skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've just described the conspiracy theory behind the Schapelle Corby drugs case in Australia, who claimed the drugs she'd been caught with in Indonesia must have been planted by a baggage handler:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Bag-handler-theory-ov...

At the time, the case & defence theory was so high profile that Australian airports had a service to seal your luggage in layers of shrink-wrap before your overseas flight, so you could know if your luggage had been tampered with by baggage handlers and prevent it being "Schapelle'd":

https://www.choice.com.au/travel/on-holidays/luggage/article...

As for the TSA locks, the Prestolock TSA Search Alert locks come with a green/red indicator to show if the lock has been opened by a TSA key. Though the TSA tend to leave a notice in your bag as well saying it was opened for inspection.
I concur to some degree with your points about data journalism--which are highlighted by the relatively few good examples that are out there. (OTOH, a lot of journalism also legitimately involves getting out from behind a desk, talking with people, and writing in paper notebooks.)

>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.

One fundamental question is what a MOOC can bring to a literature or a history class and I'm not sure I have a good answer. It's certainly not interaction with my peers--given the interaction mechanisms don't scale and there's such a wide disparity of background. It's not interaction with the professor; that certainly doesn't scale. It's not peer grading. It's not powerpoints. It's not video of a professor on a webcam. It's not multiple choice questions.

Is it engaging video/multimedia/high quality lecture? Well, maybe but how is this now different from a quality PBS or History Channel series (or iTunes University or one of those Great Courses DVDs you can order)? Broadcast is a solved problem. Want to learn about the Civil War? Watch the Ken Burns series.
> CSS is actually pretty good

Not saying it isn't but how do you measure this?
On one hand, you're right, but on another there do seem to be some "objective" measures of quality too -- for instance, hard patients or not, sowing up a patient with a sponge left in them is a serious error (that is also not all that uncommon, unfortunately).
This is the dead horse I keep beating in these threads. If there were no copyright, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. would all be doing this to artists for massive profit and with their brands front and center. People would actually ask questions like "what, you mean Apple didn't make The Hobbit?"

The idea that everyone would just transition to a gift culture and give artists a big hug in a post-copyright world is incredibly naive. Too many people are cheap greedy assholes. It'd be an exploitation-fest for the five seconds it would take for all creative industries to go bankrupt. Then there would be nothing.
All of this misses the point entirely. We don't mourn people as a sort of achievement award for a life well spent. We mourn people we feel a connection with, because of the pain we feel at losing the connection.

Jobs was a gifted promoter whose public speaking style tilted casual, informal, and personable. He was effective in part because, at least on stage, he made you like him.

Lots of people are likable, and when they die we don't mourn them, because we never think about them. But Jobs forced people to think about him, because he was the public face of a blockbuster series of products that people talked about year-round. It's not that launching those products was so praiseworthy that it "earned" him a mourning. It's that the combination of his on-stage personality and the popularity of those products more or less forced us to.

That's not a bad thing, by the way. I think there's something human and basically nourishing about thinking about strangers as people, and constructing even a fabricated, artificial form of empathy for what they and their loved ones are going through. That those emotions have no practical connection to the world we live in is irrelevant.
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After learning about an advertising technique called Low Involvement Processing[1] (that creates emotional associations with brands without people even being aware), I designed some "stealth" motivational posters[3] based on these techniques: http://zission.com
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It is a naive position, but no more so (as other have pointed out) than the idea that unregulated free markets can solve every problem.

Both of these positions are things which might naturally occur to someone with relatively little experience watching the impact of regulation or the evolution of unconstrained free markets. Is it "shocking" that someone who hasn't had an opportunity to observe a system in action (which is pretty much what the entire piece is about) comes to a naive conclusion?

No. I'd say that's a perfectly reasonably naive position.
Nope, it's not: https://github.com/lgarron/badssl.com
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YES YES YES I have wanted something just like this for so long. I want a nice high-level view of which "optional" tasks I'm doing. Am I learning French for half an hour a day? Good job, me. Am I exercising? Eugh, probably not, c'mon Johnny, step it up there boy.

I'm a very visual person and this looks gorgeous; having it all in one place, rather than trying to track "half an hour learning French on Wednesday" in my French notes, is perfect.

I'm downloading this now. Thanks in advance, bornon5 - I'll leave a review on the App Store proper if I like the app after a few days' use.

Update: it's gorgeous. I love that I don't have to define "30 minutes of French per day" - I just fill the bar depending on how much I know I did; was ten minutes today enough, given my schedule and mood? Perhaps it was.

Perfect, just perfect. $2 spent. Thanks.
If you trust my Github account, why wouldn't you trust a Github repository with my PGP key in it?
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By proving control of the domain, there is a link between the certificate and the person asking for it thru the registrar. And thru the payment information to the registrar, you can usually get to someone.

It's a tenuous link, but a lot better than no link at all. At times enough for law enforcement to follow the tracks.

(edit since we reached maximum comment depth) Control of an IP address doesn't mean trackable ownership of it, you could use any machine your just compromised and instantly have a valid certificate for it. Delays in certificate issue add a thin layer of security, even if you gained unlegitimate control of a domain, the interval before asking and getting a certificate offers an opportunity for the intrusion to be detected and remediated.

Instant valid certificate for any IP address you happen to compromise is really quite bad.
I'm more thinking about something like this:
http://www.wattselectronics.com/60-thermostats-wfht-lcd-rf.h...

I think those are much more common in new installations. These are segmented LCD displays. An eInk display would not require an explicit segmentation layout, so new layouts could be programmed on the fly, prototyped very quickly, etc. And might even be a little easier to read, even during daylight hours I find these types of LCD displays difficult to read, especially from off-angles.
There was the Bluebird SSS from Datsun same time too, good handling, quite reliable, had executive models, even a 'sharknose' L series 6 in Japan all the way back in '74 years before the BMW M60. About the only thing E21 got better was safety, but Volvo had that before with the Amazon even, took til about '78-81 for the higher performance engines though.
Too bad Michael O'Church was banned from HN. He as some really interesting things to say on this very topic (and from reading this article, he appears to have nailed it): https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/academia-the...
Nobody told them what Albert Einstein (very rightly) said:

> “Never memorize something that you can look up.”

(http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/24194-never-memorize-somethi...)

--disclaimer: I am an Indian student FUBAR'd by Indian academics
Great concept + execution! Can't wait to see the export functionality and for it to start gaining momentum in the market :)
The way I see it - it is just the JIT compiler needs more work. My guess is that in java 9 the advantage will be nonexistent.
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Why silent?
What's in it for you?
- Your brain has to fill in the blanks
- You will be able to connect the dots and develop the understanding yourself
- No one likes to read documentation. These videos will be live coding with no reading.
- You can listen to something else while you watch the videos
- Easy to brush up basics before the interview
- Free to watch on browser and reasonable price for download option
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Legal workarounds, as far as I know. The only reason the Google trick works is because the sites allow it. Note that they don't allow it directly from HN, the point being they control it, not Google.

Cookies and private windows only work because the sites have a free views counter. They could stop at zero if they wanted.

I can't see the HN mods advocating anything illegal.

If every article on the homepage was paywalled, it would because the balance had tipped in sites' favor, and they no longer feel compelled to allow workarounds. Almost everyone that you might think could charge for their service would be charging, the result being every/most articles on HN's homepage paywalled.

In that future, people would commonly subscribe to news sites. I can imaging that aggregating subscriptions services would come to be, something like cable, where you pay one low-ish price and have access to lots of sites, without having to manage individual subscriptions.

And now that I think about that more, that could end up replacing what cable is now, and the giant broadband companies would either become the dumb pipes that they truly are, or become those subscription aggregators.
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Indeed, or even a GitHub profile with your PGP key in it. I'm persuaded there's no benefit to this model.
Patent covering the ability for clothing to change color and temperature at will. I thought that point was clear.
Haven't tried it but looks nice. My input would be to resist the urge to add features. A lot of what makes these simple mobile apps great is the simplicity. I used a checklist app all the time, then the developer added so many features it became too complicated to maintain a checklist, and the app became useless.
Townhouses. I live in one and my washer is on the second level, off the kitchen. It sits in a pan with a hole in the bottom that goes to a drain pipe. That might save me from a slow leak, but could never deal with a catastrophic failure. I do have a shutoff valve and I keep it closed when I'm not actually using the washing machine.
I'd like to see a method-neutral version of /get, /post, /patch et al - i.e. one that responds no matter what HTTP method is passed.

The response would then include "method": "BLAH" k/v indicating the method that was used.
Maybe one day it'll be a OneGet provider. More is better.
Again, it is true that a lot of people disagree with it from a normative perspective. But not a lot of people disagree that this form of ownership does actually exist under our current system of laws, descriptively. At most, one might disagree with the use of the word "own," but this disagreement is fairly meaningless when discussing what rights do and do not exist, since the bundle of rights referred to by the word "own" is well defined regardless of the label used.
> Proudly collected 2544 workspaces across 632 cities from 57 countries.

I do a lot of travel and work. These numbers do not sound like a lot, as I assume a strong focus on the US and I live in Europe.

If I could search on your website and have surprising results (more then expected || new places || unexpected details), that might have convinced me to install the app. Now you didn't.
Unless it's a free (sub)domain.

Why can't you do the same sort of tracking down if you have an IP?
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This looks really nice! I've been looking for an easily implemented Bootstrap-based dashboard for my small business. This is terrific!
There is that point too. I think it can be summarized into the "consumers are only willing to jump through so many hoops" tenet.
I'm told that UPSC discriminates BC/SC/ST aspirants for 300 marks in Personal Interview; Govt must ban personal interviews in all its recruitment;
I can't seem to get past the blue landing page that says

CONTINUO

> > >

on it. Server issues?

I like the screenshots, and look forward to trying it out.

I'm on an iphone 5, btw.
> Most of the core team had been operating under false identities, used anonymization tools and been very careful with operational security.

> All of a sudden all the developers discovered simultaneously that a lawyer from the film studio Warner Bros. had visited their professional LinkedIn pages.

Are there any details about how the Warner Bros. lawyer was able to find the developers?

Sounds like a story of it's own, bigger than this one.
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Speak for yourself. I'll use whatever service is better. The money itself is not enough to really notice for things like this, but services you don't have to pay for consequently don't require any account management, so it's a tough advantage to overcome.

And of course there are many people for whom the money does matter, which makes the gap even wider.
Sounds obvious, but just in case ... swiping right does nothing?
This is the first time I've ever heard someone say algebra with a hard g sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIcSnsmitHw
except it is NOT industrial display, this is just an off the shelf old cellphone LCD with parallel intercase + DSI2parallel converter board
I don't disagree with that. I was only responding to the claim:

>otherwise a seal provides a lot more value
How does this work for data that has nothing to do with people in the EU?

For instance, suppose I only have US customers, and I have my data primarily in Amazon's cloud in the US West region. I want to have a backup someplace far away from US West.

Does the data protection act mean that I cannot use EU Ireland or EU Frankfurt for my backup, because if I ever had to restore from that backup I would be transferring it to a country or territory outside the EEA that does not ensure adequate protection?
Absolutely agree from the 3 minutes use I've had so far.
I don't think a "power lift" is a specific lift. I believe powerlifting is the practice of a set of lifts, such as squat, bench press, and deadlift [1].

You can check this video [2] in which Oliver Sacks talks about squatting 600lb.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerlifting

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShUHg32-Y0U
try https://yourapihere.com :) (all other endpoints are the same as httpbin)
This is a great service and I think it was the idea that then spawned another service - http://mockbin.org.

Funnily enough I use both depending on what I'm trying to achieve, with httpbin being more immediate and mockbin being for more in-depth/complex testing. Good job!
That's great for marginal costs. What about fixed costs?

The lobby needs to be mopped. The parking lot needs light. The lawn probably should be kept from turning into a forest. The heat should run in winter, and the cooing in summer.

Which hospital users get stuck paying for those things? What is your fair share?
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The hardware is yours. If you want to blow away the firmware and write your own, no one can (legally) stop you on copyright grounds, though it might lose its street-legal status in the interest of the people you might manslaughter by writing buggy code.

It's where you want to modify the software and post a derivative work online that copyright law kicks in. You may as well say that you do not "own" a book, because you don't have the right to share an edited version of it. Sort of true, but not very interesting.
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I like that, send a PR and I'll change it :)
That is awesome, I love substack, did not realize he had written that. Thanks for sharing!
I would love to see the subways in SF improve but maybe self driving cars changes the calculus? Could this become a tealistic alternative to public transportation? I'm sure some people here have thought about this a lot more than I have - want to weigh in?
Absolutely! First, let's agree that "creators and makers" in this particular sense mostly refers to big studios, i.e. large corporates, not just to up and coming indie bands or filmmakers. So let's rephrase the statement as "corporations should have the right to determine how and where the [patented] work they own is distributed".

It's then easy to see that the above does not hold true in all cases, many examples of public greater good can be provided but the case of generic drugs is perhaps the most well-known: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3694898.
Not really. Unless you feel entitled to the work of others.
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Looks very nice. I'd shrink the left-right margins and padding on mobile, though. About 25% of horizontal real estate is lost, which could be used for more detail in the content.
Why? Because you're an entitled little brat?
Can the U.S. demand emails stored in Ireland?
Around a decade or more ago, when P2P filesharing was really popular, average "non tech" people were speaking of Kazaa, Limewire, etc. and all the "free stuff" they could get from them.
binary blob all the way

straight from RPI foundation: "No there is no software support for direct DSI displays."
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I think a dev can't ask for more praise than this comment.

Will buy it, too, because of your little review.
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Why? The whole point of the app is to be as convenient as possible. Heck, it's got better design than services like Netflix or Amazon when it comes to looking through TV shows.
Heh, as soon as I saw the word thermodynamics I knew Shannon entropy would be involved, before I even understood the problem space it was trying to solve. Information Theory probably deserves a more prominent slot than it receives in most CS programs.
I tend to agree with this, and its nice hearing it from someone in a position of authority, but it is a minority view unfortunately. San Francisco has been poisoned by the "low hanging fruit" which is a series of "manageable" projects which are going to improve things but which turn out much more expensive and much less effective than the "big thinking" alternatives. And yes, I know it is easy to get tricked into comparing the projected cost of project A with the actual cost of project B (as project A would have had overrurns etc) but you can double or triple the proposed cost of some of the larger projects and not come close to the actual cost of some of the "simpler" projects.

It isn't about cost, it is about willingness to embrace change and move forward.
They have 3.5 trillion in client funds invested. They'd be insane to say the market is rigged.

edit to add: Thinking more about it, likely their more profitable accounts (ie, not their index funds) would be destroyed by a transaction tax and so they don't want to see it implemented. The salad days of just doing a simple honest index fund with 3% annual turnover are long over for Vanguard.
If that's true, then the government should be paying these people to produce the content. Otherwise you're saying that poor people are entitled to content for free, without the creator getting anything.
jen729w's comment about swiping is correct - does swiping right get you to the next screen? I could be guilty of prioritizing visual design over clear UI, but I want to make sure the app didn't freeze for you.
I ran into this issue, I couldn't encrypt really large strings so I chunked the plain text. Not sure why that is the case. I would consider doing something like what you suggest, though I'm not sure exactly how I'd implement it. If you're interested in showing me how, I'd love to collaborate on some code with you (start an issue! https://github.com/sadasystems/private-message/issues)
This page mentions a Full Squat: http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/05/01/2015/the-other-si... I'd put the mention of a "power lift" down to journalists not understanding the difference between powerlifting and bodybuilding.

A 400lb squat is nothing special, btw. I'm a fat 44 year old and can manage 370lb or so.

Finally - young Oliver Sacks was a bit of a bad-ass: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00967/b6bcf...

//edit//

Found a pic of the actual lift!! http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/oliver-sachs....
If the operator of .LY might takeover the domain to return DANE records that it controls, why wouldn't it takeover the domain and procure a domain validated certificate from a CA?

For extra sneakyness, they could probably return the regular glue records and whois information to most requestors, and poisoned values to the targeted CA, to get the certificate up an running in advance of hijacking the domain in general.
I totally agree. In this case I made this app initially for myself, and the current feature set is exactly what I want, so I'm not really tempted to bloat it with features. Thanks for the feedback!
> I was a cultural historian, in command of critical theory and immersed in the latest and best work on gender and sexuality...

So is the real reason you're giving it up because you've realized that critical theory is a load of crap? No? It's "the institution"'s fault? Suuure it is.
So essentially, without obscene amounts of money and political power, I have to be willing to commit treason and violently attack a government building? Okay. So basically not something I'm going to achieve any time soon.
Looks great! I've noticed one thing that bugs me immediatly, though: The animations of the navbar dropdowns are way to bouncy / slow.

Since dashboards are work and productivity oriented, I personally prefer as little animation as possible, since they (in this case unnecessarily) delay the time to navigate the menu.

Nothing against animations in general. They are nice to hide or ease loading times, etc.
Andrew Sorkin lost me with the comparison to MLK.
In my experience, it is always worth showing up, but not always worth paying attention as far as a cost-gain analysis from a student perspective. Showing up ensures that if there is an announcement or hints about labs/homework then you can take advantage of it. Lecture material is often availible elsewhere such as class website or the textbook
At least they are consistent and break the back swipe on mobile as well.
And of course Napster, which was so popular even several movies and TV shows of the period referenced it (e.g. The Italian Job (2003)).
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Wow, you've made my day. Thank you for this, and for so perfectly understanding my intention.