skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd even say that a license clause that forbids users to modify the software is really not well-defined. Modification of what is actually forbidden? I have no access to the source code (assuming closed-source software). I have only binaries. Can I replace the first byte with 0x00? The second one? What if I accidentally overwrite the whole file with 0x00s? What if I truncate it? Can I start the software and modify it at runtime? Can I modify the dynamic libraries (or even the OS) to alter the software? What if a virus infects the binary?

It'd be great if anyone could point to interesting resources on this issue. It seems to be an intriguing intersection of law and economics.
The 80–20 Rule Applied to Learning
The ratings are subjective and nonlinear. No need the way I see it.

Also I'm pretty sure you would want to start from 1, the minimum rating.
My thermostat is set to 17 degrees Celsius (62.6) Fahrenheit.

60 Fahrenheit is practically a comfortable day-long office temperature. It's a _long_ way from freezing.
Yes, the idea of showing interest but not too much interest in a casual setting was invented only a handful of years ago. You cracked the code.
> This changes the perception drastically

That's the entire point. Different UI's can radically change perception!

Facebook could have merged those four messages. Some UIs do that. In Slack there is no different in sending 1 message on 4 lines or 4 messages each 1 line each. The observable result is identical.

But Facebook didn't do that. So the perception was one thing. A different UI and it'd be perceived differently. Just like the author was trying to say!
> Listening to music is now "buffet-style" because of iTunes, not Napster. Napster died.

I think you just rewrote history.
The Intercept also has a piece on this development with some background information https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/al-jazeera-america-termi....
Very interesting point which I'm sure gets overlooked quite often. It seems even Richard Stallman is in favor of preserving the idea of copyright (albeit reducing its duration), which came as a bit of a surprise to me given his otherwise radical views: http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/could-f...
Cinema Seating Preview
Banish daddy guilt: 10 tips for frazzled working fathers
The story of the CCC was told in a very good book: http://flux.hackerspaces.org/2011/08/31/hackerspaces-the-beg...
We use postman extensively at work. We even have non-devs using it to hack with API's to get things done without having to wait for a UI to be built. It's a great tool. I especially like how you can serialize all of your saved endpoints and send them to other devs.
Trucks are big but are dwarfed by the number of single-occupant passenger cars. Other models that work well are freight trains and local trucks, without huge highways. Surface streets work fine for emergency services if they aren't clogged and hospitals are well distributed.
I think it's 'he wanted to' so he posted it to HN.
iOS7 made the iPhone 4 so slow, it was unusable.
> I paid for, and thus own both the software and the device that the software is running on

Wrong. What defines owning is not whether you paid or not, but the type of contract you made.

Moreover, you didn't pay for Windows; you paid for a license of Windows. This license specifically says what you are and what you are not allowed to do with the software, and among others, tinkering with is is not part of what you are allowed to do.
> doing anything useful requires multiple dependent queries

That really depends on your API! We have an orchestration layer that exists specifically so our front end does not have to run multiple queries all the time. Most of what our front end does is by running a very small handful of queries.

I think orchestration layers are something most growing/larger orgs strive for, in my experience.
Nearly all major players in the region have a dedicated news channel/network in Arabic to serve or defend their interests and disseminate propaganda.

Less well known players that often get overlooked in similar discussions are:

1) RT Arabic from Russia

2) DW Arabic from Germany

3) TRT El Arabiya from Turkey

4) Sky News Arabia (It's more of an Abu Dhabi rulers' mouthpiece than a Murdoch's)

The country that's surprisingly missing at least conspicuously is the US but they do have a news channel « Al-Hurra » but man it's pathetic and silly even for the region's standards.
Longer EC2 and EBS Resource IDs
It's good that apple products are sturdy and get updates longer than other devices. There are still some issues though: There are some hindrances to repairing: Glued in batteries, soldered on RAM, soldered on/proprietary connector SSDs. This also means that apple devices can't be upgraded (not really a problem with storage on the mac, as you can use external hard drives, but on iOS devices it's a problem. Upgradable ram would definetly prolong the lifetime of a device). Even when Apple does those repairs, they're way more expensive because of those things.

Another way how Apple pushes planned obsolescence is by not giving certain features to older devices. Adblocking and the new colour temperature setting for instance are only available on 64 bit devices while older devices would be perfectly capable to also have them.
The advice given to daycare centers in my country for sleeping rooms for babies to reduce the risk of SIDS is to keep them at 18°C, which is 64°F.
No it hasn’t. It’s still listed at the link you posted, and I see no evidence that it was ever removed at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nginx (if it had been removed, there would be a news item there with a reason). If you saw it missing on packages.debian.org, that must have just been a temporary website glitch.
Commenting so that I can read it again and again.
I wouldn't expect them to be objective about stories in or involving Qatar, but what proportion of important news is that? A source whose biases are irrelevant to you is almost as good as an unbiased source.
I've not seen this practice very much in my experience; most API's I've worked with go the "automated documentation generation" route and host the docs somewhere separate instead. This does mean you don't need tooling just to find out how to use the API.

This is distinct from throwing exceptions when an endpoint is called with e.g. invalid parameters.
Religions are were created by organizations of followers, with made living out of the teaching. Later these organizations developed itselfs into what we call now corporations or big government (actually, governments became bloated and corrupted due to deflation of Catholic churches).

Buddhism, my friend, has many branches and sects. The original teaching, which is more or less accurately preserver in Dharmapadda of so-called Pali canon is a philosophic doctrine, losely based on Upanishads, narated in an easy to understand, poetical way - a bunch of metaphors familiar to a village folks.

This doctrine has no notions of rituals, idol worship, mantras, tantras, mandalas, monasteries or other kind of social hierarchy. These were almost 1000 years later inventions (the era of Indian writings dated back to 6th to 8th century AD - thousand years after Buddha's death, and associated with places like Nalanda "university" in Bihar).

All that lately written nonsense usually referred to by using the umbrella term Mahayana (with implies, of course, better than older teachings). These writings were translated into Tibetan in the first wave of translation, about 7th AD.

The second wave, which is associated with the mythical guru Padmasambava and his so-called tantric Buddhism - a profound tribal (non-arian) influence of primitive deity worship - Tantra - could be considered only as a farce.

The branch of teaching adopted and developed in China has been already distorted by Mahayana writers, but, strictly speaking, it is closer to the Pali Canon than the texts translated into Tibetan during the second wave.

So, which one you are refering to as Buddhism religion? Which set of rithualized idol worship which has been imported popularized in US in 60s and 70s?
to me it's PaaS - sure it's fairly limited today, but it's expanding it's functionality at a massive rate
ADS-B signals aren't suitable for satellite communications unfortunately. But you can get one of these satellite trackers for $120 so you'd think they could come up with something for less than $120k.

http://findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=109&refer=FrontpageBa...
What it the “web app” correct spelling?
Author here. Thanks, fixed now!
You build it (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac) ?
Crystal_api – fast and easy REST api for Postgresql written in Crystal
There is an argument that it hasn't aged well and that with the advances of programming language design, libraries and hardware it is more of a historical look at the early days of programming. I disagree though as it gives the budding programmer a good foundation. I would also suggest SICP books/lectures. Also learn to program Visual Basic in 5 hours :-p
This is my work in progres. I wanted to create full REST api to check if it's possible. I haven't though it can be as fast.

2-4* times faster than a Postgrest https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest
20* times faster than Rails
(*for GET index)

Now it's refactored as shard so it should be much easier to use it.
Got one for Christmas... and I'm having multiple firmware issues. I mounted it on my MTB (the price of the accessories is insane !), started recording (1080p, Superview, 48 fps), after a little over 30 minutes the thing freezes. I have to hold the power button for several second for it to reboot. I can then start recording again. Of course the first 30'ish minutes are missing from the SD card. Same thing happened now two times out of two rides :-|

Incredible !
Burkina Faso’s maps haven't been updated in 50 years until now
Author here. This is very interesting, as it sounds very similar to how it was explained at the Vipassana camp. What is a good starting point to familiarise oneself with NLP?
>And wait time is a function of closest available driver not aggregate number of drivers.

Which is proportional to the number of drivers.

The lock in comes from both directions. Wait time for drivers is a function of the closest available passenger which is proportional to the number of passengers on the platform.

There's a reason why investors are dumping silly amounts of money into Uber and it's not because of their innovative technology.

>Also, drivers have the option to work at other networks.

For now. I suspect that won't last long.
Sell everything; this looks very much like 2008 [pdf]
The thing is broken ! See my other message in the comments...
I loved running OpenBSD on my laptop. The man-pages were insanely good and the *ctl commands to configure stuff were refreshingly well organized - no more mucking around with a 100 different config files. My major gripe last time was that Firefox was unusably slow. I was told that this was because multi-threading support in OpenBSD was poor. Also, while chromium was tolerable, playing something on youtube would make it feel like the system was under a lot of load. I finally had to move away from it because of this. That said, I plan to move to Vultr and run an OpenBSD box when my current Digital Ocean account runs out of balance.
The problem isn't really with APT (or deb). Building a package from source is trivial. Anyone can do it, and it's completely automated. Building software from upstream source can be a lot more daunting.
Facebook’s safety check not activated after Jakarta attacks
The Buddha went to a solitude retreat to conquer and master his "mind", not to some for profit "meditation center". Solitude is what is required for deep introspection and realizations which lead to permanent transformations in the environmentaly and socially conditioned "model of the universe" each person is used to build and maintain through lifetime.

BTW, what makes you being so sure that all the readers of HN required to become aware of your narcissistic tendencies - you made a username to post a link to your personal site with a description of how special you believe you are?
Looking for Online Private Tutors Who Will Help You in Your Study
We are having the expert online private tutors who will guide the students online with the new experience teaching skilled techniques.
“My bullet point themes into 2016 are (remain):
o bearish China
o bearish global commodities (hards, softs, fluids). And more specifically . . .
o bearish oil (target $26, then clear risk of $16)
o CBs (mostly everywhere) will ease more
o The world has far too much debt to be able to grow well – global output
gap widens
o Emerging market majors (outside India & Eastern Europe) all remain sells
o Automation on its way to destroy 30-50% of all jobs in developed world
o Currency war / mercantilism
And my new bullet point themes:
Andrew Roberts
My old credit crunch mantra
makes a comeback:
Return of capital, not return on
capital
European Rates Weekly | 8 January 2016
Page 3
o Global disinflation risks turning into global deflation in 2016
o Everyone thinks ‘goldilocks’. We thought this strongly for >2 years (on our
liquidity theme) but now worry about equities/credit, both huge, multi-year,
well held positions. Negative returns in 2016 are probable, though without
a recession they should be manageable, think -10-20%, rather than a rout
o If we see weaker ‘risk on’ products, the last safe ‘high yielder’ is the EMU
periphery. Our new 0.75% 10y BTP target could prove too high a yield
o Risks to 0.16% new 10y bund target are on the downside, not upside
o Main risk comes from oil. A plunge sub $20 would aid consumption”
Against School (Aaron Swartz)
Will this work with amazon uk?
This isn't about competing with Spotify. This about having the major labels on board so people can remix and play with and use that content without Soundcloud getting sued into oblivion. Maybe you'll find all of Kanye's albums now added into Soundcloud as well but the point is to allow Soundcloud to continue as it is - and that was never going to happen without some kind of subscription. They have gazillions in VC funding and have to find a way to monetise the site.
It's all a mistake
Apparently ADS-B is suitable? https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/at...
Actually this is what some farmers attempt to do - buy tractors that do not rely on complex electronics and software. However none of the major farm equipment manufacturers make such tractors anymore, so they've had to turn to the second-hand market. Consequently the prices of these second hand tractors has skyrocketed. What a strange world.
Visualization Tools
So in today's terms the tale can be translated to: read the book and once you have you won't be asking these questions anymore.
Interesting. Can you elaborate on this? I am not sure what "inconsistent replication" means.
How to convert video to Samsung Galaxy S6 edge
Their only restriction on data collection is that you have to ask them for permission first, and I suspect that's going away after this announcement that Apple are no longer directly involved in approving iAd campaigns. Meanwhile, iAd uses a whole bunch of tracking data including GPS for ad targeting, some of which Apple forbid competing mobile advertising networks from making use of.

Also, I notice they forbid 'messaging that identifies the particular target for the campaign—for example, “Single men, 18–24, who live in Washington State, click here!”.' Presumably because if customers knew just how much Apple were helping advertisers target them, it'd spoil their whole we're-better-than-Google line.
I do all of them along with coding and managing project members. But i use Rackspace cloud which has most of them built in. One you have the basic configuration set up rest if easy. You can use ansible to automate it or same images.
I'm looking forward to the 360° camera they hinted at. I hope it will do 3d 360°, not just 2d 360°.
Well, around that time, I run the only BBS in my small town. House of the red light. No need to tell about the contents of it I guess :)
Good old times
Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road appeal focuses on corrupt agents
Can Germany's manufacturers do digital?
Actual source seems to be at https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/src/806baa6e240c3f491d6dac...
Still can't use it for reviewing a commit (git commit -va) kills my MBPr.

But glad things are moving forward. Still haven't decided between Atom and Sublime though..
Entering Life After Scrum
What do you mean by "too much image cultivation."?

I've experienced the awkward males part, and the difficulty for newbies to feel welcome. But there's also a kind of social club factor to it with unwritten rules, for example, don't expect to turn up with your windows xp laptop to get a hacker to fix the keyboard.
Rise of Machine-Readable Laws and Court Judgments
And also the poster of this item, presumably.
I have successfully used an Android device as a cheep SMS gateway. An app installed on the device acted as the gateway and messages are triggered from the server via GCM push messages to the device.

Incoming messages to the device are intercepted by a receiver on the device and posted back to the server.
Nice job!
If you have a camera that tracks the viewer, you can also make the image it displays 3D as seen in this video from 2007: https://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw?t=2m46s (back then it used a Wiimote to track the head position).
Exception leaks in Python 2 and 3
"You are not supposed to..." in general I agree that we should take first principles based approach always as an option - from point of view of taking intellectual pride in ones work.

However, a large category of real world problems is solvable only through a combination of solutions to hard problems.

If I have to solve three hard problems before I can have a complete solution is at hand - and by hard I mean months of work - my memory is so poor that the current value of a solved problem does not depend on whether I or someone elso solved it. I've forgotten the details anyway - and the only thing I have are the implementation and documentation.

I have a limited lifespan but the number of interesting problems is infinite.

I can't really find a calculus that says it's far more valuable to solve the known problems several times rather than new interesting problems.

Because that's what you are implying (with my memory) - if never using existing solutions is preferable I would never get anything done.

The same applies for most of civilizations activities.

Don't confuse practicality as the opposite of love of knowledge.
If you're thinking on taking the plunge from Sublime Text, here are some setup notes aimed at web developers: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-fo...
Working or not, I do admire Hsieh taking a bold step to experiment - if it worked brilliantly he's be the leader of the year.

Looking backward, I wonder if there was a "lean" way to test a smaller version, before going company-wide.
Maybe I misunderstood what you are saying, but there is nothing exceptional in Buddhism origin. Every religion is based, or is a reinterpretation of an existing tradition : Islam on Judaism and Christianity, Christianity on Judaism, Judaism was probably influenced by Zoroastrianism and Egyptian tradition. It is turtles all the way down.
Why Media Titans Would Be Wise Not to Overlook Netflix
A day is not 60*60*24 seconds long
It's a shame that Facebook removed support for XMPP in the first place. I guess it's part of their strategy to make the world more "open" and connected.
AirConsole – From prototype to full featured multiplayer game console
You can take your phone/laptop into an Apple Store and for <$100 the battery will be replaced in a few days during which time they lend you an equivalent device. Batteries either need to be completely removable (which increases the size) or having them glued in or not is irrelevant.

I wasn't that keen on Apple abandoning upgradeable RAM/SSD for laptops but to be honest neither has been an issue for the last few years. There isn't any applications that are driving the need for more RAM and the SSDs are upgradeable anyway.

As for mobiles does any company allow RAM to be upgraded ?
Haven't tried it since launch, and while it's still insanely HUGE for a "text editor", I find it much faster. It was unusable back then, now it seems to work. Startup time used to be longer than the OS itself (well, not really, but you get the point), now it's somewhat reasonable.

Do you use "in production"? Is it OK?

By the way, Find seems to be only working on three or more characters? How do I find two-letter substring? :)

edit: Regexp find is a bit slow overall (one 5-line file). Like it is waiting for a while before commiting to updating the UI. And that's on an i7 desktop, can't imagine it working on my Celeron laptop (but will give it a try later).
Me too, but I think I will settle with Atom eventually. Price of the sublime itself is acceptable, but then also sftp plugin is another $30... Or is there some other worthwhile alternative?
No mention of OpenStreetMap?
“Nothing Is Moving,” Baltic Dry Crashes
What large companies can learn about innovation from startups
I.e. classical rational economics is wrong -- and you provide a first principle reason why (adding to the experimental stuff I already knew about).
Haven't tried Atom for about one and half years; at that time it was a performance trainwreck. Is it better?
"Docker is a poor-mans Nix." - https://twitter.com/bendlas/status/634542478209753088
I really like the idea behind Atom, it's what I "want" to like. But Sublime is just so superior in terms of speed and feel that I keep going back. Working in Atom has that feel as if I was sitting in a remote desktop view while coding.
Striking views of our Solar System
Yea, let's go back 50 years in tech, make it by hand and call it hackable.

I guess you haven't seen John Deere tractors in a while.
> Hmm. I wonder what kind of person I'd be if I had the

> privelege

> and luxury

You would probably see yourself as less of a victim of unfair external circumstances.
Animals troll a man
I find fascinating what's happening at Zappos. Most people spend their entire work life complaining about their bosses and claiming more freedom and responsibility at work. Zappos introduces Holacracy that in theory looks amazing and the way to go and people just can't get use to it.

When you spend your all adult life working in a system where there is a boss and someone in charge it's really hard to wire into a new system. Will keep on following the Zappos experiment. Kudos to Tony Hsieh for the courage and leadership.
As a remix artist myself, my experience from youtube (which I believe have similar deals in place) is that rights owners will tolerate (i.e. monetize) straight copies of their work, but many remixes, mashups and cutups get blocked. Which is sad because I feel the opposite would be more beneficial to pop culture as a whole (i.e. more interaction, variation and interpretation, less passive consumption of blockbuster hits).
not calling anyone a liar, consider it an anecdote, but i've used Atom exclusively for over a year and it performs great.
The runtime architecture is a bit bloated IMHO.
Note that Atom doesn't seem to preserve session through restart. I'm quite used to use sublime as notepad without actually saving anything. Maybe there's an option for that though.
I think it's worth saying explicitly how Prolog does that. It basically runs a DFS on a graph for you. That's it. You can code up a basic Prolog in ~50 lines of Lisp. It's a pretty simple tool.

It's also fascinating to look how people try to use it as a general-purpose programming language. To do that, you have to explicitly hack for the DFS running in the background, the one you were not supposed to know about (from the POV of designing your program) because it's meant to abstract things away. You literally have to do flow control on a graph search algorithm to do things like iteration.

The point being - Prolog is a useful tool, but it's also a very simple one. It won't do magic for you.