skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of like the syntax. I've been trying to learn erlang this year. When I put on my "erlang hat" - I think it's kind of like Bo Jackson leaving the baseball field and preparing to play football. It's just wildly different than the (shitty web stuff, mostly) things I've used in the past.

I just hope I don't dislocate a thigh.
If the author see no obvious benefits with keeping it open source but sees downsides I don't see why it would be an over reaction. I did exactly the sane thing as he a few years ago. I've since opened sourced it again since people were wanting to contribute.
The really interesting question is the implications for future precedent/innovations. The ruling says "But this difference [Aero's technological setup] means nothing to the subscriber. It means nothing to the broadcaster. We do not see how this single difference, invisible to subscriber and broadcaster alike, could transform a system that is for all practical purposes a traditional cable system into “a copy shop that provides its patrons with a library card.”
In other cases involving different kinds of service or technology providers, a user’s involvement in the operation of the provider’s equipment and selection of the content transmitted may well bear on whether the provider performs within the meaning of the Act. But the many similarities between Aereo and cable companies, considered in light of Congress’ basic purposes in amending the Copyright Act, convince us that this difference is not critical here."

What this seems to leave open is the question of whether a company that was e.g. a generic cloud service with various features and functions, among them the ability to rent a mini-antenna and stream recorded data from it to your computer, would still be infringing. It suggests the infringement is largely due to the way Aereo positioned and marketed itself to customers - the common sense reality of the service overrode the technological loophole they attempted to exploit.
Java/JavaScript, PHP, Python topped list of most popular programming languages.
Ask HN: What does a web developer typically make?
I'm asking because annual reviews have just come up, and I'd like to know what reasonable raise to ask for.

For context, I'm one year out of school, doing PHP/MySql/Javscript/CakePHP framework. The last 2 or 3 people who had my job lasted a few months each, but I've been here a year and they seem happy with me. I also feel that I've learned a lot in the year since I've left school, so I'm worth more than the salary they hired me at. I'm at $20/hr for 35 hours a week in a tech town in BC. Benefits are generous and working conditions are extremely comfortable.
Looks great, but I'm not an iOS developer so I can't use it :(

Are you thinking of expanding to other platforms other than iOS?
This.

Aereo wanted to define the activity by drawing a box around the tiny antenna and the user.

The Supremes draw the box around Aereo and their customer base.
Well, the problem is that Aereo probably could not have prevailed at SCOTUS, because SCOTUS looks to precedent. In this case, their interpretation of the precedent itself (Copyright Act of 1976) was accurate, even if that precedent is out of date in our eyes. If you want SCOTUS justices to innovate, you need to challenge the precedents at their fundamental level, or else point to other precedents that should invalidate or challenge them.

Bear in mind that the function of the Supreme Court isn't to propose new laws (legislate); it's to rule on existing laws. By its own mandate, the Supreme Court does not serve an innovative function in government. It serves an examination and arbitration function. If we want to change anything here, we'll have to start in the other branches of government, or else bring a case that sufficiently challenges the Copyright Act.
I agree, they created something great and they are providing more non-biased information on the product.
..."And we have not considered whether the public performance right is in- fringed when the user of a service pays primarily for something other than the transmission of copyrighted works, such as the remote storage of content."
I'm not going to presume to know anything about you, but as soon as your system interfaces with human beings, your system needs to adapt to human nature. You can't say "there's no excusing it" and "cause of their own demise". Humans act as humans tend to do - why should the security of your system rely on humans changing their natural behavior?
I'd even make the effort of encrypting yourself any data you want to protect that you send to s3. GnuPG is not that hard to use with RSA.
One of my best friends is a brilliant internationally notable figure in his field and has a serious cocaine problem. To the point where its destroyed his life and left him jobless and homeless at least once. He burned all his income on drugs, lost his job, ended up not being to afford rent, put his place on Airbnb year round and then couch surfed while borrowing money for food and drugs.

When I lived in LA I knew a few high-functioning heroin addicts. It gets the better of everyone eventually. The fact that you can go about your day-to-day and none of your acquaintances pick up on it can be reinforcement to go further, test the limits.

If you have a well paying engineering job you have the money to get yourself to a good doctor. Just saying.
This is really great progress. I will give it a try and let you know of my feedback.
Playing with phones, shaving, applying makeup, dozing off, etc., are all common. I ride a motorcycle. I'm dreaming of the day when technology makes those thing immaterial to the safety profile of a ton of metal moving at 70mph.
Here you go: http://cl.ly/1h0P1W2h181W
AFAWK, JIRA is tasks for R&D, period.

daPulse is a collaboration tool, so R&D, design, marketing, management - everyone in the company uses it.

It is a bit like you described, PM + social + tasks, but it's designed to help everyone focus on the 'big things'. What it really does is gives everyone in the company one unified view of top priorities, so everyone's in focus on what's important and it gets everyone collaborating with zero e-mails.
Thanks for your branding suggestions. I really appreciate it!
My opinion on Wonga and other similar companies is that the usury laws which were repealed in the mid 19th century should be reinstated. In those times convicted usurers danced on the end of a noose, but I'm not suggesting that be used as a punishment these days. Mere imprisonment is probably a good enough deterrent.
I have seen people and some cops with their phone mounted on their chest or shoulder with the camera pointing forward. Also a phone can record audio even if it's hidden (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/14_key.s...).
Yeah, it seems like it promotes learning by rote vs learning how it actually works.

Grok vim!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
I appreciate the suggestion for more concrete targeting.
Eclipse 4.4, Luna, released
That's odd reasoning. It sounds like you are saying that any conformance to the law is somehow exploiting a loophole.
I would hazard a guess that it's because the intended audience is the node js crowd.

Maybe apart from games, most of this is irrelevant for browser side javascript.
Node.js is the answer, here. Most stuff you do on the client (outside webgl and game calculations) shouldn't be impacted heavily by these kinds of optimization snafus. But if you're trying to get your server to be as performant as possible, these can really kill you if you snafu naïvely.
GitHub-Changelog – a robust notification system built on top of GitHub
Github-changelog provides a mechanism to communicate to the users of your web app that updates are available and that they should reload to see the changes
"remain in production for decades because there is no prospect of a faster, cheaper better product coming along any time soon."

The future is already here, just unevenly distributed in tech.

My Dad did parallax "basic stamp" microcontroller dev work in the 90s, maybe 80s, that stuff is old... you can buy a pin compatible form today, admittedly for about twice the cost of a ras-pi. The arduino and pi will eventually wipe out the stamp, but people have been saying that for many years now, of course.

As an analog RF EE example, the ne602 chip has been around for decades (oh at least 2 or 3 now) and people today are still shipping new ham radio kits using it, despite its laughable IP3 large signal specs its still "good enough".
Because it's not about "the cloud" in general. It's about specifically the rebroadcast of television radio signals, concerning which there's a substantial body of law created to govern the activities of cable TV providers.

In other words, the SC just defined Aereo as a cable company, when they wanted to be a cloud services company.
100% agree. Fly to SF, knock down every door, connect with every twitter employee possible on Linkedin, and find out who you need to talk to.
Yes, we'll add Android support later this year.
Describing Obamacare as liberal is a bit of a stretch.
- a Canadian
Really? I've never had problems getting to the SCOTUS opinion PDFs, and that's pretty impressive since the traffic must be intense right after a ruling is released. And it would be difficult to use a CDN because the decisions CANNOT be released early.
Agreed. I'm honestly not sure how it could be made easier.
It can and it is, but it might have to be scaled out.

http://www.couchbase.com/liveperson
http://www.couchbase.com/paypal
We fully support LinkedIN imports, when you create your resume you have the option of starting from scratch, or importing a LinkedIN Profile. We are planning on implementing Facebook and Github as well.
The Trouble With Healthcare Startups
Once solution would be to move the antennas to user premise and make it more peer to peer in nature.
I would not describe Roberts as liberal, per se. However, I would think that someone has got some dirt on him. No way to explain his voting record, otherwise.
I don't get all the Facebook hate. Facebook only knows what you tell it. Put up a profile, don't post too much or at all, don't download the app (use the mobile version), don't use facebook connect, and don't use any facebook apps.

Just use it to keep in touch or get back in touch with people you otherwise would not be able to.

Sure, they're like any other company and will relentlessly push for your to share more and do whatever they can get away with to access more of your personal information, but that sort of comes with the territory. They are basically an identity management company after all.
The other thing people miss is that the cost of things like a credit report, staff time (underwriting, admin, collections) and bank fees don't vary with the size of the loan.
There are Supreme Court decisions that are generally regarded as "wrong" by posterity. Dred Scott v. Sandford comes to mind.
I'd really like to thank you for the article. I'm in the phase of "I have an idea for a game, how can I make it a real product" and this really helped me getting the right direction!
Ironic that I see you guys advertising on FB all the time. Would love to chat about your marketing efforts there - from everything I've gathered it's a very difficult channel to scale for most businesses. (My email is in my profile if you're game.)
Supreme Court rules that iPhones aren't really phones
Proxy.app Receives a Facelift
You can't say "there's no excusing it" and "cause of their own demise".

Yes, you absolutely can and should say that. This isn't human nature, but is simply accepted and defended behavior that gets caught out again, and again, and again. I have absolutely no doubt that many visitors to HN are guilty of this, and instead of confronting the reality of their insecurity, pretend it's someone else's fault.

Each time some random, irrelevant message board has a password exploit, everyone who should know better rushes forth to pillorize the operator because of the greater danger, yet the operator may have been sharing those passwords on the black market for time eternal. The operator may have been putting their plaintext backups on a compromised FTP site for years. They may have engaged endless contractors who made their own backups and are busy buying stuff on Amazon for it.

But instead we argue pretend security measures, when the horses have not only bolted, they're several states away.

It is complete idiocy to use passwords across services. Utter insanity. It is the worst possible practice imaginable, and is never, ever excusable.

If you used the same password across sites, you simply must assume that since day one it has been compromised, and it is your own doing.

But here we excuse it. And then, in excusing it and defending it and supporting it, claim that it's "human nature". It isn't human nature at all.

How To Hack 60% of Hacker News: Create a service requiring users to create logins, submitting it as a show HN. Harvest email/passwords from very foolish people and enjoy their access everywhere else.
>Aereo is not violating anything but they should have been prepared for something like this.

In what other sense could they have been prepared? They fully expected to end up in the courts, likely through the supreme court, and planned appropriately. They lost the case, but it doesn't seem to be for lack of preparation.
I imagine the argument fails because it's obvious to anyone who looks at the company's offerings for two seconds that the "rent antennas" thing is just an excuse, and that their actual business model is that they charge for streaming TV.
Your points about the way law works are exactly where technical people often run into trouble when they reason about the law.

Given that the TV broadcasters are paying for the right to broadcast (often gigantic amounts of money), I don't see a problem with preventing an Aereo from free-riding on that privilege. YMMV.
They wrote 18 pages explaining their reasoning complete with citations, and that's your rebuttal?
I was looking for a good book about Node.js to supplement the random web tutorials I've found. But the only review on Amazon points out that this book does not cover Express 4. Too bad.
Hah, I didn't think of that! Just before reading this comment I was working along in the editor, furiously pressing j/k. I'll put this to use immediately.
very sad day for consumers and tech, lots of possible business models broken.
Wow, thanks for all of your points and suggestions! Unfortunately, I'll only be able to attend to them in an hour or so, so please bear with me and I promise personal attention to each any every point made here.
22 comments. 20 about usury/rates/APR. 2 about fake law firms (the subject of the article).
Inferring Unseen Views of People [pdf]
It's called scaling horizontally, and pretty much every company that cares about service availability does it. Is that really your argument?
It's mostly to do with the various plugins that I use. I can pretty quickly get to syntax highlighting and editing with vim (read: instantly), but the other tools that I like integrating into my editing are where I hit a wall every time. Even with that I could sync everything via git or dropbox or whatever else that I wanted to do. It's just the fact that I have to dig through my mental notes to get it working. I also don't specifically have a VIM haskell environment to clone. (I don't have a sublime haskell environment to clone, either)

I'm not that it's necessarily excessively complicated; it's just not particularly straight forward, either. This could just be a failing on my part, but I haven't set up a vim environment in about a year, and there were enough confusing parts to do a little head scratching to get haskell plugins working to make me grab something else for now. With ST2, it's been about the same amount of time since I've set it up and only took around ten minutes to finish (that's with plugins to integrate HLint, compilation, a repl, type checking, etc).

Again, keep in mind that I said this was a very narrow use-case/situation. I'm not arguing that VIM is more difficult to set up for any case outside of the exact one I said. I'm not saying it is or isn't a generalizable point. I'd really have to do more digging to find out. What I am saying is that in this situation ST2 was easier to setup.

I'm also not arguing against VIM because of setup time/difficulties. Setting up a coding environment should be a relatively small chunk of the total time you spend using it to code. I'm just noting a relevant experience I had last night.
That's one version. The other is that you simply watch the show in near-real-time, just as you would if the camera were sitting in your window.

IANAL, but felt like the DVR functionality really clouded the case and possibly skewed it away from Aereo. Harder to claim you are merely an antenna when you are recording, too.
Cellphones Can’t Be Searched Without a Warrant, Supreme Court Rules
Can't say much about that area, but one point of reference to keep in mind is: raise below the rate of inflation means you're effectively getting paid less. So basically +2% means no raise. Many people forget this.
The issue with Pay day loans are that they are by their nature unfair, and they're run by morally dubious people who have no issue with profiting from this unfairness.

Therefore they target people who don't understand what the impact will be with slick marketing. These naive, often uneducated people are fooled into thinking they're only borrowing £10 to pay for nappies, but they're really borrowing the potential for financial catastrophe.

In a truly civilised society, pay day loans would still exist, but they'd be run as a special financial instrument of government, and be means tested with sliding scale interest rates and all profits would be put into educating these people about finance awareness.

This way the idiot who doesn't have the money to buy the next CoD on the day of release, but must have it, would pay a high interest rate, but the mother who needs nappies would maybe get the loan as specific vouchers at a much much lower interest rate.
> The Supreme Court is not able to be wrong on a matter of U.S. law. It gets to decide what that law means, not you.

The Supreme Court decides interpretations of law, but the law itself (as written or as interpreted) is quite capable of being wrong. Law does not determine morality.
27 Data-slurping facts Buzzfeed doesn't want you to know
Sorry, if I was not clear. I don't see a meaningful difference free will makes at human complexity levels when it comes to morality.

Basically, if given identical situations we always chose the same response then we don't have free will. The only other option is randomness, basically given identical physical and spiritual situations we somewhat randomly pick an outcome.

Further DNA is tied to identity making the classic argument if you had lived his life you could have made the same choices not be true.
In theory the companies are regulated to protect people from the worst excess while still allowing legal behaviour.

I'd prefer the companies to offer a rigorous debt management interview before offering credit. People get budgeting advice; are told how to switch utility provider; are advised if they're paying over the odds for anything; trained how to budget; and then given a short term loan to help them.

There is a lot of scummy behaviour at this end of the market. "Cash for gold" pays well below the rate; doorstep loans are abusive; credit cards have high rates of interest; etc etc.

In England there is a niche for services and apps that help people learn how to budget and spend within their means.

Benefits and tax credits are very complex, and anything that helps naive people negotiate through those systems would be useful.
So much wrong for such a short article. Sure, if we covered that many square km of Algerian desert with solar panels, we could generate enough electricity to power the world. Electricity generation is not our primary problem, electricity distribution is. Even with traditional power generation distribution is the major source of energy loss - so much more energy is required to be generated to get a usable amount to your home and business. Generating the world's electricity in Algeria is easy, you have strong sunlight, all the time, with rare weather and seasonal variances. But in order to even distribute that power to the other side of the Mediterranean, you'd have to generate several times that much power.
1. "Obamacare" is an implementation of the Heritage Foundation's[0] health plan from the early 90s. It's "liberal" in the same sense that any Republican can be said to be "liberal."

2. Roberts has a deep and wide judicially conservative record. He cannot be called "liberal" in the context of American politics; it's not even up for debate. The man and his judicial practice is as conservative as they come.

3. I really don't see why it matters. The justices' political leanings have nothing to do with whether or not their decisions are "correct" or not (although it may provide insight into why they decide one way or another).

[0]www.heritage.org
Sounds to me like you are looking for excuses not to solve your own problem...IF you have a means of reaching out to the guy, do so , whats the worst that can happen?
Author here - I found this old PDF in my gmail inbox, and have lost the source long ago.

I'll see if I can extract the text out of it.
Snapshot of police militarization in the United States
The way some corporate IP and Privacy policies are worded this would be something as an employee to avoid. The last thing you want to do is co-mingle behavioural information between work and personal/business.
Seeking Rejection Immunity
I really like vim and use it every day, but I'm honestly never going to commit all this to memory.
Remember, Obamacare is the health care plan the Republicans proposed after rejecting any kind of single-payer universal plan. That the Republicans subsequently also opposed their own health care proposal speaks more to their basic coherence than their political ideology, per se.
Given that Couchbase is very aware of my criticism of the last time Thumbtack benchmarked C* vs Couchbase, it's significant that no mention is made of efforts to have both systems do durable writes. It looks like they made the same mistake a second time: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/how-not-to-benchmark-cassan...

(Update: the Couchbase pdf says that they used "the fastest consistency and durability modes available for the particular database" as cover for benchmarking different things... but even that wasn't done right; no mention is made of setting durable_writes=false in Cassandra.)
Can you elaborate? "pretty sure" sounds like a hunch rather than actual data.
Introduction to Microprocessors and Design
http://stackoverflow.com/a/24411575/1507139

I see this as being a basic introduction to Microprocessors and Design. I'd really appreciate any feedback and suggestions on clarifications or corrections.
MongoDB 2.8 enhancements revealed
Intrade paid everyone back in full.
If the word "Israeli" were omitted, I don't think anyone would have questioned if it were constructive. I don't know that the extra bit of specificity ruined it, for me, at least.
That problem has a generic solution:

https://github.com/eteeselink/bffmt
If that's true, then why is their home page filled with talk about "watch live TV" and not a single word about renting an antenna?

When I look at their offerings, I can immediately see that they're selling a streaming TV service and it just happens to be implemented by receiving radio-frequency broadcasts. Supreme Court justices aren't idiots, and they can probably see that too.
There's also a Scribd mirror up: http://www.scribd.com/doc/231280851/ABC-v-Aereo-Decision
I think you're talking about Phil Katz the author of PKZIP and the creator of the zip format. AFAIK, Eugene Roshal, the author of WinRar is still alive and kicking.
It isn't scaling horizontally at all. You scale horizontally to increase your capacity, installing one antenna for every user has zero to do with capacity and everything to do with legality.
How about the web platform?