skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's noteworthy that most of these things go directly against the grain of how we know people behave when we can afford it.

Metering is typically seen as inferior to un-metered services, to the point that people often happily overpay to avoid having to think about metering.

I pay for unlimited access to a bunch of movie channels. I pay for un-metered internet. I pay for travel cards so my public transport costs are un-metered, and so on.

Likewise, when I've had cleaners, having the hassle of thinking about paying the right amount each week and ensuring holiday cover etc. made us go with an agency with a fixed fee and set up a standing order.

To me, they've described a dystopia that I would pay to avoid: E.g. I'd rather pay that lawnmower repair shop a premium to be the intermediary and provide however much service necessary and give me a single point of contact, than having to deal with whether or not that lawnmower that claims to have cut my grass actually did it and whether it was necessary, and deal with conflicts (what if two of them both claim to have done the job because one of those developers who bid on contracts to do updates found a way of making it lie about the work it'd done?)

So to me, almost of these examples are telling me that Crowley is, if not poor, then at least earning little enough to be stuck in a consumer hell that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
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At $30k it's not going to happen.

At $3k it's in the range of expensive hobby equipment or gardening machinery, so people might start buying them to show off if it's even slightly useful.
Perhaps Microsoft's reasons for their "recent efforts" are becoming more obvious to you...
I think "Scab" in this context refers to non union workers employers would bring in to end a strike or bust up a union.
Is there an equivalent to apt-get update && upgrade or do you need to track down each source/binary to keep things secured ?
Original discussion on HN from 4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4099751
That was their old post copypasted:

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/12/the-maesgarreau-...

You can ask there, or search through that blog.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is just orange :/
One of the best books I've ever read, courtesy of Hacker News.

http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/d...
It means The Garden in Persian
> A man can't have the experience of being a woman, though, pretty much by definition.

I wonder why all those women then assume it's sexism. After all, they don't know what a man's experience in the same situation would be (by the same logic as above). So it might just be common, non-discriminatory dickery.
Everything is relative. Also I think your parent was referring to the NES reimplementation.
> You let me know when the "tenured" professors decide to give up their $150k salaries with months-long "sabbaticals".

The vast majority of professors make crap money (unless you're a research prof or work at an elite liberal arts college). Sabbaticals are often for a full year.

The problem with education has nothing to do with the wage of the professors—we already can't afford to pay them what they're worth.

> The "Education System" is basically the "Liberal's" version of the MIC.

I can't understand this sentence.

What did anything you have to say do with anything I had to say?
Can this be exploited by VPSs, docker containers, and the like? As throwaway2048 mentioned, this can be executed from regular JS, so it's not a difficult thing to exploit, and it seems that ECC RAM doesn't help, so any server with vulnerable RAM could be exploited. Is there anything, from the software side of things, that can/will be done to mitigate this?
Maybe... But by then, the Reconquista was already well under way, Europe was sponging what remained of the Muslim world's technological advances through Spain and Sicily (they did science and tech long before art), Byzantium was basically decadent and oblivious to the fact that the Roman Empire was no longer relevant, and Eastern societal values were entrenched.

Plus, geographical context arguably played in Europe's favor for the latter: cut some trees and start planting likely yields more individualistic and competitive values (small kingsoms) than flood plains that require intense cooperation and submission to the greater good of society (large empires).
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The problem today is that taking payments electronically via the banking system is a bureaucratic hassle in terms of getting a suitable business account and getting set up as a merchant etc. It doesn't require a blockchain or bitcoin, but it is a way of lowering the barrier.

I found most of the examples entirely unconvincing, though.
> All charges eventually dropped

Care to say what were the charges originally?
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> If you install Debian you have to make sure that the ISO was not compromised. You can do that by calling a third-party and compare the published checksums or any out-of-band solution. Once this base of trust is established you are good to go. In fact updates are fetched over plain HTTP because all the updates are signed using GPG.

It's hard to take this seriously - do you really call a third-party every-time you rebuild a Dockerfile and run update with your package manager? 99.9% of developers deploying to production do not. If anything the best guard we have is for Debian (as in your example) to realize their keys have been compromised (probably by someone else suffering from such an attack) and alert their users, this has an inherent delay.

> Now compare with any "web crypto": every time the user loads the page he starts back from zero. An attacker can MITM at any time and inject a trivial `form.onsubmit=sendCredentials` and your user is compromised. There is no way to verify out-of-band that the distributed JavaScript is coming from ProtonMail and even if there was, it would have to be done on every page load.

As I wrote above, your concept of verification is quite unrealistic - but even with that I would say it's fair to say the danger of a SSL cert for "web crypto" being compromised is definitely greater than for the desktop since even Dockerfiles are rebuilt far-less than web-pages get reloaded, so a much greater number of users would be affected before they became aware.

I tend to think protonmail is a good thing -- it's obviously not the best choice if you need as many security guarantees as possible, but for general population this is a strong improvement over sell-all-your-data to advertisers google mail.
You are supposing that an American company needs to have been founded in the US. That's not true. There are many tech companies, including 1B+ ones, that were founded out of the US and then moved there. The availability of capital is so great in the US -even comparing with Europe- that makes a lot of sense to move there.
Possibly a ad-hoc conspiracy, at that level they all talk to each other and watch what they are doing, the permanent political class is a problem for all democracies I think.
I made a proof-of-concept of this a while ago (http://www.mrspeaker.net/2012/03/24/syntax-highlighting-for-...) - my "writer-friends" weren't into it (what do they know!)... but then there was a post on HN a few years later where someone had patented the idea! I can't dig up - does anyone else remember this?

EDIT: Ah, this was it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966528. An update on the blog says the company it was about tweeted "We will drop our patents pending. Thank you @dhh for clearing our minds."
From a startup in Vietnam: Asking for feedback on our prouct
Because they usually don't have very good/strong arguments for the points they're making, so people find it easy to disagree with them. In addition, most are written as propaganda (not this one though).
Hi guys,

We're a startup in Vietnam. We've developed a unified communication tool for small business. You can see us as a combination of Slack and Skype, and we're free. All essential communication needs like chat, call, conference call, video call (1:1), file shared, cloud storage, and search are free. We'd like to ask you guys to try it out and give us feedback to improve the tool further.
Thank you very much.

An.
I tried it with:

The red car
This red car
Your red car

And it marked "Your" like "red" and not like "The" or "This". Surely "your" is a determiner and not an adjective? I mean, you can't say *"The your car".
I spend about 40USD/month on spreadserve.com. ~10 for Web Hosting, ~10 for Atlassian Jira, and ~20 for Amazon AWS.
How on earth does the context imply "non union workers employers would bring in to end a strike"? The context does not say anything of the sort.

FYI: I believe employers are supposed to attest that there is no strike going on at their workplace, and the H-1 or H-2 visa holders are not being hired to end a strike. I remember reading this regulation somewhere. That being said, I've never heard of strikes occurring in STEM fields.
I'm really glad someone found this early, because I try and stay off the WWW on April 1st. Every site tries to be "funny" and pretty much just ends up being annoying, and DeepExcel would have just drowned in the noise then.

This though: hearty chuckles were produced. (The paper was was even type-set in LaTeX!)
It really isn't. I've never seen a site scroll so bad. Way to go, Andela!
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N1 is the first desktop app I have used for email in more than 10 years and I love it.
I imagine people learning Latin might find it useful as well. And have a mouseover for conjugation / declension.
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I think you're confusing episodes. In his first appearance he mentions that he's allergic to citrus. The "I love lemon chicken" incident comes from Carter's visit to a parallel universe when she's experimenting with the merlin device in a later season.

...I'm really embarrassed that I know that from memory.
But GET requests should be idempotent.
You do go to jail, usually just court house holding, for contempt of court.

That doesn't mean your due process rights disappear. You can challenge the warrant and the applicability of the All Writs Act all the way to SCOTUS. You can even still file a writ of Habeas Corpus.

You can even say that you forgot how to make the modifications. The onus is on the DOJ to prove you haven't. Awfully hard to prove what's in a man's head.

You could even argue that there's potential criminal liability (e.g. state wiretap laws) in your assistance, and invoke the Fifth Amendment. It's also awfully hard to prove that a man has definitively not committed a crime.

Best and most commonly, you can convince the judge that as a matter of conscience there is no amount of time in jail that will convince you to comply with the court's order. Thus holding you in custody serves no judicial purpose, and you are free to go.

This may be one where going to jail out of protest is necessary.
I say that as someone who faced felony charges that were wholly fabricated, and was offered deal after deal, but I told them I would never take any deal because it wasn't right. I've never forgotten the look I got in response on the prosecutor's face.

I've got a feeling, however, that the FBI has made a grave PR mistake here. People have such a personal connection to Apple. A huge portion of the powerful population holds considers their iPhones their most significant inanimate posession.

Holding the makers of these devices indefinitely in a jail cell, without trial, might finally connect the American populace to the fact that they have just witnessed the largest scandal since... probably post-Vietnam.

This is a moment that where history turns on the decisions of a few. And people have been known to sacrifice far more than time in U.S. prison for ideals far less worthy.

If the warrant is upheld, it will be a very individual decision whether to comply.

Resistance has power, even under far more hostile governments than ours.

I'd like to think I wouldn't. But truly I don't think anyone can really know that until it's real.

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If anybody from Apple happens to read this:

You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. - Jobs
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> > "Do you have the capability to retrieve this PIN number?"

> The answer to this question is no

Doesn't matter. All the judge needs is to notice in your face that you do have that capability.

Don't believe me? Look at this case:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-07/news/ct-met-lo...

According to the judge:

"What I saw in his face was just defiance. He was not going to testify in this double homicide case because he wasn't going to testify. That's all there was to it. So I saw pure scorn for the judicial system in the defendant's face."

Because the judge didn't like his face he gets 20 years for contempt.

20 years!
Technically they're an earlier design than the ones found in the Milky Way by the time of the show.

But, um, honestly I hated Universe and didn't watch much of it, so it's not very surprising that this doesn't manage to be compliant with it.
I really like Django, but you're right that if you for whatever reason needs to make Django do something that's it's not exactly designed for, you're going to have a bad time.

What I found is that if you can manage stay within the confines of Django, you will be rewarded and can avoid writing a ton of code. There really isn't to many situation where you can't just to things "The Django Way". If you find one, then maybe rethink your solution. I had a ton of code where I tried to fight the Django Rest Framework, when I stopped and just accepted that Django and the Rest Framework is opinionated I was able to reduce complexity and line count.

Of cause there are problems where Django is simply the wrong solution.
I didn't use it directly on mobile for so long, I didn't even know they made it work on mobile.

Collapsible comments are still, I think, the minimum needed to make HN usable, in long threads it just becomes impossible to find or follow comments.
I did a cursory survey, and saw that remote Django jobs existed, but I didn't do any due diligence. I figured I'd learn the stack first. ;)

My rough impression is that Rails remote jobs are relatively thick on the ground, but that any OSS dev stack will be better represented in remote job postings than any enterprise stack. So since I prefer Python to Ruby, and Django to Rails, I figured I'd take a leap of faith.

JavaScript is simply not going to be my main dish, not for the time being. Things are just too crazy there. I don't have time to play whack-a-mole with my career skill set.
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As a fellow Spaniard, how you got to the US? H1B?
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This is a good example of why we say that the plural of anecdote isn't data.

Even if you had two boys, that wouldn't be at all surprising, right? Statistically, most kids aren't going to be interested in computer science. Most children of computer scientists aren't going to go into computer science. Most people don't pick the same major that their parents did, across any and every field.

It's only looking at the broader statistics across all kids that we see these tremendous gender imbalances. It's not surprising that any particular young women aren't interested in computer science, but what's surprising is that practically none are. You can attribute that to inherent differences in interest or aptitude, but to do so is to disregard the strong social signals that programming is "for boys".

If art was as overwhelmingly male-dominated as computer science is, would your daughter still have developed her interest in it in the first place? That's not as easy a question to answer.
WhatsApp is huge in India. Most of the friend use it more often then facebook. If there is any conversations going on then its on whatsapp.
Which is probably a very good way to cause at least minor riots.
google are not a hardware company. theres no money in hardware it doesnt make sense, google also need to shift the perception that they are evil. This company doesnt help them achieve that. Especially as the combination of machine learning and robotics is going to put the majority of human being out of work in the near future, having this company for google is in no means useful
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Not just supercomputer vendors - Chipkill has been a standard option on IBM X-Series (their standard server range) for years now. I remember deploying a whole bunch of servers back 2011 or so that had it.
It's really great to see advances in English syntax highlighting (an oft-neglected 'language' when it comes to code editors).

However, I get a feeling this is a sort of hype-train at the moment, because I swear I've seen three English syntax highlighters in the past week alone (being posted to HN).

Could this be the latest, albeit welcomed and intelligent, project exercise obsession à la Flappy Bird / 2048? :)
Sham is a strong word,

The model Lavabit used, is the same security model 99% of cloud services use even today.

The same model that iCloud, Google, and other use, all of which have control over the encrytion stored on their servers, all of which will turn over data (not shut down like lavabit did) when asked by the government to turn over said data.

Apple has never, and will likely never refuse to turn over data stored on their servers.
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I was under the impression that the 451 status code should be used for requests blocked by proxies, where the original content is technically still available at the source but blocked for some reason. Probably got the wrong idea.
~£200 a month for servers for non-profitable projects
> HN looks and works great on mobile now (it didn't used to but they did a redesign in the last few months).

For the record, after the redesign the comments looks worse on Windows Phone. I know, no one gives a damn about WP, but a "proper" mobile redesign would work on every browser.
Oh, you were asking for it.
> I’m sure that TDD purists would say that I’m not doing it right so I’m not getting the real benefits of TDD.

"You are not doing it right! Take this 3-day course for a grand and buy these books. Also hire a TDD/Scrum/Agile coach for your team for a few months. There you go! (in Eric Cartman's voice)."
- people have protested extensively when there was a draft
- as far as I understand, unlike in Russia or some place you actually aren't forced to work in jail. It's voluntary - they do it because they get paid and get extra benefits
- no eminent domain would be pretty insane... you wouldn't have highways or railways etc. without it... since it's been abused in the past - but it has it's place

Forcing people to work for the court does seems like a weird thing though. The whole "contempt of court" is a bit arbitrary (like you can be jailed indefinitely .. based on the decision of just a judge?) and just hasn't really been abused till now
Well, OP said posted in a comment that it was inspired by the top comment from the post from 2 days ago...
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Apart from the discussion surrounding the crypto side of all this, one thing that ProtonMail has really succeeded in doing is making encrypted mail finally an accessible thing to a non-technically inclined user.

I've spent well over a year trying to get my team to properly gpg encrypt sensitive files only to constantly find them sending plain unencrypted files over slack, dropbox and even simply gmail.

At least now, finally, they've found ProtonMail easy to use and are choosing to send files this way.

I think the key, unfortunate reality is that until the end user doesn't have to think about encryption, they aren't going to bother using it. Bringing usability to encryption is another huge part of the problem that needs to be considered as it is basically a guarantee that the typical user will take the path of least resistance.
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"...because I think it encourages conservatism in programming, it encourages you to make design decisions that can be tested rather than the right decisions for the program users.." - Couldn't agree more with this.
I've experienced very similar problems when experimenting with TDD. Really appreciate you sharing!
This sounds like a fair and reasonable criticism of the the paper, it says that there are factual errors that should be addresses and it echo's comments by others here on HN (i.e. that a real solution is not sufficient, the solutions should be integral). Believe me, I've had a far less helpful and much more antagonistic reviews for a paper that was eventually accepted (after much revision). If you address the concerns, either with proofs or with references to other papers, you could resubmit.

Another approach might be an experimental one. As they say "the proof is in the pudding". There are plenty of SAT solvers out there and plenty of SAT benchmarks and tests that they run on. Implement your approach and run it against the benchmarks for varying size of benchmark and against other SAT solvers. If your approach gets the same answers and consistently outperforms other implementations (especially for large N, where the non-poly terms will dominate) then you have an empirical proof. I would guess that a sufficiently large problem that takes 2-3 days to solve should be solvable by your approach within minutes. Assuming this works and you get the same answer, open source the solution and the tests so that others can play with it. If others can reproduce your results, then you have applied the scientific method, although through usual ways, to prove your point.
Just to be clear, UIWebBrowserView is a private class, not the public UIWebView people should use, so it's not like Apple started rejecting random apps for no good reasons...
On pricing it says - "We plan to announce pricing and general availability in Summer, 2016. Plans will be priced between $30/mo to $55/mo per active developer."

Are active developers determined from repository - or is there another way?
And a robot that even 50% as adaptable as a human is to teh environment is a long way enough
For the time limit, yes and no. Jailing someone who is held in contempt is done as a coercive measure. If the need for the person to do something passes, they can't continue to be held. Could they theoretically be held for 20 years? Sure. But that type of action is extremely rare and isn't likely to happen here.

The FBI can't take away the person's children. --Even if he's put in jail, the other parent would retain custody. The FBI would have to convince social services to remove the children from the home, and family court judges aren't overly likely to go along with that.

The FBI could potentially convince a psychiatrist to have a person involuntarily committed for a short time for observation, but they can't force any doctor or hospital to put the people on drugs or otherwise force some form of treatment on them if there's not diagnosis of mental illness.

The FBI doesn't get to tell the IRS to make claims about a person owing an astronomical sum. I suppose they could fabricate evidence and give it to the IRS, but then the individuals responsible would be performing illegal actions and risk being sent to prison themselves. Most members of the law enforcement community are decent people and aren't willing to do that type of stuff.