skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works for a subset of things, namely those things that can be effectively crowdsourced at small increments. I'd also argue that Wikipedia is heavily indirectly subsidized by academia and government.

Large coherent software products and great works of art are by definition the products of individuals or small teams focusing intensely for long periods of time. That is inherently expensive. Only the independently wealthy or the otherwise subsidized can afford to focus for thousands upon thousands of hours and then give the product away... not unless they have another idea for revenue like freemium, SaaS, etc. (... and those don't work for music, movies, books, etc.)

... and "otherwise subsidized" takes us back to some of the pathologies I mention... propaganda, advertising, etc. driving art and surveillance/manipulation based business models driving software.

Do we really want a future where only trust fund kids and propagandists create art? Do we really want a future where software is created exclusively to monetize its users?

The Wikipedia model can only work for everything in a true post-scarcity society where the marginal cost of everything is zero and everyone can live with no real "income." Until someone finds a way to draw unlimited energy from the quantum vacuum, we are stuck with some form of economy where everything I said applies.

Another way of thinking about the pirate economy is as a deflationary spiral in which monetary velocity collapses and all kinds of pathologies emerge from that. Deflationary spirals are actually really great for uber-capitalists that already own lots of rentier assets, but they're bad for workers, entrepreneurs, and other non-rentiers. Sound familiar?
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ELI5 "what is a deep link?": mobile deep links mean registering custom URI schemes for your app, and registering a URL dispatcher within your app. The end result is that users can be sent directly to a specific page of content within your app. For example,

spotify:artist:0X2BH1fck6amBIoJhDVmmJ

...will take you to the in-app version of this experience:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0X2BH1fck6amBIoJhDVmmJ

The intuition is that sending users to in-app content is preferable to web content; IMHO, this is especially important for apps that have rich content or have logged-in functionality.

Example of a bad experience for apps that don't use deeplinks: have you ever clicked on a LinkedIn email on your mobile device and landed on a sign-in page in your mobile browser? If they used deeplinks, you're probably already signed into your LinkedIn app and wouldn't need to go digging for your password. This has been a common pain point in people we've talked to.

As a developer, allowing your app to be indexed will make it easier for other developers to send you traffic. Currently, we believe that the limiting factor preventing a "link graph" from existing across apps, is the challenge developers face in discovering how to find (a) which pieces of content are relevant to a page within your app, and (b) how to contruct a deep link URL to send users to those pieces of content.
Not only does fact-checking take longer than blindly clicking "share", fact checkers are vastly outnumbered by blind-sharers. Of course the former is probably a big influence on the latter.

One of the things that really impresses me about Facebook lately is how often the first "suggested article" link under a bogus story is another story debunking it. If only more people paid attention...
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I don't see how lowering the barrier to entry (access to tech) has any impact on the "rich getting richer".
Oh come on, that's a far more childish attitude than any of RMS's eccentricities. Do you really think he travels around and gives talks because he's lazy, or because he's long recognized that it's the best way he can contribute to his goals of promoting free software?

Because if you'd ask me which I'd rather be doing, travelling around and giving talks, or being at home and coding, I'd pick my home and my neighborhood and my routine, every day of the week.
yep. very much agree!
You are protecting your private information in cloud A from company B. I can trust different groups with different information without giving them all access to the whole set.
The client is still Chrome, though.
I think the platform is good. It's simple and easy to read. The content is just RSS stuff so try to add something interesting. Checkout https://www.zublim.com. They are working really hard on getting quality content that's not just murders rapes and wars. But I think your layout is better. Without good original content nobody will use it.
I cross-post tweets to FB with this app: https://apps.facebook.com/twitter/. I wish it had a way not cross-post everything, i.e. with a #nofb tag, but my volume isn't high enough that that's a concern.
Alas, I am on iOS. And while a shared clipboard app is a great improvement, I would prefer this in the OS itself. Use the normal copy feature, and Cmd+V has that thing on my laptop.
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And not all of us have super-reliable constantly-available mobile broadband.

Here in Aberdeen, when I walk down the street, it varies from HSDPA to GPRS. There's occasionally University WiFi, but that only helps if I'm near a University building. This access is far from constant or consistently speedy.
Defiant Julian Assange says he's 'pretty hard to kill' [video]
Signs are on it: http://www.eircode.ie/business/become-a-provider . With enough public support it should be possible to undermine this, though. You could either ask people to submit their EirCodes to OpenStreetMap (and perhaps send them confirmation codes by post), or try to get them to write their 10:10 code http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/1010-code.html (or something similar) as their postcode instead.
+4 gives you something like a block face. A five-digit zip can be much of a square mile even in a built-up city.
That's true, but let's be honest. He'll likely have thousands of opportunities to build a CRUD website after he graduates. You rarely have the time/freedom you do when you're in school. take advantage, and do something that's more interesting/risky/disruptive.
I can't help but see it from the other perspective: if I disable cellular data and location services, I can randomize my MAC address on my iOS device? Awesome! (As long as it works over Wi-Fi...)
That's what I thought. And regardless of the manual steps required, it makes the stance of "nobody uses macs as web servers" completely untenable.
Most people don't suspect they're being lied to, they're no less likely to research a factual article than one that is complete bullshit. The simple reason rumors are shared more often is that rumors are usually more interesting.
1) They are not, really. You can get free DV certs from StartSSL. Other types of certs do cost money because issuing them involves real work. I don't know how else to explain it. Go look at the list of things a CA has to do to be considered trustable by the major root store operators (operating system vendors, browser makers). It's not trivial.

2) The original reason was because it was assumed (correctly) that due to hardware improvements keys that were previously strong would become weak. So it was supposed to encode a length of time after which the cert owner would be forced to re-evaluate key strength. Nowadays the browser makers are tending to lean on CAs to push expiry times downwards so they expire quicker, the reason being that updating the SSL ecosystem often requires new features or changes in certificates, and if certs can last 5 years then it means a full upgrade takes 5 years, whereas if certs expire after one year then one year after deployment begins everyone is updated. Pretty big difference. It's for this reason that EV certs are specced to expire after a year: it means standards can be revved quicker.
Rather aggressive, but I agree. I deleted my profile 2 years ago, got back few more minutes of my daily life, and read more books.

I am still on GPlus since it doesn't have any noise (and going by the trend, it's not likely to replace facebook anytime soon) - only tech oriented people use it, and I am fine with it.
NYU's law school has been an elite institution for some time. The same is true of the philosophy and Italian studies departments.
The most important thing about this system ( I guess after the question of whether it succeeds or not ) is whether or not the information is freely available or whether the public get screwed like with the UK post codes?
> without being able to support any of it with even a glimpse of detail.

I'm sorry, but you're just not getting it. I don't take issue with Scala's choice of square brackets over angled brackets. I take issue with the language philosophy and combined set of features. Here are the most detailed details: too many features, many of them overlapping (traits, structural types); too much complexity (type system, implicits); less readable; not enough constraints (e.g. immutability not enforced, casts allowed everywhere). That's as detailed as it gets. All in all, it came out benefits << cost. That's it.

Either you don't want to understand or you think that when Boeing wants to write some big aircraft software thingy they say, "hmmm., the type inference is insufficient for our needs", or, "if only we had non-strict evaluation...". Because that's not how it works. In the industry languages are evaluated as a whole based on the project's criteria, with all their combined benefits weighed against their combined costs. This is what we've done. Scala came out lacking: too much overall cost for too little overall benefit. It was too complicated, too unconstraining, too unreadable, and too difficult to upgrade and build. What more do you want?

> "not a version which would give any useful information to judge Scala today"

No, I'm sorry, but you're just plain wrong! I gave up on Scala some years ago, but I can still tell its evolution has been in the opposite direction from what we wanted. Since then the language has become even bigger, more complex, more obtuse (collections) and even less constraining (macros). Even if the build and upgrade issues are better, the PL research philosophy is still there and its effects are only worse than they were some years ago.
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Yeah, they all seem to be really old. Perhaps a simple thing like this would be possible to pull off with Jekyll.
It's interesting and probably not surprising that the most popular drug on the Silk Road 2.0 (and probably other darknet marketplaces) is MDMA. MDMA is difficult to find in pure forms and impurities can kill you. If you buy MDMA from a vendor with a 4.9/5 rating, you can be reasonably certain you're getting quality product (comparable to old pressed pills you can hear aging ravers wax nostalgic about) at a fair price.

I expect marijuana legalization will eat away at darknet marketplace weed sales, leaving MDMA and LSD as the top two. Which is exactly how it should be. They can be made in large quantities by moderately-skilled chemists to a high degree of purity and safety, and the Silk Road allows them to be distributed without any violence. It'd be impossible to bulk-search the mail for them. MDMA could be packaged as any white powder and LSD is literally paper.

I hope that this safe availability of MDMA and LSD quenches the misinformation campaigns that have so horribly marred their reputation for the public. Both of them have incredible potential for therapeutic and recreational use.
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It bugs me a bit that "many eyes" took on a security connotation to begin with. That doesn't seem to have been the original claim - it didn't strike me as such when I originally read CatB, and revisiting I can see a way to give it a strong reading but it still doesn't seem to be the sense intended. "Many eyes" in the sense I read it starts once someone notices that there is a bug - for which audit is tremendously better suited than use or casual perusal when it comes to security issues.
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Taken as a whole, the article says, "We don't really know what would happen." And while absolute certainty seems unlikely in an area as complex as ecology, it also seems foolhardy at best to act on the kind of (understandably) flimsy knowledge we now possess.
The Amazonian Apocalypse: Xen Server reboots are a harbinger of things to come
Yes, but doesn't this distort the visualization?

Not only does the darkness of the hexagon increase with the density, but the area of the screen that is covered.

Moreover, the hexagon immediately to the north is obscured, so the data there is lost.
I don't think I'm objectively correct, and I struggle with the balance between peppering around a bunch of "I think"s and "in my opinion"s and just writing what I think directly and hoping people can tell that it's just my opinion.

Since that didn't work, I'll be more explicit: in my opinion, an unfamiliar operator is usually both a terse and a bad name.
"Build the cool stuff later."
Later becomes until I have dont need to pay the bills.
Then it becomes until my kids get older.
Then it becomes until I'm retired.
Then it becomes until I'm out of my deathbed.
> MDMA is difficult to find in pure forms and impurities can kill you. If you buy MDMA from a vendor with a 4.9/5 rating

Could this be selection bias? If you're dead you can't give a bad rating?
False rumors are able to spread throughout a large population before being debunked. Corrections, however, are only really able to spread to people who previously saw the rumor. Furthermore, many people who shared the rumor may be less likely to share the correction, since it makes them look gullible for sharing the unverified rumor in the first place. So it's much harder for a correction to spread virally.

If there were a system in place so that false rumors could be debunked in real-time, in-line (as opposed to using a separate retroactive correction), they would be less likely to spread as far. The closest thing I can think of would be something like Genius.
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WTF. According to a quick calculation 23% of the whole index of today ships from The Netherlands...
Do you have a separate (admin) account that's linked to a Windows account? Because I think that's the way around it, maintaining 2 accounts
Try Banckle Email. They offer a free plan with custom domain support, IMAP/POP3 and web client - plus APIs if you fancy using their service in your app.
To employees of Tibco - as with any private equity buyout, Vista's goal is to shed the weight, reduce expenses, and streamline the company and then sell it for a higher price later. What that means for you is that your company will most likely be moved to Texas, as is what happened when Vista bought my last company this year. They will also slowly lay off workers every few months, and morale will most likely drop. So get out those resumes.
> They're getting pretty good though at predicting intent.

Yes, by tracking you to other sites - you know the sites you thought were not facebook.
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I find this slightly embarrassing. It's also broken. For example, I switched from my old account 6 months ago and it's still in the top 30.

The main reason we haven't done anything about it is that it's not clear what to do. For example, we could make it use a shorter time window than "forever"—but do we really want to gamify karma further? I doubt it.
Legalized weed might eat away, but if the market is anything like Colorado, it's too expensive vs dark weed. It's so bad in fact that there are projected budget shortfalls because there are few consumers in the space.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/high-times/marijuana-prices-co...
http://khon2.com/2014/04/09/colorado-tax-revenue-on-recreati...
Tor has been exploited in the past in ways which only affected those who kept JavaScript enabled [1]. I actually love JavaScript, and the doors it can open for trustworthy developers, but I don't think a deep cover journalist or whistleblower should be browsing with it.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-old-t...
The only buck(s) I made on the web in 2014 was writing some Arduino code on spec for someone who was having trouble getting his head around a few concepts.

Initial code took about 1/2 hour and I charged a bit over $100. Don't remember exactly how much.

I then spent hours writing emails (on top of the documentation I supplied) explaining things as he tried to add functionality on his own :-(
Sorry I've answered that for myself. And the answer is....

The government is supporting a new closed monopoly service! Congratulations "Capita Business Support Services Ireland".
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Thanks for your comment.

Pastec only allows to recognize images. You provide reference images with their corresponding unique integer identifiers. Pastec extracts features for each reference image and stores them in its database.

When you perform a request, Pastec compare the features of the request image with the ones stored in the index. If it detects that the request image is similar enough to one or more images of the index, then it returns their identifiers.

You can for example use Pastec to recognize DVD, CD or Book covers in a mobile app.

Currently, it does not allow to extract text from images.
The documentation indeed needs improvements. I will work on it.

I Hope I answered your questions!
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USPS forwards mail for 12 months, not 30 days (the exception being magazines - you get 60 days for them)
Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Moo.do!

> What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header?

Sharing and collaboration works at a document level. I have a separate document if I need to collaborate with someone on a unique topic and have multiple top-level headers in a single document for broad organization within a single topic.

> How are notifications in the app (ios) incorporated. Do they notify based on "@date time" of item?

Each item that specifies a time of day using ‘@date time’ will get a notification 30 minutes before it is due. Items that do not have an exact time mentioned (like 3:00pm) will not cause a notification. [This is not currently working on iOS 8 and we have an update waiting for review.]

> How might this be used as a notepad. It seems like a big aspect of it is the crossing-off of items?

We’ve tried to keep the app as close to just editing text as possible. You can type like you would in Notepad or a Word/Google document with no problems. All of our features are there if you would like to use them but will stay out of your way if you don’t.

> Does @tomorrow turn into @today in the document when a day has passed. Same w/ @today to @yesterday etc?

Yes - we rollover dates that change meaning as the current day change. If you want to ‘pin’ an item to stay visible to you, you could set a priority on the item or mark it as @now or @soon.

We have plans to add additional sources of contacts (and other services) to the app. Having first and third party plugins for adding content and viewing data in different ways is a big part of our goal.
NaCl is very much alive, much to my chagrin (I hate Google's pushing of proprietary stuff like NaCl, it's like Microsoft with ActiveX a decade or so ago).

However, I suspect Adobe are unwilling to port Photoshop to NaCl.
PO boxes require that you pick up your mail from a different location.

Person codes would allow to-your-door delivery without compromising privacy.
Aren't these all issues with the current system also?

I mean if someone has two addresses which one do you deliver to? Right now they manually decide, in this "system" they would just set up their default person routing to either one.

Homeless people would likely get a code, but realistically delivering to them might be difficult with no fixed address. But that is also true today. In both systems they could get a PO Box.

I guess, it won't solve either scenario any better than the current system, but it doesn't make the situation worse either...

As for businesses, there's no reason a business entity couldn't get a code and set the routing however they wished. Just treat them like "individuals."
Feels like a bug. Any technical reason why this wouldn't be doable with all antennas firing?
Part of the problem was due to the Django package we used to interface with the Postgres search, it wasn't designed to handle large tables. I don't recall how long the index took to build (hours? a day?), but the queries themselves were slow due to their complexity and ranking using ts_rank.
You would effectively create a personal identification number. If the post office guarantees that every person (not household) has one businesses will start to rely on it for any identification.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number_...
"The number is an integral part of Danish society, and it is virtually impossible to receive any form of government service without one. Even in the private sector one would be hard pressed to receive services without such a number, unless it is minor daily business."
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The closest I've found so far is this person[1] Transisto asserting that they specifically said this. I remember hearing it and I have no reason to doubt Transisto; he is clearly a person you can trust (and at least in this forum thread, nobody came and said he was wrong.)

[1]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110290.msg1202262#ms...
Such a formal comparison may exist somewhere, but I can summarize the key differences between Mathematica and Sage, two tools I'm familiar with.

Sage relies on Python, Mathematica relies on a proprietary language.

Mathematica can do a number of things that Sage can't do, but Sage has a wider array of mathematical tools and environments bundled with it (and Sage is a big package -- 4.4 GB installed). Sage includes a number of specialized packages for research and scientific mathematics beyond the most often used functions and packages.

Sage can perform the usual symbolic math operations -- solve equations, derive, integrate, produce many kinds of symbolic and numerical results. Mathematica can solve more cases in the same domains.

Sage is free. Mathematica presently costs $2,745 for the default, single-seat license.

Sage: http://www.sagemath.org/

My Sage tutorial: http://www.arachnoid.com/sage

Mathematica: http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/industry-individu...
Right. I don't remember whether I said it in the talk, but that demo saturates the AGP bus, meaning that the engine can extract and write scene data at about 1.5 to 2 GB/Sec.

It's possible to put a lot more static content in each frame by uploading the vertex data to the card just once. That feature is on my to-do list.
Rumors outrace truth, online or not; an observation allegedly made over 100 years ago by Mark Twain long before DARPA got a bright idea about networking: “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/76-a-lie-can-travel-half-wa...
There are other rules this is breaking. https://dev.twitter.com/overview/terms/rules-of-the-road

You must:

4. not arrange for your Service to be pre-installed on any device, promoted as a “zero-rated” service, or marketed as part of a specialized data plan.

5. not frame or otherwise reproduce significant portions of the Twitter service. You should display Twitter Content from the Twitter API.
That's not surprising. The Netherlands have a long history of producing quality XTC / MDMA and are one of the biggest XTC exporting countries worldwide. Furthermore, given the relaxed weed legislation a lot of marijuana is produced here.