skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been trying to watch a movie I bought on iTunes on my AppleTV all afternoon. I've committed the cardinal sin of moving between two different countries (!!!) so this movie is on the iTunes account in the country I lived in before. Playing it from iTunes with AirPlay it kept stopping for some reason, playing it with home sharing worked for a while, and then I tried to buy a song I liked from the movie on my computer and it stopped and lost where it was in the movie.

I got pissed off and just pirated it and used Beamer.app to send the video to the AppleTV, it played back flawlessly.

I'm happy to pay for a movie. I've funded several documentary projects on Kickstarter. Just give me an MP4 or MKV file so I can trust that I can play it today and 10 years from now on any device I own.

DRM doesn't work. It only punishes the actual customers.
Sorry, I should've been clear:

> No one is obliged to give me money -- unless they consume the content I created. Then, it's my call, whatever business model I pick.

Buskers are giving their content away for free.
You don't have the right to attend their concert, just because you don't like the website they're selling their tickets on.
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That raises an important question: why aren't those promises legally binding?
Author hasn't stated that what Ruby calls "DSL" is merely an API, not
a language. It's still valid Ruby, so by definition it's not a domain-specific
language.
You're really only going after the config files, though. .zpreztorc, and if you don't like some of Sorin's aliases (rm, ls, etc) you can take them out of the utility plugin. I've spent maybe an hour "working" on my fork in the last year.
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Thanks for organizing it! Ill get with my wife, but this seems very affordable and fun event in particular for a family of four its the same cost as a normal "large" conference ticket and those don't include all you can eat food and daycare.
I agree with you. I suspect that this "sharing" economy idea that they're based around is going to evaporate; I think people will start to realize that Uber/Airbnb are taking a very healthy cut of the profits and carefully sticking their not-employees with all of the costs associated with running a business, costs that maybe aren't immediately apparent (costs of depreciation on a car, costs of insurance for these types of businesses, costs of paying taxes as an independent contractor). It's very lucrative for Airbnb and Uber because they can (try to) distance themselves from any rule breaking because it's not THEM breaking the rules, it's the independent contractors.

But I think fairly soon it'll start to evaporate a bit. Sure they might exist, but I'm very skeptical of both companies' $10B+ evaluations, and I think they'll end up becoming something like you mentioned.
Where online? Do you use any particular freelance marketplaces, or cold contact companies from their websites, or something else entirely?
Yes, it's a work in progress
And don't forget that despite paying more, you get less, since on iTunes it doesn't come with any of the extras on the Blu-ray.
I can't agree more with this!

I followed option A in my career. I quit, went back to school to finish my degree and worked part time as a contractor for enough money to maintain my mortgage while in school.

Anyway, it is very important to learn to work closely with a team. It is also VERY important that you work with people that are SMARTER than you. IMHO, this is the best way to get proper mentor-ship and motivation to learn. I personally try to surround myself with people that are smarter than me.

Once you think that you know "everything" or that you're the smartest person in the room, it's time to change jobs. Because:

A) People won't like working with you

B) You'll stop learning new things since you already know everything.

update: spacing edits...
They've been around for a few months, I type this on one...
Go with strongswan, read their test scenarios, this includes configuration and log output sample. And a clear diagram of what you will be achieving.

http://strongswan.org/testresults.html
Thanks, that's really useful!

What about having done a few internships? I realise it's not the same but I've at least made some mistakes to learn from already.

I'm starting a job in September, contracting would just be something to fund my personal projects.
2015 fossil fuel subsidy at $5.3tn, greater than the total global health spend
https://gist.github.com/ChrisPickard/af2c318468aae9c01b9b
OK thanks maybe I'll contact support - I have to say though that the SDK looks very exciting, especially the streaming events. Kudos on fixing on this very opaque part of car maintenance.
From Appleinsider:

"Notably, the chips are not Intel's latest-generation 'Broadwell' processors, which remain unavailable in quad-core configurations. As a result, Apple is still utilizing the previous-generation 'Haswell' architecture, albeit at faster speeds."
> Except of course monitize it.

And, you know, create it. Giving stuff away is pretty easy to do, especially if it's somebody else's stuff :-)
What would you suggest for fighting against impulsiveness?
that's pretty awesome.
I am still surprised how much the experience of using cloudwatch logs sucks. On so many levels: from installing the cloudwatch log agent on a box, limits on pushing logs, forcing you to pass in the sequenceToken for every call, don't even get me started on the aws console "experience".
the only real advantage is the price point, but I guess that's because of the features (or the lack) they have.

It's nice to see creative workarounds like this.
Powershell focuses a lot on being a good language to write scripts on. Hence the data structures, verbose names, etc.

On the other hand, Fish is mostly focused on being a powerful interactive shell. Its all about having good auto completion (fueled by parsing manpages), history search, etc.

I do believe that its very hard to have a shell language thats good at these two domains at the same time and that we are better off having separate languages for each. Trying to solve both these problems at once is what made bash into the mess it is now in the first place.
I had the exact same problems. It simply didn't want to connect to my android devices half the time. There was no point in collecting all that data if half of it was missing. Was thoroughly disappointed with that pre-order.
Nope :

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/05/19Apple-Introduces-1...
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From what I gather, it's a bluetooth device that you plug into your cars OBD-II port. That transmits data from your car to your smart phone. Your phone, then, transmits the data to automatic.

So, you can look at daily gas mileage stats, error codes, and things like that. I assume the GPS parts come from the phone itself (while in the car).

The idea sounds interesting but I wouldn't want the data to be transmitted to the cloud. I'd also be worried that the data might be permissible in court if you were in an accident, for example. As a result, they might see that you were going 10 over at the time of the accident or that you had been doing so 2 minutes down the road. Lots of invalid conclusions can be made on such data and I wouldn't want to share it.
Ok i found that this is just the developer portal for www.automatic.com.
That may be reading too much. Another reading is that Prior to development, the plane didn't exist.
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It's something which plugs into the CAN port of your car and sends the diagnostic data from there to your phone.

Seemed pretty straightforward to read to me
Still no 10-point touchscreen?
pretty much any agreement by major companies comes with a wonderful disclaimer of something like this:

We reserve the right to revise, amend, or modify this Agreement and any other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. We may modify this Agreement by placing a notice of such modification on our website, and User's continued use of the Service following notice of such modification shall be deemed to be User's acceptance of any such modification. User agrees to check this on-line area regularly to determine whether this Agreement has been modified. If User does not agree to any modification of this Agreement, User must immediately stop using the Service.
Ah indeed. Good point about privacy. Also they are not available in Europe.
Call center?
Suppose you have something with a watchdog that times something every time it runs to check that nothing suddenly gets slower / faster. A backup or something.

Let's suppose that the amount of time it takes to run is relatively small. Now suppose between two runs the linear decrease starts. All of a sudden the second run appears to be slower than it is by a constant factor.

With a curved change, this effect still happens, but it's less for smaller time intervals.
Wow, this really sucks for whoever has the phone number that I had in 1991.
Well, almost. My lease, cable, and phone bills bill ahead.
I consider piracy to be a form of protest.

I'm happy to pay, as long as the terms are reasonable. (I have a Rdio account that's been active for years now - I can't remember the last time I pirated music... I can't remember the last time I pirated software, either).

However, in Canada, the only way to watch (for example) Game of Thrones is to

a) get a massive cable subscription which includes 1000 channels you don't want and HBO (which itself has 100 programs you don't want to watch and GoT),

b) wait for the episode to show up on itunes and pay $4.50 per episode (whaat?) (and oh, season 5 isn't available yet),

c) pirate.

Is it a huge surprise that a lot of people choose option C? And can you blame them? At a certain point, non-Americans specifically just get fed up with being told "sorry, no, that content isn't available in your region."
> It’s a blow to Dubuque and Columbia, cities that spent a combined $84 million on tax breaks and other incentives to lure Big Blue in the hopes of attracting other technology firms and incubating a startup scene.

Anyone who would pursue IBM in hopes of 'incubating a startup scene' is, not to put too fine a point on it, grossly incompetent.

> Instead, Ross found herself toiling on what she described as a new-age assembly line — each employee solving a narrowly focused part of a corporate customer’s technical problem and then passing the baton to the next person. As a result, said some of IBM’s Dubuque workers, they became experts only in a narrow set of skills that weren’t easily transferable.

That's exactly IBM's MO: try to solve problems with a smart process executed by low-skilled people. Never mind that a process can never execute judgement, and that low-skilled people executing a process never get the experience needed to develop their own judgement. Never mind that deep knowledge is necessary to solve complex problems.

From IBM's perspective, it's good to have low-skilled people who can't easily find jobs elsewhere: it means lower wages and less turnover (and when there is turnover, imparting a few low skills to new hires is easy!). Never mind that if other places wouldn't want to hire them, then one probably doesn't have a reason to hire them either. Never mind that if one's company is composed of low-skilled employees, then customers don't have much reason to use one's services.
Well, that's what DevOps do, right? it's not about all teh bullshit you read on the Internet, it's about making AWSome tools like this one.

I would not describe it as a "creative workaround"...
This is not a translation error. This sentence has the same puzzling meaning in the German version.

I think it's sloppy journalist writing for the worst accident that happened with the development of the A400M.
So, if I play music in front of your home, and you enjoy it, can I demand you pay me money? It's not as clear-cut as you're making it to be.
Dan Bernstein proposed it and Bradley White wrote the code in the time zone package used by Unix-like systems. The point of "right+gps" is that all of the pieces needed to implement such a scheme are already deployed and tested and with appropriate caveats anyone can decide to use that to avoid leap second issues.
What is an IP address and what can it reveal about you?
would argue that it's not just the userland. you only have the functionality you need and your bits. for example an http server would have the http stack + your app. there is no userland, there are no drivers, just your app as the only thing that is running on the machine. your app basically merges with the "kernel"
I really do find thinking about time to be fiendish as well.

Here's some examples I thought of that may help clarify:

1. "Each second is 1/86400 longer and AWS clocks fall behind UTC. The gap gradually increases to up to 1/2 second."

- AWK clocks do indeed fall-behind when their "seconds" tick longer. Because their seconds tick longer, over a fixed period of time, AWS will count less ticks than UTC.
(Think of it this way: A mile is longer than a kilometer. After you have traveled 800 kilometers, you've only traveled ~500 miles.)

2. "AWS clocks gain 1/2 second ahead of UTC."
- Before the addition of the leap second, AWS clocks are behind by 1/2 second as per (1). The addition of a leap second to UTC is another second that the UTC clock must tick - the AWS clocks don't have to tick this amount - so the AWS clocks are now ahead by 1/2 second.

Basically, this is what AWS is doing, using our distance analogy again:

1. Normally, we have to cover 1000 km every day. This includes a Civil group of travelers and an AWS group of travelers.

2. Today, we decide we're going to cover 1001 km. Everyone in Civil decides this is OK to count to 1001 instead of 1000, just for today. But the AWS group only wants to count to 1000 because counting to 1001 is a Very Bad Thing. However, the AWS group still has to cover 1001 km.

3. The AWS group comes up with the ingenious idea of just making each "kilometer" 1.001 real-world kilometers, just for today. Thus, they will only count to 1000, but each time travel 1.001 km. The end result is the same - they will have covered 1001 km.
its no so much what new owners want to do its that bankruptcy courts discharge more than debt, the discharge liability, prior agreements, and more.
> I'm perfectly free to, and I would, harass a rape victim for any aggression against me that would compel me to harass any other person.

I've never seen such stupidity posted on HN. Congratulations.
Vivint Launches New Home Automation System Complete with a Tiny Doorbell Camera
Where's the consideration (money changing hands). Its not a contract.

From

http://comingsoon.radioshack.com/privacy-policy/privacy.html

"If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users by posting a notice on our web site for 30 days."

It appears they've done none of this; then again it amounts to accomplishing nothing other than a PR show, so not much has been lost.

Their policy doesn't seem to have considered in its design, "what if we go bankrupt fire everyone and someone else buys us".

I wonder how far back the records go. Could they give me a copy of my Dad's purchase receipt from 1980 for our TRS-80 model III? For 16K of 4116 dram for about $300 or whatever it was back in '81 or '82? On the other hand, given the decline of the company in recent years, if they only have records going back 5 years I probably don't even show up in them.
Apps for Slack
Thank you.

I don't understand the issue that someone would have with these words unless they're looking to do something that is prohibited. Is a conservative mindset where they're looking to keep things the way they were? Do they feel that taking the effort to be as inclusive as possible hinders growth? What's the beef?
I was hoping they would come out with a USB-C port.
"You can have all the free Monsanto brand water you want, but only to irrigate Monsanto seeds. You know, the ones that require Roundup by Monsanto to grow and don't create viable seeds of their own to replant or resell. You can't drink it, and you certainly can't build your own seed business that might compete with Monsanto either."

Getting any bits there and back at all is the hard and expensive part. A forum full of people who make a living because the internet is an open, p2p network, and we are really in favor of turning it into a TV with only one channel for billons of people just so Facebook can get a better ROI?

Congratulations: your next startup won't be viable in third world countries and your job is safe from all those people who might start their own start up or learn to code there.

Make no mistake: this is business development, not charity.
I also work in aerospace software. Following DO178 certainly does not guarantee that there will be no software bugs. The point of DO178 is to follow a process that will _minimize_ the number of bugs by having adequate peer review processes throughout the requirement definition, coding, integration phases, in addition to the testing you mention above. Testing DO178 only tests that the code follows the requirements. If your requirements are fucked, so are you.
Hi TeeWEE, imagine if every car had an API that you could build apps for and drivers could give you access to the data via OAuth. That's basically what the developer platform lets you do. We have a REST API, real-time events via webhooks / websockets and a direct Bluetooth API to the car for mobile clients to access data from the CAN bus directly.
Yeah, too expensive. You can get competing services for about $10-15 per TB IIRC, they just have a set of Java utilities instead of the fancy Web 3.0 frontend.
It's pretty common to call a DSL "internal" when it works within the syntax of an existing language, as opposed to an external DSL that is a separate language. I'm not sure saying "but it's not really a language" helps us stay clear on what's going on.
Newbie here. Someone that had tryed the Force Touch Trackpad could you share impressions?
How to Fight the Filter Bubble
Morphine from yeast may disrupt opium trade
Apple releases iPhone Lightning Dock for $39
Which site lead to most high-quality leads? The most common freelancing sites just seem like a race to the bottom, competing only on price with developers in developing countries (heh)
Mostly operations, I imagine: OS, database & storage administration.

While other companies were investing in their employee base, IBM was cutting costs. Much like a farmer who eats his seed corn and then has nothing to plant while others steward their resources carefully and see a bumper crop, IBM is seeing the results of over a decade of underinvestment: who here would choose an IBM cloud solution over AWS, Google, DigitalOcean or Linode?

While those companies were hiring smart people to design & implement well-crafted systems, IBM was cutting, cutting, cutting, using human beings to do work which is better scripted, underinvesting in automation and generally setting itself up for failure.
This was a minor bump, I'm holding out for something bigger once Skylake is ready. Hopefully that will include USB-C.
A little Python History
Better living through micro controllers
They have. This is for the 15 inch.
6 Reasons Why You Haven't Met the One Yet
"... accordingly, they cost more." I disagree with this. Contractors pay a significant price by leaving a full time job. No benefits, no company sponsored talks,training, no paid time off. The extra buck you make contracting is not extra.
Doesn't crash here at all?

Also "IPsec is a piece of software that is often used for critical infrastructure." it is not software.

ps the document reads really bad, and is not even solely about a _potential_ issue with ipsec protocol.
The species survives even if only a small percentage of the individuals do.

Sometimes, that's the best for which we can hope.
Django wasn't the problem there, and I hope you don't associate it with difficult to complete projects!
Yarrow-herb
> I guess they travel by train

The train brake control systems are written in ... C.
As someone who had to do aggregation on hstore... Gosh! Why? It's not that difficult to add a column!
Many promises are legally binding, see for example the notion of estoppel, so sue them.
Since the last time this was posted (a few months back?), the copy seems to have improved vastly. Kudos for that.

However, does it really offer me any benefit over youtube-dl? (which has a host of other options as well)
Yeah, it's pretty incredible.

I preferred to disable the two-level click in System Prefs, then it just felt like a normal macbook air trackpad.

It feels so real I turned off the unit in the store just to double check that there was no feedback with the power off (there wasn't)
New graphics card also? It says AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB GDDR5 memory on the page

Edit: I think it was an Nvidia 750 before
It's nice. Adjustable click sound in trackpad preferences, so no more CLICK! at night when you use laptop near someone else. Force feedback makes it feel like you're really pressing a button.

But nothing I couldn't live without.
Apple and AT&T tried/is trying to stop them:

http://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-to-prevent-radioshack-selling-...
32GB of ram?!
That would require a massive UI overhaul to make every app touch friendly. Not something that Apple is going to take on lightly.
There was such a company for a while; I spoke on the first two "Geek Cruises," which has since re-dubbed itself "Insight Cruises" (http://insightcruises.com/). I'm not sure which market forces pushed them in this direction. We managed to see Alaska and the Caribbean, which was super fun.

I must admit that while those cruises were great fun and quite interesting, they showed my wife and me that it's not the kind of vacation or travel that is our style. Lots of other people do enjoy them, though -- and I'm happy to see that someone else is trying this!

The organizer might want to contact the Insight Cruises people; I don't think that they're in direct competition any more, and perhaps they'll have something useful to suggest from their experience.
JSON is an improvement overall even though there are certainly issues. It is easier to read, easier to parse, and usually fewer bytes for the same data. Validation schema can be provided by JSON Schema [1]. The lack of date type and comments is annoying, but not that big of a deal. I think parsing and reading are far more important to get right which XML didn't.

1. http://json-schema.org/
Yes, but it depends on your definition of movie. A lot of indie stuff? Documentaries? Probably.
Show HN: USPS Remote Encoding Facility
WOW, I wonder if they could counter act 'jiggly eyes' ... this with some external cameras and BOOM stable vision?!

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/nystagmus.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phpe_RVGqcA
Did the Macbook Pros just get a whole lot more expensive in Europe (or specifically Germany?)? I don't remember the 15" MBP with a discrete graphics card being 2800€.
Or have they adjusted their prices to the weak Euro a while back?
This is very anecdotal, but I swear that the minute I gave my email address to Radio Shack, I started to receive heavy spam.
But what is that new model, exactly? If "paying money in return for receiving goods" doesn't work, how will they make these multi-million dollar cultural phenomenons?

I agree that the current system is broken, but saying you'll pirate until the studios work out it feels like an irresponsible point of view, to me.
Really? I thought it was the other way around.

Try not to make generalizations of a rather diverse crowd.