skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corruption isn't as straight forward simple as Hollywood movies make it out be "Here take this dollars and do this for me". It's usually a complex net of interests and favors trading, that's really hard to prove. Maybe someone at apple just happen to contribute to someone's political campaign, who is proposing legislation that just so happens would benefit the judge's family business. This level of corruption happens every day, everywhere in the planet. People are trading favors as we speak.
True, that's a solid point, thanks for the reply.

However, ad agencies typically get paid more for spending more, so I don't think a "no cost" campaign works well for covering their costs.

Of course there's probably agencies out there that do/will pitch this type of campaign, and charge for the ideation + production. But virality is usually an empty promise.

Alternatively, increasing the k-factor on an already successful campaign is something agencies will want, so I believe they will fork out for these sponsored placements regardless.

All told, I really do think some secret sauce for targeting (aided by Twitter's/FB's data insights) plus some cool content produced by the brands/agencies will win out as the monetization strategy for social networks.
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But the tablet enables the students to have hands on approach with a screen and input method. Raspberry Pi lacks in this respect.
I'm actually 15, I mentioned 16, because of the same reason people look differently at 17 year olds and 18 year olds.
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I beg to disagree -- someone's ability to transfer knowledge and wisdom doesn't have to follow any external signs of success; it's a completely separate skill. Just as your English teacher doesn't have to James Joyce or even have a single publication to their name, quality startup advice doesn't have to some from someone successful with startups. Unfortunately, just like with your English classes, the real validation of your teacher is not possible until sometimes even years after the fact.
Tracing mass flows, the concept of guilt by association, and general investigation say otherwise.

Please take a look at the properties provided by a system based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature for a perspective on the guarantees that Bitcoin lacks. (Unfortunately, such schemes require a Bank and are thus not practical for adoption. still it's instructive to see what other properties are actually possible rather than devolving into the technicalities of performing various degrees of untraceable btc transaction in the immediate future)

It's really a matter of time until all exchanges routinely report their customers and a list is made of all the major above-board merchants. For the sake of the naive users, let's hope this is done openly rather than covertly. FINCEN has decades of experience tracing pseudonymous transactions.
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They did not. Their firewall blocks Internet access to the websites only.
I don't consider something like:

function is_empty(obj){if(obj instanceof Array){return obj.length===0;}else if(obj instanceof Object){for(var i in obj)return false;return true;}else return !obj;

to be a one-liner simply because it was crammed into one line.
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Heh, I'm not asking for money this time, just that sometimes my threads gets buried. HN is great at giving suggestions from what I've seen and I've indeed received some useful one this times. Again, sorry if I sound suspicious, I can add my system's pics if you want.
They have tracking enabled on the devices so that they know who's in possession of a given tablet at any time.

I understand that from an inventory control perspective, but I wonder the privacy concerns of the tracking implemented.
One more thing you could try is getting a good foam roller (Trigger Point is the one I have) and rolling out your muscles before and after running.

I use to have problems whenever I upped my mileage but that sorted it out after a few weeks. YMMV but I know it's helped many others too.
Exactly. You can't predict it. I can't predict it. All we can do is speculate — which we do.
What's wrong with wired docking stations?
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Bitcoin transactions are all public. If you want to be safe, you have to use a laundry service, and I don't know how good those are.

Here is a thought though: what if you got a prepaid credit card in another country? I suspect somewhere in Europe would be your best bet.

Also, how would the card company know that the transaction was online? It would be shady as all hell, but couldn't the merchant open a cornerstore and ring up all the online orders as chips and a smoothly?
Yeah, sorry, I know they're the public DNS, but they're also jolly handy as unforgettable IP addresses you expect to be able to ping, hence the smiley.

Good news about the time{1..4} NTP servers, I'll give them a try, thanks.
I'm sure we could create an anonymous payment system, however, it would come with a lot of constraints. For example, everyone in the network would pay X dollars to be a part of the anonymous network. Each person cannot pay more than X dollars so that money is conserved. When a transaction is executed, use a service like PayPal to choose a random account and transfer the funds where they need to go.

Yes, this is very insecure for various reasons, and your credit card statement will show up with something you didn't actually buy, but, anonymous payments could be achieved.

Of course, you would have to access the service with Tor for it to be completely anonymous.
Twotp worked well for me after applying the fix in this bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/twotp/+bug/767842
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No, developers don't matter more than the average user, and that fact is the reason Apple sells so many of their products.
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To tack on more Netflix openings, drop me a line if you're a UI engineer interested in working in our TV platforms group. As has been discussed before, Netflix delivers UI to TVs, game consoles, blu ray players, and other devices via custom web applications. We're looking for more very strong JavaScript / HTML UI engineers with an eye for user experience.

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Every single site that has a live stream starts off thinking: "we're going to be cooler than the competition, our live stream will actually update in real time," then realizes "uh-oh, maybe there's a reason other sites don't actually pull the updates and show them in real time"

Facebook, twitter, stackoverflow, et. al. have all previously used the constantly-updating stream technique only to switch away to the "x new posts, click to view"
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I will continue to beat this drum:

Mobile is not just the web.

If you are thinking mobile first, you should be building network applications, not web applications.

Fred Wilson is just an example of someone who get this.
Aw, don't say "never"; you're pretty much guaranteed to be proven wrong.

Monitors and mice might be replaced with a device which tracks your head and eye movements and paints an image on your retinas with a laser. Keyboards could be replaced by pre-speech recognition, measuring the impulses sent to your jaw and mouth muscles, probably in the form of a headset.

Your "desktop" computing needs are filled by a headset which occupies your entire field of view with its environment, and your "mobile" computing needs are filled by the same headset, but it only occupies the periphery of your field of view. When you sit at your desk and face forward, the environment goes full-screen, and when you look away or go away from your desk, the environment retreats to your peripheral vision.
Well, both are very similar & since StamSted is in Danish, I'd say go with it. Could even mention that on your site, maybe made to look like a Danish-English dictionary entry. At least that's how I'd do it.
6.046 is not an introductory algorithm course. 6.006 is. 6.46 is more advanced algorithms.
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Somehow doubt this will happen - as other posters pointed out, it's not even as strictly enforced as you make it sound.
I don't see why it wouldn't.
Expediency. The novel part of bitcoin is the usage of the proof-of-work to also perform probabilistic byzantine agreement, and Satoshi didn't wait to invent two new things. I read the paper when it first came out, saw that it was based on signature chaining, and dismissed it as uninteresting. Didn't forsee the social echo chamber of everyone telling each other it was anonymous due to the present lack of identification. Oh well.
If I had to guess, I'd say somehow you ended up with text-mode mounts in your previous experience. The default, and recommended, is binary mode, but you're given a choice on install. It affects C programs that specify "t" to fopen() and friends, and causes Cygwin to convert line endings to and from DOS. But it's more trouble than it's worth.
I love running, I'm addicted to it. I got some of my best ideas while I was running. Ideas for apps, ideas for university papers back when I was studying, and much more. For a time, I used to listen to ebooks but that didn't work at all because my mind would always wander off and think about new ideas, so usually after 5min of running I'd completely stopped listening to the ebook voice.

I also prefer music without voice (like minimal house) or with lyrics that are barely existent or not understandable gibberish.

Oftentimes I don't use music at all though, simply enjoying the sounds of nature.

It's a really good diversion to being a single startup founder and hacking all day.
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I'm pretty sure a project as widely used as FFmpeg can't just choose a single compiler (and you'd actually have to choose a single compiler version since for instance new versions of GCC can introduce new warnings).

On top of that, sometimes warnings come from parts of the code you don't control, like a scanner generated by flex.

I think it's better to have a strong policy of not introducing warnings and fixing them whenever a particular compiler is foud to emit them, but having -Werror in the default Makefile can quickly inundate the project's mailing list/IRC channel with "doesn't compile" complaints from people with exotic compilers.
I am very busy and I like being busy; life is short and there is way too much cool stuff to do. But, at the same time, I try to not use it as an excuse, and I get a little annoyed when people use it that way.
Let's see here... Motorola together with telecom companies such as Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens etc worked for decades in establishing standards and infrastructure for digital mobile phones. In this they were truly succesful, and this would not have been possible unless they had shared patents with each other that were involved in common standards. Then, much later, enters Apple and brings nothing to the table with regards to telecom technology. Why should they not pay?
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Count on Techdirt to thoroughly botch coverage of any legal issue it smears its pixels onto.

At issue in the case Techdirt is alluding to isn't the long-term prospect of the first-sale doctrine. Nor is it about whether you can "resell a book you bought abroad"; at least, well, here, let's just dive in:

What happened in this case is that a Cornell student noticed that textbooks are sold at a lower price in some countries abroad. This is because if you sold textbooks at the US price in those countries, you might as well not sell them at all. So the student first consulted "Google Answers" for legal advice, and then arranged to import cheap textbooks and resell them in the US. He made something like 1.2 million dollars.

The problem with this scheme is that it constitutes "parallel importation", and the US is very weird about parallel importation. To wit: retailers luv parallel importation (it allows Costco to import huge numbers of Omega watches to sell way below US MSRP), every other business interest pretty much hates parallel importation (for obvious reasons), many countries outright ban parallel importation, but the US does not.

Instead, a hodgepodge of different statutes are used to retard parallel importation (think: drugs from Canada). Among them is US Copyright law, which ostensibly (but not completely clearly) provides (a) the exclusive right to distribute and sell copyrighted works to Copyright owners, and (b) under US import law, forbids imports of copyrighted material without the permission of the owner.

The First Sale doctrine says that once you've purchased a good, you're free to resell it without restriction. But obviously, having purchased a copyrighted good, you don't then obtain all the rights of the original copyright holder. For instance, you cannot then yourself make copies of the good for resale. So, while there's a tension between First Sale and "Infringing Importation", it's not a hard one to resolve: black --- or very dark grey --- letter law says you can't import copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder.

What seems to have happened in this case was that a District Court came to the proper conclusion by way of the wrong reasoning. Specifically: the District Court held that a parallel import was unlawful... but it was unlawful because the First Sale doctrine doesn't apply overseas (? WAT?). It's not clear why they even needed to go there, but now SCOTUS needs to fix things.
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You're a crack-shot software engineer. Not necessarily because of where you went to school, but because simply put - you love this stuff. You know at least one mobile/web-related computer language cold. Whether it's Objective-C, Ruby, Java Javascript, or others - we're not too concerned about which one because no matter which one (or ones) we end up using, you'll not only be able to pick it up fast, you'll be excited about doing so.
You understand the latest technology. From NoSQL to Backbone to Node. You aren't technically religious and gain as much satisfaction in picking the right tool for the job as you do implementing it.
You've built stuff. Web sites. Mobile apps. Whatever. You can show us. You can't wait to show us. You're not only excited of what users can do with it, you're proud about how it's implemented and to a technical audience, and you can't wait to talk about it.
As part of the first engineering team, you're excited by the prospect of working with smart people. Because you're smart and you know it - and you know that working with other smart people simply makes you better (all the while making them better too). As a bonus, being part of this initial team gives you the opportunity to strongly affect future engineering hires - insuring the caliber of the team.
You live within commuting distance to Palo Alto, CA or are willing to relocate (paid).
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In the UK you can get pay-as-you-go internet dongles. I'm not sure if you can buy them for cash in a shop, without ID.
I'm curious then, what exactly do you buy? Almost every company on this planet has done things both legally and socially that would mean you boycott almost all corporations. This would asus is out, samsung, motorola, <insert any major manufacturer of anything here>, how do you correlate this view with the rest of the products you buy?

Do you drive a car and fill it with gasoline or diesel? Then likely you're implicating yourself in the extraction of natural resources and disasters with this viewpoint. While I applaud the concept, it seems a bit restrictive. Note I'm not saying you should deny when companies do bad things like an oil spill disaster, but if we're going to glom on extra responsibilities for corporations that build devices we buy we're going down a very slippery slope that can only end with abandoning modern lifestyles.

Also another question, if patents are granted and being infringed, are you saying companies should not act upon infringement? If yes, then why would companies get patents?
1. Never tell me what to do. How about "Why I don't.." instead. I'm not sure why you are qualified to give me an absolutism in the first place considering you've only been a professional developer for 5 years. Now get off my damn lawn.

2. And you've apparently never used Tower.
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Living with less goals has made me happier. I used to have too many difficult unrealistic goals. It just caused a lot of stress and anxiety in my life. It helped to keep some of the goals, but get rid of the deadline I had on those goals. Instead of saying "I need to get this certification in 3 months", my attitude is "I'll study 2-3 hours a week and take it if and when I feel ready". Shooting for smaller, flexible goals makes a big difference.
You can. Currys allow you to buy in cash.
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I find it ironic that people use Google+ to protest against this, as Vic Gundotra has alienated me a lot more with his stupid policies than Apple ever has. #BoycottGoogle+
That is a horrible idea now that patents in the US are first to file rather than first to invent. You leave yourself open to somebody else patenting it, then coming back and suing you. Sure, you might be able to get that patent thrown out, but there is no guarantee and you are dumping a ton of money on lawyers in the process.

Like it or not, patent trolling is just getting warmed up.