skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The recurring billing business model is a dark pattern, is anti-consumer, and will eventually get in trouble with the FTC.

The Adore.me scam (and a few others) that you refer to are about signing people up for recurring billing without their knowledge. A customer buys an item from an online shop, which is expected to be a one-off transaction. But there is a well-hidden checkbox in the checkout flow to sign up for a "discount club" of some sort with a monthly fee. These are hidden on purpose, and hopefully will get banned.

But there is nothing wrong or dark about having recurring billing for a subscription service in general, as long as it is obvious that you are signing up for a monthly plan for something useful.
Solid. I've been running my private servers with them for years now. Had problems with company work, specifically with them replacing failed hard drives with "shows errors, but barely-passed-testing" hard drives (see my other comment), but you don't normally hit that problem unless you have multiple physical servers.
Poaching drives huge 30% decline in Africa's savannah elephants
Project is not free. There is still auto scaling cloud hosting for pennies.
Ha. It's actually not FOSS, so Github wouldn't be a good fit for me right now.
FreeBSD Mailing List Post Credited with Popularizing the Term “bike shedding”
Little Fat Kids That Love Sweet Drinks, Hate Social Fitness
I don't know how the European system works, but in the US taxes don't depend on proposed spending. The politicians don't get together and say we want to spend $X so let's see how much we get and then we'll adjust. I don't remember getting a tax rebate when the state pulled in billions from bank fees or some repatriation agreement.

In fact, spending and revenue have diverged increasingly since the financial crisis. Around 50% of federal funds are either transfer payments to the elderly (Medicare or ss) and military.

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/07/fiscal-factcheck/
Ironically Quoras own: let's publish anything a logged in user even thinks about clicking for everyone to see should be somewhere on that list shouldn't it?

Googles Google+ launch also comes to mind.
SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion at launch complex at Cape Canaveral in Florida
Hoping Debian to follow the same path

[EDIT] Wow! https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/rustc
> If you're trying to argue that “computation” is a physical phenomenon in the same sense gravity or electromagnetism are, I have bad news for you: it isn't.

Don't know what you mean by "in the same sense", but Turing, von Neumann, Gödel and Hartmanis would have been saddened by your news because they thought (I guess Hartmanis still does) differently. So did Church. The very idea of algorithms -- as Church writes in his review of Turing's paper -- contains a notion of physical realizability. The idea of un/decidability -- only intuitively touched upon in Church's paper, and pretty thoroughly discussed in Turing's -- is predicated on the notion that a computational step takes at least some constant amount of physical time. It is true that a computation isn't a specific physical phenomenon like gravity, but a general, abstract phenomenon, that can be realized in different ways. But if it can't be realized, then it isn't considered computation, unless the people discussing it exclaim very clearly that they're discussing hypothetical computation.

Some people take it further and say that not only computation is physical, but as it is meant to model the work of the mathematician, it grounds all of math in the physical along with it, and things that can't be feasibly computed (in some reasonable amount of time) should be left outside the realm of math. You may have heard this story by Harvey Friedman about the ultrafinitist Alexander Esenin-Volpin who attended his lecture[1], and Paul Cockshott from the Univeristy of Glasgow writes this[2]:

> Turing starts a philosophical tradition of grounding mathematics on the material and hence ultimately on what can be allowed by the laws of physics. The truth of mathematics become truths like those of any other science — statements about sets of possible configurations of matter. So the truths of arithmetic are predictions about the behaviour of actual physical calculating systems, whether these be children with chalks and slates or microprocessors. In this view it makes no more sense to view mathematical abstractions as Platonic ideals than it does to posit the existence of ideal doors and cups of which actual doors and cups are partial manifestations. Mathematics then becomes a technology of modeling one part of the material world with another.

As to the rest, there's much more to computation than programming, and your personal line of work is not the definition of utility.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Esenin-Volpin#Mathem...

[2]: http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2012/06/20/turing-the...
PropChecker.js – yet another object validator
How about Nestle killing babies?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott

Selling baby formula in the third world. What could go wrong.

Edit to add: this was a case study in Business 101 at my school.
It's nice to see this getting discussed more, especially in a business outlet like Bloomberg. Warren Buffett has long been honest about how lucky he is; see his talk about the Ovarian Lottery.

The just-world fallacy [1] is enormously pernicious. I find myself falling for it all the time, and on both sides of it. My successes are clearly a sign of my genius; my failures are obvious proof of my permanent cretinism. It was Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" [2] that finally got me to buy fewer tickets for what Kent Beck calls the "genius-shithead rollercoaster". Perhaps one day I can stop riding it altogether.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Markets-Ince...
When Is the Wrong Time to Scale Your Company?
NASA: Explosion rocks SpaceX launch site in Florida during test of rocket
This surely has to be one of the most SMH-inducing article titles ever.
I am interested if anyone else has had to go through this or if facebook has implemented the same policy? Note they are not requiring an ID. Just a picture of my face next to said code. I wonder if they are going to cross reference my facebook accounts photos?
Yes... it's a lead generation tool for sales and marketing people.
CNBC says that NBC says (I know...) that thankfully nobody was injured

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/01/spacex-rocket-explodes-at-cap...

EDIT: apparently it happened at t:-3m so nobody was around
Clickbait title.

> The drones can be flown only during the day and can't be flown over people who aren't somehow related to the flight. They can fly only up to an altitude of 400 feet, a speed of up to 100 miles per hour and they have to stay within visual contact of the operator.

In other words, it's not legal to do any kind of comercially interesting drone flights
Having servers with Hetzner for the last 15 years I'm a happy customer.

Caveat: (Root servers) They won't help you find problems or solve problems. They don't monitor your hardware. If you've got hacked and send spam, they close you down. If you have harddrive problems, you need to show them otherwise they will not easily swap drives. It's bare bone, though if they are responsible for the problems, their support is fast when notified. They are also helpful, e.g. when moving servers to a different data center, keep old servers so you can migrate to new ones etc.
Yeah, and even the packaging. The latest release (5.9) was the first "official" OpenBSD CD set I ever bought, and I was astounded by the quality of the set, from the packaging and inserts to the discs themselves. I don't know why, but I didn't expect it to be so... professional. I pre-ordered this release, too. I like being able to help out the OpenBSD project financially and get something nice out of it. Oh, well. RIP, OpenBSD CDs.
Live thread over on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/live/xix3m9uqd06g
Not throughout the brain. It's only known to occur in two regions, the dentate gyrus and a part of the subventricular zone.
I have absolutely no use for this app, however I'm glad there are still people that don't think storing important things in the cloud is no biggie.

A few years ago I read somewhere that "privacy is dead" and I thought it was an exaggeration. Not anymore.

Sorry for the rant and good luck with your app.
I am probably outliner but I really didn't get the book at all.

There is much intensive talk about differences between every version from 2.0 to 5.0, how you do same thing in 2.0, then in 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0.

I really don't get why I would need to know the difference between them unless my job involves maintaining super old systems. (Which is quite common).

However for me personally it was not a good book at all because for me personally that information was completely useless.
Runity – The largest running calendar on earth
اجمل فيلم سكس مصري فتاه جميله مع زوجها تتناك
In regards to a progressive/punitive consumption tax --

"The most successful people will still be able to afford the best stuff–the waterfront homes, the front-row seats, the haute couture—but they’ll feel less pressure to spend and they’ll have less competition for the rarest luxury goods."

Or put another way, tranfer of consumption from consumer goods to public/lobbyist-influenced goods.
Keep in mind, unless you're using your own personal VPN off a self-hosted machine, you're likely to be sharing your IP address with other (potentially) malicious actors trying to hide their tracks
Static Fire for that launch was due today which is probably during which this happened.
This isn't a "new notation" -- Pierce lived in the 19th century and his notation predates the current. Also, the fact that "nor" is functionally complete was actually discovered by Pierce in 1880. Pierce is more famous for his non-mathematical philosophy of "pragmatism", but he actually contributed quite a bit to logic.
Success when dealing with bureaucracies often comes down to careful use of language.

In English the connotation of 'immigration' is different from 'study abroad'. 'Immigration' implies permanent residence. 'Study abroad' implies temporary residence. The requirements for temporary and permanent status often vary dramatically.

On the other hand, if the goal is to immigrate, then completing studies at home seems like the most straight forward path to improving the odds. Sure it might be possible to 'hack' the system, but the time and energy spent don't directly translate into skill.

Winding up abroad with an unclear legal status will also put a drag on employment and further educational opportunities.

Good luck.
Thanks much. I learned something new from you and the sibling comment!
I was about to comment that: how exactly is this useful? In New York, there's not a lot of places you could fly that aren't over a person unrelated to flight?
What always strikes me is the amount of free traffic Hetzner includes in their plans, always 20TB and upwards.

AWS charges a whooping 90$ per TB, it keeps me wondering why their traffic is SO much more expensive than Hetzner's...
10 things not enough kids know before going to college
This one is easy: Decca recording turning down the Beatles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles%27_Decca_auditio...

"We don't like their sound, and guitar groups are on the way out."

Sort of like Adidas turning down Michael Jordan for not being tall enough, except that Adidas is still in business.
The value of that cash is baked into the stock price. It's tied up for now but investors have some expectation that they will ultimately benefit from the cash. Right now I believe they are using that money as collateral for debt which is being used to pay dividends.

I can't spell out exactly how this will impact debt and equity valuations but to assume that a $14 billion tax hit will have no impact whatsoever is a bit naive.
Blockbuster passing on the Netflix purchase...

Yahoo! passing on Google...
1. Yahoo not buying Google?

2. Yahoo rejecting the Microsoft offer?

Glad (1) didn't happen though. Pretty sure they'd have screwed it all up for everyone.
Somehow, based on the link title, I expected to find a library of UI elements based on Hillarys actual pants.
This reminds me of the 1920 poem "The Typewriter Revolution":

https://trialbysteam.com/2010/03/09/d-j-enright-the-typewrit...

(I think people in the comments there missed and/or misunderstood some of the poem's references, a few of which are scatological.)
You can see the smoke plume on the radar image from Melbourne airport weather radar

http://imgur.com/a/FQ4qx

Live link:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mlb
The EU is arguably the biggest market in the world, why wouldn't it use that for the benefit of its citizens? Same way Apple uses its weight to cut better deals with its providers and the countries it operates in.
Show HN: Botmaster – a new platform agnostic chatbot framework
You can find well-known hashes to check your install media with online (assuming you can trust the media because it comes wrapped up in a nice package is a bit naive...). What you cannot check however, is a USB key firmware (ring-0?) malware, that lives completely outside of disk space, and thus is beyond reach, but might have limited (or even complete) access to the system it is plugged to. CDs and DVDs (don't know, but perhaps SD/compact flash/etc. cards too?) are thus the last mainstream media that come with 'no firmware attached'.
Don't most of the people espousing that attitude acknowledge that the smoking part has negative consequences? Hence vaping and edibles and such?
I see great future for companies like Hetzner which are providing dedicated hardware with reasonable prices. While Amazon and Azure are making the live of virtual server providers difficult, I believe it is harder for them to compete with companies like Hetzner without eating their own business.

What these companies need are just additional services and nice management tools which make the whole dedicated server and network stuff look more like what we see on AWS or Azure.

My assumption is that at some point more people will come to the conclusion that part of their workloads such actually run on cheap dedicated hardware. On Hetzner €60/month buys you 4 cores, 32GB, 480GB SSD, 30TB traffic. Compare that to Azure A2, which at €64/month gives you 2 cores, 3.5GB, 60GB.
Thanks very much. I never realized this. I appreciate the time you took to answer.
Rumor on the Reddit SpaceX thread is that it blew up at T-3 minutes, so likely during fueling ops.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/50n5cl/rspacex_cape...
Not really :)

"Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited" is a new a telecom operator. Reliance Industries Limited, the parent company, doesn't own any other telecom operator.
What I've used to mean the same is "paperclipping" (discussing paper clips).

When planning for investments in a corporation, major stakeholders who are clueless about important technologies (e.g. which hardware and software platform to choose) spend their time on discussing where the paper clips in office storage room should be procured, because that is a thing that they can understand, and they can show how they care about even the smallest detail.
How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence
Can you actually use that traffic though? I can run AWS bandwidth at max for the entire month and (assuming I'm not spamming or whatever) I just get a bigger bill.

With places like Hetzner you may be shut down for abusing their services if you use that limit too frequently.
well, a few months ago i actually ran into one of the ex-employees, in fact i believe he was one of the main ones who mocked me. he's now working for some small tech company as a web developer. we had a quick 10 minute chat about how life was, but in a moment of pettiness, i took the last minute as an opportunity to kind of mock him back. the conversation was kind of winding down, and i said "hey by the way, no hard feelings about that whole saga back in the day. honestly, i actually understand your position now so it's all good. not going to lie, if all of you had not rejected the offer, i would be a few million dollars short when the acquisition happened!"

i walked away with a smile, and that dude kind of just shrugged and walked away.
This seems like it would work really well to transition users from Google Earth and other closed-source globes to more open data sources. Specifically, this would be hugely valuable for developers in the military, disaster response, and intelligence communities and opens up the possibility for more quickly prototyping geospatial "Common operating pictures"

That said, as a day-to-day developer short of star mapping or orbits I'm not sure I prefer the globe format to a flat earth projection. Cool to see this open source and I'll definitely keep it in mind.
I'm a little surprised to see no mention of Osbourne computers. The name lives on with the Osbourne Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation#T...

This is why, even today, big companies don't announce when a new product will be available until the last minute as to not cannibalize sales from the current production run.
It won't be transferred to European politicians but to Irish people.

That's money that should never have been in shareholders hands in the begining because illegaly kept as it's unpayed due taxes. Invest your money in businesses that respect the law if you want to avoid this situation.
I gave a more specific explanation in another comment: trees are more complex because they require nodes to be connected and each node to have no more than one parent. A string is any stream of measurements. The exponential growth of trees doesn't bother me, because you can have a natural encoding that doesn't grow exponentially, and doesn't increase interpretation cost exponentially.
My vote goes to Bayer for knowingly and willingly selling H.I.V tainted medicine in the 1980s just to get rid of their inventory, not caring about the hundreds or thousands of people they infected.

Possibly sadder is that the FDA actively helped Bayer to try and cover the whole thing up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/business/2-paths-of-bayer-...
I wonder if "they are gonna be in the movie that this drone is taking" is enough for "somehow related to the flight" ;)
my friend works at a startup that will likely be one of the first flying drones commercially outside of line of sight :)

http://media.precisionhawk.com/topic/faa-grants-precisionhaw...
Your product looks really nice.

If you are not profitable yet maybe you should consider increasing the price, you're much cheaper than the competition based on your pricing page.
'There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root'.

-Thoreau
Umm, Bhopal?

Seriously I can't believe it's not even mentioned.
> 1) what is the main difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

FreeBSD has more. More users, more developers, more features, more drivers, more ports, more money behind it, more settings to tweak, more bugs. By comparison, OpenBSD has a much bigger focus on cohesiveness, consistency, and sound defaults (e.g. custom kernel configs are discouraged/unsupported). I'd argue that OpenBSD has a more usable base system (including things like X11, doas, and tmux).

> 2) What is the state of RaspberryPi support in OpenBSD?

"Support" is nonexistent, but I think there have been a few changes in armv7 for Pi 2/3 and a couple developers are slowly working on it. Don't hold your breath.

> 3) Is there some known big issues with video/wifi hardware in OpenBSD?

The open-source Radeon drivers are pretty outdated at this point (I think the latest adapter with full acceleration support is something in the Radeon HD 7000 family), the Nouveau driver isn't ported, and there aren't proprietary drivers, so you don't really have the option of using a recent discrete GPU. Most effort goes into the Intel drivers (the developers use laptops a lot). 802.11n support is still pretty new and hasn't seen a huge amount of real-world validation yet. Drivers for n-capable hardware are older/better tested, but people have mostly run them in 802.11a/g modes.
> of a commercial satellite (AMOS-6)

According to wikipedia this is related to the AMOS-2 staelite leased by Facebook to provide internet coverage in part of Africa.

An interesting clause in their contract is:

"The parties have agreed to the right to terminate the contract if Amos-6 and the ground gateways in France, Italy and Israel are not ready for service by January 1, 2017"

So this fire could have wider repercussions if SpaceX doesn't get a new launch ready in time. (Unless that same contract also has a clause about SpaceX failure vs IAI failure.)

> but it's still liquid, so you can't just vent it off.

You can vent off liquid to keep the pressure down, but since it's heavier than air it will just add to the fire. Unless maybe they have some sort of piping system connected to the vent to route the extra fuel elsewhere.
I used Hetzner, they have one of the worst support teams out there. Everything is next to unlimited and blah blah blah but the reality is really painfull for their customers including myself as a former one.
With exemptions being offered by the FAA to those who need to operate outside any of those restrictions.

Just like it always has been. You could get an exemption and fly a drone commercially before this was signed into law as well. All you had to do is write to the FAA and ask for an exemption, with an explanation of why you needed it and how you'd do it safely.
I agree. I've got a lot of sympathy with Google's problems, and think they've done a good job in many regards.

The fact though that I cannot specifically associate or dissociate specific products across IDs is quite problematic. I've got a "Things I Don't Have" post somewhere ... Here we go:

"Google Shit I Don't Have"

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/y0ss_vplsmhsagqvf23fiq

The inability to, once, in once place, for all time, say "no, this shit isn't OK with me" on Google services doesn't sit well with me. It's why my public and personal use of the company's services are so widely separated, and largely minimised.

Using Google mostly to criticise Google has ... a pleasing symmetry.
The most promising (low risk) startups get their pick of investors, so most who can choose will prefer a top-tier VC.

If you are a VC the only way to differentiate yourself is to take on risk that you perceive to be less risky than the herd does, and to build your portfolio on the basis of such decisions.

Since there is no reason to believe all VC firms share the same time horizon for realizing their investment returns, it does not make sense to compare firms on the basis of returns published this way.

A more sensible approach would be to remove the outliers (good and bad) from their portfolios and evaluate how well they picked on average.

Or, if you only care about highly successful outliers, the way to compare firms is to look at how much and how early they invested in the same unicorn.
Alright, these are existential mistakes up there with Decca.

I still chuckle when I think about Yahoo's total market cap being less than the value of their share in Alibaba. The market determined that Yahoo! had negative worth. Ouch!
For Ubuntu, the universe repo (where Transmission is located) is community maintained and not even security upgrades are guaranteed. They do key checks only.
really, any kind?

A lot of things are still commercially interesting, even if you can't do them everywhere. (Aerial photography or movie productions, inspection work (agriculture, powerlines), ...)

While they say "not over", the article doesn't mention any distance requirements.
On the topic of tracking emails that are "publicly posted on the web", how are you then making sure that the emails have been published with consent and don't originate in sources like database dumps etc.? As it does still sound somewhat unethical to use emails that aren't published with consent.