skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the assumption that image/theme services did that already, especially with website themes?

That may be an idea for a copyright troll, btw. Disseminate not-for-commercial-use for free, then charge dozen of thousands of dollars when infringement is found.
The problem is that standardized testing doesn't tell you if students are being educated, it tells you if students are passing standardized tests, which is a different problem that, at best, only partially overlaps with the actual question. If you over-optimize for standardized testing, you end up under-optimizing for actual education.

I had to take the WASL as part of my graduation from high school, back in 2003. Forcing this requirement on schools did not improve our education, it degraded it. Instead of actually reading two or three good books in our english class, we studied cliff notes of 15 or so works, so we could write shallow summaries of "key themes" for the test, for whichever books actually appeared on it. Instead of going forward with trigonometry in math, we went over estimation and hammered on very basic geometry problems. My government class stopped covering its subject matter entirely, and we studied analogies and reading comprehension, because government wasn't on the WASL (at the time; it might be now). The net effect was that as a class we did really well on that test, but our actual education suffered. That's what standardized testing gets you.
The real security problem with the cloud isn't the cloud
Or avoid the tool treadmill to start with...

That is my philosophy.

Managing licenses sometimes has a large overhead as well.
As an academic researcher in object recognition, I'm starting to wonder if I can still make significant contributions in this area, given that I'm competing with larger teams with far greater resources at Google, Microsoft, etc. For people like me, it is probably time to pivot to new problems in machine perception; the challenge is getting funding for them.
My Favorite.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar#Le...
Yes, you could propagate the mutability to argument types (your syntax is the opposite of the one proposed by the OP, not that this matters to your argument), but that’s a lot of syntactic epicycles, all to deal with the top level of one collection type. Why is it so important to have this for Arrays, and not for Hashes, or for objects, for that matter?

The Swift view, as I understand it, is that there are some types (
“struct” instances and scalars) passed with value semantics, and some types (“class” instances) passed with reference semantics, and Arrays were reclassified from being the latter to being the former. This seems to me a sensible way of targeting the common case (passing arrays in Cocoa is quite common, but passing mutable arrays is extremely rare) without burdening the language with a full set of C++ style const designations.
I think it would be better to use GreaseMonkey for this than having an extension.
I'm 4'11, so really short and overweight. I tried to keep to the 1200 calories that everyone says is the minimum, but I can't, it's often too much food for me and never really saw much in weight loss. I've been trying to go closer to 600-1000 and have seen much more results and feel healthier.
I really dislike this attitude on HN. You can have great products that make no money because cracks get popular (I have done testing with my own software and know for sure this is the case) and get higher results than the original product listing on google, Adblock, and many other methods thought to be "rights".

Even look at music piracy. Pirates did the big labels a favor: small, independent artists can't make a living anymore because everyone just expects it to now be free. They now are almost forced to go with a big label if they actually want to make any kind of living.
This is clever! I think it can be circumvented by removing all spans in a paragraph with more than 1 character.
The second stage Falcon engine appears to have suffered some insulation degradation and loss. It develops just above the bell, on the right-hand side of the motor image in the video. After second stage shutdown, a vapor emission is visible just above the site of the degradation (at the very end of the video).

Was this a normal venting, or a non-catastrophic failure of the second stage engine? Congratulations, SpaceX, on designing such a robust engine!

Video of launch: http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/2980259/videos/56576...
The problem is that standardized testing doesn't tell you if students are being educated

But what will?
I am having trouble with the last demo, I always get the full image when I print screen and then paste to paint. Anyone else?
Google Glass for Nurses
nitpick: You can run you're own scripts
Whiteboard- Focus on what matters most in your day
there is a crazy yin/yang quality to bezo's face that makes him look simultaneously like a crazed diabolical genius and a thoughtful zen master at peace with himself and the universe. The right side of the portrait being the diabolical part.
Its kinda cool even thus of course id never want that on a website.

That said, i took a screenshot on windows 8.1+Firefox and it worked just fine. I took a few more screenshots.... and they were all fine too...
It seems to me that you've basically described Digimarc®'s business model.
It's kind of irrelevant. Yes, Swift will become quite popular overnight because it will soon be the defacto way to write iOS and Mac apps. Go is struggling because it hasn't found its "reason to be" with most people. Of course this doesn't mean that Swift is better than any particular language. If Google adopted Go on Android, for example, its popularity would surge
I agree to an extent. I consider it unusual, but the nature of that word is subjective.
This is great! I'm very surprised that it isn't anywhere on the site. Instead the focus seems to be on horizontal photos, which seems ridiculous since anyone can flip their phone sideways.
Blizzard does this: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/watermark-screenshots-World...
It broke my firefox :( First, a popup error message reporting:

SyntaxHighlighter
Can't find brush for :jscript

and then the whole browser became unresponsive and needed to be restarted. On the plus side, you've helped Firefox development by discovering a new bug!
You could just use TinEye[1], which looks at the actual image data to find copies. I know some artists use it to track down illegal copying, but I'm not sure how accurate and effective it is.

http://services.tineye.com/TinEyeAlerts
One Click Deploy for Cassandra on Google Compute Engine
Regardless of what you believe I am not going to patronize you if you treat me like a thief, likewise I'm going to fight tooth and nail to ensure that I am the one that controls the device I physically own, not a content business.
What is your fallback though if amazon loses your confidence? AWS infrastructures seem very nice, but aren't you hitching yourself to their wagon in a way that doesnt give you an easy or cheap exit strategy if things go south?

I keep hoping one day that they will open source the software that runs everything so that worst case scenario you arent SOL if you want to migrate away. Some might say that would lose customers for them, but it would probably gain people like me.
This is wrong. The reason pay and job security are no longer powerful motivators is because of the way society evolved in the past few decades. It used to be common to work for the same company your entire life, forced separation from that social structure causes a lot more pain back then than now.

In addition, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a generalized framework, it's not a guide on how to day to day manage your employees. Saying it's "outdated" because its previous misinterpretations no longer apply to today's world is irresponsible.
The analog hole. If your eyes can see it, so does a camera.
Like it or not, you can't do it, so don't waste your time.
I gather there was a distinct suggestion that at least one infamous copyright troll had done something like that because the only place their content had ever been found was on The Pirate Bay, uploaded by them, which they subsequently threatened users for downloading.

(You can guess how well that turned out for them.)
It's where IP is a proxy for rewarding the original creator for the effort gone to. Clearly Kraft's designer just found the first maze that was circular-ish that came up in Google images and plonked it down and moved onto the next rush job.

Kraft clearly nicked it, or where careless as to wither it was copyrighted, but we have now wondered into output of program territory instead of the much clearer area of did kraft just grab the first thing that they could find?

You won't succeed in suing them - so this is probably the best option he has.
Nice to see a new TLD being put to use
Why should we encrypt our emails? An illustrated guide
Also this burns a lot of CPU cycles :(
I am glad that this guy tried. I found some of the techniques pretty clever and I enjoyed reading the article. I do not believe you can stop people from taking screenshots and stealing images but I never considered some of the techniques the author explained. He was much closer to solving this than I expected.
Fixed. Should learn not to write in a rush, ha.
You're right, the parent was exaggerating. Let me fix it:

It's ok guys, you're welcome to keep your Worst in the developed world working conditions, just don't expect the rest of the progressive world to.
Interesting! (Though I suggest changing the somewhat misleading headline.)
"In 1956 General Electric introduced the Telechron 7H241 Snooz-Alarm"

I bet if you could find one of those today it'd still work fine, despite being being bashed and knocked on the floor dozens of times over the years.

I don't expect my phone to even be working or usable in 2070.
Do you agree that it's sometimes desirable to communicate in a way that doesn't produce a written record? (e.g. insisting that you talk privately in person rather than over email)

If yes, then I think you agree in principle with the goal here, even if you disagree with the specific use case.
Clickbait headline – the coin is not, in any sense of the word, “found”.
If someone gets really pissed off, they will just take a pic of their screen with an SLR and then photoshop it.
Vertical video simulates the effect of straining to see through a partly closed door it is tangibly horrible.

Horizontal video simulates the effect of straining to see through a partly closed Venetian blinds it is tangibly horrible.

Now, is this any more correct? Or is it an equally arbitrary personal opinion?

The move to "wide" screen was also the move to short screen. I don't find anything natural about it; I expect to be able to move my eyes up and down as well as left and right.

A preference for short and wide screens seems more cultural than natural. Even granting that humans have better peripheral visions along the sides than top and bottom the current screens fall short in capturing this range.

My beef with most vertical videos is that people typically do not make good use of the format; there's nothing intrinsically bad or wrong about it.
The title is incredibly misleading..
> The whole article is a lead-in to a call to action in the the last 7 paragraphs which can be summarized as "you should choose one day a week and not eat on that day (it doesn't have to be Monday, though)".
No it can't

> Whatever your weight loss goals, I can highly recommend giving intermittent fasting a try.

Never does the author say that intermittent fasting should be followed by everyone.
You're still sending the picture across the network to the screen in your most valiant attempt, but by using the inspector's resources, you can get a url link to the cat image[1]. Like you say at the end of the article, it's not really worth it.

The site being slow is a better deterrent than anything written in the post. 9 Seconds to first byte[2].

[1] - http://www.patrick-wied.at/talks/image-protection/demos/cat....

[2] - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140714_WZ_S9F/
>exif

WoW does much more than that: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-w...
It took 20 years to get image interoperability down to "solved problem" status, so let's get start from scratch by coming up with something that you have no idea will work on cheap tablets, will eat up CPU on battery powered devices, and makes unwarranted assumptions about display technology! Yay!
> In theory yes, but in practice no. It's constructed around a solid core of the Objective C object model and runtime.

Not sure I agree. You won't be making a Cocoa UI in it or anything, but if they open source the compiler and modifications to the Objective C runtime, along with the standard library (which is really light right now; you have to use Cocoa for very simple things), it should be useful enough, with GNUStep.
Goodbye Upstart
The US does all of this. We pass laws involving foreigners in their own countries, we pressure their governments to go along, we kidnap people and ship them to third-world prisons to be tortured, and we start wars. Pretty indiscriminately.
That attitude is realism. It's not unreasonable to take minor steps to make casual copying easier - the clear GIF overlay is a good example of that - but there ain't no such thing as perfect digital restrictions management. Anything beyond those minor steps becomes an inconvenient nuisance for your real customers and the risk/reward paying just isn't worth it.

Imagine you have a stock photo website. Basically honest potential customers might try right-clicking a photo once to download it, and failing that will whip out their credit card. Basically dishonest non-potential customers aren't going to pay you and see your protections as something fun to be worked around.

There just isn't a business case for heroic measures that can ultimately be trivially defeated.
Sneakily, Blizzard did (does?) that to include an account ID, seemingly so that they could catch people exploiting and then proudly posting screenshots (but editing out their character name).

I've got to hand it to them, that is sneaky, but a bit underhanded. And you could sort of see something was a bit off in screenshots of the more gradiented blue skyboxes (in which it was more visible), but I'd thought that was just a poor JPEG encoding routine, until someone looked closer of course.
> independent artists can't make a living anymore because everyone just expects it to now be free.

DRM can't help artists make money. It only helps them lose more.

Examples which talk about it:

* http://www.lexi-alexander.com/blog/2014/6/1/will-the-real-pi...

> And this is my favorite part: I am 100% certain that the hacking of entertainment industry's security features provides better entertainment for these kids than the entertainment we're trying to prevent them from stealing. Let that sink in for a second, then try not to bust up laughing.

* http://brutalgamer.com/2012/03/09/cd-project-red-drm-no-long...

> Every subsequent game we will never use any DRM anymore, it’s just over-complicating things…We release the game. It’s cracked in two hours, it was no time for Witcher 2. What really surprised me is that the pirates didn’t use the GOG version, which was not protected. They took the SecuROM retail version, cracked it and said ‘we cracked it’ — meanwhile there’s a non-secure version with a simultaneous release. You’d think the GOG version would be the one floating around.”
"Tired of people stealing your content? Looking to make copying HTML text a huge pain for your users? Sick and tired of useful, well-made Python scripts?
Headache will make it so users cannot select, copy or paste html text without getting a bunch of garbage as well. Try copying this sentence. No, seriously, try it. Yeah that's right. Now try pasting it somewhere.

Now the only way you can steal my sweet, sweet content is by writing it out letter by letter or writing your own noble script that filters out all the junk. Checkmate.

You might say that this solution is unintuitive, massively inefficient and completely unnecessary. Well that's not the true Hacker Spirit now, is it?
"
;)
No, just CPython I think.
> The penny affixed to Curiosity cost the engineer who worked on the calibration target about $5. He bought it with his own money. He chose the 1909 penny because it was the first year of the Lincoln-head penny.

Calling it rare in the title is a bit of an overstatement, then, as this isn't the rare 1909 "S" VDB from the San Fransisco mint but the far more common 1909 VDB cent from Philadelphia.
Why Entrepreneurship is Like Playing FlappyBird
"forcing the deliberate use of different programming languages"

...wait, what? I don't see how this solves anything. It's like asking American schoolchildren to learn English, Russian, and Chinese before doing math. Makes no sense.
Thanks! Yeah, there are many JS ways around this, but it would be more than enough to stop most people... including myself in most cases.
NOTE: After I wrote this I'm not actually sure what va_args does with a struct or how to get a pointer to the first member...

I think you would still need to know the exact type inside of struct_printf(), unless you knew exactly how the compiler would pack a struct onto the stack or registers, and that it was exactly the same as individual parameters.
Windows 8 + Vagrant for projects that run better on Linux (node/ruby/etc).
Yes, for once I am even disappointed by the clickbait. Usually I shrug it off, but my inner space nerd was hoping for something to get giddy about.
The evidence shows that DRM in the service of corporations and businesses tends to be nasty. But there are reasons to believe that DRM, if used to protect the data and privacy of individuals would be very valuable, with the caveat that it would have to be implemented in a trustworthy way.

What if there was a way to provide access to your medical records to people who need them, only for as long as they need them? What if even the provider of the service couldn't easily circumvent this?
You can buy them in /22 blocks, but if you only need 32 addresses, then I guess that is overkill.
Well, the website's down, so I can only speculate, but, how is the website to know the screen's refresh rate? If the site assumes, say, 60 Hz, but the rate is actually 72 Hz, you'll see an odd "fading" effect between the two interlace frames at a rate of 12 Hz, which is very noticeable.

EDIT: Ah, I see he uses window.requestAnimationFrame [1] to sync with the frame rate, so this is not a problem.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.requ...
Yup. In audio copy protection this is referred to as the 'analogue hole' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole), and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.
I don't think anyone is saying piracy is not hurting anyone. To what extent, I would say there is a great deal of disagreement. If a perfect DRM existed (completely prevents privacy while leaving paying customers unaffected) everyone would implement it. However, the message is that you shouldn't stoop to making your own product worse or punish paying customers just to combat piracy. For example, if you're selling software and someone wants to buy it, they shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get it and/or use it. On the other hand if someone wants your product and doesn't want to pay for it, there is a significant probability that is a lost sale regardless of DRM efficiency. Just because a ton of people use a pirated version of your software doesn't mean that a ton of people would have bought it if you had better DRM.
> As on the Telechron, the “snooze” function on today’s alarm clocks is activated by a larger and easier to press button than the “alarm off” function. Presumably, this design was chosen so that the person being woken (who is probably very drowsy) will be more likely to hit the snooze button (and thus be woken again in several minutes) than the alarm off button (and thus sleep for several extra hours and be really late).

I think that's a compelling argument as any.
me too, it actually gives me a bit of a headache. almost like when you get used to your work laptop being 60Hz and your home monitor being 120Hz. you can't really see it but you can feel it. nope. don't like it one bit.
The function declaration with the macro is a bit awkward, IMO. I don't mean to downplay the awesomeness of the macro approach, though; FOR_EACH and putting __VA_ARGS__ at the beginning of the macro argument list isn't something I had considered before.
Obviously, The Post will be delivered by Amazon drones.
Pedantic and completely correct. H/T.
The structural reason is the government itself. There is no free market. There are no checks and balances from consumers. Telecom is a government enabled monopoly, and now you're seeing the dangers of consolidating power into a few corrupt men http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-aaron/wake-up-internet-t...
Neurobiologists Reveal The Wisdom Of The Confident
JQuery, You’re Great But…It’s Just Not Going to Work Out
If the allegation is evidence then we have to treat the denial as evidence too. Which one do we weigh more? We're in the same position as we were before the allegation was made. We still have to assume the accused is innocent, because that's what we assumed before the allegation was made.

My use of "unpacking" was not serious and in fact meant to be over-the-top condescending, as yours was.

I agree that it is not productive to continue this conversation. But for the record if you decide to argue against a bedrock ethical principle like the presumption of innocence, you should expect some pushback.

In the future you could probably earn more respect in debate, and perhaps even friends, by being less snarky and more respectful/charitable towards your opponent
It may be polite or not (I'm a poor judge of that) but more important, its inaccurate. There is no correlation between political position of a party and skill at sweeping their dirt under the carpet.
"I have met with the Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, and I believe he is a good actor that wants to do the right thing. But he is fighting against very powerful lobbyists and large companies that want to disrupt the freedom of the Internet."

"Prior to working at the FCC, Wheeler worked as a venture capitalist and lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry"
-Wikipedia

Really? Somehow I doubt that he has turned a full 180 and is now trying to protect the internet against people in his former occupation.
Direct link to the proceeding on the fcc website: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/upload/display (Proceeding #14-28 here: http://www.fcc.gov/comments)
> in any sense of the word

The Hope Diamond may be found on the second floor of the Smithsonian Institute.
>'The most important motivator for employees at work is what Amabile and Kramer call “the power of small wins“: employees are highly productive and driven to do their best work when they feel as if they’re making progress every day toward a meaningful goal.'

I thought Dan Ariely's TED talk What makes us feel good about our work? [1] did a great job of demonstrating this idea.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH2Ppjpcho
I am testing out paperplane.io right now. Seems promising but I have no idea if it works...
I've been fairly on the fence regarding net neutrality, and this article turned me around on the issue.

Previously, it was nearly impossible for me to reconcile a valid reason for regulating the telcos. It's their pipes, they should be able to route it however they want. And aside from that, we've never had net neutrality -- there's no ISP I've ever used that allows unfettered upstream access to port 80 from my home, for example. That was, up til now, my belief, which I understand is not a popular one.

That said, the final paragraph actually hit home with me.

"As long as consumers don’t have freedom of choice, last-mile traffic discrimination should be per se illegal."

If the game is already rigged, then the players should have to play by the same rules.

Edit: s/traffic/pipes/g