skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company has every right to send an infringement invoice, the infringing party also has every right to ignore said invoice and try their chance in court.

They have every right to send a notice as I said, myself. It is the fine that I believe is unreasonable regardless of whether it is explicitly part of CERN's contract with the company.

Which didn't cover the student's usage.

No, but then, it wasn't CERN who downloaded and used a pirated copy, was it?

had likely breached CERN policy and was possibly a hazard to CERN's computer systems.

They said flat out that he violated their computing policy, so they can take away his computing privileges, but paying a CHF30K "fine" and sending him the bill?
I don't know much about how Safari is for developers, but in my experience it is currently the best browser for the mac. The general performance of the browser (don't know about js benchmarks) and energy usage are a lot better. Also js based drag and drop is remarkably responsive, a lot more so than Chrome and Firefox. It does have a weird thing where it doesn't load Google sites for me sometimes.
Come on, how many non-IT people can anyone think of who cares if there's green in the address bar? AT MOST they check for the padlock. The companies who get an EV certificate are doing it to check off a box, not because their customers have demanded it.

It's wishful thinking on the certificate providers to hope for people to want SSL certificates to actually prove identity.
I would reckon that the market for personal data is lot bigger. 45 billion e-mails, 10 billion text messages and submit 95 million Tweets are sent in an average day. Now according to this article:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/528866/researchers-test...

each piece of data is worth about $2. Now, simple maths would tell any company that making money off that data is a lot more profitable than collecting $0.20. Also, how many people would actually want to enrol in such a premium service? It would not be every person that uses Facebook, for sure. Plus, selling off the data is lot easier than soliciting people to buy their premium product (people give them the licence to do so through the ToS).
People more understand that SSL prevents clear text transfer of data. People have been trained to understand that passwords and credit card data should use HTTPS. As long as you accomplish this, then any extra value is not seen by users.
Nice! It'd be nicer if the tutorial video of Adobe Flash is playable inside the book like other videos.
> You can change your name just by doing so. However there is a "deed poll" which makes it a bit more official though there is no requirement for the name change.

This is true in most common law jurisdictions, not just the UK [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_name#United_States
Strange, I would expect hackers to be the first to reject the silly social construct of monogamy.

I think this is ridiculous and nearly pointless. The only benefit I see is exposing how carelessly ALM handled personal data. However, they could have accomplished this while still blinding the data.

Edit: Not sure why this warrants downvotes..
(replying from old openid account due to rate limit)

There's a specific person that's well known on HN that mentioned a pirate site had an EV cert at Edge conf, implying they shouldn't have been able to get one. They have a registered business, and a real address in London, and the EV cert simply assures that identity.

Most people in network ops have very little idea of EV,so I don't think naming individuals is productive.

See 'Do DV or EV SSL certificates mean this is a good company?' at https://certsimple.com/blog/are-ev-ssl-certificates-worth-it
With whom? Certainly not software vendors, probably not students or researchers either. Frontend web developers? Now I'm sure that will be a great great bother for them.
You don't need to break 'life-threatening' rule to compromise your reputation.

It's just about who is trustworthy and reliable, and who is not, especially in an organisation where people are very educated and probably with high morality standards.
It's included here (along with some other gems):
http://install.lon-capa.org/bugzilla/quips.cgi?action=show
Agreed. The other glaring hole I see in this article is the absence of any push back or assertion of boundaries. Was this guy's manager even aware of the sacrifices this guy was making? Did he ever sit down and say, "24/7 rotation every three weeks is exhausting and more than I signed up for; we need to hire." Did he tell HR he was reaching a breaking point? We are adults with demanding jobs; we have to assert boundaries. If we get a call asking us to come in, it is very reasonable to say, "I'm away on vacation with my family, can someone else cover this?" If the answer is no, then you make your choice, but your manager at least knows that sacrifice that is taking place. If you can't work with your manager to make life livable, talk to his manager or talk to HR. There is no excuse for toiling away silently and playing the martyr. The very fact that this guy's wife wrote the article instead of himself gives the impression that he doesn't know how to self-advocate.
Science Isn’t Broken
Well then the student would do well to not pay and to force the University to take them to court over the speculative invoice. Good luck getting undergraduate students to the University that will give itself the reputation as the enforcement arm of a copyright claim. (NB that in the EU no matter what the University blusters they cannot prevent graduation over unpaid charges.)

I am not a lawyer.
Mozilla's Servo Engine Now Capable of Rendering GitHub
What seems to be the trouble getting some of these to market? There seems to plenty of demand.

Is this a "Who Killed the Electric Car" conspiracy thing? A VC thing? Or a vaporware/chemistry-is-hard thing?
Nah, we can always protect ourselves from ads or malware. Worst case we can go completely offline or use an extremely locked down system.

C8 and similar compounds pollute the only inhabitable planet we have access to, there's no escape from the pollution. The man-made C8 will remain in the water and soil far longer than any human will be around, but before that it will accumulate in our bodies and poison us. And C8 is just one such compound, how many more are there?
Why wouldn't you search for 'Script not found' in the source code..?
I got my passport renewed while I was living in the UK last year and they specifically told me not to get the visa copied. When I had the same situation in Japan several years earlier, they copied the visa, without asking me, for free.
> ...right...even though the government promised to never take it away

I don't think this is true. She had Indefinite Leave to Remain. The Indefinite part of that just means that it didn't have an expiry date. Revokability has nothing to do with it.

(OTOH, Wikipedia tells me that an ILR is revokable on specific grounds, so perhaps revocation is limited. But that list can clear be changed by statute, and there's no promise that it won't be)
I don't know on what browser you are but the Firefox warning is pretty frightening.
I might be a majority shareholder of the following opinion, but I feel like it needs to be said.

CSS was an art, and a science. Websites like csszengarden.com showed us the promise of style sheets, and the galleries of "CSS sites" during the mid to late 2000s demonstrated what amazing works could be taken from photoshop (and Fireworks!) and made into beautiful, pixel-perfect layouts. I always felt proud to make a website with only semantic HTML and CSS, and it always worked well. Even with all the browser issues (namely those of IE6), it was easy to write cross-browser compatible code that was clean and beautiful. The (C)ascading part of CSS was still considered a feature, and deeply understanding its implications was an acceptable challenge.

Then came The Age of Great Coupling & Frameworks (made that name up) wherein CSS began to be regarded as a hindrance. Frameworks like Bootstrap became the status quo, because it meant you could go from 0% to 60% in half the time. But, no longer did anybody decide to go to 100%. The coupling I speak of isn't just a coupling of backend to frontend technologies, but a coupling of backend to frontend workflows. In a subconscious effort to become more efficient, we, as software engineers, began to find ways to incorporate automatic solutions for every problem (e.g., LESS). This is partly due to the very slow nature of completing and proliferating new CSS specifications, but in the long run all of these tools and frameworks have grown the barriers of entry, and have bifurcated the community in many ways (e.g., LESS vs SASS, responsive framework vs pure CSS, non-standard with polyfill vs standard, etc.).

These differences are not the kinds of differences that cause anger (usually), but they make it hard to hire and train, and they make it hard for frontend engineers to work together easily. At the end of the day we're all building CSS and HTML with JavaScript, but if I strike up a conversation with 3 different frontend engineers, each will be as different as if I had chosen to talk to an astronaut, a vet tech, and a professional swimmer. That's almost no exaggeration. Diversity of skills and tasks within an occupation is a good thing, but at some extreme it decreases mobility. When I felt like I had learned CSS, well years ago, the thought never crossed my mind that someday choosing a CSS-related tool would be as much a career decision as choosing a primary programming language to focus on.

FTR, I don't have solutions for the problems I pointed out, nor do I think we should somehow reset and go back to the past, but I feel strongly that we've made things more complicated than they need to be.
Still faster than Engadget's homepage.
The keyword here is CAN, no harm was done to CERN in this case that we know of.

It makes for a toxic workplace once employees/students in a facility feel like they can be thrown under a bus by management, or worse purposefully made an example of.

The whole approach here is destructive and makes me think that someone at CERN went on a power trip and is a real arsehole to work for.
Students and researchers. They don't care about copyright or software free or otherwise. They care that their institution is seen to be on their side and prepared to look out for them. CERN clearly is not in this case.
After skimming through that the application form looks positively helpful with clear language (as Government forms go). And the crimes / terrorism looks entirely proportionate.

Perhaps lilula was using a different form?
Who+Else+Wants+To+End+The+Rape+Culture?
Anecdotes are not data, of course, but my mosquito bite-riddled hide begged to differ with my grandmother's (and apparently, some scientists') belief that Avon's "Skin So Soft" worked as insect repellent back in the 1990s.
I do miss the early days of the web. I remember transitioning from BBS'. It truly was the "Wild West" era of the Internet. Ahh, the nostalgia.
I am not discussing it, however:

>>It doesn’t affect how fast an attacker can try a candidate password, given the hash and the salt from your database<<

simply, it's a false statement. Multiple hashes while adding the same (huge) salt each time decreases the speed even further. Just adding 8MB (larger than L2 cache or any reasonable amount of SRAM to mount) of salt might be better than multiple hashings as well, plus it increases difficulty of mass-parallel processing. Multiple hashes are very L1 cache friendly when the input is tiny.
That was patched within hours of the exploit coming out, hell I even remember seeing an article here on HN frontpage about it

BTW Google is not exactly known for being good at updates of hardware, just look at the mess Android is, especially older phones
Ooh. I recognize one of the contributor names, @cmuratori, from another HN post: Handmade Hero: C game from scratch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604489
> swear your allegiance to that country

Perhaps I'm ignorant, but isn't that merely a ceremonial procedure?
The UK is the only country to have ever asked me the purpose of my visit, past business/pleasure. Oddly, they asked while I was leaving. Odder still, I'm British by birth, appearance and passport.

It's nothing personal. They're just weird.
Show HN: ChartMogul 2.0
Rubrik 2.0 – Unlimited Replication for DR and a New Hybrid Cloud Appliance Model
Ep 214 Interview with #1 New York Times Best Selling Author, Andy Weir-The Martian
People living their lives as they want, in spite of the threat of violence, has long been the vanguard of social change.

Forcing them further underground is never a good thing in the long run
If you actually go to that AMA and read through, multiple people call out the multiple ways in which it looks like a PR stunt.
Behold the Power of NYTimes.

Dear European publishing giant (you know who) weary of Google take note how it is to be done when it is done in USA.
Is it worth the risk to find out? Court ain't cheap, even if you win.

As an employee of a company that provides you a paycheck, you "owe" them your best effort. If you don't want to try, quit - but don't sabotage. That is juvenile and perhaps illegal and certainly unethical.
The middle east squatted on the remains of the roman/greek culture they destroyed, claiming civilization because they played with the few shiny things left.
BinNavi was open sourced by Google
StartSSL's EV certs are pretty darn reasonable.
I think both points of view are reasonable. You would have to evaluate each situation individually whether the benefits outweigh the risks.
And another, @mike_acton, from CppCon 2014: Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design and C++”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8391464
I don't think the direction was wrong, I just think the implementation was awful. But your point still stands, it ended up harming the product.
It does't. Your comment is false.
Teaching DevOps and open source to a new generation
Build a reactive polymer to-do app
one thing: as a lead, i can tell you that managers are just as abused often times as the worker.

that's where this pressure on the worker comes from: there is systematic top down hierarchical pressure applied that works almost like hydraulics. A sociopath like Bezos only has to beat down his 6 reports into accepting impossible goals (for a normal working schedule) and they will beat down their aggregate 48 reports and they will beat down their 384 reports and so on.
I did have a friend that wrote a feature that would make ghosts flash across the screen. Long enough to see, but fast enough to make it hard to pinpoint for sure what you saw. It was locked to only happen when the "boss" used the app.

Kinda funny, no customer impact. Not sure what would have happened if he had a bug and made ghosts appear for everyone...
I think it would be good if the FC workers unionize. It would greatly increase the speed of development for automation solutions and benefit robotics as a whole.
Hmm, that seems to describe my life in a lot of ways. After my ex left me, it really spiraled me, but I've definitely always been told how intelligent I am by peers, their parents, and my educators (I'll admit it's probably true although I've steadfastly denied the allegation myself as someone who's seen the entirety of my work here on planet earth).

And now I sort of bounce around. I've lately ended up more on the manic phase side of things but it's a quick flip of the switch towards a more depressed feeling. I'm learning to mellow out towards the center with lots of exercise, positive healthy habits, and plenty of dates from tinder. Rationally I figure visiting a therapist might not be the worst thing in the world, but then I have no idea what I'd talk about. I'm a white, male, software engineer living in a world class city, making a pretty penny. I'm tall, good looking, and funny. I'm working on a sitcom, standup, and have a great job. Rationally I also see that my life is indeed awesome so it's hard to justify going to a therapist. Also, if they caught me in a "manic" phase I'd probably just be gushing about how great things are, and I can annoy my friends with that sort of shit.

I've never been clinically diagnosed with anything so it's more of a self diagnosis and who knows how many grains of truth there are to it, but it feels relatively accurate.

That being said, if I continue on this upswing I've been putting myself into lately, I should be good to go! So cheers to that! I can weather the mildly bad times, I've weathered a lot of awful times, and I guess in the end, you only learn to understand yourself a bit better every time. And as long as you force yourself to get out of bed and do literally just about anything (easier said than done sometimes) it almost always gets better.
Well yes of course you can, we're talking about PHP here.

http://php.net/runkit_function_rename
Replying from old openid account due to rate limit:

That's why the jurisdiction is shown in the address bar. However it'd be worth seeing how effective that is.
You can achieve financial independence in:

33 * Cost of Living / (Salary - Cost of Living)

Assuming for simplicity 3% real interest on investments once you stop working (which is close enough if you're trying to get out of the rat race quickly), and potentially infinite lifespan.

So if your cost of living is $10k and you earn $100k you get:

330,000 / 90,000 -> less than four years.

Great theory.

I don't want to live on oatmeal and tuna for the rest of my life. (I actually don't think we should be eating tuna at all and have stopped eating it although I love it.)

Now aside from obvious (e.g. kids, as you state) there's also:

* At some point you'll get a $500 optical bill or a $5000 dental bill (or a $50,000 medical bill if you live in the US) -- and let's not even get into chronic conditions.

* You may want to travel.

* At some point there will probably be a major economic shock and you may be utterly screwed. (But hey, so will a lot of people, and you'll be used to it.)

Finally -- you may enjoy working. I do.
Tinder and the moral panic over women using technology to meet men and have sex
Doesnt the shadow-dom solve the problems with css modularity. You just write the css for your component, and it doesnt leak into anything else... Why do you need something like css-modules?
Thanks Dan! Thats a good idea. I will do that!
> do you have data to suggest this level of relationship/terms is common?

Read the on-line stuff about
standard
term sheets. E.g., pay attention to
some of the details that a founder,
say, one that was just fired,
can encounter in handling the
options where they are already
vested -- net, they may
come away with zip, zilch, and zero
or nearly so.

IIRC there was
a lot at Fred Wilson's AVC.com,
especially part of his MBA Mondays
posts.

Long, broad advice has been, don't take
VC money unless you really need it.
As soon as you sign that term sheet,
take that check, etc., you are now
reporting to a BoD that can fire
you and, with the usual terms,
leave you with little or nothing
while the investors just walk off
with your company and all its
software, customers, value, etc.

The OP is giving various reasons why
"Really, Ms. Product Founder, you
didn't really want to be CEO,
did you? Of course you didn't.
So, just let us find a really good
professional manager to handle
that terrible, 'incredibly difficult'
work of CEO while you move on to
a better quality of life" and
the VCs get total control,
e.g., with their puppet CEO,
and essentially all the financial
value.

It's Star Wars III with
young, naive, angry, afraid,
gullible Anakin Skywalker
listening to the Sith Lord
about how Anakin really doesn't
want to be a Jedi Knight.
The rabbit hole goes deeper: how are you sure the compiler is correct? See the paper by John Regehr and his group: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/492

I'm not just saying this randomly in any subject that is concerned with correctness, as Regehr's work clearly shows that the places where compilers make the most mistakes are the places that cryptographic functions play in: numeric calculations at the boundaries of what is representable.

I also want to point out that Lipton's first suggestion is to basically have very smart unit tests - which is a good suggestion. If your result should have known properties, test those.
Yes McCormick Place in Chicago can definitely handle conventions of that size.
Ok, so Amazon is a turd of an employer.

The question in my mind is how do we stop this abuse?

Do we (as workers) put out a letter that asks for net average 40 hour weeks and ask companies to sign on to it?

Do we keep naming and shaming like this? Or?
(Replying from openid account due to rate limit)

Yes, see my response to the price point above.
The student knowingly used a pirate version to circumvent the licensing restrictions communicated to him by CERN. So no, the student did /not/ have a valid license and knew he didn't have one. Why shouldn't the student be liable for that?

Also, the software company didn't go after the student themselves. They billed CERN, which billed the Uni, which billed the student.
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> you're granted to work and live in the UK forever.

What if the UK leaves the EU?
> It is not classified as a failure to perform a write and fail to ACK that to the client.

It's worthwhile to note that this is a fairly general problem in many, many kinds of systems.

If that's actually a problem, you can use 2PC. If you didn't get back an ack for the PREPARE TRANSACTION it failed (and you better abort it explicitly until you get an error that it doesnt exist!). Once the PREPARE succeeded you send COMMIT PREPARED until you suceed or get an error that the repared transaction doesn't exist anymore (in which case you suceeded but didn't get the memo about it).
Why are you allowing "force" on the master branch? Don't do that!
This is so fascinating. Thank you for this knowledge bomb.

Any chance you are aware of any other hacks from old school video games?
Is Time = Vanity? And if yes, is vanity the opportunity cost of innovation?
I find it interesting that one one hand we have people talking about how software developers are entitled cry-babies, and then there are others who say that software developers are horrible at negotiating salary and benefits, ending up woefully under-compensated for the value that we bring to employers.

So which is it?
A screenshot or a demo instance would be nice
BuzzFeed Gets $200M From Comcast’s NBCUniversal
From watching friends deal with divorce, adultery isn't even illegal/prosecuted/considered in distribution of assets, at least in practice. At best this is a mass-outing of people who suck at monogamy.
"and come on, 98% of the people talking about this on Twitter barely recognize that [marital infidelity] as ethically problematic in the first place"

What makes you say that? In my experience it is extremely rare to find anybody who thinks cheating on a partner is ethical, and I see no reason to think this particular group is any different. This is one of those things that most people feel very strongly about, and almost always in the same direction.

And that's exactly why the reaction is so gleeful. The people who use this site are perceived as scumbags, precisely because cheating is considered to be a grave moral (if not legal) crime. Outing them is considered justice. The idea that some of them might use the service with the consent of their partner isn't enough to break through that, nor is the idea that two wrongs don't make a right.

I don't agree with the gleeful reaction, but I see no hypocrisy here.
So does that mean those of us in favor of "dragnet traffic looking for people who want to blow up civilians with homemade bombs" are allowed to be gleeful here?

There is no such thing as private data. There is secret data, but that descriptor no longer applies here.