skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, listening to unlicensed music on Grooveshark or Youtube doesn't put the user at risk but if it makes you part of the swarm, you're technically participating in the unlicensed distribution and can be sued/fined.
One reason for working for them sounds less abusive, but more...stupid.

"You're one of the best front-end engineers you've ever known."

No, dickwad, that's a reason you should hire me. What it really means, of course, is: "We use the rash pride of inexperienced developers to set expectations sky-high, then justify the low salary when they turn out not to be the lovechild of Brendan Eich and Mike Bostock."
This is what happens when bullies are suppressed. Societies get soft
Yes I know ... Hacker News / YC isn't the place to make aggressive jokes about proprietary software ... :/
Sigh. In 2009 I came back to Linux/Unix after a roughly equal amount of time and had my own WTF moments getting things up and running. But I got there, so no big deal and I didn't feel the need to bait the Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu forums with a post like that. Instead I RTFM'd and posted a couple polite questions asking for help with things I didn't understand and got tripped up with (WiFi drivers ;) ) and off I went on my way.

This is just /. style flamebait, no idea why it's on the front page of HN.
Actually, there have been suggestions from European Commission President about creating an EU army:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31874418

The total armed forces of the countries in the EU are actually pretty large - the one thing they don't have is any sense of unity, which pretty much negates their effectiveness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_European_Union
Crowd Painter (2014): Robotic crowd-sourced painting
When Freak Attack came out, all I ever saw was about how to manually disable the export ciphers. So they finally come out with a fix to disallow them in the program?
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That was a different era in music. Technology has made it a lot easier to create and distribute music, so there is a lot more music out there, which means the value of the recording is less than it was prior to the 2000s. The Beatles were also an anomaly in the music industry; they were so popular they basically WERE the industry. Music today is much more of a long-tail market now that there's not a bottleneck in the recording and distribution functions.
>>Realistically do you think a lottery winner is comparable to a successful startup employee?

In some ways, yes. Certainly there are difference, but people are people. How many college grads get their first job that pays real money and immediately throw themselves into debt for new cars and nice condos? How many people cash out of a startup and plow the proceeds into another one, effectively doubling down on that particular lottery?

Clearly there are differences between the groups, so the average outcomes could definitely be different. But I don't think it's obviously true.

It would be interesting to see a longitudinal study of people who cashed out significant amounts from startups. I'm sure they do better than the average lottery winner - but then they were probably doing better before the windfall as well. The interesting question would be whether the windfall changed their trajectory, or was just a blip.
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nit picking: SMACK TLS is a collection of attack on TLS found by the inria and microsoft, FREAK is the attack mentionned in the CVE
most American's have no lawyer to call. the expression "don't talk to police without your lawyer present" should be extrapolated to mean all of the following:

if the police want to question you, say no. if the police serve you with a warrant and detain you for questioning, exercise your 5th amendment right (the right to remain silent, so as to avoid self-incrimination). the only thing you should say to a police officer when you are being questioned is that you will not answer any questions until you have consulted legal council. if you do not have legal council available you may request a public defender (another legal right of citizens). if you have the means to hire a private attorney instead, its probably better to do that. only a lawyer who is professionally obligated to represent you can give you good legal advice about what you should and should not say to the police.
How come no one ever tries FirebirdSQL?, it is awesome.
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I'm sure Betteridge's Law could be applied much more effectively to American news headlines than anything else. For example, how many times do we see crazy headlines on Fox News like "Is Obama a gay communist terrorist?"
Can you speak for an entire country?
Here it is as a clickable link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/usds

I'm curious: where is that work, geographically?
Yes. But it does not make you any more fit for government, nor ideas better. It's just better PR.
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For "officially bullying", see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States - invade Nicaragua, be ruled against by the UN, block payment of reparations and then glare at Nicaragua for a decade until they agree to just drop it. The US has long believed that might makes right and they're not going to submit to anyone else's idea of justice. There's a long list of such instances.

As for Europe, sadly Ukraine is reminding us all that the choice is between being American client states or Russian client states. At least as American client states we get rock and roll and blue jeans, right comrades?
> I've really been surprised at what an effect its had on me socially.

One of the odd things that happened is that I've become more extrovert when I do meet people. To off-set working alone at home, I volunteer two days a week at the local hackerspace to socialize. That has been a blast.
Great feedback, thanks so much for the incite into your experience!
Site does not work in Safari. There are quite a few errors & warnings in the console log...
The U.K. Plans to Regulate Bitcoin Exchanges
I am under the impression that the only cases where this happens are when upgrading certain custom data types related to full-text search from 8.3 to 9.x, which seems like a very narrow complaint. This definitely used to be a serious general issue with PostgreSQL, however, but hasn't been in many years.
Voting via internet is very dangerous - fortunately we can use the internet to for things better than just voting - like consensus building etc. It is much more difficult to disrupt broad channel communication that the extremely narrow channel of voting.
Current (still on front page) HN thread on pros and cons of working from home: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9231541
Then where's the point in this?
I'm a San Franciscan. $100k is indeed low, but $200k is an exaggeration.
I've seen all of them during my lifetime of meetings :)
That's horrible. I've spent many a days at events (e.g. Code For Orlando) where you're expected to work for free, but they provide food, for one day on a volunteer basis to better your city.

But that's the clincher: It's only one day (on a weekend so it doesn't compete with your dayjob interests), it's completely volunteer, and it's fun.

A soul-draining corporate job without a salary? I shudder.
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> One tidbit: almost the whole company is remote (600 people!)

I'm intrigued. I was under the impression remote work was only feasible for smaller startups. The only fully distributed companies I know have < 30 employees.
The problem in a nutshell is that the current laws are bad for consumers, but they're not changing because of lobbying.

That's why many people are happy to see Uber kicking the anthill. What Uber unlocks, others (like Lyft) benefit too.
This is exactly the thing.

I have been using xBSD and OS X for the last 10 years, but have been confronted with the need to do some financial modelling on Windows (as a side note, I guess this is not "serious" computing, according to some comments here).

Attempt #1: Try the SciPy/Anaconda stack. Mostly OK, but Python's Windows support is an afterthought. Anaconda is especially sweet, but getting any kind of serious Python distribution running in a corporate environment is a pain. Integration being the main source of misery.

Attempt #2: Try F#. Sweet mother of god, everything runs, compiles, does what I expect it to do and efficiency is awesome. Visual Studio 2013 is although an IDE, but nowhere near a bloated, monstrous carcass like Eclipse; or in fact not as bloated as some Emacs setups I've seen. Only "downside": the need to buy a couple of books on .Net and F#.

The moral of the story: Microsoft has an enormous capacity to create some ground breaking stuff and then f- it up completely by bad commercial decisions. Thankfully it seems, they've started to fix that.
Open source all patents related to the threat *nix based operating systems.
You've probably seen CryptDB from MIT. They make it possible to do certain types of queries (range etc) by making security compromises (giving some clues to hack encryption).

We don't make such compromises (zero compromises, yes!). The way we do it is to actually traverse encrypted b-trees from the client, while b-trees are on the server. So, we pretty much split it between client and server at the lowest level of how db operates
I had a company effectively tell me the same thing -- that taking their job would be disastrous for my hobbies/family ("We work from 10AM until 11PM most days, and later on Friday and Saturday") and then gave me a salary formula that would bring me down to making less than half of what I was currently making.

I politely declined -- and am still getting emails from them once a week saying that they'd love to have me on their team and if I reconsider, please let them know.
I once had a job, where the CEO, during his monthly all-hands call, banned the phrase 'work-life balance'. He talked about it as an invention of the industrial revolution that applied only to sweatshop work. He was from a farm, see, and on farms, you work until the work is done. The company, he told us, never promised its employees work-life balance, and we should all stop talking about it. We should work until the work is done, like farmers do.

The chatroom I was in at the time exploded with everyone posting the job descriptions we currently had open, all of which boasted about the healthy work-life balance our company offered.

Those job descriptions changed within a week, and I left within 2 months.
"That would mean, if the threat were carried out, that the Americans would literally allow the German population to remain vulnerable to a brewing attack discovered by the Americans..."

Have there been any? From what I've heard, all this snooping has been good for post-facto analysis, but useless as prior information.
Meteor is not necessarily a framework. But a hybrid system to build ontop of all in javascript. We get things out of the box and we build things we need to help further the community. Many of the packages weren't created by core dev but made by other smart people.

1. Joins? I always hear this one. Youre playing in the world of mongo. You can use very different architecture outlined by mongodb in their docs
2.youre right, for now, but SEO has been handle via spiderable, sitemaps etc.
3.theres a great i18n package so idk what you should say
4. Everyone does forms different, at Workpop we built our own forms framework cause it made sense for our business
5. Id love Chris Mather, who is brilliant, tell you about the power of Iron Router
6. Thats an honest opinion

Meteor is there. It allows you to build fast, build packages, and support future developers. Its a reason why we were able to build and scale our job platform. And we built what ziprecruiter took years to build in several months. For these reasons we raised 7.9 million dollars from
Notable investors tha are willing to see that things will get better. If you can make a huge app in an imperfect environment, just imagine bow powerful it gets when it comes closer to ideal.

Anyway my 2 cents
I think we're maybe 10 years away from robot police? I'd love to be wrong, but they're such a theoretically attractive solution (hey, robots can't be racist!) and so appealing to the powers that be (let's program it to give a bunch of tickets!) I don't see any way around it.
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I think his comment about irony was about the US government not acting on the information it had about the September 2001 attacks
That's like deploying software without any unit testing. If it compiles, it works ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Google tracks Flu-related search queries to give indications of current flu outbreaks:

http://www.google.org/flutrends/

I'd imagine that they track other possible trends indicating an epidemic, and share the result with government health departments and NGOs.

Does anyone know if they actually do this, though?
Thanks a lot for the hints! :-)
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> Can you do all of this without any upfront cost or excess in capacity??

The price premium of using AWS is high enough that it's trivial to afford leasing tons of excess capacity to handle failures and still save tons of money.

But by and large it's not really necessary - most hosting providers can provide rapidly provisioned managed servers or VPS's in the same data centres as their colo offerings these days, which provides an excellent fallback if we get into capacity issues, meaning that thanks to the existence of cloud services, the cost of running your own base load can be pushed down significantly (everything I deploy is deployed in VMs or containers, and sometimes containers in VMs (don't ask...), and whether they run on our hardware or on a cloud providers hardware is merely a configuration issue.

In fact I have a couple of Xen based VPSs we rented in New Zealand to serve a customer that's tied seamlessly into our UK based infrastructure because it's not somewhere we can justify operating our own setup.

AWS certainly is convenient, but it's also so expensive I'm charging my highest day rates ever for projects to help clients move off AWS these days. It's easy to justify high fees when people see how much they can save.
I think you have a very idealistic and naive opinion about your generation (I'm 30 years old, I don't know if that makes it my generation too). Liquid democracy might increase vote turnout, which is good anyway, but in my opinion that will have little impact on the rule of "big money". You have yourself as frame of reference, but try to think about the average 23 years old (and no, very likely your immediate circle of friends does not count very much as the average). But even if it does replace the "big money" rule, it might not be for the good. I cannot find a reference right now, but I seem to remember that young people place usually at the extreme right and left parts of the political spectrum.
Remaining silent can hurt you though.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/supreme-court-silen...

You need to simply say something along the lines of "I need legal counsel present while talking to you." After that then shut up.
What would someone who really thought about their technology run? Why would the most important things for an operating system not be cost and stability?

e: Realise this comes off as confrontational. Genuine questions!
By elites, I meant politicians and wealthy people. You seem really invested in the idea that there isn't a class aspect to our situation. I never said elites were evil. I said that they were the elites. Simply, they were the people that were running things and have ran things...whether they inherited their position or worked their way into it.

It was an implicit social contract. I never said or implied that people got together in a smoky room.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that your either a conservative or a libertarian with the smug way that you are telling me "how the world works".

If you look at rising wages and corporate profits...they both rose at roughly the same rate until the advent of cheap credit lines in the mid to late seventies. At that point, business stopped giving larger shares of the profits to employees and started loaning it to them. By that I mean businesses banked the profits, didn't issue raises in the same way, and then the banks made credit cards available with the surplus deposits to people that, until then, didn't have them. I don't know how you could look at the divergence of profits and wages around '75 in any other way. It's obviously a better situation from a financial standpoint if you are running a business or are an "entrepreneur", but it had deleterious effects as well.

I never implied this was evil. I don't really use the word "evil" a lot in writing or language. It smacks of magical thinking. I think that most of this stuff is largely amoral.

So, lets see. You've called me delusional. You've essentially made my argument out to be some laughable conspiracy theory...while not really rebutting what I actually said. You've insinuated that somehow I don't love my country because I'm an unthinking liberal idiot? You've lectured me on business. You're kind of a dick.

How bout you just leave me alone?
I agree that the updating process for Windows is still annoying after all these years, with reboots required, then launching Windows Update (which tells you there's nothing to do), then you tell it to check again, it finds stuff, it installs it - then you get it to check again and now it finds more stuff. This has got less painful over the years, but at least with Linux you do one update and might have to do one reboot if there's a kernel update, or restart some services or X if there's something there that needs it, so yes, Linux definitely wins here (and I hear there may be rebootless kernel updates coming...)

It's also odd that Windows 8.1, released much earlier than Ubuntu 14.04, didn't have a NIC driver that worked with the OP's device, when Ubuntu did. Obviously they put drivers through WHQL, but still, it'd be great if they could have a fast track for at least a very basic driver to get you connected.

I'd really like to see most devices which have some 'common' functions be able to function with a minimal feature set without requiring a special driver. I believe displays have been able to do this for years with VESA mode, (some) webcams with UVC. If this could happen for NICs, it would make life so much easier.

Yes, Microsoft tools on a Microsoft system should be easy. I think they should have a team who sit and start from scratch every day, installing the OS, getting the tools, starting to work - and see what the experience is like. It's as if they never test this.
We support client-side search, that' the whole point. But we don't even have to download all the index, only log(index_size)
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Thank you! That's a good data point.
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The USA has military bases all over the world, correct. But how many countries have military bases in the US? That's the real indicator of power.

The UK's independence from the US has been weak since Suez. It's not entirely clear whether we can independently launch our nukes, for example. And the bases have been locally controversial (e.g. Greenham Common).

The last independent military action the UK took without US approval was the Falklands War. I'm not sure we'd be capable of winning it again, although there was a lot of good and bad luck involved the first time.
The time to criticize Carnegie is when he is monopolizing the steel industry; not while he is building thousands of libraries.
Hey, unfortunately that's true. We had this great idea of an awesome monk video, did all the shooting and editing etc and after trying to find a pure HTML playback solution that worked everywhere we had to stop at some point. So: SORRY! Really meaning that, it's just a matter of how much of our spare time can go into the website as there is so much more to organize. The easiest way is to checkout: http://2015-info.socoded.com if you experience any trouble. That should work across the board.
There's the arduino zero(cortex-m0) or arduino due(cortex-m3) which are powerful,and mostly compatible with the arduino - and probably have a decent community around them. So i'm not sure they've"dropped the ball".
If you're qualified for this one, then the answer to your question is "almost anything else".
> They kept pushing and changing the rules. Cutting salaries, forcing us to work on their pet projects, insisting I hire less-talented programmers for cheaper, cutting timelines, reducing investment, increasing their equity, and more.

I'm curious as to the exact take-away here. The author seemed a bit naive. The investors approached him with a bad idea that has numerous potentials for conflicts of interest, and he gave in, believing verbal promises would eliminate those conflicts.

I would guess that if you want to get into the idea business, you should probably fund yourself using your own ideas and your own implementations. It's a pretty abstract business model, one that can very easily devolve into "we will do anything for anybody who will give us money". So you need a pretty strong vision and leadership skills to keep that from happening.
And an important note from http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150319145126

> The OpenSSL project provided information and patches to the LibreSSL project in advance of the announcements.
Windows 10 for phone supports USB Mass Storage, peripherals and hubs
Employers pay their employees exactly what they're worth - by definition.

If an employee is dissatisfied with their pay, they have the option to either negotiate a higher salary or find another job with higher pay.
Are We Really Open-Minded?
Run as fast as you can in the other direction of this job listing.

It's bad enough trying to manage a work-life balance at a company that claims to support it. I can't imagine how hellish it would be to work at a company that consciously scoffs at it.
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You do realise that saying that, even as a joke, puts you on the US secret service watchlist?
Is this like a date who says "You shouldn't be in a relationship with me because I'm a hot mess." ?
I sorrrrrt of see where you're coming from, but in my experiences Uber/Lyft are just way, way better in almost every way than the taxis they are replacing. Including safety. (Though it would be interesting to see stats on this; do they exist?)

If the reality on the ground conflicts with the theory behind the laws, the laws should change. Nothing wrong with helping to make that happen by a little calculated disobedience in my opinion.
An interesting tale. It never ceases to amaze me how poorly people can behave. And, yeah, maybe this does explain why they seem to have not really made it past their initial burst of creativity. At some point the BeagleBone Black and the π2 just make a whole lot more sense. I still have a soft spot for the Due w/ a PoE shield though.
I'm not sure there's any HN rule about stories that this post didn't break.
I don't have a good knowledge about Iceland situation, but I'm a bit negatively biased against these "protest parties". I'm from Italy and I can see what kind of horrible effect Grillo's party is having on the political thinking of the average Italian. Maybe this is different, but I will need to see results in its fight against the traditional ruling class before changing my mind. In Italy, so far, there aren't.
huge potential for fun and games here - nicely implemented api, clean, well organised and intuitive.
Actually you may have answered his question.
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Classic Liar paradox...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox
I'm concerned that too often "potential to harm" is prioritized over with "actual harm is extremely rare, much less so than many things you're not worried about" and "sometimes harm is required to stop someone from causing more harm".