skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an explicit 24h limit before they get kicked out and the entirety of their assets gets confiscated. On the flip side there's no timeline for providing shelter beds and a one-way bus ticket is deemed equivalent.

This is inhumane.

This feels like wealthy people wanting to erase the daily reminders about inequality so that they don't have to think about it.

If the supporters of this measure really cared about homelessness, there would be provisions for actual reintegration into society instead of just a stick. But that costs money and effort.
Is going straight to Python 3.5 easier than releasing a 3.4 compatible version first?
It really seems to me that the knee-jerk reaction here is the one against the shoplifting analogy. All analogies are approximations; you're meant to focus on the similarities instead of the differences. If you're choosing to focus on the differences, than you're choosing to misunderstand. Why would you do that?

p.s. If you read it again, you'll see that the person asked for a refund. It's somewhat unclear at this point whether that refund was granted, but my interpretation is that they did.
I'd argue that most people that use IRC use shells and a terminal multiplexer to access IRC, and this isn't an issue for them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944

and many others without/with moved comments
Signal does not claim to be anonymous, nor does it try to be. Your recommendation misses the point.
I'm presupposing the contact card has their job position/title, and therefore still answers the question – also presupposing the original (odd) premise of wondering who someone already saved in your phone is.

The Venn overlap between the set of "contacts in your phone" and "people with Wikipedia bios" is likely rather small. Hence why I think it's a faulty premise to complain about Siri defaulting to contact card when these two sets do intersect.
...and it didn't work. I get frustrated after having to spend ten minutes talking to a customer rep. Half an hour of an evening wasted trying to resolve something that shouldn't be an issue in the first place would leave me seething and agitated.

Now, there are certainly some out there who would soldier on despite all these inconveniences and still go through the trouble of finding another legal avenue (OP did say he spent another hour searching for it), but if your business plan relies on people taking the legal route just because it's the "right" thing to do, experience be damned, well, you'll have piracy at levels that you do now.
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No, his problem is with the breadth of the patent assertion Facebook makes. He's not the first to point out it's unusually in favor of Facebook, even compared to patent grants from Microsoft and Google.
I wish he went into more detail on the difference between this and the Apache2 patent grants.

I've been favoring Apache2, and am considering adopting the GPLv2 compatibility clause that is being added to Swift.
Does Android really answer questions? The only one I know to work is "How high is Mount Everest?". For everything else, it just reads the first sentence of the Wikipedia article, or presents a search. I'm using a German phone, so an English one might work better. But mine doesn't even know "What color is the sky?"
The Apple TV Siri actually can cope with two languages when it comes to movie names. Using Siri here I don't have to "hack" it by pronouncing English words in German.
At least the iOS keyboard understands more than one language simultaneously now. Something macOS and Android do for a long time.
> And yet Netflix want the same monthly cost for less of a service. Why?

You lucky bastard. In Norway, the same applies but we probably have to pay double of what they do in the US (100 nok).
Yes, that's what the article made me think - wide deployment of these types of weapons might make laser countermeasures the only viable protection, and thus spur the development of laser weapons.
Sure, why not? They both get you where you need to go, but one is more expensive and has a lot more style.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680380
Don't you have to leave your phone's screen on the entire time to use screen casting?
Christmas easter egg, shake to snow SnowGlobe.framework for iOS in Swift 3
The link is missing.
India’s Eternal Inequality
Spent 35 minutes trying to find a resolution and didn't get one. So they should expect to pay money AND time to watch content legally?
If you're interested in money lying on the floor, and believe the SolarCity + Tesla acquisition will go through, you can buy SolarCity shares while they are below the strike price of 22.19 and make instant profit in November.

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-09-16/solarci...
The Microverse Battery in Rick and Morty is a fun example of the idea.
Brand is pearl. Uses a cam on a license plate frame. Never seen it first hand though.
More millennials switch off social media
I think it's the opposite; they put the embedded developers, who (rightly) have no sense of the insane challenge of doing security, in charge of talking to the Web.
Love that there's an Atari ST and ZX emulator running inside of this.
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How did you get that up and running?

A friend of mine started this label therhinestonecompany.bigcartel.com as a side project and I joined a year ago. We had (and still do) a lot of interest but we both became busy. But I'm tempted to pick it up again only because I feel it would do well with proper execution. I've been a silent Hacker News reader the past year or so (I'm a journalist turned coder) but your post grabbed my attention!
Requiring a few states to hang a left makes it difficult to both evade and defense hit a target, right?
Here’s the plan for MegaBots’ newest creation
Paywall workaround: Google search link ("web" above), opened to Incognito page.
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Attempting to Bypass ASLR on Windows 7 to a Reverse Shell
Or Windows 95 (disclaimer, this is by me):

https://win95.ajf.me/

Or Windows 98 (not by me):

http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98
It turns out that my exploit did not work locally or remotely. I'd love feedback from you all if my understanding is flawed.

I would suggest reading at least through to "What's Happening?" because I show that at least my exploit attempts to run the shell code, but the actual shell code throws an exception!
Can you remind me why LLVM/CLANG can't compile the linux kernel? Is it dependance on GCC extensions?
1)-Focus on what's in for them.
2)-Get a common 'friend' to endorse/introduce- preferably board member, investor, or someone credible from CEO's graph.
3)-Position your product/solution on these levers- Increase Revenue, Reduce Expenses, Lower Losses.
4)-Select right approach- relationship vs transactional
5)-Don't try to close in Meeting 1
6) Demonstrate how your product has helped other clients/business partners.

[Was CEO of a financial services company and worked with large banks and FI's.]
At some point one may wonder where the line goes between large corporations and governments.
I've worked as a network engineer, I wasn't able to set up a printer with WiFi after an hour or so (or rather I was able to set it up but settings will disappear)
I used an RPi for my hydro system, I grew a few generations of really good green "tomatoes" and had quite amazing yields... satisfied my geek side and my gardening side all at once... :)
The argument that "This is Not Open Source Software" feels unsupported and very sloppy.

> Thus, the licensee pays a price to use the library. It is not a price paid with money. [..] I could be missing something, but I have never seen any other software license use such a condition and also claim to be an open source license.

This just isn't thinking creatively. The GPL also requires a "price to be paid, but not with money" -- you give up your right to keep changes you make secret (if you distribute them). Yet no-one seriously argues that the GPL isn't an open source license.

If there is something about giving up the right to file patent lawsuits that is totally different to giving up the right to keep your changes secret, the article doesn't say what that difference is. Giving up the right to keep your changes secret is surely more stringent than giving up your right to file patent infringement lawsuits against one company. Why, then, should the latter be a dealbreaker for an open source license?
A lot of those movies appear in the big $2 dollar DVD bin at Walmart.
I've been poking into neurons and brain function a bit.

There are many neurons which are exitatory -- they respond when stimulated by others.

There are a large number which are inhibitory. They supress activity of other neurons.

I'm suspecting inhibition is more critical than excitation for consciousness and intelligence.
Forgive my crass naïveté, for I live in a chilly northeastern college town where homelessness = death for half the year, but why are people so concerned about keeping the poorest of the poor living at the tiny tip of the wealthiest peninsula in America?

Homelessness and the situations that create it are great tragedies. But to me it seems completely absurd that this problem is dealt with a municipal level. Homeless shelters are good to have but there is so little space in the city of San Francisco for the working people, let alone the tech workers forking over several thousands of dollars each month in rent.

San Francisco is a tiny city. California is a very big state. I don't understand this problem at all.
It dropped a lot more than 12%. It dropped to 12% (out of 250 titles,) from 49 titles to 31.
Double your day job hourly rate. So if you make $100k a year, that's $50/hr, and your freelance rate would be $100/hr. When you factor in benefits (insurance, 401k) and the self-employment tax of 15%, plus the cost of downtime to do self-promotion and marketing, it works out to about double your employee rate.
This.

I think that it's genius and at the same time frightening at just how well Google has done in the education market, especially how well they've done at getting children to equate the internet with all things Google. Kids (at least the ones at the daughter's school) have no idea what email is. They only know Gmail. They don't know that there is any other search engine besides Google. They don't know that there are any other office suites besides Google Docs. They go to Youtube for everything. Which is easy when Google searches for things will show you a Google property before anything else.

The kids are living in a totally Google world at school since the school district went Google. They barely know anything else. And Google loves it that way.
It would be nice for a lot of reasons but I think over all the net damage from the distraction would be more than the damage saved by people realizing they forgot to pin the trailer coupler and similar stuff. You don't have many reasons to see that field of view at speed since pretty much every reverse camera basically points down.
> It seems like consolidation was a lesson we learned a few decades ago and are in danger of forgetting.

Despite groans to the contrary, I don't think consolidation is the reason services like Netflix/etc. are so popular and why cable service is starting to become considered gauche.

I posit that it's entirely about:

1) The on-demand content that services like Netflix/etc. provide
2) To a lesser extent, the discoverability of content

I don't want to watch Game of Thrones on Sunday evening. I want to watch it now. I want to re-watch Ocean's Eleven tonight, not Thursday during the day. Netflix (in theory) helps me with that. Cable service doesn't.

I want to watch an action movie, and one that I can actually watch right now. Netflix helps me with that. Cable service doesn't, unless I just put on whatever the "action movie" channel is showing.

Hell, cable service providers try to offer some of this already - it's just that their selection sucks. It's either incredibly old movies, or movies that no one wanted to see the first time around. Or it's just the latest episode of a popular television show, or the first season and we're on season 12 now.

Again, despite what people might say I don't think they really want a la carte programming: They want a Spotify subscription for television and film.
So I checked StackExchange's law site and found this question - thus far unanswered, but those would be my questions exactly:

http://law.stackexchange.com/questions/14337/q-about-consequ...

It comes down to two questions (quoted from the linked question) - note that those are questions, not assertions:

1)

> ... if we use any of Facebook's open source projects Facebook can violate *our patents* (of any
> kind) pretty much with impunity: If we try to sue them we lose the right to patents covering their
> open source projects(?)

2)

> I have read opinions that other open source projects that don't have such a clause, for example
> those from Microsoft or Google, nevertheless have the exact same problem, only that it isn't
> explicitly stated. Is that true? Is my situation not any better when I only use open source
> projects without such a clause?

I think that is a good point. The many opinions I see are almost all from people who don't have their own patents to think about, but what happens if you are a company and you do? Would you basically allow Facebook to use any of your patents, because for all practical purposes you can't defend them if you rely on their open source projects?
As a customer, I don't care. Tone note: I don't mean that snarkily, sarcastically, or dismissively, I simply mean that, I don't care. Or if you prefer, I can't care; there's nothing I can do to fix it short of what I just did.

It really is bizarre to me how protective the entertainment industry can get of its content, in a context that I am paying for it (in fact I buy the Hulu non-commercial plan, upon which they make much more than they ever could dream of with commercials, especially given I tend to watch at most two shows per season on them, so I'm really paying for it). I assume Hulu has some sort of arrangement where payment is based on viewership. Why would a TV show not want all of its episodes from at least the last season up on Hulu, prior to its distribution in some other format?

I'll be specific. I enjoy Penn and Teller's Fool Us; not necessarily my favorite show ever (and yes, I'm aware of the at-least modest amounts of kayfabe going on) but a fine late-night relax-before-bed show. A quick search suggests that it is not currently legally available in any format, though I welcome corrections. What's the motivation for taking it off Hulu? Now they certainly aren't making any money from it.

I mean, I understand greed in the general sense. I understand the principles of differential pricing for different markets and the way the entertainment complex uses time to do that with movies and such. (i.e., it's why movies come out in theatres, then on expensive pay-per-view, then DVDs, then streaming services) What I don't understand is the motivation for taking down content that is not legally available anywhere and making it impossible to make money off of, especially in light of content not likely to be available in any other way in the future (there does not even seem to be DVD sets or anything, there does not seem to be a "downstream" for this to go in the differential pricing). A similar trajectory has been followed with Good Eats, which is only very spottily available legally. (A quick search to make sure I'm not shooting my mouth off shows that seasons 1 and 2 were available but are now $100+ to buy used, because they're out of print.)

Oh, and while this may be perhaps neither here nor there, huge, huge chunks of the show are readily available on Youtube. (Not the paid part, just normal free Youtube.)
My dad uses Google Now like this all the time. The first sentence of the Wikipedia article is generally a pretty useful summary of whatever you were searching for -- maybe this is a difference between the English and the German Wikipedia articles? Google now is pretty good at trivia in general though. I just asked mine who won the 1995 NCAA Basketball Championship, and I learned the UCLA Bruins won. My google now says the sky is blue when I ask it as well.
The Netflix catalogue in India is even worse. The surprising thing is they end up charging the same amount as US when disposable income in India is lower and you don't pay the same cost for entertainment services. For example, Apple Music streaming subscription is around $2.5. Also, you can subscribe to every cable channel(including HBO, sports channels etc.) for $8
Something similar was actually tried already in the Soviet Union and in other Communist/Socialist countries with regards to Gypsies. (it didn't target them specifically and instead all homeless, but policy makers had this group in mind)

Laws were implemented that would force them to live in (free) government assigned apartments and accept government assigned jobs.

This policy failed because you can't force someone to like or accept a lifestyle they don't want. They just run away at the first opportunity. You can offer them different opportunities and some might accept it, but as far as I know this is already being done.

What is funny though about this article is that many of the SF tech billionaires are themselves immigrants from former Communist countries or children of these immigrants. Many of their statements seem to indicate that they believe in technocrat rule and some kind of artificial betterment of people that can be achieved through education and policy. (which often translates into propaganda and use of force if you ask me)

It's interesting how values can persist throughout generations, even if you move to a different continent.
That capability has been around since the 1950s, and has been deployed widely enough to wreck civilization on a moment's notice since the 1960s. What do hypersonic weapons do in this respect that ICBMs don't? Is it just that they're cheaper and so could potentially be more numerous?
No, g also equals omega^2 r. The angular velocity omega is the same for head and feet, leaving only the change to r. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_motion#Formulas

(So what's wrong with g = v^2/r? Nothing -- both v and r change in that change to g. To first order, they cancel out in the change to v/r, leaving only a linear factor.)
I'm certainly not suggesting a Raspberry Pi is the best answer for a kid's general use computer :-) I was responding to the comment that people couldn't open up their computers any longer.
The demo doesn't allow you to put in your own lyrics, keeps loading exactly the same set of words. Really awesome project though
Too bad people like you don't work at Mozilla, where their CEO got fired for his political donations
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You're cherry-picking the bits of Jarwain's response that you like to respond to, ignoring the others, yet complain about the discussion culture and being down-voted (which is not appreciated on here) in your original post.

Moxie is taking issue with others using the name "Signal", as that would lead to confusion. Forking and using your own name and servers is totally okay with him.

And of course you can allow others from distributing apps that use your servers in the EU. There's a difference between using modified code with OWS servers (which might be okay in the EU, IANAL), and distributing apps that interface with OWS servers despite their demand that you do not (which is certainly not okay in the EU).
I'm not sure why this is a scary stat:

"Feed animals occupy 70% of arable land on our planet."

If we didn't raise animals on that land it would just go fallow. It's not like we need more land to grow crops.
To repeat: my point is that the test case shown in the article and described in the bug cannot be used to reliably identify a broken poll as passing NULL for fds is, strictly speaking, UB.

I'm not making any claim about the actual source of the poll bug here.
Netflix’s US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years: https://www.allflicks.net/netflixs-us-catalog-has-shrunk-by-...
For anyone wanting to do this, the profile and no-remote command line options[1] may be useful if you want to create shortcuts to launch specific profiles

You might also want to consider using a different theme[2] in each profile to help avoid mixing them up if your running multiple instances simultaneously.

My initial use case for this was adding the lets encrypt staging certificate authority to the trusted root certificate authorities in a profile only used for testing.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin...
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/
Microsoft licensing corruption scandal in Romania has ended on October 3rd
"If Netflix launched with Orange is the New Black, Luke Cage, and Daredevil, would they have even a tiny fraction of the user base they currently have?"

I think there's fairly strong evidence that the answer would be "yes" to that question. More people have signed up for Netflix since the release of House of Cards in Feb 2013 than signed up before then. IIRC that it's right around that time that the Netflix movie catalog really started to shrink, and also the time when Netflix started to have attractive original content.
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It's not as easy as you think, but people are working on it. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGO_%28database%29
We made 1,000,001 Gifs using Computer Vision
Except in this analogy you have to spend time to find which corner store claims to have the soda you want and then pay 6 bucks just to enter the corner store. Once inside you have to spend more of your time trying to fix their fridge so your soda is cold. After you can't fix the fridge they give you your six bucks back on the way out. But your time costs are never compensated.
Good article.

I liked the example of the standardized bolt at the hardware store, that the standard itself should be counted as a type of technology. It gets more interesting when you consider the markets that must have existed when the standard was being made. Some push for the standard (often the weaker players). Many of the stronger might actively fight it, making specifically non-compliant parts as a means of sabotage.
I was just in San Diego. Homeless people were everywhere. I heard that Vegas is literally busing homeless people out of Vegas and into San Diego. Apparently the homeless problem is even worse in San Francisco. That's insane to me.
Also relevant https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/
Consider yourself lucky. There are 6 of those 31 available in Hong Kong and the subscription cost is 10% higher than the US, despite median household income being around a third lower.

I really don't understand the logic in charging a higher price for 10% of the content in a poorer country, but perhaps that's why I don't work for Netflix.

Number of TV shows/movies on US netflix: 1147/4593
Number of TV shows/movies on HK netflix: 134/ 392

US Netflix standard price: $ 8.99
HK Netflix standard price: $10.00
Like this?

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-knowledg...
My mistake! Would be cool to see something like Novena laptops in high schools.
Thanks, these are good examples. It's amazing how long some of these corrupt governments have stayed in power. Will be interesting to see what happens if/when there's a change in governance.
If Apple were to come up with their own version of a stripped-down laptop that boots to a browser, would it be successful? They're certainly capable of it. Naturally it would be twice the price of a Chromebook, but it would be worlds apart in quality.
Same for me, plys Slack.
What it didn't notice: Reddit, GMail, Github, Paypal and maybe more.
One of the items in the carousel is about Linux https://ultibo.org/ultibo-on-linux/