skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

Everyone should take note of the proper way to fight encroaching copyright law:

If you are a programmer, security researcher, artist, or entrepreneur you can make a difference.

1. As an individual: if you understand the methods, contribute to open-source tools that allow individuals to exercise their rights. https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools (one example)

Artists: Use self-publishing platforms (gumroad, bandcamp, even spotify...) and self-incorporate. Discriminate against giving your business to companies that don't support open, sane protocols. Don't let them exert their power against the populace through backdoor trade deals.

Entrepreneurs: Create new content delivery and streaming platforms that force the transition to digital--rightsholders like to claim that piracy is responsible for their failed economics, though the truth is that they had an artificial market advantage of scarcity. User-generated content has bloomed with the advent of digital, and more consumer choice is a death knell to the traditional monopoly.

2. As a cause: support the EFF, and any politician looking to work with the FCC who understands this issue is deeper than "restricting content," and could undermine the rights of property and security of ownership. Do not trust anyone who does not comprehend the societal implications of critical infrastructure being "security through obscurity." http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001303221

The security of your laptop, the concept of personal ownership, and your right not to be digitally inspected at over 40 international borders is at stake.
I wasn't able to find much info on the current status of these efforts. Has Google (and their university/library partners) continued over the last ten years? I was under the impression that Google had suspended scanning years ago - partly due to this lawsuit and partly due to a change in company focus.
I have a concrete anecdote about ebooks I bring up in these discussions, which I am just copying-and-pasting below [1]:

In 2006 I purchased from Amazon the special edition of Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", an Adobe eBook (the only way this special edition was available). Last year [six years ago, as I paste this], when I went to have another look at the eBook on my latest computer (not the one I originally purchased the book on), I found that it no longer worked: I could not enable the book on my new computer because Amazon's license server for Adobe eBooks no longer worked. It took me several back-and-forth emails with Amazon's customer support to get someone to admit that once Amazon moved over to the Kindle, support for the Adobe ebooks went away (most of them didn't even seem to be aware that there were eBooks prior to the Kindle). I'd have settled for them replacing my eBook with the Kindle equivalent, but I don't own a Kindle. At the time there was no Kindle eBook reader for OS X. I eventually got a refund, but it took a lot of work to get them to even recognize that there was a problem. Additionally, I didn't want a refund, I wanted to read the special content in this special version of the book, one that is not available in paper. Given that experience, I'm a bit reluctant to purchase the Kindle version, even though there is apparently an OS X reader now.

I think the thing that most disturbs me about this whole incident is not just that a book I bought stopped working it is that I had no indication that it had become unavailable to me until the instant I went to re-read it. It had probably been inaccessible for months if not years without me knowing, with me thinking that I had the book ready for me to go read whenever I felt like, but when I went to check on something, it just didn't work. My shelves of paper books don't present me with that kind of problem.

NOTE that when I bought this ebook I registered it to my email address. They HAD my email address, and could have sent me an alert when the server's retirement was imminent, so I would have a chance to at least authorize my book on my current crop of devices.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1333441
Thanks for this interesting answer! I read most of the getting started guide last night and I'll probably try Elixir for a toy project sometime soon :)
It's about consumers and merchants knowing they can trust the brand of the card to be a) accepted everywhere to reduce the complexity of managing multiple credit card accounts and b) fraud-protected so they know they won't have to pick up the tab for losing/having a card stolen.

Having customers view the Visa/Mastercard/Amex "brand" (aka network) in this light is very valuable.

Perks such as cash back, no foreign transaction fees, and miles/points are nice, but they're pretty standard across the different credit tiers of all the major cc providers.

Perhaps having an Amex was once considered prestigious, but speaking for myself and my friends in the mid 20's, credit card providers/payment networks are perceived as largely homogeneous. Nobody cares if you're throwing down an Amex or a Visa to split the Korean BBQ bill. If anything, you'll get a comment of "when are you switching off Amex, their network coverage sucks in Europe".
Microsoft now uses Windows 10's Start menu to display ads
There's no need to imagine. When Henry VIII ordered the supression of the monasteries, manuscripts from monastic libraries were sold as toilet paper and shining rags. Though this has less to do with unnapraised items being lost due to clulessness than with a monarch being a dick.
Your professor certainly has a good point. As a normative principle, there is something not quite right about the idea that the women's rights movement had to wait for technology to reduce the burden of the role they were unfairly relegated to in the first place.

Besides that, at least in the U.S. the actual demand of housework did not go down with technology. For a long time, the standards for homemaking just went up instead: http://www.amazon.com/More-Work-For-Mother-Technology/dp/046....
Yes it's also dry here in CA and trees will lose leaves but not all of their leaves. The trees in the photo are completely bare. Note also that the grass in the foreground shows up in the image as dark. This implies that the grass is green. So even if you are correct and all the trees have lost all of their leaves then you would expect the grass to be dormant (not green) and show up as light in the image if it were summer.
Physically handling this much cash and verifying IDs and all this manual garbage is not actually necessary to solve the real problem which is transferring value to Mirjam.

The correct solution is to open accounts for these people like an actual bank and subsidize ATMs and electronic POS systems to encourage people not to have to actually take out cash.

Then you have a nice stable assets line on your balance sheet and you can start lending money out and enabling investment and making a profit from the interest.

> 7.5 dollars seems pretty cheap for that kind of service.

Sure, but if you send $1,000 it doesn't get any cheaper. Still worth $75? $750?
Does anyone have links to bugs for the affected programs to make 2048 the minimum by default? It seems like we shouldn't have to continue to manually configure secure settings.

OpenVPN?
SSH?
Nginx?
Apache?

Where are the bugs to make these not use insecure dhparams by default?
I was told by a professional coffee technician manufacturers experimented with electronic temp sensors 15-20 years ago but they were prone to failure. Field service is expensive. This is for the professional machine ( 2 - 3 groups ). They have always used pressostats which are very reliable but they wear due to arcing.

For the home market, lots of machines are not heat-exchangers and therefore need to run a lot cooler ( 100c instead of around 120c ). A pressostat does not work well in this range and they just mount cheap thermostats.
It's possible, but then what's going on with the imdb reviews? The users hate it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt

When I look at older movies (pre 2010 or so) there is no such divergence in rotten tomatoes and imdb user reviews. Recent movies have a massive divergence. I'm not sure what's going on.
I live in Manhattan and my experience has been that every bar accepts Amex.
A lot of larger companies use commercial load balancing appliances (A10 / F5) to provide a stable / secure implementation pipeline for SSL sites across multiple datacenters.

Nginx/HAproxy are great if you're a developer (and in fact, many developers at these companies will use one of those behind an appliance) but they kind of suck if you're trying to manage SSL certificates across a few thousand domains load balanced in 2-3 datacenters with round-robin IPs.

Also, the throughput on commercial load balancer appliances is crazy high, and there are plugins for injecting various headers, doing geographic load balancing, etc. Once you get into the high-traffic side of load balancing, your load balancer platform is also running your DNS -- so it can dole out the right IP address (with a short TTL, naturally) based on your proximity to specific exit nodes. It's nice to be able to manage all that from one platform if you're supporting several dozen sites / applications.
It seems to me like the company is caught between a rock and a hard place: the only way to make the card popularly accepted enough that the high-end "status" cardholders can use it anywhere they like is to dilute the brand by convincing as many people as possible to use it.
In which case properly delineating what "asking for permission" is becomes increasingly intractable. I have all sorts of images in my thumbnail cache that my browser has downloaded which nominally I do not have permission to keep, but are unavoidable artifacts of using the web via a graphical browser. Indeed, the lines of what is and is not implicit consent are very blurred. Not to mention that merely not being supposed to have something under a set of terms says nothing of the legitimacy of said terms.
They offer a strictly inferior, more expensive product in an industry that has been effectively commoditized.
I'm sure you'll want to keep reading about this, but let me just set out:

Diffie-Hellman involves four numbers, which are called g, p, a, and b (and which are used to calculate other numbers).

g and p are public, and are often used "for the long term" (including sharing g and p values between different Internet sites and services). The researchers found that the problem is that a lot of sites use the same p values, and the ones they use are too small, so that there is a single calculation that a government can do which allows them to break DH that uses those particular p values. Although this calculation is phenomenally expensive, it seems likely that NSA did it several years ago.

a and b are private and must remain secret. Commonly a different a and b are chosen each time Diffie-Hellman is used (like for each new connection or session with an Internet service).

Diffie-Hellman provides a property called forward secrecy because it allows two ends of a connection to derive a session key (which gets calculated using information derived from g, p, a, and b, and gets then used as a key for some other cryptosystem, normally some form of AES today, but in theory it could be anything) but then later "forget" what the session key was and how it was derived. Unlike other ways of doing key exchange, when the parties choose to "forget" their session key and associated information this way, they no longer have a way to recover or reconstruct it!

This is useful because, for example, if someone hacks the computer of someone who was using protocols with ephemeral DH, the computer likely won't contain information that could be used to reconstruct the session key and decrypt old communications. (That's assuming that the software scrubs key material from memory when it's no longer needed... which might not always be true.)
I can tell you why...at my
Last firm, the "first submitting agency" was tied to your name on FieldGlass. You could not get around it. It was the only system you could hire thru firmwide.
DraftKings and FanDuel paid off top NFL-related personnel, so the interests of DK/FD align with the NFL's interests. Now, the NFL (or at least influential executives) will get their cut of the pie, without actually having to bake the pie themselves. Turns out, asking for permission rather than forgiveness works.

Though, yes, the NFL's lawyer army will have concussion battles to fight for the foreseeable future.
I agree on the pretty female observation. Just about every tech recruiter that's contacted me recently looks like someone I'd want to date. My father is a doctor in the US and the drug reps he deals with are also from this mold, so I guess that says something about what really works in male-centered professions.
Ego.

PS: Most people fail blind taste tests with this stuff. But, just like the high end audio market spending money on junk makes some people feel good.
Bullingdon Club
"Stanford is really an investment fund that runs a school on the side"

That's a bit of an exaggeration, no? I think the vast majority of people would correctly describe it as a top-ranked private university in California.
Google developed a system called the "cheese grater" and open-sourced the plans / design:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuoOaL11bw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lLL0mUZHwU
https://code.google.com/p/linear-book-scanner/
http://linearbookscanner.org/
Here's a video with the photographer about the image:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NeyTEO_JP0
Because they say all versions are affected.
I bet he's paid Comedy Central for thousands of things that he never even asked for if he's ever had a cable bill.

Look at the big picture. We live in a society full of corruption and greed; people are naturally going to "steal" from the big greedy corporations who constantly use their advantage to turn the screws and make society pay for their faulty business plans.
But I liked the Avengers movies, even though you would certainly call them "commercialized crap".

In a world where they hadn't been created, I would be strictly worse off. Even if I could enjoy low-budget "artsy" movies.

Probably in Hungarian without subtitles, for maximum authenticity.
For the same reason why big-bang, throw-code-over-the-wall open-source projects rarely succeed.

The flawed TPP process will affect 800 million people.
Really? I only have an AMEX card and unless it's a chain store it's almost never accepted. I often get lectures from small business owners about the higher rates charged by AMEX and why they can't accept it.
Yep - great to see them in trouble. Most small businesses hate them as they take from their bottom line.

IIRC amex also tried to stop retailers letting customers know just how much they charge per transaction and wouldn't let shops offer different prices to counter-balance Amex greed.

Overall they sound thoroughly nasty and I cheer their demise.

ps whenever I can I use cash at an independent business so they keep the 2-3% instead of some big bank.
First, thanks for being a librarian.

Second, I don't think traditional librarians know how quickly the end is coming. Libraries will still exist of course, possibly as makerspaces, possibly as community centers, but with collections like "Library Genesis" [+] and storage continually to plummet in price, in the next 5 years entire libraries could be carried in your pocket.

EDIT: I'm not saying librarians aren't necessary! Quite the contrary! I believe their roles are going to shift to be advisors and guides. I'm saying the idea of the library as a place to go get knowledge itself is going to tail off, since its available over the Internet Firehose.

[+] "Library Genesis is an online repository with over a million of user-contributed books and is the first project in history to offer everyone on the Internet free download of its entire book collection (as of this writing, about 15 Tb of data), together with the all metadata and code for webpages. The most popular earlier repositories, such as Gigapedia (later Library.nu), handled their upload and maintenance costs by selling advertising space to the pornographic and gambling industries. Legal action was initiated against them, and they were closed. News of the termination of Gigapedia/Library.nu strongly resonated in academic and book lovers’ circles and was even noted in the mainstream Internet media, just like other major world events. The decision by Library Genesis to share its resources has resulted in a network of identical sites (so-called mirrors) through the development of an entire range of Net services of metadata exchange and catalog maintenance, thus ensuring an exceptionally resistant survival architecture."
While I don't entirely agree, this article put me off a little.

The first three paragraphs didn't make sense to me and seemed like you said, anecdotal/rumor.

Same with the part about Chenault at the Museum of Natural History event with Sheryl Sandberg and how "yet his dark slacks were creased, and his shoes gleamed as if they'd just been polished." Reads as if the author has something personal in this. What was he supposed to show up in?
Supermarkets are enabled both by refrigeration and by trucking. How is that not technological?
You've never been to a Whole Foods?
Why does the typical librarian behave like that? I have noticed the same thing.

Is it as simple as wanting to be in control over information, i.e. some small personal power?
Well, thanks. I couldn't parse it correctly at all until I read your post.
But surely their is value in the brand when it comes to customer perceptions about how good Amex support is or how easy chargebacks are.

I agree that thinking Amex can be a "status" symbol is foolish unless they really up their marketing budget (after all, anyone could become a lifestyle brand if they tried). More importantly, thats not something consumers care about when picking a credit card.
I thought about your comments a bit and I think what's actually interesting in projects like HG or BB (or "Man on the Moon") is perhaps not scale as much as the fact that they are open ended. We don't know how the solution will look like. And that means that the solution may look really difficult or complicated today, but it's also possible that it won't be that difficult in the end.

So what I mean, I think, is not ambition in terms of resources, but rather ingenuity.
You may be paying for cable, but have you been paying HBO? They're the content producer, not Comcast or Cox or whoever you have.
Tipping is very dependent on the local customs, tipping a waiter in Germany for example (especially in the more rural areas, or traditional restaurants) will be somewhere between unexpected to outright insulting.

Tipping dealers in UK casinos is actually forbidden by the 'Gaming Board' (gambling commission) to discourage "cheating" since they believe that if dealers might get a cut of the winnings they might be inclined to stack the odds in the player's favor.
Where in New York do you live? Everywhere I go in Manhattan accepts Amex. I've even been to a bar that only accept Cash or Amex ("the Costco of bars").
I'm afraid you're misinformed, but for socially-conscious individuals (ie, they don't support a scorched-earth, ends-justify-the-means policy to get that $250,000* from your nephew for torrenting Inside Out) I'm including my comment below.

If you are a programmer, security researcher, artist, or entrepreneur you can make a difference.

1. As an individual: if you understand the methods, contribute to open-source tools that allow individuals to exercise their rights. https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools (one example)

Artists: Use self-publishing platforms (gumroad, bandcamp, even spotify...) and self-incorporate. Discriminate against giving your business to companies that don't support open, sane protocols. Don't let them exert their power against the populace through backdoor trade deals.

Entrepreneurs: Create new content delivery and streaming platforms that force the transition to digital--rightsholders like to claim that piracy is responsible for their failed economics, though the truth is that they had an artificial market advantage of scarcity. User-generated content has bloomed with the advent of digital, and more consumer choice is a death knell to the traditional monopoly.

2. As a cause: support the EFF, and any politician looking to work with the FCC who understands this issue is deeper than "restricting content," and could undermine the rights of property and security of ownership. Do not trust anyone who does not comprehend the societal implications of critical infrastructure being "security through obscurity." http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001303221

The security of your laptop, the concept of personal ownership, and your right not to be digitally inspected at over 40 international borders is at stake.

* figure revised to more accurately reflect the reality of the american justice system.
It'd be interesting to know (and the article doesn't seem to make it clear either) whether or not they're going to update the Linux flash player. If not then flash on linux is instantly dead, which would break quite a few websites.
Yeah, when we moved back to the states, I signed up with Costco. Only I couldn't pay for it with any of the cards that I had. So I also had to sign up for their Amex card. Quite a bit of paperwork and hassle...
Based on your experience, do you think this kind of attitude just typical of the sorts of folks who tend to be librarians, or is there some top-down reason for it?
Oh, I didn't mean to say that S-expressions can't be used for configuration. It's that in general you don't want a Turing-complete language to do configuration management, because you want to be able to reason about things like rollbacks, dependencies and diffs.
I totally agree on asking the actual company what they're paying the recruiter before you sign on; they will always be expecting an amount of work equal to full amount paid to the recruiter rather than the meagre sum that will end up in your pocket (which is exactly how hard you're planning to work).

I have been told of people learning they were on long-term $50/hour assignments where the recruiter is making $200/hour over the top; no lie.

But the sickness doesn't just come from normal people accepting jobs; these agencies are also held up by fucking Enterprise businesses. We recently needed to hire some additional staff and only received 3 resumes; 2 of which we'd seen before and were unsuitable.

I told management that the recruiter wasn't doing their job and that maybe we could just put something on Seek, get a reply, then refer them to the recruiter. "We can't do that! The entire corporation has a contract; everything has to go through the recruitment agency and there's no way around it!"

How the fuck they knowingly got themselves into such a farcical situation (and for what benefit?) I'll never understand... except that they're fucking idiots.
They have high fees. Plenty of small vendors do not accept Amex at all.
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> Create such a market using bitcoins, and you'll get very valuable intel.

www.augur.net, fascinating stuff.
i guess Obama is mainly talking to businessmen, so its is the 'what is good for business is good for america' mantra.

everything is moving to the net, so business wants to get money out of it, so far they came up with two models to do business

- surveillance as the business model of the internet

- DRM lock in

and so it goes that we run into a big reversal: the internet, which is after all a technology that promises freedom of information and transparency turns into a tool that results in exactly the reverse.
It's 3.5% vs 2-3% on most cards.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/retailers-accep...

So they are all taking a good wedge for very little.