skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure american idol the best example. Don't the "winners" usually get signed on the judges labels? Simon Cowell does this, it's really pretty brilliant. get paid to make them popular via the TV show, get paid producing the albums after you make them a star. If you squint your eyes right, all those contestants are getting angel funding, the top 12 get VC funding and the winner gets an IPO. The producers lose a little money at the angel level, break even to decent money at the mid tier, and rake in some serious dough once the album comes out.

I get your point, but you should pick a contest that isn't hit driven like VC money is. Starting a company isn't like the Olympics, for sure.
Sure, copyrights are still in effect and can be sold to other parties. One reason holding copyright over open source code is important is license enforcement. The benefits of holding copyright over code is why the FSF wants copyrights assigned to them [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
Security Issue: Combining Bcrypt with Other Hash Functions
There is no Hipmunk for Uber/Lyft. That's one reason the network effect is stronger. And while many people check both services now, that's because they are both still floated by tons of VC money.

One we reach the tipping point -- let's say Uber wins -- you will be as likely to check Lyft as Sidecar. When was the last time you checked Sidecar? Exactly.
> It has nothing to do with speech, it is about unlawfully flying

The act of flying a plane becomes retroactively illegal because money was made from a video? Can we be adults and admit this has nothing to do with lawfulness and everything to do with money?
Why would you want to? There can't be that many countries in which one would want citizenship. Especially given that some of them (or is it just the US?) have horrible tax consequences even for expats.
As long as you don't turn that "rarely" into a "never", I agree.
As I said, I prefer cygwin's look and feel to the alternatives. Also, cygwin supports transparent windows out of the box. I don't think it's overkill at all, the only package you need is ssh, everything else lives in the VM.
Very few places in the US have "only" one last-mile provider. Most have 2 or more wired, and 3 or more wireless options. (The wireless isn't usually cost-competitive for bulk HD video yet... but will get there in another 5-10 years.)

Running new wires is also always possible. It'll be even easier now, with a richer society and new automation, and municipalities less likely to offer monopoly franchises, than the cable deployments of the 60s-80s.

Bits are bits, and the ways to deliver them to any point on the planet keep growing. Any brief advantage one medium or company may have – such as cable & Comcast at this precise moment – can disappear quickly. And will disappear even faster if they try to abuse their power, providing an easy motivational/marketing/profitability hook for competitive alternatives.
Retroactively!
Given that Google, Amazon, and Apple are all larger than Comcast in market-cap and most measures of market-share or customer count, will those three be broken up before Comcast, or after?
Hint: this guy is doing it for hobby and entertainment and not commercial purpose
Did you even read what pops up when you hit that explain button?

Sending email

#lang racket ; Sending email from racket
(require net/sendmail)
(sleep (* (- (* 60 4) 15) 60)) ; 4h - 15m
(send-mail-message
(getenv "EMAIL") "Parking meter alert!"
(list (getenv "EMAIL")) null null
'("Time to go out and move your car."))

> "Racket comes with plenty of libraries."

> "To run the example, install Racket, start DrRacket, paste the example program into the top area in DrRacket, and click the Run button. Alternatively, save the program to a file and run racket on the file."

That section of the landing page is meant for people who have not been exposed to Racket before. It is meant to sell those people on the expressiveness/power of the language. The explain button is meant to explain exactly what that code snippet is meant to be demonstrating. Very few of those seem to touch on syntax at all.

It seems insane to me that somebody could spin user-consciousness on a language's website as as indicative of a low-quality language.
93% Federal conviction rate and a trial by jury would have been extremely expensive.

Source: http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2011/...
Just ported a project I was involved in a couple of years ago to github. Thanks for the heads up.

( https://github.com/mooreds/gwt-crypto/ )
How do you handle closed-source programs that are based on GPL or AGPL licenses? i.e., closed-source programs that are derived from copyleft programs that are meant to remain open-source?
Author thinks Go's select statement has any resemblance to with epoll and kqueue. Didn't read further.
Apparently we've reached peak Godwin, everyone. Knock it off.
I am not a lawyer but I would guess that it would be ok, the flight is being operated by a commercial airline and the FAA has already signed off on that. That said, one wonders if the airline would sue you for damages since you "stole" that view that they gave you as part of the fee you paid to fly, but did not re-license[1] you the right to share that view with others without their written consent. If this goes through I would not be surprised at all to hear and airline using that tactic to boost their revenue per passenger number.

[1] There is a venue where this is already the norm, sports arenas. They explicitly forbid you from recording the event and re-showing it to anyone as part of the ticket "contract". Airlines just need to step up their game and add that to their terms and conditions.
"Reverse polish notation" is postfix notation where the action is last. For example Postscript or Forth. Lisp is prefix notation where the action is first.
The same problem applies to a pilot who sells aerial photos, and even if there's a photographer on board taking aerial photos for the purpose of licensing them commercially, the purpose of the flight is commercial. It's a slippery slope if the purpose of the video is purely personal, yet the video author knows he's going to make money by putting it up on youtube. Seems like Google should have a way to opt out of being paid for videos. You're either selling a license, or you're sharing them under some e.g. "creative commons" type license and not making any money off of them.
> Is there such an amount? As far as I know all income is taxable, there is no "minimum amount per source."

In Canada, if you owe the government less than $2 in taxes, they don't want the money.
Governments have the legal right to use force against individuals. Individuals, and individuals that band together into organizations, have no such right.
Yes, by going on a tangent about how investors might agree with him and think it's "totally unfair." He doesn't actually address the point.

If the people funding these VC's are unhappy about it they can pull their money out.
I think the bigger objections than "fairness" are:

1. These might not be good funding decisions. Maybe investing in Keith Rabois's new startup is a bad decision, but it is only happening because he's a partner at Khosla. If you're an LP in a VC fund, this is something you could reasonably be concerned about.

2. If you're an entrepreneur pitching to a investors, you expect that the pitch is being taken in good faith. If the investor is just taking your pitch so that they can access your proprietary information and use it to inform their own startup (funded by the firm you're pitching), that's pretty wack.

I have literally no information about these examples, so it wouldn't be meaningful for me to hold an opinion on whether or not impropriety is occurring. I also think that Keith Rabois probably has enough of a track record that he could easily raise funding for pretty much whatever he wants to do. I also suspect that most entrepreneurs aren't particularly worried about point 2.

Nonetheless, this is clearly right at the nexus of the objections that people raise about SV: that it's an old boy's network masquerading as a "meritocracy". It just smells fishy. Sometimes things smell fishy and are OK... but there's always a cost to doing things that smell fishy: the appearance of impropriety is often just as harmful as impropriety itself.
Reminds me of this old ad for a "bug finder" on getacoder, available as a PDF since the original is gone: http://blog.willbenton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bug-fi...

The purpose of this project is to create a debugger program.
This program will take as input the source code another
program, and will analyze that other program and determine
if it will run to completion, or have an error, or go into
an infinite loop.

To state that another way, given a function f and input x,
determine if f(x) will halt.

I'd personally go with BestCoders, $500 and 10 days is a pretty good deal!
> I hope none of these enterprise vendors ever hires a single designer.

There are many aspects of design other than visual design (aka prettiness, as you call it). Usability, workflows, integration with other tools, onboarding process, documentation, etc, etc all fall within experience design. I'm not familiar with the tools mentioned in this article, but if a UX designer has never worked on them, I guarantee there's lots that can be improved without making them any more pretty.
I think the technical name is 'meowl'[0].

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/OwlsWithCatHeads/
Legitimate question. Do you think GitHub would accept a lucrative offer from Google? On the order of billions of dollars. How would that look? Where would we all be then? How much would it change things? Is it even realistic?
I went to the site expecting to find "real" problems in the vein of "I'm a single working mom and it's hard to help my son with his homework" or "I have to care for a sick relative but it's hard to get medical advice for small ailments", etc. Most of these just seem like problems in search of a narrowly-focused consumer internet product for upper-middle-class white people or other engineers.

That might be a feature and not a bug.
So how much didn't you pay in rent? That's like trying to explain how much money you didn't make this year and being taxed on it. I didn't make a billion dollars... do I get taxed for that?
> Being a successful coder because you have passion for it still requires a lucky break somewhere along the way to discover that passion and/or have someone else recognize that passion.

Many passion-stories involve someone growing up in an environment in which key figures around them - like one of their parents - encouraged or enabled them to do certain things, and they happened to also really like - or grow to like, naturally without any push-back - that same thing. So then they get the chance to develop their abilities from some young age, like say 8, and are naturally quite good at it when they reach college-age.

Now even if they don't "fit into the school system" or whatever, it isn't a story of 'life's ups and downs' - it's a story about them being incredibly, incredibly lucky in that they just fell into their passion straight from the start. Dropping out of second year of college becomes a minor nuisance in the grand scheme of things, for them.
This headline is misleading. This experiment put something like 18 years worth of wear or more on those SSDs.
After reading the article, I realized it's a repost of an article originally published here. [1]

If I could, I would edit the submission url to point to the source article.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
What if an Arab buys the lemonade and is later charged with Terrorism, couldn't the girl with the lemonade stand be charged with material support? Isn't the parent responsible for the income taxes on income earned by minors?
I wonder whether something like [0] would work, where the repository is encrypted on push and decrypted on pull. Might be against Github's terms of use, though.

[0]: https://rovaughn.github.io/2015-2-9.html
That is interesting. What if the person shooting the video and operating the drone isn't the one monetizing it? What if he uploads the video to a site that won't pay him and the video is stolen and put on a site that pays the person who stole it?

Is the flight of the drone illegal then? Ridiculous logic.

We can use them to kill innocent children who happen to be at a party where some scumbag is hanging out, but don't film your birthday party and upload it to youtube! Don't try to sell your house with a video featuring using a drone to show the roof is in good condition! Oh no! This is the end!
Announcing Nautilus Prime
Is there any alternative that supports issue attachments? That's the one feature that I really need to live for iTerm2 but github and gitlab don't support it except for images.
Search for mobile yields 0 results.

Do you need more content in this area, or have all the important mobile focussed events collapsed into just WWDC and I/O?
The most important API you’ve never heard of
Can I email you some information on why a large company I interned at mentioned they didn't use Github (they were adopting Atlassian)? I'd rather not post here but happy to share.
Tracking defensive assignments in basketball
I seriously doubt Github would ever agree to that automation. First, what accounts would all these orphan repos go under? Second, how much spam would they be agreeing to host by saying yes to that?

This is a much better job for The Internet Archive or a read-only google code in perpetuity.

edit: in fact, it looks like they're planning on making a read-only version, but the definition of "legitimate" is going to be very important to nail down:

> cdibona: We are planing on taking the majority of these legitimate, open source, 'abandonded' projects and putting them up in cold storage in a git repo on googlesource.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9192554
Actually, I don't think today's Google would make that bet because of challenges in monetizing it without actually incurring a customer service overhead.
Arduino Zero Pro Released Amid Legal Dispute
> Not saying I agree with the rule, [...]

I think people understand the rule just fine, and they are angry because they don't agree with the rule at all.
They don't so much define commerciality as they define what doesn't qualify for a hobby use exemption to the rules.

Here's their rules for model aircraft, with a section on what does and doesn't count as hobby use.

http://www.faa.gov/uas/media/model_aircraft_spec_rule.pdf
Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars (2012)
Fyi, the expression you want is "without burning bridges," not "without burning THE bridges."
I hear you. I've recently enlisted to a course in program design on coursera[1] as a quick and easy entry to Racket (I've been hobby programming for years) and it struck me how consistent the syntax is, and how little explanation it needed beyond the first few videos on how evaluation works.

Is there something as easy and small as Processing[2] in LISP form? Because the biggest criticism of Processing is also it's strength: download it, run it, and you have notepad with a compile-and-run button. You need something as un-intimidating as that for beginners of non-technical backgrounds. That's part of why we're using it as the first language in our design programme in Malmö University (apart from the fact that it's also a gateway language into Java proper, which is a useful language to become familiar with because of its widespread adoption).

EDIT: Here's a short blog post comparing the two languages and IDEs: http://www.hive76.org/processing-and-racket

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/programdesign

[2] https://processing.org/
Hi Vik, you seem like a younger version of me. I worked QC testing in an electronics factory between semesters. I graduated with a 2.1 GPA in the middle of the recession. I took whatever job I could find. Work didn't pay much but they did send me travelling.

In 2005 I applied to the foreign service as well. Instead of going to the second interview I bought a last minute ticket and flew to Europe. After traveling throughout Europe I based myself in France where I've been pretty successful.

The point being is all I had was my hard work and moxy to help me get by. All those rejection letters (sometimes not even that) had only emboldened me to prove my capabilities. I wasn't going to let my GPA be my only defining value.
Sounds like it, and even worse. They'd probably pull your ticket for doing "commercial"flying with a PPL.

I think we may need some case law, so hopefully some millionaire (or lawyer) who likes drone flying can push back against the FAA.
I think the greater point is that the FAA is meant to regulate aircraft, not the monetization button on youtube. The rule is senseless, and I think the FAA knows that; they are too inflexible to adapt to reality, and they should be practicing non-enforcement as a means of coping. Swarms of drone pilots could be flying and recording without the intent to monetize, and the FAA would have the same and only problem they are attempting to thwart.
Aside from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, most of Interior is fairly innocuous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the...
Weather of the Century: Part 4
Disappointing he didn't test the new Samsung 850 SSD. The old 840 is known to not have such a high endurance so I'm automatically excluding it from my list of choices.
Agreed, but the author notes that "...after the plea-bargaining blew apart on January 11, 2013, Aaron's family was close to a million dollars in debt. He could not afford a trial."

The disparity was financial- the bottomless pockets of the federal government vs. the finite resources of an individual (and donations from supporters).

It's as if there's a need for a "CFAA legal defense" insurance policy that activists/security researchers could purchase to finance vigorous challenges to these statutes in the event of overzealous prosecution.
Is the FAA's problem here that the drone was involved in a monetized video, or that it was carrying the camera that recorded the monetized video?

I wonder if this would apply equally to other drone-related video production techniques:

- A video of a drone, recorded from the ground

- A prop is carried by a drone but the drone never appears in the frame

- The audio is recorded by a drone, but not video

- A camera is dropped from a drone but doesn't begin recording until after release

- The drone's engines are powered off during recording
I like crosscompilation and being able to deploy a stand alone executable without the whole sdk needed.Does racket do that?
I would do it something like this:

top xs = map fst $ sortBy (compare `on` Down . snd) $
M.toList $ foldr (\x -> M.insertWith (+) x 1) mempty xs

This has the type `top :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]`. You might object that I didn't include your k parameter. Because Haskell is a lazy language, I can get your behavior very simply by doing `take n . top` and it will lazily only calculate the first n values. This gives you more abstractive power and lets you write more composable code.
That's likely true in the case of OS/2, DGUX workarounds might be ran on Unix boxes.

It's all dead code that any of us here would remove from our own software projects - and your point about the OpenSSL team's lack of resources is quite relevant to that.
There is basically no way this is not a free energy scam.
My favorite is Japanese sayoonara: "if it must be that way"
VCs with execution capability are rare and word would get around if someone pulled a stunt like this.
Headline is accurate. A cursory glance at the article gives you a clear picture of what the drives were put through. I'm happy to know that SSDs can handle as much r/w as they can.
SF is one of those worlds. The rental market is intense, and people look for many ways to stand out. It looks like it worked for this case, just that it's not what they wanted in a roommate.
Note that the FCC recently redefined "broadband" to >=25Mbps.

Note that the term "broadband" has largely disappeared in last-mile ISP advertising. (I briefly talked to AT&T about it a la "I signed up for broadband, but am not getting anywhere close to 25Mbps", rep got vague about what was promised.)

This all may provide interesting consequences. By redefining, suddenly large swaths of the country which have & are generally satisfied with 3-20Mbps connections are suddenly "without broadband" and subject to renewed FCC bureaucratic campaigns to bring them out of such third-world conditions.
GoVPN 2.0 released
You also have to pay taxes on worldwide income and maintain a residence if you keep on doing the 6 months deal. I don't think anyone becomes an US resident to dodge taxes.
That's why Godwin's law is pretty much not rubbish. Compare to, say, Himes' law:

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Corvairs approaches 1"

This law, as best as I can determine, is rubbish.
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the author writes, "These experiences prompted me to consider how Aaron Swartz might have pursued a more aggressive public campaign as part of his legal defense."

He goes on to mention Mr. Brown, but he also ignores that Brown was given a gag order preventing him engaging in the sort of 'aggressive public campaign' the author encourages the next Aaron Swartz to attempt.

Civil rights throughout history are won through extensive civil disobedience, somehow the left and much of the government, and every state apologist continue to advocate that people work within a system that is grotesquely unjust and to throw away the very tools that history has shown are most effective in addresses legitimate grievances.

On January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail.[0] This doesn't occur in a system of just laws which respect the natural rights of individuals, it occurs in a totalitarian police state beholden to oligarchs and politicians.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
So, put another way, the law is outdated and needs to be fixed. I'm sure when the commercial requirements were added to the FAA regulations, they weren't intended to target what is essentially hobbyists operating RC planes with home video recorders attached.

This seems needlessly burdensome and most likely net negative for the FAA.
Please do! Shoot me an email at pauln@github.com; the feedback would be very appreciated.
I can't find any section of the rules that have to do with equipment poles/lines. Can you point it out?

Everything I can find indicates this limits existing providers, rather than opening any possibilities for new providers, and is thus likely to decrease competition/variety. That is, it's making local ISP service more like a commodity/monopoly than it currently is.
I agree, and I choose to believe this fear is irrational, but it's still a thought that might creep around in the back of my mind. I do think the key thing once again touches on my first point, that a VC firm's reputation needs to be positive for both LPs and entrepreneurs to want to do business with them.
that's frightening.
Sounds like one of pitches in the last episode of HBO's silicon valley.