skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time taken to certify a more recent version of the OS? Time needed to sort out a 16bit backend?

I don't know, I'm just thinking of possible reasons. Same as in the good old NHS in the UK [1] and especially the comment at [2].

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/20/doh_microsoft_nhs_on...

[2] http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/03/20/doh_micro...

and

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2014/03/20/doh_micro...
> If I was the boss at a university I would make all teaching staff put all of the content needed to teach their course material online in some wiki of sorts, with credits for researchers and undergraduates if they can add to that body of knowledge.

You should understand that you're probably asking for a significant change in contract conditions which gives you Intellectual Property rights over your employee's work.

By saying "in some wiki of sorts", you mean that the university would gain the right of distribution in the way that they (commercially) see fit, rather than the author being able to use their own work. Requiring that the work is uploaded in a particular format will also cause untold headaches.

My employer insisted that I sign a contract like this (giving up my IP), I refused because it would have caused problems with my other work (I literally could not consider it), and I ended up quitting over this.

Textbook authors are generally not scammers. They are people trying to make a living from their expertise - expertise both in their subject and in their ability to communicate, which are skills otherwise undervalued by society. Your beef is with the publishers, not with the content creators who you are punishing here.
Isn't the only issue here that we have here one set of spaces (brains) with that structural understanding (link/edge), and another set without that structural understanding?

It seems that the brains that possess the link are busy implementing it's isomorphic structure in technology, while the brains that do not possess the link are contributing nothing as they are still in a more "primitive" state? (Primitive meaning that they lack the linkage to see that the terms are really structurally isomorphic on the grand scale of things)

It would be interesting to know what input those brains that do not possess the link require to start possessing it.

Can there exist brains that will never make the link?
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No, but it's not perfect the way it is. There are some small things that could be improved like the dark grey font of the self posts and the fact that you can't collapse comments.
I'm a part of a hobbyist organization that has over 40k likes on Facebook - we pretty much only post relevant content to our fans, and for the most part it is organic (and still growing). We've been pretty happy with how well the outreach has been & our user engagement, and that's without being aggressive.

If you post crap, users won't want to see your crap - would you want to see crap?

I agree with your post wholeheartedly.
Found this comment interesting...
> What about a deal: if Google implements APNG, we implement WebP ? ;)
2 things:

First, "Vary:Accept" and Vary:User-Agent effectively nullifies shared caches. Because instead of saving 1 copy of a response for a URL, and serving it to all requests, a shared cache has to save 1 copy per unique combination of URL and the Accept request header and/or the User-Agent header sent by the browser.

Browsers send wildly different Accept header values, not only across browser vendors but across versions as well. And the User-Agent string has insane variation since OS, CPU, language, and more can be included.

The net result is that all these unique request header values fragment the shared cache so much that you don't get any cache hits. The shared cache has been nullified.

Second, if the HTML is a static file, yes you have the same problem. However, in the modern age of web publishing, the HTML is almost always being dynamically generated by some application logic/CMS/something. This means that it is rarely is ever cached or marked as cachable to shared caches.

More about Vary and shared caching:
http://zoompf.com/blog/2010/03/the-big-performance-improveme...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2009/06/17/vary-...
Let me add another voice to the "yes that's what happens" pile with the statement that more than even just downloading the PDF as needed, the need for an expensive book is actually being included into the decision making process of "will I take this class."

(which is certainly the logical way to approach this, but I think makes the important implication that it may in fact be motivating students away from certain otherwise valuable courses)
I heard you like programming, do you #rememberme?
> One community in Okinawa, Japan has one fifth the risk of colon and breast cancer and lives seven years longer than the average American.

I like it when sources are not cited, and when you compare a community to a country (sample size significance problem??) and when you forget completely about the recent scandal in Japan of having people dead for long (like people at 130-140 years old...) still registered as living (these points in the data make the average move very sensitively).

Japan's data for life expectancy is a joke, seriously.
Walking for an hour straight is so much more comfortable than standing still for even 10 minutes. Presumably because you're constantly engaging different muscles, giving the others a chance to briefly rest. Now I just have to figure out how to build some kind of treadmill desk.
83 intrigues me.

Even with the move by many sites of having to pay to message, there is still a huge problem with the experience for women dating online. Very few of my female friends even want to try it, given the horror stories they've gotten from others. A Sadie Hawkins approach would be interesting.

And yeah fellas, I know it's not all of us that send unbidden wang pics or do those overly aggressive creepy PMs and then flip out when someone has the audacity to exercise their free will and say no. But there's enough that do that it poisons the whole experience. And if you think the problem is exaggerated, read any of the numerous articles done by guys who also doubted how bad it was who posed as women on dating sites - it's revolting.
The telephone company does not have a right to listen to your phone calls. I know as there are lots of rules for line technicians when someone is on the line while they are working on it. So why is this true of email? Because of a EULA? You cannot sign away your rights, EULA or otherwise. That's why they are called rights.
Seems there are only a handful of countries that are considered for the puzzle pieces?
I personally research Twitter and message boards the way you described it for "blogdia". But I don't think there would be people / wantrepreneurs willing to pay for such an app.

Instead, why not doing a private / paid newsletter for that? Or a site where wantrepreneurs can buy your market research about a specific idea. And only a limited number of each idea can be sold in order to increase the perceived value of it.
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I also rarely get on a bus, but I've never come across ones where the driver didn't touch coins in either Oxfordshire or Cambridgeshire (does make it sound like a posh area thing, but both have shitty areas that buses operate in too..) nor in London (which I think now requires tickets to be bought before boarding.. but could be wrong as I've only ever used my oyster card).
how much is your biz making now? enough to support both of you?
> Key management (including, critically, movement between devices) is the primary reason email encryption is rare.

I think you're wrong. Basic key management is nearly trivial, even for complete non-techies. My dad didn't knew a thing about modern crypto but learned to sign his amateur radio callbook records in no time. Just showed him "here's your keypair, keep this one absolutely private, and this is public key, here we ask them to sign the public part, yada yada" (the whole explanation took about 15 minutes) and he got it. Maybe that's because he was personally interested in learning.

Now, while he would probably get confused and fail when faced with any remotely advanced things, he's able to use very basic crypto well enough. And, yes, he had backed keys up and had moved them between computers. It wasn't that hard.

The primary reason for rarity is complete UI/UX awkwardness. Key management (if present) is hidden beneath dozen of clicks deep into some obscure settings area - this prevents users from learning there's one. Then UI is plain horrible (pretty much raw view of keystore contents, with all that X.50x-based weirdness exposed naked right to ASN.1 OIDs), which prevents use by those who found it. And software vendors, even though they're bragging about their "security for our users" efforts, don't give a damn about that, as key management UIs remained mostly the same for decades.
Substitute "walking" for "standing" and all these troubles go away. I have walked many 8 hour shifts with only a lunch break in between. A walking desk is not much more difficult to make. Get a treadmill from Craigslist and then find a bookshelf to put the monitor on. Or stack some boxes on a desk and put the monitor on top at eye level. Or you could even attach the monitor to the wall with an inexpensive wall mount.
Yep, pretty much :(
You get for what you pay for here...
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A brief glance at the news doesn't give me much information, but the first thing that comes to mind when I see service blocking like this is, "when do the protests start?"

Perhaps I only know of the examples that confirm to this pattern, but internet limitations seems to often lead to MUCH higher levels of societal discontent. Could someone who understand the politics/social climate there give me a tl;dr on the situation in that light and what's reasonable to expect?
I thought the hotness was the treadmill desk. Why would someone want to stand around all day?

The fix for this (and most things that office people think they have discovered) is well known in the working world. You just need a tall stool to slouch on from time to time. There is a place between sitting and standing.
"Who are the users who want to be spammed forever following 'Like'-ing a business or brand?"

But isn't that exactly how Twitter works? And isn't that what Facebook users expect? To see all the posts of their friends and pages they Like?
But the thing is that XP Embedded is still XP, in fact it's just a modular version of XP Pro... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Windows_XP_...

As for totalling your machine, you'd do the same thing you'd do if you installed a flaky update now, i.e. a system restore.
If Edison spent more time thinking, he wouldn't have to perspire as much. (Paraphrasing Tesla[0])

[0] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1010603-if-he-thomas-edison-...
Step 1: Move to a house or flat about 1.5 miles from the office you work in.
Step 2: Walk to work.

What's that? The accommodation near your workplace is much more expensive and so you wouldn't be able to afford your massive suburban American home?

Then sell all your cheap crap and then move, you fat American.
Technology gone crazy? Or is this a good idea for cyclist?
I used to be able to stand for 6-8 hours a day back when I worked at a coffee shop, but I can't do it anymore. Maybe it's just because I got out of the habit, or because I got older, but standing in place in the same position for more than a couple hours is exhausting.

On the other hand, walking around for hours isn't bad at all, so maybe there's something specific about standing still that creates more exertion?
I'm very sympathetic to your plight - I too am infuriated by how crappy the system has gotten when it comes to developing candidates with no experience. This is a situation that's broken across the country though, not just San Francisco - my frustrating experience was in the Washington, DC area, a supposedly excellent job market.

I was once in your situation as well - MS math degree from a top level program (4 year PhD student before leaving in an unexpected manner) who also had problems finding a job & applied to any entry level career track job I could (PR, programming, data scientist, statistician, business analyst, intelligence analyst, HR, secretary, sales, etc.). I got fed up after 2 years of searching (minus 7 months spent in initial active duty training in the military before becoming a drilling reservist) and taught myself how to program. I hit up the local meetup events pretty hard simultaneously, and a recruiter helped me get an entry level position - it was entry level pay, but I quickly proved myself from there and with only 16 months of experience, am about to start making $100k+ doing web development.

Hang in there, it gets better - I've experienced some pretty terrible things as well, and I made it out ok.
All I read is two different ways of being an ignorant douche problem. Basically the opening illustration accurately summarizes the entire article.

The solution, surprisingly, is to just don't.
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Haha yea, that was my first thought when someone suggested android ;)

I'm an android fan.. But, I just don't see it for something like ATMs.

ATMs need physical buttons for disabled users, so the whole touchscreen thing is a no go. They need experienced, stood the test of time, companies to provide support over the 10-15 year lifetime. They need reliable and auditable source code, so the less code, the better. In other words, they need something that's not android.

The Linux kernel makes a lot of sense given these requirements, paired with a bare minimal userspace and graphics stack, they can likely make good on their existing hardware until it either ceases up or simply can't support new standards like Chip+PIN.
In many other lines of work, employee contracts _do_ give the employer IP rights over employees' work. If I write software as part of my work, for which my employer pays me, they get to decide how to treat the IP. Many employment contracts go further, and include IP created outside work but during the term of employment. Some jurisdictions make this more strong transfer invalid/unenforceable.

Why does the current system exist as you suggest? I mean, why do teaching employment contracts allow employees to retain IP they create in the course of their employment?
Exactly. And you have to pay for them, just as you have to pay for Microsoft's support contract. So really, if you have to pay for either, it's only a question of which company gives you the best deal. Also, I am pretty sure MS will be around in 15 years - Red Hat, not so much.
I hate to hijack this submission, but not so long ago I tried submitting some free startup ideas of my own on Github here: https://github.com/Vheissu/Free-Ideas — because I'm not a Hacker News power-user and don't live in a popular time zone (I'm from Aus) it was largely ignored.

Ideas are very much in the execution, but I think you need a good idea to execute upon in the first place and this Google Doc and the likes of my repository of ideas are perfect ways to find an idea or perhaps add to an existing idea.
Depends on the country. Most people in the eurozone use "10 €", not "€10". However, when adding SI prefixes most people would append the prefix to the amount, rather than prepending it to the unit e.g. "100k €".
And a more up-to-date video showing the carbon-fibre production process BMW has created for their new i-series of cars - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoq8Mc4xxw
(a shorter version on the fibre production by the US company that works for BMW - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeST0vfDuhw )
My apologies if this seems like a troll, it is not.

It is blazingly obvious to everyone outside of North American that their health woes are down to a reliance on cars, cities built to accommodate cars and an overconsumption of sugar.

It is incredible that they haven't managed to figure this out yet.
Perhaps microsoft would be on stronger ground if they had consulted an outside authority before deciding they had the right to look at their own data. Instead they simply decided on their own. It's like the police issuing themselves a search warrant — doesn't matter how correct the reasoning is, it's procedurally unacceptable.
Although it wasn't the intent of the post, I am bookmarking this as "How to setup DNSSEC" for future reference.
It seems to me that MS had every right to chase down this pair of nincompoops. Technically they had the right to scan the unnamed blogger's email, and surely they had the right and justification to check ex-employee Kibkalo's Skydrive account for traces of illegally obtained files.

Maybe there should be some kind of more normal procedure such as a court order rather than merely the "approval of Microsoft's lawyers", but either way they had justification. The blogger had obtained keys to a new server release and potentially he or his customers could use it to create highly insecure or spoofed installations, could they not?

Methinks the world is a safer place now that the leaker was caught.

By the way what's Microsoft doing employing some Russian guy living in Lebanon, anyway? The whole situation sounds a bit iffy.
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I was referring to AIXI as the perfect mathematical AI.

The main recent advancement in machine learning is deep learning. It's advanced the state of the art in machine vision and speech recognition quite a bit. Machine learning is on a spectrum from "statistics" with simple models and low dimensional data, to "AI" with complicated models and high dimensional data.

>if someone gets a really big injury just above their left ear, then we have a good guess at what the more obvious results will be. But that's not much understanding of how the brain actually works.

Neuroscience is a bit beyond that. I believe there are also some large projects like Blue Brain working on the problem.

I swear I saw a video somewhere of a simulation of a neocortex that could do IQ test type questions and respond just like a human. But the point is we do have more than nothing.
Nice work steve! Be sure to follow up with any pricing changes and their effect.
Radios Had 'Like' Buttons Before the Internet Existed
This might work better as a subreddit than a Google doc.
Not if the people he calls have to do something new. DNS blocks are easy. Weathering an active attack might be harder. The question is how far Twitter wants to escalate.
I wonder, they tried to block DNS blocking Google's servers...

It might take them a while to look up what a bridge is.
I built myself a standing desk and used it for a couple of months. It was my feet, not my back, that convinced me to go back to sitting down. I suppose if I'd invested in some kind of special flooring or even more comfortable shoes, I might still be using the standing desk, but I don't know.

What I'd really like is some way to sit on an exercise bike (I believe they're called "stationary bikes" in some places) and still be able to use a keyboard and mouse. Not sure how that would work, but if I could figure it out I'd be rich and skinny before you know it!
2 weeks doesn't seem like that long to persist with a major change like swapping from sitting all day to standing. Would be interesting to hear from someone who persisted with it for longer to see if they were able to adjust fully. I have a desk that is adjustable from sitting to standing and enjoy it as it lets me work longer without my back annoying me.

In regards to the 135 degree suggestion, I've found this doesn't work well for me, my lower back hurts, and also it encourages me to stick my chin forward which puts pressure on your neck. Could be a result of body shape or specifics of my setup though.
That was the federal government doing it:

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120326/NEWS07/703269971

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/20/local-cops-...

(Each article discusses a grant from the Department of Homeland Security being used to purchase a vehicle)

Which is probably part of the problem, an average citizen can't do much more than whine to their Congressperson about this sort of spending.
>I do a version of the Idea Validator...
>I think the validation methods mentioned are pretty valid

Emphasis added :)
Came here to make the stool comment.

I had a standing desk for a while, and I also had to have a stool. Actually, I built the stool, because I didn't have any money at the time, but I did have plenty of scrap wood. I then had to move to a new city, so I no longer have access to the shop where I used to keep my desk.

I sort of miss that stool. It was terrifying to sit on, which I think of as a feature. Nobody else in the shop ever wanted to sit on it, so they could never steal it from me.
Wearable Tech vs. Embedded Monitoring
Is the Internet making us more democratic?
You have no right to privacy in the US. You can't sign it away or have it violated, because it doesn't exist.

You have a reasonable expectation of privacy, or at least you would if you hadn't explicitly waived it by agreeing to the ToS.

The phone company is a special case, because the regulations for wire communications were written in an era when people cared about this sort of thing, and the zeitgeist wasn't manipulated by the spectre of terror.

I'm not defending Microsoft here. But you'll get no redress from government (the theoretical defenders of natural rights in a democratic society) in this case. Obviously.
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One problem that a lot of people have is starting some new athletic-type-thing too quickly. Standing is similar. Do an hour a day for a month. Then do two hours a day. Your body adjusts very slowly, but does adjust.

(I have this problem whenever I start running after a long break. My cardio system is in relatively good shape from cycling. But the muscles used by running aren't. So I end up with shin splits after the first run. You have to start at an insanely low intensity: walk 20 minutes, run 30 seconds. For a month. Add 10% a week after that.)

For standing, HN recommended an anti-fatigue mat. I got one yesterday, and so far, I am noticing less fatigue while standing. Who would have guessed.