skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grandfather's farm could not be copied and distributed 1000000 times over with a few cents worth of electricity and a glass fiber. If you take my grandfather's farm, he is no longer able to use it for farming.

Copyrights and patents were created specifically for the purpose of recouping development costs that are otherwise non-recoverable by the more obvious laws of microeconomics.

You're not just comparing apples and oranges. You're comparing actual apples to poems that rhyme the word orange.
We have worked on audio analytics in the past for things such as outdoor sound detection and vehicle identification. We are currently focusing on speech-based analytics such as language ID and affect recognition. The statistical methodologies we are using for speech are easily extended to such domains. We hope that by puuting out these initial speech services we will get feedback from the community about related problems and welcome your suggestions.
Cyberattack Projected to Have Little Impact on Sony’s Earnings
It gets tiring having these discussions over and over again. Kinsella¹ and others have demonstrated many times the differences between physical property and copyright. It's fine to say that these differences don't apply here for some reason(s), but not even acknowledging them is just spinning wheels, not advancing the debate.

¹ See Against Intellectual Property (2008)
They already knew we were American, we weren't hiding the fact.
Scott Adams on “What makes stuff go Viral”
I sometimes carry around a pvc pipe in my luggage when I travel. I use it for foam rolling (seriously).
Sorry, changed that ;)

Even though it may break the deal for everyone else? In the meantime, you can't know if it will.
Not to mention everyone already carries a unique identifier thats easy to verify - your fingerprint.

Actually a surprising number of people don't. For either medical (dermatitis), work (manual laborer wearing them out, operation room personnel scrubbing them out...) or age related reasons.
It actually requires neither. As many lawyers have pointed out in various threads, the defense team could have claimed the server was Ulbricht's property before trial, and had the motion failed, denied so during trial - so long as he never testified.

I suppose it is slightly weird, but it kinda makes sense from a "lawyered!" perspective.
I have the opposite problem. All my side projects have the appearance of money making businesses, and I can't show them either the site or the code (it's private in Github too)
There is no link between RedMatrix and Matrix.org - the fact that both have Matrix in the name is total coincidence. On the Matrix.org side, we came across RedMatrix for the first time a few months ago when stumbling across http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedsocweb/2013May... in Google, which then linked from Friendica/Red to RedMatrix.

I've never played with Friendica/Red/RedMatrix/Zot, but from what I can see, it's more about federated blogging/social networking than messaging or pure JSON synchronisation like Matrix. Architecturally I'm not sure how they compare - I only just found https://github.com/friendica/red/wiki/zot; we'll have a read and see what the difference is.

Something we're very keen to do with Matrix.org is to build as many gateways and bridges through to other comms ecosystems as possible - so the fact that both Matrix.org & RedMatrix (& Diaspora & Identi.ca & all the others) are operating in a similar space isn't at all a problem - so long as they all talk to each other. It'd be a bit embarrassing if we were building federated communication systems which couldn't gateway to each other!
Maybe I'm revealing my lack of fashion sense but I picked up a smart watch and the only time anyone's noticed it, they thought it looked pretty neat. Picked up a Moto 360 on sale for $175 a month ago and so far I've enjoyed it. Is it a must-have game-changing productivity device? Oh hell no. But considering how many watches you can buy for easily $250 or a lot more, I didn't think $175 was terrible for a novelty/luxury item.

If only for the fact that I can change the face to look like any style of watch or display info in an appealing way, it's been cool. The notifications and voice commands are more like added extras IMO.

I just figure that if I can buy a Timex for $175, a Moto360 for $175 isn't the worst luxury gadget I could buy. The traditional watch has the benefit of years-long battery life whereas mine gets put on a dock when I go to sleep. But mine is also a "Fitbit" and I can put any number of faces on it or spend 30 minutes in Photoshop designing my own. As a gadget lover and hobbyist graphic designer, I'll take changeable faces with neat ways of displaying weather and fitness info even if it means I can't wear it on a multi-day camping trip due to battery life.
As I'm told by my company that me leaving would break the deal for everyone. That's not what I want, but it's also not a good deal for me (especially compared to other offers I get)
And still no 2 factor authorization ...
How programs get run
"So you're against taxing the idea guy (or girl), but not against taxing the working people that make the idea become real?"

This is a straw man. I said nothing of the like.

"Until the bounty is paid the author of the work will subsidize its protection by paying a fraction of what they make from profits from that work."

What if the author can't afford to pay? Does being poor mean you don't deserve to own the work you've created?
Perspective: 74% of UK tech companies are based outside of London
Mailgun hack day: Making our API documentation smarter
Oh, i think i get it. The materials are different, but not different enough for a whole different design - you can't generally simplify out parts. Some strut being 1cm across vs 1.2 cm across doesn't buy you much.

Thanks!
That's not a reasonable requirement. It only sounds like one to you because the technology has been so bad for so long.
>> "Junior/Senior/Management" --- is that the skill level of the interviewer?

That's the position you would be hiring for, right ?
With the stipulation that it's a graduated tax which applies only to extensions, I think it's a fine idea.

Your first 7-14 years are free, a modest fee for the next 14 year extension. Then they start rising steeply.

If the work's worth the extension, you can continue to file. If not, it lapses to PD.

And you only get so long regardless -- 56 years should be long enough for anybody.
R Fiddle – like JavaScript fiddle but for R scripts
Top 70 Programming Quotes of All Time [CoderFactory Blog]
Graphing Node.js memory usage in realtime
Had never really thought of that angle. Being a father it does shake me up a bit more than usual as it seems my peers and I are quite used to these headlines being the norm. Imagining a future in which you have already been "doxed" prior to elementary school is a bit disturbing.
I was offered $700 for wikawika.com, I asked for $800 and all communication stopped. Domain buyers are a fickle bunch I guess.
Because Mickey Mouse is an idea while a farm is not. Claiming ownership of metaphysical concepts like Mickey Mouse is very different from claiming ownership of something that's scarce and rivalrous such as the farm.
Many political prisoners around the world are locked up from crimes unrelated to their activism. It is a popular method for locking up your political enemies.

Now I do not believe this to be the case for Assange, but seeking political asylum when faced with allegations of non-political crimes is normal.
If anyone is not going to be RA'd it's Watson group. There is a lot riding on the success of Watson.
Might get a bit confused with P5 (Processing).
I'm old enough to remember rates in the 80's (though not old enough to have had one!). And I have a loan now, and the rates almost exactly match the rates in that table.

Here's another reference: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-08-08/the-reality-of-interes...

17% was as high as they got for mortgages.
Some useful resources for generating content ideas
Anything other than dictionary words on the new gTLDs is not going to be worth much
> Previously, when eating something chewy such as meat, crusty bread or hard cheese, it would have been clamped between the jaws, then sliced with a knife or ripped with a hand -- a style of eating Professor Brace has called "stuff-and-cut."

Does not seem applicable to the South Asian food I'm familiar with.
Actually, perpetual property rights and unclear title are a huge problem with real estate and capital formation in South America especially. See Hernando de Soto's Mystery of Capital or Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money.

Perpetuities ultimately end up with contending claims. Adjudicating those is tremendously expensive.
This is exactly right, any AR device needs a camera input, the problem is in the video recording aspect - it creeps too many people out.
But it can't be bought anymore... if it does fill a niche, which I'm not sure it does, people in that niche will be buying GoPros and cellphones and strapping them to their heads.
Smartphone microphones are much better than laptop microphones and pretty much on par with using headsets on a laptop - they represent our primary use case.
How open source has changed the hardware environment
Best for my own use due to unlimited free private repos limited by number of users. Works great for a one or two user work flow.
My evidence is anecdotal at best, but I have found Siri to be terrible and my "OK, Google" to be wonderful.
> The statute is written in a way where forbearance from almost all the actual provisions of Title II is written into Title II for wireless carriers.

Where? The only thing I can see in the statute that might touch on different treatment regarding wireless carriers actually limits the degree of forbearance that can be applied to "commercial mobile services" in ways that do not apply to other common carriers. compare 47 USC Sec. 332(c)(1) with 47 USC Sec. 160.
Paid $7000 or so for dailysnap.com, and $400 or so for gotacrush.com . Both projects failed.
I like tuhtles. I also like Bitbucket. The team size based pricing w/ unlimited repos is what sold us over GitHub.
Indeed.

Any essay discussing this topic without mentioning Jimmy Carter siccing the IRS on Christian schools is ... by someone not quite inhabiting the same universe as I do.

Maybe. This essay doesn't really go into that, its thesis at 0th approximation is that Christians setting up an independent school system/society is axiomatically illegitimate ("diversity", as many have noted, doesn't extend to thought/worldviews/ideology, and "liberalism" or whatever you want to call it is a competing non-religion religion every bit as doctrinaire and severe as these Christians').

But the article claims that this had an outsized affect on politics and particularly the Republican party, and that simply would not have happened without Carter's action.

"Live and let live" is an old and sound American tradition. Taking people's children away from them, in wherever on the scale of figurative to literal in this case you'd put it ... well, you might as well try it with a mother bear and her cubs. That's what really energized the Religious Right in politics, and why its time in the sun was so short.
I love that BB gives you unlimited private repos, and I'm glad to see them making progress. There's still plenty of things to improve [1,2].

[1] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4222/no-support-for-...
[2] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/6315/relative-urls-i...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/TombOfHor...

Crowning moment of awesome entry.
Maybe it overtrained on post-accident snowmobile riders.
Two things that jumped out at me:

1. No "special characters" allowed in passwords when creating an account.
2. ...where's the REST API? I've "added a service" (TTS), but I have to write a webapp to expose it over HTTP? It sure is a different experience than your typical API documentation.
If anyone ever feels the need to do introductory pricing, do yourself a favor and estimate market rates, put them on the page, then strikethrough them and quote the introductory pricing. This conveys a) the customer is getting a deal and b) the service provider is not wildly irrational about what they're offering.

We're clear that this pricing is wildly irrational, right? $30 for a half hour is, literally, not what it would cost to assess someone's skill at performing haircuts. Many of your customers, who after all have hiring authority for engineers, can do the math about what your interviewers' market wages and chargeout rates must presumably be. Those rates make these rates look like a joke. That quickly sets your customers to thinking "OK, there must be a catch, because clearly one cannot sustainably pay a CTO $30 per half hour to do schedule-in-advance work with a half-hour minimum? What is that catch?"

None of the answers your prospects will dream up to that question will induce them to give you their business.
It looks like it's sufficient to do it with one as the alert propagates to the other two. And it lasts 90 days.

"Ask 1 of the 3 credit reporting companies to put a fraud alert on your credit report. They must tell the other 2 companies. An initial fraud alert can make it harder for an identity thief to open more accounts in your name. The alert lasts 90 days but you can renew it."

[http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0275-place-fraud-alert]
To add to this a bit searching for 'security' jobs at anthem only reveals 12 jobs which to me seemed rather low.
Ask HN: Postcard Panda – A Marketing Opportunity?
I created Postcard Panda about a year ago and have thus far been unsuccessful at promoting the app. Postcard Panda is an iPhone app that allows you to send a snail mail postcard to anyone in the USA.

URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/postcard-panda/id818198323?mt=8

Availability: USA app store only, can send postcards to USA addresses only. Only available for iPhones, not iPad

Pricing: $1.99 to send a postcard. After fees I make $0.93 per postcard sent.

Time invested: About 2 weeks development time

Money invested: ~$700 for logos, splash pages, and unsuccessful facebook ads

My offer to anyone willing:

I'll give you 50% of the profit per postcard sold while you are actively marketing Postcard Panda (that's $0.465 per postcard sold). In addition, I'm willing to match marketing dollars put in up to $15 a day. Any takers? Is there a market of people who are willing to drive sales to an already existing product for a stake in the profits? Drop me an email if you are interested (it's in my profile)!
> allowing you to build a full Q&A/dialog application.

> If you have any questions, please fire up, the Watson team is ready to answer.

So that's what you built Watson for :-)
Mocks and Stubs aren't objects, they're methods
You're right. I knew at some point I'd make a bad assumption based on my own (limited) forays into writing a shell language.

In my case, I'm treating "=" as not able to be included in an unquoted string literal, and I'm requiring variables to start with $.

So in my shell, this would be a syntax error.

echo =$ip

This works.

$echo = $ip

If you relaxed the variable naming idea, it would set echo to $ip, but that's probably a bad idea.
Not a very good domain name to be honest. I doubt you will be able to sell it at all.
hey – pierre from sunrise here
i agree – we will continue to support Google Calendar
I'm on the Watson team and we're interested in learning from developers to make our APIs and documentation easier to use. Have feedback? We'd love to hear it. jsstylos@us.ibm.com Twitter: @jsstylos
In practice, is there any land in the US whose ownership status is "no one knows, so no one gets to use it"? Because that is the case for a lot of copyrighted works. So there's at least one difference between the two that's not related to ease of creation/copying, and an argument for limited terms.
Start with Trans Union, they have a child specific application so you can find out if your child's SSN has been used by identity thieves: http://www.transunion.com/corporate/personal/fraudIdentityTh... If they don't have any reports, there's a good chance you're probably ok.

You can also apply to put a security freeze on your child's SSN. State by state laws and application process here: http://consumersunion.org/research/security-freeze/

And then there's the myriad of companies who can give you protection for a monthly fee:

AllClearID: https://www.allclearid.com/

LifeLock Junior: http://www.safety4yourkids.com

Also, Experian has a monitoring service as well specifically for kids: http://www.familysecure.com/

Hope this helps.
My point was mostly that the argument for doing so w/ DSL is more cut-and-dry in that most/all of the infrastructure was laid under a nation-wide government-granted monopoly. The Federal government weighing in on the matter makes sense.
Sure, but I think that definition makes the difference in complexity a bit of a contrivance. You're deliberately excluding the things that make CPUs complicated and interesting, and then concluding that they aren't as complicated and interesting as something else.

The other thing is that while the brain is highly complex, that doesn't mean that people who work in it have managed to master something more complex than CPUs (or house wiring, for that matter). They may simply not really understand what they're doing to the same extent.

To me, the thesis in the original post is this "[if] there are people who are brain surgeons, it cannot be so much harder than being a really competent programmer."

I tend to agree, because I think that some types of programming push people's mental ability and sheer stubbornness past the point of human ability. In short, it will take all you have, and there will still be things you just can't understand or do.

If you define the task as "the things that we understand and can do", then by definition is is not equal in complexity to the brain, but like I said, I think the statement is a contrivance.
If you're really being nasty you can potentially do this even without JS - say, by using CSS layout.
Out of all of those points, it's really just the commas and curlies that I've found can lead to some confusion, in my experience at least.

I haven't come up with a better approach than simply agreeing on a convention with your team though TBH. It's not too bad when everyone's on the same page and familiar with the gotchas (same could be said for most langs).

I put together a post comparing some of the syntax differences as it relates to building ReactJS components in case you're interested:
http://rapin.com/blog/2015/02/03/reactjs-with-coffeescript/

Given that JS itself has quite a few different ways to do things though, it's kind of a wash.
We really do need to find a better way of authenticating and identifying people. SSNs were never meant for this and they clearly don't fill the role successfully.

I've long been a proponent of the government announcing that they will publish everyone's SSN 2 years from now. Banks, insurance companies, the govt, etc have until then to figure better methods.
That essay is hilarious, it explains all these failures of companies doing participatory management half-assed, provides a few successful counterexamples of companies/divisions/plants that did it full-assed, and then concludes that the failures failed because they didn't take the changes far enough.
How gamification can save boring software from the brink
Another recent article on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813029 on Intel Management Engine.
Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf]
What did you do with those domains?
Ouch. :(
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These are standard processes for high strength alloys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenching

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_treatment
If you're wondering where the actual comparison is, open the link to "the previous post" in the first paragraph.
It instantly crashes the browser tab in Chrome on Windows 8.1
Ross Ulbricht's Loss Is a Loss for Justice, Liberty, Safety, and Peace
I purchased myh2o.com for our SaaS billing platform (named H2O) in 2010 for $3500. I also purchased h2o.io sometime after that for $600. In 2009, an ISP client of ours, Rio Networks, sold rio.com for $450,000.
There is a domain I really want right now that is being squatted. Any advice HN? I already own the '.net' version so I don't really _need_ the '.com' version but I want it. I doubt it is a high value name and I am considering just sending the the admin listed in the WHOIS an email like "Hey, I will give you $50 for .com, let me know." Is this a good approach or should I try to go thru an 'appraiser' or something like that.
Coca-Cola pulls Twitter campaign after it was tricked into quoting Mein Kampf
Scala is too complex, only good for (big) data processing. Go is too simple, doesn't support generics/exceptions/inheritance.

Go looks more promising as it's good for writing infrastructures，can attract some ppl/projects away from C/C++/python. But when it comes to complex business softwares, I'd say Java is still the way to go.
We tend to forget easily because that's how we evolved, not because we were meant or made to. And just because we evolved this way doesn't mean it's optimal.
My guess is that Mozilla would never support it.
This would be a really cool use for Matrix - the eventual consistency and offline operation stuff is a perfect fit :D

You don't need an email address to sign up currently - the way it works is that it's up to the homeserver to decide how to validate new users (if at all). So Matrix.org uses a CAPTCHA to check you're human, but otherwise just sends a username & password. We also let you optionally specify a mail address, mainly just to prove that we do support validating 3rd party IDs like email (and in future MSISDNs and other IDs).

For gatewaying, the main thing we've been missing is an Application Service (AS) API on Matrix which lets your gateway masquerade multiple users & rooms/channels from the remote protocol. Currently you can write a back-to-back bot which creates, per user, an IRC user on the IRC network and a Matrix user on the Matrix network and bridges them together - this is how the current Matrix<->IRC bridge works. This sucks if you want to easily project hundreds of users & channels from IRC into Matrix and vice versa, though - you need better server support, a bit like IRC Services' architecture.

The good news is that this is very nearly implemented - we got our first AS up and running a few hours ago (it currently just logs traffic rather than bridging it anywhere). It's all happening on the application-services branch of https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse and the doc is at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/application-se... and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/as-http-api/dr... if you're interested.

Twisted is probably overkill for many ASes, but it could be a great way to do the XMPP & IRC bridging in future.
I was once contacted by a hollywood musician to buy iSingr.com. I wanted to sell for $500. My Friends convinced me to ask for $15000. And the buyer stopped responding :).
I use a CPAP machine. But I don't like it that much, and complicating matters are allergies which stuff up my nose and make it less effective.

I'm looking into getting an operation at some point, but first I have to lose a few more pounds, which I am in the process of doing.

I CAN say that being ON cpap vs. OFF cpap is already a world of difference... as unsexy as that thing is.

See if you can get used to one. The latest ones have a "soft nasal pillow" thing that doesn't cover your entire nose (thank God), look into ResMed Swift FX and any later lines.

The available operations, unfortunately, do not have a 100% success rate... except for one, which is kind of drastic (and basically separates your jaw and moves the whole thing forward and requires like a 6 month recovery).