skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legal Advice: who owns rights of personal Heroku account?
I need a quick legal advise.
I'm in a situation where I was fired by a company but within a few days after they're threatening me with legal actions if I don't provide "company's property". By this they mean that I need to share my personal login info of a Heroku account that I had created while I was still employed there. That Heroku account just points to their Github account so they can run the server and view the app. Should I share my username and password with them if I don't want to?
> http://linux.die.net/man/7/socket

create a socket, bind, listen, connect, send etc.

Why do you need select?
Yes, exactly. It is an interesting/cool idea to create an object URI to make this possible!
The Day the Internet Died – Courtesy of the Florida Internet Exchange
I think that's been true of every "why we yawn" article I've ever read.

Maybe it just relates to the jaw making sure that at various points it's fully opened, for whatever reason.
In the real world if you can call your code complex or clever it is probably bad.

This principle is often called "kill your darlings".

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KillYourDarlings
You do GlobalID.locate(gid) in the job.
Their Github has some other repos w/ data, and a few w/ code (to process the data etc)
Yes, this should clean up a ton of the code in rails. Can take use of exception causes and all the other things.
Along those lines, here's a description of the project from the commissioning organization, e-2.org:

> As word processing software becomes ever more advanced, correcting syntax and spelling errors, these familiar programmes begin to impose a standardised corporate language onto our writing.

> Takahashi has produced her own fully functioning online version which undermines this dehumanising process. Reclaiming the initiative back from the software, Word Perhect presents an idiosyncratic hand-drawn interface leading to a set of functioning but strangely altered tools.

http://www.e-2.org/commissions/wordperhect.html
Why won't direct wire transfer solve the payment problem? With a sizable order of 200 TV, the cost of wire transfer is miniscule. Unless you don't want the order to be traceable.
Yes - there is a good example on the ActiveJob README (https://github.com/rails/activejob#globalid-support).
How is it right?
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Totally! And I sorely miss cool and helpful guys like Ryan Bates in the scene lately.
I think you need emacs for that.
Ask HN: Can this work?
Hey everyone,

I've been learning Rails the last few months, and

my main project to learn with has been something called Isement. It's a marketplace for buying and selling physical ad space on people's property.

In other words, advertising in certain areas of a yard, a rooftop, an office wall, a semi trailer, on long haul bike gear, etc etc. Users place their space up for sale, and then other users who want to advertise can search by area for available spaces where they can place their ad.

I realize that some people despise ads, so obviously this won't be liked by all, but I have actually gotten mostly positive feedback on this so far, and I have decided I would really give this a go. I know getting "good idea" feedback is nice and all, but when it comes down to it, I need to find users who will actually use this.

I have a few people lined up to help beta test so far, but I still am looking to get as much feedback as I can on this idea.

What are your thoughts?

If you were launching something like this, or any marketplace really, how would you go about it? What would be your first few steps?

The lovely chicken and egg problem will certainly be an issue, but I'm thinking I will try and work the hardest on finding people who have spaces available first, give them perks for helping to launch, and then work on finding people who want to advertise.

Thanks everyone, and I really hope I can get some feedback. Even if it's all bad!

(Oh, I do have a landing page setup at http://isement.com if anyone wants to critique that as well.)
Do a netstat on the open connections on your highly esteemed hardware and be amazed at the backdoors tunneling straight to china.
Thanks for your feedback. Actually, the explanation is below the menu. It wasn't clear enough I guess? This is a static HTML prototype.

There is only one dynamic thing: the noVNC console that connects to a real VM. The VM doesn't have any network or storage - it's just an Arch Linux LiveCD. A cronjob restarts it every 30 minutes to ensure it's usable - some people have bad habits to execute commands that break the OS. ;)
1. It's ok to feel you're a bit more good that other people but never let yourself feel you know better than everyone.
2. Respect your teammates and always be open to learn from them
3. Programming is not typing or coding. It's about coming up with solutions. So, before you start typing code use your brain.
4. Don't run after a hype. Think before you use any tool or technique.
5. Enjoy !!
I remember reading one PG's essays a while ago that concluded

1. YC should fund riskier startups

2. Many good ideas sound bad at first.

Funding a criminal smuggling operation seems to fit both criteria.

Free idea for the next batch (or pivot!): often non-US citizens will be willing to work for lower wages in difficult jobs than US citizens. Why not match them up with people who are already driving across the US border, who can help get them in the country?

Here's the link: http://paulgraham.com/swan.html
Velocity.js now works without jQuery (Stripe OS Grant)
Let's just return to the old terminology. Hax0r news.

;)
Here is a libevent echo server for comparison:

http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/Ref8_listener.ht...

It looks like this library has only 2 weeks worth of commits so I'll reserve any criticism. My vote is still with libevent though!
Stroustrup discusses compile time units (starting at slide 19) in the following presentation:

http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/events/GoingNative12/GN12Cpp11S...
Other than the FPGA, which the average person won't be programming, how is this different from other ARM-based dev boards with unlocked boot loader? Some software and hardware security info from a variety of perspectives:

Rants on community: http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/biography-of-a-cyp... & http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and-...

Rant on Linux systemd: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459

Desktop security alternatives: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-is-qubes-...

Designing open crypto hardware: http://wiki.cryptech.is/
So you won't complain if your family are killed by the police?
I tend to agree with you.

Patents were made to protect against an injustice, but they are causing a greater injustice. The injustice they sought to protect against, is the cheating of the inventor of the fruits of his labor, by some Capitalist exploiter, who takes the invention without compensating the inventor.

Unfortunately, in order to protect against that injustice, we have created a framework that perpetuates a greater injustice. The "inventors" have become the wolves in this system, because the bar for invention is so low. And arguably there is no practical and economic system we could use to properly raise this bar. The expertise required to properly remove "trivial" patents is too expensive for the state to deploy, and is in too short supply. We need that expertise to be used to make things, not sit at the Patent Office to sort through patent applications.

Analogously, what if we were greatly troubled by bullies in American schools, and decided to deploy a system whereby highly trained monitors would follow each child around to make sure they were not bullied. The system might result in zero bullying, but the costs might be prohibitive, not only in terms of salaries for all of these monitors, but in invasion of privacy, and perhaps even persecution of innocent children that are mistakenly identified as bullies by under-skilled monitors.

If we sought to remove this system of anti-bully monitors, I'm sure we would here a giant ruckus from all the anti-bullying activists who would demand that the system be kept in place ... to stop bullying. And since bullying is such a terrible thing, we would have a hard time repealing the anti-bullying law in Congress.

And no doubt, the union of anti-bullying monitors would raise the money to lobby against us in congress, as their jobs and benefits would be under threat.

Patents were the worst "good" idea that the founding fathers had. They really fucked up bad. And I don't think we will ever be able to get out from under this shit system. The patent lawyers make too much money. The trolls make too much money. The shit-stains who file the bullshit patents and don't know how to make real products, make too much money.

And the American people don't care, because, so far, the system has just acted as a tax on engineers ... and engineers make enough money to eat. It doesn't matter to the American people that an entry level Patent associate at a big law firm makes $160,000 per year (standard and without much variation) while a software engineer that produces the patented technology makes only about $80,000. Nobody thinks there is any irony in that.
No, please stop spreading this ignorant nonsense.

Most countries in the Middle East have mandatory military service. If they get invaded by a foreign force, they can raise local militias very quickly from people who not only already own guns, but also have received significant training in their usage and can get organized quickly due to the time they spent in military.

In contrast, most Americans don't know how to hold a gun, much less fire one. And even those who are serious about guns have not actually been part of any military, or even a militia. Frankly, they would get mowed down by any sort of organized force in very quick order.
Robbery has been trending down since the 90s. What was being stolen before the proliferation of cell tech during the 2000s? I think it's clear cellular phones do not cause theft. Though, I do think those robbed, are robbed of all of their valuables. I also think it's clear that those robbed were targeted, and a valuable phone suggests other valuables. I also am aware of existing parts markets including eBay and traditional retail. Will this Kill Switch render a device worth less than its weight in copper? Probably not. "I want your wallet, watch, and such--keep the phone."

I think if we were actually serious about victims, instead of using that warrant for a Kill Switch, we'd use it to query the networks and track the breadcrumbs; it's even richer than metadata sourced from billing systems. (It works for finding missing hikers.) And I'm pretty sure existing law covers this already.
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The sacrifices you make to raise a child after it's born are certainly altruistic.

The decision to have a child in the first place is entirely self-centered (or maybe centered on a partner who is him/herself self-centered.) Humans are not in danger of dying out because we're breeding too slowly; if anything, it'll be the opposite.

Which is not to say that it's bad, but (assuming you are actually financially and emotionally capable of raising the kid) no better or worse than choosing differently.

Condescension from people with attitudes like yours is why millions of people who know they will be complete failures as parents decide to inflict themselves and their circumstances on innocent children who don't deserve that kind of suffering.
The Challenge in VC Over four years ago I wrote
I'm excited for the ActiveJob abstraction layer. This means I can start building things out for background work before even deciding what I want to have handle them.
And yet more: http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/index.php?i...
This was made 15 years ago.
Henry The Cat Spoof/track of the REAL 911 call about Lux
Have a look at this can of tuna.
It certainly would be technically possible. ICAN would have to alter the records in the root DNS server to point to a new IP address controlled by the family. The family could then extort existing users of the domain for the privilege of retaining their domain name, begin collecting yearly fees from them, or open a new register for anyone that wants .ir domain name. Yes this would be disruptive and quite possibly trigger a split in the DNS records but it is very technically possible.

It is also possible the family already knows all this, and don't care. It is conceivable that they aren't after money so much as looking for ways to hurt Iran.
Geeksquad's tool host has been defaced
One of my friends that works at geeksquad sent me this: http://downloads.gscanada.info/tools/MRI_5_8_2.iso

(You don't need the path.)
Interesting you mentioned a distributed system. Worked on a few in the past and a fairly complicated one right now. Exactly what I was thinking when I made my comment! :)
A friend of mine wrote something similar for C++:
https://github.com/Kosta-Github/http-cpp
People don't carry much of value any more except their electronics. Before the 90s, people carried more cash, more regularly.

"I think if we were actually serious about victims, instead of using that warrant for a Kill Switch, we'd use it to query the networks and track the breadcrumbs"

I don't know that I'd object to that. I'd still demand an owner-provided code. Note that I've never been saying "this system is amazing and exactly what we want", I've been saying "there is a legitimate up-side" - which I stand by, and which the existence of better alternatives don't undermine.
Here's how Jerry Rice, probably the greatest wide receiver of all time, practiced: http://jamesclear.com/jerry-rice It's a short read and very instructive.

One amazing thing is just how that practice translated into so little time in actual games. I.e. if a football team plays 20 games a year (1 hour each), and the offense is only out there half the time, then a wide receiver is playing for at most 10 hours a year. Jerry Rice played for 20 years, so that works out to 200 hours of actual game time over his entire career!
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Natural selection isn't some benevolent deity. Its MO is to drive species to extinction, it's just that when some individuals find a way around it we call that evolution.

Without knowing which traits a species "needs", the best conservationists can do is to increase numbers while preserving diversity. The "50% of all females laying rim eggs" is just a reflection of the single breeding pair's genomes. If rim eggs had been discarded, only copies of the "good" genes could have been tossed along with those eggs, and "bad" genes inadvertently selected by virtue of not being linked to the rim egg gene - which was exactly how the rim egg gene itself came to be in the last breeding pair.

Increasing numbers while preserving diversity will give the bottlenecked gene pool a chance to mix into as many combinations as possible before being released back into the wild, without natural selection driving the species to extinction. It doesn't always work, but if it doesn't work the species was done for regardless of our efforts.
there is also http://hugepic.io/ as well as the related github repo at https://github.com/peterbe/tiler
What kinds of projects are these? Are they asking you to do work for them, or are they asking for you to demonstrate that you can do work for them?

Tipoffs for the former: you're building features that they don't have, or fixing bugs that they currently do have, working alongside one of their team members, &c.

Tipoffs for the latter: you're working on a toy problem, filling out the skeleton of an application, building some kind of system that they won't ever deploy.

The latter kind of project is pretty reasonable, assuming the rest of the interview process is calibrated to account for how much time you took. For instance, if you're doing 3-10 hours of coding (10 hours is a lot, by the way) just to get a phone screen, or to go to the first of several rounds of onsite interviews, that's an unreasonable ask. But on the other hand, if you're being asked to spend a couple hours doing in the comfort of your own home what you would have to do onsite anyways in a real interview, that's very reasonable.
Must be nice to live in the cognitive dissonance where you think your fragile, kludgey, application specific solutions are somehow stabile, well designed, universal tools.
https://github.com/xemul/libct
With New Delivery Service, Uber Declares War on Google and Amazon
This sort of things is why countries traditionally have sovereign immunity. Can't say I support the plaintiffs in this case.
Ok, that makes sense. Didn't see a date on the site. Shouldn't the title have [1999] on HN then?
Microsoft unwraps $25 phone for Asia, Africa
Exigo USB Charger
At a start up I applied to last time I was seriously looking, they asked me to implement a program to play hangman. It was a fun puzzle; certainly didn't take me 3 hours but it did eat a chunk of time. I don't object to this kind of thing, within reason. As tptacek and others caution, they shouldn't be farming out actual work, though.
I hear good things about Berlin.
It reminds me of many systems I've seen where you really need to be a developer of the platform to intuitively make use of it for non-tutorial problems.
1997...?
It is not just ccTLD, the writ of attachment applies to IP prefixes allocated for Islamic Republic of Iran as well.

>But there are other possibilities, Darshan-Leitner said. “ICANN may decide that it just isn’t worth their while to do business with Iran anymore, because all the money coming in will go to the terror victims.” In that case, Darshan-Leitner said, ICANN could “pull the plug” on Iran’s Internet, suspending use of the .ir domain and disconnecting Iranian IP addresses from the web. Even if ICANN decided not to do that, Shurat Hadin could demand an auction of the Iranian Internet assets, arguing that it could realize more compensation money that way – meaning that Iran would no longer be in control of its own websites. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-us-terror-victims-now-o...

>Plaintiffs hold several money judgments against the governments of Iran, Syria and North Korea (collectively, the “defendants”). Plaintiffs endeavor, with the Writs of Attachment, to attach the .IR, .SY and .KP country code top-level domains (“ccTLDs”), related non-ASCII ccTLDs, and supporting IP addresses (collectively, the “.IR, .SY and .KP ccTLDs”), all of whichrepresent a space on the Internet for use by the citizens of Iran, Syria and North Korea. - https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ben-haim-motion-...
To be fair, mixing math and display logic in a giant function like that is a bad idea in any programming language.

But the frightening flexibility of the Mathematica language certainly doesn't help.
I did not say I think there are more corrupt/racist/evil cops than good. I said that it's debatable whether police are generally a net good.
Thanks for posting this, as it made me aware of your service.

I just donated as I really want to see alternatives to the current web model that is, in my opinion, utterly broken.

I'm also glad to see containerization tackling so many hard problems. It has the potential to change everything (as it is the perfect sandbox, and independent of programming language).

I'm excited about this.
This will likely be against local zoning laws in residential areas. Usually they have very specific rules about what can and cannot be displayed on residential property.

Even if there are no rules on record for the municipality, nothing stops a motion being passed that would outlaw advertisements being sold on residential properties after the fact.

Assuming you can get around the above, I would solve the cold start problem by first focusing on a single geographic market. Small, local businesses are more likely to purchase this type of alternative/non-traditional advertising - and they'll want to be able to market in their specific towns.

I would also make sure that you provide some sort of science in terms of how the advertisements are targeted. Agencies will look for that. For example, an agency ad trafficker is going to want to market in neighborhoods with mean household incomes in line with their target audience.
On MRAP front the military is getting rid of them for a good reason. They ordered the initial batch very quickly and ended up several different platforms [0]. None of them fit the bill perfectly and having several variants made logistics and vehicle operations difficult. They then did a real procurement program and ended up purchasing several thousand M-ATVs. The surplus MRAPs went into this law enforcement give away system [1].

0 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP#MRAP_deployment

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP#Post-war_reductions
LOL. Yeah !
How ignorant can you be not to know that there are 21+ million U.S. military veterans? More (better trained) soldiers than there are males in Iraq.

The claim that Americans don't know how to use guns is in the laughable category.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_co...
And in the UK, republicanism is declared to be treason by law. In 2014. Criminal use of firearms has a long history in the US, which used firearms to violently overthrow the lawfully established government of the UK (and establish a republic). Freedom isn't free. It never has been, it never will be. This article explores one such cost.
I find I have the same problem explaining computer technologies to people.
Coming up with names for groups of data that we want to consider as atomic is what object orientation does, it seems to me.

I also think that that is its Achilles heel - by giving names to groups, only those privy to the internal representation of the atom can combine their functionality with its data. So you need to either merge your functionality with the atom's data (aka define an instance method) thereby coupling "things" with "actions", or you need to leak the atom's internals to outsiders (aka write a method somewhere else that "knows too much" about the atom's internal representation).
"Write it; throw it away; rewrite it." Not always the best solution, but a good voice to have in the mix.
https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick is an empty repository. Am I missing something?
Thanks for the comments.

Yes there are some of these places that are not "underground" but obviously there are the suppliers and areas that are less known and more used by traders like me as opposed to the more touristy types.

Regarding bitcoin, yes it does away with the payment issues but thats not the only problem with ordering from china i guess, things like ensuring the product is the correct quality, arranging freight on large consignment orders and needing to buy from multiple suppliers are why a lot of buyers like this guy buying the tv's come to china in person.

Thanks again.

Daniel
In case anyone is wondering here is a good list of domains/servers based in North Korea:

http://www.northkoreatech.org/the-north-korean-website-list/
The Free and the Antifree
> syntax highlighting for Perl 6 (which as far as I know no editor has yet).

You mean, besides standard vim 7.3? Also, here's[1] an emacs mode.

1: https://github.com/lue/p6mode