skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the New Yorker had used the term uncritically then I would agree with you. But they didn't, they carefully laid out why the term isn't clearly defined and hence why it isn't in common use among professionals. That's exactly what I would hope any publication would do when a term has currency in the news but the reading public might not know why it's a flawed term.
Income Inequality Makes Whole Countries Less Happy
Show HN: Every conversation you ever had on Facebook (that you can Cmd+F)
it's cool that you are brave enough to voice and form an opinion on literature at such a young age. that sort of confidence will be an asset in your future, especially in college discussion classes. but one word of caution, if you're going to bash works that are considered masterpieces by many literary experts, then you should make sure you can hold your own against them. otherwise, stick to praising the parts you like, and focus less on the parts you hate. know thyself.
This map's default setting of a +7 meter rise would be reached in the year 4348 if sea levels continue to rise at the current rate.

(You can get current and historical sea height satellite data from http://sealevel.colorado.edu/)
Start-up Airly aims to disrupt how you fly from Sydney to Melbourne
Tbh, even if PIA is a giant honeypot, if you use public wifi and pay with a gift card you purchased with cash...it doesn't really matter in any substantial way unless they are willing to put boots on the ground to find you.

If they are willing to do that, even TOR isn't real protection due to the fact it can and will be breached in the event of an active attack by malicious nodes on both ends of the circuit.

A VPN you can buy relatively anonymously [e.g. disposable gift cards bought with cash] and use with common sense [e.g. Not via your home LAN] are an effective privacy tool.

However, 99% of people aren't going to go through that level of effort which makes them nearly useless for privacy purposes.
My experience is that the labor involved in maintaining an AWS setup is typically far higher than the labor involved in maintaining a system on leased hardware or managed hosting, because you still need to deal with the fallout of most types of failures, but without insight into what's going on below the hood or ability to set up a system geared specifically towards your workload.
In my particular case, the postmaster is part of the problem, and doesn't really care too much about anything but the policy, even when it means mail is being refused delivery. The oversight office complains that this branch doesn't pick up the phones - and places where they are asked to contact you about a problem, they do not. So yeah, depends totally on the branch, but they seem to know they have immunity.

I have very good luck with UPS. And again, I think that depends on the driver/route/branch/etc.

I used to use DVD service a lot at my old address and it was great, I wouldn't attempt it right now.
As far as Canada goes, the winters in Calgary are pretty nice. I've lived in the Yukon, Nova Scotia and I grew up in the lower mainland of BC, but I'm in Calgary now and have been for a couple of years. Definitely prefer it here.

There's little snow, and we get tons of sunshine. When it does get cold, it's dry, so it doesn't feel as bad as a warmer temp on the coasts. You get reprieves in the form of chinooks too, where the temperature will jump up 20 degrees for a week or two. It's above freezing here today, but it was at -20C on Friday.

There is a tech scene here as well, and it's starting to get a bit more traction now that oil and gas aren't eating up all the brain power. Getty Images has offices here, and there are start-ups in and out of the energy industry. It'll be interesting to see what the city looks like in 10 years. Lots of folks are calling for it to be the next Detroit, but it doesn't really seem to be going that way.
He downloaded a large amount of articles from JSTOR. This involved setting up a laptop in a storage room in MIT, where he was not a student. MIT had to investigate it because the laptop was making a large amount of requests to JSTOR's servers and JSTOR had to block access to MIT. The rest of the story involves an overzealous federal prosecutor wanting to charge him under the CFAA to make an example of him because of Aaron's "Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto". JSTOR also claimed that Aaron cost them an overinflated sum of damages, but was not interested in prosecution after Aaron agreed to delete the acquired documents. MIT adopted a policy of neutrality in the matter, contrary to its spirit of hacking, and did not speak up for Aaron's case. Hope that helps. If you want a more objective look at the case, see Wikipedia [0][1] and MIT's Report to the President [2] (which is long, but very comprehensive).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
[2]: http://swartz-report.mit.edu
Teen boy nabs funding for his parenting app
I'm from Quebec and I have to agree with you that it could easily be north america's Germany. There is a lot of very talented software developers in Montreal but a lot of them leave to get higher salaries or work for foreign companies that love the very low, government subsidized wages [1].

If the government invested all that money in small to middle sized local companies instead the province would be so much more prosperous. Right now, profits are our biggest export. Not only that but the government insists on propping up big, mismanaged companies like CAE and bombardier time and time again [2] instead of investing in startups.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/how-far-wi...
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mark-milke/bombardier-corporate...
You are saying your branch is reliable, and I'd agree, most are. There are some bad ones out there where they prefer to hide behind the system and dodge complaints, no matter how nicely brought. Basically Newman from Seinfeld is an accurate descriptor.
Some of those do show up on iter.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html

But some of the more specialized ones don't work using just iter.
But on the other hand, no iterator invalidation.
(But productivity would suffer.)
It doesn't require one, unless your group policy (or local server policy) has been set as such.
Canada already has a strong software sector and programs to support all sorts of research and development (ie - SR&ED). I can't imagine where Canada fails to nurture a software industry...
The author, Andy Boyle (not me), is a writer, comedian, and web developer.

http://andyboyle.com/
A retrospect on design – some terrible and some not so terrible
Curious what you see out there that's higher performance and lower cost than AWS? In my experience it's been a great fit for small apps all the way up to large complicated applications at scale - and once your infrastructure is large enough you're buying reserved instances anyway at anywhere between a 33% and 70% discount.
RDP solves problems way outside that use case. The upcoming ssh native ssh server looks nice, but RDP exists for working with GUI applications. Windows' rasion d'etre is, well, Windowed applications as a alterntive to the command line stuff that ruled in the 1980s in business, so its no surprise that even its server end is largely graphical, at least from a legacy perspective. MS is pushing powershell admin tools very hard in its own products and encouraging other vendors to do so.

From the CLI, I get by with psexec and the standard windows command line tools, many of which are fairly powerful and "good enough" for Windows administration even before ps existed. I manage roughly 100 windows PCs this way without issue. Group Policy is also hard to beat. 90% of our administration is done just with GPO's. The PCs and servers are automatically configured from soup to nuts once they join the domain. Changes are trivial to make and percolate to all systems. Its actually quite pleasant.

In the linux world, this is all a PITA as the CLI doesn't really help with with Windowed userland issues (firefox looks funny, cant click on something, etc). NX helps but generally we just used third-party remote stuff. VNC is a massive security hole that should never be used. Nowadays, this isn't even a concern as the linux desktop is pretty dead in my industry. OSX ate whatever goodwill it had for most.
Currently in the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10887825
just like free speech and unreasonable search amendments.
The problem is that the gov. subsidizes big, foreign companies that export most of their profits. If only this talent was invested in local companies that reinvested the profits locally.
In the title:

> (Part 2)

Here is part 1:

> http://engineroom.trackmaven.com/blog/getting-started-drf-an...

And at the end of the article:

> A lot was covered in this post so this is a great point to end on. Look for the next post soon, covering API endpoint creation, including views, serializers, and URL routing for the Retail application.
I didn't think I'd see an article like this on HN of all places. But yeah, jazz, r&b, and rock are musical cousins and often borrow from each other.

There was a discussion on /r/jazz on "Do average people (non-jazz fans) realize that jazz is improvisational?" And one answer is that average people don't realize how nuch improvisation is in music in general. The great rock guitarists often played improvised riffs and solos.
Or maybe Intel really has hit a thermal limit, rather than hatching a conspiracy against consumers?

(Not saying 10+GHz is necessarily impossible, just that it's more likely hitting it is hard than Intel doesn't want to innovate there for some reason.)
Wifi Password Hack Software 2016 Keygen for (Mac+Win) Free
Excellent explanation, but I think it's missing a simple point yummybear may not know: "transistors" are the unit with which we build logic on processors. More transistors means more logic on the chip. More logic on the chip means you can do more. For a long time "do more" meant "execute a single stream of instructions faster", but that hit a wall because of the reasons vidarh explained. Now "do more" tends to mean "execute multiple streams of instructions".
Deepin OS
Germany’s CrowdPatent allows anyone to invest in patents
This is how it has to be. This short sighted race to the bottom will not benefit anybody in the long run.

I have no sympathy for big multinationals which make a bucket load of money but still shopping around the world to get even less taxes.

It is really just a variation of big multinationals going to corrupt 3rd world countries and getting an unreasonable sweet deal from a dictator. When the dictator is thrown out and a democratic government gets in charge, the multinationals cry that their previous deal is renegaded.

The point is that any multinational has to take into consideration what it is reasonable to expect. If a deal is too sweet to be expected to last you don't get into it and start crying about it being revoked later.
That's not my experience, it insists and refuses to connect.

Edit: I'm not sure who downvoted me, what do you want me to post a screencast to prove it? Do you think I'm making this up or what?
Your startup is worth whatever it is worth to the buyer. This is a serious statement.

Unlike S&P stocks, a small startup does not have many buyers looking into your valuation. What one buyer is willing to pay will vary widely from another.

A prospective buyer will consider things besides your revenue history. Such as operation risk, potential synergy, possible changes for growth, if you are a competitor, etc. Then there is their own financial situation, and the form you are willing to take payment (like stock vs. cash).

As a poor example, if I were to buy your site, I'd take your profit and discount taxes I would owe plus some salary for my time to upkeep it (another buyer could be more or less depending on their resources). So the profit would be down to say 80k.

From there, I note that there virtually is no growth in revenue despite the growth in pageviews. Assuming no way to fix the CPM, my worry would be whether I could get my money back, especially if there could be a real estate peak.

So average Joe like me might be willing to pay a paltry 1-3x multiple of profit* (and mostly because I don't have much money to risk). A collector of web businesses might go up to 5x, as a guess, more if there is growth.

The best companies in the world (like S&P companies) fetch anywhere between 10x to 20x+ so it's highly unlikely you get that without exploding growth.

* By profit I mean after taxes and the acquirer's expenses.
This is very cool. There are probably a whole bunch of commercial applications, voices in video games is one that jumps to mind immediately.
It's designed to make you watch something now and does make it harder to explore something, read reviews, and so on, or just add it to your queue than it used to.

Kind of a trend I detect with "let's overhaul what's not broken and try to streamline it and make it shiny" when it makes the overall experience somewhat worse.

Someone really wanted to push the "watch what we already have on the front page from your browser" thing, it seems.
Better Earth – Using GitHub and its users to solve Earth problems
Is It Really Big Brother? In-Store Analytics
Yes, "PIA is probably a massive honeypot" is equivalent to "more likely than not, PIA is a massive honeypot." I don't think you mean that since you followed it with "for all we know."
Have you seen the new Apple TV Remote? I haven't done a lot with it, but it's got a touch pad on it for gestures. Maybe these remote / trackpad devices would do the trick.
A small step to growing intelligent pigs? Put a human brain in one?
That's not what I've seen. No policy has been changed on my Windows Server, Windows 7 and prior RDP clients connect fine, Windows 10 clients refuse because of lack of certificate.
http://convertcsv.com - In 2015, I averaged $650/month by using google ads.The site converts delimited (CSV,TSV,...) data to and from different formats (JSON,SQL,HTML,..). It was written in HTML/Javascript and I average about 4 hours a month supporting it.
Story of Digital Teddy Bear Shows How Colleges Are Becoming Startup Farms
I think you've misunderstood the original intent as expressed by Larry Wall in 2000, the current situation, and the future intent and practical realities.

For the original intent I'll quote Larry from the day he announced Perl 6 in 2000[1]:

"I don't know how strict a spec it will be from the language design point of view. I'm not really big on that sort of spec and there is some value to using the reference implementation approach and what we currently have is a reference implementation [with] no second implementation, well, unless you count the JVM work, but, obviously there are benefits to having things justified well enough that you could implement another one even if you didn't want to, so we'll definitely be working in that direction and - do you have something? And there was something else I was going to say - what we particularly want to stress in terms of - is not perhaps so much the spec as developing our current regression test. Well, we call them regression tests, but they're almost more acceptance tests, but, we developed our acceptance into real regression tests then you'd further develop the real regression tests into a validation test of what the language actually means and actually go out and explore all the nooks and crannies and say, "This is Perl, this is not Perl," and then we actually have a machine-readable spec. And to me that's actually a lot more important than what the verbiage on the human readable thing says."

I think the 6.Christmas release corresponds fairly directly to this original intent.

In the meantime the spec docs (as against the spec test suite), which are currently referred to as either "speculations" or "design docs" to better emphasize their contemporary role, are currently well behind the test suite and implementation. This is presumably what caught your attention.

The current thinking is that Perl 6 will follow the pattern adopted by many other mainstream languages in terms of the timing of development and publication of a relatively formal and debugged prose specification.[2]

This thinking in turn suggests it would be best if the spec docs caught up with the spec test suite and Rakudo and were then polished and formally published in a frozen form, some years from now.

At that point making a significant effort to provide practical support for alternate compiler implementations ought once again become compelling.

[1] http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html

[2] http://pmichaud.com/2015/pres/fosdem-specs/fosdem-specs-1.pd...
That's why I like Synology for a home NAS: you can just add/replace drives with a larger one any time you like, and the Synology box sorts it out.
Worrying legislation in progress in France
Yeah. I don't particularly like the guy, but it's not like he stopped being Milo Yiannopoulos (sadly).
Open source alternative to Yubikey (but with some features missing, such as NFC): https://www.nitrokey.com/
The problem of Lisp is the side-effecting nature of it. There's nothing complex in metaprogramming, if you do it in pure setting. The problems arise when you combine two differently side-effecting pieces of software and Lisp does nothing to prevent that or help there.

I won't stop repeat that mantra that side effects and program state are an implicit information channel in a program. This channel is shared by many parts (or parties) inside program and it has some specific implicitly specified protocol of use. Add a piece of software that uses the channel with slightly different protocol as assumption, get ready for all sorts of problems.
Show HN: Backand – AngularJS Back end
The only real evidence they give about not using VPN's is when hidemyass proxy gave up some Anon's in 2011.

Yeah, and you have no evidence that I don't have a nice bridge to sell you, so will you buy it?

Trusting by default and requiring evidence to distrust is a poor way to protect your privacy. VPNs - unlike Tor, for example - have no protection against logging by the operators, so why would one trust them? Because they pinky swear they won't log?
Announcing VLC for Apple TV
Even the way we do provincial transfer payments is sane. While one
industry is booming (Oil, manufacturing, tech) other "have not"
provinces get payments through the federal government. This brings
a measure of stability to the system.

Yes and no, the resource-heavy provinces have been working hard for natural-resource carve-outs and natural resource revenues get a 50% haircut going in anyway.

Any rational economist can say that Canada went all-in on oil because that is exactly what it did. A prolonged stretch of an inflated loonie has resulted in a long-term reduction in manufacturing capacity which means that the country is not poised to take proper advantage of the decline in the dollar that has now occurred. Instead there will be a ramping-up period where productivity is lost.
I recall, perhaps mistakenly, that there use to be a big buzz in the 90's about having Java as a desktop OS.
Totally agree and government could have a big role here. A majority of government budget goes to healthcare; they need innovation to improve. Why not throw some money to Canadian biotech companies?
There is a lot of pessimism about AWS in here. Does anyone have a link to a similar article from the roll-your-own perspective? I am comfortable writing small Python web apps (i.e. running on a single instance with SQL server on the same box), but scaling on my own is a mystery to me at this point.
I'm really excited about this.
If facebook is able to use it in production, then Haskell is no longer an academic language. I would tell my boss that we can use Haskell because facebook is using it:)

BTW, the stackage project have resolved a big problem (Cabel hell) in Haskell ecosystem, and I start to use haskell again.
Cryptostorm (I love these guys) refuse to answer how they are in legal compliance with Canadian laws, which require VPN's to keep logs (they're Canadian fyi).

Best case scenario: They're an illegal operation who's defying local laws.

Worse case scenario: We're being lied too.
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Unfortunately, property tax law in California does the exact opposite. The tax can't be higher than 1% of the assessed value of the house, and that assessment can't go up by more than 2% every year as long as the house isn't sold. So the people who have been living in the neighborhood the longest and complain the most about "neighborhood character" also pay much less property tax than their neighbors. And by "much less" I mean 10-20 times less in some cases, given how much property values have gone up over the past 40 or so years.
Stop wanting things and start having them instead
I'm particularly sad about the evolution of the word "troll" to mean "anything someone else doesn't like".

The idea of "flamebait" has also completely disappeared, and we've lost the ability to roll our eyes at it.
Zurich- and Berlin-based insurance startup FinanceFox raises $5.5M
A Few Keystrokes Could Solve the Crime. Would You Press Enter?
There's actually an account on Medium - AWSActivate which publishes a lot of useful stuff like this. Check it out - https://medium.com/@awsactivate
DJI F550 Hexacopter crash after flight above the clouds
They connect to the ODB port to monitor speed, and braking.

From Progressive's site:
What information does the device collect?
The Snapshot device collects information about how you drive, how much you drive and when you drive. It also collects your vehicle identification number and triggers an email to you if it comes unplugged. Some devices collect location data: this is only for research and development purposes—we don't use it to calculate your rate.
> Users > 1,000,000+

[...]

> Put caching in front of the DB

Isn't that a little late?
You can use Yubico OTP as you 2 Factor for SSH. As far as I know you can not use U2F as a 2 Factor over SSH because it needs support from OpenSSH (or whatever). A patch does exist, however, it is not yet upstream (any information on this welcome).

However in the absence of U2F, you can still use Yubico OTP (HOTP) or you can use your yubikey together with your smartphone for TOTP. I think its a bad idea to use your smartphone as a 2Factor. However, if you combine your smartphone with your yubikey (download "Yubikey Authenticator") you can use your smartphone simply as a time provider.

This has the added benefit that if you lose your phone, you can use any other phone/table to do the authentication. Google Authenticator does not support that feature, and Authy Cloud-based solutions are not for everybody.

I use my Yubikey in all 3 different ways. I use Yubykey+Smartphone if I have no other options. Yubykey as U2F were I can (Dropbox, Github, Google) and Yubikey OTP (HOTP) for some services that support that instead of U2F.

Additionally you can use the Yubikey to decrypt your harddrive with HMAC or Static Password.

I really hope OpenSSH (and everybody else) will support U2F soon, its so much better then bothering with the smartphone and typing stuff into your computer.

> https://github.com/Yubico/pam-u2f/issues/12

> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2319