skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but look at it this way: I'd rather spend money that goes back into my own country, so that there will be more infrastructure, production and specialists here instead of overseas. This will benefit me and everyone else in the future: faster and cheaper shipping, better customer/tech support, more customization, cheaper upgrades, etc.

Things which are harder to get when you pay an American company,which then pays a Nevis company, which then pays a Chinese company, which then pays Taiwanese and Chinese companies and so on...
There is great wisdom in your joke.

We have a web form builder service. (Jotform) We serve 3 million forms and process hundreds of thousands of submissions daily. Every form pretty much has an email question and most people enable validation feature.

We first started with a very very smart and long email validation check that was going to be perfect. Every time users reported a case where our regular expression didn't envision we had to reduce it. During the years we had to change it so many times, I am pretty sure we have left with something like this: Does it have an @? Does it have a period? Great! You are validated!
Coding Across America
I'd guess MRI would lack the necessary spatial resolution, as the wavelength of the emitted radio waves would be larger than the typical feature size on a chip. For that matter, optical imaging might not be up to it either.

The physical deconstruction would be fraught with peril for the chip, which would end up as powder! I'm not sure what the best technique would be. Maybe a grinding wheel, if it could be controlled well enough? Maybe a flat plate with abrasive paste, or a diamond coated nail file? That would probably be easy to control, albeit time consuming. Laser ablation? Heat the chip to slowly and continuously evaporate it, whilst videoing the evaporation process?

One would have to conduct an experiment to see whether it is best to slice the packaged IC, or remove the encapsulation first. The encapsulation can be removed with nitric acid and acetone, or even a blast with a hot flame [1]. I'd guess it would be worth removing the encapsulation.

If I had to pick a technique from above, I'd first try removing the encapsulation then using a diamond coated nail file.

[1] http://makezine.com/2009/07/08/how-to-dissolve-ic-packages/
The article quotes, "How can we trust legislators to vote in the public interest when they are dependent on industry campaign funding to get elected? Our broken money and politics system forces lawmakers into a conflict of interest between lawmakers’ voters and their donors". This strongly implies that the article's point of view that the link is causal.
Correlation does not imply causation. An alternative hypothesis is that legislators have fixed ideologies that are not influenced by who their donors are, but receive money from donors who have similar ideologies. After all, donors don't want to waste their money--they'll contribute to those legislators who already think like they do. Birds of a feather flock together, etc. Unfortunately it's impossible to conduct a controlled experiment, and donor influence probably varies by legislator and by donor.
but the idea that Big O is "scary" is just absurd.

To you. I never studied things like these in school and getting to a point of "Oh that's what that means" was long and arduous as it pertained to a lot of scientific literature.

Plain English, it seems, isn't in the tool set for a lot of very smart people who, coincidentally, feel that it's their duty to Explain All the Things. It's unfortunate that so many of them are deluded by the "x should be elementary" mindset or the like without regard to the language they use or the specificities of notation (Big-O in this case).

I wish computer scientists can be more like Neil deGrasse Tyson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ulkX-DA9BM
Is this Kozmo.com version 2.0?

I LOVED Kozmo back in ~1999/2000.... and now I have small kids. So I am interested in how Jessica found this to change her life? Can you give her/your user story?
>e-cigarettes don't really work well because its not about the nicotine. They do give you something to hold and put in your mouth, but the experience is extremely unsatisfying to a smoker.

Former smoker here, the experience is totally satisfying. I smoked for a good ten years, and quit immediately the day I got my first e-cigarette. That was almost three years ago, and I haven't wanted to smoke real cigarettes for a second.

I do have friends who've gone back to regular cigarettes, but (based strictly on casual observation) it's about a 50% rate of recidivism. And I see more and more people using them lately. Three years ago nobody knew what the hell they were, and lately I run into a surprising number of people who not only know what they are, but are excited to talk about their new battery mod.
Getting an attorney is probably excellent advice, but I don't think it hurts anything to do research on your own as well so that you can get some idea of what the patent is about and whether you might actually be legally infringing.

I probably would have at least consulted with an attorney before contacting the troll and the patent author though, just to be sure I wasn't somehow shooting myself in the foot or limiting my future options.
Uhhh... Wouldn't have been much simpler to just link people to their Google Account Dashboard? Where this, along with many other, useful metrics are available?
Not under current court precedent, which treats corporate money as free speech. As long as corporations are treated as people, restrictions on political spending by corporations would abridge free speech.

In my personal view, if corporations were people, they'd be classified as sociopaths, which is yet another reason not to let them give money to politicians.
As a user@internet i trust you.
It's quite true. There are lots of examples here and many more on Twitter.

I suspect the reason is that once something has reached a certain popularity, it becomes more of a status move to identify against it than with it.
You do recognise the author, right? It's not some random hack - Declan M has a long history and a good reputation. I'd take his word over some random HN doubter any time.
The userland still needs to be there. LXC can't run an app without one. If you tell it to run an app directly, it's using the userland of the host.
10 articles per month, yeah.
I have a Lenovo X201, would love to see some details, and try to "hack" my own computer, to see what's there.

Very little information about the actual details in the article. If really was a backdoor there and publicly banning a company because of that, wouldn't it make more sense to show the results publicly too? Otherwise it feels more like FUD than responsible research.
It's not quite that consumer friendly, but there are companies that provide a service like this [1]. I gather it is not cheap. Does anyone know what the rough cost is?

[1] http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/r...
Yep, I feel that the main point of the story is "we had crappy code, and rewrote it and now it's great".

Could have been very similar if they'd rewritten it using C++11 features (the main difference being that you'd have to use a HTTP library instead of HTTP being in the standard library, but that doesn't make much difference)...
I think the attitude is more like "quit when it gets too easy".
It's an interesting idea, actually. Your value-add is that you (the "runner" company) blanket the area with runners. You give them RAM mounts and tablets that run an app that predictively puts them in the most likely zone when they're not making a run. If you have enough drivers, you could conceivably dispatch one to any location within 5-10 minutes. Add 10-20 minutes of driving time to the destination and you're conceivably doing sub-30 minute deliveries like Dominos promised in the 1980s. The more customers (customers being companies like Prim, Doordash, etc.) you have, the more you can saturate and the shorter that time becomes.

Automate the pick-up arrangements and intelligently route them on best route to the drop-off. No need to collect money at the drop-off site other than tips. That's handled during the API transaction, where "RunnerCo" collects and skims it's per-transaction fee.

The reason that so many delivery services failed in years past was that they were doing radio dispatching with poor/minimal map and routing technology and they were collecting cash money at the door. No wonder they couldn't make a profit.
I'm not a lawyer, but this is just a condition on a voluntary contract, which nobody is forcing the companies to sign.

Individuals routinely sign things like NDA's which are abridge free speech.
Humans tame light, stop it from moving for a full minute
This was just a demo of what was possible. I think there are tons of more unique insights we can pull related to productivity, sales, even happiness, etc. using this data.

We talk more about it on our mini-manifesto https://joymetrics.com/
I wasn't aware of that. Maybe it's because Reddit doesn't care but I still think it's a bit risky as they could change their attitude down the road especially if you app becomes popular.
I agree its much easier to be brave when you can easily afford to lose. Nevertheless, I think this is absolutely awesome. It's like Dirty Harry going off the rails and breaking all the rules for justice. I love it! I'm glad it's not my money, but I love it.

Maybe if more companies with some extra cash would do this scumbag trolls like Eileen Shapiro would think twice.
What do I do when incognito doesn't work? Why can't posters link to real content?
Good to know. I couldn't really get into them, they didn't replace the reason I was smoking in the first place. All they could do was make nicotine craves go away, which I didn't really have a problem with anyways.

People are diverse I guess.
And besides, the older I get (41) the more I can use frequent reminders of the things I used to know. It's disturbing the number of times I've searched the web for answers, and discovered an answer I wrote myself. And I hadn't known this could be easily turned off with 'stty' as suggested in another answer. Or maybe I did once know that?
> How to slaughter a patent troll in 5 steps

Am I missing something or they haven't actually slaughtered their troll yet?
this model needs to be franchised out with central control, scheduling and access infra. Let any students/underemployed sign up to be a delivery person for quick cash...

Imagine if you could opt in for a delivery anytime you're on a non-rushed lege between points A and B and can accept the order, and pickup and dropoff as well.
I just had the same issue whereby I couldn't download the command line tools, installing Xcode worked for me at the time. It was listed in preferences -> downloads -> components.
What is the most shared type of content online?
I agree. It was filled with platitudes and self-aggrandizing, vacuous anecdotes, but never offered any indication as to how one increases their income or reduces their time commitments.

I can soundly say that those first few chapters are literally about nothing. (At least, nothing pertinent to work or income).
Just because you deleted your promise from the web, it does not annul it. A man who does not keep his word (regardless of price) is no man, but a [insert the C word here].
Seems to work just like AirPlay.
In the beginning, there was RS232, where each character was a fixed number of bits, optionally with a stop bit and a parity bit. If the sender transmitted too many 0 bits to represent a valid character, that protocol failure was called a 'break', and some receiving equipment would detect such a failure and do something about it, like reset itself to a known-good state. Thus, a 'break' was occasionally a useful thing to send, so sending equipment would often have a special keystroke to cause a 'break' condition.

The Unix 'tty' subsystem was basically designed to support simple serial terminals, and so it had a bunch of behaviour designed to interoperate with the pre-existing 'break' conventions. If a Unix system's serial port received a break, Unix would (optionally) send any processes running via that connection a SIGINT, to represent the 'reset to known-good state' behaviour (this is controlled by the stty command's 'brkint' flag). Also, if the user's terminal didn't provide a specific 'send a break signal' command, Unix could be configured to send a break signal when it received some particular character (^C by default; this is controlled by stty's 'intr' setting).

Of course, nobody uses physical RS232 terminals anymore, but for compatibility reasons the Unix tty API lives on, and the "psuedotty" implementation used for things like terminal emulators maintains compatibility. ssh is basically a tool for exporting the tty API over the network, and so for compatibility it too must have a way to transmit the information "pretend a break condition has occurred on the RS232 connection we're pretending to use."

To summarise: yes, unless you've messed with the stty command, ~B will probably result in a SIGINT. Ctrl-C is probably more reliable since you can hit it much faster than you can type <Enter>~B, but ~B is still useful if your terminal is in 'raw' mode, where ^C is not converted to SIGINT (for example, if you're running an app that wants to bind ^C to some other function).

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_asynchronous_receiver/transmitter#Break_condition
stty(1)
tcsendbreak(3)
Too bad the U.S. is stuck on 40hrs/week, every week of the year and funneling profits up to the top of the corporate food chain.
Is it just me or is the site much, much faster since this update? The dev center has always been a painfully slow site for me, but it seems really snappy now.
This is actually a pretty interesting post, though I'm a bit confused as to how it relates to my earlier comments.

I may add more later, but for now I will just say: welcome to the singularity.

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
Why not implement said extremely strong encryption algorithm by default, before it becomes an issue?
His books are great, mainly as a collection of interesting examples, but I agree with you on his seminar. I was let down. Nothing that I would really complain about since I didn't have to pay for it and it was really a day off work for me, but his seminar itself is not something I would pay money for.

I do think ESPN, weather.com, etc., are interesting examples because they have so much information to present, and it is nice that he was so forthcoming with concrete examples of what he holds up as great presentations of data. But I didn't find his analysis of them all that deep, and I think he made the fallacy of assuming that these sites are popular because of their presentation rather than, well, they're just websites of immensely well-known organizations. And weather.com is weather.com for God's sake--the URL alone guarantees readership.
I cannot think of a single occasion where zero tolerance is not the drum beat of the fool.
one page (print dialog) http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelellsberg/2011/06/24/the-t...
> Considering how much of your life you dedicate towards working, why the hell aren't you making damn well sure it's doing something that gives you at least a sense of fulfillment, if not outright joy.

Yeah. That's what "The Man" wants you to believe in.

Back in the day, people used to be largely self-sufficient, filling their time with tasks for themselves (farming, weaving, building things), profiting by selling the surplus or charging to do something they were good at, and using the money to buy the things they needed.

As you know, industrial revolution and large scale monoculture changed that. People would sweat all day, and because there was no time (or energy) left for anything else, they couldn't build anything for themselves, making employees heavily dependent on their jobs. That power player had two important effects: because the employer has the upper hand, it can command lower wages; in turn, those lower wages drive credit, creating an entire economy based on debt, which reinforces the importance of securing a job, again driving wages lower, in a feedback loop.

So, why that "find a job that you love" is utter bullshit then? Because, ultimately, every job is bad. Every job is an asymmetric negotiation where the employee exchanges his lifetime to a monetary reward that is, guaranteed, smaller than the value he adds. Not to say that it isn't useful, but is certainly a sub-optimal way of using oneself's limited time on earth.

"Passive income" strategy is the exact opposite of that, since the rewards are not bound to how much you can charge your hour, and more to how valuable your work is. Historically, that's how writers, artists, inventors and such have made money. Nowadays, though, the potential is enormous given the cost of automation and reproduction of creative work is ever decreasing.

If you stop and think, this is mind-blowing. Of course, Forbes doesn't want you to realize that.
Communities are not "political cliques." The vast majority of collaboration happens with people immediately around you. That's why people go to San Francisco to do startups and not to Boise Idaho.
A bot that notifies students when a spot opens up for $1 - $3 per notification:

[1]: http://kuow.org/post/uw-robot-helps-students-register-classe...
This is a fascinating comment, but one bit leaves me confused: How come you still have to pay rent?
The perils of online college learning
Its recursive. What applies to everyone, applies to everyone within the NSA/intelligence community too...as long as they stay staffed with people atleast.
Can't help thinking that this service is providing something like the cafes in that article "The Locust Economy". http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/

> To take coffee shops as an example, an unending supply of idealistic wannabe cafe owners enters the sector every year, operates at a loss for a few years, and exits. The result is that even under normal business conditions, without swarming locust consumers, this is a loss-making business with an extinction rate of around 90% at the 5 year point in the US.
Recommended viewing on this: http://www.thewaronkids.com/
What experience do you have building large real-world applications in Haskell? I'm just curious.
How about zero tolerance for police misconduct?
How about zero tolerance for appointed government servant's lying to Congress?

After all, these individuals should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us if they want to impose their will upon us without our explicit approval.
WELL HOW ESL&^H^HLSE ARE YOU GOING TO READ A 25+ LINE FILE OTHER THAN MASHING CTRLQ BEFORE THE LINES SCROLL OFF THE SCREEN? BY READING THRE AFTERGLOW? I SUPPOSE YOU`VE ASL^H^HSLO GOT A DIRECT CONNECT MODEMS WHERE YOU CAN`T EVEN HEAR WHAT`S GOING ON.
+++ATH...
I haven't had a job in over a year because I've been living at home in the middle of nowhere, but I have no dearth of purpose in life. It is a great time to commit to open source, learn new technologies and I developed a plethora of sysadmin skills in that time I never had anything close to when graduating college with a java degree while still dual booting Windows and Ubuntu.

While I intend to seek out employment this fall in Texas, right now I have a dozen foss projects I want to work on and have a larger issue finding the projects that most need the development effort and are willing to accept new contributions than finding things to do. I have patches in the works for 4 projects right now, in varying levels of bug tracker hell, and I'm eyeing another 3 for this weekend.

I'm much more concerned about looking lost after spending 6 months writing some java crapware for a faceless company 8 hours a day after losing all my passion.

So you are right, the money and the purpose are completely distinct, and for some they can completely conflict with one another. I always intended to try freelancing instead of going into a droll office setting to grind myself to hate my profession, but I've realized it takes way too much networking and social engineering to get a start that I just don't have, which sucks.
Zero tolerance policies are intellectual cowardice in specific, and overall cowardice in general.

There are far too many spineless dolts in charge these days.
It's depressing how short the reformed list is.
> A New York Times article does not require a sign-in. The article in question is not subscriber only-content. You do not need to sign-in nor be a subscriber to read this article.

> "To see the full article, subscribe here." ... "To continue reading, subscribe for just 99c for your first 4 weeks"

I'm baffled as to how you can say "YOU do not need to sign-in nor be a subscriber to read this article" when my screenshot clearly shows the exact opposite is true. Whether some people have or have not exceeded their 10 free articles this month does not change the fact that yes, this IS subscriber only content and I DO need to pay and sign in to see it (assuming I don't take the time to hack around it).

> But you don't even need to go that far. You can turn off the JavaScript in your browser

I don't know what you think that would accomplish.
LA public schools to give all 640,000 students an iPad
Not right now -- but something we'd like to do down the line. Am curious what you'd want / how you'd use it. Feel free to reach out, parker [at] zenefits dot com
Not even then. The fact is that people make mistakes. They should be punished, and the punishment should fit the crime.
Thank you! I was struggling to understand what I found so upsetting about Prism. This was the outcome.
My first reaction to this was negative. I immediately objected to choosing Haskell. I've been teaching my own 14 year old son. I started him with C, then on to Forth, Java and now about to move into Python.

Then I stopped to remember the process. It has been ridiculously hard. It has required a ton of engagement on my part. Without me being a constant cheerleader it would go absolutely nowhere. My kid likes programming but, let's face it, today there are tons of distractions and you are in competition with all of it.

I would imagine it is really hard to teach a random group of 14~16 year olds. I would really like to learn more about this from others with experience in this area.
nginx cannot read from Google's fancy-pants distributed filesystems, for one thing among many.
Eh. I haven't read the study and it's behind a pay wall, but from your description and the abstract this sounds like it's measuring subject preference.

Whether subjects prefer "chart junk" is orthogonal to the question of information comprehension and retention, though.
As it stands, you have the criminal justice system attempting to shut down all behavior using the coercive police power of government. This is the strongest force that government has over the people: depriving citizens of life, liberty, or property.

Legalization means allowing the people to choose to engage in an activity, thus shifting to the permissive oversight role of government. In this case, the citizen has the implicit trust of the government in that he may act as he chooses toward the previously-banned item. If this second route involves more parts of government, so be it, but at least it returns some autonomy / choice / liberty to the individual.

Depending on what politicians do, we may be stuck in a bad in-between state where you have the full police state going strong to prevent non-authorized dealing as well as the oversight / regulation function.

I fully trust that the politicians will continue to pursue power at any cost, including the liberty of the people and the sovereignty of the nation.
Regarding 3, I wouldn't regard many of the technologies used in many high-profile applications, like Node.js, as particularly mature. They're just popular. They have mature communities surrounding them, but many of these technologies are far from technically mature and/or rock-solid.
"free from any worry about success or failure"

How do you ignore that part and then just assume it would be pretty much the same?