skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing is because they just made it more difficult for people who are paying good money to subscribe to their service, they may well have driven a whole bunch of people to cancel their subscription and go down the illegal route because it is so much easier, and cheaper than buying a new cable box! Crazy!
They've done the math and for now they've found it IS more profitable for them to only allow you to get their content with a cable subscription.

I doubt that. Rather, I bet they've made a conscious choice to only be a content provider, not a content distributor. That's a fundamental business change. I say this because if HBO decided to make the change, and enabled, say, a $10 online, streaming subscription, I think they'd make more money than they do now. But that would likely upset their current deals with the cable companies, and it would be a fundamental business model change.
It's not that they wouldn't prefer to get their money earlier. It's that they are in bed with the cable companies, who have significant power because they provide a huge chunk of HBO's revenue. HBO don't want to risk losing that revenue by disturbing the cosy relationship.

Cable companies are fiercely protective of their status as content providers. As they see it, the biggest threat to cable is that it gets turned into a commoditized dumb pipe. Any move by partners like HBO in the direction of supplying content over IP is seen as a move towards marginalizing their business.
Is that code really valid CoffeeScript? Last I looked, and I admit that the last time was months ago, 'on' was a reserved keyword (an alias of 'true') and I had to do some quite ugly hacks to be able to have a method named 'on'. This may have been related to dynamically adding the method onto the prototype of some constructor rather than defining it in a class.

Besides that, I still get feelings of discomfort when thinking about rewriting JS to coffeescript when knowing that the compiler will just write it as JS again.

EDIT: Tried it. In this case it seems to works.
Don't forget about hit and runs.
Yeah, it's a moment that can be really interesting if you can keep your composure. Back when NotifyWire was running I was talking to someone about Craigslist and he told me about a secret weapon he used for snagging the best deals.

When he told me it was my software I asked, "What's so cool about that?", then "How much does that cost?", and then said "Wow, that seems expensive.". It was really interesting to hear someone explain the bits they found most useful and describe the value they use to justify the expense. It was possibly the most honest feedback I ever got.
Soccer team demands teen's arrest for finding unannounced images online
In regards to "Accessing Return Values, poll() and wait()":

Another easy way to get a returncode without polling is to call communicate().

returncode will be set when it returns from communicate().
Looks useful and is much needed. However, since you are trying to appeal to newcomers to rails, which might include non-devs as well, you need to state what the purpose is in more plain english (and in larger text). For example, what is a dependency? A better line might be, "...without the difficulty of having to install each necessary component individually." Or something along those lines. Good Luck
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It doesn't explicitly forbid use of them. Honda's EULA is lawful and binding under the new law. But the case could be made that without the new law, Honda wouldn't need a EULA (although having it probably cuts down on their legal bills).

Obviously, though: Honda's EULA is lawful and binding without the bill. This bill can only improve matters at this point. You can be irritated that it doesn't improve them enough, but that's not the case BGR is making.
The Best Buy vending machine is pretty unique, isn't it? Or at least new? "I bought a $70 product from a vending machine" would perhaps highlight the core of the problem, but are there any non-best-buy machines selling the same kind of thing?
You can't turn off the EDR. Deleting the data is a good question, but I expect the rulemaking that occurs after this passes will define compliant EDRs as devices with which the data cannot be tampered with or removed.
The browser is an extremely important part of the web. For now, Safari for iOS is up-to-date with the rest of the browsers, but what if it starts lagging behind? Either the users are stuck not being able to use fully certain websites, or the web gets stuck like it still is with IE.

I'm not saying walled gardens don't have advantages to the users - a garden with a good landscaper is probably better for the common user, no doubt. But to say that openness only benefits devs and a small number of users is shortsighted. It's a balancing act.
Got a Term Sheet. Now What??
As someone who to this day still cringes every time they need to work with the subprocess module, do yourself a favor and use Kenneth Reitz's excellent wrapper library called Envoy:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy

For reference, he's the same guy that did the Requests module, which is pretty much the defacto standard for avoiding urllib hell.
I hear this all the time from Best Buy sympathizers. The question I don't hear getting asked is "Why are they then buying from Amazon, and not bestbuy.com?" The reason is that Best Buy doesn't want its online business cannibalizing their in store business, so they keep their online prices in line with b&m. As a result, they lose the sale in both places.
As any Game of Thrones watcher should always remember:

While you're busy fighting for power and wealth, somebody is eating your lunch at the same time.

Instead of fighting for the share of wealth, you should perhaps figure out a way of making more wealth or at least preserving it.
Reclaiming the '501 Developer'
A test of statistical significance can answer that question easily - I think most optimizers use it.
Well, keep in mind that, with a significance threshold of 5%, one in twenty null-result tests will appear to have significance.

So just continuing to test until you get a result is not necessarily going to net you anything.
Sounds like a great education. I've been meaning to explore the research opportunities at my school; hopefully they will work out as well as yours did. Thanks for sharing, and sorry to hear about your loss.
The real numbers might be said to exist in real form.

My point with borders is that most of their existence is imaginary, this doesn't mean that they don't exist, but rather that they only exist through social agreement and are largely metaphorical in nature.
This. The EDRs would serve no purpose if access to data could be eliminated right after an accident.
I hope you're talking about the old design.

The site shows the old version to some visitors. You can click the link in the footer to get the new redesign.
Again, serious question, does this exemption apply to things that are just legally unavailable, or also financially unavailable? If game of thrones were legally available in your region but cost $100 or $1000 or $10000, would it still be OK to watch an illegal stream?

I've seen that argument when people pirate expensive software, saying "there's no way I could afford this, so it's morally neutral for me to use it without paying for it"
The file cabinet analogy is great to explain packages/namespace. Smart.

After looking through both opening slides, I have to say Oracle's seemed to make better/stronger arguments. This case is fascinating, I'm glad that resources are being made available.

Also, gotta love "Very limited internal expertise to make smart decisions" on slide 69. I wonder if the slide number being that was just coincidence.
Facebook Blocking Stories About Richard O'Dwyer's Fight Against Extradition
Terahertz vision sees through walls, clothes
I think it's time to be clear about what the concern is here, because it's become a bit of a cottage industry to call out provocative headlines, wave your arms around a bit, and then claim the readers are being manipulated. Kind of "Nothing to see here, folks. Please move along."

What we've learned through repeated experience is that data collection always leads to some future configuration that we are not happy with. Maybe it's advertisers tracking our every move on the web. Maybe it's the police getting all of our cell phone records simply by filling out a form. Perhaps it's the government tracking all international calls. Maybe it's the cops taking COTS GPS devices and using them to track cars without a warrant. Whatever. The pattern is clear: one day we start collecting data. Somewhere down the road somebody starts using that data in a way we do not like. Big Data is simply too attractive to too many entities to leave alone.

While the cops angle is the one that's most emotional, my money says the real players behind the scenes here are the insurance companies. Initially, the spin will be for accident litigation, but within a few years they'll have "collecting any relevant data" clauses in all their new car insurance policies. And then they'll be able to see exactly how you drive. Insurance companies are already trying to do this voluntarily. I think Progressive has some kind of Orwellian name for it like "Safe Driver Program" or something. Don't know. All I know is that whenever I see their commercials it reminds me of how stupid they think their customers are.

It's a fair cop to say that many of these stories are overblown, emotional, and manipulative. But that's a far cry from saying they are useless. The problem here is trying to guess a future world in which this goes south. For every ten guesses, maybe one is close. So looking at it from that angle, what a terrible track record! But looking at it from the proper (in my opinion) angle, the problem is simply one of style. Nobody wants to read a long-winded discussion of the problems here, but everybody will click on "The police are checking your underwear every night using your iPad!" stories. Simply because that's the nature of the business doesn't mean there aren't also serious concerns.
Mark Zuckerberg Will Never Make It As A Banking Analyst
Worth noting though is that there is a link to this page on their home page, implying that this isn't supposed to be restricted to those with an account. (I guess just visiting their page is considered supporting them?)
It looks different in the status bar, which is the important bit.
Shoot. I try for a witty response and get it totally wrong. Thanks!
RSS and IMAP don't have much in common, but I think the applications overlap a lot.

Many people subscribe to newsletters for exactly the same reason other people use RSS.

I also did it the other way around, and I dearly miss it on 10.8: I subscribed to RSS for stuff that other people use email notifications for. Mostly blog post comments and AppWorld reviews, both of which are often support requests in disguise. Adding the StackOverflow search query for a library I wrote was also awesome. Extremely low traffic & always better to read within a day.
HTML, CSS and JavaScript is the 3 most basic web technologies related technologies one could learn (check the courses in Codecademy - http://www.codecademy.com/courses/type/all/lang/web).

But the currently available tools often requires people to have certain other knowledge (such as server-side scripting in PHP, Managing MySQL databases, etc) to create and manage a simple real-life website. Aim of Punch is to remove this layer of complexity and be a comfortable tool for even someone who knows only the basics.

Personally, I believe it's still easy to create manageable websites only with HTML, CSS and JS.

However, as I mentioned in the post Punch is quite flexible. If someone fancy they can even extend it to parse CoffeeScript or Sass as well.
Err.. I agree with you on principal, but "most people"? I'd wager that not even a majority of people who watch HBO content do so by resorting to copyright infringement.

If they don't pull their heads out though, that number will continue to increase. It's not as if piracy involves a great deal of mental capacity or even difficulty.
Some thing that you might want to look at are the number of free cards you are giving away. With many states having mandatory class size reduction class sizes are smaller and 15 would cover a lot of classes. My wife's class this year has been as small as 12 students and as large as 18 students. With 15 free cards she would just make the other three by hand. A lot of that is due to us already spending a large amount of money on her class due to budget deficiencies and salary freezes for all teachers for three years now.

Another issue you might be encountering is that states are adopting the common core standards http://www.corestandards.org/ and word bingo doesn't meet any of the standards for english language arts. Since everything in classrooms is documented, lesson plans are stored and in some cases handed over to the state there's not going to be a lot of use cases for activities that can't be applied to the standards. Even if those activities are just for fun due to a holiday.
World's first "Massively Multiplayer Linux Distro Sim" launching at midnight
Decide Launches Technology That Predicts The Lowest Price or Pays You
Decide.com helps eliminate buyer’s remorse by predicting whether the price of products will rise or fall. Now it’s confident enough about some of its deals that it’s offering a money-back guarantee.
Lots and lots of things still use it in telco land, and many
of those things have crawled out to the internet (like h.323 voip).
You don't actually have to have the securities physically in hand in order to enter into a contract to transfer them.
Yes, but read 'agl's comments carefully: the systems impacted by this are going to tend to be ones that do special-case configuration of SSL certificates. We're not talking about browsers and (for the most part) web servers here.

A hypothetical future Github feature that allowed users to upload SSL certs in lieu of SSH keys might have to review their code to make sure they weren't using OpenSSL BIOs to read certs from (or just patch).

You should patch anyways. From now on, professional security assessments are going to doc this version of OpenSSL as a vulnerability.
This will be a successful exit :-) Google really needs this capability, both for users and for their enterprise service. I expect a solid team, gets it built outside the 'plex, gets acquired and takes it in house.
Different ways our minds warp time
This is true of the USA. Other jurisdications have different consumer protection laws. In the UK store returns are pretty much an absolute right under this sort of circumstance -- goods sold must be "fit for purpose" and a retailer who won't accept a return may be breaking the law. (This case is complicated by it being a kiosk and providing insufficient information, but even so ...)
His "mistake" was assuming there would be a reasonable return policy with Best Buy due to the machine's Best Buy branding. People buy products inside packages all the time and assume they can return them if the packaging is misleading.
Show HN: Ginger: Better Team Discussions
Hi everyone, we (Lincoln Loop) are a development/consulting shop launching our first product, Ginger.

Our team is spread across many time zones and has an aversion to disruptive/ineffective meetings. We've been looking for a tool that can help us have discussions and share information without interrupting our developers while they are in the flow. Email, Basecamp, Google Wave, and IRC all came close, but always fell short in some critical manner. We built Ginger to scratch our own itch hoping it scratches some of yours too.

https://gingerhq.com

Sign up is 1-click (Google/Facebook) or just a couple of fields to enter and no credit card is required to take it for a spin. We'd love to hear your thoughts on it all!
It's kind of funny. I along with many of you I'm sure read the article in The Atlantic last night about Facebook and it being time to "move on". Coursera is a great example of someone promisingly attacking a newish problem. Basically, it is the type of startup I would assume the author of the article would advocate for. But then there at least two courses I counted on modeling and analyzing "the network". It's ironic, although it really just furthers the Atlantic writer's point, in that these are mature things that we are beginning to understand in an extremely detailed way.
Bingo card creation is one of the few apps where I would probably avoid a "simple, elegant, modern" design. I would expect more of a cartoonish, game-y design.
You can also cut and paste it into this site: http://js2coffee.org/. It's not always perfect, but it will get you 95% of the way there.
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Tom Preston-Werner's closing keynote on Open Source at Bogotaconf 2011
> and the before and after redesigns are very compatible at the DOM label

level?
Neal Stephenson takes blame for discouraging budding scientists
Both designs are pretty bad unfortunately.
I think HBO have made some fantastic shows, Band of Brothers is one of my all time favourite series. I'm in the UK so not experience the restrictions that you guys in the states are facing. I'll tell you what is really annoying though is when they post a video on Facebook and then it's location restricted. This is not just HBO shows, still annoying as hell, particularly when it's just an interview of one of the shows actors or something. Seriously people, you have fans all over the world, these marketing channels need to reflect these global views!
> HBO has no obligation to do what a bunch of people on the internet who think they understand HBO's business better than HBO does think they should do.

They have no legal obligation. Currently, anyhow.

But you forget who makes the laws, and how the content gets delivered, and what people make this content out of.

Copyright is a temporary and limited monopoly granted by the people to encourage the production of intellectual property. The laws we have are an artifact of the economics and politics of their time. Information technology has radically changed both the economics and society's views. The laws will likely change as well.

HBO didn't invent dragons or kings or sex. They didn't create the Internet. They don't own the public airwaves or the public land over which the cables run. They don't own the fans. They didn't make the social media sites and bar tables where they get their word-of-mouth publicity.

HBO and all involved should be fairly compensated for their hard work and creativity. But the property rights you treat as absolutes are just convenient fictions we created together. People shouldn't feel entitled to the Game of Thrones. But neither should Time Warner executives feel entitled to use the public courts and police to ruin people's lives for sharing things they like.

We're living in the greatest revolution in information production and distribution since Gutenberg. Things will change.
I know people who used tricks like this and some clickjacking on the share button to get 1 million+ person fan pages. Many of them were seized, but for a while it was easy.
Fark's Drew Curtis Explains How To Beat A Patent Troll
No, I generally follow RSS on my iPad/iPhone using an app (Byline in my case) and only use Google Reader when I'm on a PC.
I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How
Watson Speech API in June
Absolutely great story and thanks for sharing. This sort of sharing is invaluable for those trying to start something.

Nice site and I can see why it has gained so much traffic. The biggest question is - how did you get this traffic?

Have you paid for any advertising? How much is driven from advertising or organic growth?
Are there actual examples of financial unavailability [of tv series, books or music]? If there are, let's discuss on per case basis. If there aren't, let's not.

The thing is, if they actually put effort at making it available, the offers are usually okayish. The problem arises when they simply don't bother.
Maybe the folks at HBO are brilliant; maybe they aren't. That's besides the point.

The point is that companies like HBO are probably leaving money on the table. There are a lot of folks who are willing to pay to watch Game of Thrones, assuming that they could pay a couple bucks to download (not stream) a high-quality 720p/1080p file around the same time the show airs on HBO. But HBO has (apparently) decided that's not in their best interest, instead only providing two options:

1. pay for an HBO subscription

2. wait for disc-based release (DVD/Blu-ray)

For folks who have cut the cable/satellite cord and who don't want to wait for months, neither option works, so they pursue the only option left.

Maybe the folks at HBO aren't idiots, but then again they haven't exactly experimented with a different model, now have they? They assume they make more money with the current legacy model, but as Louis C.K. discovered, I'd wager HBO would actually make more money if they allowed folks to buy downloadable high-quality .mp4 files at the same time the show airs. If they ever decide to try that model, then -- and only then -- can you or HBO claim they've done the math.
I was interested in this, but was turned off by the fact that they are using characters from The Office as examples makes me think the founders are lacking in judgement and a bit green. There's no way they have permission to use those images, right?
ShadowPuppets lets you pinch-to-zoom, click, & scroll with shadow gestures
If the dominant toaster conglomerate decided to exclude bagels, you would care.
JavaScript and Semicolons
I am already using comet, what's the benefit of trying websockets first?

P.S. "It's not rocket science" snark completely uncalled for.
I agree. I also find unless statements to be difficult to read. I use this pattern all of the time in my JavaScript:

if(!foo) {
maybeDoSomething();

return;
}

bar();

This lets me early exit, if needed, while letting the meat of the function not suffer from unnecessary indentation.

The unless statement makes the early exit seem like the default action rather than the exceptional action it (hopefully) is.
Thanks for making the change. I just pledged $15 for a license. I'll make good on my promise and spread the word around my networks, and hope others who pledged the least for a license payback in similar ways too.

All the best Chris.
There is an important social element to watching a show. When a new episode comes out, you can chat about it with friends and coworkers. That isn't true if you have waited weeks or months to watch it.
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You only spent 2 minutes learning about a product that has many moving parts. I spend a lot of time working on the flow and design of NewsBlur. I think if you give it it's proper due, you'll find yourself astounded by all the attention to detail and features that you won't find in any other feed reader. It's pretty clear that NewsBlur goes well above and beyond.
Show HN: Pictorious - an app to participate in and create memes
Phone data shows romance 'driven by women'
Describing passive opposition as war just makes no sense at all.

It’s not a war. Not even using extremely liberal (and stupid) definitions of war.
Apple's RSS support was utter pants. I use RSS all the time, on Apple platforms exclusively, and I'm overjoyed to see it gone from Safari and Mail.