skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key thing that World War I did was make it socially uncool (besides legally suspect) to use non-English languages for many daily life purposes, and for just about all official purposes. But in fact both of my parents, who attended high school in the 1940s and early 1950s, took foreign language classes in high school. Taking a foreign language was simply considered part of a sound academic high school education in those days, never to be omitted. What my parents missed out on was PRIMARY schooling conducted entirely in the medium of another language, which both of my mother's parents had even though both were born in the United States. (My maternal grandparents attended school in German, in two different Great Plains states.)

The most important factor in making English the dominant language in the United States is that it is the interlanguage (dare I say "lingua franca"?) that unites all ethnic groups here. Only about a quarter of the United States population actually has ancestry from English-speaking places (which, once upon a time, meant the British Isles only). Sure enough, only about one-fourth of my own ancestors were English speakers when they arrived in North America. But all the people who arrived from other places to the United States found that English was the language they could count on as they traveled by canal boat or stage coach or railroad or sent postal letters or telegrams and eventually made telephone calls to one another, so ultimately everybody learned English. The United States is remarkably unified by a common variety of English, often the sole language of stubbornly monolingual people, even though Americans come from all over the world.

Edit, as an aside, I'll mention that Esperanto (mentioned in another comment) failed because it is not at all a neutral choice, but is stuck with altogether many weird features of a tiny subset of Indo-European languages that make it quite hard for many learners to learn.

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/
If the primary purpose of the app were still infringement but you had to click a button 100 times to use the app, the primary purpose of the app would still be infringement.
Spying Flashlight Apps Reveal User Inattentiveness to Cyber Security
Jessica thanks for your Italian language skill!
:)
Karl Zeiss is still a big name in optics: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss
Hehe, I managed to insult both fans of English as well as fans of German. That wasn't my intention, but hey, since quite a few of you seems to disagree; -come on, give me a few good technical (not historical or doesn't sound/look right) reasons why:

- English can't have one way to write f sounds instead of f(ish)/ph(oto)/(rou)gh. (I'm quite aware of the history, I'm pointing out that the resulting rules are uneccessarily stupid.)

- German and a few others need to give different genders to knives, forks and spoons as well as anything else. Why does anything except living creatures need to carry a gender? Why does ein/eine/einer/ein need to change depending on different rules except as a dead giveaway that you are not a native speaker? ;-) (Yes, as a speaker of one of those languages I'm quite aware that it just doesn't sound right without.)
Both work for me fine, too. Latest Firefox on Debian.

According to: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ Firefox should work from v22 on.
Including the 7 in the US?
You mean circumvent access controls to copyrighted material. I'm not sure this circumvents access controls, does it?
Yes this applies when you haven't raised funding yet, maybe if you've just raised your A Series, but not if you're a billion dollar company.
I couldn't off-hand recall anything, either. But a cursory search reveals: "There were hundreds of classified reports of torture, that continued even after the Abu Ghraib scandal."[0]

The diplomatic embarrassment is what made the news, but whose fault is it that -- and who stands to gain from it? People like a good embarrassing story. And I'm sure governments prefer you think of them as having their diary exposed to the public as opposed to the guys paying thugs to torture people.

[0] http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2013/08/2013...
Great point, just a nit: Rust does not have mandatory GC.
I wonder if maybe they just have a good picture of their current revenue and profits and some projections that show numbers that are smaller.

After all, they are perfectly happen to make cents/viewer over on cable.
Same was true in Germania when Rome invaded it. And Roman law at the time called for execution to punish murder, which did not go over well in Germania.

And at one point in ancient Rome theft carried more severe punishment than murder.

Germania was a poor province, when Rome tried taxing it, they got very little. Maybe it seemed wasteful to Germans to kill yet another man after losing one, when they could profit instead. To the Romans, prevention was the priority.
Yes this applies when you haven't raised funding yet, maybe if you've just raised your A Series, but not if you're a billion dollar company.

Of course there are always security holes, but they should really not be that gaping.
pre-WW2
https://twitter.com/Time4Popcorn/status/521738186834575361

and they they share sources -> http://popcorn-time.se/source.html
Which I clearly missed! Thanks amirmansour and congrats to Coinjar on the expansion.
Clickable - http://www.kasa.co/
I'm confused about why you would differentiate between vegetables and carbohydrates. That's like differentiating between a car and the engine within a car. Vegetables are mostly carbs and water.
I'm not sure either, but I certainly wouldn't want to find out in court. It's a pretty broadly written law.
I love how this year's event illustrated that you don't have to be an asshole or a sociopath to be successful. All the speakers sounded like genuinely nice and wonderful people.

Some of entrepreneurship's biggest successful outliers seem to have exhibited those traits and thus they became part of silicon valley lore. I think it's important for people getting into startups to understand that you don't have to turn yourself into a stone cold shark. Some business decisions will be tough, but that doesn't mean you have to be an ass about them. Your ambition can be to be successful, but that doesn't mean you have to "crush your competitors" or disregard other people entirely.

An article I once read cited a study showing that on average, people are more financially successful AND happy, if they are considered by their friends to be good people. I tried to find it just now but couldn't. Has anybody heard of similar results?

Edit: What are some examples of extremely successful entrepreneurs that were known to be extremely kind?
This reminds me of “Pastek”, a markdown-inspired language created by a friend of mine which supports the inclusion of the output of some code run through an external command, with a similar syntax: https://pastek-project.github.io/cheatsheet.html
Indeed - for all folks disillusioned by systemd, Gentoo is a source based rolling release distro whose fundamental tenet is choice - so it shouldn't be a surprise that it is possible to use alternate init systems on Gentoo, in fact Gentoo liveCD/handbook defaults to OpenRC while providing the choice to run other init systems (I run systemd with a somewhat complicated RAID setup with no problems).
IF you were serious about this, setup a router to TOR correctly using quality hardware. Use a router distribution (e.g. PFSense) on real hardware. Otherwise, you'll be just as screwed because your service will be ridiculously slow.

This wouldn't be able to handle anything more than a consumer grade internet connection at relatively low speeds.
"By our fourth round of prototypes we had created a model with 64mb memory and a 580mhz CPU. This not only runs the software well, it flies! At last happy with the board, we designed a simple, minimalist case in plain white to house it. The end result is our current model. We decided to name it the anonabox."

Running CPU intensive processes (e.g. encryption) on a high throughput connection (e.g. web server) isn't going to work unless its only used by you and your 5 friends.
Europeans of the era bathed regularly as well, and often even communally. Nudity wasn't as rare as many make it out to be.

And they washed their faces, teeth, and hands at least daily.

http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/herbs/baths.html
I find it fascinating that despite not having the house+back yard that many Americans strive for, the Spanish are happier with their housing situations than we are.

As a recently minted homeowner myself, I must say I can see the attraction of apartment living more than I could before. This house is a lot nicer and bigger than our apartment was, but damned if I'm not having to replace the sewer line, the patio, and various other things, despite having had inspections beforehand. The less you own, the less there is to go wrong.
Read this just last night and wanted to quote it somewhere:

"For instance, the law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money. A man may half kick his wife to death or inflict horrible sufferings upon his children at a much cheaper rate of punishment than he can compound for the theft of a pair of old boots."

"Alan Quartermain", H. Rider Haggard
Here's my two cents.

What will happen if you give two kids straight out of university a shot at being a manager? One guy has a business degree and the other has a CS degree.

I believe both kids will have an equal chance of being great or being really bad regardless of the degree. Although, The CS guy might have a slight edge because he understands what's going on at the technological level.

On the other hand if you decide to give both kids a shot at being a programmer, the kid with a CS degree has a astronomically higher chance of becoming successful.

Programming is a skill that is acquired time and training. Where management comes from is more ambiguous. Both skills are mutually exclusive; you can be good at both, bad at both or only good at one.
It's broken, but getting rid of it entirely doesn't fix the problem. It makes it worse.

I think my general point is this:

In a world where energy, food, and real estate are inflating and wages are flat or deflating, it behooves us to be incredibly skeptical of any agenda or meme that devalues or takes leverage away from labor. Ask yourself "cui bono?"

"Information wants to be free" is another way of saying "I don't want to pay people for knowledge work or art." Now who wouldn't want to do that? Maybe... oh... I don't know... multi-billion-dollar companies that make money by shoveling "content" out to consumers in exchange for being able to track their every move and sell it to advertisers? If they have to pay for content, that's just a cost to them. So it behooves those industries to promote the meme that piracy is great and information should be free, since it helps to devalue the "content" that they need to keep their surveillance based marketing machines running.

I'm starting to see the purveyors of aggressive industrial-scale piracy as being analogous to the brown shirt types that used to go out and bust kneecaps of union members to intimidate them into accepting concessions. Dropping the bottom out of higher-priced content models makes producers of content more willing to accept pennies on the dollar later.

I've been skeptical of free for a while, but believe it or not the Snowden revelations really pushed me over the edge. It made it very clear that free == surveillance is the business model, and it therefore got me really thinking skeptically about the concept of free (as in beer).

I don't think it's always bad. I work on open source software. But I think it must be the creator's choice.

I'm also not a fan of the DMCA as written -- it contains some nasty and odious terms that are ripe for abuse like the "anti-circumvention" clause -- but in this case I think it's being used in the right way to shut down something that's deliberately abusive.
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

>A debugger is potentially a tool that can be used to circumvent copyright

IANAL, but it seems that what matters is that the tool is primarily designed for circumventing copyright, has practically no other use than to circumvent copyright, or is marketed by the manufacturer as a tool to circumvent copyright.

You can pirate things with a browser, you can crack software with a debugger or hex editor. But these aren't the primary and only purposes of these tools.

>[...] but it's only one config file away from streaming illegal content from torrents.

If it has legitimate legal uses, and the config file that allows illegal streaming isn't provided by default, nor advertised by the manufacturer, or a group that the manufacturer gives approval to, then hopefully everything will be ok.
Can you upload videos to youtube, please?
Volkerding is taking a pragmatic view of all this (as you might have expected). May have to go systemd at some point in the future due to mudballing tendency. [1]

[1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/interv...

Ctrl-F systemd for the section around the middle. I imagine it depends on udev/eudev and logind dependencies in desktops and then d-bus.
Paper of the Week: The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable
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A little more, each day
That'd be nice. Make it a loud part of the key fob? Maybe then the owner would be less inclined to accept a car alarm with a hair-trigger.
That, or contribute to Neovim https://github.com/neovim/neovim
The Soviet Union still made a fair number of T34s all by themselves.
Either wc needs to specifically be aware of the structure of the S-expression ls emits in order to know which atom or subtree of atoms make up words and lines, or ls must emit an S-expression with a structure that is globally mandated a priori. The former case loses generality (wc must be aware of ls's behavior), and the latter case gives wc no help in interpreting the S-expression (which is the original problem OP pointed out).
"improvements I'm looking for most revolve around respecting my privacy"

Bing's privacy policy is far from perfect, but it's more informative than Google's privacy policy. Here's an example extract from Bing's privacy policy

"We store search terms (and the cookie IDs associated with search terms) separately from any account information that directly identifies the user, such as name, email address and phone numbers. We have technological safeguards in place designed to prevent the unauthorised correlation of this data and we remove the entirety of the IP address after 6 months, and cookies and other cross session identifiers, after 18 months."

They also clearly tell you that wiping your search history doesn't mean erasing it from their search logs:

"For Bing Search in your browser, using the search terms you enter and the results you click, search history provides an easy way to revisit the sites and searches you've used before. You may clear your search history from appearing on the site by following the steps provided here or by going to the Bing preferences page noted above. Clearing your history removes it from the Search History service and prevents that history from being displayed on the site, but does not delete information from our standard search logs..."

http://www.microsoft.com/privacystatement/en-gb/bingandmsn/d...

Now compare that to Google's privacy policy which tells you nothing about whether your data is anonymised and for how long your data is kept. And all this from a company that does associate your search activity with your account (the one with with your date of birth, gender, location and possibly phone number). Remember too that Google arguably tracks and records online behaviour more than anyone else. Given the staggering amounts of data they collect, you'd think that would give them the impetus to be more informative about how they use your data, but it's quite the opposite. Their privacy policy tells you very little:

https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/
What if you can't know the height of the element?
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How is this better than ethercalc?
Show HN: The Egg – The Waterless 21st Century Egg Boiler
1Password said they are working on something that will allow you to enter passwords for apps. Maybe it's something similar?
3 Strategies to Be Contrarian and Be Right
There is a lot freedom in Poland, only because our retarded government has figure out yet how powerful internet is.
Linking merged pull requests from commits
Somewhat surprised White's couldn't help him. They make absolutely fantastic custom boots. I have two pair and they're easily the best footwear I've ever worn.
So your saying MBA's teach zero skills save for vocabulary necessary to enforce bureaucratic segregation? I guess you can say the same thing about law.

I don't see the same thing happening at my company though. Concepts discussed at the management level are usually communicated in a way any layman can understand.
How Technical Machine collects and make sense of community feedback
http://teespring.com/alittlemore
Mac USB OPSEC issue (information leak)
Anonabox: Tor Hardware Router (Kickstarter)
Very interesting to see if Facebook will take any action.
They'll be going up later today. We'll make sure the link to the videos gets posted to HN.
> From the DMCA

DMCA 1201 has nothing to do with Popcorn Time. That covers DRM circumvention (and should be repealed). The theory of liability for Popcorn Time is under the Grokster ruling, if the authors are inducing copyright infringement by promoting the tool for that purpose.

The notice and takedown provision is DMCA 512, which is a safe harbor for hosts like Github. It says (roughly) that you aren't liable for copyright infringement of your users if you timely respond to take down notices. But Github wouldn't be liable for copyright infringement anyway because the Popcorn Time software is not copyrighted by the claimants and Github isn't the party allegedly inducing copyright infringement. So Github apparently doesn't have to comply with the notice if they don't want to.

Of course, almost everyone complies with all notices whatsoever regardless of how absurd or invalid they are, because the host doesn't have a strong enough incentive to fight somebody else's battle. That's the free speech issue.
Happier? Don't get it wrong, people here can't afford other thing. Those who live in "house+back yard" style houses bought it decades ago or inherited from their parents.
> Your data will not be analyzed or send.

Is not a particularly good promise.
If you're in the US, watch out. I think there are laws against tampering with fire alarms.

(Though I think you're in a ridiculous situation)
you are paying a US company while agreeing to not watch it outside the US.

seems to pretty much go against what the intent of the law is.
Twenty Milliseconds: What works and what doesn't in VR interface design
Why does "left to market" seem to imply "less protected"? I have much more trust in my connection with five competing ISPs than I would have with five regulators. I also find communication with the customer retention department smoother and more productive than trying to figure out which complaint form I need to fill.
Programming is terrible; so learn to enjoy it
Because they are a really social society, the Spanish think of their neighbors as an asset not a liability and they also highly value being within walking distance to social meeting places like bars and restaurants (which encourages higher density housing).

Then there is the cultural aspect of being owners not renters as the article goes into in detail.
So i know what i have to do! Upgrade all my machines to the new version.

September/October/November is definitly the best season of the year. New iOS, Android L, OSX, Ubuntu and of course Emacs :) i hope i'm not missing anything.
Yeah, in the UK a cell phone is a mobile phone.
I've been able to confirm this on one of my USB drives I used with my Yosemite Mac: the .store.db file contains a bunch of index keywords (probably from Spotlight) from files that have never been on the USB drive.

Included are things like webpage titles and URLs (from Safari history, indexed by Spotlight) and e-mail subjects.
If you think that solving all the problems CSS attempts to solve is simple then you probably only understand 5% of CSS.
It doesn't even have optional GC.
Poland and others that suffered under Communism know first hand how bad it can be and value their new life, Hong Kong is going in the other direction unfortunately.
Surprised they managed to get Pink Floyd to do the music.
> is explicitly made with the intention of illegally pirating movies.

Intention is a quality of the author, not a quality of the work. In the real world governed by the laws of reality, an object or tool or even bundle of software has no intention. It's just a thing.

Claiming that the intention can magically transfer through the object is like some 21st century form of shamanism.

I reject such stupid notions.

If, generally speaking, this software is used to commit illegal acts, then it is those acts which are illegal, not the tool that is used in the commission of the acts.

By banning the tools, you're not preventing the illegal act... you're preventing anyone from using it for legal acts, and cementing the idea that it is only used for those things illegal.

But we're not even really talking about banning it... that would cost too much in lobbyist bribes, too much political capital, too much time and effort. Instead, we're going to twist existing laws to pretend that somehow someone else's code can be censored because of some unfounded ideas about what the code does. That's a chickenshit move if ever there was one.

> If you think not being able to share copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holder violates the first ammendment then you should be working towards repealing

I no longer trust that our government represents its people well enough for that to be possible. And I reject the idea that you can just set me off on impossible quests and that if I refuse them you win the argument.
This is the only on-point comment so far.

At some level both these apps are big time enablers of copyright infringement. Maybe you don't think that's a bad thing and all copyright laws should be gutted, or maybe you want to play lawyer or (worse) make analogies. That is totally not the point here.

The point is, what some view as copyright infringement, others view as unsatisfied demand. Music has already crossed the chasm, but that's probably more because there is so much more of it in such smaller economic units. Big budget movies have more mass and will find it harder to leap that chasm to streaming services.

I think that if anyone manages it, it will be Apple. And it will start with TV, not movies.

I will take issue with cheald's "marginal manufacturing cost" argument, a big budget movie has to make back its gigantic capital investment, and each unit of consumption has to pay its share.