skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't uploading your cracked books to S3 be a bit of a risk?
Ask HN: How do you valuate a startup?
Ha. I did exactly the same thing with a dryer years ago but with a neodymium magnet from a hard drive head actuator.
Here's some encouragement from Mr Money Mustache. Earlier in his career he took a 20% pay cut in exchange for every Friday off.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/25/the-joy-of-part-ti...
I've used autotype before and it works fantastic, but you have to be super careful with it. It basically switches back to the last window you had open and immediately types your username and password in. It is very easy for this to type your credentials into the wrong window. When using it (I used it a lot for vmware sessions through an rpd connection), I would find myself clicking back and forth from the target window to keepass a couple times to ensure I was going to hit the right window.
I seriously doubt the correlation between "liking porn" and "refusal to purchase a device that does not have official porn apps, especially considering I could stream porn from my phone or computer to my Chromecast just fine. In fact, if I'm being honest, I never install porn apps, even on devices that allow them, even if I intend on watching porn on them anyway.
I think if they had been called something like "computer algebras" instead of languages then this idea would never have formed.
...and a mechanism provided by the party you are attempting to secure passwords from. I use LastPass, but just sayin'.
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Let's learn about netcat
My current workflow is to buy Adobe DRM'd epubs and remove the DRM so I can read them in FBReader on Android. That'll sadly be impacted until the new DRM is defeated. I could switch to buying from Amazon in the interim and cracking those, but I'd rather not support the Amazon ebook oligopoly. Annoying. I guess I'll have to switch to using a DRM-enabled app for a while, but I don't like any of them as much as FBReader. I suppose I could try limiting myself to DRM-free releases for now. Wonder what's out there? I remember Tor Books went DRM-free ...
I suspect so. Particularly with the popularity of free + in game purchases as a business model.

I feel like we are heading towards a point where a lot of people will be extremely reluctant to pay for games because they are used to free but will also assume that anything free is a scammy rip-off waiting to happen.
Two words: "fewer lawsuits".

RPG companies, with a couple of exceptions (ahem: Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, Games Workshop), are tiny. Which means there's a single desk labelled "the buck stops here".

Whereas at a big corporation with billion dollar revenues at stake, nobody wants to make a decision that triggers a shareholder lawsuit -- especially if it's one that's devilishly hard to prove either way. (If you've got DRM on ebooks, then remove it, activist shareholders can in principle try to sue you either for losing revenue to piracy by dropping DRM, or for having lost revenue in the past due to embracing DRM. So it's much safer not to do anything at all ...)

It is no accident that the first of the Big Five English-language conglomerates to break step on DRM was Macmillan. Macmillan is the English-language subsidiary of Holtzbrinck, which is privately owned.
I bet all 1st gen Kindles can still buy all books from Amazon.

You lose this bet. There are quite a few Kindle books like this: http://cl.ly/image/2t2m2V3Y0513 that won't play on basic Kindle devices. I discovered this when I tried to read one of my books on my gen 1 Kindle.

There are also some unexpected restrictions on some titles, such as books that are viewable only on 1 or 2 of your devices, which is quite annoying to discover when you're not near one of the previous devices to deactivate it.

I can't comment on the functionality of iBooks on Gen1 iPads because I've never purchased an Apple iBook, but your guesses about Amazon are, sadly, wrong.
You can operate from the standpoint that most people will be honest (which is the correct assumption). Grant them a given set of corrections before they can contact you. For example, charge them $99 per label with up to 5 corrections. If they need a correction afterwards then have them email you. Which at that point they will be looking at a new label anyways (charge them again). Anyone can modify the PDF file and change the settings. What they need is access to the nutrients calculation logic (which is the actual product you sell).

Or you could do like it is done with barcodes, and charge a low fee per label generated. Say $20 for every label with no corrections. Just state it very clearly in there. Twenty dollars is low enough that they won't try and scam you out of things. Plus you can also sell them a package deal where for $99 they can get 6 labels (5+1 free). It will make sense in their heads because the $99 deal seems to be the better value.

So:

$20 per label or $99 for 5 labels plus get one FREE.
Terabytes of low-latency flash storage directly off the RAM channel
The era of the Super Bowl ad is over
Ask HN: is it possible to open source an iOS app and protect it from copies?
I want the benefits of contributing to FOSS and getting feedback from the community and making the app free, while still generating revenue from it and protect it from imitations though code steal.

What would the most appropriate license be for that?

Is there any way we could get funding from VCs/angels for such an app?
As an Australian developer, using an EC2 instance seems to be the cheapest option if you want a server based in this country. Anyone got any other recommendations?
Top down operator parsing (http://javascript.crockford.com/tdop/tdop.html) is pretty easy to implement, is inherently efficient, and trivial to extend.

Even that might be overkill, though: a generic operator parser for unary, binary, ternary, n-ary, and so on will take about 50 lines of code. You can encode a surprisingly large number of control structures with a cleverly crafted precedence parser.
> "Just based on the number of tutorials and posts about how Git is difficult / hard / weird"

So.. not from actually using it then?

Git is as complex as you need it to be. Much of the 'complexity' in the post is functionality that you can use to make your life easier if you so wish.

And if you don't want to use it, don't. Telling other people their their tool that does everything they need it to do is too complicated? Nup.
My main beef with git is that the documentation seems written not for someone learning git for the first time, but for someone who wants to develop for git and is already intimately familiar with git and all its nuances. It's dense and obscure, and more often than not it quite simply doesn't answer my questions.

To be blunt, git seems good but the documentation blows.
That was my biggest issue with switching as I have hundreds of entries in LastPass. I spent a few hours moving over my most important/frequently used entries. For the "leftovers", I simply move 'em from LastPass to KeePassX as I need/use them.
Could be useful for travelers, so I guess fear of butt dials/kid dials must be the reason it isn't implemented.
I found a kit (magnet + copper tube) here: http://www.teachersource.com/product/645/electricity-magneti...

Not on the same scale, but appears to be designed to demonstrate the same concept.
YouTube allows this type of nudity.
Real revenue.
Bitcoin Accounting Engine #API
Any interest in the thought of Bitcoin (currently) as only 30% currency, and 70% commodity?
> How do you not have to trust the host?

By saving the HTML file and opening your local copy. You can audit the code and verify yourself that nothing will go over the wire unencrypted to their servers, so you get the benefit of them hosting the encrypted passes without having to trust them with your data. If you want it available anywhere, you don't want to save the file locally, and you don't trust the host, just host it yourself or grab it from Github.
Coder Factory Student is now a Startup Founder
Re: http://www.cliki.net/mod_lisp

From the project page there are some adjustments to be made: http://dpworks.net/miscellanea/mod_lisp-lighttpd.html
Did you follow those?

Why don't you post what you have already done and we can work from there.
You may be dealing with the flip side of being overqualified. If you are looking for the type of work that'd pay you a high salary for full-time development work it's unlikely you will find many $25/hr 30 hour a week job. But if you lower your sights to more mundane work -- perhaps in an associated field rather than in full on development -- I think you'll have a lot more success.

Of course, those jobs may well be less fulfilling professionally, but that's just another trade off along with the money.
OSM doesn't have to "sell" their maps. It's the folks like Telenav that need to make their maps look better.

They certainly do if "I’d like it to get OSM to seven billion contributors in the next year or two"
In 1981 when I was just out of boot camp and waiting for BE/E school at Great Lakes, IL, we had to patrol the base for I think it was 4 hours. It was -80 F wind chill factor. I thought I was going to die. I can't imagine being somewhere where the normal temperature on a given day is that cold. The wind chill must be unbearable to be outside for long.
What makes you think new positive feedback loops will kick in faster than old ones run out of steam or new negative feedback loops kick in?
Dow’s 326-point sell-off is a helluva hello for Yellen
What tools do you recommend for centralized logging?
I've been using both for a while and can say that they seem fairly equivalent. KeePass by default doesn't exit after a timeout which is something I don't enjoy remembering to configure on install.
Somewhat ambiguous domain name!
Prohibiting porn is right up there with alcohol and other banned substances. People will always find a way to get it.
Exactly. And, if our democracy is broken to that extent and the people are so apathetic about fixing it, then why should we expect that they would line up behind such "guerilla" action as proposed by this article?
Are you aware that Bangladesh has been on a trend of gaining land mass? It gained ~1000 square kilometers between 1973 and 2008. Given current trends it'll gain another thousand in the next 50 years. If it ever starts losing land mass, it should by then be in a decent economic position to deal with the problem. (Unless we tank the world economy in the meantime, I suppose...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7532949.stm
probably shareholder lobbying.

1. invest in useless DRM vendor.

2. buys share of company X, go to meetings and say how by not using DRM shareholders are getting screwed.

3. shareholders demand DRM

4. profit!

...If this does not exist yet, I demand 10% commission.
That'll sadly be impacted until the new DRM is defeated.

You might have to wait hours, or even days for that to happen. The horror :)
Obviously keep the keys to the castle out of version control.

I wrote a small blog post [0] on a similar topic not too long ago.

I went with the BSD 3 Clause license for the project I am working on [1][2]. I am not a lawyer so I have no idea if this is a good license or not. I was going for one that would force people to retain the copy right notice.

Obviously you would control the developer account and name of the app. So it would take some effort and money for someone to rename and republish under a new app name.

[0]http://www.wlaurance.com/2014/01/A-Different-Approach-to-Pro...

[1]https://github.com/t3mpus/tempus-api/blob/master/LICENSE

[2]http://www.t3mp.us
Almost any label can be a business. All you need to figure out is which one is easy enough to generate on the fly but hard enough that people can't do it without a lot of work.
"Toaster Waffles"

Am I doing it right?
Yup, exactly. A generally clear, new-developer-need-not-know style of `grunt dev` and you're out the door. And say the new dev needs to change something once he gets running? Hardly an issue. Just look at what is essentially, for most cases, JSON.

Grunts clarity has a ton to offer. With Gulp, while there are some speed increases, that clarity and DRY mentality disappears.
> I've been using LastPass for a few years but have been slowly migrating away from it in recent months.

LastPass user here, wondering why?
The US doesn't want it, some government bureaucrats do.
And hoping it includes all the java it needs, and doesn't go out and pick up some 3rd party library?

You would have to audit it to ensure it never includes everything else, or posts anything externally with every release.

Not my cup of tea, personally.
History has a habit of repeating itself.
So you, as a criminal in the eyes of the current law interpretation, will only be impacted by not being able to buy newer books.

The law abiding clients will be out of the product they bought under misleading terms.
Thanks for the input, I appreciate it! Some food for thought for tonight.
Google bans porn from Chromecast
what are they going to do when people download illegal torrents to it?
From the FAQ (http://faq.put.io/):

> Why are downloads from put.io to my computer slow?

> Well the biggest factor is your location. Our servers are in Netherlands.

-

I guess this is why I torrent. :(
Ask HN: Early Founders – Do you buy new computers for all of your employees?
Oh nice, I've been thinking about something like this a lot lately. I don't really like the idea of truncating the generated password, though. I'd rather it use a proper KDF and fill the password field to its limit.
Anecdotally, during last year's annual Christmas Monopoly game, my mother-in-law (who was out the game early) flashed us a YouTube movie of a lady getting her privates waxed, asking what the f was up with YouTube for allowing this.

I must say it quite surprised me this type of content was allowed/condoned.
> And hoping it includes all the java it needs, and doesn't go out and pick up some 3rd party library?

What Java? It's a self-contained, monolithic HTML file with JS and CSS inline. What dependency are you imagining you're not going to have?

> You would have to audit it to ensure it never includes everything else, or posts anything externally with every release.

Exactly as you would with KeePass, or any other conceivable solution. If you don't want to audit future releases, save the last one you audited and use that.
After years of dealing with the same issue in PHP, I have come to the conclusion that frameworks should be evaluated based on two criteria:

1) How quickly can a developer who is competent in the language (ie. a non ninja-rock-star) but has never heard of the framework understand what's going on?

2) How hard is it to take the value that I create (ie. the code I write) and move it to a different solution?

Of course the result of these is that the best framework is no framework at all... In the case of PHP, at least.... in JS it may be the case that some minimal framework is required, but as much as possible I think that libraries, more than frameworks, are the key to this issue.
This is specifically for early-stage founders. If you haven't raised much yet, how do you deal with new employees coming in? Do you buy them new laptops? Buy refurbished macs?
Windows XP gains in January but so does Windows 8.1
Grew up in Saskatchewan as well (Prince Albert). So, so glad I live in Vancouver now. The people were great but the weather in PA was absolutely soul crushing throughout the winter. Vancouver rarely drops into the minus and we get maybe 1-2 snowfalls a year (which usually melt as it falls). Feel like it's the tropics over here whenever I get back from visiting family/friends in PA.
That is presuming a real lot and is quite insulting.
Attention to detail is lacking here. The 'banker' at JP Morgan wasn't a banker.

Given the size of the banking/ finance industry, is the frequency of these 'unusual' deaths in line with what they might normally be expected to be? IIRC, the Foxconn deaths 'scandal' was misleading because the number of suicide-related deaths wasn't unexpected for a population the size of the workforce. A similar explanation for the France Telecom 'scandal' a few years ago, too.

It has the feel to it of a conspiracy that is just gathering pace for sensational reporting.

Seems legit: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-suicidal-occupations-201...
Wow, the ad I got when viewing the page had pretty terrible timing. https://oasc17.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/Hous...
My personal recommendation on Automated Testing is to use Subliminal https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal

Subliminal allows you to write tests in Objective-C that interface directly with your app. This makes your tests be more powerful (can test things not visible to the user, and can simulate activity that UIAutomation can't (like a credit card swipe, which is why KIF was invented)).

More amazing is that you get the benefits of static typing. Instead of stringly-typed accessibility identifiers, you can use string constants (NSString * const kIdentifier = @"blah").

It runs by bridging UIAutomation and Objective-C, so its more reliable than KIF, which has to use private API to simulate touches. This doesn't work correctly for gesture recognizers and is very fragile.
same here, why?
Those seeding rules will get you banned off quite a few trackers.
Trip to Verkhoyansk
https://put.io/dmca
This is an odd perspective to have. I'm fairly certain a large percentage of the Fortune 100 use linux (based on personal observation and experience).
Pig livers and blindness: Growing up in North Korea’s famine
If you're hiring employees, hopefully that means that you either have revenue or investment $. If so, I'd say yes. In my experience, most employees are excited to be using a new machine, which boosts morale.
Every one in "the public" has skin in the game, cuz, you know, it's their "domain" we are talking about. The very fact that people think that pushing stuff into the public domain is some sort of gift, or that the public has no say in the matter, is kind of the point of the post.
Me too. They weren't all that DRM free when I got them, mind you.
Even GW is selling DRM-free epub now.
This is a really cool idea, but I'd like a bit more storage, and less cost, before I sign up. If I could get 3TB for $15/mo, I'd be there. 3TB drives can be had for $120, and I'd like my cloud storage to be competitively priced.

Offloading my torrent collection into the cloud sounds like a great step forward, but not if it results in me paying more.
Though I haven't tried it, people tell me that ansible is pretty simple - http://www.ansible.com/home

For logging, try logstash? http://logstash.net/

Monitoring... well that's a large and complicated topic!
"With put.io...you won't be hogging all the bandwidth." - How could this possibly save bandwidth?
I think the reason they did it is because a lot of sites have maximum password lengths that would prevent the full output. Those are exactly the type of sites that you want to be using something like this on.
Actually it is a great thing. I'm not even sure SVN could do what I often have to do. I have 2 large projects that diverged into different projects awhile back. They each share some code and often bugs need to be fixed in both. With git I can add each project as a remote to the other and cherry pick commits back and forth to keep both projects up to date without much fuss.

Thinking about what should be simple and isn't is branching in SVN. Most people know very little about branching because SVN makes it so hard to use. I would argue that people switching to git are not having a hard time with git so much as they are finally learning proper source control techniques in addition to git.

The basics in git are simple though. If a person is just replicating SVN, git adds 2 more steps (stage and push). Like I mentioned above though, people are not just learning git, they are also finally learning proper SCM.
I think the "available only on this devices" thing is about formatting, not DRM, although I could be wrong. (Of course, one might wonder why the original Kindle isn't being updated to support the new stuff...)
And if you have little kids treat them like guns. Lock them up when you aren't around.
No seeding from your home internet connection.
This has been around for a few years. It's absolutely amazing -- you can subscribe to RSS, and it makes it dead simple to stream to Roku/etc, too.
They don't care if you stream your own porn on it. They just don't want to sell/distribute porn themselves. There's a big difference that nobody seems to be getting.
I've seen +47.8C (in Australia) and -45C (in northern Canada).

I'm still hoping for the full 100C temp swing, which I'm getting mighty close to :)
My fave is when the wheels freeze to the ground; so when the noob guns it - since the truck seems reasonably warm, yet stuck - the drive shaft snaps. Depending which universal joint breaks, the flailing remains can cause impressive damage.
Google Mike Matas and Loren Brichter for starters.
I don't think that they are trying to ban it's existence all-together, just within chromecast.
Up here in the Yukon mercury thermometers aren't all that helpful because they only go to -40C.

It's fun when all the thermometers are pegged at -40C at midday in full sun, and you don't see them move for a week :)
Actually I think in PHP's case the best framework is at best minimal, but something more than none at all. Anything beyond Composer and a PSR autoloader to manage libraries, a router to abstract requests from the filesystem and (arguably) a templating engine is nice but not absolutely necessary. But I think PHP is a nightmare without at least that.
So...it's sort of like the same as downloading torrents only you pay them money and also there's people watching what you're downloading. Cool.
I think every php dev at some point has tried building one. I certainly have. And most shouldn't ever see the light of day.
Hewlett-Packard Discloses Accounting Errors at Company It Bought
> I'm trying not to "merely assert that" by giving examples supporting my point :-)

I do appreciate that you've come back with more now.

> But anyone who simply saw the mechanism they rigged could re-implement it for themselves! The decades of work before it make it amply clear it was not obvious [1].

Oddly enough, your own paper describes quite a few features of that Wright patent not immediately apparent, but it doesn't matter, as you've missed one point about the standard I articulated. If you recall, my standard was for people who had not seen it to be able to make it simply by being told what it does. If anything, the history of flying would support the notion that "make a thing that flies" was non-trivial at the time.

> But the mathematics that goes into proving that they actually work and work well span pages.

Math is not patentable subject matter... unless you disguise it as software :) And standard that excluded silly UI patents that lead to billion dollar lawsuits (modulo various jury errors, like charging them for things not found infringing and other court adjustments)? Let's just say that I'm thinking "feature" when you're thinking "bug".

> It showed that while the total rate of innovation didn't change much across countries, in countries with patents, significant innovation was diversified into areas that were elsewhere under-developed because they were easy to copy.

"Innovation" is an inherently nebulous thing to measure. Also, if the only patents are the things the public can't easily figure out, then they would actually do the job they're supposed to--advancing science and the useful arts. I don't like software patents at all, though, and if we did have them they should require source code. It's frankly insulting that they can get away with that and I honestly question whether some of the "inventors" of software patents I've seen actually made anything.
Who was the third, then?
I don't understand--you can easily turn off seeding from your home internet connection with any torrent software.
Or both! Wouldn't that be great?

Sigh, perpetual copyright...