skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And when Uncle Bob downloads malware, has his bank account drained by unscrupulous developers, takes his phone to a "Genius" to fix the problem, he's going to blame Apple for his trouble.

Let's do the old car analogy: if Mercedes tells you the car requires high octane fuel, but you insist on putting in cheaper fuel, is Mercedes going to repair the resulting damage under warranty? Certainly not.

So Apple decides to create/craft/curate a certain user experience for their customers. And they create rules to enforce it because they don't want to be responsible for their screw-ups (like jailbreaking and installing malware) - if you don't like it, why are you buying Apple's products?
This is a discourse not science class both sides of the argument should have evidence.
You can make money from a parody and make any parody you want. However, in the case of a music video, the video and the song are separate entities, so to avoid the license question the parody would have to change the music as well. I'm not sure where the line is, but for example, the "Opan Chomsky Style" line in the MIT video would certainly not be enough to make the song a parody. "Mitt Romney Style" would certainly be considered a fair use parody and since the video was also parody, the need to license was avoided.

It would be interesting to know at which point a video soundtrack becomes separately copyrighted video. Does the process and order of creation matter or is a song a separate work by definition? Is it possible to merge video and music rights into one right?
I had it still in my browser's cache, so here's a copy with images: http://hckcacher.staticloud.com/
'Sell Yourself Online' ebook, follow up to 'double your consulting rate'
Regardless of fair use, Weird Al gets permission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_al#Reactions_from_origin...
Hey, nice relooking of your site. I prefer this colour palette better.
> Production: 2000–2003

Doesn't sound like it'll be an issue anymore.
Foxconn begins replacing workers with robots ahead of US expansion
This really doesn't surprise me. The CLR has always been wide open for reverse engineering and decompilation. Seriously, C++ might get you further here but don't rely on it anyway.

Old way of doing it: It's pretty damn easy to mod an assembly using Mono.Cecil to inject a return statement before a chunk of license code.

New way: XML.

They even made it easier :)
Control as in you get to choose when hardware fails or zero-day exploits get released?

I hear that argument a lot, but you really need to invest a lot of time to provide a secure and reliable e-mail service. It just doesn't pay of in most cases. So yes, you can do it, but don't pretend it's a viable way to save money. I get to see hacked e-mail servers every couple of month.
Just yesterday I was able to write a one liner on the command line to analyze my skype usage. I wanted to see if it was making financial sense to keep skype alongside my prepaid wireless plan.

You can download your last six months of skype activity from skype.com and they are in the form:

Date;Date;Item;Destination;Type;Rate;Duration;Amount;Currency
"July 31, 2012 21:16";"2012-07-31T21:16:01+00:00";"+11234567890";"USA";"Call";0.000;00:00:10;0.000;USD
"July 31, 2012 21:15";"2012-07-31T21:15:38+00:00";"+11234567890";"USA";"Call";0.000;01:17:02;0.000;USD

After 15 minutes or so, I came up with the following one liner:

cut -f7 -d";" call_history* | grep -v "Duration" | awk '{ FS=":"; s+=$1*60; s+=$2; if ($3 != 00) { s+=1 } } END {print s " minutes"}'

I could have done the same thing in perl or python in 5 minutes, but it was interesting to "program" only by hooking programs together to achieve the same thing.

After analyzing my skype logs, I found I used 1800 minutes. That would have cost me $180 with prepaid minutes, but only cost $30 with skype.
How to pirate Windows 8 Metro apps, bypass in-app purchases, and more
The more "politically correct" way to encrypt something would be to do it without using encryption.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Chaffing.txt

Basically, use message authentication algorithm with shared secret to authenticate correct message bits and their position, and output random values for incorrect message bits.

For example, to encrypt 2-bit message '10':

1: (1, 2388) -- '2388' is a correct MAC(key, 1||1)
1: (0, 3777) -- '3777' is a random number
2: (1, 9796) -- '9796' is a random number
2: (0, 4786) -- '4786' is a correct MAC(key, 2||0)

Your full message is transmitted as plain text bits + authentication tag, intermixed with opposite bits + random data. Someone not knowing the secret key cannot guess which bits are the correct message bits, and which are incorrect.

To "decrypt", the receiver just calculates authentication tags with the same key, and keeps those bits that correctly authenticate, discarding the ones that don't authenticate.

The easiest to memorize and implement MAC, I think, is SipHash which uses 128-bit keys and outputs 64-bit tags: https://131002.net/siphash/
Why? Because there's no competition from the "leading mobile phone OS?" Because you can't get access to these companies' services on other devices? Because Apple has a de facto monopoly?
Most of them will simply use Hacker News to find interesting content, not sure how that's diluting the site.
> If people stopped giving Apple credit for shit they
> didn't do nor invent,

How about people not rushing to voice their opinion about something they only saw feedback online?
It's not so much that no one would buy if they couldn't get a loan so much as it is that the availability of the loan causes prices to rise because demand goes up relative to supply.
Odd limits on file dimensions. I couldn't get past the validation since my laziness factor outweighed my curiosity factor :$
That's 10 times the normal fees.
US 8th graders fail to score in global top 10 for math and science
We actually have an article on our blog 'Debunking the social proof myth' that presents a case study about these sharing buttons: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/social-...
"Alternative" is an understatement. ZFS's block-level deduping and compression are great and they were here years ago.

It's disappointing the licensing problems cannot be solved -- great as it is, I cannot really use it until it's a supported part of RHEL.
I worked in a pretty terrible open plan environment. Headphones and music were banned but it seemed loud personal conversations were not.

I worked opposite a lady who would have various male admirers who would come over several times a day to chat her up. So these guys would either stand directly behind my chair and try and talk through me or go around to her side and whisper stuff to her and they would sit and giggle.

Of course nobody achieved any actual work there, so projects were always late. Their solution was to add more people to the project and more people = even more noise.
Really, don't talk about user experience without having any.
hey throwaway,

I was in a similar situation sometime ago. Fortunately or not, I got a job eventually. But I am surprised that you being worried about your visa was seen as such a pesty behavior (actually its not and I am not going to explain why either, people in such a situation would know well).

The problem here is with the system. H1-Bs losing job should be given some extra time to search for a good job otherwise you would end up joining for the sake of joining.

Another thing, even if you have to go back to your origin country, your H1B visa is still usable. You just need to get a job offer. Infact while you are out of US, that time period is also not counted towards your H1B time left.

One last thing, go to a immigration lawyer (generally they charge $100 per hour) and discuss with them, it will give you the most authentic information about how to go around this situation.

Worst case, go back to your origin country and do a startup ;).
I've never watched "Mad Men" but this Google simulation was so entertaining that I might just pop on the Netflix instant streaming this weekend.

The first "image" result for "Mad Men":

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The ARM port of Ubuntu is targeting ARMv7, but RaspberryPi has an ARM11 (ARMv6) processor, so it wouldn't run correctly.
The variable delta between rent and purchase price/mortgage cost doesn't break the premise that purchasing a house is a hedge against future requirements. You might do better renting but you don't have the future right to occupy that house at any cost. Rents might go up more than your investments and leave you needing to look elsewhere but if you have bought it you have a secure tenancy (subject to mortgage conditions).

I think you are very right about a large delta being a signal of an unsustainable market though. Steve Keen (http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/) describes investment in assets where the profit won't cover the interest as 'Ponzi' investment as you are hoping to pay it off from rising asset prices and points out that these are unsustainable in the long term, someone is going to get caught out. He thinks that loans should be capped to a multiple of rental value which should reduce the tendency to drive up prices by purchasers competing to take on the most leverage and mean that competing purchasers compete on who can commit the most equity.
Very interesting, definitely going to do more research about these buttons.
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For a very easy read about warehouse management processes (not just the software aspect, but the human aspect) , I recommend "Inventory Accuracy: People, Processes, & Technology"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972763104/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

It is a fun read with some very funny cartoons and illustrations.
It may be semantics but I definitely wouldn't call these "hacks". "Tips" or "Advice" seems much more appropriate, although with less curb-appeal to this crowd.
It's also something that most people don't agree with, so every time it happens, it gets a lot of discussion. Maybe eventually Apple will have some solution that doesn't involve getting 30% for doing nothing.
Terminator Eyes: Hi-tech contact lenses show texts and maps
Nothing is stopping Microsoft from having a web presence that people use to purchase things at. Apple might be going a bit overboard to force their payment system as the "one true payment system", but it's also a lot better for the average user in most cases, which is what Apple builds for. They don't support many corner cases. Android does. Nobody is forcing you to have an app on iOS right?

Also, the process for setting up a dev account on Apple is far more pleasant than for the Windows 8 store. Also, Microsoft won't even let you publish Metro apps outside of the MSFT store, so who are they to complain about vendor lock in or requiring a cut of purchases and such?
You get the error when you go to http://elm-lang.org//
Thanks. Look forward to it.
Fair enough, but in my defence, I was pretty clear about that this was my impression based on information obtained elsewhere.

Still. I don't think there can be any doubt about the main point's validity: Apple was the USB company. They are still trying to find their way out of there. They are responding to Google, not the other way around.
I obtained, scaled, and submitted the Google logo off the main search page. I wish them luck in using Google's logo in the way they describe.
I tried to focus the post on some great examples of using native 3D on iOS, rather than the reasons why the tech hasn't picked up steam. But curious for insights. A large part of it is lack of pickup in iAds overall (our clients do their ad spend on Google and Facebook). We've built a tonne of augmented reality apps with 3D, that are situational and often not meant to become part of a users routine. These should be perfect to be done as ads, to save the user downloading the app. But then we're paying for every usage, on top of the app's development cost.

Other thoughts on why we haven't seen more great native 3D iAds? Other examples that should be added to the list?
From whispers I've heard within the TB community, is that it may at some point jump from LESS to SASS. But right now its not a priority.
Someone tell me if im wrong here.
I like how the part of the page that's original content is shorter than the rest which is gaudy advertisement and brand promotion.
The housing market does not have the same liquidity that other markets have and this creates opportunities where a spread exists between actual and perceived value. There is always someone who needs to sell now and always someone who is willing to wait as long as it takes to get a specific price.

Also keep in mind that on the "housing ladder" it's always easier for someone with a big property to down size than it is for someone to move up. Mid to low end housing will have a completely different market dynamic than 2 million dollar estates.
This is a technical and business discussion regarding hosting of large quantities of user-submitted / user-generated video content.

This is squarely within the mandate and range of interests of Hacker News.
Contiki Regression Tests: 9 HW Platforms, 4 CPU Architectures, 1021 Nodes
Believe in UFOs? ETs? Here's my "miniaturized" POV
Suggest to HN: Build a standalone watch phone supporting tethering
Since many smart, entrepreneurial folks read HN, and in view of PG's take on the current hardware renaissance [1], I humbly propose an idea that may have been unduly overlooked.

I understand and share the excitement over the upcoming Pebble [2] and the welcome attitude toward less satisfying smartwatches in the market. However, the only downside is that the setup is backwards: you essentially never leave your wristwatch at home, but on many occasions you may feel like leaving your phone. It would be great if the SIM card belonged in your phone, and could tether from there as needed. Yes, most of the time you will have your phone/phablet/tablet with you, and probably a WiFi connection, for that matter.

The closest device I have come across is the VEGA (-Z1) watch [3], which is downright ugly, quite pricey ($425), only offers USB tethering with poor support [4], all of this under an old version of Android. (This would arguably be the least significant point.)

I think the greatest usage barrier to this is the idea of using your phone for conversations, while all your shiny phones become tablets (unless you want two lines...).

OK, that's my proposal. What do you people think? Will this be the standard setup within 10 years?

Cheers!

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html
[2] http://getpebble.com/
[3] http://www.3gwatches.com/vega.html
[4] http://www.linuxslate.org/Review_Z1_Android-2.2-Watch.html
Great work Ben!
Sadly, rather than non-obvious, I think I've seen all of these on many productivity in the past.
A motorcycle turns by 'falling over'. For me, that and the acceleration are the main attractions. Can't imagine this will get many motorcyclists to convert.
CSS is easy.
Isn't this just another version of the blame game? Why must anyone be blamed? These are experiences. Live and learn.
Is there a distinction between proving and demonstrating by proof? I did a quick search (I'm hardly a mathematician), to quote Wikipedia:

> a proof must demonstrate that a statement is always true

It would seem that, if you can demonstrate a statement is true for a given logic, that is proof. Contradiction and exhaustion (which is a bit more controversial, I think), while less tidy than one might expect, are valid techniques for showing that a statement is always true, and therefore are valid ways to construct a proof.

Note: I encourage any and all maths professors to come and tell me off if I'm way off base.
Another way of putting it is that if house prices are harming innovation, you would see more entrepreneurship in lower cost of living locations.

Correlation != causation.

Right now, location still matters a great deal. People are just mobile enough to stratify in their 20s (ambitious people move to the star cities) but not enough to render location obsolete outright.

In the Bay Area and New York, you have a continuous/liquid job market. If you're a startup that needs to hire a Scala expert with knowledge of 3 specific NoSQL databases, and you need to hire that person in two weeks, you can find such a person in the Bay Area, for a price. In Minneapolis, there are a lot of talented people, sure, but there isn't the critical mass that allows you to have ridiculous AND-ing in your requirement query. The same goes in job searching. You might have to choose between your location and your speciality.

The appeal of the star cities is the continuous, liquid market. For build-to-flip startups that grow rapidly and reallocate huge amounts of money without doing much, the second-tier cities just aren't an option.
Can the paths be usefully autogenerated (at whatever computational cost)? Or do they have to be done manually? The latter puts us a good deal further away from "real" AI.
In both my examples 100K was saved at the beginning so I'm not sure that is relevant.

Currency inflation is a positive factor for you if you have a large mortgage. Deflation while obviously historically less frequent but not unknown (US 1930s, Japan 1990-current) is a negative risk if you have debt, and one that you don't have if you haven't got debt.
Actually not paying your taxes however is illegal, no matter your motivation.
Previous discussion (perplexingly marked dead): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904125
Comments like this make me so excited to write more posts. Thanks.
You are completely missing the point.... I at no point suggested that they shouldn't charge.

That it is a percentage of the transaction amount is what I have a problem with. If their business was truly about "credit" they shouldn't need extra charges as they claim back more value from bigger loans/transactions.

Debit cards provide the same service without a percentage charge but without the payment protection. Its a rigged game.
Secret Space Plane Set to Launch on Mystery Mission Today
Free eGuide: Adding two-factor authentication to your network
No reg req'd. Includes examples for Cisco, Juniper, Linux, AD via NPS etc.
Brilliant idea! I just created a JIRA ticket for this unusual issue we seem to be having with the tiles on the landing pages. Let's see what happens...
Forget The Register: Stores Use Mobile To Make Sales On The Spot
The word 'holidize' seems to have been in use by marketroids for a while, see eg:
http://design.inkzoo.com/how-to-holidize-your-logo-design-to...

...and you'll see from the examples there that it's not just Christmas - Halloween, Thanksgiving, whatever. In my day job I see this done a lot for product sales, there are logos/backgrounds queued up for some holiday or other most of the year.
'Profoundly Sorry' HSBC Reaches $1.9B Settlement In Money-Laundering Case
Hate it, but can see why its happening.

What if Apple offered the purchasing of services THROUGH their app store? Then there is this clear understanding that Apple made the sale and they actually had to play a part in the transaction. I still would think 30% would be too much, maybe 15-20.
I agree here. Top Gear gives entertaining reviews, and they touch on the good or bad parts of the car, but not in an incredibly well-rounded way. They have a tendency to home in on one or two positives or negatives and ride that for the laughs. I really would love to see what they say, but I wouldn't use it as my only or even my main review source. Especially considering their history of deceptive entertainment when it comes to electric cars.
Counter steering. This thing turns like a motorcycle, it's the only way (AFAIK) to turn a two lined wheeled vehicle at speed. It's not a Can-Am.
I'm not sure what's up with the anxiety - are you constantly trying to hide that you're on the web all the time and getting nervous as a result?

I am somewhat of a misanthrope. I don't trust most people. I don't expect them to trust me. They shouldn't trust me if they don't know me, especially if the stakes are high. Much of the answer to the ubiquitous question, "Why Does Work Suck?" is that the stakes are just too high to trust anyone. The activity of work isn't so bad. The social bullshit and paranoia are intolerable.

I wouldn't let 20+ strangers in my house, 5 days per week. I resent that I have to let so many people-- even though there's nothing wrong with them as people, it's more that I don't know them and I have no choice-- into my career. It's not a problem with the people as people. The people themselves are fine. (They're in the same miserable, cramped boat that I am in.) I just resent being visible and the constant second-by-second impression management makes it hard to get anything done. I spend 90% of my emotional energy on appearing productive and that leaves little for actually being productive, and it sucks.
I hate the way HN is emphasized every time I see something about growth hacking. If the only way you can get your startup on HN's front page is by writing about something else then this obviously is not your market and you are doing a terrible job even if you "win".
I don't pay for bandwidth, I pay for an Internet connection, and since disks can't replace most of its functionality (like reading HN every day), I'll still pay it regardless of whether I download the movie or not. Therefore, downloading a file is effectively free as far as bandwidth costs are concerned.

This would be different if bandwidth was metered, of course, but at least here in Portugal it isn't.
Could you recommend any resources for educating yourself on how to '[look] left and right before crossing, and checking the economic fundamentals of your leveraged investments'? I'm not a home owner, but eventually I may be, and this topic sounds fascinating to me.
"Rebuffed"? I suspect it was more like "ignored." Because Apple won't negotiate on the rules. It's their playground, and the rules are posted plainly.

So you submitted an app (or an update to one) with a feature not allowed by Apple and got rejected. Now, you remove the offending functionality and resubmit ... and they'll get to you when they're good-n-ready. And they'll take their dear sweet time because we can't have you overlooking the rules again (or trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the reviewer...)

So why doesn't Microsoft just market the hell out of SkyDrive?

"Use it. Love it. Sign up at skydrive.live.com. And now, access your SkyDrive subscription on your favorite mobile devices: Windows, Android and iOS."

Don't try to sell SkyDrive on Apple's App Store, just provide "free access" to the subscription. Plenty other services do exactly this.
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I use these Smart cars all the time https://www.car2go.com/ If they made C1s available too, I'd certainly use them.
>If one look at university education, women dominate the class room in every areas of math except one subject (abstract math)

In other words, women are better than men at complex arithmetic, but men are better than women at mathematics.
The second coming of Java
Has this prediction come true? What do you think?
You got it. While stuff for beginners is undoubtedly useful, I leave that to others.
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I wonder just what such a guarantee means in an API contract, since there's no way whatsoever to actually check on that behavior from the outside.
Introducing the New Yahoo Mail
Worryingly marked [dead] in fact, how did it end up dead?

It might not be the greatest article, but it highlights a very real and new point of failure that cloud apps are introducing. I was hoping for a good discussion to check out later.