skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if one can't get relevant serach results through search engines, then the law served its purpose. Other concerned parties can't really do any harm to those who wanted to be forgotten. I mean, do you still remember any of those people's name? Even if you do, what can you do to them?

The thing is, Google removes results only on its European sites, like google.co.uk, people can still get results from google.com. Plus, news sites keep recording those removal requests (informed by Google), which could turn people to use those news sites as alternative search engines. I think these made the law pointless.

Edit: spellings.
Yes, the NSA has boasted of having a surveillance "partnership" with U.S. companies, but those would be telecommunications carriers -- AT&T, Verizon, etc., not Silicon Valley firms:
http://www.cnet.com/news/surveillance-partnership-between-ns...

Also look at the sworn affidavit that EFF obtained from local SF bay area whistleblower Mark Klein -- an AT&T technician who revealed the existence of the NSA's fiber taps at the 2nd & Folsom Street SF facility.

There is no such entity as "major American industry." There are different companies with different incentives and different willingnesses to protect their users. Some companies do the right thing; others don't.
I'd say its multi-line approach makes it quite unique when compared to, say, sed or awk.
Likely parts of both. If they want human involvement (like the government will probably eventually request), the bureaucracy's budget can pay for it.
The biggest mistake is using AngularJS. Been there, done that.
>Don't forget that TACC and friends are supported by taxpayers

Dear Lord no. Keep it to yourself please. The less my neighbors know about it, the better. If they find out their tax dollars are being spent on that instead of something to do with the border, or catching drug smugglers, they'll holler from now until the next season of Duck Dynasty distracts them.
I agree that consciousness and sentience are likely just emergent phenomena, but that doesn't necessarily make them any less "real".

Consciousness and awareness are already used as a determining factor of life and whether it is ethical to kill an organism. For example, look at the case of a brain dead hospital patient. Most people would not say it is unethical to take them off of life support even if it's basically equivalent to killing them.

Even if sentience is "artificial" in the sense that it's merely a property large networks of neurons display, it's still a significant notion because it allows us to experience, or at least feel like we are experiencing, sensation and subjectiveness. And I think it's fair to apply that same reasoning to non-human animals, though obviously it is difficult to determine with certainty since you can't obtain the full subjective experience of a different species.
The "time principle" isn't just used in scams designed to separate you from your money. It's also used in religious and political propaganda -- after presenting a dubious chain of evidence or argumentation, quickly jumping to a call to action and hyping up the need to decide now. Sometimes it's not even a call to action that creates time pressure; it's simply a second argument that tangentially relates to the first. If you're trying to listen to the new argument you're no longer thinking critically about the prior one.
How to “get out of the building” while working full time?
Traditional lean startup advice says to keep your full time job while working on your statup on the side, at least until you gain traction...most of all you need to talk to real prospective customers about your product to gauge real market interest, lest you build something nobody wants.

But how are you supposed to do that with a full time gig that has you technically under an inventions assignment agreement?

Those agreements, arguably, would own anything you create while employed, at least if it's somewhat related to your full time job. Granted, their enforceability is questionable in a lot of cases (especially in California)...

But even forgetting legalities for a second, that'd be a hell of an awkward conversation if your boss/team realized that you've been building/pitching your own products on the side without telling anyone. Reactions could range from firing to, most likely, just a general distrust, like you're trying to sneak one foot out the door on the sly.

Maybe some folks are really lucky and could just openly lay it all out on the table, but I don't think that's practical for everyone, especially those in large Bay Area companies.

I know personally if I asked my boss for permission, the 95% most likely result would be for her to put me in touch with legal...and the legal department is by-the-book, so of course they'd never give me any sort of permission or interpret anything remotely in my favor. I may as well just skip that route.

So any advice about the tactics of how to approach this? How to get real potential-customer feedback without risking your full time job?
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Thanks for your reply. I'm not involved with Stampede at all but as a front end dev I'm always looking towards new interesting ways to present content. I have a project coming up that's going to be timeline based and immediately upon seeing Stampede's website I figured the beginning section (The Power of Stampede) could applied usefully. Without user input and feedback I'm going off of my assumptions and those aren't always the best for the end user.
Not sure about the situation in these countries but at least in first world countries HIV can be treated fairly well, it's definitely not a death sentence and doesn't have to affect everyday life.
Along those lines, I was inspired by pg quoting Richard Hamming's three questions [1]:

1) What are the most important problems in your field?
2) Are you working on one of them?
3) Why not?

[1] http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
We need an open election process! Please, help us!
nginx memory footprint is very small, and does an excellent job serving static files. It's widespread usage helps in uncovering security bugs faster too.
The mixed content warning only happens in Chrome. They just need to change the comment form's action:

<form id="comment-form" action="http://blog.mozilla.org/security/wp-comments-post.php" method="post">

In this case, the potential to transmit unencrypted data exists, so Chrome warns. Firefox seems to be oblivious to the issue.
What are you saying is not a moral question? Eating meat, or killing animals?

It's pretty obvious that eating meat in isolation poses no moral issues, but wouldn't you say any process that involves the killing of organisms generally invokes moral questions?
In my more nieve days I used to genuinely believe that macros were a cool language feature. Now after spending some time in C/C++ I think macros are the enemy of code readability, and I think this article summarises WHY nicely.

I'm sure there is some political reason why ldbl_strong_alias was used to rename printf to __printf, but frankly I don't really care, there are macros like that all over the C/C++ libraries that make finding the source for anything pure hell.

The only acceptable macro to me now is a block which only runs in the DEBUG build and is skipped over by the compiler in RELEASE.

PS - Yes this is why I don't code in C/C++ very often. I'm currently playing with Go which has no concept of macros.
Parallel construction has to be one of the most unconstitutional things I have ever heard of. It's fraud and perjury.
<CTRL+F> Baltic Dry -- No returns.

What depresses me about this forum is not one of you knows the relationship between the technology of the market (these wunderkind ships) and the market itself.

The Baltic Dry index crashed, hard, in 2008[1]. (There are many reasons for this apart from the global economic crash - a lot of over-production, a lot of ships coming off-line but with replacements that needed extended loans that were put into question by the crash, extremely dodgy business practices in Greece and so on). It had a terrible year in 2012[2]. And 2014 doesn't look much better[3].

I'd urge you to look at the figures, then work out just how well global trade is doing. Hint: paper over cracks.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Dry_Index
[2]http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2012/feb/...
[3]http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BDIY:IND
Behavior becomes more interesting if you replace (in any formula) time with (time+sin(time)) - and, more generally, with (time+ksin(wtime))
Well, if it is any consolation, it is unlikely that the developer lost any real sales. The scammers themselves, and anyone who'd buy a Steam key under sketchy circumstances would not likely have bought a legitimate copy.
Yes, some other people who are familiar with the design have also corrected me. I've updated the post.
I think this is a great post. I do wish it covered some of the other Bitcoin 2.0 concepts since it can do more then just efficiently moving small amounts of value around. Many think that concepts like smart contracts and fractual ownership (e.g. Reddit's recent announcement) require new altcoins, metacoins, or ethereum but don't realize Bitcoin can natively supports them too. There are already open source colored coin [1] APIs that allow anyone to model ownership of anything on the Bitcoin Blockchain, without any intermediary currency.

[1]http://coins.assembly.com/

(disclosure, helped create this ^)
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>That said, I have no problem killing an animal that lived a full non-tortured life for food.

How does this logic work though? If you knew perhaps that an animal would see a natural death in a few hours, then killing it and eating it before it died its natural death would be ethical. But those conditions are very rare.

So how can you possibly know if an animal lived a "full" life before killing it?

The other option is only eating animals that have died of natural causes or were euthanized during the course of a terminal illness, but obviously this is not practical for health and flavor reasons.
Would she have the womb removed when she's done having children? Seems like that would be worth doing to get off immunosuppressants?

And follow up, could the womb then be transplanted in someone else??
There also bozohttpd, which NetBSD uses, and the new httpd from OpenBSD, which is based on their relayd.
In some cases yes, but that requires additional expertise.
Cool product. Grabbed one at $99.
Agreed, that's a very flawed line of reasoning. Many animals rape, torture, and kill other animals. Just because they do that purely by nature doesn't mean it's ethical for us to do so as well.
You're making broad assumptions on a lot of people.

Some domainners have lots of domains & develop lots of them into valuable properties. Sure - they have a few that are parked - but that's a percentage.

Typically - money is a measure of value you add to the world. They have to be adding some sort of value in the world or they wouldn't be able to extract value from their activities.
Looks good.

For those who want more details on building this kind of thing:
https://learn.adafruit.com/category/led-matrix

Ebay also has some relatively cheap kits ( http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=led+matrix+arduino ).
No, but it's getting there.
Of all the things, of all the sites on the Internet, loading all the plugins and advertising weighing down your browser that you can handle... you complain that left and right cursor keys let you navigate entries? Your compass is set so straight, buddy. Thanks for making my day. I hate it when stuff I write gets picked up by sites like this where people like you offer your genius unto the world.
Here is a basic thobber:

((cos(time/2)+1)*x)+((cos((time-(3.141*2))/2)+1)*(100-x))

https://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#KChjb3ModGltZS8yKSsxKSp...

Here is using the same trick to switch between two patterns:

((cos(time/50)+1)*(A*1000))+((cos((time-(3.141*50))/50)+1)*((x-50)^2+(y-50)^2))

https://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#KChjb3ModGltZS81MCkrMSk...

Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work well with patterns with high values, and thus most animated patterns don't work.

It works like this:

((cos(time/p)+1)*q)+((cos((time-(3.141*p))/p)+1)*Q)

where: p is the speed of the switch (Higher is slower),
q is pattern #1,
and Q is pattern #2.

The cos(...)+1 part in both sections is in charge of timing. In the second part we subtract pi * p, which is half the period, from time to make it start at the half point of the cycle.
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The "interview" is an old fake/slander, but I still love it.
HISTalk (a website devoted to healthcare IT) has its take on this article: http://histalk2.com/2014/10/03/monday-morning-update-10614/ (browse down to the "Other" section)

Here's a glimpse of what they have to say about the Atlantic article:

> Author credentials are fair game if you’re going to editorialize, so let’s check hers: an intern until 2010, moved down from global editor to staff writer after 10 months in the higher position, wrote about home design and architecture, and listed her most recent accomplishment on LinkedIn as, “Talk about beards on the radio.” Nothing makes me angrier than people who’ve never spent a day working in either IT or healthcare blasting out their entirely unqualified opinions in passing themselves off as authoritative.

Anyway, read the HISTalk article for an insider take.
It's a shame that you have such disdain toward capital L literature because some of the best writing on fiction is done by people who share your criticisms.

I fail to see the difference between your dismissal of fiction and a mathephobe's statement "when will we ever use this stuff in the real world." I don't know how an intelligent person can argue in good faith that fiction is not only meritless but basically useless. It takes very little effort to look around and see how untrue that statement is.
>naming someone's logical fallacies seems to be positively correlated with being wrong and/or arrogant

Way to slam me without really addressing anything I said. You managed to say I was wrong and attack my character in one fell swoop!

>one can just pattern-match anything they disagree with to a fallacy and cry foul.

Is there anything wrong with this? People should probably try not to argue anything that is obviously a fallacy.
Textio
Last sentence in the article:

> The drugs used to prevent the womb being rejected would
> be damaging in the long term - so the couple will either
> try again or have the womb removed.
Being conscious of the experience of the experience is I think a central part of Postmodern expression. This is more a criticism of Postmodernity than DFW.

IMO reading about the experience of the experience is what makes his travel essays so interesting. See also: "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", and "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All"
Also, often times, even if you're covered under warranty, you have to pay for shipping there and back. For things like luggage, this can add up to $40 or more.
So for the record, I wrote this four years ago. No idea why this is being linked to from here now.

Let the record show, also, that I in no way stand by this as being a sane approach. I just walked through it, trying to answer the question. I wanted to show the path to syscall and it was way wackier than I thought it would be. That's why it ended up a blog entry.

(Though when my blog went down one day, someone copied the content into the answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/2444508/3

...and they did so ignoring the license clause difference that my blog is CC-BY-NC-SA instead of CC-BY-SA. There's been a bit of a tussle over that distinction lately, with people selling StackOverflow books:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/272768/is-this-site-...

...and I'll leave it to those with more interest in the issue to decide if that is worth worrying about, because I don't actually care.)

Anyway, I'm sure the people involved in writing this had their reasons for doing it this way, and it had to do with code legacy and evolution. I don't want anyone to mistake my trace through it as endorsement. It's just what it is.
Why haven't quadcopters been scaled up yet?
Show HN: printfc, a printf wrapper for colored output
When I was around 13 I learned some Visual Basic and started toying around with boxes bouncing around screens. At some point I decided I should better hop on to Visual C++, don't remember what I read to convince me in that direction. I tried really hard to grasp it, the Object Orientation and all, but whether I wasn't determined enough or my brain still wasn't quite up to the complexity I don't know--it ended up turning me away from programming for around 5 years until I came back to tame OO through Visual C#. Moving to JavaScript thereafter was so freeing (and Unix), and then I was fast on my track to functional programming in JS and eventually lisp (through Clojure.) I could believe this interview's every word was true, though I'm not sure what could have been instead of C++ for fast native applications (Scheme?)
“The Peripheral” by William Gibson (Excerpt)
Don't forget mtDNA. That's maternal.

Edit: usually. As for nuclear DNA, keep in mind all of the weird crossover failures that are rather common in a large population. These typically result in gene dosing problems and can lead to fetus inviability.

Then consider the epigenome, selected immune recognition, and microbiome. These can be/are environmental.

50/50 is the textbook story we teach before undergrad. It's easier to learn and still conveys the central idea of the model.
How is that function mysterious? It just writes the same character to stdout len times. The only mystery is how anyone thought that would be efficient.
>I cannot even begin to imagine what you're complaining about here

It seems pretty simple to me: it's stupid to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars (at least) to satisfy "their inherent wish to be 'normal'".

>and just have a kid like every other couple on this planet.

There are many couples who don't have any kids. This doesn't mean it's not OK to want to have children if you can't; it just demonstrates that it's probably pretty silly to waste a ton of (public?) money and risk your life just for the sake of having children, particularly when you can acquire them in other ways.
According to Google, the process isn't automated. The submission process is, but each request is reviewed individually (and according to some reports, that appears to be true).

Google cannot post the takedown requests on a separate site, either. "Stop processing data tied to a person" means "stop processing data tied to that person", not with an invisible "except for keeping it accessible through a backdoor" clause.

Google has two problems. One, the directive (95/46/EC [1]) is almost two decades old. It pretty much predates search engines. Under article 7 (f) of the directive, Google has only limited rights to process personal data, and only where Google's interests (and those of the public) override the individual's right to privacy. That is normally a pretty sensible clause, except where search engines function as primary access pathways to journalistic publications; something that couldn't really be foreseen in 1995.

The other problem is that the ECJ handed down a narrow ruling. It said that in a specific 16-year old civil case (a debt that has long since been paid off) where there was no discernible public interest, the right to privacy outweighed the freedom of expression. The court also didn't give any other guidelines, other than cautioning that sufficient public interest (such as the data subject being a public figure) freedom of expression could outweigh the right of privacy.

The court probably issued a narrow ruling in order to defer having to decide the difficult underlying issue of how privacy and freedom of expression are to be balanced in general, but that doesn't help Google. Google had to weigh its own economic interest in providing meaningful search results against the risk of having to litigate the issue for a large number of cases individually.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
The censorship is frivolous but effective. I should have said "I don't think this policy is bad for the EU government."
Here are examples of domains where the two-man rule is used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule

Given that most people are effectively vaccinated for polio, I can see this plant being not quite so strict.
Great demo. Working with the Atari 2600 is extreme. It only has enough memory to hold one row of pixels. So at every scanline it would need to compute the gameplay and on-screen elements on its 8bit 1.19Mhz CPU and 128 bytes of RAM. Insane!
Yes. The Streisand effect doesn't really scale.
This is getting rather off topic for HN. The best place for MLP CCG talk is on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mlpccg

Hasbro does not produce MLP CCG. Enterplay does. Enterplay is a separate company that is not a subsidiary of or owned by Hasbro. Enterplay can only do with the licensed property what Hasbro permits by license.
thanks, I appreciated this
It's more parody than slander. The fakery is obvious, and clearly done with humorous intent. Also, since it's published, if it were defamation it would be libel, since slander is only for fleeting statements (most often verbal).
I not beliave in Brazilian Government, they can manipulate machine and nobody can make a Clain or change law. The Works Party (Pres. Dilma) want change Brazil from to Comunism. I rate it.
Actually in my opinion: No. Read the original texts. The book from Irvine gives you a different impression of stoicism. It has some "self-help with stoic touch" feel that I just don't feel comfortable with. Read some historic context and the original texts. The original texts are quite accessible.
The nginx conf for the .49 server[1] has a bug. The location entries are exclusive[2].

[1] http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/70-6.p...
[2] http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html#simple...
I agree, truly amazing.
> Examples would be gender reassignment, or plastic surgery.

Almost nowhere (as far as I'm aware) offers taxpayer-funded plastic surgery, except perhaps in cases of extreme congenital deformation.

I don't think the case presented here is comparable. Many people are sterile, and it doesn't tend to have a cripplingly negative impact on their lives.
> Apple doesn't use scrypt. Their approach is to add a 256-bit device-unique secret key called a UID to the mix, and to store that key in hardware where it's hard to extract from the phone. Apple claims that it does not record these keys nor can it access them.

Technically, this is where it breaks down. As in "Trust me I don't store the keys."

If that hypothesis is true(they don't store these keys), then they'll have a hard time breaking your encryption indeed. But you must trust Apple at that point.

If there was a way to buy an anonymously replaceable chip with this cryptographic key in it and replace it on the phone like a SIM, then we'd be much closer to stating "Apple can't decrypt your phone".
I had a similar question to this once, and what I mainly found out was that FreeBSD's (and thus OSX's) libc is much, much, more readable than glibc.
I would suggest asking for things and just let the people say no if they want to rather than rejecting yourself on their behalf without them even knowing you want something from them.
But I'll patch the alt-left thing if it makes you happy. :-/ Still, if you want to give feedback, write an email and make it friendly. It doesn't make people feel good with "ugh". There's so much "ugh"-worthy stuff out there and I don't think I deserve that.