skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with rule-breakers being intrinsically Stage 6 in Kohlberg's stages. Such breaking of rules must be based on reasoning from ethical first principles. So, for instance, if I reason "I am hungry and bread will sate me therefore I will break into this bakery and eat the bread" I am not performing any moral reasoning at all even though I'm a rule breaker. It's not categorical.

From what I can see, there doesn't seem to be a moral categorical imperative behind the choices that the 'rule-breakers' here are making. They are doing so because it is expedient. They make more money in an easier way by breaking the rule and so they do it. If we applied the universality required here to that, this must mean that anyone who can make money in an easier way by breaking it, should.

Of course we could describe the Uber-side here as relentless warriors for freedom, but that is unlikely to be accurate. Uber drivers I have spoken to do not have that as a prime motivation. I take Uber every day, and love it, but I feel you're not describing the situation accurately.
The point I was trying to make is that a civil engineer from the US might take a lot of factors for granted. And given those factors it would completely make sense to build a pipeline. But it sounds like those factors don't apply in Sana'a.

It's not the OPs inability to believe that's the problem. Show him all of his flawed assumption and he'd readily change his mind (I would hope anyhow). But how do you disabuse him of those things which he takes for granted here in the US? That's a difficult process.
Positive proof that you can make everything sound ridiculous if you half-assedly read about it, cherry-pick some sentences, and misinterpret them as it suits your preconceived opinions. Saying that GP's criticism is just inaccurate would be extremely charitable.
Queues: Job queues, message queues and other queues
Ignoring everything in that last statement after the "but", you say:

I know it's devious for app developers to go after kids

Agreed. Google is doing something about that.
I'd say if each of those two people had the "bad experience" of having their only child killed in a car accident, that's worse than someone else having his uncle and grandmother killed in a car accident. "Bad experience" is hugely oversimplified. And just not start about a trillion specs of dust in a trillion people.
> You can in some sense sum up the cryptographic competence of DNSSEC by observing, as you have, that many of its largest deployers still use RSA-1024. If you have any actual interest in cryptography

... you could also help improve the DANE protocol. The DANE Working Group within the IETF is open to all. The mailing list is at:

https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane

FYI, the working group will be meeting Tuesday afternoon (July 22) here at IETF 90 in Toronto, Canada, from 16:40-18:40 EDT. Agenda is:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/90/agenda/dane/

Streaming audio is at:

http://ietf90streaming.dnsalias.net/ietf/ietf902.m3u

Jabber chat room at: dane@jabber.ietf.org

You're certainly welcome to show up and ask questions about the crypto involved. :-)
Corporations are refrigerators
NexusUI – A JavaScript library of audio interface components
The trouble with parental controls used to be that they worked differently then advertised. Parent configured password, but there was grace periods of password-less 15 minutes after each buy which was not explained to user. You had to follow tech news to know about it. Or, parent configured password, but the password was required only for app store, not for IAP.

Apple store does not allow you to download anything, not even free apps, if you do not have credit card set up. So, if you wanted anything on that device, you had to configure it there.

Essentially, parental controls are getting better slowly, but only lately and under pressure of regulators.

The other issues are already existing regulations about marketing targeted at children and when the word "free" is a lie. EU restricts kids targeted advertisements in general and has rules against lies in advertisements. A lot of debate is friction about whether app stores should follow the same rules as everybody else and how to interpret those rules in apps.
What makes a city cool?: The Unclassy Valley
Ask HN: How did you get from learning to code to making your first dollar?
On HN, there is a lot of advice for people just learning to code and a lot of advice for people who are making some money with their startup/side project. However, I'd love to hear advice about the steps in between, that is, advice from real developers on how they went from a basic knowledge of coding to actually landing their first paid internship/job/etc.

Some questions to consider:

-Did you learn to program in school or teach yourself?

-Did you do unpaid work to establish yourself?

-Roughly how long did it take you from day 1 of learning to day 1 of being paid?

-What was your first gig?

My hope is to make a website with different timelines and step by step guides that shows new programmers how to go from finishing a basic tutorial like Codecademy to getting paid for software development.
I read the article differently, namely, how the approaches of both art
and science can be similar and often complimentary to understanding and
appreciation. At times, looking at another perspective can really help
improve understanding and appreciation, but at other times, an alternate
perspective is merely entertaining. I wasn't expecting the author to
provide strong and specific evidence of "artistic understanding helping
to inform mathematicians." But saying "none" was presented seems a bit
unfair; the evidence presented was by inference and was anecdotal. For
example, both artists and experimental scientists arriving at remarkably
similar ways of "recording data" and/or "making art" from turbulence in
fluids. Even if the artist doesn't fully understand the math, and the
mathematician doesn't fully understand the art, both can often gain a
more enlightened appreciation of each others' work than someone unversed
in both art and math.

A lot of educators agree that studying both art and math are important
to development and are complimentary to both appreciation and understanding.
The analogy doesn't work because pollution is an actual negative externality, there's demonstrable harm being done and if they're not paying fines (or fines are too low), they are reaping disproportionate benefits from it.

On the other hand, I can only see positive externalities from Uber.
Read up on the actual DMCA procedure, if the hosting company is in the US. You can file a counter-claim if they actually end up receiving a valid DMCA.
The article reminded me of the book "To Have or to Be?" by the German social psychologist Erich Fromm. Fromm believed that the problem of the modern society is that we are too much concerned with having instead of being. It is a good read.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Have_or_to_Be%3F
What's wrong with gamedev.net and gamasutra.com?
Ask HN: #Gaza – What can hackers do?
It's very frustrating to see so much misinformation / brain washing coming from all sides.

During that time, hundreds of people are losing their life.

What can hackers do?

I've seen a few projects like http://www.israelvgaza.com and https://github.com/kaepora/gazaDeaths - have you seen others? What else could we build?

Please focus on the technical / product side of things. This is not the place to express your opinion on the conflict itself.
Ah. Sorry. Should have been able to figure that out. Thank you.
Yes, everyone wants their startup to make big bucks, but how do you do get to the stage of the startup's cheap rapid iteration trope when reagents cost an arm and a leg. There might not be big cash in the domain of cheap reagents, but I would humbly suggest this must be disrupted before biotech gets really exciting. Or at least that we need to consider that maybe it's a foundational need that should take some precedent :)
When teaching JavaScript to Kids about 10 years old. I tend to use x+=1 over x=x+1.

It seems to be much easier for people to attach the new construct += to to a new idea. I don't bring in the x=x+1 form until they have had plenty of use assigning other expressions to x. Kids don't seem to have any problem with x=y+1. They just need a little time for that idea to set properly before they start mixing things up.
Ignore him, it's simple as that.
Variants of this article have been posted numerous times already:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/past_month/0/shock%20alone
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It's 2014. I'm surprised such a project wasn't run on Kickstarter already.
What qualified as "real equity" back then?
You can buy apps for Android in more than one store and, even, you don't need an store at all to buy apps
Not sure how analytics could work/changing drive remotely without the user needing to install something. Doesn't sound overly safe/practical.. Unless it requires a network connection (ie the USB just holds a shortcut to a page on the swivelCard site).. Which sounds crap.
Luckily the web isn't a zero-sum game and people can create sites even if similar sites already exist.
> whoever controls the DNS roots effectively controls your certificates

This is misleading at best.

He who controls the DNS root servers controls absolutely nothing.

He who controls the DNS root zone could, in theory, re-delegate a whole top domain to a malicious third party and thereby control your domain via this new top domain, thereby get control of your DANE certs.

Don't you think the Internet at large would notice, and immediately route around the problem?

When was the last time you saw an illegitimate top domain transfer? Never, that's when.
To put it differently, since we are rationalists, try the scientific way. Do an experiment.

First day, let a speck of dust enter your eye, at noon. Before sleeping, write down how you feel about that event.

Next day, rip your balls off at noon. Before sleeping, write down how you feel about that.
On the other hand, you could find a sort of work you enjoy, rather than treating it as something be endured in exchange for money.
> But unless you're an economist, you have to posit that the enjoyment from a lobster dinner is the same whether you're a Bengali villager or a yuppie in San Francisco.

Huh? I could take a friend to a restaurant and order two of the same dish. Odds are sky-high that enjoyment from eating the same dish, prepared in the same restaurant, against the same cultural background, would be rather different.
I'm guessing you didn't actually build the site because it looks like you're using a service (Postaverse.) Which is fine but I guess there's no point in asking what it's implemented in and if there's a repo...
The data only show that DRM is weakly correlated with lower ebook sales; or, if you like, that foregoing DRM is weakly correlated with higher ebook sales. While one explanation would be that the presence (or lack of) DRM is the causative factor, I think it's a bit more likely that thoughtful authors both forego DRM and write better books.
Ok - it would hit a market clearing level. That would either be sustainable or people would stop making games tha cost more than they made in profit.

I however despair - film studios and game studios regularly go bankrupt yet there is no shortage of subsidy for the next

Quality mechanisms are a viable function of markets - whatever checks apple does could be done by any other body that can be paid for it. A label of "safe to download" is valuable. A simple central registry and hashes would be one way to do it.

Overall I think In app purchases are shit, in the way paying people in company money to spend in company store was shit. In some cases an in app purchase is convenient but in the vast majority of cases (read games) half the game time is geared towards "buy more". It poisons the game, the trust between gamer and game writer and adds no value to the world.

This is not the manufacturing base we can build a prosperous new society on.
How is luci not easy to use, or inelegant? (particularly say, with luci-theme-bootstrap). I strongly doubt EFF have some magical idea to create a simpler interface. It's trivial to install luci-app-qos, luci-app-samba and other basic software that a small business would need. It sounds like they just want a different default config for OpenWRT/CeroWrt, where multiple zones are enabled by default, and one is opened up.

The idea of does everything for me, including updates and minimally secure are disjoint ideas - you can't have security unless you have complete control over your own device - and OpenWRT with luci already provides that. Relying on a third-party to do your updates, even if it's a trusted body like the EFF is always open to attack.

OpenWrt doesn't provide the self-update by default, and I hope it never decides to add such thing, unless we get reproducible builds, and build some kind of network consensus to verify the integrity of packages, and that they were derived from specific source code (as Nix/Guix and Debian's ReproducibleBuilds are attempting). In other words, we need to remove the centralization of updating, because it's such an easy target for the likes of you know who.
Cool! I was looking for something like this for a side project..
Yeah. I was going to be upset at getting tarred as a naval-gazing member of the new startup elite, but then realized I make less money and have less social prestige than anyone Techcrunch actually cares about.
Uh, no thanks EFF. We were working on this idea, we approached you - all we wanted was a little endorsement from you, and our large company partner was willing to open license a slew of patents, RPI style. What we got back was from the EFF was a bunch of nerd arrogance and essentially this: We are too busy reading the news about the Snowden affair (which was new at the time) to talk with you. A month or two later we facepalmed reading a post from another EFF staffer about the importance of open patents...
I am interested in seeing more open router firmware variants. If the open SSL debacle has thought us anything it is that more eyes on the code is better but alternative implementations are better.

Not wanting to play devils advocate tho...I was reading through a few academic journals on Coredemia and I came across this one from Ken Thompson:
Reflections On Trusting Trust
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomps...

In the paper Ken looks into potential vulnerability in compliers. He shows a trivial way that code can be manipulated and a trojan house could be injected into code by a vulnerable complier. His point is that checking the source code is not enough.

Ps. I found out about Coredemia in HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8061166
Source[0]

I'm not a lawyer, but the police can ask you to perform a crime and bust you for it if "you were inclined to commit the crime anyway" or something like that. The rule of thumb is like if a tourist walked up and asked for a tour, would the suspect do it then? If so a cop can nab you for it.

The sting revolves around Charleston licensing tour guides who must pass a pretty hard test and the rickshaw/bike-taxi operator not having taken/passed that test. Of course there was a recent case in Washington D.C. where the same law regarding tour guides was recently struck down[1], so who knows if he could have fought it. Last I heard the guy who got busted was paying his fine in installments.

[0] - http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140122/PC16/14012982...
[1] - http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-freespeech-t...
This was extensively discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057470

(284 points; 77 comments)
Gargoyle-router is great, based on openWRT with emphasis on QoS and bandwidth management
I think Sandstorm has a lot of potential in that area: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandstorm-io-personal-clo...
No, free markets find the market clearing level. That's what they are supposed to do. Driving prices under water just means some providers drown and the others raise their prices once the cut throat competition dies off.

But if there was not just one or two portals, then the normal mechanisms of product discovery would take place in which advertising, quality, reputation and luck would differentiate products and allow prices to reflect costs.
Awesome article! The diagrams made it extremely easy for me to recall how A* worked. I now vividly remember graph traversal theory classes an exercises from University time!

I guess the implementation effort greatly varies depending on the programming language and the libraries at one's disposal. However, I believe that even for someone not too versed into data structures, the priority queue should be relatively easy to implement.
At least giving way for paid upgrades should sort of fix that, giving developers genuine motive not to produce this crap.

I have been annoyed by upgrades to apps that litter screen with triggers to buy new stuff. For example flightradar24 I bought a full version of the app. In an update they positioned tiggers on every city to get me to buy upgrade for every city to view departure and arrival time. Suddenly my app is visually broken and I have to pay for the upgrade to fix it. And I can't even downgrade. I really don't care about departure/arrival schedules for airports... this does not seem right to me.

I guess that breaks one of the core rules of the interface design - of least surprise. (or recurring one that turns into a severe irritation).
What you can learn from the Yo API
Starbucks to Accept Pickup Orders Via Its Mobile App
Is that a trick question? When does one rely on dnssec?

Here in Sweden most important institutions have deployed it. I thought most of US government institutions were under mandate to deploy soon as well?

When deployed, you as an end user are the one who can rely on it.
Because most games, even those for young kids such as Pokémon, have multiplayer capabilities.
What is the motivation behind including Cairo?
Life too exciting? Enter the calming world of full-length train journey videos
Free from what? Legal consequences, social recrimination or moral guilt? The answers are not necessarily the same.

One could argue the Uber should be punished, but that they should do it anyway.
Preliminarily, note that whether you characterize an externality as negative or positive is a value-laden judgment. One of our power-company-apologists might well say the same thing if they had a certain moral/political outlook.

And if you literally can't think of any negative externalities that Uber generates, I submit that you haven't approached the problem dispassionately. As people have repeatedly pointed out, there are concerns about Uber's liability insurance (even now that it offers its own limited coverage -- externality: uncompensated, injured people), policy concerns about surge pricing (externality: people can't afford to get where they're going at peak usage times), policy concerns that Uber drivers are free to turn down passengers (externality: possible discrimination), concerns that decrentalization makes it more difficult to ensure that vehicles are safe for passengers (externality: possible injuries), concerns that decentralization makes it more difficult to ensure that drivers have safe driving records and clean criminal histories (externality: possible crime against passengers more possible injuries), difficulty verifying that drivers are actually covered by the insurance that they (and Uber) claim covers them in the absence of formal licensing (externality: uncompensated injuries). These are just off the top of my head. Maybe you don't find all of these these persuasive, and maybe you think that the benefits of Uber outweigh all of these (I happen to agree!).

And, to be clear, I think that Uber is doing much (MUCH) less harm than most serial polluters by ignoring the relevant regulations. The point, though, is just that Uber isn't the first company to take the attitude that it is free to ignore the law. It's just the first one I can think of that is also popular.
Telling people that "this is not the place to express your opinion" is profoundly rude, especially given that this isn't your site, you're asking that same set of people for help, and posting links to sites that, while technically correct, drop a lot of useful context.

But as for your request, here are some suggestions:

* a site that tracks the number of times either side warns the other in advance of attacks

* an app that helps calculate the number of weapons that can safely be hidden in a mosque, given the area and number of floors

* something like Uber for ambulances, so the Palestinian forces can streamline their use of ambulances to transport soldiers and weaponry

Have I missed anything?
Sorry I have very little knowledge about licenses/copyrights, what does a license on the content mean and how would it work?
Sounds like it's something they were originally promising Square, but then backed out and decided to do on their own. heh. I guess that's the unfortunate side of making deals with large co's.
Can you really compile anything, let alone the kernel, with 16 MB of flash and 128 MB of RAM? Isn't the kernel source alone bigger than 128 MB?
A UUID is supposed to be a unique identifier (with infinitesimal chance of a collision ever occurring), but this one is far from unique. It looks like lots of people have copied and pasted it from the example of a UUID given on Wikipedia.

I recommend not hiring any of those developers. They probably also have 12345 as the code on their luggage.
FWIW there's also a great community of gamedevs at http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev

That said, the more of these, the better!
Thanks for your reply!

My main concern is that I won't be given the chance to defend myself by the DMCA institution.
That makes sense of there is an actual difference, or if the creating is for learning only. Given that the post said nothing about goals, I'd like to know.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8061295
Your reasons are relevant and important as a list of threats to Uber, but just listing them out doesn't prove that Uber cannot overcome them.

#1: Yes, but they can win.
For example, here we have Uber with the advantage against heavy opposition from one of the most entrenched taxi markets in the world: http://www.brw.com.au/p/business/uber_gets_london_green_ligh...

#2 Sure, and Uber has been dealing with this surprisingly well considering the challenges involved.

#3, #4, these are more of a moral attack on Uber as being bad for the populace they serve. Correct or not, it doesn't necessarily mean they will fail.

Finally, in #3-#5 there is a big element of the idea that there will be mass vigilante violence against Uber which will shut it down. This is certainly possible (as with the anti-tech protests in the Bay), but its implications reach far beyond Uber. Violence here represents a data point in a larger war between communities with declining opportunities and declining income and the tech sector. I do not think the mobs will win.