skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are incredibly literal in a few cases. Such as:

"Professional fees. If you are engaged in a professional occupation (such as a doctor or lawyer), all fees received in the performance of these services are earned income."

(great.. special rules for lawyers)

But they make up for it by loving artists:
"Income of an artist. Income you receive from the sale of paintings you created is earned income."

I wish they sit down and analyze software and make some hard & fast rules -- it's the computer age and we are being treated like "writers" or "professionals" or whatnot
Expedited requests generally get serviced pretty quickly, from experience. Within 8 hours both times I've had to request one.
While standardization can be neat, you run into problems with different keyboard layouts around the world. For instance '/' is Shift-7 on my Nordic keyboard.
Well clearly I was talking about the Manga that is sexual.
The indie game equivalent are web comics. There are really well made and interesting ones out there, although finding them isn't always easy. For some, printed versions are also available.
Ha, interesting. I wonder what the rate of cross-pollination is - the BSDs should, due to their license, easily be able to use code from the other BSD variants, right? So how come that FreeBSDs pf is kinda outdated, and OpenBSD hasn't adopted Jails, too? Is it due to different philosophies, NIH syndrome or simply not enough manpower?
I am so glad that I hold off on the bleeding edge android. I am sticking with 4.4 till there is more adoption
The question is how many of those 25% were fake numbers "just to get that creeper off my back". It's nice that you decided to "not be creepy", but it's not you who decides how your behaviour is judged.
This article may well be interesting, but I would need some kind of Google Translate in order to be able to read it.
Git handles binaries perfectly fine. Your repo is gonna get big fast, and it isn't going to handle merges, but if you just want a linear version history and are used to git, you might as well use it.
I will not use a system that pops up some kind of UAC-like approval dialog for every call Emacs makes to open(2).
Indeed, and you even know what kind of analytics they do/allow.
> Podcasting could be a lot bigger if the clients were more than downloadable file managers, if it was just a couple taps to hear a show

I agree about the clients being key. Although there are now great
clients for smartphones (eg Pocket casts). But a big factor probably
also is that you can easily download them on your phone now and don't
have to plug your mp3 player in.

> when they say "podcast resurgence" and that's honestly about one thing: ad money.

And that's somewhat annoying. Even the big ones (This American life)
have big ad segments. Some even multiple times per show and almost
always spoken by the cast themselves. I feel there might quickly
something like Adblock for Podcasts become relevant, with the ad
timecodes collaborated and cut out.
Sorry, but no. Their response to Heartbleed - refusing to revoke certs without charge even in an emergency - means I can never recommend Startcom again.

Failing to revoke keys on any notification they've been compromised is a CA/B forum guideline reason to revoke their trust as a CA, actually. They still have valid unrevoked signs on thousands of Heartbleeded keys now, because they issued them free but won't withdraw them without charge.

Fortunately, Let's Encrypt will replace them.
Heh, you are kind of making my point for me here. Buying the rare elements needed to build a modern phone is just about impossible to do without sourcing things from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or other places where child and slave labour is likely to be involved.[1][2]

The fact that all the other phone manufacturers are just as bad is a convenient line to use in 'winning' an online platform war argument, but it's not a good moral argument.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/11/search-...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/25/smartph...
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>> "In this case freedom of artistic expression on one side, and anti-sexualism of women (unisex) on other side."

To be clear I would never advocate against artistic freedom. The problem is with the big comic book companies. They should make the decision that they aren't going to sexualise women in comics for no good reason anymore. The artists who truly enjoy making that work can continue to do so at another company, through self-publishing etc.
Technically, they would be evading taxes in both the U.S. and Thailand. You have to be tax resident in another country to take the FEI deduction, and countries without taxes don't count.

But you can always try to get away with it. I like to sleep at night however (and of course, china takes my taxes straight out of my paycheck). I'm not sure if a thai prison would scare me more than an IRS audit :)
He could accelerate his progress if he just did 50 cold calls to random strangers selling diapers a day - he would be super hardened after a week ;-)
atsaloli already gave a good answer, but I'll add that the date is in the PDF's metadata. fex, poppler provides pdfinfo which shows the creation date of 2007-01-15. Your viewer probably has an option to show it too.
Apparently, people are generally fine with it. You will routinely hear nowadays that private agreements cannot trample on free speech because that only applies to governments. This argument even made its way to xkcd.

http://xkcd.com/1357/

The other issues are largely trade-offs. How much piracy are you willing to accept? How does it affect sales and availability of software for the platform?

How soon should we patch? Right away or on Patch Tuesday? How thoroughly should we test? How much instability are we willing to tolerate? And so on.
>Developers shouldn't have to give up their rights to make an iPhone app. App makers should demand better terms, and the customers who love their iPhones should back them.

If this is what EFF is spending my money on I will never donate to them again. I was with them on the battle to keep jailbreaking legal.
Less organisation that can forge = less weak-points = better security
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$415 million is still pitifully low. At what point will the judge just force a trial?
I saw this same remark during the particle experiments at the LHC. If they discovered the Higgs, then we learn that our guess was right. If they can't find any evidence of the Higgs, then we learn that we might not be right. In any case, we learn things.

I liked to apply that to the Rosetta mission as well. The happy-path goal was to land a craft on a comet. If everything went 120% better than expected, then we would get a large amount of data about the surface of comets. If things went the way they did in actuality, then we get a large amount of data about comets. In either case, we learn a hell of a lot more than we did having not done the mission, regardless of it's outcome.

Science and knowledge isn't binary. Sure, you can say you either know something or you don't, but knowing something has a range of n through infinity. "Failure" gives you the option to learn more.
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There is also the printer-oriented color management in Photoshop, whereas Gimp appears more screen-oriented. Designs made in sRGB may look radically different when converted to CMYK.
45 minutes each way by public transit.
I've had an expedited fix go thru in 2 hours flat.
I got a lot of numbers by having a small robot set up with a phone, whereby sending a SMS to that phone with a command would execute it. Add a bit of busking. Doesn't mean anyone will want to talk back if you call later, though ;)
Ask HN: Video portal creation options in 2015?
what are some realistic options to consider for creating a video portal - OSS but commercial solutions as well? What CMSs or frameworks would one recommend to evaluate?
And we've only explored about 5% (7 million square miles) - http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html
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> It is a defense tactic. They are trying to create reasonable doubt by suggesting that someone else may have been behind it - that's a tactic.

Actually suggesting someone else is behind it would appear to be the defense's strategy. The cross-examination of the DHS witness would be a defense tactic.

There is a substantive difference between strategy and tactics that goes beyond semantics.
Some code you can just drop in, other code needs more extensive changes because the internals are different. It would be interesting to map the cross pollination, there is a lot.

I believe jails is a philosophical issue, it is very hard to show that it actually provides isolation.
There are limits to what you can do in a contract for a reason.

A hyperbolic example: "I agree to allow you to kill and eat me so you can pay my family thousands of dollars. "

However I think that the rights signed away are not beyond the bound of normalcy. This is more of a campaign to change the expectations of the industry as they are all doing this in some form or another.

The focus on them is just because they are high profile enough to maybe push the rest of the industry.
It's Ridley Scott doing a Mars shipwreck movie. I hope the humour is at a minimum.
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Hypercard had a really nice programming language with automatic formatting and (eventually) an excellent debugger. The code was both easy to read AND write, and it was pretty easy for a competent programmer to understand clean up dodgy code written by a novice.

The view hierarchy was very simple: card controls, card, background controls, background. And the event hierarchy matched it and added a couple of higher levels.

All variables were strings. (This turned out to be a significant problem when it came to adding features.)

At a time when string manipulation tools in most languages was quite hard, it was insanely easy in HyperCard (e.g. the concept of "split" was intrinsic to the "chunk" system for string manipulation).

The environment itself was incredibly stable, and by default all your work was persistent and everything you did was persistent (making things volatile was extra work). E.g. if you changed the name of a button with code, the name change stayed. By the same token data and code lived together in this persistent world.

It was all based on direct manipulation. Want to create a button? Draw a button. Want to change its script? Command-option click on it OR go into edit mode and double-click on it.

The drawbacks of HyperCard were more interesting, especially since efforts to produce third party replacements usually managed to address "obvious" shortcomings, while losing key bits of magic (e.g. stability).

Years after moving away from HyperCard I did a bit of Toolbook development -- of all the HyperCard clones I tried, it was probably the best (and certainly addressed a lot of HyperCard's shortcomings).
Off-topic, but what audio-only games can you recommend?
Similar comics existed (and exist) growing up in the U.S., but they are less prominent in comic book stores, and more prominent in traditional book stores or the Sunday paper. E.g., Calvin and Hobbes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes).
That's a bit (I admit not entirely) like saying that "Maybe all those free-throws you practiced between games didn't score us any actual points."

100% of the women he didn't ask did not give him his number. The exercise served the purpose of pushing him past the fear that would have otherwise paralyzed him during a real request.
> No more dealing with SQL or other finnicky languages. Everyone's happy when your developers are happy.

SQL a 'finnicky language'? Are you for real? Jesus.
Empirical evidence of the number of friends who went to Asia for mid to long term and then came back within 2 years because it didn't work out. And the incident where I had to help a friend pay his airfare because he was literally stuck.

Failure rate seemed higher than success rate.
As a confidence building exercise, you do not need to know how many are fake or not, in fact, it probably would not help.

Fear of rejection is fear of having what you already have, nothing (and maybe a bit of ridicule laid on top).
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I would look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface

The technology has advanced far beyond that, but that was the start where automatic face recognition first became realistically possible.
Several points:

(1) "doctors didn't know for sure" - that is a usual state for a doctor - e.g. 'the symptoms of this patient strongly suggest x, but it could also be y or z. Given the data, the best course of action is ...'.
Do you imagine that a doctor even today, examining a patient with e.g. persistent headaches, or chest pains, or ..., knows 'for sure'?

(2) I am not a medic. But a few times I have helped people in critical condition (accidents etc) - in all cases, I did my absolute best to save the persons' lives. If paramedic's had shown up saying 'you xxxxing idiot, you ought to be doing xyz' I would have been happy to accept their advice, no matter how they 'presented' it. I hope you would also.

(3) In farming work in the past, I have often made mistakes (either ignorance or error) when caring for animals, sometimes those animals died due to my mistakes. Being told 'you xxxx xxxx why didn't you do xyz' afterwards, meant that I did better next time. I sure as hell didn't think 'oh, I don't like the way that is being presented, I think I'll just ignore it'.

To be clear, I am condemning the doctors of the time.

I am not necessarily disagreeing with you about whether or not Semmelweis could have been more tactful - I don't know enough to really comment (e.g. it might be that he was tactful initially, but as time went on and he was ignored, he 'turned up the volume').
I didn't have many friends in school. I never tried to fit in - I found other people in my class to be predictable and uninteresting and it took me too much energy to pretend that I was enjoying their company. I went through several years of school with no friends at all - At times, 'cool' kids would invite me to play sports with them after school but I never did. I spent all my lunch breaks alone programming games on school library computers.

I don't have much fear of rejection nowadays. I consistently choose the most difficult life decisions because I like challenges.
And that's totally not the point of the exercise so it doesn't matter?
Pinta in Ubuntu (14.04LTS) still lacks beziers and an ability to resize selected bits of an image (you have to resize the whole image at once). Then there is "gnome paint" which is merely a placeholder for a yet-to-be paint application (no functionality).

So does Gnome desktop have a flagship GTK paint application in the vein of paint.net?
I really can't think of a situation where it wouldn't work. Maybe if the codebase is extremely modular and each developer works mostly alone? Even then they should probably still have things like code reviews.
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Yeah, but this time he is targeting people with higher earnings. So the backlash could be real when potential victims could be middle and upper class IT, developers and security researchers.

Who has not built a scraper for something one or other time in his career.
Then there's Clang's struct alignment warnings using -Weverything. "Oh no, your struct will have 3 bytes of padding!" Made me turn off -Werror. Some warnings can be ignored.
I just finished Waitzkin's The Art of Learning, which discusses exactly that.

He makes the point that (IIRC) Michael Jordan made more last-minute, game-winning throws than anyone else on his team, but he also missed the most game-losing ones. He only excelled by overreaching.
Seriously, it needs to be 10x this to makeup for all the money they saved, and 100x this to make sure they never do it again.
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This is a good 'accidental' postmortem and provides a good example of how to not design a probe. Having many large parts move before radio contact is possible is bad design.

I have a new project: compare designs of Martian missions that succeeded, and contrast against those that didn't.
Karpeles ran one of the first bitcoin VPS services which is what Ulbricht used to shill the .onion site and uptime status in the beginning.
> There are plenty of ways to have sane defaults for privacy that when people aren't happy about, they can then change.

No, there aren't. It is not possible for a system which is opt-in to get off the ground.

Do you want to purchase Google Glasses, which are opt-in (and which therefore identify 0.000001% of the people you see every day), or China Blackmarket Glasses, which are opt-out, and which not only cost 1/10th as much, they also identify 99.735% of the people you see every day, along with their birthdate, home address, cell phone, relationship status, sexual orientation and SSN? Which product will be successful?

No one is calling such things "useless". They have plenty of "uses". I'm calling them disastrous, and abusive, and privacy-invasive.

Nor is anyone saying they won't happen. They will, undoubtedly. And it will be ugly.
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Are you referring to discussions on their mailing lists? If so, could you link to them?
Exactly. I'm interviewing with several places now. Even when it doesn't work out, I don't frame that as a "failure" but rather as practice for the next interview. That reframing does wonders for my morale.
He probably means to add the project file to the versioning system and commit regularly so that you can rollback to a previous version. It's way less flexible than Undo though.
I don't think the author is suggesting anyone overstay their visa.

I also work remotely in Thailand at the moment. Leaving and coming back every 30 days. Its a great excuse to go see nearby countries and to disconnect and take a break every month.

I can say for sure there is no "vague fear or serious legal action hanging over my head".

There are many people working here illegally in actual jobs, taking money from the Thai economy on improper visas (English teachers, etc), which the Thai government is not too happy about. When they find out they deport them.

The last thing that is on their radar is a tourist at the beach doing a little remote work, getting paid outside of the country.

So if that type of situation would be something that makes you nervous, then obviously don't do it. But if you are keeping everything mobile, worst you face is a deportation (have yet to hear any instance of it happening to a digital nomad) in which case you setup shop in the next country over.
It's really sad to me how all of us in our industry are getting slapped across the face day in and day out about how unfairly, unequally and unjustly women are treated in our industry and peripheries.

You gents are too smart to still 'not get it.' I'm at the point where I see it as willful ignorance.

And I'm tired of all of it.
> I'd be willing to bet the math works out in favor of spending $84,000 one time.

I'd love for the state to announce ahead of time how much they would pay for, say, a cure for diabetes. Have them calculate what the NPV is for a lifetime of diabetes treatment. Publish that figure.

Then some drug company can show up with a cure, charge 90% of that figure, and we can see people whine that the drug company is costing the state money.
Yes, I loved the Elite section - I bought the book after reading an excerpt from the Elite chapter in the Guardian [0] - and the Concorde section.

I had also missed the news of Colin Pillinger's death; RIP.

[0] Probably this one, should anyone else be curious: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weeken...
Yeah, this seems silly to me. Judges very rarely reject settlement offers, so if 324.5 million was deemed so low as to reject the settlement, bumping it up a bit to 415 doesn't make much of a difference.
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Yes, great chapter. I like the bit about after the fall of Soviet Union the KGB tries to sell satellite images of Great Britain to be used by Vodaphone for radio planning.
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ps1?
> Developers shouldn't have to sacrifice their rights to speak and innovate freely just to bring their applications to millions of Apple users.

Ummm... Is this really why they develop for iOS or are they just having fun mostly, enjoying their craft and (sometimes) making a small profit on the side. The App Store is but one way to get apps. Sounds like developers with the beliefs the EFF attributes to them would be better suited to developing for Jailbroken phones.
As far as I can tell, many of the would-be non-superhero comic creators and readers skipped past print and moved to web comics. There's a huge variety in that space.
I think we're splitting hairs here. In any event, regardless of any tactics, strategies, or arguments they use, he is sure to be found guilty on most, if not all, of the charges.
Those barriers are erected precisely because the lack thereof was abused enough to warrant them. Take them down, and something worse than those limits will occur.

The developer agreement is between the developer and Apple. It's nobody else's business.

Jailbreaking tears down walls critical for user-convenient security. Walls, fences, and locking doors are normal in business.

Security flaws can be serviced by expedited review, screening for anything else going wrong as well in as little as 2 hours. Normal review is required to ensure nothing traumatic happens.

DRM ensures that what users get is what they expected from the developer. Repackaged-with-malware is avoided.

I'm disappointed EFF would make such a lame list of complaints, while having locks on their doors.
thanks -- i didnt realize #1 was the case, & good point about the pipeline loop... I guess since I just use the CLI utils in different ecosystems it doesn't really occur to me how they are written, nor do I really care.

But I understand on principle, for example I work on JVM & hate when ppl bring in random code that make it hard to test across the whole system. Seamless integration of all tools & unified protocols are nice.
A lot of people are commenting on the price but the thing that struck me was the thickness. Based on the images it looks to at least double the thickness of the phone!
No, it was in an IRC chat
What if there was a setting: "I only provide service for free" / "I accept payments for my service" in your profile?

Such a setting could even be on a per-case basis. Imagine if you helped someone for a good part of a day, and they were ready to return the favor in cash, and you were given the choice to accept or decline it.
This is your second submission of it after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8838578

I agree this may haven't been resolved nicely, but hidden extrapolation from a few employees to the whole company is not cool on your side either. There are people in there, working their butts off to make one of the largest open source projects better.
> You will routinely hear nowadays that private agreements cannot trample on free speech

That comic is a response to people complaining about "freedom of speech" after their harassing comments have been removed from a forum or article comment thread. I'm not sure the same line of thinking translates so directly to a corporate software development license agreement.
It's funny, I actually upgraded to 5.0.1 stock from Cyanogen 11 (4.4.4) because the phone portion stopped working in 4.4.4. Haven't had any issues with calls since then. Now I'm worried that it'll suddenly go south again :(

Nexus 4 is clearly the red-headed stepchild in the Nexus family now. If there was a newer Nexus that wasn't the size of an iPad, I'd upgrade; but there isn't. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't like holding War and Peace against my ear to talk on a phone.