skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This caught me at first too. My guess is that they are blocking access to the infringing file for people other than the alleged offender.

Previously they disabled the whole repo, and this blocked everyone, including the alleged offender from accessing it.

Now it sounds like they will restrict access on a file level and give the alleged offender access to attempt to respond/modify the file to comply or appeal.

This effectively removes the offending content from public view, which should be interpreted as blocking access.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what happens but from how the process was described, it seems plausible and avoids some of the worries that Github isn't responding fast enough to claims.
And controlled by... who?
When you find a problem, you're really just found a new project.
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Ars Technica Liveblog, always a nice source:

http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-october-16-2014-media-eve...
It's not about the encryption. It's about the encryption keys
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My original point also has a lot to do with single-byte encoding(s), as you may have noticed. Will we really want to change ASCII to encode something different than it does now? Will we throw away all our programming languages as well? I don't think so.
> wealth decays

I don't understand this. I mean you just get poor much quicker when you have less wealth. I understand that you don't stay rich, but it secures your kid's futures.
Ya, I wouldn't trust anything that promises security I can't compile myself. Its not perfect but at least there are more eyeballs.
"There is no objective evidence that we are getting any more intelligent than past intellectuals..."

Doesn't the Flynn Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect) counter that claim?
Definitely not, but where else do you start? We're asking this all the time as naturally there are a million pieces to becoming a developer. Code is just one tool in the box, but isn't it the basis? Particularly if you're starting from scratch, until you know you like code and how it works its hard to imagine being able to pursue a dev career.
The goal should be to help encourage the next generation to do something meaningful (to them), regardless of what advantages they had at birth.
http://9to5mac.com/community/how-to-stream-apples-oct-16-ipa...
I dunno if you can categorically rule out portable form factors for "content creation," though. Content creation is a biiiig space.

I used to be quite productive writing on the road using a Handspring Visor Deluxe (more info for the young 'uns among you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handspring_%28company%29#Visor_...) with WordSmith (http://danbricklin.com/log/wordsmithreview.htm) and a Stowaway foldout keyboard (http://danbricklin.com/log/stowaway.htm). And that was on a 3" black-and-white display and a 16MHz single-core CPU! I know, right?

I wouldn't have wanted to program on it, but as a writing environment, it was fine. Now give me writing software of the same quality as WordSmith, a keyboard as good as the Stowaway, and my ho-hum Galaxy S3 with its 5" hi-res color display and a quad-core 1.5GHz CPU...
it's called the Powershell ISE, and it's been around for awhile.
Very interesting and thought-provoking point. Although on the other hand, I personally think that Bill Gates, acting as a king and trying to figure out what he thinks will do the most justice and good, is going to do better for the world than what people in a democracy will vote for themselves. Democracy has given us unbalanced budgets, runaway debt, pointless wars, and corrupting entitlements. Bill Gates is doing some amazing and wonderful things.

Not saying that monarchy is better than democracy. Democracy is best at protecting rights, which is the function of government. But as for making the world a better place, really, individuals are probably best at that.
I recommend this project for image caching: https://github.com/rs/SDWebImage

It creates a cache keyed on the URL and deals with processing the image off of the main thread.
Spam to increase your chances of winning? No thanks.
Re #2: Subclass UIImageView, add a -setImageURL: method, hash the URL and use it to lookup/store images in the documents directory.
https://gist.github.com/cloudwalking/74a364e168b641e44482

https://gist.github.com/cloudwalking/66990a244b249c57f443
"is not actual knowledge that the forks are as well"

You assert this as if this is how a judge would see it (or as if it is well tested).
That seems highly unlikely to me.

It seems to be very easy to make the legal argument that because github knows which forks are copies and which aren't, they have actual knowledge of the ones that are still copies.
Some more feedback, in the Australia section you've put New Zealand as well. Maybe you should name it Australasia to be a little more accurate?
The other platforms want people to use a more complicated streaming format?
> The elephant that everybody pretends that isn't in the room is that what you just called weapons is the ability to create wealth. Do we really need to take it away from everybody?

Any time you're considering a tax system you have to consider the incentives it creates for people.

If you have a "wealth tax" then we have to consider how the rich will try to avoid it. First, people will convert from savings and investment to consumption. You ordinarily want to tax wasteful consumption and create an incentive for wealth creation, so that's doing the exact opposite. Second, people will convert wealth into forms that are either easy to hide from the government (e.g. gold bullion in a foreign bank vault) or are not considered wealth by the tax code or that have indeterminate market value. None of that is good.

Most importantly, the only way that a wealth tax is going to do what Piketty wants is if the rate is higher than the typical rate of return on capital. If it's lower then the effect can be no more than it would be by fiddling with the tax rate on capital returns. But if it's higher then the economic incentives it creates are catastrophic. It literally becomes more profitable to hoard cash in a mattress than invest it in anything that would disclose its existence to the government, or to move it all into foreign investments and take whatever steps necessary (up to and including renouncing citizenship) to eliminate any claim the country imposing the wealth tax has on it.

> If I had to choose, I'd tax consumption (with a VAT) and redistribute a fixed rate of it by a basic income. But that's mostly because of procedural simplicity and resistance to corruption.

This is actually a very strong alternative. VAT has an unintuitively strong similarity in effect to corporate income tax with the exception that it's much harder to avoid by diverting income to foreign subsidiaries because the VAT applies the same to imported goods as domestic. The existing corporate income tax is effectively a huge subsidy for goods imported from countries that have no or less corporate income tax.

And a basic income does exactly what you want in order to reduce the concentration of wealth: It gives people at the bottom and in the middle the ability to take the risks that promote upward mobility without having to worry about starving or freezing if it doesn't work out.
Interesting, I've heard of this before with Orange (the parent company of EE). A former colleague had used her sim lock free phone with an Orange SIM, after which the phone would no longer accept non-Orange SIMs. The response from Orange was nearly identical in her case and I don't think she ever got it resolved.
"Gates and Zuck Rockettes"

That's a strange image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rockettes
Only once a week? Can I have your job, please? I get to use that and 5 on a daily basis.
Uses HLS
Yeah they just irrelevant jokes and laugh at each other so you can't actually hear what is going on. They have really gone downhill with their live coverage.
I'm the CTO of Whisper. This is really bad reporting. A few notes:

1. we use a legacy maxmind geoip database so we can put the whisper in a general location. that is so inaccurate as to be laughable. for instance, my current IP using our service says "USA", though I'm in Venice, CA. This is hardly a privacy violation, and it's really important for a bunch of reasons:

a) The whisper needs to actually appear in the app, and it won't appear without some general location. The % of all Whispers which are tagged as somewhere in the middle of Kansas because we don't really know where they are (but we know they are in the US) is very high. This is not a scandal.

b) We want to know where a user is in a general sense for things like tracking timezone so when we send pushes we know not to send pushes at 3 in the morning. you'd be surprised how often device timezone may not always match with physical location.

c) We use general location to determine things users may be interested in. folks who post in lower manhattan may see different results than people in College Station, TX, over time.

d) We have a lot of anti-spam technology, and what IP you posted from, and what country that IP is in, is important. I can't elaborate on this but it's incredibly logical why we would use that information for things like keeping the app from filling with spammy garbage.

e) We throw away the IP you used to create the whisper after a brief period of time.

2. We've been working with researchers at a local university to ensure the anonymity around location was such that they couldn't determine groups of whispers from the same user. They contributed to our randomization algorithms and provided suggestions around security.

3. We fuzz location even more than this on write and on reads. We randomize it based on the observer who asks for the location, and we randomize it BEFORE WE SAVE IT TO OUR DATABASE. In other words, we don't actually know where the user was once the whisper is saved, and we can't even tell later.

4. The guardian's reporting that we changed our terms of service in response to the article is beyond silly. I am happy to show a screenshot of the email chain between myself and our lawyers back in July. The entire point of updating the TOS was to make it clearer and easier to read, not to protect ourselves or give ourselves more rights to user data. It takes MONTHS to get things like TOS write for an app like Whisper, and we take it seriously.

5. Edited to add... We just don't have any personally identifiable information. Not name, email, phone number, etc. I can't tell you who a user is without them posting their actual personal information, and in that case, it would be a violation of our terms of service.
And in this (and many other cases), how do you shift your business to something that is fundamentally different in a lot of ways, has a very different cost structure, and may not especially align with the particular competencies developed over the years?

Reading about Kodak and Fujifilm is interesting: http://www.economist.com/node/21542796. Both diversified--Fujifilm just did so more successfully. And, interestingly, did so by arguably focusing less on being a photo company in a digital age (though their mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras are nice products) but by applying their film chemistry expertise elsewhere.

Hopefully you have the advantage over starting fresh of a good revenue cash cow. But if that revenue declines rapidly, your legacy base may be more burden than help even if everything is managed perfectly.
They want you to buy a current gen device so you can watch what you can buy in a couple of weeks.
That would be true in practice were it not for the existence of marketing, job of which is to create random arbitrary needs to keep people buying, and planned obsolescence, which makes sure that needs don't stay fulfilled for long. The market found a way to increase the limit to how much one person can waste to the point that the waste keeps accelerating.
Doubly confusing because Signal was originally going to be called Whisper [1].

1: https://whispersystems.org/blog/a-whisper/
The Big Future: Can We Colonize Mars?
This looks like a real thermal engineering challenge in one respect. The superconductive magnet coils are exposed to the neutron flux that transfers fusion reaction energy to the absorptive thermal blanket. I don't know offhand the neutron cross-sections of likely superconductor materials at whatever neutron energy spectrum this reactor will produce, but I suspect energy absorption by the magnet structure won't be small. I wonder how they plan to keep the magnets cold. Never mind the other effects on materials of high-flux neutron absorption.
Why MPP-based Analytical Databases Are Still Key for Enterprises
It's too soon to tell. You would need 200-300 years to go by to know. And among the countless contemporary artists today, a tiny handful will be recognized for their enduring contribution to music.
>The Guardian also looks bad flipping this into a lede in my mind.

The Grauniad would look bad for claiming to be journalists and not reporting on this.

edit: really? Journalists, not under any 'off-the-record' or non-disclosure agreements, seek to partner with an app that allows anonymous communication, and finds that it's tracking it's users, storing all information, ignoring opt outs, and funneling information to governments.

They shouldn't report this because what? They should report this even if they are not journalists, but have a moral center.
Genetic Testing is well and growing. Leads to embryo selection implicitly, which is not so far from eugenics.

A good example is French Canadian region Lac St Jean where parents are allowed to select their embryo considering rare diseases present in the region :

http://www.procreacliniques.com/en/genetic-testing/french-ca...
"Immediately contacting the repository owner, and asking them to remove the content themselves within a short window of time, sounds like an expeditious response to my non-lawyer ears.

Except, uh, you cut out the object of this sentence, which is the service provider, not the user.

That is, github, not the user, is supposed to be the person responding expeditiously to remove.
Contacting someone is neither "removing" nor "disabling access".

The law is simply not ambiguous here, and github trying to play this game is not likely to go well in an actual court, as much as i'd like it to be the case (i know other companies have been threatened on exactly this point before).
For direct political lobbying yes. Some of their issues are transnational (like when they put pressure on companies), and they criticize governments worldwide. But when they directly lobby politicians it's typically only the American ones. It can get legally tricky to do otherwise, because many countries have laws restricting foreign organizations from becoming directly involved in elections/campaigning.

In some European countries, one of the members of EDRi might be worth looking into (some are more politically active than others): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Digital_Rights#Member...
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From Isaac Newton to the Genius Bar
A wonderful worldview, until one considers the reality that extraordinary wealth does not tend to accrue to the most virtuous, 'hard-working' individuals in society.
You write as if no one has ever tried different ways of allocating capital. The 20th century is replete with examples of such "better" ways of allocating capital that failed spectacularly (often with considerable bloodshed).
MacRumors Live Coverage: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/16/october-2014-event-live/
Intriguing. I will add this to my daily news review (as first item), and see what is left when I get to the others. Thanks for doing this!
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I just realized I've said all of this already in http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3421v2.pdf (p.16):

... The preceding discussion is not intended to convey an overly simplistic view of genetics or systems biology. Complex nonlinear genetic systems certainly exist and are realized in every organism. However, quantitative differences between individuals within a species may be largely due to independent linear effects of specific genetic variants. As noted, linear effects are the most readily evolvable in response to selection, whereas nonlinear gadgets are more likely to be fragile to small changes. (Evolutionary adaptations requiring significant changes to nonlinear gadgets are improbable and therefore require exponentially more time than simple adjustment of frequencies of alleles of linear effect.) One might say that to first approximation, Biology = linear combinations of nonlinear gadgets, and most of the variation between individuals is in the (linear) way gadgets are combined, rather than in the realization of different gadgets in different individuals.

Linear models works well in practice, allowing, for example, SNP-based prediction of quantitative traits (milk yield, fat and protein content, productive life, etc.) in dairy cattle. ...
I am getting this error.

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Democrat Governor: Legalizing Pot Was ‘Reckless.’ a New Study Proves Him Right
One thing that seems to be missing from your replies is an acknowledgement that the criminal justice system is likely not a particularly effective way to repair the problem(s) that you've highlighted. I think we'd do well to at least discuss the possibility that there are better ways to handle your child neglect example than locking up the parents and throwing away the key. We need to focus on harm reduction and the medical treatment of addiction if we really care about the safety of the child in your example.
It's easy for members of the European Union as there are/were bi-lateral agreements. For other nationalities I think it's harder, as there are some quotas. You basically need to find a job first, but it's doable.
This is a refreshingly candid and sanguine review of Piketty's book from someone who was a ruthless capitalist not so long ago.

News flash: Billionaire who spends 0.01% of his money advocates consumption tax! Cats living with other cats! Water found to be wet!
I think this is a really really important point. Even at our company (a bootcamp) we receive resumes like what you're talking about.

We definitely advocate quality bootcamps for their teaching, but one thing that's upsetting is the lack of focus on the "career" aspect. Like, how spamming a billion contacts with your github account is REALLY not the way to go about it.

We see the problem all the time though, even in our own student's perspective of the industry.

The one point I would disagree with, at least from the perspective of our program as I can't speak for others, is that while sometimes we end up with people strictly in the first bubble, those are generally the ones that never finish the courses. It becomes to hard, the actual scope of a "career" becomes to realistic for them, and its no longer about the potential pay check but what they want to be spending their time on. If they don't have the stamina or mental mojo to land in the middle of your venn diagram they never finish, and don't try to become career devs.

And the final line of your comment is so so so so so important. As a startup of course we want growth and push for it, but we restrict so much of what we could "sell" with on enrolling students based on the fact that we don't want to risk perpetuating this problem.

I'm sure we still do though, certainly on our front-end of the site no matter how much we pan down the sale to enrollment. So the perfect solution, for us at least, is as of yet to be found.
Your second paragraph is complete flame bait unsupported by facta. You should have added "IMO" to it as well, because it is just your opinion.
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Wouldn't be any more annoying than the sticky post that's already there for alien blue users. I agree, just put the sidebar content in the sticky...
There's no good reason for whatever downvotes you're getting. The fact is the comment underscored by your sarcasm is correct: that breeding, alone, is not necessarily going to produce any super-intelligent human. The biology of intelligence is one we haven't come close to a deep understanding of. To glibly throw out "selective breeding" as a scientific approach to generating super-intelligent humans is, frankly, not a very scientific thing to do.
Is there a mechanism they could use for blocking access to the file from within git without rewriting all of the commits (and therefore changing hashes)?
> a game box had more graphics horsepower than tens of thousands of dollars worth of SGI junk

Interestingly, at least one of those game boxes (Nintendo 64) was actually powered by SGI technology. [1]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCP_(chip)
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Ask HN: What TLD do you use for your personal site and email?
I'm in the process of moving away from my gmail account and would like a personal domain for my email and website. I already own firstnamelastname.com, the problem is that my first and last name together are really long and I'd like something shorter, for email especially (i.e. me@lastname.com). I'm thinking of getting lastname.co since lastname.com is taken and the guy won't give it up (funny since lastname.com was registered in Colombia and I think he's Colombian). My last name is short so it looks nice. I could come up with some hacky domain names but I like the simplicity of lastname.co

In this day and age, is there any downside to owning a .co TLD (besides typos). I plan to use me@lastname.co for email and I'd like to make some aliases for different services (dropbox@lastname.co, contests@lastname.co). I would host a small blog at the domain name, I don't really promote myself too much, and if you Google my name it would come up at the top any way.

What do you guys use?
Gates is giving away the vast majority of his wealth to causes meant to benefit the poorest people in the world. While some of your criticism is valid I don't think it's fair to say that hie's ignorant of the existence of poor people.
So are you implying that we would be better off long term if we just shut down coal plants immediately?
Your app is not coming in results when I performed a search at app store
Anyone interested in learning more about GamerGate is well-advised to visit http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction (KiA). The sub is highly active and the wiki is reasonably well-curated. Polite, rational skeptics are welcome.
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Just a thought that comes to mind here (not really a response) is that yes, problems exist with training good engineers, particularly in a bootcamp format. Many comments below go into this. But we see a lot of students who are learning development as a life style choice as well.

Maybe sounds odd but the mission for these guys and girls is actually never to get a "job", its actually to build prototypes of their own ideas or start freelancing as a web designer, doing small sites for friends and families then sourcing clients and using it all as a way to perpetuate their learning.

I don't know how many bootcamps get those kinds, but its become the majority of our student base.

I think for these people in particular bootcamps is brilliant. Though the problem with training good engineers for jobs in established companies still remains.
No one. See namecoin.
True! For the US, concentration of wealth was lower than Europe pre-WW2, but is higher today. According to him, that's because the wealthy here only had to contend with the Depression, and avoided most of the shocks of WW2.