skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been saying the same since the WoWGlider case - they basically just made a program to give users full control over software running on their own computers. Sure, control which violated a license, but can you really write a license to take control over something someone else owns outright? If they loaned you the computer, they might have an argument, but if you own it, it seems insane.

It is ludicrous that you can't control execution on your own CPU without their permission or even simply peek and poke a byte in your own RAM... I own my hardware and I exert my rights to it every chance I get, but I break the law often in doing so. Whether it's flipping a bit to bypass that anti-VM protection, play a game with 3rd party mods needed to make it work on modern hardware or use the full capabilities of the phone I own outright. These things are all blatantly against copyright law in one or many ways, yet I engage in them daily.

Ludicrous may actually be a generous way to put it.
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They might care but I doubt they have any legal right to the word "studio". Lots of software has Studio in the name, many of which were released before VS.
...okay?
Yeah, so that may not be possible.

I have a HP laptop with a Windows 7 license key under the battery and I can only install Windows 7 from HP recovery disks.

Of course, I opted to say "fuck you" and torrented a Win7 installation disk and activator, but that is not an option most of the time.
If I am going into kitchen during the commercial break then am I breaking the law?
Good catch. Here's what Google says:
"Since this initial release is a preview, you may want to download and run an additional copy of Android Studio in parallel with your current version."
Recently when visiting Norway I found them everywhere, and they were brilliant. Extra information, links to facilities, just everything.

In the UK they are here and there in a half-hearted and desultory fashion. When they are on something that looks interesting I scan them, and about half the time they lead to useful things, the rest of the time it just duplicates stuff already there.

As with so many other things, the technology is divorced from everyday design. The designers of the visuals don't know what to do with a QR code, and the people who do know what's possible aren't involved in the design of the objects we see. Complete disconnect, and so the technology - which could see so much imaginative use - languishes.
Getting 404 errors on some of the files. Just FYI. The "refactoring to hashes" one specifically did that for me.
A malicious employee can simply send the code to the competitor. There is no need to set up an account that is controlled by the competitor to evade access protections.
Yes, I've heard this is true in some non-US locations. In the US, you generally only need to worry about eggs and fish sauce, or beef/chicken broth in soups, and I've rarely (maybe never) had trouble getting a vegetarian or vegan meal in a Chinese restaurant anywhere in the US, Canada, or Mexico. I do often ask for clarification about whether a dish has fish sauce or eggs, and if I can get it prepared without, but I've never had a dish appear with shrimp that didn't advertise it had shrimp; given the price of seafood in the US, restaurants like to brag when a dish has seafood in it. I also never order soups at unfamiliar restaurants unless they are explicitly labeled as vegetarian or vegan.

Thai and Vietnamese restaurants are more likely to have fish sauce in almost everything, though they're usually happy to make a vegetarian version. Korean restaurants seem tricky, as there's almost never anything vegan on the menu, but bibimbop can be ordered without meat or egg, even if they don't offer a tofu version. But, none are as consistently easy to order from as Chinese.

I've been told that when traveling abroad, in some regions in Asia (including some parts of India), saying, "I'm Buddhist" will help the wait staff and chef understand what you mean when you say "vegetarian". I don't know exactly where or whether this is entirely accurate, since millions of Chinese are Buddhist and not vegetarian. I've never used this one weird trick for getting an actual vegetarian meal, but I've heard it from a few older vegetarians who have traveled a lot.
So, HN, this looks like really fun and interesting stuff to work on. Any ideas on how a normal developer with a CS background can get into something like this? Either working for this company, or one like it... Or hobby projects that are within a normal person's budget.

Let me know if I should elaborate further and make an Ask HN out of this?
I don't keep asking for advice from those kinds of doctors.
If your bank sends you a credit card contract and you don't sign it but their broken system lets you use their service anyway, are you liable for the terms of that contract?
How far can you take that? Can a spammer put up a TOS claiming that by accessing their site you are agreeing to host their botnet?
Why? It is good code.
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He doesn't know that he has circumvented it, it is never shown to him.
Yes, like Candy.
There's really no reason to, you know, for the transcription to include every filler word and little, you know, rewording. In fact, it makes the, I think it makes it really hard to read.
Apples and oranges. You're describing a platform where it's considered acceptable for programs to block on IO and jump through hoops in rare cases where that's absolutely not ok. A set of assumptions that maybe still made sense 30 years ago, and also a leaky abstraction, but one we've become accustom to working around.

If you want that in JavaScript, you can have it; promises were created on the assumption that asynchronous logic is desirable as a matter of course.
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Different Adblockers work in different ways, some block based on size/shape of images (IAB standards) but the most prevalent method is regex'd URL identification to known ad+tracking sites.
Matt's post about the same topic: http://ma.tt/2015/11/dance-to-calypso/
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> By this token, could we not go after Oracle or Mozilla for facilitating the breach of contract in maintaining JavaScript (a language then used to break the contract)?

Excellent point, I think what we may see is that adblocker are perfectly legal, but those lists of ad sites to block, not so much.

Ad blockers with tor, bittorrent and rss capabilities coming soon may be headed our way soon.
I find it more significant that this wasn't any sort of natural demographic shift because of jobs or anything else, but a direct result of the federal refugee resettlement program. Some distant government agency sat down and essentially worked out a plan that they knew (or should have known) would make Muslims a majority in a previously massively Catholic-majority city. That has massive political and social ramifications, both at the cause and effect level. Why isn't that the story?
No, Enterprise is per seat. x1024 is probably frustrated with paid accounts on github.com.
If you want to control your network requests, then don't agree to a contract that gives up such rights.
You're right that it's certainly within the financial means of anyone to run a web server; "class mobility" is not terribly difficult here. The problem is, as you state, that virtually nobody wants to have to administrate a server!

In-home devices which accept connections are not relevant as they are inaccessible without giving your home network a well-known name. Any device which is not accessible from the Internet at large is not meaningfully a part of the Internet--it's simply on a network. Of course, you can set up port forwarding and buy a domain so you can access these devices from the Internet, but that fundamentally changes the situation. This is really the important distinction here: "servers" have known names and addresses on the Internet and "clients" do not.

When you want to communicate with your friends, you do it by name or address; in the current model of the Internet as something 99% of people access via 3g on phones (with all kinds of network-side firewalling) or via their home router's dynamic IP and NAT, most users do not have any well-known address. The only way they can find their friends is by coordinating to both use some third party site. This is what it means for the current architecture of the web to encourage centralization: the most efficient way to let everyone find all their friends is for everyone to congregate at the same third-party location, i.e. Facebook.

We haven't moved away from that because the decentralized alternatives have tended to suck, requiring running your own server all the time at a fixed address; actual progress would involve eliminating servers entirely and replacing DNS with a distributed name-lookup service that's actually designed for this use-case, and then having your mutual friends play the role of mailservers when you and your peer are playing phone-tag and not simultaneously online.
> The President is not a dictator, but the United States does subscribe to the unitary executive theory (especially as of the past few decades) in a way no other country of similar organization really does, to the best of my knowledge.

The unitary executive theory is a theory about the structure of power within the executive branch (not the scope of executive branch power) under the US Constitution, so its not even a theory which applies to any other country, nor is it relevant to the relative balance of power between the executie and other branches (except insofar as strong versions of it restrict the legislatives branches ability to create final authority other than President elsewhere in the executive branch, but that's rarely relevant, one way or the other, to the President's ability to keep substantive campaign promises.)

> Then there's the observation that a lot of voters certainly seem to want the President to be a dictator

The things you point to to support this seem more like people acting like the President actually has the power of a dictator than actually wanting the President to be a dictator. (And, in the case of defining eras, seems more like "Presidents are convenient simple symbols" than anything having to do with dictatorships; this is more related to the ceremonial chief of state role than the substantive head of government role, the US system just happens to unite them in one person rather than having a separate King/President for the first and Prime Minister/Chancellor for the second.)
The tool is really well done and impressive. Yes, it exists to work around gaps in GitHub's functionality, but it's not like we're going to self host git repos and use gitolite...
Ugh. But yes. That should work perfectly well.
Hi smackfu. So one wonderful virtue of this technology is that it can handle messes quite gracefully. Part of the fun is to see that it can learn to stay on topic - to decide it's talking about a raspberry beer and continue to talk about rapberries. As far as fruit vegetable beer being a catch-all category, that's only within fruit beers. They're certainly distinct from IPAs, stouts, porters and lagers. Interstingly, for classification, far the hardest categories to disambiguate are Porters and Stouts (probably because stouts really are "stout porters").

Our goal was to pick a few categories would allow us to evaluate the capabilities of the model. Thus having some that are crystal clear and others heterogeneous was appropriate. Regarding American Adjunct Lagers being low rated, yes the lagers are frequently described as "piss", "watery", and "urine".
Generally, yes, if you knew it existed.
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sync.pools aka buffer pools.

this puts lots of back pressure on GC trading bursts of speed for a more noticeable pause at a later time bc of the pause-the-world style GC. I'd love to see if this is still the case with the GC improvements in Go 1.5+. One solution is to manually load balance your web services to switch seamlessly between GC pauses (stagnated gc), without this it's almost unusable in real time applications.
> do that bad thing anyways.

It's a bit of a moralist jugdment.

You can argue advertising companies are breaking the law as well. (Privacy, malware distribution, ads for gambling, no clear sepration between ads and content...)
Video of announcement during Android Dev Summit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYin_N6xXxQ&feature=youtu.be

Skip to ~1:00:00
Seriously, why do these technology companies do this?!?
> Oh and the human being does all of this while being powered on tuna sandwiches.

and water and balanced nutrition and oxygen and a very narrow temperature operating range and a very short hibernate mode (cannot really go without water/food for an extended time) and have to sleep every day and sensitive to radiation and cannot operate in low pressure and need to defecate and urinate etc.

A drone/robot can be run on solar power. If there isn't enough energy it can go into hibernate mode for months. And you also have to take into account that a manned mission is planned for something like 2030. Robotics is such a rapidly evolving field that by then they will be so much more sophisticated than today.

Don't get me wrong. I think sending people to Mars will be awesome and inspiring. But I think it wouldn't be a rational decision.
Take away ad blockers and I will start pirating news. That is, extract and redistribute without ads.

I'm already tempted to start doing it. Even with noscript and adblocker plus the news sites are annoying to deal with.
Crew death and illness would represent a serious threat to the mission, especially when it is coupled with damage to the various machines. This is likely to be much more of an issue with such long duration away from earth.
Without a license, there's nothing giving you the right to visit a website, because the copyright law says so. Legally speaking, you either agree to whatever license the website has in place, or you've got no right to view its content.
Of course, such a license cannot have provisions that conflict with copyright or contract law and so doctrines like the fair use applies, etc.

Of course, you could say that you can't read any license, or any privacy policy and you can't observe any unwanted behavior without first loading that website. But then again, people could build and use an extension that blocks websites and warns people of unwanted characteristics. But that's not what people are doing.

> Second, Blizzard game bots use a part of the company's codebase, where the ad blocker works solely in my own browser. They do not rely on proprietary code that belongs to someone else.

That's a weak argument. Blizzard games do not run directly over hardware, but on top of an operating system that exposes high level APIs, such as DirectX or OpenGL, being in many ways just as high-level as the browser is.
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Adblockers have specific rules for specific websites. In fact, adblock plus even has a special rule set to bypass blocks set up by websites to stop adblock users.
Like Saga, you mean? I don't recall any cases around the word Candy, but The Banner Saga got hit.
All this absurd hand-wringing about adblockers would be very easily addressed if content providers would, collectively just offer paid subscription options. Say, a Spotify Premium for the written word.

I don't like ads, and I'm willing to pay to not see them. But nobody seems to want to take my money.
I think that many people on both sides of the game have become a bit too too cocky.
> Bottom line: There isn't convenient, modern, fast, open-source method for cross-platform development.

React Native
The idea is that given everyone has a relatively unique gut biome a "healthy" plant (or other food) might cause a huge unhealthy spike in blood sugar and tendency towards less healthy gut bacteria. Its very interesting to think about the implications though.
confirmed on my laptop too.

nice reddit
https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3twmfv/dell_ship...

including examples of people using it to mitm https connections.
That is the purpose of this cookie consent banner ublock removes too!!!
This isn't quite right.
It varies, but in general, if you continue to use the site, knowing such a TOS exists, you may be bound by it (you may not, it depends on the terms, etc).

You would get a pass on "the first time you accessed the web site", not "every time you did it afterwards knowing there was a TOS".

This all assumes you noticed it exists. There is another question of "can i be bound by the TOS if i didn't ever know it existed" vs "can i be bound by a TOS if i didn't bother to read and assent to the terms explicitly". The answer to the first is "mostly no" the answer to the second is "mostly yes" (but again, depends on the terms of the TOS).

This is what actual precedent is, anyway ;)
The next question that gets asked is basically "what if i just lie and said i never noticed it, what do they have to prove", and the answer is "if you are willing to lie, this is a worthless discussion to have".
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It was a local app, not remote. Even if I concende that it was remote, what about a wallhack for counterstrike? Should that be legal since it has zero server effect?
I would of done Swift with Sails. It would of been a great pun on Ruby on Rails.
Sounds good, although I've never agreed to or even seen such a contract, and I don't know anyone who has.
Despite the downvotes, you are absolutely correct. My feeling, after working on a moderately complex server application in Node is that it was designed for only very simple applications that can be done with one level of callback. I find the "it works this way because its better" cult quite irritating. It works that way because the #*(^#$&^ JS interpreter isn't multithreaded.
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I thought I was the only one think along these lines. This field has incredible potential...I honestly think there is an Intel-level (or greater) company waiting to be built out of this line of research.
It seems like a lot of otherwise ok or fun activities could create the risk of a harmful social effect.

For example I like outdoor sports like kayaking or climbing. If I am killed or seriously injured doing so, it will harm society in a variety of ways--my insurance companies will impose the cost of my care on others, if I can't work then overall economic productivity is reduced, if I'm permanently disabled then Social Security will have to pay for my care, if I die or can't earn a living then my family might need various government aid programs.

Now you might say that these are not really harms, because they are planned for in advance. Insurance companies and government programs employ statisticians to help predict costs and set their rates accordingly. But the same is true of addictive drug use--not everyone will choose to use addictive drugs, and private and government programs can use statistics to predict the level of treatment and assistance they will need to provide.

Or you might say that you're only thinking of direct physical harm, like a drunk driver killing people who are themselves acting responsibly. But there's a difference between regulating the use of dangerous equipment under the influence, and regulating drug availability in general. For adults, alcohol is generally available with little restriction. So the question is, why not other drugs, too?

It seems like the more that we create shared services to help each other out, the more that individual risks become accountable as risks to society, and therefore create opportunities to regulate behavior.

It sure would be nice to have some sort of consistent framework for what gets outlawed and what does not. Right now we have ridiculous situations like: cigarettes are legal but demonized, pot is illegal but tolerated, and alcohol is legal and celebrated, despite being in many ways more dangerous than cigarettes or pot.

And this does not even get into the nascent social battles over food, nutrition, and weight. Which is worse for society, a high-functioning cocaine addict, or an obese person on Medicare who does not manage their diabetes properly? Is drug-testing welfare recipients a means of practical program management, or an offensive intrusion into personal decisions?
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You have no idea how cheating in games works. They dont touch the exe, they touch the memory. You can not stop game hacks with any first strike system, Its 100% reaction based, like anti virus software.
Along with the X-I-DONT-WANT-YOUR-APP-THANKS header ? I'm not actually joking, our protocols could embed many more use-cases than they currently do.
What is the difference between "Promise" and "Future"?

From what I read, it is basically the same thing.
Stupid Cisco blocked this site on my corp network, due to "pornography", assuming due to "lolita" in URL.
it is a canary build

right now I can't get the android build plugin 2 alpha (needed for instant run). It will probably be released in a few moments
That's interesting thanks for that. I wonder if someone could put together a product that would just sit on the network and do the same thing unattended 24x7 that didn't have to be installed as an extension.
Seems like natural selection would take care of this sort of thing quickly enough...
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No idea how to get into this on the company side. Apparently hey use Robotics Operating System (ROS) quite extensively, so you could learn about that (http://www.ros.org/)

On the hobby side, check out farmbot http://farmbot.io/
Not innately. However, protectionism strongly encourages modeling the economy in adversarial and conservationist (status quo-preserving) terms. It's the same logic that people use when talking about how immigrants are crowding them out of the labor market. There's a kernel of truth, but taken too far it becomes destructive to pursue.

The end result of protectionism taken to its conclusion is autarky, which has some highly notable and horrible failures, especially in more contemporary times. The protectionist agent is, of course, the state. And contrary to many social critics who shriek of "market failures," there are also corresponding government failures that are often far more disastrous, as public choice theorists have written on the subject, for instance. This along with the problems of state power that we all know too well.

Autarkies necessarily have high levels of central planning that lead to such issues as undersupply, allocative inefficiencies from distorted signaling, more frequent rationing, shortages incurred by price controls and high amounts of idle or unproductive labor with possible frantic/erratic production cycles ("employed unemployment").
It's probably difficult to convey the scope of Stack Overflow's development in the span of a talk; I strongly encourage you to read the blogs of past and current developers, as they often go into far more detail about the concerns involved and the extreme care taken. The architecture itself is interesting, but IMHO it pales in comparison to the process that created it.
If you write a huge javascript library and started selling it, then someone stole it and released it for free- you would issue a DMCA because you own that code. Just because its HTML doesnt make it 'not free'
Do you know what improvements this build has for android NDK? Last time I checked the Gradle build plugin for NDK was still experimental and there were a lot of hacks to build and to package native libs into apk file.
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