skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly, because it's easier to abuse old and poorly written laws to our own ends than it is to try and legislate for new problems and technology.

It seems the core of this issue is the definition of "tangible". Why does the law profession choose to use such obtuse wording? There doesn't appear to be any way for normal people or even lawyers to identify if something is tangible in the way the law describes it.
Torrentfreak has a quite excessive comparison list of different providers:
https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-anonymous-review-160220/

I'm also not a big fan of rolling my own VPN, don't have the time to keep it updated.
From the TFA:

"The traditional common-law view was that property injury caused by such things as light, gas, sound, smoke, odors, or vibrations might constitute an actionable nuisance under the right circumstances, but could not support a cause of action in trespass."
I have a friend that writes porn using open source tools. Her stuff is on AMazon as well. She also told me how their numbers work. A book at this author's rank sells maybe 1 book a month. That's not good.
Anyway...she uses openoffice to write her docs, then uploads to kindle. She authored some kinky shit like Control - A Billionaire Romance series that got high sales and turned on lots of folks. If you're into that sort of thing, like bondage and such.
have you seen mindmup?
I use NordVPN. Pay annually and it can be as low as $40. Allows up to 5 devices and they have servers all over the planet. I primarily use it for streaming; Netflix US/UK/CA/FR, i-player, and checking how advertising looks in different countries.

And popcorntime, occassionally.
And hundreds (thousands?) of other ones who don't regularly make the front page of HN.
It is targeting mu opioid receptors, mentioned in the article as "morphine receptor."

It may not contain morphine, chemically, but neither does oxymorphone, it's only similar.. the only drug mentioned that actually contains morphine, ie. is morphine based is heroin. But having side chains and other additions can totally change a drugs' effects. Morphine-based is a poor distinction.
I don't think you are supposed to write in LaTex anymore than you are supposed to write in InDesign
What I find most interesting here is the relationship between extremely old laws and evolution in technology.

The court seemed to suggest that using old laws to tackle a new issue wasn't appropriate:

> "If the Nevada Legislature wanted to bar projecting images onto a wall, it could do so"

If that outlook takes hold more broadly, then there would be a whole swathe of potential issues relating to technology, communications and the internet. Government would need to come up with a lot of new law.
If you want a VPN so that your activity is not logged, how will hosting your own under your own digital ocean account help you?

Sure, your activities may no longer be logged, but does that matter when 100% if the traffic coming from your droplet IP must be yours?
I think most of the skeptics are just people that need/expect to have "feature x" that they have a personal preference for.

For others, simplicity is preferable.

George R.R. Martin does all of his writing in WordStar 4 on a DOS machine, which is a good example of not needing the fanciest tools to be highly successful.
He only used the # and ## tags.

Considering the other steps that he had to take between his text and final output, why not use Markdown?
It's working now though.
Unless the smoke was causing damage:

> “a trespass may also occur when intangible matter, such as particles emanating from a manufacturing plant, cause actual and/or substantial damage to the [property].”
Ah, my apologies for that: I did not realize that shoddy NFS software is due to my incompetence. I also apologize that I wasn't able to get something which kind-of worked in RHEL 5 to work in RHEL 6.5 because things which are completely unnecessary on UNIX (like worrying about separate portmapper service) and which were in userland are now suddenly in the kernel. But only for NFS 4. Because the documentation is actually unclear on whether that's the case for NFS 2 and 3. And because the NFS protocol specifies that client and the server should auto-negotiate which version they will use. Because of course the community can't figure out where what should be, so flux. Again.

I guess it's really snobby of me to except things which work on UNIX according to specification to behave the same way on Linux. Because Linux is cool. And it's great. And it has the biggest, bestest community. And because I don't appreciate just how great that is, instead being focused on getting work done with computers.

Now let's rehash inter-process communication again. Because it's fun rehashing things which work in other operating systems, over and over and over in Linux. Because Linux is cool like that.
Is the dark truth here that "Coordination is Hard"?

I've noticed that when I have worked remotely, that I spent more time anticipating the care and feeding of the management ... interface, where when I'm onsite, I'd just allow normal Brownian motion of humans in the office to take care of it.
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I've been using Tunnelbear(https://www.tunnelbear.com/) for a couple of years now and my experience has been fantastic:

• It doesn't keep activity logs.
• Their tunnel network has been recently improved and it counts something like 20 countries at the moment.
• It's really fast and it keeps your device safe even in the possibility of a connection issue, it will block all unsecured traffic until it's possible to properly gain access again.
• Something not directly related as a VPN feature but since I have to pay for it I'm more than happily going to underline this, the UI is really really nice, the design is clean, smooth and is one great experience on every device I've been using it on(Android, iOS and Windows).
Have you given any thought to a "results only" workplace? I have never worked in one but I think I'd thrive in such an environment. Would that solve your concerns about remote work?
I care about being able to carry on doing my hobby stuff 5 or 10 years from now. With NVidia I can at least be confident that as long as my graphics card keeps working (which feels like something under my control, unlike Google shutting down their products) I can keep running my code on it.
I've found F-secure Freedome quite suitable for me. Works on phone also (sometimes there's some issues though) and blocks tracking attemps.
Who owns the IP you create in your spare time?
Being Swedish, this sounds about right to me.
I'm a dj in my part time and I feel that this app should be one of my most used - it's not though. The timeline always is irrelevant, the app crashes, the caching of music is annoying (I often drop network connectivity on the commute to work and the app will freeze, forget where I'm at or drop out like seconds in to the lack of network connectivity - despite having a good connection for the last 5 minutes.)

I can't see who liked or shared my mixes or tracks. Comments are impossible.

And the search annoys me. I'll search for a friend as the timeline is so poor and the auto complete must go on popularity and not even consider my friends...

I could go on but I feel that many of the points have been mentioned before...
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I agree with your argument and this is not just about American or Indian or Chinese education system. It is a fundamental mindset issue. I remember very vividly asking my mom why I should go to school and I dont remember the exact answer but it was on the lines of 'You need to do it so you can go onto get a job and do amazing things in life' so if you take go to school, get a job out of that sentence, you might as well say do amazing things but do you need to get a degree?
As someone that follows lots of tech "trying to see the future" - to me Uber has the greatest hope of bring driving to the mainstream due to a number of factors.

First, they have a lot of experience with litigation and working with local laws.

They need to replace drivers, but unlike truck drivers - Uber will drive anywhere.

Unlike trucks, there's the potential to allow the passenger to drive the car.

Many more key reasons why Uber's efforts are worth watching, but really do hope they're able to make serious progress in bring autonomous vehicles to the mainstream.
If you use LeanPub, you can fully publish both ebook and paperback versions from the Markdown source. And for editing, if you have an editor who's willing to not use Word, you can use a tool like Authorea to track changes, and then incorporate those back into the markdown source.

I really don't get the hate on Markdown; it's IMO the fastest way to get words from brain into text, more so than rST and other formats, because of its simplicity. And for slightly more involved formatting, with LeanPub, you can put down what you need, then fix formatting by previewing the published copy until it looks just right.
I wonder how Uber drivers feel about working for a company that is actively trying to make them obsolete.

Not passing judgement or anything, just kind of a strange thing to contemplate..

Uber kept saying they were disrupting the taxi industry by letting more people participate when really in the end they're trying to remove the people from the equation altogether.
I'd agree with your final statement, but I don't see any connection between "full immersion" and eight+ hour days. Rather the contrary, actually. Three or Four hour stints of concentration are optimal for me, and seldom seen to happen in an office environment.

Clearly, others will do their best in different environments. The search for "one size fits all" is part of the problem here.
..with a battery that no longer holds charge!
No offence, but you're probably using it wrong.

These days, it's really very, very good. And it's been amazing since EF4, for about 5 years now. Trying to push it too far is a mistake and can cause performance problems, but, as with all ORMs, sometimes you need to drop down to raw queries.
Sounds great. How do we implement this?
Multiple mcguffins, drip-feed expository dialogue and prose, cliff-hanger in 30 minute reading time chunks. Always keep at least one good mystery open. Start in media res, slow the pace for the second act, which is where you consolidate to accelerate to a frantic conclusion where you draw seemingly unrelated threads together. Essentially, give the reader a reason to keep reading, and to keep coming back.

It's not Brown's recipe, it's how pretty much all compelling fiction hangs together.
If I have side project I have to do in Java, you bet I'm going to have a lot of static inner class abuse. Perhaps you just don't understand the tradeoffs.
I can understand self driving cars eventually being practical on long simple roads.

But I can't even imagine how one could get to my house. My road has cars parked on both sides. Sometimes vans. Sometimes they almost block the road. Sometimes there is a car coming the other way and you have to look for a space to pull into to so they can pass, or maybe back up 1/4 of a mile. Or hope the other car does.

There are cones and roadworks quite often.

I have significant difficulty driving down there, I don't see how an automatic car could any time soon at all.

This might not be an issue if I owned the car. I could turn it off and drive down there myself but an automatic taxi couldnt do that unless there was a driver waiting in the car to do that if required. And if there is, he might as well drive it all and save thousands of [currency]
Very often point of using VPN is to get away from one jurisdiction and censorship to a provider which offers endpoints in more countries. Getting own server with VPN basically puts a person under different jurisdiction, you're on you're own with supporting and maintaining it. Public-IP VPNs mix your traffic with other traffic and make single person harder to track. It requires a lot of specialized knowledge about protocols and encryptions, heart-beats, pings, system network buffers, setting up firewalls, will I ever need IPSec or PPTP? I don't know... I tried, learnt a lot and gave up quite quickly, too much stuff to handle.

~ Happy TorGuard and TigerVPN user.
Not true. I've used high CBD strains lab tested from Washington and they still caused minor paranoia. And the level mecessary for the same pain relief as tramadol, tapentadol, or morphine sulfate, makes a person dumb as a brick and unable to do what they originally wanted to. Pipedreams are nice. Marijuana is not a supplement to opiates except in corner cases. Really depends on the person and level of pain. I have chronic pain and marijuana was not conducive for a productive lifestyle while opiates are.
If you read more than two Dan Brown books, honestly it's hard to not see this structure. I read The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, which were OK, but then reading Deception Point I could guess all the plot twists several chapters in advance. He's just very formulaic.
I recently found this list and use it in a Drupal module to invoke hooks based on the domain of a URL. I didn't realize how many edge cases there are for these and originally tried to do it with regex.
Before slack i used third party platforms to send me notifications to MSN, later Skype then some strange chat app i don't exactly remember. Now i can simply use the webhook with a simple post request to send notifications to a central place where i can consume them as i need/want to. I used IRC for while but thats drains to much battery on a smartphone, i also tried XMPP but, while its awesome for what it is, it is a pain to manage and setup, especially just for passing messages, mostly one way.

The are several nice reasons to use or not use slack, but this is my personal reason why i have a slack all for myself.
As I said, I'm happy that Markdown was good enough for the author.

But I just would never recommend Markdown in general for text books, given the alternatives.
> notwithstanding pleas to pay for certifications, you still have full access as a free user.

No, just look at the "XSeries" and "Professional Education" programs at edX. These are not free.
The corner popup is super annoying here - not because it popped up at all, but because it stole KB focus and my down arrow key stopped working to cycle through my available email autofill options.
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Unless those credentials are accepted by employers and schools and count for a real degree, they are meaningless.
a 128 bit float --> a 128 bit integer
Probably a typo: using float to send sequence number would be a very bad idea..
Thats strange, guess they changed their TOS then. There is no way they can provide the same privacy they did back then on a US Server :/
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As the joke goes: "The person who invented 'press backspace to go back' is still on the run".
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I agree with this article 100%, and it makes me sad because that belief comes way too late to be of much use. I'm too damn old and established in various aspects of my life to try a lot of new things (things that are fundamentally and profoundly new to me, I mean) without blowing everything up. And I'm not willing to blow up my life.

The simulated annealing that's possible with youth is astounding. I wish I hadn't been so stupid at the time.
Not trusting your employees is simply poor management. There really is no excuse in this day and age to deny remote work to tech workers, other than management is incapable of managing them. When job hunting, I see lack of full time remote positions as a red flag.
It seems odd to me that he would write and publish a novel using open source tool and then write and publish about that using a closed source platform. I wonder why he chose medium (I wonder why anyone chooses medium over their own site)
Because nobody knows how to measure these things. If they do know, they will work with a majority of people who don't. Even if they surmount that obstacle, then something will go wrong and it'll be a failed experiment.

And worse even yet, if you are shown to be more productive, then you've incentivized all the others on your team to gently sabotage you. That sounds more paranoid than it really is. But I've had people say bluntly "we don't want to get this done too quickly because it'll wreck the project management calibration."

This is harder than it looks.
On iOS, it's free up to 500MB/mo, $4/mo after. Their app has VPN auto-reconnect on iOS, which is useful because iOS does not seem to support always-on VPNs (except for "enterprise").
I do think you raise a good point which is remote work is not for everyone. Some people need others around them to stay motivated and focused, while for others it is the lack of distractions that makes the difference. The only real problem is that many people don’t know which category they fall into.
If you ever need to produce more uncommon layouts, try http://www.laidout.org/
Incidentally, this is the reason that Companies in the British Army are commanded by Majors rather than mere Captains in the US Army - because the British Army had a longer history of operating in very remote places so you needed a more senior, experienced commander on the ground.
Told him that, maybe he'll fix.
Ask HN: Where to find a freelance golang programmer?
Im looking for a golang programmer to help out with a little web project and im not sure where or how to find somebody.

Are there any good platforms to find golang freelancers you know of? Is there a platform that has a good reputation?

The project is basically a multi-user blog with registration.
> Many people don't handle the level of autonomy well, or don't stay motivated in isolation

But just because that is true for a number of people doesn't mean it is true for all.

I don't work from home anymore, but, personally, I always felt happiest when working from home.

I did have a remote job which sucked, and part of it was because it was remote and I didn't have as much familiarity with the code or the company and part of it was that the job just really sucked.

I think though that if you are already familiar with the code, know the people you are working with well, don't have significant problems interpreting what others say via IM/email and need to speak with them in person to get context, and just get a total morale boost when working from home because you are in your own world and can concentrate better, then- please!- work from home!
Agree, more comparable example related would be sound ordnance and freedom of speech.

There are a number of laws related to endangering the public using light; for example, the issues related to lasers and airplane pilots.
16 years is a rather short lifetime if you're marketing towards humans. That's why they gave the gift card.
I'm going to be a bit obtuse and say "start with IndieWeb". The author talks about webmentions being super interesting, but low penetration.

Best thing to do is start with yourself, and indieweb solves a bunch of related problems at the same time.

http://indieweb.org/
I hear it's particularly good for unit tests depending on the domain. I have a coworker who regularly writes his production code in C# and unit tests in F#. He says it's faster but I don't know enough F# to be able to say if that's true or if he just likes using both languages :)
> Moreover, in addition to HTML output, AsciiDoc has proper PDF and LaTeX output as well.

Have you tried pandoc? It allows interleaving Markdown with LaTex and outputs to every format under the sun, including PDF. IMO the best of both worlds, Markdown where you want, TeX when you need to.
> Why does the law profession choose to use such obtuse wording?

I'm not 100% $ure, but I have my $u$picion$...
Huge fan of getcloak.com. Osx/ios only, but Android coming soon. Been a paid customer for four or five years.
Here are a couple of examples:

1. Quantum mechanics was never motivated with the thought of semiconductors (therefore computing technology). If you were motivated by building a computer, you would never have discovered quantum mechanics.

2. Probability theory was "invented" to understand/solve gambling problems. Nobody anticipated how widely it would be used.

When paradigm shifts occur, it takes a long time for the effects to percolate, before we can even get a feel for the space of possible applications. However, if resources (including smart people's time) are not spent laying the foundations, one could never have taken aim at the applications! If one is always chasing applications, who spends time and money on the preliminary legwork?

At any point, if resources are directed through some small set of people who decide and enforce the directions to be pursued, then the outcomes will be more representative of their biases than reality. Those few people effectively act as a bottleneck for human ingenuity.
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Since shutting down my own Internet presence for good, which also took down technical documents I had written years ago that - to my great surprise - I found were actually cited a lot according to Google Scholar - I'm thinking maybe linking to the archive.org link is better than linking to the actual URL? Any thoughts? My documents are still available under the orginal URL there, so if all those footnotes and citations pointing to one of my docs pointed there they would still work. It also has the added advantage of being able to link the concrete version as it was when you included the link.

Example for the first link in the parent comment, pointing to the (right now randomly selected) 26 March, 2016 version of the webpage:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160326165458/https://en.wikipe...

TL;DR I recommend to always cite sources using their archive.org document version.
Yes it would only work for certain events - I would imagine the marathon might be one of the slowest ever.

Still it would be an interesting to study how much of an effect it would have.
Although the things that have changed the world have generally been cool. Tech like the electric motor, jet aviation, the printing press. Also intellectual works like those of Keynes or Marx. Less so with charitable donations. Personally I'm thinking of trying stuff and figure I've got more of a chance of making a difference by innovating rather than donating a bit.
I saw something similar http://www.contactrocket.com
This is simply not true, the 8 hour workday is a complete arbitrary concept. There is a wealth of research to show our creative thinking is best done in short spurts. Time off in between actually helps your subconscious continue to work on the solution, something known as "diffuse mode" when I am attempting to solve a problem. There is a reason why so many of former geniuses, great authors, mathematicians said their best solutions came after a walk through nature.
Interesting...so do you use the vector subset designed for CPUs or the wavefront subset designed for GPUs?
It's kind of impressive just how high sales you get with not even that good smut fiction. (coughs50 Shades.coughs)

I've picked the wrong job.