skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've now heard from two other people with the same experience: UI pushed a database upgrade, price was suddenly $50, support gave no help getting back to previous normal. Thank you for your email address, but no. The support ticket was a chance to regain my trust.

Any readers: I realize pulling large clients over a single small charge sounds like an overreaction, but client relationships are the health of a consultancy. $50 is a rounding error; partnering witha business willing to mislead for an upsell is an existential risk.
In some cases we see publication fees in the thousands of dollars. Double dipping to profit off the knowledge generated by researchers.

I'm surprised that we don't have a P2P variant strictly for academia. What a boon it would be to the dissemination of knowledge.
Your service has helped me get soooo many fairchild semiconductor samples, thank you :-).
I'm usually into this whole language relativism thing, but this doesn't seem right. In fact, your final point about it being possible that it meant loose-as-in-release is exactly why this is confusing. "Lose" is (probably?) what was meant, while "loose" kinda-sorta works, but isn't quite right, so now it's confusing!
Tesla: Why do car buffs dislike it but nerds love it?
Since running YouTube isn't cheap and Google isn't a charity, that seems practically equivalent to shutting down YouTube altogether (after some reasonable notice period).
There are plenty of businesses with net gross margins that have failed. The difference this time is that there are more companies with net gross margins reaching "unicorn" status.
Words are cheap. Until Twitter stops acting like "find someone using Twitter successfully and punch them in the face" is a business model, it's all just hot air.

It's not good enough for Twitter to "reset" the relationship. That ship has sailed. There's going to have to be some serious groveling, wildly-generous concessions, and guarantees of integrity moving forward if they want to recapture what they once had.

A little less conversation, a little more action please
All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me
A little more bite and a little less bark
A little less fight and a little more spark
Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me
Satisfy me baby
...and as someone that is considering paying for said ad-free option, this is the sort of thing that makes me think twice...
Another thing on the internet I'm not paying for.
loose
lo͞os
adjective
1.
not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached.
"a loose tooth"
synonyms:	not fixed in place, not secure, unsecured, unattached; More
2.
(of a garment) not fitting tightly or closely.
"she slipped into a loose T-shirt and shorts"
synonyms:	baggy, generously cut, slack, roomy; More
verb
1.
set free; release.
"the hounds have been loosed"
Evil... And I'm almost certain it's what they'll do. Owner pays for purchase, upkeep, parking, and insurance, covering all the capital outlay, depreciation, and risk, while Uber skims off the profit. It's sort of "insurance in reverse."
Thanks. It's definitely a lot of fun. And, as you can see, some things are not hard at all to detect. In fact, I was surprised how little knowledge you need to be able to flick through genome wide association studies (GWAS) and casually play around with their findings. (It's also fun to see how desperately some GWAS studies seem to try to make sense of the genome --- it's a pretty young field, I guess!)

Of course, you should be pretty careful with interpreting results as a hobbyist (as I am). But probing your genome with a parser, like the one I've made, is a great vehicle for piquing your intellectual curiosity.
IT means you will see the same amount. The reason they're strong-arming the creators (who have already signed up to monetize their videos via ads) is so the service is actually ad-free and still has all the content available.
Yeah this was my first thought: seems like a major opportunity for one of YouTube's competitors.
And even for those who live in the US, it doesn't seem that you can really download music to listen offline with your favourite player - you're stuck with DRM'd music and their own player.

Thanks, but I'll keep sticking to my good ol' flacs.
Because it has worked. That's the main reason. A related reason is the volume strategy Wilson mentioned. If you are in a business where you know that you can get discounts with bigger volume, there is a coherent business case to acquire customers at a loss until your per-unit costs fall sufficiently. The problem is that, like Fred writes, this is much harder in practice than in theory.
>so now it's confusing!

Is it confusing? Or were you able to tell from context what the user meant? I suspect, given the language ability you've displayed here, that you had no trouble discerning the meaning the user was attempting to convey.

Language is not a series of rules to follow, it's a loose confederecy of conventions we used with each other to get our point across.
> On the other hand, what's the worst case scenario?

(1) I'm sure the city of Mountain View and its zoning committee will have some issues with illegal housing units

(2) I'm sure the fire marshall will have some issues with someone permanently inhabiting a flammable structure (literally on top of a barrel of flammable liquid) with no fire-abatement equipment

(3) I'm sure the California DMV will refuse to license a vehicle where the owner's home address is the vehicle itself with no real street address, or a street address where the applicant is not a legal resident and cannot receive mail. And if the vehicle is registered out of state while being in California for more than 60 days, he's violating vehicle licensure laws as well.

(4) OSHA is going to have issues with an employee sleeping on company property -- for his safety. OSHA fines are a bad time.

(5) If the vehicle burst into flames and the occupant locked inside suffered a slow and agonizingly painful death, you can bet that Google will be found to have some liability for wrongful death, including lost wages and suffering, because they knew about an illegal squatter and did nothing to remove him from the property. Double their financial liability if another occupant was having a sleepover with him.

So: the worst case scenario is being in trouble with many local, state, and federal entities, as well as 7-8 figure wrongful death lawsuits.

> at least until thousands of others start to do the same thing and google has a shanty town on its hands

I hadn't even considered the moral hazard here if Google does nothing about this!
I don't disagree that they have behaved as a counter-terrorism agency. I just reject the premise that they are one.
Basic Linux Commands Used in Corporate Companies
It changes a broad class of attack exploits to require return-oriented programming techniques to exploit. Are you seriously claiming that ROP isn't "that much harder" than injecting arbitrary code?
> No, it doesn't.

Yes, it does. It literally has that, right there, in the text. As quoted, you are factually incorrect.
Try running Gentoo hardened. It makes it a lot easier to run on Grsec and Pax kernel.
Could Google simply say to creators: "if you sign this you won't get any revenue sharing from red users but you'll still get your quota from free users."

Gives them a financial incentive to sign up but allows them to opt out without making google eat the loss.
Exactly. However, it looks like their IntelliJ based IDE is still included in Solo, which I missed initially because they put it at the top of the chart. That's a considerable improvement over MonoDevelop
My question exactly.
Early adopters accept risks that op calls "idiotic" because they believe in potential benefits of new tech. Without those early adopters we would not have new tech.
I install adblock because ads annoy me. It doesn't mean I don't want to pay for services. I think I will be subcribing to this despite the fact that I've basically never seen an ad on youtube.
From your cite:

> "earlier orders intended to monitor a particular Lavabit user’s metadata."

> "the documents indicate the bureau was still trying only to capture metadata on one user."

> "while the metadata stream would be captured by a device, the device does not download, does not store, no one looks at it, [and] at the back end of the filter, we get what we’re required to get under the order."

> "So there’s no agents looking through the 400,000 other bits of information, customers, whatever, [...] No one looks at that, no one stores it, no one has access to it."

So, they were still only looking for (and recording) metadata on one user...
How I Learned to Get Consulting Leads
This is how close we are to riding real Hoverboards
Wouldn't they need $5B lying around? Do they?
If they agreed to share ad revenue, continue to share ad revenue. Subscribers don't see ads, so no ad revenue to share. Sign up to share subscription revenue at your convenience.
https://teespring.com/colombia-dev-shirt for the t-shirt
> Microsoft SourceSafe

is that still a nightmare to work with remotely?
Show HN: Tango - A tool to help you think
Decentralised identity and access control. Internet single sign-on (cross domain authentication). Nomadic identity (true identity clones on multiple servers because hobbyist websites tend to kack it fairly frequently and everybody has to start over making friends with all their friends again).

Social networks which just pass messages back and forth and let you share/follow/whatever are doomed. Hubzilla may in fact be doomed but at least we aren't doing the same bloody thing as everybody else. Social networking is a very small part of what we do. You can take that away and we still have a viable project. Take social networking away from Diaspora and you've got bugger all.
They don't make the 3%, probably like a 1% spread after interchange fees. But they have a huge team, lots of software developers. So they most likely don't make a profit.
You can do super dense mathematical code in the ancient APL programming language[1]. I wonder how even more tiny this program could get at the hands of an APL expert if any still exist.

Here are some complete APL programs[2] to give a flavor of just how dense it can get:

Sum integers from 1 to 100:

+/ι100

Find all primes from 2 to a given number R:

(∼R∈R◦.×R)/R←1↓ιR

Play Conway's Game of Life:

life←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵}

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29

[2] http://www.vaxman.de/publications/apl_slides.pdf
My personal thought on that is I would. Especially for repeat offenders. Though I can imagine something like that can quickly become a game of cat and mouse. But what I bet those sorts of sites don't have is the resources to compete against a crowd-sourced effort to keep those sorts of sites off HN. Not that people would be looking for offenders while browsing stories, but it's likely with awareness people would take time to verify unfamiliar sources that are submitted to the site. At least it forces owners of sites like that to scramble if they realize they can no longer get the clicks they used to get from HN. Especially the ones who are just spamming content in order to generate clicks.

It appears there have been a lot of submissions for that site in the past, so if they're a repeat offender it would probably be easy to extract that info.

You guys probably have a treasure trove of data where you could probably extract some of the more obvious offenders pretty easily. Cross referencing submissions by specific individuals for specific domains, etc. Though I imagine there would be plenty of false positives...

Also, just a thought, I would suggest that the warning message to submitter (if they tried to submit new URLs from banned domains) would be that the site has a history of plagiarism. That way they would probably do additional work to find the original (or more original) link than the one on that site. Also that way in case a site owner wanted to object they would know the reasoning behind the ban.

I know HN has been around a long time so I am probably re-hashing some of the things you've already got in place, but figured I'd put some thoughts out there in case you guys didn't already have something in place.

Would you suggest reporting these sorts of things via email in general?
Uneducated, arrogant and no oversight! Roman saying: "Quis custodes ipsos custodiet." Who watches the watchmen.
It was plenty accurate, experts can cast doubt on most evidence, nothing is ever iron clad.
An almost throwaway sentence in the paper stood out to me:

>Because transactions take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details.
> Youtube has become stupidly aggressive with its video ads in my region.

The video ads are part of the problem, the sidebar ads can be pretty rank, too. Hi, YouTube, have you considered that maybe when I want to watch an opera clip or a "how things work" video with my 8 year old I don't want gorey traffic ads, booze ads, or "buy a Russian bride" sidebars?
My point is just like you aren't keen on porting, other people aren't keen on throwing performance away.

What you're really really after is a single OS, single hardware platform world. That would require the least amount of porting effort which is your goal.

People (and you might not be one of those) think that the Web is going to bring about this great cross-platform revolution, but its a lie except for the basic UI, low-perf applications for two easy-to-identify reasons. First, the standards themselves are poorly specified and contain ambiguities (by design to give leeway to implementors on different hardware). No standard body even puts out a reference implementation. Second, each platform implementation will be implemented differently causing people shipping cross-platform to care about weird implementation quirks that cause the performance of their game to tank in weird ways.
10-minute expiration functions as an automatic take-down faster than most other mechanisms.
The following preview has been approved for all audiences. We said All Audiences!
Actually, though I deeply enjoy grsec and pax, I find it to work just fine with Arch. I have definitely considered gentoo hardened though; the notion of being able to rebuild everything exactly how I'd like it is pretty damn tempting. Thank you for the recommendation; everytime someone gives me a serious recommendation for Gentoo, I always have to take a moment and give it a more serious thought :)
This is cool. You can even use curl:

"curl https://www.10minutestorage.com/api/room/create/" to create a room

"curl -X POST -F "files[]=@pizza.jpg" https://www.10minutestorage.com/api/file/upload/my.room.name... to upload a file

"curl https://www.10minutestorage.com/api/file/download/file_hash -o pizza.jpg" to download a file

Handy!
>I would argue, though, that the majority of people want to keep control of their data as much as possible

This seems like a nonsensical statement in 2015. What basis do you have for it? Most people hand over control of their data without a care in the world.
There will be hardly any countries with a white majority left by 2050. Countless instances of the media, activists and politicians telling us how less white people is a good thing. Being white is the new "original sin" in the secular liberal mind.

Calling the demographic change "unguided" is laughable.
Code: https://github.com/adamzerner/tango
What is was like to have Tesla's autopilot robot drive me hundreds of miles
Performance Review: Block Control Ad Blocker
For some people, bigger is always better. I like having a yard and not a cavernous home.
I noticed that AWS Lambda increased the maximum function timeout (from one minute) to five minutes.

Maybe that'd make it a good platform for (something like) 5MinuteStorage. Store a file only in memory, allow a specified number of downloads within five minutes.
Based on the language in the video, the video isn't targeting disabled folks.
Don't know what you like to say with that. Because it is a German company with the German Data Protection laws.
To a native speaker, sure. But to a non-native, those words have entirely different meanings to them.
Undirected? Our elite are encouraging it.

There are countless article published in mainstream media telling us why less white people is a good thing. "White guilt" is pushed heavily.

Can you imagine if the OP had said he was glad blacks were getting replaced in his town because it would help his pet political issue?
I'd say that the dramatic overreactions of zero-tolerance policies in the wake of school shooting have less to do with liberalism or conservatism, and much, much more to do with bureaucratic cover-your-ass-ism, because if you DIDN'T ban nerf guns, what happens when a kid brings a gun disguised as a nerf gun to school?

Certainly the zero-tolerance policy of this and other districts cannot be effective, and certainly they aren't preventing any school shootings -- zero tolerance policies reached their apex in the years after columbine, but there are still shootings on a regular basis. So a liberal that pushes a zero-tolerance policy is certainly not doing it from the rational, evidence-based center of their kind soul.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ux3DKxxFoM
Thanks badlogic. Can you provide any details about why libGDX gets special treatment? I'm curious
What argument are you trying to make? It is not clear.
PrettyPing
New Homeland Security policy demands warrants before deploying StingRays
Thanks for the input. Yes, please definitely report anything like this via email. That's the only reason we found out about this—another user wrote and suggested changing the link.
You have to pipe it into an audio player (traditionally that was /dev/dsp IIRC but I don't think that's a thing anymore). aplay should work with the right flags.
To hear a contrarian point of view than this biased writer, Jeremy Clarkson said it best why auto buffs prefer mechanical cars while driving an Astin Martin DB9 through the Great Britain countryside. Definitely less shrill than Slate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0Svvdrx_E
Like charging a monthly fee to watch videos and sharing a percentage of that fee with creators of the videos.
"There is no justice in following unjust laws." - Aaron Swartz

Source: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj... (https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto)
a tale of software maintenance: OpenSSL and EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY
Hmmm maybe I finally understand their valuation...
To paraphrase from the first season of Mr. Robot as they're looking over surveillance pictures of a secure data center compound with high walls, biometrics, security cameras, and 4 armed security guards;

"How do you break into a place with no weak points?"

"I see four weak points right there."
Nowadays there's also http://booksc.com
libc by itself provides a Turing-complete set of ROP gadgets:
<http://www.cs.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/pubs/RAID11.pdf>.
This has been my position for a long time.

No one has been able to convince me that the exchange servers run by state are inherently more secure than her private exchange server was.

The open ports are what one would normally expect to see open, based on what I'd read even.
I'm not sold on traditions, but your arguments on the other two are good.
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"Lines of C" is an arbitrary and relatively meaningless metric. Even number of characters would have more meaning and perhaps be more interesting than number of 'lines'. Unless you define a "line" as 80 characters (in which case you really have a rough estimation of character count).

Nonetheless, these things are fun and often novel, both in what they accomplish and how they accomplish it. I like looking at them (not always reading them) for many of the same reasons I like looking at brainfuck or perl code. Plus, you know, compression. ;)
First of all: thanks! I'm excited to read this!

Second of all: ugh! Dear HackerNews team, please fix your URL matching algorithm so it doesn't include <> in URLs; they're actually explicitly recommended by the URI RFC as delimiters.

Sincerely,

halosghost
DRM-laden online books is a red flag that the college you are attending is a thinly veiled profit center, not an education provider.

Has anyone made an index of which colleges require DRM textbook purchases in their courses?
Because our libGDX community had a bog impact on RoboVM over the past year.
Or don't roll out a new revenue model that you can't reasonably transition to because it isn't compatible.
I'm definitely not suggesting it's necessarily the correct way to approach taxation.

I think it's probably a "more fair" alternative to the current state of things. And perhaps worthy of being part of the discussion.
maybe the knee jerk reaction on HN is to think 'HFT' but this really isn't.

although i have to say 400ms to place an order, cancel it, and place a new order in the opposite direction (or 2 actions using the cancel-if-cross - all manually as it appears - is pretty fast. high frequency finger clicking, maybe, but definitely not high frequency.

the cftc is going after this guy for the behaviour that resulted from the avoid-orders-that-cross feature that was available on that guy's commercial trading platform (the application is TT and it's used everywhere), and in the sarao case they went after his cancel-if-close behaviour too (that too is sort-of available direct from some exchanges - pegged order). i hope they know that the industry has plenty of available tools to help the average joe do things like these because they have their own meaningful (but specific) purpose in day to day trading. in this particular case- cme and a lot of other exchanges really really don't like it if you cross your own orders. it reeks of wash trading. this is just a tool to make it really simple, because sometimes a firm has multiple traders that have different trades they want to put on and you can't always be sure they won't cross each other.

sometimes i wonder if the tools proliferate these malicious behaviour or if the malicious behaviour proliferate these tools. i suspect a lot of market participants are engaging in very "aggressively defensive" behaviour to counter things like these. in any case the microstructure has changed quite a bit in as quickly as the last 10 months and it looks like that is going to be the new normal rate of change.
But as I stated regarding my point about automation, we don't need more people, we need less.

We already spend more than any other country per pupil. Many of the "broken" school systems have received massive influxes of cash (billions) and seen no improvement what so ever. Schools can only go so far it seems.

2 Billion spent in Kansas City to fix the schools. No appreciable result. I'm not convinced in the panacea of education. Something else is at work. The by country PISA scores are quite interesting.
full article: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
So if the OP had said that he was glad the black people in his city were being replaced so that he could get better support for his pet political issue, you would have no problem with that?

Somehow I doubt you would say that in polite company.