skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero Rating: A Framework for Assessing Benefits and Harms
I like the inside view ino the business, but as someone who has become excessively tired of Munchkin and Munchkin-like games, it worries me that their business model is basically dependent on re-skinning the same game over and over again.
> Ughhh, that's insane.

Not really. This is for deploy systems which deploy to a trusted environment (for instance through VPN, network security etc.).
Very surprised that you can't buy stuff with your US card. I do just that; i.e. I'm in Germany, and I buy things off of Amazon.de with my US card.
But you are talking about <1% of the companies making that claim.
Any advice on how you did this?
They're both sums, but Pony (and e.g. Typed Racket) has unlabelled unions, while Haskell/ML have labelled unions. Pony's (X | None) is not like Haskell's Maybe X in that in Haskell, X could be unit, while in Pony that would collapse the type to just None. In other words, in Haskell, Maybe (Maybe X) makes sense; in Pony and Typed Racket, it doesn't.
Strategy 5: Add a broken /etc/hosts entry for news.ycombinator.com
Billionaires are largely investors/shareholders.

Targeting the shareholders in civil suits will encourage better/more defensive CEO choices and other board decisions.

Direction stems from the top and the top is the Board [elected by shareholders] and not the CEO. Pretending otherwise is simply ignorance.
Not that this is wrong, but YUI was released less than one month later and had been in use at Yahoo for a few months.

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/02/13/the-yahoo-user-interface-...
We'll get to it eventually.
I didn't see the word "open" mentioned once in this article...
Can you summarize what that does for those of us who don't know?
Really cool story. I can also see myself in it. So far I'm just a freelancer with some side projects that help me and my work, but ...

I've always imagined any success not as a "bright idea", but more or less creating a tool by / for my needs.
Although an 8-bit CPU, I've always thought the PEP8 simulator [1] (Warford, Pepperdine) was nice in that it is a visual simulation of the CPU:

[1] http://www.cslab.pepperdine.edu/warford/CSUploads/Pep8CPUPap...

EDIT: and if you want an absolutely wonderful series of lectures on computer systems, CPU architecture, assembly, etc., checkout Warfords free course on iTunesU [2]

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/computer-systems/id546468...
"elephantpump - Takes a logical decoding stream from postgresql and outputs it in a pluggable and safe way"

I like this name as-is.
I have a backlog of personal projects of various kinds that I have been tinkering with for years now. But since I'm a back end guy, that's what I normally work on when I have free time.

Every time I decide that I'm going to take the plunge and get down and dirty with front end stuff, I get completely paralyzed by choice, and I end up deciding that the most sensible way for me to move forward is to learn the fundamentals and design front ends with html + CSS + vanilla JavaScript.

As you can imagine, my elegant back-end designs have interfaces the 90s would have deemed tacky.

I really like the syntax (Python guy checking in here), but I don't even know where to start integrating this into a Pyramid app or what to do with it.

I don't even know how to get started here. I have a market research app for building questionnaires. Like SurveyMonkey, but different. I want the front end to be trello-like so that you can move the questions around that way.

I "know" JavaScript pretty well at this point. But when I look at the front end code for an open source trello clone, I swear it's just effing magic. Doesn't even relate in my mind to the language I thought I've been learning all this time.

Since these kinds of threads tend to attract a lot of front end people, I thought I'd ask here: is this an appropriate language for a trello-like interface?

There was a certain point in my career when I was learning Python when I went from knowing how to write classes and functions to being able to know what classes and functions to write to achieve my goals.

I know how to do things in JS, but I have no idea what to do to accomplish my goals.

Any tips from anyone?
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I have a lifelong edu address but it's not what they mean of course. My reading is that you have to be an enrolled student or researcher.
They do, but that money is restricted as to what it can be used for. From the article:

“There is a common misconception that endowments, including Harvard’s,
can be accessed like bank accounts, used for anything at any time as long
as funds are available,” Jeff Neal, a Harvard spokesman, said. “In reality,
Harvard’s flexibility in spending from the endowment is limited by the fact
that it must be maintained in perpetuity and that it is largely restricted
by the explicit wishes of those who contributed the endowed funds.”
http://www.kalzumeus.com/start-here-if-youre-new/
Not tangible financial outcome for the vendor. But for the employee suggesting it, who doesn't have to explain why "his" "cobbled together thing" doesn't work, but can point to all kinds of outside validation for the choice, even if it doesn't work out.
JavaScript oddities
SmartDNS to the rescue? Also torrents. Especially torrents.
I'm not ready to lock my clothes away just yet, let me noprocrast my wardrobe and I'll get back to you.
> And if Harvard abolishes tuition for undergrads, Mr. Nader said, “It will ricochet across the Ivy League.”

A proposition like this is really exciting to me! As a recent college grad (though admittedly one who's very lucky to not have loans, though my partner is screwed with them), I am particularly sensitive how how insane it is that college students are sold massive amounts of debt that many will take years to pay back. And a lot of new systems to help students pay them back are ineffective at best and disgusting at worst.

I am intrigued to see what the other motives are here. I doubt that there will be much change in how students pay back college debt, but we do need some sort of real change. I would be really excited to see a cultural shift away from profiteering from student debt.
They (I'm talking about publishers I don't believe this benefits Netflix in any way) are doing this at the time when Popcorn Time is available, and when you can add SuperRepo to Kodi and stream pirated movies from 1Channel.

I mean at this point the only reason people would want to use Netflix is feeling guilty about pirating. But how can you feel guilty when publisher is constantly trying to screw you over?
I was attempting to humorously hint at the fact that everyone needs somewhere to live, and that's the chief function of your house or apartment. It's like we forget about that sometimes.
That's got to be the low end. Even in the midlands of SC (not exactly a high-value area) you can expect to earn that much as an intermediate developer at relatively small companies.
> Now if everybody in the world can get US Netflix content the right-holders are the ones who will have problems selling content in other markets.

Or... they could just sell the worldwide rights to Netflix and nobody would have to to use a proxy to begin with.
Ask HN: What is your favorite tech prank?
In Windows: Alt+Ctrl+Right Arrow on someone else's computer
In General: Email spoofing
The cheapest 5k iMac is $1799, other comparable displays are roughly in the same ballpark. I imagine the other items (frame, sensors) are trivial compared to that expense.

Replacement 5k panels for the iMac (LM270WQ1) are merely $800 on AliExpress, but you'd have to figure out how to output to them.
Victorian Gas Meter
In the end the right holders sell their content multiple times, often even multiple times within a single market. Now if everybody in the world can get US Netflix content the right-holders are the ones who will have problems selling content in other markets.

Ah, yes, copyright. The ultimate government entitlement program.

It's easy to see why Netflix and Amazon are taking the seemingly-unintuitive step of developing their own shows. They're privy to the greed and stupidity of the incumbent content owners in a way that few of us ever get to see. While the studios' greed and stupidity is a problem for Netflix and Amazon during contract negotiations, it also must look like an opportunity.
Well we have to remember that when the stock market goes up 30% this year (or falls 30% this year) that's not inflation or deflation. That's a marketplace at work. Real estate is also an asset class that rises or falls. But those changes aren't inflation. That's market forces at work (supply and demand)
> Your friends also probably regularly exceed the speed limit on the freeway.

At least on trips I've taken to the US, people there seem a lot more inclined to stay within the speed limits than they are in Europe. Take a trip on a UK motorway where there isn't heavy traffic, and you'll find at least 50% of people are going over the 70mph limit.
Canadian tar sands aren't profitable below $80-100/barrel. I don't think they'll ever be started back up again.
Does a redesign ever make things better?
The most interesting part of this disclosure is:

Internal stdio buffering is the most severe of the three problems
discussed in this section, although GNU/Linux is not affected because
the glibc mmap()s and munmap()s (and therefore cleanses) stdio buffers.
BSD-based systems, on the other hand, are severely affected because they
simply malloc()ate and free() stdio buffers.

Basically the exploit reveals a big chunk of memory where, very often, your private keys happen to live. The memory has been freed, but on BSD systems the memory that was freed has not been zeroed in any way, so you still see the private keys.
> I would even say that most people can't sustain 50+ productive hours per week for an extended period.

I'm not sure, I've noticed that people can sustain it for indefinite periods. What happens is pretty massive drop in quality of work output, massive (negative) lifestyle changes, health problems, social isolation, depression / general dissatisfaction with life.

I find it really interesting just how often these changes go either completely unnoticed or are noticed but not connected to the cause. It seems to be a particularly harmful emergent property of some combination of some types of human irrationality.
Again? I used to regularly check Netflix before Pirate Bay, but it's been so long since anything I wanted to watch was streamable on Netflix (and I'm in the US too) that I rarely bother anymore. Even at the best of times it was maybe 50/50.

Hell, I torrented "The Man in the High Castle" even though I have Amazon Prime just because I didn't feel like installing Silverlight. Even when you are paying for the content, it can still be easier to watch via other means.
Indeed. Once the work has been paid for, you can usually copy your car as much as you want. You can also use your car as many times as you want.
Would this work with the Elph 350 HS (Ixus 275)?
alias ls='echo Segmentation Fault'
The challenge is that there's often several open source variants of content extraction, but without the continual commercial support, the often languish after serving the needs of the original creators.

Goose[0] for example was a project I last explored for article summarization.

[0]: https://github.com/grangier/python-goose
It's naive because the vast majority of small companies crash and burn, with no impact whatsoever.

Also, since we're talking about Silicon Valley, it's naive to think that Uber-for-Dog-Walking or Grindr-for-BitCoin startup is going to change the world in any meaningful way. Most business startups are playing inside-baseball games that only certain companies care about, and consumer startups tend to be trivial contrivances for people with copious amounts disposable income.
And when you’ve lost your flavor,

we’ll spit you out.

This is the part people forget about most.
> Actually, I don't think the chainable API is terribly important.

jQuery's API is chainable; that's all I meant by it. Their API overall just simplifies everything. I'd like to see the standards committees take ideas from development trends and work to simplify the DOM API.

Honestly as far as AJAX goes I really think HTTP needs to be put into the JavaScript standard itself; not just the HTML standards. It's hard finding good libraries that can make HTTP calls in the exact same way in both the browser and node (which is important to me because much of my library type code can run in either environment). I had to write this myself and while my implementation is limited it makes my life easier.
A solid React webapp yeoman generator
What3Words – three words identify each location on Earth
Yeah, if you want "older", you need to reach for Dojo or Prototype (with Scriptaculous obviously).
Netflix and Co are the startup of the online media, the traditional players are torrent, p2p, direct download, newsgroup, ... It is akin to Blackberry deciding to stop selling phone in your country, and you would suggest that instead of buying Android or iOS as they have done the last 7 years, user should just stop using smartphone instead ?

That is sad that the big player is the illegal activity, but think of it this way: the content has been available online for at least a decade before it was distributed legally. And yet despite coming late to the market, charging money, with the backing of actual media companies, Netflix choice is pitiful about everywhere in the world except in the US and is still in many ways inferior to the alternative ( subtitles, release date, quality ).

Netflix market is to convince people that are watching illegal movies, to pay for the insurance that they won't get sued. People that would not watch a show until it is available legally are people like me. We have waited so long that we don't even want it anymore, not legal, not illegal, not at all, the craving to see something is just gone, it has been years since I felt awkward with the movie talk at the coffee machine, so not even the social pressure it there anymore ( Just to illustrate, I have been an Amazon Prime member since the beginning, and I have watched maybe 5 movies on it )
> We are confident this change won’t impact members not using proxies.

Will affect Netflix's bottom line, I prefer films to series (I don't have time for 22 1hr episodes but a good film now and then was worth the subscription) but Netflix UK is shit frankly, the only reason I haven't bothered to VPN into the US is because I can't be bothered (I actually watch more tech talks on the media PC/TV than I do anything else at this point - Code Mesh videos are awesome).
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And even if you succeed, monetary wealth is a dead end. Once you're there, you'll be disappointed that money doesn't happiness (trite, but true).
“UK doesn’t do mass surveillance,” claims Theresa May
I wish the world was just like you described. Everyone be a rational meaningful responsible adult. But it's far from perfect and to fit in you need to adjust and then suddenly people call you "social".

This applies for interacting with people, businesses, be to the point, and concise, so there's less noise for misinterpretation.
If compelling someone to give up a password is illegal, but secretly breaking into the thing you needed a password for is not illegal, something is wrong.
Diaphragm gas meters of this type were invented in 1844. The design is basically unchanged to this day.

https://books.google.com/books?id=RxcjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA75&lpg=P...

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

Too bad they don't look like this: http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im20100528Ed-Alder2.jpg
Ask HN: How do you get started on contributing to open source projects?
I've been doing freelance web development for about a year now. I want to start contributing to some open source projects, but I don't know where to begin.

Every couple of months I feel like I've learned so much more, it makes me think I need more experience before being able to contribute something worthwhile to any of the open source projects I use.
You definitely asked the big question ... but don't expect an answer, a lot of the time this is highly valuable information. Often this information is the single largest company asset.
Yep, at Harvard you already don't pay if you can't afford it.
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The Tech Threat
”We can’t work on it ourselves, but we’d consider funding it.”

Interesting! Besides being useful for HN, I’m sure it could also be useful for quite a few of the YC startups.
None of these streaming services offer quality streams. Terribly compressed "1080"p with some silly 2.1 downmix. There's more to Netflix than just "guilty". It's a genuine source for a relatively high quality material.
Ah, I understand now, thanks.
Thanks! I didn't know this was actually out there yet, awesome.
Have fun making tapestry art ! Any remark is welcome.

What we are mostly proud of that may gratify your intellectual curiosity, is that everything is client-side, there is no back-end. Even when exporting. So you can download a zip of the application, run index.html and you're good to go.
Yep, one: Do what you love. One day people will realize the value of what you do and everything will flow as you wanted.

A big trigger for my career change was when I read Rework from DHH. I realized that you can start small and build a product fit for a specific market - some users will outgrow your product and that's okay. As for me, I build a product I needed without really thinking if there was a product/market fit, it eventually happened.

Feel free to reach me out on twitter or facebook!
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Robot Cars Grab Headlines, but When Will They Be Road-Ready?
Having a property manager and a home warranty can alleviate a lot of the pain points of owning a place that's not local.
Exactly what happened for me. I may be considered a turtle in the startup race, but I'm very fine by it!
Awesome! Resig was a few years after my time there, but it's always good hearing RIT associated with someone so game changing.
How to Lose Weight by Positive Mind and Nutrition
Baidu’s Artificial Intelligence Team Releases Key Deep-Learning Code
> I mean at this point the only reason people would want to use Netflix is feeling guilty about pirating.

I don't think my Panasonic TV has a Popcorn Time app. Or my phone, for that matter.
Taking a Picture of a Printer Could Let You Use It to Print
As I understand the subtitles are usually licensed from different people than the producers of the shows, so yes it is probably licensing issues too.

As an example on Netflix Italy you can watch Lie To Me with Italian or English audio, but the subtitles are only available in Italian. If you switch to a UK proxy you get English subtitles...
Its a killer feature as long as the drivers are ARM-only.

Considering that Calxeda is the only one making the fabric, and Calxeda is the only one using these ARM chips in general, I'd say its a killer feature (specifically: a killer feature for Calxeda-ARM motherboards, not for any other manufacturer of ARM chips). And since AMD is partnering with Calxeda here, they get the benefit.

AMD is also the only big-player that has big-ARM chips out in any volume right now anyway. I know there are a few from China but nothing really standardized.

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In any case, Xeon-D and Atom Centerton are kicking some major ass in power/performance benchmarks. I find it unlikely that the AMD chip will keep up with Intel. Still, being the only major ARM-server manufacturer is a good position to be in.

IIRC, these AMD chips are Seattle, which is 28nm (two nodes behind Intel). AMD is still hopelessly behind Intel. AMD is hoping that Zen-ARM chips will catch up in 2017.

So basically... I bet this is mostly for R&D and experimental deployments. Because if you're really deploying a multi-million dollar data-center full of computers, you want the best. And the best, for better or worse right now, is the Xeon-D.

If you want to start experimenting with ARM server development, it looks like these AMD Seattle chips are the best ones on the market, with a very intriguing implementation with Calxeda's motherboards / switching fabric as well. If Calxeda / AMD undercuts Xeon-D with cheaper chips, they probably can win with I/O heavy workloads (video hosting, cloud storage, etc. etc.)

Rumor is that these Seattle chips have 14-SATA ports (!!!!) and on-chip Gigabit-Ethernet, so AMD is definitely targeting those I/O heavy workloads.
It could be interesting to have prototypical inheritance with static types if you do immutable objects and structural typing.
When they can offer the producing entity more money than they would get by sub-licensing, of course there is a convergence here, as Netflix eats into the existing TV market the revenue that the incumbents can pay will decline (unless they adapt) which will bring the price down of global licensing.

In effect if Netflix and the cord cutting trend continues they'll gut the existing markets ability to pay, probably an economic term for that but I don't know it.
It means you aren't spending 4 hours a day commuting. The comments all around you describe the situation in SF and the surrounding area.
Yeah, if you want quality, use Usenet.
In relation to salaries? Close enough. This paper (http://web.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_304HJR.pdf) came out in 2004 which looked at the area with a broader eye than just house prices vs the median vs the median salary.

Downturns have typically resulted in flat growth of prices, but only the foreclosure crisis managed to push houses serious negative. And typically existing rents don't go down, instead you have to move to get a better rent deal.

Over a long enough window the expected value is that you'll get back your principle. Which is more than you can say for renting. "Worst case" is you end up walking away with nothing because the mortgage is underwater.

The only outcome of renting is you walk away with nothing when you move.
The main difference between PipelineDB and old CEP frameworks is that PipelineDB is based on the PostgreSQL 9.4 core, so is a fully functional relational database in addition to a streaming processing engine, which gives us integrated storage in addition to a SQL-based approach to stream processing and realtime/streaming analytics. We have also added functionality like probabilistic data structures, stream-table joins for adding historical context to streams, and now offer a distributed architecture, realtime alerting, and HA. So there is definitely some overlap with the types of things CEP frameworks did, but having an open-source core based on PostgreSQL that operates with 100% SQL enables a wider range of users to deal with an increasing need to tackle realtime data challenges.
"Cult" might be a provocative word choice, but given the shared irrational/false beliefs that partly define the real existing culture being talked about you can't easily dismiss the word choice completely.
So basically, the end result is that we have heartbleed for SSH?

While the cause is slightly different, the ultimate effect is an attacker being able to read significant chunks of memory remotely, which for SSH often means private key details.
> Is that also a licensing issue or just laziness?

The subtitles are licensed from a different company than the dubs, which are licensed from a different company than the original show.

And each of these companies has exclusive deals, sometimes even allowing only one TV channel to show one show at all.
San Francisco SOMA neighborhood weather forecast generated by smartphones
The FBI feared communist infiltration of EPCOT
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How the Chinese make smartphones [video]
What in the hell are you on about?
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