skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highlighting what has changed:

> Although there have been a couple of additional rounds of talks since this text, little has changed in them and it is clear that the negotiations are stalling and that the issues raised in this document will be very much on the table in Australia this month.

> some controversial and damaging areas have had little change; issues surrounding digital rights have moved little. However, there are significant industry-favouring additions within the areas of pharmaceuticals and patents. These additions are likely to affect access to important medicines such as cancer drugs and will also weaken the requirements needed to patent genes in plants, which will impact small farmers and boost the dominance of large agricultural corporations like Monsanto.

> some areas that were highlighted after WikiLeaks' last IP Chapter release have seen alterations that reflect the controversy; surgical method patents have been removed from the text. Doctors' groups said this was vitally important for allowing doctors to engage in medical procedures without fear of a lawsuit for providing the best care for their patients. Opposition is increasing to remove the provision proposed by the US and Japan that would require granting of patents for new drugs that are slightly altered from a previous patented one (evergreening), a technique by the pharmaceutical industry to prolong market monopoly.
There are rare exceptions. Perhaps HN should do a poll, how many here started out in poverty?

> who fill their eyes

My presumption is that he is referring to the movement towards digital/virtual consumption and away from physical consumption. The rich and poor entertain themselves in much the same way now, but that doesn't give us a way out of the trend:

http://rick.bookstaber.com/2013/11/live-to-eat-eat-to-live.h...

Maybe poor kids will have more access to tools now, but will those tools be relevant in their economic age? Musicians and artists have had all these amazing tools - but is anyone making a living off of them?
Now you're telling me to give up on my hobby :)
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Has anyone used MonetDB? https://www.monetdb.org/
I get a teaser with a link to more info below.

But I don't know why not just link to the URL in the teaser directly:

http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/
The writer is testing over links between data centers. Those tend to have good bandwidth and no "deep packet" examination and munging. Try testing over consumer-grade links, and see what DOCSIS and Comcast are doing to your packets.
> If GitHub complies with the DMCA and we use GitHub, then we are quietly endorsing the DMCA.

I happily endorse § 512 of the DMCA. Not only is the safe harbor provision a well-balanced law for all parties involved, but it's the only thing that makes startups that host UCG legally viable. Without the DMCA, Github could not exist. They'd be personally liable for every copy of every file they distribute without a copyright holder's permission.

This particular piece of the DMCA doesn't have to eliminate all piracy online to be effective. Take the case of a feature film release -- a $XXXMM investment by the copyright holders into their product -- that could be seriously harmed to the tune of tens of millions of dollars by someone leaking a copy online a few days before ticket sales begin. The DMCA notices can disable the most visible (and most damaging) copies, expeditiously enough to save the film's box office sales. Mitigating much of the harm is better than nothing.

> perhaps as a society we should ask if it makes any sense to spend tax dollars

This part I don't get. The alternative to the above is an emergency court hearing for every instance of infringement, hoping to attain an emergency injunction, then get it to an ISP before too much damage is done. The safe harbor provision doesn't (directly) cost tax payers anything. It saves us billions. Every day, hundreds or thousands of instances of copyright infringement are handled by an e-mail instead of a taxpayer-funded court hearing.

It sounds to me like you're making an argument against copyright, not the DMCA. DMCA § 512 (the notice/counternotice safe harbor system) is about mitigating the legal liability created by the copyright act on service providers. In its entirety, the DMCA was the US's implementation of the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties. It is not what created copyright protection itself.
Do you have any comment on the claims relating to the Department of Defence?
mhm, no stand-alone display? I'd get one of those, not getting an iMac though.
I am not going to pay to stream content that still has ads in it . . . this is one reason that I am a "cord never" in the odd parlance of the article.
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How does BMI affect numbers when I do weight lifting? I.e. I assume I have more muscles than average Joe?
There was also that thing in the news about some effects of smoking being mitigated if one quit by about age ~32. Still I wonder (as someone who previously smoked) how there couldn't be some kind of damage after several years of smoking
I'm pretty sure that shorter words (abbreviations) like that are easier to parse than the full version. Perhaps you were looking for the verb understand?
Here is a pretty cool presentation about it, in French:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XokHJadkq4

The slides are in English, if that helps:

http://lttng.org/files/papers/presentations/lttng20tracingfo...
Custom timing processor, I would guess so. $2499, wow, I wonder what it wil be in rmb.
Exactly. We only care about who controls Washington because the gov't has such a huge say over our lives. People claim to want less power in the hands of well connected companies and lobbyists. Then they claim they want government to keep them safe from highly unpredictable events, mandate the minimum and maximum amount of money people should get, provide good healthcare to everyone, prevent kids from being bullied at school, make sure everyone's internet is fast but not faster for one site than another, make sure my french fries only contain "good" fats, allow only certain vices like alcohol but not others like some drugs, etc.

Well of course a government that attempts to do all that will be very powerful. And, of course people will spend large amounts of resources to influence a government with that level of power.
Nice work, very slick!

1. I couldn't figure out how to like a place

2. I was sort of expecting a bit more information when I clicked on a place. I mean this particularly with respect to the attractions section. I was hoping for more information on the attractions, like the ability click on it and learn more.
For the live stream, the ads will be the same as those on the traditional television broadcast. For the on-demand programming, the typical 12 to 16 minutes of ads an hour will be reduced 25 percent.

I guess I'm not their intended customer. I'm not going to pay for a service to give me ads. If I'm watching a live show, I want the ability to pause it, walk away for a few minutes, and then skip commercials.

For on-demand content, I don't want any commercials. I don't see the value otherwise.
How does Terraform compare to e.g. Mesos? Or am I comparing apple and oranges here?
Representative democracy is the elitist idea that elites will run the government but with an escape valve to let average people have some input into the system to prevent the elites from becoming too insulated and ignoring the needs of the average people.

But representative democracy breaks down when moneyed elites take control of the voting system. Then it's just elites all around with no input from the population.
With access to the RAW pixel information they can artificially under- and over-exposure then map those into an HDR image.
>New iMac with Retina 5K starts at $2499.

That's an enticing price if Anandtech's guess[1] of $2500 for the (yet unreleased) Dell 5120x2880 monitor is accurate. The Dell display doesn't include a Mac computer inside it. If Dell had to recalibrate its price in response to Apple's announcement, would it be something like $1899 street price?

EDIT to add: I find it interesting to compare this new display announcement to the CinemaDisplay 10 years ago.
When Apple debuted the 30" 2560x1600 CinemaDisplay in June 2004, no other major manufacturer had a comparable display. Dell didn't introduce their 2560x1600 3007WFP until January 2006. Apple was the only player for that high resolution and that strength was reflected in the price: $3299. It stayed at that price for over a year (Apple finally lowered it to $2499 in October 2005). Today, Dell announced their 5k monitor 6 weeks before Apple. I guess it's getting harder and harder these days for Apple to create products that catches their competitors else off guard.

[1]http://www.anandtech.com/show/8496/dell-previews-27inch-5k-u...
> Watching CBS over lines owned by Comcast (who owns NBC) will be interesting.

People having been watching CBS over lines owned by Comcast most of the nearly half century Comcast has existed, including the period where it has owned NBCUniversal (it has been, after all, a CATV company a lot longer than its been an ISP.)
>> International agreements are always negotiated privately before being submitted to legislatures for public comment and ratification.

The whole problem with that is the folks doing the negotiating do not represent the public and they are in effect agreeing to have laws passed. One group is negotiating to have a second group pass laws, who are supposed to represent a third group - the people. I suppose they think bringing it to congress for a vote makes it all OK, but where was the real debate?
Instead of calling UDP an "unreliable protocol", we called it "best effort."
Yeah I noticed that as well. Hadn't heard about either, so I'm pretty stoked to see what will happen with them. Pond definitely seems interesting, because it'll be easier to pick up and integrate, plus it has the benefit of solving the first contact problem, with no real key exchange prior necessary.
I wonder how this will be able to be exported/imported.
Next-gen Google Chromecast on the way?
Apple updates desktop iMac line with “5k” Retina displays
"E pluribus unum" has been replaced with "Vos Omnes Suspecti." (Read as: You are all under suspicion.)
Do you have cable? My guess is they're targeting existing cable customers who are considering cutting the cord- those people are already paying for a service that gives them advertisements, so for them this isn't much different (in fact it's 25% less ads and potentially a much smaller cable bill).
Does age play any part into one's risk?
There's no way that the FTL JIT gets involved on "typical javascript" which wouldn't run long enough.

They even say so on the blog post for the FTL JIT:

"Websites today serve large amounts of highly dynamic JavaScript code that typically runs for a relatively short time. The dominant cost in such code is the time spent loading it and the memory used to store it. "

Instead, it's more likely they have some weird benchmarks that they win on.

Everyone has their favorites, and reasons they claim they matter.

While it's been about year since i looked, most of them are just not large enough amounts of executing code to be reasonable benchmarks to argue about (they try to increase workloads bby increasing iterations, etc).

In truth, i can't fault anyone for the benchmarks they choose (except maybe regexp-dna), most are testcases extracted from the websites/programs they care about.

But this does not actually make them good benchmarks to optimize for, just good things to make fast.

The difference being, you want to pick representative benchmarks such that if you optimize for them, ideally all the cases you care about are made fast, not just the ones in the benchmarks.

For example, regex-dna (part of sunspider) is a benchmark about regular expression searching in DNA sequences (which is "not common" in webapps). To make it fast, most browsers have dedicated regular expression compilers tuned to it.
This is pretty much worthless for webapps as a whole (the kinds of regexps involved do not generalize to the ones used in web apps), but it makes sunspider fast.

That's exactly what you don't want :)
Am I the only one who, when he sees the side shot of the Apple product line up [http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/183...] just sees the word: "oil!"?

Edit: For all those down-modders out there, I suppose I should clarify that I'm not making any sort of environmental point. (Though I suppose a person might.) I own several Apple products myself (and probably soon a few more) and while I think the tech/consumer-electronics industry has a lot of work to do to even approach sustainability, I don't think there's any reason to single Apple out for criticism. I am a bit surprised, though, that nobody at Apple thought writing out the word "oil" with their products was a bad idea given their past troubles with Greenpeace.
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I uploaded it at openrev.org so people can actually comment and highlight the important parts and created a wikileaks group for future documents :)

http://www.openrev.org/paper/secret-tpp-treaty-intellectual-...
To be honest, this makes near 0 difference in javascript performance, which is entirely good codegen (and making things like DOM traversal really fast).

In fact, for average website javascript, the fastest "not horrible" codegen will win, because they run for such short times.
Personally, I have been always using my real name and has been for years, even when I was making mistakes years ago, and will still do so in the future. I believe these problems needs to be fixed properly.
I think your posts speak for themselves, thanks.
While I'm excited that more Big Networks are realizing that offering streaming only packages to consumers is a Good Idea, I'm really worried about how the cable internet companies will retaliate. We've already seen them blame Netflix for its own popularity, what's stopping them from doing this to companies like HBO and CBS that are now willing to offer a package that circumvents TV entirely?
RAM really doesn't matter for most people, IME, at least after Project Svelte. For example, here's a video [0] of the Moto E (not G, but lower-class, 125$ E) outpacing a Samsung S5 at simple tasks like opening Facebook, etc.

With 1GB of RAM, I've noticed the Moto G can multi-task between low-RAM apps (Chrome, SMS, Drive, Dropbox, Twitter, GMail, etc) just as well as a Note III (3GB RAM). The only time I've noticed a difference is context switching with a high-RAM app, like sending messages while gaming. This is actually an excruciating experience on a 1GB phone, because the game needs to reload every time one switches back to it.

>>Is RAM not a worthy technical specification to list?
I'd say yes, but it is a grossly overvalued spec. With modern RAM compression and multitasking, I suspect very few people will notice the difference between 1GB and 3.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P9vDAY0U0A
By that definition companies are very nearly the sole source of all taxes:

Capital Gains? The company increased its value.

Dividends? Comes out of earned revenue.

Sales Tax? Comes out of sales by the company.
Is it supposed to be released today?

Thank God for the Messages update. Going from iOS 8 Messages to Mac Messages is a bit jarring.
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> • try alongside other traffic on the endpoints, and note that TCP streams can't find their achievable rates (or split the available bandwidth amongst themselves) without hitting the packet-dropping pressure that also affects UDP. So perhaps try with 1, 2, or more TCP streams doing a max-speed copy at the same time.

I agree. Having (or not) other traffic on the network will impact UDP throughput dramatically. As one who does VoIP QoS will soon find out.
reasonable is not the right word. If they do so "expeditiously", then yes.
But that is not the same as a "reasonable" amount of time.
Yeah I sort of see what you're saying.

But then do you have a different term for what I'm talking about? What would you call someone who comes from a well known family lineage, speaks with a refined accent, was privately educated, went to Harvard, listens to classical music, collects french poetry first editions, but earns a pittance as faculty in the classics department at a college somewhere and has no savings or investments?

They don't earn anything, but you can't lump them in with a poor fast food worker can you? What term do you use for this in the US, if you don't call it 'class'? If the UK they would absolutely be upper class. What would you call them?

Here's an insight into the British class system for you: some Army regiments are essentially segregated by the class of their officers. A state school educated officer could join the Royal Tank Regiment but would probably never join the King's Royal Hussars. Of course this is unspoken.
Or they have differing value systems? Or both have incomplete information? Or both conclusions are valid?
I would like to believe it, but I can't seem to find that strong evidence anywhere.

That’s because it doesn’t exist, of course. We have been tragically misled for about 30 years.

This is N=2 but my wife and I switched to a low-carb/high-fat diet last summer and we are both at our ideal weight, higher energy than we have had in many years, and feeling absolutely fantastic. I think this is where the current metabolic science is taking us.
New Mac Mini @ 499$ lowers the barrier to entry for mac/ios development.

(Yes there was always the resale market, but apple is driving down the price overall. You won't find a used mac mini over 499)
And now Comcast will be carrying that content with no extra charge. Maybe that will just work out that Comcast lets them send full video, but I suspect there will be nflx-like carriage arrangements by the time it's done.
And still no update to the Thunderbolt display... :(
Minor bug: the heart icon gets clipped if the risk factor comes out to 12% in the latest version of Chrome.

http://imgur.com/l27HcXA
67% more pixels than 4K. That's certainly more than expected!
Link was removed. Here's the direct link on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3224
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iMac with Retina 5K display
"If the user doesn't do it themselves within that short window, then GitHub has to."

It sounded like you were claiming otherwise, saying that asking the user is acting expeditiously "enough", and that they can then "not remove" or slow down removal.

If you aren't claiming that, then we have no argument :)
There's just not enough bandwidth over a single bus / single cable with DisplayPort 1.2. The iMac allows them to bypass that bottleneck and be one of the first(?) companies to ship a 5K display to consumers.

My predication is that once we see Apple deploy Thunderbolt 3 / DisplayPort 1.3, we'll see the Apple Cinema Display Retina.
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minor refresh, practically the same. very sad because the mini was long long overdue for a refresh.
A walks UDP packet bar a into.
But how is it possible that a person's mere living expenses be 100k per year? How can anyone who doesn't have a 6 figure salary live?
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Ask HN: Can I access someone's activity on Facebook through its API?
I'm developing an app that would retrieve your friend's activity on Facebook (photos, posts, likes, comments...) and would like to know if thats' feasible. Thanks!
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I'm sure that will come when the MacBooks have the power to drive a 5k display.
"Is it time to revive Rustful?"

Make it so.
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This is true - otherwise we'd have consistently growing intelligence over the generations - and instead we find the inverse - dysgenic fertility rules the day.
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The negotiators are official representatives of these national governments. So, they represent their citizens to the extent that any government staff person does so in each respective country. For the U.S., negotiations are led by the U.S. Trade Representative, who is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
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To rephrase deciplex's comment, I'd love to know whether and why people disagree.
Your screen (and popular image formats) are 8-bits per color channel. Modern digital sensors can do 12-14 bits of useful data per color channel typically (16 for the really high end stuff).

To even save or display the image from these sensors you'd have to compress the 12/14-bit color range into 8-bit anyways. Single-image HDR is simply the ability to tweak this transform to your benefit.
Might make more sense as "A TCP Packet walks into a bar" , since TCP supports retransmissions
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Whats missing?
I've got a billion tabs open in Firefox, (plus a bunch of extensions) which seems to expose some O(n^2) algorithm in the internals, because it becomes unusably slow after running for 24 hours. I can either quit it normally, which takes 7 minutes-- or just kill the process and restart it.
I'm more interested in the underlying API than than the node package. Apparently it accesses your profile publicly, so there's no magic here, just an API to construct the right URL. Maybe if it worked with a private diary it might be more useful.
>Poor are poor not just because they don't have money but also because they are unable to get out of it. They have to go through unspeakable ordeal just to get one meal a day and this places enormous cognitive load on the entire family.

That seems like it should be true intuitively, but if it were true, you'd expect higher benefit levels to correlate with higher rates of getting out of poverty. The data points to the opposite happening.

For example:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_17.htm
It does when calculating your 10-year-risk, but not for lifetime risk. I'd like to add a feature to show you both 10-year and lifetime risks, but for now, the NIH has a 10-year-risk calculator:
http://cvdrisk.nhlbi.nih.gov/

For most people, the 10-year-risk becomes important in your 50's, 60's, and 70's and is used to guide treatment for e.g., statin therapy or anti-hypertensive medication.

If you're 30, your 10-year-risk is generally very low even if you treat your body terribly. :) So part of the motivation for showing the lifetime risk is to get people thinking about how to optimize their health for their life, since by the time your 10-year-risk is significant it's often too late to change your habits for diet/exercise.
Your comments are at odds with the evidence presented by the Guardian, namely that you gave them access to your backend geo-tracking tool and they TOOK SCREENSHOTS:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-whispers-se...

With regards to the MaxMind Legacy databases (which are updated every Tuesday) the following accuracy is tested by MaxMind and presented on their website:

Correctly Resolved	Incorrectly Resolved	Unresolved

GeoLite2 City	75%	14%	12%

GeoIP2 City	84%	13%	3%

GeoIP2 Precision City. 84%	13%	3%

source: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city-accuracy?country=Unit...

Accurate enough to pin-point a particular place in Washington D.C. it seems. 75%/84% isn't bad.

I honestly can't understand that denial. The Guardian visited your offices and they were allowed access to the tool you deny exists and they took screenshots of posts from your users who posted from the Whitehouse. By the sounds of it someone at your company naively showboated the capabilities of your system to a journalist, demonstrating features that are completely contrary to your mission statement.

You then come here and try and deny the whole thing as if we are idiots.

I normally error on the side of caution, but I truly can't see how you can defend against the overwhelming evidence.

Are you stating that the screenshots are fabricated?
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