skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It's hard to even say we have had popular rule of law given things like Korematsu, but these days we have legitimately challenging legal questions (about whether a human has to see something for it to count as a search, for instance), and as bad as some things are, it's not public mass lawless condemnation like there used to be. Now we have some private courts and a comparatively small number of suspicious governmental mishaps (perhaps an advantage to "Terrorism" being the enemy of our era -- hard to paint millions of people with that brush).
It's kind of cool from the video, but honestly I lost interest half way through. I'm not sure if it solves an existing problem or would appeal to the mass market though.

I guess when you have cash that needs to be spent, you do stuff like this? I can't imagine this is the best innovation HP can come up with.
It's also the name of a Wine dervative used for many Mac ports of Windows games. https://www.transgaming.com/cider
Would you complain if they said "innovative" instead? Because almost all innovations start out proprietary and in many cases are only created because ownership of the technology can pay back its cost.
Would be interesting to see the success of Show HN posts based on the overall sentiment rating at the time of posting. Love the site but more general stats could be fun for lurkers like myself.
Thank you so much. I was recently looking for a UI sound library, but was not able to find one to fit my small hobby projects. This is just awesome. I love your license! Best luck with it.
If privacy were really the concern, people would pay with cash. They always have, and always will. It is accepted everywhere, is the definition of liquidity, and is virtually untraceable. At best, in-person swiping of physical credit cards is a compromise that people make that gives away some of that privacy (your card provides your name, and can be used to verify your address) in exchange for something more valuable:

1) near immediate payment resolution

2) fraud protection

3) insurance against bad products and vendors - you can
almost always get your money back if something goes wrong

4) credit accounts

5) points/miles/cash-back, at the expense of the vendor
This is why people leave your company
I would love an affordable 3D printer. But I don't really trust HP to do that. I already got rid of my 2D HP printer because I was sick of paying insane prices for ink cartridges. And I swear every time I printed something on that thing it would complain that another cartridge was low.
Man of the Year is not an endorsement. It goes to the most influential, whether they've influenced things for good or for bad. Time basically put European leaders on blast for being completely ineffective in reigning in Germany's aggression.

Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,...
The inaccuracies found in this article (pertaining mostly to quotes about MIT's Building 20) are mentioned in an editorial note at the end of the article.
Start with values, not your idea
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Then the GOP has done an exceptionally good job of selling that they're about less government control (when really, their stance on government intervention depends on the issue).

Just look at all the GOP talking heads saying we need more restrictions on travel from Africa, we need to restrict the definition of marriage, we need to prevent abortion, we can't cut military spending, we need a huge border patrol, etc. The GOP beats the drum of small government, but are the first to enact big government when it suits their needs. See the Department of Homeland Security, enacted by a republican president with a republican congress, and which has in 12 years grown to become one of the biggest and most wasteful government agencies out there.

Politicians lie. It's their job. So we can't judge them based on what they say, we have to judge them based on what they do. And right now, unfortunately, an individual politician doesn't have the ability to contradict his party if he wants to keep his job. So we have to look at the party's track record, and when we do, it's pretty obvious that there's no choice for "relatively less government control". Both parties want more government control; just that the democrats want it in the form of government bureaucracy that creates dependency on the system, and the republicans want to dictate what people can and cannot do, then enforce it with an increasingly militarized police force.
Hacking to discredit and distrupt seems plausible.
A payments startup had better get security right from the start, because that is their business.

Your average web startup that's providing jazzy ringtones and a new poke app, sure, should leave security for last.
Best advice I could provide if the devs aren't too knowledgeable on application security, is use a framework where possible, know where it's likely to fail you and focus there and then make sure you stay on top of patching all your framework components to catch vulns in that layer

So for example rails handles basic things like SQL injection, XSS in standard forms fine, then you can use devise or similar for authentication and get a reasonable level of security. What you're left with are areas like authorisation which tends to be app. specific so still requires work, but you probably have less to focus on.

Also watch out for what I'd call "dangerous" functionality, things like file uploads or user generated content where you want users to enter HTML tags but still avoid XSS. Things like that need specific consideration to avoid common security issues.

Of course if you're doing something that will attract real bad guys (anything to do with payments, anything to do with bitcoin, anything to do with Intellectual property management etc) then I'd strongly recommend getting an app security person on staff as soon as you can 'cause you will get attacked probably sooner rather than later...
Well, actually, I am pretty sure it is a crime, just not one that is enforced in any meaningful way.
> Perl6 which a lot of people were very enthusiastic about and whose weekly mailing list updates made it look like an early partially usable version which could be used for staring the project was just around the corner.

If there's one thing that I would point to about why Perl is no longer a popular language, this is it. I too remember all the hubub and excitement. I think I even have a copy of the O'Reilly Perl 6 Essentials somewhere waiting for a v1.0 to come out any day now.

Perl 6 should have really been a staged release. v1.0 will have this, 2.0 will have this, etc. As languages age they add new features and this wouldn't have been viewed as odd at all.

But there are people who have gone from middle-school to millionaire in the time it's taken for a non-alpha Perl 6 to make it out the door.
It's funny that they say that, considering that storing tens or hundreds of millions of credit card information or e-mail addresses in the "cloud" represents a much higher risk than storing everything locally, in a secure enclave in devices, with little to no exposure to the OS, the way Apple does it, in terms of potential for total damage.
That statistic is meaningless without a description of the demographics of Georgia, the quality (rather than size) of the schools, and a comparison between the communities in which these schools are each located.

For example: if all black people in Georgia interested in higher education were forced to attend the two worst quality and most underresourced schools, they would probably rank amongst the largest.
Front end Frameworks – Which will stand the test of time?
Did the woman in the video search for images and then steal the dolphin one to go with the HP logo?!
Well, my argument was clear, and your previous response also showed perfect understanding of it (despite being a mostly snark/strawman response). But if you wish me to repeat it, here it is:

You wrote: "What I'm disputing is the idea in this essay that the industrial economy is somehow a bunch of evildoers polluting in order to get super rich and then light cigars with 1000 bills, unrelated to the rest of us. The industrial economy exists for the sole purpose of providing us with goods and services we enjoy and reducing the supply side is basically identical to reducing the demand side."

And I argued that this idylic picture of the "industrial economy" being some benevolent industrialists striving to provide us with "goods and services we enjoy" is false.

How? In the sense that industrialists don't just cater to our (pre-existing needs) as you imply, but, with the aid of advertising, condition and manipulate us to consume and want those "goods and services" in the first place.

Hence, "corporate pollution" is not just the necessary result of our real consumption needs, but also of inflated advertisement driven consumption. Without the latter both consumotion and "corporate pollution" would be vastly less than what it is today.

P.S. And it's not just advertising industrialists use, there are other even more heinous things they use to help increase consumption, from ""planned obsolescence", to killing the public transit system to sell cars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi... ), to modern-day killing of free municipal wi-fi to sell shity broadband options.
About time some serious attempt at blurring the lines between creating in digital and physical worlds. This along side paper and a 3D printer is going to be a fantastic tool in the creator toolbox.

Let's see how the dev community reacts to non-Apple/Google new platform.
When you have a physical 3-dimensional object you can use the projector cast images on it. I wonder if it is used for calibrating and lining up objects for the 3D camera as well.
We Drove the 261 MPG Volkswagen XL1 in Manhattan Because You Can't
Nothing wrong per se - both definitions are right within their domains, i.e. programming¹ vs mathematics.

It's just that I keep hearing (usually from FP people) how procedural/oo/impure functional/what have you programming languages should stop calling their functions functions, because they're not functions in the mathematical sense and therefore confusing; but I have the gut feeling that the programming definition (machine with input and output - X comes in, Y comes out) is the actually more intuitive one, and here we see someone explaining mathematical functions using the programming definition. Ultimately, I suspect that for computable functions, there is no difference between the definitions.

So I found it interesting how here the "wrong/confusing" definition is used in place of the "correct" one.

¹ (edit) I mean programming as the engineering discipline of programming computing machines, not in the sense of discrete mathematics.
I don't know about the other countries, but the author has left out some important conditions about Brazil's universities. I checked on the two he listed to confirm, but most public universities in Brazil have similar rules.

They are tuition free for students who are accepted based on a standardized test given in Portuguese called the vestibular. This test, similar to the SAT in the US, is the entire basis of admission. Students choose a major, then take the vestibular. Public universities will have X slots available for each major. If T = the total amount of students taking the test who chose the same major, then you would be accepted if you scored better than (T-X) other students of your same major. The article seems to imply you don't need to know the native language to study there tuition free. In this case it's simply not true.

The other way an English speaker could be permitted to study at those universities is through an exchange program from a university where one is likely already paying a tuition. Even then, exchange students are only permitted to study for up to a year.

Last, the tuition may be free, but the dorm conditions in Brazilian universities that have them are pretty dismal to my knowledge. Most students live off campus, so room and board would likely still be a pretty big expense.
It's a lot simpler to steal a million people's identities in one shot than it is to mug a million people -- and that's not even getting into phone security.
Externalized costs are, like, totally someone else's problem, man.
When the bar is so low, it's not hard to beat it.
Ok, I am getting genuinely sick of the "We got onto Product Hunt and became a success, and you can too!" submissions that keep popping onto Hacker News. Your time horizon is 18 days; that's not enough to assert causality of Product Hunt exposure on your business. And of course signups would increase when you first get publicity; that's the nature of publicity.

Additonally, naming an "effect" after yourself is very egotistical and not cute.

> I asked my friends to take a look and if they liked it, to upvote it.

Asking for upvotes is against HN rules and doesn't work, and I believe you did the same for this article, as 7 votes but no front page presence means that it was hit with a penalty.
'Fair' release of market-moving information would be a good place to use true 'broadcast' technology: radio waves, rather than broadcast-like network pushes.

Potentially, also, an encrypted full-length report could be pre-released. Only after enough time for the ciphertext to be widely replicated to all interested parties would the short decryption key be radio-broadcast.
That's ok. They occupy a different plac in the cost vs reliability spectrum.
Frankly, there are two mutually exclusive camps: free software and open source. I myself sympathize with free software (GPL) whereas RushPL with open source (MIT). Selling proprietary versions has never been the reason for CLA, though! We want to be able to re-release VirtKick under MIT (and automatically get rid of CLA) if we get funded, so businesses have no problems with it. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527999)
Didn't want to give off a "someones been there and has done that already" vibe, your version definitely looks much better. Honestly, I found WMI to be lacking and also to be quite slow.

Great to have a better alternative for unixes!
You know, this wouldn't be too hard to implement as a storage engine for MySQL... What an intriguing idea.
Looking forward to it, you'll see my contribution!
correct me if i'm wrong, but one thing i didn't see in the article was the relationship between this project and a start-up from a while back...i think it was called something like phonebloks from a year or two ago?

the article led me to think this DARPA guy just brought the idea to phones from the satellite world, but especially given the timelines, i can't help but wonder if there's more to the story than that.
Yikes! That's different!

But it still doesn't have the one feature that I've been wishing they would implement forever. In a collection of audio files, I wish they would provide a podcast feed. It would be so nice to be able to listen to Old Time Radio shows as podcasts.
1) I have nothing to do with Archive.org, I'm just speaking from a UX designer's perspective. "Designing around" constraints is something everyone involved in a site build does, from backend engineers to designers to front guys to DBAs. You're presented with a set of constraints, and you come up with solutions that fit those constraints. Nothing evil.

2) There's nothing inherently wrong with "consume, consume, consume". I don't think anyone in the world would argue that Pinterest is evil or bad. It's a site for consuming en masse, plain and simple, and an infinite scroll enhances the experience. Clicking "next" 50 times would significantly ruin the user experience on that (and similar) sites.
Maybe, but I think it's more likely that Apple would just never release a product like this.
Hackers break into White House network, Russian hackers blamed
It was also part of a larger conversation about how little rocket and aerospace technology has advanced since the 60's because they're afraid of trying anything new.
Thanks, can't wait!
It seems to me if Microsoft is copying features from Linux for Windows, then it may be that Linux on the desktop is starting to worry them.
Exploring Sound Signature for Vehicle Detection and Classification
There is another alternative college which I find interesting --it's pretty exclusive but seems to have quite a few salient people in its alumni.

"Deep Springs is founded on three principles, commonly called the "three pillars": academics, labor, and self-government."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Springs_College
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US agency baffled by technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses (2013)
They also "eat" the tokens you paid for if not used in 6 months, and refuse any sort of refund. Of course, you can't buy tokens for the exact amount you need to use for an item, so you always have a small amount of left-overs.

Basically stealing money from users. I don't buy from them anymore.
You don't have protections. With MCX + CurrentC, the customer is liable for all fraud.

These idiot executives in MCX are so blind in their zeal to track customers everywhere, they never stopped to think of how reckless it is to make the customer liable.
I have a story similar to this, though it didn't involve the police actually searching my home.

In March of 2011, my St. Louis hosted an Occupy convention - which was mostly workshops/lectures and some very tame marches due to out-of-town folks. My roommates and I had been involved for a bit and some had given our address out when arrests were made.

This was prime-time for police intimidation (including of witnesses) and undercover agents. We were aggressively tailed by unmarked cars, had police writing down license-plates of those at our house, and had a constant police presence circling the block and down the alley.

Aside from very close friends being intensely beaten for participating in a march that was staying on the sidewalk (a scene that still haunts most of us) - the most corrupt thing that happened to us was when they worked with the local Electric company (Ameren UE) to have our electricity shut off.

We called the electric company to find out why it was shut off when the bill had been up-to-date and were told they were ordered to by the police due to the house being declared Condemned and us being labeled as squatters.

We had some pro-bono lawyers who advised me to threaten the electric company with legal action - which made their representatives quickly make up a legal excuse as to why our electric was shut off. I informed the landlord, who checked into it and found that it involved a Sergeant with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

The conversation between then went something along the lines of:
- Landlord: Why has the house been declared condemned and the electric shut off?
- Police: This house has been involved with Occupy and often serves as a meeting place for it.
- Landlord: Ok... Is it illegal to hold meetings in a house?
- Police: Well... No...
- Landlord: Then we shouldn't have a problem.

Probably helped that the landlord is a high-ranking official in the nearby Air Force base. Within 24 hours, our electric was reconnected.

My take-away from all of this, and the current events, is that the best course of action in dealing with aggressive and usually illegal police activities is to fight back with an even more aggressive legal campaign as well as establishing a very close and open relationship with all surrounding neighbors. Their fraternity acts as an organizational bully that constantly pushes what they can get away with until they sense actual danger to themselves/their jobs in terms of legal ramifications, etc.
:/

We didn't become a success, but it did help blow up our traffic.

PH got us high fidelity users in the sense that 100% of them were mobile app shops that needed our product.

As per a voting ring, who knows.
Using "RC4-like" as a selling point is a very bold move. Let's see if it pays off...
Congrats on the launch and new gig! You should update your HN bio ;)
They're caching the magnetic strip data.
2048 we have forgotten. Fibonacci version inspired by 2048 algorithm
You're getting the downvotes, but I think you have a good point - at least the crack dealing bit; not so much the assassin part. I do find it morally suspect for the government to be in the gambling business. It's a cynical and lazy way to raise revenue.
Ubuntu forces a reboot on kernel upgrades fwiw.
Should have [2013] in the title.
Tech entrepreneurship as an altruistic career path
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Mmm, homebrewed cider...

But seriously, I really like this idea. You should definitely PR this into Homebrew though.
It's neat to see some old concepts finally get implemented. Here's Sun's concept video from 1993:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJNxgZyVo0
"Cult" does not necessarily have the same meaning as "niche" or "obscure."

Here they're using it to describe the fanaticism rather than the small audience. You could legitimately call star trek a "cult show" IMO.
A very valid concern.

To begin with, while our terminal is Android based we have taken numerous steps to lock this device down. Side loading apks is not possible nor is arbitrary access via adb. On top of that, we take great lengths to protect consumer data. In addition to full PCI compliance data is fully encrypted on the device. And if that's not enough, there are several anti-tamper mechanisms that will trigger and lock down the device even further upon physical instrusion.

In terms of physical theft we are actively looking into an option to physically secure the device (think kensington). Our plan is to have a good solution for this before our merchants go live.
So what are the requirements for these programs? Are there GPA averages, background, personality requirements? Or can I just fly over there present my GED and register for a semester?
Congratulations on the traction. As an Android user though, I don't really get the problem. From a desktop browser, I expect a link to the Play Store, where I can then have the app installed to any of my devices. Is this really for iOS users? (and is there no equivalent functionality there?)
We will not share our secrets. :)
The bulk of Ivy League undergraduates come from white-collar professional families. You can quibble about whether that's "upper middle-class" or "middle-class", I suppose, but you don't find most of them at the yacht club.
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Hope it serves you well. We welcome feedback and will hopefully be able to offer more sound packs in the future.
Really cool idea, too bad it comes with an operating system.

1) This should be a sold as a peripheral, not with its own CPU

2) Turn the bottom into a matte finish Cintiq monitor that can be quickly shut off
Now look at it this way: The Wayback Machine is probably the most prominent part of the Internet Archive. Does it handle websites that rely on Javascript?
Sure, I've been looking around at the corporate info. It looks like most of the emails follow the convention of first initial + last name @ bn.com. I figured I'd start with the list of board members and such and just try to hit everyone I can. I'll follow up here once I have the final list.