skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aimed at UK and EU law as we felt it to be tighter than US law on a lot of these fronts, and yet combined both the ideas of Safe Harbor and DMCA (within the EU eCommerce Directive - "mere conduit").

At the same time, European law put much stricter requirements on personal data restrictions, and the right of people to access and delete their personally identifiable information.

The user agreements should be good for most Western countries, but definitely are good for all EU countries. It would have been a very expensive and futile exercise to try and make the agreements good for all countries, I'm not sure anyone tries this, better still to declare which legal domain you will operate in and constrain your terms and operations to those.

The site and services we offer, are much akin to Reddit and subreddits... it's a shared platform that hosts distinct communities, and within those communities sub-communities.

i.e. https://www.lfgss.com is one of almost 300 sites on 1 instance of the platform (other instances exist and are run by other people), and within LFGSS there are several sub-communities with their own moderators, moderation policies, etc.

The user agreements we produced dealt with the platform relationship with the admins of a site, and the moderators of forums on a site, and then went on to deal with the minimum required standard for users of a site on the platform.

We actually don't stray into finer details of how a specific sub-community may moderate, we simply lay down the minimum standard that all admins and moderators must adhere to.

As to the "moral right of the owners"... sure, you can exercise that, but you'll find that removing some content will create a liability of it's own in some legal domains. I would advise people stick to the letter of the law, anything else likely creates liability for the moderators or site owners.

On advertising, any site that tries to be of general appeal and also make enough revenue from advertising will need to control the content that appears on the site. Niche sites can avoid this, but the advertising potential is much reduced as a result. If a community received revenue, it would very quickly learn that it can either choose to make more revenue at the cost of adopting content policies, or of making a pittance and having freedom of expression within the content (though still avoiding illegal content).

As to whether there is some overriding and all-encompassing policy... a universal policy for internet sites. No, there is not. The requirements of the user agreements and site policies is determined by the business model or activities of the sites and their users. A subtle change in how a site or community operates could lead to a significant difference in the legal documents that would protect it... this is why there is a warning on my policies that anyone using them should have them reviewed by a lawyer, they are fit for purpose for my sites, but may be the death knell of your sites.
Yes, he can be a welder, or a truck driver. I can not think of better occupations for someone who was previously studying computer science.

/s

The sex offender registry is, well, offending. It negates the concept of serving a sentence - it's a life sentence whose impacts are ridiculously out of scale with the original offense. "Sorry, you peed on a statue. Enjoy being on the list for the rest of your life!"

It's sad that the advice most often given to those looking to move on with their lives is to move out of country.
Much like the movie, yes, though in her case it was a daily, not an hourly, thing. It's nice that the film seems to be based on a real-life condition and portrays it fairly accurately.
Cruel and unusual punishment plain and simple. It disgusts me that we're this vindictive a society; that's all this is - vindictiveness because who's going to stand up for sex offenders when our -children- are at stake.
A comparably horrifying experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing
Take what you think is the best job. Treat your old employer nicely, but you are not their slave.

The only reason I see that you would stay put is if you want to relocate to SF (you'll need the visa). If that's not a major goal for you, then take the new job. If you relocate to SF, be aware that it will be a life-changing event, and you will be exposed to many more high-paying jobs in really cool companies. Either way, you won't be with your current employer for much longer, so don't worry about loyalty. Again, just treat everyone professionally.
I've still run into these quirks on 8.1, particularly when deleting files outside of the Desktop itself (e.g. through other programs/command line, maybe Explorer).
Increasing NgRepeat Limit on Scroll
If you like challenge, MIPS can be exceptionally hard and complicated if you want to implement an OoO superscalar core.
Nice. Big fan of your work; I got interested in performance analysis at EarthLink, a Solaris shop at the time.

The culture at Netflix is appealing; if I wasn't building my own company, I'd apply.

Thanks for everything you do and keep up the great work!
No it is comparing her to Chairman Mao, father of the communist party in China, which is notorious for censorship. Pao herself said it is not her goal to make the site be a free speech platform. So the comparison is quite apt, since her actions are similar and even her name is similar.

You're right, it's not racist, and to be clear let's just define racism,

"a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race"

Nobody is saying that a white person would make a better CEO at reddit, nor are they saying all Asians are unsuited for it. Just that she's not the right person for it.

What's shocking to me is that she has a JD and an MBA from Harvard and does not realize the value in the American definition of free speech. Her parents migrated from China, perhaps to get away from Mao's authoritarian rule, and here she is enacting it again, albeit on a much smaller scale. It seems like she's trying to implement the European definition of free speech, which limits hate speech. But having seen how that's worked out for Europe (e.g. the Charlie Hebdo attacks), and given the way Americans are raised to tolerate others with differing opinions, I can't imagine the majority of Americans would agree with her proposed values which limit insulting speech. What is and is not insulting is too subjective to be defined by law or website policy, nor is it necessary to make laws or policies to protect people's feelings. Life is f*ing difficult Pao. Grow up
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9810025
Hey, thanks for sharing your local experience. I've only visited! I thought uber black runs audis in BJ but I only heard that from a friend. Maybe I or he was confused.

Out of interest, why do you have issues sleeping with the window closed? Frankly, it would be extremely rare for me to sleep with the windows open no matter where I am.
I developed something similiar but for the Android API, it goes together with an app, but it is also a Java Read-Eval-Print Loop where the code is executed on the device. It's in beta phase.
https://runondroid.com
Note: This is about unsupervised learning and mostly about RBMs/DBNs. Most of the Deep Learning success is all about supervised learning. In the past, RBMs have been used for unsupervised pretraining of the model, however, nowadays, everyone uses supervised pretraining.

And the famous DeepMind works (Atari games etc) is mostly about Reinforcement learning, which is again different.
I have no problem with such requests, and I think there should be more. But there is one issue with that. What's your motive?

Are you looking for this to complete a $xxK client project? Or are you looking for this to help students understand a C implementation?

It makes a world of difference. If you are getting paid for the result, then you should share with the developer. If you are not, and doing this for the greater good, then it's fine.

We should really define the line here. There is enough exploitation in the dev world and the last thing we want is developers exploiting other developers.
Another study, this one from Canada supports this. "University of Saskatchewan researchers Ravi Chibbar and Pierre Hucl grew 37 varieties of wheat that date back to the 1860s and analyzed the nutrient composition in each sample. They found that the concentration of proteins, including gluten, is remarkably similar to that grown more than 150 years ago—dispelling the myth of “Frankenwheat,” the genetic modification of the grain’s protein structure by the agriculture industry in recent years."

http://words.usask.ca/news/2015/06/03/wheat-research-yields-...
Very nice!

I for one welcome the lack of HN colours, although the orange might look nice as a secondary/accent colour used sparingly. The grey is lovely.

I'll keep using the app and look forward to the update coming shortly.

Well done.

PS. There's a typo on the error posting modal dialogue box - says "tu" rather than "to". (There was an error trying tu publish your comment....)

I've been getting this error a lot, so I went to the web site to post this.
3 Things Weekly: Overcast, Piano sheet music, 40 year birthday card
"It's sad that the advice most often given to those looking to move on with their lives is to move out of country."

I wonder if that's the entire purpose of the registry?
I went to the CCCamp 2011, it was hands down one of the best experience of my life.

The Camp take place on a former soviet military base and attracts technologists, hackers and engineers from around the world. It has a very strong hippie culture, but there is a mix of everyone and the atmosphere is great really.

Most talks are engineering, art or sociology related with a emphasis on security and privacy in the 21st century. I learned a ton, it was a very intellectually gratifying experience.

At night the camp becomes a very special place: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/CCCamp11...
with some crazy and magical light and music shows.

A truly amazing event.
Fundamentally, I guess the difference is that one is type-safe, and the other isn't.

You can get compile time errors instead of runtime for bunch of things.
Originally published: http://theconversation.com/scientists-discover-fundamental-p...
The rise of workplace spying
Why is an opinion piece about a nutrition topic with 1 citation worthy of discussion on Hacker News?

Here is an article with citations and discussion of modern research and patient experience that comes to a different conclusion:
http://chriskresser.com/3-reasons-gluten-intolerance-may-be-...

I won't bother submitting it to Hacker News since it doesn't have the official NYTimes scientific stamp of approval.
> The movement of electrons that gives rise to consciousness (or is interpreted as consciousness), creates information. This process is an abstraction from the physical world.

It's not clear to me what you mean when you say consciousness is an abstraction - is this dualism? Consciousness seems pretty thoroughly grounded in real stuff. Intelligent agents might "create information" in some sense, but there is no indication that they do it by breaking the laws of thermodynamics.
Can second this. At work, we have a large legacy Java codebase, and our most useful ops tool is our entire codebase and Spring beans loaded into a Groovy shell. Extremely convenient. Groovy is largely compatible with Java, but it also has shorthand notations (splat operator, elvis operator, closures, optional typing) and collections that are much more expressive than Java.
More people have to become aware of the fact that being on the "sex offender" registry most likely means you urinated in public or some such other small offense. How are we safer from actual predators by doing that?
In theory, we could have done that too, and I guess we still could.
Nautilus articles are usually okay, but this is literally a facebook quiz. No content loads unless you permit Facebook Connect to load an externally hosted quiz from PlayBuzz.
Hi all,
We are currently looking for an interactive digital designer at our digital banking startup, Monese. We're based in London and want the new recruit to work with our Senior product designer to help evolve the Monese brand. If you're interested please email us at jobs@monese.com and reference Hacker News.
All the best,
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Maybe that's true for their target audience. I suppose broadly speaking most people never used Excel. Also, most people never -- or very seldomly -- use computers.
In a talk that I attended, Steve Wozniak mentioned that he studied a lot of psychology when he returned to the university after leaving Apple. He thinks that he may have been the first person to have come up with idea that we lose our memories with our teeth, and that researchers later discovered a link between the loss of our early autobiographical memories and the loss of our baby teeth.
Elisp programming tutorial
That's the sad part - we sacrifice what people like Snowden tried to save (by giving up their perfect lives) for eye candy.
Most people took a little bit of time to get familiar with smartphone UIs, especially for someone who's jumping from no smart phone at all to the latest version of iOS and Android. I wonder if he has been slowly learning how to use a smartphone like the other condition, or if he has to rediscover the UI every time.
My wife doesn't have celiac disease. Her knee suffered some damage some years ago. If she adds gluten to her diet, it swells up like crazy and hurts. If she removes gluten from her diet, within two days it shrinks back down and looks like a normal knee again and feels (mostly) fine. I won't pretend to understand how gluten affects everyone's body, but I know something about what it does to hers.

It's odd to use the word "myth" in the title, but then leave the door open in the penultimate paragraph to immune system issues being wrapped up in all of this because I think it's entirely possible that for some people (like my wife), the immune system is counterproductively stimulated by gluten.

Having said that, I think a lot of this current GF stuff is simply a fad. But fad or not I'm grateful for it because it gives my wife, who really does have a problem with gluten, many more options when shopping than she had just ten years ago.
They're a bit more than just reducers. Given that you always package them with initial state they're a little more like "left folds" [0] or "Moore machines" [1] (they're isomorphic). What's neat about this is that noticing that structure describes a whole bunch of ways to compose machines and folds—in particular, there's parallel composition like Flux suggests ("all stores receive the same actions", your linked example, https://gist.github.com/gaearon/d77ca812015c0356654f) and sequential ("category-like") composition.

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/foldl-1.1.0/docs/Control...

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/machines-0.5.1/docs/Data...
I went to their yearly indoor conference and to a similar Dutch camp, it's always very fun.

Compared to say FOSSDEM, the topics are more political and there are also talks about art and culture. But the best part of it is not the talks, but the super friendly, crazy, diverse people who organise all sorts of crazy things all over the place.

Where at FOSSDEM you'd find people wearing Tux shirts talking about code and drinking beer, at CCC you'll find people with bright blue hair making mate slush and Arduino knitting robots.

Almost all the talks are in English and it's very international, but there are some things that completely pass you by as a foreigner. It was only because my German friends told me that I attended some impromptu sexism discussion because something happened somewhere, and everyone speaking German was really upset.
The doctors initially suspected that he’d reacted badly to the anaesthetic, causing a brain haemorrhage – yet they failed to find evidence of injury. So he was discharged with the mystery still hanging over him, and the family moved back to England, where he was referred to the office of Gerald Burgess, a clinical psychologist in Leicester.

Scouring the medical literature, he found five similar cases of mysterious memory loss without brain damage. Although none occurred during a trip to the dentist, they do seem to follow other periods of physiological stress during a medical emergency.

That doesn't prove that the anaesthetic isn't the root cause. The article title sounds link-baity.
Images in this article are very nice for visualizing types of drag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)
Because ass hattery like this actually drives people's behaviors. Missing in the hysteria about gluten, corn syrup and carb consumption is the witch hunts in the 90s for fat and chlorestrol.

Kids loading up on sugar filled, "whole grain" frosted flakes today were eating eggs 30 years ago.
anecdote: my wife has had exema her entire life. after a particularly bad episode, we eventually we tried an elimination diet methodically eliminating one food category at a time. it took about 2 months to rotate through all the possible suspects but in the end, eliminating wheat completely cleared the problem. then, one morning we had meatless sausage and she had a bad reoccurrence. first ingredient on the sausage? wheat gluten. (this was before allergy labelling in the US, and we just didn't think it would contain wheat).

On the other hand, we've had other family members try avoiding gluten because they perceived it was 'bad', without a causal linkage to any symptoms.

So, is non-celiac gluten intolerance rare? Probably. Do most people avoid it for the wrong reason? Probably. But to make the blanket statement that intolerance doesn't exist is misinformed and denigrates the very real problem that a small subset of the population does have.
If you're talking globally that's true, but do you think that's still true for modern industrialized nations? (USA/Canada/Western Europe/Japan/etc.)
> Where at FOSSDEM you'd find people wearing Tux shirts talking about code and drinking beer, at CCC you'll find people with bright blue hair making mate slush and Arduino knitting robots.

And drinking Club Mate :-)
Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac is a globally recognized leader in the fields of ancestral health, Paleo nutrition, and functional and integrative medicine

Yeah...

Really scientific, unbiased, peer reviewed, modern research. Not a snake oil salesman at all.

Also any article in the format "X reasons [thing] is more harmful than [other thing]" can generally be laughed at.
So is Kaiser, which also surprised me.
How the VAX lost its POLY [pdf]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQF3vr2I0XY <- Clap along if you're gluten free because you think it's cool.
Reminds me of the 'Stone Soup' proverb.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
Not only link-baity, but also blaming the doctor. Large percentage of the large percentage of people who won't read the article will move away with a inconsciouss (at least) fear of medical interventions.
Hm. I wonder about some of these results. That number for chicago is wild - that would be clearly visible, serious pollution. And my old haunt BKK, which I left specifically because of the awful air, 32!? The city where I would come home from work with a grey shirt that was white when I left is cleaner than zurich? From personal experience in both cities I assure you it is not.

It's anecdotal, I know, but I wonder about some of this data.
... and let me guess: you wrote it! :)
Seems like they tried to give the skyscraper a Mao haircut!

http://efisherhistory12.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/5/2/23527216/...
Here's another good one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clou...
Aside from the multiple levels of stupidity involved with these registries, it's (sadly not really) amazing to me that the judge and prosecutor in this case essentially admit that they feel good about ruining this young man's entire life simply because they personally believe it's icky and immoral for people to have casual sex.

(And they're using apps! On them smartphones! On the sinternet!)

Ridiculous.
why be cynical? If I were a c expert and had some time to kill (perhaps between jobs) I'd happily jump at the chance to advertise my skills and help someone out.
Even if you don't write Clojure code in your project, the Clojure REPL can be used to experiment with Java code in the same way the Groovy or Scala REPLs can.
Are you hiring in DC?
there are just some people who initially hate nearly every good idea
My dentist saved my tooth but stole my memory
This is a good step towards restoring faith in the US court system. There have been a significant number of high profile, large scale abuses of civil litigation lately. I'd started to think of the US courts as participants in a protection racket. Knocking down the lawyers behind a few of those is a significant positive step.
I see. Thx for the pointer!
What's wrong with being hypocritical? I'm pretty sure we all are. Nobody likes bullies, and we all stand up against them, but we also probably inadvertently offend someone every day.

CEOs, celebrities, etc put themselves in a highly visible position with some responsibility attached. I think they can understand they won't win everyone's support all the time, otherwise they would not be there. The thing to do here is move forward, focus on getting all the facts out, and answer any community questions so they are not left in the dark.
Agree, maybe doing "Help FOSS" could be more relevant just posting any task, Open source contributor might ask for help, for some of their specific fields, HN has plenty of excellent developers
Well yeah all medical interventions have can have side effects; they should be considered.
I agree. Please get security software off of sourceforge.
This is a fun hack. While I can see how it would be useful to some, reading the rationale brought me out in a rash.

Still, well done to the author!
Understanding how OKRs cascade down the org: a Startup-focused worksheet
Germany declared war on Russia and France, on August 1st and 3rd respectively. Not sure what you mean by:

> Why? Because Germany /didn't/ start the war. It just ended up as one of the losers.

It also didn't blame Germany for starting the war but for the damage caused by German troops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_231_of_the_Treaty_of_V...
The editorializing of the headline here is changing the argument. The article (titled "The Myth of Big, Bad Gluten") is arguing that gluten may not itself be bad, but rather the body's reaction. This new title implies gluten intolerance is a myth, which is contradicted by stuff like http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21224837 .
IMHO that nytimes article seems to dream of a world in which we could enjoy breads and all other wheat products with no health concerns. A nice dream but it annot be applied to real world.
Oh very cool. I've used sl4a for this, but it would be very nice to have access to the original Java API for experimenting with new features for an actual native Android application. I look forward to trying it out.
I believe the memory used to retain skills is separate from other types of memory. There was a famous patient, Henry Molaison[0] who was the first person to suffer this condition and participated in some really amazing research. He was able to learn new skills, albeit slowly.

"His ability to form long-term procedural memories was intact; thus he could, for example, learn new motor skills, despite not being able to remember learning them."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison