skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just today, an early release in the finding of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab being use to treat non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma shows over 10% (4/29) of patients in complete remission. So I say that's pretty good. Dr. James Allison even said that for the 20-25% of patient that get an everlasting remission with Yervoy, that's great.

And those numbers will only go up.
The Pirate Bay Returns
I think it's pretty clear from the 20th century that stronger copyright laws doesn't benefit the human condition in general.

The copyright holders did anything to limit access to copyrighted material, just to make it unnecessarily scarce. (Except in the cases where the copyright holder is the actual artist.)

One of Lessig's points is that piracy made Hollywood possible.
Sorry. I was mistaken it didn't go open source, the proxybay was literally proxies to the main site and now all of them are down. You can in fact download a copy of every torrent and magnet link, then build your own site that searches through them.

Magnet links are just a short string of text so one who does isn't hosting anything as far as I'm concerned. That isn't the law apparently.
they just need something to pick on. It's a shame it has come down to this, with all these officials attacking Uber around the same time in an attempt to stifle them
Link for those who (like me) didn't know about podcast patent: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/good-bad-and-ugly-adam...
Nearly 25% of Video Ad Views Are Fraudulent, and 6 Other Alarming Stats
Ever heard about Demonoid?
With $16M in Funding, Helium Wants to Provide the Connective Tissue for the IoT
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The blog title contain a question mark, I guess this HN topic should also have it...
you're totally right -- I was talking about the jr. high and high school levels. Occasionally you'll see exceptions and some kids will be allowed up a grade or two in elementary, but it's not embedded in the process the way it is in jr. high and high school.
i'm imagining someday well into the future (about 9 months from now) i'll surf to Amazon.com and, click around until i find what i'm looking for--eg that Disney Frozen merchandise for my daughter's birthday--and add it to my cart, followed by a voice that reminds me of Lilith Sternin-Crane:

LSC: so how much do you want to pay for that

me: $49.99, like it says right next to the item on your Site

LSC: we'll let you have it for $85 and throw in free one week shipping

me: that's unethical

LSC: okay $80 and thanks for the compliment.

me: look, $55 is all i can afford to pay, that's all i have on me, i swear--so take it or leave it.

LSC: unlikely, in fact almost impossible--let's see, your median cumulative Amazon purchases by month for the past 24 months is just under $450; plus you have a cumulative balance of $216.34 on three Amazon gift cards in your name. You must be doing pretty well, sir.

me: i'm just a programmer--overworked and underpaid, etc.

LSC: yes we know. Now let's see...according to your shipping address and zip code, you live in...downtown Palo Alto!

me: well yes, but towards the dodgy end.

LSC: no you don't. So the median household income in your neighborhood is....

me: no idea where that figure came from, anyway, you can't tell my salary based on a neighborhood average.

LSC: well technically i could...but why should i in this case when i know your exactly how much you earn.

me: you're lying

LSC: you'll regret that. how's this for lying...remember about six months ago when you, persuaded by the 10% off the total in your shopping cart we promised, you clicked on our Amazon credit card offer and filled out the application right before you checked-out--giving us access to your entire credit history...

me: oh god

LSC: tell you what, i'll let you have it for $90, you pay for the one-day shiping and sign your family up for Amazon triple prime, and we'll say good night. Deal?

me: oh god

LSC: what's the problem? you soulnd depressed.
You mean the "noisy fan" (as Monty calls it) of the signal generator?
The thing is that to download a torrent, the absolute minimum amount of information you need is the torrent hash. The torrent hash is on the order of ~40 characters long, requiring no other information. All you have to do is paste that short sting into a torrent client to download a set of files.

Are we really going to say that these 40 character strings are illegal to share? If I paste the hash for the latest blockbuster in this comment, can legal action be taken against me?
Pretty sure if a taxi driver was accused of rape in India, no one would bat an eye.
> The ads were because of legal defence fees, which can be huge.

Citation?

The ads were making millions(1) to the people behind the TPB, and the legal cost is several orders of magnitude less.

update:
(1) http://www.thelocal.se/20100930/29334 "The Pirate Bay earned up to 35 million kronor ($5.2 million) in advertising revenue from the file sharing website" (2010, already)
My dad drove from Stuttgart to Cape Town in a Citroën 2CV in 1962.
What about Dell Latitude, e. g. 14 7000 Series: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e7440-ultrabook/p...
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Quoting the article:

"I don't know if this is legally feasible, but my inclination would be to allow Lyft here a long time before Uber," the commissioner of Portland's Bureau of Transportation, told the Times. "Lyft seems like a respectable company, and Uber seems like a bunch of thugs."

It is a bit shocking to hear a public regulator talk like this. A regulator's role should not be to pick and choose winners between two (essentially identical) companies based on personal preference.
Oh, is that what that is? Makes sense. Thanks.
Looks like I've found my obligatory "follow" on GitHub. It's probably going to be far more interesting than following Linus Torvalds on Twitter! :)
Very cool. Wonder how it would compare in speed with https://mercurylang.org?

It does support tabled evaluation as well it:

http://www.mercurylang.org/information/doc-latest/mercury_re...
Some confidence intervals for the hypothesis would be really handy. Still, great article!
Many filesharing and streaming services are down in Spain, too. Seems it's an european scale raid.
Your username is the slang name for Carling Black Label beer in South Africa :)
> The ads were making millions

Citation?
Exactly, it's good beer :)
My first thought was a space propulsion drive based on machine guns, much like ion propulsion. If humanity decided to get rid of all firearms (ha!), we could probably send them to space and drive a few spacecraft cheaply, easily and for a very long time (there are a lot more bullets than nuclear weapons)

Thermonuclear propulsion, as cool as it is, would be very powerful but uncontrolled acceleration, whereas a firearms-based drive could be controlled a lot more.

It would be fun if someone did a comparison on how long, fast and far nuclear versus bullet drives would get us in space.
I watched the full 20 minutes and have absolutely no idea what he was talking about for most of it. I did have that misconception about the stepping in digital signals though - so I did learn something!
I'm not buying the Demographic Theory of Senescence.

> Aging is nature’s way of leveling out the death rate, assuring that we don’t all die at the same time. Aging puts our deaths on an individual schedule so we can die at different times; other causes of death tend to kill everyone or no one.

It's a magical "group selection" hand-wavy argument—it sounds nice and is kind of heart-warming, but when making an evolutionary argument, that's usually a bad sign. In this case, it doesn't provide an explanation of how purposeful aging could possibly increase an individual's probability of passing on their genes.

If not aging was an option, you would expect to see something more similar to the results of Michael J. Wade's 1976 experimental attempt to show group selection behavior in individuals of a species. He artificially induced resource constraints on a selected subpopulation of flour beetles to see if the beetles would restrain their reproduction for the benefit of the group. What happened? The adults started eating the young of the other adult beetles.

http://www.pnas.org/content/73/12/4604.full.pdf

I don't have an explanation for aging, but I seriously doubt that it's a way for Nature to regulate population size to avoid resource depletion for the group.
It's actually very easy to hear different speakers have different quality in prices much higher than $150, even at moderate sound levels. Just go to a store and try it out (especially compare a $150 speaker with a speaker for $1500).
He never asserts that TPB is down forever. Misleading title.
xiph.org is like a MOOC without the name, spectacular pedagogical quality.
Most important part of coding is thinking and and it is best done not in front of the monitor. Making coffee looks like a good process for thinking.
There was a pretty good post the other day going around to that effect https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141209160450-9652774-in-def...
Suggestion: Get rid of the Hacker News reference in your header.

I think that most people who don't know about HN will run away when they see "Hacker" in the title. You are limiting your audience. If you must, it might be best to use Reddit instead. Or maybe rotate between the names of different websites that are similar.

Honestly, I would recommend focusing more on "Community" rather than the "We are the X for Y"
I disagree. I'm not a luddite. First, I didn't say that I use that exclusively. And furthermore:

* it's nice to have knowledge at hand when offline (commuting via train, abroad w/o a local data plan, no gsm coverage, edge connection instead of 4G)

* saves bandwidth for my 1GB/month data plan when appropriate

* Aard dict can be used to evade filtering (not my primary concern, but there are people in other countries who might benefit)
hey have 0 information about how you browse web.

You have chosen a very interesting value of zero.

They have all your interaction with every Google property, tied to your account when you're logged in and semi-persistent pseudonymous identities when you are not. They have the clickstream data between every google property (most notably, Search) and the rest of your web experience, which can (fairly easily) reveal many websites you visit. They have ga.js or AdSense tracking code running on double-digit percentages of all pages on the Internet.

If asked to, Google could provide you with as accurate a record of my flights between Japan and the US as either nation's customs agency could, simply by looking at a time series of IP addresses. Their data got radically more accurate a few years ago when I started using Google Maps with the location permission turned on.

For added giggles, Google is a SQL join away from associating my extraordinarily-well-established-but-weakly-verified Internet identity with unique identifiers like e.g. my social security number. That would probably make someone in the Borg hesitate for a few minutes, but clearly they're OK with saying "At scale, we know the huge class of people which happens to include Patrick -- who we know intimately but prefer to avoid acknowledging that fact in social settings -- is identifiable by a vector of features, and a machine can very quickly cluster a random Internet user with Patrick versus with Spammy McSpamsalot. We can thereby organize data about this person to serve their needs better, for example by giving them access to resources only for trusted people, like captcha-free whatevers. Bonus: this is one more reason why it is fun and convenient to invite Google into even more areas of their life! It's a win-win!"
I have written quite a bit of cross platform audio code. Portaudio really works fine. If you need low latency on Windows, use the ASIO backend. Compiling it on Windows is a bitch, though.
I understand that magnet links might make a difference legally. What I meant is that switching to magnet links instead of torrent files is not what I would consider a big technical achievement (TPB didn't actually invent the magnet URI scheme, they simply adopted it). My main point being that I agree with Peter Sunde, TPB hasn't changed much in 8 years. Here's TPB in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20061007080151/http://thepirateb...
Maybe not all hope has been lost and business ethics is something we do care about.
umm.... this works: https://thepiratebay.cr/

Or is this not the "original" TPB?
It is called hypocrisy. These debates are not real, they are planned and can be shut off like a spigot.
I think I'd be nervous if I were an Uber investor. There seems to be a lot of negative news about them lately; that's the kind of thing that can feed on itself.
Yeah, well, it doesn't compare at all. You're talking about a filter coffee machine whereas Keurig sells an espresso machine.
Your filter doesn't put out the same coffee as an espresso machine; there's pressure involved, temperature, etc..
Your coffee will be "longer" (more water) and contain way more caffeine.
You also won't ever be able to produce the foam and taste of an espresso with a filter machine.

I'm not saying that it's bad, simply that you cannot compare the two, they don't produce the same coffee.

Apart from that, what Keurig is doing (Nespresso is doing the same in Europe) is just plain wrong and should be prevented on a legal level. In France we have this "interop" law that allows us, for the sake of interoperability, to reverse-engineer a patented system to use with non-standard consumables. We have these capsule-based espresso cups, but anybody can sell the capsules.

If you want a real espresso, though, one that doesn't lock you up in a franchise and DRM-ed capsules, just buy a normal espresso machine.
> all of them are down

If you mean all the 'thepiratebay' domains, I think you are mistaken. This one works for me:

https://thepiratebay.cr/

haven't tried any else yet
Maybe I'm one of these "jerks", but it's always amusing to me when people complain about ads on the internet, while there are so many different ad-blockers out there.
http://www.thelocal.se/20100930/29334
"The Pirate Bay earned up to 35 million kronor ($5.2 million) in advertising revenue from the file sharing website" (2010, already)
> Furthermore, 20% used an ABX utility in the evaluation process suggesting good effort in trying to discern sonic differences.

Take those results with a (large) grain of salt.
One generation older Thinkpads and hope that they come to their senses in the future? Sometimes there are really good refurb deals.
Looks very interesting! Would be great to get an idea of what a typical workflow with this paradigm would look like.
so how are they supposed to improve/tune search results? that's the first metric i'd like to know.
Consul is built on top of Serf (the protocol at least), so given you are already using Consul, Serf wouldn't add anything for you.
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Is it me, or does this feel like a witch hunt? What specific laws did or does Uber break? Does the city really believe that taxi's are more ethical that Uber or Lyft?
I think the OPs point was that there is already a popular open source project named Hive.
Of course, this is how our browsers used to work before the makers decided to remove or hide that feature. I've never seen it on a mobile device. Does anyone understand the reasons behind that move? Even if you think page zoom is 'better' than text scale, surely it doesn't make sense to disable the latter altogether?
Why it is almost impossible to ban Uber and Ola in India
Secure, trustworthy classified ads website. Tons of free features
Interesting to see that a number of complaints have been levelled against the build systems.

It shows just how careful maintainers should be about creating smoother build experiences. Anyway I hope the author of the article will post a follow up with his new library.
The Pirate Bay earned up to 35 million kronor ($5.2 million) in advertising revenue from the file sharing website, >>>film companies maintained<<<

And literally the second paragraph in your link:

The claims were dismissed by Jonas Nilsson, legal counsel for one of the defendants, Fredrik Neij.

Nilsson argued that instead of being a profits earner most of the work to keep The Pirate Bay running had been undertaken on a voluntary unpaid basis.

"The revenues, which were not very large, went to buying new equipment," Nilsson said.
Why is cubeb not its own library?
It's a quote, quotes are usually lacking some context and this doesn't appear as bad as you make it out.

What if a few missing/implied words were added in that related to earlier parts of the conversation?

> my inclination would be to allow Lyft here a long time before Uber

becomes

> my inclination based on the legal interpretation of how these companies have operated would be to allow Lyft here a long time before Uber

His quote remains an opinion, the only missing context is whether this opinion is based on the legal arguments in the case or a purely personal opinion or external set of information that would show a bias away from the legal arguments.

He even said in the prior sentence "This is about one company thinking it's above the law". Again, implying that Lyft are following the spirit of the law as well as the letter, and Uber are following the letter and not the spirit (and thus working as many loopholes as possible to 'win' in-spite of the wishes of the people of the affected cities that they do so in accordance with the wishes of the people of those cities).

I think this is not shocking at all, it's how it's supposed to be. Shocking is how some companies wish to ignore the codified will of the people of a city (or state, or country) purely to turn a dime. And yes, it's also shocking that some representatives of the people are corrupt as hell and that the written law has enough holes in it to fly a 747 through.

But a representative of people's tax dollars standing up to ask for companies who operate within a city to do so in accordance with the wishes of those who pay the tax dollars is not shocking, it should be the norm
That is 100% the reason why Libreoffice has taken often leave Apache OpenOffice in the dust. Seriously.
"The fold" in the browser is the bottom of the first screen, below the fold is everything you need to scroll to see. This is what you mean... So what is it you think other people mean? I've never seen anything to indicate otherwise.
its his personal preference on what sort of businesses to allow in his city.

In my opinion, this is actually one of the only points of accountability for a corporation growing unchecked (which has this many varying complaints against them and some think act like thugs)
I really doubt men like gadgets more than women per se, it's a social/cultural/education thing that leads them to move away from those interests.
... according to the prosecution, who pulled those numbers out of thin air, with no actual evidence what so ever. You see parts of that in the TPB - AFK documentary.
That being said, I'm extremely happy that this is happening. It has the potential to bring alot of exposure to the idea of "open source" to government. I think it can and will work if adopted. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.
The idea of drawing those maps, which now hang in every classroom I have ever seen, by hand seems like a Herculean task. There are so many mundane things that we take for granted now because it is easy to do on computer.

Ah, the stories where arrogant, condescending "top of the Field" scientists get proven totally and utterly wrong. Wonderful and a good lesson in humility. The Scientific establishment might be right most of the time, but "most" is not "all".

The fact this happened in a pretty sexist environment by a women just makes it better.

Interesting that having a "women on board" was taken to be bad luck, that just sounds so backwards coming from a ship engaged in scientific research and paid for by scientists.
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Yes and we no longer dial or hangup phones and we don't travel full steam ahead. Lots of words move from one technology to the next.
Connect a Christmas globe to your RaspberryPi and start it on GitHub PullRequest
I wouldn't agree that the alternative is comparable to theft.

When you buy a thing, you own the thing. The manufacturer may have sold the thing to you at a loss, because statistically this works out for them in the long run, but it's not your responsibility as the consumer to ensure that that deal works out for them.

Take another example: suppose I want to buy a cheap printer to hack up for some kind of robotics project. Can we seriously propose that this would be "very nearly theft"?

Or another: several cruise lines are really inexpensive because the cruise line expects to make most of their money from alcohol and gambling. I don't particularly enjoy alcohol and gambling. Am I stealing from the cruise line if I cruise with them?
Are you using their all in one package or do you install from rubygems? The former should give you no problems. If you are doing the latter... well... you shouldn't.
500 Internal Server Error

If the page loads that doesn't mean it works correctly.
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Try watching his other videos; I think there's one that is more introductory.
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There’s a getting started guide to walkthrough a typical workflow:
https://atlas.hashicorp.com/help/getting-started/getting-sta...

In short:

- `vagrant up` to bring up a development enviornment and make application changes

- `vagrant push` to send application code

- `packer push` to package software requirements to produce an artifact (AMI, Docker container, VMware image, many more)

- `terraform apply` to deploy artifacts

Important to note that each of these commands can be executed by different people in different sequences, and all changes are tracked in the Atlas Dashboard/UI.
Tell that to Mark Zuckerberg. Negative press is meaningless when you dominate your industry. Uber doesn't quite yet, so it must press forward hard. Any attempt to slow down to appease the media would be foolish.
Buried within the article, the city claims to have alread settled a half a million dollar lawsuit with Lyft. hopefully this news source also covered that lawsuit.
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He's not a feudal lord. It's "his" city, sure, but not in that sense.
I don't remember learning a lot about the Jonestown Massacre in school, but because of popular culture I sort of got the gist of it -- basically that Jim Jones had convinced a ton of people to willingly kill themselves.

Not only was reading this informative, it was shockingly emotional. I can't even imagine what went on there, or how any of the defectors felt. At first I was angry at Congressman Leo Ryan for saying such good things about the camp, but it's so saddening what happened to him.

It really goes to show the true power charismatic people can have over others. It's the same thing we see with Hitler's reign, North Korea's leaders, and even at a non-evil level from influential people like Obama or Billy Graham (just as examples).

Words have immeasurable power, and words can create good (Graham or Obama) or evil (Hitler, Jim Jones).

Great read, and I'm still floored I didn't learn more about this in school. Absolutely terrifying.