skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great article. I specially liked this bit:

Orwell didn’t think that Dickens should have written different novels; he loved Dickens. But he understood that Dickens bore the ideological marks of his time and place. His class did not see the English social order as tyrannical, worthy of being overthrown. Dickens thought that large contradictions could be tamed through small moments of justice. He believed in the power of changing hearts, and that’s what you believe in, Orwell says, if you “do not wish to endanger the status quo.”
Since we're doing alternatives for Civ-lovers, I really, really enjoyed Galactic Civilizations II. It had the right mix of massive scale, diverse strategy, politics, and an interesting combat mechanic with user-designed units. Endgame is sometimes a bit weak, when it's obvious you've won and have to grind through a multi-hour campaign of genocide, but it's the only game that's come close to that feeling of depth and complexity I got as a teenager from the Civ series.
Bypassing the paywall is more unethical that blocking ads. It is one thing to have control over your own browser but another to steal something from another site.

Also, isn't it illegal to bypass computer security?
Especially that licensing requires X time in an app. Test about consumer protection, knowledge, or meanings, but don't require meaningless time.
Thanks for sharing! The point here isn't just calculating the reading time based on a WPM metric, it's fetching a remote page, analyzing it to find the main content and then doing the maths, among other stuff taking into account any images.
Fastest-growing Airbnb market at risk as lodging-scarce Japan cracks down
As the article ultimately is a critique of Microservices as the current architecture du jour, the title should probably contain the word "Microservice" - I would have gone for how the article's headlines are set up:

"Pop Culture Architecture - Example: Microservices"
Seems like they succeeded in their objects of "annoying web hipsters"?
>Real-world applications require backend systems with access control, mutable data, certain information being kept secret, and so on - something that seems fundamentally at odds with the design of IPFS.

And not a single one of those things you mentioned has anything to do with HTTP. Those are all application level semantics.

So why would IPFS be any different. I fail to see why IPFS needs to speak to these things.
No country needs another's precedent to proceed with their own laws based on their own basic laws.

They are not "waiting to see how country X handles this". If they want to they will. They have large enough markets to force or persuade companies to comply. China is not waiting to see if the US will censor news outlets to see if they can censor journalists. They'll just go do it. They'll do it like India did to BBM a few years ago, if they so wish.

They don't need the imprimatur or precedent from anyone else.
Yep probably was the same Fullscreen MCN. It was around 2014 they stopped using fullscreen.net
https://web.archive.org/web/20140311010217/http://fullscreen...

Very litigious. They are the same group behind the fine bros trying to trademark the word "React"

http://superfame.com/post/fine-brothers-copyright-react-trad...

http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/01/youtubes-fine-bros-face-le...

and notorious for taking down videos or claiming copyright google h3 productions and fullscreen.
VC is where high-profile tech execs are put out to pasture (see: Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo, Reid Hoffman, Phil Libin, Peter Thiel). You won't see Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos becoming a VC any time soon (or probably ever).

And of course she will be investing other people's money, not her own.
DOJ Escalates Battle with Apple Over San Bernardino Shooter's Phone
> I have met incredibly educated people that are still ignorant about how credit cards/interest charges work and only internalized "Never use credit cards!" advice.

I feel that on a rational level, I understand the credit card companies' game, but more than that, I fear them and their power and intelligence.

Sure, I'd like to think I'm smart enough not to be tricked by them, but it's safer to avoid the deal with the devil altogether.
Well if you moderated comments/users that made threats of physical violence against me I wouldn't be tempted to make posts referencing them. You can't deny seeing the comment in question since you replied to it.
Maybe I'm not expressing myself directly enough: when you overdraw your checking account, it's the latest mistake of a long series of mistakes. If having a paycheck delayed for a week causes you to have a negative net worth, you should reduce your expenses or get a better job.
Indeed, I feel like a combination of the "amazing city sites" being already occupied by city-states as well as how terrain bonuses seemed weaker, especially production bonus terrain, made exploration in 5 less exciting.
> Equivalent exceptions have existed for many years, for various other stand alone, self-contained, non-GPL and even proprietary (hi, nvidia.ko) kernel modules.

If your conclusion depends on asserting the obvious legality of nvidia.ko and saying that you're just doing what they are, you're in a super bad place.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-gl...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-19/secret-mem...

Yeah, so....
Good eyes. I've been bitten by those before, took me a while to hunt that bug.
Once the software exists, due to Apple's specialized knowledge, what's to stop them from issuing a NSL for Apple's signing keys + access to the remote update mechanism... then the FISC rubber stamps warrants en masse and Apple devices are used to spy on tens of millions of Americans. It sets a horrible precedent that the government can redirect the development resources of a private company.

How many millions of dollars in engineering salaries will this take? Project management? They're demanding an entire blackhat division of Apple be spun up, with the goal of circumventing other teams security effort.
Those are ordinary Buddhist monk's robes.
Great book by a legendary author ---- I still remember I had to read the book during my secondary school days for my literature classes and we were tested on the material in the book during our finals. I really enjoyed the book (very poignant ending) and I would read the book multiple again and again during my free time.

A timeless storybook about bravery and courage in the face of blatant racism and discrimination. As a society, we should work towards ending racism and discrimination in all spheres and this book will surely play a part towards this goal ...
> If the person with Tesla.com decides they want to buy a nice condo or house, sure, it’s a great idea to spend $500k or $1m buying that name.

It sounds like the subject is the owner of Tesla.com:

> If [Bob] decides they want to buy a nice condo or house, sure, it’s a great idea [for Bob] to spend $500k or $1m buying that name.

If you click through to the full quote you can see clearly that the subject is the purchaser of the domain.
And congratulations, you have likely just "exceeded authorized access" and committed a felony violation of the CFAA punishable by a fine or imprisonment for not more than 5 years under 18 U.S.C. § 1030(c)(2)(B)(i).

From the ABA: "Exceeds authorized access is defined in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to mean "to access a computer with authorization and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or alter."

To prove you have committed this terrible felony, the FBI will now demand that Apple assist in disabling the secure enclave of your device in order to access your browser history. But remember, they only need to do this because they aren't allow to MITM all TLS and "acquire" -- not "collect" -- every HTTP request your machine ever makes.
from the docs it seems similar to ios background refresh, which has ~10 minute minimum interval
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
The typefascists have won.
Storytelling uses any avenue possible to express the story.

Shamans dance around a fire, play-actors get on stage, Film
directors use CGI , actors, puppets, sets, and so on.

A writer writes. A good writer uses all of the tricks available to them that their language provides and is capable of doing so in a consistent manner to create their own written voice.

'To Kill a Mockingbird' was both well-written and a good story; the social impact it created reflects that.

I've read plenty of works that are either exclusively well-written, or exclusively a good story. It's not rare.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a long standing Google's policy that the version of the page served to their crawler must also be publicly accessible. That would then be the reason why WSJ articles were accessible through the paste-into-google trick, rather than because WSJ was incompetent and failed to "fix" the bypass.

So does it mean that Google will no longer index full WSJ articles or does it mean a change in the Google's policy?
Protocols Instead of Platforms: Rethinking Reddit, Twitter, Mod and Free Speech
> You're not including everything.

And you're not including the first words of each bullet point, which clearly ARE illegal here.

- disclosing state secrets, endangering national security, or harming national honor and interests

Illegal, possibly illegal, and while we don't have a concept of national 'honor', going against national interests can be illegal, depending on context.

- inciting ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, undermining national unity, or going against ethnic customs and habits

Even the second point (inciting ethnic discrimination) is contrary to our hate speech laws, and the first point definitely is.

- spreading rumors, disturbing social order, or undermining social stability

I didn't include this because it's a maybe, but unfounded rumours are often considered slander, and disturbing social order is often considered hate speech (though not always).

- insulting or slandering others, infringing upon the legitimate rights of others

Illegal.

> Note that all of these are vague, intentionally vague at that. Whether or not you violated these rules is entirely up to the interpretation of the CCP.

You're not familiar with 'common law', are you? Canada's law system (I assume the same holds true for other countries who adopted Britain's system of laws) isn't set in stone, are quite a bit is left to interpretation. It's not particularly unusual.

For instance, our last government used an anti-terrorism law to try strip the citizenship of and deport someone who was born in Canada, on the basis that he 'could' be eligible for citizenship in a country he's never stepped foot in. Granted he was convicted of a crime, but goes to show that, even in Canada laws can be interpreted rather broadly.
You might look at Mythlogic as well--I got a laptop from them a couple of years ago and have been pleased by it. Falcon, Mythlogic, and a few of the others are using Clevo shells as the base--not super cutting edge tech, but solid, quality build. Worth what you pay for it.
Google's “Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich' Tax Move
Which is partially due to regulations that oscillate from excruciatingly vague to demanding particular outdated technologies, that make it very difficult to sanely comply with the ever expanding regulation of Health IT systems. A second factor is that the domain is quite complex, leading to serious challenges in automating systems. The reason certain transactions between providers and third-party payers (like Medicare) are hard to automate is that they are often essentially negotiations.
Do these tools provide ways for engagement on social media as well? They all seem to be schedulers/automation tools.

Also, do they do email as well?
Someone working in a company printing (?) indie games isn't an asset, though (except in the accounting sense of the lender, as a stream of repayments; but that's not the perspective that's under discussion - individuals borrowing, not lenders lending).

Point being my rationale was slightly different; it includes more things - it's more general - and it's a bit more negative on the idea of simply buying a rent producing or appreciating asset.
It's not related the topic and I'm not proud of what I'm selling so better not share it :P
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Nope. The CEO will just be tried, convicted and jailed. And while that's happening, the backdoor will be quietly installed. Remember Quest[1]?

[1]: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_25434854/former-qwest-...
r1.3 added blinking to the page.

I love it!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11135179
This is a good argument, but I'm not sure that I buy this. There are plenty of industries (I think of the cable and cell-phone industries, but I'm sure there are others) where it's just a given that the service will be crappy, even though one company that started to respect its customers could seemingly corner the market. (I'm not sure what are the results of T-Mobile's exercises in respecting its customers. Their unfortunate net-neutrality stance with Binge On means that it's not an unalloyed win to go with them.)
Or cue what happened to Naachio.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...
Its almost sad how low our standards have become in what seems like a "native app".
What are the key Yahoo assets? Finance, Sports, Mail for sure. Maybe Tumblr?
This would be a great start to an Evernote replacement. I think the features already developed are the most difficult pieces.
Who has? Surely not the person who wrote the tutorial.
Looks like it mostly works, with the exception of a couple of tricky color effects (which have nothing to do with the CPU, and might depend on some composite video tricks).

In particular, the Kefrens bars at 4:42 render completely wrong.
Can you acquire good eating habits (by this I mean genuine preference for healthy food) after a lifetime of eating crap

Yes. When I met my wife she was quite overweight, having been brought up by a mom who ate whenever she was depressed and taught her some really bad habits. At some point she decided that she was sick of the way she looked (I was perfectly fine with it). So she began to eat healthy foods, joined a gym, took up running, and lost a huge amount of weight and gained a healthier lifestyle.

I think the problem isn't that it can't be done; but it is a very difficult change that essentially requires rewiring yourself and constant vigilance to not fall back into old habits.
Yahoo has a deal with AT&T to provide web email service for them. I have an account that dates back to SBC and hope I don't lose access to it. I have my bank and other stuff going to that email. If Yahoo sells their email service I hope I can still access my email account. This will effect a lot of people if they start shutting down old accounts.

Already Yahoo Mail requires a mobile number to sign up for a free account and not everyone has a mobile number.
You have to hand it to apple - they are awesome at naming.
> Farms raise seed round

Pun intended??
> For the record, mine is close to 18 years old and continues to work just fine for watching broadcast television.

That's the key point. Your TV is fine because it's old. New ones are built with planned and unplanned obsolescence (unplanned is when your "smart" TV loses half of its functionality because some service goes off-line or even changes their URL or something).
Again, not much different than here. Meat prices have skyrocketed in Canada, as have produce prices, and the prices of everything else. We're in a recession. There's hardly any employment opportunity for recent grads. Almost all my family has gone to the US. On the plus side, my 1.5 hour commute (each way) is now 25 minutes.
I guess the idea of putting comic sans MS as a way to force companies into putting relevant customised status error messages for users has failed.

EDIT see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240906

For 500 a ticketing or a contact info to report the problem
For a 404 whatever can help the user finds it way
For congestion status a link to a status page?
For stuff 40? that requires payment a link with a link for legitimately acquiring it ...
The webmasters email in case there is something to report could be nice too ...

It really is business meaningful to customize them, I fully support shaming irresponsible webmasters that keep default status pages with comic sans MS.
Yeap. "Parallel construction".
Lets put it a slightly different way, lets say you make safes for protecting valuables. And you make your safe so that any attempt to break into it without the combination would destroy the contents, or make it so that the only way to open it, like cutting into the steel with a torch, would destroy the contents.

The FBI can (and does) hire locksmiths and safe crackers to get into safes where they believe there is valuable information inside, but they don't compel the manufacturer of the safe to create a capability of bypassing its safeguards, but if they did criminals would seek it out so they could rob those safes, and customers would stop buying that safe because they knew criminals could probably get their hands on the same tools the government could to break into and defeat its countermeasures.

So having the government able to order a safe maker to build a safe that can be broken into, the safe maker loses customers and business because their customers don't want a safe that can be broken into, they want one that protects their valuables from everyone.
When you want to eat protein, what do you eat? Meat. It usually comes from livestock (chicken, pork, beef, fish, etc). Crickets are far more sustainable than those conventional sources of protein.
None of that has to do with Apple creating the software, but rather with their handing over the signing keys etc.

The FBI or NSA could probably create their own software if they had the keys and source code.

I doubt the cost to Apple is over 100 man hours. But if it's too difficult, they can argue that and simply hand over the source code.
As someone who once owned geckos and fed them with crickets, the memory of the smell alone is enough to deter me from ever eating any cricket-based product.
I second the Gene Wolf recommendation.

Huge fan of China Mieville, but that's closer to "new weird" than "fantasy". Mieville's books are complex and gripping.
I believe that it could theoretically be built as a Decentralized Application using the Ethereum platform.

Disclaimer: I own Bitcoin and Monero. I do not currently own any Ethereum, and have no vested interest in its success.
GMOney cricket !
This is my daily driver and I really love it! It's mechanical, split and the layout is really not esoteric. The major upside from the UHK would be total firmware configurability, not an option on the Matias Ergo pro.
I would have to remap 'Mouse' though as this is the place for my 'Ctrl' key (I use Emacs a lot).
Not just "relatively small"—positively tiny. You could fit hundreds of these on a single FPGA.
I wonder how this compares to chromixium. Is it real chromium or just a custom shell like chromixium?

P.S. Neverware sounds like the ultimate vaporware.
It's a good source of relatively pure protein. Brown Rice is 8% protein by weight, whereas Crickets are ~70%.
On my Android phone, I have to unlock the screensaver and approve updates. Is it the same on the iPhone? If so, it seems as if the FBI are wasting their time asking Apple to update the phone, since they'd have to unlock it first.
GPL defines what is supposed to be the subject to its limitations. And apparently this use case isn't part of it. So how do you define what's in spirit and what is in the letter of the law here?
The facts are simple: Consumers have more protection on a credit card than a debit card. The Visa/MC logo on your debit card gives a false sense of consumer security.

Here's an example. Buy a laptop from ebay. Pay with debit card. Seller ships a brick in a laptop box sends via Fedex. You sign for the package, open the box, realize it's a brick. You dispute the charge with your bank. They are nice so they provisionally give you a credit. They call the sender. Sender says "I have a tracking number, he signed for it, he's lying, I sent him a working computer." You lose this dispute. The bank tells you to sue him in small claims court.

With a credit card, as long as you dispute before you pay the bill, the dude doesn't get paid, and you don't get charged. Once you pay, your rights are diminished.
tl;dr - USGOV master access to Apple's encryption gives repressive regimes the moral and political cover to publicly conduct the same surveillance they are already doing, but also to make similar demands of US Manufacturers. It will provide some competitive advantage to a hardware manufacturer from a country who refuses to backdoor their equipment, but not in markets where decryption keys will be required (eg. US)
they're probably doing some sort of a/b testing by selectively letting some clicks through
You've touched upon the idea of people unwilling to admit that they are in control of their own actions.

I read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell recently. He posted an exercise where by the end of it, it revealed certain internal biases I have towards black people people, namely that there's internal friction to associating positive words with black people as compared to association with white people (I'm not white).

I don't consider myself deliberately racist to black people. However, when I consider the representations of black people I get to see, it's usually negative (in the news, TV/movies) vs. the wide gradient I see for white people.

I know I unconsciously make connections between concepts, such as when I'm learning a new programming language, practicing an instrument, or reading article after article about a certain topic. I don't need to state a = b, because my mind will often make the connection for me. Given the amount of money and time invested in ads, surely I'm also influenced by messages that I consume and that they can affect how I connect certain concepts.

I've been able to attempt to counter it is to practice mindfulness, in order to be more conscious of these thoughts and question why certain feelings erupt. Additionally, reading more about automatic thoughts and the biases that influence them. Lastly, detaching myself from sources of 'bad' information, namely minimizing usage of Facebook Mobile (filled with ads) and television.
Replacing https with http worked for me:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=145590012904434&w=2
Steve Jobs was a rare talented individual who actually mattered in the CEO position.

Many CEOs have negligible impact.
> You've essentially paid $72 for the privilege of getting the TV you wanted a year earlier.

And that's almost an entire month of savings.

Now, correct your rates with what's on the other replies, and we are suddenly talking about 2 or 3 months of savings. Just for getting that TV an year earlier.

Yes, that may be worth it. But almost always isn't.
The Amazon Prime Store Card is an example. You can choose per transaction either 5% cash back or 6/12 (sometimes 24) months interest-free financing, depending on the size of the purchase. (You can only use the card at Amazon, though, and there's the Prime membership fee.) I've bought several plumbing fixtures and a laptop without paying any interest this way.
Coolermaster has a tenkeyless keyboard with cherry mx switches called Quickfire. It's about $75, which is less than half the price of most ergonomic/specialty keyboards. Been using one at work for two years now.