skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely that's tautological. Of course the people who actually bought the car liked it. Why would you by a $20,000 car you didn't like?

You get no points for nailing your demographic to the tune of 27,000 cars a year at peak sales, when you need to sell 30,000 cars a year just to break even.
Have you try it?
Url changed from http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/cosmic-ray-particle-s..., which points to this.
I didn't figure out its vs it's until this past year, and I'm 27. It just didn't seem particularly important to bother with...

Out of the 50 most used English words, all but one are from Anglo-Saxon. Out of the top 200, all but 13 are from Anglo-Saxon. On the other hand, out of the entirety of the English vocabulary, only a small portion of them are Anglo-Saxon. English has a Germanic core but has borrowed happily from other Indo-European languages.

I hope I'm representing these numbers right. Been listening to the History of English podcast [1] which, if you like this stuff, is absolutely fascinating. The first episode is worth listening to just to hear Old and Middle English spoken.

1. http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
More like not to entrust single copies of open projects to US-based companies. Even a somewhat 'respected' company as Github is just a corporate body that will bend over for anyone with business and away from anything that is Too Troublesome.
And it's back http://blog.popcorn-time.se/
Americans like Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segre, Leó Szilárd, James Chadwick or James Franck?
Also agree. SQL is not easily composable. I wish for relational algebra programs that can have an optimizer run over it and determine the optimal join order etc.

The argument that SQL allows you to say what the result should be without any reference to the order in which the steps should be done is fine, except that it is hard to say some things in SQL. If C compilers can transform sequential, imperative code to an equivalent optimized form, I don't see why relational algebra compilers / optimizers cannot.
Looks like a great start! First thing that comes to mind - let arrow keys move the focus to the adjacent cells. Without this it is a huge usability loss.
Is the git repository blocked too? or only the github project? (I can't try it right now)
I switched from a rolling release distribution (Chakra) to Debian because I got tired of the rolling release system constantly breaking things. If you fall too far behind on updates in Chakra, the maintainers basically tell you you're screwed. I finally complained about it in their forums and was politely told to go away.

My computer is just a tool. I just want it to work so I can get things done. Debian has been good about that in the past and enjoys the support of a very large, dedicated, active developer community.

Maybe Arch is better than Chakra at managing their updates (although Chakra was basically a modified Arch distribution), but my experience with Chakra left a really bad taste in my mouth for the rolling release approach.

FWIW, Debian's "update EVERYTHING" every few months never broke things as badly for me as Chakra's frequent smaller updates did.
It seems to still be available from popcorntime.io in a local Stash repo: https://git.popcorntime.io/stash/projects
I think anything that requires "spotting potential problems" is only a partial solution. I've never seen a compelling system that can look at all the metrics and (with reasonable precision and recall) spot and summarize changes that are actually problematic and surprising to humans. It's definitely a necessary part of observing what's going on (and quickly eliminating hypotheses like "maybe we're out of CPU!"), for sure.

The subcritical alerts I think of are more things like "Well, the database is _getting_ full, but it's not full yet." Or to borrow someone else's example, "we put in this daemon restarter when it was dying once a week; now it's dying every few minutes and we're only surviving because our proxy is masking the problem but soon it's going to take the whole site down."
i've only read a bit of foucault but one of his fascinating expositions is the mechanisms of discipline that run through us unconsciously (i've heard it termed micropower). it's tangentially related to the panopticon, which is what many people think of in relation to foucault. foucault makes claims that normative forces (micropower) are more powerful than direct coersion.

micropower breaks down when individuals start othering people (contrasting and disassociating others from themselves), particularly those we call criminals (recall zimbardo's prison experiment and milgram's as well). reformation efforts in the criminal justice system, then, have been focused on replacing punishment and coercive tactics with rehabilitative ones to bring offenders back into the fold so that normative forces rather than coercive ones can act to create social stability.

but our justice system has a ways to go on this front. minor offenses like petty theft can lead to months/years in prison and acute othering (yet we don't even prosecute those who brought our financial system to its knees and millions of livelihoods along with it). instead sentences for most offenses should not separate offenders by putting them into jail but instead should put them in the middle of a normative group of people. this surely requires a high degree of collective empathy and compassion though. but at least we no longer have debtors prison...
Not nessisarily, suppose you like X your OK with Y and you hate Z. Do you vote 100% on Y or 0% on Y.
If someone wants to set up a source repository to host content that is designed to make it easy to infringe copyright, I'd be in favor of it.

Mostly so that content can live somewhere other than GitHub, which would free up their admins from having to deal with this mess.
I find http://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp to be extremely useful for cases when I know what I want to do but don't remember how to do it in Elisp.
Hey, congrats to you! I'm pretty much in your exact boat.

I started the year at 267 and I'm down to 225 now. My goal is an even 200 (or I'll sometimes say 199 for the joy of seeing that 1 in the front).

I've done it just as you have -- by eating less. At the start of my diet I was counting calories on a daily basis -- but after a while I started learning to pay attention to the calories of everything I eat. Now I simply keep a running tally in my head and know where I'm at. I'm fine with estimating when I need to.

The biggest change for me is learning to be happy with smaller portions. I used to eat 3 enchiladas, then have another 2, then another 3,.. THEY ARE SO DELICIOUS! Now I know going in that I'm going to make my plate and that's it. There's times I wish I could have more, but enjoying the one plate is the biggest key to my success so far.

The other side of it is avoiding calorie landmines. It's so easy to accidentally eat an extra thousand or two calories while eating out by not paying attention. Knowledge is power :).
Occasionally I try Bing and usually find that it doesn't yield very relevant search results. I almost always have to switch over to Google to find what I'm looking for. Plus it drives me crazy that you have no way of specifying you only want current results (within the past year). Bing sucks, Google doesn't.
>Maybe we can skirt by with the general purpose nature of the above tools...so what about tools used to facilitate penetration testing (which can also be used for computer crime) - should we get rid of that source code too?

Germany made all "hacker tools" illegal to posses in 2007.

http://makezine.com/2007/08/11/the-hacker-tool-law-in-ef/
Google Elections Launches New App Built with Dart, Polymer
Fabulous idea.

Price seems a bit steep though.
What makes you think this isn't the case? I don't see anything to the contrary in the document.
No doubt this will be reinstated in a few days after the devs file their counterclaim. IANAL, but there's no DMCA violation in the code itself. Even though the DMCA claim was spurious, GitHub did was they were obligated to do by taking it down for now.
You really think the way the car looks is that important? For some people it's just a way to get from one place to another.
I'll extend my hypothetical.

Lets say there are two groups. One group builds a generic media client - under the guise of better delivery of free educational videos (MIT lectures etc.)

The other group sets up "Movie Copyright Watch" and publishes an up-to-date list of movie torrents - under the guise of occasionally reporting this list back to MPAA and the like.

Now lets say team A decide to adopt the same configuration format as team B uses to publish the list.

Neither team has done anything wrong and the resulting application is capable of infringing copyright - and is essentially equivalent to what popcorn time has.

What is the difference? Tools are tools - it is crazy to ban knives because you can stab people with them.
Oh the other side of it --- weighing in frequently and drinking a ton of water! I weigh myself most nights. I know what days I didn't get enough water, because I'll have "lost" 2 pounds that day. That tells me that (1) I need to immediately drink some more water and (2) drink extra the next day. Dehydrating yourself will have a negative impact on weight-loss long-term.
I own several ugly vehicles (a T&C minivan for one). I wouldn't have touched an Aztek at the time with stolen money.

It looks cheap. Its front is a single molded piece of cheap plastic that goes from the undercarriage to the hood. It is surrounded on all sides by more cheap looking plastic bits. GM is infamous for putting cheap plastic bits on their cars that simply don't stand up to the elements; so anyone who has ever owned a GM car knows what an Aztek is going to look like after the warranty period is over. As it turns out GM must have improved thier plastics and the Aztek has aged well. But there was no way to look at one when it was new and tell that it wouldn't crumble like an old milk jug after six or eight years in the sun.
I don't think it's end-to-end testing because "testing" to me implies a synthetic environment. This is about instrumenting and monitoring the production system at scale, and learning about the right things at the right time.

It certainly shares some things with end-to-end testing, and blackbox monitoring is very useful for finding high level problems with any complex networked system.
I noticed the other day that KDE 4 (my current favorite WM) is now running on OpenBSD -- I'm due for a new desktop next year, I'm pretty sure it'll be OpenBSD. I've been looking forward to running that as a daily desktop for years.
Interesting: it looks like a more successful rival to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Moke Mini Moke.
Time Warner Cable to Upgrade to 300Mbps Down/20Mbps Up
Using a fixed release only requires that you apply the update once every few years, so you can plan for it. You can do it at a quiet time when you are available to fix any problems. With a rolling release you have no idea if something is going to break at an inconvenient time.
Density and less transportation to spread exciting things from further away?
Any repository served with a DMCA notice can file a counterclaim, as outlined in: https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/#b-cou...
With those applications you can get from clean install to playing a copyrighted movie in three clicks. You don't do that with a web browser.

Also, they are meant to be used that way. When people recommend those applications to friends and relatives they are meant to be used for copyright infringement.

I'm not agreeing with what was done here, but there is a qualitative difference between a torrent client, media player, etc, and the popcorn time applications.

Edit: yes, you can hit a movie streaming service with your web browser by navigating to a URL. Have a cookie. But that requires previous external data and thus is not "clean" install.
"The important part of this account is the existence of an Arabic speaker among the natives, indicating that there must have been more unrecorded contact between the Arab world and the Americas."

Or the account is incorrect. Just like Coronado's "Seven Cities of Cibola" was incorrect, or how Plato's allegory of Atlantis was treated as history. Or perhaps how the Kensington Runestone "proves" that Scandinavian explorers made it to Minnesota.

"Early Spanish explorers and pirates recorded abandoned cities in Brazil that had inscriptions identical to the language of the Mandinka (the people of Mali). More inscriptions in the Mandinka language were found in the United States as well."

Um. No.

Yes, there were abandoned cities. But no, they weren't colonized from Africa any more than space aliens helped built the pyramids. It isn't even internally consistent. In less than 200 years, and even with 2,000 ships (giving what, 100K people?), how did they built cities in Brazil and get up to the US. Did they walk through the Darien gap and the Aztec Empire, or did they have boats that could make it all the way there, but not back to Mali?

This web site is mythologizing history to bolster support for Islam. There's no need to fake history. Real Islamic history is impressive enough that it doesn't need to be tarnished by lies.
As a fellow gentoo-user, I am extremely happy with it.... until it's kernel upgrade time. I've managed to forget the set of flags needed to make my system work as desired. So it's a pretty painful process.
Sadly this is the last year that Toyota is making the FJ Cruiser, so if you want a new one now is the time to act.
Holy shit! Congratulations.
> For all its warts...

Each language has its warts. But kids learn them all in nearly the same time. There are better criteria: I like Future II and composites in German, in English almost every noun can be turned into a verb, French is full of nice sounding idioms. Some languages lack future or conjunctive at all, in others the verb conjugates with the speaker's confidence. The richness of colors is another topic. The list is endless, all the thousands of natural languages have a different expressiveness. The trends towards English kills a lot of the total human cultural expressiveness. I wish my brain had a greater window of learning them without effort, so I could easily choose an appropriate language fitting any given context.
I think it's simple: Developers who are on-call write better code.

As soon as you take the view of "This is crappy, but keeping it running is someone else's problem" then everything suffers (product quality, engineering quality, and reliability).
German and French are both easier then English.

I don't know about German but French? easier than English? Come on!
I get the feeling that a github clone paid in bitcoins running on tor is on the making somewhere, somehow...
I haven't read it, but the developer of Luminus (a collection of libraries, not a framework) authored this fairly recently:

Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code (https://pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj/web-development-with-cloj...)

Luminus: http://www.luminusweb.net

Edit: argh italics
Is that real?

On the main domain: http://popcorn-time.se/

> Our user's safety comes first!! Therefore we added a free Built-in VPN so you can use Popcorn Time ANONYMOUSLY!

Have they really built in a VPN?

How would one know it is operating?

Does the VPN re-route all traffic? If so, how isn't that malware?
I don't really recall anything about the Aztek back when it was in production, but for the life of me I can't understand all of this hyperbole about it. To me, it looks EXACTLY like half of the vehicles that I see on the road every time I drive to work. It's not all that different from a modern Suburu Outback, Honda CR-V, Kia Sorento, Hyundai Tuscon, etc. It's pretty much your standard-issue "crossover" vehicle (i.e. 21st-century station wagon).

Granted, I think there's nothing particular attractive about "crossover" vehicles today, either. But they're popular and ubiquitous now. So is there some special aesthetic flaw in the Aztek that I'm not refined enough to appreciate, or is the issue simply that it was a decade ahead of its time?
>>>> There is truly nothing redeeming about the car.

While I agree with everything you said, most consumers would never know this unless they test drove one, or were somewhat engaged in the industry.

I would argue on the timing issue though. By the mid 2000's most companies were knee deep in trying to build out their hybrid lines and grab what was left of the market Toyota had already been dominating for years with the Prius.

The Aztec looked stuck between a company trying to make a full sized SUV and a economy sized crossover for the masses. These people were looking for a gas efficient hybrid or something getting a decent MPG rating. The engine and drive train killed that idea right out of the gate which left it nowhere to really fit in.
Link I found of the lecture

http://vimeo.com/95073903
Conversely, I've lost a bunch of weight by not tracking calories (or anything for that matter, beyond glancing at nutritional labels). I focus on eating protein, fiber and fat so I fill up quickly. Our approach might seem to be at odds but the mechanism of action is the same: we eat less. Figure out whatever approach gets you to do that and you win.
Why are up speeds so abysmal? Is it a problem with infrastructure, or is it throttling because they think most uses for upload is illegal?
English isn't a nice language:

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.

- James Nicoll

New words & phrases get adopted by common usage. Old unused words & phrases get discarded like used condoms.
Anyone want to guess that the different between the ET-Plus and the original ET-2000 is that the Plus model is cheaper?
Ummm... that's almost the main point of the DMCA. Among other things the DMCA made it illegal to facilitate copyright theft. This has lead to several major cases including ones where attempts have been made to have scholarly papers censored when they papers point out holes in DRM (technologies that prevent users from doing what they want with content).
This is the Dodge Caliber to a tee. It actually looks like a mini Aztec and only survived two years before being replaced permanently by the Dart.
> With those applications you can get from clean install to playing a copyrighted movie in three clicks. You don't do that with a web browser.

Sure you can.

Click 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesonyoutube/

Click 2: Select a movie. Copyright infringement in two easy clicks!
Fantastic job with these! And I would be totally okay with you paraphrasing some of the speakers to summarize their key points in a short blurb and illustration. I realize this more work for you, and perhaps some possible misinterpretations, but I think the value would be higher than any unintended consequences.

In any case, thank you for creating these!
Tools designed to circumvent copyright are illegal too.
Right. This is the money sentence:

> Indeed, copyright infringement is so prevalent within the Projects that infringement plainly is their predominant use and purpose.

"Predominant use and purpose" is one of the tests for whether software is copyright-infringing under DMCA. IANAL but this looks pretty open-and-shut to me.
Yeah, I think this actually may explain things better than specificity. Even if the false alarm rate is low, the rate of actual, life-threatening fires is incredibly low in modern day, so chances are almost every time you hear a fire alarm go off it's alerting you essentially erroneously. I get the impression that in a home the "standard procedure" for dealing with fire alarms is to open windows, fan the smoke away from the thing and/or take the batteries out of the alarm.
I got the chance to attend this year and what struck me as most interesting about the weekend was not the day of speakers but the people I met. I meet lots of people who talk about startups but almost everyone I met was deeply serious and wicked smart. Every person I met, every conversation I had I came away thinking that they would be successful...and I am usually quite pessimistic in that scenario. Ground zero is a great term, I feel I met so many great people and heard so many great ideas that there was almost certainly a unicorn company in that room.
> American products were inferior to German-Austrian-Swizzerland ones, but they were able to manufacture at a massive rate that Germanic countries were not able to compete.

Keep in mind - WWII was won by Russia, not the US. Russia however did indeed out-produce Nazi Germany.
I could see a way in which the anti-circumvention provisions that prohibit any distribution of tools which enable the circumvention of access controls could be interpreted to enable action against or prohibition of PopcornTime distros.

You have to squint and let the screen go a bit blurry to see it, but I wouldn't count on getting a judge that sees it the other way if I was GitHub. I've always interpreted "access controls" to mean a specific "technological measure" such as CSS encryption, but in a very broad sense the law does allow for tools that don't have any particular copyrighted works in them to be considered illegal and rulings that would disallow their dissemination.
Wow, that's great! Thanks for the links!
>Might have been ls -Rlt / or something like that.

Ha, I used to do that sometimes, to make long-running disk I/O happen so that I could check something or the other that needed the I/O happening. Redirecting a process's output to /dev/null and putting it in the background with & can also be useful for many things.
This sounds fascinating - I read Codd's original paper on relational algebra for my last post (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf).

... and this notation almost seems more similar to the underlying math than SQL does.
Emacs development is going quite incredibly right now. For those unread on the mailing list, here are what I consider to be the most important updates of the past week or two:
* 24.4 will be released next Monday (yay!)
* Dynamic module support is near completion (or has been completed and awaiting mainline integration).
Seriously, Emacs is incredible.
"cheap, no-frills, and amazing content and people. And, of course, little to no introductory remarks."

Love that. Seeing EU events headed in the opposite direction... increasing fees, more showmanship, speakers all trying to literally sell you something, not very genuine or down to earth.
Ask HN: Any process modelling tools using the HTML5 canvas?
Im looking at a side-project playing around with html5 canvas and modelling processes or architectures?

If theres nothing out there there seems to gap in the market between tools like enterprise architect (repository-based models which are very standards based (UML, BPMN etc) and inflexible and basic process drawing libraries like mxGraph .

I see an opportunity here that sits between the little-to-no documentation except user stories and code movement and the horribly inflexible and maintainable 'enterprise' models out there - but happy to hear dissenting opinions on why thats a terrible idea!
I'm under the impression that a majority of the most prominent scientists were taken to USA post WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
I think it was related to the quality of error messages as well.
Thanks. Led me to this... wonder if they've implemented ES6 yet? :P

> Red Star OS features a modified Mozilla Firefox browser titled Naenara used for browsing the Naenara web portal on the North Korean intranet network known as Kwangmyong. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
A lot of people seem unaware of the "Anti-Circumvention" provisions of the DMCA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#United_State...

It's illegal to publish tools that have "limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent [copyright restrictions]"