skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'll be heard only by those who choose to hear them. It's pretty difficult to explain to a layman why they should value free over proprietary software, because most of the benefits aren't really noticeable to the average user who just sees a shiny GUI that does things.

Not to mention the major players are doing a fine job of keeping people in a matrix, unaware of the alternatives. But really, most don't care. Perhaps if the public school system started using *nix in their curriculum, but with Microsoft funneling cash (like they did with the University of Waterloo and C#) that's unlikely.
Because those nations are wealthy enough and have sufficiently expansive social safety nets to accommodate such luxuries.
You're right: this is an Apple circlejerk. Let's stay on-topic, people!!!
In general there are many companies out there who create entire biz models on ripping off photographer's photos and compiling them into lists that sit side saddle to paid ads. I have lots of personal experience with this, and if a photographer registers his or her copyright, such companies are very much liable for compensating the artist. These companies know this. Most photographers don't notice the infringements or if they do haven't registered their images. If more photographers registered, the pool of stolen images would be full of many more legal torpedoes, so to speak, and the companies who are less risk averse would spend the 30 minutes it would take to brainstorm a system for getting images legitimately. (Hint: Cracked.com has accounts with Getty and Corbis. It's not that hard.)
> Users are vastly better protected from the kind of network surveillance they mention with Apple products, thanks to their curated, controlled approach to third party software distribution.

You have got to be kidding.

For an ecosystem where its been the 'norm' to slurp users entire address books[1], NOTHING about Apple's 'curated, controlled' approach protects users.

Please get real.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3563016

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632934

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3564830

4. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/09/27/facebook-ios-6-phone...
In re: bullying

When are we going to start sterilizing people who raise shitty kids? I'm being intentionally provocative because I'm so fucking sick of this problem. It's the stupidest fucking problem in the world and it hurts so many people.
What? Not everything on the Internet is public domain. Just because I put a photo on the internet that's not encrypted doesn't make it fair game to go sell my photo.

Maybe I just didn't understand what you were trying to say...
I'm literally too busy to read all that. I totally see why this is a problem.
In prison you are less likely to get involved in a car accident.
Scaling to sustainable numbers though heat rejection will be a serious consideration. Plants essentially convert light to chemical energy that would then sustain the astronauts. The catch is plants aren't really that efficient. They're around 1% if I remember rightly. That means there would be 99 people worth of additional heat for each one you're feeding full time.
And here's just one obvious shouting indication in the data of how complex reality is. We see that the USA is the number one destination country in worldwide immigration upthread. Then we see in the parent that Mexico is the number one country for emigration.

But over the past five years, in every single year, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, there have been more people moving from the USA to Mexico than the reverse. And Russia is high up on both lists; that demands some kind of explanation, too.

You're going to need a lot more detailed information about what is really motivating migration before you can use numbers like that to measure the desirability of any nation for residence or citizenship.
It's fun to see that you trust your government to regulate the "disable radio" feature! </g>
Reading the original quote, and assuming good faith, they're wishing for some system that would permit them to establish an image's owner.

If you don't take steps to strip out typical metadata, such is indeed already present, in EXIF and IPTC fields.
I've recently gotten interested in this and have built my own aeroponics tank from a cheap plastic storage box and an ultrasonic fogger (together below $15, but nutrient and pH/TDS meters add a bit more to it). It's a fun experiment and worth trying down here in the gravity trap too - you can grow vegetables in a rental apartment with no garden if you have access to some sunlight (and even if you don't, by way of artificial light).

This video gave me the idea and instructions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWLyA-w4Bo
That doesn't make it any easier to license, does it?
Hmm, I don't remember giving my fingerprints to anyone for a driver's license.
Come play around in Australia for a bit :(

(Hence my 64GB device with the majority of space used by music)
The law is a contract between you and the state.
Naming your OS after yourself also works, although it takes chutzpah. Not even big ego Steve Jobs named an OS or other product after himself.
Is there any study that at least suggest that this kind of marketing works (ie: generates real conversions)? Honest question here.
With reasonable compile options (e.g. -wall), it is issuing a warning. Every compiler config I used out-of-the-box via some IDE will show that warning. It's bad defaults of the compiler maybe, but hardly the fault of the language itself. Any beginners tutorial has to contain the compile and/or run command, no matter which language.

At least C++ has unsigned types. Java doesn't even warn about `new int[-30]` and similar fun stuff (at least not generally).
I would probably use Angular's filter for this
The Copyright Extension Act in 1995 is a significant part of why they are hated. It is anything but irrelevant or unrelated.

You are the one attempting to insinuate that only people who use The Pirate Bay object to their perversion of copyright laws and discussion. Multiple alternative reasons to be angry with them have now been presented to you, but you just claim they are unrelated because you assert that the real reason is that they are just interested in pirating recent things. In discarding these alternative reasons because they they don't mesh with your already unsupported assertion, you are begging the question.

People are in fact upset with the MPAA/RIAA for their abuse of terminology and all that it facilitates: the corruption of copyright laws, weaponized lawsuits, and the shackling of (frankly ancient) culture.

Pretend that people are only upset with their abuse of terminology because they want to pirate things all you want, but you are dead wrong.
Sometimes, even people who love open source and can code themselves still want things that "just work." I'm one of those people, and I enjoy being able to hack a lot of my electronic equipment, but my phone is something I'd rather have "just work."
In fact, the 3340 disk drive was famous for introducing the "Winchester" technology:

"In 1973, IBM introduced the IBM 3340 'Winchester' disk drive, the first significant commercial use of low mass and low load heads with lubricated platters. This technology and its derivatives remained the standard through 2011. Project head Kenneth Haughton named it after the Winchester 30-30 rifle because it was planned to have two 30 MB spindles; however, the actual product shipped with two spindles for data modules of either 35 MB or 70 MB. The name 'Winchester' and some derivatives are still common in some non-English speaking countries to generally refer to any hard disks (e.g. Hungary, Russia)."[1]

Yes, 70 megabytes was the capacity of a mainframe-sized disk drive in those days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#19...
Chicago Internet Marketing Help
Could it be that those who took the time to sign up cared more about the service in the first place (hence, they were willing to sign up)? In other words, is a sign up process (even a minimal one) basically a weed-out for those who are more ambivalent about your offering?
Wow, this is cool. The impact on accessibility could be huge. Why are we not seeing more of this implemented already?

Again, there's a privacy concern about leaving the mic open while you have the site open, but other than that this could be really useful (and probably a bit annoying too)
>Not to be a jackass, but "regular" people don't want open source. They want things that "just work."

By what logic do you come to the conclusion that these things are mutually exclusive?

Firefox "just works." 7zip "just works." There are innumerable things (like ssh) that "just work" so well that you don't even know when you're using them half the time.

The difference is that with free software you can do the things that don't just work. With Apple if you want to do X thing and Apple deigns to provide X thing then you can do it without any futzing around. But if you want to do X thing and Apple deigns to neglect it then you will not be doing X thing whatsoever, regardless of how much you need it.

So for example if you want to install the latest version of Debian on a PowerMac, you boot the install CD and press enter until it's installed. Generally speaking it "just works." And in the event that it doesn't, chances are that you yourself can make it work. By contrast, if you want to install the latest version of OS X on a PowerMac, you can't. Enjoy your paperweight. The end.
Cheap hosting for Rails app?
Building my first Rails app, and am coming to a realization that hosting will be a problem. Right now I'm freelancing full-time and just scraping by, so I don't have a ton of money to put into an app that won't be generating revenue anytime soon.

I set up the app on Heroku, and in a matter of ~1-2 weeks, I managed to get charged $75 for using the MemCachier add-on. I would like to be able to cache all my static assets with memcached.

I don't expect this app to generate any material traffic for awhile, it's still in development. What are the cheapest options out there?
Parallel and Incremental CRCs
I don't mean to be mean, but this is a pointless piece. There's a number of reasons for such a high rate of acceptance and the piece doesn't really tell much more aside from some salary info.

One reason so many who apply actually get H1-Bs is that there is a cutoff (at which point they don't accept new applicants). This is (for the last few years) about a week after they're actually released (April). Though you can apply before this time, companies usually want you to start asap and so won't apply unless the time frame for application is right.

The threshold for application is also super high (doc requirements, company proof, $$$), thus increasing the likelihood that an application put forward will most likely be accepted. Most immigration lawyers will counsel against putting forward applications they think won't succeed to avoid the having angry clients. It's pretty clear (80-90% certainty) to most immigration lawyers what will and won't work.

Not sure what this study really tells us aside from the fact that it's so hard just to apply for an H1B that if you do, you'll probably get it.
I don't know why other comments are being so snarky or dismissive and apologetic in response to this.

It doesn't matter whether or not you like the FSF, agree with Stallman, prefer Android, think the problem is rogue apps, the NSA, or think it's all irrelevant anyway due to the secret and proprietary nature of mobile firmware, baseband or hardware.

The FSF have made a very astute observation about the implications of having a finger print scanner in a personal device which you can probably not trust with your secrets. Can't we talk about that specifically instead of flogging the same old dead horses?

Do we really want to wait a few years until we discover that the authorities have been downloading fingerprint profiles from phones (like they're already known to do with messages and contacts) to acknowledge the insight here?
Welcome to the exciting world of data cleansing!
I think it's a safe assumption that the 5C/S will be at least as solid as their predecessors.

I owned an N4 for a year. I replaced the back and front glass on it. I have two kids, and my iPhones have suffered no end of abuse - with very little damage. The Nexus on the other hand - I barely knocked it against a table and the back shattered. I dropped it a few inches onto my work desk, and the front shattered. Taking it apart, I could see firsthand how flimsy and thin the case and glass are, especially the back. This is well documented on the web.

Granted it's my own little anecdote. I still think it's a great device otherwise - Android flies on it, and I far prefer Android to iOS. I doubt I'll buy another iPhone again no matter how nice the hardware is.
Identify with email: no need for passwords
Most radio functionality still requires closed-source binary blobs, almost certainly containing backdoors. There's no such thing as open source CDMA drivers and the only open source GSM driver (OsmocomBB) is basically abandon-ware at this point. 4G and LTE are simply not going to happen.

Would be really awesome to see more support for OsmocomBB and similar projects though.

Here are some neat slides from a presentation on OsmocomBB from last year for anyone interested: http://elinux.org/images/9/9a/Getting_the_First_Open_Source_...
yeesh, Mercola
It's also used for heart surgeons, Nobel prize winners, elite athletes and so on.
It's a pretty big frontier. So far we're just looking out the window and carefully sticking a toe out the door now and then.
You're missing the point. IDing the copyright owner is the easy part. Licensing the picture is the hard part - you have to write an email to the person and there's all this tedious back-and-forth whereas what the buyer wants is a one-click button like on Amazon.

Although the page you link to is a great resource, it's a sad fact that there's no metadata for 'Cost of 3-month nonexclusive license: $60 per million impressions. Remit-to: my_account@paymentprocessor.com'.

All sorts of restrictions on usage and what-all else, but no fields for price or payment method...the only two things that a potential buyer actually needs to transact business.

/facepalm
> This is backed by hard data on malicious attacks from the Dept. of Homeland Security and the FBI.

These seem like nice, trustworthy sources.
Actually, it depends on your country of origin. Canadians and Mexicans can get access via the TN visa. Australians can get access via the E-3 visa.
Doubt it, for something as analog as a finger print, I'm having a hard time imagining a one-way hash function.
Is this a repost? I feel like I've seen this specific article on HN before.

Or maybe all of these sleep articles give similar advice and seem the same.
http://myhosting.com/ will be much cheaper with a linux vps. I get sub 100ms page loads with a sinatra app and redis hosted on myhosting.
Not any longer. Users must explicitly approve app access to contacts the first time it's requested.
I can't believe anyone wants a bigger screen. It's a phone, not a computer. I use it to quickly check email/web pages on the go, not write an essay. A bigger screen just means it ties up more room in my pocket.
true. it appeared in 1985

http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/7/
Is software improving, or do beta releases make us more lenient of bugs?
The onus is on the consumers to demand something better. I'm personally boycotting Apple products partially for this reason. If I were to found a company & give my employees cell phones, I would lean heavily towards open/free hardware/software.

What hardware do you think is safe?
Bluetooth 4.0 and iBeacon is Apple's plan right now
I think this post is more beneficial for start ups/companies/recruiters more than job seekers. The author makes a very honest observation that speaks volumes about the current US job market:

"I know I wouldn’t have landed this job if HireArt had been hiring using exclusively resumes. "

For example, I have been unsuccessful in even being contacted/screened by YC companies I have applied for, and in positions I would be highly qualified (not necessarily over-qualified). Example, I am an attorney with 3 years experience practicing business transactions and I applied to Contracts Manager and Legal Coordinator positions.

I often felt if I could only get in front of a recruiter/hiring manager and become a face rather than being just a resume in a pile that would make all the difference, of course companies can not afford to sit down with every candidate. Therefore, I think the author is right on point that performance based application is a good middle ground to be employed by more employers (pun intended).
from Serbia
I avoid them like a plague, except in specific situations where I need the extra range or need to save the bytes. I expect my reasons will be unpopular.

Suppose you have an object with a interface like object.setValue(7). You'd like to assert that people are sending you valid data, but if the type is uint then you can't do that. if the type is int, then you can assert(value>0, "Value must be greater than zero").

Now if anyone calls setValue(-1) you'll get an assertion that would have been skipped before.

I feel that pedants and more experienced C++ programmers will tell me I am sloppy or should be getting warnings on setValue(-1) but I've been burned before. My life is easier when I avoid unsigned types.

The behavior of int delta = unit1 - unit2 is also annoying. Not unexpected if you're paying attention, just annoying.

I might use them more if underflow / overflow caused an exception instead of undefined behavior.
I love FSF and RMS and I'm glad they exist, but they really do have terribly disturbing design and PR. Geeks like to pretend that isn't important, but to the average Joe it matters.

The FSF often comes across as timecube guy.
The iPad 3 pushes 2,048 by 1,536 pixels. A single monitor 30" requires 2560 x 1600 (or maybe less, if it's crap). So ... I can see an iPhone being able to drive a single 30" monitor some time soon.

People will be using their phones as desktops (if not serious workstations) sometime soon. And once they use them as desktops, phones won't be fast enough until they have performance comparable to workstations (which, as you point out, won't happen).
This is not a repost, just what I find works for me. I have seen similar articles about sleep on HN before but I'm not sure they make the same observations I have.
I think the point is that not everything people say is supported by the available documents, not that the documents aren't real. Moreover, not everything reported by the press is backed up by a document that we can go and read. Even your quote sites "someone familiar with the request", not a document leaked by Snowden.

That is to say: there are some things that we know and are verified (e.g. that there is a program, called PRISM, etc.) but other things where there's a lot of speculation, but less or no verification (e.g. that the iPhone is backdoored.)

Some of us like to distinguish between these things. Some of us don't. It doesn't help to call people names over it, though.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter - Issue 43
Ask HN: Where and when will Apple use LiquidMetal?
Today's announcement didn't include any mention of LiquidMetal technology and beyond the patent filings and agreements signed over the summer, there's no indication of what might be planned.

Does anyone care to predict when and where the technology will actually be used? Will it be the new iWatch that's rumored?

Disclaimer: I own shares in LQMT
Yes, and what else we don't know about, thanks to their closed software?

Yes, Apple just told us your fingerprint will be stored locally. So? Does that mean Apple si telling the truth, or couldn't leave a backdoor for NSA to get the data? No it doesn't, and we wouldn't know if they did do that. That's the problem with closed software.
Anyone? How come?
>Users are vastly better protected from the kind of network surveillance they mention with Apple products, thanks to their curated, controlled approach to third party software distribution.

I'm a strong proponent of free software, but I do see your point, that there's safety for non-technical people in a walled garden, as long as you trust the gardener.

I'm wondering if the concept of free-software and a walled garden are really that incompatible.
Let's say the garden has a gate, that a user has to go through a clear process in order to allow to install non-recommended software.

This would give a similar level of protection for non-technical people, but will still be free-software, and allow technical users to install whatever they want.

One effect would be that, if the gardeners decide not to recommend some popular software, then many users would be inclined to disable the safety features, thus reducing overall safety, so there will be a penalty if the gardeners are too strict.
It's probably where you least expect it, and you seem to be suggesting it's less expected in the iPhone ;).
One downside (not security-related) would be the need for captchas to prevent people from being robo-spammed by repeated entry of email address into various forms. Alternatively you could rate-limit emails, I suppose.
I agree trust and honesty is part of a healthy relationship.
No, it's that they don't use Free Software. The FSF is not the only Free Software organization.
Ask HN: Would you rather work in a crowded field or a wide-open one?
On a recent HN item[1] about Open edX, a user asked about online education frameworks, and got (at last count) 7 replies saying "come look at my framework" or "My framework is going to be released Real Soon Now, here's how it's different". It makes the online education framework field look very crowded, and if you think about the early history of the auto or aviation industry, you'd imagine not many of these hopefuls will survive.

So, HN, do you find a crowded field exciting? Do you find it intellectually engaging, does the prospect of competition to the death, fighting twelve other startups for every single customer get your blood moving? Or would you rather focus your attention on a less crowded arena, like tools to help users fill out their government form SF-86.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360793
I run a small (dedicated) hosting environment with a few successfully deployed and running Ruby apps, I could setup a VPS and help with config if you're interested. Roll-your-own VPS usually works out best.
Every time fingerprint scanners are mentioned, people start talking about cutting off fingers. Guess what: the people making the scanners have considered this scenario. All of their clients have nagged them about it continously for decades. It's fun to talk about, but it won't work.
If I'm using my fingerprint to protect something, it must be way more valuable than the fingerprint itself. It's like using a key made of gold to protect a box full of rocks.
Haven't seen a phone that would "just work" if this term means "do what I want it to do". It's always tons of "you can't do it that way" and "you're not supposed to want this." And sometimes it "just works (but not in a way you think it does)".
And that only took them until iOS 6! My point still stands.
Hell yes, edX is the best-designed of the lot of them so I'm glad Google's chosen to throw their lot in with them. It puts Coursera to shame, for sure.
In the beginning, it took me a few minutes to be comfortable with the extra noise. Now it's reassuring.
Oh bullshit, most people couldn't give a flying fuck about that or they'd have boycotted the products before the internet came along. People like free stuff; it's not like they've been sending 1/10th of the money they saved on stuff they downloaded to the artists' fan clubs.
DOCS: OFFICIALS MISUSED US SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
... or maybe it's time for the people should stop voting with their wallets and start listing. Then maybe their message would be heard and more people would start to care about what they are saying and realize that they ARE actually right.