skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Chinese government point of view they have several good reasons (for them) for doing this, chief among them (in my opinion) saving face and controlling mass opinion.

When China was the huge success story it was, until recently, they were far more tolerant of criticism. Even then, the Chinese Government would clamp down very quickly on criticism. Right now their tolerance is pretty much zero. They do not want to admit or even hear that they have done anything wrong or that China has significant problems.

They also greatly fear any kind of mass action. During the boom years, with high employment and everyone happy, there was little chance of mass action. Now with entire industrial areas becoming ghost towns, high unemployment, no pensions and growing poverty, mass action becomes a real threat.
> I have generally found that when people become art critics and try to describe why the like/don't like a certain piece, it tells more about them as a person then it does about the piece.

For example, your comment reveals that you prefer casting aspersions on a person over addressing the substance of a remark, especially when that remark challenges a cherished belief. It also reveals that you feel you are unable to cope with the realities of the present without your unrealistic fantasies about the future.

I like this game!
Thanks, that sounds a lot more realistic than what I had in mind. Hopefully they'll get enough interested people to commit, it'd be great to have a choice in workstation architecture again.
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What do you not like about different thumb controls? It seems odd to me that the thumb is really only useful for hitting the space bar on standard keyboards.
> Basically, I realized that I would never have the time to use the domain in a productive manner.

Read: Tesla finally offered enough money. He just can't say as much because it would have made it easier for Tesla to argue he's squatting.

That quote from Jason Calacanis is horribly butchered, too.
No comic sans in httpd status pages
The UDRP was for Tesla Industries not Telsa Motors as per the article.
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Effective rules for workplace socialization
I'm starting a new job in a few weeks. I've noticed over the last few years that I increasingly become socially marginalized (which is of course my fault - my coworkers have mostly been very nice) at work, and would like to reverse the trend. I'm naturally pretty antisocial and very quiet, and am sick of this negatively affecting my professional life - I feel I could be much happier and more productive if I have a better sense of who people are and what they're working on. What I'm looking for is a pretty simple template - along the lines of 5 things I can do each day to improve my situation. Almost like a checklist. Anyone have any helpful advice?
In other words, show monetary damages or GTFO. Count up how many cents in server bandwidth they used and bill them.
Apparently:

Li Ka Shing (owner of Hutchison Whampoa -> owner of Three) is also investor in Shine

Seems to be true:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/digicel-becomes-first-mobile-c...
Making fun of people doesn't become a mark of maturity just because you use dispassionate language and complex vocabulary.

But hey, if it makes you feel better about yourself, go for it.
Another option the FBI has is to issue a search warrant for Apple's code signing key. Then they could flash the device themselves. That's what they did to Lavabit and it has a lot more legal standing than this All Writs Act thing.
Looks awesome! +1
Yes and no depending upon seniority and context. Senior developers leading teams should make sure the patterns being used are secure. Junior developers should mostly worry about getting stuff built. Companies of even a modest size should be having audits. Lessons from these audits should be taught to the team. Everyone (on the web dev side) should be familiar with OWASP [1].

The reality, however, is most companies will disregard security because a secure product with no revenue means no business. So revenue comes first, then security. And usually this is only done in a reactive fashion, like when (true story) a huge banking customer’s security audit finds a hardcode password string in your code that allows admin access. Guess it’s time to remove the back door for troubleshooting.

[1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Top_Ten_Cheat_Sheet
> But if they have a script, or even just a "building.txt" that says "install gcc 4.4 and set these environment variables, build is broken on 5.x, known issue", and they exclude that from their source distribution then they're in violation.

They don't.
Ask HN: Is there a site for outsourcing small IT jobs?
I'm looking for a website where you can find someone to take care of small computer related tasks for you ... maybe by specifying a price of what the issue is worth to you, or even dutch auction style.

I'm thinking of things like that small objective-c extension that you always wanted to have but never found the time to write. Or creating a good offline version of a website. Or finding available tools for UI testing on your current stack. Stuff like that.
> The front page real estate taken by the in-network posts comes at the expense of those out-of-network in a zero-sum game. Submitters without any network at all are screwed.

I don't know if that assessment is true. I don't have a network. If I submit something to PH and someone with a network upvotes it, their network is now more likely to see it. So if you create something cool, that a few people with networks discover on the upcoming feed, you're chances to reach even more people and get the foot in the door (and land on the frontpage) are higher now, with this new front page algorithm, no?
The post says the UDRP was for teslaind.com, not teslamotors.com.
Apple lost in court. They may win on appeal, or not, but as of now they've lost. I think that "it may or may not be legal" is not correct.

Re one iPhone: I responded that the same could be said about any warrent. The actual order requires them only to modify one iPhone. Whether that proves they can do it for others doesn't matter. If they need to do it in this case, they need to do it whenever the government has a warrent. That's not a slippery slope, and it doesn't affect any non warrented devices.
> An ISP modifying/controlling traffic. Dangerous precedent.

Some ISPs have already been adding ads. The only precedent here is that those guys are removing them instead.

Maybe we will live to see times when ads injected by ISP1 end up filtered by ISP2 and replaced with others by ISP3, all within a single TCP stream :)
I think the whole marketing time forgot to put a '0' and now they have marketing stunt to cash in on excitement of people. :)
The standard is "without undue burden".
Do you differentiate between true, physical hunger and emotional hunger, habitual hunger, the need to chew something just because it feels like the "right" thing to do in a particular moment?

I'm still learning to discern between true, physical hunger in my body, and my brain's desire to eat.
Yeah, I agree with this. I can buy an external monitor, mouse and keyboard for something in the ballpark of a $120. This is much nicer. It's more compact and portable. But, close to $300 seems a bit extreme.
Related, from a couple days ago, the "NexDock": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11117880
well, i'm a designer who successfully transitioned into programming. i do PHP, python and JS. wouldn't mind some ruby work either. i'm familiar with git, too
"I'm still not catching why selling insurance requires licensing"

Well, reading what Zenefits was doing, and how badly they screwed up might enlighten you.
Little Data, Big Results
When two nuts with rifles trigger a "National Security" problem I think the problem is with the Nation not the people.

What happens when an entire nation threatens us ?
What sort of work could this be used for?
I worked with Rob Levin at Linuxcare. It's nice to see his creation continues. It has a lot of good open source comunities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Rob_Levin
More of a fiasco than a scam. Somewhat like Aakash tablets (they created a buzz for sub 100$ tablet 4-5 years back). What is likely going to happen is very few (if any) customers will actually get the 4$ phones. The website will never show phones in stock. After all the buzz, they may eventually come up with a more realistic 40-50$ phone.
Netflix/Turbine Instance Discovery Based on EC2 Tags
Why don't we have remote take-over capability built into airplanes? People have certainly crashed them intentionally.

Why don't we have remote kill switches in cars? Think of the high-speed chases that could be prevented.

Why don't we have surveillance cameras in private homes? Think of all the crimes that could be solved.

Even if these are all off by default, and the law requires a court order to turn them on, Americans would not accept them. Encryption is no different, except that most Americans don't understand it well enough to see the parallels.

But these are just arguments against backdoors.

The even more fundamental argument is about the All Writs Act. Can the FBI require companies to develop new capabilities just with a court order? Shouldn't that require legislation? Why did we bother to pass CALEA, if the government could have just said "All Writs Act" and gotten what they wanted that way?
This kind of thing is beyond rampant at all levels.

I think the people most concerned about following the rules are small-medium businesses that are big enough for someone to try to sue, but not big enough to have an army of lawyers that makes them practically invincible from all claims that don't originate from a similar Super-Massive-Corp. Business insurance is pretty meaningless for practically any claim that doesn't involve unsafe facilities, and they often include clauses similar to "If you lose in the wrong way, you owe us all the money we paid for your defense".

There's an impression that since big media outlets are such big targets, they're careful about this type of stuff, but it's not true at all. They're only careful when it's another SuperMassive's copyright. They know that a legal fight with them is not possible for any other creator, and they know that they can get an immediate benefit by violating your copyright. They'll rip your stuff off, they may take down the thing they didn't have a license for after you complain, and they'll just laugh at you because they know an attorney is going to charge tens of thousands to even start proceedings against someone as big as them.

We need to fix the way legal costs work.
The scrypt encryption utility
"lendingclub" for insurance? It's about time..
It can depend on the usage of Tesla.com .

For example, if Tesla.com was running automotive content, it would give Tesla Motors a strong argument that Tesla.com is confusingly similar to their own.

This happens sometimes with parked domains because the ads come through a feed from an ad network. These networks have some basic keyword targeting, so a generic domain owner can accidentally run ads for the exact company they are trying to not infringe on.
Yeah, it cracks me up nearly every time. I mean, there's definitely a place for little projects like this where a couple people say "man there's gotta be a better way to collect email addresses and put them in a shared doc" and put something together. It's like a novelist writing a little two-page short story - just someone executing an idea.

But there are so many, and they're often so overwrought! I guess it's really easy to make a professional-looking landing page for stuff now, but that doesn't excuse the vapid self-hype the items give to themselves: "Hat management will never be the same again." "Prepare to start a new life with this revolutionary alarm app." "You've never experienced productivity unless you've tried these Slack automation scripts." (fake but still representative)

So yeah. I've thought about doing a column mocking these things but it would probably just leave me more jaded.
Read the book "Search inside your Self" from the googler Chade-Meng Tan. I've read some books about meditation and this one was the one that really resonated with me (a technical person).
Ah, you're right! I wish they would have made this clearer.
This reminds me of the days of flash. There use to be a ton of sites stealing other people's flash games. You could buy flash obfuscater and de-obfuscate programs. People would steal your game code and re-skin the game,etc. Then the new strategy was to put the ads inside the video game.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11104124
Check out the link [1] for a quick intro. Personally I'm not sure that China today is quite like the Soviet Union just before the end of the cold war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War#Final_years_.281985.E...
I followed the "order now" link:

>>$134.99 with Raspberry pi...$99.99 without Raspberry pi...Choose from our green or grey colour options. You are pre-ordering one of the first batch of pi-topCEED, delivery will be in April 2016.<<

I've wondered when someone would put something like this on the market...
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No worries! Humor sometimes doesn't travel well on discussion boards. :-)
$7/sqft? It looks like Costco is much cheaper: http://www.costcophotocenter.com/Help#/topic/pricing-shippin...
simple zsh calulator
If the document is that far out of date, its meaning likely is too. The founding fathers were human too; skilled legislators to be sure, but we have skilled legislators today too. Rather than try to stretch a document written for a very different time to apply to modern disputes, why not hold a new convention, with a remit not to figure out what people were thinking 200+ years ago, but to figure out the best answers to the questions we have today?
The main point for me is that it is never: Oh she has such good metabolism and can eat whatever she wants. And this is what you hear from overweight people.

The truth is that healthy weight people were either brought up with the good eating habits, or they acquired them on their own (with the former being more likely IMO).

So the real question is: Can you acquire good eating habits (by this I mean genuine preference for healthy food) after a lifetime of eating crap or are these habits set in the early childhood and largely unchangeable?

I really truly prefer veggies to pizza, but my parents were feeding them to me since I was 6 months old. And from what I read so far, preferences for food are established early (even in fetus stage, fetuses learn to like what their pregnant mothers ate).
Good: Split spacebar. Extra thumb button: only one of them per thumb, but that's a lot better than nothing.

Bad: No pointing stick, thumbable trackpad or other means of mouse-pointer control, so you still have to move your hand over and back between keyboard to mouse every time you need to switch between typing and pointer movement.
>Oh, wow, gee, that's so awful! Wow! I'm so sorry you can't get away with lying to the government and your customers any longer. I'm so sorry you can't get drunk at work and pretend you're still in college! Oh, this is just awful. Won't somebody do something?

Yes, thank you. Keep it up please.
But isn't it healthy to re-examine your core beliefs and made tweaks or even whole substitutions? I don't see anything in GPLv3 that directly contradicts the original four freedoms. It was evolutionary to close loopholes like Tivo.

But you have a second point: how you treat your allies and other sympathetic parties. Sadly, idealism seems to trend towards that behavior and it's pretty counterproductive.
You're right. Unlike Trump, Obama's misguided opinions actually matter.
How much is "undue burden"? In the past, the govt paid companies for ther wiretapping efforts. Would that make the burden less undue?
As long as the company publishes any modifications to Linux kernel, everything should be fine.
This. Don't get attached to PH, when the bubble is a poppin' PH will be gone.
$300 seems outrageously expensive for something like this.

$300 is enough for a chromebook, an arduino (or a raspberry pi!), and a boatload of motors and servos and things that they're going to enjoy learning to program with.

This thing doesn't even look like it exposes the GPIO pins. So, really, it's a $300 for a pretty low end arm linux machine.

Pi-top people: if you're reading this, I'm sorry if that sounds overly harsh. The thing you've created is a really nice looking, and is definitely something I would love to buy a stack of an put in my hackerspace, but at that price point, I can't justify it. It isn't that I don't like what you've done, it's that I do like what you've done, I just think it is overpriced.
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

That is one of my favorite quotes of all times, specifically taking into account the setting of the book.
From the website for the pi-TopCEED:

>$134.99 with Raspberry pi...$99.99 without Raspberry pi.<<
A bit too simple for an API, reminds me of Fuck Off As A Service. http://www.foaas.com/
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The Glassdoor rating of Zenefits crashed a lot earlier than the past few weeks.
Yes, when I'm not physically hungry, I try to not eat. I sometimes fail, but typically I allow myself only one snack a week. Also, I always eat very regularly, I can be really hungry even an hour before meal time, but I learned to just wait and ignore physical pain of being hungry (yep, it's painful for me to be hungry). I had some small success with exercise, but I didn't lose much weight, only gain some muscles.
What part of "permanent" did the author miss? Seriously, specs should be read literally, if interpretation is required then it's not a perfect spec.
So this debate may end of FBI asks Congress to pass a law and Congress certainly will. :-(
Secure enclave isn't available on the iPhone 5C involved in the high profile case that Apple has been responding to publicly.
It's nonsensical because there is nothing wrong with owning that domain (from multiple perspectives) and most importantly the ownership predates Teslas use of the name by a long time (and a short time is all you need). So unless the owner is trying to compete in an area similar to Tesla's trademarks it's a non starter.

UDRP won't get you a name unless certain conditions are met and even then there are ways to hold onto the name (you can file federal lawsuits for example) if there is enough money involved.

In the end this becomes a battle of nerves as well as gambling as to what the fold price will be of both parties before they walk.

The truth though is tesla.com is what I call a bastard domain. As a result of the fact that Tesla is effectively the only buyer of the name (because any new use they'd have established broad rights by their popularity let's say) it would be hard for a new buyer to justify purchasing the domain for as high of a price as Tesla would pay for it.
They have a trackball as an option if you want it. And a trackpoint. And a small touchpad.
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Interesting that it took so long to reach this conclusion. I thought Linux devs stayed away from ZFS mainly due to the licensing which leads me to believe it's not quite as 'obvious' as this post mentions.
Potentially 50% decrease in sales in their 2nd largest market though? That sounds really rough...
Hi @austinjp,

I would be more then happy to answer your questions!

1) Is HUG "production ready?": YES! Several large companies have emailed me or chatted with the community for support for their already in production APIs. Based on my communications for instance, I know for a fact that one API hosted with hug is leveraged by at least 10 fortune 100 companies.

2) I have several projects, that I continue to support like isort which are several years old. I don't abondon projects, and hug is already at the point where it isn't my project but a community project which has upwards of 16 contributors already.

The real reason to use hug instead of Django is because your code and therefore your liability and maintance cost will be drastically lower. In every example where I've ported or seen an API ported it's been upwards of 90% code reduction. In several cases even if hug just all the sudden went away, your cost for maintaining hug itself would still be smaller then using code developed on-top of Django. It's a major enough improvement not to be able to be ignored.

Thanks!

~Timothy
China has historically been too big to govern. Few regimes over the last 2500 years have managed to hold any major portion of what is modern day China under a single rule for any amount of time. While the PRC may make token shows of aggression on the world stage, all of their arrows are really pointed inwards.
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Also, RIM actually folds to these types of requests.

"RIM's carefully worded statements about BlackBerry security are designed to make their customers feel better, while giving the company ample room to screw them" - Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/uae_to_ban_bl...
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.

I think if keyboards originally were designed for thumbs to press Ctrl and Alt, in addition to Space, it would be the standard, and it would make sense.

As of now, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V are so standard that I wouldn't want to switch, and am glad that even Colemak doesn't force me to.

But pressing Ctrl+C requires much less hand movement than pressing a traditional backspace. If minimizing hand movement is the goal then backspace is the biggest offender. It is also one of the things that tends to skew the results for Colemak in studies regarding hand movement, making it appear better than it actually is.

Colemak would've been a better standard. But it is not the standard. Don't learn it. Just learn how to type correctly on QWERTY and get a keyboard with the features I mentioned.
What's this "other" side?
Really? They being Canonical? They just build their binaries with whatever happens to be installed on Bob's machine this week and then that becomes their official release?
We've officially reached Peak API. What's the algo?
Off-topic, but might I recommend quitting your job? I'm sure you've considered it already, but I think it might be a better solution than meditation
I actually think that either case(win or lose) have a lot of benefits for the government. If they win, they have the precedent and legal access ,so it makes their lives easier.

If they lose and the media circus leads people to strongly believe that the iPhone is 100% secure while it really isn't - gaining the trust that was lost due to snowden - this is really useful both from surveillance point-of-view , from blocking access to foreign countries, and for helping the iPhone usage grow, especially among "important" users ,be they legal or illegal.

But just looking at what seems more valuable for the government ,it seems that the second option is far more valuable. So i wonder ,why do everybody automatically accept the first motive ?
I am an iTerm2 user. I think it's a fantastic product.

That being said, if I see a pop-up dialog with an advertisement coming from my terminal application, I am going to uninstall it immediately and never think twice about it again.

I thought iterm was open source.