skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "But lithium-ion batteries have raised concerns in other vehicles. Two years ago, battery fires broke out in three Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid cars after crash-testing."

Imagine that, structurally compromised systems not disposed of properly are dangerous. That says more about GM than it does the technology.

When I have batteries take damage (falls, shorts, the ever popular screwdriver through them) they are disposed of properly immediately. I also only use proper chargers and don't over charge my batteries. Guess what? I've never had a fire caused by the battery (I've had people plug in components in reverse and blow up the diodes a couple times). I've been working with various battery technologies on a near daily basis for the last 14 years without incident.

Disclaimers: I'm a robotics/electric vehicle enthusiast. I don't do this stuff as my day job any more. I formerly worked in a university research lab building H2 powered race cars.
Have you tried Kaggle? There are some interesting projects on there.
Well back in the 70's I had an American teacher and in one 6th form general studies class (on American culture) she mentioned the concept.
Shots Fired on Capitol Hill
I predict that the sum of my cards will be closer to 21 without going over than the dealer's will.
In most DRM systems the information is distributed encrypted. The decryption keys are given to technology developers who have specifically promised to obey the DRM rules, as well as to make their technology hard for users to understand or modify so that the users can't easily undo the restrictions or extract the decryption keys.

Hence a browser developer or OS developer or developer of whatever software is in question wouldn't be permitted (by the DRM system's inventor or administrator) to get decryption keys if they didn't promise to implement these restrictions.

Some of the people who invented the modern DRM business ecology called this "the intersection of technology, law, and commercial licensing" (the title of a 1996 article by Dean Marks and Bruce Turnbull). Here, the "technology" is DRM implementations -- including software obfuscation and other measures; the "law" is anticircumvention laws like the DMCA §1201 that make it risky for people to use the decryption keys in ways that industry dislikes; and "commercial licensing" is the permission from a DRM developer to interoperate with that DRM, including "compliance" rules (about the functionality of the technology product) and "robustness" rules (about tamper-resistance), that result in the licensee being issued decryption keys.

In my view (I worked on EFF's objection) this is a deliberate attack on software interoperability: the whole point is to allow someone to try to prevent interoperability with software that hasn't been "approved". And it's also in extreme tension with the idea of having browsers that end-users can modify (their individual instances of).
They can do what they want with their pricing, but I agree. I just don't see the value at the current price points, especially the $18 iOS app. I'd be more inclined to upgrade at around $20 and $10. At $18 and $7 I'd already have pulled the trigger.
HDCP does a 'pretty good' job of achieving that. There's a protected path all the way to the display, that can't be accessed by other software.
You were the same person who asked domains for free when it clearly said it was $50, right? I don't see how you would buy anything expensive at all, let alone an Android phone. ;)
KEYTIMEOUT is in hundredths of seconds. So this sets it to 0.01 seconds, not 0.1 as the article claims.
Absolutely nothing. DRM is pointless. Everything ever published in video form is already available to pirate.

DRM just makes lawyers happy. I say, let them eat cake.
1. I don't agree that this is true at all. The W3C is not created to destroy copyright, which seems to be the implication of your statement (ie: we will need a new standards body that does not provide a copyright-compliant standard). I don't agree with copyright law, but it is law. We currently have a web that provides the ability to companies to protect their data via implementation, this simply provides a spec to do it in a different way. It does not fundamentally change the user experience of the web.

2. Yes, like in the United States. Just like receiving stolen goods is a crime. No offense, but when you say things like "If you create a code for "don't read this data" to be sent over the web, disobeying it will become a crime there." I don't think you fully understand how DRM currently works and how it would work using this standard. It is simply a standard people can implement.

Edit: as some of you have pointed out, the phrase "copyright-compliant" is somewhat meaningless. I should've chosen my words more carefully. I meant "copyright-enforcement-enabling."
No, the author is wrong. Take this, for instance:

>She argued that bankers were largely innocent, blamed government regulators and homeowners for tanking the economy, and mocked news of a criminal investigation into Wall Street crimes, writing, "For what, I have no idea."

What she's writing there shouldn't be particularly surprising to anyone who actually knows something about the industry (which she does).
Hey Michael Eisen, we get it. You don't like the peer review journal process and having to pay for access to scientific research. If you don't like it, make a better system.

Also -1 for having the worst form of linkbaity title, which is one that is utterly false and misleading, and lying for the first two paragraphs of that blog post.
I'm using Hackerful, great & full UI.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackerful-ycombinators-hacke...
Check out the lyrics of Death Grips.
When Google acquires a company, the company usually is open about it "Yay we were acquired by Google". When Apple acquires they announce they are shutting down. Interesting difference.
The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Not a helpful post.
> You mean sarcasm , not irony, right?

Not this shit again.
It's not LGPL, so linking to it means your entire project is now GPLv3.
See my comment upthread about encrypted media and how licensing is used to control the availability of decryption keys. In existing DRM people are not required to implement it, but they can't achieve interoperability without the decryption keys.
We can and should let them die.
If anyones interested - we made http://www.tuner.io at a hackday in SF last year.

It reorders the Billboard top 100 based on lyrics, so top 5 songs with the most profanity etc.

After the hackday the API access to the services expired, but check it out anyway!
From that link: "When media with the watermark is played back on a system with Cinavia detection, its firmware will detect the watermark and check that the device on which it is being played is authorized for that watermark."

So I just make a media player that ignores the watermark, based on the open source code I found in the browser... DRM hacked.
Thanks. When she was at 115 days, she wrote a blog post and it pretty much summarises her learning path.

http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-...
> nothing of any worth is obtained by any means except for good old honest hard work

This sounds nice as a slogan on a motivational poster, but is it actually true? On the one hand, I sort of understand what he's trying to say: many things in life require significant effort. But the phrase "nothing of any worth" is a little extreme... worth is pretty subjective, after all.
I just negotiated 4 weeks. Wasn't too difficult, you just have to ask. The funny thing is... I'm likely to pass on the job opportunity, while I stay with my French girlfriend in Paris, building and testing product ideas for a few months =)
Last release was 2.1, in June afaik
> The W3C is not created to destroy copyright, which seems to be the implication of your statement (ie: we will need a new standards body that does not provide a copyright-compliant standard).

No, what he means is that, if we stop listening to the W3C because of this, the W3C will no longer matter. So either we won't have a standards body, or we will need a new one.
Uh, the "outside law firm" is Samsung's council. They're the ones representing Samsung in court. If you seriously think that Samsung is an innocent third party in this, you're completely mistaken. The lawyers going to face sanctions, as will Samsung.

EDIT: clarification.
We have an asymmetry of discourse here, because you want me to take your disparaging remarks seriously. You also seem not at all concerned about your own appearance.

Yes, there is a purpose to the disparaging remarks. The purpose is to make this asymmetry apparent.

Academia in the late 20th century is something of a footnote to the great achievements of the 19th and early 20th. In this golden age of science, peer disparagement was more or less universal. It is only in the second half of the 20th, the golden age of grants as it were, that genuinely criticizing your peers becomes a faux pas, and team-building becomes the essential skill for a practicing scientist.

But wait, I'm not your peer at all. I guess I forgot that...
That announcement yesterday looked a little sad and morose, but a company like that doesn't just go out of business, given all the interest in analysis of real-world user behaviour. Congrats all!
The problem with the lower effort is that it doesn't really help you the way you're pricing your offering as you're effectively selling time. I understand its the easiest thing to price, but if you price on another metric that the customer cares about (i.e. number of leads or other metric that I care about), then you can take advantage of any efficiency and your economics make more sense. Granted, there isn't an obvious one, as the value of a lead is proportional to the value of the industry.
New coined term: DRM-HTML.

'By contrast, W3C has now put its weight behind a restrictive future: let's call it "DRM-HTML".'
- arc.io with documentation, demos, and examples in Python, C, Ruby, and Node.js.
- Support for other developers to build and ship Arc apps.
- Installer is 60MB, down from 140MB.
- Updated to the latest VirtualBox v4.2.18.
- Bug fixes, security fixes, and performance improvements.

49 days ago Arc was ready for a blog post. Now it's ready for laps
around the track.
I feel sorry for the author of this post - he actually believes hard, boring work is the only way to accomplish anything. I've done both hard, boring work, and easy, efficient and enjoyable work. The easy work was both more enjoyable, more profitable and far better for my life as a whole.

Life is not fair, there are no points awarded for working harder or being more diligent - there are only 'points' awarded for accomplishing things. Make sure you accomplish the right things in the right way. Nobody is interesting that you slaved away coding for 6 months to develop something when someone launches something with 6 hours of work that solves the right problem.
Technically what you said is true, BUT still Samsung has Apple's confidential info, something that cannot be undone. Maybe Samsung and their lawyers exchanged a wink and a nod, maybe not.

If I were king, I would revoke the right to practice law for at least 5 years for the attorneys involved, a $1 Billion or 50% of that yearly earnings fine for Samsung and a order not to use the info illegally obtained. The last one is maybe useless, but still, you never know, let them wonder if Apple might sue them.

Samsung has to pay for what their legal team did, right or wrong. After all they hired and trust them with everything.
Good. Roll on W4C!
European organizations file lawsuit against UK over vast digital surveillance
I'm confused about the word Coder. I have found most website developement is just following directions, and
memorizing a lot of man made terms.

If you put out a lot of ROR websites, or write Java scripts
you can call yourself a "Coder", but I still feel that
the term Coder belongs to Programmers. I can put up a website, but programming from scratch, is beyond my attention span, and maybe intellect?

I don't know why we need to glamorize the things we learn in
life: Coder=website developer, automotive technician=mechanic. I once hade a girlfriend refer to
herself as a Professional Photographer, but she never
took a picture without moving from the little square setting.

She was beyond irritating at dinner.

I appalaud this woman. I applaud the person who paid for the apartment. I'm still a bit skeptical though. I have a feeling she might have had a live in coach? I'm sorry, but
I've met too many people who leave out details. As I once
told a customer, I've never net a women who was interested
in reballing a Nvida Chip in a faulty motherboard.

Save, any masoginistic claims. It's more about our
society, and the need, or quest for a title in life. "What do you do?" is played out, and trite. I've known peope
who spend their whole life looking for a title. You
will probably have many titles in life if you took a few
chances.

So if you ever bump into me in a bar please don't ask me, "What do you do?" I might respond by throwing up on your trendy Sneakers?
This app looks great, I've tried / bought just about every HN client looking to replace the one I was using for iOS 6 that hasn't updated, but they all look or function terribly. This one looks amazing, all it needs is comments. I've bought it and will happily use it while I wait for those features. Thanks for the work!
Sorry you had a bad experience! We always cheerily offer refunds or set things right when things don't work. I'm happy to look into this myself -- feel free to get in touch with me directly if for some reason this didn't happen and we can figure out what went wrong.
Samsung has always come across as a company really willing to cheat without hesitation. Even then I am surprised with this.
Instagram as a Growing Business
Even though they pivoted to calendar app, I still loved their search functionality. It was the fastest, most relevant search I'd ever used and was genuinely useful. Cheers to Apple on the great acquisition.
"Native apps for the browser" = it's a lie since you basically need to download a third party software on your computer ( >60MB ) which runs as a daemon (sic),it's just yet another plugin. When that thing works without any 3rd party executable let me know.
I find this perspective odd because as a self taught programmer I didn't bother learning or trying to learn any of the formalisms you mention like 'variables, strings, and symbols'.

I learned by having a concrete project goal motivated by personal desire that I wanted to accomplish by any means possible. This usually came down to copy/pasting existing code from the internet and fiddling with the values via trial/error without necessarily understanding the inner workings.

I've had the experience of walking through the "Learn X the hard way" programming books, as well as Codecademy, with some non-programmer friends who ostensibly 'want to learn coding' and they invariably make extremely slow progress like you describe, because without their own self-motivated project it's just blind symbol manipulation.
yes I know. My motives are a bit different. Usually kaggle competition is like a sport - fighting for hundredth of a percent in a long run. Sometimes this is not really practical. Instead I would like to grab something from real life and make it work good enough (as it usually the case for a startup).

But kaggle is a cool place anyway.
Footprints on Mars
Bug report for you, on the "Save to home page" version at least (I haven't tried the App Store version):

When you click a link from one of the app's inbuilt views to the story page or the Hacker News comment thread, you don't have a "back" button, and I can't find any way other than force-quit-and-restart to get out of it.

(It'd also be nice if, at least on iPhone, the app could produce the same effect as <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" /> when viewing external pages; as it is now, such viewing involves lots of tiny text and scrolling, without the Safari reader interface available to mitigate.)

Nice app; I look forward to using it, once the navigation's fixed.
If it's encrypted all the way to the hardware, then it get's a bit more believable. But that really can't be done on the web, can it? "You no have DRM chip? No tubez for you!"
If some copyright holder wants his stuff DRMed then they are free to implement their own DRM plugin or App. But I don't see why we should support them. Especially when it makes our nice open web depend on proprietary closed source binary blobs.

The idea was that HTML5 gets rid of Flash and similar plugins and not that HTML5 turns into a vehicle for "yet another Flash".

Next thing we are adding a spy module feature because advertisers and the NSA demand it? Well at least the spy module could be free software unlike the proprietary closed source binary blobs needed for Digital Restrictions Management.
Strong men also cry...
This is how you train to dunk a basketball when you're 5'5"
Super small non jquery publish subscribe 
Memos.js is very small publish subsribe broadcast javascript library.

Features
-publish, subscribe and broadcast
-No JQuery
-very small

Here is the plnkr for the example
http://www.uswebproxy.com/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYmMuY2...

;), also viable use hidemyass, use a vpn with an exit point in the US, tunnel over SSH.

Region locking content is just idiotic.
I agree with the risk associated with people you barely know but IF you are smart enough you'll pick someone who is less likely to fail in your team.That is of course another very rare set of skills, to know what to pick and how, but we are assuming that the single founder has that ability. Perhaps I am too confident on this one because I almost never fail in hiring (no arrogance intended) but with the homework done and that "thing", the chances are much higher to withstand that kind of pressure.Now that I think about it, it's probably a cultural thing. Your criterias match the US market more which is understandable and indeed those relationships are hard to maintain but "internationally speaking" you can find what you're looking for, easier.

Perhaps my second statement was misunderstood. No way you guys created the YC application form to eliminate talent. That wouldn't make sense. The intentions were positive but formed some kind of barriers for some applicants. It's like going hunting with a good weapon to catch a good prey (and you do catch some)when there are better weapons at your disposable. So I'm not saying YC is not successful because it would be stupid to say it. What I am saying is, you can significantly improve the success/failure ratio by taking into consideration other indicators as well. You are losing money anyway but you don't know it. Who knows what startups you missed/are missing until now that could've brought you more money than those that already did.Why swim in a small pool when you have a bigger one at your disposal. Also the YC app form reflects jury's mind.
> But wait, I'm not your peer at all. I guess I forgot that...

I'm afraid I don't have anything else to add to this discussion. Good luck with your endeavors.
And why would we stop listening to the W3C because of this?
there's a good reason for that. in a good and high paying field an absence of anyone (women or POC) is worth considering.

In underpaid and low status occupations, it's obvious. I don't see how you can ask that question.
I don't understand why everyone is up in arms about this. Some content cannot go anywhere without DRM. That's not going to change. Do you think the Universal is just 6 months away from streaming the latest blockbuster with VP8 in a video tag?

Right now we have Flash and Silverlight everywhere and it's a PITA. How open are those two? This adds the option of moving this stuff out of plugins. If you want to live in some everything-is-free utopia, just never visit netflix.com.
This hasn't been my experience. For me and my classmates graduating college all have jobs in traditional companies much like my parents and (some) of their parents had. In fact many of us are going to make more inflation adjusted dollars out of college than our parents did.

It may be true in certain parts of the country but mobility for young people should be high anyways. For those around me it's not whether or not we will get a job but whether or not we will be prepared to work hard and smart for 40+ hour workweeks. In Texas in any major city a college degree and some experience is highly valued and job opportunities are plentiful.
see my comments on low status occupations.
Because surely, when self-interest and altruism align, the real cause must be self-interest.

In retrospect, that's an easy argument to make, but maybe there was some risk they'd accept his ultimatum and not bring him back for the second season?
I agree with what the author is saying, however, I think that the overall message of sticking with something, and not leaving when you encounter the first sign of monotony is applicable to software engineering more specifically than the author describes. I will provide an anecdote from my career to illustrate what I mean.

I have been working at the same company for almost 4 years. During those 4 years I have worked on the same project and haven't really switched teams. I've seen employees come and go, architecture decisions made and debated ad nauseam, and so forth. I am currently in the processing of re-implementing some functionality and architecture decisions that I made when I first started (~4 years ago).

When I made these implementation decisions I thought they were the best approach based on my experience at the time. However, having stuck around all these years and seen the product and business evolve, these decisions have turned out to be either poor choices or not the most optimal. As a consequence I've derived a lot of experience and wisdom from revisiting these past decisions, as I am now able to go back with production data and performance characteristics and see how they work or do not work. This software that I wrote way back when functioned in production and worked flawlessly without ceremony for approximately 3.5 years. Only recently and under a changing production environment has this code started to become a pain point.

Had I been part of the new every two crowd I would have never been able to see how my designs and solutions would hold up, or fall down, over the years of their life span. Furthermore, I never would have gained the wisdom and experience that comes from implementing something and having to come back and re-visit it years later.

This is really the takeaway message I understand from the author. Basically, when you only do what strikes your fancy and change your priorities with the weather, you lose out on the sort of experience and opportunity for growth that I have had in the past few weeks.
Quick question: Do users/leads get shared among startups?
You're absolutely correct, scientists don't suffer from any misconception that publishing equals truth. The general public, on the other hand, has little understanding of this.
Meh. The FBI and DEA can investigate my Silk Road seller account all they want and they won't find anything interesting.
Yes I realize, you are right on both. Anyway I haven't given up on vim because it's actually a great editor I've invested a lot of time into.
To me, the title was obviously satire from the moment I read it.

Also, he did make a better system. He co-founded the Public Library of Science (PLOS).