skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is with the prevalence of always mentioning "jailbreaking will void your warranty" completely out of the blue? It's not clear that it's actually true, and being constantly repeated everywhere only works to make it true. The manufacturer sold me a computer - installing software on it is the expected use. We wouldn't say a laptop was out of warranty because someone nuked Windows and put Linux on it.

Still, it's wise to jailbreak any device as soon as you get it. This way you can be sure of having a jailbreak method, it's still in the return period, and you won't end up becoming reliant on a locked down device and worried about changing it.
It helps because the barrier to entry to creating your own binary client is high.

It really isn't. It's significant, but for the kinds of royalties the big media guys are trying to protect for a major sports event or a Hollywood blockbuster or smash hit TV show, they'd pay it a dozen times over. The reality is that just means only a few of the most popular platforms will be able to view the DRM-encumbered content, and people on niche platforms will lose out.
Is there anyway to specify a time range on queries on DuckDuckGo? Such as "last year", "any time", "last week" etc. Works on StartPage but would be nice to have it on DDG too.
Liking this so far. Can anyone recommend other good Computer Science podcasts as well?
It would like an Oriental Rug dealer in my area, who constantly has a going out of business sale, only to open with a new name next year.
I'll believe it when I see it. Also, someone broke the law. We need to demand prosecution or the program will simply be renamed and moved on to a different budget.
Isn't that what I said?

I said that the binaries could be diffed, then you responded that finding a difference is unlikely because the binary is very large. I don't understand what the absolute size of the binaries has to do with being able to compare them.
This appears to be speculation on Wyden's part. It's my fervent hope that he's right, but I see no reason to believe this is anything more than hope on his part, as well.
It's sad that the default state for most people is to have a facebook account and that you have to decide to opt out. I did the same a few years ago and its a painful process with lots of downsides (missed invitations and opportunities to track people down). Taking your privacy seriously means its also harder for friends and family to find you.
When the US uses robots like this in war (and it will) we will enjoy a significant reduction in casualties and probably an increase in battle victories. This will probably embolden future US leaders, similar to when the US had the only nuclear weapons.

During the cold war we learned the hard way that time lowers costs of technology, and soon everyone had nuclear weapons.

I am sure the same will happen with robotic warriors and I fear the day when a terrorist can pilot a drone over my home and kill me with the same prejudice we use when piloting drones in the middle east today.

My only hope is that some politicians also understand this and move to create international robotic warrior regulations and treaties. I am skeptical of this happening however. It is always more fun to lord your power over your enemies today than to have some foresight.
What I learned about TDD
If you have access to every record of a person's life including financial, it's not hard to find a way to get people to do what you want them to.
It's a serious question. DRM doesn't prevent you from consuming the content they provide under their terms, does it?

The classic argument against DRM is that you don't really own something that you've purchased. But...you aren't purchasing your local news channel's broadcasts. You don't own them, you don't have any claim on them. What's wrong with the owner deciding what can be done with them?
I'm working on resolving this right now.
Better title: The propaganda arm of an enemy state reports that a politician in our state said that the head of our state is considering ending a surveillance program that would be completely unremarkable in the enemy state, at least according to the propaganda arm of our state.
> The examples shown in the post aren't wrong because they fail the grep test, they are wrong because...

I read it has him saying "hey I found this easily identifiable test which seems to correlate with code that's possibly too clever for it's own good".

I also believe this test is worth thinking about because I tend to use grep/Find in Files a lot on my own code. It's often just simpler and faster and equally effective to the sophisticated IDE code comprehension stuff.

> a lot of people stick with those "principles" (which are rules of thumb, often weak ones at that) they have read somewhere without developing a real understanding of software design

We all have to start somewhere. I don't think it's possible to get "a real understanding of software design" without making some mistakes along the way. At best, we can help newcomers avoid the most painful ones and wasting too much time on dead ends.

But (IMHO) all good programmers learn by failure (their own as well as others).
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To those saying "I'll believe it when I see it" and the like - I do think that statements like this should be taken with a grain of salt. The most important part of this, however, is that we are seeing that the US administration is actually continuing the conversation on these programs and not just insisting that they're legal.

I think this is an important step in the right direction, and we need to keep pressing the issue and not just focus on where Edward Snowden is in the world.
I recommend the Bose for flying. I also had the Creative Aurvana for a while until they broke, which were decent too, but not quite as good. For just walking around town, I like my Etymotic in-ear phones, but those are uncomfortable on a long plane trip. When plugged in though, they have great isolation.

Here's what the wirecutter says about it: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-noise-canceling-headph...

At home I also have the Sennheiser HD 600. I usually use the Bose -- the noise cancelling is nice even if you're not in a plane.
This line of reasoning is short-sighted and narrow-minded. Everything we have now flourishes just fine without the HTML spec being discussed. Why do we need a new HTML spec at all?
Of course not, that is why we need to work together on this issue. High-powered lobbyists have always been at the reins of the W3C but it wasn't until now that the DRM maximalists started paying their salaries.
Just like when Steve Ballmer claimed[1] that "Vista has never been delayed" because they changed the name.[2]

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-09-25/online-extra-...

[2] http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server-2008/hasta-la-vista-l...
We've fallen into a trap where no one will believe the program is over regardless of what he says, so he gets no benefit from actually doing it.
AngularJS and CoffeeScript
> Finally, we describe the design and implementation of an open-source version of Dropbox client (and yes, it runs on ARM too).

I wonder how long that implementation will continue to work. The official Dropbox client auto-updates (well, the Windows one does; Linux doesn't, afaik), so Dropbox can almost change the protocol whenever they like.
Tom Leighton of Akamai - http://people.csail.mit.edu/ftl/
I brought a pair of Sennheiser PXC-450s - they are nice in that you can turn off the noise cancellation and use them without batteries (and get a boost to the sound quality by doing so), but if you are on a plane or just have loud neighbors in the office I can turn it on and cut down on the outside noise. The cancellation itself isn't quite as good as the QuietComfort ones but it's close enough.
Are you saying it is not?
Sure there is; PGP or S/MIME. Use end to end encryption and then you won't have to worry about what happens in the middle.
There are no plans for implementing on linux if DRM is added to HTML5 either (and it likely won't). As a linux user for 8 years I would love Netflix on linux but I don't believe it's going to happen.
They certainly could. Hell, they could write their very own NPAPI/PPAPI plugins. They don't want to do either because both of those options require more legwork than just using something that somebody else is responsible for.
and more casual sexism!
I never said that I thought they should 'go away' but what I'm saying is that they should mind their own business rather than trying to control everybody else's.
I recommend http://realtalk.io/
I normally do C++, but started doing some Typescript (Javascript) the other day. Like Java, this doesn't make external implementation easy.

I found myself using a pattern of declaring a one-off interface for complex classes and then implementing it in the real class. I'm still undecided when/if this is a useful thing to do.
same, everyone I know switched to Chrome, and always had said "why are you still using Firefox?". Because I've used it since 0.5 or whatever, I like the browser, I've stuck with it. It doesn't install a bunch of uninstallable tools into Windows either like any Google app does (Try and find where you uninstall the Google update binaries, it involves deleting folders, editing the registry, editing scheduled tasks)
yep, it was the USA of Moon landing.
HR does pre-selection -- this is exactly when unwanted CVs go to the waste basket.
I don't know if there is any consensus. I think that mastering it will improve the average developer's CSS skills and taste. After that, a developer should be creating custom builds of Bootstrap and only using it where it is needed. No one should ever use it as the front of a website unless they are committed to completely reskinning it.
Since we have so many fans of science on this site:

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...
Original blog post: http://whatwouldkingleonidasdo.tumblr.com/post/54989171152/h...
Which he swore an oath to do, lest he become an enemy of it.
Whose business besides their own do you exactly think they're trying to control?
Yep, and it surely depends upon the problem being solved too.
All it takes is doing this on one person's legitimately bought copy to open yourself to a nasty lawsuit.
Look, I understand many of you are upset by this, however, there are ways to prove causation — it's just a lot more complicated than this.

Here's a primer:

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel

it's only 2x as long as the chunnel. this isn't mind-boggling stuff here, it's just that everyone hates china/chinese people and it generates a ton of traffic.
When I wrote that comment, in addition to the parent, a bunch of comments discussed the contents and possible "prior art", including specifically, the whole subthread where the actual patent is linked to on uspto.gov. Those are perfectly representative of the level of misunderstanding people here betray whenever a patent is discussed.

So, yes, my comment was a reaction to the general level of discourse on patents beyond just this specific one, but I would not call it knee-jerk. Case in point: the sibling comment to yours.
The terms are not my primary concern. The capability to read it is. I want to be able to read it.

Right now I cannot use Netflix on my primary operating system. I can read the news because without strong incentive to DRM it (as Netflix has, their licensing terms require it) it is not worth implementing DRM.
For quick calculations like these I use http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Also, the dimensions for the zeppelin are diameter (not radius) and length, so multiply by Pi - and then divide by 3 since not all of it will be visible to the sun at once.

Converting feet^3 to meter^3 is non obvious because of the ^3 - that would be my guess for where you had an error.

> mW == megawatt.

1.4 MW is not 1.8 million HP, it's 1.8 thousand hp.
+1 to http://realtalk.io
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The law already said who could distribute what in terms of copyrighted works, and anyone violating that law was already a pirate. DRM is a technical means to (try to) enforce rights the law already gives. Your position is self-contradictory.
If the barrier to entry is sufficiently high that small fish currently do not try to cross it.

I really don't give a shit if Netflix uses DRM. I honestly don't have a problem with them or other "big fish" using it. I am concerned about every fish using it.
It'll still be there in one form or another, it'll just be less obvious from those actually looking for it.
All I know about firsthand is the LI interfaces in some kinds of infrastructure routers. The way the LI interface is controlled would enable its use without knowledge of the owner of the node. I don't have any reason to think the ones I know of are the only infrastructure nodes with LI interfaces.
I bet the NSA internal branding dept. will have a tough time coming up with clever names for the new programs. Maybe something in the lines of FOCUS or LIGHTSABRE ;)

But seriously, these govt. programs have been closed and restarted under so many new codenames in the past, it's really tough to believe this. And even if it will happen, how will we find the trust?
Closing down PRISM etc will be an admission of wrongdoing, and the subsequent lying about it. And the 'weasel' wording like Snowden mentioned; the distinction they make in wiretapping between 'information aggregation' and actually looking into it. Which obviously is the most absurd justification as all arguments against wiretapping still apply with this concept.

With this kind of mindset, one must think they will just restart the programs and make them even more covert, not?
I'm embarrassed to admit that both logos look same to me and that the changes this designer made are really trivial.
burden of the proof will be on the president as trust is now gone, at least of those who were paying attention. proof has to be quite extraordinary - otherwise it might be construed as dismantling and hiding said programs even more. Or augmenting their visibility.
How did you determine exactly what it is that you think this patent covers? It is a silly patent, but mostly for reasons that are opposite to what you seem to believe.
Translation: Obama is getting hammered by wealthy people harmed by the PRISM backlash. He'll consider renaming the surveillance programs.
Right now I cannot use Netflix on my primary operating system. I can read the news because without strong incentive to DRM it (as Netflix has, their licensing terms require it) it is not worth implementing DRM.

You appear to have made a poor choice of operating system. Perhaps you should try a better one for your needs? There are lots of choices, and many of them would let you use Netflix if that's what you want to do.
Pardon me for being so naive, but why does Netflix have no competition in their market? There's no alternative to switch to, and once I've taken a step back and thought about it, this surprises me.
Not at all. However, I also don't then post inflammatory pseudoscientific articles on the Internet with headlines like "White stove caused burns in man who was never burned by black stove." It's the current trend of bad science and lack of journalistic integrity that I'm taking issue with.
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* Realtalk [0].

* FLOSS Weekly [1]. Some great guests, but it's very broad so you might not get what you're looking for every week.

I haven't checked it out yet, but I recently took note of Foodfight [2], looks to be DevOps focused.

0: http://realtalk.io/

1: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly

2: http://foodfightshow.org/
FTA: "Sen. Wyden said he imagines the White House is willing to reconsider the current surveillance policies ..."

That's just a little bit different from what the headline would lead you to believe.
Show HN: I made a website of LSAT explanations
My niche is LSAT prep. I write books of explanations to LSAT practice tests.

It's a pretty big industry, as people will pay a lot to improve their odds of law school admissions.

I realized that, with my books, I have ~400,000 words of quality content that people search for. Lots of long tail searches for individual LSAT questions.

So I made a site of free explanations for the most recent LSAT:

http://lsathacks.com/

Took about a week to write them and put them up. If it goes well, I'll release my other explanations.

Hope to make this a hub for LSAT study. If it's well received, I'll have no trouble creating paid products to sell to my readers.

Also hope to use this as a project to finally improve my html/CSS/programming knowledge.

What do you guys think of the overall look, useability, and site structure? Would love to hear feedback.
It'll actually use whatever you have the search bar set to.
> An important thing to keep in mind however is that since this still requires a proprietary binary, this being included in the standard would not automagically get you Netflix support in Linux

I expect, though, that it will make it more likely for Netflix to add native Linux support, because providing one decryption plugin should be a lot easier than providing a whole movie playing application.
I wish they'd spend a bit of that money on improving there coverage/service around the country...
If DRM wasn't implemented in the form of an opaque binary blob but was instead implemented by the browser itself (which is not what EME would have happen), then I would build a copy of Firefox that would pretend to the server that it does DRM but would instead dump netflix streams to the disk.

Well, I wouldn't, but somebody would.
Jailbreaking carries some risks to the user and this article is an example how no one really understands these risks fully. Nevertheless, jailbreaking is quite popular and it's something that ordinary iPhone users do. It's not just hackers who have some idea what they're getting into. So it's worth reminding readers that jailbreaking may bring your phone real economic consequenses.

Also, this is an article about how a bit of 3rd party software behaves on jailbroken devices. It seems entirely relevant to discuss how Apple itself views the practice.
What are the odds of a Snowden getaway?
I know that people don't like large carriers getting larger. However, this is a pretty small deal. Leap has spectrum covering only 137M POPs and not in a lot of the top markets. Verizon was recently approved to gain 20MHz nearly nationwide. This is way less than half that spectrum - probably less than a third of the spectrum Verizon was allowed to buy. Leap does come with 5M customers, but Verizon will still be the largest so it's hard to see it getting rejected on customer grounds.

I know that there's a lot of anti-deal sentiment in this thread, but this isn't a significant deal that would undermine competition in the way that the AT&T/T-Mobile deal would have merged together a lot of spectrum and customers and given AT&T more power. In fact, this deal won't even bring AT&T up to the level of customers and spectrum that authorities allowed Verizon to buy. As such, on what grounds should the FCC or DOJ disapprove of this merger?

That's the key question and those grounds have to be consistently applied. Sprint was just allowed to bring nearly 200MHz under its roof. This deal would bring AT&T to around 100MHz. Verizon was allowed to buy Alltel with loads more customers and spectrum and then buy more spectrum from SpectrumCo. The deal would leave AT&T in second place in terms of number of customers and third place in terms of spectrum.

If we really want competition in the wireless industry, I think we should contact the FCC about making sure that sub-1GHz spectrum is spread out to more companies. Sub-1GHz spectrum travels (in the real world) significantly farther than higher frequency spectrum and that's essential for more suburban and rural coverage. I think capping sub-1GHz spectrum at 45MHz (or 40MHz or 50MHz) would be pretty reasonable and ensure that we have many companies with the resources necessary to build out a good network. There's going to be an auction in the future for 600MHz spectrum and I think that's the best place to ensure competition - by making sure that AT&T and Verizon don't grab that spectrum. AT&T and Verizon currently own most of the sub-1GHz spectrum and it's allowed them to build out coverage faster and broader. In fact, Verizon's early focus on sub-1GHz spectrum certainly enabled it to become the carrier it is today (a lot of AT&T's holdings sub-1GHz are a lot newer).
As a Russian, I'm proud of good things my government does (including Snowden's case) and ashamed of bad things it does (those things are offtopic in this discussion though).
I guess I should clarify streaming as in low-latency live streaming, where RTP is necessary - and Opus would be a perfect fit with its very low algorithmic delay.
DRM systems have a habit of trying to push onerous requirements onto OSes and hardware.
Question - have you actually read the draft specs for the proposed extensions? Here's a summary, straight from the source: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/04/html5-video-at-netflix.h... and the actual draft spec is here: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...

Nobody is suggesting a <html drm="true"> change here. We're not talking about enabling broad DRM for all the bytes delivered over HTTP internet. We're talking specifically about extensions to HTMLMediaElement (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...) which provide for challenge-response authentication and decryption of a media stream. Nobody has suggested that we should be adding some mechanism to HTML that allows a browser to talk to a webserver if the browser possess the right DRM license.
Having an international inspection system to watch for the development of nuclear weapons would seem a much easier task than one that would be needed to monitor for the development of robotic warrior/weapon systems. The pieces needed for the later can much more easily look like normal production/assembly tool development given that they are, in fact, largely the same pieces.
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I'm sorry — I should have said 'proof'.
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One of the things which stuck with me from my social psychology class in college was a comparison of gender discrimination in hiring practices comparing male interviewers with female interviewers. The take away was that female interviewers were more likely than male interviewers to end up with sexist hiring results. Their were a number of possible justifications given, such as that the women interviewers felt threatened by having another women take their job (they felt like a "token" member of a team), a sort of stereotype threat where the female interviewer held female interviewers to a higher standard (they didn't want to "confirm" negative stereotypes about women), ect.

I will try to find the citation.
Can confirm that 1) peeps @ Zynga are on lockdown (I'm here) and 2) Peeps @ AirBnB are on lockdown as well (friends works there)
With the way things are going, it is not an irrational or unreasonable fear that something you (as a man or a woman) do/say is going to offend someone (man or woman) and land you in trouble. This has nothing to do with man vs woman. Badclient said nothing of men or women... just "sexist remark". Nor was there any mention of anything that would fall under any reasonable definition of misogyny. Your response only furthers badclient's concern over vague definitions (and to some degree overuse/misuse of words as a means to an end).
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The support they have in ChromeOS could be made to work in "regular" Linux with minimal to no effort. In ChromeOS netflix is played through Chrome, not with a completely separate movie playing application. They don't allow it to work off of ChromeOS on official ChromeOS devices.

The issue is policy, not technological.
I must have missed Netflix's HTML5 Palladium draft spec.
Excellent, looking forward to this.