skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia says:

> The Framers of the Constitution added this [no Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts] clause in response to the fear that states would continue a practice that had been widespread under the Articles of Confederation—that of granting "private relief." Legislatures would pass bills relieving particular persons (predictably, influential persons) of their obligation to pay their debts.

However it seems that in the Great Depression the Supreme Court held it to be okay for States to modify morgages under the "emergency exception doctrine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Building_%26_Loan_Associat...
Are we supposed to connect the dots? Because I'm not seeing it...
The result of the 20% 80% situation becomes of course, that there is one tactic that the 20% can use to increase their economic output five-fold (and it is not likely that multiple such tactics are available to them) ... And the 80% get the same impulse to kill the 20% : after all they're the only ones who can increase their comfort, and they persistently refuse, so conflict is natural.
The whole point is that the Banks were bailed out by Government, yet the struggling homeowners were not. Who looks after them, if not the Government?
I left the project in 2011. Heard some improvements were made since, but no great activity. synctext may know better.

My personal frustration point was the fact that data is moved within large corp data clouds these days. Customers are spoon-fed by HTTP. Seemingly, no niche to start from.
This has made it to HN at least a few times. Maybe it should be part of math curriculum in schools so we wouldn't keep having this conversation.
Thats a different story!
I'm actually surprised this hasn't happened in US more. There has to be more to that story than just retailers not wanting Ubuntu on laptops, when they could save their customers at least $100 on the machines. It's also strange that in many other countries retailers would still sell you machines with FreeDOS (to save customers money), but not with Ubuntu or other Linux distros, since FreeDOS is all but useless.

My guess is Microsoft is coercing both OEM's and retailers somehow, and if they really have to sell the machines without Windows, then they want them to at least sell them without a real OS on them, that their customers might actually begin to use as it is.
Why Google is the best thing ever?
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I recommended Loom to a few friends and they all love it.
Wolfram has a definition of "evil numbers" here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EvilNumber.html which include "beastly evil numbers".

Also there are "apocalypse numbers" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ApocalypseNumber.html , "beast numbers" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BeastNumber.html , "leviathan numbers" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LeviathanNumber.html , and "legion's numbers" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LegionsNumbers.html among others.
Proposal for a community C website and a refrence compiler
GoShare : high perf. KeyVal DataStore with HTTP & ZeroMQ support
Canonical founder has done some business back in the day with company that is two hops away from NSA and now everything he does calls back to the NSA and is part of a giant conspiracy - that is what I think I was suppose to think after reading the post.
Those revenge porn sites that were just banned in California had the same business model.
Well done, you should probably change the "almost" I pointed out to "more than" also.
Not just that. Thanks to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act the operators of sites like Rip-Off Report have absolute immunity from legal action over their site's content so long as it's not copyright-infringing - it's not even possible to get an injunction forcing them to remove it. Doesn't matter if they know it's defamatory, or if they've made it impossible to find the original poster, or if the original poster can't remove it anyway, or even if they're openly making a profit from charging people to take down "defamatory" entries; they're still totally immune. (There's a workaround: if you can find the original poster you can sue them and get an injunction forcing the site to take down their posts in that lawsuit. Most of these sites make that impossible though.)
One of my professors (I'm a French comp. sci student) taught us this as an intro on how we could build an Arithmetic Logic Unit (as part of a hardware architecture course).
They're making the fundamental mistake of fixing a problem now in a way that will cause huge problems in the future.

Mortgage lenders will put huge premiums on mortgages in the town in the future because of "default by eminent domain" risk, if the government pulls freddie/fannie mae it'll be even more expensive. Basically they're robbing future mortgage owners in order to pay current ones.

Worse yet, other towns with similar profiles might have their risk profile increased too, so they'll get extra premiums because of Richmond's behaviour without getting any of the benefits.

So while it might seem like they're just taking the money from pension funds and other investors, in the longer term they'll be taking far more from future mortgage owners.
That's one way to look at it. Another way is that they're fully bursting the real estate bubble that the entire nation's financial systems have furiously been forcing compressed air into for the last 5 years in the name of "preserving home values" even though normal people can't actually afford a home anymore.
You keep saying that, but fail to provide any reasons it has to be so.

DRM by nature is little different to public key encryption - it's a method of proving you are who you say you are. Usually there is some component that makes it resistant to tamper, but that in itself doesn't have to increase risk of breach.

You may raise the Sony rootkit debacle, and I say so what? That says more about Sony's failures as a consumer friendly company than anything about DRM.

You make points about how DRM implies contempt for the consumer, but I don't see why that is the case at all. DRM can be a technology that enables more choices for consumers, and that implies respect for consumers, not contempt.

I'm no fan of DRM, but it seems to me you are overreaching in your arguments, which is making your point weaker.

I see no place for DRM in the open web, but at the same time I want the open web to be able to compete with other platforms. I don't know what that means the best choice is here.
Site is down for me. ("Database error - Error establishing a database connection") Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hTbf6w3...
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Hi there! Just to let you know, I introduced the 'protect me from myself' feature you suggested today, there's a blog post about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6503740

Thanks again for the feedback
More interestingly, the main lawyer fighting against those revenge porn sites was doing so on behalf of a company with the same business model. Smart tactic on their part - they got a bunch of free positive advertising in the press whilst helping to shut down the sites which were most controversial and therefore most likely endanger their business model.
GMO Humans: The Next Persecuted Minority
> if you do the analogous thing with a cell phone plan -- buy the phone upfront -- you still have to pay the implicit "interest" in the higher monthly fee.

Actually, with T-Mobile (the company in this story) you DO have this option. http://www.t-mobile.com/bring-your-own-phone.html
No I wouldn't unfortunately.

I would, probably controversially, use Windows Server 2012 on mid-range HP DL or ML series kit. Since Windows 2008 R2 and the scriptability provided with PowerShell and PowerShell DSC have come around, it's a better compromise on usability versus automation that anything else I've seen so far. Not only that, it has a huge supported lifecycle.

Bear in mind I come from a very strong UNIX background going right back to M68K Sun3 era, through Solaris/HPUX and Linux and have used all on the desktop.
You are just lifting the political premise of Heinlien's Starship Troopers. I am not sure that this would make a society less likely to go to war, because the society itself will become more obsessed with the military and is more likely to look for things that look great in military terms, like conquests.
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Yes but can you make a mirror like Kent did in Real Genius?

"KENT: See! Do you have any idea how hard it is to make a film virtually 100 per cent reflective, one micron thick and apply it to a mirror this shape?"

http://fringe.davesource.com/Fringe/Entertainment/Scripts/Re...
If this system becomes routine, mortgage rates will go up, though I'm not sure about "huge premiums."

Is that a bad thing? The investment becomes risker and more expensive, so less money is available, so fewer mortgages are made. More people rent instead of buy their own homes. I would submit that fewer owner-occupied homes would be a positive thing for the national economy.
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you might receive notice for your apartment for doing too much of those things, but certainly no fine for showering.
I don't think that preconceived ignorance of the public's grasp of the finer points should be allowed to overrule informed people's legitimate concern with e.g. Monsanto having a monopoly on the dna and distribution of the seeds used to grow food. Information wants to be free, or something.

I think it's scientific to observe a single point of failure in a distribution network that everyone depends on due to a monopoly and try to mitigate it.

In lieu of warnings that you think are unfair, I think with the advent of smartphones and ubiquitous internet - it should not be too hard to have a barcode like scanner to show the origins of all the ingredients for mass produced food.
NIST's current proposal for SHA-3 is a subset of the Keccak family
Interesting you mention escorting there, one of the few groups of people here who pay for photography are escorts. Usually solo-professionals with high-end websites and prices.

I've no interest in wedding photography, and so it is a fun niche to have fallen into. (The other large-paying niche is pictures of cats/dogs/pets for elderly/retired women.)

I suspect there is a fair amount of money to be had in a combination of scheduling/calendaring/hosting for adult-workers. There are a few meta-sites but so many of the women I talk to struggle with setting up sites, getting shut-down for ToS violations and general technology-apathy. (Despite online searching generating 50%+ of their business, the rest coming from word-of-mouth.)
Maybe the NSA cyberwar effort did not produce new earth shaking insights; the manhattan project did that of course. Now both efforts may be compared in terms of their price tag: both did cost billions of tax dollars to implement.

Interesting that instead of reaching out for the stars we turn inwards - snooping as the new frontier that is pushing technology forward, now here is a great prospect ...
> the question remains whether he should pave it.

Actually, that question has been answered. T-mobile has started offering no-contract plans, a complete change from the rest of the US industry. The only thing done here was to let a customer move to the new system sooner than they otherwise would.
It's the money of other citizens. People don't realize it but money doesn't always gets invested from wealthy individuals. It could very well be from pension funds, mutual funds etc. So it's not that banks are getting hurt but other normal citizens. Also, stop painting banks as evil.
The idea of TPP is to extend the stalled WTO process by multilateral treaty. So you can expect it to go further in many ways. We just don't know what most of them are due to the secrecy...
"Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already."

He has a point, you know. You implicitly trust every operating system vendor you are using with everything you do on your computer. Open source makes being evil only more difficult, not impossible.
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I think the analogy "the nuclear option" is unfortunate. But if you remember the cold war, "the nuclear option" always was that: a real, actual option. Warsaw Pact forces in East Germany were far stronger than NATO forces, but they knew NATO policy was to use tactical nukes in the event of an invasion.

From the mortgaged home-occupant point of view, the banks have all the power here. Government power is the only thing they fear, but government power is a fairly blunt stick - governments generally don't intervene in individual cases and have to attempt a systematic solution, and so far it has been very ineffective.

In this case the mere threat of government intervention that will actually help consumers may be enough to change bank policies (if not in Richmond, perhaps elsewhere). I see that as a positive thing, and one that will help correct a distortion in the market.
Google is bringing Chrome OS design and features to its browser for Windows 8
It was running Wordpress on Ubuntu. I wonder why Mark isn't using one of Cloudflare, Varnish or even a simple caching plugin.
Glad to see this picking up some publicity. It was so awful it had me was shouting at the television.

The desire to create an adversarial interview without the interviewer having sufficient grasp of the subject to shed any light on it whatsoever. There are valid areas that could have been probed but she wasn't smart or well-informed enough to reach them.
Related, the interview Greenwald did with David Gregory on Meet The Press a few months ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2nu0a0kGk

Where Gregory asked:

> To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?

Greenwald handles himself well in these situations, and doesn't shy away from showing up fellow journalists.
But there is still a marked difference between trusting an executable that only resides on your system vs. one that phones home search results.

It's true, I can't conceivably pour over an entire source library even if it's open, but the fact that it is open means that possibility is open for many more eyes. This puts the executables built from those sources a notch above in trustworthiness. However the search behavior is the big sticking point here.

RMS does a pretty nice breakdown of this source vs. behavior issue : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc
> HTML is a bastardized version of XML or XHTML.

No, HTML was an SGML language (XHTML is of course an XML language). HTML5 is more of an "HTML"-like language...

SGML, if anything, is more powerful than XML -- but XML is a great effort to simplify SGML while maintaining most of the power.

For other SGML languages than HTML, look for docbook (which now also exist in an XML dress).
I have the same feeling. But like I have tried to explain elsewhere: live streamed events (expensive sports broadcasts) are really sensitive to piracy. At least if you judge by the precautions they use. Today they typically use PlayReady DRM in a Silverlight video player (flash based solutions also exist). They usually also randomly insert subscriber id:s as text at regular intervals and random locations in the video stream thereby watermarking it and making it a risk for whoever decides to re-stream their screen. So the current situation is this: the broadcasters already have several methods of protection (Watermarking, Encryption), which means any technology we wish they would adapt better support at least what they have today.
From the friendly article: "But it can’t be extortion as a matter of law because republishing something that has already been published is not extortion.”
It's the money of other citizens. People don't realize it but money doesn't always gets invested from wealthy individuals. It could very well be from pension funds, mutual funds etc.

Pension & mutual funds are big enough to force banks to act differently, and haven't. They should bear the risks associated with that behaviour.

stop painting banks as evil

Why? Their behaviour in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis was unethical (to say the least), and their behaviour after 2008 has shown a complete lack of regret.
I'll admit that my vision is blindered because I live in SF, lived in the Miami area, am a liberal, and work in technology.

This. For people who are dis-advantage or of the mediocre-middle, these things are much more damaging. A strategy of playing confident in the interview, for example, is worthless if you resume gets auto X'd before anyone reads it or extends you an offer to interview. The audience for this (crap) is HR and BigCo types and other SMEs that are understaffed that outsource hiring to consultuants. Ie, the group of people that will not understand any subtle technical distictions about what makes a good engineer or not, anyway.
UK (like most of the world) uses GSM. With GSM your identity is linked to your SIM card. Put your SIM card in another phone, and "you" are still "you" as far as the phone company can tell.

Verizon (and most of US) uses a competing "standard" called CDMA, where your identity is coupled to your phone. Which means you have to involve your phone company in order to switch phone.
I don't think it's going to be that bad. Remember that eminent domain requires the government to pay the fair market value of the property being seized - and conveniently, it's difficult for the banks to disagree with that fair market value, because it's the amount they'd value the houses at when they inevitably foreclosed on them.
Why yes Mr Dupont, Mr Pinkerton, I'm just move these striking miners over.... <BANG><BANG><BANG> okay, never mind, just call the undertaker.
Fewer mortgages = lower property prices.

No mortgages = 10x lower property prices.
Is that with the JVM already running or not?
While I agree that it does seem like "less work" to just do the DRM bit, is it really likely that this plugin will really decrypt data, leaving a normal unprotected video stream for the browser to render?

In that case, a browser implementation could just write the unencrypted video to disk or re-stream it over http to other clients, without even having to do a new transcoding/compression (which costs cpu power and reduces quality).

The whole point of effective software video DRM is that the plugin must render the video to screen itself, and ideally in a way that doesn't let the attacker find the unencrypted stream in memory. Silverlight does this via PlayReady for example.
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Alternatively, it maybe time for some creative destruction.
Not just that, many of the subprime mortgages were missold to people who could actually obtained a much cheaper prime mortgage that would've been less profitable for the bank.

(Often on the basis of race - which is one of the things that makes all the people who blame the Community Reinvestment Act for the mortgage crisis really misguided. All the CRA did was ban redlining, a practice where banks excluded everyone in predominantly-black areas from prime mortgages even if they'd otherwise be eligible, leaving expensive subprime mortgages as their only option.)
How so? I mean, why is it important? Was my first BSD system (was the only one to boot at an old compaq laptop I owned in 1999), but I don't see why would anyone use it now, since you have Free/OpenBSD which offer much more up-to-date systems, support for more architectures (RPi) etc.

Your comment above states that you'd go for Windows Server instead of NetBSD anyway... So I don't see how is this project "important".
It wouldn't be in contrast to anything. Destroying a guided missile is probably an act of self defence, hence likely to be considered good by the author.
The Future of the Cookie
HN Pizza Index: Cost of living by city
A recent thread comparing cost of living in different countries ended up using pizza as a common metric. As we have an very international, dare I say cosmopolitan, crowd here can people please let me know the price of the largest plain cheese / tomato pizza available in your nearest large city, in local currency and USD.

if we get enough responses I will compile a graph and let the UN know.
Of course it's not in the spirit of freedom, which is at the heart of the open-source movement.

That being said, you have options:

1. You can deactivate the thing with 1 click in the privacy settings, or:

2. You can yank the concerned package itself (you wouldn't have that freedom on closed-source operating systems such as Windows or MacOS/iOS).

Open-source operating systems are still infinitely better than closed-source ones, if you want to be free. Once you'll have regained your various kinds of freedom that come with it, you will never go back to closed source. That is why open-source definitely will win, in the long-run at least.

And:

There's a host of alternatives to Ubuntu, and that means: Mark knows very well that he can never go down the "evil rabbit hole" as much as platforms that lock you in can (Apple, MS) - because open-source is by definition about freedom, it's in its DNA.

Conclusion: should he f#ck up too much one day, users are 100% free to hop to the next distro and Mark would be done - you'll never get a better insurance than that.
Correct me if I am wrong - but exceptions should not leave destructors. So you can throw them in destructors but you have to catch them there too - I think that is what the commenter you are replying to is getting at. So it has to be RAII because the destructor will not communicate up a hierarchy. This imposes a lot of overhead writing the destructor.

Further to the general theme of the thread - C++ compile times are bad, Go compile times are quite nice - I think this is significant when prototyping and testing units of code.
Not sure I understand your #2 point, Google basically gives most of its share of app sales to carriers (70% developers/25% carriers/5% Google) and also an undisclosed share of all mobile ad revenue.

Edit: as to your point about Google wanting to fix the bad experience in mobile, that doesn't contradict the idea that they wanted to monetize the platform, 96% (2011) of all of Google's revenue came from advertising. You'd have to be delusional to imagine that has no impact on their decision making and strategies.
Mainstream again? What's the majority of code being written in nowadays?
I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ).

I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved.

I urge everyone to do the same.
The problem are not the cookies. The problem is the tracking and the privacy invasion. I don't want some body following me at every step to know every thing I do using cookies or any alternative method.
The bigger problem with this movie is all the male gaze and gross gender roles, not the slightly inaccurate physics.
It is embarassing tha medium has no bio or resume of its writers. Its like they are content gnomes. What is up with that?
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I grinded some mirror. Nice experience but at end monotonous and boring. Also grinding powder is lethal, I had my appendix removed since I eat some :-(

But I would recommend building ligh dobsonian to everyone. Mirrors are cheap and rest is just wood or aluminium. My 10" has 20 pounds and is flyable.
The worst thing about them seems to be that they accept reports about private persons, who are much less likely than a business to have the funds to pursue false claims. It is also
clear that their attitude stinks. To quote a recent Forbes article on Ripoff Report [1],

>Asked about a comment alleging
another woman had herpes,
Magedson responds: “This f——
broad probably did something.”

Edit: And look at the comment section on that article.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/05/09/love-it-or...