skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anybody managed to install http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/, the program it's based on?
>The speculation is a slippery-slope argument, and not factual.

You don't need a slippery-slope argument, the immediate effects are anti-competitive. It adds a barrier to entry where in order to offer a service to a mobile user (with a data cap), you need to pay the carrier. It's like bribing a local official so that you can use the roads to make a delivery.
I think I hear an additional bit of trickery that the article didn't mention: the morse signal keeps oscillating between the left and right stereo channels, which on headphones or a nice speaker system make it sound more like artsy synth and less like a coded message.

If the illustration in the article is accurate, the hostages are probably listening on a monophonic radio or one with limited stereo separation, which would make the code easier to pick out and understand.
> Zero-rating is free shipping. I don’t know of anyone that considers free shipping anti-competitive, though one could make the same argument.

That's a bad analogy. A better analogy would be USPS[0] providing certain shippers with free shipping, and not others[1]. Imagine the disastrous effects this would have on small sellers, who would certainly not have the means to negotiate these rates with USPS, whereas a larger company would.

So it's not a slippery slope, because the anti-competitive impact is direct and immediate. USPS has to charge everyone the same price for the same service, and for good reason.

[0] Like broadband ISPs, USPS has an effective monopoly on shipping in parts of the country, as private carriers (UPS/FedEx) will simply "offload" certain deliveries to them, as USPS is required to ship to all locations.

[1] USPS does offer, for example, "Media mail" discounts, but this is available to all shippers, and represents a different service (slower delivery, no guaranteed dates - in the olden days, it represented surface shipping, though I'm not sure that is the case anymore).
I don't often go to clubs or places in general with loud music, but I play music trough earbuds/headphones to shut out distracting noises around me. And I guess to get "in the zone". I'm going to look up if there would be earplugs that could help me with that.

And 6 hours is seldom, it's the max, but average I do go above the suggested 1 hour.
Haven't private corporations been hacked by the US also (Brazilian PETROBRAS)?

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments...

Given the first Geneva article placing private targets within international convention if they are of military interest (including media and broadcast services), and SONY's cooperation with the State Department in producing "The Interview", might SONY then qualify under international law?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimate_military_target
Cars and mortgages... the Greeks sure were really ahead of their time.

Edit: Yeah sure, downvote me instead of the guy that is posting nonsense...
This is nifty.

My father has hearing loss and it's bad enough that not only does he use hearing aids, he is constantly turning them up until they feedback and start ringing. He doesn't hear the ringing, but I do, and I have some hearing damage of my own. And he wonders why his hearing aids go through batteries so fast.

Their description of how hearing loss works gives me some ideas on how I can help my father manage his hearing loss better than just constantly buying batteries.

However, I do have one complaint with the article, and that's their (mis)use of terminology, specifically, dynamic range. Dynamic range is not, as they claim, the range of frequencies one can hear, from lowest to highest (e.g. 20Hz-20kHz). That's bandwidth. What dynamic range is, is the ratio of quietest to loudest sounds possible, often expressed in dB.[1]

For example, as they mention, human hearing has about 120dB of dynamic range. An audio CD can encode a dynamic range of 96dB. The 24-bit files professional audio studios work with can represent up to 144dB of dynamic range.

Perhaps it's a pedantic distinction, but using already existing terms for what you mean to say is less likely to cause confusion than misusing one that means something else.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range
This is way more insightful http://www.fastcompany.com/3031259/these-kids-today
Closure also has a goog.scope call that lets you locally alias various imports, but the compiler is aware of it and can optimize across scope boundaries. Pretty handy - besides dead-code elimination, variable renaming also works with goog.scope and so you don't have to treat each import as an extern and spell out the fully-qualified name in the generated code.
Neat! I've been trying to get myself to meditate more often. Any ETA on when the next challenge will start?
Of note: The definition given of propositional implication is in terms of classical Boolean logic, but, though I don't know much about Swift, it seems likely from the discussion that its inhabitable types correspond to the theorems of intuitionistic logic rather than classical logic. [E.g., it is unlikely to be possible to implement generic functions of types such as "((P -> Q) -> P) -> P" or "Not<Not<P>> -> P", despite these being Boolean tautologies (these are often thought of as in Curry-Howard correspondence with constructs like call/cc, which perhaps is an integral component of Swift, but at any rate, this nuance was never discussed in the article)].
I haven't paid for the program and have not installed any adware on my machine, I am happy with the product and have no qualm with someone who has spent their time making something to try to profit from it. I'm not the sort of person who opts-in to install malware so its not an issue to me. If I wanted to be upset about something I would buy a commercial, ad-free, program and complain that it does not have features of filezilla.
My Roommate the Prostitute
I'm not contradicting your observations.

I'm pointing out a sociological fact.

You do not know the definition of lower middle class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_middle_class

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer_%2...

The median income for a programmer is $69,708. This falls into the lower middle class.

When Silicon Valley salaries are adjusted to account for cost of living, programmers making over $100,000 still fall into the LOWER middle class.

People who get into software chasing money and elite status are ignorant of the fact that programmers are not elite and do not have high social status. They have lower middle class status and pay--which is better than working class at least.
Use Instapaper?
As the article points out, this translates to:

"Listen to this message, brother"
The Noisey Guide to the New $1,200 Sony Walkman – Conclusion: It Plays Music
Taken in good fun, but if anyone is interested, urn models are frequently used in probability theory though. [0]

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urn_problem
Yep. The OpenBSD devs seem to be fully conscious of this too. Like, when they first announced their fork of OpenSSL, and decided to use comic sans for the font. (http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/23orq0/libressl_open... -- "This page is scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters.")

As expected, that got a bunch of people talking about comic sans, instead of OpenSSL, and acted as a pretty good filter for serious programmers.

...which apparently I've also just fallen on the wrong side of. Darn.
Spatial frequencies in the image might have been a much better analogy instead of simply cropping the image size.
Seriously.. just don't talk while driving. It's dangerous for everyone.
Kickstarter meets ticketmaster
Thank-you, I did not realize that. I feel a bit better now about the down votes in that light.

As for you last comment though... are you sure you meant ethnicity? Maybe you meant demographic?
We run Audienced, a platform that helps event organizers get a guaranteed minimum attendance for an event while eliminating all upfront financial costs & risks. Is that something that could be of benefit to you?
Dimensions are variables that are independent of each other. They could be spatial dimensions like (x,y,z), or color dimensions like (red,green,blue).
Yeah, I tried for a couple years to get Google Search to adopt JQuery, but JQuery without dead-code elimination would've doubled the SRP latency, and JQuery with dead-code elimination doesn't actually eliminate any dead code. The problem is that it's written in a style that dynamically assigns methods to the JQuery prototype, and so it's not possible to analyze which code actually exists in the library without executing the whole of the library.
The top-viewed Wikipedia page for every day of 2014
Companies have a very strong incentive to make it expensive? Can you expand on that?
I see what you mean: Public transportation can be welfare-enhancing when there is enough regularity of travel between certain (networks of) points that throughput is increased when e.g. a lane is converted from road to light rail. The benefits of higher throughput would exceed the opportunity cost of the space being usable for fewer routes.

(tl;dr: it pays to bus people if they're all going between the same points.)

In that sense, if some major sites can exploit the regularity of the traffic they get to the point that they produce less load on the network per bit transmitted, that it's (not un)reasonable that the user be billed less for that site, though "free" is still questionable.

We should be careful to distinguish "bribing ISP for preferential access" vs "accounting for the reality of the cheaper carriage of one site's data".

(tl;dr: cheaper data rates can reflect corruption or legitimately lower access cost, and our reaction should reflect that.)
I just use | perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' , etc for this kind of stuff. Is there anything I can't do with perl on a line that sed will do? I can see how perl is a lot more complex than sed, but I went through the whole perl learning curve back in the late 90's so it doesn't bother me that much..
Both Kickstarter and Ticketmaster are one word.
From my perspective, consciousness is too profound to be simply created by matter.

Check out this video by David Chalmers, who explains it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Yo6VbRoo

Also there is a great book called "Biocentrism" by Robert Lanza which explains a lot of the scientific reasons why consciousness may not come from the brain.
A lot of the concepts in this article appear to be deliberately simplified and terminology deliberately abused, and I would argue too much so. Take this paragraph for instance:

> As you look at the waveform, the problem should become apparent. Sound is a 3-dimensional construct, but we can only represent 2 dimensions on a textbook or a monitor. In the waveform representation, we see Time on the x-axis plotted against Volume on the y-axis.

The two axes in most waveform plots are sound pressure and time, not volume and time. The fact that the waveform depicted is nearly symmetrical reflected across the x axis should hint that this is the case.
I worked with Rashied last summer on his approach to commercializing this. He's a really solid guy and has his heart in the right place toward helping people. Great to see him get some visibility here. He's hard at work turning this into multiple services and I fully expect to see great success with it, nerdy though it may sound at first.
Rethinking the stock photo service model. An idea
Penetration testing is what security folks do to measure the insecurity of networks or application software or device security. It is a standard term in the industry.
France has banned free shipping of books as anti-competitive.
Not really. A sound can be described by a one or more [time, volume, frequency] triples. I think the author's use of the word "dimensions" is perfectly suited.
A Muslim here.

> the moderate muslims are often rather quiet.

Yes we are. But there are a few reasons for that:

1- First, Muslims can't be put in one group, there is 1.6 billion muslims worldwide with hundreds of different views and levels of tolerance.

2- Most of them don't have time or are too busy with their daily life. Think about the % of people who go vote every four years in a democracy. 30% maybe 50% at max vote, the rest can't be bothered because they are busy with their daily problems. Add to that that most Muslims live in a third world country, so they have enough problems already.

3- The first people affected by terrorism in term of body counts and extremism in general are Muslims themselves. Did you know for example that ISIS consider the previous president of egypt (Mursi) who is from the muslim brotherhood to be an infidel who need to be killed.

4- People in Muslim countries are getting numb to all this news reports because they are used to it. I remember when I was a kid watching Arab TV news showing people dying in Palestine and at one time the TV commentator laughed. She then said she was sorry and she didn't mean to laugh at what was happening. Most Arabs/Muslim who care about what's going on the Middle East have already watched too much death to react to it.

5- Some people do want to go to the street and demonstrate against this blood shed but they are not allowed by their local governments. They fear that this could turn in a revolt. Arab spring says hi.

6- There have been hundreds if not thousands of condemnation an protests by muslims all over the world but the media don't cover them much because they don't fit the narrative of evil muslims.

Me as a Muslim I'm ashamed of what is happening and wish this Scumbugs are captured and put to justice. I see to much politic invested in terrorism that I know it's about power not about religion.
I also do believe we muslims failed big time to adapt to the 21st century and need to wake up and get our acts together.

I'm really sorry for the families of the victims and I hope they capture the scums who did this.

There was an interesting discussion on reddit about this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2rmmx8/el...
jerematasno thanks for mentioning cycript. I didn't know about it. Just watched Saurik's intro video. Very fascinating.
Is there a way to have the right photo when you need it, the way you need it and as soon as possible?
I am not sure what you mean by "That doesn't mean it's wrong, but simply that it's a priori."

The speculation that zero rating will lead to these problems is pretty much the exact OPPOSITE of an a priori fact... can you explain what you mean?

Also, the French consider free shipping anti-competitive: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/07/11/france_banned...
> If your ears hurt or are annoyed, stop.

I'd say it's more from the pushing on the sides of my head, not so much from the volume of the music. But you are right, and I have been thinking about stopping listening to music trough headphones when working, and use speakers.

> If you're sitting with headphones on for six hours, maybe you should get up a few times.

I have to say that my current working desk and rhythm is pretty much perfect as far as I know. My eyes never get tired, the screens are a good distance away from me, and I don't have to look down. I have a decent computer chair, and I take breaks about every hour, to go outside or get a new cup of coffee (but I do that with my headphones/earbuds in).

Heck, no employee can offer a better working situation if you ask me, I'm all for the working remote - office not required-idea! :P
It could be used to improve the U.S. position in political negotiations with China.
We were in the misted of a deep conversation on US torture and all of the sudden, 3.2.1 it's gone. Sony gets hacked.
Can someone explain to me why adding ephemeral messaging to FB, Instagram, etc. hasn't been done? If Snapchat is really getting so much traction because of one trivial feature, it seems obvious to offer that same feature.

My only interaction with these platforms is having done some work against their (rather poor) APIs, so I may be missing something terribly obvious.
I found it following this tweet:

https://twitter.com/Raynos/status/551243347994497024
A Tale of Two MVC's by Yehuda Katz (2013)
This is certainly impossible on x86 - you can even interleave two different instruction streams (which is mainly used to confuse static analysis tools).
(You are plying to the author of the article, possibly intending to reply to the parent.)

This is part of auditing an application. Finding a way in is only one step of the process.
This is an area where the new syntax for modules in EcmaScript 6 does really well. Since exports are static, a dead code elimination tool can figure out which exports from a module are being used and remove the ones that are not being used. As mentioned in comments about how the Closure Compiler works, you can't really do this with purely dynamic code, but you can do it with static imports/exports.
Like how Google used to do it? http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06...
Anglo-Saxons did not use the four-letter profanities we credit them with
It's funny that when Netflix has to pay for preferential treatment, it's a bad thing ("my bill might go up!"); but when it's Spotify getting unlimited data, it's a good thing ("my bill might go down!"). You can't eat your cake and have it too.
From my experience it is even more than this. I meditate 2 hours a day and it has had a profound, yet subtle, influence on my daily practical life. Things are just much better. It appears to me that when you make things better on the inside, there is a direct influence on the outside.
Hey, Don't take for granted what you have. Life is not perfect. Really , you are lucky in so many ways. I know you might not like where you are but other people would give everything to have what you have. I like you have a great job. make great money, my job is not perfect but I work on lots of personal projects.

I don't take for granted what I have, I know it can easily go away at anytime, and that's why I fight to stay relevant and get better at my craft. I might not be able to do it at work but I have my own free time to learn all the new technologies, docker, ansible, aws , etc.

You need to find something else outside of work to make you happy, I think you have everything to make any man happy.

a good wife
a kid on the way
a good paying job
health
you live in a great country and you have freedom.

if you are not happy wait until you lose any of the above.

Happy 2015
Yeah, if you look like they do. If you want to express yourself with a scarf on your head, oops, sorry that's the wrong kind of freedom.
Did you mean to link to a different page? That one doesn't have anything like the Zapata quote.
Tracker shares your habits with work
Awesome article and white paper.
As a slightly younger teen (17), I have a completely different view of Twitter. I'm not sure if it's unique to my specific area, but quite a significant number of the people around me are on Twitter and use it to communicate funny things they see, or just share opinions (I guess the author approaches this with "complain/express yourself"). To me, I go on twitter to see what people are saying about any given event, especially sporting events. At other times, I will find memes or jokes or just anything that is somewhat funny. Overall, the three groups that Andrew brings up aren't really complete.
Does anyone know if the Google Play Store agreement or the Amazon App Store agreement contain similar terms?

I'd love to see Apple open things up a bit. My personal pet peeve is that it's nearly impossible to use LGPL libraries in iOS apps due to some of the terms.
If you can't multitask enough to talk while driving, you should not be driving in the first place.
Chicago Tylenol murders
Unix SHELL Quote Tutorial
Just using NYC, the Zillow data isn't perfect. But then, the larger point is that no-one even agrees what these different neighbourhoods are anyway, so it's very difficult to come up with a definitive data set.
Do prescription drugs kill more people relative to their popularity? With an branded pill like an Oxycontin 20mg, you know what you're getting. With assorted powders, you've got no idea and people are often too lazy to do test shots. Opiates themselves are relatively safe, with a fair therapeutic index. But taking random quantities of drugs seems like a poor idea all around.
thanks auto correct
Thank-you... beyond that I just learned from another user that even though I've been using this site for years I have never seen a down vote option, so I always suspected it was a mod activity. Now that I know it's just other users doing it I don't feel so bad. Thanks for the kind words :)
A lot of Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. can be localized. People 'Like' button local businesses live near their friends, they mostly follow people who produce lots of content, they search for local and regional businesses.

Facebook's CDN: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19568411/list-of-facebook...

Caching is a real business case for 'personalizing experiences'. I don't get a lot of Australian news in my searches. Instead, I get my probable biases confirmed. Twitter encourages me to follow my local handegg team. Facebook trickles my more geographically distant friends and family into my feed.

The common denominator is part of the algorithm and its just not worth the bandwidth to serve the long tail.
No, s/he's bitching about how the article is ranked on the main page.
The analogy is off. Bus vs. car riding on the road is equivalent to the packets which ride on top of the underlying internet infrastructure. That some people group their information into the same packet (a bus) vs. dedicating the packet to themselves (a car) isn't relevant to the discussion around why the cost of transporting the packet is based on the destination.

Imagine if all the roads were toll roads. Regardless of whether you take a bus, car, taxi, bicycle, etc. the toll is waived if you're traveling to McDonald's whereas you have to pay the toll if you're traveling to Burger King. Shouldn't it be like electricity where you pay per kilowatt-hour regardless of the use? Or should powering, say, Sony devices cost you nothing but you get charged for powering other devices?
True, but I wouldn't have had to resort to tab mirroring if Chromecast supported Amazon Prime Video.

Which, admittedly, is also not a Chromecast issue per se, but since the Fire TV stick does support it (for obvious reasons), and since I ought to be watching videos and justifying my Prime membership, it'll probably end up being the more useful product to me. An Intel stick would probably end up being even more useful, since I wouldn't be at the mercy of Amazon to provide support for things (and would instead be at the mercy of XBMC or Kodi or whatever the hell it's called now to provide support for things).
What went wrong at the 2014 Bitcoin bowl?
I almost looked up `Wicked Pictures` while at work, but (thankfully) stopped once I read a few of those URLs and realized... yeah, that's not something I want to be going to at work.
Good job EFF exposing blanket agreement and requirements Apple makes developers sign. We need more of these come into lime light so developers can fight back against big corporations.
0 downloads. I guess I'll have to be the first.
Edit: Now that I think about it, it said 1-5 installs, so most likely not the first.