skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must say, the commentary is very poor.

It's one thing being opposed to the proposed laws, but much of the opposition seems to be based in what is said about it rather than the proposed changes themselves.

You've quoted that damages are "up to right holders, not a judge". But the draft explicitly says it will be up to the judge to consider, and that they may consider anything put in front of them. The commentary flatly contradicts the proposed wording.

Much of the other text that is criticised is also quite standard in global law. For example, it's surprising that the passage about 'imminent' infringement is called out. Would the same criticism apply to stopping other crimes before they are committed, if they are known to be imminent? Courts the world over provide injunctions against this sort of thing. It's not new.

In fact – and again contrary to the commentary – the real purpose of that paragraph is that it provides a heavy evidential burden against potential copyright suits and requires payment in advance just in case those suits are abused and that results in damage to the defendant.

Much of the proposed text actually works to the benefit of the 'infringer' rather than to the detriment.
That's a good solution. Additionally, it protects your privacy.
Last I tried keepassc (about a month ago, definitely the python3 version), I couldn't find a way to make it load my .kdbx file which I routinely open/edit with keepassx. I tried renaming it to <something>.kdb and that didn't do it either. I didn't look that much into it but here goes: is my use case actually unsupported?
I think this is a good approach. Let the product speak for itself.
Disney Has Invented 3D Coloring Books
No, they are French, based in France.
> Inequality is getting smaller in global and it is an empirical fact.

I acknowledge that inequality is getting smaller between averages of different countries, but is it truly getting smaller between individuals (that's what actually matters)? I don't think we can ascertain that, because I think Piketty would have included the historical data if he had them for developing countries.

> Anyhow, his theory has serious flaws

If I understand the critiquing author's argument correctly - is he saying that facts stated in the Piketty's book contradict his own toy model? Maybe then his model is flawed for whatever reason, but that's not a flaw of Piketty's book.
Less and less. When joblessness goes up more, we need to go to shorter work weeks so the benefits are distributed evenly.

The goal should be a future where everybody works a day every week or so (or not at all) and can afford a decent life style.
Contact discovery is a desirable feature, one no one has really figured out how to do without sharing info with a server.
Or like the 9/11 attacks.
Sorry, Unix fans: OS X El Capitan kills root
> Imagine Pinocchio at rest.
Not sure why, but pictured a spherical Pinocchio in a vacuum :P
Why HR wants to monitor your PC
I drove a 2001 TDI Golf for 12 years and used mostly Biodiesel. Not a chemist.

The fuels pollute differently, as they aren't chemically identical. Bio creates more soot when it burns as it's not as efficient of a burn. But the main charm is that no/minimal greenhouse gasses are produced by the burning (it's corn oil, not dinosaur oil).

But.

The new Clean Diesel's aren't very Biodiesel friendly due to the cleaning process requiring a fuel that burns a little better than Biodiesel does. So it is a hassle if you wanted to try Biodiesel in your Clean Diesel. Not many people were trying it according to the folks at Dogpatch BioFuels, enough so that they looking to find new buyers for their fuel.

I don't know what matters most to the EPA, and what VW was cheating at, to know if the defeat device in a Bio car does worse things to the environment.
It would be illegal to hide it. Everyone involved in hiding could be prosecuted, just like in any other criminal conspiracy. We try to do today pretty much the same thing with the government. The fact that it is imperfect doesn't mean that it's a bad idea.
I submitted the press release [0], which has a bit more information about their discoveries.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10330710
The paper you link seems very bullish on batteries. (“... we estimate that the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with battery manufacturing make up only a few percent of a plug-in hybrid vehicle’s total life-cycle energy use. Further, the recycling of battery materials can potentially significantly reduce the material production energy.”)

Battery cost is still dropping at an exponential rate while energy density continues to rise. Likewise solar panel costs, and installation (especially at utility scale) is also coming down in price as the industry learns.

I’m no expert, but I predict that within 10 years it will be entirely practical (and much more environmentally friendly than diesel/gasoline, especially w/r/t urban smog) to have bus fleets, delivery trucks, etc. running on batteries.
https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
New Malware Called YiSpecter Is Attacking iOS Devices in China and Taiwan
.kdb and .kdbx are two totally different formats. .kdb is used by KeePass and KeePassX, .kdbx is used by KeePass 2 and KeePassX 2.0 (currently Beta).
Just a quick note for anyone learning Swift, my collection of Swift Resources just past 2000 urls: http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

The raw data is on GitHub: https://github.com/melling/SwiftResources
Cats are obligate carnivores, generally they will eat flesh and that's it. They are also usually smaller, a smaller body means running out of resources faster. Dogs are a bit more omnivorous than cats.

So in the situation where they are trapped with the owner's body, a cat runs out of options faster than a dog. A dog will chow down on house plants, fruit.. or anything it can in extremis. A cat rather more quickly finds itself in the "eat this body or die" circumstance.
> The only possible work around is then IP over DNS

What about tunnel over HTTP? That can be much better obfuscated. Tunnel over DNS can be easily filtered out by just checking for the traffic amount (for example to block VoIP the ISP should just degrade DNS if traffic amount is above a treshold for a user)
> MPG of the car

Also not that diesel is more energy dense per unit volume. (And a US gallon is different to an imperial/British one)
I'm trying pippo for the last couple of weeks, its quite lightweight and really fast. I could customize it for whenever the need arises, better than sparkjava. For eg: I couldn't customize the Jetty server params with sparkjava, I could with pippo.
Motorists are using video cams to avoid disputed accident claims
This article has also some misinformation. This article, as I read it, seems to imply that the engineers where technically unable to comply with the regulations, that why they cheating.

But it seems to be getting more clear over the last days it is the business people - the one that read Bloomberg - that are also the cause. Because the engineers where unable to do it within the given cost requirements. They told, that they need a greater budget per car to comply with the regulations.
In America we have cameras watching every move we make, especially in stores. Personally, I don't like that much surveillance. I have even thought about a building website where employees can voluntarily post exactly where all the video cameras are in their store.

Most people, would say, "Oh, you are just providing a map for professional shop lifters?" Yea, it could be used that way, but some stores go a bit overboard on the video surveillance.
I will walk out of a store with too many video cameras, or security guards.

I worked security once, and was shocked on just who went to jail for shoplifting. Rich looking people got off with paying for the merchandise. Poor looking people went to jail. I had one store owner let the big spenders steal a little. The worst offenders were store employees, especially management, but that has probally changed with cameras literally everywhere?
In some countries all VPN is blocked (so the ISP will simple block the stream if standard VPN headers are detected).

These kind of tunnels allows custom, obfuscated protocols.
Regulation is nasty. There are better and more humiliating ways to deal with that. Using eminent domain to seize patents and just the state manufacturing generics come to mind.
Not your fault for buying the marketing. Maybe your fault if you were a smug[1] tool and pressured anyone else into also buying.

[1] http://southpark.cc.com/clips/155193/thanks
Does Scalingo offers free plan like Heroku?
I think you're a bit confused by nuclear scare-mongering. Large fusion H-bombs put out stuff all radiation. And radiation isn't very deadly anyway.
Smart Home – Why I Love Sonos
Indeed. Also, there are environmental issues (like climate changes) and policies that depend on estimates of how much emissions is being generated where. If indeed millions of vehicles are exceeding the official value by 20x, we're in much deeper shit than we thought.

Emissions are not a joke. By cheating on it on such a scale, VW (and others like it) are literally fucking with the fate of mankind.
http://pippo.ro with Spring JDBC. Quite light weight, modular and very fast.
Fear mongering. You're cooking the damn meat in a few minutes.
Thanks mate! Much appreciated! That's a really cool and useful site.
Don’t feel bad. Each and every technology has its failures which will bite at some point. I expect that in a few years, e.g. the recyclability or toxicity of batteries in electric vehicles will hit headlines.

This NOx emission thing is more a PR disaster than an actual environmental problem. The VW diesel engines are still remarkably efficient and nice pieces of technology, at least if you compare them to the huge gasoline engines that they often replace.

(FWIW, I drive a diesel but not made by VAG (this is Renault). It’s probably worse than any current VW engines, but because it’s a few years older, no one complains. It passes the local MOT tests with flying colours, and I get around 5.6 l/100 km or 42 mpg for a minivan which I think is nice enough).
Global nuclear facilities 'at risk' of cyber attack
People should be accountable for their actions, not for expressing an opinion.
SUPRISE FLASH MOB PROPOSAL
Oh good, another article about Zappos
Such a dilemma, I can't imagine myself in your shoes. It must be nerve wrecking and life shattering!!

Can't you just get a new throwaway email address and try the product and decide to keep or ditch it?
What makes you think there's a reliable way to zero memory in Rust?
The group is held by Prof. Ng which has a ML course on coursera https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning - lecture notes of the in class course are here http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials.html (but without the lecture it may be.. without the lecture:))
The company encourages its 600 CLT representatives to make personal connections with callers, and to send flowers, cookies, or thank-you cards.

curious, do they encourage this on the company dime or is the CLT expected to pay out of pocket for these 'personal connections'?
Modern Diesel technology requires maintenance, fine tuning and specific temperature ranges to live up to its hype. Outside of this envelope, the engines run noisy and produce high amounts of particules.

Most people buy a diesel car because the fuel is cheaper, they will basically not care about those 3 aspects.

As for the result, the article points to Paris: the city didn't have a smog problem 20 years ago, and now spends half the year with smog warnings (60% diesel cars in Paris area). Just walking by, you'll notice most cars are noisier and smell much more than in a comparable situation in London or NYC. By now, diesel cars in Paris area are the main particule emitters, ahead of heating.

Diesel is a high price technology disguised as cost efficient by an inconsiderate european strategy. Can't wait to see diesel go away - a large scale environmental disaster.
Where Is the Real Value in Big Data?
I haven't heard anyone mention AA since '09
Probably http://www.youtransfer.io/

I'm having a little trouble, too. Even making the type a little bit darker would help.
I'm getting closer and closer to installing Ubuntu (or similar) on my Mac.

Has anybody tried dual-booting on a macbook pro, or similar? How does it compare to doing so on a non-Mac laptop?
The bad thing about satellite that makes it unsuitable for many use cases will always remain to be latency, not speed or availability. 1.5 second ping is perfectly usable for web browsing, but it is painful for many other workflows.. And there's no current way with our technology we can "fix" this problem. It boils down to speed of light issues.

I for one am still hoping we'll eventually get quantum internet that goes through the earth rather than around it.
Then you're probably not going to like the 'Getting Started' page: http://perl6.org/getting-started/

(I've opened an issue.)

Update: Fixed now.
Based on my experience working in both Norway and Sweden, bosses here are far more hands off and egalitarian than most of the horror stories I hear from the US. There just doesn't seem to be the same Us vs. Them feeling, so there doesn't seem to a big anti-boss anti-management movement here to begin with (although I'm sure lots of people will pipe up with personal counter examples).

In fact the only really annoying micro-managing boss I ever had was a guy from California.
A similar thing could happen in the west. Some time ago, it was in the news, that Facebook got a patent on credit scoring depending on your friends and social network.

With the wrong (maybe leftist or file-sharing) friends, your credit score could drop in the near future.
PCE.js Classic Mac OS in the Browser
I like thinking that the mistake 'Cary' in the title of this article was a meta-commentary on the nature of genetic mutations.
well, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38371/ OS is getting popular, i.e. it is a decent target
Making implicit assumptions explicit
This is very nice! Personally I'd really like some kind of login for the uploader so I can offer this service to friends and family (and myself ;)) without the risk of someone discovering the url and using it as a way to distribute illegal things... Perhaps it is easy to do with Apache/Nginx (when the upload site is on another subdomain for example), I don't know actually.

The speeds issue can be solved by running on a cheap DO droplet or scaleway arm server btw (my city luckily has fiber everywhere :)).
Reminds of a friend jokingly telling another friend on chat that the command they needed was 'rm -rf /' presuming they had more experience than they did. Unfortunately they ran it.
CO2 tax scam strikes again. I like how the Diesel craze in EU can be traced to stupid CO2 tax and incentives, with total disregard of real actual pollutants coming out of a tail pipe.
Vimwiki – A Personal Wiki for Vim
Looks like it's the home page of Ryan Kiros at the University of Toronto. Here's a paper with his name on it with some related work, though I suspect this particular output is from a later project.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03044
This. Autism is a label with a very wide spectrum. Just because my brain works differently from the other 98% of mankind (1 in 42 boys[1]) does not means I'm sick.

[1] https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/prevalence
John Oliver Comments on a Social Media App
Did anyone else reading the headline expect some equivalent to "In Soviet Russia ..."?

The article is a bit more informative than I was expecting but I have one quibble. The sentence "In the West, our credit score is simple. It’s our ability to pay." is incorrect. Our credit score is actually our propensity to pay (and ability to pay is just one facet of that propensity). I know plenty of wealthy people with poor credit scores - some because they're poor at managing their money but there are a surprising number who simply want to hold onto their wealth (and don't care how their credit score is affected).
fwiw, I’m still looking for a product that does task management well with good integration/visibility of tasks within Slack.
Personally I see this as a result of the incentives for the drug makers to be completely disconnected from the people that depend on their product.

Imagine other markets were similar: one company purchases the rights to manufacturing all laptops and now you must pay $10K for the same thing you used to buy for normal prices last week.

Its interesting to consider how many people's lives would be greatly improved (or even saved) if vendor exclusivity rights were reduced in this market.
With the macs (Early 2015) that have SPI Keyboard and trackpad and NVME hdd sucks.

Linux as of now (4.3rc4) doesn't support them at all.

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/507933-openSUSE-o...
They have a free trial, not a free plan. Free plan is for 30 days and does not require a credit card.
Your social metadata is messed up. When shared on Facebook it says: "Don't go hiking alone. Use Hyke to find new and interesting people to hike with."
What Does a VC Look for in a Startup?
How Slackbot Forced Us to Work Out
Old diesels were filthy. Modern diesels are not filthy and were momentarily the "king of high tech" until the hybrids came along and dethroned them.

Much as the anti-electric car (paid?) brigade goes nuts about how every red blooded american needs to drive more than 500 miles without taking a break or else the car is totally useless for everyone and will never sell, the anti-diesel people living in Florida will rant and rave about how hard it is to start a diesel engine in -30F weather with a nearly dead battery. There's an american tradition that you never replace your starting battery until it literally 0 volts and won't start the car at all, no matter how annoying it is or expensive tow trucks are or how expensive it is to burn out starter motors or how inconvenient; given that, the user experience of the last 1/3 or so of battery life for diesels is much worse than gas cars.

Another common stereotype is euro car replacement parts are just like detroit replacement parts coming from the same factory in China yet mysteriously the euro car parts cost 3 to 10 times as much. Note that its not true, BMW brake rotors cost the same as Lexus brake rotors, but it is a common perception.
Is Handy.com sinking?
I've been trying to cancel my recurring service all weekend. I can't get a rep to answer my email, and their the telephone support line is no longer active. I've turned to Twitter only to find many other angry customers tweeting about the service: https://twitter.com/HandyCX/with_replies

Is Handy.com done? They FORCE all customers into recurring service now and 4 out of the 5 cleaners I've had in the last 3 months said they absolutely despise their policies.
Someone Just Hacked 10,000 Routers to Make Them More Secure
Show HN: UX-App – Interaction and User Interface Design Web App
I've used it for a couple of projects and it works great! The CLI tools are really helpful
I wrote something similar one year ago:

https://medium.com/@javier_dev/uber-is-not-sharing-economy-2...
Mac OS X 10.9.5 / 10.10.5 – rsh/libmalloc Privilege Escalation
2 VW engineers focus of Diesel-Gate
So if the environment is broken, or at least subpar when it comes to functionality, you "fix" the application?
This coincides with my own assessment of OCaml.
Low orbit satellites will have much lower ping than 1.5 second. 5000km compared to 20000 km and more
A tinder for news that uses data science? Yes, that exists
Let Lawrence Lessig Debate
Volkswagen Up in Smoke as Investigations Intensify Across the World
I find it interesting that as a newly released product that is likely to hold sensitive information security seems to be lightly addressed. The only reference to anything you'd do to keep my data safe is this single paragraph under the Privacy Policy: "The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security."

You also have a limit of liability for the actual amount paid to you over the last 12 months (for a free service, this is $0), and on top of that a pretty broad indemnity clause.

Depending on your target audience, I think a pay for option at the lowest tier would help, as at least then I'm not left wondering how you make money and if you plan on selling data to advertising partners as a "related service".

From a design and functionality standpoint I appreciate the simple slick design and feature set. It focuses on the core need without feature bloat. Best of luck!
And I'll take the black cats, which are also less likely to be adopted. To make up for that, August 17 is Black Cat Appreciation Day! [1] [2]

#BlackCatsMatter #BlackDogsMatter

[1] https://www.aspca.org/blog/celebrate-black-cat-appreciation-...

[2] https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/black-cat-appreciation-da...
Unfortunately, we had to discontinue our free plan. Too much work for no money :/ We setup a free trial instead (30 days, no credit card required).
Health Benefits of Tea? What the Evidence Says
You kind of had me at

"Models pass data to the view layer."

Those who don't understand MVC are bound to reinvent it...and invent fancy new names for it.

EDIT: just in case it wasn't clear, not pushing data from the model to the view, but instead letting the view pull it from the model as needed is pretty much the core feature of MVC.
Yup I have, and it's pretty much everything you expect a PaaS to be. The S container feels way faster than a HK dyno, imho.
YouNow, the Livestreaming Social Network, Raises $15M
> [...] Copyright laws will test IPFS hard.

Or the other way around...
> #BlackCatsMatter #BlackDogsMatter

Do you realise how tone deaf you sound here?
"For now, with Congress in the hands of Republicans and election season in full swing, quick government action on drug prices is considered unlikely."
(Quote from the article) Not that I associate with any political party, but it confounds me why a political party would like to have a reputation for upholding such extreme corrupt corporate opportunism.
That would be interesting, I think it'd still end up being a bit too much for anything interactive, but would be much closer to usable
Pancho Villa Expedition
Strogatz's 'Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos' Video Lectures (2014)
Samsung has for example been known to detect benchmarks and then over clock the cpu and gpu. That is outright cheating.

://www.extremetech.com/computing/177841-samsungs-latest-android-update-no-longer-cheats-on-benchmarks
In fact we started the project in june 2013 because even though we were very fond of the way of thinking proposed by Heroku (git push and that's all), their pricing was way too high to target a lot more people.
No, please educate me. Should I have said #AllCatsMatter #AllDogsMatter ?

Why the hissy fit? Are you accusing me of dog-whistle politics?

Does this make you feel better? [1] [2]

[1] https://www.pinterest.com/foundanimals/black-dog-appreciatio...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/BlackDogAppreciationDayBlackDogWalk
How is it with plugins and Scalingo? We use a lot of heroku plugins for mongodb, logging, monitoring etc.
If you disagree with something in that comment, argue against it. Just implying baseless things about the poster instead, much less talking about "discussions like these" doesn't have the effect you may be seeking to convey.
In the West -- at least in Western Germany -- the credit score is not your ability to pay.

It is, how the score company things, how likely you will pay.

I know, that for example, there street you live in is one factor used in your credit score. When you seldom have credits or the score company has to limited data about you, such information can be decisive.

There are known cases in Germany, where well off people, who also regularly pay their bills got a bad score, just because the score company used some very limited data and statistical guesswork to simply guess a score.