skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how one-click unsubscribes continue to function, then. Wouldn't those need to be GET requests (due to being a link)?
And if you believe that, read up on the drama with https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pirate3d/the-buccaneer-...

TLDR; during development of the printer, a number of things have changed (including a noticeable reduction in print volume). Refunds were offered August of last year, and the vast majority of refund requests are still pending (and currently half a month behind their own deadline for the latest update.

Not that I have any knowledge on whether the people behind Lily have better or worse communication and management skills, but just because they're happy to offer refunds doesn't mean they'll offer them promptly.
A beach ball that can be held simultaneously by any amount of people, though
From Insecurity to Innovation: Why the Era of Cloud Storage Is Here
It's a shame they don't know how to make Android app. Galaxy Note is way better tablet for drawing then Ipad ever was. I have ipad but I use note all the time. It lacks good apps like this one but it has a really good stylus.
You could probably just duct tape the tracking device to another drone. Looping them together like ants would be cool! :D.
[I am not a lawyer] My sister-in-law (the defense attorney) would say that you can look if you have probable cause, and then get a warrant for more invasive looking and/or looking elsewhere. But reading the judge's remarks in the article it does not sound like the judge believed they had enough cause to seize the laptop. I hope this goes to the Supreme Court because I would hope they would rule in favor of the 4th amendment on border seizures for laptops. It offends me as a tax payer and a voter that this is allowed and every year and twice on every election year I inform folks who would seek to be my representative that landing in favor of the 4th amendment will help to secure my vote.

That said, I've always been curious (but insufficiently brave) to create a 'bait' laptop which would be a laptop designed to exfiltrate video and audio of everything that goes on around it into a cloud server. Then tweet in passing I finally got some juicy bits and head off on an international jaunt to provide a seizure opportunity.
If a warrant was obtained with evidence that itself was illegally obtained then yes the warrant is worthless. Also that "evidence" found is not admissible as it was illegally obtained.
"new traits can be implemented for existing types (as with Hash above). That means abstractions can be created after-the-fact, and applied to existing libraries."

Sounds a bit like a Ruby monkey patch. What happens in case of conflict - my trait adds a .hash method, but there already was one?
Why can't Google fix their frontpage?
Google's frontpage displays an unformatted message for a few seconds/milliseconds on the top left:

"Get to Google faster. Update your default search engine."

Screenshot: http://s7.postimg.org/52fu9wbdn/google_bug.png
Anyone else notice that the United Kingdom is listed as "Britain" in that graphic? I don't think Britain is a country.
Screenshot as link: http://s7.postimg.org/52fu9wbdn/google_bug.png
Unless everyone hosting the page gets arrested
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> No privacy interest in information held by third parties -> sending third-party subpoenas instead of directly tapping companies' networks

really?

https://plus.google.com/+MikeHearn/posts/LW1DXJ2BK8k
Anyone going faster than about 40km/h isn't really doing anything worth filming anyway, other than ski racers.

All the interesting stuff for filming on the slopes happens at relatively low speeds - park, moguls, jumps, butters, etc.
The Experiment: One Search for Media's Cutting Edge
In related news, John Hammond, President and CEO of InGen, announced today the purchase of Isla Nublar, a tropical island in an isolated Central American location.
You dropped the context of that quote. React isn't exactly a poster child of progressive enhancement.
It's been possible to add support with an extension[0] for a long time.

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/html-ruby/
Did anyone else get nervous when he threw it off the bridge?

"Come on Lily... power up, POWER UP!"
Oh goody more vaporware for HN :-(. I get the concept, the ultimate selfie movie, but I fear for the future of youtube's fails collection :-)
I strongly recommend GoodNotes for this use case. They do a better job than paper at all the "think" tasks like lassoing objects, handwriting in a zoom window, highlighting, etc.

http://www.goodnotesapp.com (I'm not the maker, just a really big fan)
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Agreed. I think the commenters in the other thread might not have understood how the extension worked. While the end result is the same, it feels like there's a difference between "circumvent a paywall" and "pretend I'm coming from Google search result".

1) Many people are ethically opposed to circumventing paywalls.

2) Many people are ethically opposed to paywalls treating certain traffic as special or different.

As Jeremy says below:
"What's not so great is creating an internet where if you use our Trusted Corporate Partner™ you're allowed to view a public webpage, and if you come from anywhere less privileged on the internet, you're not. That's not sustainable. Lest we fall into a vortex where you're only allowed to browse the public web by logging in through Facebook. I wouldn't want to be online in that world."

I agree. I think the difference in responses from HN commenters is about which ethical evaluation people are focusing on, #1 or #2 above.
The interesting thing, to me, is how was network the trained?
Respectfully, you've just argued a counterpoint that doesn't address my initial statement at all, and if anything throws light on what you're thinking about.

I was talking about people making a causal link between elevated intelligence and incidence of racism - not even slightly that there were cognitive differences between "races".
the next generation of selfie
I think you had a branding problem. Yours appeared to be an attack on a brand that is doing good work; this one seems more to be thwarting a sinister publisher practice.

Responding to specific criticism from your comments:

> It does feel excessive or cynical or something to install an actual app to work around a paywall. The WSJ organization says, you must pay us $28.99 a month for full access to this content. That's the value they've placed on their content, that's the price they are charging, and that's what people should pay.

> The fact that they also make most if not all of the content available on a "complimentary" basis via Google suggests that they do value occasional visits from non-subscribers.

> However if millions of non-subscribers were to install a paywall avoidance app and access the full content on a daily basis, this would probably violate the spirit of "occasional".

WSJ certainly deserves to set whatever price on their work that they wish, and they also deserved to be compensated according to the value of that work.

However, if the workaround is no more in violation of the "spirit of occasional [visits]" than this publisher practice is in violation of the "spirit" of web navigation. That spirit is that users should not be discriminated against based on their navigation source.

Google search results should not be a representation of content that is not allowed to direct visitors. If WSJ wants to represent to Googlebot and Google visitors that the content is open, then it should be open to direct visitors as well.

If I, a user, did nothing special to access the content, I should be able to pass on the link to a new set of users. This practice breaks that, and, I imagine almost invariably, users will not understand why.
That's actually pretty speedy for a quad, especially to remain stable. If you want to race at 100MPH and have gyro-stabilized video you should get a helicopter and a camera crew.

I for one would prefer the aerial robot following me to not be traveling at 60MPH. That's asking for a serious injury.
> I feel that both extensions are wrong.

I feel that discriminating based on referrer is wrong. Or IP address. Or geographic location. Or user agent.

More than that, discriminating based on those things is really flimsy.

A website should provide the same content regardless of what browser you're using or where you're coming from.
Nearly half of polled voters think feds will use Jade Helm
That traditional DRM was inconvenient and prone to user error is the entire point. It's supposed to be unpleasant. That somehow making it more convenient and adding a standards-endorsed API to facilitate its activation will somehow assist in combating it, is a nonsensical proposition.

Furthermore, there is a separation of concerns aspect here. Why are web standards writers under any obligation to serve the interests of content providers in the latter's aim to restrict the capabilities of playback device producers? This isn't the web's problem. The issue is the sole responsibility of the content providers, who are not deserving of special privilege more than any other party.

Standardizing an API to facilitate DRM presents a dangerous prospect in its tacit approval of such practices, and will only serve to prolong the practice as endorsement of it by standards bodies will legitimize the idea of DRM.
Well electric motors can accelerate rapidly, but if they're pulling something heavy, all you'll get is rapidly spinning electric motors and a slowly rising object.
No, it makes the assumption that the public can be convinced that monitoring makes our security stronger.

There's an enormous world of difference between those two things.
I wonder how well it will work for surfing. Probably great for small crumblers and open faces; probably not so great at the Right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N_-vxfz4uw . Can you imagine how sick it would be to get this thing to follow in a tube at Teahupoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7w... !!
I'd assume that the probably thought you were calling it stupid, rather then that there is literally a hackathon called "stupid hackathon".
My understanding is that the weights[1] were produced from a series of trials, and then persisted in the JS.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_weight
Probably because you are using an old version of IE.
Does this actually exist? Looks neat, but I want to know if preorder money is being used to develop the product that I'm preordering.
History buffs, check out http://www.dancarlin.com/hh-55/
Hm. That is an unbelievably charming idea for an experiment. Does HN ever do April Fools' day experiments? That would seem worth it for the introspective value alone...
Opportunistic encryption is being tested again in Firefox 39, which is scheduled to release on June 30, 2015.
It's finally happened, the robots are here. The future we were all promised!
> Pig.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News, even when someone's views appear porcine.
I've seen some websites highlight your search terms for you. It's kinda useful, but it's also kinda creepy at the same time.
The model doesn't fall apart legally because it can be trivially circumvented. Any more than the model of renting bikes falls apart legally if people just don't bring the bikes back, or the model of selling software licenses falls apart legally because people can easily copy it. You can base the livelihoods of people on these things, provided the amount of circumvention remains low.
It seems like Google recommends using ™ for most of their trademarks. Their website says that laws about using ® vary from country to country and there are sometimes harsh penalties for using it with an unregistered trademark. It seems at least OK to use ™ if you are unsure.

http://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/our-trademarks.h...

http://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/rules.html
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> Anyone else notice that the United Kingdom is listed as "Britain" in that graphic? I don't think Britain is a country.

"Britain" is, like "the United Kingdom", a common less-formal name [0] for the nation-state whose full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (and is the source of the usual adjective form associated with that nation-state, "British".)

Britain, of course, isn't a "country" as that term is used in the UK, of course; England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are the countries of the UK. But the use here isn't to identify a country in that sense, but a sovereign state.

Better pedants, please.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom : "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign state in Europe."
They have the power to stop everyone in order to find out whether they have recently crossed the border. That's what a checkpoint is: everyone stops and answers a question or two.

What they do not have the power to do is conduct a warrantless search in the absence of any evidence that the person has actually crossed the border on that particular trip.
Paper finds a surprising link between warm temperatures and math test scores
> lightning fast

Depending on your bandwidth to the registry (and its availability).

> reproducible

As long as the tag wasn't overwritten by someone.

> production / dev parity

Which has been enabled for years via Vagrant, and by plain virtual machines even before that.

> develop multi-node distributed systems locally

Which won't match production, unless you put in a lot of networking effort in both regions: a set of linked docker containers will behave very differently than a set of docker containers on potentially separate hosts.
20 minute flying time is pretty bad - kind of delegates this to a "We want this picture" or "We need this shot" type of thing, not "Turn it on follow mode and let's see what we get after our walk/game/session" which would be a lot more useful
The Carnegie data at least was put together for the purposes of making a point about the size of the middle class and I believe a number of those pieces, in addition to The Atlantic, are making use of that data set.

From the comments to that article, there seem to be some questions around what vehicles exactly are being counted and whether the methodology is consistent from country to country (e.g. pickups are probably quite a bit more common in the US than in western Europe). You could also argue that per capita isn't really the best measure and you may consider adjusting for income measures, demographics, and urbanization.

That said, there's a stereotype of Americans as a car culture where people drive everywhere and western Europeans as living in the core of medieval cities and walking/biking/taking transit everyplace. And that stereotype doesn't hold up.
> How would you like to be sold to?

Nobody likes to be sold to...but people do like to buy things/services that will solve problems, capture opportunities, and achieve results. You might imagine the Croc Brain of your target prospects is primed to say NO. We've all got limited time & bandwidth. 'No' is easy. But if your premise is to 'help', that's interesting. If you can get referred in from a trusted connection, that's social proof. Please don't bore me with another White Paper or Power Point Presentation.

If your role is to Sell, you're going to need multiple weapons. Suggest reading New Sales, Simplified > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15863998-new-sales-simpli...
Kickstarter is different than a direct purchase. Kickstarter maintains they aren't a store so when things don't happen to plan you're kind of on your own. With a direct purchase you can do a chargeback easily and get your money back one way or the other.
Laser in Fujitsu smartglasses fires images right into retina
Prosper Marketplace Secures $165M in Series D Financing [pdf]
AMA with Steve Klabnik – author of the Rust guide and official doc
Test drive delivery
> There are no known security vulnerabilities with HTTP/1.x's style of compression That's because HTTP/1.x only supports compressing response bodies

You are completely wrong. The BREACH attack showed that you can be vulnerable to a compression oracle by merely compressing response bodies: http://breachattack.com/

> For the love of god, keep using compression with your websites, whether HTTP/1.x, TLS + HTTP/1.x, or HTTP/2

You can continue compressing files such as CSS that don't reflect any attacker-controlled content, but compression of dynamic HTML pages is likely to be insecure.
I am the tech lead at UniCourt https://unicourt.com and we are a legal tech startup.

UniCourt solves a few of the problems below

1. Track hundreds/thousands of on-going cases in Federal (PACER) and State Courts and only get notified on relevant updates

2. Download documents for Federal cases from within UniCourt and save money from repeatedly getting charged from PACER.

3. Upload documents to UniCourt and attach to cases.

4. Free access to documents already downloaded in UniCourt archive

5. Access to the entire RECAP documents archive, so avoid incurring PACER fees

6. Manage cases and collaborate on case research by inviting users of your organization to UniCourt

7. Get notified on all activities happening to a case of interest - a user commenting on a case, a document being downloaded, a case being updated

Take a look at http://www.lawhackers.co/ you will find most of the legal technology startups here.
how would you feel about an extension that simply removed hyperlinks to paywalled pages, or highlighted them in a different colour? (serious question; I've been tempted to make one simply because I feel that publishers are welcome to paywall their sites, but then I don't want them on "my" web.)
I disagree. The pains of DRM were growing. The usability wasn't bad enough yet, but it was getting worse. As people use more and more devices and they want their media in all places, the existing plugins were getting less suitable.

That's why there was a push for standardization anyways. Dealing with all the quirks of all the platforms was becoming difficult for the copyright owners.

There was no reason that the W3C should have made this easier for them. The only thing that the copyright owners want more than DRM is an audience. The browser vendors held the audience, and handed them over without even a fight.

That was the best opportunity we had. Sure we can try to get consumers to turn away from DRM, but that's just not going to happen, we already turned in our trump card.
Free eBook – A comprehensive guide on how to find sponsors [pdf]
One of my friends created this eBook and is giving it free to help event organizers learn how to get sponsors, how to contact them and how to sell the event to sponsors.
We will love to get some feedback on how to improve the book and we will try to incorporate as much as possible in the next one.
They've made other scale distinctions though, for example Terry, with limits on length and scope of the stop in relation to the lower suspicion level, and others, so its not a ridiculous proposition.
Somehow the reality demonstrates the opposite:

>> 1. Go increases in popularity.

Lots of people rush into the market with the newly learned Go skills and the salaries take a dive.

>> 2. Go decreases in popularity. Many many projects still exist that are written in Go.

These need to be maintained. Maintenance jobs pay poorly and do not advance one's skill set, leaving one with the outdated skills after a while. New shiny things are developed in new languages and those who quickly learn them before everybody else get to earn some good money.

Specialization gives you an edge... for a brief while until this skill becomes a commodity and is eventually outsourced.

Lesson to take: focus on some skill which cannot be easily learned by a vast army of outsourced workers. Everyone can learn some Java or Go or whatever. Not everybody can run a consultancy. Not everybody can talk to humans and translate their needs into software solutions. Not everybody can found a company. These are the skills that provide the highest ROI in the long run.
Ok, we changed the title to something neutral.
I can't help but wonder if that was a bit of brigading...
I think you should suggest this idea to the admins. I know PG stepped down but this seems like something he might have been in favor of.
SPDX v2 simplifies open source license dependency tracking
Fine you can have a paywall but then you won't get the free organic traffic from Google. WSJ tries to have it both ways.
Currently it doesn't seem to exist even if someone IS looking at it :)
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FYI Google will disable ads for your software soon, new AdWords policy in effect
That's not ASCII, that's Unicode (or Shift-JIS, or JIS X 0201...)
The video looks cool and everything, but I don't really understand the mentality around these kind of hands-off 'follow me' drones. If you want high-quality aerial cinematography, you need a lot more than just an autonomous drone in your general vicinity. Does this thing really have the intelligence needed to correctly frame and compose shots?
> For those users, a lot of major sites still "don't work properly" today because of Apple's arrogance.

How well did Flash on Android work? The answer is "not very". Jobs was (apparently) entirely correct when he wrote that Adobe was never able to show him a version of mobile Flash that wasn't complete garbage.
> I don't see how he is violating the trademark

AFAIK, without a trademark license, using it to promote your product (including using it as part of your product name) is generally a violation of trademark. Nominal fair use allows you to use the trademark to refer to the thing that trademark names in descriptive text, but not generally as part of the name of your product.
one counterexample totally disproves this!

Want me to list examples of muslims being assaulted in the midwest / south? my list is bigger than your list of one welcoming city
I'm not saying I think the WSJ's paywall is a good idea (I don't), but if they want to try to make money to support their (largely very good) journalism that way, I don't think it's very nice for someone else to publish a tool that automatically subverts the paywall for countless other users.
The web-pages are recognized by their hash, so you can't change them after you setup the page. The problem is that you would have to supply HN with the link to the page, and then go back and edit the page to include the link to the new HN article. Since you can't go back and edit the page, you can't include the link.
Yeah, you're right. FizzBuzz does test a programmers mindset and it's pretty clear she didn't meet those expectations. I was focusing on a tiny aspect of it.

The main point I was trying to get at is that it doesn't seem to me like she identifies as a programmer. She's a UI/UX designer with a little bit of code experience. IMO, the whole point of it wasn't that she was upset that she didn't get the job or what they asked her. It was simply that based on the description, she went in thinking the primary focus was mockups, design and user testing rather than programming. Had the post been more clear about their expectations for the position, she wouldn't have tried for it.
@jokoon
The low quality patents are typically not found to be valid in court. The problem is, a founder does not want to spend the money and (most importantly) time to go to court. He/she wants to work on the startup.

Also, some patents are strong, and some are of low quality. The low quality patents exist, in part, because the patent office does not have the resources (i.e., enough personnel, training and search technology) to perform a proper analysis. Those resources are lacking because congress takes funds from the patent office (the patent office could be otherwise self funded if not for congress taking the funds to use for their pet projects).