skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The case for Germany is kind of weird, though: downloading is illegal, but streaming is not (or, to be more precise, it's the streaming service's job to make sure they don't host illegal content[1]).

So essentially I'm not allowed to download a movie, but I'm allowed to load it in my browser and watch it later.

However! If I copy the file from the browser's cache to another directory, then that's again illegal. I find this puzzling, but then again, I won't be the one who complains for having a loophole (or is it?) that allows me to download any movie without fear of retribution.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/viewing-pirated-streams-is-not-ille...
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I feel just like you but rely on Dropbox so much. What serious alternatives are they? (preferably, non-US-based?)
Quite a funny headline. Maybe someone should think about issuing a blanket ban of everything illegal? ;-)
the numbers are still highly disproportionate. you should see the scholarships available for female golf payers...
Well, that's the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I'll make sure to mention Condi's association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members.

It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Completely agree. I also recently did a medium-sized project with Mono (website) because I thought that it will be cheaper since service such as digital-ocean is very cheap.

Turns out it would be cheaper to just host on Windows Azure because the work of fixing/tweaking things just so it will run properly took way more time (money) than was planned.
Shouldn't you adress this complaint to Stanford?
Guys you don't get it.

Dropbox is going to improve the internet by finding all of the Documents of Mass Destruction.

Shutting down dropbox
>parallel and concurrent are 2 different things

That should be an implementation detail as far as the programmer is concerned. And languages should strive for parallelism anyway, not merely concurrency.
Relevant: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Golang-Nuts/0za-R3wV...

JT Olds asks: "Why did Go implement its own SSL library? I've scanned the list and the website and I might have missed a design doc somewhere, but as far as I can tell I can't find any motivational reason for why Go implemented its own SSL library."

agl responds: "Have you seen the OpenSSL code? I do, indeed, work with it a lot and it doesn't exactly fill one with positive feelings. NSS has a different set of issues. (I'm not familiar with alternatives like Polar or GnuTLS.)"
Less is More (stop blindly including sh*t in composer.json)
Same here.

Makes it too hard to find what is it really about, how good it really is, and whether it is for you or not.
The Mono runtime is LGPL (not GPL), and most (if not all) of the class libraries are MIT/X11-licensed.
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You probably don't need std::for_each anymore. With C++11, you can do the following:

for (const auto& element : collection)
{
}

What's wrong with <algorithm>? I use it all the time for sort, swap, and random_shuffle comes up more frequently than I expect.
Yeah, that may be their calculation. I don't think this will sit well with german users or french users, for example though. Could really hurt their international b2c business.
Oh please. Are we really going to do this to every normal person who tries to enter the tech industry? "Excuse me, sir/madam, you were a Republican recently. Please publicly disavow all past actions, thoughts, beliefs, and interests, donate to the HRC three times, throw salt over your shoulder five times, and take out an Obamacare-Approved® Health Insurance Policy(TM) before you even think about helping these pimply-faced 25-year-olds run their companies."

Eich was worse just because of his background and the immense debt that we all owe to him, and that we betrayed him because we're idiots, but you guys really need to get it together.
She is colored, she is a woman and she is in league with the demographic techies have hard time reaching out to (conservatives).

As politically correct and pro equal opportunity crowd as HN should be able to grok that.
This is probably tied to the DB for business offering and probably a play to become the official shared files app for USG and expansion into Asia.

Also

Dropbox announce two more executive changes today. The company has a new CFO, Sujay Jaswa, who is being into the role internally. Also, hailing from Google is Dropbox’s new COO: Dennis Woodside. In the post announcing those changes, it reaffirmed the above, indicating that Rice will help the company with its international operations.

Also check out Rice's consulting firm which has been providing consultation to DB for a while now. http://www.ricehadleygates.com/

The "work" page is illuminating.

- either way, this is potentially explosively bad for DB.

edit I'll also refer back to a recent comment of mine about how DP can scan your files

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7498457

Now extend that to China providing lists of hashes of banned files, like Falun Gong texts or whatever.

If you rely on DP a lot, it's like allowing government(s) to sniff around your personal hard drive.
We have been hearing about and seeing prototypes of HUDs in vehicles for years - is there a reason we aren't seeing them in mainstream vehicles yet? If nothing else, a speedometer displayed on the dash is one less thing to distract you away from looking at the road. Or are there technological or regulatory challenges?
Are computers coming up with answers we cannot understand?
The distinction (to me) would be - did they support it because they were told by people they trust (ie us.gov) that it was valid? I can halfway excuse them for this.

Or did they support it with first-hand knowledge that it wasn't valid (ie us.gov)? This I cannot excuse them for.
Their purchase of whatsapp is exactly why they did this, IMO. I'd be very surprised if facebook messages doesn't become whatsapp and get completely tied into it. That's really the only way buying WhatsApp for $19B makes sense.
Thanks much. The collection of this many resources in one place has improved my life.
Have you tried logging in, using the link at the bottom of the page?
I too am considering moving my free account to another free provider
I will be looking into personal open-source clouds, like http://owncloud.org/ hosted at DO Amsterdam location.
As you said, the phrase "having a national conversation" is a thought-ending cliche designed specifically to terminate constructive thought on the matter in question.

I think the correct response to that kind of statement is, "so, defend your opinion right now, and we can further this 'conversation' you're referring to." Force a fight, then win using facts.
During my undergrad days, I recall this potential problem as a critique of numerical analysis. It was stated as, "There is limited benefit of proving something if we don't also know WHY it is so."
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Definitely, as long as there was a common standard (and open source, of course). Have a keychain token that you can link to accounts, then enter a password on that and it gives you a (time limited) key to use to login.
Other languages to add to this list would be Dijkstra's Guarded Command Language, and Promela. Promela is especially interesting because of the (nondeterministic) execution semantics, which provide an extremely interesting way to model parallelism. In a similar vein, TLA+ is worth a look.

Both Promela (Spin) and TLA+ have active communities and have found fairly wide use in industry. They are generally used for model checking, model extraction by guided abstraction, and development by refinement, but can be used in a much more adhoc way to just experiment with parallel ideas.
Myself and some friends worked on something similar to this just over a year ago for a group project at University.

I think collaborative code editing (or in the case of our project, more aimed at code review) is one of those ideas that lots of developers have had and thought "that sounds cool". But, when it actually comes right down to it I think most people want to write code in their own time in their own editor, without a sense of someone looking over their shoulder.

That being said it looks polished and you have some cool features. Kudos for building something.
The headline seems misleading, since this was a decision by the EU Court of Justice that said the Dutch would have to stop downloading. The Netherlands themselves didn't ban anything.
> If you've used SQL, you've done a form of declarative programming

This is so wrong I don't know where to begin.
Ehm, I might miss something but I can see nowhere that there are builds available for Linux. Could someone point me to where this would be available?
I hear Box has weapons of mass destruction.
Starting at 9 and ending at 7? I take it the average French employee doesn't have children. Those hours mean that you'll rarely ever see them. At least during the work week.
"Why treat people like this? What advantage does it serve?"

You seem to have answered your own question in your subsequent remarks. The feigned surprise is a habit of people with very low self esteem. They constantly seek to reassure themselves by trying to place others (usually people whom they fear are more capable than they are) into a position of lower social status.

If you are on the receiving end of a feigned surprise attack, think back through your interactions with the attacker: you will probably remember something recent that revealed that you had some skill or knowledge that the attacker lacked. From that moment on, he was looking for a way to reassert his social status.
Interesting. Not much earlier, in 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted[1] and its impact on Europe (failed crops, famines, etc) is often mentioned as a possible trigger for the French Revolution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki#1783_eruption
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Yes, I'm now boycotting Dropbox, effective immediately. I'll also pen them an email detailing why I disapprove of their decision.

It's clear that my data isn't secure on Dropbox now, and, all things considered, I'd rather not support a company who makes morally unsound decisions such as recruiting a war criminal to be on their board.
I've never kept office hours as long as 9am to 7.30pm. Too long in one location turns you into a monkey banging away random crap on a keyboard.
It sounds just like typical PR filling, which is supposed to explain why they brought her on board. Will people really buy into this non-explanation?
You sure know a lot about a person you've never met or talked to. You can't seriously believe this about everyone who was involved in the Bush 43 administration.
The problem is not that 'you gain some, you lose some'. The problem is that you lose some and then you lose some more.

When the EU declared the DRD no longer in force the Dutch national entities enforcing it immediately stepped up to make sure that it was made clear that nothing would change. And now that downloading from non-sanctioned sources is made illegal there will possibly be prosecution of individuals or renewed efforts to block certain websites. And on top of that all the copy levy will most likely continue to exist.

If there were any balance in this I'd be happy about it.
Nope. At this point, people have either forgotten about Iraq or just come to accept it.

The gay marriage issue is a current one. It's a fight that's being fought right now. Protesting someone who is against gay rights has an actual impact in today's politics. Protesting against someone who supported going into Iraq over 10 years ago does not.

Yes, there will be public outcry, because many people view her as a deceiver, and others will think she is a tool of the NSA. But the outcry will not be the same as it was for Eich.
I know of box.com, but that's US based. I would also like to hear of alternatives.
It also comes with a Vagrant box if you're looking to just try it out with your dev environment. I've tried it personally and had a good experience with it. I spot checked the recommendations and they felt really good.

http://docs.prediction.io/current/installation/install-predi...
Condoleezza Rice: The dazzler that dimmed
JeffR sounded pretty busy with preparing those betas and RCs, iirc. ;)
Did you ever contact the Mono team about the issues you encountered? I've found them to be very responsive about fixing serious bugs like that. You said you just abandoned the project today -- you should still follow up with the Mono devs to let them know about your problem, since it might be a small fix on their side and it'd salvage the effort your team has already put into the project.
Ask HN: Using open data from connected homes?
Is any of the data being collected by smart energy meters, thermostats, and the like openly available? If so which sources are you using? Which have the finest granularity?
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"sudo apt-get remove dropbox", never to return. it seems obvious that most US tech companies have not at all realized that they are a global business, and the implications of the Snowden summer.
According to http://docs.scala-lang.org/news/functional-programming-princ..., 50 thousand people signed up for scala class, and about 9.5k people finished it successfully.

I've been signing up to some courses in coursera.org, and some classes at the end send out statistics. Another class "Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems" recently sent me email that 220k students signed up, and about 7k students will pass it.

So percentage of signups to successes is small compared to college classes, but if you look at '7k' or '9.5k' completions, it's rather impressive.
Yes, agreed. The domains in question are .com TLD
I don't see how it'll sit well with anyone in the tech community, other then people who prioritize sexual equality above data integrity. The problem isn't her race, or her sex. Its her opinions, and political past. Its very damning to the company and their goals.
As a non US person I don't get why she would be beneficial for (as not_paul_graham states) "navigating foreign business opportunities." My first thoughts, as a person living in the EU are exactly opposite.
Hey now, it would have been for nothing, all years of war and 600 000 deaths, if these people who were in charge and lead the effort, would suddenly find themselves in low-key positions in society.

The top cream must stay at the top.

Besides, her technical skills and understanding of IT for sure are awesome, making her the finest choice for Dropbox business.
WTF? She is not a "normal person" by a long shot. She is arguably a war criminal, a proponent of dragnet surveillance and was partial to implementation of torture, oh sorry, "enhanced interrogation".
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You don't want to go through all the things the Clinton administration did? People can trump up just as many silly charges against him (yes, including the deaths of "hundreds of thousands"). Hackers need to mature into the real world if they want to run grown-up companies.
Would it be better to ban all sarcasm or intentional irony? It's sending a message by using the opposite signal.
The article said those hours include 2 hours of lunch and breaks during the day.
Comparing Eich and Rice is misleading. By any sensible rationale, their "past actions", both positive and negative, aren't in the same ballpark, zip code or measurement scale.
I hear you, but Jon should take heed from his predecessor, Textmate.

Textmate was a prime example of what happens when an incredibly popular project is run by a single individual. The fact that TM 2 has flourished (IMO) since being open-sourced, is a good indication that additional eyes are a good thing.

I'm not suggesting that Jon open-sources ST, just saying that reaching out for help is not a bad thing in these one-man-band projects.
btsync works wonders if you have a personal server always on.
Your right, people should stop having personal opinions and do what they're told.
Yeah, because that's what destroys your conversations.
I didn't downvote you, but I expect those who did aren't reading it as "a question" as in "a request for information" - which I would think should rarely be downvoted - but as "a rhetorical question" whose purpose was to serve as a point of argument. Interpreted that way it seems to be attacking a strawman, poorly - such a comment would be deservedly downvoted.
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I prefer SSL termination on the client-side (my computer, my data only).

I like to have the ability to view my SSL traffic in plain text.

Should the user be able to see what her computer is sending out? I think she should. And encrypted traffic should not be some special exception.

Installing someone else's "MITM" software to decrypt SSL seems unnecessary.

It is much simpler to generate and install your own "fake" certificates that you control.

stunnel is one option.

There are others. socat, Pound, etc.

It should be the user who has the final decision over which certificates to trust. Users are the real "Certificate Authorities". They should have full control over encryption and decryption should they want to exercise it.

Is it wise to irrevocably delegate the decision to trust/not trust to website owners and browser authors? Perhaps those promoting solutions like "TACK" should give this more thought.
Add ParEdit if you don't have it yet.

(Quick overview of most it's features here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6h5dFyyUX0)
If he is serious of continuing developing software for many years and not just jump ship because the pay is good now, learning the basics of CS is my recommendation. There are a few coursera courses on intro to CS (I think using Python) that will be very valuable. Learning about how a computer works, how algorithms work, etc are very valuable (I'm not saying to know the exact O notation of 50 sorting algorithms, but the general idea of how they work)

If he just wants to make more money but doesn't care much about programming/developing software, just tell him to go to one of those Rails/iOS/etc bootcamps for a month or two.
Al Gore was a member of an administration that bombed Iraq, with the justification that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction.

(Coincidentally, the bombing coincided with Monica Lewinsky's testimony.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Iraq_(1998)
Can anyone talk to how well this has held up over time for them? A quick search on LinkedIn suggests only 2 employees. (https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=1476706) Is this really the case?
I would think that the NSA would be opening themselves up to quite a firestorm if they were found to be exploiting this bug without saying a word about it. I very much doubt they were making use of this for the simple fact that, by not disclosing, they'd be allowing this gaping hole to potentially be used by "enemy" governments, which is the exact opposite of what they want.
1 year of Dropbox == 1 "Transporter Sync personal cloud"

I guess this is the push I needed.
Anyone had any luck loading their secrets.yml file into heroku, figaro style?

Does Heroku even support the secrets.yml file at the moment?
I guess you were right.
The next big thing in wearable tech may be ear computers
She's a war criminal. That's enough reason to put up with the inconvenience of switching to a different cloud storage solution, I think.
Wait until you get to my age. You won't know a damn thing.
All continued by the current administration and more. What was your point again?
Brandon Eich isn't cool. You know what's cool?

(BRANDON EICH * BRANDON EICH)
Per Wikipeda, "Common declarative languages include those of database query languages (e.g., SQL, XQuery), regular expressions, logic programming, functional programming, and configuration management systems."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming

"Wikipedia is mistaken" is totally a defensible position, but it should be defended, so please find a place to begin.
Inclusion suggests exclusion. You can't have one without the other. Thus, social interactions always do both.
Thanks! After Signing in it redirects me to my github page.
I had to visit atom.io again, click Sign in again and - voila - Download button appears. Very confusing.
Let's not forget that the tension is in large part because of institutional discrimination against those (religious) minorities.
If your rules are a very small set - 3 or so - then you can reasonably expect people to remember them all.

However, if your rules are a bit longer than that, then, IME, it's better to try to come up with a rough heuristic and link in the specific rules as advice on how to avoid violating that - with warnings before the final firing or whatever so that people can see which specific things don't match their perception of the heuristic and have a chance of learning those.
Is Notepad++ that bad? I used it heavily in my Windows days and loved it at the time. There were features in it that I loved that I have yet to see other editors tackle natively (the diff view was awesome).
"On a similar Note: Rumsfeld joined the Board of Twitter" -- NO he did not. And I really hope he does not.
Onion-News-Network please take over ;)
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Usually in a couple, one will drop the kids at school in the morning and will do a 9.30 to 7.30 and the other will do the opposite and leave work early to pick up the kids. Single parents have to pay a babysitter to take care of that if they can, or have agreements with other parents/neighbours.
>The bet is likely that future government business she could bring is larger then the major exodus of people who supported them early on.

Well good for them and their stakeholders!
A bit of a tangent, but have you looked at musl libc's malloc? It's way simpler, primarily because it doesn't use per-thread heaps, yet its author claims that it's competitive with jemalloc on performance. I'm inclined to favor the simpler malloc.
Why would that be an anti-trust concern? What Ptacek is referring to is a CA compromise being detected. At that moment the CA would be, quite correctly, with a gun to their head as their entire purpose for existing -- their whole business model -- would have evaporated.
I will defend sarcasm. Because sometimes, the only way to see the stupidity in your argument is to hear it said back to you. And yeah, it stings a bit. All the better.
I'm honestly not sure how much they'd give a shit if I told them I'm going to "stop using the free space they've given me" because of the bad person they just put on their board.
Most western european countries get a lot of flak for policies which amount to "Employers have to treat their employees responsibly".

Employers hired a person, not a robot. People have private lives, get sick, have relatives who get sick, have children, need vacations. Those problems become the problems of an employer when they hire someone.

The government has a role in describing the norms and minimum requirements of this relationship. Most of these rules don't affect most working professionals, because they already work for employers who are responsible.
I've been looking at MEO Cloud[1]. It's by Sapo.pt, a part of Portugal Telecom. I first saw it recommended by Rui Carmo of Tao of Mac[2], who I've generally thought offers good advice. (He also is Portuguese...) And, they offer a Linux download unlike most other alternatives.

[1]: https://meocloud.pt/
[2]: http://the.taoofmac.com/

[Edited for clarity and fixed links.]