skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once contacted the UK's Environment Agency as I wanted to find a reputable local Waste Treatment Facility to receive my WEEE (I fix computers and occasionally sell parts/take old parts for recycling). Since I was acutely aware of how much they had charged me to hold a Waste Transfer certificate I figured the least I could do was make sure my money was put to good use.

They replied saying they do not conduct any checks of facilities, keep any record of infringements or publish any data on what facilities do with the electrical waste they received. I was surprised that this surprised me, really.

(This was some years ago so my use of nomenclature may be incorrect)
He was in that respect is a representative of his movement (Narodniks). Russian revolutionary movement in the mid 19th century consisted of 2 main parts - Zapadniks (Westernists) who was emphasizing technical aspects of government/society/economy organization and transition and Narodniks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narodniks who was more about organic transition through build-up from the bottom, through enlightenment of the regular, poor, people. Narodniks almost wanted to see what was happening in Japan as a kind of such revolution.

The Narodniks were also pretty close or overlapped on many issues with Slavophils - where ideas were of building up upon supposedly great intrinsic national qualities of Russian/Slavic people (again in many cases it was in opposition to the idea of following Western civilization). Such principle - only replacing Russian/Slavic with Japanese - was also very close to the corresponding political movement in Japan then.
Sorry, I meant minor releases, like 2.10 to 2.11, etc.
I agree sub 1GHz has a lot of potential even though there's a lot of activity at 2.4GHz. Interested to see how subGHz 802.11ah Wi-Fi pans out.
Google to Ban All Payday Loan Ads
i really like the idea of having tech advances depend on in-game actions. likewise the idea that city improvements would be more linked to geography.
PaperID: Technique for Drawing Battery-Free Wireless Interfaces on Paper
Embryo selection would be cheaper and easier.
Websites don't take up 30+ MB disk and 100+ MB RAM (well, not in Firefox anyway, and that's another thing Electron is missing: switchable runtimes and rendering engines, unlike the web)
A Quick Guide to Redis 3.2's Geo Support
If FF had declined to put EME in the build (as many believed they should) then perhaps some pressure could have been brought to bear. At this stage, I don't think it matters who you email, it's done.
Chapter 10 is really underwhelming: http://www.usermethod.com/posts/bookContent/010theframework....
I didn't know that. I think that Netflix, Google Play Movies, etc. are the only valid use for DRM: high value content that is rented.

Types of DRM that are bad magazines this is just my opinion, are eBooks, music, etc. that are purchased.

I donate a few times a year to EFF and FSF. I think there are occasions when DRM is OK, and even though I almost exclusively use Linux laptops (just converted my last Mac to Linux this week) other people using proprietary software does not much bother me.
I think your decisions were reasonable.

Would you consider a part time teaching job now?

If so, how many days per week and at what salary?
This is super cool.
Honestly, I'm not against online/streaming content being protected with DRM. I don't think it's very effective but it doesn't effect me as I don't own the content so I don't really care.

This seems to be a step to far though. The browser should be a standards based 'viewer' that anyone with the will and the time can create. Let's say Netflix implements this DRM. They account for more than a third of internet traffic. If your browser can't support Netflix it's dead in the water.

This is open to so much abuse. The gatekeepers (it seems to be the entertainment companies in this case) get to choose which browsers live and die. As we've seen over the last 20 years competition in the browser space is very important - without Mozilla stepping up and competing with IE I can't imagine the sorry state the internet would be in today.

Edit: Once again, the DMCA rears it's ugly head. Time and again it seems to be the thing that is abused to screw over consumers. Maybe that's what we should actually be fighting against.
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There is no valid use of DRM. It's always invalid. It's based on its unethical nature (overreaching preemptive policing).
Utterly bizarre that they've spent the time putting together this polished video admitting to the criminal fraud of one of the business partners...with sad piano music and motion graphics!? No-one looks remotely good or free of suspicion in this.
Its also a somewhat common practice to cook raw food right before its self life is up to give it another shot at being sold. So by going through the expense of cooking it, they prevent the loss of having to throw it out. Not all stores do this though.
Quip show how it can be done better with their OS X app: https://medium.com/@btaylor/react-with-c-building-the-quip-m...

It's fast as hell.
Of course you write the documentation first. Both provider and user need it so they both talk to the same interface.

Here's an API document I wrote.[1] Comments?

[1] http://sitetruth.com/doc/sitetruthapi.html
'plain and simple' languages encourage and often necessitate 'esoteric and unmaintainable' applications. Look at Java for examples of this, and Go is basically java without generics and a much worse garbage collector.
We use Spark essentially as a distributed programming framework for data processing - anything you can do on a small dataset on a single server, you can do the same thing on a huge dataset and 20 servers or 2000 servers with minimal extra development
Actually, most revolutions are led by disaffected members of the elites that rally the masses, not by the downtrodden masses. There are exceptions, of course, but generally its the elites that have the material resources, the leisure, and the social networks to plan and mobilize revolutionary forces.
Why is this site so hard to read?
> The EFF greatly overestimates the amount of influence browser makers have.

And you greatly underestimate it. Look at the history of DRM in music.
i remember the sequel "Cyberjudas", fun but frustrating too. was excessively impressed with how the game used CIA world factbook info.. "whoa, this is like so real dude!"
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it's still a pretty big deal in japan, but it's unclear how much of that is a result of the ymobile cat.
Imagine if Google routinely published details of people's search history if they complained about Google making crappy software?

"I searched for 'friendly women pictures', and Google showed me porn!"

Google: "no, you searched for X,Y,Z porn repeatedly at 3:30 PM every day for a year"
How do I do shift reload on my smartphone browser? And how do I even know what shift reload is (most people won't) or that the site is corrupted (it still shows something - how do I know that it isn't the most recent stuff)?

And for my general understanding of this proposal: Even if the current domain owner might guarantee that the content never changes - the domain can switch to another site which might use the pathes but of course wants to put different contents there. Is this somehow covered?
also noteworthy: khal [0], a CLI calendar program which syncs to CalDAV servers with vdirsyncer [1].

[0] https://github.com/pimutils/khal

[1] https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer
In the assumption I'm describing, it's irrelevant which CDM a publisher chooses. The reason being that the CDM must operate via EME, an open standard that can be implemented by any browser. Therefore, CDMs are inherently browser agnostic just like NPAPI plugins.

Is it really true that CDMs are actually browser-specific or are able to enforce a browser whitelist? If so, that is horrific.
> This has nothing to do with opensource. Many opensource startups have just died and not taken things forward.

Well you're probably correct, but then when an OSS startup dies you have to code keep, use, and develop.
Thanks. And what do you mean by "order of acceptance"?
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This isn't a judgment of the project itself, but the announcement's wording reminds me of the marketing newspeak from "How to Apply to Y Combinator":

"The best answers are the most matter of fact. It’s a mistake to use marketing-speak to make your idea sound more exciting. We’re immune to marketing-speak; to us it’s just noise. 1. So don’t begin your answer with something like

We are going to transform the relationship between individuals and information.

That sounds impressive, but it conveys nothing. It could be a description of any technology company. Are you going to build a search engine? Database software? A router? I have no idea.

One test of whether you’re explaining your idea effectively is to ask how close the reader is to reproducing it. After reading that sentence I’m no closer than I was before, so its content is effectively zero. Another mistake is to begin with a sweeping introductory paragraph about how important the problem is:

Information is the lifeblood of the modern organization. The ability to channel information quickly and efficiently to those who need it is critical to a company’s success. A company that achieves an edge in the efficient use of information will, all other things being equal, have a significant edge over competitors.

Again, zero content; after reading this, the reader is no closer to reproducing your project than before. A good answer would be something like:

A database with a wiki-like interface, combined with a graphical UI for controlling who can see and edit what.

I’m not convinced yet that this will be the next Google, but at least I’m starting to engage with it. I’m thinking what such a thing would be like.

One reason founders resist giving matter-of-fact descriptions is that they seem to constrain your potential. “But it’s so much more than a database with a wiki UI!” The problem is, the less constraining your description, the less you’re saying. So it’s better to err on the side of matter-of-factness." https://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/
I think it would be bad practice to use this keyword on end-point URL's that are advertised in search engines or API documentation.

You would want to use it for resources to which base pages and manifests point; such as JS, CSS, JPG, PNG, etc.

The browser could enforce that, sort of. It could ignore immutable cache status on the object that is actually in the browser location bar and IMS it, but it could allow it on referenced objects.

The idea is that referenced objects can simply stop being referenced, and a fresh object is referenced.
Yes, by Microsoft
Incorrect. If Firefox had not put it in, nothing would have happened because programmers have (largely) decided to give chrome a majority market-share amongst them, and advocate it to their non-technical peers, increasing its market share amongst that group as well.

If programmers actually used firefox and advocated it to the point where it had a majority market share then maybe their refusal would carry some weight.

But as it stands the web dev community has said loud and clear what their priorities are, and this is just a natural consequence of that.
Not that I know of.

EDIT: reading the firefox bug for this test implementation, I'm not sure if it is intended to be applied to pages, or only to sub-resources (early posts mention the distinction, later ones don't)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267474
> At least in public settings, a lot of parents need to stop acting like they're customers ("always right"). It always baffles me to see parents offload absolutely everything on teachers

Absolutely right. The sense of entitlement there is ridiculous.

Guess what, big mouthed parent - not all precious snowflakes are above average, or deserve above average treatment. Deal with it.
It doesn't have to be. If consumers stop using EME-supporters' browsers, things can change quickly.

We have the power, but sadly not the will.
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As the child of two teachers, my parents always told me "do whatever you want in life, don't be a teacher".

Both of them got into the profession out of a desire to teach, both ended up in administration roles out of a desire not to be poor.

The problem isn't just we "under pay" it is that we "over ask".

For those of you who haven't visited a school recently, getting into the building is more of a hassle than getting on a plane. Want to volunteer at your school, go get fingerprinted and give up your SSN to and underfunded and over worked staff and hope they don't let that amount of personal information out. Want to send your kid to school in CA, well you need to get them vaccinated, and tracking that has fallen to schools (what ever your position about this, shoving it into the department of education makes NO sense). Hell the paperwork to just enroll your kids is monstrous, its easier to register to vote, than it is to register your kids. I won't even cover sports > art(s) when it comes to budget: http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013/08/05/2412381/public... is a good read if your interested.

Meanwhile, how much of a teachers job has become acting as an extension of an overzealous CPS/child saver environment? Well the leadership at institutions is doing stuff like this: http://www.fox26houston.com/news/117783912-story and if you think insanity at this level is isolated, you just haven't looked. There are schools who have gone so far as to "ban peanut butter", for the safety of other students: your more likely to get hit by lightning than die from peanut butter.

You want to fix pay, and quality of education... give more money to hiring teachers to do NOTHING BUT TEACH. Lets pass a law that says you have to spend as much on students as you do on prisoners: http://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison...

Schools are now a direct path to jail: https://www.aclu.org/fact-sheet/what-school-prison-pipeline
An industrial controller: https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=981
Scala macros are compile-time. The Scala reflection library (that works at runtime) share most API with macros.

Macros should always work, reflection is harder as some information needs to be retained at runtime (either via Java reflection or additional data – which can both be problematic in Scala.js).
Those are generally subsidized, with the sides having vastly higher markups.
Ask HN: Where do you go to get your technical blog posts / articles proof read?
I'm starting to try and be more diligent about blogging: learn new things, be forced to understand them well enough to write about them, etc.

The thing is, though: I don't have a good barometer of whether or not what I'm writing actually does make sense. I wish I could post it somewhere, ideally somewhere related to the target audience, to have it proof read and suggestions made.

Where do all of you turn to in order to get your technical posts polished up?
I believe this is also reason why Google, Microsoft, Netflix all support EME.

It essentially makes it harder for new competitors to emerge.
That's exactly what I referred to in my comment. Terrible title. Expected list of companies and what they do like in recent contest.
You can just empty your cache completely - not ideal but still easily done on mobile.

Your 2nd question is confusing - are you asking what happens if you have the same exact path but from another domain? Then it depends on what that server responds with. This is just a HTTP response header, nothing more.
I mostly agree with you, and I think we are largely on the same side, but the case of renting a newly released movie does to seem different. That said, I would be very happy if there were no DRM in the world, and I would just go to the movie theater to see new movies.

I was the featured Creative Commoner many years ago, and I appreciate a world where Creative Commons licenses are used and mostly libre software is used, but while I can afford to release a book under CC, which I have done a few times, a movie studio that drops 100M making a film can not use CC.
never heard about this CTF before. Where can I find more info?
> The whole point of the article is that private schools get away with things because they're private

You've built a fine straw man. But in fact, the authors explicitly identify several hypotheses that aren't inherent to (but do correlate with) private schools:

1. "boarding schools, in particular, present unique opportunities for educators to have close contact with students" (yes, public boarding schools exist.)

2. "The schools, many with rich histories and famed alumni, have often struggled to balance the need to respond robustly to abuse allegations with a desire to guard their reputations." (yes, public schools with rich histories and famed alumni exist.)

So the authors specifically aren't saying that the schools "get away with things" soley because they're private. They're simply saying that abuse happens at private schools. Which, regardless of how it compares to abuse happening at public schools, is worth reporting on.

> If they want to make that claim, then they do have a responsibility to make sure that the facts back it up.

1. Your strawman aside, The actual claims made in the article are all well-substantiated or else are clearly presented as hypotheses, not facts.

2. Following this principle would effectively censor a lot of important investigative journalism.

As far as journalism these days goes, this article is excellent. The writing is nuanced but clear, the reporters report back hypotheses about underlying causes that relate to the human side of the story but with minimal editorializing, and the article is even accompanied by a hand-curated data set.
I don't have any problems with the concept of DRM (controlling how a movie is used) but I have major issues with what is required to implement it. Essentially by definition you need to run some code that the user doesn't control on their computer. How Firefox does it isn't that bad because it is fairly well sandboxed but over time the urge will be to push it further up the stack so that gaining access to the content becomes more and more difficult.

I suspect give enough time they will push until they close the Analog Loophole.
Collage tuition or CEO pay? CD's are older, but used to fit.
Just the 90s?

https://twitter.com/sama/status/730465368574038016
Consider it an anecdote, but my direct experience is exactly what you have heard. Consider that the ratio of administrators to classroom teachers is rarely lower than half the union-specified maximal classroom ratio (e.g., <1:10 administrators to teachers versus >=1:30 students to teachers).

Administration is a big issue but is still probably not the origin of the problem. For that, look to No Child Left Behind and the abject pursuit of test scores.
Yes, payday loans are a good example. In fact I would argue that this extends to ordinary consumers, with late fees, overdraft fees, credit card interest, and so forth. Even traffic tickets can be a form of this.
The slides mention that proper tail calls "just work", even mutual ones. :-)
Interesting. The new city system feels almost like a return to Accolade's 1996 game, "Deadlock": https://images-4.gog.com/b621a9344cd3732776dfe5bd8039acde7eb...

Most improvements were sensitive to the type of tiles they built upon.
https://i.imgur.com/sx3trYK.png for those who can't open facebook.com for one reason or another

https://github.com/facebook/fbctf

> The Facebook CTF is a platform to host Jeopardy and “King of the Hill” style Capture the Flag competitions.

btw, I wonder if greater integration with lets encrypt is possible perhaps with a flag?

> Be ready to provide the path for your SSL certificate's CSR and key files.
I work at a small company (7 engineers) and per-repo pricing is exactly why we chose not to use GitHub. Most of our projects are short-term, meaning we have hundreds of repos going back over ten years, the majority of which are inactive. GitHub's pricing didn't make sense for us at all. (We ended up using self-hosted GitLab which we're pretty happy with.)
Isn't it trivial to reverse engineer the DRM module to create its clean room open source implementation thus effectively deprecating it?
> Yes I can, having done both :)

Show me the tool that makes incredible simple to design that UI.
I always assumed the term "digital nomad" would refer to a kind of stabilished digital freelancer that had relevant (if unstable) source of income. I indeed don't see it working for founders developing a company.
The biggest problem is intellectual property. Copyright lasts life + 70 years and patents last 20 years. That's a long time to have a legal monopoly on something, and is partly why companies are so big and can behave so badly.

Innovation comes through competition, not monopoly. Ideally, we'd eliminate patents and copyrights altogether, but as a compromise, I think having terms of 3 years, with no renewals, is fair. That way a business can capitalize on what it creates and get a 3 year head start on competition, but you still get competition fairly soon which benefits consumers.
Exactly. As far as I knew, EME was the solution to the problem they were talking about.

A standard way to allow anyone to run one of those CDMs and removing the publishers as the gatekeepers.
you are not very wrong. but still wrong.

desktop is hell. if I have to choose between wasting your memory or giving in to apple or android excruciating and closed developtment cycle, I will kil your memory anytime.
Or someone like Google could be doing this as a service? Isn't GOOG411 how they captured enough voice data to train their neural nets for Google Now?
Yep, i entirely agree.

My only take-away about HARC is they hired 20 "researchers" to maybe make some mockups of ui designs they deem "better" ... "for humanity"?
Tom Apostol was also part of the team that put together "The Mechanical Universe", a highly acclaimed 52 episode series of video lectures that cover a full undergraduate physics course.

The creators of the program provide all episodes online at https://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html

I never met the man but I learned a lot from him. May he rest in peace.
Neither of those are standard work.
OMG, so much time spent trying to be good to Mother Earth and properly dispensing my e-waste is now in the trash can!

Is there any reputable place or organization where we can throw away our e-waste?
That's funny, when I talked to Neha (ex-Linkedin, cofounder of Confluent) she explicitly denied this meme about moving away from Scala.

The new Kafka client library is in Java just to reduce the number of dependencies, the server is still written in Scala. Strangely, using Java hasn't stopped Confluent from making breaking changes on dot release of the client... which really puts the lie to your explanation.
We're addressing this problem at Care Thread (http://www.carethread.com), where we integrate patient-centered messaging and EMR data to ensure that everyone stays in the loop.

Existing electronic medical records systems are at their best for long-term documentation, and fall short on keeping care providers abreast of ever-changing plans across shift transitions. Pagers and phones, which doctors and nurses use instead for real-time communication, fare even worse. The information is simply invisible to the next person who takes over.

We've had terrific, sustained adoption where Care Thread's system is deployed, and are working to measure the effect on patient outcomes. Some study results are pending (from Partners / Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, where researchers put iPads in the hands of patients and used our mobile messaging system to help keep care providers aligned with each other and with patients).
What it needs is common sense. Plenty of people pointed at the flaws, its just nobody listened. Or preferred to acto like they didn't hear.
Right, you are now an expansionist violator of the social order, and they're all going to gang up on you to stop you from doing it again.