skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ian Hickson, HTML Spec editor, about DRMs
If you own the hardware and you did not have to sign a contract to purchase it you're probably more than within your rights to modify the hardware to your liking (some exceptions to the rule do exist for things like circumventing copyright laws, modifying equipment to function in a manner harmful to others like operating a high energy transmitter in an emergency band etc).

What you're not getting when you hack your hardware to perform outside its bounds is the guarantee from the company. For example if you're sold a processor for $X dollars clocked at 2 GHz you're receiving an implicit guarantee that for Y years the product will be capable of performing every advertised combination of operations correctly. If you have a problem with this processor it is then reasonable for you to seek support for your problem/design etc. If you notice you can run this processor at 2.5GHz which would normally cost more money and for your application nothing appears to glitch you're welcome to do so. If you later encounter issues with occasional incorrect calculations you pretty much gave up the right to complain about that issue.

A similar example might be bolts for spacecraft. Many of the bolts for these spacecraft cost 100x more than the incredibly similar bolts one could obtain at a hardware store and often times may come from a very similar production line. The reason the spacecraft bolts cost more is because they've specified a very rigid set of minimum tolerances they require and stringent tracking requirements (if a bolt fails on one part of a spacecraft you may be able to get a list of every other bolt made in that lot, get the reference samples to test and find every individual location they were placed on that and other craft). It's not necessarily that the bolts cost substantially more to make but they do cost somewhat more to verify or select each piece from the line to meet the requirements. Even though hardware store customers might be able to buy bolts with spacecraft quality performance they just didn't pay to ALWAYS get bolts with spacecraft quality performance.

That said being a hardware person I'm not sure I feel the same way about software as many of the people here. It sort of feels like the primary argument is "hardware modification feels hard to me so its different". To me it seems like where it would be acceptable to modify a piece of hardware I own I should be able to open a debugger or disassembler and patch my software to enable any feature that's inherently part of the product (or new features if I wanted to add them). Now if that breaks updates, causes me to lose work or leads to problems I'd expect to be on my own like I would with hardware.

I'm sure my opinion isn't particularly popular, but changing a resistor and changing an if( premium ) to if( true ) just really don't seem all that different from where I am.
So? My point still stands. The best secondary schools, like Andover, Exeter, Harvard-Westlake, St. Paul's, Horace Mann, to name a few, are privately-run.
Here's a comic for people on this thread:

http://xkcd.com/1172/

Lenovo, or any other manufacturer, will not keep producing gadgets for your exact same specification for the rest of your professional life. Actually, what they come up with in the first place was not designed by your specs, you got used to the gadget in time. Now it seems it's time to start using another one, getting familiar with it, and having some uncomfortable one or two weeks.
I used it, but because I didn't collect the item within 2 days it was moved to the local post office :(
I totally agree with you. There are lots of sites which are aggregating and curating content but expert teachers are less who can educate anyone properly.

But the main question is how to get experts and knowledge from them?
From TFA:

>He said he would be interested in forking the repo and continuing development.
That would have been fine until the guy next to him…
began making sexual forking jokes

The guy inserted his forking double innuendos in a conversation two other persons were having. Do you seriously think he'd do that if one of those weren't a female?

(Also, forking jokes? Is that 1995 or what)
Agree with Gormo here -- I spent some time looking into this on the occasion of a previous Bitcoin thread.

If you have incurred a debt, and have not previously negotiated around the specifics of that debt, than the creditor must accept payment in dollars.

However, if there is no debt, for instance if you're walking up to a cash register in a store to buy a candy bar, there is no requirement that they accept any particular form of payment, at least not in the USA -- other countries, like Canada, seem to have stricter interpretations of "legal tender"

And, within limits, any two business entities can contract to trade just about anything for anything else. If you want to get paid in Twinkies in return for making someone a web site, that's up to you. Employee salaries are a different matter -- the way I read the law, you have to pay minimum wage in USD.
The difference is between MLC (unreliable) and SLC (reliable) SSDs.

MLC (Multi-Level Cell) SSDs are slightly slower, a lot cheaper, and less reliable than SLC (Single Level Cell) SSDs.

Fundamentally, an MLC stores more data in each cell (hence the Multi), while an SLC stores 1 bit of data in each cell.

There's now all sorts of "eMLC" drives which are pushing the reliability of MLC up towards the SLC levels, but they're not very common yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell
I'm sorry, but I read this as a total overreaction on her behalf.

And, there's a massive dose of hypocrisy here, especially given the following tweets that she sent, whilst at PyCon:

@skwashd you should put something in your pants next time...
like a bunch of socks inside one...large...sock.
TSA agent faint

[1]

How is this not a massive double standard? Is this not dripping with innuendo?

Would it have been acceptable if the jokes about forking and dongles had been issued via tweets, rather than aloud? I doubt it. Given then terms of conduct specify "All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience", I doubt this complies.

Earlier, she retweeted a joke about Autism [2], a comment about a dollar bill being "6 inches long" [3], and a crack about developers being socially awkward. [4].

Let me be clear - I take no offence from any of these posts - and I'm sure they are all meant in good humour ... but, that's not the point here, is it?

And, to quote the victim herself ... "judge not yet ye be judged..."

[1]
https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

[2] https://twitter.com/TheSportsBrain/status/312293963639971842

[3]
https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312410699311755264

[4]
https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312293950058815488

[5]
https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313508129704927233
The US has not gone very far yet with their anti money laundering program. In Sweden, we have got to the point where one can only withdraw a maximum amount of $200/$1000 a day (it depend on the ATM, where common one is the $200 version). There is also a hard limit of $2000 a week.

Alternative, one can "request" a larger withdraw from the bank which means two consecutive physical visits to a designated bank office, with a week between, and during designated hours (10-14). At the bank, they may ask you questions regarding the nature of the money withdraw, and is allowed to deny you if they feel the answer is unsatisfactory.

As a side note, an ID is also always required for any money transfer no matter transaction size. They also removed the option for SMS payments (it was considered too anonymous). The effect from this have been that the most common form of donations to red-cross and the likes has dropped with 90%. Last, any transaction (all sizes) is logged and shared internationally with EU and US.
I wonder if this guy realizes his teeth are going to fall off. Since he has very little chewing action, the gums and underlying bone are going to go soft and eventually the teeth are going to begin falling off.

But who cares, right? He doesn't really need his teeth.

He should be prepared to accept a new and maybe uncommon physical shape.
> but it's about forming children into decent human beings.

This used to be the parents' job.
Brabra. Put in the headline Clojure, dschiptsov hates for sure.
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This is in fact why multi-vitamin pills are a useless generic habit. Vitamins are trace compounds/elements by nature, and your body is very careful to eliminate excesses (since they can catalyze all sorts of side-reactions which can be otherwise harmful).

The classic example is if you take multi-vitamins, you usually have noticeably different colored urine. That's no coincidence.
Well, that's an easy bet to settle. 97 percent of Finns have either Finnish, Swedish, Russian or Estonian as native language and only 0.26 percent of Finns are native English speakers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Finland
I completely agree. Why does it seem nearly impossible to put in a high resolution screen? When you config the Precision line, it costs $34 to upgrade from 1366x768 to a 1920x1080 screen. That's basically nothing, so it doesn't seem too expensive to achieve higher resolutions? It's also strange to me that the 16:9 ratio is so dominant when it is clear that there is a market for other ratios as well.
After reading a little more its clear that my original post was incorrect.

Even the original tone of "crippling" hardware seems a little far fetched to me now, it seems like these cards are just optimized differently for specific tasks (gaming, or workstation).

Still would be nice if they could get their drivers working better under windows 7.
Nexus 4 in stock on Australian Google Play store
As above. Not sure about other countries, but from what I can tell it's the first time it's been in stock since launch. I just purchased one for myself!
I see it this way: were they giving the cards for free, they wouldn't ever disable features to create different models. In this magic world everyone would get to use the 100% of what the most current technology can do. The only reason they limit their cards is to extract more money out of the economic system. It feels wrong to us because brains don't reason via market economics. You can feel the waste in this solution, but it's the inefficiency inherent in the market economy.

With SaaS it sometimes feels kind of different probably because we really do see it as a service (as it states in the name, btw.). and feel that the company offering us the service deserves more compensation for more things they do for us.
The problem is that Jevity, for instance, is absolutely disgusting. It's meant to be pumped into a feeding tube. You can't drink it.
scale this up, freeze it in portion-size bags, repeat with other recipes, have healthy, quick, delicious lunch for weeks.
We worked with Change.org & Twilio to build this petition tool on CISPA, it's the second-largest with over 43k signatures. http://cispapetition.org
Same applies to a lot of wealthy people in shares. If they sold all their shares, they'd make the share price plummet and they wouldn't get anywhere as much as you initially quoted.

As volume picks up (market depth has nearly tripled in 2 months) this is a lesser problem.
> Do you seriously think he'd do that if one of those weren't a female?

Uhh, yeah... If he was crude enough to make forking jokes, he wouldn't care what his audience was, perhaps he'd even prefer it to be guys so they can all laugh along with him...
This whole thing was a massive failure on all sides.

It was a social failure by the guys who kept on making annoying and unfunny jokes (I think it actually starts with this obnoxious "thank me! thank me!" stuff).

It was a total benevolence failure on part of the author who seems exceedingly gleeful about her well-calculated coup.

It's a failure of society in general to think that "sexualized" environments somehow attack the expected chastity of women. Or that chastity is a virtue in the first place.

It's a failure of taste to think those kinds of comments are actually funny - or even sexual for that matter, and that equally-as-annoying non-sexual comments should go unpunished.

It's a failure of the geek community in general to create an environment where a constant battle is being waged between men and women, that certainly includes obnoxious and harassing behavior of groups of men, but it just as well applies to women who are constantly on the prowl to detect sex stuff.

This whole thing: totally unnecessary from all sides. Instead, we could just code in peace. But as I see it nobody is making an effort to actually question the factors that led to this totally predictable and depressingly recurring disaster. Everybody is just pouncing on the scandal. This energy would be better spent by employing a healthy dose of introspection.
I wasn't disagreeing with your point, merely pointing out that in this context those were poor examples.
Also plenty of people have awful dietary habits precisely because they're either hurried or bored by the process of cooking and simply aim for the easiest thing - which in our society these days trends far away from "nutritionally complete" and usually has serious problems with providing satiation.
Coldtea has a point. 'Too big to fail' banks, coercive patent litigation and so on, indicates to me that 'free markets' are nothing but an ideological cover up for coercive powers in the hand of private actors instead of the state. That's no real freedom either. This is no middle class lefty thought but an observation.
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When you buy a high end card, you're buying the development time required to enable advanced features, you are not buying hardware; the silicon simply doesn't cost that much to produce. Most people do not want or need these advanced features, nor do they want to pay for them. The alternative environment has everyone paying $2000 for the same card and much fewer sales vs. premium users paying for premium features, and everyone else getting what they need at a much lower cost.
The way I read the letter, simply inserting an intermediate value store in this trivial way would not eliminate the need for licensing as a money transfer agent.
Maybe you're in the business or have a moral mission of providing life lessons to customers. I'm in the business of helping them avoid life lessons by having stuff behave as expected.
A short description would be nice, though.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/config-descri...
See http://walter-nest.deviantart.com/art/Homeworld-2-Space-Back...

Note that the backgrounds are meant to map over a sky sphere, so they look a bit distorted.
If I wore the same clothes everyday (steve jobs style), I'm pretty sure my girlfriend would start to complain and people would start to notice. I don't think it's a good reputation.

You're that uninteresting guy from the office that always wears the same clothes.....
"Instead, the public school system's teachers are trained to assess children in classrooms using independent tests they create themselves. All children receive a report card at the end of each semester, but these reports are based on individualized grading by each teacher. Periodically, the Ministry of Education tracks national progress by testing a few sample groups across a range of different schools."

Children aren't being taught to pass tests. They're being educated. Teaching quality is maintained using sampling. Could this be the key?
I tried to find the exit :(
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If you feel like you can no longer work in the comfort of your own home, then you need a vacation. Or a workplace (go Marissa!). :D
Replacing possible AUP-violation with definite felony.
I dont know about the deluxe sauce in USA , but here in france it is awesome , always wondered how it is made.
We evolved to drink milk in only about a thousand years. It was evidently so successful that huge swathes of the population are now lactose tolerant - but only if they descended from particular groups which had access to it.
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If you'll pardon me for quoting a recent Big Bang Theory episode...

"All your ideas address [women] at a university level. By then it is too late. You need to design an outreach program that targets them at the middle school level and sets them on an academic track towards the hard sciences."
If there are any previous attendees monitoring this, we'd be happy to hear any feedback or suggestions on what you think we can do to improve the event.
It works under windows, with NVIDIA provided drivers. Just not under Linux.
For example, you charge a fee in the virtual currency itself (or some other virtual currency) for exchanging it in some way that does not involve legal tender of any jurisdiction.

What would you be exchanging it for, then?

All the Treasury is trying to regulate is the exchange of dollar-denominated wealth into another currency, whether actual (fiat currency of some jurisdiction) or virtual. They don't care about transactions that don't involve dollars on one side (at least not as addressed by this letter).
Making the mask is really expensive. I had an external lecturer tell me it cost about 1 million usd to make a set of masks for their silicon, I assume Intel pays way more.

Once you have the mask though, pushing out chips is cheap and easy.
While it would not happen to me in all likelihood, I find the general lack of humour displayed in this case by the OP appalling.

However I am aware of the fact that many of my gender are incredibly offensive to women and that after a long week with many conferences and in all likelihood having to suffer many comments and jokes that really warrant a calling out the sensitivities are heightened.

Unfortunately calling a tasteless joke about a big dongle sexist draws attention away from the real offenders and validates the believes of die hard sexists that this is drama about nothing.

I'd rather have people concentrate on stopping things like http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Flashbelt_slide_show instead of twitter shaming someone who made a joke among his friends, that was not thought for the ears of the OP.
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Oh boy, geeks are awful at coming up with pick-up lines.

It's like watching The Big Bang Theory.
My main gripe with Drupal is the missing ease of deployment and/or DB migrations.
It's been a year or two, but thinking up a good way to automate deployments was headache-inducing.
However that was not the guy she twit shamed as far as I can gather from her not very organized writeup.
Full ACK.

Sexual jokes can be very funny if told correctly, in a non-discriminating fashion, in the right context to the right people. That also means that they can backfire horribly, especially if random people around. To me, thats not even a question of sexism, many feel uncomfortable if that happens, regardless of gender.

An open space conference certainly never is the right place. Also, cheap jokes about "dongles" are never worth it... please, keep it classy...
It's like they're saying "We're almost as good as Apple". Aside from the 180deg. hinge, is there any innovation that they've listed that's not an innovation previously done by other vendors (like Apple)?

Seriously? Why parrot that you're behind the times?
U mad, bro?
Wow that's very little money especially in somewhere as expensive as Stockholm. So, basically people don't use cash much at all there, right?
That's strange--ours are packed full of books.

What's the return policy on students?
who's to say that these "oppressed" deserve to feel so victimized? perhaps you don't see the counter-culture that badass CS chicks inspire...

the terms were NOT gender-biased, and if she had wanted to counter the joke by saying something like "I'll stick a fork in YOU -- haha, just kidding, but shut up 'cuz your joke legitimately offended me," or "you better watch out before I slap you with my crime-fighting dongle," and then smiling, or something... it's guaranteed that at least they would appreciate a break in the ice, and you could move on knowing that you didn't cause anyone to lose his/her/its job. friendship can be emoted in many forms, and turning to the internet crying heresy and sexism when you see it (friendship) happening is in legitimately poor taste here.

men who don't stand up for themselves think that they get bullied often, too. but there is nothing better than knowing chicks in CS who stand up for themselves and the good that they bring to the world (she++ shoutout). to cry foul this is insulting to me and my friends who enjoy humor and standing up for ourselves and not running away.
I stopped doing this many years ago. And this is product of having an office badly designed or, your own home. When I did my home properly I just can't go outside to work. I cannot work better than the confort of my flat. I just go outside to enjoy, not to work.

My recomendations for a proper place to live, work and rest:

1. Decorate minimally your home. Use the furniture that you will use. Free all the space you can.
2. Choose a proper selection of colors and combine them well so you can achieve some sense of 'balance'.
3. It is important lighting: light it up all and well. Have choices like table lamps too for those moments you want dark mood.
4. User proper bedclothes, some people just use white beddings and the same ones at least for 3 months. Don't do this isn't confortable and nicer. Change it every week and it will help to improve the quality of the space.
5. Be clean. The more cleaner, the better you enjoy your place.

Following this you will never need to go outside for working. You will go outside just to enjoy a rest and fresh air not to bothering you with work again. Real disconnection.
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> such studies are obviously social science, not science.

Hey man, you can believe whatever makes you feel better.
With the inevitable clashing, it clashes with Josh's Biz Dev for Early Stage Enterprise Startups event:

http://www.meetup.com/unsexystartups/events/109255182/
That sounds crazy. Doesn't it just make anyone who deals with cash avoid banks entirely?
Though marketing worked hard to push this idea, Firefox is not free software.
Id argue that a consistent place to work (Office and home) is alot less overhead and alot cheaper to get most of your work done. The ergonomics of working on laptops fulltime are also horrible.

When i am out and about i enjoy the places for the reason they should be enjoyed, not because i can get more work done there.
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As a fatass rather than an athlete, trust me, it's just a matter of training. A pint of Ben and Jerry's is over 1200. A large milkshake approaches 1000. A liter of Coke is 4 calories and two of those per day is doable. Now you're at 4000 calories without even a bite of real food!