skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also read the ESA's brief, and I think the reason the EFF didn't mention many of these arguments is that explaining and then rebutting each of these arguments, many of them utterly specious, and some mutually exclusive, would result in an article too long for a casual reader, so they had to pick what they perceive as the core argument and the actual reason game studios oppose this change. Someone interested in the detail can always do what you've done, and read the actual briefs.

Some of these points are obvious grasping at straws. First, there is denying the problem exists:

- no irreparable harm to consumers

- games aren’t abandoned when they have thriving communities, so benefits are minimal

- turning off online services doesn’t abandon game

The farcical:

- exempts modifications on non-gaming platforms (by which they mean computers, both desktop and mobile)

- copyright owner entitled to benefits/revenue from online services

And the remaining arguments are mostly technical legal arguments about copyright holder rights and time durations, which may have legal merits, but don't address fairness concerns. If someone sold an e-book, then came back years later and removed half the chapters while simultaneously claiming that no one should be able to archive or distribute those redacted chapters, AND that the seller is entitled to benefits from those chapters they redacted, AND that there was no harm to consumers, we would rightly ridicule the incoherency of those mutually exclusive arguments.
Frictionless spherical cows or actual cows?
The other point is that UK investors expect investments to be tax efficient for them; this means EIS/SEIS. It would be equivalent of going to US investors and saying, we'd like you to invest in our company but you'll only get tax breaks in the UK so too bad.
Unless you say "We're probably going to break things." when you announce it, which they did.
"Your private SSL key is generated on your system and is never transmitted in any way to our servers. The sslmate command is a simple script that anyone can examine to verify that this is true."

https://sslmate.com/faq
http://mendakigunung.soup.io/post/565100225/Mendaki-Gunung-S...
Can't wait for the Arduino equivalent of one of these.
I never understood how that matters, though. My visitors will see a green bar, job done. Breaking the ToS or not, I don't care as long as my address bar is green. How is Verisign any different from StartSSL, in that regard?
You are comparing apples to oranges. There is a difference between "prohibition of a substance" and "prohibition of an activity that exploits human beings".

The first is purely voluntary [e.g. both parties desire to engage in the transaction without coercion] while the second is generally due to coercion of some kind. Addiction isn't "coercion" in this sense when you are the one that voluntary took the substance with knowledge of the risks in the first place.

The only truly "illegal" [as in widely agreed upon across many countries] prostitution and pornography is that of children so I assume that is what you were getting at.

I don't think many people here are really in favor of criminalization of any transaction between consenting adults [as long as no coercion is involved].
My favorite part of the Island is the southwest side. I just moved to Yauco last week after living in Palmas del Mar for 2+ years.

I can't say a lot about Rincon because I don't know but Mayaguez is the most American like city here with the highest rate of english speaking people I have seen.

Living costs on most everything is a little expensive here except for service related items (car repairs, appliance repairs, etc). Expect a 5 - 10% increase in living expenses.

You will need a car to get around unless you live in Palmas del Mar and then you will need a golf cart, there is a car rental on site if you need to go further than the onsite.

Things to like.
1. The weather
2. Simpler Life
3. Tropical Fruits/Nuts everywhere
4. Less regulations on things I care about (homeschooling)
5. Tax system that is not the IRS
6. More community minded people, probably more like the states in the 70/80s.
7. I have a personal swimming pool, tennis court, basketball court and decent sized house for less than the one I left in Atlanta.
The original article this is almost all ripped from is here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/workday-talent-insights-can-p...
Top Cities Where Women Earn More Than Men
JFK also had addison's and hypothyroidism, and thus naturally low energy.
I had always heard that MCSE was considered a joke. I've heard positive things about RHCE and some of the Cisco networking certs, but I haven't been around that world for several years now.
Many of us working at Mobile Jazz actually have family and we care a lot about integrating them in whatever we do: http://blog.mobilejazz.com/work-life-balance-at-mobile-jazz/

It's not always perfectly possible, but at least we try :-)
I would love to live in Europe again. I lived in Italy for a little over a year when I was six years old. That was quite cool - it was like spending first grade in Disneyland.

Italians are heavily into little kids, they would throw dark chocolate soccerballs at me from their apartment balconies.

I lived in St. Genis France over the Summer of 1993 when I was writing my UCSC Senior Thesis. I'd love to work as a CERN staff member but it is only permitted to citizens of CERN member states. It would not be sufficient for me to marry one, I'd need to hold a member state passport.

I visited Paris and Rome while they are both quite cool I don't think I'd really want to live in either of them.

I've never been to Spain but I'd love to live there, maybe even stay there as I identify strongly with Don Quijote.

When I was at CERN, without a doubt there were three different women I could have - and should have - married, which would have enabled me to stay, eventually to obtain permanent residency, likely French citizenship.

There would have been lots of work for me at places other than CERN. Lots of big american firms like IBM and Google have offices in Switzerland.

But no I was bound and determined to go to grad school, get my PhD. Eventually I lost touch with all three of those fine ladies.
Yes I think that's one lesson: the risk of pursuing additional funds was not allowed to discount the utility of the 600. Perhaps if risk (say 10% success of more involved raise) were accounted for the 600 would have been more like 60, making the smaller deal 4x better. If someone offers me 600 I'll try not to lose my shorts. At the end of the day it's not a lot of money -- esp in London!!
Fiji lucks out by being a midway point on many of the fiber cables from Australia to Hawaii.
The number of tech exits in Europe has increased by 160% year-over-year
Bongos  – IPv6 link local DoS at 1 pps
iTunes killed my music collection. Two weeks wasted after iTunes turned the rips into a jumble of random files.

Of course I shouldn't have clicked the "Allow iTunes to manage..." button. Was it obvious what it would do?

No. It wasn't.

When you try to load apps from a device and it already has apps from the same device but a different session, you get an alert warning you about... something that doesn't make sense.

The correct option is to cancel, then iTunes goes ahead and syncs everything correctly.

Since when did Cancel mean Go ahead with Plan A?

Also, the app screen manager. To move apps you have to:

Click a screen with the app
Wait for it to zoom
Drag the app
Wait for the target screen to zoom
Wait for the other apps to shuffle around
Drop the app

Why is the zooming necessary? Why can't you just drag and drop without zooming? Why does the zooming cover some screens, so sometimes you can't drop the app on the one you want?

Why can't you make folders in the file space of apps, and drag and drop files to/from the folders? Why can't you drag and drop a load of files at once?

And so on. So many elements of the design should be in textbooks as classic examples of how not to make a UI.
Can someone clarify this? Because the article explains:

> "Over the last 10 years, the return on those “public asset classes” has surpassed expectations by more than $2 billion, according to the comptroller’s analysis. But nearly all of that extra gain — about 97 percent — has been eaten up by management fees, leaving just $40 million for the retirees, it found."

Note "surpassed expectations" in there. That makes it sound not like the total return was $2B but that the return was $2B above projections, and after fees this was functionally erased leaving return at projected level. Am I misunderstanding the language here?
Best to find a job in the states that lets you work remotely. I have not had any problems with the internet here either DSL or cable.

For the most part of the year it is the same time as ET zone so it works out nicely for east coast jobs.
The Final Flight of 232 Heavy
My first reaction was also "oh no!".

That being said, it could be interesting if Lynda course completions could be linked to a linkedin profile or something similar. Gives some power to self-learners.
Great post, thanks.

For some reason the css doesn't get applied to your page when I look at it in firefox.
It's not the technology, but the brand, customer base, content, and growing business that Linked In is investing in.

Lynda.com has been working incredibly hard for quite a few years to build up their business, so I'm really happy to hear that they've been reward for all the hard work and excellent execution.
What Tab Payments learnt moving their Toronto-based team to working remotely
It's not about providing education, it's about exclusivity.

LinkedIN will likely begin showing your Lynda courses in a prominent way on LinkedIN profiles, so if you want to be competitive on LinkedIN, you'll need to give more money to 
LinkedIN
 Lynda.

The problem I see with this is that veterans would never go take an introductory class on Lynda, but every young aspirant who has desire where you have experience will _appear_ better to recruiters because at least their introductory courses can be verified where with your experience, somebody knowledge in that field would have to evaluate your work.
The idea that chatauranga evolved from tafl, rather than tafl being loosely inspired by chess, seems pretty speculative to me.

Kind of weird to skip straight from mancala to The Landlord's Game to the Spiel des Jahres. The games of the 19th century were generally pretty bad, from a contemporary perspective, but there was a lot of important development that led up to 20th century designs.

George Parker founded his game company in the 1880s and started publishing games like Chivalry (1887) and Rook (1906) that have continued to be played since then (Camelot at least sees play despite being out of print for decades). The Landlord's Game is nice, but it's a footnote to Monopoly (1933).
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/117864/chivalry
mirc with users on right, channels on left, chat in middle

centre is basically a copy of hipchat...
How Family Card Games Teach Math, Memory and Self-Confidence
Sure, but this lawsuit wasn't launched by the EC.
Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X
Walnut paneling syndrome. When you need an algorithm to tell you what your employees want, the problem is you. People will tell you if you ask and listen fairly. If you screw one employee, the rest learn to shut up, or if you hide in your office and don't interact with them. I've not had a single employee leave without me knowing it was coming, and sometimes advising them on their jump. Work isn't a social club, keeping in touch, and in tune, with your employees is your job as a manager. Go do it.
Codeschool acquired by Pluralsight,
Lynda acquired by LinkedIn.

What's next, Treehouse?
See also http://clear-prop.org/aviation/haynes.html
What do you think of Chua's work on memristors?
Until you claim that your (indistinguishable) copy is the real thing, at which point theirs is ruined.
As a follow-up, I highly recommend http://monoskop.org/Computing_and_cybernetics_in_CEE#Episode... as a much more detailed account of the history of Soviet hardware and thought about computing, including even the relation to cybernetics.
Likely more than that seeing as how the majority of the load balancers and many of the routers / switches out there run some form of BSD (netscalar) or Linux (Arista), etc.
> all testing should be done by accredited third party groups.

These 'accredited third party groups' would need to be a) accredited, b) be paid. And it's already happening here in the US[0]. What you have now is an overhead of bureaucracy that 'accredits' and outsources the testing to these private companies, who pay call center wages to mark high school exams based on shoddy metrics that are aimed at maximising profits. All the markers are temps/contract, and this accreditation system is essentially a cartel of companies that lobby to ensure their business remains. I cannot see the logic how this can end up benefiting the students.

Secondly, teachers being underpaid is not a mantra - it is a fact [1]. In the US, the worth society places on a job is strongly correlated to the pay. The accreditation and pay, resources and social respect that teachers (do not) receive I wager is directly correlated with the quality of the education students receive. The system is so broken as to rely on standardized testing as to further punish 'under-performing' schools by limiting availability to funding based on scores.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/07/why-poor...

[1] http://www.nea.org/home/2012-2013-average-starting-teacher-s...
They probably both copy/pasted the same press release.
Prohibiting theft works, but prohibiting the sale of stolen goods has largely failed. An even worse track record is the prohibition of copyright violations. A prohibition on suicide may be an interesting case to look into.

To me, it seems that prohibition has some complex equation to determine if it will or will not fail. This becomes even more complicate when you consider the option to prohibit with only fines, at which point it is nearing becoming a sin tax instead.
Very similar kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2134904849/kolibree-the...
Bad parts of history repeating means that people are not paying attention to what happened before. The whole situation could have been avoided if people had taken the time to look back.
Fixed Price Contract vs. T&M Contract. Which One Is Better?
This is not good, but doesn't mean it's intrinsic to legalization. For example consider legalized gambling in Las Vegas. For decades it was intertwined with criminal activity and shady people. Eventually the regulation, laws, and legitimate business interests prevailed.
A "passive eavesdropper" has all the information they need to become an active man-in-the-middle. Observe the DNS query on its way out and send your own response with your IP before the real response comes back. The client will then make its TCP connection to that injected IP.
Ok, Thanks anyways :)
My personal opinion is that credentialing is going out of style anyway. Employers want to see what you can do, not where you learned.

Put another way -- when's the last time you cared if someone was Microsoft Visual C++ .NET certified?
This is one product that's definitely not for me. The UI is dumbed down beyond the pain threshold, removing access to the settings that interest me, organising photos after criteria that are irrelevant for me. And iCloud storage? Worst idea ever since mobile carriers make you pay through the nose for every byte of download and thrice as much for upload.

I can't for the life of me figure out who this product is for. Apple destroyed what has worked before, leaving us with broken crap that's too expensive to use, if you even wanted to use it.

There was a time when I used to look forward to what Apple might come up with next. By now, I only expect more destruction of previously existing functionality in exchange for higher prices. Apple has become a poisoned fruit.
Lessons from porting integration tests from Ruby to Haskell
About to do the same thing in Chiang Mai where my wife will be teaching English. Really enjoying Bangkok so far, but want to check out some of these remote islands sometime soon.
I disagree.

Most cases of dislike towards things like Bootstrap is due to not understanding how to use it. It's a case of blaming the tool for not working the way it wasn't designed. Like, as an extreme example, screwdrivers really suck because they can't drive in nails very well.

I believe your first sentence illustrates my point.
> What’s the difference between Sullenberger, who was able to innovate solutions in the face of imminent death, and Liao, who apparently panicked and shut down the wrong engine?

They mentioned Sullenberger's experience, but he also had more than twice the altitude when he lost engine power. Still an emergency, but he had a bit more time to think about it.
That would be really cool to play around with. Do you know if it does interiors as well? It doesn't look like it from the website.
Walter Scott: at odds with the law prior to being murdered by the police
> Does MCSE still pull weight?

Depends where you are in your career. I've heard it claimed that an MCSE can be a stand-in for a degree (yes, I know that makes no sense, but I mean from a recruiter's perspective when reviewing a candidate's overall qualifications, rather than relating to technical skill/knowledge).

So in your first 1-10 years? It might help. I will say eventually you have to remove an MCSE from your CV/resume as it does more harm than good (e.g. if you had a Server 2000 MCSE on your CV right now, it's just going to make you look out of touch).

> Are there newer certifications that matter now?

Timeless is key(!).

A cert' which is tied to a specific piece of software only helps you while that software is relevant. So getting a cert on something like Project Management, Project Planning, or a broad cert' on security (with a focus on policy, not systems like CISSP or Security+).

That's why degrees are a no-brainer. They're always timeless. People list their degree in their first and last job. Few certs survive more than fifteen some odd years.
You can get those toothbrushes for kids that play songs through the bristles. I've heard of parents teaching their kids that certain verses and phrases mean to switch to a certain brushing style and position, and they have to keep brushing until the song ends.

Another invention I originally scoffed at, but now just wish I'd come up with...
It isn't d3 based (uses canvas instead of svg), but flot is fantastic as well:

http://flotcharts.org
Tom Vasel called Sid Sackson "the Jules Verne of modern board gaming", which is so right.

Focus is just an amazing lightweight abstract strategy.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/789/focus
What is "walnut paneling syndrome"? Nothing is coming up in google.
Imagine if Cybersyn had access to IoT technologies.
Ask HN: Powerful open source frameworks for Hack language?
I spent around a year programming in Hack for a large customer of my company. There is a lot I love about this language. I would love to build some cool things in it on my own, but I'm having trouble figuring out just how much of my own stack I would have to roll in order to do it. This is made all the more difficult by the language's name being really tough to Google.

Are there any standout frameworks out there for building awesome things in Hack?
The docs for Phaser are a bit lacking but I found just about everything I needed by reading through the provided examples.
I think Arment has realized he really has nothing to lose, and everything to gain by just speaking the truth. A number of times he's been hosed by Apple sitting on an patch release for overcast, he's not invited to any events, and doesn't get embargoed gear. As a result, telling the truth improves his braaannnd (read that with a zombie like braiiiinnsss sound), with very little downside.

I wouldn't be surprised if we'll continue to see more honesty from Arment - I think he's realized that it only did Siracusa good. Gruber, who I love his reading, is in a tough position - he has to tow the company line in order to get the invites and gear from Apple, which are somewhat important to DF.
JavaScript vertical navigation menu in updated js library, dhtmlxSuite 4.2
Major IBM storage breakthrough proves tape is still setting records 63 years on
Maybe it makes sense in this world of everyone needs to "learn to code"? (Whatever that means...)
Whenever I want to learn something I just search on the Internet or ask experiences people to recommend a book. Or lookup what course literature the well known schools are using.

What are the benefit of online courses more then that you get a badge or paper that says you have taken the course?
Visual Test-Driven Development for Responsive Interface Design
Well, there's always Safari. They also have videos and stuff now, although I prefer the cheaper, book-only subscription.
> "Books that influenced Clojure, in no particular order"

These books aren't ranked in order of importance.
The Australian E3 sounds rather like the TN1 that Mexicans, Canadians and Americans can use to work in each others' countries. It is quite simple, quick and dirt cheap - my ex used it to live with me in Santa Cruz after she was offered a job as a bio lab assistant

For me to get an E3 I'd need a job offer which is possible to do over the Internet however it is much easier if one is local.

But what I could do is come as a tourist, look for work then if I were offered a job, I'd go to New Zealand or Thailand then apply for the E3.

What my ex did, she actually was working at the job for a little while but wasn't getting paid, while I saved up a few bucks. Then she and I went to visit an old friend of hers in Victoria for a few days. Real nice time, real romantic time with my honey.

Then when we flew back, we changed planes in Seattle. When we arrived in customs I pointed out that Bonita needed a TN1.

She had to present her diploma - transcripts would have worked as well but she happened to already have her diploma with her, as well as her written job offer.

The job title has to be on a specific list. At one time it was quite difficult to obtain the actual list, so of course immigration attorneys would SEO the bejeezus out of their websites by putting "LIST OF TN1 VISA JOB TITLES" in their title and h1 tags. IIRC there were only 20 - bio lab technician, chem lab technicial, systems analyst (WTF?).

In general they were all 4-year degree stuff, but not just any 4-year degree. Like a film studies degree wouldn't do.

Canada specifically at least at one time had a visa specifically for "computer programmers", this because coders earn quite a lot more in the US than in Canada.

However my experience is that it's quite a lot cheaper to live in Canada, as well as quite a lot more pleasant.

The reason I choose to live in the US, despite my ardent desire to return to Canada, is that I regard my duty to my Mother Country as being to contribute to the solutions of its many quite profoundly serious problems.
I love skeleton and use it almost exclusively. Most of the classes are simple and you can easily overwrite stuff to make the design unique.
I don't agree. I was very inspired.
> But nobody wants to be the first person to be killed by a computer pilot.

Personally, I don't want to be the last person killed by a human pilot. :)

Agreed, though, that safety in aviation is generally quite good.
A generic dependency solving tool in Ruby
The Race: Blue Origin vs. SpaceX, Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk
We actually met a couple of people from HN on Koh Samui ;-)

And yes, I agree it doesn't make sense to be there permanently, but traveling once in a while to the big business hubs in the world and spending a month here and there helps.

What I personally don't want to do though is to permanently live in a city that is crowded with people. So doing those time-limited remote experiments is a nice change of perspective and a very good way to recharge your batteries while still staying productive.