skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But signals transmitted out into the world does not fit neatly into any of those four categories.

Therein lies IMO one of the big issues with US justice: the law is interpreted literally. But the aim of the original law (what it attempted to protect or achieve, i.e. the citizens' privacy) is not really deemed relevant.
"you will begin to write code as an entrepreneur" - what does this even mean?
This seems like a moot compliant. You can always buy a rootable android phone, or a Firefox phone.

This is like complaining that your newspaper already has ink on it stating someone else's opinion. If you want it to be blank, buy a pad from an art store.
> The UK made nothing to spread it

Have you heard of the British Empire? The UK did quite a lot to spread their legal traditions.
At a guess: the old-fashioned Unix way of composing mail and Usenet messages is to have your client call your editor. Rot13 was (is?) common in Usenet discussions of fiction to avoid posting spoilers where anyone can accidentally read them. It's not something you would use when editing source code.
Are you asking the mechanism? It's because ? is defined as an action to rot13 the selected text.

Are you asking the motivation? I presume it's because someone wanted to be able to easily obscure things like spoilers in messages to mailing lists.

As a mnemonic, it doesn't seem unreasonable.
FoundationDB did just that: http://blog.foundationdb.com/call-me-maybe-foundationdb-vs-j...
Oh crap. First google+, now facebook? I hate employers making me use these horrible things. I'm now going to avoid working for companies that do.

> Facebook only knows what you tell it.

Facebook collects lots of information on you if you're a member or not, and much more than you tell it. Don't believe me? Search on those keywords.
I don't have any more specific information as my obsession with MPD has waned over the years, but the rationale for drug companies is basically if a drug doesn't make some Billions of dollars than its considered a failure. With limited money to spend for research it makes financial sense to spend it on drugs with the highest potential. Hairloss drugs haven't done well in the marketplace mainly because their effectiveness is limited along with a difficult regimen. But that is enough to deter drug companies from continued research.
Let's say I register for a Web Hosting solution. And then I receive a email containing a username built upon the information I gave them and a generated password to access the cPanel.

Is this offending? Let's also pretend that I have to change this password upon my first login.
"old-fashioned Unix way of composing mail and Usenet messages is to have your client call your editor"

Some of us still do that. I <3 nmh.
Well tbh its like clockwork. This is a team that yearly releases tons of updates, when its that regular you dont really promotion. I'm always downloading first day.

The only compatibility issue I found was with stupid Perforce which hasn't been updated to the latest icu4j yet. That's amazing for the 50 or so plugins I run.

Other than that I use community plugins (Perforce mandated by employer)
The first person to do so will be a sucker. Seriously, look at how, why, and by whom laws are written. Ignore the marketing, whether it's from politicians or the pundits who parrot them.
I've got an idea. CAPTCHAs could be replaced with suitable items of work from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. It stands to reason that these can't be solved by current computer vision algos, or else they wouldn't be on Mechanical Turk in the first place(?), and the side benefit is that the site owner can collect the 5 cents or whatever the going rate is.
So, I just spent the last two months working out the details of how to put a digital cable channel on a hotel cable headend. I have some clarification of what may be going on here.

Cable headends tend not to have very much compression equipment, sometimes they have stuff used for feeds local to the headend, but usually the compression happens at the originating facility. For something like CNN, this is at their studio. The signal with that original compression is encrypted, uplinked to the satellite and then received off the satellite by receivers at the headend. It comes out of that receiver as a compressed digital signal called ASI, which is MPEG2 compressed video over SDI. It is then typically fed into a demultiplexer/multiplexer that will combine or separate it into different streams and then it is fed into a QAM modulator. For ATSC the same is fed into a 8vsb modulator (or something like that). For encrypted systems it is fed into a encryption unit before being fed into the QAM modulator. The key here is that each video stream is not recompressed even when it is remultiplexed.

The issue may be that of signal strengths and associated error rates and how that is reflected in encrypted streams. Typically encryption cases degradation to be reflected poorly in the signal compared to unencrypted signals.
No the title still works.

Police can't search your cell phone without a warrant.

Police that arrest you can't search your cell phone without a warrant.
Could you point out the joke? I can't locate anything that could be interpreted as one. It would be especially odd for it to be a joke since you've been around HN long enough to know better.
Seeking adwords startup cofounder, must be in SF
MIT grad. background in adwords sem seo landing page optimization.

I have an idea for a startup based on building custom ad systems on top of the Adwords API.
It would let customers test out hundreds of ad / landing page combinations. I've helped a startup build a similar system.

Interested?
some nice to haves: ruby, SQL, javascript, interest in adtech

www.linkedin.com/in/russellmiller/

If interested, let me know if you'd like to get coffee Thursday, I'm in soma

-Russell
Not necessarily. Everybody has a burn rate for money, as a natural feature of living in a market economy where we do work for pay. At its minima, its the cost to meet Maslow's needs. In the worst version, if our pay goes below the absolute minima, then we'll likely be eating our wealth, looking for other support, going homeless, or dying.

Unfortunately, we also tend to be habit creatures, and our burn rate often stabilizes to our pay and our social class (keeping up with the Jones'). If our real wage starts to go down, then we often have trouble adapting, and keep burning as if we were still at the prior equilibrium (credit card debt, eating into savings, taking out loans).

This is made even worse when the source of real wage reduction is the subtle erosion of our buying power through inflation. We complain about how much things cost, but we still see our paychecks slightly increasing so it seems good, and the burn gets worse.
First Evidence Of A Correction To The Speed of Light
Thanks, I've added wording for that.
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"Frequently bought together: Node.js Blueprints + Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design"

What? Seriously?
Thanks for the info. My obsession with MPB has waned over the years so my information is no doubt out of date.
That's a good point, but I think it goes a bit over what I was getting at.
D3.js may not itself be a charting library but there are numerous adaptions that make it easy to work with - especially with angular:
http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/
http://nvd3.org/
Derivative works in a different medium might be helpful, yes.

Notice the author in your example retained full copyright over the games. The author is not allowing derivative games.
Solidworks and surface pro3
Why Ugly First Versions Can Lead to Your Success
It is complete idiocy to use passwords across services. Utter insanity. It is the worst possible practice imaginable, and is never, ever excusable.

It's one thing to argue for improving people's password practices, but please don't pretend that there's no reason for their behavior. The vast majority of people who share passwords between sites experience no repercussions from their choice. And choosing not to create a new password for every site saves them time and potential frustration.

That's the human nature part, to assess the risk of behavior and change it only if future experiences show that the costs associated with that behavior are too high. Since most people don't experience the disadvantages and do experience the benefits this behavior continues.

We can encourage more people to avoid this behavior by explaining the potential impacts and providing accurate estimates of the risk they're taking. We can offer alternatives to password reuse, like using a password manager. But ultimately they are still going to weigh their perception of the risk and benefits to make their own decision.
Some drivers do. Some drivers don't. Before DataStax started providing their own driver, the default Cassandra driver didn't.
At the same time, D3 makes all sorts of smart decisions for you when you're making charts with it. I'm always pleasantly surprised, for example, by how D3 picks just the right number of tick marks on axes. Mike Bostock has taste and deep knowledge of how to make good visualizations, and it shows. A similar library made by a less able person would barf out way uglier charts.
Is a plain for loop with a counter significantly faster than a forEach? With Object.keys I've been enjoying the simplicity of statements like

Object.keys(obj).forEach(function (key) {
console.log(obj[key]);
});

but does that hamstring my performance?
Yes, anti-aliased selections! I love Paint.NET. It suits all my image editing needs completely. I've been using it for over 2 years. It's my go-to image editing program and I recommend it to anyone who wants a professional, feature-full, and free tool.
I guess CP/M did that, and that's why MS-DOS did it as well.
Cool, and points up something about this brave new world. Point enough cameras at enough venues, and we quit needing scheduled events. If your art existed once, it exists online forever! Imagine an open stage and mic, where artists could queue up and perform under an omnipresent camera. Just record the timestamp and post yourself as a fraction of a larger continuous stream.
Aereo was banking on partially-relevant case law - not the statute itself - from the Second Circuit which was contradicted elsewhere in the US.
> Therein lies IMO one of the big issues with US justice: the law is interpreted literally. But the aim of the original law (what it attempted to protect or achieve, i.e. the citizens' privacy) is not really deemed relevant.

In the US legal system, the intent of the law is considered quite relevant in the application of the law.
I assume you can also use the regular website.
One can simultaneously have a relatively free market in thumbnails and combs and a relatively closed market in currency and assassinations.
It's probably more like "We're being forced to say we're sorry by the FCA"
There are certain features where this would be problematic. Things such as copy/paste to/from the OS clipboard, and a few extensions that require ruby support (since ruby isn't always available).
Ask HN: How to distribute jobs to multiple workers (servers)
Situation: I have lot of large file conversions from many customers which needs to be executed. Currently, I have a dashboard created which POSTs to a remote server. The endpoint on the remote server will shell execute a python script to launch file conversion. When it finishes, the python script will POST back to the server running dashboard.

I've been looking at solutions like https://github.com/irmen/Pyro4 but I can't help but feel like I'm reinventing the wheel here. What I would need is a way to launch long running tasks on a cluster of remote worker servers that would be aware of load balancing.

What task management framework is suitable for my case?
D3 is a data binding library. The data, enter, exit cycle is the heart of the library. You can use it to bind data to any DOM elements.
>The problem is Aereo is charging for this service

To me that's like saying Sony who charges $150 for an outdoor digital antenna, RCA who charges $80 for a signal amplifier, and the installer who charges $500 to rig it all properly should all pay the content owners because they enabled me to watch the freely available content.

I could pay Aereo a small monthly charge or I could modify my house at great expense and end up with the exact same outcome. I don't see the difference.
New Amazon terms amount to 'assisted suicide' for book industry, experts claim
It's a good thought, but the FAQ starts with what we are, why and how to contribute.
Interesting. Where was this, and what kind of interaction preceded their entry (if you recall)?
And some of all those important specializations have only a few dozens workers on the whole planet...

iirc, he counted the minimum population for a civilization like ours at 100 million. The implications for space explorations are not good.

But not even Stross had any real opinions on how this will change with advanced 3D-printing.
Google Material Design
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The French Startup Ecosystem: At a Tipping Point
SWT on win :P Awesome till customization required. Who said native was a good idea again for ui? I'm starting to see why Swing can be preferable. I wonder how well JavaFX does with theming.
Reagan and Clinton both presided over massive deregulation efforts across wide ranges of industry, and there is very obvious correlation between those efforts and the economic changes in the last 30 years. The widening of the gap between rich and poor maps very closely with tax reduction policies that disproportionately help the wealthiest and industry deregulation, particularly of the finance industry. The housing crisis of 2008 would not have happened under the regulatory regime of 1988.

And no, correlation is not causation. (The housing crisis of 2008 was not caused by deregulation, and there's a lot of blame to be shared across the political spectrum.) But it's hard not to notice over the long term that when the crazy leftists predict X will happen after a given massive act of deregulation and the sane rational libertarians predict Y, for the last thirty years we've almost always gotten X. And the libertarian response is always, "It's because you just didn't deregulate enough." Well, yes, that's one possible conclusion...
Ah, excellent! I used to always use the feather selection tool but this should be more helpful.
if punishment doesn't work, we can stop wasting time on it and expend our energy on more constructive responses to undesirable behaviour

I think this is the crux of my disagreement.

I don't see how the validity of determinism has any bearing on the efficacy of punishment. Determined or not, people react to punishment in measurable and generally predictable ways, if we discover that all human actions are determined, nothing has changed, all the same motivations for punishment remain in place; it (ostensibly) continues to discourage undesirable behavior, communicates society's disapproval of that behavior, and provides victims with a sense of justice. If anything, determinism only underscores the notion that individuals will react to stimuli, a fact that is equally true if those reactions were "freely" chosen by the individual.
Udacity and Google team up to offer a free course in Android fundamentals
Oh man they've added 5000 API calls. That's 1000 more than iOS 8. Guess Google wins.
I'm with you, Pixelmator is a bundle of aggravation. I can't stand it.
The economy shrank at an annualized rate of 2.9% over one quarter. That's 2.9% / 4 ~= 0.7% in Q1.
Really fascinating comparison of Go and another, older language. It is a little sad seeing us reinvent the wheel, over and over--but a bit rounder every time, one hopes.
Because then users would lose faith in your service?
Also, your service can then be abused. Think about a hacker ramping up charges on a credit card, only to have fraud detection activated and you losing money (and getting worse rates in the process).
Do you place a maximum amount of data in that 10s window? If not, it too is arbitrary. I do think batching concurrent writes is nice.
It's a fairly common interpretation in many areas of law.

E.g. while it hasn't reached the Supremes, a bunch of states that have shall issue concealed carry regimes have been forced by the courts to extend these to permanent resident aliens (AKA Green Card holders), who in general are pretty much treated as citizens except they can't vote and of course can be deported.
What's your definition of innovation?
Android has completely leapfrogged iOS in every way...including design.
Google already won so no big deal.
Ok, I think I see what's going on here.

DMCA says: if you want to have a safe harbor, these are the basic things you have to do. You have to name an agent, take notices, takedown promptly, have a repeat infringer policy, etc. If you don't do those things, you lose your safe harbor.

SoundCloud does all those things, so they get the safe harbor.

The additional systems they have chosen to put in place are just that, additional. Adhering to DMCA is not required (though you don't get the safe harbor if you don't) and it's not a ceiling on what kinds of arrangements companies can make with each other.

But again, you're right that it's the thing that burned me here, and I think they merit a lot more scrutiny than they get, and I'm trying to lead that scrutiny more in other places. Prohibiting additional measures would also tangle up other site "guidelines" like the Vimeo one I mentioned, or even YouTube's ability to do content matching and revenue splitting.

You've identified a really key problem though, that those additional rules, whether offensive or inoffensive, are made completely at the discretion of online services and generally without input from users.
It has been about a day without a response so I'm assuming you lack such sources/evidence to support your claim.
He doesn't assert that it doesn't work with it. Rather, the author states you shouldn't interact heavily with the DOM with both Angular and D3 - choose one to keep things simpler.
Wonga is backed by Index Ventures, who otherwise have a very fine reputation (they are major backers of Dropbox, for example)

Companies like Wonga should really be legislated out of existence. I am disappointed that a reputable VC like Index Ventures would want to be associated with a company like Wonga.
What I find interesting is that when people go to the PDN forums to call him out on it, even in a nice way ("hey, I love your software but I got a bunch of malware instead due to the big fake buttons, just wanted you to know"), he blasts them and whines about how little money he makes off of a project he pours his life into, and how he's going to just quit because it's not worth the hassle anymore.

Then he releases a new version, makes even bigger buttons that lead to even scummier malware, and the cycle repeats.

I get the need to make money off of your hard work, and certainly the guy does a fantastic job on the software, but he's pulling some really shitty tactics to make that money. Why not a lite/pro version setup, or something else above board?
Nope - it's the unlicensed transmission that this decision covers. The opinion actually states that a cable company (with its licenses) would be able to offer the DVR portion of the service.
The DVR thing was covered in the Second Circuit's Cartoon Network/Cablevision decision. It's what gave Aereo the idea to try the many-antennas approach. The biggest difference is that Cablevision has broadcast licenses.
This is a solid decision that will curb abusive searches and help other Fourth Amendment litigation, including ongoing cases involving warrantless cell phone tracking. (That's because many of the concepts about the importance of mobile devices are true in the tracking context as well.)

But it also shows how long it takes for the legal system to fix these problems. I wrote these articles over 7 years ago about how cops in San Francisco and elsewhere were searching phones a decade ago, and the practice has likely been going on for even longer:
http://news.cnet.com/Police-Blotter-Cops-need-warrant-to-sea...
http://news.cnet.com/Police-blotter-Cops-OK-to-copy-cell-pho...

This may be a lesson for HN readers trying to solve privacy problems.

Option #1, enacting a new law, tends to be an exercise in futility: California rejected a fix to cell phone searches in 2011, and Congress did nothing on cell phone searches (nor has it enacted a law to fix warrantless email searches or rein in the NSA post-Snowden).

Option #2, relying on the courts, may work, but it may not. It took 10 years to fix cell phone searches, and only after millions of dollars worth of concerted advocacy by EFF, ACLU, etc. And it might have gone the other way: remember the courts have blessed the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections because of the War On Some Politically Unpopular Drugs.

Option #3, creating technology, works as soon as you can deploy it, and is subject to the laws of mathematics rather than whether a SCOTUS justice is a crankypants today when it comes to privacy. Of course the NSA may try to subvert your encryption/anonymizer/etc., but its attempts may fail, and, besides, intelligence agencies already subverted Congress long ago. :)
The Supreme Court is wrong

The Supreme Court is unfortunately trapped. As the opinion notes, the Court once took a position very like Aereo's, way back in 1968, on the subject of shared "community" antennas (Fortnightly v. United Artists).

The Court's position today is that Congress more or less immediately amended the Copyright Act in response to that decision, and now the law as written no longer supports the Court's former position (and thus no longer supports Aereo's position).
Google Glass does not have an LED on it when it is recording.

And yes, it is possible to make a surreptitious recording with any camera, but there is no comparison.

With other cameras including cellphones, it takes a tricky and intentional effort, with the risk of social consequences if discovered.

Glass is designed to make it ubiquitous and effortless to record people, with no indication to those being surveilled.
All they really need to do is stop dealing with Amazon. At all. Make their own books-only retail outlet. Amazon's not the only group that can play hardball.

Anti-trust means they have to be careful, but they could form an independent group. It could be done.
I was extremely disappointed when they started talking about "Material Design", hinting at tactile screens by showing what one might look like, and then going on to talk about it as a metaphor for tactility.

Still looks nice, but that was mean.
Use the "towel technique" for back pain at your desk
1. You're right. Fixed.

2. Rephrased.
Good point. After all, most interactive applications read and write data from local files via SCP and S3.
(haven't read the article yet, keep getting 504s)

Regarding feasibility & cost, what do you think of the old '"Proof-of-Work" Proves Not to Work' paper? [1] From what I remember, the time to hash adequately would be too long to be of practical use/benefit.

[1] http://www.hashcash.org/papers/proof-work.pdf
Reset a Mediatek Smartphone With a SMS
How does this stop spammers? Are they supposed to give up because it uses up too much time (and CPU and therefore electricity)?

- Botnet operations are hacked PCs. They aren't paying for CPU time.

- Low-rent spammers often use hacked or rented servers. They aren't paying for CPU time.

- Even I don't pay for CPU load on my VPS.

This won't stop spam. Simple as that. You might get money from this but you're also going to keep getting spam. Oh and you'll chronically annoy everybody on a slow computer who doesn't want to wait.

Compare it to this $0.70/1000 for CAPTCHAs. That's really expensive because it's real money. It also takes time. It also doesn't guarantee posting (many sites have secondary spam-detection features) which might mean 90% are insta-deleted, 5% are held for moderation and only 5% make it through. $0.014/post is actually pretty expensive. Much more than they're spending to get past you.