skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do I have to sign up to use it at all? You want people to get involved in the process but you add friction. My guess is, your bounce rate is high.

I'm sure there are plenty of features that require an account - but I'd imagine there are still ways of displaying and sharing the public information you've gathered within your tool without getting people to give you their e-mail address and generate yet another password.

Just think about it - the landing page should say something like "check the voting record of your senator against what you believe in. click your state." - and then show a map.

With this - you'd at least get ONE click. My guess is now, you miss out a lot because you want people to buy into what you're building without providing ANY value other than "feel good to change government" which as we all know isn't enough to get people to care.
>I don't think we'd all remember "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" by name if it didn't have such a delicious title.

Am I the only person here that doesn't like "for fun and profit" titles?
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Ask HN: New Server on every SSH connection?
I was just sleeping and I dreamt about this. Instead of having to spin up a new server in a cloud provider when I need to test things, I just had to close the SSH connection and re-connect. I think this could be billable by the minute.

Does anything like this exists?
This is great actionable info, thanks! I just googled around for printers with these features, and learned something I didn't know.
That is what the poster is doing.

Not long ago, someone from a code camp negotiated 250k total annual compensation from an SF short-term rental company.
The libreboot post clearly mentions that the bullying was about the fact the person was trans, therefore going against what the FSF and RMS claim.
I mean, I'm just going to come out and say it - unless there are emails or something it's got to be hard for the FSF or the employee to make any sort of claims.

If there is not a lawsuit this probably shouldn't even be a thing.

The libreboot founder wrote:

> Libreboot is not part of GNU or FSF anymore. I hereby denounce both GNU and FSF. Long live the LGBT community, and long live the free software movement. Meanwhile, FSF and GNU can both go fuck themselves.

To be honest, because I see no evidence - just a bunch of pointing fingers, this seems super unprofessional and possibly just downright defamation on the part of libreboot. Now if evidence is provided I'd be happy to change my mind, but overall this seems pretty childish.

Some of the Reddit comments:

> Having had interactions with this particular developer before, they are a very ...impulsive individual and given to extreme snap judgements and opinions (banning discussion of using any *BSD with Libreboot on the IRC channel for the project because BSD isn't "free enough" comes to mind).

> This reaction doesn't really surprise me, regardless of however accurate it may or may not be (and I lean more towards giving the FSF the benefit of the doubt here)

Then there's another who supposedly knows the people involved:

> Leah has psychological problems. Don't let that be reflective of the majority in the Free Software Community. It is certainly a risk to the LibreBoot project. The problem is she is the primary person behind LibreBoot. It's a good project otherwise.

> I know Leah and I know the people accused. Leah's statements are without merit and twisted into things because she is mad. She has a clear history of making false and/or misleading statements against people and organizations she perceives to have wronged her."

Again, because there is no evidence this seems to just be a way to punish FSF because someone got mad.
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In the case of automated multi-ton death machines moving at high-speed near other people, that seems totally reasonable. You shouldn't be allowed to tinker with your automated car and risk everyone else's lives.
How is Leah Rowe (the Libreboot maintainer) in a position to know better than the FSF why the FSF fired someone?

Is she directly involved? Does/did she also work for the FSF with the people in question, or does she just have some relationship with the person who got fired and is getting their side of the story?

She's now publicly calling for the firing of several people of the FSF & the destruction of their livelihoods and careers.

I have no involvement in any of this, but as someone on the sidelines who's been reading about it here on HN this just seems like he said she said hearsay resulting in the tech equivalent of tabloid dramas & trials in the court of public opinion.
Why do you buy so many printers?
I absolutely agree.

But nearly half of Amazon reviews these days are paid advertisements by the seller in my experience.

And while I think you should never write a review for a product you've never used, if you've:

1. Supported or used one at work

2. Had to make purchasing decisions at work, done research, and chosen a competing product

3. Helped a friend or family member with one

Then go right ahead.
Traditionally, such laissez-faire views would distinguish government constraining itself and government constraining the private sector, approving of the former and not the latter.

But I'm down to look at both the same way (especially when, as I wrote, government is constrained not to indefinitely run at a loss so as to play by more similar rules).

That said, I know of little historical evidence that market competitiveness restores itself in the absence of external meddling. The fact is in telecom we are coming off a history of official monopoly, competition, and then a near-reformation of the monopoly without the increased regulation to go with it. So it sure as hell looks as if we backed off the controls and market-based approaches failed.

Now it could be that post-deregulation and trust-busting, there was still too much regulation, but again I don't often see laissez-faire views claiming that government entry into the marketplace must be allowed.
A middle ground that I'm more receptive to is that a never-interfered-with market will always self-correct, but past interference interference may have distorted the market into an otherwise-unreachable state where self-correction is not possible.
In that case we should with heavy intrusion try to force the market into a good state, and then slowly easy off the controls carefully monitoring to see if such self-correction does occur.

Economic pontificating aside, with wired networks I think there is a legitimate public interest in fewer redundant wires (like roads), and too much incumbency advantage with the amount of infrastructure required, for me to put much faith in market-based approaches. Wireless networks on the other hand largely avoid those problems so I think that's a better area for them.
Huzzah. Puppet would be recognized for the degenerate mess it is if it wasn't marketed so well. I know everyone has the best intentions, but brogrammers, tech savvy sales and marketing rejects, were the death-knell of quality at all costs. It was hard enough before, but money has ripped the guts out of a fine institution.
I find it very difficult to believe that anyone experienced and conscientious enough to work for the FSF "harassed by a transphobic colleague for being trans". Even if someone is anti-trans, it should be clear that in the current political climate, openly expressing these views is a career death sentence.

Is it possible that things went down as the post suggests? Sure. I find it much more likely that the individual involved interpreted neutral comment of some sort as an attack on her gender, then stirred up trouble. Why do I have such a dismal view? Because it keeps happening, over and over. The perpetually offended have ruined too many good careers, and we need to stand up to them.
A metaphor is a baseball bat that allows a player to hit a home run every swing.
Show HN: Use “do notation” with promises in JS
That doesn't really affect university research that much. It's a much bigger deal in private companies, obviously.
> Humans navigate with a pair of eyeballs and not much else, after all

Only if by "not much else", you are referring to a ridiculously performant image processor - the visual cortex does an amazing job! My guess is it will be many decades before we can get similar performance in hardware/software.
Some areas of TX have a capacity factor of 50% !
In principle I like the article, because it points out the problems with doing research today. But I don't like that the proposed solution is given so quickly, without more discussion about the ups and downs of it. Basically the article falls into the same trap that it describes.
Indeed, (-1, 0) can not be reached. I'm thinking of ways to improve it that regard.
> It's a crime worse than time-bombing generic printer cartridges

Alerting people to a scam is worse than the scam itself?

> makes online reviews basically worthless

How is it worthless if it's stating important, relevant facts about a product?

Basically you're saying unless you've personally lost out by scumbag practices, don't try and protect anyone else from falling victim.
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>I would offer that such faux-crises are the result of a lack of scarcity, not intellectual capacity. No one who has to hunt for lunch has time to ponder the inevitable death of the sun.

Some of the oldest (and greatest) literature we have, composed in a time of extreme poverty, brutality, and hardship (not to mention 100% illiteracy), deals exactly with that. The Iliad is fundamentally about mortality, its implications, how to deal with it, questioning your culture's morality, searching for meaning in the face of impeding death, etc.
Leah Rowe's response[1] on the mailing list was unprofessional and a bit troubling coming from a project leader.

[1]:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg0003...
That isn't the rule in English; the telephone system is also still a particular thing, as is the ocean, the sky, and the air.

What would you think if someone asked you to call them "on the Telephone"?
Obviously, but we sneer at them and regard them as knuckle-dragging baboons...but maybe they just accept a base lie so they can dispense with navel-gazing and get on with life.

This is why, as an atheist, I totally support most people's decision to effectively believe in ghosts...it enables them to live life.

The HN crowd also has its own faith propositions, but you can't challenge them...
No, it's not reasonable. Government should set standard, free market competes to follow start dates with best quality and lowest cost.

Wht should Tesla be able to prevent me from replacing a bad Tesla part with a better/safer third-party part?
The conduct described in the article is definitely unlawful in Australia.
Why are 64bit pointers needed to match Java? Why not 32bit pointers and a 64bit long? Java APIs very rarely expose pointers anyway (e.g. in NIO).
I wonder why they went for Wind farms over anything on the sea or solar powered
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/outrage-in-stanford-rap...

This douche (plus his dad, and the judge)
Thanks for the good examples of women being bullied in business! I don't think we're disagreeing here.
200 gigabytes at 57600 bits per second is a bit under 46 weeks. They could usually sustain that bandwidth; the bottleneck was usually the modem.
I can't believe they missed Neonto https://neonto.com/ which allows you to point-and-click your way to functioning apps. Real native apps, not prototypes.

Most functionality like list and menus + layouts for many different devices. Great for getting started and learning cross-platform mobile dev.
As someone who hadn't heard about the demoscene, it still doesn't seem that ground breaking. Basically sounds like an online game centered around music. Making a hackable mmo that does just that would be pretty cool. Still neat though!

As a side note, I'd like to disrupt the use of the word disrupt.
The paper contains a lot of bullshit and I don't see any new idea in it.

Foreign transaction costs are not "prohibitive" expensive and there are CC in the US with no foreign transaction fees. You can use transferwise or WU in the worst case (just wired a buddy who is broke US$ 300 online). Social network and payments? Use Wechat!

There are three major problems that they won't be able to solve.

1. KYC regulations

2. Fraud. The financial industry makes it more difficult and more difficult to access your own money (e.g. require a receive text message to wire money. Good luck with that abroad)

3. "in multiple currencies and fast unrestricted exchange of funds within the internal banking network"

This is not a problem as long as your stay within ONE country. Use Wechat in China, use M-Pesa in Kenya etc. It becomes a problem when you do it internationally because many countries are heavily regulated and afraid that capital leaves the country. Have you made, as an average person, international transactions with China? India? Sri Lanka? Ethiopia? Good luck buddy!

In fact, even getting cash at the ATM abroad becomes more tricky. Recently I got into the habit of just carrying cash for all my travels after I run nearly out of cash twice (Ethiopia and India). What do I carry? Euros! They did not want my dollars in Ethiopia because they were "not the latest series" (remember point 2?)
The only time I had to use (admittedly annoying) HP GUI installer is for scanner part of HP CM1015 MFP. Printer part of the same MFP worked fine with just normal CUPS.
They're not saying it doesn't exist, they're saying it's been exaggerated to death to the point where the actual thing doesn't resemble the myth at all. There is no floating trash island, it's not "twice the size of texas", and in fact as stated in the article no scientifically sound estimates to it's size exist. The story was told as basically an iceberg of trash the size of a continent in the middle of the ocean and that's not at all what it really is. It exists, it's a problem, but it's not the mythical thing it's made out to be.
Interesting point of view. Built by whom?
That would be fun to use together with fun side project [RandomFtpGrabber](https://github.com/albertz/RandomFtpGrabber) which will download random stuff from a list of FTPs.
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This has very likely tax reasons.

Many major companies have their own banks and even insurances. An insurance is an easily available tax shelter.
I know this is the popular case to flog your morals over right now but the relationship to this story seems pretty threadbare. What connection do you see outside of the sex crime angle?
this is the only sane way I found to think about these issues.

That seems a little unfair. The question here is whether i is treated as a value or a reference. In JavaScript, i would usually be treated as a value: passing or returning integers is done by value, appending integer i to some array on each loop iteration would append the value, and so on. Giving i reference semantics when building a closure is a departure from the way JS treats integers in most other contexts. It would not only be perfectly sane to close over i by value as well, it seems it would also be more intuitive given that the misunderstanding we're discussing must be one of the most common errors for intermediate JS programmers.

Now, if i were an Object rather than an integer, I think the argument for the current behaviour would be much stronger, because Objects are passed around by reference in other contexts in JS as well. (Personally, I strongly dislike the way a variable might implicitly have different semantics depending on its type within a dynamically-typed language, but that's a whole other debate.)

Unfortunately, changing the semantics for closing over a variable to be by-value in cases like this would also break lots of other idiomatic JS, including the whole idea of building its version of modular design around a function that has local variables and returns one or more closures over those variables. IMHO, it would have been better if the language had explicitly distinguished between values and references to allow those kinds of idioms without the counter-intuitive consequences in other contexts, but we have what we have for historical reasons and it's far too late to change it now.
I tend to agree.
There was a deliberate choice to avoid this when the Scottish Parliament was designed, and they went for the semicircular layout.

I have a vague memory of them looking into the pros and cons of quite a number of layouts during early design. Wikipedia doesn't cite anything helpful, and is quite vague on the topic.
They mention their existing solar capacity in the article. Presumably this will also grow over time.

Doing anything at sea would surely be 10x as complicated and expensive...Texas has wind and open space and roads.
How many ports are there?
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> in this era, you either want founder-level equity or market salaries.

Why does this have to be either-or? Never understood that
I've currently finished Andrew Ng's course on machine learning, this worked for me:

1. Set a clear goal, e.g "By the end of September I want to work through the course solve all the exercises".

2. Tell another friend what I'm doing and make a bet, every time I don't finish the weeks assignments in time I'll pay 50€.

3. Plan the evening before at what time I'm going to sit down and do this course.
I'm a huge fan of the course and methods. If it's tl;dr, here is a recap:

1. 2 methods to learning: Focused vs Diffused. 2. Use Pomodoro to focus intently for 25min. Spend 5 min in diffused mode (walking, running, napping, eat).
>another one is to be "paired" with another online student so you feel a little social pressure.

This is the biggest difference for me between courses that I have started and courses that I have finished. Meeting with someone in real life, even if it's just for an hour a week, easily creates the pressure to continue on that an email reminder simply doesn't do.
An other example is bottled water that can cost about 1000 times more than tap water.
Why spin up a new one, just wake an existing one up. It won't be billed for while it's asleep.
hours/year (= 1/8765.76) is a strange factor by which to multiply a perfectly good SI unit (MW).
Well, I'm glad I basically don't need to print anymore. Not sure what luck got me here, but I sure as hell aren't going back.
IT's called a shared host - and they charge by the minute in 30 day increments.
Solar is more suited for 24 hour power, which Amazon needs. It also costs less than solar, but needs maintenance, but if you're vertical integrated like Amazon then having your own low cost maintenance team is probably not an issue.
Exactly. It has a ton of valuable, useful characteristics. It's a REALLY good hack for fitness--every day, wear a nicotine patch and go to the gym (at the same time/trigger each day). You RAPIDLY get addicted to fitness.
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Normally, I loathe one-star amazon and yelp reviews. They are almost always knee-jerk reactions to some function not working perfectly, or, more often, the consumer felt disrespected and didn't receive the proper service, even though the product or food is flawless.

However, there's an exception to everything. Just this week, my printer crapped out a week after inserting 3rd party ink cartridges. I just thought that printers have a planned obsolesce period of around 2 years. It's one thing to make a device so cheap that it's only capable of lasting 2 years. Intentionally sabotaging your own products just to extract a little more coin is beyond a slap in the face, it's consumer rape. Sony did something similar with their about face on installing Linux. Although I don't agree with what they did, they could at least explain it away as trying to prevent piracy.

I am never, ever, ever buying another product by HP again, never signing up for any of their cloud services and I will tell clients, friends, colleagues, and anyone else in shouting distance to do the same. Luckily, the TinyScanner app (my fave document scanning app, sorry Office Lens) and my phone are more than enough to replace my scanner/fax/copier/printer and I hope I never have to buy one again. For some reason though, faxes are still being used in high numbers in Japan.
What you´re describing isn´t a bank. It´s an international payment facilitator. There´s more competition in that space than you realise. If you want to be a bank, you´ll need to solve lending, and you should also investigate nostro/vostro accounts.
Ah, your update definitely clarifies the situation, and your course of action makes more sense.

I get the feeling that you've got a mismatch between your market's expectations and what you're providing -- they seem to think of your service as an authoring tool that gives them rights to the generated results, whereas -- as I understand it -- you see yourselves as a service provider that retains full rights. Given how low your price points are, I wonder if this experience might suggest a change in direction; for example, a more expensive tier that allows a client to repackage content for distribution.

Finally, I'm going to risk being a bit stentorian here and say that ethics in business is a one-way street; it puts a lot of demands (quite rightly) on us, but doesn't help when someone acts unethically and even unlawfully towards us. When it happens -- and it will happen, repeatedly -- you have to put aside any moral indignation and just focus on turning the situation to whatever advantage you can wrest from it.

In this case, what's your BATNA -- your "best alternative to negotiated agreement?" If, for example, your clients, their reporters, and AJ all ignore you, what is your best option? What course of action protects your rights without damaging your prospects and incurring needless costs? That becomes your new baseline and, combined with the other players' BATNAs, becomes the context in which you try to build negotiations.

Now that you've knocked on the door of legal with a DCMA request, you need to have an escalation path. My experience is that legal action is generally used to force negotiations, not end them, and a DCMA request is actually a pretty canny way of starting the process since it's short of actually filing a lawsuit. But if this doesn't lead to getting everyone in a room to discuss options, then you'll need to determine whether you have to escalate or break off. Difficult problem, really.