skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Eric Eoin Marques, 28—the “largest facilitator of child porn on the planet,” according to the FBI".

I hope he wins the trial for that reason alone. FBI's thinking is very dangerous here. Basically what they're saying is that if they can't monitor/censor freely the content they want then you're a "facilitator" for whatever crime is happening on the network.

If you apply this logic to something else, you'll see how little sense it makes. "If you don't give us your encryption keys, or use PFS, you're a facilitator of terrorism". "If you sell guns, you're a facilitator of gun crime."

If you're an ISP that doesn't block sites that we say are piracy sites, you're a facilitator of piracy (an argument that is already used, and was also used in ACTA, too).

And I could go on and on about this. People should be calling them out on their BS argument. They're just using these arguments to crack down on anything that has remained remotely private, so they can have the total surveillance state they've always dreamed about.
Paper.js Fish
I really like the idea but I also have some concerns about people uploading random files to your dropbox. The idea with the password/access token is a good first step but I was surprised to see the password in plaintext in the url after you login...

Besides that it looks someone claimed your signin page as a username.
> Sal Khan is having such a broad and important impact on
> learning when the professionals are struggling mightily.

Are you sure he is having such borad and important impact?
Are you sure that he won't fail at exactly the same spot where "professionals are struggling mightily"? Do you know the reasons they are struggling?

> great teacher is his breadth and depth of knowledge and context thanks
> to being a triple undergrad from MIT with backgrounds in math, computer
> science, and electrical engineering AND a Harvard MBA.

Nothing in the list makes anyone a great teacher. You may have all the knowledge in the world and be a lousy teacher. What makes a great teacher is the skill of kindling the interest in the subject in your students and then having the skill to transfer you knowledge effectively. Khan Academy has none of that. It is just another attempt to solve the problem by throwing technology at it. The thing is, problem has little to do with technology. And Khan Academy has little of understanding ot that.
Fantastic. Making the users the customers is something I heartily approve of. It aligns the interests of the service providers with the interests of the users, and means they have to compete on service, rather than spending their time finding ways to make people click on ads.
The most interesting thing about capacitors, in my opinion, is that they can be charged extremely quickly. If you could recharge your battery in 30 seconds, it wouldn't actually need to last that long. Charging your batteries could be something you do a couple times a day, like going to the bathroom.
At least that explains why it isn't called wput.
> It's not obvious from the title, but this is a commercial service that hosts files for you, and this is a tool to work with it.

It's definitely not obvious from the title and feels a little dishonest to me.
Medicaid pays for it. (And eventually Medicare when they get old enough.)

People have such a strange view of medical care in the US. Medicaid is available to anyone who needs it (i.e. financially plus special medical circumstances).

And all children in the US are able to have medical coverage - if they can't afford it the government pays for it (or gives a pro rated discount).

There is no such thing as not [being able to] have coverage for your kids because you can't afford it.

So basically the old and the young are both covered. The gap is in the middle.
If anyone working for feedly reads this: SSL/https should not be a premium feature. Please make it available to everyone.

Update: they tweeted "HTTPS is currently a pro only feature. Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it." (see https://twitter.com/feedly/status/364292745487065088)
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey has 1920x1080 followed by 1366x768
I hadn’t thought of this effect, but it’s kind of an ingenious way to market test prep. I think at some point, students’ scores stop improving, from a combination of having been exposed to all the background material necessary for the test to be accurate, and their brains finishing development (after which intelligence is largely stable), but up until then, students’ scores improve with age. You can still use a test like the SAT to compare younger students, but you have to norm it against students of the same age (I think it’s actually better to test students at a younger age because a test of the same difficulty has more ceiling room).
Great that they've settled on a business model, but I feel like if you are going to have a free tier that HTTPS should be part of it.
Uniqush - a push notification server in Go
They've sent me the contract before, and I was a nobody. You just have to contact them.
Scan in black & white, scan in grayscale, reduce grayscale to bi-level and compare.
Ask HN: How can I contribute?
To put it bluntly, I currently offer no value to the tech community that has gotten me to a position where I am employable; and I don't like that.

What I am looking for is advice on how I can give back. Yes, I know I could write some blog posts and craft amazing open source projects that make everyone's life easier, but I don't know how. What do I write about? What would my amazing open source project do?

Also, I would like to join discussions here on HN. The problem with that is that I am the kind of person who, if I don't have anything to add to the conversation, does not say anything. And I almost always feel like I have nothing to add.

How do I get over all this and become useful?
This jumped out at me:

"The danger of infection means that they have to live in hospital."

Isn't a hospital like the worst possible place in regards to infection?
I don't know if you are aware of this, but your domain name has a really bad reputation on WoT
https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/wsend.net?utm_source=addo...
Aatash from Khan Academy here. As the mission mentions, in addition to providing free learning materials, we care deeply about making the quality of those materials the best they can be.

We work with a lot of teachers who use Khan Academy in their classrooms year-round, giving us constant feedback on how students are interacting with the videos and exercises, in terms of both what's working well and where the gaps lie.

We have also worked with education researchers, and we're constantly studying various models of learning. And more than anything, we learn from testing and feedback from our users. As mentioned in Ben's comment above, we like to ship. We like to put stuff out there for folks to use (especially when learning is at stake), and take feedback and improve from there.

Khan Academy's role in education is a varied and ever-changing one. More than anything, we want to provide a tool/resource for knowledge and learning that's high quality and accessible. How people choose to use it--whether as standalone learners at home or through integration in a classroom environment* --is really up to them.

* We've put up some great videos/articles on how teachers are using KA now, and what our vision for its use in the classroom is:
https://www.khanacademy.org/coach-res/KA-in-the-classroom
Yeah, I know people who use that as argument; that's why I responded.
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I am sorry you are downvoted. Alas, a lot of people on HN think technology is the ultimate solver of all the problems in the world.
I guess to actually learn how to teach is too much work. Let's go making videos.
everyday...it's getting closer to a VPS!
Seriously. You shouldn't have to pay to expect a reasonable amount of security as a user.
SQL Injection Galore
Not again with the lifetime accounts...
Thanks for the help mate.
We choose the definition of sentience so that it includes us. There's no reason to believe that an alien species might not do the same, and that we might not make the cut. Hell, some of the worst racist rhetoric on the planet involves seeing other humans as non-sentient.

See also: http://terrybison.com/page6/page6.html
Types are better regarded as a static property of a program. In some (statically) typed language you can declare a type like

type Index = Int

aliasing Index to the integer type. The representation of Index will be exactly the representation of an Int and a runtime you won't be able to tell them apart. At compile time, however, you won't be able to use an Index where an Int is expected and vice versa.

Common Lisp is better described as a safe language. Programs will only fail in defined ways. C is an unsafe language -- once you go off the rails anything can happen.
Looks like they are just decorating the "Pro" plan with "features".
I couldn't help but read this as:

> One simple technique puts graphene capacitors on par with lead-acid battery. See why duracell hates this

Too much internet time I guess :-)
Charging quickly would be great, but having to do so frequently would be a pain.

You need access to a powerpoint, what if you are on a day trip?

Wherever people lay their head at night they'll almost always have access to a power socket and therefore 24 hours is the minimum acceptable duration a full charge should last.
There's another platform with a larger marketshare that has a POSIX API available too. The question is whether it's the API that developers for that platform actually use.
If this is the case, I think it would be to have two solutions - bash one-liner and a Python one, so that it would be easier to understand benefits & drawbacks of both.
Can they fix the whole "keep unread/mark as read" shortcut key debacle first?
So he would be kicked out of care after reaching the age of 18 in the US?
Hmmm. Ok so this guy uploaded both OS and Goldman-authored code - as stated in the article. And uploading pure OS code wouldn't make sense anyway as it would be available anywhere. And did so immediately prior to taking a principle role at a competitor start up - no wonder they checked. He knew he was doing something wrong - as stated in the article - and his reason for deleting his bash history makes no sense (surely bash doesn't cache passwords) - indicating he was trying to cover his tracks.

They're gonna want to protect their IP - particularly when it could give a competitor a huge advantage. It's not surprising they went after him.
> It's amazingly popular in the SF Bay Area

That shows how many early adopters live in the SF Bay Area.
Are those really the only possibilities?
Are you perhaps not really thinking very deeply about his possible motives?
The 'scratch your own itch' is given as advice because it leads to better solutions which lead to money. You are your own target market which makes building decisions and selling easier. It gives you drive & motivation because you know if it's something you'd use yourself or not & you have your first customer from day 1 (yourself). Trying to build something for a group of people you're not part of is tough and often results in a lot of guess-work.

One problem I'd like to see a solution for is for enquiry/quote based service businesses. Tracking which advertising method brings the most enquiries/bookings long term for small businesses. Also with reminders to follow up the following week after a quote is sent. This currently has to be done by combining several systems (analytics, gmail, calendar, spreadsheets, handwritten notes) this could easily be improved & simplified.
Unlikely Recommendations for Startups and Entrepreneurs
It would be interesting to know how good they are outside of the warm California.
I had a Microwriter Agenda for a few years (until it got stuck in a system loop and sounded a reminder alarm every hour until the battery pack ran out) - had a great chording keyboard.

Recently purchased a CyKey [1] (a follow-on by the designer of the Microwriter Keyboard) and it works well (but I think my hands are too small for it).

In both cases I've fond that eventually my hand learns the key strokes and I never forget them, but symbols, brackets etc. are hard to do.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyKey
"Other possibilities include"
work on an existing open source project that does something you need/want.
I'd say corporations have way more power here in the U.S. than unions. For Heaven's sake we don't even have a national healthcare program. Proper healthcare is typically one of the bigger union fights from my experience.

Union is definitely a dirty word here. The people who are most against the unions tend to be the people who would benefit the most. Unfortunately they've been tricked into thinking otherwise. It's not uncommon for you to take a job at Target or Walmart and have to watch an anti-union video or two.

The Taft–Hartley Act really restricts union behavior. It makes it so you can't do things like solitary strikes, you have no typically notify your employer 80 days ahead of time if you plan to go on strike, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Management_Relations_Act...

At the end of the day it's all about striking a balance between labor and management. My plan is for all the companies I run to be ethnical especially in regards to treating my employees well.
“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”
The github page tells you the reason why this was made.

https://github.com/christiangenco/dbinbox

To save your click, this tool was made to answer this.

https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=3525
"If you look at the NodeJS/NPM ecosystem, you will find a lot of modules will use, or be used by other modules that will be in either JS or Coffee respectively"

The big thing for me with Node.js was you could have whole application in one language. Apparently it's not possible anymore because you have to deal with CoffeScript.
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: socat
I just confirmed this is not the case.
Could you share what you were doing?
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The FH exploit sends local IPs, hostnames & MAC to an IP in Washington DC
New RubyMine EAP opens
Can you illuminate in greater detail the mechanism by which this might take place with CP? How does one contribute to the production of CP without paying for it?

(Obviously, by "paying" I don't mean strictly "paying with fiat currency". I mean paying in any tender, or barter arrangement.)
But the source and destination IP addresses of each system in the swarm are leaked in the IP headers. How does the protocol avoid leaks?
Not a wonderful situation, though, is it? $78k for a hip replacement will make one hell of a dent in the money you saved up for retirement, but hey, once you're poor you can get Medicare.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/health/for-medical-tourist...
selling https access doesn't sound like a good one for me, this should be a basic feature with NSA and who knows who else listening in on everything.
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Without knowing how much of that 8Mb was proprietary and what the nature of the proprietary code is it's impossible to say. It could be massive over kill, it could be lenient.
It's not a benchmark for success and I'm going to make a change tomorrow to my repo that lets other know what they can do to contribute. What I don't think is good is people that don't understand what's going on making pull requests when they don't see the vision of the project. So far I have not gotten any of those which tells me that everyone who is making pull requests understands what the point of gitignore.io is.
With personal video recording (a la Google Glass and friends) it won't be long before we're subjected to this sort of thing. It's amazing how close we're getting to Ghost in the Shell and I'm sure it won't be long when live video feeds can be hacked in real time to show something contrary to what's actually happening.
I'm not American, but surely "enough" is still less than two full time jobs plus a part time one?
Please explain to a layman.

Does it mean that I can get a user to upload 500mb file irrespective of if user has dropbox or not?

Kind of like what filepicker.io helps us do?
When providing support, you have to be very precise when you ask someone to perform a check. The sentence "can you telnet to the port" is unambiguous. The sentence "can you make a TCP connection" leaves the choice of the tool unspecified. Depending of their background, some people may use ping (subject to different firewall rules), or a browser (subject to proxy configuration).
This is a problem I've had before. I couldn't find anything that I needed or wanted. Recently though, AngularJS has struck a chord, so maybe I'll give that a try.
Apple's were if not "a rich persons toy" then at least "solidly upper middle class persons toy" for a very long time. For most of their early existence, you could get competing products at half their price, that was still out of the acceptable cost range for most people, and soon enough you could get products at less than 20% of the cost of their main products.

Arguably a lot of their range still is still unaffordable for most people.
Here is a more in-depth analysis

http://tsyrklevich.net/tbb_payload.txt
They can't have tax allowances on children and wife, and their wives are not allowed to work.
Sorry, I was possessed by Ayn's ghost for a bit today.
Some email accounts have inconveniently small maximum attachment sizes. An optional password prevents people from uploading unwanted files.
Ask HN: Who invests in better plant based fuel?
A contact of mine has a company that does plant based fuel. They have a garage guy who is making it "actually work" in terms of workability with existing motors.

Any ideas for people potentially interested in investing much appreciated.
You could write the process and steps that got you to where you are now, for others who also want to become employable.

Focus on replying to the questions in the 'ask' thread. This is the community directly asking for feedback/input.

Your best projects will come from working on things you're passionate about.
OK that's a good reason!
Meetings democratised. Time saved. Folks entertained.
Yes but it is codifying old stuff largely not new things...
I think most people would understand if you asked them how long it would take to download a million large photos, given that one large photo often takes several seconds to complete. They'd realize that this might be a slow process.

Incidentally, it's not just about transfer speed. Sometimes people ask if you can e-mail something that has never been put on a computer, and would take weeks or months to scan in. Or sometimes they ask for access to information when access is very slow to set up due to security or privacy considerations. Or sometimes they ask for access to something that the boss needs to physically sign off on, after the boss has gone home for the day. This is only a problem if they've decided it's urgent to have it, and simply haven't thought ahead about how it might not necessarily be possible to get instant access to every piece of information that ever existed.

We can change technology. But we also need to retain the mindset of arranging access beforehand. It's not about "blaming", it's simply about encouraging people to understand what they're asking for and to make sure they get the access they need before they need it.

[As an aside, DVDs are just an example of "sometimes it's really freaking slow to download data" that somebody like my mom would get. An alternative way to phrase it would be "downloading that would be so slow, it'd be better to just have your friend bring her laptop over." I certainly don't intend to suggest a new industry standard.]
The classic answer is: "please write all this boring documentation stuff for $your_favourite_project", or pick a boring bug report in some project, triage ot and fix it. It's all very valuable stuff, but it's fracking boring.

The real answer is: find a project you like, even a small one, and patch it to do something you find even more useful. If you think you can't do it, maybe it's a good chance to use it as a skill-up project. Or, rewrite an interesting lib or useful tool from $language_you_dont_like to $language_you_love. Or just put on GitHub some private tool you wrote that someone else might find useful.
The Apple II says hello, too. When introduced, its retail price was around twice competing machines, and the others kept cutting price while Apple didn't. Soon enough entry level home computers sold for sub $200, while Apple kept introducing most of their new models in the $1200-$1300 price range or above.
I once looked at do.com a few years back. It was owned by Microsoft, and I thought they wont release that domain unless you pay them a hefty amount of money.

Someone apparently did. Unless...
On the other hand, that comes with high charging current. This isn't an issue for pocket batteries, but for really large ones, it's not as pretty.
Controlling drones with Google glass and javascript
Websites' servers hacked to host child abuse images
We also receive very little love from Google. They are notorious for not helping developers, which is tragic.
You know, people (myself included) write on HN not because they want to "contribute" or being "useful to the community." But because it is an interesting past time. Is being useful to other hackers really your goal?
Guys, help me. Every time I see something like this I think "cool thing!", but I also start thinkin about new ways someone will start to track me down.

Seriously, my paranoid level has never been so high.
This is slightly off-topic, I apologize.

Is there a way to run Audacity's noise-removal real-time (or a few second delay)? I've been trying to Google this, but without success.
Your honour, my computer was hacked. Oh, you don't believe that? Well then, I used a Xerox copier!
JVM Tuning for mere mortals
It doesn't really have much of a POSIX API though. It could but it is very incomplete, deliberately, having just enough to bootstrap the other environment...
This is so tragic but basically verifies my own experiences with Google. If you are not a paying customer, they don't listen to you. Even if you do something that is more to their advantage then to yours. Maybe some paying customers who use gmailsharedtasks could direct their Google support to the thread.
Have a look at kouio, it's only accessible over HTTPS: https://kouio.com
Well, if you're looking to give back, you could try finding something that many people want.
yes it is sad, I have worked days and nights for this and I am not being able to reach more users because of the quota on the apps.
> I like to think of startups as research projects. You start with a hypothesis, which is usually "there is sufficient market for <idea>". Then you do the experiments to prove the hypothesis, which is the actual startup.

"There is sufficient market for <idea>" (or a variation of it, such as "there is sufficient demand for <solving this problem (efficiently)>" is usually the question you try to answer before shoving money into a research project...
Real property isn't quite the same. With real property the owners have to pay taxes based on the land value which incentivizes owners to make use of the land.

With a short domain name, the owners waste the short name for the cheap price of domain registration ($20 max?).
/proc is not Linux specific it came from Solaris and is pretty widespread now.

Linux has bizarre named Unix domain sockets of two flavours one with names in the filesystem and one with names in another namespace...
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