skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see thing the opposite way from qeorge; I think that people are literally growing into piracy - for the younger generations, it's natural to have content available for downloading, so when they become old and get bigger say in the government (not just via democracy, but also via leadership positions), the copyright monopoly will loose its position and will be forced to withdraw.

For example, I'm 26 years old (so one of the younger generations), and I think it's absolutely immoral that copyright terms prevent me from using art that was produced more than 50 years ago. I strongly oppose any copyright term longer than 28 years; and I'm only open to one longer than 14 years if a strong economic (statistical) case for it can be made.
As someone who recently bought the Firefly series on Blu-Ray a few weeks ago and attempted to play it on my Arch Linux setup it's very obvious why it gets pirated.

On the disc it said I'm not allowed to copy it or RIP it however they put a lot of effort into revoking any decryption key in the wild a free and open source player may use to play the content.

After about 6+ hours of trying to get the BD+ virtual machine to work on VLC i gave up and just torrent-ed the damn thing.

I own the discs and I could probably RIP them but it's so much easier to just torrent it.

DRM is a complete waste of time and the only reason they still insist on having it is so the can control where the content gets played and prevent free solutions from being able to play it.

They get to charge you for the content and the company making the players for the right to play Blu-Ray discs the cost ultimately being passed on to you again.
I think that you're responding to an extreme interpretation of the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics". I don't think you have to believe that nature follows perfectly simple mathematical rules to be surprised to the extent that mathematics is effective at describing physical reality.

You make a good point, that mathematics is often designed and invented to describe reality. You need to take into account the fact that a lot of what you "get out" of mathematics has already been "put in". But it is my opinion that even accounting for this, it is quite frequent that you "get out" more than you "put in" to mathematics.

I think a strong set of examples of this sort of behavior is when attempts to address one problem in a mathematical theory often end up addressing other seemingly unrelated problem. The introduction of quantized energy states to explain the blackbody radiation distribution then goes on to explain the photoelectric effect. (I'm not too familiar with what physical phenomena were observed before QM but needed QM to explain them to give more examples).

Now you might say "well of course this theory solves both issues, because they are essentially the same phenomenon, and so there's nothing surprising about your theory explaining what it was designed to explain". But that's precisely the point, that mathematics gives us the tools to see relations between things that on the face of them are different. And that there's no reason that this /has/ to be true (without appealing to mathematics), makes the fact that it is true seem surprising.

Of course, being surprising, or unreasonably effective, etc is a relative statement. Certainly to someone who expected the universe to be described mathematically to precisely the degree that it is in reality, nothing would be surprising. But I think to most people who haven't been introduced to mathematics (kids), the power it gives you certainly is surprising.
OpenDNS does not have a great record (do they still modify NXDOMAIN responses?) - are you sure you want to send them information about everything you're connecting to?
The answer turns out to be 'no'.

There, saved you a click.
It was not about proprietary smartcards but about the proprietary driver software required to use those smartcards.

If the vendors would open the specs of their smartcards it would be easy to write a driver. Some did and we support them in GnuPG. Most of them don't and we may even assume they want to hide their little secrets in their drivers. It is all the same as with all the proprietary hardware drivers. Look at decades of LKML for similar discussions.
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I don't think Neflix doesn't want this, I think it's the MPAA that would just not give them the movies to stream at all costs, or would just up and take the extra money for the same shitty service.

I don't believe the Netflix execs haven't thought of this.
I don't see that comment as saying they shouldn't go after these sites. I see it as saying that going after them is essentially futile as long as they ignore the demand that these sites satisfy. It's not shocking that an illegal service is the cheapest option, but it's absurd that it's the most convenient option in many cases.
All you need is Couchbase Mobile. I'll make a blog post about its use when I get around to it.

http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/index.html
Are stored procedures not something that people are using any more?
The difference is that OwnCloud is marketed as an operating system and is aimed at holding all the user's personal information. Users who aren't necessarily knowledgeable enough to distinguish trusted and untrusted "applications".

A CMS is usually used by a company and has different threat scenarios. Usually only sysadmins configure and install extensions.
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Probably right as I also feel the same way about the latter rationalisations you mentioned.
saved you a click: because it's a good movie.
Probably, but it also corrupts your data and won't be able to uncompress it.
You mean it is written on a piece of paper and enforced by armed men?

That is not very much justification.
This while every damn social site out there is hammering you with ads and whatsnot about the show/movie/etc. If you make something in English these days, and perhaps put it online, you are going to hit a global audience. Long gone are the days of NTSC, PAL and SECAM segmenting the world.
We just released the new version of Noisli (http://www.noisli.com), a tool I created out of a personal need to achieve more productivity having to work on loud co-working spaces or working in total silence from home. Hope you find it useful too :)
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'Hey Siri' is vanilla voice recognition processed locally on the device, so not the same thing at all.
That depends heavily on your control system and how well you've tested it. In theory, a control system for a quadcopter that has independently controllable rotors could keep itself stable if one goes out. In practice, any control path you haven't tested probably won't work.
Just in case it comes up again, or the info helps anybody else: you can download old Mac OS X releases if you previously purchased from the App Store. They'll appear in the Purchased tab of the App Store, and you can download the installer from there. You can then dig into the installer and get at the .dmg.

It's excessively dumb that Apple makes it this hard, but it can be done.
There are benefits to having the sql in with the js code. You can see how they integrate.
SX has client-side encryption if you use the SX tools (sxcp) to upload/download your files to volumes that have encryption enabled:
http://blog.skylable.com/2014/09/transparency-reports-server...

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of Skylable
3-4 Days/week I get up at 5:15am, work out 6-7 (Crossfit), and I add in a weekend day too (30+ minutes of endurance/cardio).

Eat lots of vegetables and lean meats, lightly processed.

I work out of my house, so I have 0 commute.
Sign up for a VPN, should fix that easily enough.
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I'm happy to pay a subscription fee for a reliable service

This, a million times.

I have Amazon Prime, a NetFlix subscription and an AppleTV.

I'd have happily paid $5-$10 to watch 'Interstellar'. But none of these services offers it in my country. On BitTorrent it was just one click away, so I watched the BitTorrent version.

It goes like this for almost all new movies. I really don't understand why they don't want my money.
I would support a world where IP is free for non-commercial use (so cinemas and corporations must still pay for movies/software they use, but home viewers/users don't need to), as well as 14 year default copyright term (as most economic value seems to be generated by then).
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Alternatively: if you "psych yourself up", using second person or third person positions the praise outside yourself, as if it would come from a peer or third party. It builds on similar things you may have heard from other people trying to cheer you up in the past (and thus taps into the feelings associated with those memories) and helps you visualize how other people might judge you positively if you succeed.

I.e. visualizing success mixed with recalling positive experiences in the past. "You can do it! You're a good person. You rock!" etc.

This would also match with the idea of people who inflict self-harm chastising themselves in the second person (though I'm not sure whether that is actually a thing or just something you find on tumblr and in movies): "You're no good. You don't deserve this. You're a failure." etc (which sounds like something you'd expect an abusive parent to tell you).
I've come up with a better compression scheme than yours. My scheme is exactly the same as yours, but you replace the first three bytes with one byte instead of two. Doesn't matter what byte you replace them with, because - just like your scheme - you can't get the original data back by decompressing it anyway.
Unfortunately, this argument doesn't get the attention it deserves. A clickhoster account can cost more than a Netflix account, yet people are willing to pay for it, even though they might not end up using it to its extent. In Europe many people would gladly pay to watch GoT when it's released. Customers don't care for marketing rights, they just want to watch the show when it's released.
Shouldn't content creators still have a right to say who gets their content for free?

Of course. But if they want to have that say then they should do whatever they can to protect their work. If they fail to protect their content and let someone upload it then that's their fault. It's not my place as a consumer to help them to protect their work by not downloading it. Morally speaking I have no duty to help the content creator.
Third option: Wait until it's released in your region.

As long as TV-shows are broadcasted on television you can't expect all shows to be isntantly available in your region. Some will, somw won't, depending on distribution/broadcast agreements.
How many recruiters jump through this particular hoop?
LG Smart TV seems to have one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaBVfH4GCJ8
If you're super paranoid about rust, apply some mineral oil, fat, silicon, wax, etc to your blade after cleaning and store it in a cool dry place. Worst case even if it does rust, clean the rust off and let it develop a patina, then sharpen to your liking.
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If a web designer refuses to sell you their design, would it be wrong to take it anyway, if all you're going to do is look at it in private? I would have a tough time condemning that.

You're right that nobody owes us their TV show. But on the other hand, I don't see why we owe them assistance to enforce their wishes.
Not quite? The hate was mostly 'why not a helicoptor' which shows a profound misunderstanding of the mechanics of a quadrotor.
Well I bought the iPad back when there weren't really any good android tablets out, and now I can't really justify the purchase of a new tablet. I watch movies and game on my tv or pc, read on my kindle, and work on my laptop. The only thing I use the iPad for is to Facetime with my wife when I'm traveling for work, and only because it seems to work marginally better than skype on crappy hotel wifi.
Preventing you from selling your property in this way is illegal in the eu I believe.
Does the risk of piracy justify drm if it infringes on my rights?
Today, there are ways to get around this. You can kickstart a project - decide on how much money you want, ask for it, and if you don't get it, go do something else that people will pay you for.

Not that piracy is OK in my eyes, but failing to protect oneself from it is outright ridiculous.
Seems stoic
But if you look at the bylaws of the CA/B forum [1], they explicitly exclude discussion of "pricing policies, pricing formulas, prices or other terms of sale" as part of their mandate.

So we can't assume a position for or against revocation charges - it's just not within the scope of the guidelines. Which are non-binding and advisory anyway.

[1] https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-Byl...
That's a decent argument against doing it (assuming the law is actually enforced) but a terrible argument for why it's wrong.
Finding the right balance of "stim" is really important to people with Autism. Too much or too little creates a panic. Temple Grandin's Hug Machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_machine) is another good example. This was a hard concept to grasp growing up in the 80's with a severely autistic younger brother, but became clear in later years when I worked at group home. My experiences were very similar to the OP.
Of course Polish involvement was completely omitted in the latest movie.
I don't understand, couldn't this also be useful for inputting said procedures?
Yes you could since docker-compose(aka fig) supports volumes. Or just run a database on another machine/remote service and connect to it.
I have no idea what this article is about nor will I ever, but I encourage any front-end web designer | developer to take a look because this site is a shining example of what not to do.

Upon loading the page I was pretty much instantly distracted from reading the article by two incredibly intrusive boxes taking over the space and blocking me from reading the article.

I closed the tab without hesitation and won't be reading the article.

Take this for what you will, but please note that I'm not being petulant here. This is truly a textbook demonstration of a bad web user experience.
In defence of the P-value
As just another app developer, I would like to thank the contributors for volunteering their time to help us all out.
> What's the best way of managing that? I've been envisaging a world in which my application is one single large immutable data-structure containing everything about the current state of the application. The actions and then carried out (maybe via a backend over a websocket as you've described) to make changes to the tree. React then looks after the rendering.

Look up "Om/React", might just blow your mind.
Just trends in the cybercrime world, and the increased publicity.
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Its all fun and games till ISIS does what the zeta drug cartel did.

(http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/nov/02/anonymous-...)
There may be a parable that makes people care about piracy, but it won't be one that's based on the standard but absurd assumption that every pirated copy is a lost sale.
Great clock changed my mornings :)
So far - 0, but i just started responding with link to this form. But if someone really care about position/company they are working for, it shouldn't be hard to get answers to questions.

I think it is better than just not responding to recruiter email or mark it as spam. There is always a chance.
>M4s at low ready pointed at us.

I'm not following. If you're a soldier that's how you hold your weapon when its out:

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/us-soldier-17920177.jpg

The low level guys guarding planes probably didn't have the autonomy to put their weapons away while guarding. This is SOP for a lot of military activities. Your weapon is out and held at the ready. Any other position invites liability as you can't get up to aim quickly enough in a firefight.
This reminds me of the poor[0] management technique of avoiding I vs you ("there's no I in team") to project a feeling of ownership:

e.g. "We don't do things this way." vs "You're not meant to do things this way." or "We think it's best to let you go." vs "I think it's best to let you go."

[0]: Not saying that this is never appropriate, but in many cases this is just used as a tool to shift personal responsibility onto the entire team/company or present subjective opinions as something everyone agreed on. Team-building isn't something you can just define into existence.
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The underlying causes of autism are still not well understood, and are likely multifactorial and complex. Autism is fundamentally a disruption of the brain's neurological processes. This can occur within the neurons themselves, at the neural synapses (connections between neurons), or at a more structural/neural organizational level. As has been pointed out elsewhere, the diversity of autism is very great and this is certainly recapitulated at even the most basic neurobiological levels. Despite the high prevalence of autism, the complexity and diversity of the disorder has made it hard to study autism in labs, in epidemiological settings, and in treatment settings.

Nonetheless, it's possible to break out the causes of autism into two main groups:

1. Genetics. Based on large twin studies and family studies, it is believe that the underlying between 50 and 80% of autism cases are due to a genetic mutation, set of genetic mutations or otherwise influenced by genetics. The advance of sequencing technology in the past five years has made possible to sequence the genes in the human genome across thousands individuals with autism and their families. This has given rise to the idea that "de novo" mutations, new mutations which arise in the child, are a primary cause of autism. Every newborn has a set of new mutations, which are mostly benign or inconsequential. However, a small fraction of new mutations are detrimental to the production of key molecules or proteins needed by neurons to function properly. Researchers have identified that perhaps 20-30% of cases of autism have a new mutation which could plausibly underly autism. However, these mutations are incredible diverse-- the same de novo mutation is seen more than once only very rarely, and the top 5-10 most commonly mutated genes account for only ~1% of autism. The long tail makes it necessary to sequence tens of thousands of individuals to pick up signal. A second set.

2. Environment. It's thought (but poorly understood) that certain environmental factors, especially during pregnancy, could also underly autism. Alcohol, for example, can cause Fetal Alcohol Syndrome which can present with autism-like features. Unfortunately, this half of the equation is not my subject expertise so I'll leave it at that.

As a note about searching for information: While google can be unreliable, Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/) can be quite helpful.

Some additional resources:

[1] A review on the de novo genetic hypothesis for ASD that I wrote a few years back: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24387789

[2] A large sibling/twin study from California about that heritability of autism: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21727249

[3] A recent large-scale sequencing study for autism (sorry, paywall): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25363768

[4] A review of ASD epidemiology and etiologies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17367287

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I think it's one of those situations where for most vendor's customers, buying more hardware is far cheaper than hiring smart programmers. But for academic situations, there's a surplus of clever programmers with low wages, and not nearly enough money for hardware. So in "enterprise" the solution is to shove everything into SQL databases and just buy a ton more compute and disk to manage the extra inefficiencies, whereas academic situations have not had that luxury.

As data science progresses, the amount of enterprisey large data situations will also decrease, I think.
Google wave used OT, but Operational Transform can fail sometimes and seems to have been superseded by CRDTs (Commutative/Convergent Replicated Data Type) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26694359/differences-betw...

Take a look at SwarmJs it uses CRDTs for multi user sync. http://swarmjs.github.io/articles/todomvc/
Inflation was 1.5-1.6%.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/CPIAUCSL.txt

edit: computation done by comparing Jan 1 2012 to Jan 1 2013, etc.
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If you dont mind me asking, whats the software dev salary range in charlotte?
Could drones replace waiters?
Fashion - seriously, I hate it when I find some timeless classic I like, and then I can't find it again a year or two later because the shop completely changes stock every season.

Sizes - shops regularly lie about sizes depending on who their target market is (in order to flatter their customers?), and medium in one store might be extra large in another.

Fit - I guess this is where your company might shine if you could persuade people to have themselves scan and submit their model to a tailoring shop. Not really applicable to off the shelf clothing, though again variation is again rife between stores without much warning.

Too much selection - I'd rather have some simple choices tailored to my lifestyle and taste, and have those dictate what stores show me.

In the best of all possible future worlds, I'd prefer if my house AI just took care of all this stuff for me, but then maybe in the future clothing will be fabricated on site, not half way around the world in a sweatshop.
> processed locally on the device, so not the same thing at all.

Same situation with 'Ok, Google'.

Initially, the 'Ok, Google' phrase was limited to certain phones that had the audio processing chip in them. I don't know if this is still the case.
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Because people have a perception of Apple as "closed" and have no interest in challenging this perception with things like "facts."

Apple is closed in many ways. But when it comes to compiler toolchains and similar technology, they're quite open. Their LLVM work remains open source. clang is open source. Lots of other tools are open source. I see no reason to think that Swift won't follow that pattern.
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None of those links say that MySQL's ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE doesn't work as intended.

There's a single caveat: "If more than one unique index is matched, only the first is updated. It is not recommended to use this statement on tables with more than one unique index."

That isn't a problem for most users since the use cases for upsert tends to be simple by nature, with a primary key that you want to set to the latest values whether or not it exists.
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You can do that in SQL databases too: store the XML / JSON / whatever in a blob. There is no need to have a normalized import schema, especially since you are doing the transformation using an external application (Scala program).
Why do you think that "I'll live in a nicer walled garden" isn't a benefit?

You don't approve, fine. But if someone does accept the walled garden, what's wrong with making it nicer?
It is also common to write cents/fractions either as superscript, superscript with a line below the cents value, or as a full fraction 99/100