skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a great source of protein for animals. Would be interesting way to feed chickens.
I disagree. My suspicion is that Tom Wheeler wants to dive deeper into the powers of government. By dragging out a decision on net neutrality he has brought the media spotlight to himself. Just think about how many people now know his name. He could probably run for a simple office now and win.
USG bids on Persona Management Software [1]

Fake Online Personae for Propaganda [2]

DARPA Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) [3]

[1] http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/revealed-air-force-ordere...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...

[3] https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6ef1255...
Bugs (including, but not limited to Yosemite) and some significant UX issues. One marketing problem I have is that although it's better designed than the competition, in practice it's not quite as intuitive as it looks. I characterized a "revolt", but in reality there are two camps of users:

* People who come from traditional GIS, who love it (except for the bugs). These are the revolters.

* People who come from MapPoint, who think they're going to love it but find some things confusing and give up. These people were always discontented with the software at some level.

The frustration from the latter group stems a few unintuitive workflows in the software (e.g. how data gets imported and linked), some of which are due to design flaws in the data model IMHO. So although the software looks good in screenshots, and many people get a lot of value out of it, Magic Maps needs some work beyond basic bug-fixing to be a "5-star app" that pleases everyone.
> Free Speech (*)

Yes, hardly any constitutional rights are absolutes in American law. But you'll find a million examples of this in caselaw where the rights are considered with very carefully worded maybes and conditionals for edge cases (ie. searching a phone but only for particular images as to not totally intrude on their privacy).
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Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof
> If I really want or need to acquire your doodad then I am a potential customer

But are you a promised customer, one that I own as some sort of cow to be milked when I see fit?

Certainly if I repair cars, you don't claim that I get to do all your car work and be paid for it, nor could I sue if you did it yourself. But this is what you're claiming with entertainment...

Think about it. I might make the claim that if you know about how to fix an engine, it was only because I discovered those ideas first. Therefor, even if you fix the engine (or arrange little magnetic islands on a hard drive in a particular sequence), you're still stealing from me.

If you fix the engine the same way I'd fix it, you're just copying my motions and actions.

These are highly comparable, but most people now balk at the idea (even though such absurd restrictions have existed in various times and places throughout history).

Copyright isn't some fundamental human right (time for the weenies to point out that the UN thinks it is). Its formulation was originally a practical matter, so now that it's become impractical it should be abolished or once more limited to reasonable terms.
Really don't think that's the main lesson to learn from Steve, but enjoy your narrow TechCrunch perspective.
So, blame the victim?
There would be an initial land rush if the poles were to be opened, and a large number of providers would likely fail sometime after that as the market shakes things out. Even if the market will converge on 3 or 4 providers, there may be initial demand for pole access by 10+ providers. Assuming the physical limitations on the poles are less than the demand, how should a regulatory body decide which providers get access and which ones don't?

In the end, any shared infrastructure problem inevitably ends up with a limited franchise framework because it's the most efficient way to do it. The FCC has tried regulating through this framework for years via spectrum auctions, and all they've really done is provide a form of tax revenue from the big telecoms to the FCC. The spectrum is often sold with restrictions that are eventually waived quietly if the winners hold them for a little while, and they get sold to the big national players anyway.
> Yet it protects your rights to have bad manners.

Absolutely.

Here's my idle thoughts, more broadly: I'm not a Muslim. I'm very wary of a breakdown in empathy towards Muslims. There's 1.5 billion of them on our planet, and any outcome other than figuring out how to continue to live together on it seems bleak and undesirable. It's easier to have a dialog with someone (even to the point of changing their minds) if you can be bothered to think a little about how their upbringing and the parameters of their situation affect them, and how those find expression in their lives - what drives their decisions, how they wind up ranking and navigating the same basic human desires we share.

Putting that cartoon on Google's homepage, to me, would be giving up on that, being lazy and picking sides. It's admitting defeat by deciding the world is simpler to act in if we don't bother to understand it.

It also makes it harder for people in bridging positions to function as a channel for this dialog. The bilinguals, the overseas students, that interact with friends and family, that try to explain but end up having to justify cold shoulders.

Check out some indie student music from Arabic countries some time. There's some on YouTube with English translations. Notice all the grappling with their own religion they do, or with gender roles in their society. These aren't dumb, unaware people.

Heck, they're even capable and appreciative of good satire.
My favourite part of this is that actually deleting the file is a TODO item.
No need to explain anything. This is a professional relationship, not a personal one.

"I have left X and relocated to Asia to pursue new challenges. I now work as a freelance contractor." is fine, hell, it even sounds exotic! Who wouldn't want to work remotely from a foreign country? Keep the bad out of your sale pitch. They don't need to know why you have moved and neither do they need to know that you are currently not employed as an engineer.
How does redstone work in Minecraft? Is this the kind of stuff you're "supposed" to use it for?
"...I’m more of a translator between the spoken word and computer code..."

At our current level of technology and business sophistication, that strikes me as a hard enough problem to justify a career with good compensation.

Any patterns you are noticing in the translation process?
Mealworm powder is catching on in health circles. I think the essential difference is that you never have to see the legs, shells, compound eyes, etc. that scream "Insect!". Grind these up, mix them into sauce or a stew, and I doubt I'd care, even if I knew the origin, just like I can see the inside of a slaughterhouse and can still eat ground meat.
How KVM cache settings affect storage performance
There are limits to savings and investment.

Ultimately, finance is just a game. A really complicated and extremely useful game, but money itself is useless. What matters is what people can produce. Finance is merely what convinces them to put effort into production, and what convinces them to hand over some of the output to other people.

For an extreme example, consider if they just stopped having babies altogether. By the time the current crop of newborns reached retirement age, it wouldn't matter how much money they had saved up. There would simply be nobody to take care of them.

Ultimately, retirement savings schemes are just a way to address the question of what proportion of future productive capacity goes towards retirees, and of how to convince future workers to hand it over. If the pool of future workers is too small, it doesn't matter how much you save in the meantime.
No-one deserves death or prison for speech/art.

That said, someone explain to me how mocking people's beliefs brings positive change in this world.

I don't get the point of satire. It just makes people who already agree pat themselves on the back and the people you are mocking will double down to spite you. It's not intellectually clever, it is just bullying in another form.

You want people to change without war, then you need dialog. Satire is not dialog, it is a one-way street.
The drawing is a reference to a nationalist leader comparing a black minister to a monkey.
There's a reference to the "rassemblement bleu marine", coined in reference to current nationalist leader marine le pen, transformed into a gathering of racists through charlie's game on words. Also the logo at the right bottom of the picture is that of the nationalist party

As always, taking writings or caricatures out of context is not only lying but also potentially dangerous. Charlie is not racist, nor violent. Please use some critical thinking before calling people or institutions racist (or any other adjective)
"Why Not Eat Insects?" published by Vincent M. Holt in 1885, including recipes and menu suggestions:

http://bugsandbeasts.com/whynoteatinsects/
This just showed up on HN: http://sideprojects.assembly.com/

Crowd source further development and continue to participate in revenue and product direction.
This is exactly the type of course I'm interested in as an SEO and analytics guy with some technical background. Looking forward to seeing what it has to offer.

Just a heads up, this is also the type of course I'd pay for, depending on the quality and topics covered of course. I'm always on the look out for courses or products that can teach me how to do something very concise and actionable.

Where can I find other courses from you? Udemy?
Limit means fixed size betting. Typically 1 big blinds preflop and flop, 2 big blinds on turn and river, with a max of 4 bets total on any street.

The algorithm sounds like it basically identifies the path with the least negative EV for any given action, which is essentially how humans play limit too. "If my opponent plays perfectly, what path will let me lose the least or break even"
> It's about the right of those who believe religion to be worthy of extreme parody because they fundamentally disagree with it.

You don't have to fundamentally disagree with religion in order to believe that parody should be protected speech.

Free speech is the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas. It doesn't imply a right to disclose any and all information about about any person or organization that you may have access to, or to make extreme threats, or to yell fire in a crowded theater, etc. Just because a literal interpretation of the phrase "free speech" might imply such a meaning to you, that's not how the term is conventionally used or interpreted.
I think the people you're talking about who don't know how much RAM their phone has are the same people who don't know much RAM their desktop has. At least if you're using phones as a benchmark there is the chance a reader will be awed.
Akron Bridal shop closing down in May, unable to recover from Ebola stigma
I think you overestimate Bitcoin's media profile.

Two days later, it's in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, etc.

Mt. Gox underestimated Bitcoin's media profile. When they went down, they acted as if the event would mostly be ignored and they could quietly get away with it. Instead, they got coverage in just about major business newspaper worldwide: WSJ, NYT, Forbes, South China Morning Post, China Daily, even al-Jazeera and Russia Today.

Bitstamp seems to be dead. They said they'd be down for "24-48 hours". Two days later they're still down. They haven't issued any new statements. There's a good chance they're in "take the money and run" mode.
I'm still rocking my T410. With 8 GB of RAM and an SSD, it does quite well. However, I really want to get a lighter laptop with a high-DPI screen. Before Lenovo's recent announcements (the T-450 also looks quite good) I wasn't sure where to turn when my T410 no longer sufficed.
Wow, yes, that is embarrassing.
Lol so yeah so didn’t paste my comment properly here. Basically wondering what Mac app devs are doing regarding this (Google/Twitter/FB ) ads?
Interest in CLEC DSL fell off because interest in DSL fell off in general. It just can't compete with cable or fiber for bandwidth.

If the coax and/or fiber lines were open to competitive carriers, I bet there would be quite a bit of interest.
Reducing "Smalltalk experience" to "windows, images, menus and pointer" is a gross mischaracterisation. Reducing "Smalltalk the language" to message passing is similarly unfair.

Imagine an environment where you can modify and debug every single program you run without ever restarting it; where every little part of GUI of every program is there for you to manipulate (in real time, without restarting) if you want. Environment where you can grab an item from a deeply nested menu and pin it to the desktop, change its color and make it spin, while still being able to click it and invoke the function it's supposed to call. Environment where you can inspect and modify everything in real time (have you seen "Inventing on Principle" by Bret Victor?), from GUI artifacts to underlying models, to system resources, to the very core of the system. An environment which you can clone with one click and run anywhere with a real, not Java-like, guarantee that it will work exactly the same way as for you.

Well, that's still not quite it and there are many other things "left for Smalltalk to accomplish", but hopefully you get the picture.
>They are not racists, you are sadly misinformed.

I'm guessing you didn't really check carefully. They do mock Islam (and Judaism), and also publish flat-out racist cartoons. They're not mutually exclusive. They publish a lot of offensive cartoons, like the one linked to by the OP depicting Boko Haram sex slaves as welfare queens. They should be free to do that without getting murdered by fanatics.
You probably need to set the language to French.
Alright, since the title of the WaPo piece is both misleading and linkbait, we changed it to Smith's title.

Should we change the URL as well? The rebuttal seems pretty convincing.
From what I understand, it's the culture. Watch VICE documentaries on Japan's sex culture. No one wants to have kids when the price of living is high, 80 hour work weeks, both male and female are the work force, and sex is viewed as a non-romantic "come and go" as you please pass time. Having kids in Japans high level business/work culture is a tremendous setback. They can't afford that kind of downtime.
KARMA from rape of Nanjing. You learned your lesson.
1) Not really. Most developed areas have at least two ISP providers, the local cable co and the local telephone company.

30% of Americans have 1 or fewer wireline broadband connections. Satellite and 4g cover a lot of them and provide at least some competition.

That 30% is mostly rural or small urban pockets that are just outside of DSL's effective range.
You're not the only one to think "relationships" when the phrase "regret minimization" came up!
EnviroFlight is trying to do exactly that (create animal feed):

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201406/bernhard-warner/envirofli...
Abysmal headline. The bot conquered heads-up, limit hold 'em, a game with next to no popularity. Conquering heads-up may be a good first step, though I'd reason that making a bot that can beat a full limit table is exponentially harder than making a bot that can beat heads-up limit.

Full table (9 or 10 person) limit hold 'em has been mostly dead in casinos for well over a decade and it only had a shelf life of a few years online, even during the boom.

There are better edges (for the sharks) and more excitement (for the fish) in no-limit and pot-limit games. I don't see a bot being close to be able to conquer heads-up no-limit, let alone a full table of no-limit. I suspect most heads-up limit happens in private games or the end of a limit poker tournament. It's played in scenarios that will not really be that exploitable should a person grok this bot's abilities.

The article also mentions that it's opponent was another bot that was also playing a very strong strategy. That suggests it's not really able to adapt to individual play, which is essential to being at profitable at all but the lowest levels of poker.
> I think Japan can beat fertility problems with tech

You are making an assumption that Japan's problem with falling birth rates is biological, but it's not: it's cultural and economical. Like many other developed countries, people in Japan are waiting longer to have children - and yes, that results in declining fertility due to the health problems associated with older parents.

But that's only part of the story: to ensure population stability the average family needs to have > 2 children. Many Japanese couples cannot support two children, whether it be due to pressures at work, or more obviously a lack of appropriate and affordable family housing in major urban areas.
It might just be an efficient way of killing them that everyone can use. According to 'Insects Are Food': http://www.insectsarefood.com/recipes.html

"Prior to preparing your crickets for a meal place them inside a plastic container or storage bag and keep them in the refrigerator at least for an hour or until you are ready to use them. This will not kill the crickets, but rather slow down their metabolism, inducing a state of hypothermia, in other words, prohibiting their movement when removed from container. If you prefer however, as many people do, feel free to place them inside the freezer for an hour or two as this will definitely kill them, guaranteeing their immobility.

After removing from refrigerator or freezer, place them in a pot of boiling water sized to hold the specific amount of crickets you’re using. Add a few pinches of salt. Boil for about two minutes. This ensures cleanliness. Once boiled, remove from water and let cool. Crickets at this time can be placed in storage bags and kept in the freezer or used right away for any number of recipes. All crickets should be prepared in this manner prior to eating."

There also appears to be discussion of what the most human way to kill farmed insects is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_of_farmed_insects
Stuck on the Technology #5kpermonthchallenge
It may happen, but not without potential pitfalls. For example, modern CPU's cannot actually address the full 64-bit address range of memory, and if your drive is a DIMM device it is necessarily memory-mapped. CPU's can address a few tens or hundreds of TB. While few computers have that much disk, we aren't far off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Canonical_form_addresses
You're merely making my point for me. You have just said exactly what I have said. That you're not allowed to say whatever you want to say.

And so there are many people who are saying that what Charlie Hebdo is doing is the equivalent of hate speech or some other form of speech which is not protected.

What we should be saying is what this speech is and why it's not hate speech and why we should be willing to go to war over it, because nobody is willing to go war over "free speech" which does not really exist.
+1 for gtest, with google mock along side it.
There is also a black ribbon on some other Google homepages. The black ribbon has been displayed in the light of similar events before.

Je suis Charlie: https://www.google.com/images/hpp/jesuischarlie68x68.png

Black ribbon: https://www.google.com/images/icons/hpcg/ribbon-black_68.png
> An aging population leaves the country with fewer workers and more dependents.

How does a low birth rate create more dependents? If the birth rate was zero, then there would be no dependent children in 20 years. Increases in the birthrate would create more dependents in the short-medium term, but would only create more workers in the medium-long term.
Ahaha totally. I can just imagine the hilarious scene where a poor dev just breaks after a solid 45 minutues of trying to get that god-forsaken div to overlap another and gets to his feet, punchs down the 9 key for a whole 3 seconds screaming a 3-syllable combination of rage-soaked curses ("cock-sucking cunt" comes to mind), finally collapsing back into his seat on the last; too pissed to even bother hitting Ctrl+R to see if it had worked, typing 'git add . && git commit -m "fuck everything." ' before going home.
When I got to that point ("All I ever do is write forms for editing databases") I switched to physical engineering - got qualified in Six Sigma, got qualified in Manufacturing Engineering and now I'm doing a degree in Supply Chain Management. Love it.
The best ways of decorating a Christmas tree
Different methods about how certain types of people decorate their Christmas tree.
Пятьдесят оттенков серого / Fifty Shades of Grey
That's amazingly frustrating. I bought the second-generation X1 Carbon last year, on the theory that Lenovo had killed off mouse buttons permanently so there was no sense waiting for a new system that had them; now they release the third-generation X1 that not only has the mouse buttons back, but kills off the insane touch-strip in favor of real function keys again.
Ask HN: Your build time for a Website
Looking to see what people have built in what amount of time. I'm going to be planing on a one week speed run for building a website. To see what I can get done with a site idea.

What have others built in what time?
Site from start to some sort of stable condition.
Also how many people worked on the site.
At some point, I hope to see the lines between RAM and SSDs dissolve, such that the OS can just use a portion of the SSD for RAM.
Python! And yeah we walk them through it and provide a script just in case they need it.
>In the face of continued pressure to make free speech a little less free here in the U.S.

What efforts have been made to reduce free speech?
Yes but why? What are your goals? What conclusion are you trying to arrive at? Is TEMPEST a concern? Is hardware that may break your airgap (bluetooth, any weird IPMI stuff, etc) a concern?

A meaningful answer cannot be given if we don't know your goals, here.
Even if they just ground up so they are unrecognizable and added into other foods, that would be a huge accomplishment. Imagine getting 5% of your calories from insect sources, without knowing, an it replacing something like starch. It could be added to virtually anything.
My mouth was salivating while reading the website. I think I'm ready to eat bugs.
Well, congratulations, I guess, to earning the title, "Dude who will probably piss me off the most today."

Listen.

Last month my personal account was overdrawn by $400 (people don't pay their invoices in December). It typically hovers well under $1000. Would you like screenshots, would that be satisfying in any way to you? I bust my ass all week long for an awful lot of other people and businesses in my area, including non-profits like Habitat For Humanity. I've been doing this for several years now. And somehow I still find the time and resources to be involved in other ways -- in my community.

And I'm not alone. A huge number of people are struggling really bad right now. It's been a frequent topic of journalism the last few years, maybe you missed it.

Aaron? With all due respect to Aaron, he had a family that I didn't have, that was financially well enough off to support him in whatever he wanted to do, and then he cashed out of a startup with more damn money than I expect I'll ever see in my life -- money that gave him the luxury of pursuing whatever subject interested him.

Good for him. I respect what he did, I do. But you deserve a punch in the face for trying to make someone else feel bad for not doing the same, especially when you can't even bother yourself to get to know anything about them.

You've still got a bit to learn about encouraging other people to take up a cause.

Maybe you could start with your Instagram profile, it makes you look a bit of a hypocrite.