skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fighting for me to install debian on my ipad

Why should they? Freedom is not about giving @awinter-py the product that @awinter-py approves of.

Shouldn't we be happy when a corporation has interests that ACTUALLY fucking align with ours?
To me, it's much more convenient to have transactions over and done with by the time I leave the store, rather than ending up with an unauditable monthly statement that could have extra or missing charges.

(Never mind the whole commercial surveillance angle. I've actually made it a point to go back to cash at various places I'd gotten lazy with. Hitting the ATM every week is a small price for participating in society's most popular mix network)
I think Thomas Paine and probably John & Abigail Adams would be for 2)
Microinteractions: the secret of great app design
... did I just read a rant about how enjoyability and simplicity are NOT aesthetics?
I want to get my mom to switch from real cigarettes to e-cigarettes. This kind of publicity puts me off.

Any tips from users?
Bodyport (YC S15) is hiring a mobile developer
The FDIC does not insure against fraud, theft or accounting errors. It only protects against bank insolvency due to under-capitalization.
I agree, but this megacorporation is a direct result of the wants and needs of individuals, so think of Apple as our collective bargaining leverage.
Well, it asserts it as a right "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism"

Which is not that different than "all legal avenues exhausted" but you're correct, it does claim it as a literal right. Thanks for inspiring me to re-read it.
Because not all cash transactions go through ATMs. When friends are splitting bills, or lending each other money, or two people are just selling a piece of furniture, the trail gets lost. In the US that's enough to establish reasonable doubt.
A Step Forward in Parental Leave at Etsy
If you haven't already, you should watch/play SOMA. It is a masterful exploration of the concept of the ego and self, and the consequences of attempting to shift that into a robot (robots).
Great product. Wish it had better discovery. A simple filter-enabled page of all podcasts will make it more usable!
That'd be awesome! I know the issues pretty well. I've followed news and online discussion fairly constantly since a month ago. Shoot me an email at stillastudent, using Google's email service

I'm a developer but not a designer, and anyway it'd be great to work with more people on this

One thing I haven't figured out yet is what existing lobbying is happening out there on this issue. For example, is the EFF contacting members of Congress to inform them about encryption? I'm about to write them to ask.
Introduction to Operations Management
Professor Christian Terwiesch brilliantly and understandably explains the math behind "operations".... which explains Lean, Agile, DevOps and everything from running a restaurant to a doctor's office.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-operations
I do not think you have actually read enough about this specific case. For example: the govt is not asking for "the FBI to get into every Apple phone".

If you disagree with this assertion, please provide a link where govt is asking for that.
CALEA says:

A telecommunications carrier shall not be responsible for decrypting, or ensuring the government's ability to decrypt, any communication encrypted by a subscriber or customer, unless the encryption was provided by the carrier and the carrier possesses the information necessary to decrypt the communication.

Apple seems protected under this clause, since they do not possess the information necessary to decrypt. This is also why the feds can't wiretap iMessage.

CALEA text: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/1002
Pfft...

Ideas are schematics, if you build upon the wrong schematic you're headed for disaster. There is always complex interplay between ideas and execution and people who say differently are ignorant.
Agreed. Though does not negate my point that the govt has not actually asked for this.
A Collection of Dice Problems [pdf]
Hm? Realtime rendering is not something new. In fact it's decades old.
Thank you -- information I didn't have. Seems this, as well as the 400ft rule, is inline with the FAA's requirements for determining if an object is a hazard to the navigable airspace (Anything over 499ft, and -- within 3NM of the airport, anything over 200ft, adding 100ft for each NM in excess of 3) [1]

But, for the most part, this glideslope should extend only in the direction of the runways, correct? AFAIK There shouldn't be any aircraft approaching the airport below 500ft at a significant angle from a runway?

For the general masses, I can understand the FAA's reluctance to have everyone work out the angles of runways, glideslopes, etc... to see if they can fly and how high.

My main complaint is that DJI firmware won't let you leave the ground, even if you have worked out an agreement with the airport. For someone that lives near an airport, this pretty much grounds them.

[1] http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=te...
I'd argue the safety threat is greater for a helicopter's passengers when both the operator and the amateurs are trying to reach the same target.

I'd also argue that the ability to navigate that 3D space competently doesn't exist from a fixed point at a distance by an amateur. Especially in an emergency situation, especially if there is limited visibility due to smoke.

They were in a dangerous situation. The uncertainty makes it an inherently dangerous situation.

Drones are no inherently dangerous, no one is arguing that. Drones can create inherently dangerous situations, however. This was one.
Price, yes. I got mine when I was a student and had no cash; I had a hole in my tooth and had to get it filled for the lowest cost I could.

If I have to get more... It'll be resin. The amalgam ones I've got have lasted a long time though, and I don't seem to have any new holes now that I've quit drinking so much soda every day :)
The fact of the matter is that U.S. founders would be appalled by DOJ IPhone request, but the common people are not; that is a problem. It is a problem because the U.S. founders made the U.S. Constitution to tell the Federal Government that the people are free, not the other way around; The U.S. Constitution has a purpose and not a meaning e.g. Article 1 Section 8 of the constitution; The fact that a federal government entity, such as the DOJ, wants access to a private 'citizens'' (yes, legally corporations are people) intellectual property is unconstitutional. This, sadly, illustrates the mindset of the Federal Government and the status-quo. What happened to the people being jurisprudence? The Federal Government is unbound and reckless and it needs to be bound; bound by the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution that was philosophically created to serve a purpose, and that is Limited Federal Government. . .everyone seems to start in the middle of a problem, but never the beginning. Beginning here being The Federal Government and the problems it has propagated. Maybe then people will realize that its solutions are just problems, solutions that solve problems they created. Now, apropos to the topic. . .yes the founders would be appalled and so should the people. The appeal to the founders argument is an appeal to look back to history and identify with true political values that made this country so great. Else you can just "sit back and listen and they will tell you when you'r wrong. . ."
Ask HN: Which technical interview process would you prefer?
1. White boarding, algorithms. (aka. Google style)

2. Pair programming on site with the team on the actual product for half a day.

3. Take home assignment, with a follow up, extending code onsite.

4. Look at my github profile.

5. something else?
Neither does Apple. afaik they use open source and vetted software for all their encryption need. As they should.
In my experience, if JSX becomes too complex to read/write, then that just means I need to break down my components.
When famous people love your startup. BEST.DAY.EVER
Apart from 640x480, what has changed for the product since 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNUIwi5F6g

The new interest in VR headsets has all the same predictions and the same problems. Ultimately it is about creating a new platform, getting the convergence of content, consumer demand and quality product. The people in the above video had a great product and a compelling gaming experience even if not so well demonstrated in the video. But they were unable to create a market for their product.

Despite going way beyond 640x480 none of the other problems with the original product have been addressed. Sure things may be lighter, faster, better, however these are incremental improvements on things that were not hard. VR also doesn't cut he mustard for intangible things. For instance, a lot of people like looking at real, actual people, hard that it may be to believe. So you are not going to have a 'cyber bar' or 'cyber library' where people are immersed in VR rather than the world around them. No amount of 'tech' is going to make people that like looking at people (and being looked at) want to wear VR in any social situation.

It is tempting to say that the mighty interest from 'newbies' to VR is going to result in everything magically sorted out and for everyone to get the wonders of VR. Whatever Facebook touch turns to gold, right? One can trust that they have the business model that eluded everyone else, plus the perfect timing into the market and the network effects to somehow make VR a day to day essential thing. But no, they still face the same challenges (albeit not 640x480) as were faced in 1995. Creating a wonderful VR headset is one thing, creating wonderful VR games is something else, inventing some must have VR application would be amazing. Even if these things can be done, to create a new platform/content delivery system is something much harder and none of the fundamental UX matters can be resolved.
If Snowden released it all at once, he would've lost leverage. He's playing for much higher stakes than "attention and ego". If he slips up, it's over for him.
It's pretty evident that there were several reasons for drawing it out: keep the story alive until it got mass attention, allow each release to be scrutinized and understood by the public, and to vet the information first to make sure no one is put at risk.
Not really. If Enron put encryption with their master keys on the data, how is this different? Seems very similar to me?
I feel the same way. I don't delude myself into thinking that my individual actions have any measurable impact, but I enjoy exercising the very limited power that lies in giving money to institutions I support, and withdrawing it from those I don't. Apple's definitely on my radar again.
Why not add ppa and get the latest official Nginx and OpenSSL?
Nope. That's one of the options possible, but not the only mode. The device can present at 90 or 120, and the rendering can be done at 60, 90, or 120. Not sure of all the combos possible though (like can you render at 60 and present at 120?)
I'd love to see john hodgman and justin long revive the old ad campaign with "Hi I'm a mac" "and I'm the police"
You forget Cuba, which he sort-of alluded to at various points. "Old Cuba" would have taken him in a heartbeat, but looking at how the country is shaping up atm, I think in the end Russia was a much better choice for everyone (Cuba needs US trade right now).
Adding links to the actual FAA documents

[1] Section 336 of Public Law 112-95 Special Rule for Model Aircraft, page 6 (PDF) https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/Sec_331_336_UAS.pdf

[2] FAA Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft (PDF) https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/model_aircraft_spec_rule.pdf
What if your adversary is the pervasive data collection entities in the business of selling eyeballs (aka ad networks and that related ecosystem)?
His stance on property isn't so great though.
I'm tired of projects using 'Unity' as a name.

There's this, there was an Apache Unity thing that was a Java implementation. There's an Ubuntu thing. Who knows how many others.
Hmmm.. Unlike Enron before an investigation was started or a conviction was made, it is beyond a shadow of a doubt that several crimes were in fact committed by the users of these phones.
Spreading the story out allows the entire story to be told. It's not for his ego. Newspapers have X column inches to fill on a given day, and dumping it all at once would force it to be crammed into those X inches.

And it's not just him. It's Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald, too, who clearly have motives other than ego.
I rest my case.

For your info: professional ranks do not reflect strength. They are honorary and based (typically) on achievement and seniority.
They'd certainly side with Apple, but mostly in hopes that they could have their own iPhone.
Do you know if PostgreSQL is included in that list? Can I just pg_basebackup to start up a read slave?
SABnzbd 1.0.0: Open-Source Binary Newsreader
That is really cool. Thanks for sharing. For someone with no knowledge of WebRTC, it would be helpful to have a blog post that explains the architecutre of tubertc and how it functions.
From my (serious) email archives:

Anyway, i'm interested in starting a top notch word press website with user login and plenty of functionality. Ranging from finding friends creating groups, joining a lobby, voice and video capability, commentator's and even more. She told me that you know a lot about web design and website procedures. I have looked at your website and it definitely appears as if you know what you're doing. I was wondering if you could give me an estimate on how much it would cost for me to create and maintain a website like this, and where the expenses would be coming from? It would have to be able to host as many people as facebook.

_The BEST part_

If this project happens to be lucrative, I'd be open to reimbursing you for your advice.
125uBuHCUWMPdUakevcMEAmxTowe9NPXYg

:)
In one word: Bandwidth.
GitHub – ubuntu/ubuntu-make: Ubuntu Make
It is an alpha-quality library, but I've been playing around with something like this, using ES2015 template strings: https://github.com/af/slashpile

I've yet to figure out if the run-time performance hit is reasonable, but I vastly prefer the syntax to either JSX or hyperscript (I previously wrote a hyperscript-like library as well, and have used it for several months)
no!! There have been many MANY reports of bitcoin fog selectively scamming and it would be wise to use another option. Bitblender, sigant, and helix should be much safer options.
Edit: Use this link instead: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-make
Yeah that's right, he gave up his life as he knew it, became the enemy of one of the most powerful organizations and lives in constant fear just so he can feed his ego, despite every attempt at focusing the story on NSA breaches and not himself. The controlled release of information by media outlets also just so happened to have a stronger effect which had the NSA chasing their tails being caught in their own lies upon subsequent release of new information - but that was secondary, he did it to temporarily feed his ego first and foremost, and perhaps for some lulz.
You're right, of course.

My opinion is that Cuba didn't want him either because Raul Castro wanted to normalize relations with the US and not antagonize Obama's administration. I think Obama is due to visit Cuba soon as well. All that would not have been possible with Snowden there.

Snowden would also have a really hard time getting to Cuba from Hong Kong. Maybe on a ship through Panama? But ships can be easily intercepted and boarded by the US Navy in international waters.

And living in Cuba, which is economically depressed, would have been really hard for him. He wouldn't even have a stable internet connection to pilot his presence robot or give talks.

Another possible option was North Korea, and while he would have been safe there from the long arm of the US law, his life would have been horrible and he probably would have ended up brainwashed and would have become some kind of a propaganda puppet for Kim.

All in all, he picked the best option and a lot of it is due to sheer luck.
Any interview which is about: "I don't care what you already know. I care about how you approach things that you don't know about".
Agreed. Unless you get something from the business (like saluki suggested), why offer a discount?

See what happens if you say "no". I bet that the person asking for a discount is testing to see if you will sell against yourself.

Anytime the subject of discount/price comes up a good sales person should go back to the question of product/customer need fit.

I would point out that the price helps keep your company in business so the product will continue to be available to satisfy their needs.

Then be willing to broach the question with the customer about how important your product is to them. If the product is not valuable at the original price, then is it really of critical importance?

Are they looking for the low cost solution or a quality solution? Suggest that they try: X, Y,....?

If you are talking to a purchasing manager, the last thing the purchasing managers want to have to do is explain how come a vendor is refusing the big startup's business.
I was taking a shower, and this question popped into my head: What is harder to master nowadays? C++/STL/Boost or the Javascript ecosystem?

I don't know the answer.
BTC's supposed to be pseudoanonymous:

The traditional banking model achieves a level of privacy by limiting access to information to the parties involved and the trusted third party. The necessity to announce all transactions publicly precludes this method, but privacy can still be maintained by breaking the flow of information in another place: by keeping public keys anonymous. The public can see that someone is sending an amount to someone else, but without information linking the transaction to anyone.
...
As an additional firewall, a new key pair should be used for each transaction to keep them from being linked to a common owner. Some linking is still unavoidable with multi-input transactions, which necessarily reveal that their inputs were owned by the same owner. The risk is that if the owner of a key is revealed, linking could reveal other transactions that belonged to the same owner

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
muh founding fathers

US founders would be appalled by the fact that you can't own slaves anymore too. nobody can farm 20 acres of land by himself.
Regarding [citation needed] specifically related to how the govt has a right to seize the keys:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_Unit...
That's all bullshit.

Edit: Consider the Sheep Market thief. They didn't steal his Bitcoin, even though the transaction was so large that it crashed their service.

Edit: It seems likely that victims of the Sheep Market theft are behind at least some of the lies about Bitcoin Fog.
CALEA requires telecommunication carriers, facilities-based broadband Internet access providers and providers of interconnected VoIP service to provide "reasonably available" CII (call routing) and call content to LEA pursuant to a warrant.

CALEA does not apply and was specifically written to not apply to personal computers, phone manufacturers, OS developers, etc.

If Congress wants to take up a CALEA-2 and start another war against crypto, they are free to do it. But as written CALEA does not apply to the iPhone.
Not many people fully appreciate the degree to which #1 is true. Folks should read Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton.
This looks pretty useful, updated devtools on a stable LTS release.
What if the CFO (sorry, typo in post) was dead or realized that revealing that would land him in hotter waters than providing them?
Here in NZ it is literally easier to pay people via bank transfer. If I want cash I have to get a $20 out of an ATM. If I owe someone $5, I then have to get $20 out and spend some to break the $20. Or I can get their bank account, enter it into my banks phone app and bam in seconds the money is transferred, next time I have their account saved. But it wasn't that hard because they had a banking app on their phone and knew how to send it to me in an SMS.
Like a TV channel interspersed with ads.
So the 60Hz reprojected to 120 Hz is an option, but not the only one. Games can run at native 90 or 120 (perhaps with reprojection additionally)
George Hotz promised to end capitalism in a manic sermon at SXSW
Free Swift programming book
Many historical figures and philosophers would disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution

It's not just John Locke and Thomas Paine making up theories; the page goes on to list several constitutions that explicitly grant this right.
Someone is rediscovering literate programming where the code is so meaningful it serves as documentation of itself.

I vote for a troll disguising a boring scheme tutorial in a satire.

But it is very metaphysical à la Artistote or Giodarno Bruno ... I would say like almost any stuff written by the functional programming adepts. I am not sure if FP is mathematics or philosophy sometimes. I like them like some weird religious monks producing free beers. I drink the beer, I avoid the church.

But I would say that even if I do not like scheme, I value meaningful code too.
Good question - I guess the quick answer is "the most anonymous and secure VPN in the universe isn't going to help if you browse to pages with Facebook like buttons in the same browser where you've got an actively logged in Facebook session - or even non-logged-in session cookies". (Substitute Twitter/Google/Yahoo/whoever as appropriate)

Browser/cookie hygiene is orthogonal to VPN/network hygiene.
it's called conditioning
This is a very interesting idea! How about syntax highlighting for proper nouns, using a preset cycling color tables to give proper nouns consistent colors?
It just took a cluster of a thousand computers to do it.
Just downloaded OsmAnd after switching to maps.me 6 months ago. They've made a lot of changes (for the better). Thanks for the suggestion
North Korea Sentences U.S. Student to 15 Years Hard Labor
I don't have any personal connections but you can try reaching out to someone on the campaign team [1] over Twitter. It's still a shot in the dark but you're more likely to get their attention there than over email.

[1] http://www.p2016.org/sanders/sandersorg.html
Pijul, linked in a sibling comment, appears to actually be a Rust implementation of Darcs (or at least inspired by it).
Would be very interesting to see how this affects live poker. Like do the good players cycle as mentioned elsewhere? Or maybe using both networks at once is learnable? Or maybe they learn to pick up empathetic cues with other networks (the logical ones)? Or do they just disregard empathy?
I have an Aeron chair in my home office, where I sit for most of my workday. I love it. I'll add this to the discussion about finding (and assessing) a good office chair.

What you need to understand about a quality chair is that while it should be very comfortable, you should not expect to experience nirvana when you sit in it.

Often the prices of these chairs have people expecting some magic to happen when you first sit down. On the contrary, it shouldn't feel "superlative" when you first sit in it, it should just feel comfortable. In fact, it might not feel special at all. It's only later - 4, 6, 8 or more hours later - that you'll realize the chair's true value, in that it has become an extension of your posture.

The mark of a quality chair is not that you will notice it when you sit down, but rather that you won't notice it after sitting for a long time.

Other than that, ensure that you purchase the correct size. I have never found any problems with the Aeron's lip, but I purchased and customized my own, so I was able to make sure it came in the correct size. Offices with pre-assigned chairs may not offer this luxury.