skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People are alot more concerned about trade with China than a token Fed Rate hike, sorry.

This is the most bogus thing I have read all day. The China argument is smoke-and-mirrors, and it doesn't hold any water. The real reason is because of the rate hike. Yeah it would be small rate hike, but the any country that has any stock in US dollars has been expecting rate hikes to gradually increase. So everyone is expecting that if the Fed raises rates, it will continue to do so for awhile. That is why the markets go down when there is talk of a rate hike. And now the jig is up, you can expect to see the dollar start to fall because the world now knows that the Fed doesn't have the galls to up the rates and any stock they have in US dollars is pretty much worthless.
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From a macro level:

- Money is dirt cheap right now (and won't be for long)

- Investors who see promise and progress in companies typically like to double-down early and often if they can

Makes total sense.
As that is a CSS spec, the implementation of which you don't like, it's the browser that's offending, not the CSS.
This is a really fun. Been playing around with this on Firefox on Android an Chrome on Android. Great to see a game that transitions smoothly from desktop to mobile.

Noticed that on mobile once you exit fullscreen by pressing the Android back button there is not a way to get back into fullscreen using both Firefox and Chrome on Android.
The GPL is rarely litigated.
What you are talking about is not blatantly anti-gplv2

IAAL (and an open source licensing lawyer at that, for many years). I'm also a contributor to FSF projects :)

Even I would tell you the GPLv2 almost certainly does not cover code signing.

It's actually very epxlicit about what needs to be there:
That's the whole problem with gplv2:
" For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable."

That's it.
It very clearly and explicitly says what you must include, and installation keys in not there.

It even says 'scripts used to control installation", not "scripts involved in installation" or anything like that.
Interesting. Very tempting as-is, but we'll have to see where we're at with Cyanogen Mod support in a few months before I'll buy one. Though I realize I'm not the target demographic for this by any means.
The new FireOS seems to be much closer to stock Android
Or they just fax your current company as part of a credit check, requesting salary. I had that happen, during the process a few years ago at a place I decided to stay at after they made a counter offer (that I didn't request). A couple days after I told them I would stay, I got a call from HR asking me what I thought they should do with the fax asking for my current salary (AKA if it was a legitimate request for a lone approval or something).
Just ads on lockscreen...not too bad.
Part of my product is a browser based e-signature collection tool using <canvas>, React.js and web sockets. So, not Android related. Any capacitive touch device with a browser and internet works.

It's fairly domain specific today (credit card transactions and legal agreements), but as a weekend project I want to abstract it for broader use cases.
China's middle class will die soon because Xijinping will launched the 2nd Cultural Revolution
The shitheads who are testing stolen cards will probably skip the free tier so they can, ahem, test their stolen cards.
Brilliant page :) Držim palce
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What if your web app manages a data structure that is simply larger than 512 MB? Like analytics data or something like that.
Gusto (formally ZenPayroll) is hiring Engineers to build Payroll and Benefits
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most likely mediatek or maybe even allwinner
YC is no longer a quaint little outsider experiment. They are now The Man, The Establishment, The Gatekeepers.

What will rise up and be the new YC for unconnected 18 year olds? YC probably wouldn't even talk to Steve and Alexis under the current expanded growth model. pg grew their idea and seeded their initial user base from his personal website readership.

I think Sergey once mentioned (jokingly) he's not smart enough to be hired at Google anymore. That's kinda the YC situation, isn't it? The original people of YC created something bigger than themselves, and maintaining+growing the behemoth machine is the focus now. The people who "grew up" inside YC run it now because they helped create it. But, as an outsider, you can't just be hired into the machine. You can't grow the same way the originators did—you have to prove your worth elsewhere (this parking spot is already taken).

There's always space for new scrappy teams to out maneuver established organizations. What would a new "the next YC" look like? You probably can't start it as a tech industry outsider. You'll need to have had your VC connections and an exit or two already under your belt. The easiest route would probably be to round up a team of traitorous YC partners who say "this has grown too big and crazy, we need to reset our roots back to the original problem space again."
>Labor isn't the same as other commodities,

Depends on the relationship. Instead of a hotel, say you decided that you enjoy a massage and after some research you find a license therapist in your area and you have a trial massage and, having appreciated said massage, you decide to establish twice weekly massages.

So you talk with the therapist and establish a nice $125/hour rate for them to come to your house every Tuesday and Thursday at 2:00pm for an hour massage. Having negotiated a rate, you agree that this is an ongoing deal until one or the other of you decides to cancel it.

Now, you've agreed to effectively $1,000/month salary for this person. Are you really going to go ahead and pay them the agreed upon $1,000/month even though they:

a) catch a virus and are unable to come for two weeks.

b) take a vacation to Pittsburgh and are not going to be there next Thursday.

c) have a child and aren't going to be coming to give your massage for the next six, eight, or ten weeks?

d) have signed up extra clients and will reach sixty hours by Thursday morning, so they won't be able to provide their Thursday afternoon or Friday appointments due to hard limits on overtime.

e) now that they have a kid, you're going to pay an extra $10 per session for child care.

For some reason, my gut feeling is that you're not going to do any of those things and instead put it on the therapist to manage their business and accept that they will get paid for services rendered and nothing else.
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Airbus and NASA are developing aircraft that use electric propulsion
Ironically, a lot of conservative criticisms of the political bias of various institutions [1] are based on two very non-conservative premises: 1) Cultural relativism: They assume that all political views are equally deserving, which is almost certainly not true given any random group of political views, nor based on any reading of history. 2) Affirmative action: Instead of pursauding people in the marketplace of ideas, they argue that 'conservatives' and conservative ideas should be gifted with status. (They also assume people are of pure and immutable ideology; someone either is 100% 'conservative' or 100% 'liberal' forever; they can't have a mix of nuanced beliefs and can't change. Judges keep disappointing them.)

To be clear, certainly people have an equal right to any belief and an equal right to voice it. That doesn't mean they have a right to equal acceptance of their arguments. If so many academic faculty, an exeptionally intelligent and educated group relative to the general population, lean liberal, maybe that tells us something. If you don't like it, persuade them otherwise!

(I'll add that it's disappointing to see comments voted down and up based on politics, not quality. It reinforces the perspective that people of a certain political pursuasion are not critical thinkers, which undermines everything they say.)

[1] Some valid and some not. There's criticism of the 'liberal judiciary', even though most judges were appointed by Republicans (at least that was true a few years ago); criticism of the 'liberal media' even though Fox dominates cable news, the Wall Street Journal dominates business news, and radical conservatives dominate talk radio.
You may only be typing code or reading docs 4 hours a day, but I'll bet you do useful thinking when you're not at your desk.
I see these announcements from time to time and not knowing that much about how YC operates, have no idea what something like this means for the companies accepted into YC.

Can someone shine a light on what these three people (and the other partners) will do in a practical sense?
> Well, apparently not on Windows.

Agreed! http://pyparallel.org

> But this is a kernel interface issue not a language issue,

Absolutely agree! The thing that surprises me most about Rust and Go in particular is that they're trying to solve an OS problem with new language abstractions. You don't need a new language -- what you really want is thread-agnostic I/O primitives, thread-agnostic "threadpool" primitives, and completion-oriented APIs that provide both synchronous and asynchronous primitives. Basically, you want what Windows has.
Wow, very impressive additions. Given the size of their existing companies, will it be difficult to dedicate time to YC? Not only for the new partners but for all existing partners that maintain an executive level position.
Yeah, they had that on the FA-18 Interceptor simulator for Amiga as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RdE1L9jCic
It's certainly not a tutorial---it's written by academics, so the venue is pretty typical.
As was said in the github thread, it is extremely unlikely that any meaningful revenue would ever come from adding ads to an open-source PHP project. This makes no sense at all.

Regardless of that, if the project lacks contributors, and features are not being developed, it means there is no real demand, and/or the barrier is too high (complex code etc)? The fact that the project owner himself is not willing to put down the money/effort for development is already a signal. Who is this software being written for?
> There is an infinite set of things you can't do with that device even though you own it. You can't turn it into a surfboard, a dishwasher, or a birdcage. You also can't turn it into a customized router, apparently.

This is sophistry. It's not a question of "can" in the sense of "be able (because of your skills) to", but of "the vendor actively prevents it".

And the vendor is surely not preventing you actively from turning your device into a surfboard, a dishwasher, or a birdcage. But he is actively preventing you from turning it into a customized router.
almost no Android phone allows custom os! understands this.

all Samsung phones can only be flashed because someone leaked a internal tool. and still, there must be a huge community effort to get the kernel and drives for each model.

now keep in mind that this huge community effort doesn't exist even for for-developers v phones, such was the case with the moto x dev edition. with phones like fire, it's practically non existent!

Android devices are not open by any means. they just have a lovely stubborn community.
My guess it is Deep Packet Inspection
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Exactly. I'm a developer, but I try my hand desingning most of my apps. Sketch replaced Illustrator and in part Photoshop. I do all my vector graphics with it, from mockups to production assets. It's fast, easy to use and made by a small brilliant team. [Shameless plug]: I've been designing an icon every day with it: https://github.com/andreamazz/one-icon-a-day
If your saying its "built for entertainment", a mono speaker doesn't go with that.
The US could certainly withstand a rate hike but the broader market would take a beating and that would boomerang around and bite. That said it has to happen relatively soon or larger risks loom.
I savy user probably values their time more than its worth. Spend a little more and you don't have to.
Which Uber already supports. There was a thread on this yesterday by the Uber Design team:

https://medium.com/uber-design/designing-the-uber-cash-exper...
Never going to buy a 7" no matter how cheap it gets. The screen resolution is not worth it.
If you consider signed blobs derivative works (which means hashing and producing a signature creates a derivative work), then any signed statement referring to an hash of the source code (or including the source itself) is also a derivative work.

This means that someone sending a PGP signed e-mail saying "I audited that the source code of GNU Foo with hash 0xdeadbeef... is free of backdoors" is violating GNU Foo's copyrights unless he releases his private keys.

This is obviously a very undesirable outcome, and so it's resonable to hope that hashing does not create derivative works, and thus signing doesn't either.

Including the scripts to install in the "preferred form" also seems very problematic because then you might also be forced to include a full copy of the hard drive of your development machine since that's an even more "preferred form" under that theory.

This is also a very undesirable outcome, so it's again reasonable to hope that "preferred form" does not necessarily include things that were absent in the original work and that aren't essential for reproducing the binary derived work itself.
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The bundled Python is contained within the .app, it does not touch any other part of the system.
Yet in GPLv3, where they could have explicitly made it so that the modified code must be able to be installed back on the original hardware, they declined to do so in the general case. The anti-tivoization clause instead was written narrowly to only apply when the object code was conveyed "as part of a transaction in which the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized)".

Note that this means that I could sell a device that only runs signed code and could separately sell signed apps for that device that the user can buy and install later, and as long as the code that ships with the device is not GPLv3, I could use GPLv3 code in the signed apps and would NOT be required to release signing keys under GPLv3.

(The Apple App store incompatibility with GPLv3 has nothing to do with the app signing requirements. It is due to the terms of service that users are required to agree to in order to access the store. These impose what the GPL considers to be additional, incompatible conditions).

It seems odd, if they felt the way you think they do, that they would have written this so narrowly.
They (Kindle Paperwhite or Fire) only show ads if you are physically in the US? Or if you buy one from Amazon's US site? (Genuinely curious here.)
> Being able to access and modify and redistribute source code isn't the same as having the ability to deploy it to a particular piece of hardware

But the preferred form for modification includes being able to test your changes. Source without installation scripts is most likely not the preferred form - ie what do engineers at the company use?

> if I open source a .NET project that doesn't mean it has to include Visual Studio, which is the preferred way to build it

Yes, because having been designed in the era of expensive compilers, GPL2 explicitly covers this:

> However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable
The fact that they poisoned binaries from a tor exit node is impressive. I'd like to see how this was technically done.
Ask HN: Who will win the ad-blocking fight, long term?
There's probably a fight brewing between adblockers and adtech companies - for example Apple's latest adblocker.

So i wonder: We have examples from other areas like cryptography ,viruses , etc of such fights - and usually it's possible to understand early on if there exist a power asymmetry (for example, it's far easier to encrypt than decrypt) , and at least in general, deduce who will have the upper hand.

So can we say something similar about the ad-blocking fight, long term ?
It would be more interesting if Amazon put Flash on it instead of making it a spam delivery device. Swim upstream.

Less work than Amazon Underground, more free games.
Amazon just made a $50 tablet – Sep. 17, 2015
Amazon! Won't ship to lonely old Canada.
I don't want my kids bombarded with ads for crap on Amazon.
"So, you're telling me that the preferred form for making modifications to the source code of a router does not include the scripts which install onto the router to test those modifications?
"

Yes. 100% yes.
It is very explicit in what must be included and you are explicitly ignoring what it says about scripts:

" For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. "

Scripts used to control compilation and installation != signing keys.
It means scripts used to control compilation and installation.

You may want it to include something more, but it doesn't.
That's why GPLv3 was written.
Are you kidding? You could rent Adobe Illustrator for three months with that kind of money!

Seriously though, it looks nice. I might grab a copy.
I'm getting the feeling that's unlikely to change. Are you not interested?
I am perfectly fine with an ISP retaining property ownership of a device if it is marketed as such. It should be illegal to use technical means to evade laws that dictate how renting work and what taxes applies for that kind of product.
Ads on the lockscreen may be fine from a UX perspective, however, that tablet is now using data when it's a sleep which becomes a factor when someone is on a capped connection. Sure, it may only be a handful of MB/month, but to some people, every MB counts.
Ask HN: How do I ask for more money as an intern
I was offered an internship opportunity that I would like to take. The only issue, it is in a foreign country and they are offering me 700$ while the norm/law says it should be 1200$

How could I talk to the company and ask for a fair pay without loosing the opportunity?
What does this mean for Amazon's Fire HD 6" Tablet[0]? Looking it now, the new Fire tablet is about the same in every way (screen resolution lacking), but at $50 more, I'm not sure the better screen resolution will win many people over.

The new Fire Tablet even has features the 6" one is missing! Mayday and an SD card slot.

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KC6I06S/
This is an excellent point. I recently left a large corporation that spent a lot of money hiring very smart, very highly motivated people fresh out of college and gave them amazing benefits for the first year.

Then we put them, a bunch of mostly type-A software developers, to work doing the same boring crap everyone else was. Not surprising, after their one year commitment (for all the extra perks they received, like a housing allowance) was up, many of them jumped ship immediately.

Besides just hiring good people, companies need to put real effort into growing them as effective contributors. However, that process gets a lot of discussion but little real effort is put into it.
Great page :)
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> I'm assuming just the general business cycle which averages a recession every 6 years or so.

That may be an average, but its hardly consistent.

The period (peak to peak) between recessions for the last 10 cycles has been:

81 months
128 months
100 months
18 months
74 months
47 months
116 months
32 months
49 months
56 months

> Plus negative interest rates being the only tool available to the Fed during a new recession.

OTOH, arguably, the reason that the Feds been forced to be so extreme with monetary policy that that might be the case is that the government has pretty much neglected fiscal policy responses. Which is, generally, not a positive thing, but it does mean that, as exhausted as the monetary policy options might be, the fiscal policy arsenal is well-stocked and untouched.
The great thing about OpenStreetMap is that you can improve the map. We mappers have mapped and tagged the vast majority of tracks in my area for cycling, and it makes Strava a lot better.

Checking the smoothness on street view? That’s a waste of time if that information is on the map already.
Go.CD maybe? http://www.go.cd/
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The problem is, that when I bought this device there was nothing to say that it was modified by this ISP. The device looks exactly the same as any other WNDR3800. It wasn't Netgear who limited the hardware in this way, it also wasn't the Ebay seller; though it was their responsibility to disclose it was 'locked' to this ISP. I could buy a _new_ WNDR3800 from Amazon and easily install OpenWRT on it without any issues.

I realize the security issues, I'm not worried about them. As somebody who wants to learn about embedded Linux development, and who owns several other OpenWRT compatible devices 'locking' the firmware is not something I am interested in.
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You're not going to get any sort of audio fidelity from the speakers in a tablet, so anyone who wants that is already using headphones. Thus it's likely that the people using that speakers can't hear the difference between mono/stereo for the content they care about.
Before people buy stuff like this and expect to be able to install Cyanogen in a few months:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-hd/general/psa-dont-buy...
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Unemployment is looking okay, but inflation is non-existent and Industrial Utilization is still below "normal". Why should rates be raised?

For some reason people want a rate hike for the sake of a hike. I'm glad the Fed is being cautious.
I presume the rationale to increase the rates is that during the next crash there will be something to lower. What will they do if the market crashes and the rate is still 0?
You're kidding, right?

Flash is dying tech, and not worth the battery life tradeoff (which this device doesn't have much of to begin with)
If you look at the code, it appears to be for notifying the customer about alleged copyright infringements.
Get another internship opportunity that pays more and negotiate. That's capitalism for you.
It means YC companies will be able to meet with them one on one and get advice. They get a slice of YC equity in return.
If I sell you a cake, do I need to sell you the recipe with it?
To be honest, it looks like the owner wanted to make some easy passive income more than actually fund a dev. It would never fund 30k a year, let alone 60k like he's hoping to and the fact he didn't back down immediately after it was mentioned that this would get his adsense account banned screams shady.
It seems to me the article written by a Lobbyists of CCP before Xi's visit
Can you turn off the lockscreen?
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This website is really ugly. I wish they had put some time into at least making it look nice.
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