skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2, 3 and 5 are illegal in Canada (disclosing state secrets, inciting ethnic hatred/violence, and slander).
Here are my thoughts on this:
- Mayer's tenure at the helm of a big co like this is over, she will take a multi year hit before she resurfaces somewhere else (will take a while for her to get another CEO job)

- Yahoo still has tons of traffic (default browser tabs?), though the quality of it is questionable.

- If someone can pull a 1980s style buy and chop up and resell deal, they could extract positive value instantly. They are trading right now at a negative value to their cash.

- Can someone buy the company and then sell the email users to google? The search traffic to Microsoft?

- They are going to need to lay off thousands of people (many might be best off quitting now and beating the crowds to the market)
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The Linux community already had this discussion over the Andrew Filesystem, which was a proprietary port. That is partly why we have symbols designated as being okay for non-GPL code. As for using headers, few consider them to be subject to copyright and those that do would likely find a fair use case for using them for compatibility. However, complex macros and inline functions are a concern. There are not many that are quite so large that they would be considered non-trivial. So far, I have yet to see any that should pose a problem for legal review, although I have only paid attention to ones used by ZFS.

Also, if it is not clear, this was raised inside Gentoo. There was a discussion involving this with myself, the ZoL project lead, the concerned developer and a member of the licensing team who had final call on the matter. The descriptions of what was being done and why it should be okay passed review.
At which point, you open the door to a media cartel that decides what is and isn't worthy to write about. At which point, your stamp becomes worse than useless, it becomes a sign of 'quality' to the misinformed while really being simply a way to say it's been 'approved' by the large media companies.
Maybe, but there's also the cost of time, of actually finding that lawyer, convincing him of this, etc.

One of the things money seems to buy, which makes wealthy people/entities able to tackle problems that must of us realistically can't, is time.

I believe that in the end, the so-called rat-race is just a race to be free to have time, to do whatever you like to. Sure, some chains you will never be free of, but if you can shed enough chains off of you, you will have enough time to do other, more meaningful stuff, like defending your rights/intellectual property/privacy, etc.

In this case at least, it seems like the author finds it very hard to pursue this path, because in the end, what's in there for him? Maaaaaybe some money, after a long a emotionally tiring fight. On the other hand, you will lose time and money and potentially your health (since I don't see this route being stress-free).

In the end, like for most things, it ends up being a kind of personal-ROI thing. The return he sees is probably to low to be worth going after it, and the investment and risk too high.

And that's unfortunate, because in the end the abusive guys with money and time end up winning most battles :(
It's not just about phone adoption - it's about the total pattern.

If you don't trust the iPhone ,maybe ,for your important communications, you'll only use Qubes + Whonix + TOR ? write your own software in addition(as a rich terrorist org) ? use a machine not connected to the internet and pass files ? Be more careful in what you communicate over the phone ? etc..
They certainly have reasons to be biased but saying they are among the least likely is unnecessary hyperbole. I'd say they're just as likely, at most, as the lawyer of any copyright holder is when discussing whether something is a derived work of their property.

The other party here has their own interests and biases here as well, of course. Let's not forget how many companies in the mobile and embedded space have repeatedly chosen to violate the GPL even when their noncompliance has been obvious.
Firefox OS… and the Future of the Telecom Companies
I'm sorry... IP? LUT?

EDIT: Thanks for the explanations, guys!
The spin in the title (which differs greatly from the original article) is very misleading, and seems to cherry pick from the article's conclusions, which are very clearly stated:

Key Points

Question: Does cannabis use increase the risk of psychiatric disorders?

Findings: In this survey of a nationally representative sample of US adults, cannabis use was associated with significantly increased risk for developing alcohol, cannabis, and other drug use disorders as defined by the DSM-IV at 3 years of follow-up. However, cannabis use was not associated with increased risk for developing mood or anxiety disorders.

Meaning: Cannabis use is associated with an increased risk of developing drug and alcohol use disorders.

So they very clearly stated "Cannabis use increases risk X, but not risk Y." But for some reason you've chosen a title which says "Cannabis doesn't increase risk Y", as if that was the main message of the article. It wasn't.
Chinese most fear a civil war. Nearly 10 million people died during the last civil war, the one before that 36 million people died. One before over 25 million. compare that with the absolute carnage of Syria which has taken 300,000 lives so far. The scale of disaster will be uncomparable to anything else if another civil unrest happens in China. We like to call them paranoid, but their paranoia isn't baseless.
>loader A provides a new-key(PubKey,NextLoader) method which blanks the remainder of the device.

Assuming this updates the loader, that means anyone with physical access for five minutes can permanently brick the phone, without opening it.

Are we sure we want that?

Also, how can loader A modify itself?
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Another Story of a 'Fake' Brilliant Inventor? Is Walter O'Brien Real?
I wanted to use MyPy with a Django project, but it produced so many errors as to be useless. Has anyone had any success with it? It sounds very helpful overall, if one can make it work.
How about Riot games, which is based in the US but owned by Tencent, a Chinese company, and played significantly in China?
> If you're using it to buy an asset that appreciates more than the interest on the debt, what makes you think that you're a better judge of asset prices than the people lending you the money? Why wouldn't they just buy the asset directly, and cut out the middleman?

Because it's not their (core) competency or they don't want the risk.

I could start my own company printing indie games. But I have no connections in the industry (well, not entirely true, but none that are exploitable for this), I have no experience running a business, but I do have capital. And someone else who does have those connections and experience wants to start up such a business. Collateral on the loan protects my money (partially) in case of failure to repay, while the risk is mitigated by having someone more experienced doing the work.
It is. The advert was to notify you that the iTerm 3 beta is available and that it has some cool features.

It did not ask for donations. It was purely informational.
> Better to have 93% of something worth 10MM+ than 100% of 100k.

You're making an assumption that with YC your company would be worth $10m+ and without, $100k. That assumption isn't really valid to me.
I like wsj but I only read maybe 1 article every other day. They need a more reasonable price point, especially since the market will almost bear no price at all.

That being said I do enjoy their content, save for maybe the op-eds.
Can't disagree with you on the price...but, they offer a superior product for that price...

They've been on the cutting edge for years...
Didn't read the article yet, but whoever designed/coded the styling on this page deserves a gold star. The parallax was smooth and really cool.
Actually I noticed sites have simply changed policies -- if you're a regular visitor your cookies will identify you and block content. The Incognito mode trick works for WSJ and others that would still check the referrer header. Allowing Googlebot access and checking the referrer header are two different things.

Also, Google has published IP addresses it uses, so this extension might not last long...
So meta, watching their stock chart on their portal: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=YHOO+Interactive

I hope Yahoo Finance and sites like Flickr stay around - they are quite good.
Pretty creepy. Being concerned for a family member or close (IRL) friend is one thing. Marshalling an Internet horde because someone stopped checking in on Github is entirely another. If you only know someone by their @ handle, then you don't know them well enough to start investigating their lives. I get that some people don't have an IRL to contrast their virtual presence with, but that's a pathology, not an invitation to stalking. Once more from the top: If someone doesn't share his or her contact information with you, then it's very likely they DON'T WANT YOU CONTACTING THEM, much less organizing a them-themed flashmob. Jesus.
The browser's built-in same origin policy will prevent the iframed content from being able to access cookies in the containing frame because it is being hosted from a different domain.
think a bit harder

they still need to adhere to the rules of society (no stealing etc)

also, publication of stories in a newspaper has implication wider than the readership of that newspaper

and besides, any free market also needs rules in order to function properly
This is also true, indeed, but I don't think it's a provider's role to decide what kind of ads should pass or be blocked, especially if such decision will be based on who's paying and who's not.
Or, of course, if the furnace goes out right before Christmas and you don't have any money (except a credit card) because you were laid off 3 months prior and haven't been able to land a new gig yet. That's how I started the year with $700 more in credit card debt.
Is it really that hard to run an IRC network?

(I say this with experience running infrastructure for an IRC network, albeit orders of magnitude smaller)
Nothing blew my mind in the last few years like discovering how close Harper Lee and Truman Capote were, as they were both authors I idolized at different stages of my life.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/books/harper-lee-and-truma...

And that Dill was partially based on her childhod friendship with Capote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee#Early_life

This seems to be well established now in pop culture and art, but I was completely unaware when I first heard.

The fact the world has such inspired people, despite their stressful surroundings was a blessing to us all in the form of great art.

Goodbye, Harper.
People may be dissatisfied with the government in the west, but the context is different. People in China have fresh memories of shortage and hardship. My wife is 26 years old and remembers a childhood where meat could only be bought once a week. The people do not want to loose the prosperity of the last ten years.
You're being paranoid for several reasons. First, you will presumably be keeping the classifications you get from the API (if for no other reason than $2/1000 can really add up and why would you do that to yourself?). Second, Google has historically always had very generous end-of-life announcements. Third, there are already a number of competitors, including the trained CNNs Google has already released. Fourth, even if there were no competitors nor pre-trained models, deep learning is increasingly accessible and you could learn to imitate a past ImageNet-winning CNN in Torch/Theano/Tensflow/etc and train it within a few weeks. Fifth, paid Google services tend to hang around longer. Sixth, machine learning is a major part of Google and they are increasingly rolling it out to their services and may well be using this API themselves, making closing it not such a great idea.

So you're passing up what could be substantial benefits, Google isn't going to close it anytime soon, if they do you will have months of warning, and can easily replace it with a competitor or your own.
Thanks for the analysis. I'd be curious to see PH's traffic. I get the vibe from checking # of retweets/hearts on their tweets that PH has peaked and are now on the descent.
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I'm actually pretty interested in this as a potential form of cheap(ish) HPC. I do a lot of stellar simulations and other computational astrophysics stuff, I think a couple of these might be able to stand in when I don't necessarily feel like dealing with the campus supercomputer for a small task. Although in terms of marketability, I'd say that products like these might fulfill the gap between traditional farms <-> giant supercomputers.
IP = Intellectual Property

LUT = Look-Up Table

LUTs are the building blocks of FPGAs.
We have an entire generation growing up with the idea that large debt is natural and acceptable. I've had countless friends go down $10,000 in debt and say "what's $20,000 in debt really?" and it's a vicious cycle from there.
Pretty sure this is completely unrelated.
You're probably thinking of "Crickets Are Not a Free Lunch" [1]. For reference, the search terms to find that study were 'cricket farming efficiency' :)

[1]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
I guess that Reddit only rounds that number down, so that posts in end November still display a "2 months ago" last activity.
Or both.

The MMM philosophy isn't to deprive yourself. It's to learn to find satisfaction without the high cost.

Personally, I hate eating out every day. Packing a tupperware with leftovers is much more my style. I save about a thousand a year because of this, but I don't feel deprived at all.
Seems absurdly broad, if this article is correct. Doesn't this basically mean Chinese would be unable to read or view anything we can? Including this site? With the exception of Chinese published/created information.
I'm one of the founders of Tiny Farms. I think you're probably recalling an article published in PLOS ONE last year that suggested the sustainability of crickets might not meet the hype.

We were obviously very interested in the study! It turns out that the paper missed some crucial factors that make insects a sustainable, efficient protein source.

I guest-wrote this post with some details; do take a look if you're interested.

http://blog.exoprotein.com/crickets-vs-chicken/
The hate for Comic Sans seemingly knows no bounds.
This is exactly what happened to Digg. You had people getting paid to get stuff up on Digg's front page. So Digg introduced friends and the ability to see what friends are digging. And they banded together to really ruin the experience for others.

During the time it happened, I did a bit of offhand calculation and found that of all the posts on Digg's front page, most had the same 100 or so "power diggers" in the first 200 likes of the submission. And these 100 users were authors of at least half the submissions on the front page, many of which were clear promotional ads.
From the article:

"Apple had asked the F.B.I. to issue its application for the tool under seal. But the government made it public, prompting Mr. Cook to go into bunker mode to draft a response, according to people privy to the discussions, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The result was the letter that Mr. Cook signed on Tuesday, where he argued that it set a “dangerous precedent” for a company to be forced to build tools for the government that weaken security."
No, the bank that issues you credit will pay the merchant in a few days after the merchant charges your credit card account. The bank issuing your credit card is the one that extends credit to you, however, there is usually a few days between the merchant charging your account and the bank sending the merchant the money.

Afterwards, if you do a chargeback, the bank will yank back the funds from any other amounts the bank owes the merchants, but if the merchant has enough proof the cardholder participated in the transaction (aka, swipe and sign, or chip and sign, or use of CVC code online), then the bank will give the money back to the merchant. The bank still takes $30 or so from the merchant as a fee for getting a chargeback though, but I'm sure that amount and terms vary from merchant to merchant, depending on their purchasing power.
I really don't understand how anyone can claim "this case is specific to this phone" like that means anything at all. Of course the case is specific to this phone. And the next case will be specific to the next phone. How could any case not be "specific" to the case at hand? It's just a tautology.

Can the government compel Apple to create new functionality to enable cracking their own phones' security? Any reasonable discussion on the topic must consider if the answer is "yes", then why is the answer yes in this case, and perhaps no in any other case. What (if any) are the specific conditions under which they can be forced to assist? What is the legal precedence that is being set, and is there anything that makes this case special?

Is the answer "yes, Apple must assist" because the subject of the investigation is a mass murderer? As far as I know, there is no such law. As I understand it, the specific crime or facts of the case are completely irrelevant to the legal argument the FBI is presenting. There is encrypted data on a phone that they think could be useful in investigating a federal crime of some kind. Nothing more.

The legal justification is crucially important. The FBI is arguing Apple must comply as a matter of "All Writs" and if they succeed in this line of argument, then from what I understand it clearly follows that any time the government wants access to encrypted data, and has either permission of the device owner or a warrant, then they can compel Apple to assist in recovering that data.

So I'm fairly convinced this case is absolutely not specific to "one phone". At most this case is "specific" to compelling the development of custom software and firmware after-the-fact in order to bypass the existing security measures of a device in order to access otherwise encrypted data. If they are forced to comply in this case, either explain why they can't be forced to comply in the next federal case, or stop claiming that the security on only "one phone" will be diminished.

This is no better than the word wrangling the NSA does around "collecting" data. The idea that it's not a "backdoor" just because it is deployed in real-time on a per-phone basis versus being pre-deployed across all phones is balderdash. This is a distinction without a difference. How the backdoor is deployed doesn't make it any less of a backdoor to the person who has the capability. And of course iPhones clearly have the capability of deploying said backdoor over-the-air just as easily as over the lightning cable.

That the firmware image might have to be re-signed by Apple's code-signing key because it includes a hard-coded identifier for a specific device is equally irrelevant, unless you can explain why the government can't compel Apple to generate these firmware builds on-demand whenever they want them.
*on mobile
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What's wrong with storing a digital key on the same device you use to access the bank? No hardware token needed.
It doesn't need to be a UX thing, just provide an itemized list of the ways in which the data will be used on a page like the one linked.

They choose not to do this, arguably because they know what sort of reactions that list would evoke.
> If you use any other keyboard for any other purpose, the more removed from the standard layout you are, the more disoriented you'll be when switching between the two.

Not for me. I use a Kinesis Ergo Advantage at work and home, and have no problems using a standard QWERTY keyboard (infrequently). Switching requires no thought or practice.

The Advantage products shift the major keys where you would normally use your little finger on a QWERTY keyboard to your thumb. It is heaven.
I did that about 20 years ago to pay off about 12k of debt I accrued. Basically kept shuffling the debt from one "interest free for 6 months" balance transfer to another until it was all paid off. They are still around today, just not as popular.
Are there actually any valid use cases for this?

window.location.href = "javascript:..."

I assume there are hundreds of websites that also blindly pass a URL parameter to it. Most developers simply don't expect that a redirect is something they have to sanitize.

Why do browsers allow this at all?
I just tried clicking on
"Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at Age 89" from wsj.com's homepage and got the paywall.

I then pasted the headline into google and clicked on it from Google results and did not get hit by the paywall.
For some reason, in the hardware design world, we use "IP" to mean "a self-contained functional block of hardware that we have developed". It probably derives from 'intellectual property' (i.e., 'we bought some IP from $VENDOR to handle HDMI', and then eventually 'we bought an IP from $VENDOR to handle HDMI').

A LUT is, more or less, the smallest logical element on an FPGA (a piece of programmable hardware) -- it's a Look-Up Table. They're not directly comparable from FPGA to FPGA, because some FPGAs have different sizes; in the early days, LUTs had 3 inputs and produced one output, but on modern FPGAs, 'LUT4's (4 input, 1 output) are the smallest that you'll reasonably get, and some FPGAs even use 'LUT6's (6 input, 1 output; sometimes divisible into 5 input, 2 output, or other subdivisions) as their basic logic element. But no matter how you slice it, 308 LUTs is impressively small, especially for 180MHz.
I don't have anything to say, other than I really enjoyed your reply and think the debugging analogy is great!
they don't care
Not in the case of negative interest rates.
I like the notion that a service can continue to improve under the covers without me needing to do software updates to get a new version of library.

I know you can just include an external JavaScript library but I only do that for sources I trust.
I guess if it is lucrative, a lawyer will figure it out some day.
How long had Comic Sans been used on httpd status pages? (The mind reels…)
1. The GPL does not forbid linking. It forbids distribution of derivative works until incompatible licenses.

2. Canonical is not linking ZFS to the kernel. Doing that would mean there would be no need to load zfs.ko.

3. Under the definitions of derivative works used by every legal jurisdiction in the world, an port of a driver via a kernel module is insufficient to constitute a derivative work. This has been verified by many lawyers.

4. The GPL never provided the guarantees you seem to have thought it did. Providing them would violate clause #9 of the definition of open source software:

https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
Because the same people who absorb this garbage have an influence on public policy. "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
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I have wondered the same about Steven Sprang, who was behind the Brushes app for iOs, and apparently just vanished from the internet one day:

http://www.brushesapp.com/

https://github.com/sprang

https://twitter.com/sprang
> will take a while for her to get another CEO job

Genuinely curious: Why would she get another CEO job (excluding startups and sinking ships)? There was no reason to think she would do a good job at Yahoo, she has no track record of success as a CEO, she certainly can't point to anything she's done at Yahoo, and as far as I can tell, people don't like working for her.
We have software that can make a synthetic video of any person mimic another person's movements, in real time. I am sure audio is even easier.