skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The music and drm war was totally won by Spotify/Etc.
>Apple will need to hire more staff to handle such requests, come up with a procedure for doing it securely, etc. None of this is without risk, and it is much more risky than not doing it at all.

This still seems like a general argument for never complying with warrants. After all, then the government will get more warrants, we'll need to hire people to comply with the warrants, and that's a security risk!

Every large company has people employed solely to respond to requests from law enforcement.

>We do not want to internationally set a precedent that it is okay to install backdoors on phones or computers.

Then pass a law that bans backdoors like the one Apple has on all its devices, if you think backdoors are not ok. As is, Apple has a backdoor, and the FBI is effectively asking for the key.

>There are bad actors, foreign entities, who would love a copy of the software that the DOJ is asking Apple to produce. They will try their hardest to get their hands on it.

Remember, the only piece that's difficult to get is Apple's key. Once you have that, the software is easy to create. That's something that already exists, and making the software doesn't make it any easier for someone to steal the key.
Norbert's gambit is good, but not free - you still lose about 20 bp to market spreads using DLR.TO. If I was moving more money I would use that (possibly with a more heavily traded stock) but the marginal advantage wouldn't be worthwhile for my volume.
Many of their older games work great under Wine / DOSBox.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167178 and marked it off-topic.
What's an example of that?
I hope this is snark.
Switzerland is an example of direct democracy that works just fine. There is also the idea of an Athenian democracy which I also support.

At the end of the day the representative democracy has similar problems, where the representatives represent those people funding them. Don't even bother reading the legislation they are passing. and so on.
"Never" is a very dangerous word to use considering that just 70 years ago, the ENIAC was created and that about 20 years ago, we were using Pentiums with 150-200MHz. The fact that we've come such a long way in such a short time means we probably have quite a ways to go, too.
Democracy is not just voting, it also gives you possibly to put forward proposals and candidate for leading roles.

As other commenter said, you can always exit. But democracy gives you explicit right to change things (albeit no bigger than to other people in the organization), which is actually a more efficient method of introducing change than fatalistically wait until the dysfunctional organization dies.
India decided to ignore patents on certain medicines. Pharmaceutical companies were initially outraged, then when they realised they had hit an immovable object they freaked out and started offering their drugs at very low cost. They are still making innovative products, but they distorted their market power and millions of poor Indian citizen's lives were immeasurably worse off for it.

Your final point about patent infringement... I dunno what to say. You've just explained why patents are inherently problematic, the patent system can't handle it internally because then they would be handling financial lawsuits in a non-transparent matter, and the rule of law would be in essence damaged. By making the patent office the approvers AND handle objections - that's not going to ever work. They'll almost always agree with their own decision. After all, they made the wrong decision in the first place!

Patents occur within the legal framework. If the patent system is hard to improve, then those other issues you mention are, to my kind, not immeasurably greater than the utterly broken patent system we gave today.

I don't feel the reality is as subtle as you talk about. I think it's actually as clear as day that patents distort markets, and I don't feel you've demonstrated that patents aren't orthogonal to open source software, except where it comes to financial incentives.

Open Source financial incentives are to build the best software that the market wants, and sell the code with backing support contracts and early access to new features that are shown in the open, with guarantees that the best people are working on the software; yet still the same time allowing maximum competition and innovation in the market whilst each company or organization strives to produce the most attractive offering.

Patents attempt to produce a monopoly on an idea and prevent anyone else from capitalising on it for decades. It assumes that nobody will ever want to form an invention unless they have exclusive control over that idea. That's self-contradictory - protecting a patent means that someone else WILL have that idea eventually and want to build a product around it, or even incorporate it into their product. They won't be able to, except at great cost. This clearly and IS stifling innovation. The rise of patent trolls and defensive patents are just two examples of how utterly and fundamentally flawed the entire concept of patents are.
Wow, that really brings me back. I remember reading on Quora TE's chief editor explaining that the reason digital and print subscriptions were the same price was because digital ads were easier to avoid or block and were worth less to advertisers than print ads, which are more prominent and harder to ignore (unless you fold it over, but even then you'll certainly notice it).
This is the price for the "free" upgrade to windows 10.

I really don't like this trend of turning your personal computer into a thin client, where its properties can be manipulated remotely by the vendor like if it was a web app.

This is why I stayed away of products like Windows 10 and ChromeOS.
Microsoft added the Spotlight feature last year, and this is pretty much exactly what it was billed as: if you don't have a lock screen image of your own, you get random wallpaper images from Bing, and also occasional app offers and tips. You can upvote/downvote the offers to personalize the suggestions in the future. It's an app discovery mechanism, and you can turn it off by picking your own lock screen image. I don't know why it's only in the news now. This isn't the first time wallpapers for an app have been in the rotation.
Some of those inserts were invitations to subscribe to the Economist.
Measuring Nginx Cache Performance Using Lua and Redis
A factoid:

When Mark Zuckerberg first started Facebook in his dorm room it was called Facemash. Facemash ripped pictures from Harvard's online registar and let other students rate their peers in a "hot or not" style game.

This rating of student's faces was quite successful and cut right to the core of what was to follow: Shitheads using the Internet to gather likes and dislikes of themselves and their "online friends" in a retarded game where creating an artificial pecking order was fun/amusing. Then marketeers saw this and thought, "Oh fuck yeah, free marketing and demographic data plus contact information. Push that shit hard."
Retrospective on a Long-Term Large JavaScript Project
Serving San Francisco apartments and condos, using existing fiber
I love the simplicity of your idea. Nice work! I'm also building an app to be released soon that also shows nearby events from facebook user likes and other sources. We're the most visited event guide at the moment in Portugal and expanding to Costa Rica (hoping to be soon in other countries as well) and the app will similar to our website.
If you have a minute take a look - https://www.viralagenda.com
How is the PC market shrinking? Do you mean that new shipments are declining? Because this is not the same thing AT ALL.
What would prevent the auto companies from hiring someone with a clearer idea of how securely architect these things?

There are things like insider bias to overcome, but if the older auto companies see Tesla eating their lunch over software, they will go ahead and overcome it.
> In theory workers co-operatives are this, but they have a habit of not doing so well in the real world.

Is the fraction of co-operatives that fail larger than the fraction of failures in alternative structures?
> At any rate, this is no worse in principle than the Google Analytics scripts everybody includes on every page everywhere, so it's mostly just a bunch of FUD.

This is a rather blind comment. Not everyone uses Google Analytics and those that do have actively chosen to do so. Plus, Google Analytics is inherently tied to Google services so there are no privacy or control issues.

AMP seems to be intended more as an open toolkit more akin to Bootstrap or jQuery. Requiring that AMP's scripts be loaded from a Google CDN is like saying you can't load jQuery or Bootstrap from anywhere but their CDNs. Some developers want to strictly control where their code is hosted for various reasons and Google isn't allowing them to do that.

Some developers also want to control who can and can't log their visitors. Google isn't allowing them to do that in this case. Anything that loads that script can be logged by Google.

Certainly not FUD.
Notes and other random thoughts I've had over the years. Happy Engineers Day :)
It replaces the text messaging part which is the only part of Skype I use.

I'm slowly trying to convince my coworkers to move from Skype to our Slack instance.
You could also use a subresource integrity check if you are worried about the security but still want to use Google's hosted version.
I don't think so.

I remember reading on multiple occasions (most recently, about two or three months ago) that "Mark Zuckerberg is preparing a dislike button", when, in fact, he was referring to adding more buttons to use in situations where "liking" things is not appropriate. This change brings just that.
Just wondering, could I use Stripe Atlas to incorporate a U.S. company, when I live in Norway?

For example, could I use this to create a U.S. holding company to own and trade US stocks?
I'm more annoyed that they pop up desktop notifications just to advertise Office 365.
Now I think I work here. $BIG_CORP_FEMALE_CEO_UNDER_FIRE?
Wow, that's expensive.
Agreed. Clicking advertisements encourages advertising. Google's actual results are far more relevant than any paid placed advertisement anyway.
I guess because people are reminded weekly to resubscribe or buy subscriptions as gifts.

I dunno if it applies to me since I would habitually forget to resubscribe until they sent me the YOUR LAST ISSUE wrapping like an invasive Santa Claus.
I saw this too. If it didn't have the tiny text there that said "Discover the adventure inside." Then I'd hardly consider it an ad. It is then almost "free" wallpaper. Which I frequently have to go out and find for games I actually like and play.

It's such a fine line between delivering something people want without them having to ask for it (nifty feature), and shoving things down peoples throat (ads). I really hope they address this properly.
You realize MS s number 5 and Google is 4...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
> Bought a small $49 Mikrotik wireless access point [1] recently on the recommendation of a HN user. It's absolutely fantastic.

From what I'm understanding of "single-chain AC", it's a 1x1 antenna that promises up to 433Mbps? This sadly doesn't sound like good value for money. I'm guessing speed isn't the whole point with these types of equipment.
The Linux Foundation Announces the OPEN-Orchestrator Project
SpaceX wins 5 new ISS cargo missions in NASA contract estimated at $700 million
The demographic must be 15-year-olds. Way too cute for me. I'll never click on any of that silly stuff.
It's only free to upgrade to it. If you buy/build a new PC you have to pay $100 (or more) for the privilege of being shown ads on your login page.
Show HN: Sesame, a self-aware digital assistant that protects your messages
Why not add one, the biggest or most egregious.
Gog is great for consumers, not so much for developers. The terms of their contracts are not particularly friendly to developers. The specifics are all NDA'd.
I think the author just made this up in an hour with some weak arguments.

No doubt LinkedIn is becoming very spammy from all the puzzles and (gasp) personal stuff like 'My son-in-law is having an operation, please pray for him'.

However, the value that most people derive from it and the ease with which you can ignore the spam will keep it being used until there is non-spammy, non-recruiter funded and 'open networking' alternate.
Why can't you vote on the strong vision? Voting will aggregate the value functions and solve your problem.

Democratic cooperative doesn't mean that everything has to be voted on. It can have hierarchy, if employees find such arrangement useful; the point is that you have a (collective) right to overrule it.
What a disappointment realizing the story is "I can blog from my iPad". I guess welcome to 2016 and page 2 of hacker news.

Now time to remember my HN password (from my iphone 4)
We created Sesame because we believe private ownership and nuanced control leads to better communication. Sesame's Cognitive Messengers audit every message and their attendant permissions independently for you, and give you the ability to take back your messages from any device, whenever, forever.
It's vastly frustrating to have someone misinterpret the difference between probably and possibly. There is even an IETF RFC explaining this.. I don't say those words withot meaning exactly what I said!!
San Francisco – Google Fiber
...So if you break up two years from now, you can take all of your messages and pictures back :)
VueJs: Filters
those cardboard inserts made the best joint filters
Free was fine back when people paid their ISP or university to host their pages for them. The stuff put up by hobbyists was a lot more interesting in general anyway.

Free didn't ruin the web, advertising did.
It's wikipedia, add it. ;)
This App Splits Your Dinner Bill According to Your Race and Gender
Show HN: Android Toggle Switch an Extension of Android Switches for 2+ Items
You scenario is wonderfully worded and poses a great dilemma. I personally believe that the government should not be able to press a person or firm into service. In today's world of technology, we tend to forget that what we have on our phones is simply an electronic copy of paperback versions. "Printing out" our phones in the encrypted way you refer would not be any use to anyone but the primary owner of the data. Just because we have the means to decipher documents does not mean we should and it should be ultimately up to the person/firm to decipher said documents.
Thank you for being the only one in this thread not in an unreasonable panic.

It's a very attractive piece of high quality concept art. It doesn't even have a logo.

Is it for a game that they sell? Yes. But come on. This is one of the least invasive advertisements I've ever seen.
New Frontiers in Online Safety – Propositioned in a Rideshare
Interesting concept. I disagree with this statement from the "Data confidentiality" section:

> Unlike CipherBase [6], our approach doesn’t leak information about the order of the elements. By observing access patterns, the server can only figure out which buckets are leaf nodes and which are branch nodes, but not whether the child node is located to the left or right of the parent node.

The paper correctly notes that when a client does a range query, it leaks information about the total number of blocks returned. However, if I've understood correctly, it also leaks the identities of those blocks. The closer two tree nodes are in order, the more likely they are to be touched by the same request. A passive adversary could use this to extract information about the relative ordering of encrypted nodes.

Also, active adversaries cause much worse problems. Let's say I have the ability to cause someone to do queries on the encrypted database, without observing the results. By simply doing separate index lookups on two different fields, I can extract a lot of information by looking at which nodes were touched by both queries.

Finally, I noticed that the paper doesn't describe how the B-trees are modified. If the client is the only party that knows how to decrypt nodes, then it's responsible for splitting and merging nodes to keep the tree balanced. Doesn't this require some kind of distributed coordination, so that multiple clients don't trample on each other's changes?
The argument can be made that this isn't anything new. Ericsson, "widely recognized as one of the world's leading theoretical and experimental researchers on expertise"[1], has been researching Expertise and Deliberate Practice for decades[2].

For example, "The superior quality of the experts' mental representations allow them to adapt rapidly to changing circumstances and anticipate future events in advance." [2] Indicates that the experts have already been practicing with changing circumstances.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Ericsson
[2] https://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.hp.html
[3] https://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html
Would rooting the tree help?
"there are just too damn many"

Depends on where you live :). Granted if you live somewhere rural you maybe don't care about events.

I agree that a recommender service would probably be necessary though even for the rural case. Such a service could allow you to widen the search radius and add other attractions such as parks etc...
I have a disgraceful addiction to gas station steamed hotdogs[1], haha. Two dogs and a coffee is still cheaper and better-tasting than any breakfast sandwich deal when you're eating garbage fast food for breakfast.

[1] http://www.seriouseats.com/images/2013/01/20130116-hdow-kaye...
Resource for on-demand gigs
The Get Wurk app, a one stop resource for on-demand gigs, is launching Spring 2016 at http://getwurk.kickoffpages.com/
I did something like this for Neo4j, if you're curious:

image: http://www.gravitypersists.com/assets/neo3.gif

https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/versal-cypher-gadget/blob/m...
Great, all we need is more corporations registered in Delaware, which is already the only state with more corporations than people.
> Slapping ads all over my login page is a great way render the fat from brand advertisers into short-term revenue gains at the price of ENRAGING me.

Exactly. And the advertisers usually don't benefit either. When I was looking for a password manager, I saw Dashlane listed and it looked like a decent product … but I didn't click on it or research it because it had kept showing up on my Firefox homepage, and I associated "ads in my Firefox" with "Dashlane". Sure, I had more brand awareness, but it didn't do them any good.
This is the kind of breakthrough product that makes a real difference in the world. This is what real innovation looks like.
Sure, but you have to play the hand you're dealt, especially when the dealer is the Federal government.
Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)
Email newsletters are the new zines
There is direct democracy and then there is the ability to have a referendum. Switzerland has a legislature. And about 20% of the population of California, where referendums have been nothing but trouble.

The place where direct democracy works great is to give the public the ability to repeal laws.
Take a look at https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job for some resources. There are remote jobs out there but there aren't many.
Screen reading software might help your friend stay active in online marketing.

Here's an article from 2010:> http://gizmodo.com/5620079/giz-explains-how-blind-people-see...
Until Sanders' retail politics gets him a majority of Congress, he's not going to do much of anything as president.
`tar xfJ gdb-7.11.tar.xz` for .xz files
not sure if i like where this is going. fb is trying to simplify human interactions. e.g. a friend's birthday coming up? send a generic "happy birthday!" message!, want to react to someone? press a button!

maybe i'm just getting too old to be hip like the fellow kids these days
This is really fascinating to me. Since they are fraudulent anyway, why wouldn't they just say they are a recruiter from Google and get you to accept their connection request. Do they get more responses by claiming they are Nigerian Princesses?
> They said that about Obama, but he still got shit done.

Mostly in the first half-term, with a Democratic Congressional majority -- his signature legislative accomplishments (Affordable Care Act, ARRA) were achieved then.

> The weird thing out our democracy is, it's getting more democratic

No, its not.

> even with pathetic turnout, the public exerts more of an influence on the news cycle, and that drives the political agenda.

There's a number of forces steering things in between there, assuring that the impact that the news cycle has (because of the spin on the events, even if the public exerts more influence on which events get attention -- which is a dubious proposition, I think) reflects a fairly narrow set of biases held by the powerful.

There doesn't seem to be any evidence that the substantive policy output of the political system is becoming better aligned with the strength of views in the public, such that the net effect of any of this would be "more democratic."
Injecting Keystrokes into Wireless Mice and Keyboards
Nice next step would be expanding it to Estonia (https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/about/)

FYI Braintree allows businesses based in estonia to accept payments.
Well that's a fairly misleading comparison. Where is the screenshot for Outlook.com which has no ads either?

Not to mention the fact that Gmail is valuable to Google because it gets people to sign in in all the browsers they use, allowing them to track them via cookies on all Google properties including search.

The "World's Most Valuable Advertising Business" does things like track which physical stores Android phone users and Google maps users on iOS visit.

Plenty of Android OEMs install adware and bloatware, sometimes which cannot even be uninstalled, so I guess people are already conditioned to this.
If you have any suggestions or critiques let me know about that!