skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a debatable proposition.

True enough. Though for the present purposes, it it probably sufficient to note that this reformulation is not fairly debatable: "Creators and makers have the right to determine how and where the work they own is distributed."

Edit: Actually, krapht's response led me to see that this is completely wrong. "Creators and makers" have robust (though not totally unlimited) legal rights to determine the conditions under which their works are copied, but do not have an all encompassing and well established legal right to determine how their works are distributed after the first sale.

Of course, the easy confusion (that I fell prey to) is that distribution often, but not always, entails copying. When it does, creators have strong legal rights. But when it does not, their rights are considerably more limited.

The example of libraries brings this distinction out nicely.
The seal is to detect any tampering. Why should TSA tampering be exempt from this?
Founder Competition for Series A Deals Is Fierce
Research Suggests Woman Incorporate DNA from the Semen of Casual Sex Partners
Well, the religion is nonsense. Not that that differentiates itself from others. Love one another, as you would have banks do to you.
Bettergraphsearch.com – Find people, events on Facebook by location, school, etc.
RequestBin isn't a substitute for HttpBin, they do 2 completely different things:

RequestBin = easily provision a url (useful for configuring a webhook) and inspect requests to that url.

HttpBin = pre-defined urls that return specific responses (headers & payloads). Good for testing http clients.

Fun fact: both tools are operated by the awesome people at http://Runscope.com.
> You don't have to be a tea-partying libertarian to see that such an idea is shockingly naive.

But, it is a viewpoint deeply held. I've spoken with people over 30 and even over 50 years old that still bought into the idea that government is the solution to all problems.

On the other hand, the view that capitalism and privatization fixes all problems is just as flawed.

There is no one-system-fits-all and it can't even be said that one system is necessarily a better choice in any given situation. Status-quo is usually a good choice though, if it is working.
Will Bigger and Cheaper Save the Tablet Market?
This solves a problem that requestb.in does not. Namely, endpoints that predictably return various HTTP headers or HTTP content. This isn't about just testing to see what your app is sending. This is about testing how your application or HTTP client or whatever handles various weird HTTP responses and features.

If I need to test how my application responds to a relative URL in a Location header, I can hit the /relative-redirect/:n endpoint. Same for Absolute urls via /absolute-redirect/:n. The If-Not-Modified stuff is also helpful.
>> All social shares are reset because the links are different.

Won't they continue to work if you maintain the http: link as a redirect to https? We did this with haproxy on my last project, and it's also worth noting that haproxy is quite fast at handling ssl negotiation, allowing you to lift that burden from your web servers (also makes it easier to scale the web servers horizontally since they're all talking http inside the firewall.)
Which Tech Sectors Are Hiring?
If your standard for excellence in lecturing is "good enough to consistently wrest people's attention away from a glowing box loaded with all their favorite entertainments held inches from their face," you're going to have a hard time finding anyone who's excellent.
+1. FWIW It seems to be a kafka-style cursor based messaging system without the dependency on zookeeper (just what i gleaned from the readme)
Tenured academics also have long term job security and increasing amounts of paid free time as they get older, past the age that they would have a hard time holding a senior job in industry.
See for instance

http://www.ibtimes.com/ripped-mac-why-apple-users-may-pay-mo...

Of course, pricing proposals could be different based on not just the browser variant, but also cookies, browser history, where you came from, etc.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/mcgee/2013/04...
If I followed this right:

1) Some external/biological problem (dry eyes) triggers the nerves to send pain signals to the brain.

2) Due to long-term external/biological problem the nerves become conditioned to send pain signals

3) Even when the external/biological problem is solved, the nerves can stay "latched" in a position of sending pain signals. There is currently no cure for this problem.

That's pretty scary stuff.
Tenure track professors get paid pretty well, adjuncts get paid like Scientology staff.
Education today puts way too much emphasis on the education as the end instead of it being a means to an end. Students are, understandably, so caught up in achieving a grade to "level up" instead of a) really learning the material and/or b) reflecting on whether the material is interesting enough to spend their life pursuing.
Is geography based anonymous networking the next big thing in tech?
Kricket is a map based, anonymous network where users can post an emoji & comment to their current location. Posts lasts 24 hours, then it is erased from the map. Kricket will allow people to connect within the same geographic region.
IIRC, asymmetric key encryption is not preferred for large message lengths -- maybe the author could consider embedding an randomly generated AES key, and using that to encrypt the message instead?
But in all western countries that does not invalidate copyrights.

And in this particular case, I am not sure Games of Thrones qualifies as "education and culture".
> It's like if it were illegal to use anything but Home Depot(TM) nails on Home Depot(TM) planks, or auto shops that have to kick back to Ford or GM or else they couldn't touch your car.

It's actually nothing like that. It's like Ford refusing to sell you parts for your car. Or Apple refusing to sell you parts for their computers. Nothing says you can't acquire parts from another manufacturer, nor is there anything preventing you from performing the repairs yourself. (Other than maybe warranty terms, which is IMO not a moral hazard.)
An Experiment: The GROWS Method
Against live-tweeting (2012)
I mean a lock comes with 1 key right? If you make a second key that opens it, but shares nothing with the default key - you may have a winner.
It's awful crypto and it made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. They should be using RSA to encrypt a random key then encrypting the rest of the message with some sort of authenticated encryption.
Muxy – Simulating real-world distributed system failures
Custom print the seal.

http://www.andfel.com/security-seals.html
Yandex.Navigator Mobile App Is Reportedly Spying After Its Users
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=740183062777595&set=a.301003540028885.1073741826.100003577253589&type=1

Translation from Russian:
Today, (my) phone displayed a warning that sd-card memory was low. (I was) very surprised, and decided to look into it closer. It turned out to be due to stream.wav file located in the root of the file system, and information has been actively recorded into it. I listened to it, and (figured out that) microphone has recorded all of the events during the last 2 days: conversations, meetings, etc. I checked my tablet, and there was the same thing happening. Due to my tablet had been "rooted" with CyanogenMod, I was able to figure out the core reason quickly (see the screenshot). It turned out that application Yandex.Navogator was spying after me. I'll be now checking the logs of the home router (I have FreeBSD there, and everything is being recorded/logged), and will be checking where the information has been leaked to. Block and remove the application!
You're absolutely correct. Time permitting, I may go back and adjust my description.
There is MRR in ink, not so much in printers. If you naively optimize for MRR, your business will operate around extracting profit from ink selling schemes, not printer selling schemes.
Indeed. They mention it's an "industrial" panel, which in my experience seems to mean "low contrast and brightness,
narrow viewing angle, but wider temperature range[1]". The Innolux panel I mentioned in another comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10185433 ) is an example of this type.

[1] http://www.pacificdisplay.com/lcd_temp_range.htm
I wish The Ventures made the list somewhere, maybe in most consistent, but I would guess they do not have enough reviews to fit the criteria of the article.

http://www.markprindle.com/ventures.htm
Analyzing Some (Miscited) Entrepreneurship Research
Somewhat weird statement considering the MPAA is representing the studios and not the creators and, eh, makers.
People give these elite colleges and universities a hard time, but I think it is mostly sensational stories with no meat. Do you know how many US schools are need blind and meet full need for all students? 6. [1]

I also have no clue where the story about these schools being for rich kids came from. When my wife went to Princeton a few years back it was one of the cheapest options for her! Schools all base need on the same FASA form, but then these "expensive elite schools" will do things like cover the student portion of the aid with a grant instead of loans [2]. This makes their financial aid package much better than at most schools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission

[2] https://admission.princeton.edu/financialaid
To further your idea, I believe there needs to be a healthy balance of both. Blanket statements, policies etc tend to raise more problems after the solve the initial problems it set out to solve.

Take my username- Fdanconia pays homage to Francisco d'ansonia, one of the protagonists from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. It reminds me that I used to think "pure capitalism and no government" was an answer. Now, I believe that a healthy mix of both regulation and competition is essential to our society.
The Freewrite [1] is exactly what you want, though geared towards writers. Eink display, mechanical keyboard, metal chassis, WiFi, etc.

It would be ideal if they provided a shell, but I haven't heard them making any of those noises.

[1] https://astrohaus.com/
I drive an Audi. It is cheaper than a comparably equipped BMW or Merc. Now BMW does have the advantage of being a true rwd vehicle and having the engine behind the front axle to help weight distribution and handling(which road tests show BMW will have better handling than most Audis) However I like the understated styling of Audi(which many people find boring, but I like the sleeper nature of it). The 2.0t engine, at least in the B8 model I have is pretty much bullet-proof now and the quattro works wonders in the rain. Its not the fastest or best handling car out there, but for my needs its perfect. Audi MMI is fantastic, and the iPhone integration works amazing.

In Houston, there aren't a whole lot of Audis compared to MB and BMW, BMW probably outsells Audi 5 to 1. I kind of like that.
I have the iPad 4th generation, often forgotten slight upgrade on iPad 3. Both have double the memory of iPad 2, which probably explains the app refresh difference. However, I had the iPad 1 too, and currently have iPhone 4S. Both seemed to get worse with time having been snappy to start with though. We are talking about 4-5 year old devices, possible just more OS functionality and bigger apps use up that memory.
To function, both the reader and writer have to download special software. If you're going to do that, why not just have both sides download PGP?
Very smart! I love it when a simple algorithm has a big impact on a problem space. You know it's the real thing when, after hearing it, your reaction is "Of course!"
Many dimple locks can be picked with just some tension on the cylinder and a ball pick. The common cheap Bell brand lock at wal-mart or amazon [1] is easily picked like this. All you do is stick the ball pick in the back of the keyway, apply your tension, and wiggle the pick around the keyway as you pull it out. You might have to insert it a few times, but I've been able to reliably open one of those in about 10 seconds.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Bell-Sports-7015777-CATALYST-U-Lock/dp...
>> That's the problem with graduating so early and following your initial studying path. You didn't have time to think about what you were doing, was it the right thing, was it what you wanted, etc...

This is a great point and one I think clearly happened to the author and to a lesser degree myself.

I was all about going into academia, being a professor, travelling the world on other people's money and studying romantic cultures in far away places. I was warned about the environment then (early and mid 00's) and the lack of pay, but I wanted to experience it so bad. I had blinders on and all I wanted was my doctoral degree and then kickstart myself into a PhD program.

I burned out in epic fashion and took a few years off and regrouped. In the meantime, a half dozen of my friends graduated and landed teaching jobs, and others started in their doctoral programs. Within a year, they were all out. Either pivoting and going back to school for a completely different major, or pivoting into some other field and out of academia completely.

I was lucky and avoided most of it - but without my burn out, I'm afraid I probably would have been in the same place as the author. Without a real examination of where I was going and what I really wanted to do with my life, I almost lost several years finding out academia really wasn't the place I wanted to be. I look back and see I really dodged a bullet.
Interesting, can you really create complex enough shaders for everyday game usage? I am not a game developer, so I really have no idea. Just wondering what you imagine the most popular shaders will be.

Either way, love the tech! Site is super fast.
Base clean architecture Android MVP
Once you look at it from the perspective of the crypto protecting the user instead of the content, it should be obvious why publishing the private key is not OK.
I'm guessing Brazil.
Show HN: Continuo, a simple activity tracker for iPhone
Dylan, that was our thinking exactly--the URL would look unbelievably fake.
I love this website! When I was hacking on a key value database it was invaluable for learning about B+ trees and other data structures suitable for indexing.
> The big claim with HFT is they "add liquidity"

I'm not sure who is making that claim, but I think what they are implying is that HFT "provides liquidity cheaper than the previous system of pit traders" or even "fragmentation of exchanges has dramatically brought down exchange fees at the cost of added complexity for liquidity providers (and possibly liquidity consumers). Only HFT systems could have cheaply dealt with this new complexity".

In any case, I'd sum it up as "it is cheaper to trade now after the rise of HFT than at any other time, at least some of that is because they can market make more efficiently than a dude in a vest". Vanguard for one agrees with me (http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/25/vanguard-chief-defends-high-f...).

What many critics have claimed is that this has come at the cost of an increase in volatility, especially in the form of flash crashes and it is unclear as of yet if that is better/worse than the traditional liquidity crunches we saw under the previous regime and still see in markets not dominated by HFT.

The Fed was specifically talking about this in the context of treasury bond (and futures) volatility and a skeptic might wonder which is more likely to have caused volatility in the treasury markets, HFT or unprecedented fed monetary policy.

None of which is germane to the question of what the OP meant when he said that HFT insert themselves into transactions.
Java 8 Stream Performance, compared to for loops with backing arrays and lists
Yeah I know. It's hard to squeeze information out of them. I actively tell them to please, please come to me if they don't understand something and I have office hours for a reason. Yet no one takes advantage. At a certain point, you can only do so much since I'm a grad student and not a lecturer and my time is finite.

The problem I've found with assignments though is that people copy and cheat. Many times someone will do very well on assignments and then do absolutely terrible on midterms and finals. It's very frustrating. I remember one course where everyone did nearly perfect on the assignments and yet the final and midterm followed the standard bell curve.
Money Won’t Make You Happy: Programmer Edition
Firefox creator writes an unofficial, on-point episode of 'Silicon Valley'
Break that apart just a little more. Except if it was your goal to write something hard to understand.
rtorrent has become my go-to torrent client.
Uber is hiring hardware engineers right now, it could be worth giving it a shot
Java firmly at #1 of Tiobe again
We've discussed doing an "TLSBin" as you described (and still might) but it's a lot of work. We'd gladly sponsor one! This is something I wish Qualys/SSL Labs would do.
I'm saying that if the TSA tampers with your luggage and breaks the seal, it will happen at the beginning of your trip. This allows anyone seeing your luggage after the TSA tampered with it to also tamper with it without you (or the TSA) ever being able to know if an unauthorized individual also tampered with it (since they can effectively piggyback off the TSA's authorization).
Hi, developer here! I’ve taught myself to code over the past 16 months, and last year I released my first app, a simple tip calculator. I’m excited to release this somewhat more substantial app.

I was inspired to make Continuo as a replacement for a pen-and-paper calendar I’ve kept since 2012. It’s based around the idea of recording the activities you do each day, without getting bogged down in specific numbers.

Feedback is welcome. Thanks for looking!
Doesn't work?
It's only really debatable on reddit, HN, Slashdot, etc.
Student fed up with rent on campus builds his own tiny house
China’s funeral revolutionaries
Don't underestimate the cost of bodyshop-style arrangements. The guy fumbling through your luggage may have been making $8/hour, but the billing for it could have easily been 8-15x the salary.
There's no reason why MOOCs can't be effective in the humanities. I think the problem is that there's much less overlap between those who are skilled at teaching, say, history and those who are skilled at creating good online courses.

I've noticed this same lack of overlap in the field of journalism. I know quite a few people who are really good (and successful) in their field, but despite being in their late twenties or early thirties, they're shockingly inept at operating computers.

This is a problem, in my opinion, because much of what (specialist) journalist do is find the story in high volumes of data. And computers are great for that: RSS readers, DEVONthink (or other personal databases), good google searches, collaboration through, at the very least google docs, etc.

And yet they settle for ordering books, reading huge stacks of newspapers, cuting out the good articles and writing in their paper notebooks, and composing word documents that they send around via email with -2 added to the filename.

But I digress. My point is that there's significant low-hanging fruit in combining technology with the 'stuffy' areas of academia or fields like journalism, but relatively few people from either side collaborate in this area.

In part, I think this is because of a fundamentally different personality/temperament and social surroundings, and in part I suppose it's because this 'low-hanging fruit' is not low-hanging when it comes to profit. That saddens me.

But the fact remains that if I as a data/tech/web geek were to 'fuse' with one of my journalist friends, great things could happen. While such a 'fusion' is unlikely, I'm still trying to find a good starting point for collaboration.
Based on my personal experience, I wouldn't second-guess how people choose to get the most out of classes.

I find that really paying attention to something over an extended amount of time is hard work. Very few lecture subjects and presenters are genuinely interesting enough for it and paced well enough for it, and it also requires a certain amount of energy, which I may not always have, or have for long enough for the whole thing. So I often try to find a way to have something mildly to moderately distracting while in these lectures, like a newspaper or magazine or something. I often find computers and TV shows to be too distracting, such that I may not really hear anything, but the mild distractors help keep me focused enough to hear the important parts without my attention drifting away entirely.

But I also haven't been to any lectures in a long time, because I think that they're a terrible way of conveying information, mostly because they force a lot of people to all share the same pace. If something was paced just right for me, then it's probably too fast and hard to follow for some people, and too slow, boring, and tough to stay focused on for others.

Of course, it's also possible that the student just doesn't care at all, and is only there to get the piece of paper, which he has been told will automatically lead to a good job.
Regarding double-negative checkboxes: I really don't like these.

Are there situations where they would make sense?

(Possible answer: If you want the defaults of an application to be "everything is unchecked")

Reasoning about double-negative options adds friction, and when you can combine options together it gets doubly frustrating.
Nice! I didn't do a whole lot of "product research" before I built this thing.
It was hosted in an EU-based datacenter on Heroku (to reduce latencies, not for any specific privacy reasons), but I need to check to see if we are still hosting it there.
One of the reasons why poverty is so difficult to solve is that, in a way, poverty is a biological niche. Even if you could manage to lift everyone out of poverty, that niche will still be there, waiting to be filled again.
Ultimately? Drone strikes.
I hear you for sure. I think similar concepts apply in most non-trivial pursuits. I'm certain I can't generalize across the board, but typically my assumption would be that the person who is "better" or more experienced with certain things are getting the more difficult cases, and so perhaps by either separating them with a "senior" or "specialist" title and different pay scale they're not being graded on the same curve as people who are handling the more routine cases.

Ultimately I think those edge cases can be fleshed out and monitored with regular auditing.
Solution: take a gun. Seriously.

In stark contrast with the requirement that TSA be able to open your luggage (unlocked or backdoored), if you declare a firearm in your checked luggage the TSA cannot - by law - have the means to open your [hard-shell] luggage, YOU must retain the key or combination and must be present to open it when inspected.

(Of course, traveling legally with a gun has its own litany of issues, but for those of us who are OK with the basic concept may find doing so helpful against TSA's security theater.)
I have always believe we didn't have a student loan debt problem but a student loan loaning problem. Not everyone deserves let alone needs to go to college.

The idea that the government will loan money to people regardless of major is just wrong. Worse, since the government is paying a schools are accepting of such federally guaranteed money then why cannot the government dictate costs as it does with medical care? Why cannot it state, in your area one hour credit is worth X. We will not loan more than that. Textbooks cost Y.

Schools, both public and private, are mills to take in effectively free money to pay out in seriously overpaid positions as football coaches and administrators (college Presidents and such) all the while many rest of very fat endowments.