skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. I can't see any way to stop this stuff short of stopping everything else, but it irks me that we make heroes out of jerks who are basically just operating plagiarist click-mills. KimDotCom falls into the same category. These people are on a lower tier than scummy domain squatters and spammers.

Want to lionize someone as a freedom fighter? Try someone like Linus Torvalds, or Daniel J. Bernstein, ... someone who ... I dunno ... did actual work of their own to advance the cause of freedom?

My other point is this:

People seem to have this idea that piracy is a rebellious act, that you're hitting back at "the man." I just don't see it. To me it looks more like union busting against the artists... destroying their revenue model so as to beggar them and make them willing to take anything for their work. This in turn benefits the upcoming generation of data-aggregation capitalists who want to monetize everyone's work and use it to sell ads and push surveillanceware. You're scoring one for the man, not against him.
Positive Thinking Doesn't Work; Here's What Does
Well, this just highlights why Emacs needs to grow a namespace feature, because things have changed, and a lot of the Emacs packages being developed today are small, modular, and decoupled (even if the Emacs core isn't and maybe never will be).
The reply seemed strong but on-point and reasonable. Why should Docker break compatibility and abandon what appears to be a pretty serious amount of consensus from a large number of pretty serious industry players, in order to comply with a startup's 3-day-old unfinished "standard" for their "we're building the next Docker, but incompatible with Docker, give us money now please" business plan?

Especially when the request was not worded as "we're trying to standardize this, want to help out", but "we ARE the standard, comply with us".

CoreOS comes off in this exchange looking the very worst sort of VC vaporware wannabes, and that's what I'm going to remember a year or two down the line (assuming they even still exist at that point) if faced with an actual choice involving them.
How do I find an iOS dev with core audio expertise?
I have hired from Elance and ODesk before and in my opinion, it seems that the really good devs stay away from it. I have a specific need for an iOS dev with good knowledge of the real time (low latency) Core Audio libraries. It is a very basic app otherwise. Any thoughts how I can go about finding a person like that?
The issue isn't the difficulty of the concept but the ambiguity of "best strategy".
Patent Trolls are often buying "unused" patents from various companies. Usually what happens is a startup or something goes downhill, and assets get sold, or a slowly dying company decides to change it's view on IP assertion or "maximizing shareholder value through licensing". Even normal companies often sell patents not at the core of their business to make money on the side, (where non-core would be like IBM's patents on bathroom reservations, http://www.google.com/patents/US6329919?dq=system+and+method...).

As for "why wouldn't companies that make money from selling to a troll join the LOT network?", because it would mean the trolls would not derive value from the patents, since all participants in LOT would get a license when that sale happened.

If LOT contains everyone the troll wants to sue, then the patent is not worth anything to the troll.
This is hilarious. Like the e-sport thugs won't fill that thug-shaped hole. Even more hilarious, strategy games are somehow more "intellectually based" than regular sports.

"Oh, you play single player games, what a weirdo!"
It'd be nice if their login systems would accept 'accent characters' for passwords too
Yeah, but probably you're not a... um... "user".
Pardoning Nixon prevented all future presidents from coordinating illegal actions, so it must surely work. In fact, let's extend that to other crimes! Think someone might have committed murder? Pardon them too!

In truth, it's a false dichotomy. A tacit pardon by this administration means the next could decide to prosecute.
This is beyond scary... Tuskegee experiment, anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
How Disney has McDucked its tax
A THREE.js Boilerplate
...and soon 5.

I was pretty surprised at the Street Fighter 5 announcement so shortly after Ultra was released.
It's pure CSS. Download it and take a look, it really is simple.
I always liked Muzei[1] with the Stamen maps [2]. The effect works better than a regular map or aerial view.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roma...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.omarseyal....
I've struggled with these issues before, and have tried then backed away from the same maximum-size solution.

Fortunately, #2 can be resolved easily by setting input,textarea{font-size:16px}. There are problems with 16px for all inputs (especially if using a custom font with different metrics than the default), but it preserves a significant usability feature. A fair trade, even if it means using system default inside of inputs.

Regarding blurry images, I favor suboptimal delivery of content over failure to deliver every time.

Great work on the framework, keep it up!
Do they come with very specific pieces of malware too? kidding aside, I hope you check the ISO checksums.
The proprietor has apologized more than twice in the emails.I do not think it is fair for the HBS professor to take such drastic measures because a hapless businessman did not understand enough HTML to update a website frequently.
Why is the CIA story so low on the front page
I apologize for any confusion, but I thought I posted to Ask HN. Could the mods please move this thread there?
> It's different from a typical lambda declaration, but intuitive in its own way.

Isn't it pretty similar to Scala's use of "_"? I think _.value creates a one-parameter lambda in Scala.
That way they make sure those teams stay on their platform?
I've been using them with no issues for the past 3 months or so. I priced out AWS just for kicks and it would end up costing us around 15x more from the $174/month at OVH. At least for me, the cloud has a long way to go before prices become even remotely comparable to dedicated hardware.
Are you actually trying to fill this role with a job application form like that? Has anyone in HR attempted to even use the web form you are actively telling people to attempt to fill out?
So glad to hear it man. That's why I built it :)
I've seen this used for advertising. Stencil on the sidewalk + a pressure washer.
Pip bootstrapping included in Python 2.7.9
We implemented a moderation feature code-named "redemption" that puts a user's karma back at 1 when it got blasted by downvotes over something venial and they are clearly a good user otherwise.

We did this to try to compensate for some bad side-effects of the change we made earlier this year to count more downvotes than we used to. That was necessary and it worked, but like a lot of medicines, was not completely benign.

Our intention is for both of these things (the medicine and the compensating mechanism) to be temporary.
Perhaps try strace-ing the process? It should give you some clue as to what is going on.
A good lesson that all emails are potentially public :)
Note that Android no longer applies the 300ms delay regardless of viewport scalability.

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-a...

There are a number of plugins to remove the 300ms delay from other touch browsers. Here's one: https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick
"Could care less" is the sarcastic form of "couldn't care less." It works much better in speech than online (since the sarcastic tone on "could care less" does not travel over text).
If it does, doesn't mean it is possible to use it.
The environment is a data structure as well, and if functions use prefixes you can find all functions with a particular prefix.
The low-quality JPEG background clashes badly with the call to action of "Efficiently visualize data on beautiful maps".
Ember 1.9.0 Release
Postmates API + Partnerships
This is probably why packages on the Lisp Machine were useless, according to RMS.
Of related interest is the Op-Ed in the NY Times by ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/opinion/pardon-bush-and-th...

It's saddening to read such a two-faced argument by the head of an organization I supported with both time and money. When even the ACLU would rather call for pardons instead of prosecution because they no longer believe it politically viable I feel there is little left to say on the matters of justice and law in my country.

I can only hope Romero is soon fired so the ACLU can return to it's core mandate as written by them:

The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
~

Once a country abandons it's laws it is soon then abandoned by it's people.
JetBrains releases new code review tool, Upsource
I am all for privacy and am a daily user of encrypted email and encrypted chat. However, I think there are some activities that the very privacy minded need to accept that they simply cannot participate in and maintain complete privacy.

Search is one of these. In order for search to work, the user has to send a query to a third party. The third party has to be able to read the query to do the search. If that's not an acceptable loss of privacy, then don't use search.
Malware binaries signed with Sony code signing certificates
I wonder if we'll start to see the NSA doing targeting based on psychological state detected by their voice recordings. Maybe it's already happening.
I'm surprised nobody else has seen this. Google is removing the cookies because that's how advertisers track users.

No cookies? no way of tracking.

Or if you want to see it like this, they are getting something standard and turning it into something that it's under their control.
I wonder if EG streams will get featured more often now.
I am with you in I am happy too with eSports becoming more mainstream. But I disagree with your perception of "sport thugs" and "purely physical abilities".

Traditional sport stars are looked upon because of their skills, not 'pure physical abilities'. See the recent "one hand catch" on american football. Messi on soccer, NBA best plays of the week. Physical abilities are more of a necessity on pro traditional sports rather than the reason the stars are admired.

At the same time, eSports are not totally "intellectually based". FPS, in my point of view, has the same proportion of skills and strategy as any traditional sports. Games like League of Legends have indeed more strategy involved, but still demand skills. No eSports is like chess or traditional card games, and I guess that is why their are such an interesting show.
They don't have to tell anyone what they're doing. As cmelbye stated, it's an open standard. Other browsers can implement it if they wish.
> Given two solutions with equal potential for abuse, why not pick the technically superior solution?

Straw man. You're presupposing the existence of 'ping'. The argument is why, given an observation that web features X and Y are being used to implement contentious function Z, would you want to implement a brand new, even more insidious, web feature, designed solely for doing Z, in the first place? Technical superiority of the new implementation of Z is not in dispute.

> they already know which you click on.

I'm pretty confident that they don't in my case.
> What 'misunderstanding'? I don't want people knowing what third party links I'm clicking on. There's no misunderstanding. I understand it perfectly. I just don't want it.

This is exactly what I was talking about: the misunderstanding is thinking that your outrage changes the privacy situation in any way. The options on offer are “Stop using Google” or “Let Google collect data about the search results you click on”; redirect scripts, <a ping> and Beacon are all simply implementation details for the latter option.

If you feel strongly about this contact your politicians and lobby for privacy laws restricting the data companies are allowed to collect. There's approximately zero chance that everyone will voluntarily stop measuring how well their search ranking algorithms work.
Would be really interesting to combine with creative activities like this VR sculpting demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnqFdSa5p7w
Lots of module/namespace solutions manage the "prefix or conflict" issue by allowing aliased imports (as well as qualified imports), so you can manage conflicts that would otherwise occur without dragging the package name around with every use of the problem symbol.
I have never cleared app data and seldom reboot, neither in Nexus nor Cyanogen, despite beta-testing a lot of stuff. I just asked my wife, she never did these things on Motorola's and Sony's "roms". Are you sure that these events are that popular?
Apache Samza 0.8.0 Released
You'd think they would have already revoked their certificates.
RMS is the first politician that codes. Once you understand that most of what he rants about actually makes some sort of sense. He's appealing to his base by making political statements that make little sense to anyone who isn't an acolyte.

However, you'd think given his issues with UNIX he'd still be a staunch advocate of avoiding AT&T.

Mostly, the hilarity of RMS recommending AT&T for some reason makes me think of that scene in the Matrix where Agent Smith asks Neo what good a call is if you can't speak.

My apologies to the downvoters for questioning the dogma of St IGNUcius of the Church of Emacs.
The Machine OS: HP Will Release a “Revolutionary” New Operating System in 2015
>I don't understand, how can you blame the citizens for this, when they were ignorant, against their will, about this?

>When the institution that is performing these acts out-and-out lies about the impact and severity, how can random citizens be held accountable? That honestly makes no sense to me.

because the institutions and individuals doing it know that they will go unpunished once the truth gets discovered. Whenever stuff like this surfaces nobody gets punished and thus the citizens/society give clear approval to the actions that have already been perpetrated and to perpetrate it in the future as long as visibility of convenient "ignorance" is maintained.
I'll contribute something I noticed, as a native English speaker, when I started defaulting to too-terse in my own style: Instead of spending time worrying about how to capture enough meaning in a concise name, I can write "km", write a comment beside the declaration like "keyboard mapping", and I'm done. The symbol-meaning is mnemonic, the documentation is verbose.

Or to consider it another way, we've constructed the idea of variable naming being essential under the premise that we want code to relate to native language at each step. But when code is put into an interlingual context this breaks down relatively quickly - at the extreme end, the non-native speaker has to reverse-engineer meanings anyway. In the terse/documented style, I more explicitly acknowledge this separation of actions and definitions.

A lot of the thinking around naming conventions feeds into the expected workflow - when considering the pre-Intellisense, namespace-free era of C coding that Windows Hungarian arose in, it makes sense to bulk up the names a little so that every point of the code conveys more meaning and doesn't collide by accident. But if the environment already gives you ample guidance towards meaning and categorization, the bottleneck revolves more around how much code fits onscreen.
You realize the issue wasn't opened by someone at CoreOS, or the discussion before Solomon's diatribe wasn't forceful or in bad faith? @jfrazelle actually had the diplomatic answer right there, not this "defending my turf attitude". The attitude seems to be "you must use the Docker container spec or gtfo". That's not the attitude of a friendly OSS maintainer but more so of a private interest viciously protecting themselves.

I had no negative opinion about either company but to me it's clear Solomon has come off very poorly and undiplomatic from this whole exchange. CoreOS has done nothing wrong, they are not obligated to do whatever Docker Inc. or Solomon wants them to do. And of course neither does Docker have to do whatever CoreOS maintainers might want of them, but one side is mudslinging and bickering while the other isn't, very childish IMHO.
It's the same across the pond here in London - 9.5% increase between October 2013 and October 2014

Average rent is now £1411 (~$2200)

http://homelet.co.uk/index.php/homelet-rental-index/greater-...
> So I just see nothing to imply that CoreOS is a good exponent for some idea of "simple, lightweight enterprise platform".

I'd say that's completely valid. I was not trying to imply that the combination of CoreOS and tools such as Fleet, Flannel, Kubernetes etc. claimed to be a "simple, lightweight platform". Indeed, as you point out, the core component, i.e. Rocket itself, may well be more complex than "Docker classic."

I think your comments demonstrate accurately that the overall "Rocket ecosystem" will also address the inevitable enterprise requirements. Since most of the other tools you mention did not appear in the launch announcement, I think it's fair to say that describing Rocket as a response to the emerging 'non-simple Docker Platform' is, at the very least, inviting a comparison that isn't exactly apples to apples.

The overall point I was trying to make goes beyond Rocket, Docker, containers or any specific current technology or tool, however. The way the Rocket announcement was worded simply prompted on ongoing train of thought. Indeed, it's the many conversations in the past months around Docker that I've been involved in that have exemplified the belief/hope/wish that there finally is a new tool that will make boring enterprise problems magically "go away."

Docker, Rocket, and whatever tomorrow's favorite container framework turns out to be, are unlikely to be the last examples of that pipe dream, I think.
...How many people out there are worried that Google might know they're into rape fetish erotica website, but don't mind Google knowing that they're searching for "rape"?
Who was making a living recording and selling albums before the internet? As far as I know, touring was always much more lucrative than recording. Labels always made much more money than artists and the artists were ok with that because the only way to get famous(and make money touring) was for a label to like you and promote you. Things have changed. It's harder than ever to make a living playing music because less people want to see live shows, but that isn't thepiratebay's fault. At the same time, it is easier then ever to get your music out there. If pirating was completely stopped it wouldn't change anything for "artists". We'd just revert to labels choosing winners, but it would still be harder to make a living now then it was 30 years ago.
TCP-PACKET-FILTER

WINDOW-STREAM-DRAW-STRING

What is the prefix of above symbols?
Not being able to use a short name for a symbol even if it's only used in its own package is a big fail. Imagine that you have to call someone in your family by full name every single time.
But opsec can be improved upon, with enough care in how you host your torsite, what software it's on and who manages it, it should be possible to run it pretty safely, save for an attack against Tor.

I imagine the third generation black markets on Tor will last longer than the second one did
> I'm pretty confident that they don't in my case.

Would you mind sharing the details of how you achieve this?
So being an illegal content link index (categorized magnet URI lists) is not illegal ? honest question. Isn't that why Google was forced to unlist torrents from results, otherwise they'd be in the same position as TPB.
> "The max width can be changed with one line of CSS and all columns will resize accordingly."
I recommend looking at live-build and ubuntu-defaults-image if you're looking to create a ubuntu derivative. If not, ignore my comment ;)
Defensive Patent License 1.1 withdiff
Ask HN: Are you getting my same bad experience with Windows codesigning?
I'm the Co-Founder of Snapp (http://getsnapp.com), a tiny filesharing utility for Mac and Windows. Our app is of course getting issues with Windows Anti-Viruses because its code is not signed. This is representing a huge first-use barreer to some users so I started the procedure to get a valid codesigning certificate.

Since we are currently bootstrapping, we are trying to save as much money as possible, so I opted for K-Software which is re-selling Comodo certificates for cheeper prices. Unfortunately the whole procedure looks insane to me: I've had to validate a few documents through an attorney, I've had to FAX everything from the attorney's office to the Comodo offices and I've had to send the same docs via ordinary mail to the Comodo offices. The thing is taking long especially for the mailing part since we are based in Italy and we are still waiting for the docs to hit the offices.

As a side note, I'm a little concerned regarding opening our private beta. We feel ready for making the beta public due to the apps performing well now, but I'm concerned regarding the codesigning stuff on Windows, because this would surely mean a bad experience for most of Windows users.

Also, is it just me or the Windows codesigning experience is the worst? I mean, I had codesigning experiences with Apple and despite them being a convoluted process, they ended up taking just a day or two.

I just wanted to share my experience and gather a few information from you. You may have had a better experience than mine.
Well, its mountains, mountains, mountains, or mountains, but I don't think the east cascades is organized into a national park (though people go skiing there). We also have country (including that yearly tulip festival thingy up toward Bellingham). In Europe, you'd have to go to the Alps to get anything like that (or Norway for lakes and floating bridges).

If you find cities very interesting, I'm sure London is very interesting. But if you are into the outdoors, the west coast of the USA is actually pretty nice.
The very same argument could be made about your comment.
I disagree...

Sharing has been part humanity since the dawn of the human race. It is just easier to share things with more people now.
If they use prefixes, which they might not. I agree that these should, in order to make this kind of programmatic environment manipulation possible. The fact that these don't have prefixes or some other regular distinguishing feature is a design flaw: you either have namespaces, or you commit to prefixing/suffixing/metadata attached to everything and document how it works.

Although, `tcp-` and `window-` seem like they might be used in the way you expect.
I've wondered about this before, and had to explained to me. Basically, RMS only considers software "eligible" to be free if it could, in theory, be moved to other hardware of the customer's choice. It is the ability to put the software somewhere else that is the "freedom" being abridged by closing the source. On the other hand, software that is fundamentally tied to hardware (such as firmware or infrastructure control) couldn't reasonably be moved somewhere else, so close-sourcing that software is not impinging on any freedom that would otherwise exist.

It's a fine distinction to make, but I get it. I don't necessarily agree with it, and I think it's a strange place to draw the line, but I can understand the logic behind it.

If I'm understanding this right, then the only part of Skype that RMS objects to is the desktop client. The network and infrastructure being closed-source does not remove freedom. (NSA is a separate consideration)
s/think/hope/
I doubt they'll do that anytime soon. There are no continental railways to connect to in Alaska, and not much demand for one.