skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the constitution define all laws? No. There is nothing about petty theft, or murder even. The truth is corruption runs rampant in this country and Jefferson knew that sometimes the only solution to tyranny is the tyrant's head at the end of a pike. This isn't about 'improper interpretations', its about the theft of liberty.
>>sold by netapp

I think you missed the "on a budget" part.....
What're you talking about?

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Upstart-social-n...

^ Sebastian Sobczak is the founder, you're an idiot if you think I'd be posting security issues with my own startup.

Educate yourself.
Some airlines already do have multiple camera feeds from out side the plane, which you can watch as a channel on the inflight video. I've seen ones which point towards the front wheel which are very cool to watch on takeoff/landing.
Ask HN: Why aren't phones being used as local private servers?
Phones nowaday have the processing power to do any kind of private server work.

A private server phone is similar to a home-server, as it can be used as a media server, file host, file share, git server, web server (acting as an interface to any of the other utilities).

It can even serve as a configuration server, as many people are struggling with keeping their program configurations the same between several OS'es and or devices.

I can imagine that people don't want to do it because of battery issues, or that most people aren't even aware that you can use your phone as a local server.
You are mistaken.

After joining Microsoft, Hejlsberg led the company’s efforts in Visual J++

[...]

Hejlsberg helped make Visual J++ the most popular
and most productive Java IDE in the late '90s.

http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/Anders-H...
Only if your intent is to cause harm, I would say.
By the way, this is originally a japanese game called Sokoban. Boxxle was a clone of Sokoban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban

I wrote a space-themed iOS derivative of Sokoban many years ago, which I sadly never put up on the app store. I wanted to build more levels, free-to-play mechanics, and got sidetracked and never finished the project. This is what an early build looked like, before I built in a better input mechanism:

https://vimeo.com/3918704

I ended up finding it cumbersome for each move to require a tap, so I built a mechanism whereby you could draw your movements on screen and queue them up.

http://cl.ly/image/0c222O3I020Q (a whole bunch of stuff is broken in this dev screenshot).
The important point that dawned on me watching this video, is that the things you describe weren't done by Microsoft as a faceless corporation, but consciously by specific people, and by Gates himself directing the activity.
No different from eg. OpenTTD. If they don't distribute any of the original assets or code, copyright is not relevant. That's most likely why they require an original installation to get the game assets from.

They don't present themselves as AoE2 either - saying that it's like AoE2 is not infringing - so no trademark issue either.

Can't see a problem with this.
Hah, I personally don't really believe this. There are so many things in US politics that are obviously corrupt (e.g. NSA and RSI deleting files before congress hearings). None of them generated a backlash significant enough to change anything.
You've never had good seitan. I've recently perfected seitan sausage. The meat eater in my house loved it.

When made well (and fresh), it has the texture of the tenderest chicken or pork you've ever eaten. And, it should not taste like flour, at all. It's mostly the protein from wheat (I use Bob's Red Mill vital wheat gluten, which is 80% protein), and none of the other components that taste starchy or bread-like.

I've been using a variation of this recipe as the basis of my seitan experiments: http://www.theppk.com/2009/11/homemade-seitan/

I make a double batch and still use less broth and water (I use six cups total simmering liquid for a double batch), as the recipe calls for way too much.

For sausage, I add rubbed sage, thyme, cayenne pepper, fresh minced ginger, and white pepper. A touch of brown sugar is also a reasonable addition. Once boiled, I slice it into 1/4" patties and put it into the toaster oven, on a pan oiled with a bit of peanut oil, to broil for 5-10 minutes to make it sizzly and a little crispy. It really is pretty awesome; I serve it with vegan biscuits and gravy (I make the gravy from the remaining broth from the seitan cook).

In short, seitan is one of my absolute favorite foods. I was ambivalent about it, until I had really good fresh seitan at a vegetarian Chinese restaurant. I tried for years to find some at the store that was as good, and was always disappointed. The key seems to be to make it fresh.
It's not broken just because your opponents are bad.
I love staring out plane windows. On a flight over interesting areas, I can spend a lot of time watching the ground scroll past. I love watching sunrises and sunsets, and observing different cloud patterns. Anything that reduced that experience would be bad, if you ask me.

Plus, as has already been mentioned, they are an important security measure for passenger flights, especially in emergency situations. That's why they ask you to lift the blinds for takeoff/landing. Fire crews are able to see inside the plane and look for smoke/flames/trapped people.
An Experiment in Personal Hygiene
It's only a matter of time before somebody does it, but at the moment I can't get the damn LXC working on Android :)
Except the text printed on the chip is the only text with legal protection
Crime is a function of law, an action is only a crime if it breaks the law. So no legislating the law by lawfully elected individuals is not a crime. This is true even if you disagree with the laws that were written. I will be candid and share with you that I think what you asked is a stupid question on multiple levels. I assume you're riled up whenever the government does its job of governing, which yes, involves enforcing the law and taking things from people, like their freedom and or property.

There's a democratic process in place in our country that allows you to help decide who is in power, if you're unhappy with who is in power become more involved in elections.
Write or Die Tool: Procrastination Has Consequences
The correction on that NYT article is fantastic.

A previous version of this article was accompanied
by a picture of Emmy Rossum holding what was
incorrectly identified as a Leica rangefinder. It
was, in fact, a Fuji digital camera whose design
was inspired by classic rangefinders such as the
Leica.
Monetizing investors as unconsenting platforms... Might be worth covering in "How to Start a Startup Class".
Wouldn't we just start to delve into larger projects?

I kinda developed this theory playing on a modded minecraft server where we'll hit peak engineering. I'm trying to simulate industrial ascenscion on there right now, moving from nothing to self-sustainability to post-scarcity. And whilst resource aquisition goes up exponentially, the machinery I build becomes more and more complex, and the time I spend engineering things goes up dramatically. I moved from half an hour of thinking on each project to spending an average of a week on most of my current projects. The next one down the line I'm projecting at about a month, gathering data, designing and testing.

Now I understand that directly applying that to a larger system isn't prudent, but I notice distinct similarities in other projects I take on, with the only difference being time scales and project complexity. Which makes sense, since civilisation as a whole, or even a career take a lot longer than the two months I've been playing around with the idea in a simplified system.

So I personally believe that once we hit that point, we'll be at a state of peak engineering, where our progress and the size of the projects we can take on is limited by the amount of brainpower we can spend on them. What I'm saying is that there won't be geniuses everywhere. We'll be more productive as a whole, but there's a ceiling on how much can be done by one person in a given timeframe.
I'm interested in how fellow Hackers here have hacked personal hygiene. I honestly haven't put much thought into it in years, but I'm in my mid 20's now. 30 is just around the corner, and I would like to start living healthier. If you live the way I've proposed, I'm very curious to know about it.
Not only that, but the law in question explicitly references motive. Breaking a large deposit into smaller deposits is only illegal if you do it to avoid triggering reporting. So ignorance of the reporting requirements is a defence. If you didn't know it existed, how could you try to avoid it?
>> how do you solve it without know the quadratic formula or some such?

This is actually possible, if you've been taught to solve problems instead of being taught to apply magic formulas. Of course, one is rarely taught math this way now.

Let me try. Suppose you have 3x^2+5+2x=7. Now, you have no idea how to solve for x. But what you could solve? If you had something like (ax+b)^2 = c, then probably this would be easy for you to solve, right (of course, provided c is not negative, won't get into that now)? We just take square root of both parts, and then it's a simple linear equation. Now, we can notice we can also get rid of a, for simplicity, by dividing both parts by a and get something like (x+b)^2 = c. Which in our example should represent 3x^2+5+2x=7 or alternatively x^2 + 2/3x - 2/3 = 0. But how we find proper b and c?

So, is there a way to make that equation look like that with suitable values? Let's look at (x+b)^2 = x^2 + 2bx + b^2. We have 2bx = 2/3x which means b = 1/3. So we have (x+1/3)^2 on one side, and on the other side we have to get 2/3 and also additional 1/9 which is the b^2, meaning c would be 7/9. So, x + 1/3 is sqrt(7/9) with + or - sign (since square on non-zero root always has 2 options), and x would be that minus 1/3.

As you can see, we used no special magic formula - only thing we needed is how to write (x+b)^2, which is easy to see just by multiplying (x+b)*(x+b) by hand.

You can do cubic equations this way too, but it is considerably more laborious. Look up Cardano and Vieta methods. Doable but I wouldn't enjoy doing it by hand too much.
Over the years I've come to realize the the 'P' in OOP is not important at all. What you technically can or cannot do in a given programming language isn't really that important. In my opinion it should be OOT where 'T' stands for "thinking". To be able to "think" in objects is so much more important and beneficial than to understand some technical language construct.
> I can't find a link but Seattle basically hasn't issued any new taxi medallions in 20 years. Suffice to say the area has grown significantly in that time.

Medallions are largely a red herring. Municipalities vary, and I can't speak to Seattle, but for example, New York also is in a similar situation (the number of medallions has not increased commensurately with the increase in population since 1970).

However, you do not need to own a medallion in order to drive a car, just as you do not need to own storefront real estate in order to operate a retail business. You can rent medallions, and many (most?) drivers do this[1].

In addition, you don't need to either rent or own a medallion in order to drive a cab - you just can't take street hails. (These cabs are regulated as well, but differently from yellow[0] medallion cabs)

The medallions are a very common talking point, and it always irritates me because it's such a misleading statement. Medallions are not the barrier to entry for individuals who want to start driving professionally.

[0] Or green medallion cabs, which were introduced last year.

[1] They also often aren't driving their own cars, which is something that Uber/Lyft/etc. ignore - if you don't already have a car to drive (or in Uber's case, the right kind of car), you're out of luck.
I may be racist or something, but I don't trust software written outside of US, Europe and Australia. I know Samsung now has labs around the world, but the important decisions are still made in Seoul. In my humble experience those guys are never agile, never able to say "i was wrong", etc. That attitude works well for devices, based on other's designs (ARM, Google) but leads to really bad, insecure software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_computation
Thanks. I scanned that, but mixed up the discussion of iCloud and iCloud KeyChain, of which Apple claims:

"iCloud Keychain allows users to securely sync their passwords between iOS devices and Mac computers without exposing that information to Apple."

So, I guess somebody should write a 'notepad' for iOS and Mac OS X that stores its data as secure notes in the KeyChain (assuming that secure notes get synced, too)
Number one is far easier to do than number two.

Sadly, it's as bad as the banking industry. Still today, they base a lot of their security on IP addresses. Sad really.
I've never met weev, but from his online writings and various actions reported by others he seems like a giant asshole.

However, I wasn't commenting on his character, just the one specific action he was jailed for and how it compares to the events in this story.

In that context, modifying URLs and resubmitting them seems way more harmless to me than spoofing your caller-id to gain access to a targeted individual's voicemail and change their outgoing message.
>As Alan S. Kaufman wrote in each edition of his textbook Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence (I read the first edition in the early 1990s), what you and I don't know about effective environmental interventions to raise IQ does not at all imply that none existence. It's not valid to argue from ignorance that something that hasn't been tried cannot possibly work.

The Blank Slate, everyone has equal potential view has been the underlying education school dogma since at least the early seventies. People have been searching for ways to raise and equalise outcomes for (I think) longer than you have been alive. No one has found anything that does both.

Absence of evidence is in fact evidence of absence, and the more effort, time and money has been expended in the search for evidence the stronger the evidence for absence is.
Brian from Backblaze here.

> how do you determine which drive to swap

Every two minutes we query every drive (all 45 drives inside the pod) with the built in linux smartctl command. We send this information to a kind of monitoring server, so even if the pod entirely dies we know everything about the health of the disks inside it up until 2 minutes earlier. We remember the history for a few weeks (the amount of data is tiny by our standards).

Then, when one of the drives stops responding, several things occur: 1) we put the entire pod into a "read only" mode where no more customer data is written (this lowers the risk of more failures), and 2) we have a friendly web interface that informs the datacenter techs which drive to replace, and 3) an email alert is sent out to whomever is oncall.

Each drive maps has a name like /dev/sda1 and these drive names are reproducibly in the same location in the pod every time. In addition (before it disappeared) the drive also reported a serial number like "WD‑WCAU45178029" as part of the smartctl commands which is ALSO PRINTED ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE DRIVE.

TL;DR - it's easy to swap the correct drive based on external serial numbers. :-)
I just moved from Philadelphia (lived there for 4 years and nearby for my entire life). I always wanted UberX in the city from a convenience perspective, but I do feel bad for the Philly cab drivers here.

In my 4 years there I talked to probably 100+ cab drivers, most of the time talking about their job. I found ~95% of them to be hard-working and nice, definitely not 'corrupt' people or part of some larger scheme that needed to be disrupted. They also have it tough in a lot of ways. First of all, the medallions are very expensive and many go into debt getting them. Second of all, I've been told (can't confirm) by the cab drivers that they are forced to accept credit cards but then get hit with ~10% fees on those transactions by the processor. My only complaint with Philly cabs is that the dispatchers were generally rude and unhelpful if you were in a strange location.

So for the consumer it is great to have UberX, but I do feel bad for those cab drivers who invested in a legal system and are just trying to make a living. I guess this is just how markets work, but it seems like Uber is setting a dangerous precedent by using VC money to subvert local legislation at every turn. Sure they may be vindicated in the end, but it doesn't strike me as fair play.
Flexbox Cheatsheet [pdf]
The threat doesn't need to be as extreme (or binary) as assassination, presumably you mean by a government? Incarceration in a Federal prison and/or torture under questioning are imho personal threats to safety. And cynically I believe any "backlash" would last about as long as the media cycle at the time.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511614 (1 point, 5 hours ago, 0 comments)
Presumably your son would like to eat out occasionally? Or not be relegated to just the healthy options you want him to eat?

Just because there are GF Oreo's doesn't mean you have to eat them. And to counter your observation, in my experience GF food generally tastes alright. My partner is allergic. It's "overpriced" (market priced, really) because it's lower volume and depending on the GF substitute it may be more difficult to produce.
Like this. Reading a technical book is of little value. Using the knowledge contained in the book to give you the skills you need to get you where you want your life to go is of great value. So the first step is visualising (important) where you see yourself and your future career and then retrospectively determining the skills you need to get there. It's a process I think of like dragging yourself up by your bootstraps. If you can visualise yourself as a successful person, making the intermediate steps to equip yourself for that eventuality is easier.
The old AI wasn't particularly good. Playing versus modern AIs, or actual people, is an entirely different experience!
Creepy sleepy drinky spider cider.

I feel a children's book coming out of this.
> As it is, a manual window provides the passenger with some control of their environment. If the airline seizes control of the window, won't this feed into a feeling of lack of control and increased anxiety in passengers?

The 787 already allows this. Flight attendants can change the window "shades" of the entire plane from a single control.
Fair point, I always thought he joined in 1998.
> The lack of an immediate change in government policy != people not caring.

How long do we wait before we strike immediate from that statement, and then set the != to ==?
This logic works really well until you consider that everybody thinks that they're the ones who "know better".

Historically, there haven't been many vocal groups who thought they were on the wrong side of the cause they were championing.

How does society tell the difference between non-majority groups who are actually right and non-majority groups who just think they are?
Bring out the best in others: Elaine Wherry, cofounder at Meebo
> Second of all, I've been told (can't confirm) by the cab drivers that they are forced to accept credit cards but then get hit with ~10% fees on those transactions by the processor. My only complaint with Philly cabs is that the dispatchers were generally rude and unhelpful if you were in a strange location.

There are newsreports about drivers having to accept credit cards.

Here's an unpleasant one about two drivers losing their jobs: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/05/30/philadelphia-parkin...

> In case you’re unaware, Philly cab drivers despise credit card payment, because they have to pay a service charge–like any business that accepts credit cards–and because they don’t get their money immediately
Starting a new gig tomorrow? Here’s your “first day at a new job” checklist
They're esoteric enough that I'd be surprised to see a reasonably-priced one.

I've made a simple desk in the past with an ikea top like this one http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S29870932/ and four lengths of 100mmx100mm planed softwood for the legs, and four big (10mmx200mm) countersunk screws down through the top into the legs.
It was surprisingly sturdy, and takes a few minutes to assemble once you've got the parts.
I think the risk in this context is to make a guess and go all in on it. It's the opposite of taking the time to reach a high level of certainty before starting.
I know what glutinous rice is. It's just the propensity to describe the parts of grains that are 'sticky' as 'gluten,' and then to have one of them actually officially named 'gluten' that becomes confusing.
> a wonderful Devil's Advocate argument that dispels hackers crypto dreams

I think most hackers understand this. Turned around, it's the basic argument against DRM - that for the 'consumer' to access the content it must be unlocked.
I don't know whether I find it astonishing or a bleak reminder of reality that what has come from Snowden's leaks has mostly either fallen on deaf ears, or met harsh resistance in deeming him a "traitor" for what he has done.

When you couple the most powerful military in the world with a system of absolute un-accountability - as we're seeing with officials lying to congress to no redress - there is certainly a massive issue not just for Americans but for the entire world.

But then, one must ask, how much of it is acceptance undermined by a sheer feeling of dis-empowerment? It's easier to pretend everything is right, and that Snowden is a traitor, than trying to tackle the issues highlighted through the means we're given.
Well, you can certainly get web servers running on Android (I've used Bit Web Server before, and there are free alternatives... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andi.serve... ). The only question is whether you'd be able to install something like OwnCloud on it... https://owncloud.org/install/
Sorry, but that explanation doesn't hold up.

Long distance calls in bulk are so cheap that the phone companies might be making a fraction of one cent for each call. On the other hand, this creates so tremendous ill will against the phone companies that it's hardly worth it.

The other day I spent 10 minutes complaining to my local phone company about scam calls. Even at minimum wage for the customer support person, dealing with my single complaint probably cost them more money than they made carrying many hundreds of scam calls.

Some Caribbean phone companies have been known to profit handsomely from operators of 900 and 976 pay-per-call scams in which the customers are billed hundreds of dollars directly by the phone company. Maybe you're thinking of those. But that's a different matter.
Agile is not good for security, which requires up-front design if you're going to get it right. TDD isn't good enough for security testing, and doing thorough security testing at the end of each sprint that changed security-enforcing code is neither practical nor cheap.
Yep, I think that's a testament to the fact no one has good answers. You'll see this sort of stuff appearing in other blogs, along with testimonials. The one guy is from Princeton.
It sounds to me like the Philly cab drivers would be better of as Uber drivers. You said they go into debt to pay for the medallions. Where does that money go? Do these fees collected by the city provide a service for the community or does it disappear into a corrupt government?

If you want to help the drivers don't support a system that forces them into debt. Support an alternative.
Oh, now I get it. The whole reason that AtScript exists is because they just can't give up the desire to have that bizarre Javaesque IoC container.
Lack of negative effects are not proof of a positive effect.