skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this distinction made in many "communities" including Ruby, Python and Perl.

Perhaps in your domain/language this distinction isn't important but it is for some of us. The patterns you use to work with concurrent vs parallel code differ, which means it is an important distinction to understand.
When you're fighting the 13th wealthiest person in the world, who can also get other billionaires to join in at least for Washington state (note to others, there were Washington state initiatives), you're going to get outspent heavily. We haven't yet figured out how to counter him, and like e.g. the BATFE, might not until there are enough atrocities to wake people up to the threat. Which would require an anti-gun state's people passing one of these, and the state then using it as more flypaper. Less likely with less viciously anti-gun states like Washington.
Have you tried contacting the Gnome Accessibility folks? (https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/)

It's not exactly on-topic for them, but I bet you'll find some people there with ideas/contacts.
Microsoft hints at impending write-off of Nokia that could total billions
the primary reason to pirate content these days is selfish greed

You're right. But the consumers aren't the greedy party.
Thank you for your most informative reply. I did go on the site you mentioned, and learned alot. Later on, this evening, I think I will re-read it. There is much to absorb.
Was it ever documented that he had an illness of sort.
What does that even mean? We have to switch the entire economic paradigm we live in so that people can be paid for their work?
Show HN: Fill forms the way you want
The iOS app https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=969890716&mt=8 is finally released, with which you could fill up basically all the forms the way you want, on a bus, on a train, even on a toilet, you don't need a pen and desk any more, please give it a try and leave a line here let me know what you like/dislike about the app, so we can make it better
The Microsoft billionaire who arrived on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast with five helicopters full of bodyguards, and demanded that all available local lions be collected in one oasis so that he could see and picture them.

Obnoxious and disgusting.
I'll respond to this because I think you're missing the point. I'm saying that the "market makers" have made the "actual market" in a way that is self-defeating when technology no longer favors their historic distribution model. Like you say, the market is hobbled by artificial barriers, like geographic restrictions, that don't really exist on the internet. A significant factor in the inferior experience of streaming services is the content licensing hurdle, which makes the availability of content a moving target. You can complain day and night about the fact that technology no longer fits your business model, but that isn't going to solve the problem.
Hey, thanks for jshon. I've been using it a lot lately!
The court case showed that the throttle control programming was shoddy in various ways, but I don't think they demonstrated any observably buggy behavior, let alone any proof that software faults were behind any particular accident.

I think it's also quite possible that there never were any abnormal unintended accelerations, but the media debacle caused people to carefully investigate the cars, at which point they discovered that the programming was bad.
At this point there are tens to hundreds of millions of pirates in the world. Current policy in the US is six strikes to lose service with your ISP, not criminal prosecution for seeding downloads. That happens of course, but it is blisteringly rare and is a blatant attempt at fear mongering. The proverbial cat is out of the bag, and it will take a lot of stick to put it back in, and even then you will never be able to put a lid back on considering how technology has effectively digitized all information so well.
Pepsi stops using aspartame in Diet Pepsi because people think it’s dangerous
Amazon won't (legally) let you watch all content outside of the US

Because in many cases they have only purchased US rights. Someone else may already have the distribution rights in other countries. As I have explained before, films are often financed by using pre-sales agreements with foreign distributors as collateral for a production loan.

For example, If I am developing a film I might go a film market and say 'hey, I am making a film about X with a budget of Y, and I have an agreement from film star Z to participate.' Suppose film star Z is very popular in South East Asia; so distributors from China, Japan, South Korea, and a few other countries all say 'oh, film star Z! We would pay $10 million each to have the rights to that movie.' So then I'd get them to sign an agreement to that effect and open up bank accounts in those countries. Then I would take those letters to a US bank and say 'look I have $30 million in presales commitments, so give me money.' In other words the foreign distributors are entering into a binding contract to purchase the film at a certain price by a certain date if it meets certain agreed-upon requirements about delivery format, quality, and content. Those contracts are good enough to borrow money against, and that (in a nutshell) is how many films get made.

Amazon is usually buying a limited set of rights because they buy already-copleted films for the most part. They're not in the film-financing business in a big way so far, so they're not in a position to bid on worldwide rights in the first place.

As mentioned, if you give me access to high-quality (encoded) content without DRM, I'm willing to pay for it. If not, you're simply charging for an inferior product.

Oh, DRM. What about all the people that will take advantage of the absence of DRM to just copy it about freely and untraceably? Fine, so you're not one of them, that's nice, but it doesn't solve my problem as a film producer. I'm not sure the value of (sales lost to anti-DRM purists) exceeds the value of (sales lost to rampant casual copying).
Instead, sucralose, which is most commonly known as Splenda will be used.
Well TTYs are apparently they own kind of hell.

We are talking about a system that can trace a lineage back to the Morse telegraph...
Appears to be a legal oddity. Renaming the islands to boats must have seemed an easy solution at the time.

>Under section 67 of the Naval Discipline Act 1866, the provisions of the act only applied to officers and men of the Royal Navy borne on the books of a warship.
Linux Upstream Tracker – API/ABI changes analysis for C/C++ libraries
Getting Root Access on HP Thin Clients
You can finally choose to play as a girl in Minecraft
This is actually a good piece. It sticks to the facts without an evident attempt to push an agenda either for or against Tor.

The operator ("Richard") seems relatable to a fellow tech like myself, and by the end of reading this I found myself thinking, "Maybe I should run an exit node too, since I have used Tor quite a bit".

All in all, a good piece.
All rational numbers have the property that their square is not 2

==

2 not in {r^2 for r in rationals}

==

sqrt(2) not in {r for r in rationals}

==

sqrt(2) not in rationals

It seems to me that you handwaved away the entire proof in your first sentence, without really proving anything.
I've got something much simpler than what I was thinking not involving induction, so I'll give that instead.

Assume n,m,x integer, and n^2/m^2=x. I claim x!=2. Proof: Write out both n and m's prime factorizations. Their squares' prime factorizations each contain an even number of all primes (zero is even). Therefore, for every prime, x's prime factorization contains an even number of it as well. Therefore x is not 2.
The above comment isn't attacking "teams with great software security people" but the fact that in proprietary software people can and do downplay vulnerabilities (not a very controversial statement).

I've noticed tptacek over the past few years that your comments have shifted from great general security advice to more defending "the security profession". Please consider this shift and whether it is helpful.
I thought Tor originated with the U.S. navy?
That is a proof by contradiction that the square root of any prime is irrational.
And the "anyone" they're talking about isn't end-users it's device manufacturers.
I did, although the statement I gave can be proven without contradiction. I gave a proof in a different reply.
Well, I don't think the debate over the terminology itself is very significant, but I do think there's an ongoing debate over how computing should be taught, and who should learn it, which is significant. Perhaps the battle lines in the two debates are drawn in similar places. In any case, the article has some interesting things to say about all the different things computing is or can be, even if you ignore the stuff about whether "science" is the right word.
Agreed. Free is the best feature of piracy. Once the paid options get to parity on quality and UX soon, it'll make it completely obvious that the only reason to still pirate is because its free.

EDIT: Bring on the downvotes. It's ok, we all want free stuff.
More secure? Not necessarily, but usenet is download-only, so usenet users could not be charged with uploading/distribution.
Importantly (not really), is it to be pronounced "dis-queue", or "Disk"?
The "problem" is basically that constructivists don't believe that this is a valid inference:

¬¬ϕ ⇒ ϕ
This is the sort of bigoted non-sense that people once said -- and sometimes still do say -- about gay folks. Luckily, society is continuing to progress socially. I imagine in another few decades (if you're still alive) your views will be seen as a novelty; a sad reminder of a bygone era -- like Archie Bunker's overt racism.
Where is the contradiction? I don't see any false assumptions that then result in contradiction.
I spent a summer internship building an Add-in for Outlook. I think its a very undeveloped for market and I am excited to see MS continue to support it.
> they met them halfway

iTunes' success was a bit of a fluke. The music execs didn't really think that it would amount to anything, so they threw Steve Jobs a bone.
There's no need for a third party "open API" for SEC filings. The SEC already has one.[1] You can also download all SEC filings via FTP.

We've been indexing all SEC filings since 2000, from before the SEC had a public search engine. You can access them at "www.downside.com". While the site hasn't been updated in years, the indexing engine continues to run every day at 4AM, downloading the new SEC filing index for the day. Costs me $15 a month to keep it running.

There's a paid commercial service, "edgar-online.com", which also does this. They've been unnecessary since the SEC put up a search engine.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
My claim isn't that this distinction isn't useful, it's that the terminology is a disaster, and we should find better terminology to make this distinction. There's no consistency in using these particular terms to refer to these particular meanings.
Apparently it is there to give the admin/user a quick way to grab the initial log singing key...
BitTorrent Inc. is fine and I respect the work they're doing negotiating with major labels/ studios.

But I can't support DRM on my torrents.
+1 for an Archive.org link.
I highly recommend this documentary about EB and the great life and death of Jonny Kennedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmahlc6n9_A
My grandfather once told me the story of a Nazi propaganda broadcast which attempted to damage British morale by (falsely) announcing the sinking of a "ship", only to backfire when they used the name of a stone frigate.

Unfortunately I can't find any reference online, so the story may be apocryphal; has anyone else heard this?
Show HN: Real-time spectrum-analyzed audio visualization pastiche as pastiche
A hacker news post.
I'd rather support artists who aren't using the copyright empire in order to monetize their art.

I think any adult should be able to give up The Avengers for moral reasons.

You don't need movie franchises that much.
Knuth's Turing Award speech "Computer Programming as Art" [1] is relevant. It is useful to apply the scientific paradigm when appropriate, but it is also true that there is an aesthetic dimension to computer programming and the use of computer programs as a form of human knowledge that gets lost unless we remember that the artistic element is vital to the field.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361604.361612. See also http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html for a transcription.
Then why are so many Steam games pirated?

I'm not doubting that service can be a cause. But I think it's crazy to pretend getting something for nothing isn't a good motivation.
On the up-side, at least you haven't run into the "confiscation through anonymous tip line" issue, yet.

I am hopeful that, eventually, for-cost registration schemes will eventually go the way of the dodo, as I personally equate them to a poll tax, so either the laws will be rescinded on those grounds, or FFL fees will be eliminated, which should ameliorate at least some of the issue.

I'm a long way from Washington. Is the current interpretation of I594 being applied to temporary transfers? I'm in Maryland, and we have a similar transfer limitation, but were at least able to press the AG into issuing a formal opinion on some aspects of the law, though the specifics of it currently elude me.
HBO NOW isn't built by HBO and is much better than HBO GO.
I clicked through to this thinking, for some reason, that this was a new messaging app released by Anonymous (the activist group), and got confused for a second when I saw the picture of the girl, unmasked and not anonymous in the slightest.

Now that I've re-read the article in proper context, it's raises some interesting ideas.

What is currently the closest to an "anonymous" messaging app, and is it even feasible? In theory, in order to have a basis for a conversation there must be some relationship established, either based on a shared membership in a group, familiarity in the online or offline world, etc.

A truly "anonymous" messaging app would have to be more of a chatroom or random "matchmaking" service based on some type of logic, but I don't know if that would actually get traction.

Alternatively an app that is pseudonymous (wherein identities are anonymous to the provider of the platform, but wherein members can either share or hide their identities from each other at will) seems to already have been accomplished many times over, dating all the way back to Myspace.

Thoughts?
Yes, and even if the topic is just bleeding, humans aren't special, so it still shouldn't be "why do women bleed" but "why just primates, bats and one kind of shrew bleed during estrous cycle." Humans simply aren't special in that regard. And the whole "mystery" doesn't appear so dramatic anymore. It becomes obvious that that "optimization" developed more than once.
Vodo is awesome, and Pioneer One is an awesome show.

I highly suggest everyone check it out and support the creators.
Well do get in touch when someone sets up a postcapitalist film company that's willing to pay for camera rental, meals, wages and all the other expenses that go into making a film, because the fixed costs of making the original work haven't gone away. I find discussions like this one really aggravating to read because there seems to be total indifference to the fact that producing a movie to entertain you for two hours while you sit on the couch or wherever involves a massive amount of time, hard work, and risk from a large number of people.
AWS shows Cloud is Not a high-margin business
Its not more secure, you are just less liable. If you DL via torrents you automatically share the content as well. So you are not just DL illegal content, but also distributing it.
When I actually looked up these terms I found no strong, exact agreement on meanings.

However, of the definitions I did find, the ones referenced in the Clojure documentation seemed most reasonable - from memory, something like the difference between coordination of simultaneous tasks, and their execution.

This definition allows for the existence of concurrent systems without formal concurrency primitives - every action game deals with race conditions even though the gameplay loop is typically single threaded, because it has to code apparently independent agents against a global shared-state environment, and the order in which these agents process data matters. In most instances there is no crisis for the game if the situation is left poorly specified - it may slightly bias some elements or defer events by an additional frame - but for certain things it can blow up into a showstopper bug with physics or cutscene triggers, or harm responsiveness.

This correlates with a common trope from students who encounter the agents problem for the first time - they try to run each AI on a thread, further pushing away their ability to direct concurrency, while "gaining" parallel performance(not really, of course).
Interesting. Is yify or any equivalent open sourced? could I fork that project?
Ha! To be honest, I now can't even remember - and it's only a day later, so perhaps the true answer is zero.

There was some stuff about speed of dopamine response that was interesting. It aligned with some stuff about dopamine addiction by a guy called Charles Faraone who I'd been reading on Quora.

I did find his proposed solution interesting, but I'd have preferred it stated up front and then explained, rather than left until the final paragraphs by which point I'd lost attentiveness anyway.
Nice site and stats. Horrible UX with that scrolling...
Is it worthwhile to point out that humans have biases? When someone is looking at two similar candidates? Is it fair? Why didn't the Chevy Nova sell well in South America? No logical reason. Besides confusing things that have nothing to do with each other because of the name. But living thousands of miles away from where you want to work says to a recruiter "too hard, pick another candidate from the pool of 400,000 applicants"
Dr. McHugh, reached these decisions in 1975 -- as in 40 years ago -- in collaboration with his protégé Dr. Jon Meyer. [0]

It may also be illuminating to read about Dr. McHugh's involvement with the Roman Catholic Church and it's panels concerning the abuse of children by priests. [1]

>In the early 1990's, Dr. McHugh was among those in psychiatry who argued that memories of sexual abuse recovered by adults were almost always false, a byproduct of poor practice by psychotherapists, who often elicited the memories through hypnosis or other techniques, failed to look for evidence corroborating the abuse and encouraged patients to press charges against the supposed abusers.

[0] http://www.ncbcenter.org/document.doc?id=581

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/05/us/psychiatrist-says-he-wa...
For giggles I spent an hour this evening and added support for Disque to the pluggable system I help maintain [0].

Things I can say: the ruby disque library isn't really fleshed out yet. It's alpha, so that's fine, but it's got a ways to go. For example, it doesn't directly expose ACKJOB as a command. The server is equally alpha, things like HELP don't do anything yet, and some options on some commands appear broken. But hey, it was a fun way to spend an hour.

[0]https://github.com/tannerburson/chore-disque.
This is a good point. I guess my issue is creators (or more often, studios and labels) who are using copyright to restrict modern tech.

Isn't a CC-0 license the equivalent to a public domain dedication, though?
Depends on the environment, and whether you can tolerate proper earphones with a good seal. If you can, they provide pretty good isolation without mucking with the sound. If you can't, then noise reducing can will knock back the surrounding noise (I've seen people use them on planes to sleep, for example). But to me, they nuke the high end - YMMV.

I have a pair of Etymotic ER4P's. Ety's are pretty good earphones, but so are Shures. Cans, like speakers, are something that must be experienced first-hand. It depends on your ears, the kind(s) of music you listen to and the quality of the signal path and signal.
https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Square_Root_of_Prime_is_Irrationa...

Your proof hinges on the not-directly-stated words "so, if x were 2, we would reach an impossibility" where impossibility == contradiction.
I want to see you design a system so complex it cannot be understood.

Some people think cryptography is this utterly complex thing sitting on the edge of understanding. It isn't.

Evidence of rolling your own crypto, authentication or key-exchange mechanism is the first thing an attacker you'd want to worry about will look for.

Developers design systems that are easy to break because of ignorance and hubris. That's not to say you can't learn how to implement a secure system, just that if you did any research, you'd know that Rolling Your Own Is Bad because proper design is Hard and people, with much more experience than you, are aware of choke points in your design that you aren't aware of.
American Pirate Here. I pirate things for many reasons I suppose. When it comes to video games I actually prefer to buy games on steam rather than pirate them. But if the game is not available on steam (like some of EA's big games that they only release on origin for pc) then I will instead pirate them. If origin had the quality that steam did then I wouldn't mind installing it, but that is not the case. I also pirate game of thrones, which for a long time could only be viewed legally with an HBO subscription. I think it is silly to have to subscribe to something and pay a yearly fee just to watch 10 episodes of a single show once a year. If HBO wasn't so greedy then I would have gladly paid them; but as a service that I feel is overpriced and offers poor quality in return, I refuse to pay them a cent.

>This is where someone chimes in with something snarky related to offline viewing (airplane) or not living in the US and having access to less comments. This is true. It's also largely irrelevant. If you think those are the primary reasons users torrent then I'd challenge you to back it up with statistics.

I don't think it is fair to leave it to the other side to come up with statistics. However, I think torrentfreak has done an excellent job reporting on piracy over the years. Here are some stats you may find interesting:

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-30-more-music-than...
[2] https://torrentfreak.com/find-out-whos-using-the-pirate-bay-...
I own an AppleTV with iTunes. It sucks. AppleTV has the worst interface of any of my streaming devices.

As an American, I try NOT to pirate. I'll try Netflix, HBOGo, Comedy Central, and cable tv. If i can't find it on any of those, then I'll consider going through the hassle of pirating it.
Read these books: The Go-Getter, Who Moved My Cheese, QBQ!, Rhinoceros success, The Go-Giver. They're all short and each can be read in a couple hours. They'll change you.
The U.S. Navy has also been known to do this. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Desert_Ship_(LLS-1)
Turn GitHub Stars into Hearts
But that's not the proof I used. My proof was positive.

They may be equivalent, but not if we count proof by contradiction as special.

In response to edit: No, it doesn't. Having proven that x contains an even number of 2s as factors, it follows that x is not two. 2 does not have an even number of 2s as factors, x does, therefore they are different. No contradiction required.
Only if you seed right?
> They are negatively curved, any object thrown away on a straight line will eventually return.

Isn't that describing positive curvature (e.g. a sphere)?
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