skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when Lessig argued Eldred v Ashcroft before the Supreme Court, the argument went something like: the Constitution states that copyrights are to be granted for a "limited time"; if Congress can pass an unlimited number of finite extensions to the copyright period, this flouts the original meaning and is unconstitutional. alas, the majority bought into the government's argument that this most recent extension was (again) to bring US law in "harmonization" with EU law, and was so permitted.

BUT, iirc, there was some grumbling along the lines of "if they try this again, Lessig's argument will carry more weight".

so it will be interesting to see what happens next time around.
I keep hearing this but the one time I went to the tmobile store for the supposedly cheaper offering, the price was exactly the same as what I get from ATT with less coverage.
Want to be a sex toy tester?
Interesting. I doubt this can be used as a development environment yet though.
It would be great if moderator's actually came out and policed government clap trap accounts. But my experience is mods allow government sock puppet and ban any those who criticize government.
I wouldn't take that quote too seriously. If you read the doc where those quotes came from, it's clear the traders are joking around. They would have done it for favors anyway, no coffee needed.

Source here, with some example quotes below: http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr6510-13

December 4, 2008: (RBS Order p. 25-26.)

Swiss Franc Trader: can u put 6m swiss libor in low pls?

Primary Submitter: NO

Swiss Franc Trader: should have pushed the door harder

Primary Submitter: Whats it worth

Swiss Franc Trader: ive got some sushi rolls from yesterday?

[…]

Primary Submitter: ok low 6m , just for u

Swiss Franc Trader: wooooooohooooooo[,] 0.01%? thatd be awesome

Primary Submitter: 1.33

Swiss Franc Trader: perfect[.] u r a nice man

May 5, 2009: (RBS Order p. 27.)

Swiss Franc Trader: can we get high 3m, low 6m pls!

Primary Submitter: maybe

Swiss Franc Trader: PPPPLLLLLEEEEEAAAAASSSSEEEEEE

Primary Submitter: ok 41 52

Swiss Franc Trader: perfect perfect

May 14, 2009: (RBS Order p. 28-29.)

Swiss Franc Trader: [Primary Submitter] pls can we get super high 3m[,] super low 6m

Swiss Franc Trader: PRETTY PLEASE!

Primary Submitter: 41 & 51

Swiss Franc Trader: if u did that[,] i would lvoe [sic] u forever

Primary Submitter: 41 & 55 then …

Swiss Franc Trader: if u did that i would come over there and make love to you[,] your choice

Primary Submitter: 41+51 it is

Swiss Franc Trader: thouht [sic] so

Primary Submitter: so shallow
Very handy, but this page could do with a proper CC licence rather than the vague "feel free but don't" statement. I'm currently on mobile & the links don't appear to be working properly, so please correct me if there actually is a licence and I just can't see it.
Founder of http://InterviewKickstart.com here.

I like leetcode and hackerrank too. Though we don't use their problems, we do ask our candidates to get additional practice there. Some solutions are very good there, though they can be cryptic to understand.

The only issue with these competitive programming-like sites for interview-prep, is that they encourage final perfect code and execution speed. That's often not the goal of an interview. The first goal of an interview is to express your thought process, in a limited time. So if you're only doing leetcode, and are doing well there (e.g. you can solve medium to hard problems without much agony), then you should follow your practice with a few mock interviews with practicing engineers.
Excellent suggestions, thank you!

Just to note, really didn't use producthunt as an inspiration. Simply tried to make a "blob" with the letter P in it. Not sure how the colors are similar?
How about each subsequent renewal renews for less time and cost more. That way people keep moving forward and innovating, instead of beating all the life out of one thing.
Keep Your Clients Happy as You Build Your Team
So you're saying to use Snapchat well you need to have a bookmarked link to the Wiki available at all times?
People are so disenfranchised with their current providers that they will take the "underdogs" word at face value without doing any research to back it up.
Isn't RemixOS required to release their source code?

It's based on open source Android (incl GNU GPL parts) and yet doesn't publish the code. They shrug off such questions in their official forum.
Eternity II puzzle - A $2 million prize was offered
I don't feel it's actually meant to replace agile. It's meant to be a supplement to help PMs get market feedback throughout the development process. Think of it as a way to do canary launches, get feedback from production environment, and control feature visibility based on performance.
I was right with you until the hashtag.
Can totally understand where you're coming from, but finding and recognizing your agency amidst all the mess and noise is kinda the beautiful thing about life.

The journey sucks a lot, but at the end of the day that's all we got, not the different destinations we traverse to and from.
CMix: Anonymization ByHigh-Performance Scalable Mixing [pdf]
Could that reported average be cap-weighted? It's possible that the very biggest companies have reasonable P/E ratios, but there are a large number of small stocks with crazy prices.
Facts aren't good when they disagree with my worldview.
'street fashion' in red and green /romanian „street fashion” magazine
SpoonLuv: Disrupting “Netflix n Chill”! – OkCupid Meets DoorDash
The first of its kind video chat, dinner dates. SpoonLuv is all set to marry the $2.2 billion[1] online dating market with the $9 billion[2] online food delivery market. We're about to disrupt "NetFlix n Chill"!
THE PROBLEM
One third of 45 Million people (U.S. alone) who have used online dating have never actually gone on a date with someone they met on these sites.
•FEAR OF REJECTION. •TIME CONSTRAINTS. •DIFFERING WORK SCHEDULES. •PRIOR COMMITMENTS. •SAFETY ISSUES. •LONG DISTANCES. •MOBILITY - all these lead to the second step OF A REAL LIFE MEETING, being eliminated and the potential match fizzling out.
More men than women use online dating—some 13% of men compared to 9% of women in the United States, according a Pew Research Centre study in 2013. SpoonLuv will level the playing field in this very serious disproportion in the ratio by attracting MORE women based on the following market research:
Ø Women are 73% more likely to get a response from a man if they mention “dinner,” “drinks,” or “lunch”. Ø Women are 40% more likely than men to respond to openers that are food-related. Men were most responsive when asked out directly, and particularly if those messages were assertive. Ø With online dating men make 80% of the initial contacts which only 25% were actually reciprocated.
SPOONLUV TECHNOLOGY
1. User’s signup like any other dating site. 2. A “SpoonRequest” is sent. Both users select and agree upon a time slot for their SpoonLuv date. 3. One of them orders food for both, using our preferred partners like DoorDash, GrubHub, UberEats – which is delivered to them 30 minutes before the date. MAGIC: Neither will know the others physical address. Our code masks it using Deliver Services’ API. 4. Login at the specified time and have yourself a lovely date while enjoying your favorite food and each others company at the comfort of your own house! MAGIC: State-of-the-art video conferencing.
It's a bit like saying "it's just ones and zeros".
Well for the most part because it uses what unix offers rather than ignoring it.

The basic problem with most package managers is that they ignore the soname mechanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soname

This allows multiple versions of a lib to live side by side, while giving the binaries the version(s) they want.

package managers ignore this, and instead is hung up on getting that one "true" version everywhere. This because their basic design only allow one version pr package name. Thus you can't have ABC 1.0 and 1.1 installed at the same time. Instead you have to mangle ABC into something like ABC1 to allow 1.1 to install without removing 1.0 in the process.
http://www.SpoonLuv.com - check it out.
P.S. Not designed for phones. Best viewed in a web browser.
Cheers!
I just got a "Payment Service Unavailable" error. Despite this fact, I love your animations. Even my mother could understand those algorithms now :). Keep working hard this seems to be a good seed with lot of promises.
Except when a startup founder fails at their job the company is usually shut down or the acquihire leaves them with a small payout. When a startup makes it big, many of the rank and file have large payouts as well.

American CEOs get paid obscenely cartoonishly evil amounts of money for running companies into the ground. Even when the company does really well and they get massive stock grants, the rank and file get nothing.
CryptoppECC-Encryption/Decryption using ECC for iOS and MacOS X
I would have run the company into the ground for as little as ten million.
Disney is massively protective of its characters, especially what it calls the "core characters". Even Disney-authorized travel agents are told that they can never, I mean never, display an image of Mickey or Minnie Mouse without prior written authorization. There are a handful of artists whom Disney has granted a license to use their characters in specially-cultivated artwork and if these artists try to post their own art that uses licensed characters on their own Facebook accounts, Disney brings out the lawyers. They are rabidly, ridiculously protective of these characters and brands because they don't want to ever risk the consumer getting sick of them or associating them with something negative.

Although Disney would continue to own the Mickey Mouse trademarks, you can probably tell that they wouldn't be fond of the potential dilutive effects that may flow from the free commerce of public domain works involving these characters. To them, Steamboat Willie going PD is the death knell not only of the Mickey Mouse cash cow, but the entire brand icon empire (without which Disney becomes little more than a mediocre theme park destination).
"The Earth" isn't being killed. Human activity (emissions of CO2, toxic metals, persistent organic toxics and so on, and deforestation, soil depletion, etc) is changing evolutionary selection parameters in myriad ways for myriad lifeforms. That is indeed unprecedented for a single species.

However, it's happened before. For example, the emergence of photosynthesis profoundly altered the atmosphere. That brought extinction for most existing species (anaerobic bacteria). But it obviously set up the game for multicellular life.

Anyway, my point is that change is normal. Maybe we humans will drive ourselves extinct. But I rather doubt that. Most other species won't be so lucky, however.
Bioenergy Plus Carbon Capture Sounds Promising, Looks Dubious
willing or eager?
Who's the mod on Twitter say? You will encounter people on there who actively choose to follow the opposite of that principle. That's what I mean by public.
>> "Now Yahoo has what?"

Yahoo finance is still pretty much best in class for free finance services. They should have run with it - maybe it's not too late and they still can.
Watch the communication - even as a seasoned developer, my first remote position lacked good communication and I ended up having to be the driver all the time, which was a weird situation for me.

There's alot of "ambient communication" that you get in an office building or cube farm that you won't get as a remote dev... So be prepared.

Other than that, do it. It's been an amazing experience (besides the communication issue) and I certainly will be doing (or atleast trying to do) remote work from here on out. :)
I've been banned from a few forums for not toeing the line on the moderator's personal agenda. It comes with the territory of discovering as you get older that other people are sometimes just crazy and you shouldn't feed the crazy.

I mean that literally. These people have mental health issues and they want you to bend over backwards to accommodate them out of a sense of guilt or something. You shouldn't do it. You're just enabling the sickness. It's like those guys who keep running out for more Twinkies even after their partner has grown so large that they can't fit through the door of the bedroom and are trapped.

If someone is claiming that your use of regular English adverbs is triggering their PTSD then they are the ones with the problem, not you.
Reminds me of Marc's Changelog. Here's a live example: http://changelog.nomadlist.com/
It's hard not to fall into the trap created by a society with "business values". Should it really be considered less successful to be someone who builds an energy-efficient building which may last for centuries? Should a simple handyman really be paid drastically less than someone with a PhD?

I'm not against differentials in salary. But I do think that our present system is completely messed up.
Hey Soham,
Just looked at Interview Kickstart. I think we can collaborate to make your curriculum visual and interactive.
Or you can even leverage Coderust for your students.

Send me an email at fahim at educative.io if you are interested in some kind of collaboration.
GNU Stow gives shell users a great way to build contained applications that can be patched into the traditional filesystem through symlinks, avoiding the uncontrollable spew of files everywhere.
A simple 'Table View Pager' for iOS which is inspired by Android's view pager
Matt has covered it in his reply which i'll second - there isn't a lot you can do. The people affected tend to talk about it, which is why you hear these stories a lot.

I've been surprised by the number of exits that are portrayed as 'successful' in the media actually left founders and employees with little or nothing after preferences.
That seems like yet another case of freedesktop/gnome/fedora finding another hammer and applying it to all the "nails".

Containers fix a problem that unix has solved for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soname

The problem is the package managers used by most distros getting hung up on there only being a single version number of each package name installed at any one time.

Sort that out, like say how Gobolinux does it, and you do not need containers.

But containers is all the rage on the web these days, so ipso facto is also must be all the rage for desktop Linux.

Back before Gnome and Freedesktop, desktop Linux was a kernel up project. But more and more these days however it is a web down.

Meaning that web people get interested in using the L in LAMP on their desktops, start looking into Gnome/KDE, then get involved in Freedesktop plumbing, and all the while bring their web-isms ("move fast and break stuff" being the most annoying) with them further down the stack.
I've always thought that there should be an option to allow the optimiser to try out different alternative plans during slack periods, in the background.
It should then compare the performance of these alternatives to the original, then "change it's mind", if it finds a faster plan.
It should use statistics to choose which plans to test, i.e. prioritise queries which are often called and which are slow.
I do think that there should be a "death penalty" for corporations. Back in the day, before the railroads etc bought off the Supreme Court, incorporation required demonstration of public benefit. Violation of corporate charter was grounds for dissolution.
3 Leg 4 Leg Mobility Walking Aids
I'm Selling My Android App
Do you have any more you can tell me about your time in China? While you were there, what were the defining aspects of the Apple users you met? Were they representative of your other middle-class friends there? When you spoke to FoxConn employees, were they really not concerned about work drying up in the future and massive lay-offs? Amongst your connections with major shareholders of production companies, did you really get the impression they wouldn't use their influence - political and otherwise - to keep major buyers able to buy? You mention Weibo - how do you see the difference in Weibo vs Twitter as a tool which has caused political change in the past?

Really excited to hear more about your experiences!
I'm trying to understand how this was overreaching. They legally had access to the server that this website was hosted on, then they simply logged the real ip addresses that visited the website once they had access to the server. By accessing the content on the server the FBI possess aren't they voluntarily giving up their IP. Even if it's inadvertent?

I don't see how they are unjustly violating someone's privacy in this situation.
I'm selling this app because I'm currently develop another project and didn't have time to update nor manage this app.

Please take a look at flippa listing
Can you try again? If it doesn't help, send us an email at support at educative.io.
I'm having trouble justifying the tradeoff between: "That's well reasoned but far too wishy washy" and "So forceful! So eloquent! Factually wrong but the way you said it completely sold it to me! Amazing!"

It's Obama vs. Trump.
They were purchased by Hudson's Bay Company, which was founded in 1670. It almost seems anachronistic to see a historical institution from the 17th century buy up a hyped tech company.

TechCrunch's front page headline for this is "Gilt Gets Acquired For $250M by Saks Fifth," which wouldn't be as interesting and isn't even accurate since Saks is just another HBC subsidiary. This is like if the East India Company bought Groupon.
Does it seed the torrent?
> people are sometimes just crazy and you shouldn't feed the crazy

Those that ban people out of forums believe they are following same principle.
Government is not too broken for tech. Here's why
Perfect, hadn't come across that before. Would love to exchange thoughts with the builder.
No mechanism to find popular users and no friend count seems like less pressure to look hip.
All of them.
about 50-50. had a few new signups in the last couple days that were very eager.
Using Lua with C++ in practice
I don't see any links. I also looked inside one of the zip file too. Nothing there about it.
Mods/submitter, can we add a (2013) to this? Post is dated March 7, 2013. Thanks!
Right, but in this case he actually said in advance that this was what he intended to do. It was the purpose of the post, not a regrettable side-effect.
Yes, because the changes they did to the library aren't compatible with static linking.

https://blogs.oracle.com/rie/entry/static_linking_where_did_...

However, that is one implementation of one compiler in one specific OS.
A large value of app sandboxes are easy but controlled ways to allow exceptions. E.g.: an app can ask the sandbox for file access, the sandbox then prompts the user to select a file and only that file is then exposed to the app.

Or even giving global access to functionality from a manifest file, without having to set up a restricted user/environment manually. (I wouldn't know without looking it up how to set up a linux user account that can't talk to the network. Or even better, only can talk to some part of the network.)
ArXiv Submission Rate Statistics
Read the first sentence:

"The Android Open Source Project uses a few open source initiative approved open source licenses for our software"

Android is based on a fork of the Linux kernel which is GNU GPL v2. RemixOS should release their code, it contains several GNU GPL parts.
Got me thinking about an article that claimed that perhaps the command line was the better one for older people.

One reason being they could go back and look at previous actions.

Another being how you could only do one thing at a time, and put other stuff on hold (and was reminded if you wanted to shut down).

The author likened the latter to putting a bill somewhere visible as a reminder to pay it.
Would be better if there were more comments in the code. A good effort, nevertheless.
That incentivizes people to explore the website/release notes to find these things, and be the first to get a new filter/lens/hologram on their story
This is also very dangerous.

Having schools that don't teach for the sake of fostering knowledge and critical thinking but rather just train you to serve in a specific industry/company would be the final blow to higher education in the US.
I used to work for a company that whose C++ string class worked like this, although not quite as intricate. Had a separate mode for statically compiled strings too. It was pretty nice, although I didn't agree with every style choice. Makes some branchy code though.

In Visual Studio debugger you can write scripts to pretty-print string variables in the "watch" window, I would guess other good debuggers can do this too.
Yes it could get into a bidding war, but it would at least be worth trying.

The most likely chance of success would be a fight for better handling of orphan works. We could free 99.9% of all material that should be coming out of copyright while having very little or no impact on the copyright mafia.
How can they run a child porn server? How is that legal?
Leader of $200M credit card fraud scheme sentenced
There is one particular restaurant scene (S2E05) in FRIENDS dealing on the same subject.
Can I run in this in a VM? That would be the easiest way for me to try this. I don't want to buy new hardware to try the OS.
Your ability to communicate is actually quite exceptional. Whatever has led you to lose faith in yourself, I assure you it should not be because you fear you lack intrinsic merit.
If you want Android, one option you can look at is using an SBC like the Odroid C1+ or XU4 which can run Android and connect to an external screen. See [1] page 6.

[1]: http://magazine.odroid.com/wp-content/uploads/ODROID-Magazin...
How does it feel to know that your product, some day, may become obsolete? I mean, you cannot deny the fact that real-time translation tools are improving a hell of a lot (you can watch some video about a demo from Microsoft already doing this through Skype). So there will be one day in which everybody will be able to communicate with everybody without learning languages at all :)
I don't know a less blunt way to say this, but the tools you use are usually not as important as the software you write. It sounds like you're more focussed on padding your resume with buzzwords. Try to work on writing an interesting application.
Downside is that you are limited to what software your distro has vetted and provides. With a strong and trusted app sandbox, I can more easily trust less-vetted software, because I can see what it can do before running it.

E.g. if it can only do file accesses outside of it's own settings folder after prompting me, I know that it has way less abilities to screw up my system.

I don't think that can replace a package manager for "complex" or "infrastructure" software, but for other things it could open the selection up. Many people already run sandboxed applications, in sandboxes called "Firefox" or "Chrome".
Reminds me of a friend of mine that when provided with a manual for how to do something "that's too complicated, please do it for me".

Meaning that "containers" just becomes a wrapper for things that can already be done, if one just learn to do it rather than pointing and drooling (as someone once referred to the GUI as).
Thanks for sharing, that was a nice read. Burning out on not just projects but with code is something that resonates with me and I'm only two years into my career! It's very kind of Red Hat to give you time off and let you switch to part time.

I'm young blood, so I have hope for where the industry is headed technically and financially (not so sure about socially...). Then again, I don't really have a choice but to have hope otherwise my future doesn't look too bright :)