skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not one who meditates, but my mom advocates it. She says that having done meditation for a while (over a year? I'm not sure how much longer than that), she can now feel positive effects just after 5 minutes.
CRobots (programming game):

http://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/pcjs/crobots-pcjs.html
> (better men than me)

What the fuck.
It should be optional, opt-in, and require voiding the warranty then.
There is already precedent set for loading non-GPL blobs into GPL binaries, and the FSF even has some information on what they believe to be the line for this case [0]. Now, mind you, this specific case does fall under what the FSF believes - so we start falling into the argument of what constitutes a derived work.

Linus obviously believes it is possible to create kernel modules that aren't GPL'ed, and he has allowed nvidia, amd and many other vendors to create proprietary blobs without legal issues. We also see something similar with Illumos' KVM support, where they are loading the GPL'ed KVM module into their CDDL kernel. The argument is that KVM was not developed as "part" or dependent on Illumos, only minor changes had to be made to allow it to work there instead of on Linux, as such it is not a derived work of Illumos and can be used even though the GPL and CDDL are incompatible.

The same case is being made here for ZFS, the OpenZFS code has been modified to work as a Linux kernel module but it is not a derived work of Linux as it is a standalone product that someone just so happened to port.

Legal precedent on this is going to be very interesting to watch if someone decides to take this case to court.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLAndPlugins
While I don't see why this is necessary, I admire the wording that the ruby team has chosen. If more codes of conduct looked like this I do believe there would be the amount of pushback there has been.
It's a Kensington Orbit and yes it has a great (smooth) scroll wheel surrounding the entire trackball.
I'm a fan of both https://www.headspace.com and http://www.calm.com to get started. Both have free options to start out, and don't require a large amount of time to get started. The guided meditation at Headspace was key for me to get walking down this path.
Personally I don't find either one offensive. But the word "fuck" is generally considered, at least in American culture, to be the most offensive of all expletives, while the idiom "drop a bomb" is considered completely inoffensive. In fact, it was news to me that it was considered offensive in Europe. Where in Europe do you live?
My hope has been that we could pressure the government to open up more radio bands for public use, then create an open source baseband that communicates on those channels. This would have the side benefit of eliminating our reliance on the large carriers for our communications.

There is some spectrum in the 600MHz range the government have been talking about re-purposing, but frustratingly they seem more interested in giving that to corporations than letting the public use it.

Then you can engineer the over the air protocol to be anonymous. Tower operators could be paid by bitcoin.

A truly secure cell phone network is possible. The problem is that certain people don't want us to have secure systems, and we're somewhat reliant on the government to afford us that opportunity.

I would imagine that if you focused on how it would help out poor Americans by offering them something cheaper, you'd get more traction than if you focused on privacy.
I submit this here to highlight the new no-privacy privacy policy :-) USA Today is just one that caught my eye when a story there identified they had changed it. The sad things (for me) are that they have given themselves the right to give any and all information to whomever, they can and will use personally identifyable information (which is great for retargeting and stalking) and your ability to limit that is pretty much limited to not going to their web site any more, which is pretty much the option I'll take.

Makes me feel nostalgic for the days when you could pick up a discarded newspaper on the train and catch up on the news without giving away your privacy.
It wouldn't be useful in this particular case because you wouldn't actually get to see the browser window (I guess you could curl it or something). But this is a really neat tool, I'll definitely be using it. Thanks for sharing!
Which AWS service is right for your application?
Seriously? http://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/open-lawsuit-...

I don't know how much business you have actually done with Paypal or what you have done, but Paypal has screwed numerous good small businesses and charities with their horrid policies disguised as fraud protection. In the past 7 years I have worked with a lot of companies and done a significant amount of e-commerce work which involves payment resolution, and we almost always ran into issues with Paypal holding funds on good clients.

We had a number of clients where their marketing took months to get traction and then had an above average to explosive month only to see Paypal freeze the funds as they flagged them as "fraud". We could prove legitimate orders and had the product to ship, Paypal didn't care. One company almost went out of business because of it, luckily they were able to line up some insane interest rate loans to help cover themselves while Paypal fucked them over. Paypal doesn't care, they will sit on that money regardless of what you can prove -- did you see/read the class action lawsuit? BTW -- I personally don't have an issue with Paypal doing an initial hold when the account suddenly goes from charging say $5k/month to having a $15k or $45k month, or some variation of that, but once you can show them it is for valid orders then they should hand over the funds.

To the OP, I have no clue how Braintree is after the Paypal acquisition but I would never trust them to run my business from, solely because they are now subject to Paypal's corporate governance. One last point, I do not feel this was a Paypal employee issue, it is an executive level/corporate governance issue with how they decided to implement their fraud protection. It need not be this way as many banks and other providers have proven for years.
Linux and breakfast cereal: Why are there so many flavours?
Is the status line technically a header?
So people are more worried on being featured on PH than having a profitable business? Am I the only one who couldn't care less about PH?
that government official in the story is murli manohar joshi. he does not know his elbow from his posterior.

Joshi is an entitled superstitious hindu fanatic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yND74tSqlBA If he endorses the product, it is probably a scam
I have a secret dream of having a secure "big data in a box" solution based on Linux / GPUs (likely nVidia) and lots of storage (like 8 6TB drives in Raid z2). This processor and motherboard would be fine if it had more IO (4-6 16x slots) and onboard 10Gbe. Right now seems like this is still a pipe dream.
>Let me remind you, than if I'm not mistaken in US law enforcement can search your phone without any sort of warrant

not if it has a password
I'm worried that they are being compared to a bank that has face recognition software to access their accounts.

You can fill most face recognition software with circles and a line drawn on paper.
> If you accept that sometimes it does sustain FOSS [..] I don't see how that point [sometimes it does not] follows.

There are many different ways to achieve market share, and these different strategies have (a) many consequences beyond merely (b) getting more paid developers. Even though (b) can help the FOSS ecosystem, in many cases (a) includes effects that harm the FOSS ecosystem, that more than offsets (b). For example, this mjg59 article talks about Canonical's trademarks. This can be argued to "increase market share" but it undermines the principles of FOSS, and prevents other developers from building on top of much of Ubuntu et al. (edit: another thing is not bothering to spend money on core infrastructure products because they're less attractive to users; OpenSSL is one famous example but there are much better pieces of software out there that deserve similar if not more levels of funding.)

Another thing to consider long-term and short-term effects. Even if one big company really does FOSS genuinely well for a short time, if they capture 99% market share that is still an uncomfortable situation, because eventually there is a massive risk they will ditch the FOSS part and turn parts of their software ecosystem less free (now that everyone is locked in). The risk increases with churn as new executives are brought in, that don't care about the values of the previous executives. (edit: the risk is less with a product that is more easy to fork, e.g. software that does not used centralised services, and FOSS already carries this quality somewhat.)
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How ergonomic are Matias switches compared to Cherry switches? My understanding is that the Matias' bottom out to register a keypress like the cheap rubber domes. I don't have much about Matias in my notes:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/keyboa...
Then take issues with illegal subpoenas. Siding with Apple on the current Apple/government discussion is trying to cure a symptom instead of a cause.
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As long as you're fiddling inside the HTTP server, why not just redirect requests from IP addresses known to belong to the serial offender sites to an infographic showing the number of times those blocked sites have copied valuable content without licensing it first?

It wouldn't be more than an inconvenience to them, but some people deserve to get rude gestures when they come 'round to mooch.
Marcus Aurelius has been on my reading list for years, but he never got to the top of the list. Maybe it's time to read something on this subject, like one of your suggestions, thanks!
For people interested in getting these printed as posters, you could probably use FedEx:
http://www.fedex.com/us/office/poster-printing.html

IKEA sells pretty cheap frames for stuff like this too:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/dec...
Kinesis Advantage - mechanical key split keyboard, 2 USB ports in the back. They're updating it, so if you're in no hurry, they'll be releasing an improved version at some point (AFAICT, months, not years, from now). https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage-for-pc-mac/
the only real option was to offer to hide negative reviews in return for money.

I don't understand this. Why couldn't they sell "you seem to be looking for a dentist... this other dentist (who paid for this advert) has a higher rating than the one you're looking at right now"? It seems that Yelp could have been in the enviable position of selling advertising which is actually useful to the viewer.
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Paving the way for Justinmind at Endicia
Apple doesn't make the same promises about encryption and privacy on their iCloud service that they do their iPhones, that's the only difference. If you store information in iCloud and the FBI comes asking for it, Apple will hand it over. By the very nature of iCloud, Apple has access to your data. Not so with your iPhone. Apple says your device is encrypted and they cannot access it without your consent, end of story. Forcing them to create tools that invalidate this promise on one iPhone means creating tools that can invalidate the promise on any iPhone.
I used a Kinesis Freestyle (1st edition) for five or six years before building an Ergodox. If you're having trouble with certain chords, qihqi's suggestion is really the way to go: you need to train yourself to use both hands. I thought I would like having modifier keys on the thumb cluster of the Ergodox, but ultimately found it very uncomfortable. So learning to two-hand basic chords on a split keyboard will help you out regardless which specific keyboard or key layout you eventually use.
Way too many idiots playing entrepreneur. My customers aren't on PH. Most, if any "customers" on PH are short lived.
Paying off small debts first isn't just a "natural tendency." Consumer advice sites actually encourage this as a motivational strategy. Every single one of them.

Having read this, now I question the objectivity of those types of advice pieces.

For example, here's a story on US News that covers three strategies for paying off credit card debt. The first tip is to pay off higher interest cards. But the second is to pay off the smallest debts first and pay the minimum on the other cards. What?!?

http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2014...

This "3 strategies" thing is very widespread, and all of the sites are the same, from bank sites to credit recovery sites to financial reporting in magazines and newspapers. The first that's presented always sounds complicated (calculate bla bla bla). The second strategy is always "pay smallest debt first." Nice and simple. If both are presented as good strategies, which do you choose? The one that requires work, or the one that seems simple?

I used to read these types of advice pieces when I had high debt following a layoff in 2002. I've recovered since then (paid off $65k in debt all at once with a cash out on my house, thus avoiding bankruptcy). And now the No. 1 rule is do not use credit cards to pay for things you can't afford. Use them only as a tool to stay on the grid so that you have a good credit rating so that you get better deals on everything that involves looking up your credit rating. (You'll get a lower price on a car, for example, if you have a better credit rating.) So take out a couple cards; make small purchases; auto-pay on a regular schedule. (Do not change you payment schedule or make extra payments. Some credit reporting agencies lower your score when you do this.)
My main issue with Product Hunt is that most of the products are so trivial that it almost seems like a parody site.

A sample from right now:

'The funniest dog name generator ever'

'Fast and easy way of collecting email addresses'

'Finally, an emoji keyboard for the modern desktop'

Don't people have more interesting things to do with their time, or try to create more interesting, useful products?
The article ignored the completely rational reason to pay off small debts first - increased liquidity.

By paying off small debts first you can reduce the amount of money you have to come up with each month. If you have any uncertainty around income or other expenses, there is real value in that.

Doubly so for debts that could be foreclosed on - if you prepay your mortgage a bunch and then fall behind and get foreclosed on, all that prepayment is just cash down the drain. If you had completely paid down some smaller debts instead, you would be in a better position.

Basically, paying down higher-interest debt first is optimal only if you're certain that you'll never default on anything.
I made meditation the top priority of my day. I do not leave the house or answer the phone/door until the two hours are finished.
> Go2shell also makes iTerm2 slightly even better, just don't mistype it without that 's'.

There's also OS X's "cdf" command to cd to the currently open Finder window (I think of "cdf" as shorthand for "cd to finder")
I've always been annoyed that mathematicians are stuck on one letter variable names. Worse, when they ran out of letters instead of rethinking the policy and considering descriptive variable names they instead decided to use foreign alphabets instead.

Regular mathematical notation is like what you would get when you run a program through one of those obfuscators that blows away all of the comments and whitespace, reduces variables down to a single letter, and renames all of the functions to single letters.

But we can't change it because it would confuse all of the existing mathematicians who spent years memorizing all of the quirks of the system.
> you can seek a better alternative because the standards are open.

That's not really true, GPL says nothing about standards, you can create your own proprietary standard with your code covered under GPL. Funnily enough you can have GPL software and create a minefield of confusion like Oracle does with the OpenJDK which is GPL.

I fully agree on the first point though. Sadly many people forget that.
>Then take issues with illegal subpoenas.

There was nothing illegal in my example. Maybe now it would be after Lawrence v. Texas, but not before. Saying one should support the law because it is the law is supporting the tyranny of the law.
It's more common in countries where rule of law has broken down, for exactly the reason dageshi is talking about: you can make the laws harsh and as long as they are broadly not enforced people will not care, but it gives you cover to go after your domestic enemies.
If we just share all of our part-time workers with other companies, we can have our businesses filled full-time without ever having to hire a full-time employee! Think of all the money we will save in never having to provide benefits to our employees!
As a tech worker living in San Francisco, his 'open letter' infuriated me. If anything, it makes my life here more difficult, and reflects poorly on the industry I work in. Unintended consequence? Probably. But I will happily vent my frustration with his callousness, lack of tact and compassion, just as he vented his frustrations.
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What is the best statistics text for experimental physicists?
I am an experimental physicist and don't have much idea about statistics. At some point, I feel the need to learn it. Would like to hold reading group and learn it together with other group members. Could you help me with finding a good statistics text book for experimental physicists?
Thank you all...
Can you try now?
http://codeology.braintreepayments.com/
Yes, but when someone is writing down the equation they don't say:

"Sum of this set from 1 to infinity"

They use a capital Sigma, and scatter the symbols around it. The terms exist, but they're not present in the equations!
I think you hit the nail on the head. My wife and I are using the debt snowball method and I just payed off one of our debts in full yesterday.

It may not have been the largest debt or the one with the highest interest rate but it's one thing I don't have to worry about now. It's one fewer company I have to deal with monthly. It instills a sense of hope that "we can do this!" that I'm hoping will bolster our budgeting and help us tackle the larger debts.
I honestly don't get it. Maybe is my fault, I don't know, maybe I'm missing something.
> I made an alert pop up that said “poop” whenever someone loaded the Stuff.co.nz page. Like I said, I'm sophisticated.

I would probably have handled this much less maturely, haha. What would be the legality of displaying some really graphic image (like goatse) to only 10% of users when you detect you're within an iframe? :P

Ripping the source code of the visualization is so scummy though. I wish I could say I can't believe the Daily Mail, but this article isn't even surprising...
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I haven't used them personally, but according to Matias all three of their switches actuate at 2.2mm and bottom out at 3.5mm.

http://matias.ca/switches/click/

http://matias.ca/switches/quiet/

http://matias.ca/switches/linear/
I don't see how. "Break into this phone." "OK." Then later: "Break into this other phone." "Can't." How does that violate anything?
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You don't need anything to get started. No app, poster, book or garb.

Just sit.
People quoting the guidelines won't change a thing. There'll always be threads like this one if downvoting is clearly abused.

And hardly anyone cares about pg's opinion, especially in a thread about FOSS, to which he has contributed fairly little.
I think Torvald's is a much more nuanced and reasonable approach to this issue: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/gpl_modules.html.

Also, if you feel that kernel modules should be GPL without exception then you should lobby the Linux kernel maintainers to export all symbols with the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL macro. As it now stands, the division of exported symbols into two classes ("normal" and "GPL only") is a strong indication that the copyright holders do believe that kernel modules are not necessarily derivative works.
Its one thing to share you anecdote of not having issues with paypal, but its a pretty shitty thing to do to try and act like anyone that does have a problem is in the wrong.
10 minutes seems like a pretty substantial amount of time to me.
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political parties should be illegal, one of the founding fathers warned us about it
I bet you if you sourced it well, made it look formal, and referenced the relevant articles, visualizations, etc. they might pay it rather than fight you if the price was reasonable.

Otherwise, you can always send them to collections for non-payment and/or hire a lawyer.
Well, the company behind the Freedom 251 says it isn't subsidised and they use "economics of scale". Sounds legit ;-)

"No telecom carriers have come forward to announce their partnership with Ringing Bells, so a carrier-based subsidy is off the charts.

Government subsidy was ruled out by the company at the launch event. As reported by NDTV Gadgets who were present at the launch event, Ringing Bells President Ashok Chadha confirmed that there is ‘no government subsidy’ for the Freedom 251"

Source: http://www.xda-developers.com/freedom-251-why-it-is-a-3-7-an...
If startup slogans were honest
Yes, if it's under £5000 as I understand it?
Sounds like a typical SF startup, but taken to gratuitous excesses.
It's easy and cheap to tuck a small USB hub underneath a tented split keyboard, assuming that's what you want.
Lots of similar BBS games, like some versions of Empire for example [1], supported "play by mail" in various forms so they could be played on custom clients offline followed by uploading the moves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Classic
Perhaps more accurate to say "Taking steps to manage traffic is the responsibility of a content host."

People make HTTP requests for all kinds of reasons. If you don't have someone managing your hosting, the responsibility defaults to you. That's one of the reasons there's an ecosystem of cloud providers now to shoulder the burden of this implementation detail that people don't want to know just to make content available online.

But the core point stands: It's the Internet. You can't trust the clients to behave; assume the worst of user input. Calling out Daily Mail as terrible (which they are, and which people should do at every opportunity ;) ) doesn't solve the root problem that nothing about the protocols restricts using <iframe> to pull in cross-domain content.
I dunno, I think the ultimate hacker would sometimes reach over to the other side with her left or right hand. Split keyboards seem like kind of a walled garden to me.