jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nothing. There's a common myth on the internet that it massively favors patent plaintiffs, but in reality it isn't even in the top five.

There are two reasons so many patent suits are filed there.

1. It has judges that have experience with patent suits and like handling them. Whether you are plaintiff or defendant, you want this.

2. There isn't much federal crime there. Criminal cases always take precedent over civil cases on the court calendar. In some districts, especially those where the stupid "war on drugs" is highly active, it can take a long long time to get any court time for civil cases.
> If they're going to supply access via the website, or allow you to share with others then they need to be able to decrypt the file.

They need to be able to decrypt the file right then to give you access via the website. They don't need to be able to decrypt the file the rest of the time. If the encryption key depends on your password, this is easy to implement. In modern browsers, this could actually be done in the browser, so that the keys for decrypting the file never reach their servers.

To allow you to share individual files with others, they could encrypt each file with a randomly-generated session key, which is encrypted with your user key. When you give access to the file to a recipient, you would be encrypting a copy of that session key with the recipient's public key.

In actual fact, it appears that anyone who knows the secure hash of the file's content is able to discover that Dropbox is storing it: http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-u... — and there's at least well-founded speculation, if not proof, that this means that knowing the secure hash is sufficient to read the file: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440074

For their previous statements to be true — that their employees have no access to your files — they would have to be doing something like this.
I hope this is a joke. Instant Search is a UX nightmare with the screen changing / morphing with every keystroke. Now if you meant Google Suggest, I'd have no argument, but on any new browser install, one of the first items is to switch Instant Search off.
Let's also not forget that Belgium recently spend a year or more (?) without a government at all!
Europe is problematic because different countries have different distribution companies because the audiences expect things in different languages - posters, marketing materials, subtitles, voiceover tracks. All of these are paid for by the national distributor. It's very hard for outside distributors to break into a national market because they don't have the leverage with the theater chains and TV broadcasters, or the translators and actors in the case of producing soundtracks in other languages.

Studios don't really have the leverage to do much about this because they are dependent on national distributors to collect the revenue and often to put up the money for the production cost ahead of time(eg distributors will put up a few million Euro in advance to buy the rights to a film with a popular star and a good story based on a trailer shown at a prestigious film festival. This is why the Cannes film Festival is a big deal; not so much because of all the stars, but because that's the event where EU film distributors look into what studios want to produce for the following year and sign contracts to buy the rights).

It sounds to me that you want a single global marketplace that all films are sold into and that delivers direct-to-consumer from there, but there isn't any single media company in the world big enough to do that - and if there were, it would be run into problems with authorities in the US and EU for restraint of trade, price-fixing etc.. You would basically be removing the rights of producers to negotiate their own prices and have a sort of industry communism, which would give the few biggest studios more power than they have now.
> forced myself to use . . .

Sounds like your mind was already made up. Whatever works for you I guess.
I wonder what they wrote in the message they sent free users

A close reading of their first paragraph suggests they merely turned off signups but let the account type unchanged. This is essentially what I did when I got rid of anonymous guest accounts on BCC (because they converted terribly). The great majority of them will "age out" (go inactive), and as long as it isn't hindering ongoing development you can just keep them in the DB as a sop to your early adopters. (When it does start to become technical debt to maintain two code paths, you can actually disable the accounts, offer them an upgrade path at a discount, upgrade them for free, etc etc.)
Did anybody else read "The Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate (...) does not appear to be vulnerable" as "we ran the exploit and it didn't work"?
I'm still amazed at the cost of a college education in the US. My computer engineering degree in Australia cost $15k total, then a PhD was free (with many, including myself, getting a scholarship to pay for living expenses).
These guys were able to procure some to make dice. You might start by sending them a note and/or following up on the source they mention.

http://crystalcaste.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Sto...
Hacker News is not the place to discuss theology, which is why I did not quote a lot.

Personally, to me, it does not change the meaning. Telling someone to make sure that their fire extinguisher is always in working condition does not imply that their house will burn down shortly.
At the rate I am going, I am hoping by next week. But, the author of Alt has already written an amazing getting started guide: http://goatslacker.github.io/alt/guide/ - check it out!

As for a contrast between Alt/Reflux, I am hoping others using different Flux libraries will contribute and share their views, I will also link to some comparisons others have already done, such as: http://pixelhunter.me/post/110248593059/flux-solutions-compa.... But if I have time to, I'll give it a try!
The license is complicated, but fortunately, the current trend for illustrations on the web is 2d.
So the Baffler is joining me in full-blooded accelerationism?
No, and whats worse is practically every article about Lamo uses those same talking points.
If Lamo is a textbook Asperger, the description more or less fits.
The truth is that you, personally, are usually better off staying the same. But everyone is much worse off if you're allowed to go your way and someone else their different way. Therefore it is everyone's interest for someone to take that hit, and the argument is really about who is going to be forced to adapt.
Right, i get that the article is about making the appeal of being a terrorist less glamorous. However, i think that this list of anecdotes not only doesn't achieve his goal, but is actually counter-productive, because the post doesn't get to the root of what should be mocked. The notion that blowing yourself up is dumb. The idea that individual suicide bombers aren't too bright is totally pointless. Like they care what you think?

Point out their hypocrisy, point out how stupid it is for them to go blow themselves up. But calling them stupid is both trite and ineffective.
iPhone and Android are consumption devices?

Phone calls, tweets/twitpics, facebook posts, camera and movie capture, movie editing, audio recording, skype, video chat, geolocation capture, and augmented video are all examples of things people are using right now on these devices. None of them are consumption apps. They generate content.
Many of the people I knew who married at 22 made bad marital choices. At least in the eyes of their family and friends. I say that because they tended to marry before they had established careers and before they had really lived independently after school. Even if you think that modern society forces people to postpone adulthood for too long, it does not necessarily follow that early marriages will benefit people on average. After all, if adulthood is delayed, then immature people will tend to make bad choices regarding future mates.

I married in my late 20s. I have not avoided long term relationships.
Wouldn't the investors be able to see through the smoke, though? I mean, if a phony starts getting peppered with technical questions, and he balks, shouldn't that be a giveaway?
> For a given value of {knowledge}, there are values of {number} and {bigger number} for which that statement is true. There are other values for which it is false.

Actually, there are values of {number} and {bigger number} for which that statement is true regardless of the value of {knowledge}.

I suspect that there are values for which it is always false as well.
For people still in favor of patents (and/or copyright), I recommend skimming through this:

Boldrin & Levine: "Against Intellectual Monopoly)

http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h...

It's full or real life examples of how "intellectual monopoly" is harmful, often to the monopolist itself.
There are some things that are good. I don't know how common this is, but in her school almost every classroom has an "interactive whiteboard" and teachers all have personal laptops.

This allows some things like use of internet, youtube etc in lessons. (But training is lacking, and the level of use is highly down to if individual teachers are prepared to put in the extra work to discover what can be done with it.)

Also, the availability of commodity technology can lead to innovations in lessons. For example, one thing she has done is get kids to make very (very) simple stop frame style animations using regular digital cameras and powerpoint. This couldn't have been done when I was back in school because the school couldn't afford a few dozen digital cameras.
Ah, education... this is one of my big bugbears, and it's a really big one, so bear with me :) The issue is multi-faceted:

* Stifled curriculum; Here in the UK the curriculum is pretty shoddy. My mother is a primary teacher and trying to innovate her teaching is extremely difficult - the curriculum simply cannot cope. It is unwieldy and disjointed, and almost without exception tech innovators do not understand how it works and how to accomodate it (n.b. this is not simply a tech problem, my dad runs a successful mobile planetarium business and, through my mother, knows how to accomodate what is needed - their competitors pop up every few months and quickly flounder because school level education is unlike any other learning ever conceived :)).

* Teacher apathy; not all of them, but enough. They follow the worksheets and guidelines and don't "disrupt" the system enough to make a serious change. You'll get a few great ones in each school (I'm sure we all have some memorable/fav teachers) but most are simply either bad or good teachers, and not innovators.

* Teacher luddites; even the very best teachers can be luddites (meant in a polite sense). Getting them to accept and use new tech is hard enough, but when the teachers often have no IT skills (this is a problem that will be fixed in a few generations, I guess) themselves there is simply no chance :)

* Teaching unions; don't give a crap about education (partly understandable), and exercise their power to interfere a little too much.

* Bureaucracy; you honestly have never experienced bureaucracy until you have ever tried to do anything in a school. This varies greatly, and can exist as stupid rules through to silly government policy (the one at the moment is that my mum has to "evidence" and present all the work her kids do during the year... I guess to prove they aren't just playing with lego all day???)

* Funding; there is none. Most good teachers (esp. primary teachers) will fund a lot of the non-curriculum ideas they have (such as, science clubs) as there is no money. And when there is it is spent shoddily. For example; mums school have digital whiteboards and laptops for all the teachers to hook up. In the last three years they have had three suppliers (all council approved contracts..) - all of who have fucked up in various ways and been replaced. Most of the whiteboards fail at some point (v. poor quality), the laptops are slow, clunky and a mess. They can never get anything done (Mum has a pile of CDs/DVDs with educational programs that she can't "ta da" install on the laptop to test....)

tl;dr: education is a mess because previous good education has tried and failed (dismally) to adopt modern ideas and adapt to modern society. There is no money, innovation or interest in educating our children.

(n.b. not all teachers are at fault. In fact; a large number will raise these exact issues if you ask them, but are completely stumped as to how to fix and disrupt it. Innovation is desperately needed - but be prepared for a long long slog :))
I think you underestimate the innovation in education considering Kahn Academy, the UN, MIT courseware online, etc. The innovation is in content and a more student-centric approach to learning.

The old model of a school building and a teacher "push the content" has changed little since 1800 despite the advances in technology. Just relax the assumption that there has to be a physical school and the innovation opportunities become apparent. More thoughts at http://sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com/sophisticated_financ...
Don't we pay taxes?
I was excited about this, however after 5 minutes of use it seems more buggy than the beta. Guess I'm excited for 11.0.1 now.
Other bee types are great. The easiest way to "keep bees" is to drill some holes in a board for mason bees to live in. They prefer being kept near muddy/mucky ground.
http://www.parentmap.com/article/keeping-mason-bees-10-exper...
Furniture. We throw a party, on average, once a month. It's nice to have chairs and a table for these, so we have a table and six chairs, which we use approximately 3% of the time.
Just a thing, windows phone is now only at 3% worldwide (yes, it is not important that in your country it is at 10%-20%-whatever%)
> I’d prefer if it wasn’t MasterCard since I use Visa cards, but I can’t complain too much.

I'm curious: is this because your preferred bank mainly issues Visa cards, or are there things about MasterCard that you don't like?
I don't get it - you're trying to avoid paying tax into the society that you're using, benefitting from?

Edit to add: Many replies are acting as if it's difficult to automatically, digitally track conversions and taxes, to then pay your taxes? It's a digital "currency" we're talking about here.
Having programmed professionally in both Scala, and Swift, and enjoyed both, I can see basically nothing that Swift takes from Scala.

The common ancestor is OCaml, and the ML languages in general.

To be fair, that may change as Swift adopts Actor based concurrency.
If you have a 7 figure loss you most likely had at least 7 figures in the bank.. not really the typical "simple man".

Also laying blame on deepfuckingvalue seems ridiculous to me. He was basically the only one that invested in Gamestop as a value investment.. about a year ago. Everyone told him he was stupid but he kept with his plan. Then at some point a horde of crazies jumps on the train and now he is taking money from "20 people losing their life savings"? meh...

This whole topic reeks of simplifications, misguided blame and populism.
that works if you show it publicly(and then there is the debate that its bad because you jumped the queue, or its bad because not getting a vaccine shows they aren't trustworthy)

But in spain the cases that have surfaced are of mainly politicians who got the shot and tried to keep quiet about it, which think we can all agree its bad.
If there were a list of "people the vaccine is meant for", I'd tend to agree with your point. As it happened there was no such list, and his attempts to find front-line workers to give the vaccine to failed. He was unable to find "people the vaccine is meant for", so I'm willing to give him some leeway there.
Nope. Starting from Android 10, unless an app has explicitly allowed user certificates (and no-one reasonably does, it's all behind a <debug-overrides> flag), you will not be able to MITM it. You may inject your certificates as much as you want. The only option is to have a device on which you have root access, which can push system certificates with adb. This pretty much only means the android emulator these days.
If we can confidently confirm that 1) there are leftover vaccines, 2) good-faith efforts were made to administer them to the target audience, and 3) there were leftover vaccines that were definitely otherwise going to go to waste then I'm 100% fine with people administering to their contact list. I'd rather that 1000x over than unused vaccines be tossed into the garbage. We all lose with unused vaccines.
Python's solution to this is that a randomly indented block is an error.

Many languages restrict statement-expressions to function calls and other expressions with explicit side-effects.

Another choice would be to avoid syntax where you can optionally append expressions to an otherwise complete statement (so only one of "return" and "return expr" are allowed, and the other has an alternate spelling)

Or the parser could forbid line continuation in the absence of a trailing binary operator, which makes mid-statement newlines illegal outside of a highly visible special case so users would be trained out of inserting them at random before they introduced errors.

Both JavaScript and python do something like the last one but both screw it up; JavaScript also allows leading operators and open-brackets to continue the previous line which is a huge mess, and python uses brackets to continue lines but parens are both optional around most expressions and overloaded (generators, tuples). If you wanted to go that way you would need a bracket that meant "this is syntactically a single expression and has no other meaning"
No, I asked to an engineer last month and their still using their 'Monorail' for twitter.com
TIL about that git feature. Very nice.
This is similar to the claim that an orange, say, can be cut into pieces that can then be put together to make two oranges. It turns out some of these pieces would be infinitesimal, and hence smaller than the atoms making up the orange (or whatever). While such a result may be satisfying to a theoretical mathematician, the engineer in me recoils.
Exactly. We have no idea what this is doing to people.

There is a shocking drop in the testosterone levels of young men from 1999 to 2016 per studies if you google it. 20-30% drop.

The correlation in data would obviously be there but who knows about causation.

I am 50 and didn't see hardcore porn until I was almost 18. Some kid got into his fathers porn collection and was playing it at a party. I still remember it was the most horny I had ever been at that point in my life. It is illogical to believe that level of stimulation from the onset of puberty has no effect on development.

I don't see what the solution to this is though. It is a really tough subject to study on any real level.
EU has contactless paying for a while now, but it uses a chip embedded in the bank card.
Is this only for merchants? I feel like here in the US we still don't have a great way to send money back and forth with friends and family. Zelle is decent if both parties' banks support it, but otherwise I've tried Google Pay, Paypal, Venmo, and they all have some problem or another. A lot of them (I'm looking at you PayPal) require you to give them your bank username and password!
It's a nice sentiment but the two party system is dominant by design. It's a feature that always emerges from winner take all voting systems.
This is totally subjective, but the millennials do seem to me to be artistically on the sidelines. There are exceptions, but as a whole the generation seems both uninterested in making art and uninterested in art/music in general compared with previous generations.

I have a suspicion it might have something to do with economics. Art/music becomes an irresponsible diversion when you graduate with 50-200k in student loans. The millennials are largely indentured servants to banks.
These slides are from the keynote from Rubyconf 2014...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ct6jOvVPI
I think it might just be hard for many of the people on HN to have an objective opinion about it. We might just think of the 80s as the beginning of the modern world because it's when we were born.
I don't think it supports the idea that men have better control over their emotions than women. Rather, I think it illustrates the effects of stereotype anxiety. The article also mentions the same phenomenon wrt black students taking standardized tests.

Although I don't have the source on hand, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a piece a few months ago reporting a similar effect in the performance of white basketball players relative to that of blacks in American high schools.
Perhaps it's time for some Harry Enfield http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxY9rZwNGU&feature=youtu...
When you buy from Apple, you buy using Apple's checkout process. Why ever would anyone think that Android would use anything but Google's checkout process?
Whatever, get over yourself. I'm not here to please you.
That's fair too. The point is that you do have to stick with it long enough that you can actually judge the results. If you've been outside your comfort zone for a long time and it's still not comfortable, maybe it's time to try stepping in a different direction. But if you just went to a meetup once and you felt terribly socially awkward and you never went back, how do you know whether it's because first meetings are always awkwards vs. you just don't click with those people?
People can't even agree what gamification is. As the article points out, there is a push towards what some people call pointification. (BTW I hate both of these terms.)

I see the main breakdown as being some people see gamification as making things more game like and some (myself included) see it as taking feedback elements from games and moving them into non gaming applications. There is room for intersection there, but those looking to amke everything "fun" are going to have their work cut out for them. I don't believe everything can be made to be fun - more interesting, yes, but not necessarily fun. I mean, even many games have elements that aren't fun. People don't grind in RPGs because it's fun. Achievement hunting is more about collecting than being fun. Fun is overrated. I'll take motivational over fun any day.
It's not really a fiction, it's merely recognizing that humans fundamentally need to (be able to) use their minds in order to survive, must use logic, and that the only logical way to deal with other humans is therefore mutual non-aggression.
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> The idea behind stepping outside of your comfort zone is that you keep doing it until it becomes your new comfort zone.

That's kinda worse. The only good way to venture into new areas, in my opinion, is to make little steps forward, to the extent that you're not standing still "as-is" but also while you're still in control of your emotions.

This will expand your comfort zone gradually until the thing that was originally very uncomfortable, is now only slightly uncomfortable.

But going completely outside your zone over and over again? No thanks. This might work for some people, specifically people with SP temperament (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan_temperament) who tend to seek stimulation, but it's not a good advice for the general population.
Nevada does not share tax info with the IRS (even though no tax is owed), which can appear suspicious. Wyoming is likely a better choice. One advantage of a Nevada/Wyoming LLC is that they have specific laws which prevent veil-piercing of single member LLCs, something judges have been doing in other states in lawsuits. Wyoming LLC costs $52/yr to maintain, Nevada is around $200.