skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A pirate crew?

I. Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong liquors, at any time seized, and may use them at pleasure, ...

IX. No man to talk of breaking up their way of living, till each had shared one thousand pounds. If in order to this, any man should lose a limb, or become a cripple in their service, he was to have eight hundred dollars, out of the public stock, and for lesser hurts, proportionately.

X. The Captain and Quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.

Far more equitable than most startups.
not on a 200m loop - that's only 600 feet or so, with where most cell sites are, you might as well just trench the fiber in the last little bit. I know that 'yellow' carrier just extended fiber to most of their network footprint, with microwave serving the rest.
The art is amazing. I can say this because I'm just the programmer. Eka did most of the art. The end of the 30 weeks image shows who worked on it and for how long.

The simple 2d sidescroller you see is surprisingly complex. The characters and obstacles are full 3d models. The animations are authored in 3dsmax and have something like 20 bones. The course environment is flat polygons with clever UV mappings to get the most out of texture sheets. The background is a flat 2d image. It's all rendered orthographically with careful depth values to make sure it layers properly.
Does it read RSS feeds?
Sometimes I wonder why these requirements are there in the first place. Why not just be honest about it, pay the athletes and get on with the sports program. It's not like 80% of the degrees at most universities are worth anything anyways.
Why is every semi-pro athlete expected to get a decent GPA in order to play on a university's football team? It's a completely different skillset. I don't blame players for ditching classes to pursue their dreams. Quite the opposite, in fact. It's the same drive as an entrepreneur's: to test yourself, to excel. It's just a different context.

They are adults. If, as adults, they choose not to pursue academic studies, and instead choose to focus all of their energy on sports, then they should be allowed to do that without putting their sports career at risk.

I do blame everyone involved in the fakeness, though. Their decisions should stand on their own.
I've been in this position. .5% of a rocketship is still pretty great. You'll end up with 1.25MM cash if the company exits at a billion (after 2x dilution and 50% taxes if you're in California). Yeah, it sucks to think about how much richer the founders got, whilst you worked just as hard… but it's still important to remember that you were very lucky to be in the right place at the right time, and be along for the ride.

Also, I bet you learnt a fuckton in this position which'll make it easy for you to accelerate your career. For me, seeing the hyper-growth from inside, taking on responsibility as the company grew, handling the shit as it hit the fan… that's priceless experience. Combine that + the 5MM I'll probably make out of it, and it doesn't matter how much better off the founders are, I still got a great outcome.
It's probably happening at a lot of other universities with big sports programs. UNC just happened to get caught.
This is actually a publicity stunt done by a video production company in SF. He is saying complete gibberish, and the audience is instructed to react or laugh at certain points by signs outside of the field of view of the camera. Completely fake, but comes across as very impressive.
Someone made an iPhone app and Android is under development.
Sure; but they shouldn't be playing on a college team. As in, if you don't work at a company you shouldn't play on the company team.
Let's not forget when The Weather Channel lobbied to make this NWS information unavailable to the general public, and only distributed to approved providers like itself!
Regarding going after buyers, if potential buyers know that buying a counterfeit item puts them at legal risk, I think the market for said counterfeit items will shrink substantially. I think that could be a potentially convincing argument in the case of items where the buyer clearly knows (or should know) that the item they are buying is counterfeit. Is it really all that different from receiving stolen property, which IS illegal?

I think in the FTDI case, though, it would be really hard to argue that the end users should (or even could) know that the chip they have is counterfeit.
I didn't say it was useless to everyone. I just said that it's pretty clear that it has a relatively small US footprint, and language fragmentation in Europe - where Whatsapp is pervasive and useful - is a significant issue. Thus writing a desktop client isn't as simple as it would appear to be at first glance.
Say, Stanford? http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/03/09/1046687/
Just to be clear, you're now moving the goalposts -- I demonstrated your claim that google is involved is patent bullshit. Your claim about blowback is similar.

And yes, companies -- and the larger they are, the more so -- should be involved in the communities in which they and their employees are located. This is true for many, perhaps most, firms that aren't tech firms. And they often are! Go to eg council meetings or zoning board meetings or other local government meetings in eg nyc. For many people in the communities in which these large tech firms are located, they've had bad effects. Google has a responsibility to these communities that they are currently ducking. The tech community as a whole has a responsibility to the bay area the community is almost entirely skipping out on. Being proactive about housing and transport would be helpful to both the employees and other residents of the communities.
iPod is not very useful without a computer and supposedly new music downloaded through the internet using broadband. Phones can be gotten for free (e.g. the famous "Obamaphone" or SafeLink) but it doesn't have to be a smartphone, which requires an expensive data plan ($60/m for a person who has literally no money for food seems to be not a negligible sum). The employer has to reach you, but it doesn't have to like your Facebook updates, right? I'm just thinking maybe it's not always need but sometimes convenience.
Nope. It has the wrong VID/PID programmed in to it.
That's nowhere near true...
Why not? (I ask this in hopes of being persuaded, not to defend a position.)
Similarly, I wince every time "...made with love" is appended to marketing copy.

More accurate:

"...made with the hope of getting TechCrunch"

"...made with the money of me-too venture capitalists"

"...made with the bare minimum of technical effort needed"

"...made with far too much design and technical effort"

aaargh.
Stanford athletes had access to list of ‘easy’ courses (2011)
If anyone is offering invites, I'd love this. bart.ciszk@gmail.com -- Thanks!
> Last time I remember people trying to come and make living exclusively by flipping property without doing anything else ended up in what is called now Great Recession.

Which was bad for lots of people, but not principally the people actually doing the flipping (some of them may have gotten caught in a bad position with two much sunk in inventory at the wrong time when the market crashed, but, generally -- OTOH, lots of people interested in flipping picked up property at discount prices due to the crash, too.)
Jumping Air Gaps with All-in-One Printers
Trippeo's Go-To Guide for Growing Your Business
I'm pretty sure a cab ride is a real-world, physical thing. Besides, Apple's Guidelines are really just that, and they can enforce at their discretion.
I'm mistaken-- it was actually AccuWeather.
Nope. Some systemd distros do not support daemon init scripts done the old way.
You might also take a look at inkle's 80 Days (http://www.inklestudios.com/80days/) to see how I.F. has evolved on mobile devices. Warning: There are a few illustrations, but not too many.
From the article: "Currently, this surface needs to be a non-ferromagnetic conductor."

So the "special" surface needs to be anything that conducts electricity but is not magnetic, which is a pretty broad category. https://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201202290514... has quite a long list.

The images with the lego suggests that they're using copper, which is right at the top of that list for conductivity, but 7 orders of magnitude weaker is plain old sea water, so maybe hendo is not entirely joking about the hovering on water thing ;)
Have Your Coffee with Bitcoin #MTL
Awesome, great pet project. As others have said, I use it daily and it's the only manager I've used for any time. I use it with a Yubikey Neo with a GPG subkey in it, and store my passwords in a Bitbucket repo that I can check out on any machine (using an RSA key also in my Yubikey via gpg-agent with enable-ssh-support). I've looked at using it for small teams as well by encrypting to multiple recipients. Excellent and elegantly unixy!
This is of great benefit for in building wiring - I'd love to see a table for speed/distance, that'd give you a better idea of real world practicality. OSP is honestly in pretty decent shape in most of the US, its a lack of careful conditioning and poor records that causes most DSL issues.
This is how BlackBerry 10 devices handle the difference between personal and work applications. Al though, it's just one application running two instances with app data in two different locations.
Wasn't there something called tribal fusion or something similar many years ago, amongst several others.

Personally, I can't see the point, for example, if I were a product site, I wouldn't some 3rd party able to spew messages all over it, so at best, getting sites to pay you is probably not a business model.

But good luck anyway.
I use .US for email, because it's on of the cheapest TLDs possible. I have a couple really short .US domains but since .US is geotargeted by google, it doesn't work well for a website, but works great for email
might be explained by delays and ear piece
Apple removing SSL 3.0 support from APNs next Wednesday
Oh, its probably happening at most universities. I went to N.C. State and would be surprised if it WASN'T happening there too. I assume any school which gets a amount of money from their sports program would have something similar to UNC.
Throttling is irrelevant if the fastest connection you can get is less than a T1 in speeds, and for those outside of the big city, thats the reality.
It's asshole behavior to put code in their drivers specifically to detect and abort even trying to work with fakes, but they are fully entitled to do so.

They are not entitled to break the hardware by changing the PID so it doesn't work with any drivers.

There are other drivers that work when the PID is left intact.
Not just instagram. We should not forget to mention Whatsapp, internet via drones and Oculus
Could It Be? Experiments That 'See' the Future (2011)
It's not that they just won't work with their drivers, it's that it disables the device so that it's not operable without special (and costly, if they're widely deployed) intervention.

The new Windows driver changes the PID to 0, and then the driver won't
recognize the device (even if you edit the INF file), and you can't use
the config tool. The workaround is to use a Windows XP or Linux system to
change the PID back, and then don't use the new driver.

Seems an awful lot like bricking to me.

This is really skirting the ethical line and I'm not sure I can agree with their methods. I'm fine with them writing a driver that fails to work with counterfeit chips, but not actively disabling the chip. What if the device is attached to more expensive equipment that will also fail? We can't ensure that these chips are knowingly purchased after all.

This motivation reminds me of when the U.S. and Syrian governments disseminated sabotaged munitions that explode in the weapon, killing/maiming the operator, among their opponents. The danger is that they will find their way back to friendlies.
I'm not sure how the smartphone is essential, could you explain? If you need to look up jobs, local library and good old pen & paper is always at your service. Same with recording and keeping appointments - a good old notebook would work. Calling prospective employers doesn't need a smartphone. If you need to make something like printed resume, smartphone is no help, you need a real computer anyway. So where it is essential? I'm not sure I still get it.
What kinds of defensible IP can a software or SaaS business have that would be of any interest to investors?

A repeatable process for acquiring customers, as demonstrated by success actually implementing it. Most SaaS businesses don't have "secret sauce."
> Why is every semi-pro athlete expected to get a decent GPA in order to play on a university's football team?

Because there are semi-pro teams and university teams, and the two things are not the same thing.

> If, as adults, they choose not to pursue academic studies, and instead choose to focus all of their energy on sports, then they should be allowed to do that without putting their sports career at risk.

Sure, and if they choose to do that, they should do it somewhere other than an academic institution.
The problem is that they're being exploited. Choose to go to class or not, they are not being paid anything remotely close to the value that these schools get from them in terms of team gear sales, ad revenue, tv time, increased enrollment, etc etc etc.

This is especially true when they're turning in BS papers for crap degrees that can't and won't serve them once they leave school. A minuscule few make it pro. The rest - if they graduate, even - have only an AFAM degree to show for it and no real life skills.

I agree that if they want to be athletes, they should be allowed to be athletes. But they should be paid appropriately for it in kind.
Because colleges have the stated goal of educating people. Its cynical (as the commenter above mentioned at the end) to join the college with no intention of actually getting educated. Its called a 'shill' or ringer - somebody you get from outside to represent you, that is not actually a member of your organization beyond the single task (sports).
Zulu: Multi-platform Commercialized OpenJDK
I like color scheme generators in general because I have trouble finding novel colors that go with each other. But it's not clear to me that these are actually good combinations, or if they are, how they might be used?

Maybe you could mock up a small iconic site in css that has a nav set to one of the colors, bits of text set to others, a sidebar set to another, etc. so people can actually envision them. Just a thought.
Signup forms aren't enough to make a Show HN, so we've taken that out of the title. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
I'd highly recommend the documentary Schooled: The Price of College Sports. It shows many interviews with the students, coaches, and staff involved with this situation. (Also free w/ Amazon Prime.)
They agree :) Although I'm surprised; I genuinely thought that a company using Windows Update to push malware would count. But even so, MSRC did ensure that the issue was handled by the appropriate team. Kudos.
Converting Raw User Input to Expression Trees
Boostable (YC W14) Raises $3.2M from Morado Ventures, Omidyar Network, SV Angel
Well, they're garbage if everything that comes after is inflated. That's my point.
A different take on it is that the schools shouldn't advertise them as student-athletes that are there on "scholarships" (scare quotes because taking a fake class isn't very scholarly).
I also went to NC State, and I'm pretty sure that there's no department dedicated to this type of institutional corruption.
Colleges are academic institutions. If you want to be semi-pro athlete rather than a student-athlete, you should join a semi-pro team rather than an academic institution.
Pangu8 1.0.1 Jailbreak for iOS 8/8.1 released
If someone makes a compatible chip from scratch then they are not a parasite, they are a competitor.
The World's New Biggest Ship? Maybe. Niftiest Ship? For Sure
The most basic provision on a private sale of private stock places no restrictions on the sale that 'does not involve a public offering'. So in theory it's only when you start "looking" for investors, when you are "publicly" selling the shares, then you want a Reg D 506 exemption, and accredited investors.

However, in practice the Section 4(a)(2) exemption is often not strong enough protection (since we're talking potentially significant civil and criminal charges) so companies go for the Reg D safe harbors even when not technically required. Particularly for unsophisticated / unaccredited investors, the courts have found that 4(a)(2) is not good enough, even when the sale was arguably private. See, for example, SEC v. Ralston Purina Co., 346 U.S. 119 (1953). [1]

Following the path of Reg D 506 is actually quite simple, and carries no downside. But even with Reg D 506 you generally try to avoid unsophisticated investors, since then you get into scenarios where you are supposed to provide 'access to the kind of information that a registration statement would disclose' which is very difficult. The crowdfunding regs in theory are supposed to help alleviate this.

[1] - http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6019539454143305...

[2] - IANAL
Thanks for the perspective - this has been really helpful. I think no matter what happens it will have been an amazing experience that I lucked in to.
meanwhile in singapore you get an uncapped speed(above and beyond 1 gbit) for half the price i pay for 15 mbit
Just looked at your product idea, see you already had planned a good microcontroller. Maybe replace the FTDI with the ATMEGA and make a firmware that'll allow in circuit programming so you really can't brick the main microcontroller?
I've been working on some bash scripts that borrow your "pass" interface but works with OS X's Keychain, so thanks very much for doing the hard parts for me!
This kid is doing his crazy move and Fail
I disagree. Playing sports at the highest levels is an academic activity, it's just not recognized as an academic activity today. You definitely have to study, recognize patterns, solve problems, etc. Just not so much reading books and writing papers.
Here's the whole video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4Juzn10gM . (And a short modern documentary video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76OhF3kR2MA .)
The only difference between dev/stage/prod/whathaveyou with docker is the topography of the servers. For the (local) dev case, the topography is 1 box; an "all-in-one" system. This does not require you to have different dockerfiles per environment, it just means you have to make dockerfiles that don't care about the topography!
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this essentially averaging all of the faces? Which will make the aggregate look... averaged?
Frogger Clones: Road Frog, Froggy, Anirog Frogrun, Hoppit, Leapfrod, Road Frog, Road Toad…

Donkey Kong Clones: Killer Kong, Krazy Kong, Crazy Kong, Kong, Wally Kong...

I love this stuff.
You're questioning the fundamental purpose of an institution in such a way that it's hard to answer. Why shouldn't universities also run all sorts of other businesses, and then make money from their student consultants?

Because the institution of a university exists to provide an academic education that will help them function in the world after school. Because offering a degree in Football would be more predatory than most for-profit colleges Audio Engineer courses.
One more: 2000, Hasbro Interactive vs. anyone who ever made anything remotely similar to the Atari titles they had just purchased (AFAIK it didn't go anywhere):

http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/02/08/hasbro-interactive-su...
This seems like a far more hands-on and inspiring approach to teaching computer science to elementary, middle, or high school students than the typical intro to CS classes you see now, which might occasionally have some graphical interfaces, but primarily (at least in my limited experience) operate on the command line and do a variety of abstract things. It's a lot harder to fall in love with a sorting algorithm than with a turtle drawing robot or the interesting geometric patterns shown on pages 14-16.
Old JavaScript
Found some old JS on my hard-drive:

https://notes.pinboard.in/u:slogger/dbca780c13536c33a6b7

Anybody remember DomAPI?

http://code.google.com/p/retrojs-oldskool-js-dhtml/
http://code.google.com/p/webfxwidgets/
http://code.google.com/p/asmscroller/
http://code.google.com/p/js-bezier-functions/
http://code.google.com/p/1kdomlib/
http://code.google.com/p/3dhtml/
http://code.google.com/p/innerdiv/
http://code.google.com/p/assembler-mirror/
http://code.google.com/p/domapi/
http://code.google.com/p/beehive2/
It's interesting to see the reasoning for each case, but it still strikes me as fundamentally arbitrary. The problem, of course, is that the rulings themselves are trying to capture a fundamentally arbitrary underlying idea: "does this rip that off?". If you asked 100 people, you'd get 100 lines drawn in different places.

Given that, the logic seems to do a good job most of the time. But, at its heart, its a silly question to ask. This quote really throws it into sharp relief (although I'm sure the full decision had more supporting detail):

> In Triple Town, the antagonist is a bear. In Yeti Town, the antagonist is a yeti… bears and yetis are both wild creatures.

Well.

To me, it just goes to show how very important ideas, perhaps core to our society, can be very poorly defined once you take a close look. That's at least a bit disturbing!
Wonder if sign in tokens are still limited. There are so many horror stories about popular hitting the user limit and being unable to grow any more. Don't really trust Twitter enough to invest the time to read to find out after they've auto-banned some of my games for being able to Tweet scores and "being too much like a Twitter client".
The half the cost parts already have internal oscillators, and I have yet to see a use of an FTDI type chip where there's no other microcontroller, so you have voltage regulation already, not to mention the 5V from usb. All your points = invalid.
If you go to a school that plays opposite UNC and your school follows the rules, I suspect you might care as it puts you at a competitive disadvantage.
Erm, not to call you out, but using 'sexy' to describe something can be construed as sexist.

Source: http://notapattern.net/2014/10/14/ways-men-in-tech-are-unint...
I'm that someone, and it was written in a weekend on a jail broken iPod touch on iOS 3.2. So, its unlikely that it still works (and I wouldn't recommend using it even if you can get it to work). I long since switched (back) to lastpass due to the pain of managing ssh keys across multiple devices.
There's a distinction here between soft-forks, which require majority mining hashpower and a definite super-majority to avoid possible transition risks, and hard-forks which absolutely require every node on the network to upgrade.
Your last sentence was more or less my point, I just screwed it up with "more or less the opposite of legislative", which I admit is confused, but I was trying to say that the Prop wasn't being handed down by the government.
A lot of their backhauls are also using (wireless) microwave links.
It's currently unavailable for Google Apps accounts. If his apps account has access to it then it's likely that he works for Google.
Singapore is an extremely small, very rich country with hyper population density. I don't see how that's a great example. They should have some of the fastest Internet speeds on the planet.

How about in Russia, Canada, US, China, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Congo, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Indonesia, Sudan, Libya, Iran, Mongolia, Peru, Chad, Niger, Angola?

Those are the largest countries in the world. Presents a drastically different challenge wouldn't you say?
"Uncapped" makes me wonder what the cap actually is, and how they enforce it.