skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got me an AppleTV Gen2 and I love it. Even actively looking for more Gen2s but they are rather expensive now.

The Gen2 could be rooted, and XMBC installed with Addons. It offers a great interface, stylish hardware and using XMBC I can link the apple TV directly to my home Nas and stream media from that. Something I never liked about the appleTV was being locked in to only being allowed media in the 'apple approved way' hence the rooting.

I have a few android boxes but they are just not as tidy

Does not really relate to the post just a random overshare
"all the drone would offer me is to save a few days shipping time"

That's exactly what some (many?) of us want!
Steve Wozniak wanted fake points from Homebrew club, I hope you are not using a mac?
SurfaceBook is 1.0, and the subject of this post. SurfacePro is I think what you are referring to, and is on its 4th iteration.
Motorola announces shatterproof display with a 4 year warranty against cracking
I try to orient my skepticism towards "things that don't make sense".
Yup it's a US centric problem. Before coming to the US I would never consider "maintaining a healthy weight" (I've lived in the UAE and India before). The sedentary lifestyle and abundance of cheap (I mean really cheap) sugary products is the root cause.
One of the striking things to me when I moved to the US was the waistlines of people who were considered to be living below or around the poverty line. I was like "They seem to be well fed, in what sense are they poor?"
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that showing online users may not be a good idea. We'll probably disable that soon. Feedback taken.
IANAL, but doesn't MIT require you to keep the copyright notice though? I mean you're not waiving away your copyright by licensing something with MIT.
That's a more nuanced position than the one that is commonly understood, however. Though, you are always bound to your architectural model, so exploiting it more directly is not innately bad. Layers tend to be leaky.

Wearing a Scheme programmers' hat, call/cc isn't any less of a landmine.
No, that's ad companies you're thinking of. Software companies make money by selling services or shipping a product.
Gotta let this sort of stuff go when you license MIT.
I imagine it is exceptionally unlikely that he would go to court to enforce any kind of breach of license. Therefore encoding his expectations within the license is approximately equivalent to simply hoping that people not act like jerks (which is how he chooses to handle it currently).
This does assume the form factor and visual re-enforcements don't contribute to the effect. You can call this "placebo" if you want, but the perception is real and might not have a clear "alternative placebo".
Well, actually, the MIT license requires you not strip the attribution if it was present:
"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
"

In this case, it was present in the LICENSE file in the github repository he links to.

Not preserving it is a clear license violation in this case, since they took substantial portions of the software.
Why hide it behind a link shortener?

Direct link is here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
Thanks for the screenshot. We're still iterating on our design.
> No piece of equipment will last forever, though, and that lifetime guarantee wasn't sustainable.

Not in theory, but it was sustainable if it was really just a mutual contract of quality transactions.

The majority of REI members wouldn't have returned a worn out pair of boots, I suspect. But then the economy crashed. :/
Fake internet points can translate to real world points. A good blog post can build someone's reputation, it's a sales tool. If you're looking for a better job, or a consulting gig you may seriously consider trying to show your stuff in blog form.

Someone "stealing" your tools without attribution hurt's your internet reputation which can have a real world impact.
It's not hard.

* Advertise your above market rates

* Advertise your generous referral bonus system

* Be very clear about the role (responsibilities, domain, org structure, etc)

* Poach from the pool of employees from respected, established companies. Ideally with 2+ years (they've basically done the vetting for you, and you know they've survived at least 2 review cycles)

* Avoid long drawn out interviews, any in person interviews should be treated like a final sanity check before an offer, like management interviews are.
I think is human nature to examine, and scrutinize the one's who utilized a relatively safe/encouraging environment in order to get to that perch.

I have seen too many wealthy individuals legally bend the rules the poor, and middle class can't in order to get to that perch.

Whether by hook, or crook, luck, family backing, and yes--sometimes honest hard work that person makes it to the perch; the peons will look up at that perched individual, and their resultant behavior. We watch what that perched individual does with their goodies. If they narcissistically waste their goodies, we get annoyed. If they buy up apartment building, and kick out section 8 recipients we get annoyed. If they buy up houses so they don't need to look at the peons, we get annoyed. If they waste money while their neighbors are starving, we get annoyed. Basically, if they act like jerks, we get annoyed.

Why, because we all inhabit the same little space. "Want to act like a jerk--fly to another planet." This one is too small.

In American, we provide a pretty good starting pad for most people. They can go and do pretty much whatever they want. They make their money, and then go to extreme, complex lengths to not give back to the nest---is frustrating, and ugly. It's no wonder--sometimes we want to pull them from their perches?

(Excuse the avian metaphors--it's early, and I can't write.)
I think my biggest issue is how clear it was that he had something to say about the state of American prisons in the 21st century and the depiction of sensitive political topics in video games, then just lopped off all the rest of the context and picked a video game that happened to be about prisons.

If you play the game and have listened to what the developers have said, you'd see that these aspects were not a good fit and the developers specifically wanted to distance the player from these realities. The world outside you is a black box from which prisoners flow in and out. How that happens is completely out of your control and knowledge.

Bogost's article would not have been particularly interesting or revelatory without the context of a popular, recently released game. Context which he shimmed in to bring attention he wouldn't normally have gotten.
It is a pretty sad state of affairs if you really need a licence to explicitly stop people from being ass-hats.
Terrifying! Is there a way to disable that?
Judge dismisses charges for man who shot down drone
He acknowledges that MIT doesn't prevent this in the conclusion:

> As my code is MIT-licensed, there’s nothing legally preventing the use of my code this way. However, I’m not going to change my workflow; I will still open-source my data visualization code, and it will have the same licensing. It wouldn’t be fair to punish others who have made very good use of my code.

> But outright using the code, without any attribution, and claiming it as your own when it blatantly isn’t, is a jerk move.
I'm on the same page here with you--I agree that packet radio is pretty useless for internet access. It's pretty useless for anything except talking to other amateur radio operators, and all they want to talk about is radio and, sometimes, Obama.

But that's what the amateur service is, it's people playing with radios because they think radios are cool. Because it's mostly real-time conversations, the bands aren't insanely congested; if I tried to fetch my email over an encrypted signal on the 40m band, I'm going to tie up a big chunk of the available frequencies for possibly hours on end (cough yacht owners running WINLINK cough).

You'd have to eliminate the "no commercial business" rule too, because fetching your mining operation's email looks pretty similar to browsing ham forums when everything is encrypted.
>> "...and the economy currently runs on asset bubbles."

@eli_gottleib: Where can we read more about this? It feels true but I'd like to see more details.
As an anecdote, 10 days ago I decided to try and go nuclear with sugar and high GI foods (bread, rice, etc) for a month after watching this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyeor3z9EdQ

The first week I've been feeling odd and lethargic with the second day including flu-like symptoms. In little more than one week I've lost 1.5kg (~3 lbs). Now I start to feel more energetic and tomorrow I'll be hitting the gym for the first time since I started. If I manage to lose 10 lbs, I'll probably stick to the diet for some months more. (I needed to lose 40 lbs or so anyways)...
That's not what I meant - it was just an example.

The above comment only considered the perspective of an end user, saying that due to good infrastructure and lots competition net neutrality isn't an issue. However I'm more worried about the businesses at the other end of the line, the content and service providers who also have to deal with ISPs. If the market leader in a certain category can afford to buy faster lanes, it's much harder for potential competitors to enter the market, hence the Netflix analogy.
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I've noticed there is a sub-population within open source who believe there is an etiquette to be followed that goes above and beyond the strict license terms. Of course there is no legal obligation to behave according to the oft-unwritten polite rules of behavior around things like attribution and not just making a near carbon copy for personal gain or aggrandizement when these terms are not in the license, and so many ignore them, perhaps even literally being ignorant of these social norms they are violating to the irritation of the original author.
Source: https://github.com/somethingnew2-0/hacker-news-tab
You certainly aren't upholding your own statements by defending your position properly.

I find that the added sugar=bad position is backed up with a lot of studies that don't control for total calories between groups (meaning the total calories are the culprit), or macronutrient ratios not being controlled between groups (meaning lower protein or higher carbohydrates are the culprit). There are a 'massive cloud' of studies which have both of those 2 errors present.

Aside, I realize the study in question did control for total calories, I'd have to read through the full study to be able to comment on it. However, drawing conclusions on the population at large from obese kids with metabolic syndrome and abnormally high sugar consumption isn't exactly "another point" in my books.

I don't think anybody is arguing that any level of sugar consumption is fine, but it's unfair and intellectually dishonest to say 'sugar is bad' or 'sugar is unhealthy'
>It's a subcommand, not a "double-dash parameter"

Huge difference... Not.

> I'm not sure why anyone would want to run it on their development machine

Do you usually download and run random tools for the first time directly on a server box?

> a webserver running on that machine that is accessible from the WAN

Ok then you really should specify this somewhere. I've gone through the github readme and the User Guide without this being mentioned anywhere. I'm probably stupid for not running arbitrary beta tools on random wan-facing servers, but I'm certainly not the only stupid person in IT today.
> Indeed, the article says almost nothing about what criteria we could use to judge if writing is needlessly complex or opaque.

And that's a huge problem for all the "clear writing" mandates; it's hard to give clear guidelines on what is and isn't clear.
Apologies, couldn't find the thread I originally made and the 2nd one I put too little information. Thanks for that.
"> As my code is MIT-licensed, there’s nothing legally preventing the use of my code this way. "

He's legally wrong, however ;-)

Let me clarify:

The MIT license does not prevent someone using the code to do a visualization without crediting him.
It does, however, prevent taking those snippets without reproducing the copyright notice

For anyone who wants to argue about the copyrightability of it, i'll point out

A. Google is being sued for 2.6 billion dollars over 9 lines of range check code

B. While copyright has some notion of de-minimis, it's not a
bright line in the code space. Copyright is more about originality. You can't really say, less than ten lines, do what you want. 10 lines of java does nothing. 10 lines of perl could be an entire OS.
"Search for these terms on Google Scholar" is a pretty good citation.
Intel describe[1] SGX as a feature designed to "enable software vendors to deliver trusted[2] applications", where applications would "maintain confidentiality even when an attacker has physical control of the platform and can conduct direct attacks on memory".

This already suggests the owner of the CPU isn't who they are protecting, but it gets worse (even before we consider the risk from AMT). Starting an SGX enclave seems to require[3] a "launch key" that is only known by Intel, allowing Intel to control what software is allowed to be protected by SGX.

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/09/26/protecting...

[2] Before the term "DRM" was coined, the same crap used to be called "trusted computing" (back when Microsoft was pushing Palladium/NGSCB)

[3] https://jbeekman.nl/blog/2015/10/intel-has-full-control-over...
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I can't disagree with you enough. This will be a huge game changer. Sure, it won't change things a ton for the consumer (many times do you really need that item the same day or is 1-2 days okay to wait?) but for the retail companies that adapt this is going to be HUGE.

Yes drones are impractical right now but we have just begun using them (they're still incredibly new). Battery technology will improve, drones will get better. By investing in the technology now you can work through it, find what works best, iterate and repeat with small subsets of customers. When drones become more cost effective and efficient you'll be ready and already serving products this way. Years later you may even close many of your retail stores. Why would you need them? People can use their phone, order something and have it just come to them. Logistics can be reworked incredibly so they can hold more inventory at less locations (thus lowering the overall inventory hold).

It's not going to happen today or tomorrow but 5-10 years? Drones are going to save companies billions of dollars on retail locations. Sounds crazy today sure but don't bet against technology.
> Even after downloading only 1-2 gigs, you could start actually playing the game.

Oh, I had forgotten about that—I tried WoW briefly just after WotLK came out. And Diablo 3 has the same as well. I definitely was a fan of it. I hope Apple's implementation works as nicely.
I didn't get the feeling he was insulted that the author disagreed with him, but because the author dismissed his analysis as "useless" while then using all his work as a base. Clearly it was not useless and saying so was an unnecessary insult.
Surface Book has major issues already
I can understand that when people are using a free service, they are the product. But mobile contracts are by no mean free. I find that amazing that the TelCos would even contemplate charging their customers and at the same time using them as products.
> and simply rewrite those variables

Good luck trying that once that memory is encrypted with SGX.
I see several issues with the ideas presented here. Firstly, the idea that a parent should have control over homework in any capacity seems like a misguided idea. Secondly, the article dances around ideas but never touches on the importance of the content of the homework. Not all worksheets are created equal and it follows that neither are all hours spent at home working. There are big differences from a pedagogical standpoint between homework designed to expand knowledge, evaluate proficiency, and provide mechanical practice (just to name a few).

In my opinion the whole issue stems from lack of standardization in education in this country. The huge variance, even at a regional scale, in the tools available to teach coupled with the lack of standardized methods for addressing the needs of a wide variety of students presents a system that is often going to regress to the lowest common denominator (often mechanical drudgery given the ease in creation and evaluation) .
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That's pretty much the reason why licenses were created.
Obesity in children is measured a bit differently. They use BMI-for-age percentiles, not Straight BMI.

From the CDC:

Overweight is defined as a BMI at or above the 85th percentile and below the 95th percentile for children and teens of the same age and sex. Obesity is defined as a BMI at or above the 95th percentile for children and teens of the same age and sex.
Sure, I noticed an immediate difference when I cut back on extraneous sugar content like soda and junk food. I also lost about 15 pounds over the course of a month. I noticed a mild withdrawal but once you get past that and as time goes on, you crave it less and less. The human body does need a certain amount to function but those amounts are easily obtained via a healthy diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables.
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Probably the cost of delivering data particularly in regards to the resulting data churn that having less local storage might require. Not all internet connections are unlimited.
Well this explains the controversial "warrantless squirrel tracking provision" in CISA.
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"With the ASUS OnHub, we’re also introducing Wave Control, which lets you boost the Wi-Fi speed for a particular device by simply waving your hand over the top of the ASUS OnHub—great for busy houses."

This sounds like a horrible feature.

"Honey, WiFis not working in the bathroom, could you wave over the router, that might fix something?"
I am always surprised that ad block users do not also refuse to use smartphones.

If you ask me, I'd rather Amazon retarget a bag of chips at me via a 300x250 display ad than Verizon sell my location breadcrumbs to some unknown entity.
Do Not buy TP-Link hardware if you run Windows 10
Hope this is ok to post up here:

I have a t4u wireless usb adapter which sporadically works. TP link claims they're going to release Windows 10 drivers, but it's been months and they've abandoned their own forums and email support.

I've purchased a Archer T4UH USB adapter which doesn't work in Windows 10 at all, no matter what i try. You guessed it, it's all over their forums how it doesn't work and how we all want Win10 drivers they claim they'll release, but haven't said squat about for months now.

I read reviews of TP-Link's hardware, but stupidly did not go into their support forums first before making my purchases to see all of the various problems and incompatibility all of their hardware has.

At this exact moment you can't even access their support pages, gateway timeout:

http://www.tp-link.us/download/Archer-C9.html

Screencap:
http://imgur.com/LTWaMUp
> Their idea is to "tag" assets so that you can transition the assets in the game.

Which is cool, and I hope it works out well (I'm somewhat concerned about games where you can have a bunch of saves to different parts of the game, any of which you could load—or something like Skyrim where you can fast travel to anywhere at almost any point). But if that works perfectly, it'll be at best unnoticed :-) Whereas the faster start time will be noticeable almost every time you download a new game.
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This is true in my experience as well.

Originally there was the concept of reblogging where one site would publish something original and others would publish a small excerpt with a clearly defined link to them.

From there came the idea of the [via] link where another site published its own article based on information from the original publisher and attributed a small link.

And from there it seems like there is just so much republished content that sites think of the information as just public information and glean from wherever without any sort of attribution.
Oh yeah, that actually reminds me of an even earlier example. The first Guild Wars you could play very quickly while they streamed in other areas of the game.

I remember being really impressed by that and it felt like the future. But kind of forgot about it since I didn't see it much until the PS4 and Xbox One, though they tend not to do it even remotely as well.
> doesn't MIT require that you at least include the license in any modified or redistributed code?

Yep[1] (emphasis mine):

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

[1]: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
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> However the MIT license doesn't require that.

That's not true.

https://github.com/minimaxir/reddit-bigquery/blob/master/LIC...

> Copyright (c) 2015 Max Woolf

[...]

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>Wondering what the side effects equivalent to environmental pollution are in this case...

Just like pollution from the fossil-fuel industry, you can pick high-intensity problems that are restricted to the areas nearest the source, or low-intensity problems spread over the whole country/world. For example, the housing pressure in SF/SV is very high intensity but affects only a small part of the world; non-STEM high school and university departments losing prestige and/or funding is less intense in any one place but more widely distributed.
This might be of interest to HN readers in the New England area - once a year Tufte opens up his 200+ acre farm/sculpture park in western CT to the public for a day. I found out about this purely by accident this year, and it's a nice way to spend an afternoon. Google Tufte Hogpen Hill Farms for a sample of what he has there.
I'm curious what the consensus is around Lustig and his work. He seems to have impeccable credentials in medicine and nutrition. He seems forthright with the science, but I don't have the requisite biochemistry skills to evaluate it myself.

I'm don't know if he's biased or just right. I'm happy to hear a refutation of his arguments.

For those unfamiliar, here's the talk the probably gave rise his noteriety: https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM. It's long, but it's interesting.
Because news organizations are still operating under a newsprint paradigm where citations are considered a waste of ink. Like I'm not saying they actually still think about column inches, but that's how this became standard and people are still just following the standard. This is actually a good litmus test to see if a news organization has moved to the online-first mindset or not.
Can someone please explain to me why RSS still exists?
I don't think an RSS reader (for news, blogs, or podcasts) has ever provided the best experience for its medium. Isn't it time we moved on? Maybe I'm just bitter after dealing with it for Fireside, but still... there has to be a better way. Thoughts?