skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, that makes it ok then. A bit like the mafiosi that give a lot of money to the church on their death bed, it's just a means to an end, so sorry if you're in the way.

Really, Bill Gates has done some good things in recent memory but if you're going to whitewash his crimes because of that then your moral compass is totally out of whack. I'm happy he's chosen to do good later in life rather than to continue on the road that he was on, at the same time I find it impossible to forget how he got to where he is today.
I'm interested in a second opinion on the speaker. I think the bone conduction was more a privacy than a convenience choice. He mentions others can hear garbled sound. What did it seem like to you?
Of course you're right.

There's no debate over this question, like say, physicists getting together to debate quantum mechanics, in a desire to all get to the truth together. This is a fight, a struggle over how the pie gets divided up. Any statement someone makes is basically just a declaration of how there bread is buttered - are they a worker, a programmer, a creator of wealth? Or are they some parasite heir who collects dividends from Intel, or are a limited partner for some VC? Or worse a flunky for one of those types.

There's one question to ask, really. WHO came up with this law? Was it the programmers, DBAs etc. getting together pushing for these laws? Was it even the H1-Bs - who are chained to companies like a slave chained up at a plantation? Of course not. Whose faces do we see on the fwd.us page? Mark Pincus - fresh off of ripping his workers off of their options. Keith Rabois, Khosla partner - he was bounced from Square because he was playing grab-ass with one of his underlings who he was porking - the underling filed a lawsuit. Mr. Lace Curtain political mover and shaker himself Ron Conman - Conman is lace-curtain Irish, meaning he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pisses in it. Blah blah blah, VCs, "super-angels", incubatorers, current/former CEOs (Bill Gates) blah blah.

Really we don't even see whose pulling the strings. They love to shove some 20/30-something techie CEO like Zuckerberg or Drew Houston on there. But really it's all for the people the CEOs got their money from. Which is not even the VCs, because they're front men too. It's the heirs who give money to the VCs, the limited partners we never see. They're the kind of people Nixon said on his tapes that hung out at the Bohemian Grove, the San Francisco heirs whose hands he felt like washing after he shook it. Even Nixon felt disgusted by these heirs.
No. I'm probably in the same position as you are, thinking and researching about how to teach my children when the time comes. But at one point I'll probably organize all the researched resources and publish them on a blog or website and maybe try to gather an online community around this topic.
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The W3C DRM plug-in standard requires proprietary plugins to work.

So you're right.
That tornado was awfully damned close, but they weren't in the funnel.
Do you have any research to back this up? It feels as if it's correct, but I'd be reassured if there was some good quality research too.
Slightly off topic but does anyone know of ans FRP library for python?
You couldn't have hit the nail more on the head.
Is this the ultimate SQL injection payload?
Requiring users to record an "introduction video" is beyond parody; next step is probably to provide a front-and-back naked picture of yourself holding today's newspaper.

And you thought DHS was bad! And you thought "regulations" were bad! Let's get rid of it all! Let's disrupt!

But now, Facebook decides to police jokes according to vague claims by special-interest groups [1] and AirBnB requires its users to do a little dance for them before they can use their services.

Democracy has a lot of flaws, but constitutional rights and democratically voted laws, and a functioning judicial system, and well-run government agencies (I know, I know) are several orders of magnitude preferable to petty policies that grow in the mind of the average "community manager".

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/controversial...
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I first realised that an MS in CS was a red flag back in 2000.

I was doing a whole ton of interviews and the candidates who had cross-trained to CS from some unrelated discipline by getting an MS were almost universally unable to cut it in interviews.

So, hardly "declining" value.

Of course, I'd be happy to accept the distinction between the two types of MS that the article discusses.
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> ... Usually, he could not complete a project, because once all the interesting stuff was done, he simply could not motivate himself to keep on working on it. Clearly this was extreme and unhealthy.

If that's the case, a lot of programmers (including me) are extreme and unhealthy. I've lots of unfinished projects that I stopped working on right after the interesting bit was done or almost done.
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If you were to hire somebody who needs an H1-B now, you wouldn't find out if they could actually get one until after a lottery next April. But wait - there's more! Even if they win the lottery, that person couldn't actually start until next September. Now how much would you pay?

The current system favours the same companies that are abusing it and giving it a bad name - the ones who only care about rotating in another 19000 warm bodies every year.
The proposal is to have a standard for a way the browser communicates with non-standards compliant DRM encumbered (essentially encrypted) video.

Anyone is still free to write a client which consumes the standards-compliant parts of the page, but will be unable to consume the non-standards compliant DRM encrypted video.

In this way, it is similar to existing non-standards compliant web plugins like flash. For a long time nobody could just sit down and write a client which consumed flash animations (they were bound by the flash license, which prohibited mobile flash runtimes for example).

I don't agree with this inclustion by the w3c myself, but your argument isn't a powerful argument against it. My objections to it revolve around the w3c overstepping their responsibility (why is it THEIR job to cater to one specific plugin family - is it being driven by political pressure), the futility of its inclusion (they expect an open source implementation, which probably isn't possible for this kind of technology), and the self contradictory statements in the original w3c announcement.

PS.
Calling an argument bogus and leaving it at that isn't helpful. If you see flaws in an argument you have to identify them point by point.
Pacific Northwest is highly influenced by the asian cultures that have moved there. So yeah, lots of gongs.
It's really interesting to see the focus on AI because those dumb monsters is really what makes games like Diablo 3 so mindless in the long run.

I would support, but developing a new game in Flash/Air is keeping me from considering it - since it does not support my platform.
http://www.edmunds.com/autoobserver-archive/2009/09/tesla-mo...

Looks like Eberhard now calls Musk a cofounder, though the situation was indeed messy.
Designing the user experience of healthcare institutions
"Quit trying to mine data under the guise of trust." A commenter to the original AirBnB announcement.

So true and happens all the time.
What if, in the interests of appeasing Microsoft, only Windows 8 certified Secure Boot motherboards are made by the big manufacturers?

What if the EFI is so locked down, the hardware so Windows-specific, you can't make Linux work on it?

That's the future people are trying to avoid.
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Apple's notebooks and desktops are the opposite of locked down. You want to install another OS on it? They even provide the Boot Camp tool to make it easy for you.

Want to scrub the system and start from scratch? Use rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net) and replace the loader.
Wow, this could be interesting. Scaling this across the world, reliably verifying anybody in the world, seems like an extremely hard problem, especially with the restraint that people can't just walk away.
Elon Musk teases June news on Hyperloop, his rapid transit system for the future
Hmm, I usually keep at most 10-20 messages in my inbox.

Wonder how this scheme will work with that?
this is redonculous. How is this HN material exactly? Can I post the number One?
To remove poverty providing good education is the best way which will lead to all other things like population control, erasing corruption etc.
If anybody uses this, please keep in mind the differences in security possibilities between native C code and Javascript.

Both this and GnuPG encrypt and decrypt data with PGP keys. GnuPG, however, does this securely, in many, many senses of the word. For instance, GnuPG maps all of its buffers to protected memory pages, and clears its buffers frequently and early.

A very large portion of GnuPG's code is dedicated to protecting your private keys, and the techniques that they use simply aren't available to javascript.

This doesn't mean the JS library is bad, it's just a good thing to keep in mind. Don't run your nuclear launch codes through this.
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I'm confused about why this is on the frontpage. Slow news time for HN?
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"The red states seem to be the best place to find that nowadays."

Based on what criteria?
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The "creepy questions" are a pretty standard identity verification scheme. If you ever open a bank or brokerage account online, you'll probably be asked these. They're used because they're simple and work reasonably well. Anyone can steal or guess the last four digits of your SSN or driver's license, but it's harder to learn random details of your life.

(Then again, I recently answered the creepy questions for a friend of mine, so it's not protection against someone you know stealing your identity.)

I don't know why Airbnb needs to know your identity, but I could come up with some reasons. Imagine someone signs up under your name as a host, and their first guests have their laptops stolen. Your name is going to appear on that police report, and that's a pain for you. If the whole fake identity scam can be nipped in the bud, though, this won't happen as often, making life easier for more than just Airbnb's users. I don't think that's a terrible thing.

In a business where you're having total strangers stay in your house, is it really an invasion of privacy to ask you to verify you are who you say you are? This isn't an online blogging service or something, after all.
+1. You phrased a lot of exactly how I feel about AngularJS. I went through the React tutorial in order to compare the resulting code to AngularJS side by side. I'm holding back my thoughts until I have a chance to learn more about it, but in the mean time, a comparison of the code required to make the same app is a good start.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5790799
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Even better - make your own content and distribute it freely without any DRM. Surely that would be a more constructive approach - and more fun!
Very interesting. thanks!
Netflix only sort of maybe works with Wine + Firefox. If you're lucky.
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I'm not sure if that's brave or stupid, but as this is HN, I'll go for brave.
Maybe here's the anatomy of the addictive aspect

Let's say you have a web idea, its so "simple".

So you code it and do a "proof of concept".

Then you start coding, you think you have it nailed, you predict you can do this thing in a few thousand lines of code using bla bla framework.

So you write those few thousand lines of code. Its done. It works.

Except, it doesn't scale, it has no security, you have no hosting, load balancing, failover, replication, user authentication, marketing, no decent website, no android or iOS presence, no enterprise customers, it looks like crap, you have no graphic artists, you have no CSS experts, you do OK on those but its not professional.

And then the features: the "real" product you wish you were building is beyond your means.

Sure you can try to patch it together, but your "few thousand" lines of code delusion is just that.

That's a sure sign of code addiction. And Ive been there myself. Its not that you CANT do all of those things. Its that you spent your time ignoring all of those things to justify coding. And when you hit that wall, you will most likely stop in your tracks and ditch your idea and the work you put into it, to focus on your next "thing".
Samsung sold more phones in Nokia-land than Nokia
Well, in this case, the signed paper is never actually delivered to the other party, and the other party has no knowledge that you ever signed it in the first place.

A signed piece of paper is neither necessary nor sufficient to form a contract. It's prima facie evidence that an agreement took place, but that's not the same thing.
IOS developers: You spend 70% of your time writing functions that already exist
The thing is, most marketing types who actually pay for this software don't think like this. As mentioned in the article, a lot of people actually had troubled pronouncing the brand as they didn't realise it was an acronym.

Albeit, I would of thought most marketers should know what SEO is. But still, I think this will help them sell their product to a more mainstream audience.
Plausible deniability.

I can get you to encrypt data with your public key before I upload it to my server. If the cops ever come to _me_ asking for your data, I can say "Sure! Here's the pgp encrypted blob. Sorry, I never get to see the unencrypted data." (Unfortunately, as per xkcd #538, they'll then just hit me with a $5 wrench until I send you a version of the OpenGPG javascript that bypasses the encryption step…)
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I would never use a browser that implements DRM. As the EFF stated DRM is a back box with the intent of taking control from the user so why the hell should i allow it in my computer.

If their content is so important to them they can keep it just stay the hell out of my browser.

I value my privacy more then i covet their content.
I still think it's irrelevant. DRM doesn't stop casual copyright infringement anyway. It's only ever used to control distributors (in this case the likes of Netflix), but that doesn't make much sense to me anyway, since they have expensive-to-breach contracts with them.
The idea is that the (entirely hypothetical) terraforming technology would accomplish this in something like centuries or tens of centuries while the processes that led to the loss of the atmosphere took millions or tens of millions of years - similar to how the Earth's atmosphere doesn't just whoosh away during geomagnetic reversal.

Another thing to keep in mind is that what atmosphere Mars had, when, how it lost it is something actively studied so understanding of it might still change. There's a probe (Maven) launching late this year that's going to measure the rate of loss due to solar wind, among other things - it will have an elliptical orbit taking several 'low' (150km or so) passes over Mars.
> Pretending that the web is some hippy utopia is not accurate.

A typical example of when a comment deserve a downvote. Calling the refusal of adding DRM to an open standard, a standard that is about a network of cooperating nodes that any standard compliant software can parse, is not an hippy utopia.

> The sites that would want to do this are already implementing paywalls or existing DRM systems.

The methods used by such systems are very limited. The same web functionality that DRM wants are the exact same ones constantly being limited to reduce malware. Even flash, which wants to allow arbitrary code are being phased out in favor of more precise html 5 functionality. DRM in the standard would be a direct step backward and open up more maleware, more arbitrary code execution, and more control by third-party of the computation of users devices.
You mean you can't read a book? Unless you are a pathological case, you can train yourself by reading books.
When I tried reading this site on my Android phone, I get a blank page I can scroll around, with a) a huge ad banner and b) a "read later" button which leads to Instapaper. Very un-satisfying. :|
Or a mere £191 if you're in the UK.

Wait, what?
Wikipedia:

Musk is a co-founder and currently head of product design at Tesla Motors. He oversaw development of the Tesla Roadster ( their first product ). Musk's interest in electric vehicles extends long before the creation of Tesla.
Musk began by hiring Martin Eberhard as CEO and a management team and provided almost all of the capital for Tesla's first two funding rounds, giving him a controlling interest from the start. As a result of the financial crisis in 2008 and a forced layoff at Tesla,[28] Musk was forced to assume the additional responsibility of CEO.

Wikipedia also states Tesla was founded 2003.

In 2003, two independent teams, consisting of Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning and Ian Wright on the one hand, and Musk and JB Straubel on the other, both sought to commercialize the T-Zero prototype electric sports car created by AC Propulsion.

Tom Gage, the president of AC Propulsion, suggested that the two teams join forces to maximize the chances of success. They agreed to merge their efforts, with Musk becoming chairman and overall head of product design, Eberhard becoming CEO and Straubel becoming CTO.

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I personally think he rightfully deserves all the credit given to him now. Electric cars are not a new invention the commercialization of them is new and also a unique success in this field.
Yes, I found that out in this thread. It's still a worse experience, though, as it's much slower.
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Product oriented vs project oriented
I am surprised noone mentioned Supergenpass. It was a bookmarklet originally but now there are browser extensions, mobile apps, a HTML+JS page you can store locally. It takes a master password which never leaves your machine and generates a hash based on the master password and the domain. Makes it superb easy to not share passwords and yet be able to log in on any computer.
The reason a lot of people want that is they want a passive income to give them security.

Given the success of instapaper and the fact he'll have done fine out of Tumblr, I suspect Marco has no need for that and would rather devote his time and attention (something can be distracting even while taking little actual time) to something he'd be happier doing.
The worst part is that Flash and Java aren't going to go away anytime soon either. You basically have to have both, and the web will be a lot harder to navigate on anything but a Windows machine.
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Addiction is an element of passion. The point is how do you prevent an addiction from becoming detrimental to others (and yourself, although that's harder to define). Most people would prefer to live their passions rather than live a bland life, and addictions are part of life.
That misses the point. While anybody can built partial web-browsers, they can't build competitive alternatives to those sanctioned by DRM-vendors.

Just speaking HTTP and partially parsing HTML pages does not a web-browser make.
I should have of course said "some" :)
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Hm, interesting point. They've effectively made themselves the perfect gate keeper. Even for people like us on HN, I highly highly doubt hardly anyone outside of mjg59 has ever enrolled their own key.

I'm even highly interested in PKI and SecureBoot and have been quelling FUD about it for sometime but if I ever buy a non Pixel/MBA device, I'll leave the MS key in there almost assuredly.
Engineers are underpaid. It is obvious to all of us in this respect. I'm not going to get paid $120k a year, unless my being there is generating $130k, or $140k, or more for the company. They're not hiring me to lose money. This is obvious.

As to your theoretical example of starting a company, here is where that falls apart logically. Several hundred families own trillions in capital. They make 20% a year profit on each engineer they employ. Say I own $50 million. I am a nice guy, so I only make 15% a year profit off each engineer, and give the engineers the other 5%.

Several things arise from this. For one, the dozens of people I employ are only a drop in the bucket to everyone else. So the dent in the whole economy is negligible. More importantly, my already relatively small pile of money is growing slower than everyone else's. Compound returns and all that. Now they get even more economies of scale. I can't even maintain my small niche, my small piece of the economy becomes ever smaller over time.

I don't want to go into every detail of your messages...anti-competitive? Look into the documents on the anti-poaching case which has hit Apple, Google, Intel etc. Also, there's a well known way for companies to make excessive profits - monopoly. Something the government is currently investigating in the case of Google.
So apparently this is old news, but I only noticed it for the first time this morning.
from the linked Wikipedia article:
The neat coincidence that 2^10 is nearly equal to 10^3 provides the basis of a technique of estimating larger powers of 2 in decimal notation. Using 2^10a+b ≈ 2b10^3a is fairly accurate for exponents up to about 100. For exponents up to 300, 3a continues to be a good estimate of the number of digits.

For example, 2^53 ≈ 8×10^15. The actual value is closer to 9×10^15.
Unblockable Hacker News
So...I have nothing against this site...in fact I love it so much that I unconsciously browse this site even when I should be working.

So to keep the distractions at bay I have added entries into my /etc/hosts file and pointed the link of the site along with others like facebook, etc. towards 0.0.0.0 in the hope of blocking them.

Actually it did work and almost all sites from youtube to facebook doesn't load in the browser.

But the thing is hacker news still loads, even after blocking it from the hosts file. What evil magic is this? Can it be fixed? Are there other work arounds to get the job done?

TLDR; How do I block Hacker News?

Thanks.