skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know of any good ITX hackintosh howto writeups? I might go that route too as I want small form factor and OSX, but do not want to pay an apple tax (even if their case is way prettier).
As I understand it, EUCD is about copyright protection. Unlocking my bootloader is not a violation of this. So EUCD does not apply here.
Check out SparkR - http://amplab-extras.github.io/SparkR-pkg/
TrueVault (YC W14) hiring a lead engineer to shape the landscape of secure data
Why would you even think this since they aren't limited to DVI or displayport?
Treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place is obviously a disservice to Africans, but with the booming economic opportunities increasingly available to everyone through the Internet, it might also very well be a disservice to you.
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Huh. I just opened a brand new download of eclipse and it's at 440mb with no files open. LT is 115 + 50 having been open all week.

Did you have some weird plugins installed? Did you create a bunch of Clojure processes and count those?

EDIT: Ah, there was a memory leak for a while. I bet that's what the problem was. It's definitely fixed in master.
Be careful about which sources you trust. Here's are a couple other articles from sott.net's "Health and Wellness" page:
http://www.sott.net/article/287460-Vaccine-wars-Penalizing-t...
http://www.sott.net/article/287450-The-not-so-surprising-ben...

I'll stick with Circulation, The Lancet, and JAMA, thank you very much. :)
I went to a privacy conference in Europe this summer, featuring a former NSA official. The organizers explicitly asked me if I wanted to "be on the list," so of course I said yes.

To my dismay, the TSA did not attempt to search me at my home airport. Perhaps the data had not propagated to screeening yet. Regardless, it seems harder than I initially thought to get onto one of these NSA lists.
As the framers realized, copyright and patents are critical to fostering innovation and culture.

Well, at least Jefferson was initially opposed to the idea, which he (rightly) viewed as a monopoly:

Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it… . That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

Later he acquiesced, but with a much stricter proposal than what eventually was written in the Bill of Rights:

Art. 9. Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in
literature and their own inventions in the arts for a term not exceeding — years
but for no longer term and no other purpose.
Yes, which is one of the reasons it sucks that Apple isn't doing it.
Could Koinify's first project be Gems?
Thanks for the honest and detailed writeup of the life, birth and death of your startup. Shame it sank without notice here as I think it'd be interesting for the HN crowd - perhaps try submitting again at some point? Microcosm seems like a great idea which could have worked, so it's sad to see it die so early, and it's a sobering story for others (a company I'm involved in in London is looking at funding just now as it happens).

Any tips for startups looking for funding on seedrs (sounds like that worked out for you at least)?
To treat this as "obvious" rather than "interesting" is an epistemic error.

In particular, any ancient counting system could be given a similar anatomical analysis. Base 30? Well, it's only the first two knuckles that are easy to bend. Base 14? Clearly the major joints were being used for counting (because counting, not communication was the issue: people had words for communication and didn't need hand gestures). Base 8? Again, the first two knuckles, multiply both hands to get 64... so maybe that would be base 64?

Simply because you can give an account of what people actually used is no proof of explanation: you also have to given an account of why what was not used was not used. Claiming it was because it was somehow less convenient than the system you suggest is not an explanation, but a classic example of begging the question (assuming the consequent.)
Criminal treatment of trade Secrets without "public interest" exception. great, Aaron Swartz is gonna happen again. :(
Crash-only software is a great concept, and this article is a very interesting summary of what it is (and what it's not). If you read only one section of Candea and Fox's paper, I would recommend section 3 "Properties of Crash-Only Software". It lays out some basic properties of proper crash-only software, which work as guidelines even for software that doesn't go all the way to the crash-only ideal.

My favorite one of the principles is "All important non-volatile state is managed by dedicated state stores". Being both crash-only (or even just tolerating crashes) and keeping state is a very difficult combination, and you don't want every one of your services needing to solve that problem over and over. Dedicated state stores let you hand this problem off, which turns many systems stateless (or at least without hard state). Tolerating crashes in soft-state-only services is much easier, perhaps even trivial if you follow the other rules.

I wrote a blog post about this paper a while back (http://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/22/crash-only.html), if anybody is interested.
> However, the nice water/gravity correpondence is really nice in practice

One fluid once of water weighs (approximately) one ounce.
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We once tried to make a VBScript add on for Netscape and Firefox. I don't think there was that much interest in it after JavaScript was more widely adopted. A lot of websites used to be written in VBScript instead of JavaScript for Internet Explorer only. But then they also used ActiveX controls as well.

Your best bet would be something that searches for prices on Amazon and uses your Amazon Affiliate code for when they buy something you get a commission. You could do that for any affiliate program.
I'll download LT again. I liked it. Just leaked, apparently.
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Ah, I wasn't really commenting on the pricing - more on the idea of having a "competitor" on your own store.
Various linear solvers (either via normal equations, QR, etc.) all have really fast multi-threaded implementations in, e.g. OpenBLAS. These could directly benefit lm() and glm(). That said - there's no reason why you couldn't already call out to these (multithreaded) libraries with (single threaded) R.
It is important to note that they are not being discriminatory without realizing it. On the contrary, they actively disagree with you that the best way to end discrimination is to simply ignore it. This is a deliberate double standard meant to counteract the opposing one women are subjected to by society at large.
As detailed in this blog post (http://permissionmachine.com/blog/rod-stewart-sued-for-recre...), the Rod Stewart photos look much more similar to the disputed photos in Temple Island v. New English Teas (the claimant won in that suit).

When I viewed the side-by-side comparison, my reaction was "wow, she actually has a point!" not "this is a frivolous suit." Both photos show Rod with a black, long sleeve garment, show only his head, neck, and left shoulder, and have not dissimilar lighting and hair styling.
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It's not entirely clear to me, what do partner countries actually gain from TPP? There has to be at least some kind of carrot on the stick.
One difference is that Seagate provides a data store and Twitpic doesn't provide a data store, it provides a service.

It's not even certain that Twitpic kept your original photo or artwork. If you uploaded a 4000 x 3000-pixel image, it reduced it to 600 pixels wide for posting inline on Twitter.

Did you actually use it?
not to mention running games with PlayOnMac (wine wrapper) or parallels. Honestly you can't name a game that won't play on mac.
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I agree that's a problem and would be very happy to see native support for paid updates added to the MAS instead of the hacks developers are currently stuck with. I didn't say the MAS is without downsides (the original article does a good job of spelling them out), but joesmo is arguing that the MAS has no real benefits to the user. I don't think that's true, and that's why I really hope Apple fixes these issues instead of letting the exodus continue.
> I fully agree that we don’t want to live in an aristocratic society in which already-wealthy families get richer simply by sitting on their laurels and collecting what Piketty calls “rentier income”—that is, the returns people earn when they let others use their money, land, or other property.

This is debatable. For one, aristocracy is not exactly this, as it is a system based on the notion of privilege, not just wealth. Concretely, it often means the same but still, using the word is quite misleading.

Secondly, one may argue that people, and thus families, should have the right to build stuff in the very long term, that is in a multi-generational way. Even if this thing they build is merely a framework of financial comfort. I doubt anyone would question the morality of offering gifts to children. So it's not clear to me why it would be wrong to give a child the means not to worry about money in life, and do it recursively through centuries.
Not in Anglo-American copyright law, but it is a part of the civil law (i.e continental) equivalent.

See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
I have Yosemite GM-3 installed, and when I go to the app store, it says "You already have Yosemite installed".
>background knowledge of all things Apple

Not a Hypercritical or ATP listener, huh?
tonymacx86.com is a decent enough community. I've built 10+ machines using the site-promoted build tutorials (with some modifications) for myself and friends. The forums are hit or miss in terms of helpful information, though.
This. Shadows (fake 3D), textures, colors, and other elements may seem like a gimmick, but they are fundamentally crucial in visual cognition of the UI. What's sad is that so much UI design is driven by meaningless trends instead of more precise research data on how well UI elements work.
Obesity seems to impact long-term cardiovascular health only through the other numbers--i.e., raising your blood pressure and lipids. In the Framingham 30-year risk study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19506114), they tried adding BMI to the risk model, but it didn't add any predictive value. But they used it to create a very approximate risk model for people who don't know their biomarkers.

Also note that you can appear perfectly thin, but have high blood pressure and cholesterol, and thus be at risk! So know your numbers. A lot of health is only revealed by what's going on within your body.
> As the constitution's framers realized, copyright and patents are critical to fostering innovation and culture.

Well.... I don't think anyone around that time was seriously thinking about patent law and innovation in that capacity. "Well we have a new country, and handing out patents is just one of those things you're expected to do." Even the Soviet Union had a patent system, and they're the last group you'd expect to sign up for the idea of patents. And yet here you go: http://patentdb.su/

The modern patent system goes back to the 1600s when some boring king made some annoying promises that he had to compromise on:

By the 16th century, the English Crown would habitually grant letters patent for monopolies to favoured persons (or people who were prepared to pay for them).[13] This power was used to raise money for the Crown, and was widely abused, as the Crown granted patents in respect of all sorts of common goods (salt, for example). Consequently, the Court began to limit the circumstances in which they could be granted. After public outcry, James I of England was forced to revoke all existing monopolies and declare that they were only to be used for "projects of new invention". This was incorporated into the Statute of Monopolies in which Parliament restricted the Crown's power explicitly so that the King could only issue letters patent to the inventors or introducers of original inventions for a fixed number of years. It also voided all existing monopolies and dispensations with [some] exception[s]....

above quote's background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law

fun paper: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/Generally%20inconvenient:%20...

This paper is mostly about how a law came about regarding "projects of new invention" as a political compromise, rather than any particular thought or study about the problem of incentives and innovation.
Someone gave him gold for this. Talk about waste of money.
http://pastebin.com/x9iHg5e0
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106

It's under 106Aa3, I believe.

Pretty interesting stuff which I wasn't aware of.

EDIT: Note that the rights cannot be transferred, but can be waived. So if you're buying visual art with the intention of defacing it then you can ask the artist to sign a waiver form as a condition of the sale. Personally, I think this is reasonable.
Around two months ago, I switched from running 10.8.5 on my main machine to running the 10.10 betas full time and I've not had a single panic. (Late 2012 iMac 27").
However, If I were you I'd still wait for 10.10.1 though, just to be on the safe side.
I think if we're talking about someone coding portfolio websites and ecommerce shops using validated API's, we're not talking rocket science but we are talking the basis of a career.

I have a hard time believing that wordpress developers end up endangering many people. Even more advanced software technicians, guys who are brilliant are making games and a great living but aren't putting anyone in harm's way.

Cardeology? Yes. Draw bridge tech, probably. Car computers, for sure. A social responsbility to recognize that you're good enough for that? Yes but I'm sure the people hiring you aren't going to mess around with that kind of thing.

People who want to learn web development to make fun/cool products and living don't need to be concerned about the complexities of banking software unless that's what they want to be doing with their lives, and I would hope that people like you, people advanced enough to do the hiring, aren't going to hire any dummies to do it.
I'm sure you are correct, but thinking about it from the perspective of the host country, it seems like allowing this might actually be in their best interests. They get the income/sales/real estate/etc taxes from the new resident, without the resident taking up a local job that a native might hold instead.
I just depends on what the phone hardware supports. The Nexus 6 e.g. has two hardware variations. The US variation supports T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all with the same device.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/10/15/the-nexus-6-will-com...
The best comparison for IFrames would be that they cut the article out of a new yorker and glued it into the book
It's been my main editor pretty much since release, mainly for JavaScript and Python. I mainly use it as a snazzier gedit with some neat features like live markdown preview and built-in browser tab.

I still run PyCharm in a separate workspace for debugging, running programs and searching through code, but for editing I find LightTable is wildly preferable imo.

There are some mostly minor annoyances, like the behaviours file simply switched locations at one point, and for some odd reason I can't get the tab settings to work properly for makefiles and such.

I will probably stick with LightTable for the forseeable future, nothing else quite seems to hit my sweet spot. Admittedly I haven't actually tried sublime text.
It is possible to make sales taxes that aren't massively regressive, and your examples are a lot better than most of the "progressive" consumption-only tax proposals (which generally revolve around giving a basic rebate and then taxing yachts and basic foodstuffs alike)

But the bigger problem isn't the proportion of consumption being taxed, but that the very rich actually consume very little of their income (which implies higher taxes for everyone else). To be fair to Bill Gates, he also favours high taxes on intragenerational transfers of all that accumulated wealth and is busy giving his own self-made fortune away. But even then, consumption taxes miss one of the biggest, if not the biggest benefits to holding large amounts of wealth.... being able to choose exactly when, if and on what terms you spend your "work" time. A person who consumes $100k per annum in interest income from their professionally-managed wealth fund which is so big they never have to worry about their future is much, much better off in real terms than somebody spending a little over $100k from a salary they spend 50% of their waking hours earning not to mention many hours worrying about what would happen if they lost that job.

Obviously the status quo income tax isn't ideal in that respect either, and ramping up tax on capital gains has the side effect of harming good companies' chances of getting funded, but that's why Piketty favours taxing the entire capital base rather than only capital which happens to be spent on luxury shoes or earning a decent return on investment.
If we're going for worldly examples to coding dangers:
what happens when you're mechanic misses a screw when replacing your brake pads?

Firstly, if your a biz doing transactions, you better damn well be insured, just like your car, just like your health.

Secondly, your mechanic might be a junior, but little mistakes get left by the most experienced of people as well. Especially on things they think beneath them or simple. I hold no doubts that you and I have both at some point made a simple but critical mistake on the most "simple" part of a project. Its human nature.

6 weeks is a bit of an extreme example for someone to trust the building of a transaction site worth hacking, but even so I'm not sure that type of risk is something anyone can argue as a problem with bootcamps. What if I teach myself for a few weeks and want to start getting jobs and trying stuff out? Same issue, and some of the best developers I know in the world are self taught.
> I am slightly concerned about visiting anything related to Tor or security because of my fearful suspicion that the NSA will flag me for closer observation.

This is exactly what's wrong with the whole situation.
There might be a small battery time reduction because these new vibrancy effects will cause a bit more cpu consumption than Mavericks. It's probably negligible though.
Although that doesn't apply here. Twitpic was never promoted as -- and never operated as -- a "storage locker".
Well.... I don't think anyone around that time was seriously thinking about patent law and innovation in that capacity.

Read my sibling comment. Jefferson, at least, clearly didn't take patents for granted.
> It took me a long time to discover that the i in a circle at the top of the screen will bring up the sidebar content.

Thanks! I never knew.

But I also only use it to read some random entertaining thread as I get ready to go to bed.
I would like to see the statistics of the people who applied for VC funding versus those who got it.

Women and minorities just don't apply for VC funding as far as I know. I have many friends who are people of color and women and don't want to learn how to program or IT or anything a VC would want to invest in.

I don't want all VC funding and IT jobs to go to white males, but it seems only white males are the ones who apply for IT jobs and VC funding.

It seems if a woman or minority is not qualified for an IT job they give them blog duty instead. Then write social justice warrior white privilege articles like this one for ratings and mouse clicks.
I have Yosemite GM-3 installed... when I go to the app store, it says "You already have Yosemite installed" - Should I care or try to reinstall from the "final" installer?

Also, my biggest frustration has been the workflow change of the "maximize" button to it's new role as full-screen button. I wish there was at least a config option to switch it back. I'm fine with adding it as an option, but completely breaking the workflow seems unnecessary IMHO. I guess that's why I use "Spectacles" app for window placement keyboard shortcuts.
This is a curious statement "but agreeable terms could not be met." Since the alternate choice was "death" one wonders who preferred that over some form of acquisition. I suppose it is always possible that the acquirer was steadfast in demanding certain team members be part of the deal and could not come to an arrangement with them, but that is the only thing that I can come up with that might prevent at least something from going through.
Since the design seems to have stayed the same as the previous generation: Yes, but you have to take the entire thing apart to get to the drive, and the parts are laptop parts so they're kind of finicky. iFixit is your friend.

The RAM, on the other hand, is extremely easy to change out.
I don't think copyright law implies that "ideas" can not be copied. I think it says something about the "expression of an idea". It is always up to the court to decide whether copying was "substantial" and not "fair use".

I agree that both laws and their application have gone too far. I think they should be reformed, not thrown out all together.

There's a third law less often opinioned about: Trade Secrets. Is that a just law or not? Well think about the laws on privacy. Should we have the right to "privacy", which is really a rather intangible thing?
Okay nobody seriously looks at Apple as a panel manufacturer, unless you (and Apple) are referring to the fact that the company has a stake in Sharp. The plant and expertise required to build panels is clean room stuff that AAPL just does not do. It does industrial design and software. Not "manufacturing of screens" so the point is clear. Android's skin is distant enough from Java and Linux that it can credibly be called a creation of Google. Just as Audi can say it built the car without having to credit the inventor of the internal combustion engine, and instructing a supplier to build a part to its specifications is hardly "manufacturing" it. It is "specifying" it. As every Apple product owner knows: "Designed in California, MADE in China". In this case, made in Japan/korea. As such, "we manufacture" is skirting close to the edge of a lie if "we" is spoken at an Apple branded press conference with no mention whatsoever of partners.
But, then I'm pressing command+c in the terminal window.
> Of all the people at a multiethnic women’s college who could hold the school’s “diversity” seat, the least fitting one was a white man.

I don't know about the "white" part, but putting a man in such a seat would seem to be more appropriate than putting a woman in it.

Doesn't anyone else remember what "diversity" means?