skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even then, the government agencies most involved in shutting down sites don't have the greatest track record of transparency and human rights.
If the same plaintiff is suing the a bunch of different developers over the same alleged infringement then I believe the defendants could request that the cases be combined?
I was literally just thinking that reddit's staff are either all back-end engineers or don't do anything at all. reddit has barely changed at all in the past several years. The design has barely changed. They finally just recently put out a mobile app. Little to no improvement has been made in moderator tools. Where is this redesign you seem to be seeing?
Agreed. There are very few people about whom I feel this way, but if Cruz supports something that sounds good to me, I'm hanging on to my wallet until I figure out the scam.

(Not that this law necessarily sounds good to me.)
I just tab to the slider and adjust it with the arrow keys, page up/down, etc. Same goes for many of the controls inside most apps. I don't have enough usable vision to use a mouse even a little bit.

Thanks for your answers, I've got some really great responses to this posting so far.
Also known as the "Let's Straw-Man Obama because we Really Hate Him Act".
I may be wrong, but I think that this site's UI is far from simple. It looks clean, but that's different thing.

The new interface feels very unconventional, in fact. It may become convenient once you've learned what everything means, but until then you'd feel puzzled.

~~ Of course, I could not try to work with the old site, but the old screenshots looked more informative than the new ones. Not surprised at all by the results.
Shenzhen native, local Maker here.

All in all the video is pretty accurate. Like most of these videos they focus on the usual semi-official tourist stops- Huaqiangqei, local accelerators, etc. You never see the Huawei or TenCent R&D departments, or anyplace that the actual real day-to-day innovation usually happens because those are strictly no-cameras and very much off limits to forigners.

If anyone wants a better look around the HCB electronic markets I shot about an hour of 360º video there last week, it's on YouTube if you search.
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> Now Dave Winer is launching a platform that could also disappear at a moments' notice,

Looks like you can set up your own server, so assuming you point your own domain at this, if 1999 goes belly-up, you can just switch to another host seamlessly:

https://github.com/scripting/1999-project/blob/master/docs/s...

> (seems to require JavaScript to view any content

This is true of the "About" page, but it looks like that is not true of actual blog entries. If you enable JS on the about page, they explicitly state that one of their goals is a graceful fallback when JS is not present.
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.NET mocking frameworks, a comparison
Pretty funny. I have to use that "impressed" fib one day and silently chuckle. Ive actually used Boost preprocessor macros in C for huge benefits to compute variadic functions at compile time. You may not like boost templates or libs but the preproccessor stuff is merely just a turing complete arithmetic language that includes arrays, tuples, lists, and a whole slew of other great things. Its actually quite marvelous how its implemented all from standard macros. A treatise in limited functional programming. I would not want to produce those macros myself..they are insanely clever, just take a look at the source. They use something similar to Church encoding for representing numbers. You can use it without any of the other boost libs or headers. Repetitive code sucks and the BOOST_PP macros are godsend. Im pretty sure you are referring to other 'magic' most likely C++ template stuff. All boost PP does is give you data structures, loop, and arithmetic at compile time. [1]

[1] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/libs/preprocessor/doc/i...
That's an interesting point. Is there any case law on negligence versus malice?
You definitely helped. There will probably be one or two other visually impaired people in the audience on Friday so being able to give a detailed description of what everybody else is seeing will be a huge bonus for them also. Thanks a lot!
*structure, becuase every folder has meaning, if they share the document "law_2016.pdf" that is in the folder "/Enterprise_1/documents/laws/info" the folder structure has information about the context of the file in this case, they now is a document of law of the Enterprise 1.
Cruz fighting for internet freedom, Obama expanding social welfare after cutting it, Clinton fighting for healthcare and minimum wage.

I'm not trying to make this political but thank you Bernie Sanders. After the success of Bernie's grassroots movement traditional politicians are trying to appeal to the more progressive portion of the population since Trump controls the angry.
The number of people I know celebrating the fact that she might be the first female president is disturbing (I mean the hashtag #ImWithHer even plays up that fact, not #ForThePeople etc.). She's played that card hard and certain individuals have lapped it up.

From what I've seen, this appears to drive a significant cognitive dissonance around all her flaws as a candidate: war hawk, horrible record on policy, attack dog on her husband's accusers etc.

FWIW, it's always been the issues and policies being the primary qualifiers for me, not what someone's gender is. I don't doubt there will eventually be a woman president, just like we had a black president but I'm not sure she's that torchbearer.

History will tell... but I sure hate us normal folk having to deal with the consequences
For starters, most people incorporate in delware whether they are in SV or not. It's just a better place for taxes. This is available to anyone who wants to incorporate. Does not require you are in the know or have a relationship with a judge...
Many, perhaps even most, popular mobile apps have some sort of online component that will surely stop working if the business is closed. And apps made for an OS two releases back or more regularly seem to stop working if not updated. I know I've certainly got paid apps that simply do not work at all anymore.

This is not a new phenomenon. Try running a game made for Windows XP or even Photoshop 6.0 on Windows 10, it likely doesn't work even in the backwards compatibility modes. Companies like GoG.com have made it a successful business to take old beloved games and make it convenient to play on today's machines, and I'm a happy customer of theirs even though I also own the originals in many cases.

The way I see it, the software was sold to work to work in a certain environment and period of time, and I'm free to try to keep it running best I can. But I'm certainly not entitled to demand that the software developers keep supporting me forever simply because I paid once. Therefore I strongly prefer subscription models for the software that I regularly use, as it's the only model that aligns both my and the developer's incentives in the long run.
Ask HN: What's an app/service that doesn't exist that you're ready to pay for?
If Google just paid for the defense of the developers, without patent reform, wouldn't that just encourage more patent trolls to arise, knowing there is a massive pot of gold?
Our pivot
Can you use optical instead of HDMI?
I don't know why would you raise chicken, but I do know why your mother raises cocks
Largest market cap in the world is nowhere now I guess.
Exhibit A: #ImWithHer

Exhibit B: Articles that ask if it's sexist for Bernie to stay in the race [1]. I mean, seriously, WTF.

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/7/new-york-time...
This whole thread is asking for remote VPNs, not home software or setups. So I fail to see the relevance and your implication to correct my relevant comment in such a dissonant way. Minor correction OK. But to imply I need to look up what a VPN is, is silly.
Tenuously was yours (since the original internet (in the sense of a global network) was a connection of multiple networks and not all of them where in the US, far from it) it certainly isn't anymore.

The UK had JANET in the late-70's/early 80's other countries had similar, the US was important and influential but the internet would have existed anyway, the concept of connecting a bunch of disparate networks together to form a single internetwork is one of those things that would have happened anyway.

There are 5-6 times as many users outside the US as in the US, most of the equipment running it isn't even made in the US anymore.

So far the arguments I've seen on here have been "well we set it up so it's ours forever" which by that logic means we own all the telecoms systems in the world (we been the UK) as well as all the railways.... (which is absurd but then so is "it's ours" in relation to the internet).
Well if you whistleblow in the US, you end up in front of a judge (after a probably very unpleasant stay in a cell for a bit). You end up in prison forever. Really bad time. As for the journalists who published what you leaked? Free speech yo!

Whisleblow in China. You don't end up in front of a judge, you end up at the bottom of the ocean. And the journalists who published what you whistleblew? Likewise. And the people who tweet about it, or talk about it at work, and the websites who previous hosted it are suddenly down for maintenance...

So is the US a free speech utopia? Probably not, but I don't know of any other countries where the Westboro Baptist Church could last for so long...
I've never met a single person who understood what they were talking about and referred to a "UNIX kernels". It may be true that Linux was once less advanced than NT - this is no longer the case, despite egregious design flaws in things like epoll. It has simply never been true (for example) for the Illumos (nee Solaris) kernel.
It's really not. They're both forms of jurisdictional arbitrage.
Those three companies all have tonnes of cash on hand! Its the right thing for them to do, also!
I think this is the first time I've thought it would be useful to have a device like the ill-fated Coin. Not that I keep money on prepaid cards, but if I did, it would be nice to back up my cards at home so that if stopped by the police I could pre-emptively delete the memory of the meta-card.
The other option is not giving it over to some random country. As I understand it, the other option would be giving the assignment of top-level domains to ITU or some similar agency within UN, which would then delegate .gov and .mil and other things to US.
> A sidebar on Wacom’s ArtPad, from 1995—“If you’ve ever sketched with a pencil, you’ll be able to use ArtPad”—made me wonder why it took Apple so long to roll out its Pencil stylus for the iPad.

Because in 1995, the handwriting recognition of the Apple Newton was so bad that it was a Simpsons joke.
> one of the top-ten sites in the world

49th actually: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com
Here's what I don't understand: If IOCP gives us such a great performance boost why don't I see people using it, even on Windows systems? The first thing that comes to mind is that IOCP can likely only maintain high performance under certain edge-cases that aren't pertinent to the real world, second is that the other I/O models are needed not for unix, but for other aspects of the language its self where IOCP is not appropriate. So IOCP likely causes overhead. I don't know much about it so maybe someone can explain. It sounds revolutionary if it can be applied to the real world and not just edge cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Richardson

"Ric Richardson is an Australian inventor. He is the holder of multiple granted patents including the Uniloc patent US5490216 and the Logarex patent 6400293. Although he spent twelve years in California to promote and develop products produced by Uniloc, Richardson grew up in Sydney and currently resides just outside Byron Bay.

He is the founder of Uniloc, a company based on the technology he first patented in 1992."

Here's his picture from the Uniloc web site:
http://uniloc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ricrichardson.p...

He's apparently insanely talented, having "invented" the panic button, the visual voice recorder, the 3G skype phone, the secure browser, the universal database, the carbon scrubber, the book dispensor, "media objects", the "Internet Computer", QR Codes, DRM, a password replacement system, TV muting, and several dozen other devices, just in the past 16 years alone.[1]

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/ricricho/ric-s-inventions
As an international user, your country isn't going to get control of it.

If it goes through the UN, some amalgamation of theocracies, dictatorships, and kleptocracies will take control of it. The worst-case scenario is quite bad.
I'm not talking about boycott. Boycott all you want. He said that the government should censure Facebook. He's dead wrong. Can't even believe I'm having this argument on here.
They do get to choose whether the upgrade is worth it. They can stay on an old version and system that it works with, or they can move to an app that has a business model they like better. Subscriptions are adding options, and that's great.
> ALSO, look at who got disrupted - there are zero record stores

There are fewer record stores, but a lot more than zero.

> video rentals no longer exist.

Even leaving aside streaming rentals and Netflix's disc business, video rental kiosks are in grocery stores. Dedicated video rental storefronts are a lot more rare than in 1995, but video rental is very much still a thing.
https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6188337?hl=en

"Once you do this, your text messages and voicemail will sync across Hangouts everywhere, including: Gmail chat, Google+ Page or profile, Chrome desktop app, Android or iOS device, Inbox by Gmail, or the Chrome extension."
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We're not talking about some kind of Aquinas Protocol here, but rather who controls the DNS root zone. How much censorship potential is there, really? Especially when it's likely to end up being managed by committee, which basically means nothing gets done unless everyone agrees?
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> Some idiot in my neighborhood tried raising chickens, and they got loose.

Sounds like some philanthropist has kindly provided you with all the chicken you can eat — if you catch it.
If you enjoy those services... yes? If not, feel free not to!

I love and subscribe to all of the above, they provide me with capabilites that were simply not available before, such being able to stream any song I can imagine instantly. Heck, I'd happily pay 5x the current Netflix price if it was more like Spotify in terms of coverage.
You're completely missing how the NT I/O subsystem works, and how to use it optimally.

> * Asynchronous disk I/O is in practice often not actually asynchronous. Some of these cases are documented (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/156932), but asychronous I/O also actually blocks in cases that are not listed in that article (unless the disk cache is disabled). This is the reason that node.js always uses threads for file i/o.

The key to NT asynchronous I/O is understanding that the cache manager, memory manager and file system drivers all work in harmony to allow a ReadFile() request to either immediately return the data if it is available in the cache, and if not, indicate to the caller that an overlapped operation has been started.

Things like extending a file, opening a file, that's not typically hot-path stuff. If you're doing a network oriented socket server, you would submit such a blocking operation to a separate thread pool (I set up separate thread pools for wait events, separate to the normal I/O completion thread pools), and then that I/O thread moves on to the next completion packet in its queue.

> * For sockets, the downside of the 'completion' model that windows is that the user must pre-allocate a buffer for every socket that it wants to receive data on. Open 10k sockets and allocate a 64k receive buffer for all of them - that adds up quickly. The unix epoll/kqueue/select model is much more memory-efficient.

Well that's just flat out wrong. You can set your socket buffer size as large or as small as you want. For PyParallel I don't even use an outgoing send buffer.

Also, the new registered I/O model in 8+ is a much better way to handle socket buffers without the constant memcpy'ing between kernel and user space.

> IMO the Windows designers got the general idea to support asynchronous I/O right, but they completely messed up all the details.

I disagree. Write a kernel driver on Linux and NT and you'll see how much more superior the NT I/O subsystem is.
Cruz (no matter what you think of him) is from a family that fled an oppressive dictatorship, and he also specialized in constitutional law at Harvard (and argued Heller vs. DC for the 2A), why would he want to "prohibit speech"?
I'm a dedicated gamer who has found countless hours of enjoyment from games like Minecraft and Crusader Kings 2. But in my attempts to play Dwarf Fortress, I felt like I was being trolled. Like the entire thing was some 'in' joke and by spending hours attempting to figure out the UI, I was the butt of said joke. I find time to play games like CK2 despite the poor UI and serious time commitments, but I'm a grown man with a job and I don't have time to play a game with what is quite possibly the worst UI in gaming history.
Remember that the name of a given legislative act is generally unrelated, or sometimes diametrically opposed, to the actual intent.

This is called Internet Freedom but is not about that. It is about the incredible mess called ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and trying to make sure that the US government can dominate it permanently.

ICANN is the group which made lots of money authorizing the recent innovations in DNS like .xyz and .movie.
uh no, it just means the rest of the world can either submit to the US ruling the internet or tell them to get fucked and go do it themselves.

Which honestly, I'm fine with given the MURICA! style arrogance of "we invented it you just get to use it"
How about creating a petition here about this issue and we all sign it?

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/
Social+enterprise+accelerator+One10+expands+into+Sydney
And if the marketplace shifts to 90% subscription apps and users don't want to pay it, then you'll see the marketplace shift again. We may not see it from our perspective, but the pay-once model is not sustainable for many apps - either they'll lose you, or you'll lose them.
The thing that I don't understand is that these prepaid debit cards are only loaded from the government or your employer, hence guaranteeing the money is legal. Yet these cards are what is being targeted, because only the poor use them.
jashkenas/coffeescript

could go easily be mislead by:

jashkneas/coffescript
Their full paper is here http://cepr.org/sites/default/files/news/CEPR_FreeDP_180416.... . If I followed it correctly they measure "novelty" by:

- bucketing citations into journals

- building a network of journals with edge weights defined by the number of papers that cite both journals

- Using cosine similarity between journals (cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity_(network_science)#C... ) in this network to define how banal it is to cite them together

- For a new paper, they recompute this matrix and define novelty by summing 1-banality over the new edges

I don't know if their method reduces to a standard thing from network science (eg. betweenness, centrality, ?) but I would not be surprised if it did.

A closely-related paper with a totally-different writing style did something like this a few years back:

"Citing for High Impact" https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/citations-jcdl10.pd...
We're so much into free speech, we even have these nifty free speech zones[1] where you can practice it without being subject to immediate detainment!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
How about a VNC client for when you occasionally want to remote into your home computer? Say you use it every two weeks.

Subscription price is $5/month ($60/year) because it's a professional tool for sysadmins who use it all the time. Maybe you'd have paid $30 for it standalone, but now if you want to use it for 3 years, the price is 6x as high (and the software poofs when you stop paying).

The line between professional tools and software I'd like to use for totally noncommercial purposes once every couple of weeks isn't always clear cut, and the pricing policies on the App Store have tended to keep things at an affordable mid-range where I can buy something even if it's only for occasional use. Subscription prices seem to get priced for the heavy professional users.

The solution I'm hoping for (carrying on the VNC example) is a free tier locked to a single connection, cheap tier with 5 saved connections, and professional tier for heavy users. But you just know the net effect of this is going to be prices going up (they wouldn't be doing it otherwise), and there are frankly a lot of things that aren't worth a recurring payment to keep around.
The UK does own it's telecom systems. If I want a phone number that works in the UK, it's going to be via a UK telecom.

Nobody is saying you can't setup a router or networks on your own. But if you want addressing from ICANN, a US company, you have to play by US rules.
I qualified it as "Linux/UNIX kernel" because I wanted to emphasize the kernel and not userspace.

Solaris event ports are good, but they're still ultimately backed by a readiness-oriented I/O model, and can't be used for asynchronous file I/O.
One useless paragraph and then you need to be a subscriber to read the rest.
funny how in the quest to make the icons "simple," they lost all meaning, making them insanely complicated.
I'm pretty sure this is quite old. I remember the exact same graphics from something I played with at least 12 years ago (I think it might have actually been in like 2001 or 2002, but my memory is vague).
If that's what they did then I believe it. I'm coming from a light aircraft background where stall recovery takes much less altitude. Still, they had about two thirds of their descent to initiate recovery before it became too late. If the controls had been linked, the other pilot would have discovered the problem instantly.
The game is damn near impossible to play in its stock form. Look up the Lazy Newb pack and give it a try. The learning curve still is quite tough, but it's a real fun challenge.
The US have been good stewards so there has never been a reason to seriously contemplate moving en masse and without that critical mass you'd end up isolating your national network and having to bridge out anyway.

That said there is essentially zero technical reason why we couldn't just route (pun intended) straight around the US 'control' of the internet if we wanted so yeah it's a case of "we'll let you run it as long as you behave" rather than "you are the only ones who can".
Eh, the very first paragraph dispels that notion. It's not fighting for Internet freedom, it's fighting for freedom of the Internet to be controlled by Americans.

While I agree that up to now ICANN and IANA have done their work reasonably well, I wouldn't want them to be under influence of a single geopolitical entity. Then again, I certainly don't want them to be under the influence of all geopolitical entities, and be dragged down to the average of the whole world (like the UN Human Rights Council headed by Saudi Arabia) — we shouldn't aspire to mediocrity if we can set an example by aspiring to greatness.