skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a quick search I found 37 different film versions of Cinderella, I did not look at them individually to confirm, but it would be safe to say Disney did not create 37 versions of Cinderella. So a serious derivative work can be made that does not violate any Disney copyright, but I can certainly say I could create a zombie themed Cinderella that would fall under satire and not constitute a infringement.

I should also note that I am an attorney, and have handled both trademark and copyright infringement cases (for plaintiffs and defendants). That is in addition to successfully registering both and in some cases over objections of the examining USPTO attorney or third parties.

Edit: I don't know why I am being down voted but in the instance it sounds like I am saying I must be right bc I'm an attorney, I am the first to acknowledge disagreement between practitioners, jurisdictions, and Judge's/justices. For what its worth I noted it as a sign of good faith that I am not blowing smoke of my interpretation of copyright law
Why not write it yourself, as a utility method rather than something built-in? Granted it would be nice to be built in, but that shouldn't stop anyone. Or is there some other reason?
CardSpur Finishes as Runner Up in 500Hrs Competition
>boomers who can't retire.
Michael Richter mistakenly assumes that "hard work == productivity".

"Tough to solve C++ problems" are not in as high demand as relatively easy to answer Java questions. Stack Overflow scoring system captures that.
Micropayments is one obvious example. Credit card fees make micropayments very difficult. I'm sure there are workarounds, but that's only one possible use-case for Bitcoin. There are more that have yet to be invented.
I think the original Bitcoin paper said it well: "small casual payments."

To pay online right now, you have to decide:
1) do I trust this vendor
2) do I want to fill out this form with all my info

Generally this (plus transaction fees) only make sense for transactions above $10.

The vendor responds by trying to build a relationship with you- by building brand trust and by pushing you toward an ongoing relationship (recurring payments, creating an account etc). This is why "cards on file" is considered a major business asset online.

As a result, any online service that doesn't make the cut is forced to resort to an advertising based business model.
As far as architectural improvements for increasing single-core performance go, we've already reached somewhat of a dead end. Intel x86 chips already do crazy things like rearranging instructions and executing 3-4 instructions at a time. With stuff like multi-core and SIMD now, we'll need compiler improvements to take advantage of the architecture improvements.
How was BingoBo's technical solution worked out? (Part II)
I don't think it would be too difficult to find a candidate who could at least talk through or whiteboard out an imperative solution to this. If a candidate couldn't come up with at least an outline of a solution, I probably wouldn't want to hire them.

This particular problem lends itself really well to functional or constraint logic solutions, though (e.g. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/files/8nQueenModel.pdf) -- I'd give bonus points to a candidate who could identify that this problem is well suited to one of those toolsets instead of immediately whipping out ruby, python, or js.
I'm actually thinking about going from a MacBook Air and Mac Mini setup to Mac Mini and Chromebook setup.

The limitations of the Chromebook might actually be a good thing to remove distractions for me. I've been trying using Nitrous.io(https://www.nitrous.io), and although I miss not being able to use Vim shortcuts, I've been somewhat productive with it. I'm hesitant to pay for the service now. And I wonder if I I would be better served if I installed Linux instead (even though I hear that you have to do a weird dev boot sequence every time?).

Invitation link to Nitrous.io, if anyone would like to try https://www.nitrous.io/join/X01nmhYHezs
> "Maybe I'm just one of the people the "real residents" get to hate on"

I think here you have touched on the root of all of these sort of "issues": the notion that people how have lived in a neighborhood longer than others are somehow "better", "more deserving", or "'real' citizens".
Why We Sing "Auld Lang Syne" on New Year's Eve
Er, I sorta knew that I was describing the halting problem, and was wondering if someone would fail to realize my sarcasm...
I wrote a book a couple years ago called Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS. I self-published in PDF, epub, and mobi formats. I also had the book on Amazon for awhile through the Kindle program and also have it available through pragprog.

I went ebook to start and then added a print version which I print up with a local printer in batches of approximately 500 at a time. I've since had the book translated into French and Japanese.

I've generated approximately $60k in revenue this year alone, not including revenue from Amazon or Pragprog, which were both relatively minimal in comparison.
Or simply, "your boss." Gets right to the point.
Nah, that's just fairytales.
Django 1.7 will support composite keys (it's been worked on for several years.)

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Version1.7Roadmap
Report: NSA developed software for backdoor access to iPhones
Because hardware manufacturers can conjure mature software platforms out of their arse at will. Or something.

This is what so many people missed about iOS when it first came out. Building a software platform is a Hard Problem. The other phone manufacturers didn't come out with relevant, equivalently capable competitors to the iPhone in 2008 because it was physically impossible for anyone do so, even for a platform company with deep pockets like Microsoft, in that time frame. Even Android took years to redevelop so it could get even close.

There was nothing lazy about adopting Android, the handset manufacturers had no other viable choice. The advantage Apple had opened up was wide enough that even WebOS, which was arguably even closer to catching up than Android, failed because it didn't have the same level of long term investment and support from an experienced software company that Google gave to Android. It ran out of time and money, when we're talking about more than just a few years and hundreds of millions of dollars.
HP to cut 5,000 more jobs in 2014, bringing total layoff count to 34,000
Yes. I would disregard comparisons with BitMessage. I don't think they really target the same market. BitMessage wants to be more of a private snooping-free e-mail system. Twister wants to be more of a public decentralized social network (resistant to censorship).

There may be some technical overlap and functionality overlap, but I think they are more different than similar. It's like saying Gmail is the same as Twitter, since you can also broadcast messages with Gmail, and you can also send private messages with Twitter. But the two really aren't the same.
There's nothing free about a market that we're all forced to participate in. The point conservatives overlook is that it's not Obama who's forcing us, but our own mortality.

Markets are great, but they're the wrong tool for this job. I don't know what the right tool is.
Here is the logic behind #6 being in the list:

Many attractive markets are heavily regulated. Just ask Uber. Think of customs, law enforcement, transportation, education, finance, health. So far, tech industry is doing great in unregulated industries and has a lot of tough barriers in government controlled areas.

Any step towards more liberties is a sign that new previously regulated markets can open up for innovation.
Two Internet pioneers on where the Internet is headed
The Merits of Having No Backup Plan
How backup plans can screw up your plans
So pointing out huge flaws in measuring things is acting like dad now? You think 2013 was the year of the Linux desktop?
It's funny to see a guy who spent time on Google to research and answer trivial questions for points call people with more points than him "no-lifers".

Then there's the part about giving fishes instead of teaching how to fish. Duh. That's what the site is about. It's a resource for fishermen. It's a nice place to get samples of fishes you haven't heard of. You're free to just eat them, or study them further.

SO is amazing as a super cheat-sheet. It's not a tutorial, a school or a a forum. It's not Reddit or Farmville. Please stop.
> Let's make this a bit more concrete: assume eBay accepts BTC. I could sign up for a seller account, make some auction listings, once some people buy them, never ship the goods, and disappear.

This already is a problem on ebay. People post dishonest listings all the time and run with the cash. You have the additional problems of people buying goods with stolen cards or running up the price of an item with no intention of purchasing. With BTC you can verify that a bidder is able to pay for an item, and you can immediately hold the funds in escrow. There is no "overcharging" a Bitcoin account.

> As a consumer, the irreversability of BTC transactions is a bug, not a feature.

Bullshit. Credit card companies are paying people with their own fat. The 3% cashback that you get on purchases for gas and food comes from the profit theyre making on top of that. Many local stores give cash discounts when buying goods, and some refuse to accept cards because they are so expensive.

> It's only when certain financial instruments are built on top of Bitcoin that have the same kinds of consumer protection and regulatory compliance built in.

We dont need your middlemen. I dont need an account to hold my funds when I sell an item online. I dont want to give eBay, paypal, et al, a unilateral authority to withdraw from my bank accounts.
>but thanks to the IPO we will never have any insight into that. They have to make up numbers like that, or they lose money.

Do you really believe that private companies are more forth-coming with information than public companies? Do you read 10-Qs?

Being public makes a company accountable to shareholders for just such information. Withholding it, or worse fabricating it, isn't the status quo with a public company. It results in shareholder lawsuits.
The D700 doesn't have ECC? I'm surprised by that one. That seems like one of the defining features of workstation cards.
Your indentation broke:

import Control.Monad

queens n = foldM (\y _ -> [ x : y | x <- [1..n], safe x y 1]) [] [1..n]

safe x [] n = True
safe x (c:y) n = and [ x /= c, x /= c + n, x /= c - n, safe x y (n+1)]

main = mapM_ print $ queens 8
Other than looking for jobs, does anyone here actually use LinkedIn in a social capacity? I feel like I end up going to their site more from link bait than from actual interest in finding content there.
I think the Fed plays an important function, but I also think that paper money won out over gold only because it was much easier to spend and verify. Otherwise, gold's track record as a store of value is clearly better. I think Bitcoin could outcompete the dollar, and if it does, central banking will end regardless of how I feel about it.
Why a failure? As you say this is a niche topic and if the info is correct on Amazon, it has only been out a year and a half.

I am an author of a robotics book in an even more niche topic and I doubt our royalties totaled more than ~$5000 in the 4 years its been out (no upfront payment). I've always considered it as something to put on the CV more than anything else.
I put together a series on Agile Software Development, basically what to do after you've decided your team needs a ScrumMaster: http://tiny-giant-books.com/scrummaster.htm

Mixed results. I'm happy with the project. It's probably returned somewhere around 5-10k, but it was a LOT of work. For this particular niche and topic, I've decided the communication channel is actually more valuable than the product.

I'll probably go at it again. I have a couple more in the series. The next one will be much more encompassing and the marketing more integrated.

There are some great HN resources for this kind of thing. I think you need something to say first, though. There are a lot of folks who are looking at the money first, the tactics, the strategy, and then the content. That's backwards. The startup ecosystem wants to pitch you the money you could make, then sell you a package of tactics. Not a good road to go down in my opinion.
>No IP recording

The IP address you use to access twister is not recorded on any server. Your online presence is not announced.

Can you really make that claim with a distributed protocol? Your IP address is visible to whoever you send data to, they could easily keep logs (heck my router does by default).
That's a significant reason why many people do not use cash for all their purchases. The consumer protection of credit cards is one of their primary benefits. Bitcoin takes away all of those protections.
What I learned from launching one failed and one successful product in 2013
Part of the reason for choosing rental-based income is that tenants would give me "a job".

I'd go insane with nothing to do, so I'd probably find myself working for a coffee shop or similar anyway, but the idea of the renting is to make sure I had a token-job, or function. (Hell with five properties and low fees I could probably become a management company..)
the point on too technical not getting answers -- exactly
This is a great list but I would rather look at the most cited papers from that conference (say 10 years later). As an example, MapReduce did not win the best paper in OSDI 2004. However, it has impacted the industry like no other paper in that conference.
> Jacob made this assertion in his talk but presented no evidence.

He based this assertion on an NSA slide that said 100% of iPhones could be tapped. In the rest of the talk there was frequent mention (in bulletpoints or even more interestingly graphs) of efficacy rates, and as I recall most were between 50-80 percent. Apple was the only slide cited with 100% which is why this was noteworthy.
> That sounds like functional literacy.

The term has an actual definition. The fact is that 'proficient' is the minimum necessary to read a newspaper article, as per their definition of 'proficient'. If you can't do that, you sure as hell can't do any sort of knowledge work.
Important to note that while Canada is geographically large, it's population is far from dispersed. Half the population lives in a ~700mi corridor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City%E2%80%93Windsor_Cor...
Man, I am 100% sympathetic to the issues Solnit is talking about -- gentrification, the plight of the poor, public transit -- but I find this approach & framing completely off-putting. It's hard to articulate why. Maybe the whiff of entitlement to SF the way Solnit believes it ought to be, as if that's somehow purer SF than prior waves of change.

The upshot is that I'm way more conflicted than I might have been otherwise. And while it's not like I, as an individual, have some great sway over this debate, I can't imagine I'm the only leftie who feels sympathetic but alienated.

Maybe that's that cost of doing business here, so to speak. It's no secret there's a huge libertarian streak running through tech. And it's not difficult to imagine how unpopular a lot of obnoxious young white men in tech might already be in some areas.

And finally: big name tech companies = big headlines.

Disclosure: I work for one of the big companies discussed in this piece.
What I find the most strange aspect of these discussions is: if people hate Disney, why do they want to freely use Mikey and its image? For people who like Disney, it is an advantage that the company is making money out of their creations -- so there will be much more of it. For people who hate Disney, there is no point in watching these movies. So, why getting concerned about this?
Endurance International Group data center outage
I'd bet Pinterest has more non-member users, though. Very few people read tweets who aren't members of Twitter. With no evidence, I'd bet that Pinterest has more people looking at galleries of pictures who don't feel a need to register.
TYPHOON: A new dependency injection container for Objective-C
I'm getting along very well with an HP Chromebook 14 running crouton. I do programming and watch videos and other stuff without involving The Cloud. Not an option for the average consumer but for HN readers, an intriguing option.
11 more reasons to leave the Bay Area
The quote is skeptical of those numbers - "would have us believe" is the indicator of that.

The entire article investigates whether the 60x number from NPD is plausible or not.

The article's conclusion seems to be: perhaps in one segment of the market, but it isn't clear which segment, yet at the same time it is clear that sales are in fact rising to some extent. One measurement shows a 10x increase, much of it very recent. So something interesting is going on, but we don't quite know what or how much.

The best way to answer this would be to get actual sales numbers from Google, and stop guessing using indirect sources.
We bought one for her mom. While we won't know for a few months how that experiment works out I was pleased with my experience with it while setting it up for her (adding account, bookmarks, and fooling around). I could write on it, especially as I use Google's office applications more and other web apps, ssh for the rest.

I think the Desktop Apps available in the Chrome Web Store and the accompanying Chrome Apps icon in my Mac's Dock and Windows taskbar are much more interesting developments and I imagine Apple and Microsoft are rather more concerned about that than the netbooks. This is not the first intrusion of browser based applications onto desktop computers (Prism ,etc) but it certainly the boldest and works quite smoothly.
In the first situation, why a Chromebook instead of, say, a tablet? Or an iPod Touch, even? Children don't tend to get the same sort of benefit from full "hard" keyboards that adults do, and there are devices cheaper than Chromebooks that can be similarly locked down.
There's absolutely nothing stopping the NSA/CIA from hiring a foreign national to work on their behalf, just like the DGSE could pay an American national in Palo Alto. Whether those employees could operate domestically w/o breaking the laws of their spymaster, maybe not.

It's sorta telling to me that Google decided to go encryption on all intra-data after Snowden. No doubt they would have been briefed by agencies that they cooperate with about what the exposures would be.

It's more likely that whatever chipsets common across smartphones or routers is the point of exploit. So the NSA and Samsung or whomever have to have a private agreement. Apple/Google don't have a need to know, but you think a few engineers might be curious.
This question seems totally unreasonable for the length of any technical interview I have taken or conducted. Most interviews run under an hour and focus on multiple topics. Its rare you can focus on one question more than 10 minutes. The rule of thumb I use is that if I'm picking a question as an interviewer, I make sure I can answer that question in 1/3 the time I plan to give to the candidate. Given the pressure that they are under, I expect to owe that that much.
I'd be very interested in an article about problems and solutions in American healthcare from an actuarial perspective. I'm siginificantly less interested in reading apologetics about the ACA. The article started out like the former and ended up like the latter.

It's not controversial that there are similarities between the ACA and Romney plans. Bringing it up serves no purpose outside of making political points, which was my point.

I am very interested in discussing healthcare. I just don't think this article advances the discussion. Again, a well-written actuarial perspective would probably be more interesting.
Except odds of said ill person recovering financially are still crappy.
The biggest disappointment about the ACA is that the discussion completely ignores the cost of care.

In other words: the healthcare discussion in America revolved around "how can we make it so everyone can afford this $300 asprin?" rather than, "Why are we letting hospitals charge $300 for asprin?"

A very clever smokescreen.
A 16-year-old's Plea to be Taken Seriously as a Developer
I had a bit similar experience. When I was 16 (so around 2008), I had a poker blog, just translating stuff from wikipedia and posting some random 'news'. It was in Lithuania (EU). A small blog, with about 300 daily visitors. A few months later, I got a letter from the government telling me that I was infringing some ambiguously worded gambling law. And they were requesting an official explanation what was I doing (I guess they just reworded testimony).

The idea was that you can blog about poker only if you are a licensed gambling company, and I was facing a fine of $2500-7000 (the blog had $0.00 income, and for the contrast, my parents were earning $1000/mo combined). It felt extremely unfair.

It scared the shit out of me. I had to go to the police station, didn't contact any lawyer, and wrote my 'explanation' telling that I was not making any money and did publish publicly available information and I am sorry.

After a month of sleepless nights, I got a letter saying that they decided not to take any further action and that's a warning. Well, it fucking warned me big time.
Very Long Instruction Word (processor architecture)
This was Customs, not TSA.

But yeah, I agree.
Google New Year's Eve 2013 / Happy New Year 2014 Doodle Today
Indeed, the PRG was flawed, but IIUC, this applied to only the RSA key generation used for group chat, not OTR, which is what cryptocat is mainly used for.

People reference "numerous flaws" a lot, but it all seems to lead back to the criticism of group chat from a while back. I'm not saying you're wrong--just be careful of the echo chamber.
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos by Peter M. Hoffmann

Just an amazing book giving what seems like the secret details how of the world works at a physical level.

"Thus, the nanoscale is truly special. Only at the nanoscale is the thermal energy of the right magnitude to allow the formation of complex molecular structures and assist the spontaneous transformation of different energy forms (mechanical, electrical, chemical) into one another. Moreover, the conjunction of energy scales allows for the self-assembly, adaptability, and spontaneous motion needed to make a living being. The nanoscale is the only scale at which machines can work completely autonomously. To jump into action, nanoscale machines just need a little push. And this push is provided by thermal energy of the molecular storm."

"At the nanoscale, nothing can escape the molecular storm. As Astumian and Hänggi point out, every molecular machine in our bodies is hit by a fast-moving water molecule about every 10−13 seconds. Each collision delivers on average 4.3 × 10−21 joules of energy (the energy is determined by the product of Boltzmann’s constant and body temperature measured in degree Kelvin). This translates into an average power input of more than 10−8 watts. Remember that a molecular machine generates only about 10−16 watts in power."

"Where do molecules obtain the needed activation energy? From the molecular storm! The impetus needed to make it across the transition state is provided by small, fast molecules (typically water molecules) fortuitously colliding with the reacting molecules to give them the right push. If lucky, the push causes the molecules to snap into their new shapes. Of course, not every colliding water molecule will have enough energy or hit the reacting molecules in the right way. Chemical reactions take time— we have to wait for the right push to come along, and the higher the activation energy needed, the more time it takes, as higher-energy collisions are much less frequent than low-energy collisions."