skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A variety of ways, but the major way is that big apartment complexes are willing to pay for leases you generate, because it's expensive to have units lie vacant. A lot of big sites list those paid listings exclusively, in order to maximize revenue generated, whereas we try to include every vacancy we can. We think that in the very long run, ours is the winning approach.
Often the law is not intuitive. Just because a ruling may seem wrong based on a blog post, doesn't mean the judge is inept as his job (although that's certainly a possibility)
> It's unclear if you're trolling, but assuming you're not, the analogy doesn't work because digital things and physical things behave in fundamentally different ways.

I'm not trolling at all. Genuine question.

Assuming what Apple said in the open letter is true:

> Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.

Is like ask the Company to create a tool/masterkey able to open "just that safe".

I well know that in software you can make the OS to auto destroy itself (TTL) etc... but still imagine that after they get the OS they will copy it and start reverse engineering it.

If we want to force the example is like when they 3D Printed the TSA's master luggage key from ... a picture: (http://www.wired.com/2015/09/lockpickers-3-d-print-tsa-lugga...)
Yeah. My parents went to deal with a phone at an AT&T location a couple weeks ago. They walked in with U-verse and apparently walked out with DirectTV.

I wasn't there but I'm going to assume they're pushing it hard.
ATT and Comcast are one innovation away from becoming like Blackberry.
Most answers only touch the issue of piracy of scientific articles, but let me answer your more general question.

I believe that copyright is immoral, hence "piracy", for me, requires no further moral justification.

Copyright is a racket, established by rent-seeking, mostly unproductive but powerful individuals/corporations. It's a cartel/monopoly that discourages market competition, one of the most important inventions in history. The only connection between copyright and theft that I see is that by extending copyright retroactively, politicians (and their corporate sponsors) are stealing from the public domain. most importantly, copyright does little-to-nothing to encourage creativity and likely even prevents it. I see it as an obstacle to progress.

I wouldn't necessarily oppose a limited copyright term (14-20 years seems plenty), but I completely oppose the current regime. However, I still often pay for media (after having pirated it and confirmed its value) to support the author(s).
Specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia

> RFA is funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an independent agency of the United States government responsible for all non-military, international broadcasting sponsored by the U.S government (such as Radio Free Europe), which appoints the board of RFA.

https://www.opentech.fund/project/tor-project

@torproject Funding to date:
2013 $600,000
2014 $900,000
Started using it with Enzyme, fell in love with unit tests again. Upgrade your tired old Mocha/Chai tests today! Keep Sinon though, Sinon is chill.
Ask HN: Data Engineer?
I'm a developer who's looking to specialize in some branch of software development. I've always liked working with data: collection and storage, cleaning, formatting, visualization, processing and extracting some insights(sometimes using NLP/ML libraries or 3rd party API's).

I know there's a "Data Scientist" role but I'm more interested in the whole process and not that much in the "insights" part.

Is there a name for what am I describing?. Who do you think are the more important companies/professional within this area?
Success is not the same as functional. One could argue that wikimedia has been very successful in its mission and it is at the same time also disfunctional.

I wouldn't call any of the non-profits I've worked at failures.

Hell, many people have described companies like Microsoft as badly disfunctional, but it would be hard to argue that they are not successful.

If I stepped on anyone's toes with my post, I apologize. I was not trying to take a swipe at any one or any type of organization. I'm still involved with a number of organizations and admire and respect the work that they do.
Getting my reddit account hacked is not the end of my life. Hell, getting my bank account hacked is not the end of my life. I don't want those things to happen, I will take precautions to prevent it.

But too often security people talk as though it's the only thing I should care about. And it's not, I care about other things too, to varying degrees.

So, to make an informed decision, I need to know more than just that Math.random() is insecure. Knowing that an attack wouldn't require physical access is the type of information I'm interested in. So thank you for that.
Android phones that backup all the photos to Google Photos? Seems like a good place to start.
Wow! What a great writeup! Please do write more, we sorely need this kind of refreshing honesty.
Link? My understanding is that they're operating at a relatively small operating profit margin, but their return on capital investment is not enough to cover their cost of capital.

I don't even understand your point about long-term investment. The future of computing is mobile, and wired networks are the real long-term investment?
Yes, the most noticeable differences are implemented. But this is very a superficial look. From the developer's page:

https://xamarin.com/forms

Xamarin.Forms is best for:
• Apps that require little platform-specific functionality

Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Android are best for:
• Apps with interactions that require native behavior
I wish they would start. I guess I'm far from a tween now but please draft me and instill discipline better than the schools I'm attending where no standards are properly enforced and the grade inflation is out of control. I'm tired of getting good grades for being the only one trying while I freak out trying to teach myself to fill all the massive holes in my education...
I have no idea how to convey plasticity to shareholders. I think it's the hardest quality to measure, and that's why I pointed it.

The GP and, for a lesser extent (but it's cumulative) you are talking about easy to measure, and yes, important metrics. But those are not the only ones. There are also hard to measure components of quality that do make it more subjective.
Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System (1994)
Hi this is Joshua Perina, CEO of Elastic Email.

http://elasticemail.com has a very simliar pricing structure to Mandrill including 25000 emails per month free.

We've been around since 2010, are growing fast and have sent billions of emails. Plus, we love our customers. Mandrill refugees are welcome!
On the downvotes, I assume it's because your point is not at all relevant to the article itself or the technology it discuesses. It could easily be copy-pasted to most any article about combustion engines. Technological improvement can be useful enough even if it doesn't "save the planet".

Hacker News comments are for discussion of the article content, rather than being a soapbox for your views and blogposts.
Unfortunately, due to the JVM, Clojure is not the answer for everyone.

It is not for embedded systems, not for Android (last I checked, it was very slow), and not for browsers. I believe that ClojureScript is probably what's going to take the crown, eventually.

Still, Clojure or ClojureScript missing a lot of things from Lisp. Restarts, for instance.
The Young Person Complaining About Her Job at Yelp Discovers Real Minimum Wage
I would definitely donate if they ran a campaign for firing the BoT and removing (or severely limiting) Jimbo's status.

"We've fired the entire board due to mismanagement! Now our editors and engineers need a better leadership ... please donate to help us though this difficult transition as we end this madness once and for all."

The publicity of that campaign would probably be enormous.
> the attacker just requests a valid one

How?
Has been going on for a while. As I wrote about a couple years ago with my own experience:

http://a1.blogspot.com/2014/08/zoes-secret-is-3-at-amazon.ht...
Not really, reference counting is generally considered to be more performant than GC. GC can end up thrashing the cache and doesn't work very well when using more than 8 to 16 GB of RAM.

Even the linux kernel uses reference counting as you need a rc / gc system to solve some problems.

ARC just inserts the retain/release calls that you'd make anyway, pretty much everyone agrees that there are very few degenerate cases with ARC and in the vast majority of cases it does the best that can be done, which is why almost everyone uses ARC now. (You can still turn it off if you really want in ObjC)
Yeah, but when you see the outrage that Merkel displayed over finding out her phone had been tapped by the NSA; do you seriously believe that the BND haven't tried the exact same thing on Obama or Cameron when they're in Germany?

My point is that a lot of the outrage is only because the UK and US are the only ones we know of.
Gabe Newell at Valve believes in this and it worked well when they brought in the team that made Portal.

"RPS: We’re really interested in your view on the independent games scene. I’ve just spoken to the Portal team and discussed Narbacular Drop and the job offer, and their shock and delight at finding themselves in that position…

Gabe: Something that gamers should probably understand is how important it is that game teams stick together. No matter how good a job a team does the first time they make a game they’re going to do a much better job the second or third time. There’s just so much value in a team having shared experiences to draw on, and my reaction looking at these kids was that they had done this fabulous thing. I go to all these trade shows and see all these tedious, derivative, lifeless games, and these kids had done something that was better than 98% of the gameplay I see. The idea that they wouldn’t work together again was a tragedy. They needed an opportunity to work together and ship a full-on game. If they were able to do that exciting a game the first time, then it’s nothing to what they’ll be able to do in the future. It turned out to be a really good idea."

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/11/21/rps-exclusive-ga...

Whole interview is great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Left_Foot

(Not the movie of the best-seller.)
Hacker news oddly quiet about this?
25000 emails/month is free at Elastic Email.

Disclosure: I'm from EE. ;)
Somehow Apple has managed to keep its signing key from getting out into the wild. Only Apple knows the systems required to keep that safe.

The same cannot be said of signed copies of software.

> If they ask for the software, Apple should deny that request because that's very different from asking for assistance on a case-by-case basis with a court order for each one.

If it comes to that, I'm sure they will put up the same fight. What's the difference to you whether they fight now or later? Must Apple act exactly as you would?

> The question reasonable, non-technical people are going to ask is: how is this different than asking to search a house. There's a court order, it's not just the FBI acting on its own. They're asking Apple to do it, and not hand over a master key, which would not be reasonable at all.

To those reasonable, non-technical people I would say the following: "If we create special signed software for the government for unlocking the iPhone, then terrorists will just use something else that is out of the reach of our government. We will have weakened our privacy and this will not keep us safe from terrorism. If the signed software gets into the wrong hands, it could be used by anyone in the world to hack into iPhones and get location data on your kids, your home, and other information you'd rather keep private."
Failure to monetize such as hypertargeted/local ads/deals or freemium features.

Winners tend to turn challenge into profit opportunities rather than give up and disappoint many people when they had something sizable which could be sold to someone whom can fix it or fix it themselves.

Too often, when people whom are uncomfortable with uncertainty and don't know what success looks like, they give up and throw away opportunity which may never come again because of their past behavior / reputation for not finishing things. My cousin nearly had a florist shop by having tons of orders, but gave up when he didn't know what to do by feeling overwhelmed... and I was so disappointed that he didn't handle it better to come out ahead in something he had passion and opportunity that passed by. (Self-sabotage or novice mistakes, who knows.)

I see these shutdown notices not as some self-deprecating contrition but as braggging about letting people down, destroying value and wasting their and all their customers' and investors' time and money... don't shutdown when you have a good team and customers, pivot or sell. (Don't squander assets: talent, social or capital.)
Is this the algorithm that was discussed in the article? I couldn't find a link.
One reason this was kind of urgent for us is:

1. The prevalance of low-end Android devices

2. The dominance of Android worldwide, e.g. http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp shows 2015Q2, android 82.8%, iOS 13.9%, everything else ~3%

We've also been working with Google to see what they can do to make Android/Chrome performance better with complex JavaScript like Ember and Angular. Chrome 45 improved things about 25% which is great, but when you start 500 to 800% slower, there's a long way to go..

Complex JavaScript performance on iOS is, and remains, amazing and stellar. Problem is not much of the world is on iOS.
I downvoted you because your comment doesn't contribute anything useful to the discussion. Barring some kind of technological silver bullet, "saving the planet" is ultimately a problem of politics and economics.

The next problem, of how we can maintain our lifestyle without breaking the emission limits that we set, is what inventions like this one help with. I expect that piston engines will continue to have some applications for as long as I'm alive, so improving them is a good thing.
Courts have the ability to appoint a special master to help with things like this. And interested parties -- such as Tor -- can usually file briefs with the court to introduce legally relevant information. But I'm not sure that's enough.
SendGrid it is. From what I've tested, it matches almost on par with what Mandrill offers.
> Link?

I can look it up.

> The future of computing is mobile

Landline networks aren't going anywhere, and yes - their usage will only grow. When wireless networks will compare to them in capability, pricing and etc. you can say that they are a replacement. So far there is no indication that it will ever happen.
I've developed the habit of just asking Google questions instead of crafting something to feed how I think the algorithm works. I also don't worry about ranking, just as long as something is in the top 10.

Does deluge bittorrent support retina display?

The 7th link result for that question has the text "Deluge has updated their program to support the Retina Display" in it's text summary. That's good enough for me.
It isn't many paragraphs into the article at all before the author writes, "First of all, let’s look at the central hypothesis, namely that cell phone radiation causes decreased sperm count and motility, both of which are associated with male factor infertility, for obvious reasons. There’s only one plausible biological mechanism (and, even then, it’s not so plausible) to explain how cell phone radiation might decrease sperm count and motility. After all, it’s well known that increased temperature is associated with decreased sperm count and quality. It’s the very reason that fertility doctors recommend that men being evaluated for infertility wear boxers instead of briefs."

He then goes on to investigate the plausibility of that claim in great detail and rejects it. You can follow the rest of the article as an example of how to read a medical study thoughtfully. (The author is a medical researcher who writes blog posts to educate the public on what medical research shows and what it doesn't show.) The conclusion is, "The bottom line is that cell phone usage as measured by a study like the Technion study is almost certainly a confounder, a surrogate for some other factor that is known to be related to infertility that the study doesn’t control for."
http://wocketwallet.com could have a potential need for an extra embedded dev.... Just throwing that out there if you're interested in chatting about it
I love this idea:

“What if, in the future, instead of growing a tree, cutting it down, and then using mechanical engineering to sort of reshape it into a house, we just design a tree to grow into a house or design moss or mushrooms or something else could provide our furniture for us?”
> Somehow Apple has managed to keep its signing key from getting out into the wild. Only Apple knows the systems required to keep that safe.
> The same cannot be said of signed copies of software.

Presumably, you could employ the same systems for both pieces of data, since it should all stay within Apple.

> What's the difference to you whether they fight now or later?

Because they should respond to the request that was made on its merits, not on "what might happen".

I'm just pointing out the kinds of arguments that reasonable, non technical people are making.
I never claimed Watson had anything beyond a superficial understanding, nor did I claim it was somehow generally intelligent.

My sole point was that it's a state-of-the-art AI project that utilizes deep learning, and its primary specialization is neither vision nor speech/NLP.

>... or using it on anything other than Jeopardy style questions.

Given how many verticals IBM is building Watson for, they would likely disagree strongly with that statement.
Is Blind Hiring the Best Hiring?
Hi this is Joshua Perina, CEO of Elastic Email.

http://elasticemail.com has a very simliar pricing structure to Mandrill (their old pricing) including 25000 emails per month free.

We've been around since 2010, are growing fast and have sent billions of emails. Plus, we love our customers.

Mandrill refugees are welcome!
That's a bit extreme. Just because there is a weakness in the implementation details of the iPhone PIN mechanism does not mean that all phones are weak. Apple already uses extremely strong encryption, and when coupled with a largish alphanumeric passcode, the phone would not fall to such easy attacks as the phone in question (4-6 digit PIN).

This case is not about weakening encryption in any way, something that I think is not well understood outside a technical audience.
I think at best, the judge could hold corporate officers in contempt, not any individual computer programmer or developer. However, given Apple's stance, they would likely respond to the contempt order in a similar way they are now: accrue the fines, don't pay them, appeal as high as it takes to have this ruling overturned.

I'm not a lawyer, at all. But my guess would be that if Apple reached a point in court where the original ruling was overturned, the contempt penalties would be invalidated.
FontForge has a tutorial: http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/index.html
There's also a basic introduction to font design in David Peterson's book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Language-Invention-World-Build...

I've been meaning to learn how to create fonts for my own conlanging purposes for a few months now, but haven't quite gotten around to it yet.
I use Mattermost and don't miss slack except for mobile apps. They released an OSS iPhone app for it recently and the Android one is about to be released.

Self-hosting, unlimited history, unlimited team size. They have great deployment docs for various methods and it was pretty easy for me to containerize it for docker.

It has a slack compatible webhook integration so many slack integrations will "just work" with mattermost, if the integration will allow you to specify your own url.
That's OK. Not using Opera was my decision.
So, any knowledge that could save a life should be freely available? I like the idea, but I think the situation is not that simple.

Although you make a good point that piracy of one thing may be dissimilar to piracy of another thing, both acts are still considered piracy. That is why I asked a question about generic piracy.
It's installed. They even got a new cable box with it. Really odd strategy at AT&T.
I think (or at least hope) the main cause for concern in the US not that it will make the law worse, but that it takes the law out of our hands, so any problems with current law become almost impossible to fix. When there's an over-broad law, it's possible (and sometimes it even actually happens) for Congress to recognize the mistakes in the original law and dial things back a bit. But once it's in a treaty, Hollywood kind of has DC over a barrel.
If I may add, putting a title on the videos in your promo might help as well. I saw a couple interesting shots in the "trailer" but couldn't figure out which programs those may have come from. Also, if any of those titles are exclusives, it would be worth mentioning. A few titles on the first page when I hit the trial button were ones I knew I had seen elsewhere - which left me concerned I'd spend $5.99 only to find a couple things I hadn't already watched. If they're not exclusives, but there's a value I'm missing, then emphasize that as well.
>The trick also is long term perspective. With common TV gradually dying out, more and more people switch to Internet video. Which means that owners of extensive networks won't lose business - they'll only get more. So investing in better networks is a good investment.

I see it exactly the opposite. Fios was built with the assumption that you can not only sell internet, but also TV service for another 30-60 dollars of revenue.

With tv service going over the internet, the ISPs are going to have a hell of a time getting that much revenue back. They can try and charge for usage (like comcast) but it's going to hard. This is why Verizon fought like hell to avoid net neutrality. They wanted options for trying to skim off the top of tv service.

So Fios might be making modest profits now, it probably won't be in 5-10 years.
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Typed Racket <https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/> is pretty successful in the Racket community. It's also prompted some pessimistic papers about gradual sound typing, since it's hard to avoid a performance hit when imposing type safety on untyped code using contracts. On the other hand, that performance hit is in part typechecker/compiler implementation dependent and in part dependent on the granularity of the added typing (e.g. typing modules or functions vs typing subexpressions).

Typed Racket code often gains a speedup over untyped Racket, since sound typing allows the elision of contracts and other runtime overheads for safety. There is no penalty at all for invoking Typed Racket code from untyped code, either in terms of performance or in terms of what the untyped-language programmer needs to know.
> There is plenty of innovation, it's just that people don't like change and will instantly reject something that isn't the same as what they are already using.

It's not change that people don't like, it's the mountains of randomly missing features, settings and control remotely subverted away from the system owner, tons of software no longer working, a terrible UI nobody asked for. Who wants 10 steps of innovation forward if it comes bundled with 1,000 undocumented steps backward?
https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-u-s-has-gone-f-ing-mad...