skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those two things are exactly opposite, surely?

Millions of people beat millions of dollars with SOPA. the same seems to be happening here.

Say what you like about the slacktivism online but when the actual web is threatened people do seem to mobilize effectively.

We can't get complacent though their pockets are deep and their patience is endless. SOPA will be back and this needs riding all the way to signature.
PGP went commercial to deal with lawsuits, but it is still open source.

I would like if someone with more understanding of the situation could outline the risks of allowing PGP to be the only implementation.
It's a sad day when Farmville can become a billion dollar business and Werner can't feed his kids. I'm curious if he's truly living on ~$20k/year. That seems ridiculously low for life in Germany. Or if he's got other sources of income to bolster that.

Either way, what really needs to happen is companies that build programs off his work need to make a concerted effort to donate to the project. Heck, set aside a small percentage of revenue and consider it a cost of business.
Why can't Python? Why can't Ruby? Why can't Perl?

Fundamentally, the languages able to run in the browser are only limited by what the browsers want to implement. It would be great if browsers could render QML, or could use <script type="text/python"> or <script type="text/scala"> or whatever but that requires browsers to either depend on an external JVM or include on in the browser. Or you need to put the QML runtime in the browser or as a dependency. Or you have to put a Python interpreter in the browser or as a dependency.
Not my own purchase, but my previous employer paid somewhere in the region of £1-2 million (I forget the exact figure) for a 2 letter .com which was actively being used by a Brazilian company. They were using the .com and the .com.br and just used the .com.br as their main domain after the sale.

It was a huge amount of money but it made sense seeing as the buyer was a business with a 2 letter name.
Do any of the Watson services allow for feedback to train them?
if only they had a credit card signup page... you know to let people pay for it...
Most of those people who (still) have one of those, never wore a watch before.
True.

And on that note – Curry On is co-located with ECOOP, and Curry On registration also covers ECOOP. So you can attend both on just one ticket :)
I did indeed take a look at the docs. That's why I commented. If there's documentation of REST end points, it's not obvious to me. Maybe someone else will point out what I'm missing.

As far as I can tell, most of the documentation essentially begins, "First, deploy a web app on our platform". Which is fine I guess, but isn't nearly as simple as the HTTP APIs you see from many other recent SaaS providers. As least for me, I'm pretty unlikely to jump through those hoops. Maybe others will be different.

Edit: All the way down on the bottom of the documentation page, past the research references, there's a link to HTTP API documentation--literally the last link on the page.
Perhaps several layers of input data validation? Typically the problem is that you want the client side (ie: javascript) to do form validation for early-feedback to the user, and the back-end to do actual input filtering/validation -- but I suppose one might want to push input-errors/validation-errors as far out towards the input as possible -- also in case of a web of micro-services? Things like allowing only utf8, or maintaining data integrity for relationships (eg: in order to add dependants to a person, those need to be defined with some kind of minimal data, like a social security number?).

I am a bit puzzled as well -- I normally think of this as a problem of synchronizing back-end and front-end -- but then again, if you have a proper SQL-schema, with a thin REST-layer abstraction/API on top, you'd probably have to have other services know about your models in order to do input-validation before attempting to post/insert/update data?
If you live in California, you have the right to put a security freeze on your child's credit file. This will prevent one of the most serious types of identity theft with a stolen SSN. Other states might have similar laws.

http://oag.ca.gov/idtheft/facts/freeze-your-credit
You have great negotiating leverage.

There is some $$ where you would be an idiot to leave. Ask for that $$. If you don't get it, leave.

If they delay and stall, interpret the answer as "NO".

Start interviewing.
partyinda.club is for sale :) Anyone have 50 Cent's contact info?
Ask HN: What is the most you've sold your domain name for?
Inspired by this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003510

Would be interesting to hear the other half's story as well.
Well Disney is dead, so are you saying that all rights to restrict the use of his copyright works should also have died?

The reason others are owed rights is that copyright, as with patents, is a contract between the state and the creator/inventor. Part of the deal is that creators get copyright protection in return for the eventual entry of the work in to the public domain - they pay off the demos with that promise.

State doesn't owe creators of works protection naturally. If creators want to not have a limited right to exclusive use they should be allowed to give that up and then the state should exclude itself from any actions against people who copy that work.

To recapitulate: if you don't want to 'buy' copyright protection with eventual movement of your work in to the public domain then you can instead have that work freely copyable - without tort - based on the ability of anyone who sees/uses it. Without ready movement of works in to the public domain the public are being ripped off, the contract is broken and the public then should consider those works copyable without the possibility of a claim of tort.
I had no idea this project (and others) had so few contributors. I'd love to be involved in some Open Source project but I always feel like "yeh there's probably millions of people far more talented than me wanting to contribute" and I've no idea how to start. Some people suggest taking a look at the open bug lists for software you use frequently, but on the few occasions I've tried that (python, gcc, and a couple of others) I've ended up digging through lists of tough bugs each with fairly impressive sounding discussions by people who are way more familiar with the whole ecosystem than I am and it's sort of intimidating.

I did manage to do some isolated contributions to Open Corporates (http://turbot.opencorporates.com) where the community are super-welcoming and very patient, but I've felt a little isolated and like I'm not exactly giving much back. Apologies for the mildly-OT rambling.
Trademark law is largely good law that we should retain. Copyright law is largely not. Talk of "intellectual property" obfuscates the distinction.
42 as a Service
People just need to chill out. TSA folks are not necessarily the brightest bunch, but getting angry with them just doesn't end well-- especially if that includes jokes/sarcasm/provocative statements involving bombs. THis person must have a lot of free time to pursue a lawsuit.
500k+ for one .com domain with between 7-11 characters.
And the product is ad space, not the user using the service
There are also programs that let a child (depending upon state) do the curriculum from home. K12.com has a partnership with the state of Georgia. You have online learning, participation in standardized testing, etc. all provided free by the state. We have found this to be a viable alternative for one of our daughters who felt she was being held back in her current middle school. Apparently she was. Not only has she made up the "conversion time"...basically redoing the 2 months worth of online work that she missed while she was in her local middle school at the beginning of the year...she has also improved dramatically. The thing I think that I am most excited about is that she is learning how to teach herself. Her study habits, although good previously, are what I would say I had in my third year of college. If you have a child that is extremely motivated this might be an option for your family. It filled a need for us.
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I was offered $2000 for laptracker.com - I didn't sell it. Looking for 10 to 20x that amount.
I paid $600 for 0v.org a few years ago. I was happy to get a 2 character .org for under $1000. I use it for my personal site now.
I like Heavy Metal Island, that pink cashew on the left
Assange is only wanted for questioning and has repeatedly offered to answer their questions. They stated that he must be questioned in Sweden and only in Sweden without adequately explaining why.
What places would you suggest?

My argument was a PPP and quality-of-life one, really. Moving to Edinburgh has worked out quite nicely in that regard.
He's been voluntarily cheated. He should take a job, take care of himself (no one else will), and give gpg whatever time he has left, if he has the energy.
you mean ibms service?
The best way to test is with a strong neodymium magnet. Magnetic ink is one of the last frontiers that counterfeiters have yet to break.

But better than all of that is to require the transaction to happen in a branch of your local bank, or post office, and be funded by a money order from the bank or post office.
Or https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/589/file-history-sho...

...which is almost 6 years old, and makes it hell to view PRs that involve moved files.
Bought orch.in for 300$

Which left such a big hole in my poor little bank account (I am a college student)
But one year later, turns out it was worth it, every penny of it. :)
You should, it's a great book. Published before Stephenson became (apparently) famous enough to ignore his editors and stopped cutting down his material... Both "Snowcrash" and "Diamond Age" are very good.
Measuring video codec quality with entropy
Should you teach Python or R for data science?
Are there any legal precedents concerning domain squatting in any parts of the world?
Exactly.

Arguing that one is better than the other is like arguing over which colour the best. Which is why I get so utterly sick of Perl being compared with Python - they are all going to have their strengths and weaknesses so at the end of the day, the "better" language / syntax boils down to personal preference.
Thanks for the link, just donated!
Watson services on Bluemix are currently in beta. You can use the beta services at no charge, even after your 30 day Bluemix trial, although you will need to provide a credit card to Bluemix. You will not incur any charges unless you use any of the production services.
Oh yes, compilers could do that. But because of the code explosion, everyone would actively stay away from that feature. And we, compiler writers, don't want to support a feature that's not used.
Grammar crusader spends years removing repeated error 47,000 times on Wikipedia
> Perl 6 was always right around the corner and why sink more effort into maintaining Perl 5 than was absolutely necessary?

What are you talking about? ( http://perldoc.perl.org/index-history.html ). A lot of the releases in the last decade were inspired by Perl 6 features. And Moose is clearly inspired by Perl 6.

I've spoken with people who believe the last Perl release was 5.8 (released in 2002). I believe this is caused by many Linux distributions still shipping old copies of Perl 5, but it's incredibly annoying.
The top 3 may be correct, but they aren't very useful. What could I do with this information? What feature could I build?

Also, the other results are very wrong. (i.e., Watson is more confident that this is a dog than a person. And I have no idea where it got "Long Jump" from). This makes it hard for me to trust Watson.

Is the recommendation that I incorporate a "confidence in Watson" metric, and ignore most of the results?

What confidence from Watson would you say indicates an answer that is probably accurate? And how confident are you that Watson's self-reported confidence is accurate?
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Then Perl 6 aka 2000 would share the fate of Wordstar 2000. But I guess it will anyway.
I'm really dismayed that the Core Infrastructure Initiative, which was created in the aftermath of Heartbleed to fund OpenSSL and other critical software, has chosen to prioritize NTP, and not GnuPG[1]. Most of the companies that rely on OpenSSL are probably using a distro that uses GPG to securely distribute the OpenSSL package.

[1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/core-infrastructure-...
13k xmt.com '07
17k citytrip.com '08
No, it doesn't. Scala.js is a compiler that emits .js code from your .scala code. There is no layer between the JS VM and that .js code.
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> I've ended up digging through lists of tough bugs each with fairly impressive sounding discussions by people who are way more familiar with the whole ecosystem than I am and it's sort of intimidating.

Sometimes it's small things, like documentation. For example:

http://bugs.python.org/issue17701
If you're so important then they should be offering you $$$ that you would have to be crazy to refuse. If they're not, then something is up. And quite frankly it's bullshit to put that kind of pressure on someone who is not actually driving the deal. I dunno, my spidey-senses are tingling.
Never paid more than the standard registration fee for a name. Nearly all the names I have are .com; I have one .org and one .us. None of them are particularly interesting. I did get an email once inquiring about buying one of my domains, but I wasn't interested in selling so I never got an offer.
In some states, like Georgia, there are online partnerships that will handle all of the school curriculum but allow the child to work at their own pace. The only additional cost is the workspace/laptop, etc. that you need to provide your child.
The national security elite: unregulated, unaccountable
I'd just like to point out that you can put a freeze on your and your children's credit files in any state.

In most states it will cost in the neighborhood of $10 for each of the three bureaus, unless you're already the documented victim of identity theft (ask me how I know this).
I'd also check out the whois info and see how long it has been registered. Assuming it is a .com address multiply the number of years by $10 to get an idea of how much they have been paying to keep it registered.

They are going to want to at least recoup their cost in a sale (sunk cost fallacy?) so I'd offer them at least that plus 10% so they aren't insulted.
Materials Science PhD student here, I'll do my best.

The morphology of the brittle B2-FeAl intermetallic compound is the key. In the conventional lightweight steel alloys, the B2 intermetallics make the alloy brittle (so they don't work harden very well), so in the past researchers optimized their alloys to avoid forming these intermetallics [0]. The nickel promotes the nucleation of the intermetallic particles during heat treatment [1], so that you get a more-or-less uniform distribution of many nanocrystalline B2 particles, instead of a smaller number of larger or more clustered B2 domains. The small B2 particles contribute to strain hardening by pinning dislocation motion, without reducing the ductility of the alloy.

From the Nature letter:

[0]: "One of the general concepts employed until now in the alloy design of Fe-Al-Mn-C-based, high-aluminium, low-density steel has been the suppression of ‘brittle’ intermetallic compound formation by stabilizing the ‘ductile’ austenite matrix."

[1]: "To expand the stability domain of B2 above the recrystallization temperature (normally, 800–900 °C) of deformed austenite, the alloying recipe of an austenitic low-density steel was modified by adding 5 weight per cent nickel (Ni), which is one of the most effective elements for forming B2 with aluminium."
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Is this kind of mixed rational/floating point sensible? It seems to be a fuzzy do-what-I-mean, not what-I-say kind of arithmetic. Surely weird differences in algorithm behaviour might occur around the 64 bit integer limit. It will also make the analysis and testing of numerical algorithm accuracy very difficult unless you can put bounds on your input values.
Like... trademark?
Also checkout How I Start Elixir http://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1 and Erlang http://howistart.org/posts/erlang/1
“The startup world puts a lot of value on raising money,” she said. “People believe that if you’re not raising capital, you’re not growing.”

Raising capital is a measure of a desire to grow, not a measure of growth. And if there's one thing that'll stop your business growing, it's the distraction of raising.
Yup, and it’s coming up again in three years.

I am hoping that we can put together some kind of grass-roots campaign to make this a major issue during the upcoming presidential election.
A lot of school funding in the US goes to non-educational uses like breakfast programs and after school care, child psychologists, security etc.

Schools take on a lot of roles that really should be handled by social services.

I wonder how much is spent directly on education.
See my reply to omaranto.
Back when, there were one time acts of funding such as the red hat and va linux ipos that gave shares to authors of the software they were distributing.
Depends on the work. For software absolutely. For books not so much. Author's lifetime would be better.
Doesn't that feel great? I had that happen. I was in negotiations with someone that fell through and then the next YEAR they decided to not renew and let it lapse.
>Why would Sweden make an exception to their legal processes just for Assange?

Because a sovereign nation has granted him asylum because they (correctly) identified the charges against him as being politically motivated.

If Sweden cannot make a very minor accomodation in response that only gives more weight to the argument that the charges were politically motivated.
I run an human powered audio transcription service and I'd be very interested in trying it out. I went through the API docs and it seems straightforward enough. However, what's the pricing? Can't find it anywhere. Is it free?
There is deleting and sorting (moving to another folders) and is any more time-wasting than other apps I've used. I have no idea what is he talking about.
I knew that the developer pool for GPG was pretty small, and that this is a big reason why development isn't always fast.

On the other hand, I had no idea that he was working full-time on it, and having money trouble.

Also: If you search for "GPG Koch" you can come across this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942254

EDIT: An example of development that is slow-coming: library support. Most GPG "libraries" in languages like Python and Ruby are just wrappers around the GPG command-line, because there is no proper library.
1. This is good feedback, thanks. 2. The rest API docs are at https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc... You can call the service directly, though the samples show using an http webapp as a proxy to avoid exposing private service credentials. We're still working on the documentation, so feedback is helpful here. What other service REST API docs do you like, just out of curiosity? What are the features that makes that documentation useful?
But it's not you breaking the deal! It is entirely them breaking the deal for everyone by fucking you over.

There is some package of wage and conditions that you would accept. If they're not offering that then it's entirely on them if you leave, not you.
Agreed, interesting that a typo so early has such a strong psychological effect.

The article could use some better structuring, but it does contain some interesting ideas for using proxies.
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I prefer purple.com for my 'Is this thing on?' check.
SSN is not some secret number - they're actually public information and can be obtained through legal channels with minimal effort. SSN is simply used as a "primary key" to differentiate one John Smith from another; it's not a private passcode or anything (even though many places treat it as one). The main benefit of an SSN is that it's a unique identifier of a person, but it's not sufficient for establishing identity and should not be used for that purpose.
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Go to a doctor which bulk bills and you wont have to pay anything.

My experience: Call doctor at 9am to book appointment.
Walk into medical center at 1pm. See doctor. Sign form on my way out to say I received treatment.

I didn't have to open my wallet once.

Edit: Also, why didn't you use sick leave?
> If you're going to start using trucks in bulk to transport drones intentionally, then you can probably come up with much better designs.

Indeed. I believe the design is called "trucks" ;-)

One could of course have stackable drones and fit them in an open lorry, and program the route, order the drones so that the could take off in sequence... I'm not sure it'd be worth it though. I could definitively see fleets of "drone hangar lorries" driving around, slowing down to let drones off with deliveries, and taking on returning drones. I suppose you could set up a couple of circuits in big cities, guaranteeing a flightpath of, say no more than n kilometres from any one address to the nearest circuit -- and the drones might hop from circuit to circuit -- possibly even with a charge-station in the lorries.

Or change the lorries with purpose-build/modded electrical trains... (and fill in dead-zones with electrical trolleybuses).

Come to think of it, fitting trolleybuses with a "roof hangar" and charging station might be best: they typically don't go very fast -- and even if they do, they regularly stop to take on/let off passengers. Sounds like a good match.
You can vote for this issue here:https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/5811/support-two-fac...
Now someone needs to set up another Heroku app to find the question.
I don't know if symmetry is really that ingrained in our dna as necessary for beauty. Most people part their hair to a side (rather than down the middle). There are few things cuter than a kid who smiles to reveal a missing tooth on one side. And what about dimples? A dimple on one side is nice but having them on both sides would look odd.

A lot of that is just what we are used to seeing. And as others have commented, people in places like the UK often see teeth that are too perfect as artificial looking.
I just tried with a Taj Mahal picture and It works.

http://goo.gl/C8cLWp
Central Scotland = Glasgow, Edinburgh and places along the M8 (eg Oracle at Linlithgow). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Glen also includes Dundee which isn't quite "central" but has a games cluster centered on Abertay.

It's a good way south of the centre of a map of Scotland, but it's the area where people are concentrated.
Well, somehow engineers and architects manage to resist management pressures in favor for security, you don't see many bridges collapsing but they have financial constraints too. And accountants resist management pressures to bend the accounting standard, or they go to prison too.

IT is in many respect an unregulated profession. Pretty much anyone can declare himself a programmer. There are some regulations on certain systems but not on people.

I am not a fan of regulation but the current pace of data breaches is just unacceptable. If we don't find a solution, some old lawmaker will.
Or this one: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-i...
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So what was the fuel for?
I bought gpu.graphics soon after the new gTLD availability for around $35. Still looking for buyers but it was probably a bad idea.
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