skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They provide no easy way to search only for books unencumbered by DRM."

Did you read what I wrote above? Go to Amazon. Select Kindle Store. Enter "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" in the search box.

I can't imagine possibly wanting to search for books based on that (I search for books by author or subject, myself), but it's incorrect to say you can't easily do it if that's your thing.

"Keep in mind, you as a reader are not the customer of publishers. "

No, as a reader, I am absolutely the customer of indie authors and publishers, who are the same ones that don't, as a rule, use DRM.
I recently posted a thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397654 on SMC. It seems SMC has been a mess for past decade. See The Stanford Endowment Experiment http://www.ai-cio.com/channels/widescreenstory.aspx?id=21474....

/u/nrao123 is correct. Yale Endowment is the pioneer and the gold-standard that every other endowment is trying to mimic and compares themselves to.
Atomic collider gets OK. Now Jefferson Lab will compete for it
Yes, we can.

Private roads have no ads. Expensive neighborhoods have no ads. You won't see many ads on Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Expensive HOAs ban lawn signs. You can pay extra for the ad-free Kindle from Amazon. If you buy books, the books are ad-free. Expensive newsletters are ad-free. Pay per view movies are ad-free (except when they have products inserted surreptitiously into the content on behalf of advertisers).

Are you seeing the pattern, here? You get to pick two from this set: cheap, good, fast. If it's cheap and fast, it'll be bad. If it's good and cheap, it'll take a long time. If it's fast and good, it won't be cheap.

Plenty of people -- the majority, really -- want lower prices in return for submitting to brain-scrambling.
There's an entire community dedicated to making inexpensive devices to scan books.[0] You will probably also have access to a commercial grade book scanner at any large library.

[0] http://www.diybookscanner.org/
It may vary but usually the store gets a cut from the lottery commission if they sell a winning ticket.
At the very least it makes for an extremely boring discussion if we start from the premise that the article must be right "because lobbyists".
Did you see this? I didn't actually see it on HN for some reason:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/08/how-ubeam-works/
I believe several NFL owners are also investors in both companies.
The OpenVPN section is misleading. The dh option is only supported on the server side. If you try to use it on the client side (which is what this guide appears to be tailored towards) it will be ignored and you'll use whatever DH parameters the server provides.
Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer (2011)
Twitter pet behavior reports as a possible precursor of earthquakes (2009)
I don't know, perhaps ones wife has some boudoir photos taken. Just that they exist would entitle anyone to the right to view them, if they could get them? Moreover, say her husband does things to restrict said access, would people really say that that is immoral?

That doesn't seem quite right to me.

Does the content creator (since there would be no 'owner' without copyright) have any say over the use or distribution? I think of all those rock stars that have had politicians misappropriate their songs and then asked them to stop using them over the years. I wonder what that felt like, you wrote this hit song that was powerful and evoked emotion and then someone you are ideologically opposed to tried to use it for their purpose.
http://www.aboutbillythekid.com/
I know that they have too, they also have to do so in London (And anywhere in the UK, or at least England & Wales I imagine), the question was does Uber enforces it on their end like any other car hiring service must.
It has to be that these sorts of lawsuits are supported by a small minority of authors, right? It's crazy. Who has ever planned to buy a book and thought "hey, I'll just use the Google Book Search to read through it"? I've never heard of 99% of the books that turn up on these searches, and I have ended up buying at least 2 or 3 of them.
> "all the ways you can release the blue genie from an LED, why it happens, and what you can do about it."

???
They aren't startups, not any more than "Bitcoin" or "Bittorrent" are startups.

Once the software is initially developed and released, there's no head to cut off or assets to seize, there's just a million little pseudo-anonymous players scattered all over the world.
And then other companies worked out you could print black cards and undercut them.

I guess if I want to make a multi-million dollar purchase I'll have to do some extra admin. That aside every other time I purchase from a retailer they and I get to benefit.
Mitigate Risk with a Website Maintenance Plan
Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data
You've actually seen Uber stickers? that's impressive, all the stickers I've seen when I've used Uber were of other companies and I've assumed the guy was just moonlighting or picking up additional fares.
Ok this is pretty cool, I've been waiting for the 2nd Circuit to decide this. Now to see if the Supreme Court will take it up.

I believe that this would also clear up a service that scans your books and sends you the digitized version. That would seem to be fair use of my own library as well. I spent about $1200 getting roughly a 1/3 of the volumes I've collected over the years digitized at 600 DPI so that I could have them all available on my iPad for reference.
I will add my own opinion as a mid 20 year old male myself:

My friends and I do not view all cards the same. There are obviously "top tier" versions of each card provider, and those are the ones that are looked at with "Prestige"

Whether or not those are Visa, Mastercard, or Amex makes no difference. But if you have a Amex Black, or the metal Chase card with no limit, it does come with opinions.
That's well-stated.

I wonder why they couldn't just use a sliding fee - take a bigger fee only for larger transactions and secure agreements with retailers not to ask customers to use lower-fee cards when available (as opposed to trying to enforce it by law, which the article talks about), with the promise that accepting Amex will actually bring in these bigger spenders.
> and now? When was the last time you installed a new OS on your smartphone? Your game console? Your VR device? Your smart watch? Etc?

I get your concern but I don't think the analogy holds up.

For instance, hacking a gaming console in the 80's is pretty much as hard as it is today, except that people who does this share it more efficiently.

Smartphones? You can jailbreak pretty much every platform and in some cases you don't even need to.

The thing that is changing in my opinion, is the easyness of access for locked-in software and digital content. For instance, I could spend an hour chasing an ebook and download it to my kindle. Or I can pay a few bucks to license the ebook in the Amazon Kindle Store in less than a minute.

Depending of the price tag I will be doing the second option most of the time, even if I don't control the copy. Just because I'm lazy ...
Facebook Relay: An Evil And/Or Incompetent Attack on REST
We went through this with music, and DRM-free files won. They were rightly seen as intrinsically more valuable, and no one was willing to buy a restricted file when a regular mp3 of the same content was available for the same price.

The same is true of ebooks. Many publishers offer DRM-free ebooks, but they cannot compete with kindle ebooks on price. A freely distributable PDF is worth more to me than a one with DRM, but not infinitely more. Eventually the prices will equalize and everyone will buy open formats.
If you live in NYC, you must be actively trying to avoid places that accept AMEX. It's accepted practically everywhere in Manhattan at least.

If you live elsewhere in New York State then, yeah, AMEX charges higher fees to merchants so many smaller ones don't want to deal with them.
What problem does it solve?
What will core dumps look like for a quantum computer?
The tech recruiter role/economy seems like a tremendous conflict of interest, especially when they are outsourced. They are compensated primarily as a percentage of the salary for each hire they make. Like real estate agents, they get very little benefit from hiring well and primarily from hiring a lot. If those folks don't pan out, more roles to fill and more bonuses to be had. It seems like an extremely short-sighted solution, which leads to short relationships that don't sufficiently penalize nefarious behavior.
All of the uBeam debunking and de-debunking goes over my head. It all sounds convincing when I read it. I personally will probably have to wait until we get an ex-insider who blows the whistle (like Theranos) or the product just comes out.
Theranos responds to WSJ expose
Serving static files: Comparison between Apache,Nginx,Varnish and G-WAN(2011)
CNN Accused of Censoring Bernie Sanders Coverage for Parent Time Warner
Wake up very early, don't take naps, start exercising. This works for me but I'm certainly not trained to give medical advice.
There is a story (perhaps apocryphal) that a student at Cambridge [?] was asked this at an exam many years ago.

He said "I'm sorry, I did use to know, but I've forgotten".

"How very unfortunate," said the professor. "In all of history, only two people have known what electricity is. One the creator, and the other yourself. And now one of the two has forgotten."
http://blog.ivanristic.com/2013/08/increasing-dhe-strength-o...

(I'm not sure Apache even defaults to enabling forward secrecy by default, without which you're not exposed to DH at all).
Well here's a universalized principled argument against piracy:

Given that a content creator is only able to sustainably (i.e. without going broke) create content provided that they have an income,
and given that creating content takes enough time that it is infeasible to both create content and earn income from another source at the same time,
then a content creator must be able to earn income from their content if they are going to create it sustainably.

Given that consumers want content from content creators whose content they have enjoyed in the past,
and given that a content creator must be able to earn income from their content if they are going to create it sustainably,
content creators should be able to earn income from their content

Given that when a person pirates (or otherwise obtains for free) content the content creator earns no income from their content
if everybody were to pirate content, content creators would earn no income from their content

Given that if everybody were to pirate content, content creators would earn no income from their content
and given that content creators should be able to earn income from their content
then not everybody should pirate content

Given that if not everybody should perform an action then nobody should perform the action,
and if not everybody should pirate content
then nobody should pirate content.
In horse racing however, it is polite to tip when collecting your winnings. This applies if you're actually at the race, not sure if it's different in betting shops.
Thing is they don't have to. Visa and co often have lower transaction fees for places like grocery stores exactly for that reason. Amex can adopt the same behavior.
Cybercrime bazaars: What's for sale in the online underworld?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
Blaming Amazon is totally pointing the finger at the culprit:

Amazon has been threatening publishers that if they choose no drm, their books won't benefit from text-to-speech, and various other possibilities of the kindle, including future compatility!

http://lexbrage.tumblr.com/post/13212628647/amazon-bragelonn... explains (in french) why Bragelonne (french publisher against DRMs) surrendered to having DRM on amazon.
maybe the best solutions for computer security or network security is to make everything public

nothing to hide, nothing to lose
The NHS provides mostly excellent free health care. (Some non-urgent but unplanned stuff can be frustrating).

But you can also pay privately for treatment. I'm not sure why you would chose to do so - you get a private room but not much else. (There's a possibility you get slightly worse outcomes)

Dental isn't free even on the NHS (although many people get exemptions) so paying gets you better dentists, with better wait times, and more cosmetic options.
> actually pretty much illegal

Not at all. This is like saying weapons manufacturing is illegal, just because they can be used for committing murder. As for Gamma Group being 'evil' that's also a bit of an overstatement. I don't want to get into a huge ethical debate here, but the principle is that tools are morally neutral, their users or mis-users are the ones that should be criticised.
i'd be more impressed if they hadn't done the half-assed chip-and-sig thing and actually supported pins.
"Keep it simple" as their first bullet point.

I wonder who has ever had as a goal to make complicated software from the outset.
Electrocution death row contenders still like electricity.

Linkbait, anyone?
This sounds similar to Kernel Density Estimation. How does it compare to it?
When I read those two articles in WSJ, I wasn't surprised at all. When I saw hype around Theranos a year or two ago, I thought it might be a scam. Common: a 30 year old, comes up with some hitherto unknown technology in a field that has millions of people and companies working hard to implement even small advances. And all the hype surrounding the company is based on her persona, really.

(I remember reading in Freakonomics or in Good to Great that statistically any time you have a company whose main effort is promote a charismatic CEO: watch out, this company is not that great.)
Derivatives and futures are outright gambling?
And, just look at the articles. Theronos uses Siemens technology, while maintaining a facade of a revolutionary company.

I just don't know how these VCs invest. Again and again due diligence is missing. The company is worth billions. And it seems like these investments were made based on personalities and friendships.

I remember when Color had $41M investment right off the bet. And no one could understand what this application is designed to do. And no one ever used it.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/color-looks-to-reinvent-soc...
What Great Leadership Looks Like
"Magic blue smoke" is a euphemism for when you blow/burn electronic components (usually inadvertently, but not always).

The proper design of a simple LED circuit touches on a few fundamentals of circuit design.
I agree with you about the end, but not that traditional librarians aren't aware of it. Because of their tenuous funding source, librarians have become masters at adaptation. They meet constantly to re-evaluate their goals and their place in the community. They are vitally important, especially to those with limited access to technology (homeless, working poor). I do see them evolving further as community centers and that's a good thing.
I don't understand the criticism. The "personal" level at which this story was told, is an asset to the reporting. Many long form pieces follow this same formula; mixing personal anecdotes from subjects within the story, with factual "outside" sources of information to create a richer story.
I'm pretty interested the tools the whistleblower employs to avoid detection. They are alluded to in the end of Citizenfour, but I'm not sure they are specifically named. I assume they are using SecureDrop, and the continuing survival of the source attests to the strength of it's security. The amount of NSA scrutiny laser-focused on Jeremy Scahill must be insane. He probably has an entire team dedicated to monitoring everything he does, since they are trying to find the leak. I can't think of a better battle test of a security technology than whatever he and the source are using to communicate, since they basically screamed about their partnership in Citizenfour.
Hacker Arrested for Alleged Role in ISIS Effort to Kill US Military Personnel
To use a cheesy analogy: what you're suggesting sounds a lot like a bass player and a drummer playing as loud as they can, both with noise cancelling headphones on -- playing and talking past one another. Music, and discussions, work better when two players or participants hear, understand and work with one another. Brute force isn't the way to do that.

Best of luck.
I got the impression the author was trying to reinforce the image of Amex being a stodgy Wall Street company that is increasingly out of touch with technology and culture.
At the end of the day you're right in that a card sometimes functions status symbol, just a less visible one than say a car. But its strength is weakening, and status can't compete with network coverage and fraud protection functionality. Can't wait for the day when we can do away with physical cards altogether.
Likely coincided with knowledge about where he was living at that point in history. This also takes place after a wedding, so that likely gave some clues if they could determine who was getting married.

As well, the article mentioned that this is the first photo of him with some of his known gang members. The man to his left is quite clear, and therefore if they can identify him as an associate of Billy The Kid, perhaps that gave them more reason to suspect it was Billy.
I'd say that might go under 'complex moralizing'. Their work is available; it may take more than a google or a click to obtain. Too much work to walk down to the store? That is what I meant by disrespecting the author.

I suspect much pirating is rooted in entitlement, and the moralizing comes after.
Emergency parliamentary debate on surveillance powers
Non-inclusive processes don't fail because of lobbyists. They fail because the excluded majority ignores outputs which made little attempt to include their requirements. A poor process that creates non-representative TPP law will degrade public perception of future laws. See the movie 1776.
As usual, the project page doesn't actually explain what the project is nor why I should care.

I have to infer a bunch.

Start writing a good synopsis on the first page of your projects people.
Wow, what a perfectly terrible comment!
I might have utterly failed, but my intentions were good

No no, if anyone failed, it was me! Don't worry about it. If I'd done a better job showing people, or if I'd given them something to play with, then words would've been unnecessary. We're all in it together. Part of the challenge is making everyone feel like they can do great things.

Is a "gut feeling" enough?

Counter-intuitively, it seems like the answer is yes, for two reasons: (a) It prevents me from fooling myself. If I say "Look how beautiful this design is," people will push back if most disagree. (b) If young people don't want to build cool stuff with Lisp, then that's alarming to someone who intends to grow Lisp, as I do. And young people turn out to be the most likely to vocalize a negative gut reaction.

The trick is to be aware when (a) happens, but to brush it off if you're right and the world is wrong. It's as hard as it sounds.

I usually run the language past some friends and tell them to be as cynical as possible, then think of ways their critique is justified. The discoveries from that process have been so cool. For example, the outermost parens of a Lisp expression are unnecessary:

(def even (x)
(is (mod x 2) 0))

should read

def even (x)
(is (mod x 2) 0)

It's obvious once it's pointed out, but I was the least likely to realize it. "What's with the parens? I actually like them, but why do you put in the extra ones?" "What extra ones?"

Whether it's a good idea to formally drop them is a different question, but now I know to check. It'd break all existing Lisp auto-indent plugins. But that could be worthwhile; it depends.

User testing has been pretty great.
A map of Google's self-driving car accidents
When they're the ones being spied on, suddenly they show great concern.
OpenVPN makes you provide your own parameters; there is no default.

As of Apache 2.4.7, the default DH parameters have the same number of bits as your RSA key, and since CAs have required at least 2048 bit RSA for a few years now, you'll be fine.

OpenSSH does ship parameters that are larger than 1024 bits (in addition to 1024 bit parameters), and with the "group-exchange" kex, sufficiently-secure parameters should be negotiated with clients, although I haven't looked too closely to see if this might be vulnerable to downgrade attacks.

Last I looked nginx used fixed 1024 bit parameters, which is very bad. I don't know if this has changed or if there's a bug report.
Ask HN: Which is better for SEO?
I have an e-commerce website. However, it looks like other websites are ranking higher on my products than I am on my own.

My current product page URL structure looks like this:
http://example.com/myproducts/1234567/toys/lego-star-wars.html

Would I rank higher in Google if I amended my URL to be like this:
http://example.com/toys/lego-star-wars.html

Thanks. It's really annoying that other websites are just scraping my products and ranking higher than me and then coming over to charge me for leads.
My wife is a thrift store / garage sale junkie and it always goes one of two ways.

1) We end up with a junk piece of furniture that sits in our garage for months while she tries to either sell it for a few bucks or makes a run back to the thrift store to drop it off (majority of the time)

or

2) She ends up finding a piece worth hundreds (sometimes thousands) that make it all worth it. She recently found a Paul McCobb table she restored and sold for 700 dollars that she bought for $15 (small % of the time but worth it)

Kinda sounds a bit like venture capital...
For the most part, their cars are better and they have a reputation for long lasting cars(At least I feel that is the case when compared to the other "comparable cars") You have a happy user base. I'm not too concerned with the whole emissions scandal: 1. I don't have a diesel and 2. Its a regulation issue. If VW acted in bad faith and degraded the guarenteed performance.. I would be pissed. We haven't see a response on what is going to happen so far.

Most of the responses to the finding have been snarky comments about "how vw is bad." (We need to find out what went wrong and fix it... circlejerking about the whole issue, or the negative press, isn't going to do a lot of good)
My guess would be incompetent. Just like react.native was billed as "fixing" problems with MVC, when what it offers is exactly MVC.
1) definitely true, but it's interesting that it doesn't seem to affect the betting so much. There seems to be rapid consensus on what the 'correct' odds are for any given match, with only minor odds fluctuations. Compare this with horse racing, where the odds before the start can swing wildly, even though the same horses may have run many times before. There are different unknowns in the two sports, of course, but it is strange how bettors seem to quantify the football unknowns similarly.

2) All down to your country's silly gambling laws, unfortunately. Europe, and the UK in particular, have got the right idea here. It's overwhelmingly the shady offshore bookies that disappear without paying out.

3) Probably the same reason as 2) really... American football doesn't seem to attract significant betting volumes outside the US. American horseracing is more popular, strangely.

4) There's very few companies with APIs here. Basically only the exchange-based bookies offer APIs. All other bookies want nothing to do with sophisticated players, and if your customers are at the level of automating bets, you probably don't want to be the one taking them on :)

(Edit): I forgot about Pinnacle - they are (I think) the only traditional bookie who offers an API. Mind you, they also are happy to take on profitable customers.
Probably not many, but stating simplicity as your primary (or at least first) goal is a statement and reminder of priorities.
Thanks! -- I must have missed that completely.