necessary: http://khan.github.io/react-components/#tex
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7410260
It's not proven, but honestly, that doesn't matter. This is all about public perception. If it feels like Apple did something wrong, they might as well have, at least as far as their PR response ought to be concerned.
Now that we've got Bash.org back, what will it take to get Randall Munroe to restart LimericksDB?
Because no naturally occurring substances do batshit crazy things to life? It's all about the dosage.